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Title
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Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
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Author
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Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
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Description
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Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...
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Slavery and African American irreligion
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Author
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Cameron, Christopher
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Religion, Enslaved persons
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Description
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In his influential 1835 work Slavery, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing noted of southern slaves: “Of all the races of men, the African is the mildest and most susceptible of attachment. He loves, where the European would hate. He watches...
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Nicaragua’s Grand Canal : a case study in political and economic culture
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Author
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Doyle, Michael S.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Nicaragua, Canals
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Description
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The proposed Nicaraguan Grand Canal mega-project—whether promised land or pipe dream—serves as the basis for the following short case study in political and economic culture. It can be useful for multiple fields such as business, policy, foreign a...
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Title
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Fractional vortex Hilbert's Hotel
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Author
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Gbur, Greg
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Physics, Optics
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Description
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We demonstrate how the unusual mathematics of transfinite numbers, in particular, a nearly perfect realization of Hilbert's famous hotel paradox, manifests in the propagation of light through fractional vortex plates. It is shown how a fractional ...
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EchinoDB, an application for comparative transcriptomics of deeply-sampled clades of echinoderms
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Witter, Zachary, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background: One of our goals for the echinoderm tree of life project (http://echinotol.org) is to identify orthologs suitable for phylogenetic analysis from next-generation transcriptome data. The current dataset is the largest assembled for echin...
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Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Zika virus
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Description
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Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...
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Characterization of the cytokinin-responsive transcriptome in rice
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Author
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Loraine, Ann, Raines, Tracy, Blakley, Ivory, Kieber, Joseph J.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Gene expression, Cytokinins
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Description
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Background: Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies of the dicotyledonous plant...
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Joint power control and routing for rechargeable wireless sensor networks
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Author
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Nasipuri, Asis, Pal, Amitangshu
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Date Created
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2016
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Description
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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) that are powered by energy harvested from the environment, also known as rechargeable WSNs, typically experience wide variations of energy availability across the network. Such variations can cause frequent node outa...
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Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...
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Daily cycle in oxygen consumption by the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis Stephenson
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Author
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Reitzel, Adam M., Maas, Amy E., Jones, Ian T.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Gene expression, Biology
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Description
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In bilaterian animals, the circadian clock is intimately involved in regulating energetic metabolism. Although cnidarians exhibit diel behavioral rhythms including cycles in locomotor activity, tentacle extension and spawning, daily cycles in cnid...
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Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
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Author
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Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
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Description
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At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...
