cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MADAGASCAR ELECTRIFICATION PLAN for 2030 through OnSSET Presentation
Creators: name: Rakotondratsimba, Andriampanarivo
name: Razafindrakoto, Nomenjanahary Heritiana
name: Rasoarimalala, Marie Emondine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Madagascar
EMP-A 2025
Electrification Planning
OnSSET
Energy Access
Least-Cost Technology
Hydropower
M300 Initiative
Renewable Energy
Capacity Building

description: This presentation summarizes the key findings and strategic insights from Madagascar’s participation in the Energy Modelling Platform for Africa (EMP-A) 2025, focusing on geospatial electrification planning using the OnSSET tool. It outlines the national targets under the M300 initiative, aiming for 80% electricity access by 2030 with a strong emphasis on hydropower (75%) alongside solar, wind, and diesel technologies.

The slides present electrification challenges in Madagascar—including limited data availability, human resource constraints, and infrastructure gaps—while proposing a least-cost technology mix as a planning tool. Scenario 1, based on cost-effectiveness, is identified as the most realistic pathway. The presentation also outlines future work, including improving the OnSSET model, integrating environmental impact assessments, and incorporating the tool into national capacity-building and planning processes.
Browse and Visualize Manuscripts Illuminations with IIIF
Creators: name: Robineau, Régis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: IIIF
Interoperability
Images
Manuscripts
Illuminations

description: Presentation from the 2018 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Working Groups meetings, held on December 3rd - 6th in Edinburgh (hosted jointly by the The University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland).
title: Chechenisation: Lessons for U.S. Counterinsurgents
Creators: name: Straskulic, Robert
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chechnya
subject: Ramzan Kadyrov
subject: Chechenisation
subject: Counterinsurgency
subject: Field Manual (FM 3-24)

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until July 2029 at the earliest.
description: This thesis describes the Russian Chechenization Policies successfully implemented in Chechnya since 2000. Chechenization is responsible for bringing stability to Chechnya following two devastating wars. The key to Chechenization was the graduation transition of responsibility for counterinsurgency operations to the pro-Russian militias loyal to the current President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. By implementing a robust counter-ideology campaign, based on traditional Chechen Sufi Islam, Kadyrov has been able to increase the legitimacy of his regime and deprive the insurgency of its moral base. The reliance on indigenous forces employing coercive methods created a system of completive control where the regime has dominated the population, preventing the insurgency from executing sophisticated and coordinated attacks. This thesis is slated to be a reference and resource for U.S. military officers and policy makers who are currently conducting counterinsurgency operations around the globe.
title: Graph theoretic and motif analyses of the hippocampal neuron type potential connectome
Creators: name: Ascoli, Giorgio A.
name: Rees, Christopher Loren
name: Wheeler, DW
name: Hamilton, DJ
name: White, CM
name: Komendantov, AO
Publisher: name: eNeuro
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Connectomics
subject: Graph theory
subject: Hippocampal neurons
subject: Motifs
subject: Neuroinformatics
subject: Network

description: We computed the potential connectivity map of all known neuron types in the rodent hippocampal formation by supplementing scantly available synaptic data with spatial distributions of axons and dendrites from the open-access knowledge base Hippocampome.org. The network that results from this endeavor, the broadest and most complete for a mammalian cortical region at the neuron-type level to date, contains more than 3,200 connections among 122 neuron types across six sub-regions. Analyses of these data employing graph theory metrics unveil the fundamental architectural principles of the hippocampal circuit. Globally, we identify a highly specialized topology minimizing communication cost; a modular structure underscoring the prominence of the tri-synaptic loop; a core set of neuron types serving as information processing hubs as well as a distinct group of particular anti-hub neurons; a nested, two-tier rich club managing much of the network traffic; and an innate resilience to random perturbations. At the local level, we uncover the basic building blocks, or connectivity patterns, that combine to produce complex global functionality, and we benchmark their utilization in the circuit relative to random networks. Taken together, these results provide a comprehensive connectivity profile of the hippocampus, yielding novel insights on its functional operations at the computationally crucial level of neuron types.
title: Weighing the Costs of Capital Punishment v. Life In Prison Without Parole
Creators: name: Ebert, Michael E
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007

description: from Volume 1 (2007) of New Voices in Public Policy
description: This paper is a cost analysis that compares the costs of charging, trying, convicting and imposing a sentence of death versus the costs for its alternatives, life in prison without parole (LWOP) and life in prison with the possibility of parole (LPP) when the crime charged (“indictment”) involves one or more instances of aggravated first-degree murder. For the most part, the cost analysis will involve only one option to the death penalty, LWOP; this option is available to prosecutors in death penalty states for the same class of particularly heinous crimes for which a capital indictment is available.
title: Ripe for Contribution? The Falkands-Malvinas War and the Utility of Problems-Solving Workshops
Creators: name: Mitchell, Christopher
Publisher: name: School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Year: 2000

description: “This Working Paper is a model of using an in-depth, hands-on account of a specific case to explore and expand a body of theories and to test the efficacy of specific practices. Among the questions Mitchell considers are when is the timing appropriate for a problem solving approach and advances our understanding of when a conflict is ‘ripe’ for involvement, if not final resolution. In addition, the paper asks how we should regard the issue of ‘success.’ In particular, he analyzes how asymmetries shape the prospects for resolution along a number of different dimensions, including asymmetry of advantage, asymmetry of readiness, and asymmetry of representation and access. Mitchell argues persuasively that while the Falklands-Malvinas workshops did not produce a lasting solution, they may be regarded as a success in a number of other ways.”
title: Enhanced Recording of Discharge Events by Localizing Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators to the Neuronal Soma
Creators: name: Purwin, Ryan J
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetically encoded voltage indicators
subject: Action potential
subject: Hybrid optical voltage sensor
subject: Fluorophore

description: Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (GEVIs) convert changes in the electrical potentials of cell membranes to changes in the intensity of fluorescence emission. Numerous types of GEVIs have been created and shown to track neuronal action potentials with high fidelity and a sufficient signal to noise ratio in cultured neurons and simple organisms. Problems have been encountered when even the best GEVIs have been expressed in complex mammalian circuits, the most concerning being a low signal-to-noise ratio resulting from cell-wide expression of the GEVI and high density and overlapping neural architectures from different cells. A way to rectify this issue is to restrict the surface expression of the GEVI to a specific neuronal compartment; for action potentials, the optimal compartment is the neuronal soma. Restriction of any GEVI to the neuronal soma can be achieved by fusing it to a soma-localizing motif. Differentiated PC12 cells transfected with our construct, FireFluo, have been shown to emit fluorescence that is largely contained in the soma. Future directions include soma localization of additional GEVI types, testing of soma-restricted GEVIs in complex circuits, and eventually tracking of thousands of neurons in behaving animals, leading to a better understanding of relationships between activity patterns in neural circuits and specific cognitive abilities.
Supplementary document for Enhancement of second-order optical nonlinearities and nanoscale periodic domain patterning in ferroelectric boron-substituted aluminum nitride thin films - 6384628.pdf
Creators: name: Suceava, Albert
name: Hayden, John
name: Kelley, Kyle
name: Xiong, Yihuang
name: Fazlioglu-Yalcin, Benazir
name: Dabo, Ismaila
name: Trolier-McKinstry, Susan
name: Maria, Jon-Paul
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document referred to as Supplement 1. Contains additional figures and tables referenced in the manuscript.
ЧЕТ ДAВЛAТ СУДЛAРИ ҲAЛ ҚИЛУВ ҚAРOРЛAРИНИ ТAН OЛИШ ВA ИЖРOГA ҚAРAТИШ ҲAМДA ТAН OЛИШ ВA ИЖРOГA ҚAРAТИШНИ РAД ЭТИШ AСOСЛAРИ
Creators: name: Шaрипoв, Эльбрус
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Хaлқaрo шaртнoмaлaрдa белгилaнгaн чет дaвлaт суд қaрoрлaрини тaн oлиш вa ижрoгa қaрaтиш тaртиби Ўзбекистoн Республикaси Иқтисoдий прoцессуaл кoдексининг 33-бoбидa (248-258-мoддaлaр) ўз aксини тoпгaн.
Beyond Protection: Technology and Design Moving toward Human Factors of Fire Gear
Creators: Park, Huiju
Kim, Seonyoung
Wu, Yingying
Allen, Nancy Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2014

As textile technologies rapidly advance, adding thermal insulation to firefighter turnout gear has enhanced thermal protection and markedly reduced burn injuries.1 However, added thermal insulation increased bulk, reduced weight limiting mobility,

and caused discomfort.2 Working in high thermal insulation personal protective equipment (PPE) and carrying equipment typically weighing 70 to 100 pounds on precarious firegrounds is challenging. Karter and Molis3 reported that sprains and strains account for 57% of on-duty injuries, much greater than burn injuries and smoke inhalation (8%), thermal stress (7%) or heart attacks (1%). In particular, trips, slips, and falls account for approximately 25% of firefighters’ fireground injuries.4 Hence, there is a need to promote mobility and comfort in firefighters’ PPE, which should be designed to maximize

mobility and comfort, as well as protection.
Moment Asymptotics for the Neutron Transport Equation
Creators: name: Dumonteil, Eric
name: Horton, Emma
name: Kyprianou, Andreas E.
name: Zoia, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Over the last decade, ingenuous developments in Monte Carlo methods have enabled the unbiased estimation of adjoint-weighted reactor parameters expressed as bilinear forms, such as kinetics parameters and sensitivity coefficients. A prominent example is the iterated fission probability method, which relies on the simulation of the fission chains descending from an ancestor neutron: The neutron population at an asymptotic fission generation yields an estimate of the importance function (and hence of the adjoint fundamental eigenmode) at the phase-space coordinates of the ancestor neutron. In this paper, we first establish rigorous results concerning the moments of the asymptotic neutron population stemming from a single initial particle, with special focus on the average and the variance. Then, we propose a simple benchmark configuration where exact solutions are derived for these moments, which can be used for the verification of new functionalities of production Monte Carlo codes involving the iterated fission probability method.
Yogurt fortified with various protein hydrolysates: Texture and functional properties
Creators: name: Abdel-Hamid, Mahmoud
name: Hamed, Ahmed M.
name: Walker, Gavin
name: Romeih, Ehab
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This work evaluated the impact of incorporating 1% of commercial protein hydrolysates [rice protein hydrolysate (RPH), pea protein hydrolysate (PPH), and casein hydrolysate (CH)] on the functional, microstructure, and texture properties of set yogurt. Yogurt prepared with RPH exhibited the highest viability number of Streptococcus thermophilus. The addition of three hydrolysate types to yogurt revealed significant increases in the antioxidant and ACE-inhibitory activities, where the highest values were noted for the yogurt prepared with RPH. RPH exhibited no differences in texture properties (firmness, consistency, and cohesiveness) to control yogurt. These results were confirmed by scanning electron microscope examination. RPH and control yogurts showed compacted and dense structures accompanied by small pores, whereas CH and PPH yogurt structures were characterized by coarse networks with large voids. Furthermore, there was no significant impact of adding protein hydrolysates on the overall acceptability of yogurt as indicated by a sensory panel
B-WaterSmart Data Management Plan D8.3
Creators: name: Wencki, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Data Management Plan (DMP) shows which data has been generated and collected, and how these data sets were used, exploited, made accessible, stored, and preserved within the B-WaterSmart project. This report is the final version of the DMP, prepared at the end of the project. The document was prepared in compliance with the EC guideline on data management in H2020, supervised by the independent Ethics advisor of the project. It describes the data management approach for the data to be collected, processed and/or generated by B-WaterSmart and includes information on:

I. the handling of research data during and after the end of the project;II. what data will be collected, processed and/or generated;III. which methodology and standards will be applied;IV. whether data will be shared/made open access; andV. how data will be curated and preserved.
title: Letters: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to C. Harrison Mann, June 16, 1964-June 26, 1964
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005

description: Letter: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5 (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Series of letters from C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to C. Harrison Mann, his father whom he addressed as Skipper. The letters discuss everyday life and mention Mann's children driving to Florida to see their grandfather. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 2.11
title: Statistical Analysis of mRNA-miRNA Interaction
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Surajit
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: MiRNA-mRNA target prediction
subject: Brownian covariance
subject: Pearson correlation
subject: Distance correlation

description: The basic concept of our web tool is to develop an integrative analysis of target prediction together with miRNA and gene expression data obtained from microarray data of Drosophila. The web tool can be broadly classified into two parts: Query Section and Analysis Section. The Query Section allows users to retrieve and browse different target prediction databases including PITA, Miranda and TargetScan. The Analysis Section depends upon the statistical approach to predicting the miRNA-mRNA targets. The statistical part can be broadly classified into three components: A) The parametric (Pearson) correlation), B) Distance Correlation and C) Brownian Covariance. Statistical calculation was done in R. The graphical representation of the interaction would be obtained by ggplot, an R package.
title: Breathing Space
Creators: name: DeSaix, Suzanne
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breathing space
subject: Community
subject: Papermaking
subject: Environmental
subject: Agriculture
subject: New genre public art

description: Breathing Space is about a journey of developing artistic inquiry that moved from a macro-level sociopolitical focus to an intimate reflection on the impetus for art making. That focus circled back to an enriched perspective on community and socio-ecological themes. This thesis describes the artistic and literary influences on Suzanne's path to final exhibition and avenues of expression that have opened to a new beginning, including prospects for new genre public art collaborations. Photographs of her work are accompanied by reflections on the importance of the everyday and significance of place, and broader connections to contemporary social and environmental issues.
title: MINDFULNESS IN THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LEARNING AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN BANGKOK, THAILAND
Creators: name: Ntapat WORAPONGPAT
Publisher: name: Asian Education and Learning Review
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Mindfulness
Artificial Intelligence
Measurement Scale
Learning for Graduate Studies
Private Universities

description: Asian Education and Learning Review, 3, 2, Article 1
title: ASSESSING CURRICULUM INTEGRATION AND PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES OF REGENERATIVE HOSPITALITY EDUCATION IN INDIA
Creators: name: YADAV, Suraj Jaywant
Publisher: name: Asian Education and Learning Review
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Regenerative Hospitality Education
Curriculum, Pedagogy
India

description: Asian Education and Learning Review, 3, 2, Article 2
title: Project Instructions: EX2501, Beyond the Blue: Papahānaumokuākea Mapping 3
Creators: name: Albano, Patricia
Publisher: name: Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xqpda80
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: EX-25-01
description: This expedition will commence on October 19, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and conclude on November 12, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Operations will be conducted 24 hours a day, and consist of mapping operations in U.S. waters off of Hawai’i, primarily in deep water (> 200 m), conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) deployments, plankton net tows, and full shore-based participation via telepresence. Operations will be focused in and around Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
title: Understanding the Genetic Nature of Multiple Sclerosis Using Next-Generation Sequencing Genomic Analysis Methods
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an incapacitating neurological illness, where changesin gene expression play a crucial role. Affecting nearly two million people worldwide, MS is the most common acquired neurological disorder of young adults just after physical trauma. Up to now, an understanding of the complex molecular mechanism of MS, which is vital to develop effective therapies, has remained elusive. Most of the studies that have been conducted to address this problem have used microarray technology, which does not reflect the high variability of protein expression. The primary goal of this work was to analyze the molecular interactions and possible sequence variants underlying the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by utilizing RNA-Seq expression data, which is also capable of catching the high variability in protein expression associated with MS pathology. Results from this study will deliver a better understanding of the complex molecular mechanisms underlying MS and, hopefully, provide a groundwork for effective therapeutics. At the end of the study, I ended up with a list of candidate genes, among them Transcriptions Factors and Single Nucleotide. Polymorphisms with potential implications in MS. Future studies will need to incorporate more metadata and biological replicates in the analysis. Experimental validation will also be required.
Supplementary document for Radiative pumping of exciton-polaritons in 2D hybrid perovskites - 6385438.pdf
Creators: name: Menon, Vinod
name: Deshmukh, Prathmesh
name: Zhao, Liangfeng
name: Satapathy, Sitakanta
name: Khatoniar, Mandeep
name: Datta, Biswajit
name: Rand, Barry
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental information
Detecting spatio-temporal changes in Baltimore, Maryland’s heat island with remote sensing imagery
Creators: name: Levy, Sara H.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016

description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2016
description: In the past century alone, society has continued to develop and urbanize, making research of the urban heat island (UHI) more important than ever. UHIs have a detrimental impact on human health and the natural environment as a result of increased land surface temperature, changes in precipitation patterns, and other weather related events. This study sought to determine the change and extent of Baltimore, Maryland’s UHI with Landsat 5 imagery. Imagery was collected in approximately 5 year intervals from 1985 to 2011 in order to determine how albedo, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), land cover, and land surface temperature (LST) changed during each time period. This study found no correlation between change in albedo and change in LST, a slightly negative correlation between change in NDVI and LST, and a positive correlation between land cover and LST in Baltimore’s UHI. This study also found that weather, particularly precipitation events occurring prior to the date the satellite image was captured, may have affected the analysis of extent and intensity of Baltimore’s UHI.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/49105
Energy Conservation measures inventory
Creators: name: Klõšeiko, Paul
name: Talvik, Martin
name: Arumägi, Endrik
name: Maton, Luca
name: Jonge, Klaas De
name: Bossche, Nathan Van den
name: Time, Berit
name: Asphaug, Silje Kathrin
name: Troi, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report documents the renovation concept creation concerning building envelope components: walls, roofs, ceilings, basement floors, windows, and shading devices.
title: New York City Shooting Victims: Data Analysis Of The Most At Risk Population
Creators: name: Kukreja, Arush
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Victims
subject: Security

description: According to a report published by The City University of New York, it is estimated that in the year 2018 the number of visitors to New York City hit a record of 65.1 million (Tourism, 2020). New York City also consistently ranks high in lists consisting of the most populated cities in the United States. Even with the city already being so densely populated every year there are many people opting to make New York City their home because of the city’s historical, economic, and cultural impact. We use machine learning models to analyse victim data in this research.
title: Compact Implementations and Benchmarking of Two SHA-3 Finalists BLAKE and JH on FPGAs
Creators: name: Vadlamudi, Susheel Choudary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: SHA-3
subject: Blake and JH
subject: Compact Implementations
subject: SHA-3 on FPGAs
subject: Cryptography
subject: Hash Algorithms

description: Security and message authentication play a crucial role in communications. The current hashing standards for message authentication are SHA-1 and SHA-2. Attacks on SHA-1 which show potential vulnerabilities of this algorithm were published in 2005. As SHA-2 is based on SHA-1 it might be vulnerable to the same attacks. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated a contest to determine a new American hash standard called SHA-3. After evaluating the initial 64 algorithms that were submitted, five algorithms were selected for the final round. The five finalists are: BLAKE, Grøestl, JH, Keccak and Skein. Security and performance in hardware as well as software were the key factors in choosing the five finalists. Evaluating the performance of these algorithms in resource constrained environments, like PDAs and smart phones is of major interest for mobile ubiquitous computing. New low-power Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), which are suitable for battery powered devices, have low non-recurring engineering cost and faster time to market than Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). We designed compact architectures for BLAKE and JH, targeting Xilinx low-cost Spartan-3 FPGAs. To achieve a good throughput to area ratio we developed different architectures, maintaining the design criteria of 800 slices, or 400-600 slices with one Block RAM, respectively, on Xilinx Spartan-3 devices. We compared the performance of our implementations by synthesizing them on several devices from Xilinx and Altera. Our compact implementations of BLAKE and JH outperform other published results in terms of throughput to area ratio. Considering the lightweight implementations of all the five finalists, BLAKE has the best performance and JH has an average performance.
title: China’s environmental solutions
Creators: name: Schmid, Rolf
name: Xiong, Xin
Publisher: name: Universität Stuttgart
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540

description: China emits unproportionately high concentrations of CO2 and, due to rapid population growth and industrialization, suffers from air, water, and soil pollution. However, many of these challenges for sustainable growth are being vigorously addressed, and China aims at a CO2 emission peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 (“dual carbon policy”). In addition, nation-wide programs attempt to achieve reforestation and ecological restoration. By 2025, core elements of a “bioeconomy” and a circular economy are expected to be ready. Many of these programs extend into China’s international “belt-and-road” initiative (BRI). In this article, we briefly describe the present achievements of China’s environmental solutions and the country’s visions for a “digital, eco-friendly civilization.
title: Bang for the Buck: Understanding Disparities in Conventional Strategic Signaling Capacity Acquisition Among Arms-Importing States
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Acquisition
subject: Balance of power
subject: Deterrence
subject: Security
subject: Signaling
subject: Weapons
subject: International relations
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation investigates variations in capability-based strategic signaling capacity acquisition between states who primarily import major conventional weaponry rather than indigenously producing it. The dissertation examines three potential drivers of conventional procurement efficiency derived from extant secondary literature: (1) technologically focused responses to threats posed by competitor states; (2) policy goals of vendor states; and (3) responsible government practices. The dissertation analyzes the procurement spending, inventory change, competitor arsenals and signals, vendor state goals, and government practices for four case states over the analytic window 2000-2020: (1) India; (2) Pakistan; (3) Australia; and (4) Taiwan. I use multivariate statistical analysis to identify associations for each of each of the surveyed theoretical causal accounts with variations in case state procurement efficiency, finding: (1) support for threat-focused procurement as positively associated with procurement efficiency at the 99% confidence level; (2) support for equipment origin from vendors with complex arms sales goals as positively associated with procurement efficiency at the 99% confidence level; and (3) no support for responsible government practices as positively associated with procurement efficiency. The dissertation then qualitatively analyzes each case through narrative probe process tracing, devoting a chapter to each. Finally, the dissertation illustrates four primary implications of the research: (1) high-quality estimation of undisclosed procurement spending levels by states that primarily import their major conventional weaponry; (2) educated projection of independent success/failure odds of a state’s procurement-driven signaling strategy over a given window of time against a given competitor state; (3) a clear case for re-examining the consensus on transparent and responsible procurement practice definitions; and (4) systemic depiction of vendor attractiveness and comparative advantage among the most prolific arms-exporting states for prospective importers.
title: Pica: A Design Community
Creators: name: Bartz, George
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Community
subject: Human interaction
subject: Communication

description: The world of design has evolved, along with technology, from the days of print advertising to the digital world of websites and mobile apps. The Internet has created a greenfield environment with new design disciplines and new channels to collaborate and interact with other designers. However, the availability of information and design communities have failed to evolve to fit the needs of designers. In an effort to create a community of designers, for designers, this thesis takes a research approach to understanding the needs of designers in order to build a community for that promotes creative growth through education, face-to-face interactions, a positive environment, and a trusted space where designers can come together to share knowledge and experience and help one another. This community is called Pica.
title: Receipt from Alexander Haight, September 1, 1862
Creators: name: Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Haight, Alexander, 1822-1880

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Receipt from Alexander Haight for 25 bushels of corn to J.B. Gaddess, and two other unidentifiable recipients.
title: Élytrigie :
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
Tall Wheatgrass
Rush Wheatgrass

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.
Chin Shee and Wong Shee birthday greetings and banquet expenses
Creators: name: Yip, Sang
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Birthday greetings and good wishes on red paper together with an envelope of receipts for banquet and gift expenses associated with the birthday celebrations of Yip Sang's third wife, Chin Shee, and second wife, Wong Shee, in 1926.
title: Mount Vernon Digital History: An Investigation into Slave Burial Archaeology
Creators: name: Alexander, Ryan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
subject: Washington, George, 1732-1799
subject: Slavery
subject: Archaeology
subject: Washington, Martha, 1731-1802

description: To view this project, download and install the Web Archive Player from https://github.com/ikreymer/webarchiveplayer or upload the .warc.gz file to https://webrecorder.io/.
description: This site seeks to explore the ongoing archaeological excavation that is taking place at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate. The intention of this site is to explore how archaeological techniques and investigations can help to unveil the roles and identities of enslaved individuals at Mount Vernon Estate. There will also be an investigation into the history of Mount Vernon Estate and how enslaved individuals were involved in George and Martha Washington’s lives. Finally, the maps section of this project shows comparisons between the findings at the Mount Vernon excavation against a burial site survey at George Mason’s Gunston Hall, exposing the benefits and limitations of archaeological interpretations.
Serious injury determinations for small cetaceans and pinnipeds caught in commercial fisheries off the northeast US coast, 2014
Creators: name: Wenzel, Frederick W.
name: Josephson, Elizabeth
name: Lyssikatos, Marjorie
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: Marine mammals--Wounds and injuries--Atlantic Coast (U.S.)--Observations.

description: The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to estimate annual levels of human-caused mortality and serious injury to marine mammal stocks (section 117) and to categorize commercial fisheries based on their level of incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals (section 118). A serious injury is defined as an injury that is more likely than not to result in mortality. Serious injury (SI) determinations were addressed at NMFS-convened workshops in 1997 and 2007 (Angliss and DeMaster 1998; Andersen et al. 2008), and in January 2012 the agency published new national guidelines for distinguishing serious from nonserious injuries of marine mammals (http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/serious_injury_procedure.pdf). A major goal of the new guidelines were to establish national consistency and transparency in SI determinations. To implement the new guidelines, Science Center SI determination (SID) staff from each region review all documented marine mammal injury events on an annual basis. For the initial year of implementation, the records for 2007-2011 were evaluated (Waring et al. 2014; Cole and Henry 2013). For small cetaceans and pinniped injury determinations in the Northeast Region, fisheries observer (OBS) and At Sea Monitor (ASM) records were reviewed for incidentally-caught animals that were released alive. Observer comments on the condition of released animals and any associated photographs were compared to specific injury categories described in the new guidelines procedure manual, and each event was assigned an injury determination. Once completed, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) SI small cetacean and pinniped determination table was independently reviewed by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center’s (SWFSC) SID staff, the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO), and the Atlantic Scientific Review Group (SRG) before the SI determinations were finalized.
title: Dynamic Games, Social Preferences, and Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: In this dissertation, I discuss robust theoretical approaches to three dynamic environments with progressively larger scope: social preferences, strategic games, and markets for indivisible goods. A significant part of human interaction is inherently dynamic, but the study of such dynamic systems is hindered by the multitude of competing explanations. The complexity of these environments also suggests that agents may depart from theoretical predictions due to decision errors and heuristics. Each chapter contains empirical tests addressing these issues, comparisons of theories, and measures of their power and predictive success. Finally, I show how to leverage mixed-integer programming to take these models to the data, bringing the problems together methodologically. The first chapter proposes an algorithm to learn the strategies of players from the observed sequence of play in repeated games. The algorithm accounts for the possibility of measurement and decision making errors and stays agnostic about equilibrium restrictions. I provide conclusive evidence that players use strategies of memory no more than one or two periods and recover new strategic patterns in games of Prisoner's dilemma and asymmetric coordination games. In the second chapter, I construct non-parametric tests for two theories of social preferences - inequality aversion and increasing benevolence, both having important implications for social welfare choices and charitable giving. A laboratory experiment shows significant heterogeneity among the subjects, and that inequality aversion, increasing benevolence, and general other-regarding preferences explain the behavior of comparable shares of the sample. In the third chapter, I study theoretically and experimentally assignment markets: two-sided markets where indivisible heterogeneous items with unit demand and unit supply are traded for money. I explore how different trading institutions help agents discover and reach optimal assignments in a noncooperative environment. Especially in view of the complexity of the market, experimental results are perhaps surprisingly well-predicted by theory. Market outcomes are close to Nash equilibrium predictions under auction-like institutions and close to generalized bargaining for institutions that feature decentralized communication.
Correspondence
Creators: name: Yip, Mow
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Letters received by Yip Mow from various personal and business correspondents in Canada, the United States, and China, some drafts of letters from Yip Mow written by his secretaries, several draft letters in Chinese concerning insurance business and a handwritten copy of a revised bill promoting sales of natural products in British Columbia.
Filter Through
Creators: Pelc, Corrie
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2014

Textiles have a lot to do with keeping us alive and healthy every day. For example, the air you breathe in your home or car is probably kept clean through a fabric-made filter. And that also goes for the water you drink—there’s a good chance the water filtration system in your home or office uses a textile of some type to remove impurities from the water before it comes out your tap. The important role that textiles play in both the air and water filtration markets is undeniable, and experts agree

there is still much potential for growth. In fact, according to BBC Research, the worldwide market for filters made of

nonwovens is expected to grow from US$2.5 billion in 2010 to US$3.5 billion in 2015. Additionally, a report published

earlier this year by Transparency Market Research says the global filtration market was valued at US$48.10 billion in

2011 and it is expected to hit US$77.10 billion by 2018.
Records related to property taxes, ticket sales, fishing, and business and personal expenses [Part 1/2]
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Records pertaining to business transacted by Yip Sang, Yip Mow and Wing Sang Company, including correspondence, receipts, licences and other documents. Documents relate to properties, taxes, water and electricity rates, Canadian Pacific Railway ticket sales, Royal Bank accounts, vehicle registration, insurance, purchases, music and medical services provided to Yip Mow, and donations to charities.
Attitudes and Gazes from Graffiti
Creators: name: Tretti-Beckles, Valentina
name: Vergara-Heidke, Adrián
Publisher: name: goINDIGO
Year: 2024

description: Place-making is the process of building a ‘place’ through relationships, practices, and representations of meanings of a varied nature and with the participation of different actors. These actors play different roles as neighbours, producers, recipients, passersby and visitors. Place-making includes all these actors in their relationship with that ‘place’ and in their interrelationships, practices and in the processes of construction of meaning. Within the stimuli from which people build a sense of a place are the semiotic products that are on the street, for example, commercial signs, advertising, graffiti and urban art. In 2018, we began a project to archive and analyse the semiotic landscape of neighbourhoods in Costa Rica and Chile. Based on this work, two specific aspects caught our attention: people’s attitudes and semiotic competence regarding graffiti and street art. We understand semiotic attitudes as an evaluative mental disposition towards the representation of a semiotic object, particularly tags, throw-ups and pieces. This evaluative mental disposition can guide the acts and reactions of people towards those objects and spaces. Semiotic competence is conceptualised as the ability to produce and understand different semiotic products. In the case of this work, we focus on the gaze of throw-ups and the recognition of graphemes. For this paper, we present the preliminary results of two specific objectives of the research that we are developing: first, determining the semiotic attitudes of international and Costa Rican people regarding tags and throw-ups; second, identifying the reading routes and the recognition of graphemes in pieces in people outside the environment of graffiti and hip-hop culture. For the first objective, focus groups were held in Costa Rica with Costa Ricans and Germany with individuals of different nationalities. These focus groups were transcribed and analysed using the appraisal theory of linguistics. For the second objective, an eye tracker experiment was designed to record eye movements and responses regarding the graphemes of the graffiti. The partial results show people’s negative attitudes towards tags and throw-ups, as well as different reading patterns in the eye tracker between those who identified graphemes and those who did not.
description: goINDIGO, 2023: disseminate | analyse | understand graffiti-scapes
Outer Space, Inner Time
Creators: name: Fernández Merino, Francisca Andrea
Publisher: name: goINDIGO
Year: 2024

description: According to Velikonja (2020), there are three starting points of Graffiti and Street Art Research (GSAR): the contextualisation, the intentionality of the producer, and the reception, which is related to the audience/viewer/observant, where the audience is one of the starting points less approached in the literature. Consequently, I pretend to explore the potential level of analysis from time and space and its relationship with Graffiti and street art audiences. Time and space will not be considered in linear or geographic terms but in relational terms. Therefore, literature on the social construction of space, the historicity of phenomena from oral history, and audience studies will be considered. In this exploration, I intend to argue that to find the meaning and role of both Graffiti and its audience, it is necessary to consider literature that points to their relationship and how this develops. In this article, I delve into the ways scholars study Graffiti and Street Art audiences, highlighting their methodologies, techniques, and results. Then, I provide a fresh approach to Context in Graffiti and Street Art Research that integrates renewed emotional, temporal, and spatial elements. Lastly, drawing from both scholar’s experiences and my own, I propose embodiment as an innovative tool that has yet to be fully explored in this field. By utilising this means, we may be able to bridge some of the gaps that currently exist.
description: goINDIGO, 2023: disseminate | analyse | understand graffiti-scapes
Each Graffito Deserves Its Polygon
Creators: name: Verhoeven, Geert J.
name: Schlegel, Jona
name: Wild, Benjamin
Publisher: name: goINDIGO
Year: 2024

description: Time has remained one of the hardest-to-grasp properties of nature despite humans talking about time… all the time. However, even academic fields that are indifferent to the exact physical or philosophical characteristics of time must find ways to engage with the temporal dimension of their data. This applies to all of the Digital Humanities and maybe most to archaeology, a discipline focused on examining space- and time-bound anthropogenic activities. Like archaeological sites and landscapes, graffiti-scapes are spatially and temporally stratified. That is why the academic graffiti project INDIGO uses an archaeological lens to document, disseminate and investigate an urban graffiti-scape in space and time. However, since archaeologists still lack effective practical approaches to manage and visualise the temporal data dimension (besides a handful of data modelling standards and tools, both mainly created by geographers), INDIGO is currently developing graffiti-specific approaches to manage, visualise and analyse the uncertain spatio-temporal boundaries characterising these contemporary artefacts. After a general introduction to time and its relevance for archaeology and the study of graffiti, this paper explains why and how INDIGO uses polygons as digital representations for each real-world graffito. These polygons, stored in a human- and machine-readable file format and annotated with detailed temporal data, aim to provide a nuanced documentation of a graffiti-scape’s spatio-temporal dimensions.
description: goINDIGO, 2023: disseminate | analyse | understand graffiti-scapes
Supplementary document for Parity-time symmetry breaking optical nanocircuit - 6385849.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Haojie
name: Jia, Qianwen
name: Lv, Bokun
name: Cao, Fengzhao
name: Yang, Guoxia
name: Liu, Dahe
name: Shi, Jinwei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary materials
Eternal Witnesses
Creators: name: Tenschert, Ruth
name: Pallas, Leander
name: Kempgen, Sebastian
name: Bellendorf, Paul
Publisher: name: goINDIGO
Year: 2024

description: High-resolution documentation of graffiti carved into stone surfaces can help read nearly illegible characters. They can fade out due to outdoor conditions like weathering or biological coating. Indoor, the illegibility can be caused by delicately carved graffiti on a hard stone with a polished or shiny surface. These witnesses of people from former times are nonetheless important to tell stories about the place or object and help to enrich its history. This research aims to show how 3D scanning, especially structured light scanning, can help adequately document and analyse carved graffiti. Therefore, two case studies are discussed in this paper, highlighting different challenges while recording: an abandoned quarry in Bavaria, Germany, illustrating the problems of deteriorated surfaces with biological colonisation outdoors, and a gravestone in North Macedonia illustrating challenges occurring indoors with shiny, polished stone surfaces. The advantage of 3D documentation is, in both cases, to facilitate analyses, help researchers from different scientific backgrounds, and visualise and disseminate the results in a suitable way.
description: goINDIGO, 2023: disseminate | analyse | understand graffiti-scapes
title: Computer-Aided Design of Light Aircraft to Meet Certain Aerodynamic and Structural Requirements
Creators: name: Walsh, Joanne Lynn
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1973

description: Nonlinear mathematical programming techniques are applied to a particular aircraft design problem, that of determining the maximum range design for light aircraft subject to certain aerodynamic and structural requirements. Search techniques available in an existing nonlinear optimization computer program, AESOP, are applied to the design problem. Seven design variables are used to define the wing dimensions, the wing skin thickness, the cruise velocity, the amount of fuel carried, and the engine horsepower. The influence of different design requirements on the range is observed and discussed.