cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Crystal structure of di[potassium([2.2.2]crypt)]tetrapotassium octadecagermanide(6–)—ethylenediamine solvate (1:6), [K(C₁₈H₃₆N₂O₆)]₂K₄(Ge₉)₂ · 6C₂N₂H₈
Creators: name: Hauptmann, R.
name: Fässler, T. F.
Publisher: name: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Year: 2025

description: C₂₄H₆₀Ge₉K₃N₈O₆, triclinic, P1̅ (No. 2), a = 9.408(2) Å, b = 13.606(3) Å, c = 19.507(4) Å, α = 84.74(3)°, β = 81.35(3)°, γ = 80.18(3)°, V = 2426.8 Å³, Z = 2, Rgt(F) = 0.064, wRref(F²) = 0.192, T = 150 K.
Intelligent intercessors in analysis models for automated design
Creators: name: Keane, John
name: Ellman, Thomas
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Systems for automated design optimization of complex real-world objects can, in principle, be constructed by combining domain-independent numerical codes with existing domain-specific analysis and simulation models. Unfortunately, existing ``legacy'' analysis models are frequently unsuitable for use in automated design. They may crash for large classes of input, be numerically unstable or locally non-smooth, or be highly sensitive to control parameters. Direct modification of legacy codes to correct these problems is often rendered infeasible by the high cost of re-validating the modified code. This paper describes an approach to incorporating knowledge-based handling of failures into design optimization systems that does not require code modification, yet allows for fine-grained control of model execution. We have constructed a toolkit for the development of robust design optimization systems that builds ``intelligent intercessors'' into existing analysis models. These intercessors are compiled from high-level rules to code that is inserted between discretely callable components of the design system. Intercessors serve to detect failures; take corrective action when possible; and transfer control to an appropriate destination when corrective actions fail. We show that this approach is effective in improving analysis model robustness and design optimization performance in the domain of conceptual design of jet engine nozzles.
Moving the Dark to Wholeness: The Elegies of Wendell Berry
Creators: name: Triggs, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Year: 1988
Subjects: American poetry--20th century
Elegy
Elegiac poetry
Berry, Wendell, 1934-

description: With each year, Wendell Berry claims a more significant position among contemporary American poets. From his common beginnings as one of a generation of poets trained in the precepts of the New Criticism he has pursued his own "path," as he calls it, with uncommon intellectual rigor and poetic sensitivity. In our age of weak religious faith, many poets, faced with death and the threat of nuclear devastation, have fallen into sterility or despair. Berry, however, over the course of his career has come to terms with death and made its acceptance central to his philosophy of affirmation. For him, acceptance of death makes possible human love, fidelity, and the perpetuation of the community of men on earth.
Experiences of people with opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic : A qualitative study.
Creators: name: Galarneau, Lexis R.
name: Hilburt, Jesse
name: O'Neill, Zoe R.
name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Scheuermeyer, Frank X.
name: Dong, Kathryn
name: Kaczorowski, Janusz
name: Orkin, Aaron M.
name: Barbic, Skye
name: Bath, Misty
name: Moe, Jessica
name: Miles, Isabelle
name: Tobin, Dianne
name: Grier, Sherry
name: Garrod, Emma
name: Kestler, Andrew
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Aim To capture pandemic experiences of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) to better inform the programs that serve them. Design We designed, conducted, and analyzed semi-structured qualitative interviews using grounded theory. We conducted interviews until theme saturation was reached and we iteratively developed a codebook of emerging themes. Individuals with lived experience of substance use provided feedback at all steps of the study. Setting We conducted phone or in-person interviews in compliance with physical distancing and public health regulations in outdoor Vancouver parks or well-ventilated indoor spaces between June to September 2020. Participants Using purposive sampling, we recruited participants (n = 19) who were individuals with OUD enrolled in an intensive community outreach program, had visited one of two emergency departments, were over 18, lived within catchment, and were not already receiving opioid agonist therapy. Measurements We audio-recorded interviews, which were later transcribed verbatim and checked for accuracy while removing all identifiers. Interviews explored participants’ knowledge of COVID-19 and related safety measures, changes to drug use and healthcare services, and community impacts of COVID-19. Results One third of participants were women, approximately two thirds had stable housing, and ages ranged between 23 and 59 years old. Participants were knowledgeable on COVID-19 public health measures. Some participants noted that fear decreased social connection and reluctance to help reverse overdoses; others expressed pride in community cohesion during crisis. Several participants mentioned decreased access to housing, harm reduction, and medical care services. Several participants reported using drugs alone more frequently, consuming different or fewer drugs because of supply shortages, or using more drugs to replace lost activities. Conclusion COVID-19 had profound effects on the social lives, access to services, and risk-taking behaviour of people with opioid use disorder. Pandemic public health measures must include risk mitigation strategies to maintain access to critical opioid-related services.
Angle Preserving Mappings
Creators: name: Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
name: Zamani, Ali
name: Frank, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46L08, Secondary 46C05, 46B20

description: In this paper, we give some characterizations of orthogonality preserving mappings between inner product spaces. Furthermore, we study the linear mappings that preserve some angles. One of our main results states that if $\mathcal{X}, \mathcal{Y}$ are real inner product spaces and $θ\in(0, π)$, then an injective nonzero linear mapping $T:\mathcal{X}\longrightarrow \mathcal{Y}$ is a similarity whenever (i) $x\undersetθ{\angle} y\, \Leftrightarrow \,Tx\undersetθ{\angle} Ty$ for all $x, y\in \mathcal{X}$; (ii) for all $x, y\in \mathcal{X}$, $\|x\|=\|y\|$ and $x\undersetθ{\angle} y$ ensure that $\|Tx\|=\|Ty\|$. We also investigate orthogonality preserving mappings in the setting of inner product $C^{*}$-modules. Another result shows that if $\mathbb{K}(\mathscr{H})\subseteq\mathscr{A}\subseteq\mathbb{B}(\mathscr{H})$ is a $C^{*}$-algebra and $T\,:\mathscr{E}\longrightarrow \mathscr{F}$ is an $\mathscr{A}$-linear mapping between inner product $\mathscr{A}$-modules, then $T$ is orthogonality preserving if and only if $|x|\leq|y|\, \Rightarrow \,|Tx|\leq|Ty|$ for all $x, y\in \mathscr{E}$.
description: 15 pages, to appear in Z. Anal. Anwend
Combined QM/MM, machine learning path integral approach to compute free energy profiles and kinetic isotope effects in RNA cleavage reactions
Creators: name: Giese, Timothy J.
name: Zeng, Jinzhe
name: Ekesan, Şölen
name: York, Darrin M.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemistry
Chemistry, Physical
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Science & Technology
Free energy
QM/MM
Reaction mechanisms
Transition states
Computer Simulation or Modeling
Physical Sciences
Physics

description: We present a fast, accurate, and robust approach for determination of free energy profiles and kinetic isotope effects for RNA 2'-O-transphosphorylation reactions with inclusion of nuclear quantum effects. We apply a deep potential range correction (DPRc) for combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations of reactions in the condensed phase. The method uses the second-order density-functional tight-binding method (DFTB2) as a fast, approximate base QM model. The DPRc model modifies the DFTB2 QM interactions and applies short-range corrections to the QM/MM interactions to reproduce ab initio DFT (PBE0/6-31G*) QM/MM energies and forces. The DPRc thus enables both QM and QM/MM interactions to be tuned to high accuracy, and the QM/MM corrections are designed to smoothly vanish at a specified cutoff boundary (6 Å in the present work). The computational speed-up afforded by the QM/MM+DPRc model enables free energy profiles to be calculated that include rigorous long-range QM/MM interactions under periodic boundary conditions and nuclear quantum effects through a path integral approach using a new interface between the AMBER and i-PI software. The approach is demonstrated through the calculation of free energy profiles of a native RNA cleavage model reaction and reactions involving thio-substitutions, which are important experimental probes of the mechanism. The DFTB2+DPRc QM/MM free energy surfaces agree very closely with the PBE0/6-31G* QM/MM results, and it is vastly superior to the DFTB2 QM/MM surfaces with and without weighted thermodynamic perturbation corrections. ¹⁸O and ³⁴S primary kinetic isotope effects are compared, and the influence of nuclear quantum effects on the free energy profiles is examined.
description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, copyright © 2022 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00151
Hydrovatus jaechi Bistrom 1996
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus jaechi

description: Hydrovatus jaechi Biström, 1996
 Hydrovatus jaechi Biström, 1996: 543; Nilsson, 2001: 191.
 Material examined. – 15 specimens - Central catchment area - 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 19 Sep.1991, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC); 9 ex., idem, 26 Aug.1992, y 840, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC); 4 ex., idem, blacklight, 22 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH). Bukit Timah - 1 ex., Nature Reserve, 13 Dec.1995, coll. T. Wong, H. K. Lua et al. (ZRC).
 Distribution. – Indonesia: Siberut (Biström, 1996). First record for the Malaysian Peninsula and Singapore!
 Ecology. – The species inhabits shallow, muddy water of open or semi-shaded freshwater swamps. The habitat is rich in rotten leaves and dense submerged vegetation. Hydrovatus jaechi was also collected at light at the edge of a freshwater swamp.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
The matrix sign function for solving surface wave problems in homogeneous and laterally periodic elastic half-spaces
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Shuvalov, A. L.
name: Kutsenko, A. A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Matrix sign function
Surface Waves

description: The matrix sign function is shown to provide a simple and direct method to derive some fundamental results in the theory of surface waves in anisotropic materials. It is used to establish a shortcut to the basic formulas of the Barnett-Lothe integral formalism and to obtain an explicit solution of the algebraic matrix Riccati equation for the surface impedance. The matrix sign function allows the Barnett-Lothe formalism to be readily generalized for the problem of finding the surface wave speed in a periodically inhomo-geneous half-space with material properties that are independent of depth. No partial wave solutions need to be found; the surface wave dispersion equation is formulated instead in terms of blocks of the matrix sign function of i times the Stroh matrix.
title: Adjectives
title: Adjectives (Acquisition of)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
Publisher: name: SAGE
Year: 2014
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective
Language acquisition

description: Adjectives are words that denote properties of objects, such as size (big), shape (round), color (red), texture (rough), material (wooden), state (sleeping), aesthetic qualities (beautiful), among many others. Adjectives are among the first words produced by young children.
title: The Effects of Proton Irradiation on the Absorption of Multi Component Glasses
Creators: name: Bartusiak, Marcia Frances
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1979

description: Three Schott glasses typically used in space technology -­ LaK 21, KzFS N4, and LF 5 -- were irradiated with 85 MeV protons. Induced absorption spectra were determined for each glass after varying fluences of radiation. It was found that the spectra for each glass can be fitted with three Gaussian shaped bands in the near ultraviolet-visible region, while a fourth Gaussian characterizes the absorption edge. For doses up to 107 rads, the dependence of the induced absorption a on total dose is accurately described by the saturating exponential function a(Φ)= as (1 - e--b Φ ) where as (1 – e -bΦ) where as and bare constants dependent on the wavelength and glass type. Similar analyses were performed on data obtained from a previous study into the effects of 7.0 MeV electron irradiation on those same three types of glass. For any one glass, it was found that electrons and protons produced absorption bands with peaks at the same energies but with different saturation levels. For the glasses and energy region investigated, protons form low energy color centers more readily than do electrons, while electrons have a greater influence in creating centers at the higher energies.
Shared decision making in pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease: design of a patient orientated decision aid
Creators: name: Williams, Astrid-Jane
name: Karimi, Neda
name: Chari, Radha
name: Connor, Susan
name: De Vera, Mary
name: Dieleman, Levinus A.
name: Hansen, Tawnya
name: Ismond, Kathleen
name: Khurana, Rshmi
name: Kingston, Dawn
name: O’Connor, Katie
name: Sadowski, Daniel C.
name: Fang-Hwa, Flora
name: Wine, Eytan
name: Leung, Yvette
name: Huang, Vivian
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Research has indicated a lack of disease-specific reproductive knowledge among patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and this has been associated with increased “voluntary childlessness”. Furthermore, a lack of knowledge may contribute to inappropriate medication changes during or after pregnancy. Decision aids have been shown to support decision making in pregnancy as well as in multiple other chronic diseases. A published decision aid for pregnancy in IBD has not been identified, despite the benefit of pre-conception counselling and patient desire for a decision support tool. This study aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a decision aid encompassing reproductive decisions in the setting of IBD. Methods The International Patient Decision Aid Standards were implemented in the development of the Pregnancy in IBD Decision Aid (PIDA). A multi-disciplinary steering committee was formed. Patient and clinician focus groups were conducted to explore themes of importance in the reproductive decision-making processes in IBD. A PIDA prototype was designed; patient interviews were conducted to obtain further insight into patient perspectives and to test the prototype for feasibility. Results Issues considered of importance to patients and clinicians encountering decisions regarding pregnancy in the setting of IBD included fertility, conception timing, inheritance, medications, infant health, impact of surgery, contraception, nutrition and breastfeeding. Emphasis was placed on the provision of preconception counselling early in the disease course. Decisions relating to conception and medications were chosen as the current focus of PIDA, however content inclusion was broad to support use across preconception, pregnancy and post-partum phases. Favourable and constructive user feedback was received. Conclusions The novel development of a decision aid for use in pregnancy and IBD was supported by initial user testing.
Open Science Pathways in the Earth, Space, and Life Sciences: Your Journey Towards Open Science
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Erdmann, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
FAIR Data
FAIR Software
Data Citation
Software Citation

description: Presented during the Open Science Pathways in the Earth, Space, and Life Sciences sponsored by AGU and SciLifeLab on 9 May 2022.  Resources: AGU Position Statement on Data: https://www.agu.org/Share-and-Advocate/Share/Policymakers/Position-Statements/Position_Data Nature's 2019 "150 Years of Nature" Interactive Graph: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-019-00121-0/index.html International Collaborations: Monastersky, R., & Van Noorden, R. (2019). 150 years of Nature: a data graphic charts our evolution. Nature, 575(7781), 22–23. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03305-w Wilkinson, M. D. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci. Data 3:160018 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18 (2016). FAIR Guiding Principles: https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/fairdata/training Is FAIR Open? Higman, Rosie, Daniel Bangert, and Sarah Jones. 2019. “Three Camps, One Destination: The Intersections of Research Data Management, FAIR and Open”. Insights 32 (1): 18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.468 Researchers Love Data Management: Stall, Shelley. (2016). Researchers and scientists love data management. Huh?. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5504418 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science; adopted November 2021: https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science Digital Presence Checklist: Checklist http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4706118 (English) Tutorial – 15 min https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4706146 (slides, link to recording) AGU Data & Software Sharing Guidance: https://www.agu.org/Publish-with-AGU/Publish/Author-Resources/Data-and-Software-for-Authors AGU Data Leadership Resources (and blog): https://data.agu.org/resources/
Complexity of Concrete Type-inference in the Presence of Exceptions
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
name: Landi, William
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: Concrete type-inference for statically typed object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, C++) determines at each program point, those objects to which a reference may refer or a pointer may point during execution. A precise compile-time solution for this problem requires a ow-sensitive analysis. Our new complexity results for concrete type-inference distinguish the diculty of the intraprocedural and interprocedural problem for languages with combinations of single-level types3 , exceptions with or without subtyping, and dynamic dispatch. Our results include: { The rst polynomial-time algorithm for concrete type-inference in the presence of exceptions, which handles Java without threads, and C++ ; { Proofs that the above algorithm is always safe and provably precise on programs with single-level types, exceptions without subtyping, and without dynamic dispatch; { Proof that interprocedural concrete type-inference problem with single-level types and exceptions with subtyping, and without dynamic dispatch is PSPACE-hard, while the intraprocedural problem is PSPACE-complete. Other complexity characterizations of concrete type-inference for programs without exceptions are also presented.
A MUSIC GENERATION BY A COMBINING MODELOF RESNET AND LSTM NETWORKS
Creators: name: Ozawa, Kazuya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: MIDI LSTM Residual Neural Networks and Skip connection

description: In this paper, to automatically generate a music for the melody part by deep learning with training data collected from Chopins piano piecies, a combining model of Residual Neural Networks(ResNet) and Long-Short Term Memory Networks (LSTM) are proposed. First, to generate a music for the melody part of a piano music, a training dataset used for deep learning is provided. Secondly, by using each of a LSTM Model and a combining model of LSTM and ResNet,experiments on music generationare presented. Thirdly, the results of music generation by each model are compared and discussed. In conclusion, the principal results are summarized.
The formation of nuclear discs and rings in simulations
Creators: name: Sormani, Mattia Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: I review theories for the formation of gaseous nuclear rings and stellar nuclear discs in barred galaxies.
description: Invited talk to the conference "Inward Bound: bulges from high redshift to the Milky Way", ESO-HQ, Garching near Munich, Germany, 2nd to 6th of May 2022 (virtual)
Hydrovatus maai Bistrom 1996
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus maai

description: Hydrovatus maai Biström, 1996
 Hydrovatus maai Biström, 1996: 304; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 194.
 Material examined. – 12 specimens - Central catchment area - 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 20 Sep.1993, y 843, coll. C. M. Yang (ZRC); 9 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 6 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich (CBH, ZRC); 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 26 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (ZRC). Sungai Buloh - 1 ex., Nature Reserve, 10 Jul.1992, y 804, coll. K.P. Lim (ZRC).
 Distribution. – Myanmar? (Biström, 1996), Malaysia [West Malaysia (coll. Hendrich) and Sarawak], Singapore (Balke et al., 1999), Indonesia [Siberut, Nias] (Biström, 1996).
  Ecology. – Hydrovatus maai  inhabits shallow, muddy water of open or semi-shaded freshwater swamps. The habitat is rich in rotten leaves and dense submerged vegetation.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
ON DEMAND: This is Going to Hurt: Re-Designing Courses with Previously Enrolled Students (90 mins)
Creators: name: Ramsdell, Justin
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: B. Solution Strategy – Implementing a new course re-design strategy can solve these issues and help create a re-designed course that more adequately meets the learning objectives and is significantly more engaging. Following the conclusion of a course, the instructor invites 3-4 students who were enrolled in that course to participate in a semester-long re-design of that same course. The course is stripped down to the learning objectives and everything, from the course structure, the textbook, the assignments, and the lectures are questioned, evaluated, and re-designed. All with the input of students who have just taken the course. C. Context/Evidence – This presentation will provide an outline for how this process has worked, and evolved, through the implementation from three separate courses. Original course syllabi, assignments, and learning outcomes will be shared, and compared, to re-designed course syllabi, assignments, and learning outcomes. Additionally, the process that has emerged through three trials of this strategy will be explained so that interested instructors may implement this strategy themselves. D. Teaching Principles and Research That Inform This Practice – This process is an exercise in critical self-examination since the participants are freely encouraged to criticize every aspect of the course. The teaching principles, including Bloom’s Taxonomy, what makes an effective assignment, and principles that make an engaging presentation are shared with participating students and incorporated into the final re-designed course. While this strategy certainly involves teaching principles, this presentation will focus more on “getting over yourself” and turning the tables or criticism to create a better course. E. Format – The presentation will begin by briefly outlining the issues with our current form of student feedback and will then transition to the process created by the presenter to remedy these issues. This includes the selection of the participants, how to run this as a for-credit course, the methods used to ensure the students act as a “brain trust” and not unpaid workers, and the feedback from students who have participated in this process.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
ON DEMAND: Creating Community through a More Inclusive Syllabus (40 mins)
Creators: name: Field, Sara
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: In this session, experienced practitioners provide guidance on how to make classroom syllabi more inclusive. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important foundations for every classroom. The session will include reflective questions with examples that practitioners can take with them to incorporate within their current and future syllabi. Recommendations will be grounded in critical theory (e.g, Freire), sociocultural theory (e.g, Vygotsky), feminist critical theory (e.g. hooks; Noddings), and culturally relevant pedagogy (e.g. Ladson-Billings.) Personal experiences from the classroom will also be used to provide examples to illustrate how these questions can be applied. We will lead a discussion to generate other ideas from participants. A QR code will be provided for participants to scan, which will share the questions and references with them in a paper-saving portable form.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
ON DEMAND: Using Career Case Studies in Your Curriculum (15 mins)
Creators: name: Kuykendall, Lauren
name: Craig, Lydia
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: The Career Case Study project is a semester-long series of assignments in which students are asked to identify someone to interview about his or her career. Drawing on course concepts (e.g., the impact of family/social background on career, job fit, setbacks/challenges), students interview their case person five times throughout the semester and write short reports (500-750 words) summarizing their findings in the context of course readings and classroom discussions. Students are given questions to ask at each interview but are encouraged to adapt the questions and ask follow-ups as appropriate. This assignment can be easily tailored to address different course content and student populations; I am currently using it in a mixed-majors course in the Honors College, but it was adapted from a graduate-level assignment. The assignment has multiple strengths. It helps make course concepts real to students, as they hear how the concepts play out outside of academic readings. It also facilitates in-class discussion of concepts, as students can make connections to things that came up in interviews. Students tend to have very positive reactions to the assignment and often find it very meaningful. Many students interview someone they already know well (e.g., a parent), and the formal structure encourages them to ask questions they have never asked before and listen actively. This often leads students to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the interviewee. Many students have also reported that the interviews are very meaningful to the person that they interview.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
WORKSHOP: Teaching Sensitive Topics and Managing Politically Charged Classroom Conversations (40 Minutes)
Creators: name: Ipek, Yasemin
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: • Participants will better understand what type of political and social issues are considered sensitive by Mason’s diverse students. • Participants will expand their awareness regarding how certain students with specific backgrounds might self-censor themselves during classroom discussions. • Participants will interactively discuss productive strategies and techniques for creating a class environment in which diverse groups of students can comfortably engage polarizing issues such as racism, xenophobia, migration, refugees, and right-wing populism. • Developing effective ways of handling politically sensitive topics will ultimately help instructors “create an inclusive learning community” and enhance "self-reflection, mindfulness, or well-being into learning," among the two major goals promoted by Stearns center.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Parent’s Alcoholism Severity and Family Topic Avoidance about Alcohol as Predictors of Perceived Stigma among Adult Children of Alcoholics: Implications for Emotional and Psychological Resilience
Creators: name: Haverfield, Marie C.
name: Theiss, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Alcoholism
Adult children of alcoholics
Stigma (Social psychology)
Depression, Mental
Self-esteem
Resilience (Personality trait)

description: Alcoholism is a highly stigmatized condition, with both alcohol dependent individuals and family members of the afflicted experiencing stigmatization. This study examined the severity of a parent’s alcoholism and family topic avoidance about alcohol as two factors that are associated with family members’ perceptions of stigma. Three dimensions of stigma were considered: discrimination stigma, disclosure stigma, and positive aspect stigma. In addition, this study assessed associations between perceived stigmatization and individuals’ experiences of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and resilience. Adult children of alcoholics (N = 622) were surveyed about family conditions, perceived stigma, and their emotional and psychological well-being. Regression analyses revealed that the severity of a parent’s alcoholism predicted all three types of stigma for females, but not for males. In addition, family topic avoidance about alcohol predicted all types of stigma for males and discrimination stigma and positive aspect stigma for females. With few exceptions, the three types of stigma predicted depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and resilience for both male and female adult children of alcoholics. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for promoting a family environment that mitigates stigma and encourages emotional and psychological well-being.
PAC Student Virtual Lunch with Keynote Speaker, Bryan Alexander, Ph.D. (30 mins) [INVITE ONLY]
Creators: name: Owen, Julie
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: This session is invite-only for the students participating in the Office of Graduate Education’s “Preparing for Academic Careers” Program. Please contact the Office of Graduate Education with questions about this program.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Surface Protection of Wood with Metal Acetylacetonates
Creators: name: Zhu, Yuner
name: Evans, P. D. (Philip D.)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Metal acetylacetonates are coordination complexes of metal ions and the acetylacetonate anion with diverse uses including catalysts, cross-linking agents and adhesion promotors. Some metal acetylacetonates can photostabilize polymers whereas others are photocatalysts. We hypothesize that the ability of metal acetylacetonates to photostabilize wood will vary depending on the metal in the coordination complex. We test this hypothesis by treating yellow cedar veneers with different acetylacetonates (Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, and Ti), exposing veneers to natural weathering in Australia, and measuring changes in properties of treated veneers. The most effective treatments were also tested on yellow cedar panels exposed to the weather in Vancouver, Canada. Nickel, manganese, and titanium acetylacetonates were able to restrict weight and tensile strength losses and delignification of wood veneers during natural weathering. Titanium acetylacetonate was as effective as a reactive UV absorber at reducing the greying of panels exposed to 6 months of natural weathering, and both titanium and manganese acetylacetonates reduced the photo-discoloration of panels finished with a polyurethane coating. We conclude that the effectiveness of metal acetylacetonates at photostabilizing wood varies depending on the metal in the coordination complex, and titanium and manganese acetylacetonate show promise as photoprotective primers for wood.
Aedes (Phagomyia) gubernatoris
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes gubernatoris

description: Aedes (Phagomyia) gubernatoris (Giles)
subspecies gubernatoris (Giles, 1901a) —original combination: Culex gubernatoris. Distribution: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka (Wilkerson et al. 2021, incorrectly listed from Thailand).
subspecies kotiensis Barraud, 1934 —original combination: Aedes (Finlaya) gubernatoris var. kotiensis (subspecific status by Harbach & Howard 2007). Distribution: India (Western Himalayas) (Barraud 1934).
Barraud (1934) described and named kotiensis as a variety of gubernatoris based on larvae that differ in having shorter antennae and lateral palatal brush filaments with “comparatively very large teeth”; however, “adults resulting from these larvae appear to be indistinguishable from the type-form.” Information provided by Barraud indicates that the two forms may be allopatric. In the absence of features that distinguish the adults, the perceived larval distinctions may be associated with conditions that influence growth and development in the tree-hole habitats utilized by the larvae. Based on these observations, we believe that subspecies kotiensis is a morphological variant of Aedes gubernatoris, which we therefore formally recognize as a synonym: kotiensis Barraud, 1934, junior subjective synonym of Aedes (Phagomyia) gubernatoris (Giles, 1901a). This agrees with the Encyclopedia of Life, which does not list kotiensis as a species.
In addition to kotiensis, Ae. gubernatoris has another synonym, Lepidotomyia magna Theobald, 1905a, first recognized by Barraud (1934), which we retain. All three nominal forms have type localities in India.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
WORKSHOP: Teaching Technology Tour and Q&A - Effective Video for Online Courses (40 mins)
Creators: name: Joeseph, Katrina
name: McLean, Jim
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Know what type of assignment or activity that you want to have your students do, but wonder if there is a simpler way to do it using teaching technologies and online learning management system tools? Want to know what technologies and online tools are available (in Mason classrooms or online)? Join us for a quick overview tour of technologies you can use (and why you would) to support these three basic teaching practices: sharing information, checking student understanding in real time or asynchronously, and getting students to work collaboratively. Following the overview, participants will go into breakout sessions to learn more “how to” basics for the technologies or tools of their choice.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
'Racial profiling' doesn't prove cops are racist
Creators: name: Toby, Jackson
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement

description: Late last month, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman forced the resignation of Col. Carl A. Williams, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, for "insensitivity" because of remarks he had made in a newspaper interview. In replying to accusations that the state police targeted black motorists for traffic stops on...
WORKSHOP: Teaching Technology Tour and Q&A - Group Work and Collaboration Tools (40 mins)
Creators: name: Tungli, Julia
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Know what type of assignment or activity that you want to have your students do, but wonder if there is a simpler way to do it using teaching technologies and online learning management system tools? Want to know what technologies and online tools are available (in Mason classrooms or online)? Join us for a quick overview tour of technologies you can use (and why you would) to support these three basic teaching practices: sharing information, checking student understanding in real time or asynchronously, and getting students to work collaboratively. Following the overview, participants will go into breakout sessions to learn more “how to” basics for the technologies or tools of their choice.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Fantasia of a Superfluid Universe -- In memory of Kerson Huang
Creators: name: Low, Hwee-Boon
name: Xiong, Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article introduces Kerson Huang's theory on superfluid universe in these aspects: I. choose the asymptotically free Halpern-Huang scalar field(s) to drive inflation; II. use quantum turbulence to create matter; III. consider dark energy as the energy density of the cosmic superfluid and dark matter the deviation of the superfluid density from its equilibrium value; IV. use quantum vorticity to explain phenomena such as the non-thermal filaments at the galactic center, the large voids in the galactic distribution, and the gravitational collapse of stars to fast-rotating blackholes.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
WORKSHOP: Teaching Technology Tour and Q&A - Classroom Technologies: What to Expect in Horizon Hall (40 mins)
Creators: name: Clemons, Crystal
name: Pittman, LeAnn
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Know what type of assignment or activity that you want to have your students do, but wonder if there is a simpler way to do it using teaching technologies and online learning management system tools? Want to know what technologies and online tools are available (in Mason classrooms or online)? Join us for a quick overview tour of technologies you can use (and why you would) to support these three basic teaching practices: sharing information, checking student understanding in real time or asynchronously, and getting students to work collaboratively. Following the overview, participants will go into breakout sessions to learn more “how to” basics for the technologies or tools of their choice.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Hydrovatus pisiformis Bistrom 1996
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus pisiformis

description: Hydrovatus pisiformis Biström, 1996
 Hydrovatus pisiformis Biström, 1996: 323; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 200.
 Material examined. – 6 specimens – Other areas - 3 ex., Singapore, Bi 6.22 flew/ Singapore C. J. Saunders BM 1929-369 (BMNH); 1 ex., Bi 9.22 flew/ Singapore C. J. Saunders BM 1929-369 (BMNH). Central catchment area - 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, blacklight, 22 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH) - 1 ex., Lorong Banir, pond 1, 14 Jul.1995, NS 200, coll. H. K. Lua (ZRC).
 Distribution. – Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore (Biström, 1996; Balke et al., 1999).
 Ecology. – The rare Hydrovatus pisiformis is an inhabitant of lowland, shady freshwater swamps (pers. observ. in West Malaysia). The two specimens in Singapore were collected near a freshwater swamp at light, and in a small natural pond.
 Remarks. – Singapore is the type locality of the species.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
title: QDπ
title: a quantum deep potential interaction model for drug discovery
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zeng, Jinzhe
name: Tao, Yujun
name: Giese, Timothy J.
name: York, Darrin M.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: Chemistry
Chemistry, Physical
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Science & Technology
Energy
Mathematical methods
Molecular modeling
Molecules
Potential energy
Physical Sciences
Physics

description: We report QDπ-v1.0 for modeling the internal energy of drug molecules containing H, C, N, and O atoms. The QDπ model is in the form of a quantum mechanical/machine learning potential correction (QM/Δ-MLP) that uses a fast third order self-consistent density-functional tight-binding (DFTB3/ 3OB) model that is corrected to a quantitatively high-level of accuracy through a deep-learning potential (DeepPot-SE). The model has the advantage that it is able to properly treat electrostatic interactions and handle changes in charge/protonation states. The model is trained against reference data computed at the ωB97X/6-31G* level (as in the ANI-1x data set) and compared to several other approximate semiempirical and machine learning potentials (ANI-1x, ANI-2x, DFTB3, MNDO/d, AM1, PM6, GFN1-xTB, and GFN2-xTB). The QDπ model is demonstrated to be accurate for a wide range of intra-and intermolecular interactions (despite its intended use as an internal energy model) and has shown to perform exceptionally well for relative protonation/deprotonation energies and tautomers. An example application to model reactions involved in RNA strand cleavage catalyzed by protein and nucleic acid enzymes illustrates QDπ has average errors less than 0.5 kcal/mol, whereas the other models compared have errors over an order of magnitude greater. Taken together, this makes QDπ highly attractive as a potential force field model for drug discovery.
description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, copyright © 2023 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01172
Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) argenteoventralis
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes argenteoventralis

description: Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) argenteoventralis (Theobald)
subspecies argenteoventralis (Theobald, 1909) —original combination: Dendromyia argenteoventralis. Distribution: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo (Wilkerson et al. 2021).
subspecies dunni Evans, 1928 —original combination: Aedes (Armigeres) albomarginata var. dunni (subspecific status by White 1975). Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria (Wilkerson et al. 2021).
Theobald (1909) described and named Dendromyia argenteoventralis based on females collected in present-day Ghana, characterized by a moderately broad border of white scales on the anterior margin of the scutum. A form later found in Nigeria and described as Aedes albomarginata [sic] var. dunni by Evans (1928) was considered to be a variety of Ae. argenteoventralis by Edwards (1930) (afforded subspecific status by White 1975) that differs from the typical form in having few or no white scales on the anterior margin of the scutum. As noted by Edwards (1930, 1941), the male genitalia of the two forms appear to be identical. Whereas the larva and pupa of dunni have been described (Evans 1938; Hopkins 1952; Edwards 1941), these life stages of the typical form are unknown. Based on the known distributions of the two forms, with the typical form recorded from the Central African Republic, which is bordered by Nigeria to the west and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south where dunni is recorded, it is probable that the two forms occur in sympatry and the amount of white scaling on the anterior margin of the scutum is normal variation within a single species. Consequently, Aedes albomarginatus var. dunni Evans, 1928 is hereby formally regarded as a synonym: dunni Evans, 1928, junior subjective synonym of Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) argenteoventralis (Theobald, 1909). This agrees with the Encyclopedia of Life, which does not list dunni as a species.
In addition to dunni (type locality: Lagos, Nigeria), Dendromyia affinis Theobald, 1909 is also a recognized synonym of Ae. argenteoventralis. The type locality of Dendromyia affinis, Obuasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana, is also the type locality of Ae. argenteoventralis.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
Investigating Spatiotemporal Variability of Water, Energy, and Carbon Flows: A Probabilistic Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Framework for Higher Education Institutions
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Abdulaziz
name: Hu, Guangji
name: Chhipi-Shrestha, Gyan
name: Haider, Husnain
name: Hewage, Kasun
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Higher education institutions (HEIs) consume significant energy and water and contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. HEIs are under pressure internally and externally to improve their overall performance on reducing GHG emissions within their boundaries. It is necessary to identify critical areas of high GHG emissions within a campus to help find solutions to improve the overall sustainability performance of the campus. An integrated probabilistic-fuzzy framework is developed to help universities address the uncertainty associated with the reporting of water, energy, and carbon (WEC) flows within a campus. The probabilistic assessment using Monte Carlo Simulations effectively addressed the aleatory uncertainties, due to the randomness in the variations of the recorded WEC usages, while the fuzzy synthetic evaluation addressed the epistemic uncertainties, due to vagueness in the linguistic variables associated with WEC benchmarks. The developed framework is applied to operational, academic, and residential buildings at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus). Three scenarios are analyzed, allocating the partial preference to water, or energy, or carbon. Furthermore, nine temporal seasons are generated to assess the variability, due to occupancy and climate changes. Finally, the aggregation is completed for the assessed buildings. The study reveals that climatic and type of buildings significantly affect the overall performance of a university. This study will help the sustainability centers and divisions in HEIs assess the spatiotemporal variability of WEC flows and effectively address the uncertainties to cover a wide range of human judgment.