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Are Output Fluctuations Transitory?
(MIT Press, 1987)According to the conventional view of the business cycle, fluctuations in output represent temporary deviations from trend. The purpose of this paper is to question this conventional view. If fluctuations in output are ... -
Are PCPs Inherent in Efficient Arguments?
(Hasso-Plattner-Institut fuer Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, 2009)Starting with Kilian (STOC ‘92), several works have shown how to use probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and cryptographic primitives such as collision-resistant hashing to construct very efficient argument systems ... -
Are Self-Injurers Impulsive?
(Elsevier, 2009)Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals’ self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are ... -
Are social norms and reciprocity necessary for early helping?
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Are Testers Also Admitters? Comparing Emergency Physician Resource Utilization and Admitting Practices
(Elsevier BV, 2018-10)Objective: To describe the relationship between emergency department resource utilization and admission rate at the level of the individual physician. Methods: Retrospective observational study of physician resource ... -
Are the 41kyr Glacial Oscillations a Linear Response to Milankovitch Forcing?
(Elsevier, 2004)The characteristics of glacial oscillations changed drastically ~0.8Ma ago, at the ‘‘mid-Pleistocene transition’’. During the past 0.8Ma the ~100 kyr glacial–interglacial oscillations were strongly asymmetric (i.e., long ... -
Are the Magellanic Clouds on Their First Passage about the Milky Way?
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Are There Edenic Grounds of Perceptual Intentionality?
(Oxford University Press, 2012-11-26)This is a critical piece on "The Character of Consciousness" by David Chalmers. It focuses on Chalmers's two-stage view of perceptual content and the epistemology of perceptual belief that flows from this theory, and ... -
Are There True Cosmopolitan Sipunculan Worms? A Genetic Variation Study Within Phascolosoma perlucens (Sipuncula, Phascolosomatidae)
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2010)Phascolosoma perlucens is one of the most common intertidal sipunculan species and has been considered a circumtropical cosmopolitan taxon due to the presence of a long-lived larva. To verify whether P. perlucens is a true ... -
Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
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Are We Beyond Good and Evil?
(2004)In this essay, we criticize the tacit radical psychological materialist reduction of mental to brain behavior and the consequent ‘elimination’ of ethical categories from ‘scientific’ discourse. Our argument, following ... -
Are we there yet? Tracking the Development of New Model Systems
(Elsevier, 2008)It is increasingly clear that additional "model" systems are needed to elucidate the genetic and developmental basis of organismal diversity. Whereas model system development previously required enormous investment, recent ... -
Are We Winning the War against Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012)The most methodologically rigorous epidemiological study on American military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan found that 4.3% of troops developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among deployed combatants, ... -
“Are You at Peace?”
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2006)Background Physicians may question their role in probing patients’ spiritual distress and the practicality of addressing such issues in the time-limited clinical encounter. Yet, patients’ spirituality often influences ... -
Are you Going to Do That? Contingent-Payment Mechanisms to Improve Coordination
(2015)In this extended abstract, we consider simple coordination problems, such as allocating the right to use a shared sports facility in a way that maximizes its usage, or picking the time of a meeting in a way that maximizes ... -
Are γ -ray bursts at cosmological distances optically thin?
(American Physical Society, 1993)The observed spatial distribution of gamma-ray bursts indicates that they probably originate at cosmological distances. At this distance scale their variability time scale and flux above MeV imply an initial optical depth ... -
Area and Hausdorff Dimension of Julia Sets of Entire Functions
(American Mathematical Society, 1987)We show the Julia set of \(\lambda\sin(z)\) has positive area and the action of \(\lambda\sin(z)\) on its Julia set is not ergodic; the Julia set of \(\lambda\exp(z)\) has Hausdorff dimension two but in the presence of ... -
An area law for 2d frustration-free spin systems
(ACM, 2022-06-09)We prove that the entanglement entropy of the ground state of a locally gapped frustration-free 2D lattice spin system satisfies an area law with respect to a vertical bipartition of the lattice into left and right regions. ... -
Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?
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Area-specific temporal control of corticospinal motor neuron differentiation by COUP-TFI
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Transcription factors with gradients of expression in neocortical progenitors give rise to distinct motor and sensory cortical areas by controlling the area-specific differentiation of distinct neuronal subtypes. However, ...