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The Problemata as a Natural Philosophical Genre
(MIT Press, 1999)The Aristotelian corpus not only established for some two millennia the definitions and standards for many branches in the natural sciences, but also founded a genre which respected neither the disciplinary boundaries nor ... -
Problems at the Nexus of Geometry and Soft Matter: Rings, Ribbons and Shells
(2012-08-17)There has been an increasing appreciation of the role in which elasticity plays in soft matter. The understanding of many shapes and conformations of complex systems during equilibrium or non-equilibrium processes, ranging ... -
Problems in Signal Processing and Inference on Graphs
(2015-05-15)Modern datasets are often massive due to the sharp decrease in the cost of collecting and storing data. Many are endowed with relational structure modeled by a graph, an object comprising a set of points and a set of ... -
Problems in the dynamics of shells and time-optimal control: From abseiling spiders to singing saws
(2023-05-12)In the first part of this thesis, we study localized vibrational modes in shells with spatially varying curvature. In particular, we describe how localized modes arise in two musical instruments, the steelpan and the musical ... -
Problems of Intellectualism: Raz on Reason and Its Objects
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Problems of Sincerity
(Blackwell Publishing, 2005)It is undeniable that the assumption of sincerity is important to assertion, and that assertion is central to the transmission of beliefs through human testimony. Discussions of testimony, however, often assume that the ... -
Problems with Civil and Environmental Engineering Education in the U.S.
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A procedure for testing the significance of orbital tuning of the Martian polar layered deposits
(Elsevier, 2014)Layered deposits of dusty ice in the martian polar caps have been hypothesized to record climate changes driven by orbitally induced variations in the distribution of incoming solar radiation. Attempts to identify such an ... -
Proceedings and the Public: How a Commercial Genre Transformed Science
(University of Chicago Press, 2020)How did learned societies come to be closely associated with journal publishing and what were the consequences of this development? This chapter locates this shift in the emergence of “Proceedings” publications in the ... -
Proceedings of the 2019 miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop
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Proceedings of the 2023 miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop
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A process evaluation of performance-based incentives for village health workers in Kisoro district, Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Designing effective incentive systems for village health workers (VHWs) represents a longstanding policy issue with substantial impact on the success and sustainability of VHW programs. Using performance-based ... -
Process Models, Equilibrium Structures, and Population Dynamics: On the Formulation and Testing of Realistic Theory in Ecology
(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1980-03)This paper addresses problems in the formulation and testing of theory to relate structure and dynamic behaviour in complex natural ecosystems. Detailed studies of spruce budworm-coniferous forest interactions in eastern ... -
Process Work: Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and the Mass Image Industry
(2022-01-19)My dissertation proposes a study of the phenomenon of “process work”—an industry term used in the mid- to late-nineteenth century to designate newly invented processes of mechanical reproduction—as it relates specifically ... -
Process-based analysis of climate model ENSO simulations: Intermodel consistency and compensating errors
(American Geophysical Union, 2014)Systematic and compensating errors can lead to degraded predictive skill in climate models. Such errors may be identified by comparing different models in an analysis of individual physical processes. We examine model ... -
A process-based approach to understanding and managing triggered seismicity
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-07-28)There is growing concern about seismicity triggered by human activities, where small stress increases bring tectonically loaded faults to failure. Examples include mining, impoundment of water, stimulation of geothermal ... -
Processes and Rates of Bacterial Evolution
(2013-10-08)A long-standing question in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation will typically proceed through a few mutations with large selective effects or many mutations with small effects. Many studies have implicated few ... -
The Processes of Melt Differentiation in Arc Volcanic Rocks: Insights from OIB-type Arc Magmas in the Central Mexican Volcanic Belt
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)Andesite petrogenesis is inextricably linked to plate processing at convergent margins. The details of andesite formation, however, remain poorly understood because the signatures of the initial arc mantle melts are often ... -
Processing morphological ambiguity: An experimental investigation of Russian numerical phrases
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Russian nouns in nominative and accusative numerical expressions appear in three different forms, depending on the numeral: nominative singular with the numeral 1, genitive singular with the paucal numerals 2–4, and genitive ... -
Processing Multiple Visual Objects Is Limited by Overlap in Neural Channels
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014-06-02)High-level visual categories (e.g., faces, bodies, scenes, and objects) have separable neural representations across the visual cortex. Here, we show that this division of neural resources affects the ability to simultaneously ...