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Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence

Ladd, Helen (2012)

Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers, and the promotion of competition are misguided because they either deny or set to the ...
Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War

Stein, Rebecca L. (2012)
Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Basurto, Xavier; Speer, Johanna (2012)

Most studies that apply Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) rely on macro-level data, but an increasing number of studies focus on units of analysis at the micro or meso level, i.e., households, firms, protected areas, ...
International Bureaucrats and the Formation of Intergovernmental Organizations: Institutional Design Discretion Sweetens the Pot

Johnson, Tana Lynn; Urpelainen, J (2012)

Bureaucrats working in international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) regularly help states design new IGOs. Sometimes international bureaucrats possess limited discretion in institutional design; sometimes, they ...
The Emergence of Access Controls in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Licenses and Common Property-Rights in Two Mexican Communities

Basurto, Xavier; Cinti, A; Bourillon, L; Rojo, M; Torre, J; Weaver, H (2012)

Addressing global fisheries overexploitation requires better understanding of how small-scale fishing communities in developing countries limit access to fishing grounds. We analyze the performance of a system based on ...
StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State

Stein, Rebecca L. (2012)
Partially Monotone Tensor Spline Estimation of the Joint Distribution Function with Bivariate Current Status Data

Wu, Yuan; Zhang, Y (2012)

The analysis of the joint cumulative distribution function (CDF) with bivariate event time data is a challenging problem both theoretically and numerically. This paper develops a tensor spline-based sieve maximum likelihood ...
Anthropology and the Radical Philosophy of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt

Wilson, Ara (Berghahn, 2012)
The truncated road movie: Thomas Brasch and the Berlin Wall

Norberg, J (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, 2012)
Subwavelength Position Sensing Using Nonlinear Feedback and Wave Chaos

Cohen, Seth; Cavalcante, Hugo; Gauthier, Daniel J. (American Physical Society, 2011-12-16)

We demonstrate a position-sensing technique that relies on the inherent sensitivity of chaos, where we illuminate a subwavelength object with a complex structured radio-frequency field generated using wave chaos and nonlinear ...
Subwavelength Position Sensing Using Nonlinear Feedback and Wave Chaos

Cohen, Seth D.; Cavalcante, Hugo; Gauthier, Daniel J. (American Physical Society, 2011-12-16)

We demonstrate a position-sensing technique that relies on the inherent sensitivity of chaos, where we illuminate a subwavelength object with a complex structured radio-frequency field generated using wave chaos and nonlinear ...
Aesthetics and Transcendence in the Arab Uprisings

Moosa, Ebrahim E.I. (Brill, 2011-12-01)

Politics is regarded as a science for it tells us what to do, when it deals with measurable concepts. But politics is also an art—a form of practice, telling us how and when to do things. Lest we forget, the arts of ...
Information-theoretic analysis of a stimulated- Brillouin-scattering-based slow-light system

Lee, Myungjun; Zhu, Yunhui; Gauthier, Daniel J.; Gehm, Michael; Neifeld, Mark A. (Applied Optics, 2011-11-10)

We use an information-theoretic method developed by Neifeld and Lee [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 25, C31 (2008)] to analyze the performance of a slow-light system. Slow-light is realized in this system via stimulated Brillouin ...
Bunching-induced optical nonlinearity and instability in cold atoms [Invited]

Greenberg, Joel A.; Schmittberger, Bonnie L.; Gauthier, Daniel J. (Optics Express, 2011-11-07)

We report a new nonlinear optical process that occurs in a cloud of cold atoms at low-light-levels when the incident optical fields simultaneously polarize, cool, and spatially-organize the atoms. We observe an extremely ...
Cholera in Haiti and Other Caribbean Regions, 19th Century

Jenson, Deborah; Szabo, Victoria; Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Laboratory Student Research Team (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011-11)

Medical journals and other sources do not show evidence that cholera occurred in Haiti before 2010, despite the devastating effect of this disease in the Caribbean region in the 19th century. Cholera occurred in Cuba in ...
Controllable ultrabroadband slow light in a warm rubidium vapor

Zhang, Rui; Greenberg, Joel A.; Fischer, Martin; Gauthier, Daniel J. (Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2011-11)

We study ultrabroadband slow light in a warm rubidium vapor cell. By working between the D1 and D2 transitions, we find a several-nanometer window centered at 788:4nm in which the group index is highly uniform and the ...
Pulse-train solutions and excitability in an optoelectronic oscillator

Rosin, David Phillip; Callan, K. E.; Gauthier, Daniel J.; Scholl, E (Europhysics Letters, 2011-11)

We study an optoelectronic time-delay oscillator with bandpass filtering for different values of the filter bandwidth. Our experiments show novel pulse-train solutions with pulse widths that can be controlled over a ...
Distribution of HPV genotypes in cervical intraepithelial lesions and cervical cancer in Tanzanian women

Vidal, Adriana; Murphy, Susan Kay; Vasquez, Brandi; Bartlett, John Alexander; Overcash, Francine; Hoyo, Cathrine (BioMed Central, 2011-11)

Background Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with uterine cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cancers (ICC). Approximately 80% of ICC cases are diagnosed in under-developed ...
Exposing Racial Discrimination Implicit & Explicit Measures–The My Body, My Story Study of 1005 US-Born Black & White Community Health Center Members

Bennett, Gary G. (Public Library of Science, 2011-11)

Background To date, research on racial discrimination and health typically has employed explicit self-report measures, despite their potentially being affected by what people are able and willing to say. We accordingly ...
The Increasing Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Viral Hepatitis in Durham County, North Carolina: A Call for Coordinated and Integrated Services

Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean; Hunter, Genevieve; Bartlett, John Alexander (North Carolina Institute of Medicine, 2011-11)

Background Durham County, North Carolina, faces high rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (with or without progression to AIDS) and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We explored the use of health care ...