cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Easy Access to Bright Oxygen Defects in Biocompatible Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via a Fenton-Like Reaction
Creators: name: Settele, Simon
name: Stammer, Florian
name: Lindenthal, Sebastian
name: Wald, Simon R.
name: Sebastian, Finn L.
name: Li, Han
name: Flavel, Benjamin S.
name: Zaumseil, Jana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The covalent functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with luminescent oxygen defects increases their brightness and enables their application as optical biosensors or fluorescent probes for in-vivo imaging in the second-biological window (NIR-II). However, obtaining luminescent defects with high brightness is challenging with the current functionalization methods due to a restricted window of reaction conditions or the necessity for controlled irradiation with ultraviolet light. Here we report a method for introducing luminescent oxygen defects via a Fenton-like reaction that uses benign and inexpensive chemicals without light irradiation. (6,5) SWNTs in aqueous dispersion functionalized with this method show bright $E_{11}$* emission (1105 nm) with 3.2-times higher peak intensities than the pristine $E_{11}$ emission and a reproducible photoluminescence quantum yield of 3%. The functionalization can be performed within a wide range of reaction parameters and even with unsorted nanotube raw material at high concentrations (100 mg/L), giving access to large amounts of brightly luminescent SWNTs. We further find that the introduced oxygen defects rearrange under light irradiation, which gives additional insights into the structure and dynamics of oxygen defects. Finally, the functionalization of ultra-short SWNTs with oxygen defects also enables high photoluminescence quantum yields and their excellent emission properties are retained after surfactant exchange with biocompatible pegylated phospholipids or single-stranded DNA to make them suitable for in-vivo NIR-II imaging and dopamine sensing.
title: Paper: "My (Fictitous) Commencement Address," March 2009
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Complexity
subject: Higher education
subject: Problematique
subject: Work Program of Complexity (WPOC)

description: Manuscript: typescript, 8 pgs. 8.5" x 11" (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
description: In this hypothetical commencement address, Warfield discusses what he beleives to be deficiencies of the current system of higher education. Institutions of Higher education should follow the rule "form follows function," specifically dealing with four components: the human being, the surrounding real estate, the language of action and the technology of action. John N. Warfield Digital Collection.
Enhancing Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with In-Context Learning
Creators: name: Park, Seong-Il
name: Choi, Seung-Woo
name: Kim, Na-Hyun
name: Lee, Jay-Yoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) have significantly improved performance in open-domain question answering (QA) by leveraging external knowledge. However, RALMs still struggle with unanswerable queries, where the retrieved contexts do not contain the correct answer, and with conflicting information, where different sources provide contradictory answers due to imperfect retrieval. This study introduces an in-context learning-based approach to enhance the reasoning capabilities of RALMs, making them more robust in imperfect retrieval scenarios. Our method incorporates Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) demonstrations, referred to as cases, to boost the model's capabilities to identify unanswerabilities and conflicts among the retrieved contexts. Experiments on two open-domain QA datasets show that our approach increases accuracy in identifying unanswerable and conflicting scenarios without requiring additional fine-tuning. This work demonstrates that in-context learning can effectively enhance the robustness of RALMs in open-domain QA tasks.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
From the Outskirts to the Beats: The Sonic Revolution of DJ Marfox and DJs Di Guetto
Creators: name: Mineiro, João
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Music
Beat
Identity
Sonic Agency
Afrodescendants

description: On September 18, 2006, a group of young DJs and producers from the outskirts of Lisbon releasedDJ’s do Guetto Vol. 1, a compilation of 37 tracks blending the musical legacies of kuduro, tarraxo,and funaná with global Black and Afrodiasporic sounds, primarily from house and techno.Created by DJs Marfox, Pausas, N.K., Jesse, Fofuxo, and Firmeza, the album synchronized a setof historical, cultural, and urban coordinates, synthesizing the desire to create a sound thatreflected their own experiences, imaginaries, and social worlds. This text argues that, byembracing the idea that anyone can produce music, these producers subverted the prevailing rulesof the music field, which had been based on a professional monopoly legitimized by virtuosity. Itfurther contends that this gesture expanded music’s role as a space of cultural and politicalaffirmation for young Afro-descendant and Black Portuguese generations, opening horizons ofexpectation that had been systemically constrained. Such an opening generated a musicalrepertoire that disrupted lusotropicalist narratives embedded in contemporary Portuguese culture,asserting music as a powerful medium of self-representation for the Black community in Portugal.This is a revised version of a presentation delivered at the “Second IN2PAST Field Trip” onDecember 12, 2024 — a listening session dedicated to music as an object of research. On thatoccasion, I proposed a collective listening of “Drift Furioso” by DJ Marfox, one of the tracksfeatured on DJ’s do Guetto Vol. 1, which served as the starting point for this reflection.
Pneumatosis Intestinalis in HIV and MAC co-infection
Creators: name: Foo, Sin Yee
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: AIDS

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 41 years
description: Clinical History: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patient presents with cachexia, constipation, bloating and abdominal swelling. CD4+ lymphocyte count was 12 cells/mm3 and plasma viral load was <40 copies/ml while receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy... Final Diagnosis: Chronic pneumatosis intestinalis as a feature of HIV infection.
Massive porto-mesenteric venous thrombosis in Crohn's disease
Creators: name: Tonolini, Massimo
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Portal system / Hepatic veins
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 55 years
description: Clinical History: Middle-aged woman with long-standing fistulizing and stricturing ileo-colonic Crohn's disease currently on biologic (adalimumab) therapy, hospitalized because of alternating diarrhoea and constipation, recurrent febrile episodes over a few months. Physica... Final Diagnosis: Portal and mesenteric venous thrombosis. Crohn's disease.
title: Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Losses of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish
Creators: name: Shrotri, Abhijeet
name: Preu, Sascha
name: Stübbe, Oliver
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025

description: Additive manufacturing of optical, electrical, and mechanical components is a beneficial approach for the rapid prototyping of components and error elimination, with short turnaround times. However, additively manufactured components usually have rough surfaces that need post-processing, particularly for optical components, where the surface roughness must be a small fraction of the wavelength. We demonstrate an innovative and economical approach by dip-coating with the same resin used for printing in a simple post-processing step, providing high transparency to the 3D-printed optical components and reducing surface roughness while achieving perfect index matching of the coating layer. The surface roughness of the 3D-printed optical components drops to 5 nm (arithmetic average) after the dip-coating process. We observed significant performance enhancements after comparing the unprocessed optical components and the dip-coated optical components, including optical transparency and a shiny surface finish for previously rough surfaces.
title: Milton Barnes to Rhoda Barnes, February 19-22, 1863.
Creators: name: Barnes, Milton
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Postal service
subject: Murfreesboro (Tenn.)
subject: Vallandigham, Clement L. (Clement Laird), 1820-1871

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter to Rhoda Barnes from Milton Barnes near Mufreesboro, Tennessee. It was written over a four day period and includes news of Milton's health, his pay, the Chaplain of the regiment, the mail system, soldiers and morality, thoughts on democracy and politics, cotton, and replies to Rhoda's last letters.
title: ATHENa - Automated Tool for Hardware EvaluatioN: Software Environment for Fair and Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Cryptographic Hardware using FPGAs
Creators: name: Amirineni, Venkata A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: ATHENA
subject: Performance evaluation
subject: Benchmark tool
subject: Open-source

description: Fair comparison of the hardware efficiency of cryptographic algorithms, modeled in Hardware Description Languages and implemented using FPGAs, is a complex task. The results of the comparison depend on the inherent properties of competing algorithms, as well as on selected hardware architectures, implementation techniques, FPGA families, languages and tools. The development of new cryptographic standards through contests, such as AES, eSTREAM, and SHA-3 competitions, requires fair comparison of multiple cryptographic algorithms in terms of their hardware efficiency. To address this issue and to provide a comprehensive environment for an efficient evaluation of multiple algorithms, ATHENa, Automated Tool for Hardware EvaluatioN, has been developed. ATHENa facilitates fair, comprehensive, reliable, and automated comparison of cryptographic algorithms, hardware architectures, FPGA families, as well as FPGA tools and HDL languages. In this seminar, we present the common pitfalls and difficulties involved with the fair comparisons and demonstrate the capabilities of ATHENa through several case studies.
title: MASON HerderLand: Origins of Conflict in East Africa
Creators: name: Kennedy, W.G.
name: Hailegiorgis, A.B.
name: Rouleau, M.
name: Bassett, J.K.
name: Coletti, M.
name: Balan, G.C.
name: Gulden, T.
name: Cioffi-Revilla, C.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Africa, East
subject: Agent-based model
subject: Conflict

description: One page summary of presentation.
description: HerderLand is an agent-based model of the people and environment in the Mandera Triangle area of Eastern Africa developed to address the causes of conflict in the area. With it we have conducted three sets of experiments varying the major environmental parameters we believed would affect conflict in the region.
title: LGBTQ Students, Faculty & the American Community College: Campus Climate & Student Perceptions
Creators: name: Suarez, Victoria A
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: LGBTQ
subject: Campus climate
subject: Community college
subject: Harassment

description: Judith Baker first drew national attention to the dearth of available information concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) students at Community and Junior Colleges in a 1991 landmark article, however, since that time, fewer than 20 articles have been authored on the subject. In the fall of 2014, an LGBTQ Campus Climate Survey was administered to a group of 51 students at a mid-Atlantic community college campus. Students shared their perceptions and experiences concerning LGBTQ rights and campus inclusion. The thesis examined relationships between 1) immediate family beliefs and students’ current actions and perceptions, 2) gender identity and sexual identity and the perception of inclusion, and 3) the stated prevalence of anti-LGBTQ sentiment and peer beliefs. Community college students in 2014 report a safer, more inclusive environment in which LGBTQ students and staff are visible and valued.
Evolutionary strategies for function optimization, fuzzy modeling and control
Creators: name: Wu, Baolin
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460204
subject: Fuzzy computation
classificationCode: 460203
subject: Evolutionary computation

description: Solving complex problems with evolutionary approaches has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The main advantage of such problem solving strategy is its robustness and ability to adapt to an unknown environment without explicit assumptions. The aim of this thesis is to investigate evolutionary computation techniques and their applications in addressing three different problems - global function optimization, fuzzy modeling and control. We start by introducing the pertinent necessary background of evolutionary algorithms, and this is followed by a discussion of the adaptation mechanism in evolutionary algorithms. An adaptive mutation scheme based on the gradient decent approach is then presented for non -constrained function optimization and an adaptive penalty function method is proposed for handling constraints in constrained function optimization. We will then examine the conventional fuzzy models and propose several adopted fuzzy rule based systems. The evolutionary approach for the construction and identification of fuzzy rule base is investigated and applied to the dynamic reconstruction and fuzzy gain scheduling controller design. The performances of these proposed methods are examined through the empirical studies of benchmark problems, and simulations are given to demonstrate the possibility of integrating fuzzy systems with evolutionary algorithms in nonlinear dynamic system modeling and control.The thesis concludes with discussions on the contributions made and suggestions of direction for further research.
Supplementary document for Comparing the thermal performance and endurance of resistive and PIN silicon microheaters for phase-change photonic applications - 6404956.pdf
Creators: name: Erickson, John
name: Nobile, Nicholas
name: Vaz, Daniel
name: Vinod, Gouri
name: Ocampo, Carlos Rios
name: Zhang, Yifei
name: Hu, Juejun
name: Vitale, Steven
name: Xiong, Feng
name: Youngblood, Nathan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information
L’Ibusim en confinement: Les expériences des mères indonésiennes migrantes pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 en Aotearoa Nouvelle Zélande
Creators: name: Davies, Sharyn
name: Long, Nicholas
name: Martin-Anatias, Nelly
name: Manoussios, Helena
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Cet article contribue aux conversations continues sur la genre et l'inégalité, en explorant les expériences des mères indonésiennes migrantes qui habitent en Aotearoa Nouvelle Zélande (dénommé ci-après NZ). Il explique leurs expériences pendant le premier confinement de la pandémie de COVID-19. Ce confinement a été mis en pratique par le Premier ministre de NZ, Jacinda Arden en le 25 mars 2020 jusqu'à la mi-mai 2020, durant des niveaux différents. On explore plusieurs questions: Comment les rôles des sexes dans les familles ont-ils été modifiés pendant le confinement? Quels sont les impacts sur les parents quand leurs responsabilités de la garde d’enfants ont augmenté, en particulier pendant les restrictions du niveau 4 (25 mars-27 avril) quand ils fermaient les écoles et les résidents avaient besoin de rester dans les bulles sanitaires? Par ailleurs, nous considérons que les expériences des mères indonésiennes migrantes sont comparables à et divergent des autres mères en NZ. C’est actuellement une nation renommée pour ses niveaux élevés de l'égalité de sexes et ses politiques progressives et féministes, en particulier sous la direction de Jacinda Arden qui est la mère d’un jeune enfant elle-même. Bien que nous proposions que les mères indonésiennes migrants ont accablé les responsabilités de la garde d’enfant - comme les autres mères néo-zélandaises et à l'étrangère - leurs expériences de soutenir cette nouvelle charge ont été distinguées par deux facteurs-clés. Premièrement, l’idéologie indonésienne de Ibuisme (l'idéologie du maternage) a influencé les idées des rôles dans la famille et leurs responsabilités, et, deuxièmement, le manque de compétence en anglais pour les migrants. Par conséquent, nous insistons sur la valeur et l’importance d’une analyse intersectionnelle, affirmant que la spécificité de leurs expériences comme des mères indonésiennes migrantes soutiens et, aussi, compromet leur bien-être pendant le confinement.
C.P.R. steamship engineer's notes
Creators: name: Shaw, Robert Henry
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Consists of engineering notes of J. Adamson of the C.P. R.M.S. Empress of India, C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Russia, and C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Asia, and the engineering notes of Robert Shaw, chief engineer of the first C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Japan. Also enclosed are newspaper clippings regarding the appointment of Robert Shaw as chief engineer of the first C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Japan and his retirement on April 4, 1946. Inscribed to Dr. Wallace B. Chung from R. H. Shaw, April 4, 1963 on the seventy-first page.
X-ray Polarimetry of X-ray Pulsars
Creators: name: Poutanen, Juri
name: Tsygankov, Sergey S.
name: Forsblom, Sofia V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation from X-ray pulsars (XRPs) was expected to be strongly linearly polarized owing to a large difference in their ordinary and extraordinary mode opacities. The launch of IXPE allowed us to check this prediction. IXPE observed a dozen X-ray pulsars, discovering pulse-phase dependent variation of the polarization degree (PD) and polarization angle (PA). Although the PD showed rather erratic profiles resembling flux pulse dependence, the PA in most cases showed smooth variations consistent with the rotating vector model (RVM), which can be interpreted as a combined effect of vacuum birefringence and dipole magnetic field structure at a polarization-limiting (adiabatic) radius. Application of the RVM allowed us to determine XRP geometry and to confirm the free precession of the NS in Her X-1. Deviations from RVM in two bright transients led to the discovery of an unpulsed polarized emission likely produced by scattering off the accretion disk wind.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, invited review for the Special Issue X-ray Polarization: A New Era Begins
title: Testing Calculation Engines Using Input Space Partitioning and Automation
Creators: name: Alluri, Chandra M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Calculation engines
subject: Input space partitioning [ISP]
subject: Category Partition Method [CPM]
subject: Base choice [Bc]
subject: Coverage criteria
subject: Test Automation

description: This thesis proposes a solution to test calculation engines in financial services applications such as banking, mortgage, insurance, and trading. Calculation engines form the heart of financial applications, as the results are very sensitive to the business and can cause severe damage if wrong. But controllability and observability of these calculations are low. In order to test these calculations, more robust and sophisticated methods are required. In this thesis, input space partitioning, along with automation, were applied with the help of tools. Case studies were conducted to validate the effectiveness of this approach. Finally, a framework is recommended to test the calculation engines.
title: Cytotoxic Potential of Bacillus cereus Strains ATCC 11778 and 14579 Against Human Lung Epithelial Cells Under Microaerobic Growth Conditions
Creators: name: Kilcullen, Kathleen
name: Teunis, Allison
name: Popova, Taissia G.
name: Popov, Serguei G.
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bacillus cereus
subject: Culture filtrates
subject: Cytotoxicity
subject: Lung epithelial cells
subject: Cereolysin O

description: Bacillus cereus, a food poisoning bacterium closely related to Bacillus anthracis, secretes a multitude of virulence factors including enterotoxins, hemolysins, and phospholipases. However, the majority of the in vitro experiments evaluating the cytotoxic potential of B. cereus were carried out in the conditions of aeration, and the impact of the oxygen limitation in conditions encountered by the microbe in natural environment such as gastrointestinal tract remains poorly understood. This research reports comparative analysis of ATCC strains 11778 (BC1) and 14579 (BC2) in aerobic and microaerobic (static) cultures with regard to their toxicity for human lung epithelial cells. We showed that BC1 increased its toxicity upon oxygen limitation while BC2 was highly cytotoxic in both growth conditions. The combined effect of the pore-forming, cholesterol-dependent hemolysin, cereolysin O (CLO), and metabolic product(s) such as succinate produced in microaerobic conditions provided substantial contribution to the toxicity of BC1 but not BC2 which relied mainly on other toxins. This mechanism is shared between CB1 and B. anthracis. It involves the permeabilization of the cell membrane which facilitates transport of toxic bacterial metabolites into the cell. The toxicity of BC1 was potentiated in the presence of bovine serum albumin which appeared to serve as reservoir for bacteria-derived nitric oxide participating in the downstream production of reactive oxidizing species with the properties of peroxynitrite. In agreement with this the BC1 cultures demonstrated the increased oxidation of the indicator dye Amplex Red catalyzed by peroxidase as well as the increased toxicity in the presence of externally added ascorbic acid.
title: A Spatial Analysis of Terrorist Kidnapping Incidents in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Regan, Alison
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: Afghanistan
subject: Spatial autocorrelation
subject: Kidnapping
subject: Terrorism

description: Since October 2001, United States forces have been engaged in Afghanistan. A primary objective has been to eliminate the threat of Taliban and of Al Qaeda in the country. The U.S.-backed-post-Taliban government has struggled to exercise full control over the country, particularly in the rural tribal regions. A Taliban insurgency, supported by Al Qaeda, continues in the east and south near the country’s border with Pakistan. Insurgents maintain these footholds through terror and intimidation. This thesis uses geospatial intelligence methods to identify districts of Afghanistan that featured clusters of kidnapping attacks in the period from 2005 to 2014. The information presented in this paper can be used to strategically prioritize outreach and training, and to improve critical governance structures, particularly the Afghan National Police (ANP) and supporting Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF). Improvement of the ANP and ANSDF in these locations may strengthen rule of law, the judicial process, and the public’s confidence in law enforcement. This would in turn improve overall governance and state security. This study uses data from the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database, which houses information on terrorist events around the world from 1970-2014. The database includes a total of 551 kidnapping incidents in Afghanistan from 2005-2014. Geostatistical methods, including hot-spot analysis and spatial autocorrelation, are used to identify clusters of kidnapping incidents in two year aggregate periods. Districts and regions consistently included in clusters, or identified as outliers, could be prioritized as high risk areas that could benefit from the strengthening of ANSDF structures.
title: Simple Synthetic Data as Source Domain for Transfer Learning to Remote Sensing as a Target Domain
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Transfer learning
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Synthetic data
subject: Deep neural network
subject: Explainable artificial intelligence
subject: Convolutional neural network

description: Deep Learning continues to grow as a prevalent toolset among multiple disciplines, including Remote Sensing and image analysis. Correspondingly, to more easily apply the deep neural networks to different subject matter domains, Transfer Learning, from natural image datasets, including ImageNet, has become a de-facto method for many Deep Learning applications, including Remote Sensing. However, such an approach may have limitations related to the differences on the characteristics of natural photographic image datasets and the characteristics of Remote Sensing. This study aims to determine if a fairly arbitrary, easily produced set of synthetic datasets can be iteratively developed and used for Transfer Learning for a typical Deep Learning task. We found this is readily and surprisingly feasible.
title: Towel: Mason Patriots, ca. 2005
Creators: name: University, George Mason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University
subject: Basketball

description: Towel: color, 11" x 15" (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm)
description: Yellow Mason Patriots cheering towel. (Item loaned to SC&A for digitization by Tom and Evelyn Kiley)
title: Gatekeepers of the Juvenile Justice System: Intake Officers, Decision-Making and Racial Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: Minority youth are overrepresented within the juvenile justice system at all decision points including arrests, referrals to juvenile court, diversion, adjudication, probation placement, secure detention placement, and cases transferred to adult court. Practitioners and researchers have made strides to explain and address these disparities by focusing on the processes and factors influencing decisions at each stage of the justice process. Expanding upon past research, this study used a multilevel model to analyze more than 23,000 intake records from Fairfax County, Virginia’s Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Controlling for numerous demographic and case characteristics, this dissertation explored the direct and interactive effects of the race/ethnicity of youth and the race of Juvenile Intake Officers (JIOs) on intake outcomes. The results indicated that legal factors including the seriousness of offense and the number of offenses were strong predictors of whether a youth was diverted or petitioned to court. However, race and ethnicity of the youth also mattered. Findings indicated that JIOs were less likely to divert both Black and Hispanic youth compared to White youth. Further investigation on the race/ethnicity of the JIO found that Juvenile Intake Officers of color were more likely to divert youth compared to White JIOs. Other results indicated that JIOs were more likely to divert females and younger youth, and that JIOs with more work experience diverted youth at higher rates. When I investigated the interaction effects of youths’ race/ethnicity and JIOs’ race/ethnicity, there were no significant findings. Based on focus groups with current intake officers, the study also explored additional factors that may influence JIOs’ decision to divert. The implications of the results for research and practice are discussed.
Additional file 1 of The NICU Antibiotics and Outcomes (NANO) trial: a randomized multicenter clinical trial assessing empiric antibiotics and clinical outcomes in newborn preterm infants
Creators: name: Morowitz, Michael J.
name: Katheria, Anup C.
name: Polin, Richard A.
name: Pace, Elizabeth
name: Huang, David T.
name: Chang, Chung-Chou H.
name: Yabes, Johathan G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Maternal and infant participant timeline. Description of data: NANO intervention timeline for maternal and infant participants.
title: Memorandum: Arthur D. Little, Inc., January 1962.
Creators: name: Little, Arthur D.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Arthur D. Little, Inc.
subject: Simon Enterprises, Inc.

description: Memo: Photocopy, hole-punched, 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm)
description: Planning Memorandum on Reston Report to Simon Enterprises, by Arthur D. Little, Inc. January 1962. In this section of the document, titled Potential for Industrial Development, Reston’s principal assets for attracting industry are listed, along with a chart depicting the expected change in industrial employment in Washington and Fairfax County. A discussion is included on the various types of industry planned for Reston, including the airport-oriented industries, scientific research and related manufacturing activities (operations research and computer-based activities, biological and chemical research and related manufacturing, and research in electronics, optics, and applied physics), wholesaling activities, manufacturing of food and kindred products, and the printing and publishing of periodicals. Planned Community Archives Collection, 447.01.
Additional file 2 of The NICU Antibiotics and Outcomes (NANO) trial: a randomized multicenter clinical trial assessing empiric antibiotics and clinical outcomes in newborn preterm infants
Creators: name: Morowitz, Michael J.
name: Katheria, Anup C.
name: Polin, Richard A.
name: Pace, Elizabeth
name: Huang, David T.
name: Chang, Chung-Chou H.
name: Yabes, Johathan G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
title: The Role of Dietary Copper and Zinc on Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Boggs, Katelyn
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's Disease
subject: Copper
subject: Zinc
subject: Inflammation
subject: Oxidative stress

description: The mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have long been studied, yet they remain poorly understood. Recent developments in the field of AD research established a role for trace metal homeostasis in AD pathogenesis. Additionally, inflammatory signaling pathways have been implicated in AD, and many of these pathways contain metal binding proteins. The present study will build on previous work in our lab, and focus on the role of dietary zinc and copper, as well as brain inflammation and oxidative stress, in an early onset model of AD. Previous work in our lab has found that excess dietary zinc can lead to copper deficiency and cause behavioral impairments in mice and rats. We have also found that increased dietary zinc leads to increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, and TNF-α in an AD mouse model. This study used wildtype (WT) control, and transgenic (Tg) mice expressing one copy of the human amyloid precursor protein mutation (hAPP), to examine the relationship between dietary zinc and copper on brain inflammation and oxidative stress in AD. Dietary manipulations included: copper deficient diet + lab water (Cu- animals), zinc enhanced water + copper control diet (Zn+ animals), and copper control diet + lab water (CC animals). To measure inflammation this study examined Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α), a proinflammatory cytokine thought to be a key initiator/regulator of the immune response. This study also examined levels of Superoxide Dismutase 1 (SOD-1), to gain insight into the role of oxidative stress in AD, as SOD- is delicately maintained by zinc and copper levels. All biomarkers were evaluated by Western blot.
Personal correspondence
Creators: name: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Correspondence written and received by Rev. Andrew MacDonell including one to his sister Annie Lawrence in Clandonald, Alberta, and arranged chronologically as a file perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Includes letters sent to MacDonell by Scots expressing interest in his settlement plans, letters of reference for settlement applicants, requests for information by relatives of settlers, and letters from immigrants and from friends of MacDonell in Great Britain and Canada. The file also includes some correspondence with Alberta Member of Parliament Alfred Speakman and with the Archbishop of Toronto, and a few letters regarding MacDonell's interest in Scottish genealogy.
Additional file 3 of The NICU Antibiotics and Outcomes (NANO) trial: a randomized multicenter clinical trial assessing empiric antibiotics and clinical outcomes in newborn preterm infants
Creators: name: Morowitz, Michael J.
name: Katheria, Anup C.
name: Polin, Richard A.
name: Pace, Elizabeth
name: Huang, David T.
name: Chang, Chung-Chou H.
name: Yabes, Johathan G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Mew Jug Sing], Woo Toon Fai, Lee Hee, [Song Lah], Song Poo, Chuck Kee Sun, Wong King Leong, Kwan Bong Kin, Kuran Bong Yee, Chow Yee Sun.
On some randomized algorithms and their evaluation
Creators: name: Yordzhev, Krasimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2; G.2
subject: 05B20, 65C05, 68W40

description: The paper considers implementations of some randomized algorithms in connection with obtaining a random $n^2 \times n^2$ Sudoku matrix with programming language C++. For this purpose we describes the set $Π_n$ of all $(2n) \times n$ matrices, consisting of elements of the set $\mathbb{Z}_n =\{ 1,2,\ldots ,n\}$, such that every row is a permutation. We emphasize the relationship between these matrices and the $n^2 \times n^2$ Sudoku matrices. An algorithm to obtain random $Π_n$ matrices is presented in this paper. Several auxiliary algorithms that are related to the underlying problem have been described. We evaluated all algorithms according to two criteria - probability evaluation, and time for generation of random objects and checking of belonging to a specific set. This evaluations are interesting from both theoretical and practical point of view because they are particularly useful in the analysis of computer programs.
description: 14 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1312.0192
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Jung Soon, Yip Bing Dan, Ng Bick Hoy, Lee Ting, Jang Yuen Hin, Jang Jun Bow, Jang Tai Ting, Jang See Wing, Lai Wing, Jang Sun Wah.
title: Grevillea :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Grevillea

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Soo Van Fay], Wong Soon Wue, Mah L Tap, Mah On, Soo Chun Sang, Jang Lee, Jang Kin, Loo Leong, Loo Ying, Chan Hon.
Additional file 4 of The NICU Antibiotics and Outcomes (NANO) trial: a randomized multicenter clinical trial assessing empiric antibiotics and clinical outcomes in newborn preterm infants
Creators: name: Morowitz, Michael J.
name: Katheria, Anup C.
name: Polin, Richard A.
name: Pace, Elizabeth
name: Huang, David T.
name: Chang, Chung-Chou H.
name: Yabes, Johathan G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Lum Woot], Eng Kim, Jung Chuck, Jung Yat, [Fung Wing Goung], [Miss Lynm Leong], [Miss Chan Yee Gaw], Miss.Hong Lai Hai, Lam Luon Yee.
Additional file 1 of Diverse functions associate with non-coding polymorphisms shared between humans and chimpanzees
Creators: name: Velazquez-Arcelay, Keila
name: Benton, Mary Lauren
name: Capra, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Human-chimpanzee shared polymorphisms (SPs) previously reported as candidate targets of long-term balancing selection (LTBS). Schematic showing the criteria used by Leffler et al. (2013) to identify SPs likely maintained by LTBS. Each line represents a chromosome with polymorphisms segregating in a species. A/A’ are two alleles segregating in both humans and chimpanzees at one site (i.e., an SP), and B/B’ are two alleles segregating in both species at a nearby SP site. SPs are very unlikely to appear nearby (within 4 kb) without the action of balancing selection. Within these regions, multiple functional scenarios are possible. For example, one SP may be under LTBS while the other is neutral, but maintained due to tight linkage. Alternatively, the SPs may have epistatic functions and both be under selection. Figure S2. SNPs in LD with candidate balanced shared polymorphisms (cbSPs). We consider 60 regions containing 133 cbSPs. For each of these SNPs we find variants in high LD (R2 >= 0.8). As a result, we obtain an additional 6,038 LD variants from the 1000 Genomes Project. Counts include LD SNPs and cbSPs. Figure created with www.biovenn.nl . Figure S3. Enrichment analysis of cbSP in annotated regulatory regions. cbSPs overlap more enhancers promoters, and open chromatin regions and fewer CTCF binding sites than expected compared to length- and chromosome-matched non-coding regions from the genomic background. However, these signals were not statistically significant. Enrichment was tested in the cbSP haplotype region (A) and in the LD region (B). Since variants in CTCF regions are likely to influence regulation of many genes in many tissues (e.g., compared to enhancers which are often context-specific), this suggests that individual cbSPs may be less pleiotropic than expected by chance. C) The proportion of LD variants observed in each regulatory feature type (bottom) and genome-wide (top). Figure S4. Enrichment analysis of GWAS phenotype categories. (Top) We performed an enrichment analysis on the GWAS phenotype categories (EFOs) and found significant enrichment in many of the categories. Bars colored in gray meet a significant threshold of 0.05 P-value (binomial test), and bars colored in black pass a Bonferroni correction. (Bottom) The most enriched GWAS EFO categories include blood and immune related traits, and also cognitive, smoking status, and uric acid related traits, including urate levels and gout. All the categories represent a significant enrichment under a Bonferroni correction (binomial test). However, we note that the absolute number of associations driving these enrichments are very small.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Kwock Hing Foon, Sim King Gooey, Sim Ngock Hon, Sim See Wo, Wong Pang Hing, Chin Hong Luon, Lew Shair Chew, Lew Yim On, Lew Kin, Lew Joon Shing.
title: Classification of Thermophilic and Mesophilic Proteins Using N-Grams
Creators: name: Elattar, Marwy
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Thermophilic
subject: Mesophilic
subject: N-grams
subject: Machine learning

description: The project is focused on machine learning classification of thermophilic and mesophilic proteins using N-gram based representation of protein sequences. Two datasets containing proteins from both classes were used for the analysis. Alphabet reduction was performed on all datasets, and n-gram frequencies were calculated for each sequence using the reduced alphabet. Data normalization was done by calculating n-gram likelihoods. Four different machine learning algorithms (Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees and Random Forests) were used for the protein classification. Accuracies of 100.0% were achieved using SVM, 99.3% using Random Forests, 90.3% using Naïve Bayes and 99.6 using Decision Trees.
Distorting the Top Resonance with Effective Interactions
Creators: name: Egle, Felix
name: Englert, Christoph
name: Mühlleitner, Margarete
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2025

description: Interference effects in effective field theory (EFT) analyses can significantly distort sensitivity expectations, leaving subtle yet distinct signatures in the reconstruction of final states crucial for limit setting around Standard Model predictions. Using the specific example of four-fermion operators in top-quark pair production at the LHC, we provide a detailed quantitative assessment of these resonance distortions. We explore how continuum four-fermion interactions affect the resonance shapes, creating potential tensions between the high-statistics resonance regions and rare, high momentum-transfer continuum excesses. Our findings indicate that although four-fermion interactions do modify the on-shell region comparably to continuum enhancements, current experimental strategies at the High-Luminosity LHC are unlikely to capture these subtle interference-induced distortions. Nonetheless, such effects could become critical for precision analyses at future lepton colliders, such as the FCC-ee. Our work underscores the importance of resonance-shape measurements as complementary probes in global EFT approaches, guiding robust and self-consistent experimental strategies in ongoing and future high-energy physics programmes.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Leong Yee, Chee Luong Jsan, Wong Mee Lee, Young Foon Shee, Young Bing Shim, Chin Gee Soon, Wong Gim, Wong On, Chin Gow, Mah Chong Gay.
title: Press Release: University Policy on Student Demonstrations, May 7, 1968
Creators: name: Robbins, Pat
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Student demonstrations

description: Press release: 2 pgs, typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Press release clarifiying University policy on student demonstrations. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 19.14
title: Stability Analysis and Mitigation of Thermo-Hydraulic Oscillations in Multi-Supplier District Heating Systems
Creators: name: Friedrich, Pascal
name: Kuroptev, Kirill
name: Huynh, Thanh
name: Niessen, Stefan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025

description: In fourth-generation district heating systems (DHSs), the supply temperature of modern heat sources such as heat pumps and waste heat can potentially be reduced by mixing in hot water from combustion-based producers, thereby increasing efficiency and facilitating integration into networks with unrenovated buildings. However, this approach introduces the risk of thermo-hydraulic oscillations driven by mixing dynamics, transport delays, and mass flow adjustments by consumers. These oscillations can increase wear and cost and may potentially lead to system failure. This study addresses the asymptotic stability of multi-supplier DHSs by combining theoretical analysis and practical validation. Through linearization and Laplace transformation, we derive the transfer function of a system with two suppliers. Using pole-zero analysis, we show that transport delay can cause instability. We identify a new control law, demonstrating that persisting oscillations depend on network temperatures and low thermal inertia and enabling stabilization through careful temperature selection, thorough choice of the slack supplier, or installation of buffer tanks. We validate our findings using dynamic simulations of a nonlinear delayed system in Modelica, highlighting the applicability of such systems to real-world DHSs. These results provide actionable insights for designing robust DHSs and mitigating challenges in multi-supplier configurations by relying on thoughtful system design rather than complex control strategies.