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American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...
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Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
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Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Data mining, Statistics
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Description
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Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...
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Incivility and dysfunction in the library workplace : perceptions and feedback from the field
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Author
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Croxton, Rebecca A., Henry, Jo, Eshleman, Joe, Moniz, Richard
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Libraries, Work environment
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Description
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Issues associated with lack of civility, less than ideal functionality, and employees that may not self-reflect as much they should are all challenges in the modern workplace and libraries are no exception. The purpose of this study was to determi...
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JED: a Java essential dynamics program for comparative analysis of protein trajectories
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Ramaprasad, Azhagiya Singam Ettayapuram, David, Charles C.
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Biology, Proteins
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Description
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Background: Essential Dynamics (ED) is a common application of principal component analysis (PCA) to extract biologically relevant motions from atomic trajectories of proteins. Covariance and correlation based PCA are two common approaches to dete...
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Salt tolerance response revealed by RNA-Seq in a diploid halophytic wild relative of sweet potato
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Author
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Loraine, Ann, Luo, Yan, Reid, Robert, Song, Bao-Hua
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Crop improvement
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Description
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Crop wild relatives harbor exotic and novel genetic resources, which hold great potential for crop improvement. Ipomoea imperati is a wild diploid relative of sweet potato with the capability of high salinity tolerance. We compared the transcripto...
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Statistical measures to quantify similarity between molecular dynamics simulation trajectories
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny, Kanwal, Fareeha, Nikulsin, Nikita
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Molecular dynamics, Statistics
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Description
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Molecular dynamics simulation is commonly employed to explore protein dynamics. Despite the disparate timescales between functional mechanisms and molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories, functional differences are often inferred from differences in ...
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Students' pathway to success : a faculty guide
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Author
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Top 40 Academy
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Universities and colleges--Study and teaching, Education--Study and teaching (Higher)
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Description
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Welcome to Students' Pathway to Success: A Faculty Guide, our collection about ways to make teaching a more positive, productive and enjoyable experience. Written collaboratively by the Top 40 Academy, a faculty professional learning community at ...