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Dicke-Model Quantum Spin and Photon Glass in Optical Cavities: Nonequilibrium Theory and Experimental Signatures
(American Physical Society (APS), 2013)In the context of ultracold atoms in multimode optical cavities, the appearance of a quantum-critical glass phase of atomic spins has been predicted recently. Due to the long-range nature of the cavity-mediated interactions, ... -
Did Emerging Continents Trigger Metazoan Evolution?
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Did Hittite Have Si-imperatives?
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Did Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?
(American Political Science Association, 2004)Although not widely known until much later, Al Gore received 202 more votes than George W. Bush on election day in Florida. George W. Bush is president because he overcame his election day deficit with overseas absentee ... -
Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?
(American Economic Association, 2006)The introduction of Medicare in 1965 was the single largest change in health insurance coverage in U.S. history. Many economists and commentators have conjectured that the introduction of Medicare may have also been an ... -
Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet?
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Did sulfate availability facilitate the evolutionary expansion of chlorophyll a+c phytoplankton in the oceans?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)During the Mesozoic Era, dinoflagellates, coccolithophorids and diatoms became prominent primary producers in the oceans, succeeding an earlier biota in which green algae and cyanobacteria had been proportionally more ... -
Did the Federal Drinking Age Save Lives?
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Did the States Pocket the Obama Stimulus Money: Lessons from Cross-Section Regression and Interviews with State Officials
(University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015)This paper deploys cross-section regressions and open-ended interviews to assess the impact of grants to the states under the Obama stimulus (ARRA) of 2009-2011. Contrary to John Taylor and John Cogan (Taylor 2011a, b; ... -
Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?
(Elsevier, 2008)The level of productivity doubled in the U.S. nonfarm business sector between 1970 and 2006. Wages, or more accurately total compensation per hour, increased at approximately the same annual rate during that period if ... -
Didaxis and Aesthetics in the Georgics Tradition
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Die ägyptische Spieldose
(Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012) -
Die Erforschung der Giza-Nekropole von 1800 bis Heute
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Die Ottheinrich-Bibel: Eine einzigartige Handschrift, and Das Toronto-Gebetbuch
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Die Spontaneität des Verstandes bei Kant und einigen Neokantianern
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)Kant famously characterizes our human understanding as a “spontaneous” faculty, but what can this mean? I criticize some recent interpretations of Kant’s claim and suggest that we can only understand what Kant means by ... -
“Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht”
(2014)“Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht” – “The history of the world is the Last Judgement” – is one of the most famous aphorisms in Hegel’s works. It also, on its most obvious interpretation, seems to support a deeply ... -
Die Zeit der Musikalischen Monumente
(Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2013)