cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Academic Success of High School Youth in the Juvenile Legal System: Examining the Impact of School Transitions
Creators: name: Ross, Tia William James
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Trauma informed practice
subject: Juvenile delinquency
subject: Restorative Justice
subject: detention
subject: Systems thinking

description: High school students who are adjudicated in juvenile courts transition from their schools to the juvenile legal system and back to their local schools. The experience of transitioning between multiple school settings may make it difficult for students to meet high school graduation requirements. The purpose of this study was to examine how high school students in the State of Maryland who are involved in the juvenile legal system experience transitions between public schools and juvenile facilities and how these experiences impacted school completion. Theories on trauma informed practice (Harris & Fallot, 2001), restorative justice (Zehr, 2014), and systems thinking (Senge, 2006) provided the theoretical framework for this study. I used a generic qualitative methodology, rooted within the social constructionism paradigm, to focus on the experiences of youth and the impact of transitions between schools and juvenile facilities on their high school completion. Data collection included in-depth interviews with eight individuals who were previously involved in Maryland’s juvenile legal system. Data analysis resulted in the emergence of three themes: (a) trauma was pervasive, (b) home, school and community presented stress, and (c) school completion was difficult. This study affirms the need for school districts and the juvenile legal system to support youth with trauma-informed practices and restorative justice practices. By working together and taking a systems approach, learning gaps created by the interruption of education during multiple school transitions can be eradicated, enabling school completion. Absent systemic changes in local school districts, juvenile detention centers, and the juvenile legal system, these youth will continue to suffer the negative academic effects of being detained. Successful integration back into the public school system after court adjudication is critical for high school students to be academically successful. This study contributes to the literature on the experiences of youth in the juvenile legal system and provides insight into systemic changes that can be made to public schools and the juvenile legal system to counter the school-to-prison pipeline
title: Portable Sensor for One-Pot Ligation LAMP Assay to Detect miRNA Biomarkers
Creators: name: Adane, Yedidya
name: Berdia, Jason
name: Bhargava, Aayush
name: Fernandes, Catarina
name: Pallavajjala, Roshni
name: Vitievsky, Mark
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: First-Year Innovation and Research Experience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: miRNA
subject: Cancer Detection
subject: Molecular Diagnostics

description: microRNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences of non-coding RNA that play a vital role in the regulation of gene expression in cells and tumorigenesis. Previous research has identified specific miRNAs can be used as biomarkers, as patients with cancer exhibited elevated concentrations of miRNA in blood samples. Patients can have poor prognosis rates without early detection; however, current detection methods are invasive, time-consuming, and expensive. In this study, we have developed a point-of-care screening tool to detect miRNA using ligation-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (ligation-LAMP) and a 3D-printed sensor. Specifically, we designed a colorimetric ligation LAMP assay that has high sensitivity and specificity to miRNA-155, a cancer biomarker, and created a One-Pot system using Thermally Responsive Alkane Partitions (TRAPs). Furthermore, we have developed a portable sensor for the assay, with controlled heating and real-time quantification, to make the assay more accessible at the point of care. Combining the One-Pot assay with the portable sensor allows for rapid and inexpensive detection of miRNA biomarkers.
Topical Review: Greybody Factors and Quasinormal Modes for Black Holes in Various Theories -- Fingerprints of Invisibles
Creators: name: Sakallı, İzzet
name: Kanzi, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a pedagogical introduction to black holes (BHs) greybody factors (GFs) and quasinormal modes (QNMs) and share the recent developments on those subjects. In this study, our primary focus will be on the bosonic and fermionic GFs and QNMs of various BH and brane geometries and reveal the fingerprints of the invisibles with the radiation spectra to be obtained by the WKB approximation and bounding the Bogoliubov coefficients (together with the Miller-Good transformation) methods. (*Due to the notification of arXiv "The Abstract field cannot be longer than 1,920 characters", the appeared Abstract is shortened. For the full Abstract, please download the Article.)
description: Published in Turkish Journal of Physics. 69 pages. For original article, please follow the link: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/physics/issues/fiz-22-46-2/fiz-46-2-1-2203-15.pdf
Knowledge-based Approach to Moving Rural Youth Forward. Complex Evaluation Model: Guidelines for Detailed Evaluation of Youth Goals Implementation.
Creators: name: Bárta, Ondřej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Evaluation, rural areas, youth, youth policy

description: In my previous publications focusing on the European Youth Goals, two important topics were addressed: basics of youth policy evaluation and analysis of open source indicators connected to Youth Goal no.6: “Moving Rural Youth Forward”. In order to conclude this series of publications, and building on both aforementioned texts, concrete evaluation strategies are outlined in here in order to further support any actor in the youth field in their evaluative practices. Since European Youth Goal no.6 has been already used as the focus of this publication series, it is also used in here to demonstrate evaluative processes in particular linked to rural youth policies.
The derived and extension dimensions of abelian categories
Creators: name: Zheng, Junling
name: Huang, Zhaoyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18G20, 16E10, 18E10

description: For an abelian category $\mathcal{A}$, we establish the relation between its derived and extension dimensions. Then for an artin algebra $Λ$, we give the upper bounds of the extension dimension of $Λ$ in terms of the radical layer length of $Λ$ and certain relative projective (or injective) dimension of some simple $Λ$-modules, from which some new upper bounds of the derived dimension of $Λ$ are induced.
description: Journal of Algebra, 606 (2022), 243--265
title: Black Women in Leadership at American Community Colleges: Exploring Systemic Barriers and Racial Microaggressions
Creators: name: Bailey, Erica
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: black women
subject: community colleges
subject: Systemic Barriers
subject: Racial Microaggressions
subject: Impact
subject: Coping Strategies

description: ABSTRACT Black women in leadership positions at American community colleges face persistent systemic barriers and racial microaggressions that impact their professional and personal well-being. This descriptive phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of Black women in leadership positions within American community colleges by examining their encounters with systemic barriers and racial microaggressions, the impact of these experiences on their mental and physical health, and the coping strategies that they employed to navigate these challenges and advance in their careers. Data were collected through an online survey of 25 participants, in-depth interviews with 12 Black women leaders holding positions ranging from faculty to president, and the Self-Anchoring Scale activity measuring their stress levels. The results of the interviews, the primary data source, revealed five major themes related to systemic barriers within the institution: institutional culture and climate, discrimination in hiring and promotion practices, institutional response to discriminatory practices, lack of representation of Blacks in leadership, and lack of institutional support and mentorship. Participants reported experiencing three types of racial microaggressions, namely, microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations, that resulted in significant physical and psychological impacts, including increased stress levels, hypervigilance, and changes in professional behavior. Despite these challenges, the participants demonstrated remarkable resilience through various coping strategies, including spirituality, professional documentation, self-advocacy, and support networks. The study concludes with recommendations for changes within the policy and practices of the institutions that include providing and implementing support networks and mentorship programs for Black women, all of which are aimed at addressing systemic barriers and racial microaggressions. These efforts are intended to foster more inclusive and equitable leadership environments within American community colleges. This research contributes to understanding how intersectionality and the intersecting identities of race, gender, and leadership roles shape the experiences of Black women in higher education and provides practical implications for institutional awareness and, ultimately, change.
title: What brain regions are responsible for conspecific mate recognition?
Creators: name: Merlo-Coyne, Maureen
name: Parker, Coltan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Department of Cellular Biology and Moleculer Genetics
subject: BSCI
subject: Pheremones
subject: A. burtoni

description: Astatotilapia burtoni is a species of cichlid fish from East Africa. Cichlids are remarkable for having evolved into thousands of species all in the same area and yet continuously mate with their own species. Fertile females release prostaglandin F2𝛼 (PGF2𝛼) related pheromones that males need to detect in order to successfully mate (Li et al., 2024). Pheromones are important for cichlid behavior, but it is not known what brain regions in the male brain respond to female pheromones. I hypothesize that male brains will have different levels of preoptic area activation dependent on odor species. The activity marker from this experiment is strongly expressed in the POA. The males exposed to PGF2a A. Burtoni females appear to have more activation than that of the vehicle, and other species. The next step in this project is to quantify the cell number and fluorescence intensity of the POA and other regions of interest. This experiment lays the groundwork to recreate a larger trial with a bigger sample size that can determine if A. burtoni are able to detect species through pheromone signaling. This would be of large significance given the unknown mechanism through which cichlids in lake Tanganyika do conspecific mating while surrounded by thousands of fish of very similar species.
BO'LAJAK BOSHLANG'ICH SINF O'QITUVCHILARINI O'QUVCHILAR YOZMA NUTQIY KOMPETENSIYALARINI RIVOJLANTIRISH USULLARINI QO'LLASHGA TAYYORLASH
Creators: name: Abduraxmonova, Dinara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqola Bo‘lajak boshlang‘ich sinf o‘qituvchilarini o‘quvchilar yozma nutqiy kompetensiyalarini rivojlantirish usullarini qo‘llashga tayyorlashning metodik jihatlari ochib berishga qaratilgan.
UNA RELECTURA DEL MÉTODO SOCIOLÓGICO: EMILE DURKHEIM Y EL ESTUDIO CIENTÍFICO DE LAS FORMACIONES SOCIALES
Creators: name: Silvio Ordoñez, Washington
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: Durkheim plantea ocho reglas para estudiar los hechos sociales: La sociología deberá considerar a los hechos sociales como cosas.  La ciencia debe desprenderse y evitar sistemáticamente todas las nociones vulgares o prenociones, ideas preconcebidas acerca de los fenómenos que, infiltradas en ellas, toman el lugar de los hechos. No emplear estos conceptos mientras no estuviesen científicamente construidos”.    “Sólo se ha de tomar, como objeto de investigación, un grupo de fenómenos anteriormente definidos por ciertos caracteres exteriores que le son comunes y comprender en la misma investigación a cuantos respondan a esta definición”  “Sólo tenemos un medio para demostrar que un fenómeno es causa del otro, a saber, comparar los casos en que se encuentren simultáneamente presentes o ausentes, e investigar si las variaciones que presentan en estas diferentes combinaciones de circunstancias, prueban que uno depende del otro. La sociología no es, pues, el anexo de otra ciencia, sino que es, por sí misma, una ciencia distinta y autónoma. Posee su propio método y su específico objeto de estudio.
Epistemología y metodología de la investigación sociológica: reflexiones críticas de nuestras prácticas de investigación
Creators: name: Bonilla, Fabricio
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: Un problema común en la investigación es la falta de reflexión profunda sobre cómo se establecen las bases del conocimiento y los métodos de estudio, debido a que existe una tendencia recurrente a no reflexionar lo suficiente sobre la epistemología (es decir, la teoría del conocimiento) y la metodología en la investigación sociológica. Sin embargo, existen varios indicadores que sugieren que hay evidencia que podría contradecir la idea de que existe un bajo nivel de reflexión en epistemología y metodología en la sociología.
Crossover in extended Newtonian gravity emerging from thermodynamics
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
name: Ván, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (Ván, P.; Abe, S. Physica A 2022, 588, 126505), it has been discovered that a scalar field coupled to a fluid and allowed to be a thermodynamic variable in consistency with the second law of thermodynamics is only gravitational and accordingly emergence of extended Newtonian gravity has been predicted. The resulting field equation for the potential of this emergent force is nonlinear and admits the logarithmic potential as a singular solution, suggesting its relevance to the dark matter conundrum. Here, a general analysis of the nonlinear field equation is performed. It is found that the emergent force field exhibits the unsharp crossover between the 1/r and 1/r^2 forces outside the fluid, depending on a spatial scale characteristic of the present theory to be observationally tested in the context of the dark matter conundrum. Then, the action functional is constructed for the potential of the emergent field and the field energy is shown to be free from an infrared divergence. A comment is also made on the difference of the present theory from MOND (modified Newtonian dynamics).
description: 16 pages, one figure; to appear in Symmetry (open access)
Anatopynia undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Anatopynia
Anatopynia undetermined

description: Anatopynia sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Lapinskaitė 1968).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
title: Employee Engagement Among Government Employees: A Quantitative Study Exploring the Impact of Organizational and Job Factors
Creators: name: Pierre, Ann A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: employee engagement, perceived organizational support, leadership, job characteristics

description: ABSTRACT Employee engagement has been a topic of growing interest in the United States. Despite this, academic research examining employee engagement in the public sector appears to be lagging. Employee disengagement can have adverse effects on customer service, which may impact public trust in government. Therefore, understanding employee engagement in the public sector is important for building trust in government. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the impact of organizational and job factors on employee engagement among government employees in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The research question was: What is the impact of perceived organizational support, supervisory leadership behavior, and job characteristics on employee engagement among government employees working in the Washington, D.C. area, after controlling for demographic variables of age, gender, and tenure? Data collected through an online survey was analyzed using multiple linear regression. Results indicate that job characteristics of contribution and challenge were strongly associated with employee engagement. The surprising finding was that neither organizational support nor supervisor behavior had a significant impact on employee engagement. This suggests that job design of public sector jobs requires attention. Findings from this study also suggest that engagement theory may need adaptation for the context of the public sector. Supervisors should be empowered to implement human resource management (HRM) practices that build employee skills with new challenging tasks and provide opportunities for contributing in meaningful ways. Public sector leadership can play a role in improving perceptions of trust in government by attending to insights from this study on what matters most to employees in government. The results of the study indicate the need for employee recognition and effective communication that demonstrate to employees that they are valuable to the mission of the agency. This study adds to the academic literature on engagement by emphasizing the importance of job characteristics on employee engagement in the public sector that can lead to organizational effectiveness and the ability of government to serve the needs of the public.
title: Public Value of e-Government: Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Baltimore City Residents Seeking Public Benefit Entitlements
Creators: name: Bryant, LaTonya T.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025

description: ABSTRACT e-Government, as defined by the United Nations Division for Public Economics and Public Administration, involves “utilizing the internet and the world wide web for delivering government information and services to citizens” (Al-Adawi, et al., 2005, p. 1). In Baltimore City, nearly four hundred thousand (400,000) receive services from one or more DHS programs (U.S. Census, 2021). The State of Maryland’s self-serve e-Government platform, MyMDThink, plays a crucial role. The primary purpose of this research was to explore how Baltimore City Department of Social Services (BCDSS) customers perceived and experienced the MyMDThink e-Government self-service user portal. The secondary purpose of my research was to explore how the MyMDThink self-service user portal can add greater or improved value for BCDSS customers as they attempt to access public benefit entitlements. Public value theory (Moore, 1995, 2003), new public service theory (Denhardt & Denhardt, 2000), and critical theory (Deetz, 1996, 2004) provided the theoretical framework for this study. The study used a mixed methods convergent parallel design. Quantitative data were collected using a survey developed from an adapted version of Li and Shang’s (2020) e-Government scale. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews. This study highlights system fallacies and systemic barriers—both internal and external to BCDSS—that hinder MyMDThink (and the public benefit entitlement award process) service quality, transparency, efficiency, accountability, and social and service equity (Li & Shang, 2020). It proposes actionable recommendations aimed at addressing shortcomings that include enhanced MyMDThink service function and technical function qualities to improve overall user satisfaction. This research also underscores the significance of integrating user feedback and enabling co-creation, as a means for building trust and ensuring more equitable access to public benefit entitlements. If operationalized, the system will be a more supportive and legitimate tool for accessing public benefits. This study has implications for examining power imbalances within the human service system and emphasizing inclusivity, equity, and the need for more responsive e-Government systems that more proportionately benefit and address the needs of marginalized communities.
The evolving Gothic of White Wolf's Vampire games
Creators: name: Garrad, Jon
Publisher: name: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Play
subject: Interactive multimedia
subject: Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
subject: Fantasy games

description: This chapter looks at the evolving Gothic of the Vampire role playing games created by Mark Rein-Hagen et al. It offers a brief explanation of role-playing games for the uninitiated, defining their textuality in Bakhtinian terms – as chronotopes. It will lay out the relationship that role playing enjoys with the Gothic, drawing on Spooner's postmodern 'ludogothic', and Kryzwynska's sense of genre as defined by coordinates. It will then summarise of Vampire's complex design history, and offer a swift tour through Vampire's various editions, charting how the game's Gothic has evolved and, eventually, come to transcend itself over nearly thirty years.

Jon Garrad, The evolving Gothic of White Wolf's Vampire games, published in The Palgrave Handbook of the Contemporary Gothic edited by Clive Bloom, 2020, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
Procladius undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Procladius
Procladius undetermined

description: Procladius sp. Skuse, 1889
Notes
Morpho-molecular identification (GenBank ID: PQ 458159). First record for Lithuania (Grigelis 1999).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Existence of solutions to Chern-Simons-Higgs equations on graphs
Creators: name: Hou, Songbo
name: Sun, Jiamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J91, 05C22

description: Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite graph. We consider the existence of solutions to a generalized Chern-Simons-Higgs equation $$ Δu=-λe^{g(u)}\left( e^{g(u)}-1\right)^2+4π\sum\limits_{j=1}^{N}δ_{p_j} $$ on $G$, where $λ$ is a positive constant; $g(u)$ is the inverse function of $u=f(\upsilon)=1+\upsilon-e^{\upsilon}$ on $(-\infty, 0]$; $N$ is a positive integer; $p_1, p_2, \cdot\cdot\cdot, p_N$ are distinct vertices of $V$ and $δ_{p_j}$ is the Dirac delta mass at $p_j$. We prove that there is critical value $λ_c$ such that the generalized Chern-Simons-Higgs equation has a solution if and only if $λ\geq λ_c$ . We also prove the existence of solutions to the Chern-Simons-Higgs equation $$ Δu=λe^{u}(e^{u}-1)+4π\sum\limits_{j=1}^{N}δ_{p_j} $$ on $G$ when $λ$ takes the critical value $λ_c$ and this completes the results of An Huang, Yong Lin and Shing-Tung Yau (Commun. Math. Phys. 377, 613-621 (2020)).
description: 13 pages
Potthastia undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Potthastia
Potthastia undetermined

description: Potthastia sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Gasiūnas 1959).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Surface Bound States in the Continuum in Dyakonov Structures
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Samyobrata
name: Artigas, David
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface bound states in the continuum (SBICs) have been found to occur in diverse settings, but so far always at the interface of non-homogeneous media, such as discrete lattices or periodic systems. Here we show that they can also exist at the interface of homogeneous media, resulting in unique SBICs. Specifically, we found that, contrary to general belief, leaky Dyakonov states exist at the interface between materials that exhibit opposite signs of anisotropy. In addition, properly breaking the anisotropy-symmetry leads to the formation of both guided states and also SBICs embedded within the continuum. A direct implication of our finding is the possibility to create SBICs and Dyakonov states in a whole new class of materials and metamaterials.
Brillia undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Brillia
Brillia undetermined

description: Brillia sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Pliūraitė 2001 a).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
The Influence of the State and Islamic Sectarianism on the Architecture and Identity in Fatimid Egypt - case study: Mashh,ad al-Husayn
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Fayrouz Mohamed Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: This research will explore the different sectors (madhhabs) of Islam. It investigates in depth how the architecture had been aspired and\or changed due to Islamic sect. The Fatimid power had been manifested through many practices. Architecture, in particular, was massively developed. This research inspects the relationship between - Islamic madhhab as a motivation in generating new types of architecture in the Cairo. The research will study the main changes, influences and impacts of the transformation in Islamic sectarian in Egypt during the Fatimid period, and it will measure how architecture and the community identity had been influenced and changed according to the religious transformation. The research will study the combination between the socio-cultural and built environment factors that had a great impact in shaping the identity in Sunni Egypt between the 10th and the 12th century.
Pairwise Comparison Network for Remote Sensing Scene Classification
Creators: name: Yue, Zhang
name: Xiangtao, Zheng
name: Xiaoqiang, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remote sensing scene classification aims to assign a specific semantic label to a remote sensing image. Recently, convolutional neural networks have greatly improved the performance of remote sensing scene classification. However, some confused images may be easily recognized as the incorrect category, which generally degrade the performance. The differences between image pairs can be used to distinguish image categories. This paper proposed a pairwise comparison network, which contains two main steps: pairwise selection and pairwise representation. The proposed network first selects similar image pairs, and then represents the image pairs with pairwise representations. The self-representation is introduced to highlight the informative parts of each image itself, while the mutual-representation is proposed to capture the subtle differences between image pairs. Comprehensive experimental results on two challenging datasets (AID, NWPU-RESISC45) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed network. The codes are provided in https://github.com/spectralpublic/PCNet.git.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, published to GRSL
title: Advanced Characterization of Engineered Living Materials
Creators: name: Anderson, Shiv
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Engineered Living Materials
subject: Surface Expression

description: Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are biological structures composed of cells embedded in a self-produced protein matrix [Molinari et al. 2021]. Our lab pioneered de novo ELMs made of elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) displayed on the cell surface [Molinari et al. 2022]. Previous studies show that a fraction of ELPs detach from the outer membrane to be secreted into the media, contributing to the formation of macroscopic ELP-cell aggregates [Molinari et al. 2022]. Since the secretion of ELPs was not intentional, it is impossible to calculate the exact ELP-cell ratio within ELMs. However, this ratio is critical for the control of final ELM mechanical properties. To characterize the ELP-cell ratio within ELMs, I inserted a Tobacco Etch Virus protease (TEVp) cut site between the ELP and the surface anchor. This allows the ELP to be cleaved from the cell surface by adding TEVp to the media. In this way, I will quantify the protein content via immunoblotting and the cell number by measuring colony-forming units and the production of fluorescent proteins.
Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition using BERT
Creators: name: Jarrar, Mustafa
name: Khalilia, Mohammed
name: Ghanem, Sana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents Wojood, a corpus for Arabic nested Named Entity Recognition (NER). Nested entities occur when one entity mention is embedded inside another entity mention. Wojood consists of about 550K Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and dialect tokens that are manually annotated with 21 entity types including person, organization, location, event and date. More importantly, the corpus is annotated with nested entities instead of the more common flat annotations. The data contains about 75K entities and 22.5% of which are nested. The inter-annotator evaluation of the corpus demonstrated a strong agreement with Cohen's Kappa of 0.979 and an F1-score of 0.976. To validate our data, we used the corpus to train a nested NER model based on multi-task learning and AraBERT (Arabic BERT). The model achieved an overall micro F1-score of 0.884. Our corpus, the annotation guidelines, the source code and the pre-trained model are publicly available.
A short overview on low mass scalars at future lepton colliders
Creators: name: Robens, Tania
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this manuscript, I give a short summary on scenarios with new physics scalars that could be investigated at future $e^+e^-$ colliders. I concentrate on cases where at least one of the additional scalar has a mass below 125 GeV, and discuss both models where this could be realized, as well as studies which focus on such scenarios. This work is based on several overview talks I recently gave at the CEPC workshop, FCC week and ECFA future collider workshop, as well as a Snowmass White Paper.
description: 22 pages, 20 figures; largely builds on arXiv:2203.08210. Will be published in the special issue of Universe "Higgs and BSM Physics: 10th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Higgs Boson"
title: Investigating The Role of E.Coli Fumarase In Bacteriophage Replication
Creators: name: Weaver, Trinity
name: Festekjian, Shaunt
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: First-Year Innovation and Research Experience (FIRE)
subject: Host Pathogens Interactions (HPI)
subject: Bacteriophage Replication
subject: E.coli
subject: Knockout Strains
subject: TCA Cycle
subject: Fumerase

description: Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect and hijack Escherichia coli's metabolic processes to proliferate, ultimately destroying the host cell in the process. The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle (TCA Cycle) is a multi-step aerobic enzyme-catalyzed pathway that occurs in the cytoplasm of E. coli and is responsible for generating the electron-carrier molecules NADH and FADH2 which are crucial for generating ATP for the cell in future steps of cellular respiration. The E. coli genes, sdhA, fumA, fumB, fumC and mdh, encode enzymes that catalyze different reactions that are necessary for the TCA cycle. We hypothesize that the removal of these genes would negatively impact the growth rate and ATP levels of E. coli and, as a result, inhibit or slow the replication of bacteriophage. To determine the effects of the removal of these genes, enzyme assays, comparative growth curves of the knockout strains, and plaque assays of bacteriophage replication were measured and investigated. Furthermore, we quantified the knockout’s effects by collecting lysis curves as well as performing an ATP assay using bioluminescence.
La investigacion en ciencias sociales: Sugerencias prácticas sobre el proceso
Creators: name: Aules, Mabel
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: El texto aborda la importancia de la investigación en ciencias sociales, destacando la necesidad de un enfoque sistemático para generar nuevo conocimiento científico. Se menciona la definición de I+D según el Manual de Frascati, que incluye investigación básica, aplicada y desarrollo experimental. En cuanto al proceso de investigación, se identifican varios momentos: epistémico, teórico, metodológico y de comunicación. Se destaca la importancia de aceptar la incertidumbre al abordar la realidad social. El momento epistémico aborda la selección del tema, la pertinencia y relevancia de la investigación, así como la formulación del problema y los objetivos. Se enfatiza que un problema novedoso no es necesariamente inexplorado, sino que plantea y responde a una pregunta específica. El momento teórico se centra en la construcción del marco teórico, que requiere una revisión exhaustiva del conocimiento existente. En el momento metodológico, se discute la selección del método, el diseño de investigación, la elección de población o muestra, las técnicas e instrumentos, y la necesidad de proporcionar datos suficientes para evaluar la coherencia y validez del proyecto. En la sección de resultados, se destaca la importancia de precisar cómo se llevará a cabo el análisis e interpretación de los datos, incluyendo la postura epistemológica y la estrategia de comunicación para recibir retroalimentación. En resumen, el texto proporciona sugerencias prácticas sobre el proceso de investigación en ciencias sociales, desde la selección del tema hasta la estrategia de comunicación, enfatizando la importancia de la innovación y la reflexión crítica en cada etapa.
Corynoneura undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Corynoneura
Corynoneura undetermined

description: Corynoneura sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Grigelis 1999).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Supplementary document for Laser cooling a membrane-in-the-middle system close to the quantum ground state from room temperature - 6215378.pdf
Creators: name: Saarinen, Sampo
name: Kralj, Nenad
name: Langman, Eric
name: Tsaturyan, Yeghishe
name: Schliesser, Albert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: Associations between social responsiveness and brain structure in children
Creators: name: Karan, Anna
name: Blaustein, Madison
name: Collins, Mia
name: Perry, Aleyah
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: BSOS
subject: NeuroCognitive Development Lab
subject: social responsiveness
subject: hippocampus
subject: amygdala
subject: cortical thickness

description: Early childhood is critical for assessing socioemotional development, especially to identify risk of a disorder developing. Research exists showing relations between brain development and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Damage to the amygdala can result in impaired response and perception of social cues (1). Additional findings show larger amygdala and hippocampal volumes (2) and cortical thinning (3) in individuals with ASD. Behavioral studies have shown that social responsiveness as a key indicator of risk (4). However, children with differences in social behavior without ASD are understudied. This project will investigate relations between neurological variations and differences in social responsiveness in 4- to 8-year-old typically developing children. We will explore relations between amygdala volume, hippocampal volume, and cortical thickness of frontal, parietal and occipital lobes and Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) scores (3). Our study includes approximately 200 children (ages 4-8 years), with neuroimaging and questionnaire data. We measured social responsiveness using the SRS, a parent-report questionnaire (4). We measured amygdala and hippocampal volumes and cortical thickness from structural brain scans using Freesurfer. Correlations between measures will be conducted using R. We hypothesize that lower levels of social responsiveness will be associated with larger amygdala and right hippocampal volumes and decreased cortical thickness. Conducting this research will expand brain research in relation to socioemotional development in all children. (1) Skuse et al., 2003 (2) Barnea-Goraly et al., 2014 (3) Richter et al., 2015 (4) Aldridge et al., 2011
TRANZAKSIYALARNI TAQSIMLANGAN TARZDA QAYTA ISHLASH MODELLARI
Creators: name: Tojimamatov, Israil
name: Siddiqova, Gulbaxor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqola taqsimlangan tarzda tranzaksiyalarni qayta ishlash modellariga bag‘ishlangan. Unda katta hajmdagi ma’lumotlarni ishonchli va samarali tarzda qayta ishlashni ta’minlovchi tizimlarning asosiy prinsip va usullari ko‘rib chiqiladi. Maqolada sinxronizatsiya, muvofiqlik va xatoliklarni aniqlash kabi muammolar hamda ularni hal qilish yo‘llari yoritilgan. Shuningdek, ushbu texnologiyaning yirik tashkilotlar va internet-platformalardagi amaliy qo‘llanilishi misollar bilan tushuntiriladi.
Cricotopus undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Cricotopus
Cricotopus undetermined

description: Cricotopus sp.
Notes
Morpho-molecular identification (GenBank ID: PQ 458100). First record for Lithuania (Grigelis 1999).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Why Did China Implement the Educational Consolidation? What Is the Impact of Village School Consolidation on the Rural Population?
Creators: name: Sun, Lanzeng
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: China

description: From the 1950s to the 2010s, Chinese rural education went through processes of rapid growth, irrational growth, then consolidation, and neglect. In Chairman Mao’s time, the Chinese government strongly advocated for the masses to run schools, depending on collective strength to build many village-level elementary schools. However, the rapid growth of schools’ amount brought about irrational school development with low quality of teaching and learning. Since the country’s reform and opening-up, the government implemented an educational consolidation policy—an influential shift that sparked a gradual decrease in village elementary schools. From the mid-1990s onward, the state began to carry out large-scale educational layout adjustments. A large number of village elementary schools were thus consolidated and abolished, resulting in a drastic decrease in the number of elementary schools. Why did China implement the educational consolidation policy? What is the impact of village school consolidation on the rural population? My argument is that the rural school amount’s decrease has caused schooling difficulties for the rural population which is subdivided into the schooling issues of left-behind children and the issue of migrant children. This paper’s contribution is by providing model cities and possible solutions to solving rural children’s educational problems.
Eukiefferiella undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Eukiefferiella
Eukiefferiella undetermined

description: Eukiefferiella sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Pliūraitė 1999).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
The Concept of AI-Powered Decision Engines for Autonomous Marine Navigation
Creators: name: Researchscholar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Autonomous marine navigation is a rapidly growing field with significant implications for maritime safety, logistics efficiency, and environmental monitoring. Traditional navigation systems rely heavily on human operators and predefined routes, which can be inadequate in dynamic maritime environments. Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in the form of decision engines, offers the ability to process real- time data from various onboard and external sensors to support autonomous, context-aware navigation. This paper examines the foundational technologies behind AI-powered decision engines for autonomous ships, including sensor fusion, machine learning, computer vision, and path planning algorithms. It discusses applications such as collision avoidance, dynamic route optimization, and environmental hazard detection. Case studies from autonomous shipping projects and maritime technology providers illustrate practical implementations and performance benchmarks. Ethical and regulatory challenges, including liability, international maritime law, and cybersecurity, are analyzed. The paper also addresses technical issues such as real- time responsiveness, multi-agent interaction, and extreme weather adaptability. Looking forward, it explores future innovations such as digital twins, reinforcement learning-based navigators, and inter-vessel communication protocols. AI-powered decision engines are poised to revolutionize marine navigation by enhancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability in global maritime operations.
Agricultura, educación y migración: entendiendo la juventud rural en el norte de Ecuador
Creators: name: Cualchi, Dennisse
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: la educación en zonas rurales, los jóvenes tienden a la migración debido a que no hay una buena educación en la zona desarrollando la migración a la ciudad para adquirir una educación superior
title: Accessible, In-Lab Cell-Free Expression System for Biosensor Development
Creators: name: Meyer, Jonathon
name: Amankwah, Amma
name: Bansal, Navya
name: Kotoulek, Klara
name: Marin, Andrea
name: Sembria, Maricka
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Free Expression System
subject: Cell Free Protein Expression
subject: Biosensors
subject: Riboswitches
subject: First Year Innovation and Research Experience

description: Early detection of medical and environmental conditions is difficult, as external markers may develop long after cellular and molecular markers do. There is a need for point-of-care devices that can quickly and easily detect these markers in various samples. RNA-based fluorescent biosensors offer an easily customizable solution for detection and reporting. A major limiting factor in the deployment of biosensors is their reliance on living cells; cell-free protein expression (CFPE) systems can overcome this barrier. However, commercial CFPE kits are expensive, which hinders their overall use and deployability, especially in low-income settings. To address this pressing challenge, we developed our own Rosetta 2(DE3)pLysS E. coli cell-free protein expression system that can be produced at a lower cost. To evaluate its performance, we compared it to a commercially available kit with standardized fluorescent reporters. While our design underperformed commercially available lysate, it performed comparably to a lysate developed by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM). We aim to optimize our lysate and protocols to further increase performance and develop point-of-care devices for disease biomarkers of interest.
Parakiefferiella undetermined
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Parakiefferiella
Parakiefferiella undetermined

description: Parakiefferiella sp.
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Ashe and Cranston 1990).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218