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The Determinants of Mortality
(American Economic Association, 2006)The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically ... -
Determinants of Success and Failure in US Advising of Foreign Militaries, 1945-present
(2017-05-16)Military advising is frequently touted as a high-impact, low-cost strategy that allows the United States to achieve its security goals without deploying combat troops. The US military now considers foreign military advising ... -
Determination and Application of the Equilibrium Oxygen Isotope Effect Between Water and Sulfite
(Elsevier BV, 2014)The information encoded by the two stable isotope systems in sulfate (δ34SSO4 and δ18OSO4) has been widely applied to aid reconstructions of both modern and ancient environments. Interpretation of δ18OSO4 records has been ... -
Determination of DNA-Base Orientation on Carbon Nanotubes through Directional Optical Absorbance
(American Chemical Society, 2007)We develop an approach for determining the orientation of DNA bases attached to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), by combining ab initio time-dependent density functional theory and optical spectroscopy measurements. The structures ... -
Determination of Spin and Parity of the Higgs Boson in the WW ∗ →eνμν Decay Channel With the ATLAS Detector
(Springer Nature, 2015)Studies of the spin and parity quantum numbers of the Higgs boson in the WW ∗ →eνμν final state are presented, based on proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding ... -
The Determination of the Location of Contact Electrification-Induced Discharge Events
(American Chemical Society, 2010)This paper describes a method for determining the location of contact electrification-induced electrical discharges detected in a system comprising a steel sphere rolling in a circular path on an organic insulator. The ... -
A Determination of the Phase Diagram of Relaxed Langmuir Monolayers of Behenic Acid
(American Institute of Physics, 1996)Grazing incidence x‐ray scattering (GIXS) and Brewster angle microscopy (BAM) are used to determine the \(\pi–T\) phase diagram of Behenic acid monolayers supported on the surface of water (pH=2.0) over the temperature ... -
Determination of the Quadrupole Coupling Constant in the N^{14} Atomic Ground State
(American Physical Society, 1970)The zero-field hyperfine frequencies in the ground state of atomic N14 have been measured in a hydrogen maser with sufficient accuracy to resolve the quadrupole coupling constant B. The result is B=+1.32±0.20 Hz. -
Determination of the ratio of b-quark fragmentation fractions fs/fd in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
(American Physical Society (APS), 2015)With an integrated luminosity of 2.47 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, the exclusive decays B0s→J/ψϕ and B0d→J/ψK∗0 of B mesons produced in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV are used to determine the ratio of ... -
A Determination of the Spin of the Black Hole Primary in LMC X-1
(IOP Publishing, 2009)The first extragalactic X-ray binary, LMC X-1, was discovered in 1969. In the 1980s, its compact primary was established as the fourth dynamical black hole candidate. Recently, we published accurate values for the mass of ... -
Determination of the strong coupling constant αs from transverse energy-energy correlations in multijet events at s√=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Measurements of transverse energy-energy correlations and their associated asymmetries in multi-jet events using the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The data used correspond to s√=8 TeV proton-proton collisions ... -
Determination of the Top-Quark Pole Mass Using T T + 1-Jet Events Collected With the ATLAS Experiment in 7 TeV Pp Collisions
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015-10)The normalized differential cross section for top-quark pair production in association with at least one jet is studied as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the ����⎯⎯+ 1-jet system. This distribution can ... -
Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013)In economic project analysis, the rate at which future benefits and costs are discounted relative to current values often determines whether a project passes the benefit-cost test. This is especially true of projects with ... -
Determining drought sensitivity of the Amazon forest: does plant hydraulics matter?
(2015-09-08)Climate change is projected to cause significant shifts in precipitation patterns across the Amazon basin. This dissertation is designed to address key uncertainties surrounding our ability to predict the fate of the Amazon ... -
Determining Foreground Contamination in Cosmic Microwave Background Observations: Diffuse Galactic Emission in the MAXIMA‐I Field
(IOP Publishing, 2004)Observations of the CMB can be contaminated by diffuse foreground emission from sources such as Galactic dust and synchrotron radiation. In these cases, the morphology of the contaminating source is known from observations ... -
Determining Nonlocal Granular Rheology from Discrete Element Simulations
(2021-11-16)We determine the constitutive equation of simple granular materials considering them as continuous fluids. Based on discrete element simulations, we propose two rheological models with different Rivlin-Ericksen tensor ... -
Determining object geometry with compliance and simple sensors
(IEEE, 2011)To determine object geometry in unstructured environments, sensors must be mechanically robust, must exert only low forces on objects during exploration, and must be able to scan large regions efficiently without risk of ... -
Determining the Absorption towards Classical T Tauri Stars from Hydrogen Emission Lines
(Protostars and Planets VI, 2013)Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) are low-mass pre-main sequence objects surrounded by an accretion disk and still partially embedded in the parent circumstellar cloud. We observed a sample of 20 CTTS covering different ages ... -
Determining the Elastic Modulus and Hardness of an Ultrathin Film on a Substrate Using Nanoindentation
(Materials Research Society, 2009)A data analysis procedure has been developed to estimate the contact area in an elasto-plastic indentation of a thin film bonded to a substrate. The procedure can be used to derive the elastic modulus and hardness of the ... -
Determining the Properties and Evolution of Red Galaxies from the Quasar Luminosity Function
(American Astronomical Society, 2005)We study the link between quasars and the red galaxy population using a model for self-regulated growth of super-massive black holes in gas-rich galaxy mergers. Using a model for quasar evolution motivated by hydrodynamic ...