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(MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 2019-02-26)Standard present-day large-scale structure (LSS) analyses make a major assumption in their Bayesian parameter inference – that the likelihood has a Gaussian form. For summary statistics currently used in LSS, this assumption, ...
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(2020-08-18)Department: BiostatisticsFMRI data can help identify areas of the brain that are activated due to external stimuli. Comparing activated brain regions in participants with and without a disease can help researches understand more about how certain ...
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(2022-03-17)Department: SociologyWith dating applications (apps) becoming an ever more popular way for young adults of all genders and sexual orientations to meet one another, it is increasingly important to understand how these apps are being used for ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: NeuroscienceTraditionally, the circuits responsible for processing cortical information of different modalities and communicating with the striatum for the purpose of guiding behavior were believed to act in separate, parallel courses. ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: NeuroscienceTraditionally, the circuits responsible for processing cortical information of different modalities and communicating with the striatum for the purpose of guiding behavior were believed to act in separate, parallel courses. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-06-15)Plyer v. Doe (1982) provided undocumented youth access to public education, and in delivering the opinion of the court, Justice William Brennan quoted the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, saying, “Today, education ...
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(William & Mary Law Review, 2019)Is there a constitutional right to compete in an occupation? The “right to earn a living” movement, gaining steam in policy circles and winning some battles in the lower courts, says so. Advocates for this right say that ...
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(Connecticut Law Review, 2010)In this Commentary Article, Professor Rossi highlights some of the distributional and operational problems presented by a national renewable portfolio standard ("RPS") in electric power. He also offers several solutions ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2002-04-19)
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(2015-03-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceMultilayer polymer systems are a focus of increasing research effort motivated by the possibility to realize compact and flexible energy storage and energy harvesting devices. However, the performance and stability of ...
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(2023-04-26)Patterning is recognizing and creating patterns, which entails identifying and comprehending the underlying structure and order of a sequence of objects or events. Patterning is important for math development because these ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1986)In recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (i) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)We introduce a measure of language difficulty called "linguistic distance" into a modified gravity model to determine whether the fact that a language is further away from English affects the level of trade. Our sample of ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyDuring mouse embryogenesis, organ formation is accomplished through a close coordination between genetically encoded programs of proliferative growth, differentiation, and morphogenesis in organ-specific progenitor ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-03)
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(2015-03-17)Department: NeuroscienceUnderstanding the relationship between gene networks, neurons, and circuits that determine behavior is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. The brain’s biological clock – the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) – is an excellent ...
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(2008-03-18)Department: PsychologyA notable increase in the number of U.S. families choosing to home-school their children in recent years has underscored the need to develop more systematic knowledge about this approach to education. Drawing on a theoretical ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: PhysicsThe principles of statistical mechanics have in the past been successfully used to interpret the thermodynamic behavior of fluids from the atomic standpoint. The formulations of statistical mechanics for solids, however, ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesFalling state appropriations, rising tuition, and increasing student loan burdens have introduced new challenges for public higher education and raised questions of affordability, accessibility, and accountability. ...
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(2015-11-20)Department: Computer ScienceThe device driver is a program which provides a software interface to a hardware device, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know the details of the hardware. ...