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    • Highly contrasted responses of Mediterranean octocorals to climate change along a depth gradient 

      Pivotto, I. D.; Nerini, D.; Masmoudi, M. (2015)
      Climate change has a strong impact on marine ecosystems, including temperate species. Analysing the diversity of thermotolerance levels within species along with their genetic structure enables a better understanding of ...
    • A highly infective plant-associated bacterium influences reproductive rates in pea aphids 

      Hendry, Tory A.; Baltrus, David A.; Clark, Kelley J. (2016)
      Pea aphids, A cyrthosiphon pisum, have the potential to increase reproduction as a defence against pathogens, though how frequently this occurs or how infection with live pathogens influences this response is not well ...
    • HIST 211 - U.S. History to 1865 (1st Edition) 

      Klees, June (Bay College, 2014)
      An Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to accompany Bay College's HIST 211 U.S. History to 1865 course, and to assist any student's understanding of this period in U.S. history
    • Hodgkin–Huxley revisited 

      Daly, Aidan C.; Gavaghan, David J.; Holmes, Chris (2015)
      As cardiac cell models become increasingly complex, a correspondingly complex ‘genealogy’ of inherited parameter values has also emerged. The result has been the loss of a direct link between model parameters and experimental ...
    • How far will a behaviourally flexible invasive bird go to innovate? 

      J. Logan, Corina (2016)
      Behavioural flexibility is considered a key factor in the ability to adapt to changing environments. A traditional way of characterizing behavioural flexibility is to determine whether individuals invent solutions to novel ...
    • How to learn like A Pro! 

      Nissila, Phyllis (Open Oregon Educational Resources, 2016)
      This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of ...
    • How to Use Microsoft® Excel® The Careers in Practice Series 

      Manzo, Joseph (The Saylor Foundation, 2012)
      How to Use Microsoft® Excel® The Careers in Practice Series is an textbook appropriate for a course covering Microsoft Excel at a beginner to intermediate level. It is geared toward and will be accommodating for students ...
    • How visual perceptual grouping influences foot placement 

      Fennell, John; Goodwin, Charlotte; Burn, Jeremy F. (The Royal Society, 2015)
      Everybody would agree that vision guides locomotion but how does vision influence choice when there are different solutions for possible foot placement? We addressed this question by investigating the impact of perceptual ...
    • How We Got from There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis 

      Rogers, Robert; Boman, Eugene (Open SUNY Textbooks, 2014)
      Chapter 1: Numbers, Real (R) and Rational (Q). Chapter 2: Calculus in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Chapter 3: Questions Concerning Power Series. Chapter 4: Convergence of Sequences and Series. Chapter 5: Convergence of the ...
    • Human Relations 

      Dias, Laura (The Saylor Foundation, 2012)
      Human Relations by Laura Portolese-Dias addresses all of the critical topics to obtain career success as they relate to professional relationships. Knowing how to get along with others, resolve workplace conflict, manage ...
    • Hybridization generates a hopeful monster 

      Svensson, Ola; Smith, Alan; García-Alonso, Javier (2016)
      Compared with other phylogenetic groups, self-fertilization (selfing) is exceedingly rare in vertebrates and is known to occur only in one small clade of fishes. Here we report observing one F1-hybrid individual that ...
    • The ice breaker effect 

      Pearce, Eiluned; Launay, Jacques; Dunbar, Robin I. M. (The Royal Society, 2015)
      It has been proposed that singing evolved to facilitate social cohesion. However, it remains unclear whether bonding arises out of properties intrinsic to singing or whether any social engagement can have a similar effect. ...
    • Identifying diabetes-related important protein targets with few interacting partners with the PageRank algorithm 

      Grolmusz, Vince I. (2015)
      Diabetes is a growing concern for the developed nations worldwide. New genomic, metagenomic and gene-technologic approaches may yield considerable results in the next several years in its early diagnosis, or in advances ...
    • Impact behaviour of freeze-dried and fresh pomelo peel 

      Thielen, Marc; Speck, Thomas; Seidel, Robin (2015)
      Pomelos (Citrus maxima) are known for their thick peel which—inter alia—serves as energy dissipator when fruits impact on the ground after being shed. It protects the fruit from splitting open and thus enables the contained ...
    • Improved community detection inweighted bipartite networks 

      Beckett, Stephen J. (2016)
      Real world complex networks are composed of non random quantitative interactions. Identifying communities of nodes that tend to interact more with each other than the network as a whole is a key research focus across ...
    • In the mood the dynamics of collective sentiments on Twitter 

      Charlton, Nathaniel (2016)
      We study the relationship between the sentiment levels of Twitter users and the evolving network structure that the users created by @-mentioning each other. We use a large dataset of tweets to which we apply three sentiment ...
    • Industrial emissions Directive EPR Guidance on Part A installations 

      Unknown author (2013)
      Chapter II of the industrial emissions Directive applies an integrated environmental approach to the regulation of certain industrial activities. This means that emissions to air, water (including discharges to sewer) and ...
    • The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook 

      Bernnard, Deborah; Bobish, Greg; Bullis, Daryl (Open SUNY Textbooks, 2014)
      Chapter 1 Identify: Understanding Your Information Need. Chapter 2 Scope: Knowing What Is Available. Chapter 3 Plan: Developing Research Strategies. Chapter 4 Gather: Finding What You Need. Chapter 5 Evaluate: Assessing ...
    • Information Strategies for Communicators 

      Hansen, Kathleen A.; Paul, Nora (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2015)
      Lesson 1. Personal / Professional Skills of Successful Communicators. 1.1 EQ vs IQ. 1.2 Attributes Employers Desire. 1.3 Team Membership Skills. 1.4 Values for Success. 1.5 Resources. Lesson 2. Information Strategy Process ...
    • Information Systems for Business and Beyond 

      Bourgeois, David; Bourgeois, David (The Saylor Foundation, 2014)
      Chapter 1: What Is an Information System? Chapter 2: Hardware. Chapter 3: Software. Chapter 4: Data and Databases. Chapter 5: Networking and Communication. Chapter 6: Information Systems Security. Chapter 7: Does IT Matter? ...