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GREEBLES AND BRONCOS: A TEST OF EXPERTISE IN THE CROSS-RACE EFFECT
(2012)
People are more accurate at recognizing faces of individuals of their own race than individuals of another race; this well-replicated phenomenon is known as the cross-race effect (CRE). The reasons underlying the CRE are ...
Mapping and Analyzing Urban Growth: A Study to Identify Drivers of Urban Growth in West Africa
(2016-05)
Urban area expansion is one of the most powerful anthropogenic forces changing the earth‘s surface. Such changes are happening at much faster rates in African and Asian cities. Several interconnected but distinct processes ...
The social construction of violence among Northern Plains tribal members with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder
(Transcultural Psychiatry, 2014-02-01)
Whereas recent reports from national studies have presented extremely high rates for many personality disorders in American Indian communities, persistent concerns about the meaning of these symptoms have left many troubled ...
Emergence of Leadership within a Homogeneous Group
(PLos One, 2015-07-30)
Large scale coordination without dominant, consistent leadership is frequent in nature. How individuals emerge from within the group as leaders, however transitory this position may be, has become an increasingly common ...
VIRUS-SELECTED OSTEOGENESIS-INDUCING PEPTIDES FOR ENHANCED BONE REGENERATION IN 3D PRINTED TITANIUM ALLOY IMPLANTS
(2018-12-14)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are part of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily and function as key regulators of cellular growth, differentiation, and tissue formation. While recombinant BMPs can be used to ...
Structure and Dynamics of Amyloid-β Segmental Polymorphisms
(PLos One, 2012-07-24)
It is believed that amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Aβ molecules form β-sheet structures with multiple interaction sites. This polymorphism gives rise to differences in ...
ANISOTROPIC POROCHEMOELECTROELASTIC SOLUTIONS FOR APPLICATIONS IN FIELD OPERATIONS AND LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATION OF SHALE
(2013)
In this study, the porochemoelectroelastic formulation is explained in details and fully expanded to capture the well known anisotropic nature of shale. The formulation is then applied to derive the analytical solutions ...
Variation in time averaging and taphonomic character of shell beds in Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic implications of shell beds in rift lakes
(2018-05-11)
Large regions of the littoral lake bottom along structural platforms in Lake Tanganyika, Africa, are carpeted with shell beds of late Holocene age. The viviparous gastropod Neothauma tanganyicense (Neothauma) is the lead ...
INTERPRETATION OF PRESSURE TRANSIENT TESTS OF HORIZONTAL WELLS WITH
(2012)
The oil and gas industry has long recognized the importance of understanding the behaviors and trends of pressure and fluid flow dynamics for damaged and stimulated horizontal wells. It has also been recognized that the ...
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM COMPRESSIVE IMAGING IN LOW PHOTON REGIME BY CONSIDERING PHOTON STATISTICS
(2016-06-22)
Compressive Imaging has been an extensively researched area inoptical imaging, object tracking,satellite applications,etc. There are many signalrecovery methods and comparative analyses of different algorithms ...