cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary material of the study “Unveiling the Landscape of System Thinking Modeling Tools Use in Software Engineering"
Creators: name: Authors, The
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461203
subject: Formal methods for software

description: Context: Software organizations involve several processes, people, practices, culture, and other factors that affect their behavior. Understanding the organizational environment is crucial for improving processes and products. System Thinking (ST) provides several tools that help in this matter. ST views an organization as a system, comprising elements and interconnections coherently organized in a structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviors. Objective: Given ST's successful application in different areas of industry and academia, and its potential to address Software Engineering (SE) problems, we decided to investigate how ST modeling tools have been used in SE. Our goal is to provide a panorama of the use of such tools in SE, identify gaps, and shine a light on research opportunities. Method: We carried out a systematic literature mapping, analyzing 704 publications. From these, we identified 10 publications addressing the use of ST modeling tools in SE and conducted an in-depth analysis. Results: ST modeling tools have been employed to tackle SE issues in organizational contexts and to model and analyze the results of SE studies. Project Management and Requirements Engineering have been the most common processes in which these tools have been applied. ST modeling tools have helped get a holistic view of complex systems and identify strategies to address problematic behaviors that affect SE outcomes. Causal loop diagrams, depicting cause-and-effect relationships and feedback loops, have been the predominant tool. The lack of knowledge necessary for using the tools has been a challenge. Conclusion: In summary, the results indicate that using ST tools in SE holds promise. Nevertheless, they also suggest that ST modeling tools have been underexplored in SE. Hence, further investigation into their potential for enhancing SE products and processes is warranted.
"You Ain't Got No Blueprint on It": How Discovery Channel's Moonshiners Re-Presents and Revises Southern Appalachian Cultural Memory
Creators: name: Vines, Kelly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis investigates how performers on the television show Moonshiners challenge essentialist characterizations of the Appalachian South as a counterpoint to American nationalism. While many may believe that Moonshiners? producers merely exploit regional identity to attract audiences, the performers claim a southern Appalachian heritage while redefining what it means to be a southern Appalachian person in the present moment. Furthermore, while the show relies on an imagined past South to create a genealogy that renders performers the authentic inheritors of moonshining?s cultural history, performers present a modern-day Appalachian South that participates in the national economy. Ultimately, my thesis explores how characters on the show use reality television to revise their audiences? understanding of southern Appalachian people as ?pre- or anti-modern,? encouraging audiences to recognize that while southern Appalachians still revere their cultural history, they adapt that cultural history to each new context.
Samuel Butler's Ernest Pontifex, or The Way of All Flesh:  Evolution, Religion, and Wealth
Creators: name: Mills, Carla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: In The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903 but written during the years 1873-1884, Samuel Butler presents his Victorian world as one in crisis, unhinged by recent scientific developments. Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859 and effectively undercut most religious and theological belief structures with his argument that all species evolved gradually over time from a common ancestor. If this is so, how could the Bible's story of creation be true? Samuel Butler incorporates terminology of evolution and develops his own evolutionary views in response to Charles Darwin's throughout the novel. Butler's protagonist, Ernest Pontifex, exemplifies the evolutionary process in a bildungsroman-style text to implicitly suggest Butler's belief that man cannot successfully adapt to his environment without wealth. Indeed, wealth can be seen as a sort of religion for Butler's protagonist, replacing the position God formerly held as that which was to be worshipped.
The Horrific 'Mother/ Monster' and the Spaces Between in Ridley Scott's Alien and James Cameron's Aliens
Creators: name: Nicholson, Terri
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Despite the wealth of scholarship on the films in the Alien series, the first two films connect the most to the universe created in the original film and effectively complete the primary narrative arc for the series hero, Ellen Ripley. A preponderance of the research offered on the Alien film series focuses on Ripley, the iconic xenomorphs, and their Alien Queen. However, I also explore the roles of other liminal characters in the films, such as synthetic humans Ash and Bishop. Addressing the recurring motifs in the films, I discuss the sliding signifier of "mother" and track how the signifier ?child? undergoes many other interesting distinctions. The outcomes of the liminal beings and the mother/ child relationships provide another range of perspectives for analyzing these films. Furthermore, the Weyland-Yutani company exemplifies one of the more powerful motifs of the film: the power of corporations and governments to define our bodies.
NeuroRhetoric(s) and NeuroComposition: Foundational Questions for Future Research
Creators: name: Manfredi, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis aspires to give voice to Jordynn Jack and L. Greggory Appelbaum?s call for more research in Neurorhetorics. The first chapter reviews the pertinent literature encompassing what is titled, ?The Rhetoric of Science,? noting appropriate concepts, arguments, and theories. The second chapter provides an introduction to fundamental ideas in Neuroscience and connects them to possible concepts and concerns within Rhetoric and Composition, raising questions for future consideration.
The New Negro Teaches Writing: G. David Houston's Activist Rhetoric at Howard University
Creators: name: Relerford, Jimisha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This study contributes to a growing body of localized institutional microhistories that recover rhetorical education at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). My research analyzes the pedagogically-focused scholarship of G. David Houston, a Howard University professor and chair of the Department of English during the New Negro movement of the early twentieth century. Using Susan Kates?s concept of activist rhetorics as a heuristic, this study shows that Houston?s work exemplifies an embodied pedagogy that responds directly to Howard University?s unique institutional, historical, and social location.
The Impact of the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 on the Discourse on Womanhood
Creators: name: Logan, Pamela
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, traditional discourses on Southern womanhood were being challenged by the women?s movement, industrialization that increased female employment, and many other social forces. The increased agency of women and burgeoning black financial autonomy challenged white male paternalism, and in response, Southern white men filled newspapers with rhetoric that accused black males of raping white women and instigated racial violence. Such rhetoric, which encouraged white women to fear black men and depend on white men for protection, was used to initiate the Atlanta riot of 1906. However, instead of retreating to their homes for protection, many women published confident and coherent responses to the riot. After the riot, newspapers were reprimanded for publishing incendiary editorials, and they instead presented new images of Southern women with greater agency. This more stratified representation suggests that the riot had a subtle impact on the discourse on Southern white womanhood.
Metonymic Modes of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and David Foster Wallace's "The Suffering Channel": A Metonymic Nose to Sniff out the Empathetic Shit
Creators: name: Fentem, Donald
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis argues that Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace attempt to incorporate empathy throughout their fiction in order to induce empathy in their audiences, particularly in Rushdie?s novel Midnight?s Children and Wallace?s short story ?The Suffering Channel.? While both authors incorporate similar techniques respective of their conceptual styles (i.e. postcolonial, postmodern, post-postmodern styles), the defining characteristic between them is metonymy. By establishing the metonymical characteristics of empathy in contrast to the metaphorical characteristics of sympathy, I also explore the metonymic disconnections between Rushdie and Wallace in terms of metaphor, mimesis, and metafiction.
We Might Have Power
Creators: name: Michelman, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This collection contains an exploration of power through poetry. It will address issues such as religion, social hierarchies, education, athletics and family. Many of the poems written in first person examine the poet?s personal experiences as a child, a teacher, and a coach. Though most of the poems in the collection are written in free verse, a handful of poems are structured using traditional form and meter.
Brachycyrtus Kriechbaumer 1880
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Brachycyrtus

description: 3.1 Genus Brachycyrtus Kriechbaumer, 1880
Brachycyrtus Kriechbaumer, 1880: 161–162.
Type species Brachycrytus ornatus Kriechbaumer, 1880, by original monotypy.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions one undescribed species for the extreme north of Chile, in Región de Arica y Parinacota.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Capital Sandbox: Fantasy and the Mechanics of Form in Fallout 3
Creators: name: Seidl, Christopher
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The ?sandbox? video game is typically defined, with reference to its childhood namesake, in terms of non-linearity and freedom of choice.  However, in Fallout 3, the ?free-form? quality of gameplay is compromised in advance by the very mechanics that are supposed to enable the sandbox in the first place.  While the player may choose a variety of playstyles and outcomes, the selection of choices is nevertheless limited.  Likewise, the leveling and quest forms of play, together with the narrative resurgence of capitalism within a supposedly post-apocalyptic universe, stage the return of linearity and of filmic logic.  This return, anticipated by analyses of ideological interpellation put forth by Barthes, Lacan, Baudrillard, and ?i?ek, is accompanied by a radical alienation of the player?s agency, which, once ejected into the computer simulation, lives on in an uncanny, autonomous universe that does not even need the player?s active input in order to continue running.
Should We Be Worried about Smartphone Addiction? An Examination of Canadian Adolescents’ Feelings of Social Disconnection in the Time of COVID-19
Creators: name: Parent, Natasha
name: Xiao, Bowen
name: Hein-Salvi, Claire
name: Shapka, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: As the COVID-19 global pandemic limited face-to-face social contact, mental health concerns increased for adolescents. Additionally, many adolescents turned to technology to communicate with their peers, which also raised concerns about adolescent smartphone addiction. However, research has yet to examine how mental health and technology engagement are related to adolescents’ feelings of social connection—an important developmental predictor of wellbeing across the lifespan. Specifically, little is known regarding the relative risk of adolescents’ mental health concerns, a known risk factor for social disconnection and isolation and smartphone addiction in contributing to feelings of social disconnection in the time of COVID-19. The present study investigated how mental health outcomes and smartphone addiction contributed to Canadian adolescents’ (n = 1753) feelings of social disconnection during COVID-19. Between October 2020 and May 2021, data were collected from five secondary schools in and around the lower mainland of British Columbia using an online-administered self-report questionnaire. Adolescents responded to questions about their smartphone addiction, internalizing problems, and an open-ended question about their feelings of connection to others. Findings from logistic regression analyses indicated that depression was a predictor of feeling socially disconnected: however, smartphone addiction was not associated with feelings of social disconnection during COVID-19. Implications of these findings can help inform the development of prevention programs targeting adolescents at risk for social disconnection in times of increased social isolation (e.g., a global pandemic). Specifically, these findings suggest that adolescents higher in depressive symptoms, and not those higher in smartphone addiction, are the ones most at risk.
A Transnational Perspective On Vietnam War Narratives of The U.S. and South Korea
Creators: name: Kim, Na Rae
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Despite the fact that many countries participated in the Vietnam War, their war stories tend to marginalize one another. In this study, I use a transnationalist critical lens to compare the ethnocentric stories of the U.S. and South Korea. Instead of presenting transnationalism as a focus on the changes that arise through travel between different cultures, I rely on another meaning of transnationalism as a form of consciousness. In order to compare differing perspectives on the Vietnam War as represented in the U.S. and South Korea, I compare Tim O?Brien?s In the Lake of the Woods and Suk-Yong Hwang?s The Shadow of Arms, based on the writing style of the texts, the shared theme of friendly fire, and representation of the My Lai massacre. As a result, this comparison challenges readers in each nation to recognize perspectives on the Vietnam War which they may have missed.
The Prophetic Chronotope and the Sexual Revolution in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans
Creators: name: Walker, Timothy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis examines the role of the prophetic chronotope as a form of alternate, circular time in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein?s gothic romance, The Mysteries of New Orleans. As the novel?s temporal structure seemingly contains the professed slave revolution through a manipulation of a linear prophetic sequence into circular time, Reizenstein simultaneously portrays a sexual revolution within the closed temporal system; however, as he localizes the sexual revolution in the ?real time? of the reader through the inclusion of extra-textual artifacts, the novel?s closed system of alternate, circular time sustains a fissure, loosing all revolutionary potential, slave and sexual, into the reader?s temporality. Reizenstein compares sexual slavery, social restrictions on sexual expression, to chattel slavery, but recognizes it as endemic form of bondage affecting every race; therefore, Reizenstein uses chattel slavery as a ubiquitous circumstance in the U.S. South to identify other covert forms of slavery. In the end, the slave and sexual revolutions become the same conflict, and the restoration of beauty becomes its primary aim.
The Schizophrenic Warrior: Exploring Agl?ca in the Old English Corpus
Creators: name: Robinson, Danielle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis attempts to create a more comprehensive catalogue of the appearance of the word agl?ca throughout the Old English corpus. While the majority of these instances of the word appear in Beowulf, it also appears in such texts as Christ and Satan, Juliana, The Whale, Andreas, Daniel, Elene, and several of the Riddles from The Exeter Book. While Klaeber?s widely accepted binary glossing of ?warrior/monster? is usually perfectly functional for translation, it is worth examining all instances of the word in attempt to better understand what the word would have meant to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon audience. A glossing that indicates ?formidable adversary,? with the understanding that a figure characterized as agl?ca exhibits a specific set of traits ? strength, aggression, and skill ? without commentary on that figure?s ethical makeup.
How the Performances, Song Lyrics, and Activism of the Indigo Girls Demonstrate the Mutable Composition of Southern Identity
Creators: name: Law, Alison
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: A common misconception about the southern region of the United States is that any one part of the region can stand alone as an accurate representation of the territory as a whole. To refute any notion of a homogeneous South and demonstrate the dynamic nature of an individual or community identity, I examine the history, song lyrics, performances, and activism of the folk-rock duo the Indigo Girls and their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. This project applies the theories of locational feminism found in Susan Stanford Friedman?s Mappings and New Southern Studies in Tara McPherson?s text Reconstructing Dixie. Analyzing the biographies, song lyrics, performances, and activism of the Indigo Girls as an archive of southern literature allows us to understand the fluid, multiplex nature of regional identity and view Atlanta as one ?borderland? in a heterogeneous U.S. South.
Hostages in Old English Literature
Creators: name: Bird, Melissa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: ?Hostages in Old English Literature? examines the various roles that hostages have played in Anglo-Saxon texts, specifically focusing on the characterization of ?scferth in The Battle of Maldon.  Historical context is considered in order to contextualize behavioral expectations that a 10th century Anglo-Saxon audience might have held.  Since the poem was composed during the reign of ?thelred the Unready, an examination of hostages and incidents recorded in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle during his rule helps ground a socio-cultural approach.  Furthermore, since ?scferth is among only a handful of named hostages in Old English literature, these other hostages have been analyzed and compared with him in order to further contextualize the hostage character.  These hostages have been identified based on a broadened concept of the term ?hostage? to include the social expectations of a medieval stranger.  Through a consideration of these other hostages, a continuum for changing hostage loyalty emerges and reflects the evolving warrior ethics at the end of the 10th century.  Based on the presented evidence, this thesis concludes that ?scferth, as a hostage, best symbolizes The Battle of Maldon?s call for English unity at the end of the 10th century.
Campoctonus Viereck 1912
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Campoctonus

description: 4.1 Genus Campoctonus Viereck, 1912
Campoctonus Viereck, 1912: 633.
Type species Limneria corrupta Cresson, 1872, by original designation.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions one unidentified species from Región de Valparaíso.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
English in the Margins: Cajun Literacy Communities in Bec Doux et ses amis
Creators: name: Jakobeit, Samantha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis, I will explore the dual language Cajun-French and English comic strip, Bec Doux et ses amis, in terms of its value within the literacy communities of southwest Louisiana. I will claim that the text subverts the established power dynamics which existed between the American English speakers, the unreconstructed Cajuns, and the bilingual Cajun French and English speaking communities through the use of text placement and trickster figures.
Moby-Dick as Proto-Modernist Prophecy
Creators: name: Harrell, Randall
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This project relies on two main bodies of work: the text and reception history of Moby-Dick. I argue that the novel?s prophetic insights unfold in its failure and resurrection. The reception history consists of early reviewers, biographers, and critics both hailing and discounting Moby-Dick?s literary value. The first section, ?Proto-Modernist Melville: Specific Difficulty in Moby-Dick,? explores the peculiar difficulty inherent in the text of Moby-Dick, namely its divergent, evasive, and hieroglyphic properties. Chapter 2, ?Reception: Nineteenth-Century Failure and Modernist Success,? chronicles the novel?s reception history, focusing largely on the critics of twentieth-century modernism. In ?Moby-Dick as Prophetic Anticipation and Fulfillment,? I examine the link between the inherent difficulty found within Moby-Dick and its reception history. I propose that Melville?s novel theorizes its prophetic anticipation of literary modernism as well as Melville?s own authorial failure and redemption narrative.
First Light
Creators: name: Carson, Judith
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The poetry in this book is primarily about my life?where I grew up, Texas, and all the extraordinary places to which life has led me, such as Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, and Wales. The wonders of nature?light (stars, moon, sun), water, and the lay of the land, whether desert or forest, have also influenced my writing.
Close Enough to Burn
Creators: name: Sullivan, Bethany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Drawing upon autobiographical experiences and the traditions of confessional and narrative lyric poetry, this original collection of poems seeks to explore emotional genealogies. More specifically, this collection is broken into sections that map out the dissolution of a family, a lineage of womanhood within a family, initial forays into romantic love, and the grief evoked by all of these factors.
Love on the Stage, War on the Page: Evaluating the Role of War Trauma in How I Learned to Drive
Creators: name: Hull, Deborah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Psychological traumas surface in Paula Vogel?s portrayal of Li?l Bit and Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive (1997). Theorizing Peck?s fixation on Li?l Bit is necessitated by his drive to recapture his innocence?an innocence he lost as a young man during WWII?this thesis will seek to explain how Drive can be viewed as a love story by revealing the motivations behind Li?l Bit?s sympathy for Uncle Peck. Recognizing war trauma as the fundamental catalyst for both the action and the tone of the play situates Drive in a territory not yet explored. Furthermore, this thesis will explore the dubious relationship between war-traumatized veterans and pedophilic tendencies by examining this theme in other literature, particularly, J.D. Salinger?s ?For Esm??with Love and Squalor? (1950) and Vladimir Nabokov?s Lolita (1955), thus, placing Drive at the nexus in which American drama and war literature coalesce.
Copelatus caelatipennis subsp. fragilis Sharp X 1882
Creators: name: Arce-Pérez, Roberto
name: Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Copelatus
Copelatus caelatipennis
Copelatus caelatipennis fragilis sharp, 1882

description: Copelatus caelatipennis fragilis Sharp, 1882
 Distribution in MeXico: Nayarit, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz (Arce-PÉrez and Morón 2017; Arce-PÉrez and Roughley 1999).
 Collection Dates: 28. III.97 (10 specimens), 30.IV.97 (23 specimens), 18. V.97 (36 specimens), 26. VI.97 (61 specimens), 30. VII.97 (37 specimens), 28. VIII.97 (48 specimens), 21.IX.97 (83 specimens), 30.X.97 (93 specimens), 16.XI.97 (119 specimens), 7. XII.97 (45 specimens), 11.I.98 (60 specimens), 22.II.98 (10 specimens).
description: Published as part of Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo, 2021, The Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) from the Miradores Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico, pp. 815-831 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on page 818, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.815, http://zenodo.org/record/13251693
The Three Merry Wives of Windsor
Creators: name: Marciniak, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Current scholarship on Shakespeare?s The Merry Wives of Windsor mostly focuses on topics surrounding Sir John Falstaff?s presence, mythical allusions, and the questionable date of publication. Although their actions are the driving force of the play, the woman frontrunners, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, receive little scholarship attention. Anne Page, daughter of Mistress Page and wife of Fenton, also dictates the course of the play by taking control of her betrothal. Yet she remains underappreciated in scholarship. This thesis highlights important characteristics of all three wives of Windsor in addition to justifying Anne Page?s role as a wife of Windsor. Through close readings of the text and analyses of scholarship immediately relevant to these wives and common attributes of women in Renaissance England and Shakespeare plays, I argue these strong, multifaceted women refute stereotypical female roles and undermine patriarchal authority aligning themselves with other idolized outspoken woman characters in Shakespeare plays.
Internal exposure of young German adults to di(2-propylheptyl) phthalate (DPHP): Trends in 24-h urine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank 1999-2017
Creators: name: Schmidtkunz, Christoph
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Gries, Wolfgang
name: Weber, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Expositionsabschätzung
Umweltprobenbank

description: Di(2-propylheptyl) phthalate (DPHP) is used as a substitute for high molecular weight phthalates like di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) which were subjected to authorization under REACh in 2015. An earlier study on the time trend of exposure in human 24-h urine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank has revealed that metabolites of DPHP emerged in 2009 and 2012 (Schütze et al., 2015). In order to better assess a potential trend and the present state of exposure to DPHP, we now measured 180 urine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank, 60 per year, collected in 2011, 2014 and 2017, randomized and blinded before analysis. Together with the previously analyzed samples, data for a total of 480 samples covering 19 years from 1999 to 2017 was thus generated. We were able to show that DPHP exposure of the studied population, university students from Münster (Northwestern Germany), has remained essentially constant since 2011, after a rapid increase starting around 2009. Even so, urinary metabolite concentrations were always in the low ppb or sub-ppb range, indicating that DPHP exposure of the general population is substantially lower than for other modern plasticizers, and far below levels currently regarded as critical. DPHP is a plasticizer which is mostly used in non-sensitive applications with little probability of close contact to humans. Still, we observed how temporal trends of DPHP exposure largely follow trends of DPHP consumption in the Western European market. Our results hence demonstrate the potential of biomonitoring to sensitively detect the effects of industrial product strategy on the environment, even when biomarkers are present only at trace level. © 2019 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
"The eyes of judgment": Prejudice, Misperception, and Sexuality in The Roaring Girl
Creators: name: Wroble, Donna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Existing scholarship on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker?s The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse primarily focuses on the title character and her unconventional gender presentation. This highlighting of Moll deemphasizes the other intriguing aspects of the play, including its thematic concerns involving issues of prejudice, reputation, gender, class, marriage, and sexuality. This thesis takes the spotlight off of Moll and shines it instead on a selection of other significant characters?including Sir Alexander Wengrave, Sebastian Wengrave, Mary Fitzallard, and a grouping of minor characters who have earned this play its designation as a city comedy: Laxton, Goshawk, the Openworks, and the Gallipots.
Associations between Body Composition and Vitamin D Status in Children with Overweight and Obesity Participating in a 1-Year Lifestyle Intervention
Creators: name: Kasvis, Popi
name: Cohen, Tamara R.
name: Loiselle, Sarah-Ève
name: Hazell, Tom J.
name: Vanstone, Catherine A.
name: Weiler, Hope A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Background: To examine associations between body composition and vitamin D status in children participating in a lifestyle intervention. Methods: Children (6–12 y, n = 101) with a body mass index (BMI)-for-age >85th percentile were randomized to six dietitian-led behavior counselling sessions or no intervention. Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), anthropometry, and body composition using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry were assessed every 3 months for 1 year. For each anthropometry variable (z-scores), tertiles were created to test for differences in 25(OH)D over time (tertile-by-time), and for changes in the z-score (loss, maintain, gain)-by-time, and according to fat patterning (android vs. gynoid) using mixed effects models. Results: The baseline plasma 25(OH)D was 62.2 nmol/L (95%CI: 58.7–65.7), and none < 30 nmol/L. At 6 mo, children with gynoid fat patterning had higher 25(OH)D concentrations than in those with android fat patterning (64.5 ± 1.1 nmol/L vs. 50.4 ± 1.0 nmol/L, p < 0.003, Cohen’s f = 0.20). Children with the lowest lean mass index z-score at 9 mo had higher plasma 25(OH)D concentrations than children with the highest z-score at baseline, 3 mo, and 6 mo (p < 0.05, Cohen’s f = 0.20). No other significant differences were observed. Conclusion: In this longitudinal study, vitamin D deficiency was not present in children 6–12 y of age with obesity. Reductions in adiposity did not alter the vitamin D status.
Triad
Creators: name: Neal, Kelly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Alison, the protagonist, is a 21-year-old cello student from Northwest Ohio who studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Although she comes from a conservative Methodist upbringing, Alison has turned away from her beliefs and entered into a polyamorous relationship with Luke, a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, and his wife Cheryl. Through this relationship, Alison has been able to explore her nascent bisexuality and enjoy the affection she has been denied by her reticent mother and absent father. While the members of the triad hold lofty principles about openness and trust, the practice of that relationship?and its ever-shifting unwritten rules?fail to live up to their ideals.
Copelatus debilis Sharp X 1882
Creators: name: Arce-Pérez, Roberto
name: Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Copelatus
Copelatus debilis

description: Copelatus debilis Sharp, 1882
 Distribution in MeXico: Hidalgo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Veracruz (Arce-PÉrez and Roughley 1999).
 Collection Dates: 28. III.97 (9 specimens), 30.IV.97 (2 specimens), 18. V.97 (12 specimens), 26. VI.97 (4 specimens), 30. VII.97 (4 specimens), 28. VIII.97 (12 specimens), 21.IX.97 (13 specimens), 30.X.97 (6 specimens), 16.XI.97 (6 specimens), 7. XII.97 (4 specimens), 11.I.98 (2 specimens), 22.II.98 (1 specimen).
description: Published as part of Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo, 2021, The Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) from the Miradores Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico, pp. 815-831 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on pages 818-819, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.815, http://zenodo.org/record/13251693
Ophelia doesn't live here any more
Creators: name: Verhagen, Darrin
name: Schlusser, Daniel
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation

description: BACKGROUND
Ophelia Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an innovative exploration of various creative media, theatrical forms, musical styles and performance. Schlusser is an experimental dramaturg accused less of "reinterpreting classic texts, but rather blowing them up". My composition for this sound art repurposing of Hamlet fused ambient, industrial, classical, choral and sound design approaches to the score. The production itself merged domestic realism with hyperintense stylisation. The work was based in an opulent Armadale kitchen, with the two main protagonists augmented by video mapped projection, a shibari (Japanese rope) dancer, the Victorian Opera children's choir, a swimming pool and 200 onions.

Aims:
- To explore the sonic possibilities for creative subversion of the Operatic form and Shakespearian content.
- To explore the methods through which sound can frame the experience for the audience, and can bleed, smudge and transmute borders between realism and artifice to achieve certain resonances through juxtaposition

2. CONTRIBUTION
An innovative experiment to challenge the form. Interestingly, the domestic setting (as opposed to a traditional proscenium arch) led to an opportunity of providing a more cinematic permission for sound design "realism" which would have been difficult to execute in a theatre. Sound, therefore, became the cruicial mechanism for moving between the 'authentication' of domestic space and a monstrous theatricality of surrealism. Cinematic sound design, operatic excess, compositions which infested the diegesis with their own sense of space, and the use of 'invisible' music versus material with a performative residue were all employed. All of these became mechanisms to shift audience perspectives more delicately yet deliberately than I've seen in previous contemporary opera.

3. SIGNIFICANCE
- Commissioned by Chamber Made Opera and Bell Shakespeare Company's "Mind's Eye".
- Sold out season, critically acclaimed.
Campoletis Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Campoletis

description: 4.2 Genus Campoletis Förster, 1869
Campoletis Förster, 1869: 157.
Type species Mesoleptus tibiator Cresson, 1864, by subsequent monotypy in Houghton (1907: 89).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
The Rhetoric of the iPhone:  A Cultural Gateway Of Our Transforming Digital Paradigm
Creators: name: Rose, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The metaphors ?tipping point? and ?paradigm shift? are used to describe the moments surrounding social and scientific changes; however, I argue that in examining changes in culture and communication, the role of technology suggests the need for a new metaphor. Weaving together cultural studies, digital rhetoric and technology theories, I offer a complimentary metaphor, the cultural gateway, defined as specific artifacts that are simultaneously familiar and strange, providing a comfortable bridge between ?before and after.? This thesis posits that the iPhone behaves as such a gateway to our current, fully mobile paradigm, and has changed the face of everyday composition. Employing the circuit of culture, I examine evidence found in early media accounts of iPhone?s impact, literacy narratives that name smartphones and iPhones as literacy agents, and early advertising. Investigations suggest that these quotidian artifacts have additional, unintended purposes that are quite human and intrinsic to our ordered realities.
(Dis)Continuous Beings: Sadean Sexual Aesthetics in the Work of John Hawkes
Creators: name: Baughman, Emma
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Guided by Simone de Beauvoir?s famous essay ?Must We Burn Sade? in which she highlights Sade?s ability to recognize the relationship of the erotic act to human existence, this thesis seeks to observe Sade?s influence on the work of the high-postmodernist writer, John Hawkes. Although Hawkes has largely been left out of the recent conversations regarding postmodernism, I believe that the explicit and often aberrant sexuality depicted in his work demonstrates an understanding of the potential for sexuality to communicate the socio-cultural issues important to a society and merits Hawkes?s inclusion in the postmodern canon.
Rhantus gutticollis
Creators: name: Arce-Pérez, Roberto
name: Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Rhantus
Rhantus gutticollis

description: Rhantus gutticollis (Say, 1830)
 Distribution in MeXico: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Ciudad de MÉxico, Coahuila, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango, Estado de MÉxico, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, QuerÉtaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas (Arce-PÉrez and Roughley 1999).
 Collection Dates: 21.IX.97 (1 specimen), 7.XII.97 (1 specimen).
description: Published as part of Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo, 2021, The Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) from the Miradores Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico, pp. 815-831 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on page 818, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.815, http://zenodo.org/record/13251693
By the Grace of Joyce, the Brute is Freed: Brutish Bodies, Munificent Minds, and Liberating Language Within Dubliners
Creators: name: Fowkes, Julie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: My thesis examines Dubliners through the lens of Rene Descartes?s mind-body dualism to explain the relationship between contrasting themes in the text and demonstrate how they are connected. In an explication of the three words introduced by Joyce in the introductory paragraph of the first story in his collection, namely paralysis, gnomon, and simony, linking them with their more subtle but equally significant antonymic themes, which I propose are progression, epiphany, and grace, I show that Joyce was as compassionate as he was contemptuous of his countrymen. I propose that recognizing this balance helps us better understand what Joyce may have meant by making no apology for the brute-like spectacle he projects in his nicely polished looking-glass. Moreover, I argue that Dubliners serves as a fictional canvas upon which Joyce projects his dream of an Ireland that can transcend the tedium-inducing confines of its past.
HADISLARDA VA'Z-NASIHAT VA ULARNING AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Mambetov Jasurbek Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti Samarqand filliali KI 24-04 guruh talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada hadislarda vaz va nasihatlarning o‘rni va ahamiyati o‘rganiladi. Hadislar musulmonlar uchun asosiy ma’naviy va axloqiy manba bo‘lib, ular insonlarni to‘g‘ri yo‘lga yetaklash, yaxshi xulq-atvorni shakllantirish va jamiyatda ijobiy muhitni yaratishga xizmat qiladi. Vaz-nasihat orqali hadislarda berilgan ko‘rsatmalar musulmon jamiyatining axloqiy va madaniy taraqqiyotiga katta ta’sir ko‘rsatgan. Maqolada hadislarning tarbiyaviy roliga, vaz-nasihatlarning shakllari va ularning kundalik hayotdagi ahamiyatiga alohida e’tibor qaratiladi.
On The Local Level: Rethinking Grammar and The Role of Editing in Writing Centers
Creators: name: Carter, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The discussion regarding how to address requests for help with grammar and sentence-level concerns has been an ongoing conversation throughout writing center literature. The general consensus among administrators and tutor-scholars within in the field is to move away from a product-oriented focus towards one that is more process-oriented, preferring to prioritize writers over their writing. In response to this literature, and in an attempt to move away from the ?repair center? stigma, writing centers often incorporate policies on their websites that negate editing and proofreading services. This thesis explores the messages that these policies send to students and offers a compromise in regards to how writing centers should approach requests for help with sentence-level concerns, suggesting three different grammar-based sessions. This compromise would provide students with the grammar knowledge they may be missing in order to become better writers and stronger editors.
A Frequency-Based Model Hierarchy within Cislunar Space
Creators: name: Park, Beom
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 510901
subject: Astrodynamics and space situational awareness

description: Understanding the applicability and limitations of different dynamical models within the cislunar domain remains a fundamental challenge in astrodynamics. The current investigation presents a unified, frequency-based framework for organizing and interpreting spacecraft dynamics by constructing a hierarchy of dynamical models within a common rotating reference frame. Within this formulation, the Higher-Fidelity Ephemeris Model (HFEM) is expressed as a quasi-periodically perturbed system, extending the baseline Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP) through the inclusion of multiple time-dependent frequencies: most notably, the anomalistic, synodic, and draconic frequencies. To support model selection and interpretation, a set of intermediate models is evaluated based on the types and number of frequencies they incorporate. Analytical tools are developed to identify dominant perturbations and to characterize the resulting behaviors within the hierarchy. These findings are validated through numerical investigations that track the evolution of CR3BP structures across different models. The geometric and spectral characteristics of Lagrange points and periodic orbits are examined across the hierarchy and into the HFEM. As a focused application, the Earth-Moon L2 halo region is investigated in detail, with particular attention to transition-challenging behaviors that arise when moving directly from CR3BP to the HFEM. Within this region, the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem (ER3BP) is demonstrated to effectively capture dominant perturbations and provide insight into bifurcation behavior and quasi-periodic motion. Collectively, the results provide a structured approach for selecting and leveraging dynamical models of varying fidelity and for improving the interpretability and robustness of cislunar trajectory design.
'Coupling the Auditory Self : objects, time and awareness' and 'The presence of sounds: an interview with Daniel Teruggi'
Creators: name: Harvey, Lawrence
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Sound art is fast gaining international prominence as evidenced by sound installation artist Susan Philipsz being awarded the 2010 Turner Prize and major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2013. Sound Bites City, which showcased RMIT's new Sound Art Collection (the first of its kind in Australia), contributes to the discipline's new prominence. The inaugural exhibition was accompanied by a 20-page catalogue, 'Sound Bites City The RMIT Sound Art Collection'. Vice chancellor Margaret Gardner wrote the foreword and Lawrence Harvey wrote two essays. He was also responsible for the computer graphic on the cover. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Harvey's essay and interview (with Daniel Teruggi, director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris) explored the distinct ways spatial sound works engage with audiences. Spatial sound exhibitions are unique forms of spatial practice providing listening experiences unavailable in the home, over the net, in cinemas or concert halls. Without the crutch of visual stimulus sound engages our listening imagination in ways not possible through visual stimulus. As accompaniments to the exhibition, the essays set the scene inviting audiences to slow down and spend extended periods with the works. One essay provided a guide for audiences on how they might experience non-visual art in a gallery. Both explained why it is important to expand our aural awareness. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The Sound Bites City exhibition launched RMIT's sound art collection. Both events are the first of their kind in Australia and the accompanying catalogue (ISBN: 9780980771060) was an important companion. Over five weeks, 3815 people visited (see exhibition report), including the 299 who came on opening night. The significance of the exhbition was further demonstrated by media coverage including 'The Age' (Penny Webb, 5 October 2013); 'Melbourne Review' (Evelyn Tsitas, 'The Fine Art of Listening', Sept 2013).
Campoletis sonorensis
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Campoletis
Campoletis sonorensis

description: 4.2.1 Campoletis sonorensis (Cameron, 1886)
Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical; Chile: Región Metropolitana (Machuca et al. 1988).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657