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On Intellectual Conversion
Garrett Barden
Jun 30, 2010
This essay focusses on two questions: What is intellectual conversion? Why is naive realism attractive?
Composing a National Picture from Local Scenes
Eilidh Garrett, AM Reid
Nov 01, 2018
This contribution examines the relationship between local population studies and the national picture by considering the example of the Victorian fertility transition in England and Wales. It begins by summarising the history of...
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The Belt and Road Initiative: China's Rise, America's Balance, and Latin America's Struggle
Garrett Bullock
Jan 01, 0001
This research attempts to understand the evolving relationship between China, the United States, and Latin America. Specifically, it explores China's rapid rise as a formidable geopolitical power, the United States' mixed...
Published by: Ursinus College
Becoming a Superpower: China's Rise and the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America
Garrett Bullock
Jan 01, 0001
Is China a Superpower? Will it become one? After half a century of establishing a strong international military presence, thriving economic growth, domestic/international political authority, and considerable cultural "soft...
Published by: Ursinus College
To Carl Schmitt, Letters and Reflections, by Jacob Taubes, translated by Keith Tribe, with an Introduction by Mike Grimshaw, New York: Columbia University Press, 120 pp., Hardcover, $26.00/£22.00, ISBN: 9780231154123, Publication Date
Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
Jun 28, 2021
As a young boy in the 1930s, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) and his family left Austria for Switzerland to escape Nazism. In Switzerland, Taubes received both ordination as a rabbi and a classical education in philosophy (culminating...
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Development of a CRISPR System to Mutate Lpar4 in Chick Retinal Ganglion Cells
Garrett Driscoll
Jan 01, 0001
Growth cones direct axon pathfinding during neural development by detecting environmental stimuli, known as axon guidance molecules. In vitro studies have shown inhibitory axon guidance molecules to cause growth cones to change...
Published by: Winthrop University
On Intellectual Conversion
Garrett Barden
Jun 30, 2010
This essay focusses on two questions: What is intellectual conversion? Why is naive realism attractive?
Intracranial pressure in outer space
MM Tymko, LM Boulet, J Donnelly
Jul 14, 2017
Mr Michael M. Tymko is funded by an NSERC CGS doctoral grant. Mr Lindsey M. Boulet is funded by an NSERC CGS master's grant. Dr Joseph Donnelly is funded by a Woolf Fisher Scholarship.
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"Silence Laps Smooth Over Sound': Sound, Gender, and War, in <em>Jacob's Room</em>"
Betsy Lawson
Jan 01, 0001
In A Room of One's Own, as well as in Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf contends that the devaluing of women and the perpetuating of women's inferiority facilitate all heroic and violent action (A Room of One's Own, 36). In this...
Published by: Winthrop University
Mindful Eating and Perceived Stress in College Students
Emily G. Garrett
Jan 01, 0001
Background: Evidence suggests that in college student populations, stress levels often manifest as maladaptive eating and/or functional gastrointestinal disorders. These conditions can degrade wellbeing and academic performance...
Published by: Winthrop University
Quantum corrections to generic branes
Abstract: We study quantum corrections to hypersurfaces of dimension d + 1 > 2 embedded in generic higher-dimensional spacetimes. Manifest covariance is maintained throughout the analysis and our methods are valid for arbitrary...
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Influenza virus-infected dendritic cells stimulate strong proliferative and cytolytic responses from human CD8+ T cells
Bhardwaj, N., Bender, A., Gonzalez, N., Bui, L.K., Garrett, M.C., and Steinman, R.M. Influenza virus-infected dendritic cells stimulate strong proliferative and cytolytic responses from human CD8+ T cells. J. Clin. Invest. 94...
Shapes of gravity
Abstract If the graviton is the only high spin particle present during inflation, then the form of the observable tensor three-point function is fixed by...
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Characteristics and homogeneity of N6-methylation in human genomes.
A novel DNA modification, N-6 methylated deoxyadenosine (m6dA), has recently been discovered in eukaryotic genomes. Despite its low abundance in eukaryotes, m6dA is implicated in human diseases such as cancer. It is therefore...
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Medical provision and urban-rural differences in maternal mortality in late nineteenth century Scotland.
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett
Jan 24, 2018
This paper examines the effect of variable reporting and coding practices on the measurement of maternal mortality in urban and rural Scotland, 1861-1901, using recorded causes of death and women who died within six weeks of...
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Leakage does not fully offset soy supply-chain efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil.
Zero-deforestation supply chain policies that leverage the market power of commodity buyers to change agricultural producer behavior can reduce forest clearing in regions with rapid commodity expansion and weak forest...
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