Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Title
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Make Readers Make Art
(SALALM Secretariat, Latin American Library, Tulane University, 2014) -
Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility
(MIT Press - Journals, 2009) -
Making a Cloud Provenance-Aware
(USENIX Association, 2009)The advent of cloud computing provides a cheap and convenient mechanism for scientists to share data. The utility of such data is obviously enhanced when the provenance of the data is also available. The cloud, while ... -
Making a Difference: The Cartonera Comes to Mexico.
(David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2009) -
Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond
(American Economic Association, 2004)This paper tracks the fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the correlates of surname retention. Data from the New York Times, Harvard College ... -
Making a Science of Model Search: Hyperparameter Optimization in Hundreds of Dimensions for Vision Architectures
(JMLR, 2013)Many computer vision algorithms depend on configuration settings that are typically hand-tuned in the course of evaluating the algorithm for a particular data set. While such parameter tuning is often presented as being ... -
"Making America": On a new literary history of America
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"Making book against oneself," the Independence Axiom, and Nonlinear Utility Theory
(MIT Press, 1987)An individual with known preferences over lotteries can be led to accept random wealth distributions different from his initial endowment by a sequential process in which some uncertainty is resolved and he is offered a ... -
Making Commitments: France and Italy in the European Monetary System, 1979-1985
(Westview Press, 2001) -
Making Communism Work: Sinicizing a Soviet Governance Practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-07) -
Making Evolutionary Biology a Basic Science for Medicine
(2009)New applications of evolutionary biology in medicine are being discovered at an accelerating rate, but few physicians have sufficient educational background to utilize them fully. This article summarizes suggestions from ... -
Making it in Urban Medicine: A Career in the Age of Scientific Medicine
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) -
Making Musicology Modern: An Interview with Carol Oja
(American Music Research Center, 2011)Musicologist Carol Oja is interviewed about her life and career, which focused on 20th-century American modernism, musical theater and cross-cultural composition. -
Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)Many palaeoclimate studies have quantified pre-anthropogenic climate change to calculate climate sensitivity (equilibrium temperature change in response to radiative forcing change), but a lack of consistent methodologies ... -
Making the Case for History in Medical Education
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent ... -
Making the Empire British: Scotland in the Atlantic World 1542-1707
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1997) -
Making the Most out of Direct-Access Network Attached Storage
(USENIX, 2003)The performance of high-speed network-attached storage applications is often limited by end-system overhead, caused primarily by memory copying and network protocol processing. In this paper, we examine alternative ... -
"Making up Your Mind" and the Activity of Reason
(University of Michigan, 2011)