cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lived Experiences of Teacher Stress
Creators: name: Reed, Brendan
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Teacher
Stress
Teacher Stress
Phenomenology
Cognitive Dissonance
Bewilderment
Misalignment
Invasion
Fractured Teacher Identity
Lived Experiences
Emotional Dissonance

description: The current teacher shortage gripping education sectors the world over has been decades in the making. Teachers’ workloads have increased incrementally over the years, almost by stealth, to the point where the profession is now distinctly unappealing and a hotbed of stress and confusion. Formerly enthusiastic and dedicated educators are seeking pathways out of the classroom at the exact moment in their careers when they should be operating at the peak of the powers - drawing on their years of experience to develop and deliver enriching and expertly crafted lessons for their students. Researchers and professionals have long expressed concerns over the high levels of stress experienced by teachers. It is distinctly possible that classroom teacher stress has profoundly deleterious effects on experienced classroom teacher retention, and the overall quality of teaching. Recommendations have been made for further qualitative research in order to hear from the teachers themselves and benefit from their perspectives on teacher stress. Employing a phenomenological framework, the aim of this study was to investigate and present the lived experiences of a group of Australian teachers who have worked for years as classroom teachers in a variety of schools and at various levels. Lived experiences are distinguished by the phenomenologist concerning themselves with how individuals experience a phenomenon, and the meaning they connect to it. Semi-structured one-to-one discussions, group dialogical discussions, and individual biographical narratives were used to generate nourishing and detailed descriptions of the phenomenon of teacher stress. The analysis of the data from the discussions and biographical narratives illuminated four key concepts which were then punctuated with essence exemplars, adding the teachers own words and stories to the texture of the phenomenon. The key concepts were (i) bewilderment; (ii) misalignment; (iii) invasion; and (iv) fractured teacher identity. A focus theory then emerged connecting the dissonance that exists between how teachers view themselves as professionals, and the various overwhelming job demands embedded in teaching today. This research also draws extensively on the literature connected to teacher stress, of which there is a considerable and growing body of work reflecting the seriousness and pressing nature of this issue. However, very few studies have explored the unique lived experiences of classroom teachers.
title: Retrospective Evaluation of GEC-ESTRO Constraints for Definitive Radiochemotherapy with Brachytherapy and Correlation with Oncologic Outcome in Cervical Cancer: A Monocenter Study
Creators: name: Schönicke, Tom
name: Koch, Raphael
name: Vogt, Isabel
name: Falke, Isabel
name: Eich, Hans-Theodor
name: Reinartz, Gabriele Andrea Christiane
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background: This study aims to evaluate patients with locally advanced cervical cancer who underwent definitive radiochemotherapy, including brachytherapy, at the University Hospital of Muenster (UKM), focusing on target volume coverage, oncologic outcome parameters, and organs at risk (OAR) toxicities. Results are compared with the Gyn GEC-ESTRO (GGE) recommendations. Methods: Of a cohort of 48 patients, treated between 2013 and 2023, the physical radiation treatment planning with application of CT and MRI and oncologic follow-up data was analyzed. Target volume structures, comprising the high-risk clinical target volume (HR-CTV), intermediate-risk clinical target volume (IR-CTV), Point A, and corresponding EQD2(α/β=10) doses were determined. Endpoints included local tumor control, overall survival (OS), recurrence-free survival (RFS), and progression-free survival (PFS). Total OAR (D2cc) EQD2(α/β=3) doses were correlated with adverse events defined by CTCAE v5.0 and LENT-SOMA criteria. Results: Median follow-up was 58.0 months (95% CI [27.6, 88.4]). FIGO stage I was present in 7 (15%) patients, II in 13 (27%), and III in 28 (58%) patients. A total of 38 (79%) patients showed a complete remission 3 months after treatment. The 5-year event-free rate was 67.4% (95% CI [49.3, 80.3]) for OS, 77.0% (95% CI [56.7, 88.6]) for RFS and 68.1% (95% CI [49.7, 80.9]) for PFS. Incomplete radiation treatment and advanced tumor stages led to worse outcomes. Meeting Point A GGE recommendations increased chances for complete remission and could decrease chances of an event occurring for OS, PFS, and RFS. Compliance with GGE recommendations lowered the chances of OAR toxicity occurring. Conclusions: MRI-based target volume definition for brachytherapy in cervical cancer may improve patients' OS, PFS, and RFS. Time-to-event endpoints are consistent with comparable studies, and adherence to current ESGO/ESTRO/ESP guidelines is endorsed.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
title: Nogal :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: Walnut
Group identity

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
CONSTRAINTS ON THE LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE OF MID OCEAN RIDGES FROM OCEANIC CORE COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY
Creators: name: Larson, Mark Oscar
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics
subject: Marine geology
subject: geodynamics
subject: mid-atlantic ridge
subject: mid-ocean ridges
subject: Modeling
subject: OCC
subject: Ocean Core Complex

description: The Mid-oceanic ridge system is a feature unique to Earth. It is one of the fundamental components of plate tectonics and reflects interior processes of mantle convection within the Earth. The thermal structure beneath the mid-ocean ridges has been the subject of several modeling studies. It is expected that the elastic thickness of the lithosphere is larger near the transform faults that bound mid-ocean ridge segments. Oceanic core complexes (OCCs), which are generally thought to result from long-lived fault slip and elastic flexure, have a shape that is sensitive to elastic thickness. By modeling the shape of OCCs emplaced along a ridge segment, it is possible to constraint elastic thickness and therefore the thermal structure of the plate and how it varies along-axis.

This thesis builds upon previous studies that utilize thin plate flexure to reproduce the shape of OCCs. I compare OCC shape to a suite of models in which elastic thickness, fault dip, fault heave, crustal thickness, and axial infill are systematically varied. Using a grid search, I constrain the parameters that best reproduce the bathymetry and/or the slope of ten candidate OCCs identified along the 12°—15°N segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The lithospheric elastic thicknesses that explains these OCCs is thinner than previous investigators suggested and the fault planes dip more shallowly in the subsurface, although at an angle compatible with Anderson’s theory of faulting. No relationships between model parameters and an oceanic core complexes location within a segment are identified with the exception that the OCCs located less than 20km from a transform fault have slightly larger elastic thickness than OCCs in the middle of the ridge segment.
Wide Field of View Spectroscopy Using Fabry-Perot Interferometers
Creators: name: Nikoleyczik, Jonathan Allen
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astronomy
subject: Optics
subject: Chlorophyll
subject: Fabry-Perot
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: Zodiacal Light

description: We present a high resolution spectrometer consisting of dual solid Fabry-Perot Interferometers (FPIs). This work is intended to be an all inclusive documentation of the instrument including discussion of the design of this instrument, the methods used in data reduction, and the analysis of these data. Each FPI is made of a single piece of L-BBH2 glass which has a high index of refraction n~2.07 with a thickness on the order of 100 μm. Each is then coated with partially reflective mirrors to create a resonant cavity and thus achieve a spectral resolution of R~30,000. Running the FPIs in tandem reduces the overlapping orders and allows for a much wider free spectral range and higher contrast. We will also discuss the properties of the FPIs which we have measured. This includes the tuning of the FPIs which is achieved by adjusting the temperature and thus changing the FPI gap and the refractive index of the material. The spectrometer then moves spatially in order to get spectral information at every point in the field of view. We select spectral lines for further analysis and create maps of the line depths across the field. Using this technique we are able to measure the fluorescence of chlorophyll in plants and attempt to observe zodiacal light. In the chlorophyll analysis we are able to detect chlorophyll fluorescence using the line depth in a plant using the sky as a reference solar spectrum.  This instrument has possible applications in either a cubesat or aerial observations to measure bulk plant activity over large areas.
Without Prejudice Privilege: Principles, Case Law, and Exceptions
Creators: name: Ahmed Abdelgaid, Al-Awamy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: arbitration
privilege

description: Without prejudice privilege protects settlement communications by making them inadmissible in later proceedings. It grew out of eighteenth-century English law and secured firm footing in Walker v Wilsher. The paper sets out three core criteria for the privilege: a genuine dispute, a real attempt to settle, and production solely for settlement purposes. It then examines key rulings—Rush & Tompkins, Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading, and Motorola Solutions v Hytera—to show how courts have shaped the scope of without prejudice privilege. Finally, it surveys the main exceptions, including unambiguous impropriety, concluded disputes, waiver, estoppel, and disclosures limited to costs. This framework guides practitioners in applying without prejudice privilege in arbitration and litigation.
title: BLACK TEACHER PREPARATION: EXPERIENCES AT A PWI AND HBCU
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Black teachers matter. Drawing on research from the past and present, this dissertation explores the first stage of a Black teacher’s trajectory, teacher preparation. Through the lens of CRT, this multi-case study explores the experiences of Black teacher candidates, across two universities, a PWI and HBCU. Additionally, this study explores how teacher candidates choose their preparation programs and their preparedness. Findings from this study suggest that Black teacher candidates’ experiences are shaped by a sense of community, multiculturalism, Black identity and aspects of their preparation programs. Moreover, this study found differences in the experience of Black teacher candidates at the HBCU and PWI in the areas of sense of community, multiculturalism, as well the student population that they feel their programs prepare them to teach. This study also found that Black teacher candidates choose their universities for an array of reasons. Findings from this study call for teacher preparation programs to examine their practices
title: Report: Anonymous, "Executive Summary: Gananda," November 4, 1973
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, copy; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by an anonymous author, probably with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, entitled "Executive Summary: Gananda" dated November 4, 1973. In this report, the background, financial history and key issues and concerns for the Gananda New Community are discussed. Gananda is located in Wayne County, New York. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.04
title: The Effects of Extracellular Vesicle-Associated Kinases on HIV-1 Pathogenesis
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: C-Src
subject: Cell cycle
subject: Combined Antiretroviral Therapy
subject: Extracellular Vesicles
subject: HIV-1
subject: Kinases
subject: Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Molecular biology

description: As of 2020, there were 37.7 million people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1). Although great strides have been made in treatment options for HIV-1 and our understanding of the HIV-1 life cycle has vastly improved since the start of this global health crisis, a functional cure remains elusive. One of the main barriers to a cure is latency, which allows the virus to persist despite combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). Recently, we have found that extracellular vesicles (EVs), membrane-bound particles released by virtually all cell types and known to mediate intercellular communication, as being responsible for the increased transcription observed in HIV-1-latently-infected cells. This study elucidates the molecular mechanism by which EVs derived from uninfected T-cells activate latent HIV-1. Our results show that kinases present in EVs such as c-Src initiate signal cascades that culminates in increased viral transcription via the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. In addition, kinome profiling of EVs revealed that the kinases CDK10, GSK3β, and MAPK8 are differentially expressed in EVs from uninfected versus HIV-1 infected cells. These kinases were shown to be biologically active and capable of phosphorylating substrates, as well as modulate changes in the cell cycle dynamics of recipient cells. Overall, data from this study implicate EV-associated kinases as key contributors to HIV-1 pathogenesis - specifically at the transcriptional and cell cycle control levels. These findings are significant because they could serve as the basis for improving and supplementing the current antiretroviral treatment regimen.
title: Multimodal Analysis as a Framework for Studying Social Movement Rhetoric: A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives on the Counterpublic Discourse of Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks
Creators: name: DeLaCruz, Lauren
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social movement
subject: Rhetoric
subject: Public sphere
subject: Multimodality
subject: WikiLeaks
subject: Occupy Wall Street

description: This thesis argues that we should adopt a theory of social movement that is based in rhetorical principles—one that accepts social movement as changes to a set of meanings, or ideology. Instead of focusing primarily or exclusively on the resources and leadership of organizations, this thesis argues that we should study the discourse of counterpublics—the entities involved in social movement activities. By critiquing and expanding upon DeLuca’s work on image events, this thesis argues that we should examine the entire process that counterpublic discourse goes through—production, dissemination, and circulation—from a multimodal perspective. This thesis identifies Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks ix as counterpublics and examines each discourse from three perspectives— traditional, image event, and multimodal—in order to demonstrate the strengths of a multimodal theoretical framework.
Supplementary document for Tuning spin-orbit coupling and realizing inverse persistent spin helix by an extra above-barrier radiation in a GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As heterostructure - 6363365.pdf
Creators: name: Ma, Hui
name: Zhu, Yaojie
name: Chen, Y. H.
name: jiang, chongyun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: Investigation of Microbiota Associated with Rapid Tissue Loss in Captive Indo-Pacific Corals
Creators: name: Grouge, Brittany
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disease
subject: Coral reef
subject: Coral disease
subject: Coral conservation
subject: Histopathology
subject: Rickettsia

description: Many factors are known to contribute to the unprecedented decline of coral reefs, with rapid declines resulting from coral diseases. The occurrence of coral disease in closely monitored and controlled environments offers a unique opportunity to study such events. In 2011, select corals in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Indo-Pacific coral-reef aquarium underwent rapid tissue loss in 24–48 hours. Initial results indicated the presence of Gram-negative bacteria, similar to Rickettsia-like organisms (RLOs) previously observed in Caribbean corals. From 2016–2018, additional samples were collected from both diseased and apparently healthy corals for histopathological and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) examination. The samples revealed interactions between RLOs and host corals, both when corals were apparently healthy and when they were diseased, i.e., losing tissue. Corresponding environmental data were analyzed to determine if environmental parameters influenced disease outbreaks in this system. It remains unclear what environmental factors contributed to disease outbreaks in this system; however, this is the first study to attempt to analyze a combination of water quality parameters in tropical coral-reef aquariums to determine if any may be contributing factors to coral disease outbreaks. Associated organisms were present in subsamples of both apparently healthy and diseased corals, with evidence suggesting they may play a role in transmission of RLOs. Statistically significant linear relationships emerged between condition parameters in apparently healthy and diseased corals. This is the first study to histologically examine the role of RLOs in multiple Indo-Pacific coral species and explore the possible transmission of disease in a recirculating coral reef system.
title: Urban Mammal Behavior Adaptation
Creators: name: Ritzel, Kate
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Wildlife behavior change
subject: Human-dominated systems
subject: Urban environment
subject: Raccoon
subject: Comparative
subject: Urban-induced adaptation

description: As humans continue to engineer and expand urban ecosystems, extant wildlife is increasingly exposed to novel pressures that drive changes in their spatial and temporal patterns, foraging tactics, anti-predator strategies, and other behaviors. Such behavior shifts can increase the potential for conflict with humans and present other challenges to the survival of urban species. Though behavior change in some urban taxa are widely studied, research on changing behavior in urban mammals is limited. Through systematic literature review, chapter one reveals how wild urban mammals are adjusting their behavior and explores the implications of urban-induced behavior adaptation. Chapter two seeks to address the knowledge gap on behavior change in the northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) through a comparative behavior analysis of populations in urban Washington D.C. and rural northern Virginia. Results highlight the need for long-term wildlife behavior studies across a variety of urban settings to promote successful urban wildlife management and conservation.
title: Educational Empowerment, Community Development and the Disadvantaged Case Study Analysis: The Informally Housed, Internally Displaced Community Population of Bogota, Colombia; South America
Creators: name: Rincon, Edgard Jason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Development
subject: Displaced
subject: Community
subject: Colombia

description: This thesis is a descriptive analysis of how specific governmental bodies and non state organizations in Bogotá, Colombia are working to further educational advancement and community development for the largest community populations of the internally displaced social group. Educational empowerment for the internally displaced is analyzed through an examination of literature and data underlying stated government provisions, specifically created for the protection of IDP rights in the educational social sector. Equal consideration is given to specific initiatives undertaken by non state actors to advance the access to and quality of education for the internally displaced. Community development in this thesis is defined by an analysis of the infrastructure, access to state funded institutional and economic support, as well as the relationship between established periphery host communities and the internally displaced living within those communities. This study is primarily a qualitative descriptive analysis of the internally displaced living in the periphery of the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Quantitative empirical research data is introduced as a supplement to the underlying objectives of this research, and when necessary to identify the indicators of participation of the internally displaced within the educational system. Recommendations for the educational advancement and community development of the internally displaced population of Bogotá are provided in light of research findings.
InnoPrintIve: Innovative Printing initiatIve
Creators: name: Tseng, Po-Chun
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023

description: A novel Direct-ink Writing (DIW) 3D printing system for sustainable fabrication of definitive dental restorations.
Link to the latest open access publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2024.08.002
title: #COVID-19 Searching for a Relationship between Twitter Sentiment and Infectious Disease
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sentiment analysis
subject: Disease detection
subject: Twitter
subject: COVID-19
subject: Digital health data

description: Digital health data such as social media data has shown potential for identifying outbreaks faster than official records of disease incidence. The objective of this thesis 1 is to examine the relationship between COVID-19-related Tweet sentiment and COVID-19 cases over space and time and assess the extent to which Twitter-derived sentiment can be used for local COVID-19 surveillance in the United States. To our knowledge, there is no existing study that examines the relationship between Tweet sentiment and infectious disease cases at a spatially local level. The sentiment is computed using 56,755,894 Tweets from the TBCOV dataset for US counties over time. Tweet sentiment is examined with COVID-19 cases for each county globally, over time, and space using Pearson's R correlation. A negative association was observed between COVID-19 cases and the sentiment polarity of COVID- 19 tweets, but only in some regions of the US and only for some duration of the period of study. Further research is needed to understand the cause of the spatial and temporal non-stationary correlations between Twitter sentiment and COVID-19 cases. This would allow for the identification of when and where Twitter sentiment could be used as a signal for early disease outbreak warning.
title: Arabic Offensive Language Detection in Social Media
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: Studies have shown that cyberhate, online harassment, and use of offensive language in social media are on the rise. Use of offensive language, even online, creates an exclusive environment and can even foster real-world violence. Despite significant technological advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), online offensive language detection remains one of the most challenging text classification tasks due to the ambiguity and informality of the language used in user-generated content, as well as the social context of the users. Automatic offensive language detection is further complicated in languages with diverse forms and limited resources, such as Arabic. Arabic is spoken widely in the Middle East, encompasses multiple dialects and cultures, and represents a multitude of nationalities. The wide-adoption and the heterogeneity of Arabic affects also the social context that allows the interpretation and automatic recognition of offensive language. This dissertation proposes and develops methods for automatic offensive language detection for Arabic in social media. It explores transfer learning approaches to tackle this challenging task in a resource-constrained language that is rich in dialectal and cultural variations. Our studies show that: (1) advanced language models can capture the ambiguous, informal variations in the user generated text and accurately recognize offensive language; (2) different Arabic dialects can inform each other and significantly contribute to cross-dialect offensive language detection; (3) different user-generated content platforms do not add value to offensive language detection across platforms; (4) we can customize existing state of the art language models to improve their coverage of dialectal Arabic; and (5) dialectal Arabic language model outperforms the non-dialectal model on some offensive language detection datasets.
title: Noyer :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants
Walnut

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
title: Prosopon
Creators: name: Thompson, E Rhodes
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Poetry
subject: Myth
subject: Mask
subject: Identity
subject: Transgender
subject: Greco-Roman

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2029 at the earliest.
description: What makes a self? Where is the line between outward appearance and identity? This thesis is a collection of poems which examines through the artifice of Greek myth and entomology a transgender and neuro-divergent experience. Prosopon is Greek for “face” and “mask,” particularly referring to the masks of ancient Greek theater. The speaker of this collection puts on various masks—utilizing the personas of Caeneus, Medusa, and Zeus. The speaker also reaches out through encyclopedia like entries about various moths, relaying a variety of biological and folkloric information about the species. Ultimately, Prosopon reaches out to the reader, asking them to see through these layers and masks.
Impact of β-defensin 103 (DEFB103) copy number variation on bull sperm parameters and post-insemination uterine gene expression
Creators: name: Sidekli, Ozge
name: Hollox, Edward J.
name: Fair, Sean
name: Meade, Kieran G.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Pregnancy rates for elite bulls used in artificial insemination (AI) can vary significantly and therefore the identification of molecular markers for fertility and targets to improve bull selection is important. β-defensin peptides have diverse regulatory roles in sperm function across multiple species but the role of copy number variation (CNV) on fertility parameters has not been previously evaluated. In this study, Holstein-Friesian bulls were screened based on reliable field fertility data to identify two groups (High and Low fertility (HF and LF, respectively)) of n = 10 bulls/group which were genotyped for β-defensin 103 (DEFB103) gene CNV by droplet digital PCR. Overall, low DEFB103 copy number (CN) was associated with increased sperm motility across all bulls (n = 20, p < 0.05). As genetic diversity of DEFB103 CN was only apparent in the LF group, three bulls per CNV class (low, intermediate and high CN) were chosen for more detailed comparative functional analysis. Sperm from low CN bulls exhibited higher binding to the oviductal epithelium, while high CN increased sperm membrane fluidity in vitro (p < 0.05). To investigate the functional effect of DEFB103 CNV on the uterine response in vivo, 18 heifers were inseminated with sperm from bulls with low, intermediate and high CN. Transcriptomic analysis on uterine tissue harvested 12h post-insemination showed differential expression of 58 genes (FDR < 0.1) involved in sperm migration, immune signalling and chemotaxis. Although field fertility results from a complex number of interactive factors, these novel results suggest a contributory role for DEFB103 CN in both sperm function and the uterine response to bull sperm, thereby potentially contributing to pregnancy outcomes in cattle. Further analysis of the role of CNV in additional β-defensin genes in bull fertility is now warranted.
title: Report from the Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, Volume 1, Number 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
Year: 1981

description: Is the Least Government the Best Government? Claudia Mills 1 to 5 Human Rights and the "National Interest": Which Takes Priority? Claudia Mills 6 to 8 Why the Draft Is Hard to Justify A J Simmons 9 to 12 Children and the Constitution Claudia Mills 12 to 15
title: Proactive security: From evolutionary approaches to cellular automata
Creators: name: Arciszewski, Tomasz
name: Kicinger, Rafal P.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005

description: The main objective of the paper is to propose several novel approaches to security of complex infrastructure systems, which can be utilized in the development of a class of computer tools for infrastructure protection. First, the paper introduces the concept of proactive infrastructure security and compares it with reactive security. The comparison is done in the context of the generation and evaluation of both the terrorist and security scenarios, which are also introduced and described. Next, the paper discusses both the evolutionary and co-evolutionary generation of terrorist and security scenarios and discusses various computer tools, which have been developed at George Mason University for infrastructure protection. Finally, the paper briefly overviews the concept of cellular automata and proposes how cellular automata could be used in the development of computer tools for infrastructure protection. The paper ends with the initial research conclusions and various suggestions for further research.
"A WAR AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF SOCIETY": FOUNDATIONS OF POLICE MILITARIZATION IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
Creators: name: Dooling, Catherine
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Master of Liberal Arts
subject: Thesis
subject: Progressive Era Police
subject: Police militarization
subject: Vollmer, August, 1876-1955
subject: American Policing
subject: Professionalization of Policing
subject: California Police History

description: Militarization in American policing is a hotly contested topic. Often, the blame for the current state of policing is placed on legislative measures and cultural factors of the last sixty years, which have fueled police practices and provided billions in military equipment to police departments. However, militarization was in fact core to American policing from its roots in the Progressive Era (1896-1917), when policing as we understand it first took shape. At the turn of the twentieth century, America was embroiled in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, which transformed the nation into a colonial power. At the same time, the Progressive movement fomented a desire for efficiency and accountability from government services and protection of white middle-class values. At the confluence of these two factors, modern professionalized policing was born. August Vollmer (1876-1955) was a Spanish-American and Philippine-American war veteran who returned home to Berkeley, California and assumed the role of Chief of Police, where he, like other police reformers of his time, shaped his department in the image of a military body. Vollmer, remembered by history as “the father of modern police,” has a complicated legacy. While he worked to eliminate police inefficiencies and corruption, he was also a eugenicist who set policing down a militarized path leading to police brutality and oppression of Black and Brown Americans.
Mean-Flow Hydrodynamics For Outflows In Stellar Evolution Models
Creators: name: Mattsson, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Stellar winds
Hydrodynamics
AGB stars
Stellar evolution

description: Mass loss is a crucial component in stellar evolution models, since it largely determines the rate of evolution at the later stages of a star’s life. The dust-driven outflows from AGB stars are particularly important in this regard. Including AGB dust formation in a stellar evolution model does also require a model of these outflows. Since AGB stars exhibit large-amplitude pulsation, a model based on time-dependent radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) is needed in order to capture all the important physical aspects of dust formation. However, this cannot be afforded in a stellar evolution model. Here, a mean-flow model is presented, which include corrections to the steady-state model currently being used in AGB evolution models with dust formation.
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title: Developing effective communication materials on the health effects of climate change for vulnerable groups: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Kreslake, Jennifer
name: Price, Katherine M.
name: Sarfaty, Mona
Publisher: name: BioMedCentral Public Health
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chronic disease management
subject: Health communication
subject: Health literacy
subject: Health disparities
subject: Health impacts
subject: Global warming
subject: Climate change

description: Background Individuals with chronic health conditions or low socioeconomic status (SES) are more vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change. Health communication can provide information on the management of these impacts. This study tested, among vulnerable audiences, whether viewing targeted materials increases knowledge about the health impacts of climate change and strength of climate change beliefs, and whether each are associated with stronger intentions to practice recommended behaviors. Methods Low-SES respondents with chronic conditions were recruited for an online survey in six cities. Respondents were shown targeted materials illustrating the relationship between climate change and chronic conditions. Changes in knowledge and climate change beliefs (pre- and post-test) and behavioral intentions (post-test only) were tested using McNemar tests of marginal frequencies of two binary outcomes or paired t-tests, and multivariable linear regression. Qualitative interviews were conducted among target audiences to triangulate survey findings and make recommendations on the design of messages. Results Respondents (N = 122) reflected the target population regarding income, educational level and prevalence of household health conditions. (1) Knowledge. Significant increases in knowledge were found regarding: groups that are most vulnerable to heat (children [p < 0.001], individuals with heart disease [p < 0.001], or lung disease [p = 0.019]); and environmental conditions that increase allergy-producing pollen (increased heat [p = 0.003], increased carbon dioxide [p < 0.001]). (2) Strength of certainty that climate change is happening increased significantly between pre- and post-test (p < 0.001), as did belief that climate change affected respondents’ health (p < 0.001). (3) Behavioral intention. At post-test, higher knowledge of heat vulnerabilities and environmental conditions that trigger pollen allergies were associated with greater behavioral intention scores (p = 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively). In-depth interviews (N = 15) revealed that vulnerable audiences are interested in immediate-term advice on health management and protective behaviors related to their chronic conditions, but took less notice of messages about collective action to slow or stop climate change. Respondents identified both appealing and less favorable design elements in the materials. Conclusions Individuals who are vulnerable to the health effects of climate change benefit from communication materials that explain, using graphics and concise language, how climate change affects health conditions and how to engage in protective adaptation behaviors.
title: Gene Drive Technology: The Thing to Fear is Fear Itself
Creators: name: Esvelt, Kevin
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: CRISPR
subject: Gene Drive Technology

description: CRISPR gene drive systems have raised concerns due to their ability to spread through wild populations over generations, but the technology is slow, easily detected by sequencing, and readily countered by overwriting unwanted changes. Populations of humans and other organisms with long generation times cannot be directly affected, agriculture is highly resistant thanks to seed farms and selective breeding programs, and population suppression drives that might affect wild ecosystems are the most trivial to counter. The primary hazard of gene drive technology is not physical, but social: that unethical closed-door research, overhyped fears, or an unauthorized release into a wild population will damage public trust in science and governance. Sunlight, in the form of new incentives favoring pre-registration of all proposed gene drive research, is the best way to dispel the clouds of fear and uncertainty. Ensuring that research is conducted in the open could lead to external scrutiny of research plans in other fields, potentially enabling nascent technological hazards to be identified early enough to intervene.
Supplementary document for Crosstalk-free retinal projection display based on a holographic complementary viewpoint array - 6363384.pdf
Creators: name: Zi, Wang
name: Tu, Kefeng
name: Lv, Guoqiang
name: Feng, Qibin
name: Wang, Anting
name: Ming, Hai
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: The simulated and experimental results of the inter-viewpoint crosstalk
Too much git cleaning
Creators: name: Athanasia Monika Mowinckel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: git
fail
rstudio
r

description: Dr. Mowinckel's blog:   I have a type of love-hate relationship with git. While I love the idea of version control, I often find myself in a situation where I have to clean up my git history. Maybe I have committed a file that I shouldn't have, or I have made a mistake in my commit message, or I went down a path that just didn't work out. In these cases, I find myself using `git clean` or `git checkout` quite a bit. In the worst case, I'll even do a `git reset --hard` to go back to a previous commit. What all these do, is enable me to go back in time and start over. `reset` will let you go back in time even after committing, and deciding that the commit is not what you wanted. The other two help more if you haven't committed yet, but have made changes that you want to get rid of.
Supplementary document for Snapshot spectropolarimeter based on a novel six-fold separating prism operating from 360 nm to 1 µm - 7092218.pdf
Creators: name: Acher, Olivier
name: nguyen, Thanh-Liem
name: Villier, Brice
name: MELIZZI, GÉRALDINE
name: Lindberg, Arvid
name: watkins, william
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Supplementary document for Snapshot spectropolarimeter based on a novel six-fold separating prism operating from 360 nm to 1 µm - 7093766.pdf
Creators: name: Acher, Olivier
name: nguyen, Thanh-Liem
name: Villier, Brice
name: MELIZZI, GÉRALDINE
name: Lindberg, Arvid
name: watkins, william
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
पशु प्रजनन के लिए आवश्यक विटामिन और खनिज और उनके प्राकृतिक स्रोत
Creators: name: डॉ. पूजन पंड्या1 , डॉ. वरुण आसेडिया2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: इष्टतम पशु प्रजनन के लिए, आवश्यक विटामिन और खनिज दोनों युक्त संतुलित आहार महत्वपूर्ण है। ये पोषक तत्व विभिन्न शारीरिक प्रक्रियाओं जैसे हार्मोन उत्पादन, भ्रूण विकास और समग्र प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य का समर्थन करते हैं। यहां पशु प्रजनन के लिए आवश्यक विटामिन और खनिजों के साथ-साथ उनके प्राकृतिक स्रोतों का अवलोकन दिया गया है:
Supplementary document for Crosstalk-free retinal projection display based on a holographic complementary viewpoint array - 6363384.pdf
Creators: name: Zi, Wang
name: Tu, Kefeng
name: Lv, Guoqiang
name: Feng, Qibin
name: Wang, Anting
name: Ming, Hai
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: The simulated and experimental results of the inter-viewpoint crosstalk
title: Distributed Information Fusion in Communications Networks with Ad Hoc Connectivity and Non-Deterministic Link Characteristics
Creators: name: Martin, Todd
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information fusion
subject: Ad hoc networks
subject: Distributed estimation
subject: Sensor networks
subject: Wireless communications
subject: Wireless networking

description: This thesis establishes algorithms and analytical methods for implementing and evaluating distributed information fusion in networks with non-deterministic communications connectivity. The methods developed in this thesis encompass any sequence of fusion events within an arbitrary network resulting from random channel characteristics, network delays, and ad hoc networking. A distributed fusion approach is developed and proposed as a general solution for distributed fusion agents, enabling each agent to operate autonomously and collaboratively as network conditions allow. The resulting Local Fusion Graph method enables fusion agents to exchange data on an ad hoc or opportunistic basis for distributed fusion. The method’s decentralized approach is inherently able to overcome difficulties experienced by existing distributed fusion methods resulting from messages that are dropped, delayed, or received out of order. The method provides an algorithm that can be implemented into distributed fusion agents without a priori knowledge of network architecture, membership, or communications patterns. It also provides a graphical approach that can be used for analysis as well as simulation model development. A stochastic-based fusion formulation is similarly developed and proposed as a general solution for distributed estimation and trend analysis. The method encapsulates the effects of non-deterministic behaviors and characteristics into probabilistic factors that are integrated into the fusion equations. The resulting stochastic fusion method enables average estimation performance of distributed fusion networks having non-deterministic characteristics and ad hoc connectivity. The method also greatly simplifies the simulation and analysis performance approximations for distributed fusion by providing significant reductions in simulation complexity and computational requirements while using non-idealized communications characteristics. The two methods are implemented in computer-based models for distributed tracking in networks with non-deterministic connectivity. The results of the computer models are used to assess general trends in estimation capabilities with respect to average network connectivity. The analyses also address communications requirements relative to other distributed fusion approaches in the context of estimation accuracy. The results of this thesis are the ability to implement, model, and assess distributed information fusion in arbitrary communications networks with realistic communications characterizations. The solutions proposed in this thesis demonstrate increased estimation capabilities under non-ideal networking conditions that are characteristic of wireless mobile networking environments.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 20 – Open to Change
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: Are open educational resources such as iTunes U and thought-provoking dot-coms such as BigThink.com a distraction from the mission of professors and universities, or the wave of the future? Tom, Mills, and Dan debate the merits of “open access” intellectual content in the feature story. We also follow up on Dan’s experience with buying a [...]
title: The Boy Who Flew Too Far
Creators: name: Rigdon, Suzanne
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fiction
subject: Russia
subject: Folk tale
subject: Bloody Sunday

description: This thesis has been embargoed and will not be available until March 7, 2032 at the earliest.
description: When 17-year-old Alex Marin discovers a slip of paper covered in Cyrillic writing in an old Russian storybook and reads it out loud, he is transported back to the icy streets of 1905 St. Petersburg, on the eve of what Lenin would later call the “dress rehearsal for the Russian Revolution:” Bloody Sunday. He is dropped into a world of poverty, class tension, and a fracturing autocracy ruled by Tsar Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. There, he meets Oksana, a girl who lives disguised as a boy. She introduces Alex to the Inshov family: the teenaged Pyotr, his little sister, and their father, who all live in a cramped tenement in the slums made famous by Dostoyevsky. Oksana and Pyotr teach Alex how to work hard, steal without punishment, and survive the unforgiving streets. When the Tsar’s soldiers open fire on the Inshovs and other peaceful marchers carrying a workers’ petition to the Palace several days after Alex arrives, the city erupts into bloody chaos. Alex must help the family escape, knowing that by doing so, he could remain stuck in the past, never to return home.
MАKTАBGАCHА YOSHDАGI BOLАLАRNING KOORDINАTSION QOBILIYATINI RIVOJLАNTIRISH
Creators: name: Yunus Xojabaev
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada maxsus mashqlar orqali maktabgacha taʼlim muassasalaridagi bolalarni koordinatsion qobiliyatlarini rivojlantirishning ilmiyuslubiy jixatlari ochib berilgan.