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Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation – Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (edsT
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Introduction: Reduction remains a live philosophical topic, encompassing metaphysical issues about the natural world, as well as epistemological and methodological questions about science. Germane to various philosophical notions, such as ontological determination, causation, explanation,...
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Development of Ir- and Rh-Catalyzed Deoxygenation and Carbene Cross Coupling Reactions of Allylic Carbonates
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Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions are widely used for the selective formation of new bonds. This class of reaction has been extensively studied with a variety of nucleophiles and under optimized conditions that will furnish product in high yield and with high chemo-,...
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Development of Rhodium Catalyzed Formic Acid Mediated Z-Selective Alkene Synthesis from Electron Deficient Dienes
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Z-Alkenes are important functional moieties in biological molecules and serve as versatile units for chemical transformations in synthetic chemistry. Synthetic strategies to readily generate these less thermodynamically stable alkenes with high regio-, chemo- and stereocontrol remain challenging,...
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Spring 2024
Hydrogen as a fuel has the potential to reduce tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles to near-zero, while also allowing for the generation of a hydrogen-based economy and lowering humanity's dependence upon oil. Hydrogen-diesel dual fuel combustion, where hydrogen and diesel are combusted...
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Fall 2017
Biochar has received significant attention as an innovative sorbent for treating heavy metal contamination due to its high surface reactivity and sorption capacity, ease of manufacture and low production cost. Most studies involving chromium removal from solution by biochar have focused on...
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2014-10-01
Sims, Michelle, Brenner, Daniel, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Research on laboratory speech has uncovered many aspects of speech perception and comprehension, however we still know very little about the recognition of the more common spontaneous types of speech. This presentation reports an experiment designed to investigate the relationship between...
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Tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta) infection in flour beetles (Tribolium confusum): does it cause a trade-off between host fecundity and egg size?
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Inter- and intra-specific comparisons commonly reveal an inverse relationship between fecundity and offspring size. Many animals also vary egg size in response to environmental conditions. Infection of flour beetles Tribolium confusum Jaquelin Du Val, 1868 with the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis...
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Spring 2024
This work aims to address the lack of clear theoretical foundations in computational lexical semantics, the sub-field of natural language processing pertaining to computing with the meaning of words. Semantic tasks are of interest for end-user applications (e.g. contextual translation),...
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2021-09-09
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: This project asks how does our ability to produce and understand conversational reduced speech change as speakers age at the phonetic, lexical, and phrasal levels? To address this research question this project proposes the creation of a cross-sectional (different age...