cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Twaweza Evaluation Final Report
Creators: name: Rossman, Gretchen
name: Evans, David R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Research
subject: Community Development

description: This is a summary 2-page document that submitted to Rakesh Rajani, Head, Twaweza Catherine Kell, Learning & Communications Manager, Twaweza
description: This report covers the period October 1, 2009, through June 15, 2010, the effective date of the termination agreement. The sections of this report include: activities during this period; management, financial, and technical reports submitted; and a list of reports to be submitted.
Four Methods for Engaging Students with Socratic Teaching Techniques in Large Enrollment STEM Courses Using Notecards
Creators: name: Schwebach, Reid
name: Johnson, Alex
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: enaged learning

description: Participants will learn four techniques using notecardsÂ for engaging students in large-lecture classroom STEM courses, to enhance student engagement. The strategies have these approaches: (1) cold-calling students with impromptu questions (putting the student "on the spot"), (2) asking students to bring questions for next class, (3) giving students the option "to be asked" a question or "to ask" the instructor a question, and (4) identifying reporter students to reflect on group discussion or clicker polling questions. During the session, participants will engage with the techniques and consider data from our research to identify how these methods could be used in other courses to counter communication anxiety, improve grades, increase participation, and increase attendance. These notecards also contain student information such as name, major, and past experiences with science, helping the instructor better know the students in the course. Four semesters of student data were collected. Student survey responses about the benefits of these methods were associated with unique student grades, participation, and attendance. The technique was reported to make a substantial positive contribution to the level of engagement in the course. These techniques are applicable across different disciplines and are an easy-to-learn, student-centered teaching strategy.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
A Multi-Channel Next POI Recommendation Framework with Multi-Granularity Check-in Signals
Creators: name: Sun, Zhu
name: Lei, Yu
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Li, Chen
name: Ong, Yew-Soon
name: Zhang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current study on next POI recommendation mainly explores user sequential transitions with the fine-grained individual-user POI check-in trajectories only, which suffers from the severe check-in data sparsity issue. In fact, coarse-grained signals (i.e., region- and global-level check-ins) in such sparse check-ins would also benefit to augment user preference learning. Specifically, our data analysis unveils that user movement exhibits noticeable patterns w.r.t. the regions of visited POIs. Meanwhile, the global all-user check-ins can help reflect sequential regularities shared by the crowd. We are, therefore, inspired to propose the MCMG: a Multi-Channel next POI recommendation framework with Multi-Granularity signals categorized from two orthogonal perspectives, i.e., fine-coarse grained check-ins at either POI/region level or local/global level. Being equipped with three modules (i.e., global user behavior encoder, local multi-channel encoder, and region-aware weighting strategy), MCMG is capable of capturing both fine- and coarse-grained sequential regularities as well as exploring the dynamic impact of multi-channel by differentiating the region check-in patterns. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets show that our MCMG significantly outperforms state-of-the-art next POI recommendation approaches.
Analysis of Indistinguishable Trajectories of a Nonholonomic Vehicle Subject to Range Measurements
Creators: name: Riz, Francesco
name: Palopoli, Luigi
name: Fontanelli, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a global constructibility analysis for a vehicle moving on a planar surface. Assuming that the vehicle follows a trajectory that can be uniquely identified by the sequence of control inputs and by some intermittent ranging measurements from known points in the environment, we can model the trajectory as a rigid body subject to rotation and translation in the plane. This way, the localisation problem can be reduced to finding the conditions for the existence of a unique roto-translation of the trajectory from a known reference frame to the world reference frame, given the collected measurements. As discussed in this paper, such conditions can be expressed in terms of the shape of the trajectory, of the layout of the ranging sensors, and of the numbers of measurements collected from each of them. The approach applies to a large class of kinematic models. Focusing on the special case of unicycle kinematics, we provide additional local constructibility results.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, This article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2024). content may change prior to final publication
"More Than Words": Linking Music Preferences and Moral Values Through Lyrics
Creators: name: Preniqi, Vjosa
name: Kalimeri, Kyriaki
name: Saitis, Charalampos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study explores the association between music preferences and moral values by applying text analysis techniques to lyrics. Harvesting data from a Facebook-hosted application, we align psychometric scores of 1,386 users to lyrics from the top 5 songs of their preferred music artists as emerged from Facebook Page Likes. We extract a set of lyrical features related to each song's overarching narrative, moral valence, sentiment, and emotion. A machine learning framework was designed to exploit regression approaches and evaluate the predictive power of lyrical features for inferring moral values. Results suggest that lyrics from top songs of artists people like inform their morality. Virtues of hierarchy and tradition achieve higher prediction scores ($.20 \leq r \leq .30$) than values of empathy and equality ($.08 \leq r \leq .11$), while basic demographic variables only account for a small part in the models' explainability. This shows the importance of music listening behaviours, as assessed via lyrical preferences, alone in capturing moral values. We discuss the technological and musicological implications and possible future improvements.
description: Accepted to the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022)
A Call to Train: Graduate Teaching Assistants, Writing, and the STEM Curriculum
Creators: name: Gostel, Morgan
name: Schwebach, Reid
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: mentoring/advising

description: Priorities for university STEM curriculum emphasize the development of student-centered, inquiry-based classrooms that engage students beyond the traditional lecture. Much of this occurs in the laboratory, where a majority of instruction is led by educators-in-training or graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). GTA-based learning environments in laboratories extend far beyond traditional "cookbook" labs, and often GTAs play a principle role in evaluating student inquiry through writingâ€”usually a laboratory report. We have surveyed a representative population of GTAs to gauge their attitudes toward education preparation and training, with an emphasis on writing assignments. Our findings indicate that this population of GTAs are not well-prepared for their roles, and GTAs are largely unaware of education-based literature and research to support and improve pedagogy for supporting student writing. Furthermore, GTAs do not seem aware of resources that might serve as evidence-based support for teaching. As a result, we have outlined recommendations for improved GTA training that will be implemented in future training of GTA cohorts at George Mason University.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
The STEM Accelerator Program
Creators: name: Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan
name: Davis, Claudette
name: Ewell, Mary
name: Nelson, Mary
name: Schwebach, Reid
name: Nord, Julia
name: Knight, Kelly
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: Resource/opportunity

description: In this work, we will describe the STEM Accelerator program in the College of Science that is tasked with four major goals of increasing the number of STEM majors, improving retention rates of STEM students, reducing their time to graduation, and helping them join the STEM workforce or continue their education upon completion of their Bachelor's degree in STEM disciplines. Created as an interdisciplinary unit, this division consists of faculty members from multiple departments who have special responsibilities besides teaching that include coordinating and promoting STEM activities that help achieve the four primary goals. Specifically, the STEM Accelerator program now runs initiatives at all levels, including STEM camps for elementary and middle school students, mentored research for high school students and undergraduate students, STEM boot camp for incoming freshmen, the Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LA) Program, discipline-based education research for faculty, and STEM teacher professional development programs for teacher educators. The program was recently awarded the 2015 Program That Works Award that is given to exemplary programs in the state for making a positive impact on student or teacher learning.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
title: The Joy of Devouring
title: Metabolism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Satoshi Kon’s
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Jakesova, Marketa
Publisher: name: IFILNOVA, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: This article performs a phenomenological analysis of Satoshi Kon’s anime film Paprika (2006) focusing on dreaming, devouring, bodily permeability, and transformation of subjectivity. While dining has long been a significant motif in Japanese cinema, eating and the metabolic body have seldom been considered serious topics in philosophy. When mentioned, they are usually seen as mere conditions for thinking or, in phenomenology, for moving around. Although Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s later work on dreams and intersubjectivity moves beyond the bounded subject, it remains primarily concerned with perception and relationality rather than material exchanges. Annemarie Mol’s critique of impermeable embodiment highlights this limitation, arguing that not only movement but also metabolism should be the focus of phenomenology. An exception in Western philosophy is Emmanuel Levinas whose philosophy of hunger challenges the idea that consumption is a purely biological function, instead reframing it as a type of existential desire. Through these interventions, Paprika emerges as a model of metabolic subjectivity, where eating, dreaming, and transformation are not separate processes but interwoven modes of becoming. The film visually enacts this by collapsing the boundaries between dream and reality, self and environment, culminating in a climax where bodily devouring is both an act of love and metamorphosis. By reinterpreting Merleau-Ponty through Mol’s metabolic perspective and Levinas’s hunger, this article argues that Paprika presents a vision of subjectivity that is radically open, absorptive, and continually reshaped by what it takes in. In doing so, Paprika not only challenges phenomenology’s emphasis on perception but also enacts a flattening of distinctions between body and mind, material and virtual, fundamentally redefining what it means to exist in an immanent world.
description: Marketa Jakesova. (2025). The Joy of Devouring: Metabolism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Satoshi Kon’s "Paprika". Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, 16(1), 123–140. ISSN: 1647-8991
Geography-aware Optimal UAV 3D Placement for LOS Relaying: A Geometry Approach
Creators: name: Zheng, Yuanshuai
name: Chen, Junting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many emerging technologies for the next generation wireless network prefer line-of-sight (LOS) propagation conditions to fully release their performance advantages. This paper studies 3D unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement to establish LOS links for two ground terminals in deep shadow in a dense urban environment. The challenge is that the LOS region for the feasible UAV positions can be arbitrary due to the complicated structure of the environment. While most existing works rely on simplified stochastic LOS models and problem relaxations, this paper focuses on establishing theoretical guarantees for the optimal UAV placement to ensure LOS conditions for two ground users in an actual propagation environment. It is found that it suffices to search a bounded 2D area for the globally optimal 3D UAV position. Thus, this paper develops an exploration-exploitation algorithm with a linear trajectory length and achieves above 99% global optimality over several real city environments being tested in our experiments. To further enhance the search capability in an ultra-dense environment, a dynamic multi-stage algorithm is developed and theoretically shown to find an $ε$-optimal UAV position with a search length $O(1/ε)$. Significant performance advantages are demonstrated in several numerical experiments for wireless communication relaying and wireless power transfer.
Any Sasakian structure is approximated by embeddings into spheres
Creators: name: Loi, Andrea
name: Placini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25 (Primary) 53C42, 53C20, 57R18 (Secondary)

description: We show that, for any given $q\geq 0$, any Sasakian structure on a closed manifold $M$ is approximated in the $C^{q}$-norm by structures induced by CR embeddings into weighted Sasakian spheres. In order to obtain this result, we also strengthen the approximation of an orbifold Kähler form by projectively induced ones given by Ross and Thomas in [21] in the $C^0$-norm to a $C^{q}$-approximation.
description: To appear in Forum Mathematicum, Main results changed thanks to an observation of the reviewer
Oral Reviews: Retaining STEM Majors
Creators: name: Liddle, Stephen
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: peer teaching; learning assistants; STEM education; critical thinking; student engagement

description: Oral reviews are 60-minute ungraded, voluntary small group sessions in which a facilitator asks scripted conceptual questions, which are the basis of the content to be covered on an upcoming written test. Students are asked to explain concepts and draw representations. The objective is to get students to negotiate meaning and make important connections. These sessions have been used in math, biology, engineering, and environmental science and have shown course grade improvements of about one letter grade for students participating in three orals over the course of the semester.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Huainan hong lie jie : er shi yi juan [volume 08]
淮南鴻烈解 : 二十一卷 [第八冊]
Creators: name: Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
name: 劉安, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Publisher: name: [China] : Zhang Weicheng
Year: 2017

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Instructional Design Cycle Applied to an Online Psychology Course
Creators: name: Brielmaier, Jennifer
name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: online learning; curriculum design; assessment; technology-enhanced learning; scholarship of teaching and learning

description: Regardless of the discipline, an effective instructional design is critical for development of a high quality online course. Instructional design involves a closed cycle that includes task analysis, design, development, implement, and evaluation. This presentation will demonstrate a showcase of the development of a fully-online course, Physiological Psychology (PSYC 372). This showcase will explain how the lesson was tested in a formative evaluation during the development phase as well as evaluated by the students who took it in a fully online setting. In order to understand how students had learned, a survey which included ten questions using a four-point Likert scale and three open-ended questions was delivered to collect students' feedback on their learning. The data was analyzed and used as an input to support the design criteria and for the revision of the course design.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
The Green ring of a family of copointed Hopf algebras
Creators: name: Vay, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The copointed liftings of the Fomin-Kirillov algebra $\mathcal{FK}_3$ over the algebra of functions on the symmetric group $\mathbb{S}_3$ were classified by Andruskiewitsch and the author. We demonstrate here that those associated to a generic parameter are Morita equivalent to the non-simple blocks of well-known Hopf algebras: the Drinfeld doubles of the Taft algebras and the small quantum groups $u_{q}(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$. The indecomposable modules over these were classified independently by Chen, Chari--Premet and Suter. Consequently, we obtain the indocomposable modules over the generic liftings of $\mathcal{FK}_3$. We decompose the tensor products between them into the direct sum of indecomposable modules. We then deduce a presentation by generators and relations of the Green ring.
description: v2: We calculate the quotient category and other minor changes were made. It is the final version accepted in Revista de la UMA
'To have been and no longer be': The angst towards death in Darwish's Mural and Saramago's Death at Intervals
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Peter Lang
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
subject: Death
subject: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd
subject: Saramago, José

description: In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago's As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish's epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although 'death' is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death "the universe wouldn't even know that [they] had ever existed," (Saramago and Río, José e Pilar). The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus argues, "death … is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist." For Darwish and Saramago, what is evident in death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Da-sein. Martin Heidegger argues when Da-sein reaches its full potential, it loses its being. Darwish and Saramago not only strip death to its bare essence but also attempt at comprehending what humanity has pondered from times immemorial: is that it?
Huainan hong lie jie : er shi yi juan [volume 05]
淮南鴻烈解 : 二十一卷 [第五冊]
Creators: name: Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
name: 劉安, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Publisher: name: [China] : Zhang Weicheng
Year: 2017

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Balancing Pedagogy, Interactivity, and Accessibility: A Faculty-IT Support Partnership
Creators: name: Zirkle, Kara
name: Williams Van Rooij, Shahron
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: accessibility; online learning; technology-enhanced learning

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Autobiographies
subject: Diaries

description: War diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author's life is under threat, when safety is compromised, maintaining a diary evolves into the only possible option available to write about war. These journal entries bear witness to history as it unfolds. The unpredictable turn of events, fear of dying, displacements, refugeehood, forced expulsions, exile along with a feeling of responsibility towards history are elements that have contributed to an increase of published work within this genre. In this chapter, she looks at nonfiction narratives by a Syrian and a Palestinian who recorded their diaries meticulously in taxing times. Samar Yazbek is a journalist, who courageously documented the early days of the Syrian war in In the Crossfire: Syrian Revolution Diaries (2012), and later in The Crossing (2015). She also discusses Atef Abu Saif's The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary, which details daily life, destruction and death, during the 2014 war.
title: Analysis of Effects of Singing on Cognitive and Emotional Factors in Assisted Living Residents with and without Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Maguire, Linda
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's
subject: Music
subject: Satisfaction with Life Scale
subject: Singing
subject: Mini-Mental State Examination
subject: Cognition

description: Positive cognitive changes in healthy elderly and dementia populations exposed to singing may lead to cognitive improvement over time. Musical aptitude and music appreciation are two of the last remaining abilities in persons with Alzheimer’s Disease (Simmons-Stern, Budson & Ally, 2011). Longitudinal studies in the field of vocal music and cognition in the elderly are rare. The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive changes in vocal-music participants before and after a 4-month series of music programming. Singing and listening groups (N = 45) were given 50-minute vocal-music sessions (3x per week) at an East Coast Elder-care facility that housed both Assisted-living (independent) and Secure-ward (dementia) residents. Pre- and Post-treatment measures included the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), a Clock-Drawing test (CD), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and an Obama-as-President (Obama) recognition test. Using data from the Secure-ward participants only, a 2 (Singing vs Listening Treatment) X 2 (Pre- and Post-treatment Time of Measurement) mixed factorial ANOVA was conducted on MMSE scores. There was a significant interaction between Treatment and Time of Measurement. Simple effects analyses showed that Secure-ward Singers and Listeners had similar MMSE scores at Pre-treatment, but that Secure-ward Singers had significantly higher MMSE scores than Secure-ward Listeners at Post-treatment. This suggested that the singing treatment improved MMSE scores within the Secure-ward population and that listening alone does not have a positive effect on MMSE scores. In Clock-drawing ability, there was no significant difference between Secure-ward Singers and Listeners in Pre-treatment Clock-drawing scores, but Singers scored significantly better than the Listeners on the Post-treatment scores. Interestingly, the Secure-ward Listeners had significantly poorer SWLS scores than Singers in both Pre- and Post-treatment testing. There was no significant Pre- or Post-treatment difference in ability to name Obama as President.
title: “Motherland, Socialism, or Death”: A Narrative Look at Morality and the Citizen in Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution
Creators: name: Ochs, Sarah
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Narrative
subject: Positioning theory
subject: Citizenship
subject: Social movements
subject: Chávez Frías, Hugo

description: This thesis addresses Hugo Chávez’s construction of the citizen in his discourse on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. In an effort to understand his moral frame regarding the state and its citizens, and to better understand the possible relationship between citizenry and social movements, this thesis analyzes Chávez’s speech using narrative and positioning analysis.
The complex science of biobanking: The NHLS/Stellenbosch University Biobank (NSB), a South African case study

Creators: name: Swanepoel, Carmen
name: Shafieka Isaacs
name: Abulfathi, Fatima
name: Reid, Timothy
name: Ravnit Grewal
name: Christoffels, Alan
name: Abayomi, Emmanuel Akinola
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The notion of biobanking on the South African and particular the African soil is still an emerging concept due to the myriad of complex considerations relating to ethical, legal, political, societal, religious, cultural, financial and educational challenges. However the awareness and value of biobanking has increased through the last few years as our natural biological resources is of interest to the global community as proven through consortia development such as the H3Africa, funded by both the NIH and the Wellcome trust and B3Africa funded by the European Union. These consortia aim to fund genomic and bioinformatics research within SA and other African countries in order to improve genomic scientific researcher’s capacity, computational expertise and resources and biomedical infrastructure. Biobanks plays an integral role to help alleviate health burdens; these types of essential resources, if properly designed and maintained, are very important for addressing important questions on national, continental and global health issues. Thus an overview of the NHLS/Stellenbosch University Biobank (NSB) established in 2012 within the Division of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and registered with Stellenbosch University is given. NSB follows standardized ethical, social, and legal policies, procedures and protocols frameworks governed under both an external and internal governing structure. This poster highlights important fundamental issues such as governance, ethics, infrastructure and bioinformatics that are important foundational prerequisite for the establishment of a successful human biobank. These aspects are covered along with services that the biobank can provide to the outside research community.
Huainan hong lie jie : er shi yi juan [volume 07]
淮南鴻烈解 : 二十一卷 [第七冊]
Creators: name: Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
name: 劉安, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Publisher: name: [China] : Zhang Weicheng
Year: 2017

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High-Impact Practices: Signature Learning Experiences for Social Action and Integrative Learning
Creators: name: Dalton, Kelly
name: Mathison, Patty
name: Owen, Julie
name: Wagner, Wendy
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: evidence-based practices; collaborative learning; service learning; global learning; experiential learning; research experiences for undergraduates

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Huainan hong lie jie : er shi yi juan [volume 04]
淮南鴻烈解 : 二十一卷 [第四冊]
Creators: name: Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
name: 劉安, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Publisher: name: [China] : Zhang Weicheng
Year: 2017

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title: Assessment of the diversity and abundance of bacterial population and its correlation with medium chain fatty acids production from fermentation of two leachate qualities
Creators: name: Yebouet, Orlando Franck
name: Campitelli, Alessio
name: Amoikon, Simon Laurent Tiemele
name: Kannengiesser, Jan
name: Stanojkovski, Daniel
name: Mrukwia, Timo
name: Dje Koffi, Marcellin
name: Djeni, Theodore N'Dede
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: The potential of medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) production from two seasonal leachates along with their bacterial community structure were investigated using GC-FID and Illumina high-throughput sequencing during the acid chain elongation process. Significant amounts of MCFA (C6-10) were produced during the experiment, especially with rainy season leachate. The amounts ranged from 1646 mg/l to 22,000 mg/l for C6-C8 and reached 959.65 mg/l for C9 and C10, with optimum values obtained on day 21. Bacterial communities were also different among seasonal samples, with Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria being the most abundant phyla. The relative abundance of Lactobacillus, Clostridium, and Pseudomonas increased during fermentation and showed positive correlations with MCFA with longer chains (C6-C10), demonstrating their probable involvement in the chain elongation process. This study enhances our understanding of the composition, structure and contribution of the bacterial community during the chain elongation process and gives value to leachate from solid waste in sub-Saharan countries.
Flipping the Cosmos: Using Active Learning Techniques in a Large-Enrollment Astronomy Class
Creators: name: Ericson, Rebecca
name: Gliozzi, Mario
name: Fariss, Katelynn
name: Meier, Robyn
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: active learning classrooms; student engagement; team-based learning; collaborative learning; technology-enhanced learning; STEM education; learning assistants; peer teaching

description: We will demonstrate turning the "cosmos" of general education astronomy upside-down with a studio-style class. Four components that matter:
• Move what students can do alone: listening, reading, and practice activities outside the classroom
• Use classroom time to address difficult concepts and techniques
• Employ learning assistants to engage with students as knowledgeable peers
• Leverage classroom energy with structured groups and activities that concentrate on examining processes through the lens of specific content. Participants will engage in activities similar to those in our active learning astronomy classrooms. They will work through several short learning activities while presenters circulate to guide and focus the work, demonstrating the flow and structure of a typical class session. Small white boards allow us to simulate "writing on the wall" activities, so we can see quickly where groups of participants are grasping concepts and where they bog down. "Mini-lectures" will highlight some of the technology in the high-tech classroom, as we discuss what worked and what didn't work so well. At several points, we will open discussion so participants can examine how the technique or technology might work for them, regardless of discipline.
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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Vision meets algae: A novel way for microalgae recognization and health monitor
Creators: name: Zhou, Shizheng
name: Jiang, Juntao
name: Hong, Xiaohan
name: Hong, Yan
name: Fu, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Marine microalgae are widespread in the ocean and play a crucial role in the ecosystem. Automatic identification and location of marine microalgae in microscopy images would help establish marine ecological environment monitoring and water quality evaluation system. We proposed a new dataset for the detection of marine microalgae and a range of detection methods, the dataset including images of different genus of algae and the same genus in different states. We set the number of unbalanced classes in the data set and added images of mixed water samples in the test set to simulate the actual situation in the field. Then we trained, validated and tested the, TOOD, YOLOv5, YOLOv8 and variants of RCNN algorithms on this dataset. The results showed both one-stage and two-stage object detection models can achieve high mean average precision, which proves the ability of computer vision in multi-object detection of microalgae, and provides basic data and models for real-time detection of microalgal cells.
Running the Intellectual Marathon at Mason: Coaching Our Graduate Student Writers Across the Finish Line
Creators: name: Rogers, Paul
name: Baker, Sarah
name: Mallett, Karyn
name: Habib, Anna
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: student writing; graduate students; scholarship of teaching and learning; curriculum design

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Choosing Your Own Adventure: Attitudes and Outcomes When Students Pick the Content of an Upper-Level Economics Course
Creators: name: Dunick, Jason
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: scholarship of teaching and learning; critical thinking; research experiences for undergraduates

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Telling Stories, Making Arguments: Responding to Personal Experience in Classroom Discussions of Social Justice Issues
Creators: name: Scott Constantine, Lynne
name: Scott Constantine, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: critical thinking; creativity; classroom management

description: Storytelling is among the most powerful tools in a university professor's pedagogy. Students, too, tell stories—but while the professor's story is usually an example meant to introduce or support an argument based on other forms of evidence, students often deploy their personal stories as arguments, conflating pathos and logos and presenting personal experience as the ultimate evidence. This session examines the complex dynamics of this common classroom situation and explores a variety of ways to use such moments positively to deepen the classroom encounter.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
title: Twaweza Independent Evaluation Design
Creators: name: Rossman, Gretchen
name: Hartwell, Ash
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: With contributions from Mikala Lauridsen, Evaluation Manager Martina Ochiel, Partnership Coordinator Submitted to Twaweza April 7, 2010
description: This document describes the theoretical and conceptual framework for the independent evaluation of Twaweza. It describes and amplifies Twaweza’s theory of change: its key concepts, relationships and assumptions, and on this base articulates the evaluation’s conceptual framework, principles, approaches and methodologies. A fundamental premise informs this work: the perspectives and lived experiences of citizens in East Africa will shape the theory and its evaluation. By implication, this design document provides a starting point (building on the body of previous research on evaluating social change and Twaweza’s work on this) that will be modified and shaped by experience with communities, citizens, institutions, and Twaweza’s partners. This document begins with a brief introduction to the Twaweza initiative and to the goals and purposes of the independent evaluation. It then examines the premises and implications of Twaweza’s theory of social change, understood as a complex, organic system, an ‘ecological’ model, as Twaweza seeks to foment an ‘ecosystem of change’. It places the Twaweza’s strategy of working through established partner institutions to energize citizen agency and action within the context of political, social, and environmental conditions. It also describes the character of state bureaucracies, and the range of their responses to citizen agency, including greater engagement with citizens leading to improvement in the reach and quality of public services: water/sanitation, health, and education. This overview of the theory of social change, including its key concepts and processes, provides the basis for describing key questions and hypotheses, and the independent evaluation principles and methodology. Details on the evaluation design include key evaluation questions; implementation; components; approaches and methodologies; concluding with a discussion of strategies for communicating and disseminating evaluation elements and findings. This body of the document ends with matrices mapping key concepts onto methodologies (Table 1); linking methodologies, sampling, and timing (Table 2); and preliminary indicators of key concepts (Table 3).
Eigenvalue estimates for the magnetic Hodge Laplacian on differential forms
Creators: name: Egidi, Michela
name: Gittins, Katie
name: Habib, Georges
name: Peyerimhoff, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we introduce the magnetic Hodge Laplacian, which is a generalization of the magnetic Laplacian on functions to differential forms. We consider various spectral results, which are known for the magnetic Laplacian on functions or for the Hodge Laplacian on differential forms, and discuss similarities and differences of this new ``magnetic-type'' operator.
Engaging Students Online: Designing Case-Based Online Courses
Creators: name: Olesova, Larisa
name: Smith, Rodger
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: online learning; student engagement; technology-enhanced learning; problem-based learning; collaborative learning; team-based learning

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint
Creators: name: Gruesser, John
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Baptists
subject: African Americans--Civil rights
subject: Fiction
subject: Religious education
subject: African Americans
subject: Publishers and publishing

description: Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s. Born to formerly enslaved parents and educated in Texas, Griggs lived for nearly a decade in Virginia, and spent most of the rest of his life in Nashville and Memphis. Today I will talk about Griggs as Author, Publisher, and Educator.
Flipping a Large Lecture Class
Creators: name: Boyette, Joanna
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2014
Subjects: active learning classrooms; learning spaces; technology-enhanced learning; STEM education; classroom management; online learning

description: Flipped and active learning classrooms are becoming more common as technology has allowed us to move traditional lecture outside the class and onto students' phones, tablets, and computers. But many of us are still assigned to teach large courses which assume a traditional lecture model. The presenter describes her experience flipping a large (90 person) lecture course in mathematics and discusses some tips, tricks, and methods for classroom management in the flipped setting.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 6 (2014): Signature Learning Experiences
Integrability and Matrix Models
Creators: name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief review of the eigenvalue matrix model integrability and superintegrability properties, focused on the simplest, still representative, Gaussian Hermitian case.
Huainan hong lie jie : er shi yi juan [volume 09]
淮南鴻烈解 : 二十一卷 [第九冊]
Creators: name: Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
name: 劉安, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Publisher: name: [China] : Zhang Weicheng
Year: 2017

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Analytical solutions in the modeling of the endovenous laser ablation
Creators: name: Consiglieri, Luisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92C50, 35A24

description: We model the operative treatment of incompetent truncal veins using endovenous laser ablation (EVLA). Three differential equations, namely the diffusion, the heat and the bioheat equations, are considered in the endovenous-perivenous multidomain, describing the lumen, the vein wall, the tissue pad and the skin. Exact solutions are provided. Our main concern is to accurate the heat source by taking the Beer--Lambert law into account in the irradiance of the incident beam. To accurate the heat transfer at the skin boundary, the Newton law of cooling is considered as a Robin boundary condition. Open problems are presented.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
The Late Islamic Pottery and Settlements of Central Oman
Creators: name: Biezeveld, Irini
name: Döpper, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Oman
subject: Ceramics
subject: Pottery
subject: Late Islamic
subject: Archaeology
subject: Settlements
subject: Survey

description: The interior of Central Oman was a region full of activity during the Late Islamic period. The new economic investments during this time caused many societal changes, including transformations of the agricultural landscapes and the settlement patterns. Recent archaeological studies are starting to provide an understanding of the material culture and settlements of this region and this poster will contribute to this by presenting the first evidence of two sites in Central Oman. With a focus on the collected ceramics, the results of the 2018 and 2020 survey campaigns at the campsite Tawi Said and the abandoned farmstead Safrat al-Khashbah will be presented. Additionally, the spatial distribution of these sherds will be visualized in order to analyse how the sites were organized. We see that, not unsurprisingly, the Late Islamic period (c. 1650-1970 CE) provides the most archaeological evidence, which is thus the main focus of the poster. Additionally, most wares appear to be of local manufacture, bringing us closer to recognize the relationships between the different sites in the region. The evidence of imported and regional wares is also taken into account, in order to study the connections between Central Oman, the Gulf, and the wider Islamic world.