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    • The Script of the Dove: An Armenian Hetaerogram 

      Russell, James R. (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 2010)

    • Scutellinia (Pezizales) In Korea, With A New Species and Eight New Records 

      Choi, Young-Joon; Shin, Hyeon-Dong; Han, Jae-Gu; Pfister, Donald H. (Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2012)
      Eleven species of the genus Scutellinia (Pyronemataceae, Pezizales) are recognized in Korea by analysis of macro- and micro-morphological characteristics, substrates and geographical distributions. Eight species are recorded ...

    • SDR: A Database of Predicted Specificity-Determining Residues in Proteins 

      Donald, Jason E.; Shakhnovich, Eugene Isaacovitch (Oxford University Press, 2009)
      The specificity-determining residue database (SDR database) presents residue positions where mutations are predicted to have changed protein function in large protein families. Because the database pre-calculates predictions ...

    • SDSS data management and photometric quality assessment 

      Ivezic, Z; Lupton, R. H.; Schlegel, D.; Boroski, B.; Adelman-McCarthy, J.; Yanny, B.; Kent, S.; Stoughton, C.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Padmanabhan, N.; Rockosi, C. M.; Gunn, J. E.; Knapp, G. R.; Strauss, M. A.; Richards, G. T.; Eisenstein, D.; Nicinski, T.; Kleinman, S. J.; Krzesinski, J.; Newman, P. R.; Snedden, S.; Thakar, A. R.; Szalay, A.; Munn, J. A.; Smith, J. A.; Tucker, D.; Lee, B. C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
      We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we show how the position of the stellar locus ...

    • SDSS J103913.70+533029.7: A Super Star Cluster in the Outskirts of a Galaxy Merger 

      Knapp, Gillian R.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Schlegel, David J.; Yanny, Brian; Beers, Timothy C.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Wilhelm, Ron; Lupton, Robert H.; Gunn, James E.; Niederste-Ostholt, Martin; Schneider, Donald P.; Covey, Kevin; Seth, Anil; Ivezic, Zeljko; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Helmboldt, Joe; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Kleinman, Scot J.; Long, Dan; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Nitta, Atsuko; Harvanek, Michael; Krzesinski, Jurek; Brewington, Howard J.; Barentine, John C.; Newman, Peter R.; Nielsen, Jr., Eric H.; Fukugita, Masataka; Brinkmann, J. (IOP Publishing, 2006)
      We describe the serendipitous discovery in the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of a starlike object, SDSS J103913.70+533029.7, at a heliocentric radial velocity of +1012 km s-1. Its proximity in position ...

    • SDSS J1152+0248: an eclipsing double white dwarf from the Kepler K2 campaign. 

      Hallakoun, N.; Maoz, D.; Kilic, M.; Mazeh, T.; Gianninas, A.; Agol, E.; Bell, K. J.; Bloemen, S.; Brown, W. R.; Debes, J.; Faigler, S.; Kull, I.; Kupfer, T.; Loeb, Abraham; Morris, B. M.; Mullally, F. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)
      We report the discovery of the sixth known eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) system, SDSS J1152+0248, with a 2.3968 +/- 0.0003 h orbital period, in data from the Kepler Mission's K2 continuation. Analysing and modelling ...

    • Sea Ice and Dynamical Controls on Preindustrial and Last Glacial Maximum Accumulation in Central Greenland 

      Rhines, Andrew Nelson; Huybers, Peter John (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      Greenland has experienced large changes since the last glacial with its summit warming by approximately 21°C, average accumulation rates tripling, and annual amplitudes of temperature and accumulation seemingly declining. ...

    • Sea Ice as the Glacial Cycles’ Climate Switch: Role of Seasonal and Orbital Forcing 

      Gildor, Hezi; Tziperman, Eli (American Geophysical Union, 2000)
      A box model of the coupled ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and land ice climate system is used to study glacial-interglacial oscillations under seasonally and orbitally varying solar forcing. The dominant 100 kyr oscillation ...

    • A Sea Ice Climate Switch Mechanism for the 100-KYR Glacial Cycles 

      Gildor, Hezi; Tziperman, Eli (American Geophysical Union, 2001)
      A box model of the ocean-atmosphere-sea ice-land ice climate system is used to study a novel mechanism for self-sustained oscillations of the climate system on a time scale of 100,000 years, without external forcing. The ...

    • Sea Ice Switch Mechanism and Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Variations 

      Gildor, Hezi; Tziperman, Eli; Toggweiler, J. R. (American Geophysical Union, 2002)
      A physical mechanism is proposed for the glacial-interglacial variations in the rate of vertical mixing and in sea ice cover in the Southern Ocean. Such variations were postulated without an explanation by Toggweiler [1999] ...

    • Sea Ice, High-Latitude Convection, and Equable Climates 

      Abbot, Dorian S.; Tziperman, Eli (American Geophysical Union, 2008)
      It is argued that deep atmospheric convection might occur during winter in ice-free high-latitude oceans, and that the surface radiative warming effects of the clouds and water vapor associated with this winter convection ...

    • Sea level as a stabilizing factor for marine-ice-sheet grounding lines 

      Gomez, Natalya Alissa; Mitrovica, Jerry; Huybers, Peter John; Clark, Peter U. (Springer Nature, 2010)
      Climate change could potentially destabilize marine ice sheets, which would affect projections of future sea-level rise1, 2, 3, 4. Specifically, an instability mechanism5, 6, 7, 8 has been predicted for marine ice sheets ...

    • Sea Peoples, Egypt, and the Aegean: The Transference of Maritime Technology in the Late Bronze–Early Iron Transition (LH IIIB–C) 

      Emanuel, Jeffrey Paul (2014)
      The appearance of the brailed rig and loose–footed sail at the end of the Late Bronze Age revolutionized seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean. The most famous early appearance of this new technology is found in history’s ...

    • Search for a high-mass Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at s√=8 s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector 

      Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Morii, Masahiro (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016-01)

    • Search for a Light Charged Higgs Boson in the Decay Channel H+->csbar in Ttbar Events Using pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector 

      Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Kagan, M; Jeanty, L; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Yen, Andy; Zevi Della Porta, G (Springer Nature, 2013)
      A search for a charged Higgs boson (H+) in ttbar decays is presented, where one of the top quarks decays via t->H+b, followed by H+->two jets (csbar). The other top quark decays to Wb, where the W boson then decays into a ...

    • Search for a low-mass neutral Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions using events with multiphoton final states 

      Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Morii, Masahiro (American Physical Society (APS), 2016)
      A search for a Higgs boson with suppressed couplings to fermions, hf , assumed to be the neutral, lower-mass partner of the Higgs boson discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, is reported. Such a Higgs boson could exist ...

    • Search for a new heavy gauge boson resonance decaying into a lepton and missing transverse momentum in 36 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√= 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment 

      Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Morii, Masahiro
      The results of a search for new heavy W′ bosons decaying to an electron or muon and a neutrino using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=13 TeV are presented. The dataset was collected in 2015 and ...

    • Search for a New Resonance Decaying to a W or Z Boson and a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓ/ℓν/νν+bb¯ Final States With the ATLAS Detector 

      Clark, Brian Lee; Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Ippolito, Valerio; Lopez Mateos, David; Mercurio, Kevin; Morii, Masahiro; Spearman, William; Sun, Siyuan; Tolley, Emma; Yen, Andy; Zambito, Stefano (Springer Nature, 2015)
      A search for a new resonance decaying to a W or Z boson and a Higgs boson in the ℓℓ/ℓν/νν+bb¯ final states is performed using 20.3 fb-1 of pp collision data recorded at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron ...

    • Search for a scalar partner of the top quark in the jets plus missing transverse momentum final state at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector 

      Franklin, Melissa; Huth, John; Morii, Masahiro
      A search for pair production of a scalar partner of the top quark in events with four or more jets plus missing transverse momentum is presented. An analysis of 36.1 fb−1 of √s = 13 TeV proton–proton collisions collected ...

    • Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment 

      Adamson, P.; Shanahan, P.; Rosenfeld, C.; Marshall, J. S.; Baller, B.; Sousa, A.; Barrett, W. L.; Heller, K.; Patzak, T.; Ma, J.; Lucas, P.; Cavanaugh, S.; Naples, D.; Ishitsuka, M.; Newman, H. B.; Tzanakos, G.; Barr, G.; Nichol, R. J.; Petyt, D. A.; Mishra, S. R.; Cherdack, D.; Paley, J.; Frohne, M. V.; Dorman, M.; Childress, S.; Dytman, S. A.; Cobb, J. H.; Grossman, N.; Bohenlein, D. J.; Moore, C. D.; Peck, C. W.; Meier, J. R.; Webb, R. C.; Kordosky, M.; White, C.; Smart, W.; Rodrigues, P. A.; Evans, J. J.; James, C.; Strait, M.; Belias, A.; Boehm, J.; Kim, J. J.; Saoulidou, N.; Grzelak, K.; Marchionni, A.; Wright, D. M.; Thomson, M. A.; McGowan, A. M.; Goodman, M. C.; Weber, A.; Falk Harris, E.; Schneps, J.; Rahaman, A.; Marshak, M. L.; Habig, A.; Tsarev, V. A.; Trostin, I.; Jaffe, D. E.; de Jong, J. K.; Bishai, M.; Harris, D.; Coleman, S. J.; Bogert, D.; Ward, D. R.; Ling, J.; Culling, A. J.; Koizumi, G.; Smith, C.; Kotelnikov, S. K.; Harris, P. G.; Godley, A.; Holin, A.; Kasahara, S. M. S.; Irwin, G. M.; Diwan, M. V.; Rameika, R. A.; Bock, G. J.; Feldman, Gary; Messier, M. D.; Kumaratunga, S.; Pearce, G. F.; Bower, C.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Metelko, C. J.; Jensen, D.; Musser, J.; Murgia, S.; Mufson, S.; Arms, K. E.; Paolone, V.; Para, A.; Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P.; Pawloski, G.; Bernstein, R. H.; Kafka, T.; Mann, W. A.; Speakman, B.; Litchfield, P. J.; Bhattacharya, D.; Chapman, J. D.; Rubin, H. A.; Hylen, J.; Becker, B. R.; Wehmann, A.; Talaga, R. L.; Sanchez, M. C.; Gouffon, P.; Koskinen, D. J.; Mayer, N.; Kim, M. S.; Thomas, J.; West, N.; Mualem, L.; Ayres, D. S.; Dierckxsens, M.; Morfin, J.; Pavlovic, Z.; Backhouse, C.; Ryabov, V. A.; Vahle, P.; Nelson, J. K.; Hatcher, R.; Plunkett, R. K.; Zwaska, R.; Reichenbacher, J.; Litchfield, R. P.; Hsu, L.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Viren, B.; Oliver, W. P.; Blake, A.; Thron, J. L.; Urheim, J.; Himmel, A.; Pittam, R.; Tavera, M. A.; Watabe, M.; Kreymer, A.; Loiacono, L.; Auty, D. J.; Andreopoulos, C.; Miller, W. H.; Nicholls, T. C.; Lang, K.; Choudhary, B. C.; Gallagher, H. R.; Escobar, C. O.; Rebel, B.; Hartnell, J.; Stamoulis, P.; Tinti, G.; Grashorn, E. W.; Kopp, S.; Zhang, K.; Yang, T.; Gran, R.; Raufer, T. M.; Armstrong, R.; Ospanov, R.; Michael, D. G.; Schreiner, P.; Tagg, N. (Physical Review Letters, 2008)
      (G. J. Feldman is the Harvard author) We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site ...