cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Darkness in Sea and Sky
Creators: name: Barnes, Zachary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Creative writing
subject: Darkness in Sea and Sky
subject: Deirdre
subject: Bali
subject: Aoife
subject: Mika

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until April 2031 at the earliest.
description: In Sjomere, the last crumbling city of a far-future earth, the seer Aoife dreams of escaping her life as a slave. As the foretold day approaches, Aoife and her five-year-old son, Mika, a child born of rape, along with Kateri, a twelve-year-old concubine whom Aoife sees as her own daughter, plan a daring escape across the devastated landscape of the Arctic in search of the supposed haven of Aoife’s ancestral homeland. Far to the south, Deirdre is a dying warrior who rejects her 15-year-long exile and returns home to Sjomere only to find her adopted brother Bali—Aoife’s abuser—murdered. Her desire for vengeance and justice puts her on Aoife’s trail and eventually leads her back to the land she loathed and escaped from as a child. It is there, on a small island off now-temperate Greenland, that Aoife and Deirdre confront each other and the inextricable threads that pull them together.
title: Phazelie :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
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
Scorpion Weed
California Bluebell

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
title: Paper: "A Chronology Related to the Use of Interpretive Structural Modeling as a Means of Educational Curriculum Development, Learning Materials Development, Automation in the Knowledge Industry and Related Developments," September 30, 1982
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Hitachi
subject: Structuring Complex Systems
subject: Mitsubishi
subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Kawamura
subject: Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
subject: Exxon Foundation
subject: Mitsomuri
subject: Haruna
subject: Sato
subject: Mizoguchi
subject: Tatsuoka
subject: Kyoto
subject: Tagawa
subject: Tsukuba
subject: Inagaki

description: Manuscript: annotated typescript, 3 pgs., 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: Working paper which describes the integration of Interpretive Structural Modeling into Japanese management techniques, 1974-1982. Handwritten annotations made ca. 1986. John N. Warfield Collection 5.35
Advanced topics in Galaxy Interactive Environments
Creators: name: Rasche, Eric
name: Grüning, Björn
name: Chilton, John
name: Beek, Marius Van Den
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Slides for this training session at the 2016 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2016).

In this session you will get in-depth introduction to Interactive Environments (IE). You will learn how to setup and secure IE’s in a production Galaxy instance. Moreover, we will create an IE on-the-fly to get you started in creating your own Interactive Environments.
A prospective trial experience of exclusive early feeding therapy in infants after congenital heart disease surgical repair
Creators: name: Sahu, Manoj
name: Sarvesh Pal Singh
name: Menon, Ramesh P
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Assessing caloric supply in infants with early exclusive enteral feeding and their response after open heart surgery. This is from a  prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) of a cardiac tertiary care referral centre.

After IEC/IRB clearance, 50 consecutive infants < 6 months of age with congenital cardiac malformations who were electively operated were enrolled and 49 randomised (m:f = 43:6) into receiving  expressed milk feeds (EBM: Group A) or fortified expressed breast milk feeds (EBM HMF Simyl MCT oil; Group B) as early enteral /oral nutrition post-operatively from day 1 – 11. One baby from group A was excluded due to prolonged FI (Feed Interruption) and subsequent TPN.

Caloric need (requirement) for each infant was calculated as per EER using Diet Cal ® software @ 90 kcal/ kg/day as the target requirement. Caloric intake (supply) and fluid balance was assessed daily by dietician, along with cardiac function status assessment with 2D Echo and number of feed days were computed. The intra op and post op variables documented in a predesigned performa included cardiopulmonary bypass(CPB) and aortic cross clamp (AoXcl) times, hospital length of stay (LOS), mortality , anthropometric,  hematological and biochemical profile. The data was analysed by Stata 14.1.The daily caloric supply was prospectively matched with the  cardiovascular status (assessed by routine interval  2D Echo) and fluid balance and  restriction prospectively.

To conclude, we could achieve higher caloric delivery and better weight gain (nutrition therapy) after open heart surgical correction of congenital cardiac malformation. This became possible by prospectively starting exclusive enteral feeding with breast milk (with supplementation also) early.
title: Rhoda Barnes to Milton Barnes, May 8, 1865.
Creators: name: Barnes, Rhoda
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cambridge (Ohio)

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter to Milton Barnes from his wife Rhoda Barnes. Rhoda discusses her anticipation of Milton's return. She is not pleased with the uncertainty regarding his and other soldiers' homecomings. She continues on with news regarding neighbors and other acquaintences of theirs.
Shang shu gu wen shu zheng : ba juan [volume 07]
尚書古文疏證 : 八卷 [第七冊]
Creators: name: Yan, Ruoqu, 1636-1704
name: 閻若璩, 1636-1704
Publisher: name: [Yangzhou] : Yan Xuelin Juan xi tang
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
title: Die Droge ist der Leib des Denkens. Mova von Viktar Marcinovič
Creators: name: Woywod, Frederic
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst Slavistik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Marcinovič, Viktar Valerʹevič Mova
subject: Rezension
subject: 491.8

description: Wir schreiben das Jahr 4741 chinesischer Zeitrechnung. Minsk, eine abgelegene Stadt in der nord-westlichen Provinz des chinesisch-russischen Unionsstaates, bietet ein augenscheinlich stabiles Leben. Der Wohlstand ist gesichert, alle gehen ihrer Arbeit nach, Demonstrationen stehen nicht auf der Tagesordnung. Nur eines scheint nicht in das System des Staates zu passen – “Mova”.
description: novinkigegengelesen
title: Newsletter: Reston Land Corporation, "Reston," Fall/Winter 1981
Creators: name: Reston Land Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: newsletter, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Newsletter produced by the Reston Land Corporation entitled "Reston" from Fall/Winter 1981. This newsletter discusses current events in Reston, Virginia. Topics discussed include the 1981 Grand Tour of Reston, the Springfield Bypass, known now as Fairfax County Parkway, and businesses located in Reston. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm04.09
title: A DEVELOPMENTAL LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN TREATMENT-SEEKING SAMPLES
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Child maltreatment is a serious problem in the United States. The vast majority of the perpetrators of maltreatment for young children (ages 2-6) are parents/caregivers. If left untreated, early childhood maltreatment is a strong predictor of later maltreatment exposure throughout childhood and into adolescence (i.e., chronic trauma). Moreover, youth who experience chronic trauma are at heightened risk for an array of negative outcomes, including developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Kilpatrick et al., 2003). Thus, it is critical to study maltreatment exposure and related symptoms across the developmental spectrum. The proposed papers will examine unique risk and protective factors among treatment seeking samples of maltreatment-exposed young children and adolescents in Arkansas. Specifically, in the first paper, we will examine the associations between caregiver-reported stress and therapist-observed positive and negative caregiving behaviors in a treatment-seeking sample of young children and their caregiver. We will also examine whether child- and caregiver-factors associated with the trauma impact the nature of these associations. In the second paper, we will examine the link between lifetime and current trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in a treatment-seeking sample of children presenting to child advocacy centers across Arkansas. First, we examine caregiver-child concordance of trauma exposures and PTSS; next, we explore how social factors enhance or attenuate the relation between trauma exposure and PTSS. Research with these vulnerable populations is sorely needed and holds the potential to inform and enhance clinical practice with these at-risk children and youth.
Shang shu gu wen shu zheng : ba juan [volume 06]
尚書古文疏證 : 八卷 [第六冊]
Creators: name: Yan, Ruoqu, 1636-1704
name: 閻若璩, 1636-1704
Publisher: name: [Yangzhou] : Yan Xuelin Juan xi tang
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Supplementary document for The polarization-dependent reconfigurable light field manipulation by liquid-immersion metasurface - 6288149.pdf
Creators: name: he, ke
name: tang, tingting
name: Bi, Lei
name: Liang, Xiao
name: Li, Jie
name: Li, Chaoyang
name: Qin, Jun
name: Kang, Tongtong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: Bolth: Essays and Miscellany
Creators: name: François, Kyle
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Iowa
subject: Chicago
subject: Postmodernism
subject: Narrative
subject: Essay
subject: Rural

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2029 at the earliest.
description: This thesis is a collection of personal essays centered around the Midwest. The essays circle both rural and cityscapes, while moving through the point of view of a narrator obsessed with postmodernity and all of its horrors. The essays vary in length and form, some hardly appearing to be “essays” at all. The thesis questions the nature of narrative structure and pushes against notions of “total structure” and meaning making.
title: Improving Recommender Engines by Integrating Spatial Statistics
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: The web has become a significant medium for business transactions and e-commerce. With such a vast quantity of options for users to choose and buy, recommender engines have been created to analyze patterns of user interests in products. These engines help to tailor recommendations that users are likely to enjoy buying based on their previous purchases or explicit feedback on their likes and dislikes. There are numerous algorithms to build recommender engines but the one that became most popular was Simon Funk's Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for the Netflix Challenge. He demonstrated that matrix factorization models are superior to classic nearest-neighbor collaborative filtering techniques for producing product recommendations [3]. The main scope of this dissertation is to develop effective and efficient techniques that improve upon Simon Funk's SVD by thoughtfully integrating spatial statistics in such a way that will significantly improve the prediction error. Based on the type of data (whether it may be more spatially autocorrelated or latent), the method to blend both algorithms together can be quite different. The contribution of this dissertation is focused on building unique models that integrate SVD and kriging in different ways based on the type of data given to understand when to use them and why.
title: Rhoda Barnes to Milton Barnes, July 6-7, 1864.
Creators: name: Barnes, Rhoda
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cambridge (Ohio)
subject: War wounds

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter to Milton Barnes from his wife Rhoda Barnes in Cambridge, Ohio. Rhoda recounts her fear at hearing Milton to be severly wounded and later her relief to receive a letter from his hand reassuring her that he is not wounded very badly.
The transgender umbrella: reigning thoughts on self identity and collective community identification
Creators: name: Forrest-Stuart, Jo
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 0

description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2016
description: This research investigated responses of gender minority individuals regarding the ways in which they discussed self-labeled identities in the context of evaluating the Transgender Umbrella. Participants included 568 adults who self-identified as transmasculine, transfeminine, gender variant, or agender. Participants completed an online questionnaire and provided both quantitative and qualitative information regarding their individual endorsements of umbrella-style labeling as well as the influence of their individual queer community involvement (advocacy/politics, social organizations, queer friends, queercentered events). Using thematic analysis, three themes were identified related to the rejection of collective group labeling, and four for its critiques. Themes for rejection were the impossibility of capturing all trans identities, the lack of necessity for categorical labels, and the distinct need to maintain separate identities. Themes for the critiques were problems with trans terminology, problems with “umbrella” labels, agency & subjective experiences, and alternative labeling options. Discussion focuses on the emergence of these themes and considerations for collective group labeling considerations to better capture gender identity experiences.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/48667
title: Identification Of PSGLl-1 And The SHREK Family Of Proteins As Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Host Factors
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: PSGL-1 (P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1) is a dimeric, mucin-like glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 120 kDa and functions as a ligand for P-, E-, and L-selectins. PSGL-1 is predominantly expressed on the surface of myeloid cells and lymphoid cells and is up-regulated during inflammation to mediate leukocyte tethering and rolling on the endothelium's surface for migration into inflamed tissues. Previous work has reported that PSGL-1 expression restricts HIV-1 infectivity. However, the mechanism by which PSGL-1 inactivates HIV-1 infectivity remained elusive. Here, we demonstrated that PSGL-1 inhibits HIV-1 particle infectivity by incorporating into assembling virion particles and subsequently preventing virus particle binding to target cells through steric hindrance. The anti-HIV effect of PSGL-1 occurred irrespectively of receptor usage; particles bearing either the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein, the vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G) glycoprotein, or completely lacking viral glycoproteins were all impaired in their ability to bind target cells. Mutational mapping revealed that the extracellular domain of PSGL-1 is required for its anti–HIV-1 activity, while the cytoplasmic domain slightly contributed to virus inhibition. Additionally, we found that PSGL-1 inhibits the infectivity of other enveloped viruses including murine leukemia virus and influenza A virus, indicating that PSGL-1 is a host factor with broad-spectrum antiviral activity. We also tested a panel of mucins and mucin-like molecules that share structural features with PSGL-1(CD43, TIM-1, CD34, PODXL1, PODXL2, CD164, MUC1, MUC4, and TMEM123). We found these proteins also inactivated HIV-1 infectivity. We demonstrated that, like PSGL-1, these mucin domain-containing proteins block HIV-1 infectivity by inhibiting virus particle attachment to target cells. Based on their shared structural characteristics and antiviral activity, we have named these proteins the Surface-Hinged, Rigidly Extended Killer (SHREK) family of virion inactivators. Besides inhibiting HIV-1, the proteins tested blocked infection by the influenza A virus and a subset of them inhibited the infectivity of a hybrid alphavirus-SARS-CoV-2 (HaCoV2) pseudovirus, demonstrating that SHREK proteins are broad-spectrum host antiviral factors. Collectively, these results suggest that SHREK proteins may be a part of host innate immunity against enveloped viruses.
title: Newspaper Column: Will We Tax Ourselves to Fight Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: Reston Times
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Northern Virginia
subject: Taxes
subject: Pollution
subject: Traffic
subject: Saslaw, Richard
subject: Howell, Janet
subject: General Assembly (VA)
subject: Virginia State Senate
subject: Gilmore, James S. (James Stuart), 1949-

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: I’ve always respected State Senator Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and our own State Senator Janet Howell (D-Reston), both of whom serve on the Senate Finance Committee. They were right to insist that Northern Virginia needs far more funding for education and transportation than state and county budgets are likely to provide. They were right to support a referendum in Northern Virginia on an increase in sales tax revenues dedicated to education and transportation improvements. They were wrong in two past years to reject a referendum limited to funding of only transportation improvements. This year they were right at last to accept such a referendum.
Supplementary document for Plug-and-Play algorithm for imaging through scattering media - 6288232.pdf
Creators: name: Ma, Kai
name: Wang, Xia
name: He, Si
name: Li, Linhao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1. The preprocessing procedure of PnPGAP-FPR 2. The optical memory effect (OME) range 3. Intermediate results of PnPGAP-FPR 4. Reconstruction results in real laboratory environment
title: Remembering the Moonwalk
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007

description: On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 pm (EDT), Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. Around the world, people stayed up late, woke up early, and stopped their work to watch their televisions or listen to their radios to witness this riveting milestone in the history of science and technology. Now, emblazoned in the popular consciousness, are Armstrong’s words: “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” As part of the Echo Project, this website was intended to collect and preserve the public memory of the 1969 moon walk. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/mars/moonwalk.
Characterization of Physical, Thermal and Spectroscopic Properties of Biofield Energy Treated p-Phenylenediamine and p-Toluidine
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Aromatic amines and their derivatives are widely used in the production of dyes, cosmetics, medicines and polymers. However, they pose a threat to the environment due to their hazardous wastes as well as their carcinogenic properties. The objective of the study was to use an alternate strategy i.e. biofield energy treatment and analyse its impact on physicochemical properties of aromatic amine derivatives viz. p-phenylenediamine (PPD) and p-toluidine. For this study, both the samples were taken and divided into two parts. One part was considered as control and another part was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment. After treatment, both samples were analysed for their physical, thermal and spectral properties as compared to their respective control samples. The analysis was done by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyser, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. The XRD studies and surface area analysis of PPD sample revealed that the crystallite size and surface area of the treated sample was increased by 11.12% and 8.49%, respectively as compared to the control sample. In case of p-toluidine, the crystallite size and surface area of treated sample were decreased by 4.8% and 8.43%, respectively as compared to control. The treated PPD sample also showed an alteration in thermal degradation properties as it exhibited two-steps thermal decomposition as compared to single step decomposition in the control sample. In case of p-toluidine, the treated sample showed decreased onset temperature of degradation (112°C→100°C) and Tmax (temperature at which maximum weight loss occur) (136°C→125°C) as compared to control sample. Moreover, the FT-IR analysis revealed that C-C aromatic stretching peak in treated PPD sample was shifted to the lower frequency (1456→1444 cm-1) as compared to the control sample. Besides, in p-toluidine, the treated sample showed the alteration in frequencies of C-N-H bending, C-H bending, C-H stretching, and C-C aromatic stretching and bending peaks as compared to the control sample. However, no alteration was found in UV-Vis spectroscopic analysis of treated PPD and p-toluidine samples as compared to their respective control samples. These findings suggest that the biofield treatment significantly altered the physical, thermal and IR spectroscopic properties of PPD and p-toluidine samples.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 47 – Publishers Bleakly
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: On this podcast we’re delighted to introduce another two “irregulars,” Jennifer Howard, a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Josh Greenberg, the director of digital strategy and scholarship at the New York Public Library. Jennifer and Josh give us terrific insights into the challenges that digitization and open access are posing to libraries [...]
Shang shu gu wen shu zheng : ba juan [volume 02]
尚書古文疏證 : 八卷 [第二冊]
Creators: name: Yan, Ruoqu, 1636-1704
name: 閻若璩, 1636-1704
Publisher: name: [Yangzhou] : Yan Xuelin Juan xi tang
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Guo shi li dai ming xian lie nü chuan [volume 02]
郭氏名賢列女傳 [第二冊]
Creators: name: Ma, Xindao, Active 1868
name: 馬信道, 活躍於1868
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: On double leaves, oriental style.
Preface dated 1868.
Edition: [Shou chao ben]
title: Presentation: "Prose-Graphics Ouline of a Science of Complexity," 1999
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Science of Complexity
subject: Seven Milestones in the History of Thought
subject: Problematique
subject: Work Program of Complexity (WPOC)
subject: Domain of Complexity Science (DOCS)
subject: Schopenhauer, Arthur
subject: Complexity

description: Photostatic copies derived from overhead transparencies: typescript with tables and figures. 11 pgs. 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: Included in this presentation are: Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, a type-2 problematique for "Problem-Solving" groups, and a discussion of the four areas of the Domain of Complexity Science and their principal components. These condensed patters were intended to serve as a basis for a book on the Science of Complexity. John N. Warfield Collection 39.2
Supplementary document for Deep learning enables broadband full-Stokes polarimeter with portable fiber optical spectrometer - 6288258.pdf
Creators: name: Xian, Shilin
name: Yang, Xiu
name: Zhou, Jie
name: Gao, fuhua
name: Hou, Yidong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Light intensity data, theoretical calculation and derivation of Stokes parameters
title: Warriors in the Academy: Veterans Transition from the Military to Higher Education
Creators: name: Anderson, Julia
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Qualitative study
subject: Military
subject: Student-veterans
subject: Higher education
subject: Transition

description: Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are enrolling in higher education at a rapidly increasing pace. Though there is a growing body of research about this newest generation of student-veterans, what is lacking is an exploration of veteran’s social and institutional biography and the qualities of higher education institutions that most impact their transition experience. To address these questions, I conducted a qualitative study about the experiences of military veterans as they transitioned to higher education, observing a student-veteran organization and conducting semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 22 veterans attending a large public university. The research revealed two aspects of their biography that posed challenges when they first arrived on the college campus—social class and military service. Many veterans suffer the “hidden injuries” of coming from a working-class background—an aspect of their transition that has been under-examined. While the military is credited with being an unusually class-leveling institution, time during service does nothing to diminish many of the class effects that make higher education challenging for those who were from poor or working-class homes, therefore social class reemerges as an influential factor in the transition. The military has transformed them in some ways that are particularly misaligned with the university, contributing to what many of them experience as culture shock. Adjustment to life post-“total institution” with the nebulous identity of “veteran” compounded the difficulty of reintegration. My research suggests that veterans in transition seem to experience the university as primarily what it is not. As campuses develop and evaluate initiatives to meet the needs of student-veterans, some best practices have emerged. Two of the recommendations most often mentioned are mentorship programs and university-supported student-veteran organizations; what veterans gain through those organizations and interactions is a sense of belonging. This research offers an important contribution for those committed to assisting student-veterans and offers five concrete suggestions: identify the veterans on campus; facilitate programs that enhance sense of belonging; sensitize faculty; centralize resources; and maintain ongoing dialogue with the student-veteran population.
title: KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN DATA COLLECTION USING LINE OF SIGHT EVIDENTIAL REASONING
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Data has been defined as low level individual observations and measurements. Related pieces of data can be organized to produce information. Information can be analyzed, understood, and explained to produce knowledge. The data leads us to knowledge. But can knowledge lead us to data? Is it possible to let the knowledge we desire drive the data we collect? This research presents a method to do just that. In this thesis I show how a simplified and abstracted Line of Sight Evidential Reasoning Analysis methodology can be used to drive evidence collection in three problem areas: verification and validation of modeling and simulation; sensor management; and information management. Line of Sight is defined as the ability to make a probabilistic inference about how collecting (or not collecting) a piece of evidence will influence our belief about a matter of interest. This is accomplished by building an evidence based Bayesian network which captures our belief about the matter of interest. A model has force if it is able to inform and positively influence decision makers. To a large extent, the force a model has on a decision maker is determined by the confidence the decision maker has in the model. Ideally that confidence relates to the quality of the verification and validation it has undergone. However, all verification and validation efforts are necessarily constrained by time and resources. This gives rise to the question ‘How can I best allocate limited verification and validation resources to increase the force a model has on a decision maker?’ This research presents a new quantitative method to rank verification activities based on how much force each will have on the decisions maker. A navy ship in a high threat area would ideally like to have perfect knowledge about its surrounds. This is called situational awareness. In practice perfect situational awareness is not possible; one reason for this is there are not enough sensor resources. This research shows how abstracted Line of Sight Evidential Reasoning analysis can be used to rank sensor tasking based on how much impact each tasking has on situational awareness. The internet of things brought an unprecedented number and variety of devices into a single network. This ubiquity presents opportunities and challenges for many types of systems including control systems. In the real world there may be bandwidth and reliability constraints which limit how much information can be transmitted. Given such limitations, this research demonstrates how abstracted Line of Sight Evidential Reasoning Analysis can be used to determine what information should be transmitted and from which source it should be obtained.
Supplementary document for Modulating afterglow time of Mn2+ doped double perovskites by size tuning and its applications in dynamic information display - 6288358.pdf
Creators: name: wang, peng
name: Wang, Ying
name: Guan, Wei
name: Dong, Hongzhou
name: Sui, Lina
name: Gan, Zhixing
name: Dong, Lifeng
name: Yu, Liyan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: PDF document with expanded descriptions and results
Supplementary document for Axial Profiling of Interferometric Scattering Enables an Accurate Determination of Nanoparticle Size - 6288691.pdf
Creators: name: zambochova, katerina
name: lee, il-buem
name: Park, Jin-Sung
name: Hong, Seok-Cheol
name: Cho, Minhaeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: experimental setup diagram, theory, analysis scheme, supporting data for Fig.3,4,5
title: Self-Understanding, Confidence, and Career Decision-Making In Traditional-Age College Students
Creators: name: Thornton, Marrisa
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Career decision-making
subject: Self-understanding
subject: Career confidence
subject: Career education course

description: This study examined undeclared undergraduate students’ understanding of themselves, how that understanding affected their confidence in career decision-making, and whether a career education course had any impact on those factors in the career decision-making process. Individual student experiences and the theoretical foundation in social constructionist theory, social cognitive career theory, and Super and Gottfredson’s career theories provided findings that illustrated a relationship between self-understanding and confidence in undergraduate students’ career decision-making. Those findings were closely related to the presence of career education, personal and societal influences, and the timing in which a student has received enough experience to make an accurate career decision. The subjective experiences provided by the students resulted in the expansion of the first phase of the career development model. This expansion illustrated the way in which innate and external factors influence students’ success within the first phase of the career development process and led to the proposal of potential expansions within other phases in the career development model.
title: The Participatory Process: Producing Photoliterature
Creators: name: Cain, Bonnie J.
name: Comings, John P.
Publisher: name: Center for International Education
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Photoliterature; fotonnovela; participatory materials development; dialogue

description: The Center for International Education (CIE) is a training, research and service program within the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts. Formed in 1968, CIE offers graduate level professional training and research opportunities in the areas of international development education, nonformal education and global education. The Center Maintains its own publications department printing works of CIE members. All CIE publications are available at cost to organizations and individuals with an interest in international education and development. Publications from the Center are intended to provide valuable information for field-based projects and their personnel, as well as explore specific issues in the field of development education, research and training.
description: This note describes a step-by-step process for involving learners in the development, production and evaluation of various types of photoliterature including fotonovellas. Technical information on photographic techniques is presented to assist educators in the participatory process. In this manual, we have given suggestions on how to combine participation and the development of photo-literature. First, we consider the rationales for learner-produced materials. In the second section we discuss the participatory process and focus on the relationship of the facilitator (probably you) to the participants and how the facilitator can enhance or inhibit the process. The third section is designed to answer the technical questions a facilitator may have regarding how to put a fotonovela together. The technical aspects are about the same for all types of photo-literature. Participation is difficult to discuss and understand in a vacuum, and, therefore, we have integrated "participatory process boxes" throughout the technical section to give specific suggestions on how to increase participation in the context of specific technical problems. In the fourth section we discuss some considerations in summative evaluation, following in the last section with an examination of some of the "pros" and "cons" of various photo-literature formats.
Guo shi li dai ming xian lie nü chuan [volume 03]
郭氏名賢列女傳 [第三冊]
Creators: name: Ma, Xindao, Active 1868
name: 馬信道, 活躍於1868
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: On double leaves, oriental style.
Preface dated 1868.
Edition: [Shou chao ben]
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 39 – Upgrade in the Downturn?
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: The Digital Campus crew finally tackle the Great Recession: the significance of the financial meltdown on universities, libraries, and museums. What will change and what will stay the same? Are there technologies that can help us in our time of need? We also talk more about e-books, campus iPhone apps, and lecture podcasts. Links mentioned [...]
Supplementary document for Silicon MMI-based power splitter for multi-band operation at 1.55 and 2 μm wavebands - 6288695.pdf
Creators: name: Yi, Qiyuan
name: Cheng, Guanglian
name: Yan, Zhiwei
name: Li, qiyuan
name: Xu, Fanglu
name: Zou, Yongchao
name: Li, Ting
name: Sun, Yuhan
name: Zou, Yi
name: yu, yu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document 1
title: Magazine: The Reston Letter, Season of Success Issue, January 1967
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Reston Letter
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Magazine, staple holes in original, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: January 1964 (Volume 4, Number 2) edition of The Reston Letter. This edition, entitled the "Seasons of Success Issue," contains short articles with pictures on the development of Reston in industrial, residential, business, and cultural arenas. Awards and national recognition received by those associated with community and development of Reston were mentioned as well, including the movement of the U.S. Geological Survey to Reston, transcription of a telegraph from President Lyndon Johnson, the award of "Top Performer of 1966" given to Robert Simon, Jr. Planned Community Archives Collection, 457.01
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 16 – Steal This E-Book
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: Amazon.com‘s release of its new e-book reader the Kindle has set off a frenzy of speculation about the future of books, reading, and publishing. The Digital Campus team debates the promise and problems of the Kindle and e-book readers in general. In the news roundup we express outrage at a possible new U.S. bill that [...]
Supplementary document for Diode-pumped visible lasing in femtosecond-laser-written Pr:LiLuF₄ waveguide - 6288917.pdf
Creators: name: Baiocco, Davide
name: Lopez-Quintas, Ignacio
name: de Aldana, Javier Vazquez
name: Tonelli, Mauro
name: Tredicucci, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary experimental documentation
title: Evolutionary computation and structural design: A survey of the state of the art
Creators: name: Kicinger, Rafal P.
name: Arciszewski, Tomasz
name: De Jong, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2005

description: Evolutionary computation is emerging as a new engineering computational paradigm, which may significantly change the present structural design practice. For this reason, an extensive study of evolutionary computation in the context of structural design has been conducted in the Information Technology and Engineering School at George Mason University and its results are reported here. First, a general introduction to evolutionary computation is presented and recent developments in this field are briefly described. Next, the field of evolutionary design is introduced and its relevance to structural design is explained. Further, the issue of creativity/novelty is discussed and possible ways of achieving it during a structural design process are suggested. Current research progress in building engineering systems' representations, one of the key issues in evolutionary design, is subsequently discussed. Next, recent developments in constraint-handling methods in evolutionary optimization are reported. Further, the rapidly growing field of evolutionary multiobjective optimization is presented and briefly described. An emerging subfield of coevolutionary design is subsequently introduced and its current advancements reported. Next, a comprehensive review of the applications of evolutionary computation in structural design is provided and chronologically classified. Finally, a summary of the current research status and a discussion on the most promising paths of future research are also presented.
Guo shi li dai ming xian lie nü chuan [volume 01]
郭氏名賢列女傳 [第一冊]
Creators: name: Ma, Xindao, Active 1868
name: 馬信道, 活躍於1868
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: On double leaves, oriental style.
Preface dated 1868.
Edition: [Shou chao ben]
title: Mobile Unrest: Assessing the Impact of Mobile ICTs on The Egyptian Social Movement of 2011
Creators: name: Turner, Caitlin
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Communication Technology
subject: Social Media
subject: Social Movement(s)
subject: Egyptian Revolution
subject: Conflict Resolution
subject: Communications

description: In an ever-evolving technological landscape, conflict analysis and resolution (CAR) practitioners are faced with the unique task of working in a rapidly changing landscape that is susceptible to the reliance on and impact of global information communication technologies (ICTs). Within the last few years, mobile ICTs such as Facebook, Twitter and SMS have played a prominent role in social movement activities; providing CAR practitioners with an opportunity to study and to research how collective action is shaped by the purposeful use of mobile ICTs. This Masters thesis seeks to better understand the relationship and interplay between mobile ICT use and social movements by asking: how does the use of mobile ICTs impact the behaviour of social movement participants? With a focus on social movement activity in Egypt, this research seeks to understand if and how the use of mobile ICTs has impacted the scale, pace and pattern of the behaviour of participants engaged in social resistance. Informed through an extensive literature review and an interview based quantitative analysis, this research seeks to create a base of understanding that can be built upon through additional research and analysis. Mobile communication and ICT use is a pervasive means of communication throughout the world; its impact on conflict is still a touch elusive which makes this a moment ripe for analysis. The use of mobile ICTs is not a fading phenomenon, and as such, the CAR field is best served to begin understanding the power and implications of these evolving technologies and communication tools as they impact conflict and its resolution.
Supplementary document for Semi-analytical technique for the design of disordered coatings with tailored optical properties - 6289010.pdf
Creators: name: Mishra, Bhrigu Rishi
name: Varghese, Nithin
name: Sasihithlu, Karthik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary information
Investigating the neurobiology underlying alcohol hangover: a translational approach
Creators: name: Palmer, Emily
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Alcohol hangover is a common outcome of alcohol consumption leading to cognitive impairment, reduced productivity and increased accidents. Despite negatively impacting daily functioning, the biological mechanism of hangovers is not fully understood. This thesis aims to investigate the association between hangover behaviours and underlying brain pathology, focusing on the role of inflammation, using animal models as well as healthy volunteers. The effect of alcohol hangover on the cognitive performance of healthy volunteers will also be explored. Using a model in mice the hangover period (8-12 hours) was associated with reduced locomotion and increased anxiety behaviours assessed using the open-field test. These symptoms were associated with an increase in inflammatory mediators in both the brain and periphery in addition to the activation of microglial cells. After establishing the model, different alcoholic beverages designed to lack hangover effects were investigated, revealing that diminished hangover behaviours were associated with a reduced inflammatory response. The cognitive, emotional, psychomotor impairments, motivation to drink and changes in inflammatory factors (assessed in saliva) were then investigated in healthy volunteers experiencing hangover. This assessment was a naturalistic study conducted remotely via video chat. The results showed that hangover impaired performance in motor control, choice response time and sustained attention tasks but was not related to levels of inflammatory factors in the saliva. During this thesis, the COVID-19 pandemic took place, with the consequent restrictions. This provided an opportunity to investigate the impacts that these restrictions had on mental health, alcohol consumption and motivation to drink, using an online self-report survey. Results demonstrated that 60.1% of respondents decreased and 23.2% increased their alcohol consumption during lockdown. Increased alcohol consumption was associated with greater anxiety and depression levels and ‘drinking to cope’ with COVID-19 restrictions. This thesis highlights the association between hangover and cognitive impairment. It also demonstrates the link between hangover symptomology and inflammation. These associations could form the basis of future investigations which aim to mitigate the toxicities, cognitive impairments, and poor mental health outcomes related to alcohol hangover.