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Rubens and the book
(Harvard Library, 1979) -
Rudyard Kipling's Techniques
(2016-10-07)This thesis investigates the techniques of Rudyard Kipling and his influence on my “novel of short stories”. How did Kipling advance the short story form over a half-century of experimentation? How did his approaches ... -
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
(MIT Press - Journals, 2012)We show that geography, through its impact on history, can have important effects on economic development today. The analysis focuses on the historic interaction between ruggedness and Africa’s slave trades. Although rugged ... -
The Ruined Castle
(Cambridge Journals, 2012) -
Rule Application in Phonology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009) -
A Rule of Final Syllables in Slavic
(Institute for the Study of Man, 1983) -
A Rule of Law for Cities
(Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel, 2010)This essay focuses on one aspect of the relationship between law and space: the idea that cities be governed by the rule of law. The core value of the rule of law, it is suggested, is the need to restrain the exercise of ... -
The Rule of Reason in Property Law
(University of California, Davis, 2013)Property rights cannot work if they are not clear, and scholars generally assume that the best way to attain this goal is to define property rights by relatively rigid rules. However, recent evidence suggests that the ... -
Rule-Based Cell Systems Model of Aging using Feedback Loop Motifs Mediated by Stress Responses
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Investigating the complex systems dynamics of the aging process requires integration of a broad range of cellular processes describing damage and functional decline co-existing with adaptive and protective regulatory ... -
Rulers of the Game: Central Bank Independence During the Interwar Years
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)The recent experience of the European Monetary System has once again brought the problem of international monetary instability to scholars’ and policymakers’ attention. In 1992, German interest rate hikes meant to address ... -
Rules 'With All Deliberate Speed'
(Environmental Law Institute, 2012) -
Rules and Rulelessness
(1994) -
Rules from Words: A Dynamic Neural Basis for a Lawful Linguistic Process
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Listeners show a reliable bias towards interpreting speech sounds in a way that conforms to linguistic restrictions (phonotactic constraints) on the permissible patterning of speech sounds in a language. This perceptual ... -
Rules of Disengagement: Author, Audience, and Experimentation in Ukrainian and Russian Literature of the 1970s and 1980s
(2015-09-23)Is there a direct correlation between the degree of an artist’s participation in ideologically defined discursive practices and the aesthetic value and expressive innovation of her or his work? How does the concept of the ... -
The Rules of Inference
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)Although the term “empirical research” has become commonplace in legal scholarship over the past two decades, law professors have, in fact, been conducting research that is empirical—i.e., learning about the world using ... -
Rules of Thumb for Social Learning
(University of Chicago Press, 1993)This paper studies agents who consider the experiences of their neighbors in deciding which of two technologies to use. We analyze two learning environments, one in which the same technology is optimal for all players and ... -
Rules over Real Estate
(SAGE Publications, 2005)Territorial disputes between governments generate a significant amount of uncertainty for economic actors. Settled boundary agreements produce benefits to economic agents on both sides of the border. These qualities of ... -
Rules to fly by: pigeons navigating horizontal obstacles limit steering by selecting gaps most aligned to their flight direction
(The Royal Society, 2016)Flying animals must successfully contend with obstacles in their natural environments. Inspired by the robust maneuvering abilities of flying animals, unmanned aerial systems are being developed and tested to improve flight ... -
Rules to live by: a late thirteenth-century "De Regimine mensium"
(Harvard Library, 2011) -
Rules versus Discretion at the Federal Reserve: On to the Second Century
(Elsevier, 2012)Much of the experience of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, during the institution’s first hundred years, has revolved around controversies that fit squarely within the classical debate over rules versus discretion in ...