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Showing 1 to 20 of 3421 for “"life sciences"”.
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Molecular interactions and their impact on life sciences
… and regulation of the basic machinery of life, yet is commonly studied under non-physiological conditions. In order to characterise the behaviour and function of such biomolecules, they have to be analysed under relevant conditions, ideally in biofluids, cells or artificial systems which …
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Characterizing MIT's serial scientist-entrepreneurs in life sciences
… startup activity and expansion in the life sciences. This commercial transformation has been shown by others to be concentrated among a relatively small number of elite academic institutions. However, within these institutions, we find that a small number of prestigious scientists are …
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Bioprospecting for novel marine polysaccharides for the life sciences
[the full thesis is embargoed until 14/4/2025 due to commercial agreements]<br/>Polysaccharides have a staggering diversity of structural and chemical properties that affect the biological activity, with some used for cryopreservation and others to degrade oil as a carbon source. In some cases, …
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GoPubMed: Ontology-based literature search for the life sciences
Background: Most of our biomedical knowledge is only accessible through texts. The biomedical literature grows exponentially and PubMed comprises over 18.000.000 literature abstracts. Recently much effort has been put into the creation of biomedical ontologies which capture biomedical facts. The …
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Advanced Methods for Entity Linking in the Life Sciences
The amount of knowledge increases rapidly due to the increasing number of available data sources. However, the autonomy of data sources and the resulting heterogeneity prevent comprehensive data analysis and applications. Data integration aims to overcome heterogeneity by unifying different data …
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Improving Reuse in Software Development for the Life Sciences
… in the application of technology to the life sciences, particularly in the area of data generation. Novel scientific insights are now often driven primarily by software development supporting new multidisciplinary and increasingly multifaceted data analysis. However, despite the …
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Nineteenth-century life sciences and Hegel's organic view of systems
… secondary status. Further, because of this, the life sciences are not considered "real" ("eigentliche") sciences. Mechanics retains a clear position of dominance in Kant's worldview. Hegel was one of the first thinkers to register complaint about Kant's mechanistic worldview. By incorporating the …
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Electrochemical biosensor based on microfabricated electrode arrays for life sciences applications
In developing a biosensor, the utmost important aspects that need to be emphasized are the specificity and selectivity of the transducer. These two vital prerequisites are of paramount in ensuring a robust and reliable biosensor. Improvements in electrochemical sensors can be achieved by using …
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Untangling the complexity of nature: Machine-learning for accelerated life-sciences
… methods remains limited in the broad context of life-sciences. This work optimizes the utility of ML to accelerate research of fundamental biological problems. First, we propose a paradigm shift from siloed data curation to multi-purpose cohorts at scale, even in the most restrictive case of …
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Factors affecting grade 12 learner’s performance in life sciences at Luvuvhu Circuit
… Underperformance in some subjects, including Life Sciences, in Grade 12 in the Luvuvhu Circuit is still a problem. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting performance of Grade 12 learners at Luvuvhu Circuit. The performance of the learners is not acceptable to the level …
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Talk and Community: The Place of Reporting in a Life Sciences Laboratory
"This study takes a practice-oriented perspective to investigate the laboratory as a community of practice, focusing upon the ""activity"" of interaction as the overall unit of analysis. Ethnographic materials (involving observation, interviews, conversations, and activity logs) and discourse …
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Quality of the Grade 12 life sciences curriculum : perceptions and possibilities for lifelong learning
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Quality, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Discourse in Science Communities: Issues of Language, Authority, and Gender in a Life Sciences Laboratory
… detailed analysis of the discourse patterns in a life sciences laboratory group at a large research university. I show how language accomplishes the work of indexing and constituting social constraints, of maintaining or undermining the hierarchical power dynamics of the laboratory, of shaping …
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Readiness for research data management in the life sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
… of Research Data Management (RDM) in the life sciences, where vast amounts of research data in different complex formats are being produced, this study aimed to assess the state of RDM readiness in the life sciences at Wits to ascertain what support is needed with regards to RDM. In order …
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Investigating the Involvement of Teachers in the Curriculum Development of Life Sciences Education in Secondary Schools
This study aims to examine the involvement of Life Sciences teachers in curriculum development and how their participation influences the effectiveness of Life Sciences education in secondary schools in the Vhembe District. Life Sciences is a key subject in secondary education, yet teachers’ voices …
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Integration of Life Sciences and Engineering - Highly Infectious Diseases in Population : Control System Analysis and Synthesis
… on the integration of engineering and biological sciences. The thesis starts with a literature survey to find out the model of a highly infectious disease such as smallpox among a certain metropolitan population. The chosen nonlinear model is simulated using MATLAB and Simulink to obtain …
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Wikipdf - A Tool To Help Scientists Understand The Literature Of The Biological, Health, And Life Sciences
Biological sciences literature can be extraordinarily difficult to understand. Papers are commonly filled with terminology unique to a particular sub-discipline. Readers with expertise outside that sub-discipline often have difficulty understanding information the author is trying to convey. The …
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