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Experimental evolution: experimental evolution and evolvability [PDF]
The suggestion that there are characteristics of living organisms that have evolved because they increase the rate of evolution is controversial and difficult to study. In this review, we examine the role that experimental evolution might play in resolving this issue.
N, Colegrave, S, Collins
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This chapter reviews experimental evolution. Many of the evolutionary processes extend over long periods of time—long, that is, on human timescales of a few decades. With the resource of a laboratory, we can follow the evolution of large populations over thousands of generations in a few months.
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Pandemic experimentalism: decentering studio art education in an ongoing global emergency
After eighteen months of online art education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors consider Form and Time, a required first-year studio art course at OCAD University in Toronto, as a case study within global practices of reconfiguration and ...
Judith Doyle +2 more
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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in CSCL
(Quasi-)experimental designs play an important role in CSCL research. By actively manipulating one or several independent variables while keeping other influencing factors constant and through the use of randomization, they allow to determine the causal effects of such independent variables on one or more dependent variable(s) that may be of interest ...
Janssen, Jeroen, Kollar, Ingo
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L'esperienza estetica: un varco oltre i limiti del significato
Tracciare l’essenza di un’opera d’arte è impresa ardua e vana, se l’indagine si limita alle proprietà che questa dovrebbe esemplificare. Tuttavia appare interessante riflettere sull’esperienza estetica della letteratura prendendo le distanze dall ...
Alessandra Tosi
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Experimenter Demand Effects and Altruism Towards the Experimenter [PDF]
As a stress test of experimenter demand effects, we run an experiment where subjects can physically destroy coupons awarded to them. About one subject out of three does. Giving money back to the experimenter is possible in a separate task but is more consistent with an experimenter demand effect than an explanation based on altruism towards the ...
Fleming, Piers, Zizzo, Daniel John
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Governing the Commons like a Pragmatist: The Case of John Dewey
As a result of the process of neoliberal policies, commons have been in a state of enclosure and exploitation. That kept the debate on governing the commons is very much alive.
Nemanja Anđelković
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From the results of the various experiments already detailed I feel justified in drawing the following conclusions: (1) Absolutely fresh thyroid gland is not poisonous, in the usual sense of the term, when absorbed through the alimentary canal.
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Strategic Experimentation: a Revision [PDF]
This paper extends the classic two-armed bandit problem to a many-agent setting in which I players each face the same experi- mentation problem.The main change from the single-agent prob- lem is that an agent can now learn from the current experimentation of other agents.Information is therefore a public good, and a free- rider problem in ...
Bolton, P., Harris, C.
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Exploratory experimentation and taxonomy of experimentation
Transformation of the philosophy of science during the last three decades is largely based on the philosophers? insights in the experimental side of science. Central issues in this new field, such as classification of basic elements and types of experimentation, are still developing.
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