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Die Ottheinrich-Bibel: Eine einzigartige Handschrift, and Das Toronto-Gebetbuch
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Die Spontaneität des Verstandes bei Kant und einigen Neokantianern
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)Kant famously characterizes our human understanding as a “spontaneous” faculty, but what can this mean? I criticize some recent interpretations of Kant’s claim and suggest that we can only understand what Kant means by ... -
“Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht”
(2014)“Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht” – “The history of the world is the Last Judgement” – is one of the most famous aphorisms in Hegel’s works. It also, on its most obvious interpretation, seems to support a deeply ... -
Die Zeit der Musikalischen Monumente
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Dielectric elastomer actuators under equal-biaxial forces, uniaxial forces, and uniaxial constraint of stiff fibers
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)A membrane of a dielectric elastomer deforms when a voltage is applied through its thickness. The achievable voltage-induced deformation is strongly affected by how mechanical loads are applied. Large voltage-induced ... -
Dielectric Elastomer Based “Grippers” for Soft Robotics
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Dielectric elastomer generator with equi-biaxial mechanical loading for energy harvesting
(Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2013)Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) are attractive candidates for harvesting electrical energy from mechanical work since they comprise relatively few moving parts and large elastomer sheets can be mass produced. ... -
Dielectric elastomers of interpenetrating networks
(AIP Publishing, 2009)Recent experiments have shown that a voltage can induce a large deformation in an elastomer of interpenetrating networks. To understand the observation, this paper describes a model of interpenetrating networks of long and ... -
Diet and Reproductive Function in Wild Female Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii)at Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)Human female reproductive function is highly sensitive to current energetic condition, indicating adaptation to modulate reproductive effort in accordance with changing ecological conditions that might favor or disfavor ... -
Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
(2013)Long-term diet influences the structure and activity of the trillions of microorganisms residing in the human gut1–5, but it remains unclear how rapidly and reproducibly the human gut microbiome responds to short-term ... -
Diet-induced extinction in the gut microbiota compounds over generations
(2015)The gut is home to trillions of microbes that play a fundamental role in many aspects of human biology including immune function and metabolism 1,2. The reduced diversity of the Western microbiota compared to populations ... -
Dietary Fat Intake and Cognitive Decline in Women With Type 2 Diabetes
(American Diabetes Association, 2009)OBJECTIVE: Individuals with type 2 diabetes have high risk of late-life cognitive impairment, yet little is known about strategies to modify risk. Targeting insulin resistance and vascular complications—both associated ... -
Dietary Intake, FTO Genetic Variants, and Adiposity: A Combined Analysis of Over 16,000 Children and Adolescents
(American Diabetes Association, 2015)The FTO gene harbors variation with the strongest effect on adiposity and obesity risk. Previous data support a role for FTO variation in influencing food intake. We conducted a combined analysis of 16,094 boys and girls ... -
Dietary restriction protects against experimental cerebral malaria via leptin modulation and T cell mTORC1 suppression
(2014)Host nutrition can affect the outcome of parasitic diseases through metabolic effects on host immunity and/or the parasite. Here we show that modulation of mouse immunometabolism through brief restriction of food intake ... -
Dietary Variation and Evolution of Gene Copy Number among Dog Breeds
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Prolonged human interactions and artificial selection have influenced the genotypic and phenotypic diversity among dog breeds. Because humans and dogs occupy diverse habitats, ecological contexts have likely contributed ... -
Difference-frequency generation with quantum-limited efficiency in triply-resonant nonlinear cavities
(Optical Society of America, 2009)We present a comprehensive study of second-order nonlinear difference frequency generation in triply resonant cavities using a theoretical framework based on coupled-mode theory. We show that optimal "quantum-limited" ... -
Differences in cognitive processes underlying the collaborative activities of children and chimpanzees
(Elsevier BV, 2012)We compared the performance of 3- and 5-year-old children with that of chimpanzees in two tasks requiring collaboration via complementary roles. In both tasks, children and chimpanzees were able to coordinate two complementary ... -
Differences in the Selection Bottleneck between Modes of Sexual Transmission Influence the Genetic Composition of the HIV-1 Founder Virus
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Due to the stringent population bottleneck that occurs during sexual HIV-1 transmission, systemic infection is typically established by a limited number of founder viruses. Elucidation of the precise forces influencing the ... -
Different pCO2 regimes distinguish the early and late phases of Permian-Triassic mass extinction
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction is characterized by massive injection of carbon dioxide associated with Siberian Trap volcanism, pronounced global warming, and ocean acidification. However, in the absence of high-resolution ...