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Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Relative to morphological traits, we know little about how genetics influence the evolution of complex behavioural differences in nature1. It is unclear how the environment influences natural variation in heritable behaviour, ... -
Discrete One-forms on Meshes and Applications to 3D mesh Parameterization
(Elsevier, 2006)We describe how some simple properties of discrete one-forms directly relate to some old and new results concerning the parameterization of 3D mesh data. Our first result is an easy proof of Tutte's celebrated “spring-embedding” ... -
Discrete Single-Photon Quantum Walks with Tunable Decoherence
(American Physical Society, 2010)Quantum walks have a host of applications, ranging from quantum computing to the simulation of biological systems. We present an intrinsically stable, deterministic implementation of discrete quantum walks with single ... -
Discrete/Continuous: Music and Media Theory after Kittler
(University of California Press, 2017-04-01)At first blush, the pair discrete/continuous seems to take us far from the concerns of musicology and place us firmly in the realm of statistics, data analysis, and number crunching. Put graphically, “discrete data” ... -
Discretizing gravity in warped spacetime
(Springer Verlag, 2005)We investigate the discretized version of the compact Randall-Sundrum model. By studying the mass eigenstates of the lattice theory, we demonstrate that for warped space, unlike for flat space, the strong coupling scale ... -
Discriminate Biopower and Everyday Biopolitics: Views on Sickle Cell Testing in Dakar
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)Many physicians in Senegal and France, where most Senegalese sickle cell specialists are partially trained, assume that genetic testing that could imply selective abortion for people with sickle cell would run counter to ... -
Discriminating between the physical processes that drive spheroid size evolution
(Oxford University Press, 2010)Observations have shown that massive galaxies at high redshift have much smaller effective radii than galaxies of similar mass today; however, recent work has shown that they have similar central densities. The primary ... -
Discriminating tissue stiffness with a haptic catheter: Feeling the inside of the beating heart
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011)Catheter devices allow physicians to access the inside of the human body easily and painlessly through natural orifices and vessels. Although catheters allow for the delivery of fluids and drugs, the deployment of devices, ... -
Discriminating topology in galaxy distributions using network analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2016)The large-scale distribution of galaxies is generally analysed using the two-point correlation function. However, this statistic does not capture the topology of the distribution, and it is necessary to resort to higher ... -
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
(American Sociological Association, 2009)Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination, we conducted a field experiment ... -
Discrimination, race relations and the second generation
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)In an increasingly diverse America, the experience of race and racial discrimination is too often described as if it is the same for all racial and ethnic groups. Utilizing the perspective on ethnic and racial groups ... -
Discriminative virtual views for cross-view action recognition
(IEEE, 2012)We propose an approach for cross-view action recognition by way of ‘virtual views’ that connect the action descriptors extracted from one (source) view to those extracted from another (target) view. Each virtual view is ... -
Discriminatively Reranking Abductive Proofs for Plan Recognition
(AAAI Publications, 2014)We investigate the use of a simple, discriminative reranking approach to plan recognition in an abductive setting. In contrast to recent work, which attempts to model abductive plan recognition using various formalisms ... -
Discussion of "Riemann Manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods"
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Discussion: One-step Sparse Estimates in Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood Models: Who Cares if It Is a White cat or a Black cat?
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Disease Allele-Dependent Small-Molecule Sensitivities in Blood Cells from Monogenic Diabetes
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Even as genetic studies identify alleles that influence human disease susceptibility, it remains challenging to understand their functional significance and how they contribute to disease phenotypes. Here, we describe an ... -
Disease and Social Order in America: Perceptions and Expectations
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1986)Views of disease-and especially of epidemics-among laymen and physicians alike, changed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between extremes of reductionism and relativism. Both society and the medical profession ... -
Disease in history, history in disease: An interview with Charles Rosenberg
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Disease in History: Frames and Framers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1989)In some ways disease does not exist until we agree that it does-by perceiving, naming, and responding to it. These acts of agreement have during the past century become increasingly central to social as well as medical ...