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Comparative Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene and Metagenome Sequencing in Pediatric Gut Microbiomes
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The colonization of the human gut microbiome begins at birth, and over time, these microbial communities become increasingly complex. Most of what we currently know about the human microbiome, especially in early stages of development, was described ...
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Looking Back at Quantitative Reasoning
Numeracy, 2021 A teacher looks back on three decades of teaching, pondering, and writing about quantitative reasoning (QR) and shares a few lessons learned. The skills that we teach in QR courses are more important than ever in providing students with a sense of civic ...
William Briggs
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Surveying the Landscape of Numbers in U.S. News
Numeracy, 2021 The news arguably serves to inform the quantitative reasoning (QR) of news audiences. Before one can contemplate how well the news serves this function, we first need to determine how much QR typical news stories require from readers. This paper assesses
John Voiklis +7 more
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Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits
Numeracy, 2023 Because people are constantly confronted with numbers and mathematical concepts in the news, we have embarked on a project to create journalism that can support news users’ number skills.
Bennett Attaway +8 more
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Frontline Learning Research, 2023 Quantitative reasoning is considered a crucial prerequisite for acquiring domain-specific expertise in higher education. To ascertain whether students are developing quantitative reasoning, validly assessing its development over the course of their ...
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Applying Quantitative Reasoning to Clarify Arc Measurements
Georgia Educational Researcher, 2020 The importance of reasoning quantitatively is reflected in both mathematics education research and mathematical standards for K-12 students. In this article, we detail how a quantitative reasoning framework can be used to help differentiate two ...
David Glassmeyer, Daniel Barton
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Numeracy, 2023 In Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (2020), Vaclav Smil draws on his interdisciplinary background in science, public policy, and history to provide readers with 71 short essays that help us better understand aspects of
Samuel Tunstall
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Confidence: Its role in dependability cases for risk assessment [PDF]
, 2007 Society is increasingly requiring quantitative assessment of risk and associated dependability cases. Informally, a dependability case comprises some reasoning, based on assumptions and evidence, that supports a dependability claim at a particular level ...
Bloomfield, R. E. +2 more
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An Astronomer’s Journey into Quantitative Reasoning
Numeracy, 2021 The University of Colorado Boulder campus introduced what may have been the world’s first quantitative reasoning (QR) requirement in 1984 and started offering a QR course in 1988.
Jeffrey Bennett
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Uniform and Partially Uniform Redistribution Rules [PDF]
, 2011 This short paper introduces two new fusion rules for combining quantitative basic belief assignments. These rules although very simple have not been proposed in literature so far and could serve as useful alternatives because of their low computation ...
Dezert, Jean, Smarandache, Florentin
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