cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Architecture of Waste: Creating New Avenues for Public Engagement with Trash
Creators: name: Muller, Jeannine
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: architecture
subject: Brooklyn
subject: industrial waterfront
subject: New York
subject: waste
subject: Waste-to-Energy

description: The relationship between industry, waste, and urbanism is one fraught with problems across the United States and in particular American cities. The interrelated nature of these systems of flows is in critical need of re-evaluation.

This thesis critiques the system of Municipal Solid Waste Management as it currently exists in American cities as a necessary yet undesirable ‘invisible infrastructure’.  Industry and waste environments have been pushed to the periphery of urban environments, severing the relationship between the urban environment we inhabit and the one that is required to support the way we live. The flow of garbage from cities of high density to landscapes of waste has created a model of valuing waste as a linear system that separates input from output.

This thesis aims to investigate ways that industry, waste, and urban ecologies can work to reinforce one another. The goal of this thesis is to repair the physical and mental separation of waste and public activity through architecture. This thesis will propose ways to tie urban waste infrastructure and public amenities together through the merging of architecture and landscape to create new avenues for public engagement with waste processes.
The Co-Adapted Community: A New Vision for the Parks at Walter Reed
Creators: name: Perez-Ayalde, Karina Mercedes
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The human-canine bond is one that has existed for thousands of years, yet not until more recently has it gained serious attention in the military medical field. The following thesis will use architecture as a way to explore the physical and psychological rehabilitative relationship between veterans and rescued canines. As soldiers return home from deployment, many struggle with reintegration into civilian life. The therapeutic potential of service dogs, however, has become a widely recognized recovery tool. Meanwhile, there are thousands of non-service dogs suffering extended periods in animal shelters with adverse psychological effects. In a society primarily centered on the typical human experience, the built environment often demonstrates a narrow perspective that lacks sensitivity towards the atypical user. Soldiers and dogs alike perceive and experience the world uniquely, and a further exploration of their distinct relationship can begin to inform how we might develop a new type of shared healing environment or co-adapted community.
title: Elytrigia :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Rush Wheatgrass
Tall Wheatgrass

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Charting the Badlands
Creators: name: Schneckloth, Sara
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2024

description: Charting the Badlands is an ongoing drawing project inspired by geomorphological processes and the geological legacy of the American Southwest. Drawing offers an embodied way to consider deep time on an intimate scale, compressing past, present and future. In this practice, drawing sites the land as a primary source of both inspiration and raw marking material. A handful of soil I gather while walking is transformed into pigment, purposed to map a memory of the place, a fragment of lived time, an imagined geological past or future. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 5 No 1 (2024): Dialogs: Spaces and Memories
Dall'Italia all'Europa. Politica scolastica e formazione docente
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2012

description: Prima di entrare in argomento e di lasciare spazio ai colleghi stranieri che hanno accolto la nostra richiesta di collaborazione e che ringraziamo cordialmente per questo, è opportuno spendere qualche parola  per chiarire il senso e lo scopo di questo numero, anch’esso monografico  come quello che l’ha preceduto, degli “Annali della didattica  e della formazione docente”.
Il comitato di redazione ha deciso, infatti, dopo il bilancio sull’attività  svolta nei dieci anni di vita della Scuola di Specializzazione per  l’Insegnamento Secondario (SSIS) di guardare al problema della formazione  iniziale ed in servizio degli insegnanti da una prospettiva  ampia e con un orientamento comparativo, che permette di prendere in  considerazione le scelte politiche e le attività concretamente svolte nei  principali Paesi europei.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 2, N° 1 (2010): Dall'Italia all'Europa. Politica scolastica e formazione docente
La scuola italiana ha 150 anni. Problemi e prospettive
Creators: name: Genovesi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2012

description: Il lavoro di Giovanni Genovesi intende individuare le difficoltà che nella scuola italiana si sono sistematicamente manifestate per farne un luogo di formazione anziché di pura e semplice professionalizzazione.
In queste note si cerca di ripercorrere i passaggi fondamentali, legati a determinate motivazioni storiche, che hanno contrassegnato l’escalation della formazione professionale che ha finito per prevaricare la funzione e il ruolo della scuola. La dimensione formativa professionale ha finito per fare aggio a tutto campo su quella educativa. È ormai una lotta impari. I tempi sono duri per chi deve lottare a favore dell’educazione come costante superamento della formazione. Forse è troppo difficile. La Politica non è, quindi, con noi, perché essa sceglie sempre la via più facile. Eppure bisogna pur fare qualcosa per restituire l’educazione a se stessa se vogliamo continuare a chiamarciscienziati dell’educazione.
 Questo è l’appello che emerge con forza da questo intervento.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 4, N° 3 (2012): La scuola italiana ha 150 anni. Problemi e prospettive
title: Exploring Commonalities and Triggers that Influence Revolution
Creators: name: Sheehy, Daniel Joseph
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Revolution
subject: Liberty
subject: Isonomy
subject: Uprising
subject: Freedom
subject: Deprivation

description: This thesis explores commonalities between theories concerning revolution crossing the boundaries of various academic domains. A careful observation of bias, including a portion detailing the perils of engaging in a dialectic analysis of theory concerning the matter, is exhaustively plotted within this thesis in an attempt to delineate the attention to detail and considerations of attribution error and analyst bias undertaken by the author. Since this thesis is contingent on being able to appropriately situate, take into account, and synthesize information from various domains of academia in an attempt to plot out and engage with a discourse concerning revolution, acknowledging the possible limitations as such was imperative to establishing an ethic to maintain consideration over. The specific theory clusters and conceptions engaged with may be perused through in more detail in the “Operational Definitions” section of the thesis, but some of the more salient ones include theory derived from Theda Skocpol concerning structuralist epistemology, more granular and philosophical considerations iterated upon through work done by Hannah Arendt concerning revolutions, some work done by Ted Robert Gurr concerning civil strife and social mobilization, an examination of a broader typology provided by Jack A. Goldstone, and others. Other more pre-suppositional theoretical material includes basic components of conflict analysis and resolution theory including identity theory, the various forms of violence posited by Johan Galtung, and an iteration of basic human needs shaped by John Burton.
Presentazione del volume
Creators: name: Longobardi, Monica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Si descrivono le linee guida del volume, richiamando il Convegno di cui si raccolgono qui gi Atti.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Quando la Filologia si diverte
Creators: name: Longobardi, Monica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Con questa introduzione agli Atti del convegno, Monica Longobardi ripercorre la propria esperienza di insegnante che ha posto la ludolinguistica al centro della costruzione della scrittura, dell’educazione linguistica e dell’educazione al “pensiero divergente”. Giocare con la letteratura, leggere e manipolare poesia, simulare e riscrivere i classici del Medioevo sono attività che hanno il gusto della sfida, forte incentivo a continuare a coltivare la lettura e la passione per la letteratura dall’età scolare sino all'Università e alla piena età adulta.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2024

description: This issue of the Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal invites readers to explore the multifaceted intersections of drawing, storytelling, and the built environment, unearthing how lines and marks on a page—or on a wall—carry cultural, historical, and emotional resonance across diverse contexts. Each contribution offers a fresh perspective on the power of drawing and visual expression as both personal practice and collective act.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 5 No 1 (2024): Dialogs: Spaces and Memories
Leggere e scrivere nella scuola dell'obbligo: un'avventura alla scoperta del mondo o un viaggio organizzato?
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: L’intervento passa in rassegna i libri di lettura nella scuola dell’obbligo italiana dal 1861 ad oggi quali strumenti per avviare, dopo l’acquisizione della strumentalità, al piacere del leggere. L’analisi dà esiti sconfortanti: più che avviare al piacere del leggere questi libri introduco i giovani ad un forte conformismo sociale, garanzia dell’ordine costituito. La scuola è l’artefice di questa degenerazione perché, di fatto, è la vittima designata di una politica che le impedisce di esprimersi come dovrebbe e di realizzare la sua funzione edu­cativa.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
L'italiano delle letture dei "giovani adulti" tra tempo libero e scuola
Creators: name: Viale, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: A partire da una ricerca sul campo, il contributo si sofferma sulla percezione che gli adolescenti hanno delle letture extrascolastiche, scelte volontariamente, spesso in contrapposizione a quelle assegnate dalla scuola. Queste letture in gran parte rientrano nel recente fenomeno editoriale della cosiddetta letteratura per “giovani adulti” (young adults). Il confronto con tecniche di analisi linguistica informatizzata tra una selezione di letture extrascolastiche e una di letture rientranti nel canone scolastico conferma che in effetti l'italiano delle letture extrascolastiche è caratterizzato da un lessico meno ricco e più semplice, da una sintassi meno complessa e da una maggiore apertura ai tratti neostandard. L'analisi del corpus suggerisce tuttavia che queste differenze siano meno marcate di quanto alcuni luoghi comuni pretenderebbero, segno di una realtà linguistica varia e articolata che è opportuno monitorare.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Leggere giovane: cosa leggono i ragazzi di oggi? La richiesta e l'offerta libraria per i giovani,dal punto di vista del lavoro in biblioteca
Creators: name: Chiodi, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: L’intervento si propone di illustrare, da un punto di osservazione quale quello del bibliotecario, come si mostri il rapporto dei giovani con la lettura, quali letture preferiscano, con quali modalità essi si relazionino al libro, ed infine, quali mezzi abbia a disposizione e quali strategie metta in atto una biblioteca pubblica quale la Biblioteca Comunale “Giorgio Bassani” di Ferrara per incentivare, accrescere, coltivare e mantenere costante nel tempo l’interesse di adolescenti e ragazzi nei confronti dei libri, dalle attività di promozione della lettura alle attività didattiche svolte di concerto con le scuole e le famiglie.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
On Drawings and Drawers An Exploration
Creators: name: Malhotra, Shriya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2024

description: You might think that this is an essay examining the contents of a bed-side cabinet. But it is actually an accumulation of thoughts exploring the action and outcome of drawings, and the ways in which the act, the process, and the results both reflect and affect the person drawing: as a method of uncovering or revealing; as movement like unravelling; as open-ended cognition or the processing of thoughts; as adventure; as science; and as art. The essay concludes by briefly examining the ways in which technology has sealed the demise of a technique and process, transforming it to be at the whim of algorithms for Part 2.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 5 No 1 (2024): Dialogs: Spaces and Memories
Piccoli cronopifici crescono. Ludiche istruzioni per rigorosi giochi linguistici
Creators: name: Rizzo, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Il contributo si propone di dimostrare come un’analisi seria e rigorosa sulla lingua possa essere compiuta, a qualsiasi livello, anche attraverso gli strumenti a volte beffardi della letteratura potenziale e della ludolinguistica, divertimenti intellettuali  con origini antiche che hanno appassionato e continuano ad appassionare letterati, studiosi e generazioni di studenti di ogni grado. Nell’articolo in questione si tenterà di accrescere il già cospicuo numero di esempi di riscritture e giochi linguistici raccolti da Monica Longobardi, dilettare e, chissà, magari anche contagiare il lettore con altre prove di penna e di spirito.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
FREQUENCY DOMAIN CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTIC FLOW AND VISION-BASED OCELLAR SENSING FOR ROTATIONAL MOTION
Creators: name: Gurel, Nil Zeynep
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Electrical engineering
subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: flight stabilization
subject: ocelli
subject: optic flow
subject: rotational motion
subject: vision-based sensing

description: The structure of an animal’s eye is determined by the tasks it must perform. While vertebrates rely on their two eyes for all visual functions, insects have evolved a wide range of specialized visual organs to support behaviors such as prey capture, predator evasion, mate pursuit, flight stabilization, and navigation. Compound eyes and ocelli constitute the vision forming and sensing mechanisms of some flying insects. They provide signals useful for flight stabilization and navigation.  In contrast to the well-studied compound eye, the ocelli, seen as the second visual system, sense fast luminance changes and allows for fast visual processing. Using a luminance-based sensor that mimics the insect ocelli and a camera-based motion detection system, a frequency-domain characterization of an ocellar sensor and optic flow (due to rotational motion) are analyzed. Inspired by the insect neurons that make use of signals from both vision sensing mechanisms, advantages, disadvantages and complementary properties of ocellar and optic flow estimates are discussed.
Quando Filologia sposa Fantasia:  un carteggio "inedito" tra Chrétien de Troyes e Vázquez Montalbán
Creators: name: Zannini, Chiara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Tutta la scrittura, anzi, addirittura tutta la cultura in cui siamo immersi, non è che il risultato, per dirlo con parole di Piero Boitani, di "ri-scritture interminabili". In questo lavoro ho applicato alla lettera questa prospettiva, riscrivendo a mia volta, in un gioco a volte vertiginoso di mise en abîme, quello che nella mia fantasia può essere un processo di riscrittura. Il testo da cui sono partita è, inutile dirlo, a sua volta una ri-scrittura, quella che Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ha fatto dell’Erec et Enide di Chrétien de Troyes, ambientando una storia di cavalieri medievali ai giorni nostri e mutuando dall’autore francese anche il titolo: Erec y Enide. Sulla scorta di Dieci prove di fantasia in cui il grande Cesare Segre ha dato versioni giocose e immaginarie di tanti personaggi della Filologia Romanza, anche io ho scritto il carteggio intercorso nella mia immaginazione tra l’autore moderno e il maestro medievale. Se ho inserito nel mio lavoro filologico un gioco letterario di pura fantasia, giocando io stessa a una ri-scrittura della ri-scrittura, l’ho fatto perché mi è parso un modo solo apparentemente frivolo di immergermi nel mondo letterario evocato da due autori tanto lontani nel tempo, ma alla fine uniti quasi genealogicamente dai misteriosi percorsi di filiazione del processo creativo.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
“Al Ludo! Al Ludo!”  Appunti di scrittura creativa per la scuola primaria
Creators: name: Ghetti, Margherita
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: L’intervento descrive i criteri per un uso consapevole della ludolinguistica nella scuola primaria quale veicolo di apprendimento e approfondimento della lingua italiana. Trattandosi di scuola pubblica, la composizione delle classi (in cui sono presenti quasi in egual misura italofoni e non italofoni) e le caratteristiche socio-culturali dell’utenza costituiscono imprescindibili dati di contesto alla luce dei quali è possibile analizzare adeguatamente i risultati ottenuti. La descrizione dei processi con cui si svolgono le sedute e del lavoro di orchestrazione dell’insegnante preludono alla presentazione sintetica degli elaborati più significativi.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
La scrittura che cura: “...Ho nuotato fino alla riga”
Creators: name: Di Diodoro, Anna Giuditta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Si espone un percorso di approccio e sviluppo della pratica della scrittura fondato sul metodo di E. Bing. Il percorso didattico poi si articola attraverso alcune tipologie testuali via via più complesse presentate nel corso del triennio della scuola secondaria di primo grado anche sulle suggestioni ricevute delle pratiche di ludolinguistica illustrate in Vanvere di Monica Longobardi. L’articolo è corredato di alcuni testi prodotti dagli allievi.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Fatta di lettere, e non di mura, è la letteratura. Oulipiens a quarant’anni
Creators: name: Longobardi, Monica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Dopo aver pubblicato Vanvere, Carocci, 2011, in cui riassumeva un quarto di secolo di esperienze didattiche in ludolinguistica, Monica Longobardi chiama i vecchi allievi, oggi quarantenni, a giocare ancora con gli esercizi sperimentali e con le riscritture di un tempo.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Abstracts
Creators: name: Ghetti, Margherita
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questa sezione raccoglie gli abstracts di tutti gli articoli presenti nel numero.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Autori
Creators: name: Ghetti, Margherita
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2014

description: Questa sezione contiene le notizie bio-bibliografiche di tutti gli autori dei vari contributi.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 7 (2014): L'Italiano giovane. Dalla lettura alla riscrittura
Supervised Learning In Spiking Neural Networks For Precise Temporal Encoding
Creators: name: Gardner, Brian
name: Nichols, Eric
name: Gruning, Andre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: spiking neural network, backpropagation, learning

description: Presentation given at the Kirchhoff-Institute at University of Heidelberg.
description: {"references": ["10.1371/journal.pone.0161335", "10.1162/NECO_a_00790"]}
Supplementary document for Single-shot multispectral quantitative phase imaging of biological samples using deep learning - 6377555.pdf
Creators: name: Bhatt, Sunil
name: Butola, Ankit
name: kumar, anand
name: Thapa, Pramila
name: joshi, Akshay
name: Jadhav, Suyog
name: singh, Neetu
name: Prasad, Dilip
name: Agarwal, Krishna
name: Mehta, Dalip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary File
ReproNim: a center for reproducible neuroimaging computation to support data discovery, interoperability and replicable results
Creators: name: Kennedy, David
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation, seeks to implement a shift in the way neuroimaging research is performed and reported. Through the development and implementation of a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, Wilkinson et al., 2016) technology stack that supports a comprehensive set of data management, analysis, and utilization frameworks in support of both basic research and clinical activities, our overarching goal is to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging science and extend the value of our national investment in neuroimaging research. Reproducibility is critical because the current literature is fraught with published results that are due to mistakes or turn out to be false positive (contributed to by the lack of statistical power). More importantly, given the current publication system, it is exceedingly difficult to discern between false positive and true positive finding as data is hard to aggregate, and exact methods are hard to replicate.
RISK-BASED MULTIOBJECTIVE PATH PLANNING AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
Creators: name: Rudnick-Cohen, Eliot Sylvan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Design and Planning
subject: Design Optimization
subject: Path Planning
subject: Risk
subject: Robust Optimization
subject: UAV

description: Safe operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over populated areas requires reducing the risk posed by a UAV if it crashed during its operation.  We considered several types of UAV risk-based path planning problems and developed techniques for estimating the risk to third parties on the ground. The path planning problem requires making trade-offs between risk and flight time.  Four optimization approaches for solving the problem were tested; a network-based approach that used a greedy algorithm to improve the original solution generated the best solutions with the least computational effort.  Additionally, an approach for solving a combined design and path planning problems was developed and tested.  This approach was extended to solve robust risk-based path planning problem in which uncertainty about wind conditions would affect the risk posed by a UAV.
Sign-painting and Font-Making in a Digital Era
Creators: name: Kafeel, Painter
name: Malhotra, Shriya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Based in the narrow streets that surround Jama Masjid in old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, Kafeel explains to me that he works out of relatively a small workspace. “There’s not a lot to see here, but you can come by in the afternoon.”

 I have wanted to buy an artwork from him ever since I discovered his work, but I do not know if he has retired. “It will be a distance for me to commute to, as I am based on the peripheries of the national capital region. Its also so cold these days,” I tell him. So we decide to communicate over the phone — a way for me to both commission a work and conduct a brief interview with him.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
Neural Modulation of Leg Stiffness in Response to Neuromuscular Fatigue
Creators: name: Chu, Edward
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biomechanics
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Fatigue
subject: Joint Stiffness
subject: Leg Stiffness
subject: Locomotion
subject: Motor Control
subject: Neuromuscular

description: The spring-mass model is able to accurately represent hopping spring-like behavior (leg and joint stiffness), and leg and joint stiffness changes can reveal overall motor control responses to neural and muscular contributors of neuromuscular fatigue. By understanding leg stiffness modulation, we can determine which variables the nervous system targets to maintain motor performance and stability. The purpose of this study was to determine how neuromuscular fatigue affects hopping behavior by examining leg and joint stiffness before and after a single-leg calf raise fatiguing protocol. Post-fatigue, leg stiffness decreased for the exercised leg, but not for the non-exercised leg. Ankle and knee joint stiffness did not significantly change for either leg. This indicates that leg stiffness decreases primarily from muscular fatigue, but was not explained by ankle and knee joint stiffness. The decrease in leg stiffness may be an attempt to soften landing impact, while at the same time maintaining performance.
Painting Walls with Imagination
Creators: name: Singh, Samia
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Samia Singh is an artist and designer whose artworks overcome conventional language and communication barriers across contexts. Working across mediums, her art is rooted in themes that exhalt the natural landscape. She has had work commissioned in municipalities of Italy, Spain and in Japan. Wherever and whatever she has worked on, she leaves a spirited mark of the timelessness of natural beauty and its related feeling of joy regardless of place. Her works are broadly categorizable as fantasy-laden images and site-specific nature-scapes often inspired by the surrounding landscape and seemingly by her childhood growing up in Punjab. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
title: Intelligence Analysts And Humanities Scholars
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Software
subject: Computer science
subject: Research
subject: Scholarship

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
BasicShit
Creators: name: Collective, BasicShit
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: "In the global south - and in developing countries like India, particularly in cities – public art forms and especially design interventions have become a way of responding to the many social issues that one witnesses. While in the past, public art was largely sculptural or advertising related paintings about films and consumer products, increasingly art in the streets has taken on a critical as well as a social aspect.

BASIC SHIT is a project that has quite literally been transforming Delhi’s urban landscape for the better, ever since it began projects in 2014. It operates as a collective, a mix of scientists and artists running a social enterprise for projects in public spaces."
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
Unexpected Encounters
Creators: name: Varkey, Anpu
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Muralist Anpu Varkey’s work was a chance to inquire about questions regarding women and their vsibility in the public real. She has worked with assorted festivals and initiatives across the country, including St.Art. I asked her to write and respond to the following: 

1) What has it been like as a woman working on art in the public realm
2) Do you have any stories that illustrate your experiences working in the street
3) Were you trying to or able to challenge or dispel stereotypes through the practice and process of art
4) Pls. share how you began (aka your story and trajectory as an artist)
5) Is it important for south asian women to work on art in public space projects?  
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
title: Correspondence: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. and Harry F. Byrd, March 19, 1953-March 20, 1953
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Korea
subject: War
subject: Ammunition

description: Letter A: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm); Letter B: typescript signed, 10.5" x 8" (26.7 cm x 20.3 cm)
description: Correspondence between C. Harrison Mann, Jr. and Harry F. Byrd, Senator from Virginia, regarding fighting conditions in Korea, an ammunition shortage, and efforts in Congress to fix the situation. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Colleciton 3.01
Reflections on Working in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Wa, The
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: The Wa is a French artist, currently living in Berlin Germany.

His works have included a recycling project with glass bottles, sharing his CV in place of advertising as a way of generating work and promoting his art. He has also been actively writing graffiti in large format fonts that are more mural and less vandalism. His background as an artist from the Basque region remains intriguing because for one he does not have the same ego tagging format as most artists who have a graffiti background. He prefers to not sign his work, but in the style of the medium is the message, his works are immediately recognizable. They are also highly conceptual and witty. In this interview I asked him about working as a street artist in a developing country and the contrast to experiences of working in Europe. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
Layered Cities
Creators: name: Pilo, Dhanya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Dhanya Pilo is a pioneer in the realms of technology and spatial engagement through the arts. Before most people knew what or how to understand codes and layers or the ways in which virtual worlds interact with real ones, she was engaging with the city's walls as a community project, later making films—breaking all of the boundaries that ordinarily confine female artists. In terms of a public art practice specific to south asia, her experience and legacy of work remain unique for the ways in which she engages audiences and communities. Whether using infrastructure like walls, to paint on or screen her films, or film-making across languages, or creating site specific immersive experiences that combine music and visuals. In this interview, she reflects on her trajectory, changing interests and on being an Indian artist. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
title: Malware Detection using Federated Learning based on HPC Events and Localized Image features
Creators: name: Shukla, Sanket
name: Kolhe, Gaurav
name: Homayoun, Houman
name: Manoj P D, Sai
name: Rafatirad, Setareh
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Malware detection
subject: Machine learning
subject: Deep learning

description: Malware is a global threat and it has seen a tremendous increase as well as diversity which made threat detection and analysis a pivotal challenge to address. The increasing diversity in the malware syntax and behavior is some of the basic challenges to address for efficient malware detection. Thus, an efficient detection requires knowledge of different threats across the globe. However, it is impractical to have a signature-based detection or maintain a database with all malware signatures or syntax. To address these challenges, we propose a federated learning(FL)-based framework that aids to learn the threat features and characteristics irrespective of its origin and without breaching users' data or privacy for an enhanced and robust security of billions of devices across the globe against malware.The federated learning (FL) model obtains the models from a selected set of devices to determine the model parameters required for efficient detection of heterogeneous malware types. Further, one model that encompasses of knowledge from different models obtained from different devices is emerged, which will be further broadcasted to the individual device for efficient malware detection, despite a given device has previously encountered or trained with characteristics of the malware. For the individual devices, we deploy a two-pronged malware detection technique.In first prong, we extract the microarchitectural traces obtained while executing the application to detect traditional malware and in second prong, we introduce an automated localized feature extraction technique to detect obfuscated malware.With the proposed FL framework, we achieved 91% malware detection accuracy, irrespective of training data used at device-level. Furthermore, the proposed framework achieves up to 11% higher detection accuracy compared to the existing malware detection techniques.
Ranjit Dahiya: Decorating Walls in the City of Dreams
Creators: name: Dahiya, Ranjit
name: Malhotra, Shriya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Several years ago, while riding in the back of a yellow and black taxi from the airport into central Mumbai, my attention was caught by a burst of color in the skyline and a gigantic mural adorning the façade of the MTNL building. An image of someone famous that I was unfamiliar with, but was clearly important enough to be what the driver told me was the country’s largest mural at 20,000 sq.


 That was in 2014, before India’s election of India’s populist leader, and since then (although unrelated), Indian cities have exploded with assorted wall painting projects, festivals and initiatives. These are often acts of political appeasement and propaganda, sometimes grassroots community and civic initiatives, and always gentle reminders about hidden infrastructure, including politics.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
Distributed Duplicate Removal
Creators: name: Schlag, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Ziel der verteilten Duplikaterkennung ist die Identifikation von Elementen, welche mehrfach in einer großen, über mehrere Rechenknoten verteilten Datenmenge vorkommen. Sanders et al. [48] präsentieren einen verteilten Algorithmus, welcher dieses Problem in einer besonders kommunikationseffizienten Art und Weise löst. In einer Vorverarbeitungsphase werden mit Hilfe eines verteilten, platz-effizienten Bloom Filters zunächst möglichst viele distinkte Elemente als solche identifiziert und somit die Gesamtmenge der noch zu betrachtenden Elemente stark reduziert. Da hierbei jedoch auch falsch positive Ergebnisse auftreten, müssen alle als potentiell nicht distinkt erkannten Elemente in einer zweiten Phase noch einmal überprüft werden. Hierzu wird ein klassischer Hash-basierter Algorithmus zur verteilten Duplikaterkennung angewendet. Die vorliegende Arbeit ergänzt die theoretische Analyse durch eine praktische Evaluation. Wir erarbeiten hierzu eine effiziente Implementierung für Shared-Nothing Systeme. Besonders rechenintensive Schritte des Algorithmus werden zusätzlich durch Shared-Memory-Programmierung innerhalb eines Knotens parallelisiert. Die Ergebnisse unserer experimentellen Untersuchung untermauern die durch die Theorie vorhergesagten Vorteile des Algorithmus. Unsere Implementierung ist signifikant schneller als der am besten geeignete klassische Ansatz solange die Eingabedaten zu weniger als 50% aus Duplikaten bestehen. Wird der Algorithmus auf Datensätzen ausgeführt, die zu weniger als 10% aus Duplikaten bestehen, so ist das gesamte Kommunikationsvolumen zudem mehr als eine Größenordnung kleiner als das des klassischen Konkurrenten.
Op-ed | Re-Imagining Publics
Creators: name: Malhotra, Shriya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Guy Debord once hypothesized about a ‘society of the spectacle’ in which daily life under capitalism becomes representative of and relegated to the production of images.The ‘spectacle’ he described was not only the production of images, but the ways in which they affected relationships between people in a society.

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-highlighted the nexuses between public art, public space and public health. The ‘society of the spectacle’ as described by Debord has seemingly progressed to include a range of image-making: from protests, to performance and assorted propaganda.

Examining how three overarching disciplines relate to each other in the context of being public goods may facilitate effective local and social constructions of wellbeing in cities. This op-ed will briefly explore the interrelations of public (art, health and space).
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
Editorial
Creators: name: Malhotra, Shriya
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: The Indian subcontinent has a unique street art context rooted in traditions of everyday decorative arts, which in recent years converged with global street art and graffiti that emerged from the West. 

Thanks to information and communication tools of globalization, and the flows of people and ideas — the East and the West now encounter each other in terms of ideas and aesthetics in virtual as well as real space. 

However the contexts of street art or of art in the streets and in the public in the East is different. In the Indian subcontinent, art is often an under-appreciated and laborious economic livelihood for many. In recent years it is also hand-crafted resistance to digitization and a decolonized response to what is considered art in other places—a distinction that was rooted in a colonial exploitation. 

Art in the streets is often theatrical and image-laden. The following interviews and reflections barely scratch the surface of the rich heritage and diverse traditions behind types of performance, interventions wall art and public art forms that exist in the Indian subcontinent. It also enables a voice of critique and a way of creating a dialogue with the public.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Art in the Public Realm
An Investigation Of Roof Garden Design Criteria
Creators: name: Kurt, Selva Köroğlu
name: Canpolat, Bahar Güven
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: With the effects inflicted by irregular development and growth of built environment that started to form towards the end of the 20th century, green areas started to lose their original function and started to decrease. Higher cost of land in urban areas have led to a re-evaluation of the usable space on building roofs. Accordingly, the number of design applications the roof sections of terraces and living roof gardens has dramatically increased. This study aimed to investigate the components of a successful roof garden design. Accordingly, the roof garden design criteria were examined under three main titles of climatic, structural, and vegetal. The prestigious Zorlu Center, Kanyon, and Hilton Hotel projects, which are located close to each other in Istanbul, were chosen as the study areas. The areas were investigated by means of on-site discovery, observation, photography and video recording methods. As a result of the study, there were no serious issues regarding the use of climatic and vegetal elements, but there were some inadequacies in the design of structural elements, and furthermore, the structural element designs of the Hilton hotel were more inadequate compared to the other two projects.  
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 1 (2023): Contours of Creativity
title: Paper: Guy L. Gando, "The Quality of Life," April 23, 1984
Creators: name: Gando, Guy L.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Paper, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Paper by Guy L. Rando, of Guy L. Rando & Associates, Inc, entitled "The Quality of Life" dated April 23, 1984. In this paper, Rando discusses potential measurements for quality of life: "accessibility and availability of facilities which affect human comfort." Rando presents two models of mixed-use developments. Rando also proposes a mixed-use development, similar to "Model B" discussed in his paper, to be created in Reston, Virginia near the Dulles Access Road. Planned Community Archives Collection, 638.03.04
An Investigation Of The Use Of Water Elements In Historical Places
Creators: name: Koray, Goksu
name: Erdoğan, Gülsüm Sıla
name: Güven, Mustafa
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: This study aimed to thoroughly investigate the water elements used with the architecture of the Ottoman Period vis-a-vis the basic design criteria, from the building and garden scale to the open spaces scale in squares. The use of water elements in the Ottoman Empire was not only remarkable due to intrinsic design features and details; but also, thanks to universal design values of the period inherited from other civilizations, as a matter-of-fact water element has always been one of the focal points of the discipline of architecture throughout history. The water elements, including fountains, mosque fountains, decorative pools, public fountains, and square fountains built by architects during the Ottoman period were investigated within the scope of this study vis-a-vis the basic design criteria, considering the period of construction and all the elements that helped constitute the building identity. The water elements in question included Kaptan-ı Derya Sadrazam Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha Fountain, Gazanfer Agha Fountain, decorative pool in Topkapı Palace, Ahmet III Fountain, Hümaşah Hatun Fountain, the ornamental pool in Hasbahçe, the Hagia Sophia fountain, and the Hagia Sophia trihedral fountain. The research methodology was based on literature review using the Google database. Eight different examples from the Ottoman period that survived until today were selected, and on-site discovery, observation, and photography activities were carried out for the investigation in the scope of the study. As a result of the study, it was seen that the eight examples met the basic design criteria in terms of color, texture, material, and scale. In the context thereof, the examples featured similar design characteristics. Furthermore, there were functional differences depending on the location of the architectural water elements. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 1 (2023): Contours of Creativity
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2023

description: Welcome to the pages of Volume 4, Number 1 of the BBDS Black Book Drawing and Sketching scientific journal, where the vivid strokes of artistic expression seamlessly intertwine with the meticulous lines of scholarly exploration. This edition unfolds like a canvas, displaying an eclectic array of articles that traverse the intricate landscapes of urban spaces, landscape design, historical restoration, water elements, roof gardens, and the symbiotic relationship between sculpture and photography.

As you immerse yourself in the pages of this volume, we invite you to appreciate the richness of these scholarly contributions. The BBDS Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal remains a vibrant canvas where the strokes of academia blend seamlessly with the creativity of the artistic realm, fostering a deeper understanding of the intricate tapestry that is the art and science of drawing and sketching.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 4 No 1 (2023): Contours of Creativity