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Village Economic Accounts: Real and Financial Intertwined
(American Economic Association, 2012-05)We propose a framework to create village economic and balance of payments accounts from a micro-level household survey. Using the Townsend Thai data, we create the accounts for villages in rural and semi-urban areas of ... -
Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The Village Voice project is a study of the efficacy of a localized ontology in the dissemination of narrative. It seeks to understand how community members can articulate their lives in ways that allow each other to reflect ... -
Village ways and factory ways: a study of the interplay between technology and social structure in a traditional Andean village.
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Village-Scale Electrodialysis Desalination: Field Trial Validation
(ASME International, 2017-08)This paper presents the design and initial testing of a villagescale photovoltaic (PV) powered electrodialysis reversal (EDR) desalination system for rural India. The system was built by the authors and tested at the ... -
Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The idiom of urbanization driven by financialization of rural land is purported to bring development to rapidly developing contexts. However, the nature of the resulting urban realm, functionally, socially and ecologically ... -
Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010-02)We provide novel evidence linking the level of creditor protection provided by law to the degree of usage of technologically older, vintage capital in the airline industry. Using a panel of aircraft-level data around the ... -
ViObject: Harness Passive Vibrations for Daily Object Recognition with Commodity Smartwatches
(ACM, 2024-03-06)Knowing the object grabbed by a hand can offer essential contextual information for interaction between the human and the physical world. This paper presents a novel system, ViObject, for passive object recognition that ... -
Violation of Continuous-Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering with Discrete Measurements
(American Physical Society, 2013-03)In this Letter, we derive an entropic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering inequality for continuous-variable systems using only experimentally measured discrete probability distributions and details of the measurement ... -
Violation of the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Neutrino Oscillations
(American Physical Society, 2016-07)The Leggett-Garg inequality, an analogue of Bell’s inequality involving correlations of measurements on a system at different times, stands as one of the hallmark tests of quantum mechanics against classical predictions. ... -
Violation of the Onsager relation for quantum oscillations in superconductors
(American Physical Society, 2009-05)We numerically study the quantum oscillations in superconducting vortex-mixed states with d-wave pairing. We show that in the parameter range of an underdoped cuprate superconductor, the commonly held assumption that the ... -
Violations of physical and psychological expectations in the human adult brain
(MIT Press, 2024-02-01)After seeing one solid object apparently passing through another, or a person taking the long route to a destination when a shortcut was available, human adults classify those events as surprising. When tested on these ... -
Violent expiratory events: on coughing and sneezing
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03)Violent respiratory events such as coughs and sneezes play a key role in transferring respiratory diseases between infectious and susceptible individuals. We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical ... -
Violent extremist group ecologies under stress
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013-03)Violent extremist groups are currently making intensive use of Internet fora for recruitment to terrorism. These fora are under constant scrutiny by security agencies, private vigilante groups, and hackers, who sometimes ... -
VIPER: an industrially scalable high-current high-temperature superconductor cable
(IOP Publishing, 2020-10)High-temperature superconductors (HTS) promise to revolutionize high-power applications like wind generators, DC power cables, particle accelerators, and fusion energy devices. A practical HTS cable must not degrade under ... -
Viral contamination in biologic manufacture and implications for emerging therapies
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04)Recombinant protein therapeutics, vaccines, and plasma products have a long record of safety. However, the use of cell culture to produce recombinant proteins is still susceptible to contamination with viruses. These ... -
Viral delivery of recombinant growth hormone to rescue effects of chronic stress on hippocampal learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Chronic stress has been linked to variation in gene regulation in the hippocampus (HIP) among other areas. These lead to cytoskeletal and volumetric rearrangements in various nuclei of the central nervous system and are ... -
Viral Ejection Proteins: Mosaically Conserved, Conformational Gymnasts
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-02-24)Bacterial viruses (or bacteriophages) have developed formidable ways to deliver their genetic information inside bacteria, overcoming the complexity of the bacterial-cell envelope. In short-tailed phages of the <i>Podoviridae</i> ... -
Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd., 2016-11)The threat of an influenza A virus pandemic stems from continual virus spillovers from reservoir species, a tiny fraction of which spark sustained transmission in humans. To date, no pandemic emergence of a new influenza ... -
Viral fusion protein transmembrane domain adopts β-strand structure to facilitate membrane topological changes for virus–cell fusion
(National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2015-09)The C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) of viral fusion proteins such as HIV gp41 and influenza hemagglutinin (HA) is traditionally viewed as a passive α-helical anchor of the protein to the virus envelope during its ... -
Viral genome imaging of hepatitis C virus to probe heterogeneous viral infection and responses to antiviral therapies
(Elsevier, 2016-04)Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive single-stranded RNA virus of enormous global health importance, with direct-acting antiviral therapies replacing an immunostimulatory interferon-based regimen. The dynamics of HCV ...
