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Polarization singularities in the clear sky [PDF]
Ideas from singularity theory provide a simple account of the pattern of polarization directions in daylight. The singularities (two near the Sun and two near the anti-Sun) are points in the sky where the polarization line pattern has index +1/2 and the ...
Berry, M.V., Dennis, M.R., Lee, Jr, R.L.
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Decentralization and political institutions [PDF]
Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests hypotheses posed by theoretical literature that the results of decentralization depend on features of political ...
Enikolopov, Ruben, Zhuravskaya, Ekatrina
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Background People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at high risk of both infectious disease and overdose. Harm reduction activities organized by their peers in the community can reduce risk by providing education, safer smoking supplies, and facilitate access ...
Sulaf Elkhalifa +6 more
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These notes are based on three lectures given at the 2013 CIME/CIRM summer school. The purpose of this series of lectures is to introduce the notion of a toric fibration and to give its geometrical and combinatorial characterizations.
A. Dickenstein +12 more
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Background The international Life In Recovery (LiR) surveys have provided an important message to the public and policy makers about the reality of change from addiction to recovery, consistently demonstrating both that there are marked gains across a ...
David Best +2 more
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AbstractTelaprevir is a potent HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor. A completed development program has demonstrated the superior efficacy of a regimen of telaprevir combined with pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin (PR) over PR alone in patients with HCV genotype 1.
AnnMarie, Liapakis, Ira, Jacobson
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Boundary regularity for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations [PDF]
We study fine boundary regularity properties of solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic integro-differential equations of order $2s$, with $s\in(0,1)$.
Ros-Oton, Xavier, Serra, Joaquim
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Implementation status of community adaptation plans: a case study from Parbat District, Nepal
This study was carried out in three community forests of the Parbat District, Nepal with the objective of assessing the implementation status of Community Adaptation Plans (CAPs).
Reeti Acharya, Ganesh Paudel
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Examination of the Ability of Internal Processes of the Supreme Audit Court to Take Responsibility for Users [PDF]
Subject and Purpose of the Article: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of internal processes of the supreme audit court to perform accountability for users.
Reza Sotudeh, Mahdi Faghani, ahmad pifeh
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High Performance Computing With A Conservative Spectral Boltzmann Solver [PDF]
We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman.
Gamba, I. M., Haack, J. R.
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