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THE LUCK IN “TALENT VERSUS LUCK” MODELING
This paper further investigates the Talent versus Luck (TvL) model described by [Pluchino et al. Talent versus luck: The role of randomness in success and failure, Adv. Complex Syst. 21 (2018) 1850014] which models the relationship between ‘talent’ and ‘luck’ on the impact of an individuals career.
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On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.
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To objectively classify and evaluate the strong aroma base liquors (SABLs) of different grades, solid-phase microextraction-mass spectrometry (SPME-MS) combined with chemometrics were used.
Zongbao Sun +7 more
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This article explores the Rawlsian goal of ensuring that distributionsare not influenced by the morally arbitrary. It does so by bringing discussionsof distributive justice into contact with the debate overmoral luck initiated by Williams and Nagel. Rawls’ own justice asfairness appears to be incompatible with the arbitrariness commitment,as it ...
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Sex has many costs with respect to asexual reproduction, so its ubiquity is a puzzle. There has been a continuing effort to identify general circumstances in which aspects of sex generate an evolutionary advantage over asexual reproduction. Here we focus on the generality that individuals can experience good and bad "luck" at various stages of their ...
Alistair, Blachford, Michael, Doebeli
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Fake Barns and Our Epistemological Theorizing
Pure virtue epistemology faces the fake barn challenge. This paper explains how it can be met. Thus, it is argued that the thought experiment contains a hidden ambiguity concerning the visual ability typically ascribed to, or denied, fake barn subjects ...
Ángel García Rodríguez
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The institutional determinants of CEO compensation: An international empirical evidence [PDF]
Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous organizational and environmental contingencies that are outside CEOs’ control ...
Fakhfakh, H., Singhal, P.
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Before I embarked on my Ph.D. journey in cancer genomics, I had never thought of a career as a scientist. I had dreamed of becoming a physician for as long as I could remember. But the Fulbright scholarship I won to pursue Ph.D.
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Whilst there has been an explosion of interest in multi-agent systems, there are still many problems that may have a potentially deleterious impact on the progress of the area. These prob- lems have arisen primarily through the lack of a common structure
Luck, Michael +4 more
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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