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Applying GIS Methods to Public Health Research at Harvard University
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)The Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University supports research and teaching that relies on geographic information. This includes supporting geographic analysis for public health research at Harvard. This ... -
Applying Learning Algorithms to Preference Elicitation
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2004)We consider the parallels between the preference elicitation problem in combinatorial auctions and the problem of learning an unknown function from learning theory. We show that learning algorithms can be used as a basis ... -
Applying machine learning for building natural ventilation control
(IEEE, 2020-11)Although natural ventilation is applicable to most buildings, architects and engineers today struggle to integrate it as an alternative to mechanical ventilation systems due to its uncertainty. This paper presents the ... -
Applying MDP Approaches for Estimating Outcome of Interaction in Collaborative Human-Computer Settings
(2007)This paper investigates the problem of determining when a computer agent should interrupt a person with whom it is working collaboratively as part of a distributed, multi-agent team, which is operating in environments in ... -
Applying Next Generation Sequencing to Skeletal Development and Disease
(2014-02-25)Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have dramatically increased the throughput and lowered the cost of DNA sequencing. In this thesis, I apply these technologies to unresolved questions in skeletal development ... -
Applying the lattice Boltzmann equation to multiscale fluid problems
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2001)The authors discuss the theory and application of the Lattice Boltzmann equation to multiscale physics in fluids. They present two examples relevant to real-life applications: airflow around an airfoil at high Reynolds ... -
Applying Wet Sieving Fecal Particle Size Measurement to Frugivores: A Case Study of the Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii)
(Wiley, 2017-04-04)Fecal particle size (FPS) as quantified by wet sieving analysis is a measure of chewing efficiency relevant for the understanding of physiological adaptations and constraints in herbivores. FPS has not been investigated ... -
Appreciating Housing: The Role of Housing in Politics
(2016-05-03)While the economic implications of housing have been examined extensively, surprisingly limited attention has been devoted to how the housing market impacts politics. My dissertation is a three paper compilation that ... -
An Appreciation of Christiane Groeben: The Correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn
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Approaches for understanding relationships between cancer genomes and clinical cancer features
(2021-11-16)Cancer is a disease of the genome. Understanding what somatic alterations drive cancer and how they affect cancer treatment outcomes is a central goal of cancer genomics. Next-generation sequencing of cancer has led to ... -
Approaches to Policy Advice From Multiple Teachers in Reinforcement Learning
(2017-07-14)Reinforcement learning can be an arduous and expensive process, but agents can learn a task faster and better with the help of one or more teacher agents. In the advice model framework, a teacher instructs by giving advice ... -
The Approaching Epidemic
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Approaching the intrinsic band gap in suspended high-mobility graphene nanoribbons
(American Physical Society, 2011)We report electrical transport measurements on a suspended ultra-low-disorder graphene nanoribbon (GNR) with nearly atomically smooth edges that reveal a high mobility exceeding 3000 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) and an intrinsic band ... -
Appropriate Growth Policy: A Unifying Framework
(MIT Press, 2006)In this lecture, we use Schumpeterian growth theory, where growth comes from quality-improving innovations, to elaborate a theory of growth policy and to explain the growth gap between Europe and the US. Our theoretical ... -
The Appropriation of Native Status: Forming and Reforming Insiders and Outsiders in the Spanish Colonial World
(Max Planck Institut fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, 2014)This article examines the different meanings of native status in Spanish America. It argues that the classification of Indigenous peoples as »natives« was not meant to reflect a reality of indigeneity as many have assumed, ... -
Approval Voting Behavior in Doodle Polls
(2014)Doodle is a simple and popular online system for scheduling events. It is an implementation of the approval voting mechanism, where candidates are the time slots and each responder approves a subset of the slots. We analyze ... -
Approximate and Compensate: A Method for Risk-Sensitive Meta-Deliberation and Continual Computation
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2001)We present a flexible procedure for a resource-bounded agent to allocate limited computational resources to on-line problem solving. Our APPROXIMATE AND COMPENSATE methodology extends a well-known greedy time-slicing ... -
An approximate dual-self model and paradoxes of choice under risk
(Elsevier BV, 2014)We derive a simplified version of the model of Fudenberg and Levine, 2006 and Fudenberg and Levine, 2011 and show how this approximate model is useful in explaining choice under risk. We show that in the simple case of ... -
Approximate Strategyproofness
(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2012)The standard approach of mechanism design theory insists on equilibrium behavior by participants. This assumption is captured by imposing incentive constraints on the design space. But in bridging from theory to practice, ... -
Approximately Efficient Online Mechanism Design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004)Online mechanism design (OMD) addresses the problem of sequential decision making in a stochastic environment with multiple self-interested agents. The goal in OMD is to make value-maximizing decisions despite this ...