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Why So Many Repositories? Examining the limitations and possibilities of the IR landscape
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Academic libraries fail to take advantage of the network effect because they manage too many digital repositories locally. While this argument applies to all manner of digital repositories, this article examines the ... -
Why Some Groups Fail: a Survey of Students' Experiences with Learning Groups
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William of Ockham, Brevis summa libri Physicorum
(2018)A transcription of William of Ockham's "Brevis summa libri Physicorum," from a manuscript contained within Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d’Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer (BA) 317. The Brevis summa is fol. 44ra-61vb. -
Women’s Rights as Proletarian Rights: Yamakawa Kikue, Suffrage, and the “Dawn of Liberation”
(2018)Yamakawa Kikue is famous for having worked relentlessly to critique Japan’s prewar socialist movement for its lack of attention to women’s issues. In addition to her continual presence as an oppositional figure operating ... -
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with Mass Shootings in the US
(2021-10-28)We measure the association between neighborhood characteristics and mass shootings building on existing research on neighborhoods and social and economic composition and crime. Using publicly available national data from ... -
Word Categorization as a Function of Stimulus Presentation
(South African Journal of Psychology, 1979-06-01)Word categorization as a function of stimulus presentation was examined by means of the Word Categorization Test, in a group of young adults. The results indicate (a) a minimal use of the phonetic similarity criterion, (b) ... -
Word from an IFLA fox: an interview with Else Granheim
(Information Development, 1991-01-01)Edited text of an interview with Else Granheim, Director General, Statens Bibliotektilsyn (Norwegian Directorate for Public and School Libraries), Oslo, and former President of the International Federation of Library ... -
Words of encouragement to Indigenous language advocates during the pandemic
(2021-10)This video offers words of encouragement to Indigenous language advocates during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Work and Welfare in the American States: Analyzing the Effects of the JOBS Program
(Political Research Quarterly, 1999-12-01)This research seeks to determine whether the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills GOBS) program (established under the 1988 Family Support Act) was successful in reducing the number of welfare recipients among U.S. states ... -
Work Centrality in Japan and the United States
(Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1986-12-01)A concept called work centrality is developed to represent the generalized importance of working to individuals. Work centrality results for national samples of the labor force in Japan and in the United States are presented. ... -
Workload and Performance in FOPA: A Strategic Planning Interface for Air Traffic Control
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000-07-01)The Flight Organizer Planning Aid (FOPA) interface was designed to aid strategic planning in air traffic control. In particular, FOPA was designed to address difficulties in solving en route sequencing problems (combining ... -
World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
(PLOS Medicine, 2015-12-03)In this data synthesis, Paul Robert Torgerson and colleagues estimate the global and regional disease burden of 11 foodborne parasitic diseases. -
World-system position and democracy, 1972–2008
(International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2012-10-01)Global levels of democracy are higher than ever before, and democratic principles are now institutionalized as a world cultural norm. Nevertheless, a number of countries continue to feature governing systems that restrict ... -
Wrinkling of Composite-facing Sandwich Panels Under Biaxial Loading
(Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 2004-05-01)The problem of face wrinkling in sandwich structures was identified as an important failure mode and first analyzed in 1940 by Gough et al. [1], who used a Winkler-type elastic foundation to model the core. This work was ... -
The Wyoming Summer Institute for the Study of Conflict Theory and International Security
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X-plore, X-pand, & X-ceed with the new Library Service Platforms
(2013-11-15)Today’s information and knowledge management systems in libraries are undergoing revolutionary change. In this talk Carl looks specifically at the major challenges being faced by libraries today and offers insight into how ... -
XRN2 Links Transcription Termination to DNA Damage and Replication Stress
(PLos Genetics, 2016-07-20)Author Summary Genomic instability is one of the primary causes of disease states, in particular cancer. One major cause of genomic instability is the formation of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs), which are one of the most ... -
A YoeB toxin cleaves both RNA and DNA
(2021-02-11)Type II toxin-antitoxin systems contain a toxin protein, which mediates diverse interactions within the bacterial cell when it is not bound by its cognate antitoxin protein. These toxins provide a rich source of ... -
A young patient with concurrent splanchnic dynamic vascular compression syndromes
(Vascular Medicine, 2015-04-15)A thirty-year-old lady presented with chronic, postprandial abdominal pain associated with decreased appetite and weight loss. She had a past medical history of ulcerative colitis and past surgical history of Nissen ...