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    • Finite-Size Studies on the SO(5) Symmetry of the Hubbard Model 

      Meixner, Stefan; Hanke, Werner; Demler, Eugene A.; Zhang, Shou-Cheng (American Physical Society (APS), 1997)
      We present numerical evidence for the approximate SO(5) symmetry of the Hubbard model on a 10-site cluster. Various dynamic correlation functions involving the p operators, the generators of the SO(5) algebra, are studied ...

    • Finite-temperature molecular-dynamics study of unstable stacking fault free energies in silicon 

      de Koning, M.; Antonelli, A.; Bazant, Martin Z.; Kaxiras, Efthimios; Justo, J. F. (American Physical Society, 1998)
      We calculate the free energies of unstable stacking fault (USF) configurations on the glide and shuffle slip planes in silicon as a function of temperature, using the recently developed environment-dependent interatomic ...

    • Fire and Biofuel Contributions to Annual Mean Aerosol Mass Concentrations in the United States 

      Park, Rokjin J.; Jacob, Daniel J.; Logan, Jennifer A. (Elsevier, 2007)
      We estimate the contributions from biomass burning (summer wildfires, other fires, residential biofuel, and industrial biofuel) to seasonal and annual aerosol concentrations in the United States. Our approach is to use ...

    • The Fire Ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a Central Problem in the Study of Ritual Language 

      Nagy, Gregory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
      Italic rituals of purification by fire are attested in the Iguvine Tables, a repertoire of sacred texts managed by the "Atiedian Brethren" of the Umbrian city of Iguvium. These rituals can be understood in greater depth ...

    • Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics 

      Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert (American Economic Association, 2011)
      Analysts of the recent financial crisis often refer to the role of asset "fire sales" in depleting the balance sheets of financial institutions and aggravating the fragility of the financial system. The term "fire sale" ...

    • Fire-Sale Foreign Direct Investment and Liquidity Crises 

      Mark, Aguiar; Gopinath, Gita (MIT Press, 2005)
      In placing capital market imperfections at the center of emerg- ing market crises, the theoretical literature has associated a liquidity crisis with low foreign investment and the exit of investors from the crisis economy. ...

    • Firefly Monte Carlo: Exact MCMC with Subsets of Data 

      Maclaurin, Dougal; Adams, Ryan Prescott (AUAI Press, 2014)
      Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a popular and successful general-purpose tool for Bayesian inference. However, MCMC cannot be practically applied to large data sets because of the prohibitive cost of evaluating every ...

    • Fires on the Mountain - Ceramic Traditions and Marketing in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico 

      Howry, Jeffrey C.
      The doctoral thesis describes the types of pottery produced in Chamula, a Maya Tzotzil-speaking municipio located north of the Mexican city of San Cristobal de las Casas, in the highlands of Chiapas. Detailed pottery ...

    • Fireworks under the microscope: a spectacular new species of Zodiomyces from the Thaxter collection 

      Rossi, Walter; Haelewaters, Danny; Pfister, Donald H. (Informa UK Limited, 2016)
      A new species of Zodiomyces (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) is described, Z. rhizophorus, parasitic on a hydrophilid beetle (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Trinidad. This species was discovered during the examination of the ...

    • Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure 

      Antras, Pol (MIT Press, 2003)
      Roughly one-third of world trade is intrafirm trade. This paper starts by unveiling two systematic patterns in the volume of intrafirm trade. In a panel of industries, the share of intrafirm imports in total U. S. imports ...

    • The First Anders Ahlquist Lecture: Irish Myths and Legends 

      O Cathasaigh, Tomas (Suomen Keltologisen Seuran, 2005)

    • The First Apocalypse of James: Martyrdom and Sexual Difference 

      Haxby, Mikael C (2013-09-19)
      My dissertation presents a new reading of a rarely-studied early Christian text, the First Apocalypse of James, and seeks to intervene in major scholarly debates concerning martyrdom, scriptural interpretation and sexual ...

    • First chemo-enzymatic synthesis of the (R)-Taniguchi lactone and substrate profiles of CAMO and OTEMO, two new Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases 

      Rudroff, Florian; Fink, Michael J.; Pydi, Ramana; Bornscheuer, Uwe T.; Mihovilovic, Marko D. (Springer Vienna, 2016)
      Abstract This study investigates the substrate profile of cycloalkanone monooxygenase and 2-oxo-Δ3-4,5,5-trimethylcyclopentenylacetyl-coenzyme A monooxygenase, two recently discovered enzymes of the Baeyer–Villiger ...

    • The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Abazajian, Kevork; Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.; Ageros, Marcel A.; Allam, Sahar S.; Anderson, Scott F.; Annis, James; Bahcall, Neta A.; Baldry, Ivan K.; Bastian, Steven; Berlind, Andreas; Bernardi, Mariangela; Blanton, Michael R.; Blythe, Norman; Bochanski, John J. Jr.; Boroski, William N.; Brewington, Howard; Briggs, John W.; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert J.; Budavri, Tams; Carey, Larry N.; Carr, Michael A.; Castander, Francisco J.; Chiu, Kuenley; Collinge, Matthew J.; Connolly, A. J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Csabai, Istvn; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Dodelson, Scott; Doi, Mamoru; Dong, Feng; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Evans, Michael L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Feldman, Paul D.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Friedman, Scott D.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gal, Roy R.; Gillespie, Bruce; Glazebrook, Karl; Gonzalez, Carlos F.; Gray, Jim; Grebel, Eva K.; Grodnicki, Lauren; Gunn, James E.; Gurbani, Vijay K.; Hall, Patrick B.; Hao, Lei; Harbeck, Daniel; Harris, Frederick H.; Harris, Hugh C.; Harvanek, Michael; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Helmboldt, J. F.; Hendry, John S.; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Hindsley, Robert B.; Hogg, David W.; Holmgren, Donald J.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Homer, Lee; Hui, Lam; Ichikawa, Shin-ichi; Ichikawa, Takashi; Inkmann, John P.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Jester, Sebastian; Johnston, David E.; Jordan, Beatrice; Jordan, Wendell P.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Juri, Mario; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kent, Stephen M.; Kleinman, S. J.; Knapp, G. R.; Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Kron, Richard G.; Krzesiski, Jurek; Kunszt, Peter Z.; Kuropatkin, Nickolai; Lamb, Donald Q.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Laubscher, Bryan E.; Lee, Brian C.; Leger, R. French; Li, Nolan; Lidz, Adam; Lin, Huan; Loh, Yeong-Shang; Long, Daniel C.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Malik, Tanu; Margon, Bruce; McGehee, Peregrine M.; McKay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Miknaitis, Gajus A.; Moorthy, Bhasker K.; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Murphy, Tara; Nakajima, Reiko; Narayanan, Vijay K.; Nash, Thomas; Neilsen, Eric H. Jr.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Newman, Peter R.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nicinski, Tom; Nieto-Santisteban, Maria; Nitta, Atsuko; Odenkirchen, Michael; Okamura, Sadanori; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.; Owen, Russell; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Peoples, John; Pier, Jeffrey R.; Pindor, Bartosz; Pope, Adrian C.; Quinn, Thomas R.; Rafikov, R. R.; Raymond, Sean N.; Richards, Gordon T.; Richmond, Michael W.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Rockosi, Constance M.; Schaye, Joop; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schroeder, Joshua; Scranton, Ryan; Sekiguchi, Maki; Seljak, Uro; Sergey, Gary; Sesar, Branimir; Sheldon, Erin; Shimasaku, Kazu; Siegmund, Walter A.; Silvestri, Nicole M.; Sinisgalli, Allan J.; Sirko, Edwin; Smith, J. Allyn; Smoli, Vernesa; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stebbins, Albert; Steinhardt, Charles; Stinson, Gregory; Stoughton, Chris; Strateva, Iskra V.; Strauss, Michael A.; SubbaRao, Mark; Szalay, Alexander S.; Szapudi, Istvn; Szkody, Paula; Tasca, Lidia; Tegmark, Max; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Tremonti, Christy; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uomoto, Alan; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Vandenberg, Jan; Vogeley, Michael S.; Voges, Wolfgang; Vogt, Nicole P.; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Weinberg, David H.; West, Andrew A.; White, Simon D. M.; Wilhite, Brian C.; Willman, Beth; Xu, Yongzhong; Yanny, Brian; Yarger, Jean; Yasuda, Naoki; Yip, Ching-Wa; Yocum, D. R.; York, Donald G.; Zakamska, Nadia L.; Zehavi, Idit; Zheng, Wei; Zibetti, Stefano; Zucker, Daniel B. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and ...

    • First Detection of c-C3H2 in a Circumstellar Disk 

      Qi, Chunhua; Oberg, Karin; Wilner, David J.; Rosenfeld, Katherine Ann (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We report the first detection of c-C3H2 in a circumstellar disk. The c-C3H2 J = 6-5 line (217.882 GHz) is detected and imaged through Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Science Verification observations toward the disk ...

    • First Detection of Millimeter/Submillimeter Extragalactic H2O Maser Emission 

      Humphreys, E. M. L.; Greenhill, L. J.; Reid, M. J.; Beuther, H.; Moran, James M.; Gurwell, Mark Andrew; Wilner, David J.; Kondratko, P. T. (IOP Publishing, 2005)
      We report the first detection of an extragalactic millimeter wavelength H2O maser at 183 GHz towards NGC 3079 using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), and a tentative submillimeter wave detection of the 439 GHz maser towards ...

    • First Direct Observation of Muon Antineutrino Disappearance 

      Adamson, P.; Andreopoulos, C.; Auty, D. J.; Ayres, D. S.; Backhouse, C.; Barr, G.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bock, G. J.; Boehnlein, D. J.; Bogert, D.; Cavanaugh, S.; Cherdack, D.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B. C.; Coelho, J. A. B.; Coleman, S. J.; Corwin, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Danko, I. Z.; de Jong, J. K.; Devenish, N. E.; Diwan, M. V.; Dorman, M.; Escobar, C. O.; Evans, J. J.; Falk, E.; Feldman, Gary J.; Frohne, M. V.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Gouffon, P.; Graf, N.; Gran, R.; Grant, N.; Grzelak, K.; Habig, A.; Harris, D.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howcroft, C.; Huang, X.; Hylen, J.; Ilic, J.; Irwin, G. M.; Isvan, Z.; Jaffe, D. E.; James, C.; Jensen, D.; Kafka, T.; Kasahara, S. M. S.; Koizumi, G.; Kopp, S.; Kordosky, M.; Kreymer, A.; Lang, K.; Lefeuvre, G.; Ling, J.; Litchfield, P. J.; Loiacono, L.; Lucas, P.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Mayer, N.; McGowan, A. M.; Mehdiyev, R.; Meier, J. R.; Messier, M. D.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Mitchell, J.; Moore, C. D.; Morfín, J.; Mualem, L.; Mufson, S.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Newman, H. B.; Nichol, R. J.; Nicholls, T. C.; Nowak, J. A.; Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P.; Oliver, W. P.; Orchanian, M.; Ospanov, R.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Pearce, G. F.; Petyt, D. A.; Phan-Budd, S.; Plunkett, R. K.; Qiu, X.; Ratchford, J.; Raufer, T. M.; Rebel, B.; Rodrigues, P. A.; Rosenfeld, C.; Rubin, H. A.; Sanchez, M. C.; Schneps, J.; Schreiner, P.; Shanahan, P.; Sousa, A.; Stamoulis, P.; Strait, M.; Tagg, N.; Talaga, R. L.; Tetteh-Lartey, E.; Thomas, J.; Thomson, M. A.; Tinti, G.; Toner, R.; Tzanakos, G.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Viren, B.; Weber, A.; Webb, R. C.; White, C.; Whitehead, L.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Yang, T.; Zwaska, R. (American Physical Society (APS), 2011)
      This Letter reports the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance. The MINOS experiment has taken data with an accelerator beam optimized for ν⎯⎯μ production, accumulating an exposure of 1.71×1020 protons ...

    • First Directly Retrieved Global Distribution of Tropospheric Column Ozone from GOME: Comparison with the GEOS-CHEM Model 

      Liu, Xiong; Chance, Kelly V.; Sioris, Christopher E.; Kurosu, Thomas Paul; Spurr, Robert J.D.; Martin, Randall V.; Fu, Tzung-May; Logan, Jennifer A.; Jacob, Daniel J.; Palmer, Paul I.; Newchurch, Michael J.; Megretskaia, Inna A.; Chatfield, Robert B. (American Geophysical Union, 2006)
      We present the first directly retrieved global distribution of tropospheric column ozone from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) ultraviolet measurements during December 1996 to November 1997. The retrievals clearly ...

    • First Experimental Demonstration of Gate-all-around III-V MOSFET by Top-down Approach 

      Gu, Jiangjiang; Liu, Yiqun; Wu, Yanqing; Colby, Robert; Gordon, Roy Gerald; Ye, Peide D. (2012-02-23)
      The first inversion-mode gate-all-around (GAA) III-V MOSFETs are experimentally demonstrated with a high mobility In0.53Ga0.47As channel and atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) Al2O3/WN gate stacks by a top-down approach. A ...

    • The first fossil cyphophthalmid (Arachnida: Opiliones), from Bitterfeld amber, Germany 

      Dunlop, Jason A.; Giribet, Gonzalo (American Arachnological Society, 2003)
      The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman, Siro platypedibus new species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), is described from Bitterfeld amber, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. The age of this amber is in dispute. Geological ...