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Disease Dynamics And Costly Punishment Can Foster Socially Imposed Monogamy
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-04-01)Socially imposed monogamy in humans is an evolutionary puzzle because it requires costly punishment by those who impose the norm. Moreover, most societies were-and are-polygynous; yet many larger human societies transitioned ... -
Disease Interventions Can Interfere With One Another Through Disease-Behaviour Interactions
(Public Library of Science, 2015-06-01)Theoretical models of disease dynamics on networks can aid our understanding of how infectious diseases spread through a population. Models that incorporate decision-making mechanisms can furthermore capture how behaviour-driven ... -
Disengagement during lectures: Media multitasking and mind wandering in university classrooms
(Elsevier, 2019-04-01)In university classrooms, the use of laptops or smartphones for purposes unrelated to the lecture is on the rise. Consequently, it is important to understand how frequently this behavior occurs, to track whether it increases ... -
Disintermediating Government: The role of Open Data and Smart Infrastructure
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019)Governments are increasingly negotiating the adoption of civic technologies to improve government functioning and to better connect with citizens. Despite the benefits of civic technology to make government more efficient, ... -
Disparities in knowledge about the health effects of smoking among adolescents following the release of new pictorial health warning labels
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)This paper examined knowledge about the health effects of smoking among health equity groups following the 2012 introduction of refreshed pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) in Canada. Data are from the 2012/2013 Youth ... -
Dispersing representations of semi-simple subalgebras of complex matrices
(Elsevier, 2022-06-01)In this paper we consider the problem of determining the maximum dimension of P?(A!B)P, where A and B are unital, semi-simple subalgebras of the set Mn of n⇥n complex matrices, and P 2 M2n is a projection of rank n. We ... -
Dispersion of a Fluid Plume During Radial Injection in an Aquifer
(AIP, 2022-02)This study outlines a model for radial injected fluid flow with mechanical dispersion in a vertically confined porous aquifer. Existing studies have investigated fully segregated fluid flow in this setting, where the ... -
Disproportionate Division
(Wiley, 2020-10-01)We study the disproportionate version of the classical cake-cutting problem: how efficiently can we divide a cake, here [0,1], among n ≥ 2 agents with different demands α1, α2,..., αn summing to 1? When all the agents have ... -
Dissecting Colloidal Stabilization Factors in Crowded Polymer Solutions by Forming Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles
(American Chemical Society, 2013-05-21)An ideal colloidal system should be highly stable in a diverse range of buffer conditions while still retaining its surface accessibility. We recently reported that dispersing citrate-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in ... -
Dissecting the effect of anions on Hg2+ detection using a FRET based DNA probe
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-08-07)Many biosensors have been developed to detect Hg2+ using thymine-rich DNA. While sensor response to various cations is often studied to demonstrate selectivity, the effect of anions has been largely overlooked. Anions may ... -
Dissimilar joining of carbon/carbon composites to Ti6Al4V using reactive resistance spot welding
(Elsevier, 2019-01-25)A 2D C/C composite with a high porosity (low strength) and a 3D C/C composite with a low porosity (high strength) were investigated for dissimilar joining to Ti6Al4V via reactive spot welding. It was determined that ... -
Dissociation and Degradation of Thiol-Modified DNA on Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous and Organic Solvents
(American Chemical Society, 2011-05-17)Gold nanoparticles functionalized with thiol-modified DNA have been widely used in making various nanostructures, colorimetric biosensors, and drug delivery vehicles. Over the past 15 years, significant progress has been ... -
Dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity fluxes from coastal marine sediments: model estimates for different shelf environments and sensitivity to global change
(European Geosciences Union, 2013-01-24)We present a one-dimensional reactive transport model to estimate benthic fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and alkalinity (AT) from coastal marine sediments. The model incorporates the transport processes of ... -
Distance, Gaze and the Intimacy Equilibrium Model in Audio/Video-Mediated and Face-to-Face Dyads
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10)This experiment, from 1976 but until now unpublished, focused on the Argyle-Dean Intimacy Equilibrium Model, to consider gaze and social distance in face-to-face and audio/video-mediated dyads. It was found that, during ... -
Distant agricultural landscapes
(Springer, 2015-04-01)This paper examines the relationship between the development of the dominant industrial food system and its associated global economic drivers and the environmental sustainability of agricultural landscapes. It makes the ... -
Distinction of Individual Lanthanide Ions with a DNAzyme Beacon Array
(American Chemical Society, 2016-06-24)Developing chemical probes to distinguish each lanthanide ion is a long-standing challenge. Aside from its analytical applications, solving this problem will also enhance our knowledge in metal ligand design. Using in vitro ... -
Distributed Multi-Robot Coverage Control of Non-Convex Environments With Guarantees
(IEEE, 2022-09-28)In this article, we revisit the problem of distributed coverage with a fleet of robots in convex and nonconvex environments. In the majority of approaches for this problem, the environment is partitioned, each robot is ... -
Distributed Robust Vehicle State Estimation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-06)A distributed estimation approach based on opinion dynamics is proposed to enhance the reliability of vehicle corners’ velocity estimates, which are obtained by an unscented Kalman filter. The corners’ estimates from a ... -
Distribution of priority grassland bird habitats in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada
(Resilience Alliance, 2018-02-09)Grassland ecosystems and the species that rely on them are one of the most urgent habitat conservation concerns in North America. Fundamental to any landscape conservation efforts is the identification of priority habitats ... -
Distribution planning with random demand and recourse in a transshipment network
(Elsevier, 2020-03)In this paper we consider a distribution planning problem in a transshipment network under stochastic customer demand, to account for uncertainty faced in real-life applications when planning distribution activities. To ...