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Submissions from 2019

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Researching digital life together, David I. Smith

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Researching digital life together, David I. Smith

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Identification and evaluation of a core microsatellite panel for use in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), William L. Miller, Jessie Edson, Peter Pietrandrea, and Cassandra Miller-Butterworth

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Fascist affect in 300, Carl Plantinga

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The damned neighbors problem Rousseau’s civil religion revisited, Micah Watson

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Automated peak detection method for behavioral event identification Detecting Balaenoptera musculus and Grampus griseus feeding attempts, David A. Sweeney, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Ye Joo McNamara-Oh, and Tiago A. Marques

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Revisiting Volumes of Lipid Components in Bilayers, John F. Nagle, Richard M. Venable, Ezekiel Maroclo-Kemmerling, and Stephanie Tristram-Nagle

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Northern bottlenose whales in a pristine environment respond strongly to close and distant navy sonar signals, Paul J. Wensveen, Saana Isojunno, Rune R. Hansen, Alexander M. von Benda-Beckmann, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Diving behavior and fine-scale kinematics of free-ranging Risso's dolphins foraging in shallow and deep-water habitats, Patricia Arranz and Kelly J. Benoit-Bird

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Visualizing classic synchronization, Joel C. Adams, Elizabeth R. Koning, and Christiaan D. Hazlett

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Exploring nutraceuticals to enhance scientific literacy Aligning with vision and change, Nathaniel Buteyn, Ye In Oh, Jonathan Knott, and Paige Bokach

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A response to critics, James K.A. Smith

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Forging Relationships between Faith-based and Secular Organizations to Address the Global Water Crisis A case study from Liberia, Kristin R. Alford and Jamison L. Koeman

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A constructive approach to higher homotopy operations, David Blanc, Mark W. Johnson, and James M. Turner

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Sport. Faith. Life. (podcast), Brian R. Bolt and Chad Carlson

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A family of Cantorvals, John Ferdinands and Timothy Ferdinands

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Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016, E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin, and J. L. Ortiz

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Refugia: a podcast about renewal, Debra Rienstra

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Faith in Teaching podcast, David I. Smith

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Behavioral responses of individual blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) to mid-frequency military sonar, Brandon L. Southall, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Ari Friedlaender, and Alison K. Stimpert

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Variations in sensitivity to chlorine in Ecuador and US consumers Implications for community water systems, Jacob Stout, Donald J. Tellinghuisen, David B. Wunder, and Chad D. Tatko

Submissions from 2018

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‘Upright, whole, and free’ Eschatological union with god, Kevin Timpe

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Vitamin e Promotes the Inverse Hexagonal Phase via a Novel Mechanism Implications for Antioxidant Role, Paul Harper

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Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome, Yi Hu, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, Catherine L. D'Amelio, and Mark P. Schotanus

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Author Correction: Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome (Nature Communications (2018), Yi Hu, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, Catherine L. D'Amelio, Mark P. Schotanus, and John T. Wertz

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Israel Redux: The Image of Christ in the Gospel According to John, Geert Heetebrij

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Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung - Deadly Sins and Their Remedies, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

You're so Vain: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung on Vainglory and Glittering Vices, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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Lymphatic endothelial cells promote productive and latent HIV infection in resting CD4+ T cells 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1107 Immunology, Meghan Schilthuis, Seth Verkaik, Mackenzie Walhof, and Andrew Philipose

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A physical supply-use table framework for energy analysis on the energy conversion chain (2), Matthew K. Heun, Anne Owen, and Paul E. Brockway

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The correlation between energy cost share, human, and economic development Using time series data from Australasia, Europe, North America, and the BRICS nations, Ryan Roberts, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Alan Colin Brent, and Matthew K. Heun

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Quercetin inhibits glucose transport by binding to an exofacial site on GLUT1, Kathryn E. Hamilton, Janelle F. Rekman, Leesha K. Gunnink, and Brianna M. Busscher

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Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors Efficiency or offshoring, Lukas Hardt, Anne Owen, Paul E. Brockway, and Matthew K. Heun

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Universities shaken by earthquakes A comparison of faculty and student experiences in Nepal and New Zealand, Rajendra Joshi, Jooyoung Kong, Heidi Nykamp, and Herb Fynewever

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Effects of age and gender during three lingual tasks on peak lingual pressures in healthy adults, Elizabeth Oommen and Youngsun Kim

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Impairment of retinal function in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) by Diplostomum baeri metacercariae, John L. Ubels, Randall J. DeJong, Brittany Hoolsema, and Amy Wurzberger

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Genomic and physiological characterization of the Verrucomicrobia isolate Geminisphaera colitermitum gen, John T. Wertz, Eunji Kim, John A. Breznak, and Thomas M. Schmidt

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Group B streptococcus exploits vaginal epithelial exfoliation for ascending infection, Jay Vornhagen, Blair Armistead, Verónica Santana-Ufret, Claire Gendrin, and Erica Boldenow

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Multiple-photon excitation of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, Peng Ji, Ryan Balili, Jonathan Beaumariage, and Silpa Mukherjee

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Consensus and clustering in opinion formation on networks, Julia Bujalski, Grace Dwyer, Todd Kapitula, and Quang Nhat Le

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The Influence of Cognitive Reserve on Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury, Jacobus Donders and Jacob Stout

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Group B streptococcus activates transcriptomic pathways related to premature birth in human extraplacental membranes in vitro, Hae Ryung Park, Sean M. Harris, Erica Boldenow, and Richard C. Mceachin

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Schools, ideals, gardens, David I. Smith

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The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Roi Alonso, Alex Ammerman, and David Armstrong

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Sport. Faith. Life. (blog), Brian R. Bolt and Chad Carlson

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An overview of salient factors, relationships and values to support integrated energy-economic system dynamics modelling, Martin de Wit, Matthew K. Heun, and Douglas Crookes

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LRRK2 deficiency impairs trans-Golgi to lysosome trafficking and endocytic cargo degradation in human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells, Nathan J. Lanning, Calvin Vanopstall, Megan L. Goodall, and Jeffrey P. Mackeigan

Submissions from 2017

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Individual, ecological, and anthropogenic influences on activity budgets of long-finned pilot whales, Saana Isojunno, D. Sadykova, Stacy L. DeRuiter, and C. Cure

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Poster abstract: COD - A dataset of commercial building occupancy traces, Kin Sum Liu, Jonathan Francis, Elvin Vindel Pinto, and Charles Shelton

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Teaching across Cultures: Student-Led Modules in a Human Rights Course, Rebecca McBride

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Diving behaviour of cuvier’s beaked whales exposed to two types of military sonar, Erin A. Falcone, Gregory S. Schorr, Stephanie L. Watwood, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Avoidance responses of minke whales to 1–4 kHz naval sonar, Petter H. Kvadsheim, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Lise D. Sivle, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen

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Fidelity scorecard: evaluation of a caregiver-delivered symptom management intervention, Dawn Frambes, Rebecca Lehto, Alla Sikorskii, and Irena Tesnjak

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Self-forgiveness and forgiveness-seeking in response to rumination: Cardiac and emotional responses of transgressors, Sérgio P. da Silva, Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, and Blake M. Riek

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Patternlets — A teaching tool for introducing students to parallel design patterns, Joel C. Adams

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Comparison of the Effects of a Pharmaceutical Industry Decision Guide and Decision AIDS on Patient Choice to Intensify Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Richard W, Martin; Ryan D. Enck; Donald J. Tellinghuisen; and Aaron T. Eggebeen

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Non-thiolate ligation of nickel by nucleotide-free UreG of Klebsiella aerogenes, Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Crisjoe A. Joseph, Jodi L. Boer, and Scott B. Mulrooney

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The mosaic package: Helping students to 'think with data' using R, Randall J. Pruim, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton

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Prediction of a Red Nova Outburst in KIC 9832227, Lawrence A. Molnar, Daniel M. Van Noord, Karen Kinemuchi, and Jason P. Smolinski

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An examination of static pressure and duration effects on tornado-induced peak pressures on a low-rise building, Frederick L. Haan

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A multivariate mixed hidden markov model for blue whale behaviour and responses to sound exposure, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Roland Langrock, Tomas Skirbutas, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen

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Christian mind ≠ Christian pedagogy, David I. Smith

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Saccharedens versatilis gen. Nov., sp. nov., a sugar-degrading member of the burkholderiales isolated from Cephalotes rohweri ant guts, Jonathan Y. Lin, William J. Hobson, and John T. Wertz

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Soluble Factors Secreted by Endothelial Cells Allow for Productive and Latent HIV-1 Infection in Resting CD4+ T Cells, John Henry Morris, Tran Nguyen, Abuoma Nwadike, and MacKenzie L. Geels

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Children and Parents Deserve Better Parental Discipline Research: Critiquing the Evidence for Exclusively “Positive” Parenting, Robert E. Larzelere, Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe, Mark W. Roberts, and Christopher J. Ferguson

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TNF-R1 and FADD mediate UVB-Induced activation of K+ channels in corneal epithelial cells, Peter M. Boersma, Loren D. Haarsma, Mark P. Schotanus, and John L. Ubels

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Energy-extended CES aggregate production: Current aspects of their specification and econometric estimation, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew K. Heun, João Santos, and John R. Barrett

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Energy rebound as a potential threat to a low-carbon future: Findings from a new exergy-based national-level rebound approach, Paul E. Brockway, Harry Saunders, Matthew K. Heun, and Timothy J. Foxon

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Implementing restorative justice under the retributive paradigm: A pilot program case study, Patrick Gerkin, John Walsh, Joseph Kuilema, and Ian Borton

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Outsourcing or efficiency? Investigating the decline in final energy consumption in the UK productive sectors, Lukas Hardt, John Barrett, Paul E. Brockway, Timothy J. Foxon, and Matthew K. Heun

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From theory to econometrics to energy policy: Cautionary tales for policymaking using aggregate production functions, Matthew K. Heun, João Santos, Paul E. Brockway, and Randall J. Pruim

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The outcome of ELISA for antiphosphatidylethanolamine antibodies is dependent on the composition of phosphatidylethanolamine, Songwang Hou, Paul E. Harper, Nathalie Bardin, and Ming Zhao

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Why timars? Why now? Ottoman timars in the light of recent historiography, Douglas A. Howard

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Eigenvector centrality: Illustrations supporting the utility of extracting more than one eigenvector to obtain additional insights into networks and interdependent structures, Dawn Iacobucci, Rebecca McBride, and Deidre L. Popovich

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Complete genome sequences of 38 Gordonia sp. bacteriophages, Welkin H. Pope, Matthew T. Montgomery, and Randall J. DeJong

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An analysis of pilot whale vocalization activity using hidden Markov models, Valentin Popov, Roland Langrock, Stacy L. DeRuiter, and Fleur Visser

Submissions from 2016

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Executive functioning and lateralized semantic priming in older adults, Emily J. Helder, Virginia Zuverza-Chavarria, and Douglas Whitman

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The role of the unusual threonine string in the conversion of prion protein, Romany Abskharon, Fei Wang, Kayla J. Vander Stel, and Kumar Sinniah

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Fluorine atom influence on intramolecular hydrogen bonding, isomerization and methyl group rotation in fluorinated acetylacetones, Brett De Vries and Mark Muyskens

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Fetal brain lesions after subcutaneous inoculation of Zika virus in a pregnant nonhuman primate, Kristina M. Adams Waldorf, Jennifer E. Stencel-Baerenwald, Raj P. Kapur, Colin Studholme, and Erica Boldenow

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Now hear this: Inattentional deafness depends on task relatedness, Donald J. Tellinghuisen, Alexander J. Cohen, and Natalie J. Cooper

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Stories Begetting Stories: On Peter Orner, David V. Urban

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Discrimination of fast click-series produced by tagged Risso's dolphins (Grampus griseus) for echolocation or communication, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Alison K. Stimpert, and S. Neves

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Influence of Phosphatidylethanolamine Concentration and Composition on the Detection of Antiphosphatidylethanolamine Antibodies by ELISA, Ke Ke, Zachariah I. Strango, Paul E. Harper, and Ming Zhao

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An unclear self leads to poor mental health: Self-concept confusion mediates the association of loneliness with depression, Stephanie B. Richman, Richard S. Pond, Nathan Dewall, Madoka Kumashiro, and Laura B. Luchies

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Hearing is believing: Birds learn fear, Christopher B. Sturdy and Darren S. Proppe

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Ventosimonas gracilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Gammaproteobacteria isolated from Cephalotes varians ant guts representing a new family, Ventosimonadaceae fam. nov., within the order ‘Pseudomonadales’, Jonathan Y. Lin, William J. Hobson, and John T. Wertz

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Cephaloticoccus gen. Nov., a new genus of ‘Verrucomicrobia’ containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts, Jonathan Y. Lin, Jacob A. Russell, Jon G. Sanders, and John T. Wertz

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PhamDB: A web-based application for building Phamerator databases, James G. Lamine, Randall J. DeJong, and Serita M. Nelesen

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Determination of GLUT1 Oligomerization Parameters using Bioluminescent Förster Resonance Energy Transfer, Brendan D. Looyenga, Calvin VanOpstall, Zion Lee, and Jed Bell

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Roles of a teacher and researcher during in situ professional development around the implementation of mathematical modeling tasks, Hyunyi Jung and Corey Brady

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Involvement of the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways in ultraviolet B-induced apoptosis of corneal epithelial cells, John L. Ubels, Courtney D. Glupker, Mark P. Schotanus, and Loren D. Haarsma

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A chiroptical molecular sensor for ferrocene, Marco Agnes, Andrea Nitti, Douglas A. Vander Griend, and Daniele Dondi

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Controlling cyber arms, and creating new LEGOs, John Arquilla and Joel C. Adams

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Computational and experimental evaluation of α-(N-2-quinolonyl)ketones: a new class of nonbiaryl atropisomers, Andrea N. Bootsma and Carolyn E. Anderson

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Antioch Podcast, Michelle Loyd-Paige, Jane Bruin, Reggie Smith, Libby Huizenga, Susie Dixon, and Eric Nykamp

Submissions from 2015

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Conducting Research With Community Groups, Mary Molewyk Doornbos, Adejoke Ayoola, Robert Topp, and Gail Landheer Zandee

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Local characterization of a class of ruled hypersurfaces in C2, Michael Bolt

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Characterization of Folic Acid and Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer Interactions with Folate Binding Protein: A Force-Pulling Study, Pascale R. Leroueil, Stassi Dimaggio, Abigail N. Leistra, and Craig D. Blanchette

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Sound production and associated behavior of tagged fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Southern California Bight, Alison K. Stimpert, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Erin A. Falcone, and John Joseph