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Title: The Value of Information : Normativity, Epistemology, and LIS in Luciano Floridi
Description: This paper is a critical reconstruction of Luciano Floridi's view of librarianship as "stewardship of a semantic environment" a view that is at odds with the dominant tradition in which library and information science (LIS) is understood as social epistemology
PID: grinnell:6527

Title: The effects of floral display on pollinator visitation vary among populations of Phacelia linearis (Hydrophyllaceae)
Description: Individual plants in gynodioecious populations of Phacelia linearis (Hydrophyllaceae) vary in flower gender, flower size, and flower number. This paper reports the effects of variation in floral display on the visitation behaviour of this species' pollinators (mainly pollen-collecting solitary bees) in several natural and three experimental plant populations, and discusses the results in terms of the consequences for plant fitness.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26665

Title: The Hutchinsonian niche as an assemblage of demographic niches: implications for species geographic ranges
Description: Using comprehensive demographic data for two well-studied, short-lived plants (Plantago coronopus, Clarkia xantiana), we show that the arrangement of species' demographic niches reveals key features of their environmental niches and geographic distributions.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:26658

Title: Trans/Affect, Monstrous Masculinities, and the Sublime Art of Lady Gaga, The Sublime Art of Lady Gaga
Description: Examines the trans/affect of Lady Gaga's carefully scripted display of the Jo Calderone persona in both his interview and fashion spread in Vogue Hommes Japan.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3403

Title: Transnational Noir : Style and Substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The Most Terrible Time in My Life, Style and Substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Description: Hayashi Kaizo's The Most Terrible Time in My Life in Film Noir
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:3387

Title: Tricks of the Trade: Getting Going the First Day, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 94-003
Description: What can we do the first day of class to give students a feel for what to expect in the course and generate some enthusiasm for learning and statistics? To investigate this question, a number of prominent statistics educators were recently asked "What do you like to do in your first class of the semester"? Their responses and experiences of the author are summarized in this paper to provide a collection of tips, stories, topics for generating discussion, and general advice for getting a course going in a positive direction.
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:26705

Title: Union Bargaining Power in an Efficiency Wage Environment
Description: Article about Union Bargaining Power in an efficiency wage environment
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:11679

Title: Using Primo Analytics to Understand Patron Search Strategies
Description: A presentation slated for ELUNA 2020 (Los Angeles, CA) discussing an analysis of popular search strings inputted into the Grinnell College Libraries' discovery system, Primo VE.
Date Created: 2020
PID: grinnell:28275

Title: Wood Anatomy of Darwiniothamnus, Lecocarpus, and Macraea (Asteraceae)
Description: The genera Darwiniothamnus Harling, Lecocarpus Decaisne, and Macraea Hook. f. are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Although wood anatomy of Lecocarpus has been considered by Carlquist (1958) and Eliasson (1971), the material available hitherto has been twigs rather than mature wood. The other two genera have not been studied with respect to wood anatomy.
Date Created: 1982
PID: grinnell:26661

Title: Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. I. Eriodictyon
Description: Hydrophyllaceae is a characteristically herbaceous family; only Eriodictyon Benth., Wigandia H.B.K., and the monotypic Turricula Macbr. can be considered woody (stems attaining a diameter of more than 1 em). Are plants such as these relicts from a woody ancestry, or is the family secondarily woody?
Date Created: 1983
PID: grinnell:26662