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Facilitating Constructive Discussions of Difficult Socio-Scientific Issues

open access: yesJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2021
Discussion can be an important and powerful tool in efforts to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future for STEM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
Gregory R. Goldsmith   +9 more
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Neutral theory and beyond: A systematic review of molecular evolution education

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2023
Molecular evolution—including the neutral theory of molecular evolution—is a major sub‐discipline of evolution and is widely taught in undergraduate evolution courses.
Desiree Forsythe, Jeremy L. Hsu
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Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available moisture [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscientific Model Development, 2017
Bioclimatic indices for use in studies of ecosystem function, species distribution, and vegetation dynamics under changing climate scenarios depend on estimates of surface fluxes and other quantities, such as radiation, evapotranspiration and soil ...
T. W. Davis   +9 more
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Biophsyical constraints on gross primary production by the terrestrial biosphere [PDF]

open access: yesBiogeosciences, 2014
Persistent divergences among the predictions of complex carbon-cycle models include differences in the sign as well as the magnitude of the response of global terrestrial primary production to climate change. Such problems with current models indicate an
H. Wang, I. C. Prentice, T. W. Davis
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The Phenotype Paradox: Lessons From Natural Transcriptome Evolution on How to Engineer Plants

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Plants have evolved genome complexity through iterative rounds of single gene and whole genome duplication. This has led to substantial expansion in transcription factor numbers following preferential retention and subsequent functional divergence of ...
Justin Law   +3 more
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Grand Challenges, Feminist Answers

open access: yesOrganization Theory, 2021
Feminist organization theories develop knowledge about how organizations and processes of organizing shape and are shaped by gender, in intersection with race, class and other forms of social inequality.
Yvonne Benschop
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Using functional connectivity to predict potential meta-population sizes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

open access: yesPerspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2018
Habitat loss and fragmentation reduce population sizes and increase isolation between populations. To better understand how functional connectivity is affected by habitat modification over large scales, we here applied a meta-population framework to the ...
Jack H. Hatfield   +2 more
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The uses of grand challenges in research policy and university management: something for everyone

open access: yesJournal of Responsible Innovation, 2022
The notion of grand challenges has become popular in research governance to support the allocation of research funding to societally beneficial topics. This article illustrates the flexibility and usefulness of grand challenges for university rectorates ...
Anita Välikangas
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Measuring for change/Mobile Creches

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
IntroductionResearch spanning decades across fields such as psychology, education, and neuroscience consistently highlights the crucial role of social–emotional skills in various aspects of personal, academic, and professional development (1–3). The fact
Chavi Vohra   +10 more
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Tidying Up the Concept of Grand Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis

open access: yesM@n@gement
Management scholars increasingly seek to make a contribution to addressing the big issues faced by society (climate change, poverty, migratory crises, etc.), often using the term grand challenges to refer to these.
Corentin Gariel, Anne Bartel-Radic
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