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Valuing Life: A Plea for Disaggregation
(Duke University School of Law, 2004)Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life (VSL). This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant ... -
Valuing Mortality Risk in China: Comparing Stated-Preference Estimates From 2005 and 2016
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-06)We estimate the marginal rate of substitution of income for reduction in current annual mortality risk (the “value per statistical life” or VSL) using stated- preference surveys administered to independent samples of the ... -
Valuing Our Humanity
(Oxford University Press, 2021-05-13)In the past Christine Korsgaard has argued that when Kant claims we value our humanity as an end in itself, he means that we take the value of the power of rational choice to be the condition of the value of our ends, and ... -
Valuing Private Reproductive Healthcare Policies
(2023-06-30)Several employers have introduced healthcare policies providing reimbursement for abortion-related travel in abortion-restricted states. This paper evaluates an employee’s willingness to pay (WTP) to work for a job with ... -
Valve-based flow focusing for drop formation
(AIP Publishing, 2009)Microfluidic devices can produce highly monodisperse drops at kilohertz rates using flow-focus drop formation. We use single-layer membrane valves to control, in real time, the dimensions of the flow-focus drop makers. ... -
Valvular Heart Disease Stages Among Older Adults And The Proteomic Markers of Aortic Stenosis: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
(2022-05-10)Valvular heart disease (VHD) includes stenosis and regurgitation of the mitral and aortic valves (AV). The prevalence of moderate to severe VHD is ~2.5% in the general population, with aortic stenosis (AS) the most common ... -
van der Waals interactions between molecular hydrogen and alkali-metal atoms
(American Physical Society, 2002)In this paper, we have calculated the values of the C-6 coefficients and the anisotropy parameters g of the leading term of the van der Waals interactions between molecular hydrogen and alkali-metal atoms from Li to Fr. ... -
Van Gogh in Paris
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Vanadium Dioxide as a Natural Disordered Metamaterial: Perfect Thermal Emission and Large Broadband Negative Differential Thermal Emittance
(American Physical Society, 2013)We experimentally demonstrate that a thin (approximately 150-nm) film of vanadium dioxide (VO2) deposited on sapphire has an anomalous thermal emittance profile when heated, which arises because of the optical interaction ... -
The Vanishing Freelancer: A Literary History of the Postwar Culture Industries
(2014-06-06)Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, a wide range of U.S. fiction writers took jobs--sometimes briefly, but often for several years or more--in the film, broadcasting, publishing, and advertising industries. ... -
Vanishing Geodesic Distance on Spaces of Submanifolds and Diffeomorphisms
(Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Mathematik, 2005)The L^2-metric or Fubini-Study metric on the non-linear Grassmannian of all submanifolds of type M in a Riemannian manifold (N, g) induces geodesic distance 0. We discuss another metric which involves the mean curvature ... -
Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance
(2016-02-02)Taking as its starting point the ut pictura poesis tradition of artistic theory, this dissertation examines how the poets and dramatists of the English Renaissance transformed mimetic strategies originally developed in the ... -
Vapor deposition of copper(I) bromide films via a two-step conversion process
(American Vacuum Society, 2017)Thin films of Cu2S grown by pulsed-chemical vapor deposition of bis(N,N'-di-secbutylacetamidinato)dicopper(I) and hydrogen sulfide were converted to CuBr upon exposure to anhydrous hydrogen bromide. X-ray diffraction shows ... -
Vapor Deposition of Copper-Manganese Interconnects
(IEEE, 2016)Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of copper and manganese can produce interconnects scaled down to below 10 nm, while enhancing their conductivity and lifetime. CVD using similar super-conformal processes can enable very ... -
Vapor Deposition of Halide Perovskites and Hole- Transport Materials for Use in Thin-Film Photovoltaics
(2017-09-08)The drive toward a sustainable, low-carbon energy future has created a considerable impetus to reduce the cost per watt of electricity produced from solar cells. Thin-film photovoltaics, specifically those produced with ... -
Vapor Deposition of Highly Conformal Copper Seed Layers for Plating Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs)
(Electrochemical Society, 2012)Through-silicon vias (TSV) will speed up interconnections between chips. Manufacturable and cost-effective TSVs will allow faster computer systems. In this paper, we report the successful formation of seed layers for plating ... -
VAR2CSA Signatures of High Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia in the Placenta
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes (IE) accumulate in the placenta through the interaction between Duffy-binding like (DBL) domains of parasite-encoded ligand VAR2CSA and chondroitin sulphate-A (CSA) receptor. ... -
Varia III. The Trial of Mael Ḟothartaig
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Variability and Vulnerability at the Ecological Level: Implications for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health
(American Public Health Association, 2002-11)Objectives. We examined variability in disease rates to gain understanding of the complex interactions between contextual socioeconomic factors and health.Methods. We compared mortality rates between New York and California ...