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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Nucleic Acid Tertiary Structures
(2011)
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is ubiquitous to all organisms and a molecule that essential to all life forms. RNA is a versatile molecule with numerous cellular functions. With advances in nucleic acid sequencing, researchers ...
Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification
(2015-11-13)
To date, characterization of ancient oral (dental calculus) and gut (coprolite) microbiota has been primarily accomplished through a metataxonomic approach involving targeted amplification of one or more variable regions ...
Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular
(2001-09)
During the first half of the twentieth century, the horticulturist Luther Burbank was largely considered an irrelevant figure by the scientific community, despite winning acclaim from the public as an eminent scientist. ...
The Influence of the Teaching Concepts of William Adam on Four First Generation Students
(2009)
William Adam enjoys a reputation as one of the most important trumpet teachers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is known as a pedagogue who develops highly proficient trumpet performers and teachers. Adam ...
Elementary Students Use Voice-to-Text to Write
(2018-05)
Using qualitative methods and a multiple-case study design, this study explored how four students in elementary school, with poor writing skills, poor handwriting skills, or a reluctant writer, responded to using voice-to-text ...
Original music for wind band in the latter half of the 1950s: A historical perspective.
(2007)
Abstract not available.
Indigenous Rights in Japan: The Effects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Ainu
(2017-05)
This thesis examines how Japan internalizes international Indigenous rights norms. The application of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) in Japan relating to Ainu Indigenous rights provides a narrow ...
Socratic dunameis: A tapestry of many threads.
(2003)
In the early Platonic dialogues Socrates uses the concept of dunamis, which is commonly translated as 'capacity', 'power', 'ability', or 'potentiality', in connection with his search for true knowledge of morality. He ...
No One Can Place Me in a Box: Exploring the Identity Status of Adult Third Culture Kids
(2015-08-14)
Given the mixed findings on Adult Third-Culture Kids’ (ATCKs) identity development, the study explored whether ATCKs’ identity problems, particularly identity moratorium, were in fact related to their relativistic thinking ...
THEORETICAL STUDIES OF MULTI-MODE NOON STATES FOR APPLICATIONS IN QUANTUM METROLOGY AND PROPOSALS OF EXPERIMENTAL SETUPS FOR THEIR GENERATION
(2018-05)
Quantum entanglement is a fascinating physical resource that is central to the field of quantum information processing with important applications in such areas as quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum metrology, ...