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In response to national calls for improved physical sciences education for students pursuing careers in the life sciences and medicine, reformed introductory physics for life sciences (IPLS) courses are being developed.
C. H. Crouch+4 more
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While quantitative performance indicators are widely used by organizations and individuals for evaluative purposes, little is known about their impacts on the epistemic processes of academic knowledge production.
Ruth Müller, S. Rijcke
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Degree awarding gaps highlight the inequitable outcomes of higher education (HE) for racially minoritized students in the UK. This ongoing issue has been described as a “wicked problem”, directly related to structural racism, or policies and practices ...
Amy Maclatchy+4 more
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Seasonal Goods and Spoiled Milk: Pricing for a Limited Shelf-Life [PDF]
We examine the case of items with a limited shelf-life where storing an item (before consumption) may carry a cost to a buyer (or distributor). For example, eggs, milk, or Groupon coupons have a fixed expiry date, and seasonal goods can suffer a decrease in value.
arxiv
Des bio-objets pour la bioéthique. Compte rendu de Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century
The collective work Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century, edited by Niki Vermeulen, Saka Tamminen and Andrew Webster analyzes new forms of life arising from the biosciences in terms of their bio-objectification.
Couture, Vincent
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Raman spectroscopy: techniques and applications in the life sciences
Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly popular technique in many areas, including biology and medicine. It is based on Raman scattering, a phenomenon in which incident photons lose or gain energy via interactions with vibrating molecules in a sample ...
Dustin W. Shipp, F. Sinjab, I. Notingher
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Bioinformatics core competencies for undergraduate life sciences education
Bioinformatics is becoming increasingly central to research in the life sciences. However, despite its importance, bioinformatics skills and knowledge are not well integrated in undergraduate biology education.
Melissa A. Wilson Sayres+32 more
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The Origin of Life in the Universe [PDF]
Terrestrial and extraterrestrial theories of the origin of life are discussed in the light of latest observations. The available data suggest a dual mode of origin, some of the ingredients, including possibly sugars, were brought to earth from outer space, which combined with other ingredients, such as proteins, already available on the earth leading ...
arxiv
Reproducibility standards for machine learning in the life sciences
Benjamin J. Heil+5 more
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The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences
The iPlant Collaborative provides life science research communities access to comprehensive, scalable, and cohesive computational infrastructure for data management; identity management; collaboration tools; and cloud, high-performance, high-throughput ...
Nirav C. Merchant+6 more
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