cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment: Principles and Framework
Creators: name: Manola, Natalia
name: Tzouganatou, Angeliki
name: Kuchma, Iryna
name: CoARA WG on OI4RRA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Responsible Research Assessment
Open Infrastructures
CoARA
Open Science

description: This publication presents the final, community-validated framework for leveraging Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (RRA). Developed by the CoARA Working Group on OI4RRA, the framework defines the principles, characteristics, technical requirements, and governance practices that ensure open infrastructures are transparent, inclusive, technically robust, and ethically grounded. Together, these elements provide a practical foundation for assessment systems that are fair, context-aware, and globally relevant.

What’s new in this version

Incorporates extensive feedback gathered during the public consultation period (10 February – 14 March 2025).

Adds implementation guidance and alignment with CoARA commitments.

Streamlines terminology for consistency with international RRA discourse.

Key messages

Transitioning from proprietary, closed systems to community-owned open infrastructures is essential for safeguarding scholarly sovereignty and equity.

Adopting the framework helps institutions embed responsible, context-sensitive assessment practices that recognise the full spectrum of research contributions.

A forthcoming OI4RRA Readiness Checklist (derived directly from this framework) will enable organisations to perform a rapid gap analysis of candidate infrastructures.

Intended audience

Research-performing and funding organisations, infrastructure providers, librarians, policy-makers, and stakeholders aiming to advance responsible research assessment through open, community-governed infrastructures.
title: Critical assessment of G0W0 calculations for 2D materials: the example of monolayer MoS2
Creators: name: Rodrigues Pela, Ronaldo
name: Vona, Cecilia
name: Lubeck, Sven
name: Alex, Ben
name: Gonzalez Oliva, Ignacio
name: Draxl, Claudia
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Electronic properties and materials
subject: Electronic structure
subject: Two-dimensional materials
subject: 004 Informatik

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials combine many fascinating properties that make them more interesting than their three-dimensional counterparts for a variety of applications. For example, 2D materials exhibit stronger electron-phonon and electron-hole interactions, and their energy gaps and effective carrier masses can be easily tuned. Surprisingly, published band gaps of several 2D materials obtained with the GW approach, the state-of-the-art in electronic-structure calculations, are quite scattered. The details of these calculations, such as the underlying geometry, the starting point, the inclusion of spin-orbit coupling, and the treatment of the Coulomb potential can critically determine how accurate the results are. Taking monolayer MoS2 as a representative material, we employ the linearized augmented planewave + local orbital method to systematically investigate how all these aspects affect the quality of G0W0 calculations, and also provide a summary of literature data. We conclude that the best overall agreement with experiments and coupled-cluster calculations is found for G0W0 results with HSE06 as a starting point including spin-orbit coupling, a truncated Coulomb potential, and an analytical treatment of the singularity at q = 0.
title: Υγιεινή σε βιομηχανίες παραγωγής αρτοσκευασμάτων : CIP συστήματα καθαρισμού και έλεγχος μιασμάτων
title: Hygiene in bakery production industries : CIP systems and Pest Control
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Τροχούτσου, Αντωνία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cleaning In Place
CIP
Συστήματα καθαρισμού
Αρτοβιομηχανία
Έλεγχος μιασμάτων
Pest Control

description: Η διασφάλιση της ασφάλειας και την ποιότητας των παραγόμενων προϊόντων μιας εταιρίας αποτελεί τη βάση οποιασδήποτε παραγωγικής διαδικασίας. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζει ένα ιδιαίτερο και ταυτοχρόνως αποτελεσματικό σύστημα καθαρισμού Cleaning In Place (CIP) καθώς και την διαχείριση παρασίτων στην αρτοβιομηχανία. Σήμερα το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα αποτελεί το πιο γρήγορο και αποτελεσματικό κλειστό σύστημα καθαρισμού, εξασφαλίζοντας την ποιότητα, την ασφάλεια, την γρήγορη και αποτελεσματική καθαριότητα. Υπάρχουν τέσσερις παράγοντες (μηχανική δύναμη, χημική δράση, εφαρμογή θερμότητας, χρόνος) που δύναται να προσαρμόζονται στο σύστημα ανάλογα τις ανάγκες της κάθε βιομηχανίας. Επιπλέον, παρουσιάζονται όλοι οι χρησιμοποιούμενοι τύποι του συστήματος. Αναπτύσσεται πλήρως το πρωτόκολλο που χρησιμοποιείται στην αρτοβιομηχανία, οι λόγοι και οι ανάγκες που προκλήθηκαν ώστε να αναπτυχθεί το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα. Επιπλέον, δίνεται πλήρης αναφορά στην λειτουργικότητα και τα χαρακτηριστικά της υγρής μαγιάς καθώς και οι λόγοι για τους οποίους επιλέχθηκε το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα. Όπως θα ειπωθεί και στην συνέχεια η υγρή μαγιά αποτελεί ύλη μικροβιολογικά ευαίσθητη και μπορεί να δημιουργήσει έντονα παραγωγικά προβλήματα. Πάνω σε αυτό το στοιχείο προσαρμόζεται το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα με στόχο να εξαλείψει οποιοδήποτε πρόβλημα μπορεί να προκαλέσει στο σύστημα η δράση της υγρής μαγιάς. Τέλος, κομμάτι της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας αποτελεί και η διαχείριση παρασίτων στην αρτοβιομηχανία. Η τήρηση ορθών πρακτικών, η σωστή και τακτική εκπαίδευση του προσωπικού αποτελούν βασικό κομμάτι για την αποτελεσματική διαχείριση και παρουσία των παρασίτων.
Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment: Principles and Framework
Creators: name: Manola, Natalia
name: Tzouganatou, Angeliki
name: Kuchma, Iryna
name: CoARA WG on OI4RRA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Responsible Research Assessment
Open Infrastructures
CoARA
Open Science

description: The publication, produced in the context of the CoARA Working Group on Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA), presents a comprehensive framework for leveraging Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment. It defines key principles, characterisics, technical requirements and governance practices that ensure Open Infrastructures are transparent, inclusive, and capable of supporting fair and responsible research assessment. The report outlines the necessity of transitioning from proprietary systems to community-driven infrastructures, emphasizing technical robustness, operational capacity, community-centred and ethical & inclusive practices. 

The framework is open for public consultation until 14.03.2025, please after you read the document, fill out the evaluation form available here: https://forms.gle/wiXjTUfNCYN9xKAG9
Baccalaureate Service, 1940
Creators: name: State Teachers College
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: State Teachers College
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Baccalaureate service program for June 9, 1940, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
title: Paper: Precepts of Good Education/Management: How Good Practice is Violated (A Summary Statement), Fall, 1996
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: University

description: Manuscript: typescript 2 pgs. 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: Identifies fundamental problems with the University. They are :"inadequate communications (2 points), inadequate infrastructure (2 points), and inadequate quality in learning opportunities (3 main areas: inadequate academic quality in educational practice (4 points), inadequate internal human relations, and inadequate administrative decision making (6 points)." John N. Warfield Collection 93.2
title: A phosphate starvation induced small RNA promotes Bacillus biofilm formation
Creators: name: Li, Yulong
name: Cao, Xianming
name: Chai, Yunrong
name: Chen, Ruofu
name: Zhao, Yinjuan
name: Borriss, Rainer
name: Ding, Xiaolei
name: Wu, Xiaoqin
name: Ye, Jianren
name: Hao, Dejun
name: He, Jian
name: Wang, Guibin
name: Cao, Mingmin
name: Jiang, Chunliang
name: Han, Zhengmin
name: Fan, Ben
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bacteriology
subject: Biofilms
subject: 570 Biologie

description: Currently, almost all known regulators involved in bacterial phosphorus metabolism are proteins. In this study, we identified a conserved new small regulatory RNA (sRNA), named PhoS, encoded in the 3’ untranslated region (UTR) of the phoPR genes in Bacillus velezensis and B. subtilis . Expression of phoS is strongly induced upon phosphorus scarcity and stimulated by the transcription factor PhoP. Conversely, PhoS positively regulates PhoP translation by binding to the ribosome binding site (RBS) of phoP mRNA. PhoS can promote Bacillus biofilm formation through, at least in part, enhancing the expression of the matrix-related genes, such as the eps genes and the tapA-sipW-tasA operon. The positive regulation of phoP expression by PhoS contributes to the promoting effect of PhoS on biofilm formation. sRNAs regulating biofilm formation have rarely been reported in gram-positive Bacillus species. Here we highlight the significance of sRNAs involved in two important biological processes: phosphate metabolism and biofilm formation.
Baccalaureate Service, 1941
Creators: name: State Teachers College
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1941
Subjects: subject: State Teachers College
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Baccalaureate service program for June 8, 1941, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century
Creators: name: Nikolić, Stefan
name: Novokmet, Filip
name: Larysz, Piotr Paweł
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Income inequality
subject: Social tables
subject: Bulgaria
subject: Czechoslovakia
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: This article provides novel estimates of long-term income inequality in Bulgaria and Czech Lands/Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Relying on newly-constructed datasets and the social tables approach, we measure inequality between salient social strata. We find that Czechoslovakia was significantly more unequal than Bulgaria before 1945. Inequality converged to similarly low levels under socialism. Decomposition analysis by social classes reveals that different levels of inequality in the first half of the century were principally driven by higher within social-class inequality in Czechoslovakia, owing to a more stratified industrial society; whereas a low dispersion within the dominant agricultural sector held down the within social-class component in Bulgaria. A dramatic fall in total inequality after 1945 was a result of the social revolution that encompassed the virtual disappearance of between social-class inequality and a marked reduction in within social-class inequality. Our findings point to the critical role of institutional and political factors in driving inequality in Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century.
Learning Quantum Processes Without Input Control
Creators: name: Fanizza, Marco
name: Quek, Yihui
name: Rosati, Matteo
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum algorithms & computation
subject: Quantum metrology
subject: Quantum parameter estimation
subject: Quantum tomography
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: We introduce a general statistical learning theory for processes that take as input a classical random variable and output a quantum state. Our setting is motivated by the practical situation in which one desires to learn a quantum process governed by classical parameters that are out of one’s control. This framework is applicable, for example, to the study of astronomical phenomena, disordered systems and biological processes not controlled by the observer. We provide an algorithm for learning with high probability in this setting with a finite amount of samples, even if the concept class is infinite. To do this, we review and adapt existing algorithms for shadow tomography and hypothesis selection, and combine their guarantees with the uniform convergence on the data of the loss functions of interest. As a byproduct, we obtain sufficient conditions for performing shadow tomography of classical-quantum states with a number of copies, which depends on the dimension of the quantum register, but not on the dimension of the classical one. We give concrete examples of processes that can be learned in this manner, based on quantum circuits or physically motivated classes, such as systems governed by Hamiltonians with random perturbations or data-dependent phase shifts.
title: The Sleep Series: Sarah Irvin
Creators: name: Smith, Anne
Publisher: name: Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Visual art
subject: Infants and sleep
subject: Watercolor
subject: Maternal thinking
subject: Maternal theory
subject: Mother studies

description: Exhibition Catalog from The Sleep Series exhibit at the Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University
description: Fenwick Gallery is proud to exhibit The Sleep Series by Sarah Irvin, part of a larger project called A Bringing Forth. This series of more than 100 watercolors was produced by Irvin in intervals— that is, while her infant daughter napped. Irvin marked the time in tick marks of various sizes and shades of blue. Some longer naps span several pieces of paper, containing hundreds of tick marks. Other naps were clearly very short, with not enough time, even, for Irvin to fill a single page. Within The Sleep Series are titles such as November 4, Morning Nap; November 19, Midday Nap, and December 18, Afternoon Nap. Each recorded nap is separated by a blank page, a pause in the activities of sleep and counting, measuring, working and waiting. Of course, a pause here is not really a pause, because it means that baby is awake. Activities of waking and caregiving happen in these intervals, which Irvin measures and records in other series within A Bringing Forth . Irvin likens the recorded naps to “words in one long sentence,” the blank pages like the spaces between words. Installed in a single row, The Sleep Series covers approximately 50 linear feet—the entire length of usable wall space in the gallery. To read the series from left to right truly is like reading one long sentence and the duration of the piece is powerful: on one hand, quiet and steady and on the other, bustling with the activity of a baby’s brain in sleep and the work of an artistmother.
title: Sketching the spatial disparities in heatwave trends by changing atmospheric teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere
Creators: name: Cai, Fenying
name: Liu, Caihong
name: Gerten, Dieter
name: Yang, Song
name: Zhang, Tuantuan
name: Li, Kaiwen
name: Kurths, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: Pronounced spatial disparities in heatwave trends are bound up with a diversity of atmospheric signals with complex variations, including different phases and wavenumbers. However, assessing their relationships quantitatively remains a challenging problem. Here, we use a network-searching approach to identify the strengths of heatwave-related atmospheric teleconnections (AT) with ERA5 reanalysis data. This way, we quantify the close links between heatwave intensity and AT in the Northern Hemisphere. Approximately half of the interannual variability of heatwaves is explained and nearly 80% of the zonally asymmetric trend signs are estimated correctly by the AT changes in the mid-latitudes. We also uncover that the likelihood of extremely hot summers has increased sharply by a factor of 4.5 after 2000 over areas with enhanced AT, but remained almost unchanged over the areas with attenuated AT. Furthermore, reproducing Eastern European heatwave trends among various models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 largely depends on the simulated Eurasian AT changes, highlighting the potentially significant impact of AT shifts on the simulation and projection of heatwaves.
ВОЯГА ЕТМАГАНЛАРНИ ИЖТИМОИЙ-ҲУҚУҚИЙ ЁРДАМ КЎРСАТИШ МАРКАЗИГА ЖОЙЛАШТИРИШ
Creators: name: Мирахмадова, Гулноза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Вояга етмаганларни ижтимоий-ҳуқуқий ёрдам кўрсатиш марказларига жойлаштириш масаласи унинг ҳуқуқий асослари, фаолият механизмлари ва жамиятдаги ўрни нуқтаи назаридан кўриб чиқилади. Бундай марказларнинг вояга етмаганларнинг ижтимоий хавфсизлигини таъминлаш, турли таҳдидлардан ҳимоя қилиш, таълим ва реабилитация соҳасида ёрдам кўрсатишдаги аҳамияти ёритилади. Марказлар фаолиятида учрайдиган муаммолар ва уларни ҳал этиш чораларига, жумладан, мутахассислар роли ҳамда давлат ташкилотлари билан ҳамкорлик масалаларига эътибор қаратилади. Шунингдек, вояга етмаганларни жамиятга мослаштириш ва уларнинг ижтимоий интеграциясини таъминлаш йўналишида марказлар самарадорлигини ошириш бўйича амалий тавсиялар келтирилади.
title: Between the Times – and Sometimes Beyond: An Essay in Dialectical Theology and its Critique of Religion and “Religion”
Creators: name: Von Sass, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dialectical Theology
subject: Barth
subject: Brunner
subject: Bultmann
subject: Tillich
subject: Gogarten
subject: the concept of religion
subject: 200 Religion

description: This paper gives a systematic account of Dialectical Theology (DT) and its surprisingly ramified usage of the concept of religion on the backdrop of recent debates about the “return of religion.” First, the positional context between Schleiermacher and Barth is sketched. Second, the highly divergent positions of Bultmann, Barth, Brunner as well as Gogarten and Tillich are presented – always in regard to their sometimes programmatic, sometimes rather hidden references to “religion” between its facticity and normativity. Third and by way of conclusion, it is suggested to restrict “religion” as a concept to non-theological disciplines, i.e., to treat “religion” as a strictly empirical and sociological term, whereas theology is concerned with faith that belongs to a very different game than religion, as DT helps to clarify.
Quantifying the impacts of varying groundwater table depths on cotton evapotranspiration, yield, water use efficiency, and root zone salinity using lysimeters
Creators: name: Gul, Nazar
name: Mangrio, Munir Ahmed
name: Shaikh, Irfan Ahmed
name: Siyal, Abdul Ghafoor
name: Semiromi, Majid Taie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cotton evapotranspiration
subject: Groundwater contribution
subject: Root zone salinity
subject: Water use efficiency
subject: Water table depth
subject: Lysimeter
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Determining the evapotranspiration (ET) of cotton as a water-intensive crop is crucial for effective irrigation planning and water management, especially in regions like Sindh province, Pakistan, where shallow groundwater table depths (WTDs) are prevalent. Despite the importance of cotton, a major cash crop in Sindh, previous studies on ET were conducted decades ago and may no longer be reliable due to ongoing climate change and the introduction of new crop varieties. Thus, we quantified cotton ET across two cropping seasons and at various WTDs (0.45, 0.60, 0.75, 1.50, 2.25, and 2.75 m). The experimental study was based on the data procured from 12 mini lysimeters and 12 large lysimeters for two years (2018 and 2019) and at two soil series. The findings revealed that cotton ET ranged from 1332 to 1437, 1114–1202, 988–1075, 781–821, 690–733, and 637–683 mm at WTDs of 0.45, 0.60, 0.75, 1.50, 2.25, and 2.75 m, respectively. WTDs from 0.45 to 0.75 m fulfilled 94–96 % of cotton ET through groundwater (GW) contribution in Sultanpur soil (silt loam) and 93–97 % in Miani soil (silty clay loam). At 1.50–2.75 m WTDs, irrigation water requirements (excluding rainfall and leaching) were 63–88 % in Sultanpur soil and 67–89 % in Miani soil. The highest yield was observed at a 1.50 m WTD, while the highest water use efficiency was identified at a 2.25 m WTD. However, soil salinity increased by 60–80 %, resulting in a 40–60 % lower cotton yield at 0.45–0.75 m WTD. Therefore, periodic flushing of salts is necessary to utilize shallow WTDs effectively. Considering GW contribution to ET when allocating water for irrigation channels and devising irrigation schedules is crucial. This approach can lead to water savings, prevent land from becoming waterlogged and saline, manage the groundwater table, and reduce the need for drainage channels and labor force for their preparation.
Uso de autômatos celulares para evacuação de pedestres em situação de incêndio
Creators: name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
name: Gonçalves, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Applied Physics

description: A dinâmica populacional em ambientes fechados vem sendo alvo de vários estudos devido a importância em projetos de segurança predial, já que tais locais costumam ter uma intensa aglomeração de pessoas, sendo o risco de acidentes ocorrerem sempre presente, resultando na necessidade de uma evacuação emergencial. Assim, os autômatos celulares surgem como ferramenta para reprodução e simulação desses fenômenos. Os autômatos celulares são modelos matemáticos computacionais discretos que demonstram a evolução espaço-temporal de diversos sistemas. O presente projeto consistiu na implementação em linguagem de programação C padrão, os modelos precursores de VARAS et al (2007) e ALIZADEH (2011), além do mecanismo de propagação de incêndios adaptados de LIMA e LIMA (2014). Após isso, foram realizados diversos tipos de simulações com o emprego do parâmetro de focos de incêndio e também sem a adição deles. A partir dessas simulações pudemos determinar um par de portas com o menor tempo de evacuação e realizar testes variando a quantidade de pedestres, que demonstraram que a média de evacuação aumenta de acordo com o aumento de pedestres. Além disso, a formação de filas nas saídas, causadas pelo gargalo dos sistemas, não foi alterada pela presença do fogo. Posteriormente o modelo será refinado com a adição de mecanismos mais sofisticados de movimentação.
Invited review: Nutritional and management factors that influence colostrum production and composition in dairy cows
Creators: name: Westhoff, T. A.
name: Borchardt, Stefan
name: Mann, S.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: colostrum
subject: nutrition
subject: management
subject: immunoglobulin G
subject: colostrogenesis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Colostrum is a rich source of nutritional and non-nutritional components and is recognized as essential to transfer passive immunity to newborn calves. Because of the individual and seasonal variability in colostrum yield and composition, maintaining an adequate supply of high-quality colostrum year-round remains a challenge for commercial dairy producers. In this narrative review, we described the individual, seasonal, and herd-level variability of colostrum production and summarized the association between individual animal factors such as parity, sex of the calf, calf birth weight, as well as indicators of the cow's metabolic status and the yield and composition of colostrum. Further, we reviewed the current knowledge on the influence of prepartum nutrition and management strategies on colostrum production. Research on the metabolizable energy and protein supplied in the prepartum diet as well as on the inclusion and source of vitamins, minerals, and feed additives suggests prepartum nutrition influences the yield, quality, and composition of colostrum. Furthermore, the prepartum environment and dry period length remain influential factors in the production of colostrum. However, additional research is needed to understand the mechanisms by which prepartum nutrition and management affect colostrum production. Finally, time from calving to colostrum harvest and oxytocin administration as well as the current knowledge on the effect of heat treatment and colostrum storage strategies on colostral components were discussed. To conclude, we identify critical gaps in knowledge for future focus of investigation in colostrum research.
title: At Work and At War: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Combat Job Descriptions on GoArmy.com
Creators: name: Graham, James
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Military
subject: Army
subject: Recruiting
subject: Manipulation
subject: Rhetoric
subject: Euphemism

description: Since the end of conscription in the early 1970s, the US Army has needed to convince potential recruits to consider enlistment, and with the advent of the Internet, this discourse gained range and persistence like never before. These benefits have been put to effective use in supporting the recent occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the personnel strains of which have made recruiting discourse more important than ever. The Army has historically been subject to criticism for its recruiting practices, which even in peacetime have drawn fire from media, scholarly and advertising industry sources for the tendency to be one-sided at best and outright deceptive at worst. Existing scholarship, however, has focused on previous or historical forms of this discourse, and no research has yet focused on the unique form this discourse takes today. This study examines how the service currently represents combat jobs to potential recruits. I conduct a critical discourse analysis of the combat job descriptions on the Army‘s recruiting website goarmy.com to identify the means by which the Army‘s recruiting discourse constructs the modern combat soldier‘s work. In conclusion, I show how this discourse obscures the less-attractive aspects of the combat soldier‘s work, such as physical, moral and psychological hazards while foregrounding other, more attractive potential aspects of service, such as technology skills and training. These discursive strategies have social and cognitive effects that constitute a unique type of power imbalance—manipulation—in that it seeks to convince the audience to take action that is decidedly against their own interests and in the interests of the Army.
Refugees and Volunteering in Uganda - Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda Working Paper 2
Creators: name: Turyamureeba, Robert
name: Ahimbisibwe, Frank
name: Fadel, Bianca
name: O’Loghlen, Aisling
Publisher: name: Northumbria University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440602
subject: Development geography
classificationCode: 440403
subject: Labour, migration and development

description: This Working Paper is part of the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) project, an interdisciplinary research project funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This Working Paper 2 is co-authored by Dr Robert Turyamureeba, Dr Frank Ahimbisibwe, Dr Bianca Fadel and Dr Aisling O’Loghlen and explores initial findings on volunteering experiences among youth refugees in Uganda.
Human iPSC-Derived Neurons with Reliable Synapses and Large Presynaptic Action Potentials
Creators: name: Bullmann, Torsten
name: Kaas, Thomas
name: Ritzau-Jost, Andreas
name: Wöhner, Anne
name: Kirmann, Toni
name: Rizalar, Filiz Sila
name: Holzer, Max
name: Nerlich, Jana
name: Puchkov, Dmytro
name: Haucke, Volker
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: action potential
subject: human
subject: iPSC
subject: presynaptic
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Understanding the function of the human brain requires determining basic properties of synaptic transmission in human neurons. One of the most fundamental parameters controlling neurotransmitter release is the presynaptic action potential, but its amplitude and duration remain controversial. Presynaptic action potentials have so far been measured with high temporal resolution only in a limited number of vertebrate but not in human neurons. To uncover properties of human presynaptic action potentials, we exploited recently developed tools to generate human glutamatergic neurons by transient expression of Neurogenin 2 (Ngn2) in pluripotent stem cells. During maturation for 3 to 9 weeks of culturing in different established media, the proportion of cells with multiple axon initial segments decreased, while the amount of axonal tau protein and neuronal excitability increased. Super-resolution microscopy revealed the alignment of the pre- and postsynaptic proteins, Bassoon and Homer. Synaptic transmission was surprisingly reliable at frequencies of 20, 50, and 100 Hz. The synchronicity of synaptic transmission during high-frequency transmission increased during 9 weeks of neuronal maturation. To analyze the mechanisms of synchronous high-frequency glutamate release, we developed direct presynaptic patch-clamp recordings from human neurons. The presynaptic action potentials had large overshoots to ∼25 mV and short durations of ∼0.5 ms. Our findings show that Ngn2-induced neurons represent an elegant model system allowing for functional, structural, and molecular analyses of glutamatergic synaptic transmission with high spatiotemporal resolution in human neurons. Furthermore, our data predict that glutamatergic transmission is mediated by large and rapid presynaptic action potentials in the human brain.
title: University Leadership
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Administration
subject: George Mason University
subject: Website

description: Web archive of http://administration.gmu.edu. Home pages of sites that were linked to were captured. Created using www.webrecorder.io. The WARC file must be opened using a website such as Conifer, https://conifer.rhizome.org, (formerly Webrecorder.io).
description: University Leadership is a website that provides an overview of the administrative positions at George Mason University. The site links out to the schools, colleges, and administrative centers around campus. It also provides a brief biographical sketch of the members of the President's Council.
Exploring Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Gentrification Processes in Intracity Slums in the Lagos Megacity
Creators: name: Obaitor, Olabisi S.
name: Stellmes, Marion
name: Lakes, Tobia
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: slum gentrification
subject: deprivation
subject: Lagos
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: There have been increasing calls in gentrification studies to examine the geography of gentrification in slums, as little is known about the patterns and processes of slum gentrification, especially in sub-Saharan African cities where slums house over 50% of the urban population. This study explored the spatiotemporal changes in slums in Lagos, Nigeria, between 1984 and 20 on the pattern and drivers of gentrification. Data were collected from 42 slums in Lagos through remote sensing (1984–2020) and a field survey (2020–2021). The study integrated geospatial analysis with quantitative and qualitative analysis to investigate the patterns and drivers of gentrification in Lagos slums. The findings show that between 1984 and 2020, all the sampled slums had undergone gentrification processes, apart from those that were completely cleared. However, many slums continue to have deprived areas as they continue to gentrify. Almost all the slum communities have experienced slum clearance in the past. Additionally, the current and new housing developments in the study have favored middle- to high-income groups, which has led to the displacement of previous slum residents. The study identified slum clearance, fires and floodings, the presence of palaces in the community, the proportion of deprived areas in 1984, government interest in the slum, and the size of the church as drivers of slum gentrification processes in Lagos. Finally, the findings show that the vulnerability of slum dwellers increases with slum gentrification. Therefore, this study recommended developing policies and programs, such as sustainable relocation and low-cost housing, to mitigate the negative consequences of slum gentrification, especially in cities with significant shares of low-income groups.
A survey of foodborne disease knowledge and behaviours for Asian international students at the University of Guelph and York University
Creators: name: Buxin  Tan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: College students have been identified as a new emerging susceptible group are exposed to the risks of foodborne disease (FBD) because they tend to have limited food safety knowledge, unsafe food handling behaviours, risky eating behaviours, and lack of  awareness of FBD.

28.6% of the international students in eight American universities self-reported that they were suspected to have become sick from FBD in 2008(2). Very few similar studies have been conducted among international students in Canada.

A survey that assessed the FBD knowledge levels, food safety behaviours was conducted among Asian international students at two Canadian universities in 2016.
title: Prioritizing Sustainability Projects with Low Market Value in Institutions of Higher Education: a green roof case study
Creators: name: Storm, Lenna A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Green roof
subject: Sustainability in higher education
subject: Non-market benefit
subject: Market failure
subject: Information asymmetry

description: This thesis adds to the body of knowledge available to decision makers in higher education by presenting a framework for why valuable sustainability projects are often not pursued on university campuses, and offers one approach to overcoming the perceived financial obstacles for making investments in sustainability projects. The framework is tested and verified through the evaluation of the benefits and costs of a green roof case study at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. It is concluded that the traditional approach to cost-benefit analysis is woefully insufficient at assessing the true value of sustainability projects in higher education. However, with the inclusion of valuing the environmental and social benefits of these projects, cost-benefit analysis not only becomes more accurate, but the process itself can catalyze latent interest in the use of sustainability projects to enhance teaching and research. Therefore, establishing standardized processes and communication methods to support the conduct of a costbenefit analysis of any sustainability project in higher education are critical components to ensuring the success of the exercise.
title: A Matrix Isolation and Computational Study of the Water-Sulfur Hexafluoride Van Der Waals Complex
Creators: name: Leninger, Allison
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Matrix isolation
subject: Global warming
subject: Greenhouse gas
subject: Computational chemistry

description: This thesis describes the theoretical and experimental studies of the H2O-SF6 Van der Waals complex as well as the H2O-NF3 complex. Both SF6 and NF3 are extremely potent greenhouse gases and therefore cause significant concern when released into the atmosphere as industrial waste. Until recently the actual atmospheric burden of these two gases was not fully understood when better atmospheric modeling suggested that they have a larger impact on the rising global temperatures than once believed. Additionally, complexation with abundant water molecules in the atmosphere causes the wavelengths at which these molecules absorb infrared radiation to change, making it impossible to accurately model the global climate without taking this fact into account. Therefore, presented here is an in depth investigation into the water molecule interactions of both SF6 and NF3 in an effort to better understand the impact of these greenhouse gas pollutants on our planet.
MetaTreeMap: A new visualization of metagenomic phylogenic trees
Creators: name: Hebrard, Maxime
name: Taylor, Todd D.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Metagenomic samples can contain hundreds or thousands of different species. The most common method to identify these species is to sequence the samples and then classify the reads to nodes along a phylogenic tree. Linear representations of trees with so many nodes face legibility issues. In addition, such views are not optimal for appreciating the read quantity assigned to each node. The problem is exaggerated when comparison between multiple samples is needed. MetaTreeMap adapts a visualization method that addresses these weaknesses.

A treemap represents a hierarchy as nested rectangles. Each element of the hierarchy (node) is converted to a rectangle. Each sub-node is then a sub-rectangle. In addition, the area of each rectangle is proportional to the associated quantity (assigned read number). The final result is a tile-like figure where the larger tiles represent the more abundant species in the dataset.

Our tool uses treemaps to enhance the display of phylogenic trees and allows researchers to easily browse through depth levels by rank selections, by color changes, by zoom events and search functions. We also display a synchronized spreadsheet (same color and zoom functions). Furthermore, multiples samples can be loaded and visualized at the same time allowing visual and numerical comparison.

The goal of this software is to provide the user with the ability to easily display phylogenic trees based on various quantities assigned to the nodes, such as read number, read percentage or other values. The tool can be used online at http://metasystems.riken.jp/visualization/treemap/.
Durga: an R package for effect size estimation and visualization
Creators: name: Khan, Md Kawsar
name: Mclean, Donald James
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: graphing software
subject: p-value
subject: data analysis
subject: data visualization
subject: estimation statistics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Statistical analysis and data visualization are integral parts of science communication. One of the major issues in current data analysis practice is an overdependency on—and misuse of—p-values. Researchers have been advocating for the estimation and reporting of effect sizes for quantitative research to enhance the clarity and effectiveness of data analysis. Reporting effect sizes in scientific publications has until now been mainly limited to numeric tables, even though effect size plotting is a more effective means of communicating results. We have developed the Durga R package for estimating and plotting effect sizes for paired and unpaired group comparisons. Durga allows users to estimate unstandardized and standardized effect sizes and bootstrapped confidence intervals of the effect sizes. The central functionality of Durga is to combine effect size visualizations with traditional plotting methods. Durga is a powerful statistical and data visualization package that is easy to use, providing the flexibility to estimate effect sizes of paired and unpaired data using different statistical methods. Durga provides a plethora of options for plotting effect size, which allows users to plot data in the most informative and aesthetic way. Here, we introduce the package and its various functions. We further describe a workflow for estimating and plotting effect sizes using example data sets.
title: T-Shirt: Mason Patriots NCAA Sweet Sixteen, ca. March, 2006
Creators: name: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University
subject: Basketball
subject: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
subject: Sweet Sixteen

description: T-Shirt: color, size xx large
description: Official NCAA Mason Patriots t-shirt for the Sweet Sixteen game with Wichita State. 2005-06 Men's Basketball Season and Tournament Run Collection Box 4
Multi-wall carbon Nanotube surface-based functional nanoparticles for stimuli-responsive dual pharmaceutical compound delivery
Creators: name: Nabitabar, Masoumeh
name: Shaterian, Maryam
name: Danafar, Hossein
name: Enhessari, Morteza
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Drug delivery
subject: Breast cancer
subject: ƒ-MWCNT
subject: Load-release
subject: MTT assay
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have the potential to serve as delivery systems for medicinal substances and gene treatments, particularly in cancer treatment. Co-delivery of curcumin (CUR) and Methotrexate (MTX) has shown promise in cancer treatment, as it uses fewer drugs and has fewer side effects. This study used MTX-conjugated albumin (BSA)-based nanoparticles (BSA-MTX) to enhance and assess the efficiency of CUR. In-vitro cytotoxicity tests, DLS, TEM, FTIR, UV/Vis, SEM, and DSC studies assessed the formulations' physical and chemical properties. The Proteinase K enzyme was used to severe amidic linkages between MTX and BSA. The findings demonstrated the efficacy of using ƒ-MWCNT-CUR-BSA-MTX as a vehicle for efficient co-delivery of CUR and MTX in cancer treatment. The MTT colorimetric method was used to evaluate the effect of chemical and medicinal compounds. Cell division was studied using the MTT method to investigate the effect of pure MWCNT, pure CUR, MTX-BSA, and ƒ-MWCNT-CUR-MTX-BSA. Studies on cell lines have shown that the combination of curcumin and MTX with CNT can increase and improve the effectiveness of both drugs against cancer. A combination of drugs curcumin and methotrexate simultaneously had a synergistic effect on MCF-7 cells, which indicated that these drugs could potentially be used as a strategy for both prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Also, ƒ-MWCNT-CUR-MTX-BSA was found to have a significant effect on cancer treatment with minimal toxicity compared to pure curcumin, pure MTX-BSA, MTX, and ƒ-MWCNT alone. Unique properties such as a high ratio of specific surface area to volume, high chemical stability, chemical adsorption ability, high capacity of drug and biomolecules of carbon nanotubes, as well as multiple drug loading at the same time The combination of ƒ-MWCNT-CUR-BSA MTX significantly impacts cancer therapy), are desirable as an alternative option for targeted drug delivery and high therapeutic efficiency.
Baccalaureate Service, 1942
Creators: name: State Teachers College
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1942
Subjects: subject: State Teachers College
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Baccalaureate service program for May 24, 1942, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
CLOSED-LOOP AFFERENT NERVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATION FOR REHABILITATION OF HAND FUNCTION IN SUBJECTS WITH INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY
Creators: name: Schildt, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bioelectric and Neuroengineering
subject: Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation

description: Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is commonly used to promote use-dependent cortical plasticity for rehabilitation of motor function in spinal cord injury. Pairing transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with PNS has been shown to increase motor evoked potentials most when the two stimuli are timed to arrive in the cortex simultaneously. This suggests that a mechanism of timing-dependent plasticity (TDP) may be a more effective method of promoting motor rehabilitation. The following thesis is the result of applying a brain-computer interface to apply PNS in closed-loop simultaneously to movement intention onset as measured by EEG of the sensorimotor cortex to test whether TDP can be induced in incomplete spinal cord injured individuals with upper limb motor impairment. 4 motor incomplete SCI subjects have completed 12 sessions of closed-loop PNS delivered over 4-6 weeks. Benefit was observed for every subject although not consistently across metrics. 3 out of 4 subjects exhibited increased maximum voluntary contraction force (MVCF) between first and last interventions for one or both hands. TMS-measured motor map volume increased for both hemispheres in one subject, and TMS center of gravity shifted in 3 subjects consistent with studies in which motor function improved or was restored. These observations suggest that rehabilitation using similar designs for responsive stimulation could improve motor impairment in SCI.
Supplementary document for Nonlinear microscopy and deep learning classification for mammary gland microenvironment studies - 6360838.pdf
Creators: name: Aghigh, Arash
name: Preston, SAMUEL
name: Jargot, Gaetan
name: Ibrahim, Heide
name: Del Rincón, Sonia
name: Légaré, François
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: H&E images of samples and MS-SSIM metric table
questionnaire.pdf
Creators: name: Abdul Rahman, MohdNazri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing

description: Questionnaire for the paper: PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON POLICIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN SELECTED STATES OF MALAYSIA