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Kleinert, H. "Fractional field equations for highly improbable events." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 442 (June 10, 2013): 012019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012019.

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Fuentemilla, Lluís, David Cucurell, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Marc Guitart-Masip, Joaquín Morís, and Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells. "Electrophysiological correlates of anticipating improbable but desired events." NeuroImage 78 (September 2013): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.062.

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Lampel, Joseph, Jamal Shamsie, and Zur Shapira. "Experiencing the Improbable: Rare Events and Organizational Learning." Organization Science 20, no. 5 (2009): 835–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0479.

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Fink, A. M., and L. Bass. "The likely antecedents of improbable events: optimal search strategies." Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics 34, no. 3 (1993): 257–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0334270000008882.

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AbstractWe use the “Brownian Bridge” of Schrödinger to model a statistical search problem in which the initial and final distributions of a random motion are given. We raise the question of how to use this information to optimally reconstruct a likely past event.

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, and David M. Sobel. "Young children discriminate improbable from impossible events in fiction." Cognitive Development 27, no. 1 (2012): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.08.001.

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Katz, Jonathan. "Why There Is Something: The Anthropic Principle and Improbable Events." Dialogue 27, no. 1 (1988): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001221730001951x.

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The Anthropic Principle, in use by physicists, astronomers, and cosmologists, is currently under consideration by philosophers. This principle, in its various forms, appeals to man's existence as a constraint on our determination of natural laws and natural constants, as a principle of prediction, and, in its strongest form, as a principle of explanation which sanctions an argument for the universe being a product of design. What I shall endeavour to show here is (1) how this principle, in its various forms, is used in furthering our understanding of cosmology, and (2) why this principle canno

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Woolley, Jacqueline D., and Chelsea A. Cornelius. "Wondering how: Children’s and adults’ explanations for mundane, improbable, and extraordinary events." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24, no. 5 (2017): 1586–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1127-1.

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Shtulman, Andrew, and Susan Carey. "Improbable or Impossible? How Children Reason About the Possibility of Extraordinary Events." Child Development 78, no. 3 (2007): 1015–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01047.x.

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Stoutenburg, Gregory. "THE EPISTEMIC ANALYSIS OF LUCK." Episteme 12, no. 3 (2015): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2014.35.

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AbstractDuncan Pritchard has argued that luck is fundamentally a modal notion: an event is lucky when it occurs in the actual world, but does not occur in more than half of the relevant nearby possible worlds. Jennifer Lackey has provided counterexamples to accounts which, like Pritchard's, only allow for the existence of improbable lucky events. Neil Levy has responded to Lackey by offering a modal account of luck which attempts to respect the intuition that some lucky events occur in more than half of the relevant nearby possible worlds. But his account rejects that events which are as likel

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Shaw, Eric H. "Eric H. Shaw: reflections on an improbable academic career." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 11, no. 1 (2019): 12–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-12-2018-0061.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the author’s serendipitous career and provide some lessons that might be of value to those pursuing the academic mission: teaching, research and service. Design/methodology/approach The method involves primary sources; mainly the author’s CV to jog recall of events and dates, some of his articles and the teachings and writings of many others that influenced or inspired various aspects of the author’s career. Findings The author’s experiences affirm that to achieve any degree of success in the professoriate, in addition to having some talent it i

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Phipps, Alan G. "Unexpected life events as improbable reasons for moving home: a review of two studies' findings." International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility 1, no. 2 (2015): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmrm.2015.074175.

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Galef, Bennett G. "Explaining the existence of the very improbable by the action of cumulative selection on random events." Developmental Psychobiology 21, no. 3 (1988): 293–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.420210310.

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Roe, G. H., and M. B. Baker. "Comment on "Another look at climate sensitivity" by Zaliapin and Ghil (2010)." Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 18, no. 1 (2011): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/npg-18-125-2011.

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Abstract. Zaliapin and Ghil (hereafter, ZG) claim that the linearity of the climate feedback model in Roe and Baker (2007) (hereafter, RB) invalidates our derivation of the well-known skewed shapes of published probability distributions (pdfs) of climate sensitivity. We show here that linearity is fully justified. Nonlinearity could be of some importance only if the focus is on exotic and improbable events, which appear to be the focus of ZG, instead of the sensitivity pdfs, which were the focus of RB.

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Bowman-Smith, Celina K., Andrew Shtulman, and Ori Friedman. "Distant lands make for distant possibilities: Children view improbable events as more possible in far-away locations." Developmental Psychology 55, no. 4 (2019): 722–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000661.

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SHARMA, DIVYA, HEMA RAMACHANDRAN, and N. KUMAR. "LÉVY STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS FROM A RANDOM AMPLIFYING MEDIUM." Fluctuation and Noise Letters 06, no. 01 (2006): L95—L101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219477506003185.

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We report our studies of emission from a dye-scatterer system, commonly known as random amplifying medium (RAM). It is found to exhibit non-Gaussian statistics of emission intensity over the ensemble of random realizations. The amplification is dominated by certain improbable events that are "larger than rare", which give the intensity statistics a Lévy-like fat tail. This, to the best of our knowledge, provides the first experimental realization of the Lévy statistics in the optics of a random amplifying medium, and the analysis thereof. Notably, the Lévy exponent is continuously tunable para

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Tsujita, Cameron J. "The significance of multiple causes and coincidence in the geological record: from clam clusters to Cretaceous catastrophe." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38, no. 2 (2001): 271–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e00-048.

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Specific causes of unusual events recorded in the geological record are commonly difficult to distinguish and isolate; in some instances, event strata contain features that cannot be explained by a single causal mechanism. Unicausal hypotheses, when applied to complex problems, can lead to the misidentification, misinterpretation, and force-fitting of observations ("great expectations syndrome"). The close timing or temporal overlap of significant events, although statistically improbable on short time scales, becomes possible on long time scales. Event coincidence may occur on a wide range of

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Higgins, David, and Treshani Perera. "Advancing real estate decision making: understanding known, unknown and unknowable risks." International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 36, no. 4 (2018): 373–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijbpa-01-2018-0006.

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Purpose Whilst existing literature on real estate risk management focusses almost exclusively on holistic risk management techniques, documented increases in frequency and magnitude of unforeseen, rare and extreme events can throw up sudden, unexpected shocks that can challenge recognised real estate decision-making strategies. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach To advance real estate decision-making practice in this area, this research paper takes the skilfully conceptualised downside risk framework presented by Diebold et al. (2010), being the known (K), the un

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Dubinskii, S., Y. Feygenbaum, V. Senik, and E. Metelkin. "A study of accidental impact scenarios for composite wing damage tolerance evaluation." Aeronautical Journal 123, no. 1268 (2019): 1724–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aer.2018.152.

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ABSTRACTThe field data characterising aircraft accidental in-service damage was collected, sorted and processed. By means of probabilistic analysis, the wing damageability statistical parameters were determined. The scenarios of wing accidental impacts were described and the qualitative distribution of impact intensity over the wing surfaces was obtained. By means of original analytical method, the metal dent depth data were converted into impact energy data and energy probabilistic distributions were established. It was shown that the functional relationships generated on domestic data are ge

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Nettesheim, Martin. "Brexit: Time for a Reflection Period about the Finalitè of European Integration." German Law Journal 17, S1 (2016): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2071832200021751.

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Some events seem to be outside the scope of political imagination, even if they are not improbable. That the United Kingdom, one of the European Union's (EU) largest and politically most influential Member States, might leave the EU, is one of these events. The outcome of the referendum of June 23, 2016 has evoked surprise and notions of doom. “Catastrophe”, “explosion of a bomb”, “drama,” are only some of the terms used by politicians and media observers to express their surprise and to signal that they are overwhelmed by the outcome. Reactions in the immediate aftermath of the referendum wer

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Lorenz, R. D., J. M. Norris, B. K. Jackson, R. D. Norris, J. W. Chadbourne, and J. Ray. "Trail formation by ice-shoved "sailing stones" observed at Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park." Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions 2, no. 2 (2014): 1005–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esurfd-2-1005-2014.

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Abstract. Trails in the usually-hard mud of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park attest to the seemingly-improbable movement of massive rocks on an exceptionally flat surface. The movement of these rocks, previously described as "sliding stones", "playa scrapers", "sailing stones" etc., has been the subject of speculation for almost a century but is an exceptionally rare phenomenon and until now has not been directly observed. Here we report documentation of multiple rock movement and trail formation events in the winter of 2013–2014 by in situ observation, video, timelapse cameras, a

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Wirth, Achim, and Bertrand Chapron. "Empirical evidence of a fluctuation theorem for the wind mechanical power input into the ocean." Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 28, no. 3 (2021): 371–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/npg-28-371-2021.

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Abstract. Ocean dynamics is predominantly driven by the shear stress between the atmospheric winds and ocean currents. The mechanical power input to the ocean is fluctuating in space and time and the atmospheric wind sometimes decelerates the ocean currents. Building on 24 years of global satellite observations, the input of mechanical power to the ocean is analysed. A fluctuation theorem (FT) holds when the logarithm of the ratio between the occurrence of positive and negative events, of a certain magnitude of the power input, is a linear function of this magnitude and the averaging period. T

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SWINBURNE, RICHARD. "The argument from souls to God." Religious Studies 51, no. 3 (2015): 293–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412515000232.

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AbstractHumans are pure mental substances, that is essentially souls, who have a rich mental life of sensations, thoughts, intentions, and other pure mental events, largely caused by and sometimes causing events in their brains and so in their bodies. God has reason to create humans because humans have a kind of goodness, the ability to choose between good and evil, which God himself does not have. The existence of these causal connections between mental events and brain events requires an enormous number of separate psychophysical laws. It is most improbable that there would be such laws if G

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Nicklas, R. B., and S. C. Ward. "Elements of error correction in mitosis: microtubule capture, release, and tension." Journal of Cell Biology 126, no. 5 (1994): 1241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.126.5.1241.

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The correction of certain errors in mitosis requires capture and release: new kinetochore microtubules must be captured and old, misdirected ones must be released. We studied capture and release in living grasshopper spermatocytes. Capture is remarkably efficient over a broad range in the angle at which a microtubule encounters a kinetochore. However, capture is inefficient when kinetochores point directly away from the source of properly directed microtubules. Capture in that situation is required for correction of the most common error; microtubule-kinetochore encounters are improbable and c

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Ostroglazova, N. A. "Preface to the Russian Publication: Michael Jabara Carley. A Near-Run Thing: the Improbable Grand Alliance of World War II (1929–1942)." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 5, no. 1 (2021): 73–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2021-1-17-73-74.

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The work of Michael Jabara Carley gives a unique perspective on the diplomatic relations of the key world powers in the pre-war period and appeals to a wide audience who are not indifferent to the history of the world. The events described took place almost a century ago and over the years have received a variety of interpretations in the domestic and foreign literature about those times. Painstaking work with archives combined with s fine psychological approach made it possible to recreate and visualize the peculiarities of international relations of those years. This thorough analysis result

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Kovačević, Andjelka B. "On Mautner-Type Probability of Capture of Intergalactic Meteor Particles by Habitable Exoplanets." Sci 1, no. 2 (2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sci1020040.

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Both macro and microprojectiles (e.g., interplanetary, interstellar and even intergalactic material) are seen as an important vehicle for the exchange of (bio)material within our solar system as well as between stellar systems in our Galaxy. Accordingly, this requires estimates of the impact probabilities for different source populations of projectiles, specifically for intergalactic meteor particles which have received relatively little attention since considered as rare events (discrete occurrences that are statistically improbable due to their very infrequent appearance). We employ the simp

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Kang, Gu, Yashina, Cook, and Yanagihara. "Highly Divergent Genetic Variants of Soricid-Borne Altai Virus (Hantaviridae) in Eurasia Suggest Ancient Host-Switching Events." Viruses 11, no. 9 (2019): 857. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v11090857.

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With the recent discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) in shrews (order Eulipotyphla, family Soricidae), the once-conventional view that rodents (order Rodentia) served as the primordial reservoir hosts now appears improbable. The newly identified soricid-borne hantaviruses generally demonstrate well-resolved lineages organized according to host taxa and geographic origin. However, beginning in 2007, we detected sequences that did not conform to the prototypic hantaviruses associated with their soricid host species and/or geographic locations. That is, Eurasian co

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Vásquez, Camilla. "“My life has changed forever!”." Storytelling in the Digital Age 27, no. 2 (2017): 217–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.27.2.02vas.

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Abstract New parodic genres have emerged across diverse forms of digital media. Sometimes these parodies take the form of mock “narratives of personal experience,” with authors drawing on a range of discursive resources to perform particular identities and in doing so, to create texts written from imagined perspectives. In this article, I focus on parodies of user-generated product reviews on Amazon. For over a decade, Amazon users have contributed thousands of parodies of reviews written about real products. This analysis focuses on a sample from a data set of 100 parodic Amazon reviews writt

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Charlesworth, Scott D. "Historicist interpretation of the Olivet Discourse and the sixth seal: 1. Medieval tribulation and cosmic signs." Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 30, no. 2 (2017): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1030570x17736324.

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Historicist interpreters of the Olivet Discourse turn Mark 13:4 par. into a two-part question about (1) the destruction of the temple and (2) the signs heralding the parousia. In doing so they attempt to: (1) solve the crux of 13:30 par. by relating ‘this generation’ to the events of 70 ce; (2) read a medieval persecution into 13:19–20 par.; and (3) find parallel historical fulfilments for the cosmic signs in the Olivet Discourse and sixth seal of the Apocalypse. While the general sweep of the Olivet Discourse up to the parousia is not in question, the apocalyptic Jesus of the synoptic gospels

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Debs, I., D. Sparks, J. Rousselle, and S. Birikundavyi. "Évaluation des méthodes utilisées pour l'estimation de la crue maximale probable en régions nordiques." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 26, no. 3 (1999): 355–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l98-071.

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Among all existing methods for estimating extreme floods, the probable maximum flood method is the safest, since it is a flood with a probability of excedance that is theoretically zero. In the early 1970s, this flood was calculated as the combination of the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) and the probable maximum snow accumulation (PMSA). In the 1990s, this combination has been considered to be highly improbable. Experts advise against combining two maximized events and, instead, recommend combining one maximized event with a relatively typical extreme event. This article presents a sens

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Pérez Ransanz, Ana Rosa. "Azar y explicación. Algunas observaciones." Crítica (México D. F. En línea) 22, no. 66 (1990): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.1990.775.

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In the first part of this paper I examine the Hempelian model for the probabilistic explanation of particular events: the inductive-statistical model. Here I focus on an examination of the notion of expectability and the implied requirement of high probability. I intend to show that expectability and high probability, in turn, answer to a deep rooted intuition concerning explanation: given an event E, the same sort of circumstances cannot explain E and -E. This intuition is called here “the basic principle”. This basic principle is also the ground for the Hempelian thesis that to explain

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Miura, Osamu, Mark E. Torchin, Eldredge Bermingham, David K. Jacobs, and Ryan F. Hechinger. "Flying shells: historical dispersal of marine snails across Central America." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1731 (2011): 1061–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1599.

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The geological rise of the Central American Isthmus separated the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans about 3 Ma, creating a formidable barrier to dispersal for marine species. However, similar to Simpson's proposal that terrestrial species can ‘win sweepstakes routes’—whereby highly improbable dispersal events result in colonization across geographical barriers—marine species may also breach land barriers given enough time. To test this hypothesis, we asked whether intertidal marine snails have crossed Central America to successfully establish in new ocean basins. We used a mitochondrial DNA gene

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Vila, Roger, Charles D. Bell, Richard Macniven, et al. "Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1719 (2011): 2737–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2213.

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Transcontinental dispersals by organisms usually represent improbable events that constitute a major challenge for biogeographers. By integrating molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography and palaeoecology, we test a bold hypothesis proposed by Vladimir Nabokov regarding the origin of Neotropical Polyommatus blue butterflies, and show that Beringia has served as a biological corridor for the dispersal of these insects from Asia into the New World. We present a novel method to estimate ancestral temperature tolerances using distribution range limits of extant organisms, and find that climati

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Kovačević, Andjelka B. "On Mautner-Type Probability of Capture of Intergalactic Meteor Particles by Habitable Exoplanets." Sci 1, no. 3 (2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sci1030061.

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Both macro and microprojectiles (e.g., interplanetary, interstellar and even intergalactic material) are seen as important vehicles for the exchange of potential (bio)material within our solar system as well as between stellar systems in our Galaxy. Accordingly, this requires estimates of the impact probabilities for different source populations of projectiles, including for intergalactic meteor particles which have received relatively little attention since considered as rare events (discrete occurrences that are statistically improbable due to their very infrequent appearance). We employ the

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Castro, L. Filipe C., Odete Gonçalves, Sylvie Mazan, Boon-Hui Tay, Byrappa Venkatesh, and Jonathan M. Wilson. "Recurrent gene loss correlates with the evolution of stomach phenotypes in gnathostome history." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1775 (2014): 20132669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2669.

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The stomach, a hallmark of gnathostome evolution, represents a unique anatomical innovation characterized by the presence of acid- and pepsin-secreting glands. However, the occurrence of these glands in gnathostome species is not universal; in the nineteenth century the French zoologist Cuvier first noted that some teleosts lacked a stomach. Strikingly, Holocephali (chimaeras), dipnoids (lungfish) and monotremes (egg-laying mammals) also lack acid secretion and a gastric cellular phenotype. Here, we test the hypothesis that loss of the gastric phenotype is correlated with the loss of key gastr

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Booth, Austin, and W. Ford Doolittle. "Eukaryogenesis, how special really?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 33 (2015): 10278–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421376112.

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Eukaryogenesis is widely viewed as an improbable evolutionary transition uniquely affecting the evolution of life on this planet. However, scientific and popular rhetoric extolling this event as a singularity lacks rigorous evidential and statistical support. Here, we question several of the usual claims about the specialness of eukaryogenesis, focusing on both eukaryogenesis as a process and its outcome, the eukaryotic cell. We argue in favor of four ideas. First, the criteria by which we judge eukaryogenesis to have required a genuinely unlikely series of events 2 billion years in the making

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Gorini, Francesca, Kyriazoula Chatzianagnostou, Annamaria Mazzone, et al. "“Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Time of COVID-19”: A Review of Biological, Environmental, and Psychosocial Contributors." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 20 (2020): 7371. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207371.

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly become a worldwide health crisis.Although respiratory disease remains the main cause of morbidity and mortality in COVID patients,myocardial damage is a common finding. Many possible biological pathways may explain therelationship between COVID-19 and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Increased immune andinflammatory responses, and procoagulant profile have characterized COVID patients. All theseresponses may induce endothelial dysfunction, myocardial injury, plaque instability, and AMI.Disease severity and mortality are increased by cardiovascu

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Shindell, Drew. "Estimating the potential for twenty-first century sudden climate change." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 365, no. 1860 (2007): 2675–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2007.2088.

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I investigate the potential for sudden climate change during the current century. This investigation takes into account evidence from the Earth's history, from climate models and our understanding of the physical processes governing climate shifts. Sudden alterations to climate forcing seem to be improbable, with sudden changes instead most likely to arise from climate feedbacks. Based on projections from models validated against historical events, dramatic changes in ocean circulation appear unlikely. Ecosystem–climate feedbacks clearly have the potential to induce sudden change, but are rela

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Blom, Mozes P. K., Nicholas J. Matzke, Jason G. Bragg, et al. "Habitat preference modulates trans-oceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1904 (2019): 20182575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2575.

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The importance of long-distance dispersal (LDD) in shaping geographical distributions has been debated since the nineteenth century. In terrestrial vertebrates, LDD events across large water bodies are considered highly improbable, but organismal traits affecting dispersal capacity are generally not taken into account. Here, we focus on a recent lizard radiation and combine a summary-coalescent species tree based on 1225 exons with a probabilistic model that links dispersal capacity to an evolving trait, to investigate whether ecological specialization has influenced the probability of trans-o

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Miller, Paul W., Alan W. Black, Castle A. Williams, and John A. Knox. "Quantitative Assessment of Human Wind Speed Overestimation." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 55, no. 4 (2016): 1009–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-15-0259.1.

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AbstractHuman wind reports are a vital supplement to the relatively sparse network of automated weather stations in the United States, especially for localized convective winds. In this study, human wind estimates recorded in Storm Data between 1996 and 2013 were compared with instrumentally observed wind speeds from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). Nonconvective wind events in areas of flat terrain within the continental United States served as the basis for this analysis because of the relative spatial homogeneity of wind fields in these meteorological and geographic setting

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Margolis, Nadia. ""Each...according...to his intention": Three Phases of Christine de Pizan's Literary Influence Through the Ages." Florilegium 18, no. 1 (2001): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.18.008.

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Many scholars participating in the current boom in Christine de Pizan studies tend to think of the "discovery of Christine" as a phenomenon limited to the past thirty—or even ten—years. In truth, however, Christine has been alive in the Western literary imagination—if not flamboyantly so—since the fifteenth century. Alongside her predictable presence among resurgent feminists, her courageously political-moral persona, whether in verse or in prose, has found welcome within the least likely writings, "embroidered" or "mortared" into the totality of the particular author's message, as one of the

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Somacarrera Iñigo, Pilar. "''The Sacred Marriage" de Joyce Carol Oates: Una parábola sobre la intertextualidad." Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá, no. 3-4-5 (March 5, 1996): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i3-4-5.3399.

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Joyce Carol O ates' short story collection M arriages and lnfidelities includes a number of versions of narratives by famous writers. The common theme is, of course, marriage, although "The Sacred Marriage" itself alludes to an spiritual kind of union. Its narrator succeeds at outplanning the audience by selecting a rather improbable way to follow in the story and by introducing apparently impossible events. From the beginning, it is possible to perceive a series of lexical oppositions referring to the setting, intended to make it look like an unreal, dream world. The protagonist, Howard Dean,

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Storm, Lance. "The Source and Significance of Coincidences: A Hard Look at the Astonishing Evidence by Sharon Hewitt Rawlette." Journal of Scientific Exploration 34, no. 3 (2020): 629–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20201837.

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Sharon Rawlette’s offering to those appreciative (even enamoured) of the fickle, unpredictable, and mystifying world of coincidences, is a mammoth tome of 600+ pages ambitiously bearing the title The Source and Significance of Coincidences. As the title suggests, Rawlette seeks to explain who or what might cause coincidences (these explanations are far-ranging), and she endeavours to point out what they mean (usually they only have a positive spin). Right from the outset, Rawlette gives the term coincidence its own special definition, but anyone steeped in the Jungian tradition cannot help but

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Bono, Heather Richardson, Charles G. Leathers, and J. Patrick Raines. "The new deflation and housing market bubbles in the USA and UK: a monetary policy dilemma." International Journal of Social Economics 44, no. 6 (2017): 760–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-10-2015-0260.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an analysis of the improbable events of housing market bubbles occurring in a period when US and UK central bankers were responding to perceived risks of a new deflation. Design/methodology/approach The methodology focuses on how the anti-deflation policies implemented by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England contributed to the housing market bubbles. The central bankers perceived the deflation as a Keynesian short-run deficiency in aggregate demand, triggered by a financial crisis. Indications are that the deflation is in the nature of lon

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Chu, Charles C., Rosa Catera, Katerina Hatzi, et al. "Chronic lymphocytic leukemia antibodies with a common stereotypic rearrangement recognize nonmuscle myosin heavy chain IIA." Blood 112, no. 13 (2008): 5122–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2008-06-162024.

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Abstract Leukemic B lymphocytes of a large group of unrelated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients express an unmutated heavy chain immunoglobulin variable (V) region encoded by IGHV1-69, IGHD3-16, and IGHJ3 with nearly identical heavy and light chain complementarity-determining region 3 sequences. The likelihood that these patients developed CLL clones with identical antibody V regions randomly is highly improbable and suggests selection by a common antigen. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) from this stereotypic subset strongly bind cytoplasmic structures in HEp-2 cells. Therefore, HEp-2 c

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Cunha, Rafael Nunes da, Daniel Victor da Cunha Teles, and David Leonardo Nascimento de Figueiredo Amorim. "Análise simplificada do efeito de ações sísmicas em edifícios de concreto armado dimensionados pela norma brasileira." Revista Principia - Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB 1, no. 51 (2020): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.18265/1517-0306a2020v1n51p205-213.

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<p class="Normal1">Earthquakes are natural events, caused mainly due to the relative movement between tectonic plates (interplate earthquakes) and in faults between rocky blocks (intra-plate earthquakes), or induced by human activity. It is possible to observe a relation between the regions located in areas with greater seismicity and the areas that are close to several intraplate failures and shale gas reserves in Brazil. According to NBR 15421/2006, this condition results in a map of seismic accelerations characteristic of the design. Such accelerations can be used to estimate equivale

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Janata, Petr, Jeffrey L. Birk, Barbara Tillmann, and Jamshed J. Bharucha. "Online Detection of Tonal Pop-Out in Modulating Contexts." Music Perception 20, no. 3 (2003): 283–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2003.20.3.283.

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We investigated the spontaneous detection of "wrong notes" in a melody that modulated continuously through all 24 major and minor keys. Three variations of the melody were composed, each of which had distributed within it 96 test tones of the same pitch, for example, A2. Thus, the test tones would blend into some keys and pop out in others. Participants were not asked to detect or judge specific test tones; rather, they were asked to make a response whenever they heard a note that they thought sounded wrong or out of place. This task enabled us to obtain subjective measures of key membership i

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Jackson, Robert C., and Hitesh B. Mistry. "The spindle assembly checkpoint and speciation." PeerJ 8 (May 11, 2020): e9073. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9073.

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A mechanism is proposed by which speciation may occur without the need to postulate geographical isolation of the diverging populations. Closely related species that occupy overlapping or adjacent ecological niches often have an almost identical genome but differ by chromosomal rearrangements that result in reproductive isolation. The mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint normally functions to prevent gametes with non-identical karyotypes from forming viable zygotes. Unless gametes from two individuals happen to undergo the same chromosomal rearrangement at the same place and time, a most improb

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Kolb, Hubert, Stephan Martin, Volker Lodwig, Lutz Heinemann, Werner A. Scherbaum, and Berthold Schneider. "Are Type 2 Diabetes Patients Who Self-Monitor Blood Glucose Special? The Role of Confounders in the Observational ROSSO Study." Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 3, no. 6 (2009): 1507–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/193229680900300633.

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Background: In the German multicenter, retrospective cohort study (ROSSO), those patients with type 2 diabetes who performed self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) had a better long-term clinical outcome. We analyzed whether confounders accounted for the lower rate of clinical events in the SMBG cohort. Methods: ROSSO followed 3268 persons from diagnosis of type 2 diabetes for a mean of 6.5 years. Data were retrieved from patient files of randomly contacted primary care practices. Results: In total, more than 60 potential confounders were documented, including nondisease-associated parameters

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Yang, Bin, and Karen Meech. "Puzzling Snowballs: Main Belt Comets." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10, H16 (2012): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921314004992.

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AbstractMain belt comets (MBCs) are a class of newly discovered objects that exhibit comet-like appearances and yet are dynamically indistinguishable from ordinary main belt asteroids. The measured size and albedo of MBCs are similar to those of classical comets. At present, six MBCs have been discovered, namely 133P/Elst-Pizarro, 176P/LINEAR, 238P/Read, P/2008 R1, P/La Sagra and P/2006 VW139. The total number of active MBCs is estimated to be at the level of a few hundreds (Hsieh & Jewitt, 2006). Several explanations for the activity of MBCs have been suggested. These include impact eject

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Angelakis, E., S. Kiehlmann, I. Myserlis, et al. "Optical polarisation variability of radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies." Astronomy & Astrophysics 618 (October 2018): A92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832890.

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Context. Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSy1s) constitute the active galactic nuclei subclass associated with systematically lower black hole masses. A few radio-loud NLSy1s have been detected in MeV-GeV energy bands by Fermi, and evidence that blazar-like jets are operating also in radio-loud NLSy1s, has been accumulated. Aims. We wish to quantify the temporal behaviour of the optical polarisation, fraction, and angle for a selected sample of radio-loud NLSy1s. We also search for rotations of the polarisation plane similar to those commonly observed in blazars. Methods. We have conducted R-

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