cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: High School Arts Enrollment among Students with Disabilities
Creators: name: Stein, Joshua Robert
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Arts Education
subject: Inclusion
subject: Disability Studies
subject: Adolescence
subject: Accessibility
subject: Arts Enrollment

description: Arts experiences can promote both social inclusion and identity development, areas where adolescents with disabilities face difficulties. Adolescents most commonly access the arts through school classes; however, students with disabilities may be less likely to enroll in these classes compared to students without disabilities. This study analyzed data from a primarily low-income, ethnically diverse dataset of high school students (N = 29,339) to determine whether the odds of enrolling in an arts class in high school depends on whether a student has a disability. This study analyzes the relationship between both disability status and disability type and the odds of enrolling into different types of arts classes (any arts, music, dance, drama, visual arts). Chi squared tests determined whether there were significant differences in the raw arts enrollment rates between students with and without disabilities, and multivariate logistic regression models tested whether these differences were significant when accounting for the effect of relevant covariates (demographic variables and prior academic performance) that relate to arts enrollment. Results indicated that students with a disability status were less likely to enroll in any arts class, and for all arts types except for visual arts. However, when accounting for covariates, students with a disability status only had reduced odds of enrolling in music and dance classes. The disability type most commonly associated with reduced odds of enrolling in arts classes was intellectual disability, followed by autism and speech/language disability. Other research shows that such students are more likely to be educated in segregated classrooms and have high support needs, and a possible explanation for their reduced enrollment of arts classes is that they often don’t have the opportunity to be included in arts classes due to institutional practices and teachers without training and resources for inclusion. Implications for policy and future research are discussed below.
Música e cognição nas práticas interdisciplinares
Creators: name: CESEM/UÉvora, CESEM/UÉvora
name: Alcântara-Silva, Teresa Raquel
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2017

description: A cognição são processos mentais envolvidos na aquisição de conhecimento que ocorre por meio dos sistemas senoriais, motores dentro de um contexto. A atividade musical, contempla, praticamente, todas as funções cognitivas, como a atenção, percepção, memória, planejamento, organização e execução de movimentos, dentre outras. A cognição musical tem sido hoje objeto de interesse de pesquisadores de várias áreas do conhecimento, como neurocientistas, musicólogos, et. A compreensão dos mecanismos cognitivos relacionados à música amplia o campo de investigação e aplicação, principalmente nas áreas perfomáticas e do ensino, de maneira geral.
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA
Creators: name: Tafur, Abby
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Los enfoques pedagógicos tienen un impacto directo en la manera en que los alumnos adquieren conocimientos, siempre y cuando sean apropiados para ayudarles a interiorizar la información de acuerdo con sus necesidades y capacidades individuales. Esto les permite alcanzar un desempeño óptimo en todas las materias universitarias y promover una experiencia académica satisfactoria. El rendimiento académico de cada estudiante está estrechamente relacionado con el enfoque de aprendizaje utilizado en la institución educativa. Por lo tanto, la conexión entre los enfoques de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico es crucial, ya que uno influye de manera significativa en el otro.
DFT/TDDFT approach: an incredible success story in prediction of organic materials properties for photovoltaic application
Creators: name: Khlaifia, D.
name: Chemek, M.
name: Alimi, K.
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: Photovoltaic application; Conjugated organic materials; DFT calculations; Structure-property relationship; Design

description: In the quest to improve the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), the distinction of the critical factors limiting their power conversion efficiency (PCE) with a view to rationalizing the relationship between the structures of the active layers, their morphology, and the electronic processes taking place at their interface is required. In this review, we give an overview of the role of computational approaches based on density functional theory (DFT) in describing and predicting the structure of OSC active materials at molecular level and characterizing their various properties. We first discuss the key success of DFT calculations in establishing and understanding the relationship between the structure and the optoelectronics properties of some organic compounds. A second section deals with the power of DFT calculations in the molecular design of potential donor materials for photovoltaic applications which is beneficial for chemists to have an estimate of the photophysical properties of the target before carrying out a multistep synthesis.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 3 (2020)
title: Virtual Screening of FDA-approved Compounds as Inhibitors of the Binding of VEEV nsP2 Protein to Importin-alpha
Creators: name: Saggi, Binni
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Virtual screening
subject: Importin Alpha
subject: NSp2
subject: Autodock
subject: VEEV

description: Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEEV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus endemic to Latin America. VEEV can cause disease in both humans and equines and may progress into encephalitis and other severe neurological sequalae. VEEV is a public health concern because of its potential for epidemic outbreak and lack of treatment. The cytotoxic mechanism of VEEV infection is related to its ability to interfere with nuclear cytoplasmic trafficking. Although the VEEV capsid protein appears to be the primary agent of nuclear import disruption, its nsP2 protein also contains a nuclear localization signal (NLS) enabling it to be imported into the nucleus and has been implicated in the pathology of other alphaviruses. We hypothesize that inhibition of nsP2 binding to the nuclear import machinery, particularly importin-α, can therefore partially diminish VEEV’s cytotoxic effect and give the host much-needed time to respond to viral infection. The main purpose of our study is to perform virtual screening using computational docking tools to find existing FDA-approved drugs that interact with nsP2 protein’s NLS sequence or bind to the nuclear import protein importin-α NLS binding site. Importantly, the identification of these drugs represents a critical first step in discovering putative VEEV treatments, and this information can be leveraged in future studies for drug candidate optimization and validation. Our results indicate that the most critical substructures for binding to the VEEV protein 3VE6 are benzene rings, bicyclic rings, tertiary amines, aromatic nitrogens, and carbonyl oxygens excluding COOH. Similarly, the top features for binding to 2HWK are largely the same, and this includes bicyclic rings, benzene rings, tertiary amines, aromatic nitrogens, and amides. Based on our analysis, we propose the drug indinavir or dasabuvir as potential inhibitors of VEEV NLS sequences to importin-α and the drug elbasvir as a masking agent of the VEEV protein nsP2. These drugs exhibit high binding affinity to their targets and are known anti-infection agents.
A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra
Creators: name: CESEM/UÉvora, CESEM/UÉvora
name: Torres, Rita
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2017

description: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra dá origem a sons com timbres muito distintos daqueles sons produzidos através de técnicas convencionais, sendo neles mais fácil percepcionar várias notas. Esta técnica está a ser alvo de uma exaustiva e inovadora investigação científica que ambiciona desenvolver e transformar a pesquisa do timbre na guitarra, bem como promovê-la e estabelecer a técnica de multifónicos como parte integral do vocabulário guitarrístico. Nesta sessão demonstrativa, para além de se explicar a técnica detalhadamente dos pontos de vista acústico, psicoacústico e da abordagem, dar-se-á conta da motivação e da justificação, do trabalho realizado e do trabalho futuro.
Electrochemical and surface analytical characterization study of the inhibition effect of boiled red onion extract on tin corrosion in 0.2 M Maleic acid medium.
Creators: name: S. Mouaamoun,
name: El-H. Ait Addi, M. Hamdani, A. Ait Addi, A. Shaban,
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: Tin corrosion; inhibition; Onion extract; EIS; Inhibition

description: The inhibition efficiency of boiled red onion skin extracts (BROE) against tin corrosion in 0.2 M Maleic acid has been studied using electrochemical and surface analytical methods. The electrochemical polarization curves displayed the active/passive transition of the anodic behavior of the tin electrode. The electrochemical impedance measurements demonstrated the effect of increasing BORE concentration on the inhibition efficiency (η %) (to a ηmax = 94% at 300 mg/L of BORE). The inhibition mechanism is attributed to the formation of adsorbed protective layers, on the metal surface, that fit the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model. Increasing the temperature hindered the η values.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 3 (2020)
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2015-FEBRERO 2017
Creators: name: Damaris Vivas, Carolina
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Mapa conceptual del artículo de investigación sobre "Enfoques de Aprendizaje y Rendimiento Académico en Estudiantes de Agronomía: Periodo marzo 2015-febrero 2017".
title: Multi-Decadal Trends of Precipitation and Flooding in the James River Watershed
Creators: name: Stiles, John R.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: precipitation
subject: watershed
subject: flooding
subject: climate
subject: James River
subject: streamflow

description: The trends in precipitation and flooding for the James River watershed are examined across the timeframe of 1951-2022. Precipitation is analyzed using spatial linear and quantile regressions across the watershed, which includes individually examining the trends across the warm months (April-September) and cold months (October-March). Floods are catalogued at selected stream sites to determine recent changes in frequency of events, as well as correlated with precipitation trends in terms of annual days above a threshold value. The James River watershed shows statistically significant positive trends for daily and extreme precipitation in the nearly the entire basin, especially during the warm months. Minor flood events at Richmond increased by 46% in the cold months and 131% in the warm months during 1979-2022 compared to 1935-1978. Precipitation accumulations preceding floods at Richmond were much higher during the warm months than the cold months. Richmond also displays a highly significant positive relationship between days with extreme precipitation and days above action or minor flood stage. The results indicate a strong potential for applying the analysis to other watersheds on a regional scale, which would provide implications of precipitation and flooding trends for a much larger area.
sj-docx-3-tam-10.1177_17588359211061948 – Supplemental material for Recurrence risk stratification based on a competing-risks nomogram to identify patients with esophageal cancer who may benefit from postoperative radiotherapy
Creators: name: Chang, Xiao
name: Chen, Junqiang
name: Zhang, Wencheng
name: Yang, Jinsong
name: Yu, Shufei
name: Deng, Wei
name: Ni, Wenjie
name: Zhou, Zongmei
name: Chen, Dongfu
name: Feng, Qinfu
name: Lv, Jima
name: Liang, Jun
name: Hui, Zhouguang
name: Wang, Lvhua
name: Lin, Yu
name: Chen, Xiaohui
name: Xue, Qi
name: Mao, Yousheng
name: Gao, Yushun
name: Wang, Dali
name: Feng, Feiyue
name: Gao, Shugeng
name: He, Jie
name: Xiao, Zefen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-tam-10.1177_17588359211061948 for Recurrence risk stratification based on a competing-risks nomogram to identify patients with esophageal cancer who may benefit from postoperative radiotherapy by Xiao Chang, Junqiang Chen, Wencheng Zhang, Jinsong Yang, Shufei Yu, Wei Deng, Wenjie Ni, Zongmei Zhou, Dongfu Chen, Qinfu Feng, Jima Lv, Jun Liang, Zhouguang Hui, Lvhua Wang, Yu Lin, Xiaohui Chen, Qi Xue, Yousheng Mao, Yushun Gao, Dali Wang, Feiyue Feng, Shugeng Gao, Jie He and Zefen Xiao in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Enfoques de aprendizaje y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de agronomía: Periodo Marzo 1015- Febrero 2017
Creators: name: Carolina Andrade Quizhpe, Adriana
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Este ensayo busca comprender la relación entre rendimiento académico y los enfoques de aprendizaje, tomando en cuenta la motivación de los estudiantes en el aprendizaje.
Formas de Sonata no Repertório Português para Tecla da Segunda Metade do Século XVIII
Creators: name: CESEM/UÉvora, CESEM/UÉvora
name: Nejmeddine, Mafalda
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2017

description: O levantamento, estudo e análise do repertório português para tecla escrito na segunda metade do século XVIII revelaram a presença de diferentes formas de sonata cujas especificidades caracterizam a sonata portuguesa para tecla deste período. A partir da análise realizada, serão expostas as formas de sonata presentes neste repertório através de uma abordagem à metodologia da Teoria da Sonata de James Hepokoski & Warren Darcy. As características e as particularidades dessas formas de sonata serão apresentadas do ponto de vista teórico via a demonstração analítica e do ponto de vista prático através da interpretação musical ao cravo.
Emergent Open-Endedness From Contagion Of The Fittest
Creators: name: Abrahão, Felipe S.
name: Wehmuth, Klaus
name: Ziviani, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Emergence
Information
Complexity
Complex networks
Turing machines
Complex systems
Open-Endedness
Spreading
Contagion
Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible

description: In this work, we study emergent information in populations of randomly generated computable systems that are networked and follow a "Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible" contagion (or infection) model of imitation of the fittest neighbor.  We show that there is a lower bound for the stationary prevalence (or average density of "infected" nodes) that triggers an unlimited increase of the expected local emergent algorithmic complexity (or information) of a node as the population size grows. A phenomenon we have called as expected (local) emergent open-endedness. In addition, we show that static networks with a scale-free degree distribution in the form of a power-law following the Barabási-Albert model satisfy this lower bound and, thus, displays expected (local) emergent open-endedness.
description: Under submission to peer-reviewed journal.
title: Constructing the Tago ng Tago: Examining the Intersections of Undocumented Filipinos, Neoliberalism, and Immigration Policy in Network Television
Creators: name: Ryan, AJ
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Undocumented
subject: Immigrant representation
subject: Tago ng Tago
subject: Filipino Immigrants
subject: Filipinos in Television

description: This thesis examines the nine-year precedent of undocumented Filipino series regulars on network television and the messaging they provide to audiences about undocumented life, Filipino identity, and current neoliberal immigration policy. These undocumented Filipino characters – Mateo Liwanag from NBC’s Superstore, and Thony De La Rosa and Fiona La Rosa from Fox’s The Cleaning Lady – offer audiences and scholars new understandings of undocumented peoples and current outlooks on immigration. In conducting an analysis of networks, genre, and character utilizing Stuart Hall’s model of encoding/decoding this thesis examines the impact of these characters in the cultural understanding of immigration and immigrants within the United States. By exploring the characters multiple identities, interactions with law enforcement and immigration policy, their role as Filipino workers, and pre-existing scholarship this thesis argues that these characters and their narratives challenge industry standards for undocumented character development and signal a shift away from the characterization of worthy and unworthy immigrants. Their narratives create critiques of current neoliberal immigration policies and transcend the categories of good/bad depictions, highlighting the messy and complicated nature of nuanced depictions. Moreover, their engagement with labor challenges harmful tropes of the “great Filipino worker”, which has historically been used to disempower Filipino laborers.
Enfoques de aprendizaje y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de agronomía: Periodo Marzo 1015- Febrero 2017
Creators: name: Carolina Andrade Quizhpe, Adriana
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Este ensayo busca comprender la relación entre rendimiento académico y los enfoques de aprendizaje, tomando en cuenta la motivación de los estudiantes en el aprendizaje.
An Analysis of e-Marketing and Firm Performance with Emphasis on the Role of Adoption of Information Technology
Creators: name: AKHTAR, RAHEEL
name: Hassaan, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As globalization increase, competitiveness is considered as an important issue among policy-makers at different levels like; national, industry and enterprise in different parts of the world. Business performance includes the performance of customer like; customer satisfaction and loyalty, market performance; high sales volume and market share and financial performance; profit and return on investment compared to competitors. Internet has provided a platform that occurs e-commerce, information exchange and supply via the World Wide Web and e-mail are, and rapid communication is possible. Electronic marketing is a phenomenon make relationships based on commercial transactions in interactive media and digital networks possible. This study aims to finds e-marketing’s affects the firm performance in Pakistan. Study also aims to find the proper adoption of information technology, e-marketing can enhance the firm performance. Research will Identify and analyse the benefits of e-marketing also analyse and compare the stage of information technology adoption in Pakistan and China.
Electrocoagulation/Electroflotation of real textile effluent: Improvement of the process in non-conventional pilot external loop airlift reactor
Creators: name: A. Essadki, M. Azzi, M. Elhafdi, M. Benchikhi, A. Dassa, H. Chenik,
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: pilot external-loop airlift reactor;Electrocoagulation;Electroflotation;Real textile effluents

description: A pilot external-loop airlift reactor (ELAR) of 150 liters was designed and used as a non – conventional reactor to carry out Electrocoagulation/Electroflotation to treat real textile effluents containing disperse and reactive dyes. The designed reactor ensure the recovery of sludge by electroflotation (EF) in which complete flotation of the pollutants is achieved without additional mechanical power in the pilot external-loop airlift reactor (ELAR), using only the overall liquid recirculation induced by H2 microbubbles generated by water electrolysis without filtration process. Aluminum, iron electrodes and combined aluminum – iron electrodes were tested. The obtained results were interesting as they would help managing the Electrocoagulation/Electroflotation process in pilot external – loop airlift reactor to remove real textile effluent. The treatment of the mixtures of the real textile dyeing industry is better when using a combination of the electrodes of iron and aluminum providing a better treatment efficiency of 80% and a lower specific energy consumption (50 kWh/kg dye). In order to analyze the by-product of the electrocoagulation (EC) and the treated effluent, different techniques were used to elucidate the role of different kind of anodes especially when the combined iron – aluminum were used simultaneously as sacrificial anodes.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 3 (2020)
title: Energy Efficient Diamond LEED-Certified Data Centers
Creators: name: Stauber, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: LEED
subject: Financial Analysis
subject: Energy Modeling
subject: Environmental Analysis

description: Data centers are critical infrastructures that consume over 40 times the energy of typical office buildings. The transition from onsite to online work environments was propelled initially by the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving artificial intelligence technologies, which have significantly increased the demand for data center growth. The surge in computing load has led to increasing energy consumption within data centers. Northern Virginia, home to the world's largest data center cluster, faces significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges due to increased computing load and energy usage. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a globally recognized rating system that promotes environmentally friendly design, construction, and operation. When applied to buildings over the project's lifecycle, the LEED rating system is superior in energy efficiency compared to code minimum standards, resulting in energy savings over the building's lifecycle. Data center owners typically pursue LEED certification, anticipating that these long-term energy savings will offset the higher initial capital cost in a reasonable payback period. The current LEED standard needs to be evaluated to help data center owners reach new sustainability and energy efficient goals. In this thesis, an energy model was designed to evaluate the existing Data Center LEED standards and identify critical areas for improvement and validate the Diamond LEED Certification. This advanced standard is tailored for data centers to meet heightened energy efficiency and sustainability objectives, resulting in documentable energy savings. A use case for energy-efficient and sustainable data centers validates the Diamond LEED Certification.
Indian Music and Rhythm
Creators: name: CESEM/UÉvora, CESEM/UÉvora
name: Gogate, Amruta
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2017

description: Indian classical musica has two foundational elements, 'Raag' (melodic structure using musical notes) and the 'Taal' (rhythmic cycle). The Raag provides the singer a palette of musical notes to build a variety of melodies whereas the Taal provides a creative framework or a meter for rhythmic improvisation using time. Exploring Taal is the main aspect of the Indian percussion presentation. There are 108 basic Taals in the Indian Musica. A taal is a rhythmic cycle of fixed number of beats. The Rhythm in Indian music is cyclic or circular in form. The first beat of the time cycle of Taal is called as 'Sam' and one cycle of the taal is referred as 'avartan'. Numerous calculative compositions are composed in the Taal and are presented on the canvas of the constant rhythmic meter of this Taal. The Taal is an open framework for creativity theoretically allowing infinite number of possibilities. The main traditional percussion instruments seen in India are the Tabla, the Pakhawaj and the Mrudangam. All the three of these have a unique style of playing and a unique texture of sounds. They are rich in the syllable language and versatile in the intricate, complex, calculative presentation.
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN  ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017
Creators: name: Rueda, Anthony
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Mapa conceptual del artículo "ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN  ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017".
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017
Creators: name: Rueda, Anthony
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Mapa conceptual del artículo "ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN
ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017".
Heterocyclic Anticancer compounds: Using S-NICS Method
Creators: name: Mohammadian, N.
name: Monajjemi, M. M.
name: Zare, K.
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: S-NICS, NICS, heterocyclic anticancer compounds

description: This work is done for developing of modern anticancer drugs. Many of heterocyclic compounds are known as anticancer drugs such as alkylating agents which have targeted cell DNA causing cell death. Heterocycles’ ring structures are in essence composed by atoms other than carbon, where the most frequent substituents are sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen. In our previous work, it has been exhibited that S-NICS method is an accurate method for estimation the amount of aromaticity in the non-benzenerings similar heterocyclic rings which are popular molecules in organic chemical compounds as anti-cancer disease. Although NICS values for benzene and naphthalene and so on can be indicated as aromaticity criterion, for other molecules such as heterocyclic rings and their derivatives, S-NICS values are much more accurate compare to NICS index.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 2 (2020)
title: Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Apoptosis Resistance Mechanisms in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis-Derived Fibroblasts
Creators: name: Moore, Durwood
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
subject: BAX Inhibitor-1
subject: Unfolded Protein Response
subject: ER Stress
subject: Apoptosis Resistance
subject: Fibroblasts

description: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating fatal interstitial lung disease that is the result of an accumulation of highly secretory senescent fibroblasts. Our group has previously demonstrated that IPF fibroblasts (IPF-F) are resistant to the apoptotic pressures initiated by the unfolded protein response (UPR) during times of ER stress. IPF-F show an upregulation of BAX Inhibitor-1 (BI-1), which has been shown to negatively regulate the dimerization of IRE1α and inhibit BAX-mediated apoptosis. We hypothesize that IPF-F can evade ER stress-induced apoptosis through an upregulation of BI-1, but it is uncertain whether this is primarily through an IRE1α or BAX-driven pathway. IPF-F and normal human lung fibroblasts (NHLF) were transfected with siRNAs targeting BI-1, IRE1α, and BAX. ER stress was generated through a 0.1 μg/mL tunicamycin challenge. Activation of ER stress-driven apoptosis was assayed through a western blot of apoptosis signaling molecules CHOP and Caspase 3. Cell survival was measured through a CCK-8 cytotoxicity assay. We demonstrate that both the IRE1α and BAX pathways are important to the cell’s ability to undergo ER stress-driven apoptosis. Silencing each pathway individually did not rescue the cell from tunicamycin-induced apoptosis. This suggests that BI-1 is a multifaceted inhibitor of ER stress-mediated apoptosis. Further characterization of UPR and BAX-driven apoptosis via western blot will be required to better understand the mechanisms by which BI-1 prevents apoptosis.
Use of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate to remove nickel ions from aqueous solutions
Creators: name: Lizoul, B.
name: Kzaiber, F.
name: Chemaa, A.
name: Zahidi, El M.
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: : dicalcium phosphate, retention, exchange, dissolution-precipitation

description: The removal of nickel ions from aqueous solutions by dicalcium phosphate dihydrate (CaHPO4.2H2O) was investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, thermal analysis and inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectrometry. The results of this investigation demonstrate the ability of dicalcium phosphate to remove nickel ions and help identify the mechanism responsible for the transfer of these metal ions from solution to solid phosphate. The results show that, on the one hand, when the phosphate was exposed to the nickel solution for less than 1200 minutes, the nickel retention mechanism was dominated by a substitution process, as evidenced by the equimolar exchanges between the nickel extracted from the solution and the calcium released by phosphate, as well as the preservation of the initial phosphate structure. On the other hand, for exposure times greater than 1200 minutes, the transfer of nickel occurs by the dissolution of the dicalcium phosphate and the precipitation of a new phase of isomorphic structure with Ni3(PO4)2.8H2O.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 2 (2020)
A Case of Colorectal Liver Metastasis with Central Scar Mimicking Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
Creators: name: Asawin Sudcharoen
name: Panitpong Marungroj
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Year: 2017
Subjects: Colorectal liver metastasis,central scar,focal nodular hyperplasia

description: Siriraj Medical Journal, 69, 3
Algoritmo e Decisão em Composição Musical
Creators: name: CESEM/UÉvora, CESEM/UÉvora
name: Gato, Gonçalo
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2018

description: A composição assistida por computador é uma área de intersecção entre a composição musical e a composição algorítmica. Através de investigação doutoral ligada à prática procurou-se clarificar questões e procedimentos pouco discutidos na literatura da especialidade. Foi definida terminologia essencial e foram expostos os procedimentos associados à criação de peças musicais com recurso a algoritmos. Novas perspectivas relativas ao propósito, adequação e natureza da composição manual e maquinal/automática foram produzidas, assim como descrições de como são, na realidade, implementados os resultados computacionais nas partituras. Algum ênfase foi também dado à componente reflexiva estética, tanto no sentido das escolhas pessoais/autorais, como no sentido de abordar a dimensão experiencial/vivencial associado à composição algorítmica.
title: The Barriers to Black Unity: An Examination of the Relationship Between The National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Black Community
Creators: name: Reed, Olivia
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: NPHC
subject: Black Community
subject: Divine 9
subject: Social Identity
subject: Intersectionality
subject: Black Unity

description: The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) was created to uplift the Black community and create a space in which Black people could thrive and succeed, at the same time the NPHC has been the dividing factor in the Black community. This study aims to explore the possible tensions between the NPHC and the broader Black community. This study begins by delving into the rich history behind the NPHC, Black Unity, and Black identity. The findings from the research present three themes: Clashing Identities, Neither by Any Other Oath, and Rejection. Concluding the research, I delve into a discussion around these themes and what these tensions mean for the Black community. Future research can expand upon the LGBTQ+ community and sorority life, as well as bring in more perspectives from current NPHC members themselves.
Ichthyosis Follicularis with Atrichia and Photophobia Syndrome: First Case Report in Thailand
Creators: name: Rattanavalai Nitiyarom
name: Wanee Wisuthsarewong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Year: 2017
Subjects: IFAP syndrome, MBTPS2

description: Siriraj Medical Journal, 69, 3
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017
Creators: name: Cuascota Nuñez, Lizbeth
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: La investigación analizó cómo los diferentes métodos de aprendizaje afectan el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de Ingeniería Agronómica en la Universidad Central del Ecuador entre el periodo de marzo 2015 y febrero 2017. Utilizando el cuestionario"Revised-Study Process Questionnaire-2 Factors" de Biggs, ayudo ah evaluar estos enfoques y examinaron las calificaciones de 265 estudiantes. Encontraron que hubo un cambio de preferencia de un enfoque superficial a uno más profundo en los grupos más recientes. Sin embargo, excepto para dos asignaturas en el primer grupo , no encontraron una relación significativa entre el enfoque de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico en ciencias exactas, de la vida o humanas.
title: Student–Teacher Relationships from Kindergarten to 3rd Grade for Latine Students in Dual Language Programs
Creators: name: Rojas, Diego Josue Ordonez
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dual language education
subject: Student-teacher relationships
subject: Ethnic match
subject: Two-way immersion
subject: Teacher-child relationships
subject: TWI

description: Student–teacher relationships in early education have been investigated widely. The current thesis expands on this literature by exploring these relationships in the unique context of Dual Language Education (DLE) K-3 programs and by examining Latine students. I explore student–teacher relationships as a function of student–teacher ethnicity-matching in Spanish-English, two-way immersion programs across grades K-3, where some students have one teacher and others have two. Participants included 33 teachers and 203 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade in Spanish-English two-way DLE immersion classrooms in North Carolina. Relationships were measured via teacher report with the Student–Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS, Pianta, 2001a). The main research questions were: 1) What is the quality of student–teacher relationships for all students, and does this vary by grade (in grades K-3)?, 2) Do student–teacher relationships vary as a function of student ethnicity and teacher ethnicity, and if so, does this vary across different grades?, 3) Do student–teacher relationships vary as a function of ethnic match between student and teacher?, and 4) Specifically for Hispanic students, how much does having a Hispanic teacher influence their student–teacher relationship quality? My hypotheses were that students and teachers that share the same ethnicity, and those in earlier grades, will have higher closeness scores (and lower conflict) than those who do not share the same ethnicity or are in later grades. Additionally, I expected Hispanic students to have closer relationships with their teachers than White students. Results indicate that student–teacher closeness for all students was highest in kindergarten and lower for subsequent grades, with Black students showing particularly high closeness in kindergarten but steeper declines by third grade compared to other students. Boys had more conflictual relationships with their teachers than girls, and Hispanic/Latine English teachers had more closeness with their students than teachers of other ethnicities. Students with two teachers had lower closeness with their teachers than students with only one teacher. Importantly, ethnic match between student and teacher was not associated with teacher closeness or conflict in the current study’s TWI settings. Implications of these findings include ethnic match not being as important as the number of teachers for student–teacher relationship quality, and that, overall, TWI programs are efficient at producing an inclusive environment for families of diverse ethnicities.
Decomposition and interpretation of Gini and the generalized entropy inequality measures
Creators: name: Dagum, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The main purpose of this research is to deduce and analyse a new decomposition of the Gini index, and to present and analyse a decomposition of the generalized entropy inequality measure, deducing from the latter the particular cases corresponding to Theil, Hirschman-Herfindahl, and Bourguignon indexes. While the generalized entropy index is decomposed into its two conventional components of the inequality within and between subpopulations, the Gini index is decomposed into the following three components: (I) the Gini index within subpopulations; (II) the Gini index between subpopulations; and (III) the income transvariation between subpopulations. The Gini, Theil, Hirschman-Herfindahl and Bourguignon inequalities are applied to the 1995 italian family income distribution disaggregated by territorial area.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
An Analysis of e-Marketing and Firm Performance with Emphasis on the Role of Adoption of Information Technology
Creators: name: AKHTAR, RAHEEL
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As globalization increase, competitiveness is considered as an important issue among policy-makers at different levels like; national, industry and enterprise in different parts of the world. Business performance includes the performance of customer like; customer satisfaction and loyalty, market performance; high sales volume and market share and financial performance; profit and return on investment compared to competitors. Internet has provided a platform that occurs e-commerce, information exchange and supply via the World Wide Web and e-mail are, and rapid communication is possible. Electronic marketing is a phenomenon make relationships based on commercial transactions in interactive media and digital networks possible. This study aims to finds e-marketing’s affects the firm performance in Pakistan. Study also aims to find the proper adoption of information technology, e-marketing can enhance the firm performance. Research will Identify and analyse the benefits of e-marketing also analyse and compare the stage of information technology adoption in Pakistan and China.
title: Machine Learning for Mobile Healthcare
Creators: name: Nirmala, Chiranjivan Krishnakumar
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning
subject: Fairness
subject: Android
subject: Edge Devices
subject: Neural Architecture Search
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: As AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous across industries, there is a growing demand for ML models to be deployed on edge devices, driven by the democratization of AI. However, the decision-making processes of AI systems often exhibit biases, prompting a renewed focus on fairness, particularly in industries prioritizing equitable outcomes such as security surveillance, face recognition, and medical applications like dermatology. This research addresses the need for fairness in mobile healthcare, specifically in dermatology, by developing an Android application for skin disease detection and mobile dermatology assistance in remote areas. While existing AI systems boast high overall accuracies, they often neglect fairness considerations, resulting in subpar performance, especially on datasets representing diverse skin tones. Despite the importance of fairness, most neural network architectures prioritize other metrics, disregarding the need for models to run efficiently on edge devices. To bridge this gap, there is a call for smaller networks optimized for hardware constraints, without compromising fairness. This study explores the paper ”The Larger The Fairer? Small Neural Networks Can Achieve”, presented at the Design Automation Conference – 2022. Which introduces an automatic neural architecture search (NAS) methodology called as Fairness and Hardwareaware Neural architecture search (FaHaNa) for network selection. FaHaNa employs a freezing method to accelerate optimization while preserving fairness, effectively minimizing network size and latency for edge devices. The thesis discusses about the successful application of the FaHaNa framework on Android devices illustrates its potential to democratize healthcare diagnostics across diverse demographic and geographic landscapes, making advanced healthcare solutions more accessible and reducing disparities in medical care availability. This work not only showcases the feasibility of achieving fairness in mobile healthcare applications but also sets a solid foundation for future innovations in the domain of equitable, AI-enabled healthcare solutions.
Feather’s Passer domesticus as a non invasive bio-indicator tool of urban heavy metals (Zn, Pb, Cd) pollution in Rabat-Salé (Morocco).
Creators: name: M. Fekhaoui, M. Bounagua
Publisher: name: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
Year: 2020
Subjects: Heavy metals, pollution, bio-indicators, feathers, Passer domesticus, Rabat

description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of heavy metals (Zinc, Lead and Cadmium) in industrial and urban areas of Rabat using Feather’s Passer domesticus as a non invasive bio-indicator method. The collection was made on 50 house sparrows (Passer domesticus) males and females, which were captured in five different sites of Rabat, (ten specimens by site), according to the road traffic and industrial activities, the results obtained indicate the presence of metals in all the analyzed samples. Cd is above the threshold of contamination (0.1 ppm) for all sites, while the Pb far exceeds the threshold (4 ppm) for two study sites. These results suggest that we have two major sources of contamination by heavy metals: Road traffic, and Industrial activities.
description: Moroccan Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 8, No 2 (2020)
F-18 FDG PET/CT Scan Helps in Correct Localization of Primary Esophageal Cancer
Creators: name: Tanyaluck Thientunyakit
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Year: 2017
Subjects: F-18 FDG PET/CT,squamous cell carcinoma,unknown primary cancer,metastasis

description: Siriraj Medical Journal, 69, 3
title: A Million Colors in Black and White
Creators: name: Terrell, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: art therapy
subject: coming of age
subject: young adult
subject: bildungsroman

description: Sully is a precocious preteen whose dad is a victim of severe PTSD from the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His PTSD manifests as the ability to see the color and behavior of peoples’ auras. He dies shortly after returning home and Sully inherits his ability to see the auras. She enrolls in an art therapy program and quickly realizes it helps her express how she experiences the world around her. Sully’s story is also a coming-of-age story, where she learns how to cope with grief, puberty, and pre-algebra.
ENFOQUES DE APRENDIZAJE Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN  ESTUDIANTES DE AGRONOMÍA: PERIODO MARZO 2105-FEBRERO 2017
Creators: name: Cuascota Nuñez, Lizbeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: La investigación analizó cómo los diferentes métodos de aprendizaje afectan el rendimiento académico de estudiantes de Ingeniería Agronómica en la Universidad Central del Ecuador entre el periodo de marzo 2015 y febrero 2017. Utilizando el cuestionario"Revised-Study Process Questionnaire-2 Factors" de Biggs, ayudo ah evaluar estos enfoques y examinaron las calificaciones de 265 estudiantes. Encontraron que hubo un cambio de preferencia de un enfoque superficial a uno más profundo en los grupos más recientes. Sin embargo, excepto para dos asignaturas en el primer grupo , no encontraron una relación significativa entre el enfoque de aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico en ciencias exactas, de la vida o humanas.
title: Merchant Elites: Habitual Activity Through Cross-Sectional Geometry at the Postclassic Maya Site of Santa Rita Corozal
Creators: name: Thomas, Samuel P.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cross-Sectional Geometry
subject: Postclassic Maya
subject: Mobility
subject: Labor
subject: Santa Rita Corozal

description: Cross-sectional geometry allows bioarchaeologists to understand the activity patterns of archaeological populations. In this study cross-sectional geometry is used to understand the habitual activity at Santa Rita Corozal during the Postclassic period. Results show that males at the site maintained long-distance networks of exchange, albeit to different degrees. Females at the site continued to serve domestic roles that correspond with previous archaeological and ethnohistorical research at Maya sites. Furthermore, compared to the Classic period, labor investment by elites at this site increased reflecting recent archaeological research demonstrating a changing political economy during the Postclassic period.
Portuguese text insertions in early-eighteenth-century Latin musical works of Évora Cathedral
Creators: name: Henriques, Luís
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Musicology
subject: Music
subject: Sacred music
subject: Eighteenth century

description: Évora Cathedral is mostly known as one of the most important Portuguese music schools, and as the centre where the finest Portuguese polyphony composers of the first half of the seventeenth century learned their trades. When compared with the seventeenth century, almost nothing is known of the musical activity in the Cathedral in the first decades of the eighteenth century. This was a period that corresponded to the activity of Pedro Vaz Rego and Ignácio António Celestino as chapel masters in the Cathedral. It was also a period of transition between a stile antico-orientated compositional style to a more modern concertato way of writing music. Among the various transformations in music composition one finds several works with Latin text in which were inserted sections with Portuguese text. These works were intended not for Mass or the Office Hours but instead for other religious celebrations such as litanies, the rosary among other para-liturgical occasions. This study addresses a group of Latin-text repertory used in Évora Cathedral in the first half of the eighteenth century. Among these works one can find brief sections of Portuguese-text music that seems to express an increasing proximity towards a popular religious cult. Using several sources, mostly intended for feasts of the Sanctoral cycle, the study focuses on the relation between the commemoration of these saints and popular devotion in the city and their impact in the music composition in the Cathedral.
title: Booth Music
Creators: name: Wallace, Lloyd
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Poetry
subject: Contemporary poetry
subject: Prose poetry
subject: Lyric poetry

description: This is a collection of, to my ear, the forty or so best poems that I wrote during my three years as a graduate student at George Mason University. I did my best, in them, to scoop up the hours, like a pile of dust, and blow them in the reader’s face. I paid no attention to style, tone, or format in my ‘selection’ process for this manuscript. This is not, in the end, a curation. It is a pile. A sexual graveyard. A never-ending knot.