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Aged-Related Neural Changes During Memory Conjunction Errors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)Human behavioral studies demonstrate that healthy aging is often accompanied by increases in memory distortions or errors. Here we used event-related functional MRI to examine the neural basis of age-related memory ... -
Ageing: Generations of longevity
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)The lifespan of some organisms can be extended by mutations that alter how DNA is packaged in their cells. A study reveals that this effect can last for generations, even in descendants that are genetically normal. -
Agency and morality
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)The traditional categorization of ethical theories into consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethical theories ignores the significance of the fact that philosophers supposedly representing these categories are working ... -
Agency Problems and Dividend Policies around the World
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)This paper outlines and tests two agency models of dividends. According to the “outcome” model, dividends are the result of effective pressure by minority shareholders to force corporate insiders to disgorge cash. According ... -
Agency, Sex Trafficking, and Transnational Law: Applying Feminist Theory to the Palermo Protocol
(2015)This paper examines the possibility of incorporating the notion of ‘agency’ in a legal framework in regard to the trafficking of humans, and especially women, for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In arguing that the ... -
Agent Decision-Making in Open Mixed Networks
(Elsevier, 2010)Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in these heterogeneous human-computer groups ... -
Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Paleomagnetic data suggest that the early Cryogenian (Sturtian) glaciation extended to sea level at low latitude. The impact of this dramatic environmental change on biota, and the composition of ecosystems in the immediate ... -
Aggregation Among Binary, Count, and Duration Models: Estimating the Same Quantities from Different Levels of Data
(Oxford University Press, 2001)Binary, count, and duration data all code discrete events occurring at points in time. Although a single data generation process can produce all of these three data types, the statistical literature is not very helpful in ... -
Aggressive Parental Leave Incentivizing: A Statutory Proposal Toward Gender Equalization in the Workplace
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The Aging of Wolff’s “Law”: Ontogeny and Responses to Mechanical Loading in Cortical Bone
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The premise that bones grow and remodel throughout life to adapt to their mechanical environment is often called Wolff’s law. Wolff’s law, however, is not always true, and in fact comprises a variety of different processes ... -
Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal
(Oxford University Press, 2015)This chapter examines the history of the agnihotra in the Kathmandu valley. This ritual is Vedic, but is considered to be an antecedent to the tantric homa. The ritual is known to have been performed in Nepal by the fifteenth ... -
Agnogene Deletion in a Novel Pathogenic JC Virus Isolate Impairs VP1 Expression and Virion Production
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Infection of glial cells by the human polyomavirus JC (JCV) causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV Encephalopathy (JCVE) is a newly identified disease characterized by JCV infection of cortical pyramidal ... -
The Agrarian Origins of Mau Mau: A Structural Account
(Published for the Agricultural History Society by the University of California Press, 1987) -
Agreement and Clitic Restrictions in Basque
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Agrin and Synaptic Laminin Are Required to Maintain Adult Neuromuscular Junctions
(Public Library of Science, 2012)As synapses form and mature the synaptic partners produce organizing molecules that regulate each other’s differentiation and ensure precise apposition of pre- and post-synaptic specializations. At the skeletal neuromuscular ... -
Agrippa
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Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Graphene-Based Fabry-Pérot Quantum Hall Interferometers
(Springer Nature, 2021-02-25)Interferometers probe the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles, for example electrons in the chiral one-dimensional edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE). Quantum point contacts can ... -
Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. A key element in many of these models and one often ... -
AI Support of Teamwork for Coordinated Care of Children with Complex Conditions
(AAAI Press, 2014)Children with complex health conditions require care from a large, diverse set of caregivers that includes parents and community support organizations as well as multiple types of medical professionals. Coordination of ... -
The AIDS Epidemic and Its Economic Roots
(Harvard Health Policy Society, 2009)