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A construction of combinatorial NLTS
(AIP Publishing, 2022-12-01)The NLTS (No Low-Energy Trivial State) conjecture of Freedman and Hastings [2014] posits that there exist families of Hamiltonians with all low energy states of high complexity (with complexity measured by the quantum ... -
Construction of Energy Functions for Lattice Heteropolymer Models: Efficient Encodings for Constraint Satisfaction Programming and Quantum Annealing
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-03-10)Optimization problems associated with the interaction of linked particles are at the heart of polymer science, protein folding and other important problems in the physical sciences. In this review we explain how to recast ... -
Construction of Model Hamiltonians for Adiabatic Quantum Computation and its Application to Finding Low-Energy Conformations of Lattice Protein Models
(American Physical Society, 2008)In this paper we explore the use of a quantum optimization algorithm for obtaining low-energy conformations of protein models. We discuss mappings between protein models and optimization variables, which are in turn mapped ... -
A Constructive Chemical Conversation
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Constructive Memory: Past and Future
(Les Laboratoires Servier, 2012)Human memory is not a literal reproduction of the past, but instead relies on constructive processes that are sometimes prone to error and distortion. Understanding of constructive memory has accelerated during recent years ... -
Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
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Consumer Financial Protection
(American Economic Association, 2011)The recent financial crisis has led many to question how well businesses deliver services and how well regulatory institutions address problems in consumer financial markets. This paper discusses consumer financial regulation, ... -
Consumers’ Misunderstanding of Health Insurance
(Elsevier BV, 2013)We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. ... -
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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Consuming experience: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value
(Elsevier BV, 2010)The hedonic value of an outcome can be influenced by the alternatives to which it is compared, which is why people expect to be happier with outcomes that maximize comparative value (e.g., the best of several mediocre ... -
Consumption and Portfolio Decisions When Expected Returns are Time Varying
(MIT Press, 1999)This paper presents an approximate analytical solution to the optimal consumption and portfolio choice problem of an infinitely lived investor with Epstein-Zin-Weil utility who faces a constant riskless interest rate and ... -
Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
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Contact De-electrification of Electrostatically Charged Polymers
(American Chemical Society, 2012)The contact electrification of insulating organic polymers is still incompletely understood, in part because multiple fundamental mechanisms may contribute to the movement of charge. This study describes a mechanism ... -
Contact sensing and grasping performance of compliant hands
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2009)Limitations in modern sensing technologies result in large errors in sensed target object geometry and location in unstructured environments. As a result, positioning a robotic end-effector includes inherent error that ... -
Contact-line pinning controls how quickly colloidal particles equilibrate with liquid interfaces
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2016)Previous experiments have shown that spherical colloidal particles relax to equilibrium slowly after they adsorb to a liquid-liquid interface, despite the large interfacial energy gradient driving the adsorption. The slow ... -
Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Cooperation is essential for successful human societies. Thus, understanding how cooperative and selfish behaviors spread from person to person is a topic of theoretical and practical importance. Previous laboratory ... -
Contagious bank failures in a free banking system
(Elsevier BV, 2000)This paper develops a model of an unregulated banking system based around a private clearing house arrangement. Whilst such a system may dominate one with a public safety net in reducing moral hazard in lending and therefore ... -
A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous “Ocean”
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)An active microbial assemblage cycles sulfur in a sulfate-rich, ancient marine brine beneath Taylor Glacier, an outlet glacier of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, with Fe(III) serving as the terminal electron acceptor. ... -
Content of Perceptual Experience
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Content-aware kinetic scrolling for supporting web page navigation
(Association of Computing Machinery, 2014)Long documents are abundant on the web today, and are accessed in increasing numbers from touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Navigating long documents with small screens can be challenging both physically ...