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    • Is Another Language Possible? 

      Najmabadi, Afsaneh (University of Illinois Press, 2012)

    • Is arm swing active or passive during human walking and running? 

      Pontzer, Herman; Raichlen, David A.; Lieberman, Daniel (Oxford University Press, 2006)
      Humans habitually swing their arms in phase with the contralateral leg during walking and running. This arm motion is generally thought to counteract the torque about the body’s vertical axis (i.e. yaw moment) that is ...

    • Is Autonomy Imposing Education Too Demanding? A Response to Dr. De Ruyter 

      Levinson, Meira L. (2004)

    • Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be...) 

      Andrews, Matthew (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)
      This study asks the question, “Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African growth catalyst?” It addresses the question with reference to the theoretical literature on economic and organizational structures. This literature ...

    • Is Breach of Contract Immoral? 

      Shavell, Steven (Emory Law Journal, 2006)
      When, and why, might it be thought immoral to commit a breach of contract? The answer to this fundamental question is not obvious, because, as is stressed, and as has been overlooked in addressing the question, contracts ...

    • Is Breast Cancer Prognosis Inherited? 

      Hartman, Mikael; Lindström, Linda; Dickman, Paul W; Adami, Hans-Olov; Hall, Per; Czene, Kamila (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Introduction: A genetic component is well established in the etiology of breast cancer. It is not well known, however, whether genetic traits also influence prognostic features of the malignant phenotype. Methods: We carried ...

    • Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert; Vermeule, Adrian (2005)
      Recent evidence suggests that capital punishment may have a significant deterrent effect, preventing as many eighteen or more murders for each execution. This evidence greatly unsettles moral objections to the death penalty, ...

    • Is Childhood Pneumonia Associated With Future Disease Susceptibility? An Investigation Into the Early Origins of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 

      Hayden, Lystra P. (2015-09-29)
      BACKGROUND Development of adult respiratory disease is influenced by events in childhood. The impact of childhood pneumonia on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not well defined. We hypothesize that childhood ...

    • Is China's Hydrogen Economy Coming? 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-07-28)
      To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems and sectors must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, renewable ...

    • Is coastal living positively associated with increased trait mindfulness? 

      Tager, Henry Atticus (2024-05-14)
      Trait mindfulness, defined as an active and enhanced attention to the present moment, has been associated with a wide range of beneficial aspects of functioning, as has seacoast living. The aim of this study was to determine ...

    • Is Cognitive Neuropsychology Plausible? The Perils of Sitting on a One-Legged Stool 

      Kosslyn, Stephen Michael; Intriligator, James M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992)
      We distinguish between strong and weak cognitive neuropsychology, with the former attempting to provide direct insights into the nature of information processing and the latter having the more modest goal of providing ...

    • Is Cognitive Neuropsychology Possible? 

      Caramazza, Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992)
      Cognitive neuropsychology's domain of inquiry concerns the structure of normal perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes. As such, it constitutes a branch of cognitive science. Cognitive neuropsychology differs from other ...

    • Is COPD a Progressive Disease? A Long Term Bode Cohort Observation 

      de-Torres, Juan P.; Marín, Jose M.; Pinto-Plata, Víctor; Divo, Miguel; Sanchez-Salcedo, Pablo; Zagaceta, Jorge; Zulueta, Javier J.; Berto, Juan; Cabrera, Carlos; Celli, Bartolome R.; Casanova, Ciro (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Background: The Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Diseases (GOLD) defines COPD as a disease that is usually progressive. GOLD also provides a spirometric classification of airflow limitation. However, little is known ...

    • Is Cost-Benefit Analysis a Foreign Language 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      Do people think better in a foreign language? In some ways, yes. There is considerable evidence to this effect, at least to the extent that they are less likely to rely on intuitions that can lead to serious errors. This ...

    • Is Delaware's Corporate Law Too Big to Fail? 

      Roe, Mark J. (Brooklyn Law School, 2008)
      An enduring inquiry for American corporate law scholars is why the small state of Delaware dominates corporate chartering in the United States. Several theories explain the result. I add another partial explanation: size ...

    • Is Delaware’s Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Further Analysis and a Reply to Symposium Participants 

      Subramanian, Guhan; Herscovici, Steven; Berbetta, Brian (American Bar Association, 2010)
      In an Article published in the May 2010 issue of the Business Lawyer, we examined Delaware doctrine and presented new evidence to conclude that the empirical claim that the federal courts relied upon to uphold Delaware’s ...

    • Is Democratic Regulation of High Finance Possible? 

      Desmond, Matthew Stephen (SAGE Publications, 2013)

    • Is Deontology a Heuristic? On Psychology, Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (2013)
      A growing body of psychological and neuroscientific research links dual-process theories of cognition with moral reasoning (and implicitly to legal reasoning as well). The relevant research appears to show that at least ...

    • Is DNA methylation of tumour suppressor genes epigenetic? 

      Struhl, Kevin (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2014)
      In colorectal cancer cells, a non-epigenetic transcriptional pathway that is mediated by an oncogene maintains DNA methylation of tumour suppressor genes

    • Is Doing More, Doing Better? Basic Versus Advanced Life Support Ambulances for Medical Emergencies 

      Sanghavi, Prachi (2015-05-04)
      Deficiencies in the quality of pre-hospital care constitute a serious public health problem that has largely been neglected by the scientific community. Trauma and complications of acute disease produce medical emergencies ...