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W-Jet Tagging: Optimizing the Identification of Boosted Hadronically-Decaying W Bosons
(American Physical Society, 2011)A method is proposed for distinguishing highly boosted hadronically-decaying \(W's\) \((W jets)\) from QCD-jets using jet substructure. Previous methods, such as the filtering/mass-drop method, can give a factor of \(\sim ... -
W. W. Oswald et al. reply
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W.D. Howells at Kittery Point
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The Waddesdon Psalter and the Shop of Jean Pucelle
(Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, 1981) -
Wafer-scale metasurface for total power absorption, local field enhancement and single molecule Raman spectroscopy
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)The ability to detect molecules at low concentrations is highly desired for applications that range from basic science to healthcare. Considerable interest also exists for ultrathin materials with high optical absorption, ... -
Wage-Employment Contracts
(MIT Press, 1983)This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the employment level is controlled by firms. The firms' superior information about profitability conditions is ... -
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2010)The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing debate about regulatory ... -
The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing. Using five data sets from the US and UK, I show that poor infant health increases the likelihood of a ... -
Waist–Hip Ratio and Breast Cancer Risk in Urbanized Nigerian Women
(BioMed Central, 2002)Background: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between waist–hip ratio and the risk of breast cancer in an urban Nigerian population. Methods: Between March 1998 and August 2000, we conducted a case–control ... -
Waiting for Mifepristone
(2000)Physically, it is just a little white pill. But oh, what it could do: take abortion out of easily-identified clinics and disburse it to hospitals and doctor's offices, making what is so often called a "a private choice" ... -
Waiting time for cancer treatment and mental health among patients with newly diagnosed esophageal or gastric cancer: a nationwide cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Except for overall survival, whether or not waiting time for treatment could influences other domains of cancer patients’ overall well-being is to a large extent unknown. Therefore, we performed this study to ... -
Waiting to Exhale: Medical Marijuana and Its Uncertain Future
(1995)Therapeutic use of marijuana is a political, medical and moral issue that has provoked controversy throughout this century. On one side of the debate is the governments desire to prevent drug abuse and to make certain that ... -
Wake up to insomnia: future approaches to the management of insomnia
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Waking Experience and Circadian Rhythms Result in Differential Modulation of Sleep and Wake States
(2021-10-15)Sleep is thought to be tightly regulated by two processes, a homeostatic and a circadian process, which interact in a complex way to integrate prior wakefulness and circadian time (Borbély et al., 1982). Despite extensive ... -
"Walden's" dirty language: Thoreau and Walter Whiter's geocentric etymological theories
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Walk Through the Fire: Practicing Adaptive Leadership to Build a Systemic Approach to Family Engagement in a Large Urban School District
(2016-05-02)Although correlated with student achievement, strong family and community engagement is often at the margins, separate from the central work of school districts. This has previously been true in San Diego Unified School ... -
Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation
(Elsevier, 2012)We study the framing effects of communication on payoffs in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference-revealing, it may ... -
Walking the Tightrope on Medicare Reform
(American Economic Association, 2000)A central controversy in the debate about Medicare is whether the program spends too much money or whether instead it should be expanded to cover more. I consider the value of increased Medicare spending. I argue that on ... -
Walking, running and the evolution of short toes in humans
(The Company of Biologists, 2009)The phalangeal portion of the forefoot is extremely short relative to body mass in humans. This derived pedal proportion is thought to have evolved in the context of committed bipedalism, but the benefits of shorter toes ... -
Wall Crossing and M-theory
(European Mathematical Society, 2011)We study BPS bound states of D0 and D2 branes on a single D6 brane wrapping a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X. When X has no compact 4-cyles, the BPS bound states are organized into a free field Fock space, whose generators correspond ...