A
very
controversial
issue
in
education
economics
as
well
as
the
popular
discourse
is
the
effect
of
teachers’
unions
on
education
in
America.
Using
the
tools
of
economic
analysis,
this
study
attempts
to
find
the
association
between
duty-to-bargain
laws
and

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Single-particle reconstruction of vitrified samples (cryogenic electron microscopy, or









cryo-EM) provides structural information for a large variety of biological molecules,









ranging from…