cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 074
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 074, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 074, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
The Strategy of Conquest
Creators: name: Dziubinski, M.
name: Goyal, S.
name: Minarsch, D. E. N.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017
Subjects: empire
conflict
contiguity network
resources

description: This paper develops a theoretical framework for the study of war and conquest. The analysis highlights the role of three factors - the technology of war, resources, and contiguity network - in shaping the dynamics of appropriation and the formation of empires. The world of many kingdoms is characterized by incessant fighting. After an initial phase of uncertain and gradual growth, the expansion of the winning kingdom speeds up, and it grows rapidly through contiguous expansion. The size of the empire is limited by the connectivity of the network. These dynamics are consistent with the rise of the First Chinese Empire.
Coincident Molecular Auxeticity and Negative Order Parameter in a Liquid Crystal Elastomer
Creators: name: Mistry, Devesh
name: Connell, Simon D.
name: Micklethwaite, Stuart L.
name: Morgan, Philip B.
name: Clamp, John H.
name: Gleeson, Helen F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: "Auxetic" materials have the counter-intuitive property of expanding rather than contracting perpendicular to an applied stretch, formally they have negative Poisson's Ratios (PRs).[1,2] This results in properties such as enhanced energy absorption and indentation resistance, which means that auxetics have potential for applications in areas from aerospace to biomedical industries.[3,4] Existing synthetic auxetics are all created by carefully structuring porous geometries from positive PR materials. Crucially, their geometry causes the auxeticity.[3,4] The necessary porosity weakens the material compared to the bulk and the structure must be engineered, for example, by using resource-intensive additive manufacturing processes.[1,5] A longstanding goal for researchers has been the development of a synthetic material that has intrinsic auxetic behaviour. Such "molecular auxetics" would avoid porosity-weakening and their very existence implies chemical tuneability.[1,4-9] However molecular auxeticity has never previously been proven for a synthetic material.[6,7] Here we present a synthetic molecular auxetic based on a monodomain liquid crystal elastomer (LCE). When stressed perpendicular to the alignment direction, the LCE becomes auxetic at strains greater than approximately 0.8 with a minimum PR of -0.8. The critical strain for auxeticity coincides with the occurrence of a negative liquid crystal order parameter (LCOP). We show the auxeticity agrees with theoretical predictions derived from the Warner and Terentjev theory of LCEs.[10] This demonstration of a synthetic molecular auxetic represents the origin of a new approach to producing molecular auxetics with a range of physical properties and functional behaviours. Further, it demonstrates a novel feature of LCEs and a route for realisation of the molecular auxetic technologies that have been proposed over the years.
description: 11 pages, 4 main figures, 3 supplementary figures at end of manuscript, 1 table
A Two-Step Learning Method For Detecting Landmarks on Faces From Different Domains
Creators: name: Frade, Bruna Vieira
name: Nascimento, Erickson R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The detection of fiducial points on faces has significantly been favored by the rapid progress in the field of machine learning, in particular in the convolution networks. However, the accuracy of most of the detectors strongly depends on an enormous amount of annotated data. In this work, we present a domain adaptation approach based on a two-step learning to detect fiducial points on human and animal faces. We evaluate our method on three different datasets composed of different animal faces (cats, dogs, and horses). The experiments show that our method performs better than state of the art and can use few annotated data to leverage the detection of landmarks reducing the demand for large volume of annotated data.
description: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8451026/
S-wave Kpi scattering in chiral perturbation theory with resonances
Creators: name: Jamin, Matthias
name: Oller, Jose Antonio
name: Pich, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of S-wave Kpi scattering up to 2 GeV, making use of the resonance chiral Lagrangian predictions together with a suitable unitarisation method. Our approach incorporates known theoretical constraints at low and high energies. The present experimental status, with partly conflicting data from different experiments, is discussed. Our analysis allows to resolve some experimental ambiguities, but better data are needed in order to determine the cross-section in the higher-energy range. Our best fits are used to determine the masses and widths of the relevant scalar resonances in this energy region.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures
Autonomous Dynamical System Description of de Sitter Evolution in Scalar Assisted $f(R)-ϕ$ Gravity
Creators: name: Kleidis, K.
name: Oikonomou, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we will study the cosmological dynamical system of an $f(R)$ gravity in the presence of a canonical scalar field $ϕ$ with an exponential potential, by constructing the dynamical system in a way that it is render autonomous. This feature is controlled by a single variable $m$, which when it is constant, the dynamical system is autonomous. We focus on the $m=0$ case which, as we demonstrate by using a numerical analysis approach, leads to an unstable de Sitter attractor, which occurs after $N\sim 60$ $e$-foldings. This instability can be viewed as a graceful exit from inflation, which is inherent to the dynamics of de Sitter attractors.
title: Why Millennials Attend Mainline Churches Despite National Decline—A Qualitative Research Project
Creators: name: Pattianakotta, Kimberly M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Millennial Church Participation
subject: Mainline Denominations
subject: Millennial Church Values
subject: Decline in Church Attendance
subject: Protestant Church Engagement
subject: Qualitative Church Research

description: Why do some millennials choose to attend mainline churches in the United States despite the decline in overall church attendance within this demographic? While the decline in religious participation among U.S. adults born between the years 1981 and 1996 is evident in studies from leading religious research institutes, little research delves into why some millennials choose to act differently than the social norm and engage with churches. Even less information is available about their desire to attend mainline denominations. Addressing these gaps in empirical research, this study employs a qualitative approach to explore the motivations of millennials newly attending mainline churches in the metropolitan Washington DC area. Evidence gathered through in-depth interviews reveals a predominant theme: 100 percent of the study’s participants value the opportunity to build relationships at their church. This commonality surpasses all other categories of church values, including denominational preferences, emphasizing the significance of community in the participants’ church experience. Other commonalities among the study’s participants reveal that they are demographically homogeneous and highly experienced with attending churches. The qualitative approach of this study limits its research sample, but also provides benefits. Using in-depth interviews as a research method required a non-representative sample that is not generalizable to all U.S. millennials attending mainline churches, yet open-ended questioning offered nuanced insights from the participants' storytelling about the factors that have influenced their decisions to attend their churches. The findings reveal what matters to the participants about the churches they are a part of, offering valuable information for church leaders facing the challenge of building future generations of the church amidst declining attendance.
The Economic Consequences of Brexit: Energy
Creators: name: Pollitt, M. G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017
Subjects: Brexit
Energy Policy

description: In this paper we raise a number of issues that are important for the UK to consider in the light of its decision to leave the European Union (EU). The first of these is the nature of the EU Single Market in Electricity and Gas and the UK�s role within this. The second is the nature of UK energy policy in the light of Brexit, and the opportunities for changing this. And third, we consider some of the key issues to be addressed in a negotiating position with the EU.
title: Questions in Public Administration
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: My dissertation looks at three different public administration challenges and explores the effect that bias, tradeoff of efficiency and accuracy, and unintended consequences have on decision making. The first public administration challenge is bias in administering public services. Using disability appeals at the Social Security Administration, I find that traits such as political ideology, gender, and age of administrative law judges robustly predict the outcomes of disability appeals at the Social Security Administration. To my knowledge, this is the first research to estimate partisan effects on disability decisions and the first to incorporate the third common political self-identification of Independent in an analysis of quasi-judicial decision making. Democratic judges are most lenient, Independents are least lenient; male judges are more lenient than female judges. My model predicts that a female Independent judge awards disability benefits at 10.1 percentage points less often than a male Democratic judge. The second chapter analyzes the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency in public administration. How do time constraints shape approval rates of disability appeals at Social Security Administration? The random assignment of Social Security disability cases to U.S. administrative law judges—and the requirement that they adjudicate 500 cases per year to remain in good standing—provide an opportunity to offer some answers to this important question. The quota on the number of cases an administrative law judge must adjudicate in a year robustly predicts outcomes for a small subset of administrative law judges, 6% of my sample, who appear to be time constrained. These judges are 2.1% more likely to approve appeals cases throughout the entire year and 3.7% more likely to approve appeals cases in the final month of their fiscal year. The third chapter tackles the final challenge: unintended consequences when awarding government contracts. Federal procurement has a goal of awarding 23% of all federal contract dollars to small businesses. I look at very small firms participating in the federal procurement economy and find that they differ from small firms in the regular economy in what types of industries they participate in. Additionally, small firms’ success by contract dollars obligated is strongly positively correlated with how many industries they participate in: Winning a contract in an additional 4-digit NAICS code predicts a 48% increase in contract dollars. I present evidence that participating in multiple NAICS codes is a proxy for understanding the procurement market’s regulation, processes, and networks rather than authentic diversification. This suggests that success in the procurement market for small firms has less to do with expertise in an industry and more to do with specialization in federal procurement.
title: Cohortes en santé : données ouvertes en imagerie médicale
Creators: name: cervenansky, frederic
Publisher: name: Callisto
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 2
subject: FOS: Engineering and technology

description: Ce cours examine en profondeur les cohortes en santé et l'utilisation des données d'imagerie médicale en recherche médicale. Il couvre les enjeux techniques, juridiques et éthiques de l'ouverture des données de cohortes, ainsi que les défis liés à l'évolution des librairies de programmation et de l'environnement d'exécution dans le contexte des pipelines de traitement.
Why is Europe Falling Behind? Structural Transformation and Services' Productivity Differences between Europe and the U.S.
Creators: name: Buiatti, C.
name: Duarte, J. B.
name: Saenz, L. F.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017
Subjects: Structural Transformation
Service Sector
Nonho-mothetic CES preferences
Labor Productivity

description: We explain labor productivity differences of the service sector between Europe and the U.S. through the labor allocation taking place within the service sector. We measure labor productivity using a multisector structural transformation model that decomposes services into 11 sub-sectors comparable across Europe and the U.S. We identify wholesale and retail trade as well as business services to be the two sectors responsible for most of the lack of catch-up in labor productivity between Europe and the U.S. We also investigate which institutional characteristics are associated with the different performances of sectoral productivity across sectors. We empirically explore our country-sector panel measures of labor productivity levels, and our results suggest that differences in taxation, pro-business attitudes, ICT diffusion and rates of innovation are disproportionally correlated with the productivity of wholesale, retail and business services relative to the rest of the sectors in the economy.
Non-Convex Multi-species Hopfield models
Creators: name: Agliari, Elena
name: Migliozzi, Danila
name: Tantari, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we introduce a multi-species generalization of the Hopfield model for associative memory, where neurons are divided into groups and both inter-groups and intra-groups pair-wise interactions are considered, with different intensities. Thus, this system contains two of the main ingredients of modern Deep neural network architectures: Hebbian interactions to store patterns of information and multiple layers coding different levels of correlations. The model is completely solvable in the low-load regime with a suitable generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi technique, despite the Hamiltonian can be a non-definite quadratic form of the magnetizations. The family of multi-species Hopfield model includes, as special cases, the 3-layers Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) with Gaussian hidden layer and the Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM) model.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in J. Stat. Phys
Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk-Taking
Creators: name: Ari, A.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sovereign Debt Crises
Bank Risk-Taking
Financial Constraints

description: In European countries recently hit by a sovereign debt crisis, banks have sharply raised their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, reduced credit to forms, and faced rising financing costs, raising concerns about economic and financial resilience. This paper develops a general equilibrium model with optimizing banks and depositors to account for these facts and provide a framework for policy assessment. Under-capitalized banks in default-risky countries have an incentive to gamble on domestic sovereign bonds. Unless there is perfect transparency of bank balance sheets, the optimal reaction by depositors to bank insolvency risk leaves the economy susceptible to self-fulfilling shifts in sentiments. In a bad equilibrium, sovereign risk shocks lead to a prolonged period of financial fragility and a persistent drop in output. The model is quantified using Portuguese data and generates similar dynamics to those observed in the Portuguese economy during the debt crisis. Policy interventions face a trade-off between alleviating funding constraints and strengthening incentives to gamble. Liquidity provision to banks may eliminate the good equilibrium when not targeted. Targeted interventions have the capacity to eliminate adverse equilibria.
The Three Hundred project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications
Creators: name: Cui, Weiguang
name: Knebe, Alexander
name: Yepes, Gustavo
name: Pearce, Frazer
name: Power, Chris
name: Dave, Romeel
name: Arth, Alexander
name: Borgani, Stefano
name: Dolag, Klaus
name: Elahi, Pascal
name: Mostoghiu, Robert
name: Murante, Giuseppe
name: Rasia, Elena
name: Stoppacher, Doris
name: Vega-Ferrero, Jesus
name: Wang, Yang
name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Benson, Andrew
name: Cora, Sofía A.
name: Croton, Darren J.
name: Sinha, Manodeep
name: Stevens, Adam R. H.
name: Vega-Martínez, Cristian A.
name: Arthur, Jake
name: Baldi, Anna S.
name: Cañas, Rodrigo
name: Cialone, Giammarco
name: Cunnama, Daniel
name: De Petris, Marco
name: Durando, Giacomo
name: Ettori, Stefano
name: Gottlöber, Stefan
name: Nuza, Sebastián E.
name: Old, Lyndsay J.
name: Pilipenko, Sergey
name: Sorce, Jenny G.
name: Welker, Charlotte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the THE THREE HUNDRED project, an endeavour to model 324 large galaxy clusters with full-physics hydrodynamical re-simulations. Here we present the data set and study the differences to observations for fundamental galaxy cluster properties and scaling relations. We find that the modelled galaxy clusters are generally in reasonable agreement with observations with respect to baryonic fractions and gas scaling relations at redshift z = 0. However, there are still some (model-dependent) differences, such as central galaxies being too massive, and galaxy colours (g - r) being bluer (about 0.2 dex lower at the peak position) than in observations. The agreement in gas scaling relations down to 10^{13} h^{-1} M_{\odot} between the simulations indicates that particulars of the sub-grid modelling of the baryonic physics only has a weak influence on these relations. We also include - where appropriate - a comparison to three semi-analytical galaxy formation models as applied to the same underlying dark-matter-only simulation. All simulations and derived data products are publicly available.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables. MNRAS published version
ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS FROM SPOILED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN RIVERS STATE'S FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OF OIL AND GAS
Creators: name: Nneka E. Ibe, Ibe
name: Chijioke A. Okafor, Okafor
Publisher: name: noland journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Isolation of microorganism, Tomato, Onions, Apple, Banana

description: This study was conducted to isolate and identify microorganisms from some spoiled fruits and vegetables vended within the environment of Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas Bonny Island, Rivers State. Microbial counts of the spoiled fruits and vegetables are 2.30x105 cfu/ml (tomato), 8.00x105 cfu/ml (apple), 1.70x107 cfu/ml (onion) and 1.50x109 cfu/ml (banana) for total heterotrophic bacteria count, while the fungal counts were 3.00x103 cfu/ml (apple), 4.00x103 cfu/ml (onion), 5.00x103 cfu/ml (tomato) and 7.00x103 cfu/ml (banana). The fruits and vegetables were isolated for bacteria, and Staphylococcus spp., Pseudomonas spp., Bacillus spp., Micrococcus spp., Escherichia coli and Proteus spp. Bacillus spp. were observed to be dominant. The fungal organisms observed were Fusarium spp., Aspergillus spp., Penicillium spp., Saccharomyces spp., Rhizopus spp. and Mucor spp.
Universality and scaling in human and social systems
Creators: name: Hu, Chin-Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The objective of statistical physics is to understand macroscopic behavior of a many-body system from the interactions of the constituents of that system. When many-body systems reach critical states, simple universal and scaling behaviors appear. In this talk, I first introduce the concepts of universality and scaling in critical physical systems, I then briefly review some examples of universal and scaling behaviors in human and social systems, e.g. universal crossover behavior of stock returns, universality and scaling in the statistical data of literary works, universal trend in the evolution of states or countries etc. Finally, I mention some interesting problems for further studies.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, to appear (2018)
Hard-thermal-loop Resummation of the Free Energy of a Hot Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Andersen, Jens O.
name: Braaten, Eric
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the free energy of a hot gluon plasma to leading order in hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory. Effects associated with screening, gluon quasiparticles, and Landau damping are resummed to all orders. The ultraviolet divergences generated by the hard-thermal-loop propagator corrections can be cancelled by a temperature-independent counterterm. The deviation of the hard-thermal-loop free energy from lattice QCD results for T > 2 T_c has the correct sign and roughly the correct magnitude to be accounted for by next-to-leading order corrections.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Unveiling Gender Disparities in Urban Pakistan’s Higher Education
Creators: Usman, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2025

This literature review examines persistent gender disparities in urban Pakistan’s higher education, highlighting socio-cultural, economic, and institutional barriers restricting women’s academic and professional mobility. Despite increased female enrollment, patriarchal norms, mobility constraints, financial dependence, and discriminatory structures hinder full participation in education and the workforce. Using frameworks of distributive and recognition-based justice (Hennessy, 1999; Höffe, 2013; Young & Allen, 2011) and intersectionality (Crenshaw et al., 2021; Collins, 2019), the paper explores how systemic exclusions intersect with class, gendered expectations, and policy inefficiencies.

Findings reveal although Pakistan’s National Education Policy promotes gender equity, implementation remains weak due to systemic neglect and resistance. Women employ diverse strategies—from negotiation to activism—to navigate constraints, but resilience alone cannot counter structural inequities. The review calls for targeted reforms, including policy interventions for gender equity in higher education, gender-sensitive institutional reforms, economic incentives and support mechanisms and bridging the policy-practice gap. Without dismantling entrenched barriers, higher education will remain an incomplete path to empowerment rather than a transformative force for equity and mobility.
Prognostic factors for favorable outcomes after veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in critical care patients with COVID-19
Creators: name: Kieninger, Bärbel
name: Kilger, Magdalena
name: Foltan, Maik
name: Gruber, Michael
name: Lunz, Dirk
name: Dienemann, Thomas
name: Schmid, Stephan
name: Graf, Bernhard
name: Wiest, Clemens
name: Lubnow, Matthias
name: Müller, Thomas
name: Salzberger, Bernd
name: Schneider-Brachert, Wulf
name: Kieninger, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background
Patients with COVID-19 and severe acute respiratory failure may require veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV ECMO). Yet, this procedure is resource-intensive and high mortality rates have been reported. Thus, predictors for identifying patients who will benefit from VV ECMO would be helpful.
Methods
This retrospective study included 129 patients with COVID-19 and severe acute respiratory failure, who had received VV ECMO at the University Medical Center Regensburg, Germany, between 1 March 2020 and 31 December 2021. Patient-specific factors and relevant intensive-care parameters at the time of the decision to start VV ECMO were investigated regarding their value as predictors of patient survival. In addition, the intensive-care course of the first 10 days of VV ECMO was compared between survivors and patients who had died in the intensive care unit.
Results
The most important parameters for predicting outcome were patient age and platelet count, which differed significantly between survivors and non-survivors (age: 52.6±8.1 vs. 57.4±10.1 years, p<0.001; platelet count before VV ECMO: 321.3±132.2 vs. 262.0±121.0 /nL, p = 0.006; average on day 10: 199.2±88.0 vs. 147.1±57.9 /nL, p = 0.002). A linear regression model derived from parameters collected before the start of VV ECMO only included age and platelet count. Patients were divided into two groups by using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis: group 1: 78% of patients, mortality 26%; group 2: 22% of patients, mortality 75%. A second linear regression model included average blood pH, minimum paO2, and average pump flow on day 10 of VV ECMO in addition to age and platelet count. The ROC curve resulted in two cut-off values and thus in three groups: group 1: 25% of patients, mortality 93%; group 2: 45% of patients, mortality 31%; group 3: 30% of patients, mortality 0%.
Nutritional Bioenergetics in Fishes
Creators: name: C. Judith Betsy1, Raswin Geoffery. G.K2, Ajith, J2.
Publisher: name: the fish world a monthly  magazine
Year: 2024

description: The maintenance of all living things requires energy. Animals are unable to absorb or emit solar energy. The complex chemicals that the animal eats oxidize to provide them with the energy they need. The feed has energy that isn't available until the digestive process reduces its complex molecules to simpler ones. Following absorption into the animal's body, the digested materials undergo oxidation reactions that release energy. Fish species differ significantly in their capacities for digesting their diet since they vary greatly, spanning from herbivores to carnivores. 

            The word ‘Thermodynamics’ comes from the greek words, ‘thermo’ means heat  & ‘dynamics’ means power. It is the ability to do work and the conversion of heat to other forms of energy. An open system allows both heat and matter to enter or leave the system and continuously interact with the environment. The interaction can take the form of information, energy, etc. In these regards, fish acts as an open thermodynamic system, which continuously interacts with its environment for energy, which is used for its growth, feeding, reproduction, etc.
title: Correspondence: David J. Mays and C. Harrison Mann, Jr., July 1, 1962-July 2, 1962
Creators: name: Mays, David J.
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: School prayer
subject: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government

description: Letter A: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm); Letter B: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Correspondence between David J. Mays, Chairman of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding an amendment on school prayer and how it works with or against several amendments in the Constitution. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 1.14
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0270
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0270, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0270, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Convolutional neural network based automatic plaque characterization from intracoronary optical coherence tomography images
Creators: name: He, Shenghua
name: Zheng, Jie
name: Maehara, Akiko
name: Mintz, Gary
name: Tang, Dalin
name: Anastasio, Mark
name: Li, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can provide high-resolution cross-sectional images for analyzing superficial plaques in coronary arteries. Commonly, plaque characterization using intra-coronary OCT images is performed manually by expert observers. This manual analysis is time consuming and its accuracy heavily relies on the experience of human observers. Traditional machine learning based methods, such as the least squares support vector machine and random forest methods, have been recently employed to automatically characterize plaque regions in OCT images. Several processing steps, including feature extraction, informative feature selection, and final pixel classification, are commonly used in these traditional methods. Therefore, the final classification accuracy can be jeopardized by error or inaccuracy within each of these steps. In this study, we proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) based method to automatically characterize plaques in OCT images. Unlike traditional methods, our method uses the image as a direct input and performs classification as a single-step process. The experiments on 269 OCT images showed that the average prediction accuracy of CNN-based method was 0.866, which indicated a great promise for clinical translation.
description: SPIE 2018
title: Table: Anonymous, "Projected Land Use in Title VII New Communities As Originally Planned (Acres and Percent)," Undated
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Planned communities

description: Textual: Table, typescript original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Undated table by an anonymous author entitled "Projected Land Use in Title VII New Communities As Originally Planned (Acres and Percent)." This table and its footnotes demonstrate land use in several new communities. Types of land use illustrated by this table are industrial, residential, commercial, schools, open space, roads and other. Planned Community Archives Collection, 483.13
On structure constants and fusion rules in the $SL(2,\BC)/SU(2)$ WZNW model
Creators: name: Teschner, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A closed formula for the structure constants in the SL(2,C)/SU(2) WZNW model is derived by a method previously used in Liouville theory. With the help of a reflection amplitude that follows from the structure constants one obtains a proposal for the fusion rules from canonical quantization. Taken together these pieces of information allow an unambigous definition of any genus zero n-point function.
description: 25 pages, AMSLATEX2e, discussion of canonical quantization and fusion rules clarified, a few corrections
title: Newspaper Column: Another Nixon is Precedential
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Clinton, William J. (William Jefferson), 1946-
subject: Impeachment

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: Lawyers and journalists have speculated that at some early point in the Senate trial the president’s counsel will introduce a motion to dismiss the proceedings on the grounds that, if true, the articles of impeachment adopted by the House fail to state an impeachable offense. Senators of both parties might find this a convenient means of ending an unpopular trial. If all 45 Senate Democrats vote to dismiss, only 6 Republicans need join them to prevail.
The economics of air pollution from fossil fuels
Creators: name: Newbery, D.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017
Subjects: Air pollution
particulates
fossil generation
transport
emissions trading

description: The paper sets out the economic theory for addressing externalities such as air pollution from burning fossil fuels and from road transport, and for public bads such as greenhouse gases, taking as examples the Clean Air Act, 1956, progress in reducing emissions from power stations, and recent concerns over the number of premature deaths from the rapid growth in diesel cars. That damage can be costed at 15p/litre of diesel on average. The last part discusses the efficacy of taxes, quotas or standards and the EU ETS for mitigating climate damage.
Metastability of NbN in the ordered vacancy NbO phase
Creators: name: Ethridge, E. C.
name: Erwin, S. C.
name: Pickett, W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A metastable phase of NbN with superconducting Tc=16.4 K was reported recently by Treece and collaborators. The reported structure of the thin film sample deviates from the rocksalt (B1) NbN structure with 25% ordered vacancies on each sublattice (space group Pm3m) and a lattice constant of 4.442 Angstroms. Using full potential electronic structure methods, we contrast the electronic structure with that of B1 NbN. The calculated energy, 1.00 eV/molecule higher than B1 NbN, and calculated lattice constant of 4.214 Angstroms indicate that the new phase must be something other than the ordered stoichiometric Pm3m phase.
description: REVTeX, 11 pages, 4 Postscript figures
Visual-Quality-Driven Learning for Underwater Vision Enhancement
Creators: name: Barbosa, Walysson Vital
name: Amaral, Henrique Grandinetti Barbosa
name: Rocha, Thiago Lages
name: Nascimento, Erickson Rangel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the visual quality of underwater images since in several scenarios it is not feasible to provide the ground truth of the scene radiance. In this work, we propose a CNN-based approach that does not require ground truth data since it uses a set of image quality metrics to guide the restoration learning process. The experiments showed that our method improved the visual quality of underwater images preserving their edges and also performed well considering the UCIQE metric.
description: Accepted for publication and presented in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Small Systems, Big Targets: Power Sector Reforms and Renewable Energy Development in Small Electricity Systems
Creators: name: Nepal, R.
name: Jamasb, T.
name: Sen, A.
name: Cram, L.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017
Subjects: electricity
reforms
renewables
island economies
territories

description: The dominant focus of much policy attention of late has been on the suitability of electricity market reform carried out under the 'standard' or prescriptive approach - the end point of which is market liberalization - for the integration of intermittent renewables. There is now a growing consensus around the argument that traditional energy-only electricity markets where prices are based on system marginal cost cannot function efficiently with both fossil fuels and renewables, potentially resulting in market disruptions and price volatility. Consequently, most policy discussion has focused on finding ways to successfully integrate the two through adopting advanced competitive solutions (such as the use of capacity markets in addition to energy-only markets) in larger electricity systems. This paper however argues that the effectiveness of competition is limited by the size of an electricity system - in other words, there is a minimum threshold size (and other associated characteristics such as tropical locations, lack of access, and the prevalence of remote communities of consumers) under which competition will not produce expected outcomes, and for which distinctive policy solutions are required. This paper contributes to the policy discourse by discussing the reform of small electricity systems to integrate renewable energy via the means of three case studies: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and their application to Australia's Northern Territory. The paper draws some policy lessons that can be considered for other small electricity systems in island economies and territories across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific, that are pursuing a triad of objectives including electricity sector reform, large-scale renewables development and improving energy access.
title: Street Rat
Creators: name: Hamilton, Liesel
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Memoir
subject: Grandmother
subject: Travel
subject: Family

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2028 at the earliest.
description: Street Rat immortalizes Oma’s memories, which would have disappeared forever if not recorded. Through my book, I examine how her stories have already started to disappear and change from the stories I heard as a child. Oma’s worsening dementia makes her stories more fragmented; details disappear and time becomes nonlinear. The traditional human narrative is organized by time, but time is one of the first things people struggling with dementia lose the ability to comprehend. Therefore, people with dementia often construct atypical stories that center on images or themes, rather than linear chronology. Street Rat as a whole is not linear. I relay Oma’s stories the way she told them to me, therefore allowing the details that are important to her to stand out in the prose. I braid research on dementia and memory into the memoir as well, so the reader can understand how Oma’s loss of memory is mirrored in the loss of her homeland that she experienced as a young girl.
Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights
Creators: name: Dasgupta, A.
name: Dasgupta, P.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2017

description: We review a class of adverse environmental externalities that accompany consumption and procreation. We also identify externalities that are traceable to socially embedded preferences for family size. Those preference structures can give rise to a heightened demand for children, exacerbating the environmental externalities households impose on future generations. Our analysis exposes weaknesses in basing family planning programmes entirely on individuals' reproductive rights. We use ecological data to obtain a feel for the size of global environmental externalities. We estimate the size of world population the biosphere can support at the standard of living enjoyed in the World Bank's list of high middle-income countries. Today's global population and future population projections far exceed our estimate, implying that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are in all likelihood unsustainable. We conclude that family planning has been undervalued greatly by national governments and international agencies. Our purpose is to pose questions that continue to be neglected in the development literature. We do not offer forecasts nor make policy recommendations.
title: Migration Patterns of the North American Chickadee
Creators: name: Winsor, Mary L
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Transience 20th-century American Southwest
subject: Mary L. Winsor fiction
subject: Fiction blue collar American Southwest
subject: Fiction of late 20th-century American Southwest
subject: Winsor short fiction
subject: Literary fiction set in American Southwest

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years. It will not be available until April 2025 at the earliest. Furthermore, this document is not available for on-campus access through the duration of the embargo period.
description: MIGRATION PATTERNS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CHICKADEE is a collection of stories loosely connected by place and shared characters. The first story, Skinny City, is set at the North Slope of Alaska in the mid-1970’s where Patrick McCarty has found work as a pipefitter on the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. But after a year of the physically and spiritually punishing work, Patrick cannot rationalize the purpose of the pipeline or its threat to so much that is dear to him. In the final weeks of Alaskan winter and Yvonne McCarty’s fourth pregnancy, the family departs Alaska, bound for New Mexico in an old school bus. The dangerous, transcontinental journey compels the McCarty family to decide where home is, how to get there, and at what price. The remaining stories move back and forth in time after the journey from Alaska and are told from the points of view of Maggie and Sean (two of the McCartys’ children), and Yvonne McCarty. These stories are not an attempt to re-invent the Joads (or to write the anti-Joads). But intergenerational transience resulting from ecological disaster is a backdrop and prevalent theme in the collection. Other themes, perhaps subordinate to ecological disaster and the motivations for the McCarty family’s perilous journey but nonetheless integral to the characters’ individual journeys, include gender roles and identity, cultural pressures to partner and parent in traditional ways, and animal rights. The author acknowledges gaps in this fictional history, and silence where some voices don’t yet have a say; the map of these characters’ lives is still largely uncharted. But she hopes, too, that how families stay together (or don’t) when hardship hits is at the heart of each story.
title: A NOVEL METHODOLOGY FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE AMERICAN EEL (ANGUILLA ROSTRATA) OVER LANDSCAPE SCALES
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: The American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) was the most numerous fish on the Atlantic Coast but the population has been reduced from pristine levels as a result of overfishing, dams, pollution, invasive parasites and other factors. I present a work in four sections to provide a roadmap for restoring this species and habitat. Chapter One provides the most recent literature review on the species, including an overview of the anthropogenic factors affecting the population and potential mitigation measures. Chapter Two is a study of the American Eel fisheries in Maine and South Carolina based on published data and interviews with state agencies, commercial fishers, exporters and tribal fishers. Chapter Three is a compilation of data on American Eel in the mid-Atlantic region from 1911 to 2018, with records >3.75 million individual fish and a discussion on eel demographics over time and space. Chapter Four builds upon the dataset in Chapter Three to create a map of the watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay in ArcGIS to study the effects of dams and land use on eels. Results indicate American Eel are limited by dams and barriers blocking access to habitat, as evidenced by the high numbers of eels on the lower James and York rivers but much lower numbers upstream. It is difficult to draw conclusions however because of limitations in the datasets. The database is the largest of its kind, combining several biological and ecological factors and the GIS model presents a novel method for studying watersheds and migratory ichthyofauna.
Quark jets scattering from a gluon field: from saturation to high $p_t$
Creators: name: Jalilian-Marian, Jamal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our studies of possible generalization of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory of high energy QCD to include the high $p_t$ (or equivalently large $x$) QCD dynamics as proposed in [JJM-elastic]. Here we consider scattering of a quark from both the small and large $x$ gluon degrees of freedom in a proton or nucleus target and derive the full scattering amplitude by including the interactions between the small and large $x$ gluons of the target. We thus generalize the standard eikonal approximation for parton scattering which can now be deflected by a large angle (and therefore have large $p_t$) and also lose a significant fraction of its longitudinal momentum (unlike the eikonal approximation). The corresponding production cross section can thus serve as the starting point toward derivation of a general evolution equation that would contain DGLAP evolution equation at large $Q^2$ and the JIMWLK evolution equation at small $x$. This amplitude can also be used to construct the quark Feynman propagator which is the first ingredient needed to generalize the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory of high energy QCD to include the high $p_t$ dynamics. We outline how it can be used to compute observables in the large $x$ (high $p_t$) kinematic region where the standard Color Glass Condensate formalism breaks down.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures