cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Contemporary Art as Futuristic Fiction: All that is solid melts into air
Creators: name: Williams, Linda
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360103
subject: Art theory

description: Though there has been a substantial body of critical commentary on science fiction in film and literature, the question of whether science fiction visions of the future can be presented through contemporary art has been hitherto overlooked. The gap in knowledge in this field led me to interview a wide range of artists globally, and to ask one of the two major research questions informing this catalogue essay: • To investigate why the genre of science fiction is well represented in film and literature, but is not a genre that seemed to be represented in the visual arts . Hence the research involved a wide international search for artists working in this genre, not for artists 'illustrating' literary ideas but working through the language of the visual arts to speculate on visions of the future. • To investigate how artists envisage the world of the future, and whether their work could be seen to constitute either a dystopian or utopian perspective. Research Significance The catalogue essay draws on a range of theoretical sources to investigate the question of whether artists in the contemporary international context the kinds of visions of the future that are frequently found in science fiction genres such as film or literature. The essay was one of three in a substantial catalogue S (Editor) 2112: Imagining the Future', RMIT Galley, Australian Institute of Architects, Japan Foundation [ISBN 9780980771022] - electronic copy attached) Research Contribution The significance of this research lies I how it raises new questions about the capacity of contemporary art to address public interest in speculative future scenarios.
"Sugarman Done Fly Away": Kindred Threads of Female Madness and Male Flight in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Classical Greek Myth
Creators: name: McNeal, Ebony
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Madness in women exists as a trope within the literature from the earliest of civilizations.  This theme is evident and appears to possess a link with male dysfunction in several of Toni Morrison?s texts.  Lack of maternal accountability has long served as a symptom of female mental instability as imposed by patriarchal thought.  Mothers who have neglected or harmed their young across cultures and time periods have been forcibly branded with the mark of madness.  Female characters in five of Morrison?s novels bear a striking resemblance to the female archetypes of ancient Greece.  This paper will demonstrate the kindred strands of prescribed female madness in the women of the myths of ancient Greece and Morrison?s characters as it relates to neglectful mothering and male flight.
Un-Fairytales: Realism and Black Feminist Rhetoric in the Works of Jessie Fauset
Creators: name: Tillman, Danielle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: I am baffled each time someone asks me, ?Who is Jessie Fauset?? As I delved into critical work written on Fauset, I found her critics dismissed her work because they read them as bad fairytales that showcase the lives of middle-class Blacks. I respectfully disagree. It is true that her novels concentrate on the Black middle-class; they also focus on the realities of Black women, at a time when they were branching out of their homes and starting careers, not out of financial necessity but arising from their desire for working. They establish the start of what Patricia Hill Collins later coined ?Black feminism? through strong female characters that refuse to be defined by society. This thesis seeks to add Jessie Fauset to the canon of Black feminists by using Collins? theories on Black feminism to analyze Fauset?s first two novels, There Is Confusion and Plum Bun.
title: Socio-Academic Interaction as Predictors of Academic-Performance for Vietnamese Government Scholarship Recipients in US Graduate Programs
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duc-Le
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Academic Performance
subject: Socio-Academic
subject: Predictors
subject: Vietnamese
subject: Scholarships
subject: Graduate Schools
subject: Recipients
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

description: This study investigates the predictability of social interaction and academic interaction to academic performance. Descriptive analysis, multiple regression analysis, factor analysis and correlation analysis of data provided by 71 students who are Vietnamese Government Scholarship Recipients in graduate programs all over the United States indicate that socio-academic interaction can be used as predictors of students' academic performance but only 15% of the predicted variance is explained by the model. The length of students' US sojourn has effect on both social and academic interaction and degree sought by students has effect on academic interaction. Gender and length of exposure to English before coming to the states have no effect on either social interaction or academic interaction while students' English proficiency is only related to their social interaction. The extent that a student exposes to the American culture and people is related to his or her social interaction and the level of institutional and human support received the students is also related to their degree of academic interaction. Aspects of cultural, social, political and educational differences together with factors of identities and some other objective obstacles ( e.g. program size, location, students' personality and motivation) are believed to block students' efforts in engaging more in social and academic interactions and relations. The findings are used to discuss practical implications for education stakeholders at both sides.
Archoprotus Brethes 1913
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Archoprotus

description: 2.1 Genus Archoprotus Brèthes, 1913 *
Archoprotus Brèthes, 1913a: 310.
Type species Archoprotus porteri Brèthes, 1913, by original designation.
Action of the first reviser by Townes & Towens (1966: 287).
[Archoprotus] Brèthes, 1913b: 239. Unavailable name.
Comments. Brèthes (1913a: 310) described the genus Archoprotus by originally designating the species Archoprotus porteri Brèthes, 1913. In a different publication with the same date, Brèthes (1913b: 239) described again the same taxon designating the same type specimens. Townes & Townes (1966: 287) acted as the first reviewer in determining that Brèthes (1913a) takes the precedence among the two publications (ICZN 1999: article 24.2.2).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Opening the Window to Edward Whittemore: Systems that Govern Human Experience
Creators: name: Winland, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Edward Whittemore (1933-1995) is a now almost unknown American writer.  This project seeks to bring Edward Whittemore to light.  Though he has a simple voice and a subtle but vast knowledge of history, he writes with a fantastic imagination and dramatizes a timely but tragic message.  In ?Part One? of Sinai Tapestry, Whittemore explores the complex relationship between Chaos and Order through the extravagant lives of his major characters, Plantagenet Strongbow and Skanderbeg Wallenstein.  Through a biography of Whittemore?s life and a close analysis of Strongbow?s and Wallenstein?s relationship, I will highlight Whittemore?s depth as an author and thinker, make evident his availability to literary analysis and critical theory, and argue the presence of Whittemore?s own ideology regarding the systems that govern human experience.
William Shakespeare's Parable of "Is" and "Seems": Ironies of God's Providence in Hamlet and Measure for Measure
Creators: name: Kelly, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis examines Hamlet and Measure for Measure as related ?problem plays.? In these plays, Shakespeare uniquely combines the genre of parable and the literary device of irony as a means to involve his audience in the experience of ordeal and deliverance that both reorients the protagonists? personal, political, and ultimately theological assumptions and prompts spiritual insight in the spectator. As in a parable, a spiritual dimension opens subtly alongside each story to inform the play?s action and engage the spectator in the underlying theological discourse.  Irony invites the audience to see the disparity between pretended or mistaken reality and the spiritual truth?between what ?seems? and what ?is.? As these complex dramatized parables unfold, potent tapestries of multilayered thematic irony coalesce into providential irony that exalts, rather than defeats, the protagonists and ultimately determines the outcome.
A Diagnostic Gene Expression Signature for Bladder Cancer Can Stratify Cases into Prescribed Molecular Subtypes and Predict Outcome
Creators: name: Chen, Runpu
name: Pagano, Ian
name: Sun, Yijun
name: Murakami, Kaoru
name: Goodison, Steve
name: Vairavan, Ramanathan
name: Tahsin, Malak
name: Black, Peter C.
name: Rosser, Charles J.
name: Furuya, Hideki
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Bladder cancer is a biologically heterogeneous disease with variable clinical presentations, outcomes and responses to therapy. Thus, the clinical utility of single biomarkers for the detection and prediction of biological behavior of bladder cancer is limited. We have previously identified and validated a bladder cancer diagnostic signature composed of 10 biomarkers, which has been incorporated into a multiplex immunoassay bladder cancer test, Oncuria™. In this study, we evaluate whether these 10 biomarkers can assist in the prediction of bladder cancer clinical outcomes. Tumor gene expression and patient survival data from bladder cancer cases from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were analyzed. Alignment between the mRNA expression of 10 biomarkers and the TCGA 2017 subtype classification was assessed. Kaplan–Meier analysis of multiple gene expression datasets indicated that high expression of the combined 10 biomarkers correlated with a significant reduction in overall survival. The analysis of three independent, publicly available gene expression datasets confirmed that multiplex prognostic models outperformed single biomarkers. In total, 8 of the 10 biomarkers from the Oncuria™ test were significantly associated with either luminal or basal molecular subtypes, and thus, the test has the potential to assist in the prediction of clinical outcome.
ADHD and Motivation
Creators: name: Barnes, Amanda
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether an arts integrated enrichment curriculum would have a greater increase on achievement over a direct instruction curriculum for students with ADHD. The findings showed higher achievement when using the enrichment curriculum than when the direct method was utilized. This indicates that for students with ADHD providing them with the opportunity to interact more the subject matter produced higher achievement. Research in the area of attention and achievement in ADHD students should continue given that there are more students diagnosed with ADHD each year and that classroom teachers are faced with the task of engaging each student and helping him/her reach his/her full academic potential.
title: Virulence attenuation of Theileria annulata-transformed macrophages
Creators: name: Tajer, Shahin
name: Langsley, Gordon
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Apicomplexa
subject: Theileria annulata
subject: leukocyte transformation
subject: live attenuated vaccines
subject: tropical theileriosis
classificationCode: 630
subject: Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Tropical theileriosis is a significant tick-borne disease affecting cattle. For decades an empirical live attenuated vaccine has been the primary method of controlling disease. The vaccine is produced through prolonged culture of Theileria annulata schizont-transformed macrophages, but how loss of virulence occurs remains unclear. Notably attenuated (vaccine) macrophages display dampened dissemination potential compared with their original, virulent counterparts. In addition, parasite schizonts in attenuated macrophages have significantly lost their ability to differentiate into merozoites. This review discusses the changes that occur during long-term passage of T. annulata-transformed bovine macrophages and how they contribute to loss of virulence, defined as heightened dissemination. Finally, we also suggest that a common parasite-dependent pathway is potentially involved in both macrophage dissemination and parasite merogony.
Guyon's Sensitive Appetite
Creators: name: Davis, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This Master?s Thesis seeks to explain the internal conflicts faced by Guyon, the titular hero of Book II of Edmund Spenser?s Faerie Queene.  Starting with Thomas Aquinas? designations of the sensitive versus the intellectual appetite, I show that Guyon struggles to maintain the dominance of his intellectual appetite as he puts his vaunted temperance to a series of tests.  The hero manages to appease his sensitive appetite through the vice of curiositas, yet the power of his sensitive appetite demands dramatic and violent acts of repression to quash it in Mammon?s Cave and in the Bower of Bliss.  Guyon?s intellectual appetite to maintain temperance in Gloriana?s kingdom, aided by the guidance of the Palmer, leads Guyon to succeed in his quest yet reveals the incompatibility between temperance and the desirous and glory-seeking life of a knight errant.
Terrain Vague
Creators: name: van Schaik, Leonardus
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: Research background: 'Terrain Vague' was a lecture given in August 2013 by Leon van Schaik in response to the work of one of Australia's most important painters - Jeffrey Smart (1921 - 2013). The 55-minute lecture was delivered as part of 'Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940 - 2011' at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria. Museum director Victoria Lynn invited van Schaik to speak. The lecture was subsequently broadcast on YouTube and an edited version of the text was published by 'Architecture Australia' ('Terrain Vague in the work of Jeffrey Smart: Lessons for urban design', 19 August 2013 http://architectureau.com/articles/jeffrey-smart/). Research contribution: 'Terrain Vague' discussed Jeffrey Smart's vision and the influence of 'undesigned space' in his paintings on architecture and urban design. Van Schaik surveyed relevant art, film and cultural studies scholarship and criticism and used his own innovative exploratory 'ideogram' drawings to find new meanings Smart's paintings and perspective. He then used Smart's paintings to discuss the poetics of architecture and urban design, including explosive urban development. Research significance: 'Master of Stillness' was a major retrospective of Jeffrey Smart's work and it was held at TarraWarra, one of Australia's leading regional collections of contemporary art. The significance of van Schaik's 'Terrain Vague' lecture is demonstrated by its subsequent publication in a leading architecture trade magazine, 'Architecture Australia'
The Impact of the Vocabulary Programs Right Answer, Right Now for Words with Multiple Meanings and Elements of Reading: Vocabulary on Second-Grade Reading Comprehension
Creators: name: Behegan, Heather M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this research was to determine which of two vocabulary intervention programs, the Right Answer, Right Now for Words with Multiple Meanings program or Elements of Reading: Vocabulary program, is more effective in increasing the reading comprehension level of second-grade students. To examine the effectiveness of the programs on reading comprehension, the study utilized the pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design. The treatment, the administration of the two vocabulary programs, took place for a period of 6 weeks. Based on the pre and post-test results, the Right Answer, Right Now for Words with Multiple Meanings Program was more effective at increasing reading comprehension, confirming the hypothesis.
Localized Controlled Release of Kynurenic Acid Encapsulated in Synthetic Polymer Reduces Implant—Induced Dermal Fibrosis
Creators: name: Nabai, Layla
name: Ghahary, Aziz
name: Jackson, John
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Excessive fibrosis following surgical procedures is a challenging condition with serious consequences and no effective preventive or therapeutic option. Our group has previously shown the anti-fibrotic effect of kynurenic acid (KynA) in vitro and as topical cream formulations or nanofiber dressings in open wounds. Here, we hypothesized that the implantation of a controlled release drug delivery system loaded with KynA in a wound bed can prevent fibrosis in a closed wound. Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), and a diblock copolymer, methoxy polyethylene glycol-block-poly (D, L-lactide) (MePEG-b-PDLLA), were used for the fabrication of microspheres which were evaluated for their characteristics, encapsulation efficiency, in vitro release profile, and in vivo efficacy for reduction of fibrosis. The optimized formulation exhibited high encapsulation efficiency (>80%), low initial burst release (~10%), and a delayed, gradual release of KynA. In vivo evaluation of the fabricated microspheres in the PVA model of wound healing revealed that KynA microspheres effectively reduced collagen deposition inside and around PVA sponges and α-smooth muscle actin expression after 66 days. Our results showed that KynA can be efficiently encapsulated in PLGA microspheres and its controlled release in vivo reduces fibrotic tissue formation, suggesting a novel therapeutic option for the prevention or treatment of post-surgical fibrosis.
The Effectiveness of Differentiated Instruction on 9th Graders’ Achievement on Standardized Tests
Creators: name: Berchielli, Jessica M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine if differentiated instruction will help increase
achievement by students in ninth grade high school English classes. Using an experimental
quantitative design, this study followed the 108 ninth grade students over a span of three months.
At the end of three months, students were reassessed to determine the impact differentiated
instruction had on their achievement on standardized tests. The tool students were assessed with
was the Anne Arundel County Public Schools benchmark exam for the second and third marking
periods. Overall, the findings support the use of differentiated instruction as a teaching strategy,
as student achievement on previously missed indicators on the benchmark exam increased;
however, in future studies, the study should be continued for a longer period of time.
title: A mixed isocyanide Mn(i) complex and its reduction to a metallate
Creators: name: Claude, Guilhem
name: Ellwanger, Mathias A.
name: Grippo, Adam
name: Hernandez, Ritchie
name: Figueroa, Joshua R.
name: Abram, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: isocyanide manganese(I) complex
subject: reduction
subject: metallate
classificationCode: 540
subject: Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: A stepwise ligand exchange starting from [Mn(CO)5Br] allows the synthesis of the heteroleptic isocyanide manganese(I) complex mer,trans-[Mn(CNp-FArDArF2)3(CNtBu)2Br] (DArF = 3,5-(CF3)2C6H3, tBu = tert-butyl). Subsequent reduction gave the first heteroleptic isocyanide manganese(−1) complex, [K(18-crown-6)][Mn(CNp-FArDArF2)3(CNtBu)2], exhibiting a five-coordinate, trigonal bipyramidal coordination sphere.
A Joint Reading of the Color Purple and the Awakening: From Feminism to Womanism and the Significance of Authentic Feminine Space
Creators: name: Nguyen, Catthuan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Alice Walker?s The Color Purple and Kate Chopin?s The Awakening fundamentally share the universal feminist yearning for personal freedom and independence within an oppressive, patriarchal society. With regards to the texts? stylistic differences and disparate social contexts, their heroines seek to ideologically oppose social rules and conventions for women without achieving the same results. This difference lies in the fact that Chopin?s text fosters the traditional feminism embraced by the majority culture, while Walker?s text makes use of womanism. The availability and authenticity of feminine space for the generation of women?s culture also determine the extent of changes achieved.
The Effects of Organizational Skills Instruction on the Academic Success of Sixth Grade Students
Creators: name: Bullock, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether after-school organizational skills instruction
would positively affect both the organizational skills and academic grades of sixth grade students
who struggle in both areas. Students were measured using an organizational skills checklist
consisting of five criteria as well as the students’ official grades on report cards and interim
reports. The study compared data over the course of a five-week period in which organizational
skills were assessed a total of ten times and grades were examined before, during, and after the
intervention. No significant increase in academic grades was noted; however, there was a
significant increase in organizational skills. Results can be attributed to a number of factors.
Further research in the area of organizational skills, including the causes and effects when these
skills are lacking as well as the best way to teach these skills, is necessary for educators to ensure
the academic success of all learners.
title: Can AI-generated news reduce hostile media perceptions? Findings from two experiments
Creators: name: Huh, Estel
name: Kubin, Emily
name: Sikorski, Christian Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AI-generated news
subject: AI attitudes
subject: HMP
subject: online engagement
subject: experiment
classificationCode: 070
subject: Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: Introduction: The current debate regarding artificial intelligence (AI) raises the question of whether AI-generated news articles on controversial topics can reduce news consumers’ hostile media perceptions (HMP). In addition, there is a debate about people’s prior attitudes toward AI and how it influences people’s perceptions of AI-generated news articles. Methods: Based on the theoretical foundation of the MAIN model and the Hostile Media Phenomenon, we conducted two preregistered experimental studies in the United States (N = 1,197). All subjects were presented with a news article on a divisive and polarizing topic (gun regulation), but we systematically varied the supposed author of the article (human journalist, AI-generated, AI and human journalist working together). Results and Discussion: In both studies exposure to the AI-generated news article significantly reduced participants’ HMP. However, the effect was only detected for individuals with negative and moderate prior attitudes toward AI. Individuals with positive AI attitudes did not benefit from AI-generated articles. AI-assisted news reporting showed very limited effects (only in Study 2). Furthermore, we examined if HMP predict online engagement. While Study 1 showed no effects on online engagement, Study 2 revealed that exposure to an AI-generated news article indirectly increased online engagement (intention to share a news article with friends and family). Implications for communication and journalism are discussed.
Initiation in the Novellas of Henry James
Creators: name: Milsted, Collyn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This Master?s Thesis seeks to explain the process of initiation undergone by Henry James?s characters.  Characters are chosen for initiation into forbidden knowledge, and, like the Biblical Adam and Eve, are exiled as a result.  Though initiation is erotic, it is not sexual, and society falsely perceives a sexually charged relationship between the initiator and the initiate, also called the complementary pair.  The initiate faces exile and death because of his forbidden knowledge.  He no longer has a place in his society, which leads to his social death and eventually physical death.  James?s reader is initiated along with the characters, becoming a critical reader who no longer sees reading as a passive activity but brings his own judgment to the text.  The Jamesian Reader does not face the same fate as the initiate, but he does change substantively as a result of his new perspective on the text.
The Effects of Readers Theater Practice on the Oral Reading Fluency Levels of Lower Achieving First Grade Title I Students
Creators: name: Clark, Emily
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether daily use of Readers Theater practice would increase the Oral Reading Fluency levels of lower achieving Title I students to a greater degree than that demonstrated by students who did not receive daily practice. The measurement tool was the Oral Reading Fluency portion of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) assessment. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from January, 2010 to March, 2010. The hypothesis of this study was supported by the results showing a significant difference between the performance of students receiving Readers Theater practice and those not receiving such practice on the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency assessment pretest and posttest. Research in the area of Readers Theater practice should continue given the lack of fluency instruction in the classroom and the important relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension. Suggestions for future research include providing a longer implementation timeframe, using smaller, leveled groups, adding a comprehension check to the daily practice, and using a different comprehension assessment.
Geographic access to urogynecology care in the United States
Creators: name: Schmidt, Ellie
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pelvic Floor
subject: Physical Therapists
subject: Health Services Accessibility
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Although access to Urogynecologic care is known to influence patient outcomes, less is known regarding geographic access to care and how it may vary by population characteristics. The primary objective of this study is to estimate geographic accessibility of Urogynecologic services, defined as both board-certified Urogynecologists and pelvic floor specialized physical therapists in the continental U.S. in terms of travel time and by population demographics.
Turning Back Time: Duration, Simultaneity, and the Timeless in Fitzgerald and Fincher's Benjamin Button
Creators: name: Wagner, Nathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This MA thesis seeks to apply Henri Bergson?s theory of time to a reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,? and David Fincher?s film adaptation of the text, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. By applying Bergson?s notions of dur?e and simultaneity, timeless moments will be seen to emerge in the text and the film. I place Fitzgerald?s text in context with other seminal modernist works in order to provide a study of the importance of the story within its time period. Through Deleuze?s application of Bergson to cinema, I analyze the evolution of the time-image within Fincher?s film, and place it within the context of a cinema of time. Ultimately, this thesis begins a discussion of the importance of how F. Scott Fitzgerald and Fincher?s works contribute meditations on time in their respective time periods and media.
title: Impact of nanoscopic impurity aggregates on cavitation in water
Creators: name: Šako, Marin
name: Netz, Roland R.
name: Kanduč, Matej
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cavitation
subject: Bubble
subject: Droplet
subject: Water
subject: Oil
subject: Molecular dynamics simulation
classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: The stability of water against cavitation under negative pressures is a phenomenon known for considerable discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental observations. Using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and classical nucleation theory, we explore how nanoscopic hydrocarbon droplets influence cavitation in water. Our findings reveal that while a macroscopic volume of absolutely pure water withstands around -120 MPa of tension, introducing a single nanoscopic oil droplet, merely a few nanometers in radius, brings this cavitation threshold to around -30 MPa, closely matching the values typically observed in highly controlled experiments. The unavoidable presence of nanoscopic hydrophobic impurities, even in highly purified water used in experiments, imposes a practical limit on achieving the theoretical tensile strength in realistic settings. More broadly, our study highlights the profound impact of nonpolar residues on nucleation phenomena and enhances our understanding of metastability in real-world systems.
Supplementary File - Hardy-Weinberg exact tests for MLE defined clusters of Prochilodus lineatus, from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd orders of hierarchical analysis.
Creators: name: Yazbeck, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310599
subject: Genetics not elsewhere classified

description: Hardy-Weinberg exact tests for MLE defined clusters of Prochilodus lineatus, from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd orders of hierarchical analysis. Detailed results for the full sampling scheme are also provided.Supporting Information for Genomic resources for curimba Prochilodus lineatus reveal a fractal pattern of hierarchical genetic population structure in mixed stocks across fish segregated by dams.
Eudora Welty's Theatrical Sketches of 1948: Summer Diversion or Lost Potential? Bye-Bye Brevoort and Other Sketches
Creators: name: Gordon, Leslie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Eudora Welty is well-known for her many works of fiction and non-fiction, but not known for her works for the theater. In the summer of 1948 Welty moved to New York and wrote, in collaboration with another writer, a musical revue entitled What Year Is This? Only one of the sketches, ?Bye-Bye Brevoort,? was ever produced. This and other sketches in the unpublished manuscript deserve to be studied alongside Welty?s other work. These writings provide a window into her love of New York, her vast knowledge of the fine arts, and the evolution of her writing styles. In January of 2010, a reading was staged at the Balzer Theater at Herren?s, Atlanta, Georgia. Audience reaction indicates that these pieces, both songs and skits, deserve more attention.
"Growing like the Plants from Unseen Roots": The Equalizing Role of Plant Imagery in Aurora Leigh
Creators: name: Steiner, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Plant imagery abounds in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel-poem, Aurora Leigh, and critical readings have not thoroughly explored the meaning of and intent behind that imagery. Plant metaphor and images in Aurora Leigh are used to challenge the concept of Victorian women's inherently inferior "nature" and to present an argument for female equality. When traced throughout the work, plant imagery foreshadows Aurora and Marian's ultimate personal independence and familial harmony and helps the reader to understand the poem's controversial ending. Ties to three of Browning's literary influences in the selection of plant images are explored: Emanuel Swedenborg, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Each of these three understood and used nature imagery to significant effect in their own writings, and Browning adopted and developed those images in her work.
The challenge in preparing particle suspensions for aquatic microplastic research
Creators: name: Eitzen, Lars
name: Paul, Sophia
name: Braun, Ulrike
name: Ruhl, Aki Sebastian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mikroplastikpartikel
Polystyrol
Dispersion
Ozonung

description: The occurrence of small particles consisting of organic polymers, so-called microplastic (MP), in aquatic environments attracts increasing interest in both public and science. Recent sampling campaigns in surface waters revealed substantial numbers of particles in the size range from a few micrometers to a few millimeters. In order to validate sample preparation, identification and quantification and to investigate the behavior of MP particles and potential toxic effects on organisms, defined MP model particles are needed. Many studies use spherical compounds that probably behave differently compared to irregularly shaped MP found in environmental samples. However, preparation and handling of MP particles are challenging tasks and have been systematically investigated in the present study. Polystyrene (PS) as a commonly found polymer with a density slightly above that of water was selected as polymer type for milling and fractionation studies. A cryogenic ball mill proved to be practical and effective to produce particles in the size range from 1 to 200â€¯Ìm. The yield of small particles increased with increasing pre-cooling and milling durations. Depending on the concentration and the size, PS particles do not completely disperse in water and particles partly creep vertically up along glass walls. Stabilized MP suspensions without use of surfactants that might harm organisms are needed for toxicological studies. The stabilization of PS particle suspensions with ozone treatment reduced the wall effect and increased the number of dispersed PS particles but increased the dissolved organic carbon concentration and changed the size distribution of the particles. © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
For the Future: An Examination of Conspiracy and Terror in the Works of Don Delillo
Creators: name: Whelan, Ashleigh
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is divided into two chapters, the first being an examination of conspiracy and paranoia in Libra, while the second focuses on the relationship between art and terror in Mao II, ?In the Ruins of the Future,? Falling Man, and Point Omega. The study traces how DeLillo?s works have evolved over the years, focusing on the creation of counternarratives.˜ Readers are given a glimpse of American culture and shown the power of narrative, ultimately shedding light on the future of our collective consciousness.
The Effects of Reading Flexibility Tasks on Comprehension
Creators: name: Anderson, Ann
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether reading-specific flexibility tasks would increase the reading comprehension scores of selected second graders enrolled in the researcher’s class. The measurement tools used in the study included weekly teacher-made story assessments, the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Language Arts Benchmark, and Open Court fluency assessments. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from February 2010 (before the treatment was administered) to data from March 2010 (after the treatment was administered). Gains in achievement were not statistically significant. Factors that may be related to that lack of statistical significance are the length of the study as well as the limited number of students included in the groups that participated in the study. Research in the area of teaching students to think more flexibly about word sounds and meanings should be continued to enhance instruction in this area. This, in turn, likely would result in improvement in students’ decoding and comprehension, thereby creating more fluent readers.
Archoprotus porteri Brethes 1913
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Archoprotus
Archoprotus porteri

description: 2.1.1 Archoprotus porteri Brèthes, 1913 *
Archoprotus Porteri Brèthes, 1913a: 310–311. Action of the first reviser by Townes & Towens (1966: 287).
[Archoprotus Porteri] Brèthes, 1913b: 239. Unavailable name.
Distribution. Chile: Región de Valparaíso (Brèthes 1913).
Comments. Brèthes (1913a: 310–311) described the species Archoprotus porteri Brèthes, 1913 based on a female specimen. In a different publication with the same date, Brèthes (1913b: 239) described again the same taxon based on the same female type specimens. Townes & Townes (1966: 153) acted as the first reviewer in determining that Brèthes (1913a) takes the precedence (ICZN 1999: article 24.2.2).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
"Now There's No Difference": Artificial Subjectivity as a Posthuman Negotiation of Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic
Creators: name: McCormick, Casey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description:   This thesis examines the theme of robot rebellion in SF narrative as an incarnation of Hegel?s Master/Slave dialectic. Chapter one analyzes the depiction of robot rebellion in Karel Capek?s R.U.R. Chapter two surveys posthuman theory and offers close readings of two contemporary SF television series that exemplify ontologically progressive narratives. The thesis concludes that posthuman subjectivity sublates the Master/Slave dialectic and encourages practical posthuman ethics.
Placental interleukin-6 is associated with infant negative affect at 6-months
Creators: name: Wood, Elizabeth
name: Gustafsson, Hanna C.
name: Ablow, Jennifer C.
name: Nigg, Joel T.
name: Lo, Jamie O.
name: Sullivan, Elinor L.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Interleukin-6
subject: Temperament
subject: Emotions
subject: Mental Disorders
subject: behavioral health
subject: developmental programming
subject: negative affect
subject: placental inflammation

description: Negative affect (NA), the propensity to experience negative emotions, emerges during early infancy and is an indicator of vulnerability for developmental psychopathology. Programming of risk for NA has been associated with fetal exposure to maternal peripheral inflammatory factors; however, little is known regarding the biological pathways by which placental inflammation contributes to emerging infant behavioral health.
The Business and Trade Associations: America's Most Influential Interest Group Sector in the Health Care Reform Debate
Creators: name: Fugate, Jessica
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: This paper is a culmination of research conducted over the course of the fall 2009 semester for PSC 245: Interest Group Politics. Throughout the semester we discussed the origin of the interest group and their effect on American democratic politics and the populace. From Federalist #10, where Madison discusses factions and their necessity within a democratic system to theories questioning the concept of pluralism, which espouses equal representation amongst competing and countervailing influences. Notions such as fairness, equality, and access are often called into question when analyzing the influence and actions of interest groups in their pursuit of said policy-making goals. As Congress has conspicuously grown more polarized, the public’s ill view toward lobbyists and their influence have increased dramatically. However, despite this distrust the American voter has come to the realization that interest groups exercise an important part of our political system, their ability to act on behalf of those who cannot and will not speak for themselves. After all, the purpose of an interest group is to attempt to influence policy to the benefit of its members. The following research was the result of a class requirement to choose and examine an interest group within the health care reform debate. Following the research we were required to compile a research paper detailing our chosen groups lobbying techniques to determine which of our 6 groups were the most likely to succeed in achieving their policy goal, whether said group was for or against health care reform: H. R. 3962. The Business and Trade Associations is the largest sector whose apparent goal is to maximize profits. As such, its influence in terms of lobbying techniques is widely perceived to yield the most power in terms of funding. However, when evaluated in comparison to other interest group sectors, businesses in fact have more to lose than gain. The following research is structured beginning with the most successful interest group and will conclude with the group most likely to fail. My chosen 6 interest groups are Safeway, Wal- Mart, PepsiCo Inc., NFIB, NACS, and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/7-2/
Using Music to Help Emotionally Disturbed Children Develop Social Skills in the Classroom
Creators: name: Balmages, Lisa
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: This study was conducted to determine if music could be used to help emotionally
disturbed children develop better social skills in the classroom. For this study, music
from the Tuned in to Learning Volume 1, Social Skills & Pragmatics Curriculum was
used. In addition, supplementary material from Socially Smart: Teaching Social Skills
Through Scripts and Songs was used during the intervention period. Social behaviors
that were assessed include the following behavior categories: off‐task behavior,
impulse control, refusal to participate, and not keeping personal space. The
hypothesis was not supported because students overall still showed poor social
skills after the intervention was completed.
Holding Private Militray Contractors Accountable for Human Rights Violations: The Alien Torts Claims Acts and the Quest for Regulation
Creators: name: Chapman, Dan
name: Furfaro, Dawn
name: Plavin, Sianna
name: Peters, Janelle
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Dawn Furfaro, Dan Chapman, Janelle Peters and Sianna Plavin wrote "Holding Private Military Contractors Accountable for Human Rights Violations: The Alien Torts Claims Act and the Quest for Regulation" for PCE 310 – International Human Rights Law. The assignment was for groups of students to identify and research an issue that will poses serious legal challenges to the future of a statist human rights approach. In the previous semester in PCE 251 – Human Rights, members of the group had developed two annotated bibliographies on corporations and the military industrial complex, respectively. In the following semester, they were able to use that research as the foundation for a paper on how the human rights system, which is limited to claims by individuals against states, may be used to bring claims against private corporations.
description: This paper, written for our International Human Rights Law class offered by the Peace Studies Department, represents two semesters of learning and research with an interdisciplinary approach to the law. We began learning about the U.S.' military industrial complex and the current challenges in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations during the fall semester of Human Rights (PCE 251)and decided to inquire more deeply into the issues in this course. The focus of our research was the Alien Torts Claims Act and its recent revival as a tool for holding military contractors responsible for violations of human rights. We sought not only to critique the existing system for addressing human rights violations perpetrated by military contractors, but also to propose changes that would transcend the traditional divisions between national and international legal systems. While we have no certain answers, we now have a much clearer picture of the current state of law pertaining to contractors and the many possibilities that exist for increasing accountability in the future. We are pleased that this paper was chosen for inclusion in the Verge, and remain grateful to each other and everyone who supported and encouraged us in the research and writing process.
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/7-2/