cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Klinefelter syndrome comorbidities induced by increased X chromosome gene dosages and altered protein interactome activity
Creators: name: Belling, Kirstine
name: Russo, Francesco
name: Jensen, Anders Boeck
name: Dalgaard, Marlene Danner
name: Westergaard, David
name: Skakkebæk, Niels Erik
name: Juul, Anders
name: Brunak, Søren
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Klinefelter syndrome (KS) (47,XXY) is the most common male sex chromosome aneuploidy. Diagnosis and clinical supervision remain a challenge due to varying phenotypic presentation and insufficient characterization of the syndrome. Here we present a study combining health data-driven epidemiology and molecular level systems biology to improve the understanding of KS and the molecular interplay influencing its comorbidities. A total of 78 overrepresented KS comorbidities were identified using hospital registry data from the entire Danish population covering 6.8 million patients. The extracted comorbidities included both clinically well-known (e.g. infertility and osteoporosis) and still less established KS comorbidities (e.g. pituitary gland hypofunction and dental caries). Three approaches were applied to identify key underlying molecular players in the KS comorbidities:

(A) Differential expression analysis and identification of co-expressed modules using data generated on peripheral blood

(B) Identification of central hubs in a KS comorbidity network build of known disease proteins and their protein-protein interactions, and

(C) Identification of dosage perturbed protein complexes in the KS comorbidity network.

Together these approaches pointed to novel aspects of X chromosome related mechanisms, including perturbed cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction and Jak-STAT pathways, immune system alterations and disturbed functionality of leptin and erythropoietin signalling in KS. This paper presents an extended epidemiological study that links KS comorbidities to the molecular level and identify potential causal players in the disease biology underlying the identified comorbidities.
Systematic analysis of somatic mutations driving cancer: Uncovering functional protein regions in disease development
Creators: name: Mészáros, Bálint
name: Zeke, András
name: Reményi, Attila
name: Simon, István
name: Dosztányi, Zsuzsanna
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Recent advances in sequencing technologies enable the large-scale identification of genes that are affected by various genetic alterations in cancer. However, understanding tumor development requires insights into how these changes cause altered protein function and impaired network regulation in general and/or in specific cancer types.

In this work we present a novel method called iSiMPRe [1] that identifies regions that are significantly enriched in somatic mutations and short in-frame insertions or deletions (indels). Applying this unbiased method to the complete human proteome, by using data enriched through various cancer genome projects, we identified around 500 protein regions which could be linked to one or more of 27 distinct cancer types. These regions covered the majority of known cancer genes, surprisingly even tumor suppressors. Additionally, iSiMPRe also identified novel genes and regions that have not yet been associated with cancer.

While local somatic mutations correspond to only a subset of genetic variations that can lead to cancer, our systematic analyses revealed that they represent an accompanying feature of most cancer driver genes regardless of the primary mechanism by which they are perturbed during tumorigeneses. These results indicate that the accumulation of local somatic mutations can be used to pinpoint genes responsible for cancer formation and can also help to understand the effect of cancer mutations at the level of functional modules in a broad range of cancer driver genes.

[1] Mészáros B, Zeke A, Reményi A, Simon I, Dosztányi Z.
Biol Direct. 2016 May 5;11:23. doi: 10.1186/s13062-016-0125-6. PMID: 27150584
title: The Undetermined
Creators: name: Markakis, Mary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Literary fiction
subject: Speculative
subject: Dystopia
subject: Creative thesis

description: This thesis has been embargoed will not be available until March 7, 2032 at the earliest.
description: The Undetermined is a work of speculative fiction set in 2071 United States where a nationalistic right-wing system of government dominates state and federal policies.
Towards a new definition of circuit functionality
Creators: name: Fauré, Adrien
name: Tamura, Takeyuki
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: In the wake of the seminal work of René Thomas, the notion of functionality in a regulatory network has focused on the asymptotic behavior "generated" by simple positive and negative circuits: Thomas' conjectures state that a positive circuit is necessary for multistationarity; a negative circuit, for sustained oscillations; and functionality has been loosely defined as the property of a positive or negative circuit that produces the corresponding behavior.

More precisely, in the logical formalism, a circuit is said to be functional when all its arcs are functional, and its sign is the product of the signs of the arcs. Different definitions of circuit functionality then arise depending on the region of the state space where the arcs are required to be functional (1). Unfortunately, current definitions only allow proof of Thomas conjectures for very restricted conditions, if at all. Moreover, major questions remain unanswered, including the full decomposition of a network into functional modules and the very definition of what "generate" exactly means.

In an attempt to clarify those issues we are currently investigating the possible role of symmetry in the dynamics of a model as a marker of functionality. Focusing on the behavior of a circuit in pairs of mirror states, we introduce new definitions and conjectures to connect the presence of circuits in a logical regulatory graph with symmetric patterns in the state transition graph.

(1) Comet et al., 2013. Bull Math Biol. 75(6):906-19. Doi: 10.1007/s11538-013-9829-2
title: Experimental Validations of the Learnable Evolution Model
Creators: name: Cervone, Guido
name: Kaufman, Kenneth A.
name: Michalski, Ryszard S.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2000

description: A recently developed approach to evolutionary computation, called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM, employs machine learning to guide processes of generating new populations. The central new idea of LEM is that it generates new individuals by processes of hypothesis generation and instantiation, rather than by mutation and/or recombination, as in conventional evolutionary computation methods. The hypotheses are generated by a machine learning program from examples of high and low performance individuals. When applied to problems of function optimization and parameter estimation for nonlinear filters, LEM significantly outperformed the evolutionary computation algorithms used in experiments, sometimes achieving two or more orders of magnitude of evolution speed-up in terms of the number of generations (or births). An application of LEM to the problem of optimizing heat exchangers has produced designs equal to or exceeding the best human designs.
title: Greek Diners: How Greeks Have Kept Traditional and Americanized Greek Foodways Alive in American Diners
Creators: name: Roth, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diners
subject: Greek immigration
subject: Social space
subject: Community
subject: American culture

description: This thesis explores the connection between the social space of the American diner and Greek immigrant ownership of diners. Its aim is to understand what the relationship is between Greeks and American diners and how these relationships have been created. This thesis begins with a historical overview of events that sparked Greeks to immigrate to the United States and is followed by a brief history of the American diner in order to comprehend its place in American culture. These respective histories are important in order to understand how and when these two concepts became intertwined. In order to further understand how Greek immigrants and diners are connected, participant observation was conducted at three diners in Virginia. Interviews were conducted at two of the three diners. The diners are located in three different regional spaces: urban, suburban, and rural in order to examine the similarities and differences in customers, employees, diner owners, ingredients used, and the cost of food in the regions in which they are located. This study also looks at the roles that diffusion, regionalism, ethnic identity and the social construction of space have played in connecting Greek immigrants with American diners.
title: Regional Cancer Clusters Across Northern Europe: A Geographic Analysis Using Shift Share, Spatial Autocorrelation, and Multiple Regression
Creators: name: Sanchez, Michael
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Geography
subject: Cancer clusters
subject: Spatial autocorrelation
subject: Europe
subject: Shift share

description: There is perhaps no disease in the modern era as geographically ubiquitous as cancer. It proliferates across borders and ecosystems to every corner of the planet. Despite the universal proliferation of the disease, there is some geographic variability in the type of cancer that spreads. Liver cancer, for example, has a low rate of incidence in the United States, but is one of the highest incidence cancers in parts of the developing world such as Southeast Asia (Singh 2015). In this thesis, I examine the possibility of commonalities or even clusters of cancer incidence across borders using the statistical methods of Moran’s I and Getis Ord Gi*. At the same time, I introduce a new application of shift share analysis to breakdown cancer incidence. Additionally, regression analysis illustrates the shifting relationship of increased cancer incidence, and socio-behavioral/healthcare variables. Regions of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and Wales were found to be central to several high incidence clusters including melanoma and bladder cancer. Unsurprisingly, regions closer to the artic (ie: those in northern Scandinavia) formed clusters of low incidence for Melanoma due to lower sunlight exposure. The application of shift share analysis to cancer incidence yielded a variety of noteworthy results such as a gender disparity in the average increase of cancer between men (1.55%) and women (6.35%). Finally, a gender disparity was also revealed for pancreatic cancer in which disease and alcohol consumption was shown to be significantly correlated with high incidence in men but not in women.
title: Bijective Deformations in Rn via Integral Curve Coordinates
Creators: name: Huynh, Lisa
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Coordinates
subject: Gradient
subject: Deformation
subject: Integral curve
subject: Bijection

description: Shape deformation is a widely studied problem in computer graphics, with applications to animation, physical simulation, parameterization, interactive modeling, and image editing. In one instance of this problem, a \cage" (polygon in 2D and polyhedra in 3D) is created around a shape or image region. As the vertices of the cage are moved, the interior deforms. The cage may be identical to the shape's boundary, which has one fewer dimension than the shape itself, and is typically more convenient, as the cage may be simpler (fewer vertices) or be free of undesirable properties (such as a non-manifold mesh or high topological genus). We introduce Integral Curve Coordinates and use them to create shape deformations that are bijective, given a bijective deformation of the shape's boundary or an enclosing cage. Our approach can be applied to shapes in any dimension, provided that the boundary of the shape (or cage) is topologically equivalent to an n-sphere. Integral Curve Coordinates identify each point in a domain with a point along an integral curve of the gradient of a function f, where f has exactly one critical point, a maximum, in the domain, and the gradient of f on the boundary points inward. By identifying every point inside a domain (shape) with a point on its boundary, Integral Curve Coordinates provide a natural mapping from one domain to another given a mapping of the boundary. We evaluate our deformation approach in 2D. Our algorithm is based on the following three steps: (i) choosing a maximum via a grass re algorithm; (ii) computing a suitable function f on a discrete grid via a construct called the cousin tree; (iii) tracing integral curves. We conclude with a discussion of limitations arising from piecewise linear interpolation and discretization to a grid.
Simple enough biomarkers predict a complex disease phenotype
Creators: name: Nikolayeva, Iryna
name: Bleakley, Kevin
name: Anavaj Sakuntabhai
name: Schwikowski, Benno
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: During dengue virus outbreaks, many hospitals are overcrowded with patients due to the possibility of complications that occur several days after hospital admission. Little is known about mechanisms triggering this severe reaction. On the molecular level, single molecular biomarkers are associated to dengue severity. But none of them has any predictive power. Predicting at admission which patients will develop complications from molecular data may allow to have a new insight on dengue etiology.

Based transcriptomic data from blood serum in 42 patients at hospital admission, we find simple, yet biologically powerful predictors of dengue complications from omics data.

Specifically, we use a generalization of linear models that describe the disease severity using an ensemble of monotonic functions of pairwise transcript measurements. Our implementation allows, for the first time to our knowledge, genome-wide screening and goes beyond classical linear and logistic models; it allows to model relations such as “AND” and “OR” between genes. Features are easier to interpret. And our ensemble model allows us to control the complexity of our predictor.

Our best-performing classifier is composed of 66 pairs of gene coding transcripts and has an accuracy of 83,3%. Transcripts in this biomarker are enriched in various innate and adaptive immune pathways. These pathways include processes known to play important roles in severe dengue: Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, TNF signalling pathways, regulation of cell-cell adhesion, regulation of epithelial cell differentiation.... Moreover some known single molecular feature biomarkers appear in our ensemble biomarker such as the endothelial permeability activation marker VEGFA or the metalloproteinase MMP9 related to vascular leakage.

We present the methodology, results from our genome-wide screen for biomarkers for dengue severity, and compare its predictive performance to the state-of-the art biomarker prediction methods.
title: The Facilitator
Creators: name: Barriga, Patricio
name: Ickis, Valerie
name: Moreno, Carlos
name: Tasiguano, Enrique
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Education

description: The Ecuador Non-Formal Education Project is a joint project of the Ministry of Education in Ecuador and the University of Massachusetts, Center for International Education, funded under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development. Spanish version: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_techrpts/33/
description: Summary: Description of the concept of facilitator as an agent of change and community development and its impact on the rural communities of Ecuador.
Dal mito di Atlantide all’homo faber fortunae suae: l’educazione tra occasioni perdute  e istanze emancipative
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Il contributo esamina la visione dell’uomo disegnata da due “metafore” ricorrenti, rispettivamente nell’antichità e nella cultura umanistico-rinascimentale: il mito di Atlantide, raccontato da Platone, e ricollegabile ad una produzione pseudo-utopica nel mondo antico; l’idea dell’uomo autore del proprio destino, sviluppata in maniera costante e continua nell’Umanesimo. L’analisi è condotta sullo sfondo del  quadro concettuale e metodologico della rivoluzione scientifica: in quale rapporto sta la nuova prospettiva scientifica con la possibilità di emancipare anche il sapere sull’educazione alla dimensione scientifica?
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Il contributo storiografico di Tina Tomasi  agli studi sulle donne
Creators: name: Pironi, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questo contributo compie un’analisi degli scritti di Tina Tomasi, apparsi su “Scuola e Città”, a partire dal 1957, dedicati ai problemi dell’istruzione femminile. Alla luce delle indagini avviate dalla studiosa, si intende fare un bilancio degli sviluppi successivi in campo storiografico, grazie all’introduzione della categoria di genere.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Scelte scolastiche, canalizzazione formativa e opportunità sociali  degli allievi di origine immigrata
Creators: name: Catarci, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questo intervento offre un’analisi pedagogica delle scelte scolastiche degli stu­denti immigrati nelle scuole secondarie italiane. In questa prospettiva, è necessario un esame appro­fondito dei bisogni educativi degli studenti che hanno alle spalle famiglie immigrate. Que­sti bisogno comprendono l’assistenza linguistica, unitamente ad attenzione alla dimen­sione sociale ed al sostegno dell’orientamento. La scelta del “modello integrato” rappre­senta, in questo senso, un orientamento peculiare di un approccio interculturale, nel quale ogni studente può trovare uguali opportunità di accesso di promozione educativa.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Due modelli di educazione repubblicana nella Genova del Seicento negli scritti  di Andrea Spinola e Gio. Francesco Spinola
Creators: name: Bitossi, Carlo Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Due testi, opera degli scrittori politici e patrizi genovesi Andrea e Gio. Francesco Spinola, zio e nipote, databili il primo agli anni ’10-’20 e il secondo agli anni ’50-’60 del Seicento, presentano due modelli di educazione repubblicana diversi sebbene distanziati di appena una generazione. Mentre per Andrea il giovane nobile doveva essere preparato a diventare un attivo e parsimonioso uomo d’affari o imprenditore, Gio. Francesco descriveva una educazione e uno stile di vita patrizi orientati meno agli affari che non a modelli cortigiani e feudali, in consonanza con le trasformazioni nell’economia e nella società genovesi del Seicento.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Testimonianza
Creators: name: Cives, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questo e l'articolo di Nella Sistoli Paoli sono due testimonianze, culturali ed amicali al tempo stesso, su Tina Tomasi, a cento anni dalla sua nascita.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Testimonianza
Creators: name: Sistoli Paoli, Nella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questo e l'articolo di Giacomo Cives sono due testimonianze,  culturali ed amicali al tempo stesso, su Tina Tomasi, a cento anni dalla  sua nascita.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Abstract
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questa sezione raccoglie gli abstract di tutti gli articoli compresi nel numero.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
Autori
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Contiene notizie bio-bibliografiche degli autori dei vari contributi.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 6 (2013): Quale identità per la storia dell'educazione?
title: Letter: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Garland Gray, November 11, 1954
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Arlington County (VA)
subject: Segregation
subject: Integration
subject: Desegregation
subject: Schools

description: Letter: 2 pgs, typescript unsigned, 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm)
description: Letter from C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Garland Gray, Chairman of the Governor's Commission on Public Education, regarding responses to his "Mann-O-Gram" opinion poll mailed out to Arlington residents about school integration. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 44.10
title: Civil Society Advocacy for Reproductive Rights in Malta
Creators: name: Rosati, Jessica
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Civil society
subject: Advocacy
subject: Feminist theory
subject: Reproductive rights
subject: Republic of Malta

description: This thesis explores civil society advocacy on behalf of reproductive rights in Malta. It analyzes how civil society actors are promoting women’s reproductive rights, what factors are undermining the process, and what conditions may be needed to advance progress. Additionally, it examines whether a lack of full access to reproductive rights in Malta constitutes a presence of direct, structural, or cultural violence against women. Literature was reviewed pertaining to theories on reproductive rights as human rights, civil society as a force for societal transformation, and the violence triangle. The researcher conducted five semi-structured interviews with civil society actors working in various capacities for reproductive rights in Malta and conducted a thematic analysis of the data. Connections were drawn between the resultant data analysis and the theories presented in the literature to answer the research question and sub-questions.
title: Newspaper Column: Rail Yes! More Taxes and Tolls No!
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: Reston Times
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Commuting
subject: Metrorail
subject: Traffic
subject: Toll roads
subject: Taxes

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: A swell of moaning and groaning has been heard among Restonians following the determination by state officials that the first of two phases of Metrorail to Washington Dulles International Airport and beyond will end at Wiehle Avenue. No new rail yard is planned: trains will simply turn around and return. But major expansion of parking facilities is anticipated. “It’ll be a major mess,” pronounced one of my developer friends. What I see is a major opportunity. Instead of incremental growth over 40 years, as at Tysons Corner, a vertical, transit-oriented urban center at Wiehle, including residential, commercial and public uses, could be planned and constructed using roadway air-rights and adjacent properties in less than 10 years. Yes, this would increase required parking, but sound planning would fold all parking into the developed structure.
Supplementary document for Realization of Spinning Mode with Maximum Chirality in Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity at Exceptional Point - 6375790.pdf
Creators: name: Cheng, Chao-Chieh
name: Cheng, Pi-Ju
name: Huang, Tzu-Wei
name: WANG, WEI-TING
name: Tsai, Jui-Tse
name: Shih, Min-Hsiung
name: Chang, Shu-Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplmental Document
title: Newspaper Column: An Election Scramble
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: Reston Times
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Reston (VA) Association (RA)
subject: Wingert, Vicky
subject: Brown, Aaron
subject: Keefe, Bill
subject: Volloy, Jerry
subject: Brown, Brian "Rock"

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: Who said what to whom has become a major issue in the tightly contested race to determine who will win the at-large seat on the Reston Association board being vacated by Vicky Wingert. Two other board members will also be elected but without controversy: the Dogwood candidate, Barbara Aaron, is running unopposed, and the apartment owners’ candidate will not be nominated or elected by residents as a whole. Three candidates are vying for the at-large seat: Bill Keefe, Jerry Volloy and Brian “Rock” Brown. The question for voters is to identify which candidate is best equipped to deal with current pressing issues facing the board.
title: From Standard English to Synergistic English Work: Uncovering Writing Instructors' Negotiations of the Standard English Dilemma and Paradox in Their Writing Assessment Practices
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: In response to the extensive work surrounding Standard English (SE), translingualism, and antiracist writing assessment in the field of writing studies, this study shifts the focus from theoretical calls about combatting SE to an empirical understanding of how SE is already being negotiated and navigated by writing instructors in the context of their writing assessment practices. Taking language scholar Alastair Pennycook’s view of language as a local practice and an activity intimately connected to speakers, places, and ideologies, this study was conducted via two sets of semi-structured interviews with six writing instructors in a large composition program at a large public research university in the US in order to uncover their definitions, understandings, and negotiations of the SE paradox and dilemma in their writing assessment practices. Writing instructors’ unique and complex negotiations of this SE dilemma, including expectations surrounding SE, revealed the ways they resisted, re-made, and challenged SE as well as the ways SE nonetheless persisted in primarily invisible ways in their rubrics. These findings also revealed the antiracist and translingual approaches to SE and language instruction that instructors extended and engaged in both tacitly and explicitly, revealing the already existing synergy between those approaches. Instructors’ engagement with translingual/antiracist scholarship also marked a need for that scholarship to more explicitly deal with the material concerns and constraints many of these instructors raised surrounding their work with international students as well as the connections between rubrics, SE, and grading.Based on these findings, I advocate for, reveal, and perform a shift from Standard English (SE) to Synergistic English Work (SEW), which means making a paradigmatic shift informed by the synergy between not only theory and praxis but also between theoretical and empirical work. In advocating for and performing a shift from SE to SEW, I am not advocating for a new pedagogy, praxis, or theory but rather building on the theoretical work that has been done surrounding SE in writing studies and weaving that work together with the empirical work this study has done. The acronym SEW works as an extended metaphor for this work since I am, in fact, SEW-ing these translingual and antiracist threads together with the translingual and antiracist work these six writing instructors are already doing to navigate and negotiate this SE dilemma. The nature and practice of this SEW-ing is a means of remaking, a call to action, and a synergistic push to bring all of this SE-related work together so that writing instructors, scholars, and administrators might move from SE-ing to SEW-ing.
Rare case of a large congenital parietal meningoencephalocele associated with  open lip schizencephaly.
Creators: name: RADADIYA, KRUSHNADAS
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Localisation
subject: Congenital
subject: Pathology

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 1 years
description: Clinical History: A one year old male child presented with a mid line cranial swelling present since birth. The patient had had occasional convulsions for last 6 months. He had been provisionally diagnosed with an encephalocele antenatally, and brain MRI was performed for ... Final Diagnosis: Congenital parietal meningoencephalocele with unilateral open lip schizencephaly .
title: An Examination of Terrorist Network Characteristics over Space and Time
Creators: name: Garcin, Bryant
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Terrorist networks
subject: Connectivity
subject: Operational security
subject: Efficiency
subject: Resiliency
subject: Geographic comparison

description: The continuous rise of terrorist organizations around the world has created the need for understanding the networks of these terrorist organizations. Over time, the structure of terrorist networks change due to the addition or elimination of individuals and/or connections between individuals in the terrorist network which impacts the terrorist network’s ability to operate. An improved understanding of how terrorist networks change over time can assist in the dismantling and elimination of the terrorist organizations. Towards this goal, the characteristics of seven terrorist networks that executed a terrorist attack and two terrorist network time series that participated in multiple terrorist attacks are analyzed over time using quantitative measures. Specifically, the following quantitative measures will be used to analyze the characteristics of the terrorist networks, efficiency, connectivity, resiliency, and operational security. The thesis will then seek to determine if there is an increase in three of the quantitative measures leading up to a terrorist attack and a decrease afterwards and if the terrorist networks are resilient as indicated by a scale-free network structure. Also, the quantitative measure results will be compared geographically to determine if the characteristics of terrorist networks that are geospatially close are more similar than the terrorist networks that are located in another country or continent. The results from this thesis will enhance our understanding of the capabilities of terrorist networks and how they evolve over time. More specifically, the analysis of the characteristics of terrorist networks leading up to and after a terrorist attack can assist in determining if a particular terrorist network is about to execute a terrorist attack and whether or not the terrorist network will still be operational after a terrorist attack. Since the terrorist networks analyzed operated in various geographic locations around the world, the results from this thesis can assist in the analysis of terrorist networks globally and help limit the operational capabilities of terrorist networks in the future.
Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics (S-MODE) NASA EVS-3 Proposal
Creators: name: Farrar, J. Thomas
name: Rodriguez, Ernesto
name: D'Asaro, Eric
name: Shcherbina, Andrey
name: Matthias, Paul
name: Chelton, Dudley
name: Gierach, Michelle
name: Lee, Craig
name: Lenain, Luc
name: Mahadevan, Amala
name: McWilliams, James C.
name: Melville, Ken
name: Menemenlis, Dimitris
name: Molemaker, Jeroen
name: Mouroulis, Pantazis
name: Omand, Melissa
name: O'Neill, Larry
name: Perkovic-Martin, Dragana
name: Rainville, Luc
name: Samelson, Roger
name: Thompson, Andrew
name: Thompson, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This is the text of the proposal for the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE). S-MODE is a NASA airborne science mission to test the hypothesis that submesoscale ocean dynamics make important contributions to vertical exchange of climate and biological variables in the upper ocean. S-MODE is using coordinated application of newly developed in situ and remote sensing techniques to provide an unprecedented view of the physics of submesoscale eddies and fronts and their effects on vertical transport in the upper ocean. S-MODE is an Earth Ventures Suborbital Investigation, with a $30M budget and a six-year duration (2019-2025). It consists of three month-long field campaigns offshore of San Francisco, using three aircraft, an oceanographic research vessel, dozens of uncrewed ocean vehicles, and satellite measurements of the ocean.
Supplementary document for Realization of Spinning Mode with Maximum Chirality in Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity at Exceptional Point - 6375790.pdf
Creators: name: Cheng, Chao-Chieh
name: Cheng, Pi-Ju
name: Huang, Tzu-Wei
name: WANG, WEI-TING
name: Tsai, Jui-Tse
name: Shih, Min-Hsiung
name: Chang, Shu-Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplmental Document
title: Policy Watch: Haleh Esfandiari's plight
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Esfandiari, Haleh
subject: Iran

description: © 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: An Iranian-American scholar who directs the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington was jailed in Tehran earlier this week. Haleh Esfandiari had gone to Iran late last year to visit her elderly mother and was on her way to Tehran airport to return home on Dec. 30 when she was robbed of her American and Iranian passports. She was then held under what amounted to house arrest and subjected to repeated interrogation about her activities at the Wilson Center. There was hope that the Iranian authorities would allow her to leave, but on May 8 she was sent to Tehran's infamous Evin Prison.
title: Hopelessly Entangled in Nordic Pre-Suppositions: Catholic Participation in the American Eugenics Society in the 1920s
Creators: name: Leon, Sharon
Publisher: name: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Catholic
subject: Eugenics
subject: US History
subject: 1920s

description: Originally published by Oxford University Press: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrg041
description: This article examines the involvement of U.S. Catholics in the American Eugenics Society during the 1920′s. While Catholics were often opponents of eugenics, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper, both Catholic priests and intellectuals, were prominent in the debate within the Committee on Cooperation with Clergymen of the American Eugenics Society. Ryan and Cooper repeatedly examined the scientific bases for eugenicists’ claims and sought to shift the movement away from its racist and classist elements. Soon after Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii formalized Catholic opposition to eugenics and other efforts to control reproduction, such as birth control, Ryan and Cooper finally broke with the AES.
title: Correspondence: H. Lester Hooker and C. Harrison Mann, Jr., December 5-31, 1958
Creators: name: Hooker, H. Lester
name: Herring, Frank
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Rapid rail
subject: Washington, DC
subject: Transportation

description: Memorandum: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm); Report: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm), paper off color and text fading from age; Letter: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Correspondence between H. Lester Hooker, Chairman for the State Corporation Commission of Virginia, and C. Harrison Mann regarding a copy of a report by Frank Herring, Deputy Director for Comprehensive Planning of the New York Port Authority. The report analyzes the necessity for a rapid rail system for the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
title: Elytrigia :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
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: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Rush Wheatgrass
Tall Wheatgrass

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
title: Disaster Through the Lens of Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring Emergent Groups Utilizing Agent Based Modeling and Social Networks
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Disasters have become more frequent and intense in the last decades and are a significant challenge to the health and well-being of local communities and regions. As a potential solution to this problem attention has been drawn to community resilience and the building of social networks that support or hinder local response and recovery. Research on disasters and community resilience has shown how the ability to leverage social capital through a community’s social networks is fundamental to the ability of individuals and communities to respond to disaster events, but there is little understanding of how the evolution of social networks can impact disaster response and recovery. A computational framework and agent-based model of disasters can provide a virtual laboratory for testing social network effects and uncover their role, function and underlying mechanisms in community resilience. Agent-based models are suited to test bottom-up dynamics and the interactions of variables that lead to the nonlinear relationships in disasters. To what extent can an agent-based model characterize the social networks that emerge in response to a no-warning disaster event such as a Nuclear Weapon of Mass Destruction impacting Manhattan Island? To explore this question this research reviews theories of disaster, primarily from sociological and anthropological research, and builds a conceptual model of disasters from which to develop an agent-based model. The agent-based model represents social networks relevant in both the normal commuting patterns of New York City and the emergent social networks responding to a Nuclear Weapon of Mass Destruction impacting Manhattan Island. Network representations of social groups along with physical representations of the community shows how individuals adapt and respond to the disaster in the initial response. Integrating agent-based models with social network analysis provides new spaces for scientific inquiry into disasters, the dynamics of social networks in resilient communities, and those areas of complexity most often explored today with qualitative methodologies.
Supplementary document for Quantifying and mitigating optical surface loss in suspended GaAs photonic integrated circuits - 6376070.pdf
Creators: name: Thomas, Robert
name: Li, Haoyang
name: Laverock, Jude
name: Balram, Krishna Coimbatore
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information file
title: American Adolescents’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Sources of Information on Climate Change
Creators: name: Roser-Renouf, Connie
name: Maibach, Edward
name: Myers, Teresa
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Climate change
subject: Science Communication

description: The past several years have witnessed a dramatic increase in young people’s activism on climate change, accompanied by calls for society to act more aggressively to protect their futures. To better understand what young people think and feel about climate change, we surveyed American adolescents, asking what they know, feel and believe about the issue, what questions they have about it, and where they are obtaining their information. This report summarizes the results of the survey and is intended to support efforts to inform and educate American youth about climate change.
Supplementary document for Transient guided-mode resonance metasurfaces with phase-transition materials - 6376142.pdf
Creators: name: de Ceglia, Domenico
name: gandolfi, marco
name: Vincenti, Maria Antonietta
name: Tognazzi, Andrea
name: Franceschini, Paolo
name: Cino, Alfonso
name: Ambrosio, Gina
name: Baratto, Camilla
name: Li, Bohan
name: Camacho-Morales, Rocio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
NODES_Tincare_Z16_Home Monitoring of Sleep Disturbances in Parkinson's Disease: A Wearable Solution
Creators: name: Rechichi, Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
subject: TINCARE Project
subject: Digital care innovation
subject: ECS00000036
subject: Sleep disorders
subject: neurodegenerative diseases
subject: telehealth
subject: monitoring strategies

description: Oral presentation held at the 3rd TELMED Workshop, co-located within IEEE PerCom 2024 - Biarritz (France) - 11th March 2024
METANOLDAN ETILEN, PROPILEN, BUTILENLAR VA DIMETIL EFIR OLISH UCHUN KATALIZATORLAR
Creators: name: Sobirova, Sevinch
name: Dusmuratov, Maqsud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada metanoldan etilen, propilen, butilenlar va dimetil efir olish jarayonlari uchun qo‘llaniladigan katalizatorlar tahlil qilinadi. Metanolning olefinlarga (MTO) va dimetil efirga (MTD) aylanish mexanizmlari, katalizatorlarning turi, tarkibi va samaradorligi ko‘rib chiqiladi. Zeolit asosidagi katalizatorlar, fosfatli va oksidli katalizatorlar haqida to‘xtalib o‘tiladi. Turli katalizatorlarning ishlash sharoitlari va ularning mahsulot tarkibiga ta’siri muhokama qilinadi.
Aspetti e implicazioni pedagogico-didattiche della mediazione museale
Creators: name: Grassi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: The present paper aims to investigate the functions of the museum, and its educational and didactic implications, evolving towards an ever greater social inclusion in democratic terms, a phenomenon traceable from the eighteenth century down to our own day of globalisation. It will be present also a critical examination of theoretical concepts, various researches and some reflections in pedagogical perspectives.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 7, N° 10 (2015): Musei e didattica
Musei e mostre per la matematica: tra divulgazione e didattica
Creators: name: Fiocca, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Exhibitions, in the sense of gathering material together for people to view or interact with, are becoming increasingly common. They can take place in a variety of settings from schools to museums. In Italy, in the seventies , Emma Castelnuovo (1913- 2014), who taught mathematics at  “Torquato Tasso” secondary school in Rome, performed with her students some mathematical exhibitions. Her ideas, her books and articles  described   new methods in teaching mathematics, which  had great influence in the years to come. In this article,  the novelty in Castelnuovo’s approach to the didactic is described. Moreover, more  recent enterprises concerning museums and exhibitions devoted to mathematics are also presented.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 7, N° 10 (2015): Musei e didattica
Gender Equality Paradise Revisited: The Dynamics of Gender Disbalance in Russian Engineering from the Late Soviet Time to the 2010s
Creators: name: Rudenko, Nikolay
name: Antoshchuk, Irina
name: Maliushkin, Roman
name: Zemnukhova, Liliia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The Soviet Union, during the late socialist period, is believed to have achieved impressive progress in making gender equality in STEM come true. The collapse of the Soviet Union and rapid transition to the market economy, accompanied by destruction of industrial production and economic decline, brought unprecedented challenges to the engineering profession. How has the post-socialist transition affected gender (dis)balance? We use rich, unique, and previously unexplored big data from a Russian-speaking social network, VKontakte, to answer this question. Our primary finding is that there have been negative gender dynamics since the late Soviet times, the gender gap has widened, and gender inequality in engineering has become more acute. Women’s presence in the profession has considerably decreased. Gender segregation, both vertical and horizontal, in higher education and at the workplace has solidified. We found minor gender discrepancies in job mobility patterns, and even slightly declining mobility since Soviet time. However, changing mobility patterns does not seem to have affected the gender imbalance positively. We find partial support for the leaky pipeline argument in higher engineering education and paid employment. We conclude that the 1990s was a period of harsh masculinization and intensifying gender inequality in engineering in Russia, and the current situation is still under the influence of these trends.
Imparare l’arte. Due musei a confronto tra formazione, metodo e strategia: i casi del MOdE e del MAMBO.
Creators: name: De Vincentis, Stefania
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Two typologies of museum working in the field of education through art to explain how teaching cultural goods it’s a resource for economy of museums and cultural heritage. MOdE and MAMBO are two innovative reality about cultural institute sustainability and accessibility, in a collaborative approach with other territorial enterprises, moving toward the model of an open musem.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 7, N° 10 (2015): Musei e didattica
Quando la Storia dell’Arte entra in rete:  progetti e strumenti per il museo contemporaneo.
Creators: name: Virgili, Valentina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: The study area of this article is the renovation of the art museum, through the recent technological innovations. Various aspects will be considered: starting with the museums on line, I’ll come to analyze the collaboration of these with technological innovations until this time used only for scientific subjects. This combination of art and technology lead up to a new view of exhibition itinerary able to captivate modern visitors and students.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 7, N° 10 (2015): Musei e didattica