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Independent phylogenetic origins of methanotrophic and chemoautotrophic bacterial endosymbioses in marine bivalves
(American Society for Microbiology, 1994)The discovery of bacterium-bivalve symbioses capable of utilizing methane as a carbon and energy source indicates that the endosymbionts of hydrothermal vent and cold seep bivalves are not restricted to sulfur-oxidizing ... -
Independent Representations of Verbs and Actions in Left Lateral Temporal Cortex
(MIT Press - Journals, 2012)Verbs and nouns differ not only on formal linguistic grounds but also in what they typically refer to: Verbs typically refer to actions, whereas nouns typically refer to objects. Prior neuroimaging studies have revealed ... -
Independent Resources for Attentional Tracking in the Left and Right Visual Hemifields
(SAGE Publications, 2005-08-01)The ability to divide attention enables people to keep track of up to four independently moving objects. We now show that this tracking capacity is independently constrained in the left and right visual fields as if separate ... -
Indeterminate “Greekness”: A Diasporic and Transnational Poetics
(2022-06-06)As a critical concept, “Greekness” indeterminately characterizes ancient constructions and their contemporary reception histories, rendering it elusive to disciplinary definition. This dissertation reconceives of its ... -
Index of refraction of molecular nitrogen for sodium matter waves
(American Physical Society (APS), 2013)We calculate the index of refraction of sodium matter waves propagating through a gas of nitrogen molecules. We use a recent ab initio potential for the ground state of the NaN2 van der Waals complex to perform quantal ... -
Index of refraction of noble gases for sodium matter waves
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India's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred Geography
(University of Chicago Press, 1981) -
"The Indian Discovery of Buddhism": Buddhist Revival in India, c. 1890-1956
(2013-10-18)This dissertation examines attempts at the revival of Buddhism in India from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Typically, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism in 1956 is seen as ... -
Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912
(2013-10-18)The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, ... -
Indian Traditions & the Western Imagination
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2005)No abstract provided. -
Indians on the Move: Law, Borders, and Freedoms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(2021-05-14)Contemporary immigration and border controls in many White settler colonies can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when new patterns of Asian migration provoked nativist rage. In the United States, as in other settler ... -
India’s Potential for Integrating Solar and On- and Offshore Wind Power Into Its Energy System
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-09-21)This paper considers options for a future Indian power economy in which renewables, wind and solar, could meet 80% of anticipated 2040 power demand supplanting the country’s current reliance on coal. Using a cost optimization ... -
Indicator Properties of the Paper—Bill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experience
(MIT Press, 1998)A feature of U.S. postwar business cycle experience that is by now widely documented is the tendency of the spread between the respective interest rates on commercial paper and Treasury bills to widen shortly before the ... -
Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selection and Comparisons
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Indicators of regime shifts in ecological systems: what do we need to know and when do we need to know it?
(Ecological Society of America, 2009)Because novel ecological conditions can cause severe and long-lasting environmental damage with large economic costs, ecologists must identify possible environmental regime shifts and pro-actively guide ecosystem management. ... -
Indignant Reading
(2013-09-18)In 1871, R. H. Hutton criticized George Eliot for "unfairly running down one of her own characters": Middlemarch's Rosamond Vincy. Hutton blamed Eliot for being cruel to her own creation and used his role as a reader and ... -
Indirect Evolution of Hybrid Lethality due to Linkage with Selected Locus in Mimulus guttatus
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Most species are superbly and intricately adapted to the environments in which they live. Adaptive evolution by natural selection is the primary force shaping biological diversity. Differences between closely related species ... -
Indirect Reciprocity Provides Only a Narrow Margin of Efficiency for Costly Punishment
(Nature Publishing Group, 2009)Indirect reciprocity is a key mechanism for the evolution of human cooperation. Our behaviour towards other people depends not only on what they have done to us but also on what they have done to others. Indirect reciprocity ...