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Albion College
Education•Albion, Michigan, United States•
About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.
Topics: Population, Higher education, Recall, Materialism, Politics
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TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 440 adult Americans completed a widely-used materialism scale, the Levenson locus of control scales, and measure of positive and negative affect to test the hypothesis that the link between materialism and well-being is due in part to an individual's feelings of personal control.
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Wilson Leung1, Christopher D. Shaffer1, Laura K. Reed2, Sheryl T. Smith3 +1010 more•Institutions (63)
TL;DR: Comparing the Effective Number of Codons with the Codon Adaptation Index shows that, in contrast to the other species, codon bias in D. grimshawi F element genes can be attributed primarily to selection instead of mutational biases, suggesting that density and types of transposons affect the degree of local heterochromatin formation.
Abstract: The Muller F element (4.2 Mb, ~80 protein-coding genes) is an unusual autosome of Drosophila melanogaster; it is mostly heterochromatic with a low recombination rate. To investigate how these properties impact the evolution of repeats and genes, we manually improved the sequence and annotated the genes on the D. erecta, D. mojavensis, and D. grimshawi F elements and euchromatic domains from the Muller D element. We find that F elements have greater transposon density (25–50%) than euchromatic reference regions (3–11%). Among the F elements, D. grimshawi has the lowest transposon density (particularly DINE-1: 2% vs. 11–27%). F element genes have larger coding spans, more coding exons, larger introns, and lower codon bias. Comparison of the Effective Number of Codons with the Codon Adaptation Index shows that, in contrast to the other species, codon bias in D. grimshawi F element genes can be attributed primarily to selection instead of mutational biases, suggesting that density and types of transposons affect the degree of local heterochromatin formation. F element genes have lower estimated DNA melting temperatures than D element genes, potentially facilitating transcription through heterochromatin. Most F element genes (~90%) have remained on that element, but the F element has smaller syntenic blocks than genome averages (3.4–3.6 vs. 8.4–8.8 genes per block), indicating greater rates of inversion despite lower rates of recombination. Overall, the F element has maintained characteristics that are distinct from other autosomes in the Drosophila lineage, illuminating the constraints imposed by a heterochromatic milieu.
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TL;DR: Using a sample of almost 500 people, the regression analysis yields results consistent with the well-established pattern that small risks are overassessed and large risks are underassessed, as well as the switch point at which people go from underassessment to overassessment.
Abstract: General patterns of bias in risk beliefs are well established in the literature, but much less is known about how these biases vary across the population. Using a sample of almost 500 people, the regression analysis in this paper yields results consistent with the well established pattern that small risks are overassessed and large risks are underassessed. The accuracy of these risk beliefs varies across demographic factors, as does the switch point at which people go from underassessment to overassessment, which we found to be 1,500 deaths annually for the full sample. Better educated people have more accurate risk beliefs, and there are important differences in the risk perception by race and gender that also may be of policy interest.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed study of textures, mineral parageneses and compositions of a suite of eclogite-bearing orthogneisses in the Luliang Shan from the North Qaidam UHP metamorphic belt was conducted.
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TL;DR: In this paper, superconducting froth, however, can be reversibly controlled by several external parameters, so it may help quantify froth dynamics across different systems, such as temperature and humidity.
Abstract: Froths and foams are complex structures, particularly those that disappear irreversibly. Superconducting froth, however, can be reversibly controlled by several external parameters, so it may help quantify froth dynamics across different systems.
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Mark M. Meerschaert | 66 | 241 | 18138 |
Thomas Wirth | 63 | 367 | 12180 |
Paul H. Anderson | 42 | 207 | 5866 |
Andrew T. Reisner | 37 | 160 | 5386 |
Aaron J. Miller | 33 | 100 | 4591 |
William B. Armstrong | 31 | 89 | 2488 |
Steven Prentice-Dunn | 28 | 59 | 8280 |
Andrew N. Christopher | 28 | 70 | 2169 |
Jahn K. Hakes | 22 | 50 | 1694 |
Todd Lucas | 21 | 49 | 1867 |
Andrew F. Fidler | 20 | 24 | 1338 |
Jeffrey C. Carrier | 20 | 34 | 1947 |
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel | 20 | 28 | 2216 |
Vicki L. Baker | 20 | 42 | 1802 |
Molly Duman-Scheel | 19 | 48 | 938 |