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    • Art, Enclosure and the Cura Monialium: Prolegomena in the Guise of a Postscript 

      Hamburger, Jeffrey F. (International Center of Medieval Art, 1992)
      A history of the art and architecture of female monasticism requires a social history of female spirituality in the Middle Ages. Neither, however, has been written, perhaps because each is integral to the other. The cura ...

    • Arthrobots 

      Nemiroski, Alex; Shevchenko, Yanina Y.; Stokes, Adam A.; Unal, Baris; Ainla, Alar; Albert, Sahradha; Compton, Gabrielle; MacDonald, Emily; Schwab, Yosyp; Zellhofer, Caroline; Whitesides, George McClelland (Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2017)
      This paper describes a class of robots—“arthrobots”— inspired, in part, by the musculoskeletal system of arthropods (spiders and insects, inter alia). An exoskeleton, constructed from thin organic polymeric tubes, provides ...

    • Arthur Collins's The Nature of Mental Things 

      Moran, Richard (Blackwell Publishing, 1994)

    • Artifice and Persuasion: The Work of Metaphor in the Rhetoric 

      Moran, Richard (University of California Press, 1996)

    • Artificial insect wings of diverse morphology for flapping-wing micro air vehicles 

      Shang, J K; Combes, Stacey A.; Finio, B M; Wood, Robert J. (IOP Publishing, 2009)
      The development of flapping-wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) demands a systematic exploration of the available design space to identify ways in which the unsteady mechanisms governing flapping-wing flight can best be utilized ...

    • ARTIST: High-Resolution Genome-Wide Assessment of Fitness Using Transposon-Insertion Sequencing 

      Pritchard, Justin R.; Chao, Michael C.; Abel, Sören; Davis, Brigid M.; Baranowski, Catherine; Zhang, Yanjia J.; Rubin, Eric J.; Waldor, Matthew K. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS) is a powerful approach for deciphering genetic requirements for bacterial growth in different conditions, as it enables simultaneous genome-wide analysis of the fitness of thousands ...

    • An As-Rigid-As-Possible Approach to Sensor Network Localization 

      Zhang, Lei; Liu, Ligang; Gotsman, Craig; Gortler, Steven J. (2009)
      We present a novel approach to localization of sensors in a network given a subset of noisy inter-sensor distances. The algorithm is based on "stitching" together local structures by solving an optimization problem requiring ...

    • Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists 

      Browne, Janet E (Harvard University Herbaria, 2010)
      Recent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major ...

    • ASC: Automatically Scalable Computation 

      Waterland, Amos; Angelino, Elaine; Adams, Ryan Prescott; Appavoo, Jonathan; Seltzer, Margo I. (Association of Computing Machinery, 2014)
      We present an architecture designed to transparently and automatically scale the performance of sequential programs as a function of the hardware resources available. The architecture is predicated on a model of computation ...

    • ASCA Observations of GX 354? 0 and KS 1731? 260 

      Narita, T.; Grindlay, J. E.; Barret, D. (American Astronomical Society, 2001)
      We report on ASCA observations of the low-mass X-ray binaries GX 354-0 and KS 1731-260. The spectrum of GX 354-0 is best described as a power law or a Comptonized spectrum with tau similar to 5 and kT similar to 8 keV and ...

    • ASCA observations of two steep soft X-ray quasars 

      Fiore, F.; Matt, G.; Cappi, M.; Elvis, Martin S.; Leighly, K. M.; Nicastro, F.; Piro, L.; Siemiginowska, Aneta L.; Wilkes, Belinda Jane (Oxford University Press (OUP), 1998)
      Steep soft X-ray (0.1-2 keV) quasars share several unusual properties: narrow Balmer lines, strong FeII emission, large and fast X-ray variability, rather steep 2-10 keV spectrum. These intriguing objects have been suggested ...

    • Ascending Price Vickrey Auctions for General Valuations 

      Mishra, Debasis; Parkes, David C. (Elsevier, 2007)
      Ascending price auctions involving a single price path and buyers paying their final bid price cannot achieve the Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) outcome in the combinatorial auctions setting. Using a notion called universal ...

    • An Ascending-Price Generalized Vickrey Auction 

      Parkes, David C.; Ungar, Lyle H. (2002)
      A simple characterization of the equilibrium conditions required to compute Vickrey payments in the Combinatorial Allocation Problem leads to an ascending price Generalized Vickrey Auction. The ascending auc- tion, ...

    • The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum Wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits 

      Hewitt, David; Spatafora, Joseph W.; Lutzoni, Francois; Trappe, James M.; Hansen, Karen; Cole, Mariette S.; Crittenden, Peter D.; Dyer, Paul S.; Zuccaro, Alga; Stenroos, Soili; Johnston, Peter; Untereiner, Wendy; Summerbell, Richard C.; Sugiyama, Junta; Shoemaker, Robert A.; Rogers, Jack D.; Sipman, Harrie; O'Donnell, Kerry; Mostert, Lizel; Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, Brigitte; Kohlmeyer, Jan; Inderbitzin, Patrik; Hosaka, Kentaro; Geiser, David M.; Ertz, Damien; Diederich, Paul; Rauhut, Alexandra; Budel, Burkhard; Lucking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Rossman, Amy Y.; Castlebury, Lisa A.; Griffith, Gareth W.; Hillis, David M.; Blackwell, Meredith; Suh, Sung-Oui; Aptroot, Andre; Wingfield, Michael J.; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Crous, Pedro W.; de Hoog, G. Sybren; Arzanlou, Mahdi; Groenewald, Johannes Z.; Yahr, Rebecca; Bonito, Gregory; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Fraker, Emily; Wynns, Anja; Ciufetti, Linda; Trippe, Kristin; Andrie, Rachael M.; Gueidan, Cecile; Wang, Zheng; Kauff, Frank; Matheny, P. Brandon; Robbertse, Barbara; Hofstetter, Valerie; Miadlikowska, Jolanta; Townsend, Jeffery P.; Lopez-Giraldez, Francesc; Sung, Gi-Ho; Schoch, Conrad L.; Pfister, Donald H.; Peterson, Kristin (Oxford University Press, 2009)
      We present a 6-gene, 420-species maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Ascomycota, the largest phylum of Fungi. This analysis is the most taxonomically complete to date with species sampled from all 15 currently circumscribed ...

    • Asexual reproduction in introduced and native populations of the antCerapachys biroi 

      Kronauer, Daniel J. C.; Pierce, Naomi Ellen; Keller, Laurent (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      Asexual reproduction is particularly common among introduced species, probably because it helps to overcome the negative effects associated with low population densities during colonization. The ant Cerapachys biroi has ...

    • ASGARD: An Open-Access Database of Annotated Transcriptomes for Emerging Model Arthropod Species 

      Zeng, Victor; Extavour, Cassandra G. (Oxford University Press, 2012)
      The increased throughput and decreased cost of next-generation sequencing (NGS) have shifted the bottleneck genomic research from sequencing to annotation, analysis and accessibility. This is particularly challenging for ...

    • Asian chemical outflow to the Pacific in spring: Origins, pathways, and budgets 

      Bey, Isabelle; Jacob, Daniel James; Logan, Jennifer A.; Yantosca, Robert M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)
      We analyze the Asian outflow of CO, ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) to the Pacific in spring by using the GEOS-CHEM global three-dimensional model of tropospheric chemistry and simulating the Pacific Exploratory Mission-West ...

    • Asian outflow and trans-Pacific transport of carbon monoxide and ozone pollution: An integrated satellite, aircraft, and model perspective 

      Heald, Colette L.; Jacob, Daniel James; Fiore, Arlene M.; Emmons, Louisa K.; Gille, John C.; Deeter, Merritt N.; Warner, Juying; Edwards, David P.; Crawford, James H.; Hamlin, Amy J.; Sachse, Glen W.; Browell, Edward V.; Avery, Melody A.; Vay, Stephanie A.; Westberg, David J.; Blake, Donald R.; Singh, Hanwant B.; Sandholm, Scott T.; Talbot, Robert W.; Fuelberg, Henry E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)
      Satellite observations of carbon monoxide (CO) from the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument are combined with measurements from the Transport and Chemical Evolution Over the Pacific (TRACE-P) ...

    • Asian-White disparities in short sleep duration by industry of employment and occupation in the US: a cross-sectional study 

      Jackson, Chandra L; Kawachi, Ichiro; Redline, Susan; Juon, Hee-Soon; Hu, Frank B (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Although short sleep is associated with an increased risk of morbidity as well as mortality and has been shown to vary by industry of employment and occupation, little is known about the relationship between ...

    • Asking About Numbers: Why and How 

      Ansolabehere, Stephen Daniel; Meredith, M.; Snowberg, E. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
      Survey questions about quantities offer a number of advantages over more common qualitative questions. However, concerns about survey respondents’ abilities to accurately report numbers have limited the use of quantitative ...