cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Paper: "A Compressed History of the Development of: Interpretive Structural Modeling, The Science of Complexity, The Science of Generic Design, and Interactive Management," August 1995
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Interactive Management (IM)
subject: Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
subject: Science of Generic Design
subject: Science of Complexity

description: Manuscript: typescript with tables. 22 pgs. 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: A history of some of Dr. John N. Warfield's most important areas of research and his discoveries. Provides information on intellectual sources, colleagues, time periods and practitioners of Interactive Management. Includes: Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and list of relevant publications. John N. Warfield Collection 20.39
title: Investigating Zolpidem for Treatment of Various Neurological Conditions
Creators: name: Stewart, Carson
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Zolpidem
subject: Traumatic brain injury

description: While Neural Engineering has had breakthrough technologies including cochlear implants for hearing restoration and deep brain stimulation for a range of diseases including Parkinson’s, engineering approaches to several neurological disorders following traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been largely unsuccessful [1]. The Brain is extraordinarily complex, and despite decades of research, remains poorly understood [1][3]. The pharmaceutical Zolpidem originally prescribed for sleep disorders, has gained attention due to its ability to paradoxically increase alertness in patients with TBI, temporarily reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, and even transiently induce brief periods of consciousness in comatose patients. Zolpidem has been shown to manifest dramatic differences in mechanistic activity between healthy patients and patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) or TBI. Only small subsets of patients with TBI’s respond to this form of pharmaceutical intervention. It is a lack of understanding of this phenomenon that is causing schisms between researching its causal mechanisms of neural activity and leveraging neural engineering to treat targeted patients [2][3]. Due to EEG, MEG, and MRI comparisons, advances for neuromodulation using Zolpidem have been made to target specific disorders and TBI’s. This review hopes to examine how Zolpidem is being investigated using neuromodulation to explain the vast differences in patient recovery following severe brain injuries and diseases.
title: Birthing Your Mother: Black Atlantic Feminism
Creators: name: Walke, Emani N
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: The Black Atlantic
subject: Transnational feminism
subject: Black citizenship
subject: Black feminism
subject: Transatlantic slave trade
subject: Black mothers

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years and will not be available until May 2024 at the earliest.
description: Transnational feminist epistemologies seek to connect the lived experiences of women across nations. With the ongoing imperialistic nation-state building of the West, transnational feminist theorists currently center an analysis of nationalisms and nation-states to articulate the effects of globalization and capitalism (Mohanty, 2003). As such, transnational feminist theory also rebukes feminist epistemologies concentrated in normative White Western contexts (Mohanty, 2003). Although such analyses are unequivocally important, transnational feminist theory does not properly interact with the epistemologies of Black Atlantic women. By providing a theoretical intercessor, the Black Atlantic mother, I suggest Black Atlantic women’s epistemologies as sites for rethinking transnational feminism’s discussions of citizenship and nation-state, and ultimately propose Black Atlantic feminism (s) as sites for more humanly workable geographies (McKittrick, 2006).
Antibiogram, Biochemical Reactions and Biotyping of Biofield Treated Providencia rettgeri
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Providencia rettgeri (P. rettgeri) is the key organism for gastrointestinal tract infections due to its high virulence properties. The current study was designed to investigate the effect of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment on P. rettgeri in lyophilized as well as revived state for antimicrobial susceptibility pattern, biochemical characteristics, and biotype number. The lyophilized strain of P. rettgeri (ATCC 9250) was divided into two parts, Group (Gr.) I: control and Gr. II: treatment. After biofield treatment, Gr. II was further subdivided into two parts, Gr. IIA and Gr. IIB. Gr. IIA was analyzed on day 10, while Gr. IIB was stored and analyzed on day 162 after revival (Study I). The revived sample of Gr. IIB was retreated on day 162 (Study II), and divided into three separate tubes. Tube 1 was analyzed on day 5, likewise, tube 2 and 3 were analyzed on day 10 and 15, respectively after their sub-culturing. All the experimental parameters were studied using automated MicroScan Walk-Away® system. The antimicrobial susceptibility and minimum inhibitory concentration were significantly improved by 71.43%, out of twenty-eight and 56.25%, out of thirty-two, respectively in the treated cells of P. rettgeri as compared to the control. The biochemical reactions also showed the significant (60.61%) alteration in the treated sample with respect to control. The biotype numbers were substantially changed in all the treated groups as compared to the control. Moreover, the organism was changed as Proteus mirabilis in all the treated groups except in Gr. IIA, as compared to the control. These results suggested that biofield treatment has a significant impact on P. rettgeri in lyophilized as well as revived state.
title: Spatial Dynamics of Contentious Politics: Mass Mobilization in the Arab Uprisings
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Understanding why protests grow in size and scale in some places but not in others is an often asked question for which there are numerous potential explanatory factors. This dissertation focuses on the influence that spatiality has on the underlying mechanisms at work in the processes of social mobilization and protest scale shift. Using Protest Event Analysis to collect and analyze data from hundreds of individual protest events compiled from news media sources, I employ a mechanism-process approach to investigate how the space and place of protests impacts the size and scale of protests in Egypt and Jordan in 2011. This dissertation argues that there are critical spatial factors that are underrepresented and undertheorized in the contentious politics literature that alter the nature of mechanisms related to collective action and help explain some of the divergent process outcomes of protest episodes in the MENA region and beyond.
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 04]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第四冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
title: Bless Fine-Hearted Men
Creators: name: Johnson, Lindsey M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fine-hearted
subject: Bless
subject: Southern literature
subject: South

description: Set in rural North Carolina in the early nineties, the novel-in-stories, Bless Fine-Hearted Men, follows a family through the transformative years of their lives. Told from the point of view of Honey, the family’s daughter, we experience poverty, abuse, sex and death in the dilapidated South through the profound naïveté that only youth brings. Other characters provide insight, as well, in order to dissect the most ominous and mature minutiae of rural life
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 05]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第五冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
title: The Perceived Impacts of Arts Education on Children in Military Families
Creators: name: Coffman, Virginia D
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Arts education
subject: Military children
subject: Military families
subject: Arts participation
subject: Wellbeing
subject: Play

description: Children in military families face unique challenges that shape their lives and experiences in a variety of ways. Much research has indicated that the arts improve children’s lives, emotional wellbeing, and school performance. This research expands upon current research into the role the arts, conceptualized as a form of play, serve in children’s lives and assesses the impact of arts education specifically on military-affiliated children. Utilizing qualitative data and grounded theory, the study explores the ways in which parental military service affects children in every area of life and how involvement in the arts affects children’s perceptions of their wellbeing. The analysis was developed from emergent codes collected from 14 interviews and two observations. The sample population was chosen through both convenience and snowball sampling. This study determined the ways in which military-affiliated children experience and use the arts in their daily lives—as a way of creating stability, expressing community, and managing emotions.
Improved Susceptibility Pattern of Antimicrobials Using Vital Energy Treatment on Shigella sonnei
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular and reported for countless benefits in biomedical health care systems. The study assessed the potential impact of The Trivedi Effect® (biofield energy) on Shigella sonnei for changes in antimicrobial sensitivity, biochemical study, and biotype number using MicroScan Walk-Away® system. The cells were obtained from MicroBioLogics Inc., USA bearing the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC 9290) number, and divided into two groups, Group (Gr.) I: control and Gr. II: treated. Gr. II was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment and further subdivided into two sub-groups, Gr. IIA and Gr. IIB. Gr. IIA was analyzed on day 10, while Gr. IIB was stored and analyzed on day 160 (Study I). The Gr. IIB sample was retreated on day 160 (Study II), and was divided into three separate tubes as first, second and third tube, which were analyzed on day 5, 10 and 15, respectively. Results showed that 35% (7 out of 20) antimicrobials were reported with improved sensitivity profile. Moreover, the minimum inhibitory concentration study showed that 56.25% (18 out of 32) tested antimicrobials were reported with decreased concentration by two to four-fold as compared with the control after biofield treatment. The effect was further analyzed and sustained in the biochemical study, where 57.57% (19 out of 33) tested biochemicals showed altered reaction pattern as compared with the control. The biotype study showed an alteration in the biotype number in all the experimental treated groups as compared to the control. Encouraging results suggests that bioenergy healing treatment as an integrative medicine against S. sonnei would be a better and safe treatment approach in near future.
title: Unbearable pressure: corsets, medicine, and advertising in the making of the white female body in England, 1850-1900
title: Unbearable pressure: corsets, medicine, and advertising in the making of the white female body in Victorian England, 1850-1900
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Downey, Megan A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 0

description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2016
description: The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which language and material culture controlled women’s bodies in such a way as to see white, British women of most socio-economic classes discipline themselves into buying and wearing corsets. I was curious to examine why white British women in the nineteenth-century wore corsets. I was especially interested in the ways in which advertisements and medical discourse influenced this. Through examination of advertisements in the British magazine, Woman, as well as numerous articles in The British Medical Journal it is possible to discern some of this information. This study concludes by calling to light the legacy left by corsets on twenty-first century women.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/48505
title: Power and Performance Characterization of Splash2 Benchmarks on Heterogeneous Architecture
Creators: name: Drummond, Matthew
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Heterogenous architecture
subject: Splash 2
subject: Energy efficiency
subject: Sniper Sim
subject: Application profiling

description: The computing industry has constantly struggled between speed and power. To achieve the desired performance cores are becoming larger and more complicated. This of course comes at the cost of higher area and power consumption, which is unsustainable. An optimum configuration for any application must exist for peak performance and energy efficiency. This paper shows how such an optimization can be found using Splash2 benchmarks as demonstration. Sensitivity analysis was performed on each benchmark for multiple configuration parameters, particularly frequency, core type, and thread count. The resulting data was analyzed to determine what influence the parameters had on EDP for each benchmark. Finally, the benchmarks were instrumented in such a way as to highlight individual parallel regions to determine if alternative configurations are more appropriate for these sub-regions of the applications, demonstrating the utility of a heterogeneous architecture.
Thermal, Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Characterization of Biofield Energy Treated Benzophenone
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of biofield energy treatment on the thermal, spectroscopic, and chemical properties of benzophenone. The study was done using various analytical methods such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. The benzophenone sample was divided into two parts, one part was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment, called as treated and the other part was remained as untreated, called as control. Mass spectra showed the molecular ion peak at m/z = 182 in control and all the treated benzophenone samples with different intensities (treated samples further divided in to three parts, T1, T2, and T3 for GC-MS study). The isotopic abundance ratio of 2H/1H, 13C/12C (PM+1)/PM and in treated sample was decreased by 44.87% in T2 and slightly increased upto 5.79% in case of T1 as compared to the control [where, PM- primary molecule, (PM+1)- isotopic molecule either for 13C or 2H]. Moreover, isotopic abundance ratio of 18O/16O (PM+2)/PM in the treated sample was increased up to 22.64% in T3. The retention time of treated benzophenone was slightly increased (0.88 min) as compared to the control in HPLC chromatogram. The DSC data exhibited that the heat of degradation of treated benzophenone was increased by 674.16% as compared to the control. While, C=O stretching frequency of treated sample was shifted by 6 cm-1 to low energy region in FT-IR spectroscopy. Further, the UV-Vis spectra of control sample showed characteristic absorption peaks at 210 nm and 257 nm that was blue shifted to 205 nm and 252 nm, respectively in the treated sample. These results suggested that biofield treatment has significantly altered the thermal, spectroscopic, and chemical properties of benzophenone, which could make them more useful as reaction intermediate in industrial applications.
Autopost-D5.3: User Evaluation In Real-World Conditions
Creators: name: Ume, Marc
name: Pundschus, Christian
name: Goldmann, Lutz
name: Furch, Johannes
name: Redondo, Rafael
name: Nitsch, Alexander
name: Caballero, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: user evaluation, VFX, AutoPost

description: This document summarizes the activities and results of task T5.3 dealing with the evaluation of the AutoPost plugins by the postproduction partners in real-world scenarios.
description: AutoPost project is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644629.
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 13]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第十三冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
ASAG2024 : a combined benchmark for short answer grading
Creators: name: Meyer, Gérôme
name: Breuer, Philip
name: Fürst, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2024
Subjects: Education
Automated grading
Large language model (LLM)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Benchmark
Dataset
410.285: Computerlinguistik

description: Open-ended questions test a more thorough understanding than closed-ended questions and are often a preferred assessment method. However, open-ended questions are tedious to grade and subject to personal bias. Therefore, there have been efforts to speed up the grading process through automation. Short Answer Grading (SAG) systems aim to automatically score students’ answers. Despite growth in SAG methods and capabilities, there exists no comprehensive short-answer grading benchmark across different subjects, grading scales, and distributions. Thus, it is hard to assess the capabilities of current automated grading methods in terms of their generalizability. In this preliminary work, we introduce the combined ASAG2024 benchmark to facilitate the comparison of automated grading systems. Combining seven commonly used short-answer grading datasets in a common structure and grading scale. For our benchmark, we evaluate a set of recent SAG methods, revealing that while LLM-based approaches reach new high scores, tey still are far from reaching human performance. This opens up avenues for future research on human-machine SAG systems.
Supplementary document for Multidimensional Quad Focal High Resolution Metalens Design Using Hybrid Spin Decoupling - 6281839.pdf
Creators: name: RIND, Yousaf Murtaza
name: Mahmood, Nasir
name: MEHMOOD, MUHAMMAD QASIM
name: Tauqeer, Tauseef
name: Zubair, Muhammad
name: Massoud, Yehia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised supplemental-document
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 15]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第十五冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
title: Costs, Networks, and Experts
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Expert failure
subject: Externality
subject: Information economics
subject: Network analysis
subject: SNAP
subject: Economics

description: This is a story about you, the economic expert. It is a story of experts and policy. The role of the expert in the design of policy has long been taken for granted in economics. While previous literature has focused primarily on the cognitive responses of experts, relatively few studies have attempted to analyze the expert from the economic point of view. However, Koppl presents us with Information Choice Theory, which places experts within an economics framework as producers of advice and opinion. Experts must choose both which information to incorporate into their advice and the amount of advice to dispense. This dissertation seeks to expand upon Koppl, first by enhancing the theory into a dynamic model (Chapter 1) and then by applying the insights developed in that chapter and price theory to discuss policy-induced transaction costs in SNAP benefits (Chapter 2) and water markets (Chapter 3).
Wohlbefinden neurotypischer Geschwister von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einer Autismus-Spektrum-Störung : Förderung mit dem familienzentrierten Ansatz in der Ergotherapie
Creators: name: Gerber, Davina
name: Mattle, Ilona
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: Well-being
Sibling
Child age
Teenage years
Autism
Family-centred approach
306: Kultur
615.8515: Ergotherapie

description: Darstellung des Themas : Neurotypische (NT) Geschwister von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einer Autismus-Spektrum-Störung (ASS) können in ihrem Wohlbefinden eingeschränkt sein.

Ziel : Das Ziel dieser Bachelorarbeit ist es, ergotherapeutische Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten für NT-Geschwister von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit ASS aufzuzeigen, um ihr Wohlbefinden mit dem familienzentrierten Ansatz (FZA) zu fördern.

Methode : Durch eine systematische Literaturrecherche wurden vier qualitative Hauptstudien zusammengefasst, kritisch gewürdigt, die Ergebnisse interpretiert und mit dem Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) Modell verknüpft. Anhand ergotherapeutischer Massnahmen wurden Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie das Wohlbefinden der NT-Geschwister und der Familie gestärkt werden kann.

Relevante Ergebnisse : NT-Geschwister können in ihren Betätigungen wie Schlaf, Freizeitaktivitäten und Freundschaften eingeschränkt sein, was sich negativ auf ihr Wohlbefinden auswirkt. Zeit für sich allein und mit ihren Eltern, sowie Unterstützung durch Freunde und Familie können sich hingegen positiv auf ihr Wohlbefinden auswirken.

Schlussfolgerung : Anpassungen der Person, Betätigung und Umwelt der NT-Geschwister sowie Edukation der Eltern mithilfe des FZAs können das Wohlbefinden aller Familienmitglieder verbessern.
title: Brilacidin as a Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of Enveloped, Acutely Infectious Viruses
Creators: name: Anderson, Carol
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Brilacidin
subject: Echovirus
subject: Enveloped
subject: Sindbis Virus
subject: Rift Valley Fever Virus
subject: Defensin mimetic

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 2 years. It will be available for access in November 2023 at the earliest.
description: Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) is a Bunyavirus known to cause severe disease in livestock. Its zoonotic capability makes it a serious threat as it has become endemic in many parts of the world. While primarily spread through Aedes and Culex mosquitos, it can also be transmitted via aerosol and direct contact with infected bodily fluids. In humans it is known to cause hemorrhagic fever and liver failure. There are currently no FDA approved treatments for RVFV, making it an area of serious concern for the development and implementation of novel therapeutics. In this investigation Brilacidin (BRL), a defensin mimetic, was tested against RVFV among other viruses such as Sindbis (SINV) and an Echovirus. BRL was previously designed for antibiotic-resistant bacteria and its amphipathic nature enables it to disrupt membranes. It has been shown to be effective on both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including MRSA. This work on bacteria has since been expanded to enveloped viruses such as SARS-COV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. RVFV was tested in Human small airway epithelial cells (HSAECs) via plaque assay, and then this was repeated in other cell lines including Huh7s and HepG2s. Cytotoxicity analyses were conducted to determine cell viability when BRL was applied to the cells. Through direct viral treatment, a significant decrease was seen in viral load, that was not seen with pre-treatment and post-treatment of the cells. Cell viability was also tested for, demonstrating that the presence of BRL aids cell survival. This work was then expanded out to Sindbis virus (SINV), and an Echovirus. The Echovirus served as a negative control due to its unenveloped nature. In both viruses, BRL was once again found to be effective at reducing viral titer.
Modèle de politique green open access : ligne directrice pour rédiger soi-même une politique open access
Creators: name: Andres, Valérie
name: Brunner, Cornelia
name: Corredera Nilsson, Enrique
name: Flieg, Julia
name: Moritz, Andrea Marlen
name: Reymermier, Hélène
name: Trautwein, Clemens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Publikation
Green Open Access
Editeur
Creative Commons License
Nachnutzung
Lizenz
Self-archiving
020: Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
070: Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus und Verlagswesen

description: This document has versions in other languages
German: 10.5281/zenodo.13844165 (DOI)
English: 10.5281/zenodo.13834306 (DOI)
description: Ce modèle aide les équipes de rédaction de revues ou les équipes de bibliothèque souhaitant proposer une politique Open Access pour une revue à en concevoir une. En choisissant parmi différentes options, la politique peut être adaptée aux besoins de la revue.
Une fois que la revue a publié la politique, veuillez nous envoyer les informations pour l’inclure dans la base de données GOAL : https://goal.zhaw.ch
Barjols, atelier Fabre, cercles et presses accrochés au mur
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 08]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第八冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
title: From Power Mediation to Dialogue Support? Assessing the European Union's Capabilities for Multi-Track Diplomacy
Creators: name: Goldner-Ebenthal, Karin
name: Dudouet, Veronique
Publisher: name: Berghof Foundation
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mediation
subject: Dialogue
subject: Multi-Track Diplomacy

description: This report seeks to answer this question, by assessing EU capabilities for multi-track diplomacy from a ‘whole-of-society’ perspective, as defined in the Horizon 2020-funded project “Whole-of-Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding” (WOSCAP). Multi-track diplomacy (MTD) is defined here as a specific approach to EU foreign policy intervention, with a primary emphasis on diplomatic initiatives aimed at supporting conflict prevention and peacebuilding, primarily through negotiation, mediation/or and dialogue across different levels (Tracks) of engagement within partner countries. MTD is highly compatible with a whole-of-society perspective on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as it rests on the assumption that transforming complex and multi-dimensional conflicts requires an inclusive approach which does not solely focus on elite bargaining but requires constructive interactions with multiple conflict stakeholders and affected constituencies in order to reach a sustainable settlement. Such an approach thus implies a shift away from a sole reliance on traditional state diplomacy and Track I muscled mediation. It stresses instead the need for coordinated efforts by multiple third-party actors to support dialogue across various levels of society through diversified methods of ‘soft power’ diplomacy, according to the various stages of conflict and peacebuilding. The report will thus analyze the timing, nature and dimensions of EU multi-track diplomacy in war-affected or post-war contexts outside of its borders, in order to assess whether its actual capabilities for dialogue and mediation support match its ambitiously-stated goals with respect to proactive engagement, horizontal coherence and integration, and vertical inclusivity.
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication d'un tambourin, pose du tambourin cintré et cerclé avec quatre presses sur l'établi
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
title: Cecal volvulus: A rare presentation of intestinal obstruction
Creators: name: Cordeiro de Almeida, João
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Acute
subject: Volvulus
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 47-year-old female patient presented at the Emergency Department with severe acute abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. She also referred cessation of flatus and bowel movements for 4 days. Past medical history is unremarkable. On physical exam, the abdomen was distended and tender with no rebound or guarding.

description: 47 years, female
title: Correspondence: Albert J. Schrader and C. Harrison Mann, Jr., November 1, 1967-November 6, 1967
Creators: name: Schrader, Albert J.
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Traffic
subject: Virginia Safety Study Commission
subject: Youth
subject: Armed forces
subject: Colleges

description: Letter A: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm); Letter B: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Correspondence between Albert J. Schrader, Pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Lexington, VA, and C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding college and Armed Forces youth being reckless drivers. Schrader is asking Mann to have the Virginia Safety Study Commission to explore provisions to limit drivers under the age of twenty-one. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 1.30
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 09]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第九冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
Lipidomic analysis of extracellular vesicles and its potential for cancer diagnosis
Creators: name: Dorado Montezuma, Erika
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Breast and ovarian cancer are among the deadliest types of cancer in women. The development of diagnostic methods for early diagnosis of cancer can improve patient survival rates. Cancer cells produce extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, which can be found in cancer patients’ body fluids. Cancer-derived EVs play an important role in cancer development, progression and metastasis. In addition, they have a great potential as a source of biomarkers for the development of body fluid-based methods for cancer diagnosis. The aim of this PhD thesis was to study the lipid composition of cancer-derived EVs and its potential for the identification of lipid biomarkers for breast and ovarian cancer diagnosis. The lipid composition of EVs secreted by cancerous and non-cancerous mammary and ovarian epithelial cells was studied by untargeted lipidomics. Cancer-derived EVs were found to be enriched in sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids compared to their parental cells. It was found that EVs produced by cancerous cells can be distinguished from those produced by non-cancerous cells based on their lipid content. Furthermore, EVs’ lipid composition differs between breast cancer subtypes, as well as between ovarian cancer subtypes. EVs found in blood plasma from breast cancer patients and healthy individuals were also analysed by untargeted lipidomics and a combination of five specific lipid species was found to have a diagnostic value for breast cancer diagnosis. Importantly, the same combination of lipids was also able to differentiate between EVs found in blood plasma from primary breast cancer patients and EVs found in blood plasma from healthy individuals. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the potential of the EVs’ lipid content for the identification of lipid biomarkers for the early detection of breast and ovarian cancer and their use for the development of diagnostic methods, based on blood plasma analysis of cancer patients.
Supplementary Information for The Effect of Compositional Heterogeneity on the Martensite Start Temperature of a High Strength Steel During Rapid Austenitisation and Cooling
Creators: name: Taylor, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The supplementary information for "The Effect of Compositional Heterogeneity on the Martensite Start Temperature of a High Strength Steel During Rapid Austenitisation and Cooling" in the proceedings of the 42nd Risø International Symposium on Materials Science.
Quantitative single-exposure x-ray dark-field imaging: a single-grid approach
Creators: name: How, Ying Ying
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400304
subject: Biomedical imaging

description: This thesis presents a novel method to capture and quantify the x-ray dark-field signal, revealing those tiny structures within a sample that cannot be fully resolved. This is achieved using a single grid and a single exposure only. With suitable calibration, this signal can measure the size of these microstructures. Using this novel technique, we performed the first 4D x-ray dark-field lung imaging. This technique allows us to track how the air sacs that make up the lungs change in size as we breathe. We hope that this novel technique can improve the diagnosis of lung diseases.
title: Transportation Plan: Yoshio Kido, October 1980
Creators: name: Kido, Yoshio
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities
subject: Energy
subject: Environmental preservation
subject: Tokyo (Japan)
subject: Alternative energy
subject: Oil
subject: Insulation
subject: Heating
subject: Transportation

description: Paper and article: photocopied, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Transportation Plan for New Town Development, from the Viewpoint of Energy Saving and Environmental Preservation, prepared by Yoshio Kido, Special Assistant, Building, Land Development Division, Planning Bureau, Tokyo, Japan, October 1980. Noting the weak energy supply in Japan, Kido proposes five items to be included in the national energy policy: promotion and development of alternative energy sources; promotion of energy-saving activities in various fields; promotion of international cooperation of oil resources; reducing oil dependency; and expediting the development of new energy technology. Kido advocates the active use of insulation to improve the energy consumption in the house; suggests city-wide energy-saving measures in experimental heating sources; and discusses transportation as the major consumer of energy resources. Kido advocates additional national policies to develop and enforce new energy measures to reduce consumption and foreign dependency. Includes graphics, charts, and an article, "Kobe City New Transit System" published in The Japan Industrial and Technological Bulletin, 8 no.5, August 1980. Planned Community Archives Collection, 421.05.
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 19]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第十九冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
title: Estimating Motion of Object Contours from Distance Transforms
Creators: name: Soeder, Kyle
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer vision
subject: Distance transform
subject: Gradients
subject: Contour motion
subject: Normal flow

description: This thesis develops a method for estimating motion for object contours in depth video sequences. First the depth image is thresholded to nd the foreground object. Con- tours are then extracted from the thresholded image. Given the contours in two frames my method estimates the motion that transforms the contour in frame 1 to the contour in frame 2. First the Euclidean Distance Tansform (DT) is computed for the contour in frame 2. The DT and its gradient at each of the points along the contour in frame 1 are used to estimate the motion between the contours in the frames. I consider the obtained motion an estimate of the normal ow between the frames. Finally the normal ow is used to estimate a ne motion between the contours. I demonstrate the method on several synthetic images corresponding to contours of various shapes. Finally I demonstrate the e ectiveness of my method on several image sequences including household objects, a person raising their leg and a long sequence of a human walking.
Computational topology based quantification of hepatocytes nuclei in lipopolysaccharide-induced liver injury in mice
Creators: name: Moraleda, Rodrigo Rojas
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Automated high resolution scanning microscopes digitize large sets of histological samples and access the anatomical features of cells and tissues from the mm range down to a resolution of .25mpp (microns per pixel). The high quality of the scans allows for the collection of the quantitative morpho-topological features of cells and tissues from different samples, which can be coupled to functional information through, e.g., concomitant immunostaining. The basis for robust and accurate quantification of structural and functional features is the segmentation of regions of interest (ROIs) which define different elements within the scans. Due to acquisition artifacts and the diversity and variance of possible targets, the characterization and segmentation of ROIs in histological samples is difficult and challenging. In recent years, computational algebraic topology, a field of mathematics, has established a robust and versatile way to obtain qualitative information from data. The most fundamental qualitative description of an object is given by the study of its topology, how the object is connected, how many holes it has, and of what type. That allows characterizing data sets according to their structure, increasing our understanding of their properties.

We propose a method for the robust segmentation of hepatocyte nuclei based on the principles of persistent homology, a tool of algebraic topology. We show the application of our technique in histopathological, whole slide images obtained from liver sections of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-treated mice. The robustness is achieved by the introduction of persistent homology to characterize the hepatocyte nuclei. Its stability proves the usefulness of persistent homology; variations in the properties of the ROIs induce small changes in the resulting characterization. By means of this representation for the hepatocyte nuclei, the resulting segmentation is less sensitive to acquisition artifacts and natural variations of the images across batches of slides.
Scripting Galaxy using the API and BioBlend
Creators: name: Soranzo, Nicola
name: Dannon Baker
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Slides for this training session at the 2016 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2016).

Galaxy has an always-growing API that allows for external programs to upload and download data, manage histories and datasets, run tools and workflows, and even perform admin tasks. This session will cover a variety of approaches to making use of the API.
Chronotherapy to normalize fasting blood glucose may attenuate metabolic syndrome with hyperglycemia
Creators: name: Broomall, Kathleen
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes, prevention or delay of disease progression of metabolic syndrome with hyperglycemia using a highly personalizable lifestyle intervention involving type and timing of food, and muscle contraction.  The success of this regimen is gauged by stability of Fasting Blood Glucose, which may have implications for the novel regimen affecting circadian rhythm clock synchrony and stability.
Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy
Creators: name: Foglia, Francesco
name: Molica, Francesco
name: Santos, Anabela M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The regularity and legality of EU spending, i.e., the conformity of the expenditures incurred with the applicable legislation, are important measures of its efficiency. They are also key pre-conditions for the effectiveness of EU funds. The present paper aims at understanding the main determinants of irregular spending (errors) in EU cohesion policy funding: this is a highly important, yet understudied topic, especially given that cohesion policy is the area of the EU budget with the highest level of irregularities. Using time series data and a fractional regression analysis model, the study provides evidence that the specific governance and structure of cohesion policy programmes can explain the intensity of irregular spending. Overall, the analysis finds that the more complex the programmes (e.g., in terms of number of priorities, multi-fund focus), the higher the risk of irregularities and the more difficult is for programme authorities to detect them. The paper also shows the relevant role of specific aspects of the implementation, such as the size and number of projects, in influencing the regularity of expenditures. The results suggest that greater simplification, thematic concentration and harmonisation of the funds’ rules could lead to fewer irregularities and improve the effectiveness of control systems in future programming periods.
[Wu jing] : [wu zhong, shi qi juan] [volume 14]
[五經] : [五種十七卷] [第十四冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Hand-written copy, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Yi jing : san juan.
Shi jing : si juan.
Shu jing : er juan.
Li ji : liu juan.
Chun qiu : er juan.
Edition: [Xie ben]
Enzymatic synthesis of a new and bioactive dihydrochalcone: 3,4-dihydroxy-2′,6′-dimethoxy dihydrochalcone
Creators: name: Chang, Te-Sheng
name: Wu, Jiumn-Yih
name: Ding, Hsiou-Yu
name: Wang, Tzi-Yuan
name: Liu, Guan-Cheng
name: Wang, Min-Lin
name: Ting, Huei-Ju
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Tyrosinase from Bacillus megaterium (BmTYR) has been demonstrated to hydroxylate loureirin A and B, compounds found in the ethnomeidicine “dragon’s blood”. Based on the structural similarity, we predicted that BmTYR also hydroxylate 4-hydroxy-2′,6′-dimethoxy dihydrochalcone (HDDC) and data mining confirmed the novelty of produced compound, 3,4-dihydroxy-2′,6′-dimethoxy dihydrochalcone (DDDC). As predicted, the reaction product analysis showed that BmTYR biotransformed HDDC into DDDC, with its structure elucidated using mass spectrometry and nucleic magnetic resonance spectroscopy. DDDC exhibited potent free radical scavenging activity, exceeding that of HDDC by more than 100-fold. Second, DDDC showed potent anti-inflammatory activity, which was over 7-fold higher than that of HDDC. Finally, both HDDC and DDDC displayed more than twice the anti-α-glucosidase activity of the clinic drug, acarbose. Moreover, DDDC was more stable in aqueous solution and with less cytotoxicity than HDDC. Overall, DDDC holds great promise as a component in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food products.
Survival prediction using microarray data – A topic modeling approach
Creators: name: Kumar, Luke N.
name: Greiner, Russell
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Many survival prediction models have been proposed over the years; some based on standard statistical survival analysis techniques, and others based on classic regression algorithms — eg, random survival forests, censored SVM.  With the growing number of gene expression experiments being cataloged for analysis, we need to develop survival prediction models that can utilize such high dimensional data and also be interpretable. This study describes a way to learn survival prediction model that can accommodate such high dimensional data.

We propose a novel approach based on topic modeling, called “discretized Latent Dirichlet Allocation (dLDA)”, that can derive interpretable and yet highly predictive covariates from the high dimensional microarray (gene expression) data. Latent Dirichlet Allocation is a widely used topic modeling generative model, with many successful applications in natural language (NL) processing. The LDA learner is an unsupervised technique that finds the inherent structure present in the data, by first finding topics, which are distributions over words (based on their integer counts in the document), and then decomposes each document into a Dirichlet mixture over these topics.  This allows us to represent each document as this lower dimensional representation of the original text . We present a similar model that can be applied to our cohort of patients, each describes using real-valued gene expression data: here, we represents each patient [document] as a mixture over “(cancer) subtypes” [topics], where each subtype is a mixture over gene expression values [words].

Using the proposed dLDA as a preprocessing technique for the microarray data, we derive low-dimensional descriptions that can be used as input to a recent nonparametric learning algorithm, multi-task logistic regression (MTLR), that is designed to produce a model that can then predict patient-specific survival distributions — that is, given the (learned) MTLR model M, for each patient x, the personalized survival distribution p( t | M, x) can be inferred.