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2013-01-01

Vanderjagt, Leah, Sivak, Allison

The institutional repository (IR) is more than an end product that holds content. It is a complex system with a variety of participants and a development course that can most accurately be described as “perpetual beta.” As a software system with both commercial and open-source iterations, an...

2011

Brigandt, Ingo

Introduction: Philosophical questions about biology have been addressed by philosophers and scientists for centuries. Yet as a genuine discipline within philosophy, philosophy of biology started to emerge in the 1970s (Byron, 2007). One motivation for this was the fact that much of traditional...

2022-09-26

Laishram, Devika

Well-defined nano- and atomic-sized heterogeneous catalysts with extremely high catalytic activities and unique selectivities show promise in addressing the critical energy- and environment-related challenges of this century. The exceptional properties of these catalysts, such as their electronic...

2016

Nelson, Erin

Introduction: To understand the story of surrogacy regulation in Canada, one must go back a quarter of a century to the appointment of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies (Royal Commission). In keeping with international practice, Canada’s strategy was to undertake a thorough...

2015

Raffa, Kenneth F., Aukema, Brian H., Bentz, Barbara J., Carroll, Allan L., Hicke, Jeffrey A., Kolb, Thomas E.

Bark beetles cause widespread tree mortal- ity, so understanding how climate change will infl uence the distribution and magni- tude of outbreaks by this group of herbi- vores is important. We fi rst develop a framework of outbreak dynamics that emphasizes transitions from states domi- nated by...

2022-04-05

Konnikov, Alla, Rets, Irina, Hughes, Karen D., Al-Ani, Jabir Alshehabi, Denier, Nicole, Ding, Lei, Hu, Shenggang, Hu, Yang, Jiang, Bei, Kong, Linglong, Tarafdar, Monideepa, Yu, Dengdeng

The BIAS case study describes the aims and objectives of the ‘BIAS: Responsible AI for labour market equality’ project, the research process, and the lessons learned at the mid-way point of the project. It draws on two main sources of information: interviews conducted internally with six founding...

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Rios-Rincon, A. M., Adams, K. D., Alvarez, L.

2011-01-01

Krack, Malte, Secanell, Marc, Mertiny, Pierre, Carbone, R.

Devices employing the concept of kinetic energy storage date back to ancient times. Pottery wheels and spinning wheels are early examples of systems employing kinetic energy storage in a rotating mass. With the advent of modern machinery, flywheels became commonplace as steam engines and internal...

2021-12-04

Pawan Kumar

Conversion of biomass to fuel and drop-in chemicals is envisaged to solve the problem of depleting fossil fuel reserves while leveling-off the staggering CO2 concentration. By-passing the natural carbon cycle via the transformation of abundant lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals does not add...

1994

Pelletier, Francis J.

Introduction: Emmon Bach's paper (this volume) raises a number of interesting issues, especially the questions \"What is quantification, anyway?\" and \"What is the range of different ways in which quantification can be manifested?\" Of course such questions bring up philosophical issues of how...