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The Policy Context of Torture: A Social-Psychological Analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Acts of torture are conceptualized as crimes of obedience, which are inevitably linked to crimes at higher levels of the hierarchy, where orders are issued, policy is formulated, and the atmosphere conducive to acts of ...
Structural Characterization of Charcoal Exposed to High and Low pH: Implications for 14C Sample Preparation and Charcoal Preservation
(University of Arizona, 2008)
Chemical and structural similarities between poorly preserved charcoal and its contaminants, as well as low radiocarbon concentrations in old samples, complicate 14C age determinations. Here, we characterize 4 fossil ...
Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Multiple object tracking is a task commonly used to investigate the architecture of human visual attention. Human participants show a distinctive pattern of suc- cesses and failures in tracking experiments that is often ...
Contagious bank failures in a free banking system
(Elsevier BV, 2000)
This paper develops a model of an unregulated banking system based around a private clearing house arrangement. Whilst such a system may dominate one with a public safety net in reducing moral hazard in lending and therefore ...
Global Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Aromatic Hydrocarbons: High- vs. Low-Yield Pathways
(European Geosciences Union, 2008)
Formation of SOA from the aromatic species toluene, xylene, and, for the first time, benzene, is added to a global chemical transport model. A simple mechanism is presented that accounts for competition between low and ...
Asymmetry of Daily Temperature Records
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)
The authors study the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis temperature records and find that surface daily mean temperature cools rapidly and warms gradually at the midlatitudes (around 40°N and 40°S). This “asymmetry” is partially related ...
What Can Cities Do to Prevent Serious Youth Violence?
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)
Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston
(Ohio State University, 2008)
Antagonists of Wnt and BMP signaling promote the formation of vertebrate head muscle
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003)
Recent studies have postulated that distinct regulatory cascades control myogenic differentiation in the head and the trunk. However, although the tissues and signaling molecules that induce skeletal myogenesis in the trunk ...
Domestic Interests and Control Regimes
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)