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Williams College
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About: Williams College is a education organization based out in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 2257 authors who have published 5015 publications receiving 213160 citations. The organization is also known as: Williams.
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TL;DR: Callosal size was negatively correlated to open field activity, suggesting a possible role in normal exploratory behavior and to the overactivity observed after prenatal alcohol exposure.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that temperature ‘aberrations’ such as ‘cold snaps’ are an important and overlooked part of climate change and should be accounted for in future studies and models.
Abstract: Background
New marine invasions have been recorded in increasing numbers along the world's coasts due in part to the warming of the oceans and the ability of many invasive marine species to tolerate a broader thermal range than native species. Several marine invertebrate species have invaded the U.S. southern and mid-Atlantic coast from the Caribbean and this poleward range expansion has been termed ‘Caribbean Creep’. While models have predicted the continued decline of global biodiversity over the next 100 years due to global climate change, few studies have examined the episodic impacts of prolonged cold events that could impact species range expansions.
Methodology/Principal Findings
A pronounced cold spell occurred in January 2010 in the U.S. southern and mid-Atlantic coast and resulted in the mortality of several terrestrial and marine species. To experimentally test whether cold-water temperatures may have caused the disappearance of one species of the ‘Caribbean Creep’ we exposed the non-native crab Petrolisthes armatus to different thermal treatments that mimicked abnormal and severe winter temperatures. Our findings indicate that Petrolisthes armatus cannot tolerate prolonged and extreme cold temperatures (4–6°C) and suggest that aperiodic cold winters may be a critical ‘reset’ mechanism that will limit the range expansion of other ‘Caribbean Creep’ species.
Conclusions/Significance
We suggest that temperature ‘aberrations’ such as ‘cold snaps’ are an important and overlooked part of climate change. These climate fluctuations should be accounted for in future studies and models, particularly with reference to introduced subtropical and tropical species and predictions of both rates of invasion and rates of unidirectional geographic expansion.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method to synthesize an arbitrary quantum state of two superconducting resonators using a coherent interaction of each resonator with a tunable artificial atom to create entangled quantum superpositions of photon number (Fock) states.
Abstract: We present a method to synthesize an arbitrary quantum state of two superconducting resonators. This state-synthesis algorithm utilizes a coherent interaction of each resonator with a tunable artificial atom to create entangled quantum superpositions of photon number (Fock) states in the resonators. We theoretically analyze this approach, showing that it can efficiently synthesize NOON states, with large photon numbers, using existing technology.
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TL;DR: The benefits of the policies adopted, as well as their opportunity costs, are discussed in this paper, where the benefits of adopting appropriate macroeconomic policies in response to variable diamond receipts are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case history of a gentrifying neighborhood, with special reference to the interplay between cultural artifacts and the forces of the political economy, and propose that while the neighborhood is a socially constructed entity, the resources with which this construction takes place are unequally distributed.
Abstract: The article presents a case history of a gentrifying neighborhood, with special reference to the interplay between cultural artifacts and the forces of the political economy. In Boerum Hill, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, newly arriving middle-class homeowners used various political and cultural methods, including changes in nomen-clature, house tours, manipulation of boundaries and an attempt to secure historic landmark status, in order to enforce their definition of what the neighborhood should be. A countermovement then emerged on the part of older residents, who, using a different set of cultural referents (based on the notion of ethnic pride), sought to enforce a different definition. The author proposes that while the “neighborhood” is a socially constructed entity, the resources with which this construction takes place are unequally distributed. Moreover, as the notion of neighborhood has become increasingly politically salient in recent years, the author suggests that cultural conflicts over the definition of neighborhoods have become a feature of urban politics.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Alfred Kröner | 101 | 374 | 31665 |
Gabriel B. Brammer | 91 | 334 | 30335 |
William M. Tierney | 84 | 423 | 24235 |
Larry L. Jacoby | 77 | 166 | 25631 |
David P. DiVincenzo | 71 | 282 | 40038 |
James T. Carlton | 70 | 197 | 21690 |
Robert K. Merton | 67 | 190 | 74002 |
Allen Taylor | 63 | 222 | 16589 |
John A. Smolin | 63 | 150 | 24657 |
Qing Wang | 62 | 548 | 17215 |
Neal I. Lindeman | 62 | 217 | 31462 |
Michael I. Norton | 60 | 273 | 17597 |
Charles H. Bennett | 60 | 117 | 67435 |
Brian D. Fields | 57 | 250 | 63673 |
Hans C. Oettgen | 57 | 124 | 10056 |