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Morality as Freedom
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Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What Is Possible
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-04-18)The capacity for representing and reasoning over sets of possibilities, or modal cognition, supports diverse kinds of high-level judgments: causal reasoning, moral judgment, language comprehension, and more. Prior research ... -
More Accurate and Efficient Bath Spectral Densities from Super-Resolution
(2013)Quantum transport and other phenomena are typically modeled by coupling the system of interest to an environment, or bath, held at thermal equilibrium. Realistic bath models are at least as challenging to construct as ... -
More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production
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More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay be Coercive and Repugnant?
(American Economic Association, 2015)IRBs can disallow high incentives they deem coercive. A vignette study on MTurk concerning participation in medical trials shows that a substantial minority of subjects concurs. They think high incentives cause more regret, ... -
More on the Power of Demand Queries in Combinatorial Auctions: Learning Atomic Languages and Handling Incentives
(International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2005)Query learning models from computational learning theory (CLT) can be adopted to perform elicitation in combinatorial auctions. Indeed, a recent elicitation framework demonstrated that the equivalence queries of CLT can ... -
A More Precise Security Type System for Dynamic Security Tests
(2010)The move toward publically available services that store private information has increased the importance of tracking information flow in applications. For example, network systems that store credit-card transactions and ... -
The more the merrier? Increasing group size may be detrimental to decision-making performance in nominal groups
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-02-27)Demonstrability—the extent to which group members can recognize a correct solution to a problem—has a significant effect on group performance. However, the interplay between group size, demonstrability and performance is ... -
Morphogenesis of 3D vascular networks is regulated by tensile forces
(National Academy of Sciences, 2016)Understanding the forces controlling vascular network properties and morphology can enhance in vitro tissue vascularization and graft integration prospects. This work assessed the effect of uniaxial cell-induced and ... -
Morphogenesis One Century After on Growth and Form
(The Company of Biologists, 2017-11-28)Morphogenesis, the study of how forms arise in biology, has attracted scientists for aeons. A century ago, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson crystallized this question in his opus On Growth and Form (Thompson, 1917) using a series ... -
Morphogenic Protein RodZ Interacts with Sporulation Specific SpoIIE in Bacillus subtilis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)The first landmark in sporulation of Bacillus subtilis is the formation of an asymmetric septum followed by selective activation of the transcription factor σF in the resulting smaller cell. How the morphological transformations ... -
Morphological Affinities of the Sahelanthropus Tchadensis (Late Miocene Hominid from Chad) Cranium
(National Academy of Sciences, 2005)The recent reconstruction of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis cranium (TM 266-01-60-1) provides an opportunity to examine in detail differences in cranial shape between this earliest-known hominid, African apes, and other ... -
Morphological and Ecological Complexity in Early Eukaryotic Ecosystems
(Nature Publishing Group, 2001)Molecular phylogeny and biogeochemistry indicate that eukaryotes differentiated early in Earth history. Sequence comparisons of small-subunit ribosomal RNA genes suggest a deep evolutionary divergence of Eukarya and ... -
Morphological and functional changes in the vertebral column with increasing aquatic adaptation in crocodylomorphs
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2015)The lineage leading to modern Crocodylia has undergone dramatic evolutionary changes in morphology, ecology and locomotion over the past 200+ Myr. These functional innovations may be explained in part by morphological ... -
Morphological and kinematic basis of the hummingbird flight stroke: scaling of flight muscle transmission ratio
(The Royal Society, 2011)Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) are widely known for their insect-like flight strokes characterized by high wing beat frequency, small muscle strains and a highly supinated wing orientation during upstroke that allows for lift ... -
Morphological and molecular identification of a new species of Truncospora (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) in North America
(Magnolia Press, 2016)Truncospora wisconsinensis sp. nov., a new poroid wood-inhabiting species, is proposed based on a combination of molecular and morphological data. This species demonstrates a unique combination of characters including: ... -
Morphological and molecular study of Peziza emileia and P. howsei, two distinct taxa
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)Peziza emileia Cooke and P. howsei Roze & Boud. are compared here; they are morphologically very similar, but the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence is unique for each of the two species. Furthermore, since the ... -
Morphological complexity reveals verb-specific prefrontal engagement
(Elsevier BV, 2010)Neuropsychological evidence and recent rTMS studies strongly suggest that damage or inhibition of left prefrontal areas may result in specific impairment of verb morphosyntactic processing. However, functional imaging ... -
Morphological Evolution of Ag/Mica Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
(Materials Research Society, 2003)Many vapor-deposited metal-on-insulator films exhibit a morphological progression with increasing thickness consisting of several distinct stages: (1) nucleation of 3-dimensional nanocrystalline islands; (2) elongation of ... -
Morphological Evolution of Si Nanowires upon Lithiation: A First-Principles Multiscale Model
(American Chemical Society, 2013)Silicon is a promising anode material for high-capacity Li-ion batteries. Recent experiments show that lithiation of crystalline silicon nanowires leads to highly anisotropic morphologies. This has been interpreted as due ...