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    • Increased mitochondrial DNA diversity in ancient Columbia River basin Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha 

      Johnson, Bobbi M.; Kemp, Brian M.; Thorgaard, Gary (2018-01-10)
      The Columbia River and its tributaries provide essential spawning and rearing habitat for many salmonid species, including Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Chinook salmon were historically abundant throughout the ...

    • Integrity and its Puzzles 

      Herdt, Jennifer (2017-05)
      This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 08, May 2017.

    • Intimate Partner Violence: Innovations in Theory to Inform Clinical Practice, Policy, and Research 

      McLeod, David Axlyn; Havig, Kirsten; Natale, Anthony; Pharris, Angela (2020-05-07)
      Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intergenerational transmission of IPV in families are destructive social issues in need of considerable attention. Knowledge of the multi-level, complex causes, and consequences of IPV ...

    • Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification 

      Warriner, Christina; Lewis, Cecil; Mann, Allison; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Ozga, Andrew (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 ...

    • Investigating Implicit Aspects of Virtue: Understanding Humility Among Moral Exemplars 

      Van Slyke, James; Graves, Mark (2015-03-13)
      Our research project will investigate the virtue of humility among real world humanitarian exemplars, such as holocaust rescuers and hospice workers. We will use computer technology to analyze interviews with these types ...

    • ISHF e-Newsletter 01 (January 2016) 

      ISHF (2016-01)
      This is a quarterly electronic publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing. It features a brief overview of past events and activities of the Institute and its partner institutions, and a look ahead to ...

    • "Jihad": What's Happening with this Virtue? 

      Milla, Mirra; El Hafiz, Subhan; Rohman, Izza; Edison, Rizki (2015-03-13)
      "Jihad" for Muslim is a virtue, it’s learned from generation to generation. But nowadays we can see that this virtue has had different interpretations in society, from peaceful to terrorism. This research will be conducted ...

    • The Joys and Sorrows of a Philosophical Life 

      Zagzebski, Linda (2016-11)
      John Dewey lecture delivered at the ninetieth Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco on April 1, 2016.

    • Moral Exemplarism 

      Zagzebski, Linda (2016-07)
      This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 04, January 2016.

    • Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More in the Development of the Moral Self? 

      Ferrari, Michel; Bang, Hyeyoung; Kord Noghabi, Rasool; Ardelt, Monika; Edmondson, Ricca; Connell, Michael; Mongeau, Gilles; Vervaeke, John (2015-03-14)
      ‘Self’ has long been a contested term within psychology and religion; however, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism all acknowledge that individuals struggle to embody narratives of a virtuous life—a life motivated to do good, ...

    • Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More? 

      Ferrari, Michel; Bang, Hyeyoung (2016-05-06)
      Our international project involves interviews with older and younger adults of 4 faith conditions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Agnostic) in 2 countries, Canada and South Korea. Study 1 includes participants from two ...

    • Motivating Virtuous Selves: The Impact of Gender and Culture 

      Raine, Roxanne; Scheopner, Cynthia; McKinney, Jonathan (2015-03-14)
      The self is defined differently both across and within disciplines and cultures. The traditional Western view of self as an ethical or economic subject is challenged by process philosophers as misplaced and by feminists ...

    • The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches 

      Moon, Dawne; Tobin, Theresa (2016-05-07)
      Our project examines the movement among conservative Christians to change the conversation around gender, sexuality, sin and love, and to even affirm LGBT identities and sometimes even same-sex marriage. Using one poignant ...

    • The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches 

      Moon, Dawne; Tobin, Theresa (2015-03-14)
      The Motivation to Love is a collaborative, qualitative study of spiritual violence in Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant churches’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Spiritual ...

    • The Neuroscience of Habituated Motivation 

      Masala, Alberto; Andler, Daniel; Denizeau, Jean (2015-03-14)
      This project brings together neo-Aristotelian theory of motivational habituation and neuro-cognitive models of skill acquisition, in order to explain why it is so difficult to cultivate extended and sophisticated motivational ...

    • Newsletter 20 

      International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences; Dudich, Endre (1987)
      INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.

    • Newsletter 21 

      International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences; Dudich, Endre (1988)
      INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.

    • Newsletter 22 

      International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences; Marvin, Ursula B. (1990)
      INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.

    • Newsletter 23 

      International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences; Marvin, Ursula B. (1991)
      INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.

    • Newsletter 24 

      International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences; Marvin, Ursula B. (1992)
      INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.