Dodging Heisenberg

Dodging the Taxman

Reducing tax evasion is a priority for many governments. A growing literature argues that verifying taxpayer reports against third-party information is critical for tax collection. However, effectiveness can be limited when tax authorities face constraints to credible enforcement and taxpayers make offsetting adjustments on other margins. We exploit a policy intervention in which Ecuadorian fir...

Automatic Dodging of Aerial Images

We present an automated approach for the dodging of images, with which we edit digital images as it is usually done with analogue images in dark-rooms. Millions of aerial images of all battle fields were taken during the Second World War. They were intensively used, e.g. for the observation of military movements, the documentation of success and failure of military operations and further planni...

Dodging the crisis of folding proteins with knots.

Proteins with nontrivial topology, containing knots and slipknots, have the ability to fold to their native states without any additional external forces invoked. A mechanism is suggested for folding of these proteins, such as YibK and YbeA, that involves an intermediate configuration with a slipknot. It elucidates the role of topological barriers and backtracking during the folding event. It a...

A Necessary Condition for Weyl-Heisenberg Frames

Dodging two bullets with one dsRNA-binding protein

At more than one million copies per genome, Alu elements represent the most abundant primate-specific repetitive element, constituting more than 10% of the human genome. These small interspersed elements (SINEs) can be transcribed by RNA polymerase III; alternatively, they can be embedded in transcripts synthesized by RNA polymerase II, where they have the potential to regulate host mRNA expres...