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    • The Death of Isabella Della Volpe: Four Eyewitness Accounts of a Postmortem Caesarean Section in 1545 

      Park, Katharine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
      This article provides a transcription and translation of four notarized declarations describing the events surrounding a postmortem caesarean section performed in 1545 in Vercelli, a small city in the Duchy of Savoy. After ...

    • The Death of Maternity? Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death 

      Mcdonald, Christie (Berghahn Books, 2010-01-01)

    • 'Death', Doxography, and the 'Termerian Evil' (Philodemus, Epigr. 27 Page = A. P. 11.30) 

      Thomas, Richard F. (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

    • Deaths from Heart Failure: Using Coarsened Exact Matching to Correct Cause-of-Death Statistics 

      Stevens, Gretchen A; King, Gary; Shibuya, Kenji (BioMed Central, 2010)
      Background: Incomplete information on death certificates makes recorded cause-of-death data less useful for public health monitoring and planning. Certifying physicians sometimes list only the mode of death without indicating ...

    • Debonding and fracture of ceramic islands on polymer substrates 

      Vlassak, Joost; Sun, Jeong-Yun; Lu, Nanshu; Yoon, Juil; Oh, Kyu-Hwan; Suo, Zhigang (AIP Publishing, 2012-01)
      We perform in-situ uniaxial tensile tests on polyimide substrates with patterned ceramic islands. The islands fail by either channel cracking or debonding from the substrate, depending on island size and thickness. To ...

    • Debt Enforcement Around the World 

      Djankov, Simeon; Hart, Oliver; McLiesh, Caralee; Shleifer, Andrei (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
      Insolvency practitioners from 88 countries describe how debt enforcement will proceed against an identical hotel about to default on its debt. We use the data on time, cost, and the likely disposition of the assets ...

    • A Decade of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Broad-Band Afterglows: Energetics, Circumburst Densities, and Jet Opening Angles 

      Fong, W.; Berger, Edo; Margutti, R; Zauderer, B (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present a comprehensive catalog and analysis of broad-band afterglow observations for 103 short duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), comprised of all short GRBs from November 2004 to March 2015 with prompt follow-up ...

    • A Decade of SN 1993J: Discovery of Radio Wavelength Effects in the Expansion Rate 

      Marcaide, J.M.; Marti-Vidal, I.; Alberdi, A.; Perrez-Torres, M.A.; Ros, E.; Diamond, P.J.; Guirado, J.C.; Lara, L.; Shapiro, Irwin Ira; Stockdale, C.J.; Weiler, K.W.; Mantovani, F.; Preston, R.A.; Schilizzi, R.T.; Sramek, R.A.; Trigilio, C.; Van Dyk, S.D.; Whitney, A.R. (EDP Sciences, 2009)
      We studied the growth of the shell-like radio structure of supernova SN 1993J in M 81 from September 1993 to October 2003 with very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at the wavelengths of 3.6, 6, and 18 cm. ...

    • A Decam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the Ligo Gravitational-Wave Event Gw151226 

      Cowperthwaite, Philip Steven; Berger, Edo; Soares-Santos, M.; Annis, J.; Brout, D.; Brown, D. A.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Cenko, S. B.; Chen, H. Y.; Chornock, R.; Diehl, H. T.; Doctor, Z.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Drout, M. R.; Farr, B.; Finley, D. A.; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W.; Fox, D. B.; Frieman, J.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gill, M. S. S.; Gruendl, R. A.; Herner, K.; Holz, D. E.; Kasen, D.; Kessler, R.; Lin, H.; Margutti, R.; Marriner, J.; Matheson, T.; Metzger, B. D.; Neilsen Jr., E. H.; Quataert, E.; Rest, A.; Sako, M.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, N.; Sobreira, F.; Strampelli, G. M.; Villar, V. A.; Walker, A. R.; Wester, W.; Williams, Preston Noah; Yanny, B.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Abdalla, F. B.; Allam, S.; Armstrong, R.; Bechtol, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Kind, M. Carrasco; Carretero, J.; Castander, F. J.; Cunha, C. E.; D’Andrea, C. B.; Costa, L. N. da; Desai, S.; Dietrich, J. P.; Evrard, A. E.; Neto, A. Fausti; Fosalba, P.; Gerdes, D. W.; Giannantonio, T.; Goldstein, D. A.; Gruen, D.; Gutierrez, G.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Johnson, M. W. G.; Johnson, M. D.; Krause, E.; Kuehn, K.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lima, M.; Maia, M. A. G.; Marshall, J. L.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Mohr, J. J.; Nichol, R. C.; Nord, B.; Ogando, R.; Plazas, A. A.; Reil, K.; Romer, A. K.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Smith, R. C.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, R. C.; Tucker, D. L.; Weller, J. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We report the results of a Dark Energy Camera (DECam) optical follow-up of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW151226, discovered by the Advanced LIGO detectors. Our observations cover 28.8 deg2 of the localization region ...

    • The Decay of Motor Memories Is Independent of Context Change Detection 

      Brennan, Andrew E.; Smith, Maurice A. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      When the error signals that guide human motor learning are withheld following training, recently-learned motor memories systematically regress toward untrained performance. It has previously been hypothesized that this ...

    • Decay of superfluid currents in a moving system of strongly interacting bosons 

      Polkovnikov, A.; Altman, E.; Demler, Eugene A.; Halperin, Bertrand I.; Lukin, Mikhail D. (American Physical Society (APS), 2005)
      We analyze the stability and decay of supercurrents of strongly interacting bosons on optical lattices. At the mean-field level, the system undergoes an irreversible dynamic phase transition, whereby the current decays ...

    • Decays of a leptophobic gauge boson 

      Georgi, Howard; Glashow, Sheldon Lee (Elsevier BV, 1996)
      We discuss the theory and phenomenology of decays of a leptophobic U(1) X gauge boson X, such as has been proposed to explain the alleged deviations of R b and R c from standard model predictions. If the scalars involved ...

    • Decays of l =1 baryons: Quark model versus large N c 

      Carone, Christopher D.; Georgi, Howard; Kaplan, Lev; Morin, David (American Physical Society, 1994)

    • A Decentralized Auction Framework to Promote Efficient Resource Allocation in Open Computational Grids 

      Kang, Laura; Parkes, David C. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2007)
      Computational grids enable the sharing, aggregation, and selection of (geographically distributed) computational resources and can be used for solving large scale and data intensive computing applications. Computational ...

    • Decentralized Robustness 

      Chong, Stephen; Myers, A.C.
      Robustness links confidentiality and integrity properties of a computing system and has been identified as a useful property for characterizing and enforcing security. Previ- ous characterizations of robustness have been ...

    • Decentralized, Adaptive Resource Allocation for Sensor Networks 

      Mainland, Geoffrey Bruce; Parkes, David C.; Welsh, Matthew D (USENIX, 2005)
      This paper addresses the problem of resource allocation in sensor networks. We are concerned with how to allocate limited energy, radio bandwidth, and other resources to maximize the value of each node's contribution to ...

    • Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China 

      Zhu, Shixing; Zhu, Maoyan; Knoll, Andrew H.; Yin, Zongjun; Zhao, Fangchen; Sun, Shufen; Qu, Yuangao; Shi, Min; Liu, Huan (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Fossils of macroscopic eukaryotes are rarely older than the Ediacaran Period (635–541 million years (Myr)), and their interpretation remains controversial. Here, we report the discovery of macroscopic fossils from the ...

    • Deciphering Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: What Phenotype, Neuropathology and Genetics Are Telling Us about Pathogenesis 

      Ravits, John; Appel, Stanley; Baloh, Robert H.; Barohn, Richard; Brooks, Benjamin Rix; Elman, Lauen; Floeter, Mary Kay; Macklis, Jeffrey Daniel; Henderson, Christopher; Lomen-Hoerth, Catherine; Mccluskey, Leo; Mitsumoto, Hiroshi; Prezedborski, Serge; Rothstein, Jeffrey; Trojanowski, John; Van Den Berg, Leonard; Ringel, Steven (Informa, 2013)
      Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized phenotypically by progressive weakness and neuropathologically by loss of motor neurons. Phenotypically, there is marked heterogeneity. Typical ALS has mixed upper motor ...

    • Deciphering Radical Transport in the Large Subunit of Class I Ribonucleotide Reductase 

      Holder, Patrick G.; Pizano, Arturo A.; Anderson, Bryce; Stubbe, JoAnne; Nocera, Daniel (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2012)
      Incorporation of 2,3,6-trifluorotyrosine (F3Y) and a rhenium bipyridine ([Re]) photooxidant into a peptide corresponding to the C-terminus of the β protein (βC19) of Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) allows ...

    • Deciphering the MSSM Higgs Mass at Future Hadron Colliders 

      Agrawal, Prateek; Fan, Jiji; Reece, Matthew; Xue, Wei (Springer Nature, 2017-06)
      Future hadron colliders will have a remarkable capacity to discover massive new particles, but their capabilities for precision measurements of couplings that can reveal underlying mechanisms have received less study. In ...