Acknowledgments
This work was made possible in part by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech which funded Pamplin College faculty, and University Libraries’ faculty and staff labor. This included a grant from the University Libraries’ Open Education Initiative https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grants. Support for Ron Poff’s contributions was provided by the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
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