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The Discipline of Merit. Mutual Education in England between the 18th and 19th Centuries
Scienza & Politica, 2022 This essay takes into account the pedagogical reform for the poor proposed in England by Andrew Bell, Joseph Lancaster and Patrick Colquhoun between Eighteenth and Nineteenth century.
Jacopo Bonasera
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The newfound relationship between extrachromosomal DNAs and excised signal circles
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) contribute to the progression of many human cancers. In addition, circular DNA by‐products of V(D)J recombination, excised signal circles (ESCs), have roles in cancer progression but have largely been overlooked. In this Review, we explore the roles of ecDNAs and ESCs in cancer development, and highlight why these ...
Dylan Casey, Zeqian Gao, Joan Boyes
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Scientific ReportsPlasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii are two apicomplexan parasites that can lead to severe complications for the newborn when contracted during pregnancy.
Mariama Souffou +10 more
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Predicting social assistance beneficiaries: On the social welfare damage of data biases
Data & PolicyCash transfer programs are the most common anti-poverty tool in low- and middle-income countries, reaching more than one billion people globally. Benefits are typically targeted using prediction models.
Stephan Dietrich +2 more
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For the Love of Dogs: Finding Compassion in a Time of Famine in Pali Buddhist Stories
Religions, 2019 This paper focuses on stories from the 13th century Rasavāhinī in which feeding a starving dog is described as an act of great merit, equal even to the care of a monk or the Buddha.
Phyllis Granoff
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Four Generations For Generations: A Pow Wow Story to Transform Academic Evaluation Criteria
Engaged Scholar Journal, 2021 Within this article, I share a story of four generations of my family and community coming together through pow wow dancing. I present the storying and re-storing of Indigenous scholarly engagement through pow wow regalia making and dance to ...
Kathleen Absolon
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Computation of Bhat's OMIT maps with different coefficients [PDF]
, 1997 The OMIT electron-density-map calculation is very effective in discovering errors in a macromolecular structure determination. A Fortran program called OMIT has been written to calculate such maps and an investigation has been carried out into which ...
Dijkstra, B.W.,, Vellieux, F.M.D.,
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Sequence determinants of RNA G‐quadruplex unfolding by Arg‐rich regions
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We show that Arg‐rich peptides selectively unfold RNA G‐quadruplexes, but not RNA stem‐loops or DNA/RNA duplexes. This length‐dependent activity is inhibited by acidic residues and is conserved among SR and SR‐related proteins (SRSF1, SRSF3, SRSF9, U1‐70K, and U2AF1).
Naiduwadura Ivon Upekala De Silva +10 more
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The Christology of John Duns Scotus
ReligionsThe subtle Christology of John Duns Scotus has been the focus of intense study and dispute since his death in 1308. Of note are the Scottish theologian’s positions on the predestination of the Incarnation, his definition and metaphysical account of ...
Jared Isaac Goff
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Keeping up With the Joneses: Institutional Changes Following the Adoption of a Merit Aid Policy [PDF]
, 2009 The increasing use by private colleges and universities of financial aid based on “merit”, as opposed to based solely on financial need has caused many to raise concerns that this type of aid will go mainly to higher income students crowding out aid to ...
Griffith, Amanda L.
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