cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Dynamics of Conflict, Development Assistance and Peace-Building : Sri Lanka 2000-05
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: World Bank
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Governance
subject: Multi-Track Diplomacy
subject: Humanitarian Engagement
subject: Peace Process
subject: Inclusive Peacebuilding

description: Significant transformations in the socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in recent years encouraged five development partners-World Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Sweden to collaborate on a conflict assessment in 2005. This reflects a growing trend in the development partner community of combining efforts, pooling resources, and taking advantage of comparative strengths to engage in conflict analysis exercises. The multi-donor conflict assessment revisits the underlying structures of conflict, identified in the previous conflict assessment, and explores the current dynamics of conflict factors with a particular focus on the peace process and international engagement. This note presents key findings of the assessment, in particular, the approaches supported by development partners in Sri Lanka. While this is drawn solely from the Sri Lanka experience, it is likely to have a broad relevance to many such countries.
Supplementary material from Modelling preventive measures and their effect on generation times in emerging epidemics
Creators: name: Favero, Martina
name: Scalia Tomba, Gianpaolo
name: Britton, Tom
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The file supplementary.pdf contains more details on the stochastic model and rigorous proofs.
title: Plan: Woodlands Development Corporation, "Interim Affirmative Action Plan," April 1, 1981
Creators: name: Woodlands Development Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

description: Textual: Plan, copy with edit marks; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Plan and letter from Woodlands Development Corporation with the subject line "Interim Affirmative Action Plan" dated April 1, 1981. This plan and its signed cover letter discusses the provisions and time tables for an Affirmative Action Plan, agreed to by the New Communities Development Corporation, concerning the Woodlands Development. John B. Clinton of the Office of Planning and Policy Management signed the cover letter, which serves as a contract, for HUD. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.03
Constitutional Rights for Nonresident Aliens
Creators: name: Walen, Alec D.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Nonresident aliens benefit from basic U.S. constitutional rights  reciprocity of obligation requires as much, and recognizing their rights would not unduly interfere with U.S. action abroad.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 3/4 (2009)
The Conscience of a Prosecutor
Creators: name: Luban, David
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010

description: Should a prosecutor throw a case to avoid keeping men he thinks are innocent in prison? The startling case of justice gone awry in the Palladium nightclub murder raises new questions about the role that conscience should play in lawyers ethics, when conscience presses one way but professional rules press the other.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 30, No 1/2 (2010)
A Different Way of Thinking about the Two-State Solution
Creators: name: Segal, Jerome M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010

description: As peace negotiations in the Mideast continue to fail, perhaps we should consider an alternative way of conceiving the proposal for creating two independent Arab and Jewish states. What would
the two-state solution look like if rather than turning away from the underlying reality of a common homeland, we were to embrace that reality?
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 30, No 1/2 (2010)
Philosophers to the Rescue? The Failed Attempt to Defend the Inclusion of Intelligent Design in Public Schools
Creators: name: Sloan-Lynch, Jay
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010

description: Philosophers have argued convincingly that Intelligent Design cannot simply be defined out of classrooms as nonscience. But the move from the conclusion that intelligent design is not nonscience to the conclusion that it is legitimate to teach it in public schools is deeply mistaken.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 30, No 1/2 (2010)
Community Interpreting In Greece Wp 3 (Communicating With Non- Greek Speakers: The Authorities' Perspective.)
Creators: name: Vlachopoulos, Stefanos
name: Tagkas, Perikles
name: Gogas, Themistokles
name: Dogoriti, Eleftheria
name: Vyzas, Theodoros
name: Batsalia, Frideriki
name: Krimpas, Panayotis
name: Florou Aikaterini
name: Chita, Anna
name: Iseris, Georgios
name: Dragomanovits, Spyridon
name: Roumbos, Lambros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: community interpreting, Greece, foreigners, authorities, communication

description:  Communicating with non- Greek speakers: the authorities' perspective.

Report on the perspective of the Greek authorities established with the help of questionnaires/interviews.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the [EEA] Mechanism 2009-2014 under Project Contract n°3681
Supplementary document for Multi-sites energy transfer in Fe3+-doped KAl11O17 phosphor toward zero thermal quenching near-infrared luminescence - 6279560.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Gaochao
name: Zhang, Shuai
name: xia, zhiguo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supporting information for the publication
title: R/V SHINSEI MARU Cruise report KS-24-21
Creators: name: Takata, Hyoe
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V SHINSEI MARU
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT]
 This document is a preliminary report of KS-24-21 on R/V SHINSEI MARU from 2024-10-19 to 2024-11-01.
title: Flyer: Chi Alpha Final Four Watch Party, ca. March, 2006
Creators: name: Fellowship, Chi Alpha Christian
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University
subject: Basketball
subject: Final Four

description: Flyer: color, 4.5" x 5.25" (11.4 cm x 13.3 cm)
description: Flyer for a Final Four watch party hosted by the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. 2005-06 Men's Basketball Season and Tournament Run Collection 1.05
Re-evaluating candidates for cochlear implantation: traditional cochlear implantation vs. hybrid
Creators: name: Fickey, Alexandra E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 0

description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2016
description: Cochlear implant (CI) candidacy criteria have expanded due to the advancements in technology (e.g., Hybrid CI), speech coding strategies, and surgical techniques. Now, people with some residual hearing that do not benefit from their best-fit hearing aids can be considered for CI candidacy. Research has shown that improved speech recognition and quality of life can be achieved post implantation for both traditional CI candidates and Hybrid CI recipients (Fitzpatrick & Leblanc, 2010; Hallberg & Ringdahl, 2004; Yeagle, Ceh, & Francis, 2010; Roland et al., 2016).
This study identified patients at the Towson University-Hearing and Balance Center (TU-HBC) that are CI candidates by evaluating their charts using both the traditional and newly expanded CI candidacy criteria. This was achieved through a retrospective chart review. A survey was mailed to TU-HBC patients that were identified as CI candidates.  The survey asked questions about their satisfaction with their hearing aid(s) as well as interest in learning more about CIs. The findings from this study found that just over 6% of the TU-HBC patients were CI candidates audiometrically. Of the potential candidates identified (n=156), there were 10 people that returned a completed survey.  Their results indicated that they currently perceive minimal benefit from their hearing aids and are interested in learning more about CIs. Interested patients were invited to attend a CI information session at the TU-HBC as the first step informing them about cochlear implants.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/48599
Regulatory Review and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Creators: name: Sagoff, Mark
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: President Obamas recent memorandum calling for an overhaul of White House regulatory policies provides an opportunity to revisit our reliance on cost-benefit analysis as a fundamental regulatory
principle.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 3/4 (2009)
title: Flash to Eternity
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Time
subject: Space-time
subject: Change
subject: Eternity
subject: Relativity

description: Flash to Eternity is the title of Michael Walton’s MFA thesis exhibition that was on display in the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University on November 7, 2022, through November 18, 2022. The exhibition was an exploration into time, an opportunity to investigate the truth of time through mutual and individual experiences. The objects in the exhibition presented the artist’s perspectives regarding the realities and theories of time and their balance between the paradigms of space-time and eternity. The exhibit’s intention was to generate questions in the mind of the viewer: Is time real or an illusion, is there an absolute time or is it relative, and is time dynamic or static? These questions were shaped as a literal journey within the exhibition, allowing the viewer to walk through time constructs in community with others in the gallery, building individual and shared perspectives through experience and trust.
Ethics and Poverty Tours
Creators: name: Selinger, Evan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Poorismorganized tours that bring predominantly middle and upper class people to impoverished regionsis growing in popularity, touted by its supporters as conscientious consumerism. Evan Selinger examines the arguments of poorisms advocates (it raises awareness of global suffering and provides needed funds to eliminate poverty) and of its detractors (both the intentions behind poorism and the consequences following from it can be morally problematic). He
concludes that this kind of privileged voyeurism is at best a morally complex endeavor.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1/2 (2009)
Recreating the Creation
Creators: name: Nelson, Robert H.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America, economist Robert H. Nelson provides examples of how current environmental religion is beset by underlying theological confusions. Intent upon restoring the natural world to a state prior to destructive human interventionwhether through trying to reintroduce extinct mega-fauna to the Americas or saving the endangered spotted owlenvironmentalists are unwittingly engaged in their own contradictory project of defying Darwin
and playing God.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1/2 (2009)
"Mental Illness" and Justice as Recognition
Creators: name: Goering, Sara
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Disability scholars have argued that the disadvantage of disability is caused primarily by social factors and calls out for social change as a matter of justice. But what about psychiatric disability? While noting several factors that make psychiatric disability a special casethe mentally ill individuals unreliability of judgment and instability of functioningSara Goering argues that much is gained by viewing mental illness through the lens of social oppression and working
toward recognition of individuals with mental illness as equal members of the human community
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1/2 (2009)
Stigma and Openness
Creators: name: Mills, Claudia
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Moving from the social and political arena to the choices we face in our own private lives, Claudia Mills asks how information about someones mental illness should be shared with others. While
open communication about mental illness works toward the important goal of reducing its unfair stigma, it can cause harm or embarrassment, violate privacy, and challenge an individuals own
preferred self-representation. She offers tentative guidelines for how to proceed on this sensitive and morally charged issue.
description: Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1/2 (2009)
Zhu fang Guangzhou xiao zhi : wu juan [volume 02]
駐防廣州小志 : 五卷 [第二冊]
Creators: name: Fan, Ping
name: 樊屛
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of archives about military in Guangzhou in Qing dynasty.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Ling Weizu and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Phonetic Descriptions of Glossolalia
Creators: name: Atkins, L. Patrick
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Glossolalia
subject: Phonetics
subject: Phonology
subject: Typology
subject: Speaking in tongues

description: This paper phonetically describes the glossolalia speech of three native Englishspeaking subjects. The subjects were interviewed for biographical information and recorded speaking in tongues. After transcribing the speech into International Phonetic Alphabet symbols, segment inventories were generated for each of the subjects’ samples, and the segments of glossolalia were described in light of phonological universals. This study concludes that linguistic universals influence glossolalia and that the segments of a glossolalist’s speech are a subset of the segments of his or her native language. These conclusions have particular implications for the potency of phonological universals as well as for further phonetic studies of glossolalia.
Community Interpreting In Greece Wp 4 (Milestone): The Bird'S Eye: Consolidation On The Greek, On The International Experience And On The Data Collected Through The Questionnaires.
Creators: name: Vlachopoulos, Stefanos
name: Tagkas, Perikles
name: Gogas, Themistoklis
name: Dogoriti, Eleftheria
name: Vyzas, Theodoros
name: Chita, Anna
name: Karanasiou, Penny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: community interpreting, Greece, authorities, foreigners

description: Consolidation of the international expertise and data concerning the picture in Greece collected and processed in wp 1-4.
title: Presentation: William J. Nicoson, November 3-6, 1971
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
subject: Environment
subject: Legislation

description: Presentation: photocopy 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: "In Search of the Public Interests in Land Use Controls," presented by William J. Nicoson, Director, Office of New Communities Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development. In this presentation, Nicoson states that man's use of land determines the organization and quality of the settled environment in which he lives and the character of the natural environment which he protects. Nicoson summarizes shortcomings of land use, discusses federal legislation, and traditional land use controls. Planned Community Archives Collection, 419.06.
title: Collaborative Writing Across Distances: An Ethnographic Study of Workplace Writing Across Coasts and Cultures
Creators: name: Cassidy, Lauren
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Writing
subject: Collaboration
subject: Workplace
subject: Culture
subject: Distance
subject: Distributed work

description: This thesis describes the collaborative writing practices among colleagues within the same company who work in two geographically-dispersed offices. The author conducted an ethnography of ERC, the education research division within a large research and development organization, observing and interviewing staff in both the east and west coast offices over a period of five months. The study examined the overall organizational culture, the two distinct office cultures that emerged in part because of the distance, and the individual writing team cultures, and how both the cultures and distance influenced writing collaborations. It also addressed how collaborative writing shapes the various cultures. Although a literature review suggested that being in two different places with two different office cultures would hinder collaboration, this study found that ERC was able to have successful writing collaborations because of the cultures of the overall organization, the two separate offices, and the individual writing teams.
Guliang da yi shu
穀梁大義述
Creators: name: Liu, Xing'en, 1795-1880
name: 柳興恩, 1795-1880
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2016

description: A selected edition. On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Chen Li, Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Emergence Of Global Ict Outsourcing
Creators: name: Kashyap, Ela
name: Apeksha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: The main objective of this paper is to succinctly communicate the idea behind global outsourcing market and what motivates an organisation to outsource. Over the years, the outsourcing market has experienced tremendous growth. There are wide varieties of services offered by vendors who cater the needs of huge market players. As coin has two sides, there are substantial reasons against outsourcing as well. Organisations over reliance on outsourcing may also lead to disastrous consequences. So, Intensive information gathering about the client before making the bid will be beneficial as there is clarity of the operational terms required. The present paper throws light on the issues that are needed to be addressed before signing an ICT outsourcing deal.
Dh Poetry Modelling: A Quest For Philological And Technical Standardization
Creators: name: González-Blanco, Elena
name: Del Rio Riande, Gimena
name: Martinez Cantón, Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: digital humanities, dh, poetry, standardization, poetry modelling

description: This presentation is for the paper with the same name that shows the preliminary results of research in comparing poetry schools from different languages and periods. What we propose in this paper is not a new method for analyzing poetry, but an abstract model based on a working methodology supported by a double standardization system, both at philological and technological levels. This research is being developed thanks to the project Poetry Standarization and Linked Open Data:POSTDATA, the Starting Grant ERC-2015-STG-679528, and has been presented at Digital Humanities 2016 Conference in Krakow.
title: Honeybee
Creators: name: Mead, Allyson Elizabeth
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fiction
subject: Character
subject: Young adult
subject: Novella

description: This thesis is a fictional piece meant to explore the mentality of a seventeen-year-old girl in a relationship with a twenty-four-year-old male in modern day Mississippi. Through describing a trip taken to the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, the location is explored in terms of tourist attractions as well as atmosphere while the story remains focused on a plot involving the seventeen-year-old starting to recognize flaws in her previously idolized partner, which are only exacerbated when he proposes to her on the last night of their trip. This thesis is a character-driven novella meant for new adult readers.
StandICT.eu 2026 EUOS Standards Training Academy Post Webinar Impact Report - Geopolitics of Standardisation: Focus on India
Creators: name: Blind, Knut
name: Chand Sharma, Dinesh
name: Cueter, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: On 27 May 2024, StandICT.eu EUOS Standards Training Academy hosted a webinar to get insight into India's standardisation strategies and activities in general, followed by a closer look at its activities in electrotechnology and ICT. Discussions centred around opportunities and challenges India and its actors face in international standardisation. Then, the focus shifted on elaborating the implications for the EU before identifying opportunities for collaboration and joining forces for reciprocal benefits and addressing global challenges.
title: Terrorism in Colombia: The Untold Conflict
Creators: name: Toll, Zachary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Colombia
subject: Terrorism
subject: FARC
subject: ELN

description: Colombia has been in continuous civil turmoil since gaining independence from Spain in 1810. With the inauguration of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe in 2002, the past 14 years have been the longest period of sustained military action against violent extremist groups in Colombia. This 52 year conflict has finally come to an abrupt end on September 26th, 2016. The goal of this thesis is to analyze variation in attack intensity values over time, identify changes in the spatial clustering of high attack intensity values in Colombia, determine locations in Colombia which are potentially more susceptible to growth in number of terrorists, analyze the spatial distribution of terrorism events in Colombia from 2000 – 2014, and comparing Department-level economic data to remotely sensed NDVI values as well as social media data.
Linked Open Data To Represent Multilingual Poetry Collections. A Proposal To Solve Interoperability Issues Between Poetic Repertoires
Creators: name: González-Blanco, Elena
name: Del Rio Riande, Gimena
name: Martinez Cantón, Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: ontology, poetry, metrics, digital humanities

description: This posters shows the creation of a poetic ontology in order to use it as a basis to link different databases and projects working on metrics and poetry. This research is being developed thanks to the project Poetry Standarization and Linked Open Data:POSTDATA, the Starting Grant ERC-2015-STG-679528.
title: Change Detection and Remote Sensing Methodologies to Track Deforestation and Growth in Threatened Global Rainforests
Creators: name: Shermeyer, Jacob
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Forestry
subject: Landsat imagery
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Change detection

description: This study describes, compares, and contrasts two forestry change detection methodologies for tracking deforestation and growth in three sites from 2000 to 2010. The three study areas include threatened forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Indonesia, and Peru. The methodologies used in this study rely on freely available data including Landsat 5 and 7 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF). The two methods include conventional supervised signature extraction followed by a maximum likelihood classification and MODIS VCF guided Forest/Non Forest (FNF) Masking utilizing broad spatial resolution data to guide signature extraction. The process chain for each of these methods includes cloud masking of Landsat data, a threshold classification of MODIS VCF, training data or signature extraction, k- nearest-neighbor or maximum likelihood classification, analyst guided thresholding, and post-classification x image differencing to generate forest change maps. In addition to this research, two Forest/Non-Forest maps that are derived from these methods are compared and contrasted against a new global forest cover product called Landsat VCF. Comparisons of all methodologies was based upon an accuracy assessment via 500 validation pixels at each study area. Accuracy is evaluated in terms of both pixel counts and area proportions. Results of this accuracy assessment indicate that FNF Masking had the highest overall accuracy and was the best at labeling change. Conventional Supervised Classification had slightly lower overall accuracy but performed poorly when labeling change areas. Results indicate that Landsat VCF FNF maps had comparable accuracies to the previous two methods; however it was found that Landsat VCF substantially underestimates non-forested land cover and as a result overestimates forested land cover in all study areas.
title: Newspaper Column: Uneven Rewards for County Boards
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Fairfax County (VA)
subject: Fairfax County (VA) Park Authority
subject: De la Fe, Frank
subject: Hanley, Kate
subject: Fairfax County (VA) School Board
subject: Fairfax County (VA) Library Board
subject: Fairfax County (VA) Water Authority

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: The thin alphabet gruel in the payroll labyrinth nourishing Fairfax County’s bureaucracy is not shared with any consistency among boards of commissioners and directors whose work for county citizens deserves at least a sip of soup. Members of the board of the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) have received no compensation for their services since FY1997. That was the year of the great budget crunch when the county eliminated payments to virtually all board members of county authorities,commissions, and the like. But we now live in a time of fiscal surpluses. Frank de la Fe, a Reston resident who chairs the FCPA board, has sent a memo to Kate Hanley, who chairs the county Board of Supervisors, requesting that stipends for FCPA board members be revived.
Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Biofield Energy Treated Gerbera Multiplication Medium
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: The micropropagation technique is used for Gerbera species due to their high demand all over the world as the decorative potted plants and cut flowers. The present study was done to investigate the impact of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical properties of gerbera multiplication medium. A part of the sample was treated with Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy, and the other part was kept as untreated and termed as the control sample. Both the parts were subsequently analysed for their physical, thermal and spectral properties using X-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analysis, surface area analysis, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), elemental analysis, and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The XRD results showed 13.98% increase in crystallite size of treated sample (104.01 nm) as compared to the control (91.25 nm). The particle size data revealed an increase in d50 (average particle size) and d99 (size below which 99% particles are present) by 72.57% and 42.26%, respectively of the treated sample as compared to the control. Moreover, the surface area of the treated sample was reduced from 0.694 m2/g (control) to 0.560 m2/g in the treated sample. The TGA data showed the increase in onset temperature along with the reduction in the percent weight loss of the treated sample as compared to the control. Besides, the elemental analysis revealed the significant decrease in the percentage of nitrogen (10.47%) and hydrogen (9.35%) as well as the presence of sulphur in the treated sample. The FT-IR results showed the differences in the IR frequencies corresponding to pyridine ring and N-H2 deformation of the treated sample as compared to the control. Hence, the overall data revealed that the biofield energy treatment had a significant impact on the physicochemical properties of the treated sample that might help to improve its uses in the in vitro tissue culture techniques as compared to the control sample.
MY BETTER HALF, MY SOUL MATE
Creators: name: UBAT, JOEL T.
Publisher: name: BINAS PUBLISHING
Year: 2025
Subjects: MY BETTER HALF, MY SOUL MATE

description: PACIFICUS: A Literary Magazine by Binas Publishing (Volume 1, Issue 1)

 

PACIFICUS is a literary magazine by Binas Publishing that celebrates the power of words through a diverse collection of poetry, short stories, essays, and creative works. With its inaugural issue, PACIFICUS Volume 1, Issue 1 sets the stage for a platform where writers and artists can share their voices, perspectives, and imagination.

 

This edition features compelling narratives, thought-provoking reflections, and artistic expressions that resonate with readers across different backgrounds. Whether exploring themes of identity, resilience, culture, or the human experience, PACIFICUS embodies the essence of storytelling that inspires and connects.

 

As a publication dedicated to fostering literary excellence, PACIFICUS aims to nurture emerging and established writers while enriching the literary landscape. Each issue aspires to be a testament to creativity, insight, and the enduring impact of literature.
title: Office Workbook Land Development Costs: Norman Rowland, circa 1969.
Creators: name: Rowland, Norman
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Norman Rowland
subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Workbook: Photocopy of original; hole punched, 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm).
description: Office Workbook for the Reston Low Income Housing Demonstration Program, Land Development Costs, Norman Rowland, circa 1969. The purpose of this report is to summarize obvious problems which will bring to light other problems and begin to establish corrective goals. A comparative analysis must be made of all the codes, engineering approvals and inspection procedures to determine their effect on cost and should also include: comparison between Reston and other Fairfax County developments; Fairfax County and contiguous counties; use of materials such as plastics and transite pipe; road engineering requirements; flood plan criterion and production costs. Planned Community Archives Collection, 445.19.
title: Sense of Place: Its History, Evolution, and Present Application
Creators: name: Milling, Charles R
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sense of place
subject: Sustainability
subject: Place identity
subject: Place attachment

description: To date, the concept of ‘sense of place’ has/is used in several disciplines and interdisciplinary applications. Are these different fields using the term differently and, if so, how? Does the concept prove useful in academic, political and other fields? What is(are) the origin(s) of the concept, how did it evolve in its meaning and uses over time, and how is it being used today? In this thesis my main objective is to disentangle the many meanings of the term to provide others using it in contemporary contexts with an exhaustive and comprehensive review of the term in hopes that this will increase the concept’s utility. To these ends, the overarching question of my thesis is, “What are the origin(s), evolution(s) and present-day uses of the concept of ‘sense of place’? My primary goal was to provide a historical review and see where the concept originated, either in one or more than one context, how the meanings differ or overlap, and how the uses changed over time and to the present day. Once I have completed this thorough and exhaustive review as described, I will add some ideas about the possibility of a unifying theme. However, this is tangential and speculative at best, seeing as my main effort is tracing the concept’s history, evolution and contemporary uses.
Diseño E Implementacion Del Sistema De  Calidad En La Biblioteca De La Universidad  Del Tepeyac
Creators: name: González, Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Este Informe se desarrolla a propósito del trabajo realizado durante los últimos cinco

años de labores profesionales en la Biblioteca de la Universidad del Tepeyac, Institución en la que me he desempeñado como Coordinadora de Biblioteca desde el año del 2002 hasta la fecha.
Community Interpreting In Greece (Wp 5): The Profile Of The Greek Community Interpreter
Creators: name: Vlachopoulos, Stefanos
name: Tagkas, Periklis
name: Gogas, Themistoklis
name: Dogoriti, Eleftheria
name: Vyzas, Theodoros
name: Karanasiou, Penny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: community interpreter, interpreter profile, Greece

description: The profile of the Greek community interpreter

Elaborating the profile of the Greek community interpreter in terms of skills and knowledge of the interpreter needed by the Greek authorities (linguistic/cultural knowledge, interpreting and translation skills, legal knowledge, psychological training, etc.). The profile will be elaborated on the basis of the needs analysis in the previous workpackages.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the [EEA] Mechanism 2009-2014 under Project Contract n°3681
Ting chun lou shi chao : si juan
聽春樓詩鈔 : 四卷
Creators: name: Liu, Jiamo, 1776-
name: 劉嘉謨, 1776-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of Liu Jiamo's poems, on double leaves, East Asian binding, sealed by Huang Peifang, Liang Ruhong, and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Memo: Lauren B. Sevins to Directors, Offices of Regional Housing, and Field Office Managers and Supervisors, "Title X Development Program," January 9, 1980
Creators: name: Sevins, Lauren B.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006

description: Textual: Memo, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Memo from Lauren B. Sevins, Assistant Secretary for Housing, to Directors, Offices of Regional Housing, and Field Office Managers and Supervisors with the subject line "Title X Development Program" dated January 9, 1980. In this memo, Sevin discusses changes to Title X Land Development Program made on November 7, 1979. Planned Community Archives Collection, 483.17
title: Kinsey Dialogue Series #5: Radicalizing the Everyday
Creators: name: Maguire, Patricia
Publisher: name: Center for International Education
Year: 2003

description: The David Kinsey Dialogue Series was established in memory of our beloved colleague, David Chapin Kinsey. David touched countless lives in the course of his 40 years as a dedicated, brilliant and outstanding educator, helping people everywhere to inquire, explore and discover the world and themselves. Since 1975, David Kinsey served as a faculty member of the School of Education in the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It is our hope that the Kinsey Dialogue series will uphold his legacy, keeping alive his passionate vision for a better world.
description: I begin this presentation by identifying three current challenges for action research as an approach to knowledge creation, and hence challenges for action researchers. This sets the stage for discussion of my personal experiences with one of these challenges, primarily sustaining a connection to action research's radical roots while working with others to create a space for feminist--informed action research in the academy. In particular I will be discussion some of the work I have been engaged in over the past 15 years at the Western New Mexico University, Gallup Graduate studies Center (GGSC) in Gallup, New Mexico.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 22 – Demanding Print on Demand?
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: Can print on demand shake up academic publishing, book buying, and reading habits? Another terrific guest joins us on the podcast for a feature segment on the promise and perils of print on demand: Yakov Shafranovich, a software developer who specializes in print on demand services including PublicDomainReprints.org, covered in several prior Digital Campus episodes. [...]
You shi lou shu mu : si juan [volume 01]
有是樓書目 : 四卷 [第一冊]
Creators: name: Ruan, Kuanran
name: 阮寬然
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of bibliography of Yi Xueqing's collection compiled by Ruan Kuanran.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Liang Ruhong and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Diverse Knowledge Distillation (DKD): A Solution for Improving The Robustness of Ensemble Models Against Adversarial Attacks
Creators: name: Mirzaeian, Ali
name: Kosecka, Jana
name: Homayoun, Houman
name: Mohsenin, Tinoosh
name: Sasan, Avesta
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ensemble learning
subject: Neural Networks

description: This paper proposes an ensemble learning model that is resistant to adversarial attacks. To build resilience, we introduced a training process where each member learns a radically distinct latent space. Member models are added one at a time to the ensemble. Simultaneously, the loss function is regulated by a reverse knowledge distillation, forcing the new member to learn different features and map to a latent space safely distanced from those of existing members. We assessed the security and performance of the proposed solution on image classification tasks using CIFAR10 and MNIST datasets and showed security and performance improvement compared to the state of the art defense methods.
Community Interpreting In Greece (The Legal Framework Of Community Interpreting Services To Foreigners In Greece: Lex Lata And Lex Ferenda)
Creators: name: Vlachopoulos, Stefanos
name: Krimpas, Panayotis
name: Dragomanovits, Spyridon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The legal framework of community interpreting services to foreigners in Greece: lex lata and lex ferenda.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the [EEA] Mechanism 2009-2014 under Project Contract n°3681
title: Delaware Love Affair
Creators: name: Buckley, Stephanie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nonfiction
subject: Memoir
subject: Coming of age
subject: Delaware
subject: Essay

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until April 2031 at the earliest.
description: This thesis is a collection of personal essays that explore the author’s experiences with a variety of subjects, including her upbringing in rural Delaware, class struggles, social performance, and the intersection of public and private traumas. One of the primary connecting threads of the collection is the simultaneous desire and fear of being seen, and how that manifests through writing. Delaware is also central to the collection. The narrator is drawn to Delaware and its people despite knowing she must leave them behind. Ultimately, the collection explores an impossible longing for wholeness as the narrator explores her fractured family, troubling friendships, and the longing to feel comfortable physically and economically.
Supplementary document for Interference tunable second harmonic generation for two-dimensional materials in layered structures - 6280258.pdf
Creators: name: Song, Ying
name: Wang, Weiming
name: Wang, Yanchao
name: Shan, Yuwei
name: Cheng, Jin Luo
name: Sipe, John
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: the PL spectra of monolayer MoS2
You shi lou shu mu : si juan [volume 04]
有是樓書目 : 四卷 [第四冊]
Creators: name: Ruan, Kuanran
name: 阮寬然
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of bibliography of Yi Xueqing's collection compiled by Ruan Kuanran.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Liang Ruhong and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Poster: "Want to go to Indianapolis?" ca. March, 2006
Creators: name: University, George Mason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University
subject: Basketball
subject: Final Four
subject: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

description: Poster: black & white, 23.5" x 31.25" (59.7 cm x 79.4 cm)
description: Poster displayed on campus containing information for students and faculty interested in going to the NCAA Final Four tournament in Indianapolis, IN. 2005-06 Men's Basketball Season and Tournament Run Collection
Experimental Investigation on Physical, Thermal and Spectroscopic Properties of 2-Chlorobenzonitrile: Impact of Biofield Treatment
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: 2-chlorobenzonitrile (2-ClBN) is widely used in the manufacturing of azo dyes, pharmaceuticals, and as intermediate in various chemical reactions. The aim of present study was to evaluate the impact of biofield treatment on physical, thermal and spectroscopic properties of 2-ClBN. 2-ClBN sample was divided into two groups that served as treated and control. The treated group received Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment. Subsequently, the control and treated samples were evaluated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyser, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. XRD result showed a decrease in crystallite size in treated samples i.e. 4.88% in 2-ClBN along with the increase in peak intensity as compared to control. However, surface area analysis showed a decrease in surface area of 64.53% in treated 2-ClBN sample as compared to the control. Furthermore, DSC analysis results showed a significant increase in the latent heat of fusion (28.74%) and a slight increase in melting temperature (2.05%) in treated sample as compared to the control. Moreover, TGA/DTG studies showed that the control and treated 2-ClBN samples lost 61.05% and 46.15% of their weight, respectively. The FT-IR spectra did not show any significant change in treated 2-ClBN sample as compared to control. However, UV-Vis spectra showed an increase in the intensity of peak as compared to control sample. These findings suggest that biofield treatment has significantly altered the physical, thermal and spectroscopic properties of 2-ClBN, which could make them more useful as a chemical intermediate.
You shi lou shu mu : si juan [volume 03]
有是樓書目 : 四卷 [第三冊]
Creators: name: Ruan, Kuanran
name: 阮寬然
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of bibliography of Yi Xueqing's collection compiled by Ruan Kuanran.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Liang Ruhong and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
You shi lou shu mu : si juan [volume 05]
有是樓書目 : 四卷 [第五冊]
Creators: name: Ruan, Kuanran
name: 阮寬然
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of bibliography of Yi Xueqing's collection compiled by Ruan Kuanran.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Liang Ruhong and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Stearns' Blog
title: Peter N. Stearns' Blog
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Stearns, Peter N.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: To view this WARC file, you will need to use a WARC Viewer such as Webrecorder Player. Webrecorder Player is free and open source software, compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Webrecorder Player may be downloaded at: https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder-player
description: Stearns' Blog is the official blog of Peter N. Stearns, Provost Emeritus and University Professor of Art and Art History at George Mason University. Professor Stearns began the blog in October 2008 and has since used it as a forum for discussing his research, history pedagogy, and events at George Mason University.
title: Porte-Greffes D'Avocatier :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Avocado

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
title: Attendance Motivation among Demographic Subgroups of Washington Wizards Spectators
Creators: name: Hitpas, Nicole
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sport marketing
subject: Sport attendance
subject: Fan identity
subject: Market segmentation

description: The purpose of this project was to examine differences in game attendance motivation among demographic subgroups of Washington Wizards spectators. Data were collected from 250 Wizards spectators via the Sport Fan Motivation Scale and indicated attendance motivation differences among key demographics including age groups and gender. Results of this study may be used by sport marketers and organizations to better define target market segments and to tailor marketing efforts to increase attendance and build a loyal fan base.
title: The Single Box Humanities Search
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Google
subject: Open access
subject: Search

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
Supplementary document for High-fidelity Color Image Restoration from a Disturbed Graded-index Imaging System by Deep Neural Networks - 6280473.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
name: Hu, Xuanyu
name: Duan, ZiPeng
name: Tan, Yehong
name: Zhou, Ruiqi
name: Zeng, Jinwei
name: Wang, Jian
name: Xiao, Jion
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Principle derivation
You shi lou shu mu : si juan [volume 02]
有是樓書目 : 四卷 [第二冊]
Creators: name: Ruan, Kuanran
name: 阮寬然
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of bibliography of Yi Xueqing's collection compiled by Ruan Kuanran.
On double leaves, East Asian binding. Sealed by Liang Ruhong and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Self-powered p-NiO/n-ZnO heterojunction ultraviolet photodetectors fabricated on plastic substrates
Creators: name: Hasan, Md Rezaul
name: Xie, Ting
name: Barron, Sara C.
name: Liu, Guannan
name: Nguyen, Nhan V.
name: Motayed, Abhishek
name: Rao, Mulpuri V.
name: Debnath, Ratan
Publisher: name: American Institute of Physics
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ultraviolet light
subject: Zinc oxide films
subject: II-VI semiconductors
subject: Illumination
subject: Gold

description: A self-powered ultraviolet (UV) photodetector (PD) based on p-NiO and n-ZnO was fabricated using low-temperature sputtering technique on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) coated plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The p-n heterojunction showed very fast temporal photoresponse with excellent quantum efficiency of over 63% under UV illumination at an applied reverse bias of 1.2 V. The engineered ultrathin Ti/Au top metal contacts and UV transparent PET/ITO substrates allowed the PDs to be illuminated through either frontside or backside. Morphology, structural, chemical, and optical properties of sputtered NiO and ZnO films were also investigated.