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Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
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Disc instability models for X-ray transients: evidence for evaporation and low -viscosity?
(Oxford University Press, 2000)We construct time-dependent models of accretion discs around black holes and neutron stars. We investigate the effect that evaporation of the inner disc regions during quiescence has upon the predictions of the disc ... -
Disc-jet coupling in black hole accretion systems - I. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical models
(Oxford University Press, 2007)General relativistic numerical simulations of magnetized accretion flows around black holes show a disordered electromagnetic structure in the disc and corona and a highly relativistic, Poynting-dominated funnel jet in the ... -
Disc-jet coupling in black hole accretion systems - II. Force-free electrodynamical models
(Oxford University Press, 2007)In Paper I, we showed that time-dependent general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical models of accretion discs, although being highly turbulent, have surprisingly simple electromagnetic properties. In ... -
Discerning Humanity's Edges: Cleckley, Nietzsche, and the Interpretative Dilemma of Psychopathy
(2022-05-12)This dissertation explores the philosophical presuppositions of psychopathy as a diagnosis and asks whether epistemological certainty is possible in discerning the disorder. The current psychological literature on psychopathy ... -
Disciplinary Distinctions before the "Two Cultures"
(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis, LTD, 2008)C. P. Snow's conception of "two cultures" has been readily applied to modern European and especially Anglo-American contexts and used to bemoan the negative impact of disciplinary distinctions. But in the pre-modern period, ... -
Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate
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Discipline and Ethical Formation in the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda Vinayapiṭaka
(2017-05-15)This dissertation examines the concept of vinaya, or discipline, in the Vinayapiṭaka, or Canon of Disciplinary Texts, of the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda monastic order. Discipline is a process of self-transformation toward ... -
Discipline and Publish: Jews, the Logic of the State, and the Beginning of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe (1806-1845)
(2016-09-16)Jews, the Logic of the State, and the Beginning of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe (1806-1845) investigates and connects two historical phenomena: The rise of modern Jewish literature in Eastern ... -
The Discipline of Cost‐Benefit Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)Cost‐benefit analysis is a general discipline, based on the use of some foundational principles, which are not altogether controversial, but have nevertheless considered plausibility. Divisiveness increases as various ... -
Disclosure by Politicians
(American Economic Association, 2010)We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries. Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available ... -
Discontinuity Edge Overdraw
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2001)Aliasing is an important problem when rendering triangle meshes. Efficient antialiasing techniques such as mipmapping greatly improve the filtering of textures defined over a mesh. A major component of the remaining aliasing ... -
Discontinuous Buckling of Wide Beams and Metabeams
(American Physical Society (APS), 2015)We uncover how nonlinearities dramatically alter the buckling of elastic beams. First, we show experimentally that sufficiently wide ordinary elastic beams and specifically designed metabeams ---beams made from a mechanical ... -
Discourse and Construction: Kant, Schleiermacher, and the Articulation of Epistemology's Language Problem
(2021-05-14)This dissertation establishes a theoretical framework for a critique of “textualist” interpretation, particularly as textualism occurs in theological and jurisprudential contexts. Textualists tend to use deductive reasoning, ... -
Discourse and Diffusion
(Grupo de Pesquisa em História dos Conceitos e Teoria Política e Social do Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) / History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG), 2005) -
Discourse structure and intention recognition.
(Marcel Dekker, 2000) -
Discourse Structure in Spoken Language: Studies on Speech Corpora
(Assocation for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence, 1995)A better understanding of the intonational characteristics of spoken discourse may lead to new empirical techniques for identifying discourse structure from speech, as well as new algorithms for enhancing the naturalness ... -
Discourse, Morality, Body: Radical Socialism in a Chinese Model Village(1946-1978)
(2013-10-14)This dissertation is based on my long-term fieldwork at Dazhai village in Shanxi Province, north China. Dazhai village was a famous national model of socialist agriculture and rural settlement during the Maoist era. ... -
Discoveries in Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials
(2015-10-13)Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials are heterogeneous materials that enable manipulation of elastic waves. An important characteristic of these heterogeneous systems is their ability to tailor the propagation of ... -
Discoveries in the New World
(Oxford University Press, 1996)The European discovery of new lands and new peoples in the Americas challenged the visions of world history and of the salvation of the infidel accepted by both Roman Catholics and Protestants alike. The results were a ...