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    • Assessing the Effect of Large Igneous Provinces on Global Oceanic Redox Conditions Using Non-traditional Metal Isotopes (Molybdenum, Uranium, Thallium) 

      Kendall, Brian; Andersen, Morten B.; Owens, Jeremy (American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2021-01-08)
      Large igneous provinces (LIPs) have occurred episodically throughout Earth’s history, with the most severe events causing profound disturbances to Earth’s climate and biosphere that likely influenced the course of metazoan ...
    • Back to the Future of Postfeminist Film: Hallmark, Netflix, and the ‘New’ Woman’s Holiday Film 

      MacDonald, Shana; Wiens, Brianna (Routledge, 2024)
      Within the context of shifting dialogues around feminism and women’s roles at work and home, and an increasing recognition of racial and sexual diversity within these conversations, this chapter considers the resurgent ...
    • Badges: Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte 

      Rasmussen, Ann Marie (De Gruyter, 2017-05)
      This article presents early findings regarding the interplay between script (text) and image on medieval badges, which are small, brooch-like objects made from lead-tin alloy (pewter) and adorned with familiar images drawn ...
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied to a Glass Vaporization Chamber for Introduction of Micro- or Nano-Size Samples into Lab-Based ICPs and to a CFD-Derived (and Rapidly Prototyped Via 3D Printing) Smaller-Size Chamber for Portable Microplasmas 

      Badiei, Hamid; Stubley, Gordon; Fitzgerald, Ryan; Saddler, Melanie; Karanassios, Vassili (IntechOpen, 2018-02-14)
      Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used extensively in many industries ranging from aerospace engineering to automobile design. We applied CFDs to simulate flows inside vaporization chambers designed for micro- or ...
    • Critical Reading Across the Engineering Disciplines 

      Weaver, Kari D.; Mercer, Kathryn; Howcroft, Jennifer (Association of College and Research Libraries a Division of the American Library Association, 2023-01)
      Engineering students spend a significant amount of time discovering, evaluating, and reading/interpreting information. This book chapter discusses the existing knowledge around undergraduate engineering student information ...
    • Deiotaros Philorhomaios, Pontos und Kolchis 

      Coskun, Altay (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)
      Towards the end of the Third Mithradatic War (64 BC), Pompey promoted the Tolistobogian tetrarch Deiotaros to become the most powerful king of Asia Minor. Strabo describes his new territories as follows (Geogr. 12.3.13 ...
    • Disabling cities 

      Worth, Nancy; Simard-Gagnon, Laurence; Chouinard, Vera (Oxford University Press, 2017-01-13)
      Geographic research on disability and cities is wide-ranging and encompasses the lives of people dealing with disability, physical impairment, and issues of mental ill health. This chapter focuses on what makes cities more ...
    • Dynamis in Rome? Revisiting the South Frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae 

      Coskun, Altay; Stern, Gaius (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)
      The Senate voted to build the Ara Pacis to welcome home Augustus after restoring order in the western provinces, while Agrippa pursued a similar mission in the East. Agrippa had settled the turmoil in the Bosporus by ...
    • Endocrine Regulation of Phosphate Homeostasis 

      Brown, Ronald B.; Razzaque, Mohammed S. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Phosphate, a component of nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, is incorporated in the structure of phospholipids in cell membranes, and is involved in many biological functions such as cell signaling, energy metabolism, and bone ...
    • The Erdős–Kac theorem and its generalizations 

      Kuo, Wentang; Liu, Yu-Ru (American Mathematical Society, 2008)
      Abstract. We give a survey of the Erd}o-Kac theorem and its various generalizations. In particular, we discuss an open conjecture of Erd}os and Pomerance about the distribution of the number of distinct prime divisors of ...
    • Finding the Win: Transforming STEM Learning and Information-Seeking Experiences 

      Weaver, Kari D.; Mercer, Kathryn (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023-07)
      Transformative learning focuses on the idea that learners can adjust their thinking based on new information. This chapter explores how a STEM librarian can use transformative learning theory and pedagogy to change student ...
    • Four-coloring P6-free graphs 

      Chudnovsky, Maria; Spirkl, Sophie; Zhong, Mingxian (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019)
      In this paper we present a polynomial time algorithm for the 4-COLORING PROBLEM and the 4-PRECOLORING EXTENSION problem restricted to the class of graphs with no induced six-vertex path, thus proving a conjecture of Huang. ...
    • Illustrating a new 'conceptual design pattern' for agent-based models of land use via five case studies—the MR POTATOHEAD framework 

      Parker, Dawn Cassandra; Brown, Daniel G.; Polhill, J. Gary; Deadman, Peter J.; Manson, Steven M. (Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)
      This chapter presents a "conceptual design pattern" (CDP) that represents key elements of standard ABM/LUCC models in a comprehensive logical framework and includes basic functionality and data often present in ABM/LUCC ...
    • Introduction 

      Coskun, Altay; Engels, David (Société Latomus, Brussels, 2019-05-18)
      This introduction surveys recent trends in Seleukid scholarship and addresses the main points of discussion concerning the decline and disintegration of the Seleukid Kingdom in the course of the 2nd century BC.
    • La gerçure énorme » de l’être à venir chez Yves Préfontaine 

      Lepage, Élise (Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2012)
      Dans l’article signé par Élise Lepage sur Pays sans parole (1967), d’Yves Préfontaine, on assiste au démantèlement de cet optimisme. Le corps, la parole et le territoire sont de partout craquelés, et l’aspiration verticale, ...
    • Of, By, and For the Internet: New Media Studies and Public Scholarship 

      Morrison, Aimee (Routledge, 2018)
      This paper proposes we must actively work to craft a new media studies of, by, and for the internet, one that must seek to transform rather than simply disrupt both scholarship and the broader social landscape, or our ...
    • Path Following for Mobile Manipulators 

      Gill, Rajan; Kulic, Dana; Nielsen, Christopher (Springer, 2017-07-25)
      This paper presents a framework of path following via set stabilization for mobile manipulator systems. The mobile manipulator is modelled as a single redundant dynamic system. The mobile base considered belongs to a large ...
    • The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology 

      Reydon, Thomas; Plaisance, Kathryn S. (Springer, 2012)
      This volume offers a broad overview of central issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, addressing philosophical issues that arise from the most recent scientific findings in biological research on behavior. It thus ...
    • The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows" 

      Austen, Veronica J. (Guernica, 2020)
      Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ...
    • Poly(Lactic Acid)-Based Biomaterials: Synthesis, Modification and Applications 

      Xiao, Lin; Wang, Bo; Yang, Guang; Gauthier, Mario (InTech, 2012-01-20)
      Chapter 11 entitled "Poly(Lactic Acid)-Based Biomaterials: Synthesis, Modification and Applications" from: "Biomedical Science, Engineering and Technology", book edited by Dhanjoo N. Ghista, ISBN 978-953-307-471-9, Published: ...

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