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Unexpected Unexpected Utilities: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis of Women and Revolutions
Women have been part of modern revolutions since the American Revolution against Great Britain. Most descriptions and analyses of revolution relegate women to a supporting role, or make no mention of women's involvement at all. This work differs from prior efforts in that it will explore one …
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TCF4: An unexpected journey
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Making Sense of Unexpected Preferences
<p>This dissertation includes three papers using quantitative models to sensibly describe what kinds of preferences political actors will or actually do hold when existing theory offers no insight. The first two papers use evolutionary game theory to predict ways in which politicians, artificially …
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Unexpected mechanical properties of nucleic acids
Mechanical deformations of nucleic acids (NA) play a very important role in many biological life processes. The bending persistence length of DNA is of specific interest, because so much eukaryotic DNA that stores genetic information is tightly packed inside cell nuclei, even though DNA is …
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SAFEGUARDING AI SYSTEMS AGAINST UNEXPECTED INPUTS
… building three stages for handling challenging/unexpected inputs: (1) rejecting unexpected inputs with an explanation, (2) providing statistical guarantees on rejection, and (3) enabling models to adapt to challenging inputs. We consider two distinct scenarios: models with known training …
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Out of the Unexpected: poems with Sappho
<p>Poets have a long tradition of correspondence with one another through the epistolary, various traditional forms such as the ode or sonnet and often use a given line as inspiration. This culminating collection of poems is no exception. Most of the poems are written with the remaining fragments …
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Doxorubicin and T Helper Lymphocytes: Unexpected Allies Against Cancer
Despite considerable progress in conventional cancer therapies, major challenges persist in the treatment of patients with advanced stage malignancies. Cancer immunotherapy (harnessing the immune system against tumors) has demonstrated limited success to date, partially due to the immunosuppressive …
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Lower respiratory tract infection in sudden unexpected infant deaths
… A retrospective study was undertaken on Sudden Unexpected Infant Death cases occurring, between 1 May and 30 September 2009, which were admitted to a medico-legal mortuary servicing the Cape Town western metropole. Published studies have shown the risk factors for lower respiratory tract …
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Unexpected Accompaniment: Cognitive Mechanisms for Language-Music Mismatch in Time
… language and the music inputs, as well as the unexpected mismatch, are projected into a blend, where new meanings emerge and the mismatch is made sense of. Drawing upon Clark's (1996) insight, the multiplex layers of pretense and coatings of meaning in the convoluted social-interactional …
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Unexpected Universality in Disordered Systems and Modeling Perpendicular Recording Media
In state-of-the-art storage applications such as hard disk drives, the intrinsic switching field distribution of the media grains is one of the most crucial properties defining the recording quality. However, this piece of microscopic information is very hard to measure macroscopically, especially …
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Pēpē-Infant sleep and sudden unexpected death in infancy in Māori
… Zealand has one of the highest rates of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) among developed countries. Indigenous New Zealand Māori are disproportionately affected by SUDI (1.36 deaths for every 1,000 births). In wealthier countries, and in New Zealand, SUDI mortality decreased …
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The contribution of respiratory pathogens to Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy
Background: Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) is among the most frequent causes of mortality in infants less than one year of age. Respiratory infections have been identified as the most frequent cause of death in these infants. Yet, the broad range of respiratory pathogen that might be …
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Unexpected victories : protecting workers' rights in Guatemala's apparel-for-export sector
This thesis examines three surprise victories for workers' rights in the Guatemalan garment sector. In the past three years, three unions have formed at the Choishin, Cimatextiles, and Nobland factories and each has negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This thesis explores why these …
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Design of materials with small magnetic hysteresis: the unexpected role of magnetostriction.
Numerous studies in the 1950s-1970s based on linear stability analysis of the single domainstate on the shoulder of the hysteresis loop show that this method fails to predict the width of the hysteresis loop, a conclusion referred to as the ’coercivity paradox.’ We argue that the basic idea of …
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The Role Of Domain Expertise And Judgment In Dealing With Unexpected Events
Unexpected events, particularly those creating surprise, interrupt ongoing mental and behavioral processes, creating an increased potential for unwanted outcomes to the situation. Human reactions to unexpected events vary. One can hypothesize a number of reasons for this variation, including level …
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Investigating Central Chemoreception-based Biomarkers of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) causes significant mortality in epilepsy, affecting 1:1000 people every year. Preceding SUDEP, patients experienced a final GTC seizure, transient apneas and bradycardia, culminating in terminal apnea and asystole. Failure to recover from postictal …
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The fate of the unexpected: Consequences of misprediction on ERP repetition patterns
… of predictions interfere with those of the unexpected words. Alternatively, it is also possible that violating predictions strengthens the representations of unexpected words – e.g., by drawing attention to them and/or making them more distinctive. Here, the consequences of prediction …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
… miratives can establish a distinction between unexpected and misexpected events. As for exclamatives, it is shown that they are related to linguistic hedges that convey the degree of membership of an item into a category. Several neurobiological and psychological correlates are proposed: …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
<p>This dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Unexpected Arousal Suppresses Memory and Metamemory Predictions During Associative Face-Name Recognition Task
… (Experiment 1), we replicated the finding that unexpected arousal offsets the influence of heuristic evidence on expectations of memory. However, by delaying the masked-affective cue to the post-decisional epoch (Experiment 2) we observed that subliminal arousal suppressed retrospective …
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