cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ANTA to Receive Award for Theater Aid
Creators: name: Dorin, Rube
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: ANTA
subject: Drama Study Club
subject: Hayes, Helen
subject: Campbell, C. Lawton
subject: Hunt, Martita
subject: Treacher Arthur
subject: Bloomgarden, Kermit
subject: Derwent, Clarence
subject: Redman, Joyce

description: Clipping.
TOLERANCE OF MELON VARIETIES TO THE WILT PATHOGENESIS FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM
Creators: name: Marupov, Abboskhon
name: Azimov, Nizom
name: Turamuratova, Gulshod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: It was found that the Kokcha variety is the most susceptible to fusarium wilt disease and the Zar Gulobi variety is the most resistant to the disease, followed by the Oq Urug and Obi Novvot varieties.
title: Correspondence: Alvin F. Kimel and C. Harrison Mann, Jr., March 17, 1953-March 19, 1953
Creators: name: Kimel, Alvin F.
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Taxes
subject: Gasoline taxes
subject: Transportation

description: letter A: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6cm); letter B: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6cm)
description: Correspondence between Alvin F. Kimel, Arlington County Board Member, and C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding transportation, tax revenue and Kimel's proposal to the Fiscal Affairs Committee to study the tax structure. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 3.03
KAT: Dependency-aware Automated API Testing with Large Language Models
Creators: name: Le, Tri
name: Tran, Thien
name: Cao, Duy
name: Le, Vy
name: Nguyen, Tien
name: Nguyen, Vu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: API testing has increasing demands for software companies. Prior API testing tools were aware of certain types of dependencies that needed to be concise between operations and parameters. However, their approaches, which are mostly done manually or using heuristic-based algorithms, have limitations due to the complexity of these dependencies. In this paper, we present KAT (Katalon API Testing), a novel AI-driven approach that leverages the large language model GPT in conjunction with advanced prompting techniques to autonomously generate test cases to validate RESTful APIs. Our comprehensive strategy encompasses various processes to construct an operation dependency graph from an OpenAPI specification and to generate test scripts, constraint validation scripts, test cases, and test data. Our evaluation of KAT using 12 real-world RESTful services shows that it can improve test coverage, detect more undocumented status codes, and reduce false positives in these services in comparison with a state-of-the-art automated test generation tool. These results indicate the effectiveness of using the large language model for generating test scripts and data for API testing.
description: ICST 2024
title: Conflict, CULTURE, and poverty in Nigeria: A Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Onyia, Chukwuma Godwin
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Conflict
subject: Poverty
subject: Nigeria
subject: Culture of poverty
subject: Radical extremism

description: This study examines the determinants of chronic poverty which is at the root of conflict in Nigeria. Violent conflict, most of which emanates from the northern region, is a defining feature of Nigeria dating back to its independence in 1960. Scholars have attributed this phenomenon to endemic, chronic poverty in the area. The situation has attracted scholars who seek to account for the continued economic backwardness amongst the northerners and to proffer pro-poor strategies as part of the peacebuilding components in Nigeria. We conducted our study into the causes of sustained economic backwardness from the perspectives of Oscar Lewis’ culture of poverty theory and tackled the problem through the citizens' viewpoint. We found that two significant, surviving mechanisms of the Sokoto Caliphate shape the attitudes of the mass commoners of Hausa-Fulani of northern Nigeria. We established that these produce seven distinctive traits that are inimical to economic prosperity, such as “beggarliness,” “limited parenting,” “women seclusion” “limited priority to education,” “lack of need-for-achievement motivation.” We report that above findings support the “culture of poverty” thesis that the poor create, sustain, and generationally transmit unique values that apparently render them economically inviable within the modern society. This report shows that culture of the northerners ought to be considered seriously, especially in designing and implementing pro-poor policies geared towards stemming youth buy-in into radical extremism and recurrent conflict in that region. Such policies should include in their design, measures to engender an attitudinal change of both practices and viewpoints among the poor northerners towards prosperity-inducing behaviors.
title: Climate Warming and United States Military Force Projection: Impacts of Increasing Temperatures on Forward Operability
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Climate change
subject: Military
subject: Density altitude
subject: Global warming
subject: Aviation
subject: National security

description: This thesis assesses the potential strategic-level implications that global climate warming may have on the United States Department of Defense, particularly the United States Air Force, up to the year 2099. The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a critical strategic airlift platform utilized by the United States Air Force, serves as the case study aircraft. Performance degradation experienced by the C-17 is measured by the imposed reduction in maximum allowable takeoff weight under six thresholds. As regional temperatures rise, density altitude also increases, which reduces production and overall engine performance, requiring a decrease in aircraft takeoff weight. The impacts of climate warming on the C-17 are measured across the six terrestrial geographic combatant commands defined by the Department of Defense. USAFRICOM, USSOUTHCOM, and USINDOPACOM (not including Antarctica) contain the highest portion of geographic area that is subject to year-round payload reductions. USCENTCOM trails close behind. By the year 2099, nearly 70% of both USAFRICOM and USSOUTHCOM will require a 29.3% payload reduction year-round, and over 50% of both USINDOPACOM (not including Antarctica) and USCENTCOM will require a year-round 17.0% payload reduction. This performance degradation is expected to interfere with ongoing global conflicts that are of interest to the United States, hinder the United States' commitment to providing reassurance to foreign allies through contingency responsiveness, and significantly reduce the efficiency by which the Department of Defense can execute actions in direct support of national security priorities.
Increasing public support for climate policy: Research needs, questions, and challenges around politically influenceable acceptability factors
Creators: name: Heyen, Dirk Arne
name: Wicki, Michael
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Ambitious climate policy needs a mix of instruments, from relatively soft and supportive pull measures to more intervening and demanding push measures. Given that the latter often receive relatively low public support, especially when targeting consumers’ everyday life, we need to know more about how to increase their acceptability. We argue that existing research has focused on factors that explain relatively stable differences in climate policy support between countries and groups of people, which does not help much in improving the acceptability of specific policy instruments in a given country and society. There has been less research, and then often single-case or single-factor studies, on acceptability factors that policymakers can directly influence. This working paper aims to inspire much more research on such factors by critically reflecting on the status quo of existing research and knowledge and by formulating research needs, questions, and methodological approaches with regard to four clusters of politically influenceable acceptability factors: policy design and packaging, different temporal aspects of policies (timing, sequencing, trial runs), participation and coalition building, as well as information and framing.
description: Oeko-Institut Working Paper, 2/2022
Cortical Activity Associated with Motor Unit Action Potentials: Motor Cortex Control of the Recruitment of Motor Units
Creators: name: McGuire, Marguerite
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cortical activity
subject: cortical control
subject: motor cortex
subject: motor unit action potential
subject: motor unit
subject: motor unit recruitment
subject: EEG
subject: EMG
subject: neuromuscular control
subject: noninvasive
subject: high-density surface EMG
subject: electroencephalography
subject: electromyography

description: This paper examines cortical involvement in the recruitment of motor units, rejecting a previous common drive theory, and supporting the theory that explains cortex as having a more specific role in the particular motor units that are recruited, showing a command rather than simply a drive. Results from this study demonstrate a relationship between cortical activity and individual motor unit firing in humans non-invasively by recording EEG and high-density surface EMG in parallel. EMG data, from 2 subjects, were decomposed into individual motor units and ERPs time-locked to the specific motor units were obtained. Inter-trial coherence was computed to further measure a direct relationship between cortical and motor unit activity. There was coherence at low frequency EEG oscillations around the time of the extracted motor unit spikes. Frequencies were also similar between subjects. Additionally, cross-validation analysis was done to demonstrate an ability to predict motor unit recruitment from EEG recordings. Results suggest cortical activity can be consistently associated with motor units and that there is a more precise relationship than just a readiness potential from movement onset. With this fine-grained control in the recruitment of specific motor units and the flexibility of recruitment, motor unit recruitment strategies are potentially trainable. This is important because of its potential for use in rehabilitation after injury or motor skill acquisition. This study sets forth foundational knowledge that allows for further research to better understand neuromuscular control.
title: Effects of Individual or Group Training and Anxiety for Youth Basketball Players’ Skill Development
Creators: name: Ennis, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Individual training
subject: Youth basketball players
subject: Group training
subject: Skill development
subject: Anxiety

description: The purpose of this study is to determine, based on experience level, if group or individual training will be more effective for youth and high school basketball players. This research is being conducted because youth basketball is a critical time for players to develop fundamental skills and prepare themselves to make a high school team. This information will be valuable to basketball trainers or coaches as it may contribute to the improvement and success of their own players and teams. Furthermore, the foundation of this research derives from these research questions: How will training in an individual setting affect a player who has little to no experience with basketball? How will training in a group setting affect a player who is already experienced with basketball? The procedural technique for this study is an experimental design with the use of the Sport Competition Anxiety Test. Testing occurred during the first and tenth week and subjects trained once a week for eight weeks in between testing. All subjects were instructed to take the SCAT immediately prior to testing. Tests consist of Mikan series, stationary dribbling, shooting ladder, dribble weave, passing at target, attacking the gaps, lane slides, push-ups, and free throws. The 60 subjects in this study were selected via the probability method of stratified random sampling.
Unauthorized use of street art and graffiti in augmented reality – Virtual Infringement of Copyright?
Creators: name: Egeland, Siri
name: Bonadio, Enrico
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Graffiti writers and street artist are faced with novel ways their art can be used, but also exploited, due to the rapid evolution of technology. The AI revolution the world has witnessed over the last years, holds implications for the use and accessibility of other types of technology such as Augmented Reality (AR). AR is a technology using digital overlays or filters on the real world to give users an enhanced presentation of reality, through digital devices such as a smartphone. The creation of the digital overlay or filter, used to demand a high degree of tech knowledge. Now, however, that AI generators producing images are accessible to everyone, it is easier than ever before to create digital overlays to use in AR. Graffiti and street art works are vulnerable to exploitation in the digital world through the easy accessibility of the works in the street, the (often) anonymous artists and the appeal this type of art has to the public. In this article we explore one side of the legal implications of unauthorized use of street art and graffiti in AR, namely that of potential Copyright infringement. This article builds on an article we have published in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2022, and presented at the Urban Creativity Conference in 2022. Our new article digs deeper into this intersection between law and technology from the street art perspective, and in light of the developments within the technology since the last publication we have a number of new questions to discuss.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
Proximity and Complicity
Creators: name: Roby, Benedita
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: The reciprocity between the two practices can emerge on various levels, and since it is impossible to fully explore all of them in this article, two hypotheses will be formulated regarding the affinity between the two arts. The first chapter considers the proximity between graffiti and the cinematographic apparatus, particularly in the production of another visuality, or a counter-visuality (Mirzoeff, 2011). The next chapter analyzes the complicity between graffiti and the film medium, in the production of an alternative history (Rancière, 2009) or a counter-public sphere (Sholette, 2017).
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
title: From Cradle to Pride: How Straight Parents Forge Relationships with Their Gay Sons
Creators: name: Johnson, Jeff
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Family
subject: Moral careers
subject: Gender
subject: Sexuality
subject: Civic culture

description: Sociological research has unveiled conventional parents that become gay rights activists but pays insufficient attention to how this puzzling identity comes about. The argument presented here is that there are stages to what could be called moral careers of straight parents of gay sons. A first stage encompasses the process of a son coming out to his parents, a second involves parents becoming active in a supportive voluntary association, and a third stage is marked by walking in marches that support their children's cultural identities and political rights. Paradoxically, these parents become normal radicals through these stages; that is to say, committed to conventional imperatives of loving and supporting a child, they do parenting by becoming gay rights advocates.
The Gift, Graffiti and Punitive Masculinity
Creators: name: McGlone, Panda
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation looks at the relationship between The Gift, Graffiti and Punitive Masculinity. I give a brief overview of how the gift operates and the influence it has on art and creativity, while also looking specifically at how graffiti exists in this gift sphere. I then look at punitive masculinity, drawing on the work of Nancy Macdonald for a graffiti specific perspective and Allen G Johnson for a broader overview of how punishment is used between men as a form of social control. I then look at the writing of adrienne maree brown and Mariame Kaba who discuss cancel culture and how this is often a learned process from the punitive justice system. I will look at how local authorities and the media other, and attempt to cancel graffiti writers, and then how graffiti writers other, and attempt to cancel each other. Finally I take a speculative look at what a graffiti culture would look like if this punitive approach was replaced with one of mutual aid and care.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
Buffing. Unintentional and independent urban painting
Creators: name: Balbuena, Erik
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Graffiti and urban painting that exist outside legal boundaries or lack institutional protection can be subject to removal or coverage, typically by local authorities. Ironically, this removal process, when not executed efficiently, frequently gives rise to a new form of paintings, which we refer to as: unintentional and independent urban painting.


The pictorial outcome of this phenomenon holds value beyond the aesthetic appeal of these marks and color planes. The primary interest lies in the unconscious, involuntary, and random manner in which they are created. The individuals behind them do not intend to create a new painting; perhaps they seek a visually functional result rather than an attractive one, and certainly, they do not aim to generate pictorial interest, let alone seeking artistic recognition.


This buffings has become a new type of painting in the public spaces of any city, enjoying greater popular acceptance compared to graffiti or other mural interventions in the urban environment. It stands in contrast to what is permitted versus what is not. It aims to be non-communicative, devoid of any message, but beyond its pictorial value, it ultimately carries significant political weight.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
Implications of the Computational Social Science Perspective in the Analysis of Hypertextual Conversations on Instagram around Freight Train Graffiti
Creators: name: Abundis, Angel
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Graffiti on freight trains exists in a constant duality between the physical and digital realms, with artwork displayed on rolling vehicles across the North American subcontinent. This dual circuit of circulation encompasses the geographical movement of trains along the railway network and the digital presence on platforms like Instagram. The study of this phenomenon addresses the increasing datafication of everyday life and employs theoretical perspectives and diverse techniques to explore it.

Computational social sciences offer valuable conceptual guidance for analyzing this kind of phenomena. Rather than pursuing new concepts, researchers modify existing frameworks to interpret data using computational tools and artificial intelligence. These tools provide the benefits of aggregating and analyzing large volumes of data, uncovering hidden patterns and insights.

However, analyzing the specific phenomenon of New York graffiti on freight trains requires specialized approaches. It involves data collection, custom model training, unconventional metric usage, and potentially proposing new metrics. This work aims to elucidate the theoretical, methodological, and empirical decisions made in programming three computational tools for data gathering and computational analysis.

The first tool, Instagrapi, enables data mining to gather Instagram posts relevant to graffiti on freight trains. The second tool employs a TensorFlow object detection model to automatically classify published content, identifying graffiti types in images. The third tool, SpaCy, facilitates text analysis by extracting relevant terms from hashtags, such as graffiti writers’ names, crews, north america cities, and terms from a custom-glossary.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
The Graffiti-Game and the Ubiquity of Resistance
Creators: name: Baldini, Andrea Lorenzo
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: We tend to think of resistance as an exceptional event in our lives, when something so drastic occurs that the status quo is completely disrupted and reshaped. According to this viewpoint, moments of resistance occur when one or more people actively participate in acts of political sabotage, in which some hierarchy or structure of power is knowingly challenged and subverted with the purpose of long-term change. I'd like to challenge this idea. Resistance, in effect, can function in many ways. Not only revolutions or revolts should be conceptualised as such. Everyday actions can sometimes be considered forms of resistance. De Certeau describes such activities as “sheeplike subversion.” This form of rebellion, however far from being a traditional insurrection, is a common and quiet disruption of social control. Rather than efforts aimed at structural societal changes, they are micro alterations that have a major influence on transgressors’ personal lives while yet evoking (traces of) social change. Graffiti, and more specifically, getting up, is a kind of resistance in this way. When painting tags, throw-ups, and pieces, authors are not concerned with long-term structural changes; their efforts may be futile on a global scale. And it does not appear that they intend to permanently change the status quo. In playing the graffiti game, spray-can calligraphers' efforts can be viewed more appropriately as enacting an oppositional agency that they would not otherwise have, allowing them to freely express themselves even when legally restricted.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
title: Ten Strategies to Reduce Gender Inequality at Scientific Conferences
Creators: name: Sardelis, Stephanie
name: Oester, Samantha
name: Liboiron, Max
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Marine Science
Year: 2017

description: Conferences organized by professional societies provide scientists and professionals with an excellent opportunity to disseminate their work, network with like-minded researchers, and form collaborative relationships for future endeavors. However, these opportunities are rarely distributed equally between women and men in science. Addressing gender inequity should be a primary consideration for all societies hosting conferences. Yet, many STEM conferences are struggling with gender biases and the understanding that gender inequity also applies to non-binary gender and overlapping social identities. At the Society for Conservation Biology's 4th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC4), “Promoting the Participation of Women at Science Conferences” was one of four focus groups of the Diversity Focus Group Series. This paper outlines 10 feasible intervention strategies delineated during the Women at Science Conferences focus group discussion as positive encouragement for professional societies to continue toward gender equity. The 10 interventions to reduce gender inequity at conferences include adopting community principles and a Code of Conduct, appointing a Safety Officer, requiring a registration honor system pledge and conduct surveys, offering a mentorship program, organizing focus groups, giving benefits for participating in diversity programming, assisting with child care, proffering travel grants, providing badges on lanyards, and randomizing the conference program. These strategies are intended to reduce participation barriers for women scientists at conferences, and range in the amount of planning they require to provide options for all societies regardless of their fiscal or labor capacity.
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Transformation is one of the most profound and enduring concepts in human thought. It transcends disciplines, eras, and cultures, standing as a central pillar of how we understand both the universe and our place within it. From Heraclitus' ancient assertion that "everything flows" (*panta rhei*), to the modern literary explorations of identity and change by writers such as Franz Kafka or James Baldwin, the idea of transformation weaves through history as a narrative of perpetual motion and renewal. In this issue, *Transformations*, we delve into this rich and multifaceted idea, examining the processes of change that shape not only physical spaces but also the human psyche, social structures, and our ways of seeing the world.  
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
Book review - ILLEGAL Street Art Graffiti 1960 - 1995
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: “Illegal, Street Art Graffiti 1960–1995” is a book born from an exhibition of the same name. According to its creators, curator Ulrich Blanché and Simon Matzerath, director of the Historisches Museum Saar, the project “represents an antithesis to the urban art exhibitions that have become common since Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution at London’s Tate gallery in 2008.”

Both the book and the exhibition focus exclusively on “unacceptable,” self-authorized works created illegally for public spaces, in contrast to legal, commodified, and portable works by artists who often leverage their early street credibility for commercial purposes.

The publication is a substantial volume (approximately 28x22 cm) of high-quality paper and print. Across its 240 pages, available in both English and German, readers will find 12 sections: two introductory chapters, nine theoretical discussions, and one dedicated to a catalog of selected works from the exhibition.

The introductory sections consist of “Instead of a Foreword” and “Introduction.” The nine theoretical chapters explore a variety of themes, including 1952–74: Early Street Art to Art, Style, Geography (focusing on the Greater Region of Saarland, Lorraine, and Luxembourg), Gender, Writing as Graphic Design, Political Graffiti, First Female Urban Artists, Samo©, and Keith Haring in Germany. Contributions come from authors such as Ulrich Blanché, Myriama Idir, Jacob Kimvall, Sven Niemann, and Johannes Stahl.

The exhibition catalog itself showcases 36 selected works, accompanied by images and descriptive texts.

This multidimensional publication serves as both a companion to the exhibition and a stand-alone editorial project. It provides detailed historical context, challenges conventional boundaries—both aesthetic and political—and includes groundbreaking discussions, particularly around gender and female authorship. While two chapters are devoted to the German context, the bilingual format might initially give the impression of a regional focus. However, closer examination reveals significant international perspectives and advancements in understanding graffiti and street art as cultural phenomena.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
กําไรเทียม
Creators: name: ศรีสุดา อาชวานันทกุล
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2016
Subjects: วิธีต้นทุนคิดเต็ม, วิธีต้นทุนผันแปร, กําไรจากการดําเนินงาน

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 12, 34 (มิถุนายน 59)
title: Librarians and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans: Helping Disabled Veterans With Business Research
Creators: name: Hoppenfeld, Jared
name: Wyckoff, Trip
name: Henson, Jo Ann J.
name: Mayotte, Jenna N.
name: Kirkwood, Hal P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Business research
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Veterans
subject: Library resources

description: DOI 10.1080/08963568.2013.825227
description: The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities is a national educational program that helps post-9/11 Veterans accomplish their dreams of starting their own businesses. Although their story has been well documented, one story that has not been told is that of a group of business librarians who support the program. The authors present unique services and resources made available to participants of this program and discuss some of the challenges, results, and future aspirations of library support.
UHAW
Creators: name: GORDO, JEAN A.
Publisher: name: BINAS PUBLISHING
Year: 2025
Subjects: UHAW

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

 

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

 

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

 

As a publication dedicated to fostering literary excellence, PACIFICUS aims to nurture emerging and established writers while enriching the literary landscape. Each issue aspires to be a testament to creativity, insight, and the enduring impact of literature.
Urban Sacred Symbols: Folk Devotion Elements’ Subversive Revival in Naples’ Urban Art
Creators: name: Carannante, Lorenza
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Naples is a city where religious values hold significant ways, evident in the plethora of symbols and devotional expressions adorning its streets. Votive offerings, small shrines, altars, and various sacred iconographies populate the urban landscape, reflecting a deep-rooted sense of community and devotion that transcends generational and social boundaries. Over the years, artists such as Ernest Pignon-Ernest (Nice, 1942), Francisco Bosoletti (Armstrong, 1988), and Neapolitan writers cyop&kaf have drawn inspiration from Naples’ rich cultural and religious heritage in their work. Through their artistic endeavors, they have reimagined and reinterpreted traditional sacred symbols, infusing them with contemporary meaning and relevance. One notable project, Quore Spinato, by cyop&kaf, stands as a prime example of this phenomenon. This iconographic initiative delves into popular narratives and cults within Naples’ Quartieri Spagnoli, challenging conventional perceptions of religious worship. By juxtaposing sacred imagery with gritty, visceral representations, the project offers a stark contrast to the idealized and ethereal depictions often associated with religious iconography. This contribution seeks to explore the intricate relationship between Neapolitan sacred symbols and their manifestation in urban art, particularly in the city’s streets. Emphasizing the importance of a shared interpretation, both anthropologically and aesthetically, the study aims to uncover the underlying motivations and implications behind this symbiotic exchange. 
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
Life Events Of Eu Citizens (Deliverable 7.5)
Creators: name: Jimenez Blanco, Pilar
name: Espiniella Menéndez, Angel
name: Adamo, Silvia
name: Eijken, Hanneke van
name: Vries, Sybe de
name: Waele, Henri de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: • Hypothesis: if the legislations of the Member States concerning life events increasingly differ, the EU citizenship and the civil rights are clearly prejudiced.

• Purposes: study of the lack of harmonisation of EU Law, the disparities of the national legislations and the effects and impact of them on EU citizenship and the free movement of persons.

• Methodology: case study. Each case is initiated with a short background explaining the subject and scope of the topic and the aims of the research. On the other hand, each case includes model cases in order to illustrate the standard practices, which are used as an example in order to explain the solutions of each Law and to include leading cases of each country. Starting from these assumptions, the staff of the different countries submitted a national report, whose paragraphs have been almost literally incorporated in order to enhance the transparency of the research project.

• Topics: regarding the lack of harmonisation of EU Law, the disparities of the national legislations and the effects and impact of them on EU citizenship and the free movement of persons, it is convenient to select the following life events: filiation, forenames and surnames and marriage, accompanied by a final and transversal topic relating to the circulation and recognition of documents on civil status.

• Scope: the selection of countries in order to inform on these topics is based on the following grounds: countries of Central Europe, such as Belgium and The Netherlands, with a very consolidated experience in EU citizenship as founders of the EEC; countries of the South of Europe, such as Spain, which has a Latin tradition in Family Law; countries of the East of Europe, namely Hungary, as more recent members of the EU; and countries of the North of Europe, such as Denmark, whose position is very interesting as this country is not a member of the EU space of freedom security and justice.

• Conclusions: adoption of Private International Law acts by the EU; mitigation of barriers to the free movement by the general principle of the effectiveness of life events (mutual recognition of life events and the principle of unique identity); progressive replacement of the national public policy by a public policy at an EU level; uniform and coordinated identification and persecution of fraud and abuses of the free movement of persons; and harmonisation of civil registries of Member States and the improvement of the cooperation between the Registries.
From non-places to commonplaces…and back?
Creators: name: Parisi, Vittorio
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: If, like it has been shown with Blu’s self-iconoclasm cases, a complete and successful return to the non-places paradigm is no longer possible, it seems that its original ethos could only survive in a perpetual, Sisyphean struggle against the threat of deartification: the aesthetic specificity of the non-places paradigm can only be preserved or restored through symbolic actions, or through a transfiguration into something new, a constant aesthetic research that plays within the frames and the paradigms. It is the case of MOSA’s works, BULKY and Neo-Archeologia: they both embody, in almost an ironic manner, such an ambiguous and everlasting suspension between non-places and commonplaces.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
Frequency and distribution of protest stickers
Creators: name: Hill, Steve
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: Protest stickers, as a form of street art, can be located in city areas of high footfall. Individualised interpretation of protest stickers relies on the conflation of semiotics and active subjectivity. This paper outlines the results of an ethnographic study detailing the frequency and distribution of stickers around a university campus. The paper draws on cultural criminology’s verstehen to subjectively explore four stickers from differing political domains describing how their presence is interwoven with the societal and geographical landscape of the site of study. The limitations of the work are discussed and possibilities for future studies to address these are provided.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 1 (2024): Ubiquity: Transformation
Ugly Graffiti, Antistyle, and ‘Shithole’ Post-Socialist Aesthetics
Creators: name: Polsky, Anton
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: The development of street art (especially graffiti) in peripheral contexts such as Eastern Europe or Latin America is tied to globalization and the spread of US American culture in the 1980s-90s. After the first stage of attempts to copy and adopt new trends, the reaction appeared as a form of rejection, protest, self-exotification, and work with the context.

Although the anti-style/ugly/ignorant graffiti has been around for about 20 years, its history has never been written down. There aren’t many publications and analytical texts around — this is probably because the anti-style is a subculture within a subculture, so only the participants of this sub-subculture could write its true history.

In my current research, I focus on the roots of ugly graffiti in Eastern Europe, primarily on Czech, Ukrainian, and Russian cases, analyze its connection to the post-socialist urban and social environments, and what I call ‘shit-hole’ aesthetics that became popular in social media in recent years.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: The second issue of the second volume of the Graffiti and Street Art Journal offers a rich tapestry of perspectives on the evolving interplay between urban art, historical contexts, and cultural dialogues. In this issue, the contributions collectively illuminate how street art and graffiti traverse and redefine boundaries—be they physical, conceptual, or cultural.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
Hambleton and The White Liners─Two examples of Conceptual Street Art on the Berlin Wall
Creators: name: Blanché, Ulrich
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2024

description: A rarely discussed conceptual yet political work of illegal street art by Richard Hambleton on the Berlin Wall initiated the by far most famous street art spot on The Wall later made popular by the likes of Terry Noir, Keith Haring or Ron English─and (on Haring’s mural) the so-called White Liners who tried to make The Wall visible again─under all these beautiful colorful co/selfmarketing paintings. They planned to cross out (with a white line) ALL paintings on the 170 kilometers of The Wall. This essay gives an overview about the terms, wall generations, first (known) artists dealing with (and on) The Wall and tries to answer if painting something terrible changes it for the better or the worse.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 2 No 2 (2024): Reframing Boundaries
title: Magazine: House Beautiful
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: The Hearst Company
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: House Beautiful Magazine

description: Textual: Magazine; Typescript original with staple holes; 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: October 1984 Issue of House Beautiful. This issue of House Beautiful focuses on the 1984 Best Small House, which was constructed in North Point Village in Reston, Virginia. The bulk of the magazine is dedicated to information about the house, designed by Lester Walker of New Jersey, its rooms and furnishings. An article and several advertisements also concern the Reston community. Planned Community Archives Collection, 457.07
The City in Dialogue, Reflections of Lisbon and the Underdogs Public Art Programme [2013-2023] Book Review
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2023

description: This publication is a celebration of the 10-year relationship between Underdogs, a cultural platform, and the Lisbon institutional dimension of urban art, Galeria de Arte Urbana. It navigates a delicate balance, avoiding extremes and polarization, seeking recognition without fully realizing its potential—a book that, in its compromise, leaves room for a possible 10-year-old paradox to be explored.

 The absence of detailed information about the artists and authors is compensated by an innovative fusion of "The Citizens" texts with images, creating a nuanced, non-declarative narrative that encourages self-interpretation.

 The book not only serves as a visual feast but also as a exploration of the program's impact on the city's cultural fabric, examining the dynamic interplay between art, societal narratives, and the urban environment. As the final remarks unfold, the reader is left with a resonating appreciation for the Underdogs Public Art Programme's decade-long journey, celebrating its role in shaping a cityscape where art is not merely a visual spectacle but a powerful medium for cultural reflection and societal engagement.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 1 No 2 (2023): Number two
Street Art, Graffiti and NFTs
Creators: name: Bonadio, Enrico
name: Egeland, Siri-Helen
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2023

description: There are numerous examples of street and graffiti artists using NFTs to monetize their physical art in the digital sphere. One reason for this might be that the digital medium combined with the cultural aspects surrounding the NFT scene, such as the sense of community connected to the art and tokens, also allows for street culture to be transferred with the street and graffiti art. One may think that in addition to this, Web3 and NFTs allow for a more democratic and direct link between artists who place their pieces in the street and their audiences. In this talk we will examine these background issues, and analyse the ideas and opinions of a number of street artists, graffiti writers and curators about the tokenisation of street art murals and exploitation via copyright. We will also combine legal analysis with artists’ real life experiences to discover fresh insights into the complexity of a rapidly evolving market for street art and graffiti. The talk is based on a chapter that is currently being written and will be published as part of a book examining NFTs and copyright from different perspectives. 
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 1 No 1 (2023): Number one
Supplementary document for Broadband depolarized perfect Littrow diffraction with multilayer freeform metagratings - 6380604.pdf
Creators: name: Dong, Siyu
name: Zhang, Zhanyi
name: Xie, Lingyun
name: Zhu, Jingyuan
name: Liang, Haigang
name: Wei, Zeyong
name: Shi, Yuzhi
name: Tikhonravov, Alexander
name: Wang, Zhanshan
name: Zhou, Lei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Figures and Notes
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2023

description: Because it's crucial to ensure that the core essence of Graffiti and Street Art, which forms the very foundation of our network, remains undiluted and receives the attention it rightfully deserves. Recognizing this imperative, and in alignment with the ongoing festivities celebrating a decade of our network's existence, I am excited to announce the creation of the Graffiti and Street Art (GSA) journal.

GSA journal is envisioned as a strategic move to provide a dedicated platform that emphasizes the intrinsic values and nuances of Graffiti and Street Art. By establishing a journal with a clear title and assembling a dedicated core editorial team that aligns seamlessly with the overarching objectives of our network, we aim to channelize our collective energies and resources to delve deeper into the subject matter. This renewed focus is anticipated to foster an unprecedented level of scholarly discourse and exploration within the realm of Graffiti and Street Art.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 1 No 2 (2023): Number two
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2023

description: Because it's crucial to ensure that the core essence of Graffiti and Street Art, which forms the very foundation of our network, remains undiluted and receives the attention it rightfully deserves. Recognizing this imperative, and in alignment with the ongoing festivities celebrating a decade of our network's existence, I am excited to announce the creation of the Graffiti and Street Art (GSA) journal.

GSA journal is envisioned as a strategic move to provide a dedicated platform that emphasizes the intrinsic values and nuances of Graffiti and Street Art. By establishing a journal with a clear title and assembling a dedicated core editorial team that aligns seamlessly with the overarching objectives of our network, we aim to channelize our collective energies and resources to delve deeper into the subject matter. This renewed focus is anticipated to foster an unprecedented level of scholarly discourse and exploration within the realm of Graffiti and Street Art.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 1 No 1 (2023): Number one
Tracks and Traces
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art
Year: 2023

description: This review examines Peter Bengtsen's Tracks and Traces, a noteworthy exploration of graffiti writing through visual methods. The book presents a compelling perspective on graffiti as a form of personal expression, delving into its intricate unique details. Bengtsen's work stands out for its exceptional publication quality, for example with pages that unfold for big sized images, providing readers with a visually rich and engaging experience.

The strength of the book lies in its well-referenced content, firmly grounded in experimental applied research. Bengtsen  builds his arguments on a solid foundation, making the publication a valuable resource for those seeking a comprehensive understanding of graffiti from the visual methods point of view. Moreover, the book introduces transferable methodological approaches that contribute to its broader relevance beyond the immediate subject matter.

A paramount hypothesis explored in the book revolves around the refined attentiveness of graffiti practitioners to the city environment. Bengtsen posits that individuals engaged in graffiti develop a heightened awareness of and connection to the urban landscape. This hypothesis adds a significant layer to the discourse on graffiti, shedding light on the symbiotic relationship between graffiti and the city.

One of the commendable aspects of Tracks and Traces is its accessibility to readers new to graffiti as a subject. Bengtsen effectively navigates the intricacies of graffiti culture, making the book approachable without compromising on depth. The inclusion of visual methods enhances comprehension, allowing readers to grasp the essence of graffiti writing even if they are unfamiliar with the topic.

In summary, Tracks and Traces by Peter Bengtsen emerges as a valuable contribution to the study of graffiti writing. Its focus on personal expression, high publication quality, rigorous research methodology, and accessible presentation makes it a recommended read for both scholars and newcomers interested in exploring the world of graffiti through a visual lens.
description: GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, Vol 1 No 1 (2023): Number one