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Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review
(Sage Publications, 2009)Epistemological differences fuel continuous and frequently divisive debates in the social sciences and the humanities. Sociologists have yet to consider how such differences affect peer evaluation. The empirical literature ... -
Fairness with an Honest Minority and a Rational Majority
(Springer Verlag, 2009)We provide a simple protocol for secret reconstruction in any threshold secret sharing scheme, and prove that it is fair when executed with many rational parties together with a small minority of honest parties. That is, ... -
Fairness, Equality, and Democracy: Three Big Words
(New School for Social Research, 2006)In this paper I will focus on what might be meant by fairness in a democratic regime. There may be more general fairness criteria applicable to any political system, democratic or authoritarian, but fairness in relation ... -
Fairness, Risk Preferences and Independence: Impossibility Theorems
(Elsevier, 2012)The most widely used economic models of social preferences are specified only for certain outcomes. There are two obvious methods of extending them to lotteries. If we do so by expected utility theory, so that the independence ... -
Faith and Hermeneutics: Pragmatism versus Pragmatism
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Faith in Museums: On the Confluence of Museums and Religious Sites in Asia
(Modern Language Association (MLA), 2010) -
Faithfulness in Internet Algorithms
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2004)Proving or disproving faithfulness (a property describing robustness to rational manipulation in action as well as information revelation) is an appealing goal when reasoning about distributed systems containing rational ... -
FAK activation is required for IGF1R-mediated regulation of EMT, migration, and invasion in mesenchymal triple negative breast cancer cells
(Impact Journals LLC, 2015)Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly metastatic disease that currently lacks effective prevention and treatment strategies. The insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) ... -
Fake indexicals, binding, and the PCC
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The Fall of the Moche: A Critique of Claims for South America's First State
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The False Images of Science
(Curtis Publishing Company, 1960) -
The False Positive Rate of Kepler and the Occurrence of Planets
(IOP Publishing, 2013)The Kepler mission is uniquely suited to study the frequencies of extrasolar planets. This goal requires knowledge of the incidence of false positives such as eclipsing binaries in the background of the targets, or physically ... -
False positives complicate ancient pathogen identifications using high-throughput shotgun sequencing
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Identification of historic pathogens is challenging since false positives and negatives are a serious risk. Environmental non-pathogenic contaminants are ubiquitous. Furthermore, public genetic databases contain ... -
Families of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms
(Princeton University, 1987)In this paper we develop a rigidity theorem for algebraic families of rational maps and apply it to the study of iterative root-finding algorithms. We answer a question of Smale's by showing there is no generally convergent ... -
Famille, Langue, Identité: La venue à l’écriture dans Le Vin de solitude
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Family Firms
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)We present a model of succession in a firm owned and managed by its founder. The founder decides between hiring a professional manager or leaving management to his heir, as well as on how much, if any, of the shares to ... -
A Family of Calabi-Yau Varieties and Potential Automorphy
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Family Process and Youth Internalizing Problems: A Triadic Model of Etiology and Intervention
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-04-06)Despite major advances in the development of interventions for youth anxiety and depression, approximately 30% of youths with anxiety do not respond to cognitive behavioral treatment, and youth depression treatments yield ... -
Family Ties
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Family Ties and Political Participation
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic ...