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The Evolutionary Origins of Human Patience: Temporal Preferences in Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and Human Adults
(Cell Press, 2007)To make adaptive choices, individuals must sometimes exhibit patience, forgoing immediate benefits to acquire more valuable future rewards. Although humans account for future consequences when making temporal decisions, ... -
Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers
(American Economic Association, 2014)The endowment effect, the tendency to value possessions more than non-possessions, is a well known departure from rational choice and has been replicated in numerous settings. We investigate the universality of the endowment ... -
Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy
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Evolutionary principles of modular gene regulation in yeasts
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2013)Divergence in gene regulation can play a major role in evolution. Here, we used a phylogenetic framework to measure mRNA profiles in 15 yeast species from the phylum Ascomycota and reconstruct the evolution of their modular ... -
Evolutionary Radiation of an Inbreeding Haplodiploid Beetle Lineage (Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
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The Evolutionary Social Psychology of Off-record Indirect Speech Acts
(Walter de Gruyter, 2007)This paper proposes a new analysis of indirect speech in the framework of game theory, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology. It builds on the theory of Grice, which tries to ground indirect speech in pure rationality ... -
Evolutionary Stability on Graphs
(Elsevier, 2008)Evolutionary stability is a fundamental concept in evolutionary game theory. A strategy is called an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), if its monomorphic population rejects the invasion of any other mutant strategy. ... -
Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards
(The Royal Society, 2014)Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to novel thermal habitats may occur ... -
Evolutionary Trajectories and Biogeochemical Impacts of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton
(Annual Reviews, Inc., 2004)The evolutionary succession of marine photoautotrophs began with the origin of photosynthesis in the Archean Eon, perhaps as early as 3.8 billion years ago. Since that time, Earth's atmosphere, continents, and oceans have ... -
Evolutionary Yarns in Seahorse Valley: Living Tissues, Wooly Textiles, Theoretical Biologies
(Duke University Press, 2013)The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (HCCR) is a distributed venture of thousands of women who cooperatively fabricate a collection of yarn and plastic coral reefs. Under the auspices of the Institute For Figuring, these ... -
Evolvability
(Association of Computing Machinery, 2009)Living organisms function in accordance with complex mechanisms that operate in different ways depending on conditions. Darwin's theory of evolution suggests that such mechanisms evolved through variation guided by natural ... -
Evolving Line Drawings
(1993)This paper explores the application of interactive genetic algorithms to the creation of line drawings. We have built a system that starts with a collection of drawings that are either randomly generated or input by the ... -
Evolving Righteousness in a Corrupt World
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Punishment offers a powerful mechanism for the maintenance of cooperation in human and animal societies, but the maintenance of costly punishment itself remains problematic. Game theory has shown that corruption, where ... -
EWA Splatting
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002)In this paper, we present a framework for high quality splatting based on elliptical Gaussian kernels. To avoid aliasing artifacts, we introduce the concept of a resampling filter, combining a reconstruction kernel with a ... -
EWA Volume Splatting
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2001)In this paper we present a novel framework for direct volume rendering using a splatting approach based on elliptical Gaussian kernels. To avoid aliasing artifacts, we introduce the concept of a resampling filter combining ... -
Ex Vivo Cytosolic Delivery of Functional Macromolecules to Immune Cells
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Intracellular delivery of biomolecules, such as proteins and siRNAs, into primary immune cells, especially resting lymphocytes, is a challenge. Here we describe the design and testing of microfluidic intracellular delivery ... -
The ExAC browser: displaying reference data information from over 60 000 exomes
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of humans have had their genomes or exomes sequenced, and access to the resulting data sets can provide valuable information for variant interpretation and understanding gene function. Here, ... -
Exact and Asymptotic Degeneracies of Small Black Holes
(Institute of Physics, 2005)We examine the recently proposed relations between black hole entropy and the topological string in the context of type II/heterotic string dual models. We consider the degeneracies of perturbative heterotic BPS states. ... -
Exact CNOT gates with a single nonlocal rotation for quantum-dot qubits
(American Physical Society (APS), 2015)We investigate capacitively-coupled exchange-only two-qubit quantum gates based on quantum dots. For exchange-only coded qubits electron spin S and its projection Sz are exact quantum numbers. Capacitive coupling between ... -
The exact constant in the Rosenthal inequality for random variables with mean zero
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2002)Let $\xi_1, \ldots, \xi_n$ be independent random variables with ${\bf E}\xi_i=0,$ ${\bf E}|\xi_i|^t<\infty$, $t>2$, $i=1,\ldots, n,$ and let $S_n=\sum_{i=1}^n \xi_i.$ In the present paper we prove that the exact constant ...