cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Embedding Career Readiness into Your Course Curriculum
Creators: name: Timbers, Raechel
name: Clay-Rooks, Saskia
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: career services; career readiness; experiential learning

description: The university's 10 year strategic plan charges us to produce 100,000 career-ready graduates. But, what does it mean to be career-ready?Â  In 2015, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released a comprehensive definition of career readiness and related competencies with the goal of providing higher education leaders, policy makers and employers shared language and understanding of the desired learning outcomes for today's college graduate.Â  The NACE career readiness competencies are intentionally broad in order to be applied successfully by faculty across all disciplines to prepare students for entry into today's interdisciplinary workplace and academy.Â  It is commonly accepted that students are more likely to be engaged in course content and achieve academic success necessary to graduate if they can identify and articulate the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and their desired post-graduate goal, whether to enter the workforce or go on for advanced study. In this presentation, representatives from University Career Services will provide an overview of the NACE career readiness competencies and ideas for how to more intentionally and explicitly tie them to classroom learning.Â  Presentation attendees will be able to:

1.Â Â Â Â Â  Map existing course assignments to the career readiness competencies

2.Â Â Â Â Â  Identify low effort and high impact methods for adding or enhancing current assignments that map to the career readiness competencies

3.Â Â Â Â Â Â  Help students articulate the career readiness competencies gained through coursework

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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Evaluating technologies in the assessment of pulmonary disease to aid lung transplantation: from ex vivo to in vivo models
Creators: name: Marshall, Adam David Loudon
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUCTION: Despite technological advances, the rate of utility of potential lung donors for transplantation remains low. As a consequence, more than a third of patients listed for lung transplant will not receive one. Application of emerging technologies to select suitable donor organs may help to increase the donor organ pool. Those who receive a lung transplant remain at risk of significant morbidity and mortality and there is a lack of useful biomarkers to identify those at risk of rejection. In this thesis I aim to explore the use of new technologies currently not part of standard practice in the UK to improve the potential donor pool for transplant by (i) evaluating an ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) platform to physiologically assess lungs declined for transplant; (ii) developing a novel method for assessing pulmonary vascular leak using EVLP and optical fibre- based endomicroscopy; and (iii) using the optical fibre-based endomicroscopy platform in a first in human study to assess in situ enzyme activity which may be implicated in graft rejection. METHODS: Retrospective study of a national database of multiorgan donors. Prospective assessment of human lungs declined for transplant using a custom built EVLP platform. Fibered endomicroscopy in ex vivo and in vivo animal models of acute lung injury. First in human study of fibered endomicroscopic molecular imaging of in situ matrix metalloprotease (MMP) activity. RESULTS: Lung transplantation from multiorgan donors remains low in Scotland, usually due to suboptimal functional assessment. Our results suggest that further isolated ex vivo assessment may offer additional confidence in graft function. I demonstrate that it is possible to image leaked intravascular protein in situ using an ex vivo perfused acute lung injury model, however we were unable to translate this into an in vivo porcine acute lung injury model. I show that it is possible to optically image, in real-time, pulmonary enzyme activity using a bespoke molecular smartprobe and to observe drug-target engagement with an enzyme inhibitor. DISCUSSION: For those with life limiting pulmonary disease, lung transplantation may offer the only opportunity for survival. Despite increasing operative rates world-wide the vast majority of donated lungs are deemed unsuitable and as a result more than one third of those listed never receive a transplant. Those that do remain at risk of subsequent morbidity and mortality. In order to improve the rate of transplant as a lifesaving intervention and reduce the post-operative risk to recipients a rapid adoption of technological innovation is required to better characterise the lung both pre and post transplant.
Constraints on the growth of structure around cosmic voids in eBOSS DR14
Creators: name: Hawken, Adam J.
name: Aubert, Marie
name: Pisani, Alice
name: Cousinou, Marie-Claude
name: Escoffier, Stephanie
name: Nadathur, Seshadri
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Schneider, Donald P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present catalogues of cosmic voids identified in the distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and Quasi Stellar Objects (QSOs) in the fourteenth data release (DR14) of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). We perform a multivariate analysis to assess the level of contamination in these catalogues by spurious Poisson underdensities. We find that the LRG void catalogue is largely free from contamination but that the QSO catalogue may be heavily contaminated. We analyse the multipoles of the void-galaxy cross-correlation function in these catalogues to obtain constraints on the growth rate of structure around voids. We find a value of $β(z=0.703)=0.58^{+0.33}_{-0.28}$ for the LRG voids and $β(z=1.53)=0.15^{+0.13}_{-0.12}$ for the QSO voids.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures, prepared for submission to JCAP
Shi xu jian : [si shi wu juan] [volume 10]
詩緖箋 : [四十五卷] [第十冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Jinghu : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Chu Tang feng xu jian : jiu juan
Chu Tang ya xu jian : wu juan
Chu Tang song xu jian
Sheng Tang feng xu jian : shi er juan
Sheng Tang ya xu jian : er juan.
PM2.5 estimation and its relationship with NO2 and SO2 in China from 2016 to 2020
Creators: name: Tan, Huangyuan
name: Chen, Yumin
name: Mao, Feiyue
name: Wilson, John P.
name: Zhang, Tengfei
name: Cui, Xiana
name: Li, Zhanghui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The distribution of surface particulate matter (PM2.5) exhibits significant spatiotemporal patterns, especially with a spatial clustering effect. Therefore, resolving spatial characteristics is essential in the modeling process. This study proposes a space–time varying coefficients (STVC-LG) model by considering spatial effects from the perspective of eigenvector spatial filtering and incorporating spatial effects and temporal features into the LightGBM model to estimate ground PM2.5. A site-based cross-validation result of the estimated daily 1 km PM2.5 concentration in China from 2016 to 2020 shows that the proposed model offers high accuracy, an R2 of 0.88, and an RMSE of 12.21 μg/m3 (17% and 32% enhanced compared to the original LightGBM model). It uses a series of spatial eigenvectors to describe different spatial patterns. It then constructs spatial interaction terms by combining the eigenvectors and influencing variables, allowing the values of the variable to vary spatially with the eigenvectors. The obtained PM2.5, with a decreasing trend, had a clear distributional consistency with NO2 and SO2 according to the co-occurrence distribution maps, particularly in winter. In areas where high concentrations co-occur, both NO2 and SO2 concentrations are Granger-causing PM2.5 concentrations from a statistical perspective.
Continuous monitoring of grassland AGB during the growing season through integrated remote sensing: a hybrid inversion framework
Creators: name: Li, Hang
name: Liu, Kai
name: Yang, Banghui
name: Wang, Shudong
name: Meng, Yu
name: Wang, Dacheng
name: Liu, Xingtao
name: Li, Long
name: Li, Dehui
name: Bo, Yong
name: Li, Xueke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Inverting grassland above-ground biomass (AGB) presents a significant challenge due to difficulties in characterizing leaf physiological states and obtaining accurate ground-truth data. This study introduces an innovative hybrid model for AGB inversion based on the AGB = leaf mass per area (LMA) * leaf area index (LAI) paradigmn in the Ewenki Banner region of Inner Mongolia. The model integrates the PROSAIL radiative transfer model, machine learning regression, LEnKF data assimilation theory, multisource remote sensing, and meteorological data, following a four-step approach. Firstly, we establish LAI and LMA inversion models by combining the PROSAIL model with machine learning techniques. Secondly, data assimilation fuses the PROSAIL-derived LAI with MODIS-LAI. In the third phase, a Random Forest predictive model is developed for LMA estimation. Lastly, the accuracy of the hybrid model is assessed using empirical data. Precision evaluation with ground-truth samples demonstrates that the assimilated LAI and RF-predicted LMA yield the lowest prediction error for grassland AGB (RMSE = 0.0033 g/cm2; MAE = 0.0028 g/cm2). This model framework addresses the challenge of limited prior knowledge in the PROSAIL-AGB prediction model, thereby enhancing the prediction accuracy while maintaining its key advantages: providing continuous observations at high spatiotemporal resolutions without relying on measured sample data.
Cultivating a Global Collaborative Classroom Experience: An International Exploration of Homelessness
Creators: name: Tompkins, Catherine
name: Ihara, Emily
name: Purnell-Sayle, Richena
name: Reo, Rick
name: Hazel, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: teaching online; team-based learning; student engagement; hybrid courses; global learning; interdisciplinary learning; digital pedagogy

description: The main collaborative student project compares and contrasts different aspects of homelessness both in Fairfax and in New Delhi, using Photovoice as the research methodology.Â  Forty-four Mason students enrolled in SOCW 472 RS, Integrative Methods in Social Action and Social Change, and forty Jamia students enrolled in MSW-SII-09 Social Work Research, collaborate together in a primarily asynchronous environment with the opportunity of participating in three synchronous sessions.Â  The Mason/Jamia team created small online groups of two Mason students and two Jamia students in order to facilitate these personal interactions and provided the PB Works and Blackboard platforms as communication tools. As part of the process, students were able to incorporate their favorite communication technologies including Facebook and WhatsApp. In addition to reaching the student outcomes and course objectives, the course design of this GCC involved intensive work and partnership between the Office of Global Strategy, IT Learning Support Services, Instructional Assessment and the classroom faculty. Lessons learned and best practices will be presented.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
title: Dynamics of Contention: Media, Protest and Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Information communication technologies (ICTs) facilitate transnational connection, coordination and collaboration, which are essential for new social movements. At the same time, issues of access and censorship hinder social movement use of social media for mobilization. This dissertation examines how internet technology is used by social movements to discuss issues of identity, dignity and justice and to contest gender-based discriminatory laws. The Middle East has recently witnessed new relations between women and space where women have been empowered with new forms of social and physical mobility. Despite increased mobility, Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces through subversive acts such as sneaking into soccer stadiums disguised as men. Using hashtags and other forms of cultural production, the movement against the gender discrimination highlights women’s voices and presence. Contesting morality laws that exclude women from public space, hashtags such as #bluegirl organize digital content and facilitate public discourse regarding issues of gender. By documenting their unapologetic visibility in public spaces, Iranian women express their strength and resilience and continue a long tradition of media representation through cultural production and dissemination of information and iconic imagery on social media platforms. Through subtle everyday acts of protests, women contest state narratives by documenting their presence in both physical and virtual public spaces. Iranian women practice the art of presence, demonstrating social media activism’s ability to circumvent censorship and facilitate public discourse regarding controversial issues under repressive contexts. This study collects and analyzes original data from Twitter and other social networking platforms to investigate the evolution of digital campaigns and relates these cases to the long-standing tradition of Iranian women’s voices with a focus on the critical role of the camera and user generated content in art and daily life.
Supplementary document for Metasurface-Tunable Lasing Polarizations in Microcavity - 6251103.pdf
Creators: name: Yuan, Zhiy
name: HUANG, SHIH-HSIU
name: Qiao, Zhen
name: Wu, Pin Chieh
name: CHEN, YU-CHENG
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary File
Investigating the structure and function of SAF-A
Creators: name: Miles, Jamilla
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2022

description: SAF-A is a 90 kDa protein involved in the organisation of large-scale chromatin structure. SAF-A has four domains: a SAP domain with proposed DNA binding function, a SPRY domain of unknown function, an ATP binding domain and an unstructured RGG RNA binding domain. Previously, it was hypothesised that the ATP binding domain of SAF-A belonged to a class of proteins called AAA+ proteins. This study presents homology modelling that suggests that the ATP binding domain of SAF-A is more structurally similar to P-loop kinases. A previous study suggested that SAF-A oligomerises in vivo upon both ATP binding to the ATP binding domain and RNA binding to the RGG domain, and that oligomerisation of SAF-A is important for proper chromatin organisation. This study confirms that SAF-A binds ATP in vitro. Surprisingly, this study identified a novel RNA binding region within the SPRY domain of SAF-A that appears to preferentially bind longer RNA in vitro. Furthermore, binding of ATPS at the ATP binding domain appears to facilitate tighter RNA binding by the SPRY domain. Small angle X-ray scattering suggests that this effect is independent of a large conformational change. This study describes a novel RNA binding domain in SAF-A and presents an interplay between ATPS binding and RNA binding within the SPRY-AAA+ fragment of SAF-A.
A fractional Brownian -- Hawkes model for the Italian electricity spot market: estimation and forecasting
Creators: name: Giordano, Luca M.
name: Morale, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60G22, 62P05, 60G55

description: We propose a model for the description and the forecast of the gross prices of electricity in the liberalized Italian energy market via an additive two-factor model driven by both a Hawkes and a fractional Brownian processes. We discuss the seasonality, the identification of spikes and the estimates of the Hurst coefficient. After the calibration and the validation of the model, we discuss its forecasting performance via a class of adequate evaluation metrics.
description: 40 pages, 19 figures
Decoupling characteristics of county-level land use carbon emissions and ecological environment quality at spatiotemporal scales: a case study of Shaanxi Province, China
Creators: name: Li, Jianfeng
name: Han, Jichang
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Liu, Siqi
name: Ye, Huping
name: Zhang, Zhuoying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: A critical approach to achieving dual carbon targets is to maintain strong decoupling (SD) between land use carbon emissions (LUCE) and ecological environment quality (EEQ). However, the spatiotemporal decoupling mechanisms of LUCE and EEQ at the county scale remain understudied. This study aims to explore the decoupling dynamics of LUCE and EEQ across 107 counties in Shaanxi Province from 2000 to 2020. Using the PIE-Engine and Google Earth Engine, we constructed LUCE and Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) models and applied the Tapio decoupling theory to analyze the decoupling trends. The results reveal that from 2000 to 2020, LUCE in Shaanxi tripled, while EEQ increased by 20.93%, albeit with fluctuations. County-level variations in LUCE and EEQ exhibited pronounced spatiotemporal heterogeneity, with decoupling types undergoing significant transitions in over 95% of counties. In 2005, 28.04% of counties achieved a decoupled state, but this deteriorated sharply by 2020, when nearly half of the counties displayed strong negative decoupling (SND), and no counties maintained SD. These findings suggest that achieving SD remains challenging and requires targeted strategies based on regional decoupling characteristics. This study offers a theoretical and practical framework for understanding county-level LUCE and EEQ decoupling, which is crucial for sustainable development.
Creating a Sense of Place and Belonging in the Classroom: An Example of Place-Based Education from the Foothills of the Himalayas
Creators: name: Hernandez, Doug
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: Place based Education; Physical Environments; Experiential Learning; Service Learning

description: Educators engaging in the critical assessment of teaching and learning have often considered the importance of the physical environment (classroom). This poster presentation offers that â€œplaceâ€ is more than a context for discovering curriculum. When we have access to the history and experiences of our places, we have the possibility of creating holistic learning environments rich with democracy and inclusivity. As our learning spaces have become increasingly homogenized and standardized, greater importance on reacquainting learners with their own environments and constructing new meaningful places is paramount. This poster presentation highlights teaching practices from village schools (Balwadis) in the foothills of the Himalayas. These practices were documented in a case study that the presenter coauthored and will offer that place, and learning, are inextricably intertwined. Using narratives, photos, and artifacts from the Balwadi teachers, participants will experience the multiple dimensions of place and environment and how these can be transformative agents for creating learning communities with a sense of place and belonging. Â Participants will learn how to apply these strategies to their own classes to create a sense of place and belonging for their students.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
The Orphan of Zhao: Chinese Revenge Drama and European Adaptations
Creators: name: Yu, Shiao-ling
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature--Chinese and Western

description: This paper is a comparative study of the thirteen-century Chinese revenge drama The Orphan of Zhao and its European adaptations from the eighteenth century to the present. Generally considered one of China’s great tragedies and the first Chinese dramatic work introduced to Europe, this play makes a good case study as intercultural theater. Unlike the earlier studies which emphasized Chinese influence on European drama, this study examines how European adapters tried to remake the Chinese play to conform to Western criteria of drama, such as the three unities. It also discusses how the dramatic actions in William Hatchett’s and Arthur Murphy’s adaptations reflected the conditions of England rather than China, and how Voltaire appropriated the Chinese play to articulate his ideas of European Enlightenment. In contrast to the Eurocentric eighteenth-century adaptations, the 2012 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company represents a changing Western attitude toward Chinese drama and a new direction in intercultural theater. This study provides a history of cultural exchanges between East and West through a systematic analysis of transnational transmissions of an important Chinese play.
Corks, involutions, and Heegaard Floer homology
Creators: name: Dai, Irving
name: Hedden, Matthew
name: Mallick, Abhishek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57R58

description: Building on the algebraic framework developed by Hendricks, Manolescu, and Zemke, we introduce and study a set of Floer-theoretic invariants aimed at detecting corks. Our invariants obstruct the extension of a given involution over any homology ball, rather than a particular contractible manifold. Unlike previous approaches, we do not utilize any closed 4-manifold topology or contact topology. Instead, we adapt the formalism of local equivalence coming from involutive Heegaard Floer homology. As an application, we define a modification $Θ^τ_{\mathbb{Z}}$ of the homology cobordism group which takes into account an involution on each homology sphere, and prove that this admits a $\mathbb{Z}^\infty$-subgroup of strongly non-extendable corks. The group $Θ^τ_{\mathbb{Z}}$ can also be viewed as a refinement of the bordism group of diffeomorphisms. Using our invariants, we furthermore establish several new families of corks and prove that various known examples are strongly non-extendable. Our main computational tool is a monotonicity theorem which constrains the behavior of our invariants under equivariant negative-definite cobordisms, and an explicit method of constructing such cobordisms via equivariant surgery.
description: 68 pages; fixed typo in Figure 5, to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc
The Predominance Of Dust In The Polar Region Of Agn
Creators: name: Asmus, Daniel
name: Hönig, Sebastian
name: Gandhi, Poshak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nucleiactive

description: Recent mid-infrared (MIR) interferometric observations showed in few AGN that the bulk of the infrared emission originates from the polar region above the putative torus, where only little dust should be present.

Our investigation of 149 Seyferts with high angular resolution MIR images from, e.g., VLT/VISIR shows that  significant polar dust emission is probably very common in AGN. The relative amount of resolved MIR emission is at least 40 per cent and scales with the narrow emission line fluxes implying a strong connection between the extended continuum and line emitters. These results together with the radio-quiet nature of the Seyferts support the scenario that the bulk of MIR emission is emitted by dust in the polar region and not by the torus, which would demand a new paradigm for the infrared emission structure in AGN. We will discuss some of the resulting implications and give prospects for future instruments to further test this scenario.
User-centered design and evaluation of the neotoma paleoecology open software ecosystem
Creators: name: Nelson, Jonathan K.
name: Blois, Jessica
name: Goring, Simon
name: Williams, John W.
name: Dominguez, Socorro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Making paleoecological data accessible, usable, and useful to a global and diverse community of researchers, educators, and students across Earth sciences is an essential yet challenging task. Multiple data access and discovery tools must co-evolve with ever-changing user needs through an iterative, open-ecosystem software development approach. We employ a user-centered design study to evaluate one such ecosystem, the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, whose mission is to advance understanding of global-change processes by providing an expert-curated data resource. Neotoma contains over 11 million observations from 30,000 + datasets across 20,000 + sites, representing proxies of environmental and ecological conditions of the past. Neotoma comprises three interrelated software components – an interactive web mapping application, statistical programming package, and API – that provide different levels of functionality to different audiences. Although development efforts of these software components have involved the user community, Neotoma lacks a systematic evaluation process, which is important for informing the gap between perceived potential and actual utility. We address this knowledge gap using scenario-based design exercises and a usability/utility assessment. Major contributions include actionable insights for enhancing Neotoma's user experience and a user-centered design model that can be adapted to advance the development of other Earth and environmental science software ecosystems.
A note on the continuity in the Hurst index of the solution of rough differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion
Creators: name: De Vecchi, Francesco C.
name: Giordano, Luca M.
name: Morale, Daniela
name: Ugolini, Stefania
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Within the rough path framework we prove the continuity of the solution to random differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with respect to the Hurst parameter $H$ when $H \in (1/3, 1/2]$.
Digital Humanities Across the Disciplines
Creators: name: Eyman, Douglas
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: technology enhanced; digital pedagogy

description: After a brief discussion of the definition of "digital humanities," thisÂ presentation will focus on the pedagogical functions of digitalÂ humanities projects and will provide several examples of such DH projectsÂ deployed in a variety of courses in the humanities and affiliatedÂ Â disciplines, both here at Mason and abroad.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Tradition and Modernity: Two Modern Adaptations of the Chinese Opera Hezhu's Match
Creators: name: Yu, Shiao-ling
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chinese drama

description: Introduction of Western-style drama into China in the early twentieth century produced a  new dramatic genre, huaju (spoken drama), which is distinguished from traditional  xiqu (musical theatre) by its use of spoken dialog and a more realistic portrayal of  contemporary life. Many reform-minded Chinese intellectuals saw in this new drama a  fitting vehicle to promote social reforms. Some of them even advocated replacing the old  theatre with this more socially conscious form of theatre. While spoken drama became the  favorite of the intellectual elites, traditional theatre, with its deep cultural roots and many  regional forms, remained the popular form of entertainment for the masses. This article  investigates the interactions between these two theatrical forms by analyzing two modern  adaptations of the play Hezhu pei (Hezhu’s Match), one produced in mainland China,  one in Taiwan. It will examine how the adapters utilized traditional sources to produce  plays more relevant to contemporary society, and what performance techniques they  employed to replace the old convention of song and dance. In addition to the old versus the  new, the Chinese and Taiwanese adaptations will be compared to illuminate how social  and political conditions influenced literary and artistic creations. My study will also  discuss how the Taiwanese production marked the beginning of the Little Theatre  Movement, which ushered in a new era in modern drama in Taiwan.
Creating an Inclusive Classroom Experience
Creators: name: Eby, Kimberly
name: Hattery, Angie
name: King, Eden
name: Manuel-Scott, Wendi
name: Crear, Joya
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: diversity

description: College classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse, and regardless of the areas in which we teach, we cannot choose to ignore this diversity nor can we ask students to leave their various identities â€œat the door.â€ This interactive session will provide participants an opportunity to explore strategies for creating an inclusive classroom climate as well as for facilitating discussions of difficult topics around identity, status, and structures of power, such as racism, patriarchy, classism, heteronormativity, native bias, and so on.Â  Everyone is welcome, including those with years of expertise who can share strategies, and those who are just beginning to explore classroom climate and facilitate difficult conversations.Â
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Landsat image classification using a deep learning model and multiple-source training samples
Creators: name: Sun, Zhelun
name: Li, Xuecao
name: Wei, Hong
name: Feng, Zemin
name: Yang, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Public release of the entire Landsat data archive and cloud-based geocomputation platforms have greatly facilitated land-cover mapping worldwide. The acquisition of training samples presents a significant challenge in mapping. In this study, we have developed an approach based on transfer learning to creatively use existing global land-cover products and training samples to resolve the training sample issue. We pretrained a deep neural network (DNN) model using low-quality samples automatically generated from existing global land-cover products. The pretrained model was then fine-tuned using high-quality training samples gathered from the training samples shared by authors of existing studies. We implemented this approach to generate a land-cover map for Beijing City, China, in 2015. Using the fine-tuned DNN model, we achieved an overall accuracy (OA) of 86.4% and a kappa coefficient of 0.796, based on independent validation samples. The accuracy was the same and even surpassed that of existing land-cover maps for Beijing. The fine-tuned DNN outperformed the random forest (RF) (OA = 70.2%, kappa = 0.588) and support vector machine (SVM) models (OA = 68.7%, kappa = 0.555) using the same training samples, showing that the need for training samples in land-cover classification can be met by combining deep learning models, existing global land-cover products, and recycled training samples.
Shi xu jian : [si shi wu juan] [volume 05]
詩緖箋 : [四十五卷] [第五冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Jinghu : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Chu Tang feng xu jian : jiu juan
Chu Tang ya xu jian : wu juan
Chu Tang song xu jian
Sheng Tang feng xu jian : shi er juan
Sheng Tang ya xu jian : er juan.
Missing 11th leaf between images 080 & 081.
Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production
Creators: name: Coplowe, D.
name: Altinok, O.
name: Dar, Z. Ahmad
name: Akbar, F.
name: Andrade, D. A.
name: Barr, G. D.
name: Bashyal, A.
name: Bercellie, A.
name: Betancourt, M.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Budd, H.
name: Caceres, G.
name: Cai, T.
name: Carneiro, M. F.
name: da Motta, H.
name: Dytman, S. A.
name: Díaz, G. A.
name: Felix, J.
name: Fields, L.
name: Filkins, A.
name: Fine, R.
name: Gago, A. M.
name: Gallagher, H.
name: Ghosh, A.
name: Gran, R.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Henry, S.
name: Jena, S.
name: Kleykamp, J.
name: Kordosky, M.
name: Last, D.
name: Le, T.
name: Lozano, A.
name: Lu, X. -G.
name: Maher, E.
name: Manly, S.
name: Mann, W. A.
name: Mauger, C.
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: Messerly, B.
name: Miller, J.
name: Morfín, J. G.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nelson, J. K.
name: Nguyen, C.
name: Norrick, A.
name: Olivier, A.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Perdue, G. N.
name: Ramírez, M. A.
name: Ransome, R. D.
name: Ray, H.
name: Rodrigues, P. A.
name: Ruterbories, D.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Sobczyk, J. T.
name: Salinas, C. J. Solano
name: Su, H.
name: Sultana, M.
name: Syrotenko, V. S.
name: Valencia, E.
name: Wark, D.
name: Weber, A.
name: Wospakrik, M.
name: Wret, C.
name: Yaeggy, B.
name: Zazueta, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) $π^0$ production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton-$π^0$ systems. Novel use of final-state correlations based on transverse kinematic imbalance enable the first measurements of the struck nucleon's Fermi motion, of the intranuclear momentum transfer (IMT) dynamics, and of the final-state hadronic momentum configuration in neutrino pion production. Event distributions are presented for i) the momenta of neutrino-struck neutrons below the Fermi surface, ii) the direction of missing transverse momentum characterizing the strength of IMT, and iii) proton-pion momentum imbalance with respect to the lepton scattering plane. The observed Fermi motion and IMT strength are compared to the previous MINERvA measurement of neutrino CC quasielastic-like production. The measured shapes and absolute rates of these distributions, as well as the cross-section asymmetries show tensions with predictions from current neutrino generator models.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. v3: PRD-accepted version, with full package of supplemental materials; v4: added 2 missing references; v5: corrected typo in Eq. 8
Experiential Learning for the Classroom and Beyond
Creators: name: Heath, David
name: Trygstad, Kate
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: experiential learning; participative reflection; experiential education; critical thinking; reflection

description: **Join us for a Teaching DEMO at our poster at 4:45pm**

This poster will exhibit the benefits of using experiential learning techniques facilitated through The EDGE â€“ The Mason Center for Outdoor Experiential Learning.Â  Theoretical foundations of experiential learning (Dewey, 1925/1998; Itin, 1999; Kolb, 1984) will be highlighted that will contribute to student development and academic growth.Â  Research (Baker, Jensen, & Kolb, 2002) has shown experiential learning to be an effective approach in strengthening class discussions that are essential in innovative and dynamic learning environments.Â  The EDGE is a Mason resource that Faculty can utilize to support foundational learning components such as critical thinking, communication, resource management, and productive relationships as well as provide opportunities for facilitated group reflection. Faculty and Staff will become aware of The EDGEâ€™s offerings as a tool to establish a thriving learning environment and to increase their studentsâ€™ confidence, competence, capacity and collegiality.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Creating Digital Portfolios for Reflective Learning
Creators: name: Davis, Molly
name: Lewis, Amy
name: Guingab, Terri Ann
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: teaching online; digital tools; service learning; creativity; student writing; reflective practice; digital pedagogy

description: This session will showcase reflective learning through the creation of digital portfolios. The integrative nature of portfolios allows students to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and developmental progress toward becoming a professional in their field. Guiding inquiry throughout the development of digital portfolios gives â€œvoice to each artifactâ€ and creates a teaching-learning environment supportive of â€œaction researchâ€ (Johnson, Mims-Cox, & Doyle-Nichols, 2006, p. 55).

In this session, e-portfolio models that encourage reflection will be highlighted with separately established examples from the INTO Mason International Graduate Pathways Program and the Department of Social Work. Strengths and challenges discovered in the promotion of greater skills and reflection in students will be discussed.Â  Portfolio tools available both within and outside of Mason will be described, along with best practices for integrating reflective learning through portfolios in a variety of disciplines.

Johnson, R. S., Mims-Cox, J. S., & Doyle-Nichols, A. (2006).Â Developing portfolios in education: A guide to reflection, inquiry, and assessment. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
From Religious Rituals to Popular Theatre: Evolution of the Mulian Legend
Creators: name: Yu, Shiao-ling
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chinese--Social life and customs

description: The story about Mulian rescuing his mother from Hell is widely known in China. It has been the subject of numerous operas from many regions of the country from the eleventh century to the present. It is even considered the beginning of Chinese drama. This study investigates how this story of Indic origin has become a Chinese cultural phenomenon by tracing its long evolution and process of Sinification. It also discusses the relationship between rituals and stage performance of the legend.
Learning with Fun in the Mason Instructional Design Special Interest Group (MID-SIG)
Creators: name: Joseph, Katrina
name: McLean, Jim
name: Harris, Constance
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: instructional design; technology-enhanced teaching; STEM education; creativity; digital tools

description: We propose to introduce participants to the Mason Instructional Design Special Interest Group (MID-SIG). Mason faculty members, staff, and graduate research and teaching assistants with an interest or involvement in instructional design are invited to join.

This poster session intends to demonstrate a small scale version of a Technology Speed Dating Event. During this event, we will share ideas on the topic of 3D print design in a fun and engaging way. We will demonstrate how a 3D print design activity can challenge students to embrace learning as a creative and reflective process. This session offers instructors an engaging way to cultivate creative and intentional learners through 3D print design using 3D capture mobile technology and 3D printers.

Participants who attend this poster session will walk away with an understanding of 1) how 3D print design activities are used in education, 2) how to capture and print a 3D image using a mobile device, and 3) how joining the MID-SIG is aligned with the Mason value â€œWe thrive together.â€
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Using PySpark to accelerate batch data point rotation for paleogeographic reconstruction
Creators: name: Xu, Shuyan
name: Hu, Linshu
name: Li, Haipeng
name: Qin, Mengjiao
name: Wu, Sensen
name: Du, Zhenhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Batch paleogeographic point rotation (BPPR) is a PySpark-based extensible batch data point rotation method that accelerates rotation during paleogeographic reconstruction. Data point rotation is an important part of paleogeographic reconstruction and a significant tool for exploring the co-evolution of Earth and life. However, current point rotation techniques have challenges with processing speeds when handling extensive paleogeographic data. Therefore, this study introduced a parallel-computing framework to construct a BPPR. This method combines PySpark and PyGPlates, which can partition points and compute them simultaneously in multiple threads. The rotation of 232,277 fossil occurrences from the Cretaceous Period in the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) was completed within 26 s. By contrast, an alternative GPlates method completed the same task within 96 s. The proposed method supports CSV, EXCEL, SHP, and other data formats, thereby avoiding possible software switching requirements when using methods associated with GPlates. Using synthetic and real paleontological data as experimental datasets, BPPR proved to be nine times more efficient than GPlates when rotating 900,000 points. This efficiency improvement significantly enhanced data-driven paleogeographic analysis. The parallel strategy employed can be broadly applied to massive data analysis in geoscience.
title: Stakeholder Perspectives on Interpretive Signage at Claude Moore Park
Creators: name: Colicci, Bobby
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signage
subject: Interpretive
subject: Parks
subject: Sign
subject: Stakeholder

description: Signage is a often used media in providing information to park visitors. This study evaluated the visitors at Claude Moore Park in Sterling, VA regarding their interest in the signage currently in the park and their suggestions for improvements that they would like to see. The information was also used to provide input on technological improvements proposed by the park itself. It was found that signage in the park was looked for by almost all visitors who entered the park. Locational information was found to be the most sought after, followed by general and interpretive information. It was also discovered that while there is interest in technological accompaniments, most people prefer signs with photos and text. It was further determined that the signs in Claude Moore Park are not up to standards of visitors and are due for improvements.
Shi xu jian : [si shi wu juan] [volume 03]
詩緖箋 : [四十五卷] [第三冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Jinghu : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Chu Tang feng xu jian : jiu juan
Chu Tang ya xu jian : wu juan
Chu Tang song xu jian
Sheng Tang feng xu jian : shi er juan
Sheng Tang ya xu jian : er juan.
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The localization spectral sequence in the motivic setting
Creators: name: Dupont, Clément
name: Juteau, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct and study a motivic lift of a spectral sequence associated to a stratified scheme, recently discovered by Petersen in the context of mixed Hodge theory and $\ell$-adic Galois representations. The original spectral sequence expresses the compactly supported cohomology of an open stratum in terms of the compactly supported cohomology of the closures of strata and the combinatorics of the poset underlying the stratification. Some of its special cases are classical tools in the study of arrangements of subvarieties and configuration spaces. Our motivic lift lives in the triangulated category of étale motives and takes the shape of a Postnikov system. We describe its connecting morphisms and study some of its functoriality properties.
description: Accepted version. Minor changes
Creating Inclusive Learning Environments:  Strategies from Performance Based Assessments in a Graduate Linguistics Course
Creators: name: Wong, Shelley
name: Shin, Hye Young
name: Tu, Thuy Thi-Minh
name: Saroughi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: open access textbook, linguistics, graduate courses

description: This poster discusses an action research project to improve performance based assessments for two assignments in a graduate linguistics for teachers course.Â  EDCI 510 - Linguistics for Teachers is a required course for graduate students in the M. Ed program for Kindergarten to Grade 12 English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL ) for teacher licensure approved by the Virginia State Department of Education.Â  In the course, there are two performance based assessment (PBA) assignments: a textbook analysis and a lesson plan.Â  The paper describes the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and critical race theory (CRT)Â  to analyze exemplary student assignments and to modify course descriptions of the assignments and the rubrics to support 1) critical examination of text book bias in social studies, math and science textbooks, 2) lesson plans that support teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students especially those who have had interrupted schooling 3) creative use of technology for more inclusive, culturally responsive and socially just classroom practices. Â Participants will gain insights about framing and designing assignments and rubrics to support student learning, while also creating an inclusive learning environment.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
title: Milton Barnes to Rhoda Barnes, December 24, 1863.
Creators: name: Barnes, Milton
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Knoxville (Tenn.)
subject: Military departments and divisions

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter to Rhoda Barnes from her husband Milton Barnes, stationed near Knoxville, Tennessee. Milton describes the difficulties faced by the troops including lack of supplies and provisions and expresses his displeasure with the military department of the Ohio. Much of the letter is devoted to thoughts of home and his future with Rhoda and their daughter Tirza.