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Blossom: A Decentralized Approach to Overcoming Systemic Internet Fragmentation
(2005)The Internet is systemically fragmented. We consider the causes of fragmentation, including both technical concerns, such as middleboxes and routing failure, as well as political concerns, such as incomplete peering and ... -
The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(IOP Publishing, 2010)We present measurements of reddening due to dust using the colors of stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure the color of main-sequence turnoff stars by finding the "blue tip" of the stellar locus: the ... -
Blueprints for Smell: Defining the Architecture of the Necklace Olfactory System
(2016-09-14)Animals must extract salient information from complex environments in order to generate adaptive behaviors. Mice have evolved multiple olfactory subsystems that enable detection and discrimination of a vast range of chemical ... -
Blueswarm: 3D Self-organization in a Fish-inspired Robot Swarm
(2021-07-12)Animals team up to collectively address challenges they could not overcome individually. Several species self-organize into large groups to leverage vital behaviors such as foraging, construction, or predator evasion. Ants, ... -
BMP Signaling Controls Buckling Forces to Modulate Looping Morphogenesis of the Gut
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-02-13)Looping of the initially straight embryonic gut tube is an essential aspect of intestinal morphogenesis, permitting proper placement of the lengthy small intestine within the confines of the body cavity. The formation of ... -
BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)Many model organisms specify germ cells using maternally supplied germ-line determinants. In contrast, mice rely on embryonic cell–cell signaling to induce cells to become germ cells. Molecular evidence for inductive ... -
BMS supertranslations and Weinberg’s soft graviton theorem
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2015)Recently it was conjectured that a certain infinite-dimensional “diagonal” subgroup of BMS supertranslations acting on past and future null infinity (I − and I +) is an exact symmetry of the quantum gravity S-matrix, and ... -
Bodies of Books: Literary Illustration in Twentieth Century Brazil
(2017-01-26)This dissertation explores the nature and role of literary illustrations twentieth century Brazil, not just in relation to their companion texts, but also in what ways they reflect defining characteristics of Brazilian ... -
Bodies of Knowledge: Medicine, Memory, and Enhancement in Medieval Islam
(2021-07-12)In this dissertation I study the privileged place of medical erudition in the ethical literature (ādāb) written by Muslim scholarly elites (ulema) from the tenth through fourteenth centuries. Authors of ādāb in this period ... -
Bodies, Technology, and Emerging Notions of Subjectivity in the Poetry of Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Grünbein
(2022-06-06)In the works of the 20th-century German poets Thomas Kling, Ulrike Draesner, and Durs Grünbein, modern developments in medical technology, such as tomography, transplant surgery, and discoveries in areas such as neuroscience, ... -
Bodin, Montaigne and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries
(University of Rochester Press, 1997)Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) and Jean Bodin (1529-96) were contemporaries, compatriots and colleagues. Both served as officers in the Parlements, Montaigne as a counselor in Bordeaux and Bodin as a barrister in Paris. ... -
Bodleian Library, MS. Germ. e. 22. The Christ Child in the Host
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)This paper presents a miniature from a sixteenth-century prayer book originating from the Strasbourg Dominican nunnery St Nikolaus in Undis it in its historical and devotional context. The study particularly emphasizes the ... -
Body and Mind in Nineteenth‑Century Clinical Medicine: Some Clinical Origins of the Neurosis Construct
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The Body and the Building: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the transformation of the French built environment alongside medical discourses of the body in the early 19th century, arguing that emerging theories on health and hygiene comprised a politically ... -
Body fat, energy balance and estradiol levels: a study based on hormonal profiles from complete menstrual cycles
(Oxford University Press, 2008)BACKGROUND: Female fecundity is regulated by nutritional status. Although widely cited, this hypothesis is not strongly supported by empirical data from non-obese, healthy women of reproductive age. METHODS: Healthy, ... -
Body Fatness During Childhood and Adolescence and Incidence of Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
(BioMed Central, 2005)Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We examined prospectively the relation ... -
Body, Subject, Self: The Art of Piero Manzoni
(2014-06-06)Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is one of the best-known and under-theorized artists in all of postwar Europe. His body of work includes a range of practices from monochrome painting to readymade objects, from participatory ... -
Body-Mass Index and Mortality Risk in US Blacks Compared to Whites
(2013)Objective: To compare body-mass index (BMI)-related mortality risk in US Blacks vs. Whites as the relationship appears to differ across race/ethnicity groups. Design and Methods We pooled cross-sectional surveys of nationally ...