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Encouraging Healthful Dietary Behavior in a Hospital Cafeteria: A Field Study Using Theories from Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics
(2013-09-30)Public policy efforts to curb obesity often adhere to a rational actor model of human behavior, asserting that consumer behavior will change provided proper economic incentives, nutritional information, and health education. ... -
Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period: The Composition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī’s (D. 1333) Nihāyat al-Arab fī Funūn al-Adab
(2012-08-03)This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250-1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shihāb ... -
The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth
(Pensoft Publishers, 2014)Abstract The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol.org) aims to provide unprecedented global access to a broad range of information about life on Earth. It currently contains 3.5 million distinct pages for taxa and provides ... -
End User Empowerment in Human Centered Pervasive Computing
(Springer, 2002)Human-centered computation is characterized by at least three features: it must be adaptive, reactive, and it must empower the user to configure and extend the behavior of the systems using her natural modes of interaction. ... -
End-to-End Enforcement of Erasure and Declassification
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, 2008)Declassification occurs when the confidentiality of information is weakened; erasure occurs when the confidentiality of information is strengthened, perhaps to the point of completely removing the information from the ... -
Endangered Right Whales Enhance Primary Productivity in the Bay of Fundy
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Marine mammals have recently been documented as important facilitators of rapid and efficient nutrient recycling in coastal and offshore waters. Whales enhance phytoplankton nutrition by releasing fecal plumes near the ... -
"Endearing Ties": Black Family Life in Early New England
(2016-05-19)This dissertation explores the attempts of Africans, both enslaved and free, to create and maintain families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. It makes sense of a remarkable array of historical actors: ... -
“Endemism” Relative to Space, Time, and Taxonomic Level
(Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board, 2014)Faunal assemblages consist of immigrants, endemics and long-term residents; changes in proportions of these categories through time reflect general aspects of faunal stability and turnover. To study stability and change ... -
The Ending of the PIE 2 sg. Middle Imperative
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Ending Research Subject Overexploitation: Methods to Reduce Respondent Overuse and Privacy Violations while Increasing Insights from Data
(2022-11-23)The low price of data collection and use in the Internet age has facilitated collective ir- responsibility, where private companies, academics, and governments all fail to internalize the costs to respondents and other ... -
Endocrinology, energetics, and human life history: A synthetic model
(Elsevier BV, 2017)Human life histories are shaped by the allocation of metabolic energy to competing physiological domains. A model framework of the pathways of energy allocation is described and hormonal regulators of allocation along the ... -
Endogenizing Syndromes
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Endogenous agendas and seniority advantage
(2012)We study a legislative assembly that chooses its agenda protocol endogenously. We generalize McKelvey and Riezman’s (1992) seminal theory on seniority in legislatures, by allowing for a large class of ordinal agenda rules ... -
Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles
(The University of Chicago Press, 2012)This paper builds a framework for the analysis of macroeconomic fluctuations that incorporates the endogenous determination of the number of producers and products over the business cycle. Economic expansions induce higher ... -
Endogenous hydrogen peroxide production in the epithelium of the developing embryonic lens
(Molecular Vision, 2014)Purpose Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an endogenously produced reactive oxygen species (ROS) present in a variety of mammalian systems. This particular ROS can play dichotomous roles, being beneficial in some cases and ... -
Endogenous Political Institutions
(MIT Press, 2004)A fundamental aspect of institutional design is how much society chooses to delegate unchecked power to its leaders. If, once elected, a leader cannot be restrained, society runs the risk of a tyranny of the majority, if ... -
Endothelial Progenitor Cell Recruitment for Therapeutic Neovascularization using Alginate Hydrogels for VEGF and SDF Delivery
(2014-06-06)Endothelial progenitor cells are potentially useful as a cell therapy for the treatment of ischemic cardiovascular diseases, but clinical outcomes have been limited likely because very few systemically delivered cells reach ... -
Endothelin-1 supports clonal derivation and expansion of cardiovascular progenitors derived from human embryonic stem cells
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Coronary arteriogenesis is a central step in cardiogenesis, requiring coordinated generation and integration of endothelial cell and vascular smooth muscle cells. At present, it is unclear whether the cell fate programme ... -
Ends of Solidarity: China, Tanzania, and Black Internationalism, 1960-1972
(2022-03-17)At the height of the Cold War, postcolonial state representatives and transnational activists struggled over the premises and boundaries of Afro-Asian unity. This dissertation traces the making and unmaking of 1960s ... -
Enduring Images: Mourning and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Hervé Guibert)
(2021-07-12)This dissertation studies the intersection of writing, mourning, and aesthetics in twentieth-century French literature. I examine how the act of beholding aesthetic objects is represented in writing as a way to suspend the ...