cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
KI in der Praxis: Echtzeit Analysen und Zusammenfassungen
Creators: name: Sexauer, Andreas
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2025
Subjects: Learntec
LLM
Generative KI
Workshop
Methode
Automatic Transkription

description: Im Workshop zeige ich Ihnen, wie Sie mit Hilfe von KI-Technologien Diskussionen und Beiträge auf Veranstaltungen live analysieren und zusammenfassen können. Diese innovative Methode bereichert nicht nur die Durchführung Ihrer Events, sondern ermöglicht es Ihnen, die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse bereits während der Veranstaltung in die weiteren Diskussionen einzubinden.
Während des Workshops werden wir gemeinsam den gesamten Prozess praktisch durchlaufen. So können Sie die Methoden später selbstständig und flexibel anwenden, angepasst an Ihre spezifischen Bedürfnisse.
Zunächst diskutieren wir an Thementischen über mögliche Rollen von KI-generierten Analysen in Ihren eigenen Veranstaltungen und sich daraus ergebende Chancen und Risiken.
Diese Diskussionen nehmen wir dabei als Audio auf. Anschließend werden wir in einer gemeinsamen, praktischen Übung mit allgemein verfügbarer KI-Software diese Aufzeichnungen zusammenfassen und analysieren.

Der Workshop legt besonderen Wert auf Aspekte der Transparenz, des Datenschutzes, und Nachvollziehbarkeit des KI-Prozesses. Wir reflektieren die Qualität der Ergebnisse, ethische Fragestellungen sowie Chancen und Risiken der Technologie. Darüber hinaus betrachten wir das Veränderungspotential, das sich durch den Einsatz von KI in Veranstaltungen ergibt.
Die Ergebnisse der Übungsphase verwenden wir anschließend, um die Diskussion im Plenum fortzuführen und auf Ihre individuellen Anwendungsfälle zu übertragen.

Ziel ist es, Sie in die Lage zu versetzen, KI-gestützte Analysen und Zusammenfassungen gezielt in Ihren eigenen Veranstaltungen einzusetzen. So bereichern Sie zukünftig Ihre Veranstaltungen und schaffen gleichzeitig eine ideale Gelegenheit, KI-Anwendungen in der Praxis zu erleben und nicht nur theoretisch zu diskutieren.

Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten für die praktische Übung ein eigenes Laptop sowie vorhandene Zugänge zu generativen KI-Modellen für Text (z.B. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copliot o.ä.) mitzubringen.
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 45, No. 1 (2011 Spring). Front matter
Creators: name: American Association Of Bovine Practioners,
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2010

description: Cover, masthead, table of contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2011 Spring)
title: Bulldozers in the Desert: The Framing of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Palmyra in 2015
Creators: name: Cloud, Morgan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Syria
subject: Cultural heritage
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Frame analysis
subject: Palmyra
subject: ISIS

description: This thesis examines the history and prevalence of the destruction of cultural property during armed conflict and analyzes the way media frames are used to make sense of and define that destruction. The thesis uses Robert Entman’s Frame definition to look at a set of framing categories, based on previous research, to determine how they are used, and how they interact. Specifically, this analysis will use the case of ISIS and its destructive episode in the Syrian city of Palmyra in the second half of 2015. It examines the legal frameworks employed to combat it in order to discern how this phenomenon is conceptualized during armed conflict. These definitions necessitate different responses and are important to understand in the way the public and international institutions come to understand this phenomenon and its relationship to war.
Profiling Vs. Time Vs. Content: What Does Matter For Top-K Publication Recommendation Based On Twitter Profiles?
Creators: name: Nishioka, Chifumi
name: Scherp, Ansgar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: So far it is unclear how different factors of a scientific publication recommender system based on users' tweets have an influence on the recommendation performance. We examine three different factors, namely profiling method, temporal decay, and richness of content. Regarding profiling, we compare CF-IDF that replaces terms in TF-IDF by semantic concepts, HCF-IDF as novel hierarchical variant of CF-IDF, and topic modeling. As temporal decay functions, we apply sliding window and exponential decay. In terms of the richness of content, we compare recommendations using both full-texts and titles of publications and using only titles. Overall, the three factors make twelve recommendation strategies. We have conducted an online experiment with 123 participants and compared the strategies in a within-group design. The best recommendations are achieved by the strategy combining CF-IDF, sliding window, and with full-texts. However, the strategies using the novel HCF-IDF profiling method achieve similar results with just using the titles of the publications. Therefore, HCF-IDF can make recommendations when only short and sparse data is available.
title: Winter Quarters
Creators: name: Chen, Anne Cavazos
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Circus
subject: Winter quarters

description: This thesis follows the cast members of the Three Sisters Circus as they cope with the aftermath of a devastating fire. Ned, the Artistic Director, is desperate to keep the circus together. He leads them to winter quarters in Sawgrass where he works to pull together a new show for the season that begins in six weeks. He has multiple problems with the cast that includes Ooma, an exotic albino equestrian who is the tenth generation of a circus family. She lost her brother and sister in the fire along with her act. Ned needs to keep Ooma with the circus because if she leaves, five families will follow her. The Head Clown, Scorch, was burned in the fire and cannot perform until he heals. Ned assigns him to be the temporary Road Manager, a role Scorch dislikes. Ned decides to hire a former stripper and music video dancer to reimagine the circus girl choreography and bring more people out to see the circus. The dancer, Didi, is instantly disliked for her unconventional ways. The cast has six weeks to get back on the road with a new show.
ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ ОСНОВА НЕОБХОДИМОСТИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ ДОХОДОВ
Creators: name: Мирзаева, Ширин
name: Дадажонов, Бехрузбек
name: Атамурадов, Жахонгир
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В статье рассматриваются экономические предпосылки и необходимость государственного регулирования доходов населения. Автор анализирует факторы, вызывающие неравномерность распределения доходов, и обосновывает роль государства в обеспечении социальной справедливости, устойчивого экономического роста и сокращения бедности. Особое внимание уделяется механизмам налоговой политики, социальной защиты и перераспределения ресурсов как инструментам регулирования доходов.
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 44, No. 2 (2010 Summer). Front matter
Creators: name: American Association Of Bovine Practioners,
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2010

description: Cover, masthead, table of contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2010 Summer)
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 44, No. 1 (2010 Summer). Front matter
Creators: name: Bovine Practitioners, American Association Of
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2010

description: Cover, Masthead, Table of Contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2010 Spring)
title: Individualized Prediction of Third-Party Punishment Behavior from Intrinsic Functional Brain Connectivity
Creators: name: Hsu, Ko-Tsung
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Resting-state functional connectivity
subject: Third-party punishment
subject: Economic game
subject: Multivariate prediction analysis
subject: Brain connectivity
subject: Social norm

description: A robust human society is developed normally on the ground of social cooperation, serving a critical role in human relationships. Importantly, social cooperation is subjected to the establishment of social norms. To maintain human society, third-party punishment (TPP) as a consistently sanctioning behavior facilitates the enforcement of social norms. At the psychological level, TPP is based on blame which is an amalgam of intent and harm to victim and the offender’s intention in violating social norms. At the neural level, TPP behavior builds on the interaction of the salience network (determining the degree of norm violation), default-mode network (determining the degree of blame), and central-executive network (determining the degree of punishment). Although task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been extensively used to investigate individual differences in the propensity to punish, whether TPP behavior can be predicted through task-free fMRI based on resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) remains open. The goal of this study was to apply multivariate prediction analysis (MVPA) to RSFC patterns of large-scale ix brain networks to predict individual difference in TPP behavior measured with a TPP exchange game. The findings demonstrated that RSFC between the default-mode network (DMN) and the central-executive network (CEN) predicted TPP behavior, indicating a signal transmission from blame (DMN) to punishment behavior (CEN). In conclusion, investigating the individual difference in TPP behavior based on RSFC provides us with a new comprehensive understanding of sustaining cooperation and enforcement of social norms in human society.
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 43, No. 2 (2009 Summer). Front matter
Creators: name: American Association Of Bovine Practioners,
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2009

description: Cover, masthead, table of contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 43, No. 2 (2009 Summer)
Viabilização da plataforma Google Classroom utilizando a ferramenta Weka para análise de dados
Creators: name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
name: Zati, Aline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: À medida que novas tecnologias vêm sendo desenvolvidas, abrangendo e manipulando novas ideias, os conceitos de educação online estão mudando rapidamente. Em resposta dessas mudanças, muitas instituições têm trabalhado em planos estratégicos para implementar um contexto de ensino híbrido, que engloba educação presencial atrelada aos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem (AVAs), diminuindo a distância transacional professor-aluno. Este trabalho fornece uma discussão sobre o uso do Google Classroom como um aplicativo de apoio a educação, nos cursos da área de Informática da Instituição IFTM, durante o primeiro semestre de 2017. Os resultados obtidos através de um questionário indicaram que a maioria dos alunos tiveram maior interação com o professor. Por fim, com a análise de dados foi possível perceber que houve uma melhoria na pontualidade de entrega dos trabalhos.
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 43, No. 1 (2009 Spring). Front matter
Creators: name: American Association Of Bovine Practioners,
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2008

description: Cover, masthead, table of contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2009 Spring)
title: A MULTI-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND THE CALCIUM DYNAMICS AND ARRHYTHMOGENIC DISORDERS CAUSED BY MUTATIONS IN RYR2/CASQ2 EXPRESSING GENES
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Whole-cell computational models are very beneficial to understand and predict the underlying cellular and ionic mechanism in the heart. We developed a stochastic ventricular myocyte model of Guinea pig with 20000 stochastically gating CRUs incorporating a six-state L-type Ca2+ channel (LCC) and a three-state ryanodine receptor (RyR2). The model was used to understand the Calcium (Ca2+) dynamics in the subcellular level with the computational analysis of Ca2+ sparks, their amplitudes and durations in the exploration of force-frequency relationship (FFR) and arrhythmogenesis of mutations in the genes expressing the luminal Ca2+ buffer, Calsequestrin (CASQ2) and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ channels, RyR2. In FFR, the model predicted that diastolic SR [Ca2+] and RyR2 adaptation increased with the increased stimulation frequency giving rise rising than falling amplitude of the cytoplasmic [Ca2+] transients. A simulation on the deletion mutation CASQ2G112+5X responsible for causing catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia type 2 (CPVT2) found cardiac alternans (action potential duration (APD) and AP amplitude) and early afterdepolarizations (EADs) were the underlying mechanisms to cause arrhythmia in the myocytes during β-arrhythmogenic receptor (β-AR) stimulation. The arrhythmogenic mechanisms instigated by RyR2 mutations are explained by four different hypotheses: gain-of-function (GOF), loss-of-function (LOF), store-overload induced Ca2+ release (SOICR), and binding protein destabilization. Our model evaluated all these hypotheses with β-AR stimulation and it predicted that the EADs were the mechanism of CPVT1 in LOF mutation and APD and AP amplitude alternans were the mechanisms in GOF mutation. The abundance Ca2+ spark leaks in the binding protein mutation came short to develop any DADs and the SOICR phenomenon was unable to activate RyR2 in the absence of Ca2+ induced Ca2+ release (CICR).
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 2008). Front matter
Creators: name: Bovine Practitioners, American Association Of
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2008

description: Cover, Masthead, Table of Contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2008 Summer)
title: Exploring the Experiences of Postsecondary Students with Disabilities Who Have Multiple Oppressed Identities: A Narrative Approach
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: This study gathers the experiences of students with disabilities who have multiple oppressed identities. Gathering the experiences of students with disabilities who have multiple oppressed identities contributes to developing multi-dimensional disability frameworks when providing meaningful services in postsecondary education. Research participants shared how salient experiences influenced their disability identity as college students at a Mid-Atlantic public university. The participants’ salient experiences were heavily influenced by family and support resources offered by their university. Additionally, this research study used narrative inquiry as its methodology and demonstrates the collaboration between the researcher and participants over time. The personal experiences of students with disabilities who have multiple oppressed identities were obtained via the facilitation of two rounds of interviews. Despite their other oppressed identities, this study used Critical Event Analysis (CEA) to focus on how the experiences of students with disabilities influenced their matriculation through college. Also, this research study’s analysis identified academic barriers encountered by its participants. Although universities are increasing their attention toward students with disabilities, I argue that there is a need for postsecondary institutions to utilize multi-dimensional frameworks when providing meaningful support services to students who have a diagnosed disability with another oppressed identity. Critical Event Analysis assisted with providing chronology and structure to the experiences of this study’s participants. Providing structure to the experiences of students with disabilities who have multiple oppressed identities allowed me to contextualize each participant’s experience by considering its temporality, place, and sociality. Ultimately, identifying and contextualizing these experiences of students with disabilities who have multiple oppressed identities contributes to the advancement of disability frameworks used by universities when providing support services.
THE ROLE OF A NURSING TECHNICIAN IN THE WORK  OF A HEALTHY CHILD'S ROOM
Creators: name: S.M. Bezrodnova
name: G.Ya. Savina
name: M.I. Lavrova
name: T.N. Shishalova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The nurse identifies risk factors, forms basic recommendations for child care, participates in a school on breastfeeding and massage. A mandatory condition for the work of a nurse in a healthy child's office is professional training in the field of preventive medicine and experience working with young children.
title: Middle School Student Voices on the Function and Utility of a “Learning How to Learn” Course in a Rural Middle School: A Mixed-Methods Study
Creators: name: Hosek, Beth
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Middle school students
subject: Learning how to learn courses
subject: Goal orientation
subject: Self-efficacy for self-regulated learning

description: The purpose of this study is to explore the voices of high- and low-achieving middle school students around how a student-led assessment (SLA), “learning how to learn” intervention fosters achievement goal orientations and self-efficacy for self-regulated learning (SRL). Participating students included 99 seventh- and eighth-grade students from a rural middle school enrolled in the SLA intervention. This intervention involves teaching students how to become independent learners. Self-report measures were administered and focus groups occurred during the fourth quarter of the academic year. Data analysis revealed no significant differences between high- and low-achieving students regarding their goal orientations, as well as self-efficacy for SRL. During the focus groups, students provided information about the function of the learning how to learn course and voiced the utility of the intervention for improving their study skills. It was also found that, in contrast to high-achieving students, low-achieving students expressed the need for increased support in setting and achieving their learning goals. Findings have implications regarding future refinement and guidelines for implementation of “learning how to learn” SLA courses in middle schools.
LITERARY TEXTS FOR IMPROVING READING AND WRITING SKILLS
Creators: name: Zokirjonova, Maftuna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the significance of literary texts in improving reading and writing skills among language learners. The research highlights the effectiveness of integrating literary texts to enhance vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, and writing proficiency. The use of short stories, poetry, and other literary materials provides an engaging and interactive approach to language learning, fostering creativity and deeper comprehension. Furthermore, technological advancements, such as digital tools and multimedia elements, have significantly contributed to improving students' reading and writing abilities.
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2008). Front matter
Creators: name: Of Bovine Practitioners, American Association
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2008

description: Cover, Masthead, Table of Contents, and other editorial information.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2008 Spring)
Supplementary document for Deep learning based on co-registered ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging improves the assessment of rectal cancer treatment response - 6360298.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, YiXiao
name: Kou, Sitai
name: Xie, Haolin
name: Luo, Hongbo
name: ELTAHIR, Ahmed
name: Chapman, WILLIAM
name: HUNT, Steven
name: Mutch, MATTHEW
name: Zhu, Quing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENT
Μελάνωμα επιπεφυκότων
Creators: name: Παπαοικονόμου, Μιχαήλ Άγγελος Μιχαήλ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Επιπεφυκότας
Μελάνωμα
Διάγνωση
Conjunctiva
Melanoma
Diagnosis

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη της υπάρχουσας βιβλιογραφίας σχετικά με το μελάνωμα του επιπεφυκότα. Η συχνότητά του μελανώματος του επιπεφυκότα στο γενικό πληθυσμό είναι χαμηλή, καθιστώντας το μια σπάνια κλινική οντότητα με μεγάλο επιστημονικό ενδιαφέρον. Ειδικότερα, αναλύονται τα κλινικά, γενετικά και ιστολογικά χαρακτηριστικά του, τα διαγνωστικά μέσα και οι θεραπευτικές επιλογές του μελανώματος του επιπεφυκότα με βάση τα νεότερα βιβλιογραφικά δεδομένα. Για το σκοπό αυτό, έγινε ανασκόπηση της υπάρχουσας βιβλιογραφίας μέσω της μηχανής αναζήτησης PubMed για τον εντοπισμό άρθρων, ανασκοπήσεων και παρουσιάσεων κλινικών περιστατικών που περιέχουν πληροφορίες σχετικά με το μελάνωμα του επιπεφυκότα. Στο τέλος παρουσιάζονται συμπεράσματα καθώς και μελλοντικές κατευθύνσεις στο πεδίο της έρευνας του μελανώματος του επιπεφυκότα που ενδεχομένως να προσφέρουν νέες θεραπευτικές επιλογές, ιδίως σε προχωρημένα στάδια της νόσου.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the existing literature on conjunctival melanoma. Its frequency in the general population is relatively low, making conjunctival melanoma a rare clinical entity of great scientific interest. In particular, the clinical, genetic and histological characteristics, as well as the diagnostic means and treatment options of conjunctival melanoma are analyzed based on the latest bibliographic data. For this purpose, a review of existing literature was conducted through the PubMed search engine to identify articles, reviews and presentations of clinical cases containing information about conjunctival melanoma. At the end, conclusions are presented as well as future directions in the field of research of conjunctival melanoma which may offer new treatment options, especially in advanced stages of the disease.
"XOTIRA BOR EKAN – MILLAT BARHAYOT"
Creators: name: Xudayarova, Gavxaroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Tinchlik buyuk-ne‘mat. Tinchligini yo‘qotgan xonadon ham, mamlakat ham aslo xotirjam bo‘la olmaydi. Mustaqillik yillarida mamlakatimizda tinchlik-osoyishtalik, hamjihatlik va bag‘rikenglik mustahkam qaror topdi. Kattalarga hurmat, kichiklarga izzat, mehr-oqibat tuyg‘ulari odamlar qalbi va shuuridan chuqur joy oldi. Ajdodlar xotirasini yod etib, ezgu ishlarini davom ettirish, bugun saflarimizda yurgan, el-u yurt tinchligi va ravnaqi yo‘lida xizmat qilgan keksalarni e’zozlash ma’naviy hayotimizning ajralmas qismiga aylandi.
title: The structural phases and vibrational properties of Mo1−xWxTe2 alloys
Creators: name: Oliver, Sean M
name: Beams, Ryan
name: Krylyuk, Sergiy
name: Kalish, Irina
name: Singh, Arunima K
name: Bruma, Alina
name: Tavazza, Francesca
name: Joshi, Jaydeep
name: Stone, Iris R
name: Stranick, Stephan J
name: Davydov, Albert V
name: Vora, Patrick M
Publisher: name: 2D Materials
Year: 2017

description: The structural polymorphism in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provides exciting opportunities for developing advanced electronics. For example, MoTe2 crystallizes in the 2H semiconducting phase at ambient temperature and pressure, but transitions into the 1T' semimetallic phase at high temperatures. Alloying MoTe2 with WTe2 reduces the energy barrier between these two phases, while also allowing access to the T d Weyl semimetal phase. The $\text{M}{{\text{o}}_{1-\text{x}}}$ WxTe2 alloy system is therefore promising for developing phase change memory technology. However, achieving this goal necessitates a detailed understanding of the phase composition in the MoTe2-WTe2 system. We combine polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy with x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to study bulk $\text{M}{{\text{o}}_{1-\text{x}}}$ WxTe2 alloys over the full compositional range x from 0 to 1. We identify Raman and XRD signatures characteristic of the 2H, 1T', and T d structural phases that agree with density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, and use them to identify phase fields in the MoTe2–WTe2 system, including single-phase 2H, 1T', and T d regions, as well as a two-phase 1T'  +  T d region. Disorder arising from compositional fluctuations in $\text{M}{{\text{o}}_{1-\text{x}}}$ WxTe2 alloys breaks inversion and translational symmetry, leading to the activation of an infrared 1T'-MoTe2 mode and the enhancement of a double-resonance Raman process in $\text{2H-M}{{\text{o}}_{1-\text{x}}}$ WxTe2 alloys. Compositional fluctuations limit the phonon correlation length, which we estimate by fitting the observed asymmetric Raman lineshapes with a phonon confinement model. These observations reveal the important role of disorder in $\text{M}{{\text{o}}_{1-\text{x}}}$ WxTe2 alloys, clarify the structural phase boundaries, and provide a foundation for future explorations of phase transitions and electronic phenomena in this system.
Dm Considerations For Deep Drilling
Creators: name: Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: LSST
Astronomy

description: An outline of the current situation regarding the DM plans for the Deep Drilling surveys and an invitation to the community to provide feedback on what they would like to see included in the data processing and visualization of these surveys.
description: Presented at the session on "Deep Drilling Fields and Other LSST Mini-Surveys"
'A divine centurie of spirituall sonnets': the religious sonnet in early modern England
Creators: name: Weiss, Nadine
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: early modern
sonnet
religious sonnet
devotional sonnet

description: This thesis offers an examination of a century-long tradition of religious sonneteering in early modern England. By accommodating a new understanding of the sonnet as genre rather than strictly as form, it proposes a way of thinking more subtly and flexibly about the ways in which we define ‘sonnethood’: that is, in terms that no longer equate ‘sonnethood’ to a mere shell or mould of a form but that also give due consideration to the cognitive and experiential dimensions that inhere in sonnet practice, sonnet thinking and sonnet expression. The case studies that comprise this thesis invite readers to reconsider the relationship between the kinds of thinking certain verse-forms make possible and certain characteristic ways of posing, thinking about, and working out problems of theological belief, particularly at a moment in history when Christian confessional identity was perhaps at its most labile, and hence its most precarious. What this ultimately amounts to here is an examination of the theological potential of the sonnet form, of some of the characteristic ways in which sonnet thinking suggests itself as a particularly congenial mode of expression for fleshing out dilemmas of faith and belief, and of the ways in which theological concerns can become constitutive of the formal properties of a poem, and vice versa. Each chapter of this study therefore takes as its point of departure a certain key element of the early modern English religious sonnet as it is instantiated in or brought into relief by the sonnet practice of a particular author over the course of a century’s span: scriptural and poetic intersections in Lok; twinning and conversational poetics in Herbert; the conversionary trajectory of sonnets in Donne; and mathematical and eschatological thinking in Milton. While each of the case studies that comprise this thesis is organised around a distinct element of sonnet practice which each of the four chapters that follows shows acutely manifest in the devotional poetic of a particular post-Reformation English author, they all bear on an underlying assumption about the theological implications of verse-form in the early modern period. This thesis proposes that sonnets enjoyed a particular status as a vehicle of devotional contemplation in early modern England. To view the religious sonnets of Lok, Herbert, Donne and Milton through the lens of this one central organising insight is to bring into new focus the profound devotional and intellectual energies of the sonnet as a mode of understanding and as a way of thinking in the greater theological economy of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England.
Il problema storiografico della villa tra Medioevo e Umanesimo
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: villa medievale; villa rinascimentale; modelli; contado; umanesimo

description: The implicit, yet improper comparison with the “Renaissance villa”, has deprived Medieval extra-urban residences of theirautonomy, and left them without a proper historical and critical analysis, relegating them to a marginal and preparatoryposition. Their recognition at a national scale (Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia, Tuscany, Lazio, Sicily), presented in this numberof Opus Incertum, offers the possibility to appreciate, together with the sheer quantitative dimension of the phenomenon, thedevelopment of models and formulas of an extraordinary refined nature which reflect both how qualified the patrons whichcommissioned the works actually were, on the one hand, and the presence, on the other, of an architectural culture that hadreached a remarkable level of maturity.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Customise your R startup message
Creators: name: Athanasia Monika Mowinckel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: r
startup
pride

description: Dr. Mowinckel's blog: I love customizing things. I seem to never let anything I work with that can be customized, not be customized. Colours of the software, websites I work on. I just like having things the way *I* like having things.
A Meridione dell’Urbe. Il palazzo comitale nei feudi Caetani agli inizi del Trecento
Creators: name: Pistilli, Pio Francesco
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: architettura baronale; Medioevo; Lazio meridionale; Fondi; Caetani

description: This paper focuses on the origins of the baronial palaces to the south of Rome in the early fourteenth century, looking atexemplary cases which are based on models commissioned by the House of Anjou (see the residences of Charles I of Anjouin Mola di Bari and Villanova di Ostuni, perfectly documented in the registry of the Curia regia) and which found in thepatronage of Roffredo Caetani their diffusion to the northern territories of the Kingdom in the bordering Pontifical region of Marittima.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
title: Avian Tick Burdens Across an Urban to Forest Land-Use Gradient
Creators: name: Peters, Ryan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Ixodes scapularis
subject: Birds
subject: Tick burden
subject: Land-use
subject: Lyme disease
subject: Urbanization

description: Interactions between Ixodes scapularis, the primary vector of Lyme disease in the Eastern and Midwestern USA, and their hosts determine infection rates in ticks, and influence the human risk of infection. Several factors alter tick burdens over temporal and spatial gradients and determine the role birds play in tick-borne pathogen transmissions cycles. In the research described here, I have determined seasonal patterns of tick burdens on 23 species of birds at 16 sites along an urbanization gradient in the Mid-Atlantic, USA. Landscape and species-specific attributes, as well as questing tick abundance are examined in order to understand variability in tick burdens. Tick burdens on birds were highly seasonal, decreased with increasing urbanization of the capture site, and varied substantially between species of birds. Carolina wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus) and Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) hosted 28.0% and 25.0% of all ticks obtained from birds while only comprising 4.9% and 11.9% of the avian community. Foraging height, as well as gender and age of the bird also influenced tick burdens, but to a lesser degree. I present models to estimate or predict avian tick burdens using individual, species, and site characteristics, and the density of questing ticks. Identifying causes of variation in tick burdens on avian hosts will increase our understanding of host-parasite interactions and the role birds play in the ecology of Lyme disease.
Alle soglie della villa fiorentina: l’architettura delle dimore rurali nel Trecento
Creators: name: Frati, Marco
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: architettura medievale; villa; XIV secolo; Toscana; Firenze

description: This contribution attempts to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the phenomenon of the extra-urban residences in theregion around Florence, which was a precursor of the later, much more widely known and formally recognised phenomenon of therenaissance villa. Proceeding backwards in time, the first step will be that of evaluating the persistence of the structures of medievalresidences during the first modern era (15th-16th centuries); after which an attempt will be made to make a comprehensive overviewof the phenomenon through the analysis of historical documents and regional samples which may provide statistical informationand quantitative projections. An effort will be made as well to outline the innovative elements that characterise Florentine countryresidences, extricating meaning from the terminological difficulties created by the documentation and by the various typologiesproposed by historiography, drawing from specific cases that can be examined and attempting to determine their compositive andsymbolic worth.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Forme e modelli nell’architettura delle residenze medievali di villa nei dintorni di Firenze. L’habiturium magnum dei Buonaccorsi al Querceto
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: casaforte; abituro; Buonaccorsi; Peruzzi; Guccio dei Medici

description: This paper proposes a reconsideration of the phenomenon of extra-urban medieval residences, both from a quantitative andqualitative point of view. It aims at analysing the compositional criteria that regulate such an abundant production, as well asidentifying models and possibly reconstruct the network of relationships between the most challenging buildings, thus applyingto medieval architecture the same historico-critical analysis that is usually used in the case of Renaissance architecture. Thismethod of interpretation, which privileges compositional aspects as well as stylistic choices, is applied to a most significantresidence built near Florence from the merchant family of the Buonaccorsi in the middle of the XIV century, shortly before itscomplete political and economic downfall.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Bovine Practitioner Vol. 56, No. 2 (2022). Front Matter
Creators: name: Practitioner, Bovine
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: Front matter

description: Cover, Masthead, Table of Contents, Advertisements and other editorial information.





 
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 56 No. 2 (2022)
title: Symmetry Inference in the Physical Sciences
Creators: name: King, Kenneth
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Symmetry inference
subject: Material logic
subject: Material warrants
subject: Conceptual adaptation
subject: Historical epistemiology
subject: Crystallography

description: Symmetry inferences in the physical sciences have material warrants; these warrants can be accounted for in terms of scientific practice and conceptual adaptation. This study is a historical epistemology that provides such an account. It covers the emergence and development of symmetry warrants in the crystallographic research programs of the nineteenth century; it also provides evidence and reasoning undermining alternative accounts that characterize symmetry in mathematical rather than material terms. The study suggests that symmetry concepts adapted in order to reduce the number of arbitrary assumptions and parameters otherwise required by crystallographic research programs to account for an expanding range of physical properties that were being measured with ever-greater precision. The use of symmetry reasoning in these programs lessened the dependence of scientific practice on theory and, by doing so, restrained speculative theorizing, established common ground for practitioners with diverse ontological assumptions, and facilitated experimental progress even where theoretical understanding was weak. Further historical research on the development of symmetry reasoning in crystallography and its spread from that field to others will reveal whether there are also material warrants for the continued evolution and transfer of symmetry reasoning. The stakes are high because the use of symmetry inference is pervasive, a priori reasoning about physical symmetries is common but unwarranted, and errors can be costly.
Tra civiltà cavalleresca e imprenditorialità rurale: appunti sui castelli subalpininell’autunno del Medioevo
Creators: name: Longhi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: medieval architecture; castle building; duchy of Savoy; building site; princedoms

description: The continuous transformation of the structures and functions of castles during the Late Middle Ages is demonstrated throughan interpretation of architecture as the material and stratified result of cultural, political and economic dynamics. This paperidentifies certain institutional and social processes that had an influence on the transformation -in terms both material andof meaning- of rural castles, examined in the period between the consolidation of regional principalities in the fourteenthcentury and the formation of modern states in the second half of the sixteenth century. Certain study cases, which have emergedin recent literature related to the areas belonging to the House of Savoy as well as to Saluzzo, are presented for illustrativepurposes, and may be considered as pilot cases concerning wider and shared dynamics regarding the relationship betweenfortification, residentiality and rural life.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
title: Dissolving the Iron Triangle: Increasing Access and Quality at Reduced Cost in Public Higher Education
Creators: name: Brown, Guilbert Lee
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Access
subject: Cost
subject: Affordability
subject: Productivity
subject: Higher education
subject: Quality

description: Society derives public benefits– public good – from public colleges and universities in the forms of a more highly educated populace, employment and economic growth, cultural and other activities. At the same time individuals and corporations derive benefits from public higher education institutions yielding private gains including higher salaries, improved manufacturing techniques and new commercial products. Funding for the instructional activities of public colleges and universities reflect these dual public-private benefits with funding split between public appropriations and student fees. In recent years the proportional burden of bearing the costs of public higher education has shifted, in some cases dramatically, toward diminished public financing and increased private support. At the same time societal demographic changes in the United States suggest the need for more, not less, access to publicly subsidized higher education institutions as higher proportions of entering classes have diminished ability to pay. In the public policy discourse these factors are encapsulated in the metaphor of an “iron triangle” of access, cost and quality. This thesis considers the extent to which recent changes in the funding sources of public higher education institutions have impacted the ability of institutions to provide citizens with affordable access to high quality educational programs, focusing in particular on the recent experiences of public colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Discrete analyses of each corner of the so-called “iron triangle” of the public mission to instruction – summarized as affordable access to quality instruction – reveal significant challenges to public colleges and universities based on their historical and aspiring missions. Current data and trends support public policy calls that higher education leaders move beyond the iron triangle paradigm as they seek to simultaneously increase access and quality while reducing costs.
title: “A Fiend About Women”: Gender Dynamics and American Evangelism in a Micronesian Mission During the High Tide of Pacific Imperialism, 1884-1899
Creators: name: Hanebuth, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Missionaries
subject: ABCM
subject: Gender conflict
subject: Micronesia
subject: Chuuk

description: This thesis describes a gendered conflict between missionaries at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) station in Chuuk, Micronesia from 1884 to 1899. A thorough investigation of the missionaries’ correspondence illustrates that conflict over the place of women in American Christianity played out internationally as well as domestically. This thesis supports an extant body of literature regarding the fragility of American masculinity at the beginning of the twentieth century, and shows how a fractured Christian community aligned based on material offerings. The thesis seeks to illustrate that the conflict in American religious circles to determine the place of women played out internationally as well as domestically. In this context, a fractured Christian community aligned based on material offerings. This dispute in Chuuk also serves to highlight the limits of ABCFM authority.
Supplementary document for Spin-orbit Optical Broadband Achromatic Spatial Differentiation Imaging - 7069398.pdf
Creators: name: Zhu, Wenguo
name: Yang, Hongwei
name: Xie, Weichao
name: Chen, Huifeng
name: Xie, Mengyuan
name: Tang, Jieyuan
name: Zheng, Huadan
name: Zhong, Yongchun
name: Yu, JianHui
name: Chen, Zhe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement for manuscript
Supplementary document for Design of non-Gaussian Multispectral SWIR Filters Assessed by SSRs on ECOSTRESS Library - 6360321.pdf
Creators: name: Fonseca, Germano
name: Gomes, José Gabriel
name: sá, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optimisation
Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits
Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Supplemental document with additional figures to the Sections 4.3 and 4.4.
title: Conflict Resolution Education: A Case Study Analysis
Creators: name: Kennedy, Timothy G.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Conflict resolution education
subject: Peer mediation
subject: Conflict resolution
subject: Academic achievement
subject: Negotiation
subject: Social and emotional learning

description: Research focusing on conflict resolution education (CRE) programs has established causal links between academic achievement and students who have received conflict resolution training in school. Conflict resolution education programs help students develop toolkits of conflict resolution skills such as communication, active listening, and problem solving skills in order to develop integrative approaches to conflict resolution based on cooperative negotiation and mediation procedures, as well as develop more positive attitudes towards conflict. Not only will implementation of such programs lead to higher academic achievement but will help students deal with conflict, both in and out of school, in a more positive and constructive manner. The purpose of this research study is to understand how three specific conflict resolution education programs came into existence, how they were designed and implemented, and how they have been evaluated and sustained. With respect to the overall field of conflict resolution education, the goal will be to shed light on how and why conflict resolution education came to be an important component of these three educational settings so as to provide insight into how the practice of conflict resolution education can be adapted to fit the needs of other educational institutions. Ultimately, the goal will be to provide justification for the expansion of conflict resolution education throughout the education sector, both domestically and globally, and to establish best practices in the design and implementation of new programs. Analysis of the three programs will be based on the following central themes: • Understanding the theory behind the conception of the program. • Seeking to understand the development and implementation of the programs. • Learning how the programs have been evaluated and sustained. • Assessing how effective the programs have been in terms of the impact they might have made on the overall school climate and the extent to which correlations can be drawn between the operation of the programs and dependent variables such as academic achievement, communication skills, discipline referrals, suspension rates, school violence, and attendance/drop out rates.
Torri, portici, logge nelle residenze venete di campagna pre-palladiane
Creators: name: Battilotti, Donata
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: villa; Veneto; XV secolo; torre; loggia

description: The country residences which were built in Veneto during the 14th and 15th centuries are more numerous than one may believe,and offer varying forms and typologies, both concerning the manors themselves, and in relation to the agricultural structuresattached to them. They were evolved from various medieval models, both urban and rural, which then branched into manydirections that, however, are for the most part ascribable to certain clearly defined typologies. The detailed survey carried outby the Regional Institute for Venetian Villas in 2006 permits a large scale analysis which identifies as well the constants andparticularities that are linked to the different geographic and cultural areas in the region.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Upholding Haitian Dignity: On Briefly Contextualizing Haiti’s Ongoing Crisis, Part Two
Creators: name: Faugas, Woodger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 200211 Postcolonial Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 210308 Latin American History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Since 1804, the year Haiti stunningly achieved its independence, in realizing an unparalleled slave revolt, various foreign powers have succeeded in majorly undermining the country’s thriving and sovereignty. Notably, in 1825, impenitent and rapacious French rulers succeeded in extorting the newly-established and vulnerable Caribbean state, placing Haitian leaders under duress using the threat of war. This piece will continue, in chronological fashion, to detail Haiti’s endured harms through deconstructing: (1) attempted American recolonization; (2) realized American occupation; (3) Haitian governmental corruption; (4) Dominican denationalization and deportations; a (5) 20th century massacre; (6) an especially deadly 21st century earthquake; as well as (7) anti-Haitianism, as colored by a divine retribution belief anchored in Christianity and which demonizes Afrocentric Haitian religion.