Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "entrainment"

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    • The Evolutionary and Cognitive Basis of the Perception and Production of Dance 

      Brady, Adena Michelle (2013-03-08)
      Dance is a universal and ancient human behavior; however, our understanding of the basis of this behavior is surprisingly weak. In this dissertation, I explore the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of human dance, ...

    • Probing the Dynamics of Shallow Cumulus Convection 

      Nie, Ji (2013-10-18)
      Our limited knowledge of convection and its poor representation in climate models is one of the factors that most hamper our ability to understand and predict the climate system. In this thesis, the dynamics of shallow ...

    • Role of surface heat fluxes underneath cold pools 

      Gentine, Pierre; Garelli, Alix; Park, Seung‐Bu; Nie, Ji; Torri, Giuseppe; Kuang, Zhiming (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)
      Abstract The role of surface heat fluxes underneath cold pools is investigated using cloud‐resolving simulations with either interactive or horizontally homogenous surface heat fluxes over an ocean and a simplified land ...