cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ville e residenze extraurbane del Quattrocento a Palermo e in Sicilia
Creators: name: Nobile, Marco Rosario
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: villa; Sicilia; Palermo; XV secolo; torre

description: With the exception of a few splendid residences inherited from the past and related to the Norman or Swabian courts -which areboth in use and fully operative- the documented cases of new constructions in the 15th century are rare. In a city such as Palermo,the great private gardens were internal to the walled circuit, which allowed for an elitist way of life and matching social behaviours.A compact group of towered buildings constructed during that century in several places throughout the island constitutes, however,a significant phenomenon. In these buildings, which were commissioned by distinguished clients (the Cabrera in Pozzallo, theVentimiglia in Monteleone, the Speciale in Ficarazzi), a blend can be identified between defensive needs, productive interests,or else connected to hunting, and architectural and distributive choices which reflect conventions that are common to the entireMediterranean basin, but also the influence of the Aragonese court and that of the buildings favoured by the monarchy.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
San Martino in Soverzano, da insediamento fortificato a villa rinascimentale
Creators: name: Ceccarelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: villa; residenza fortificata; Bologna; San Martino in Soverzano; XV secolo

description: Some of the most important country residences of the Bolognese nobility, which can be found in the area between Bologna, theriver Reno and the province of Ferrara, often evolved in the 15th century from previous small fortified settlements. In EgnazioDanti’s book of drawings, which he produced in 1578 for what was later to become the Gallery of Maps of the Vatican, what isstriking is the permanence of the fortified nature of the settlements, something that had, however, already been considered asindispensable for life in a villa by Pier de’ Crescenzi in the early 14th century. The disappearance of many of the buildings hasnot allowed as yet the writing of a satisfactory history of the original pre-renaissance villa settlements, nor the carrying out of aproper census of them in the region. From this point of view, the complex at San Martino in Soverzano represents a particularlysignificant case for establishing a first well-documented interpretative framework on the phenomenon of pre-renaissance countrymanors in the province of Bologna.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Vincigliata, un castello immaginario del Quattrocento
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: Vincigliata; Castello; Torre; Usimbardi; Alessandri

description: The most picturesque and military-like configuration of the castle of Vincigliata near Florence – largely reproduced in the extendedand rather poetic restoration endeavour that took place in the 19th century – is the result of an intervention of the Alessandrifamily (a branch of the Albizi family) that radically trasformed the previous “casa da signore” in a monumental fortified residence,an eloquent expression of the neo-feudal aspirations and mentality of the Florentine aristocracy of th 15th century.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
Upholding Haitian Dignity: On Briefly Contextualizing the Ongoing Crisis in Haiti, Part Three
Creators: name: Faugas, Woodger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 200211 Postcolonial Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160805 Social Change
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: 160607 International Relations

description: This Part emphasizes the often-overlooked consequences of neighboring or faraway states’ actions on Haiti; in addition, it touches upon varied growth areas for Haitian leadership, as exemplified, in part, by some of the accusations that were lodged against the Moïse administration. In contrast, the first of its anteceding counterparts, namely Part One, recounted Haiti’s founding and world-inspiring Revolution, whereas Part Two analyzed foreign interference in Haiti —detailing the different types of abuse that Haiti and its people suffered at the hands of foreign powers, e.g., repeated and racially-motivated instances of mass killing, extortion, denationalization, and deportation. These events helped create a frame of reference from which Haiti’s ongoing political crisis, as signaled by late President Jovenel Moïse’s somewhat recent assassination, can be comprehensively understood. Undergirding Part Three are (1) the idea that Haiti’s plight determinatively stems from the inequities imposed by imperialism, colonialism, and anti-Haitianism, a form of anti-Blackness, as well as (2) the view that holding Haiti accountable for its leadership shortfalls, which have their roots in hampered development, in no way frees outside powers from their obligation to undo the harm inflicted through their numerous, longstanding crimes against the country and its undaunted citizenry.
Considerazioni sul tema del “Sommerhaus” nei castelli altoatesini e tirolesi:il diffondersi del concetto classico di amoenitase di ‘villeggiatura’ al tempo di Massimiliano I d’Asburgo
Creators: name: Lippmann, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Opus Incertum
Year: 2016
Subjects: architettura dell’Umanesimo; Sommerhaus; castello; Alto Adige; Tirolo

description: Nei documenti di ambito tirolese del XV e XVI secolo troviamo più volte il termine Sommerhaus, che definisce un padiglione estivo destinato allo svago nell’ambito di un complesso residenziale nobiliare. Generalmente i Sommerhäuser sono costruiti in modo da godere di vedute panoramiche sull’ambiente circostante. Questa caratteristica deriva probabilmente da testi letterari classici, in particolare da Plinio il Giovane, ben conosciuto alla corte di Massimiliano I e dallo stesso imperatore, che, come Plinio, è al tempo stesso committente e dilettante di architettura.
description: Opus Incertum, Vol 1 (2015)
title: Bayesian Semantics for the Semantic Web
Creators: name: Costa, Paulo C. G.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probabilistic OWL (PR-OWL)
subject: Multi-entity Bayesian networks
subject: Semantic Web
subject: Probabilistic ontologies
subject: Ontology Mapping
subject: Web Ontology Language (OWL)
subject: First-order Bayesian logic
subject: Uncertainty reasoning
subject: Bayesian semantics
subject: Upper ontology

description: Uncertainty is ubiquitous. Any representation scheme intended to model real-world actions and processes must be able to cope with the effects of uncertain phenomena. A major shortcoming of existing Semantic Web technologies is their inability to represent and reason about uncertainty in a sound and principled manner. This not only hinders the realization of the original vision for the Semantic Web (Berners-Lee & Fischetti, 2000), but also raises an unnecessary barrier to the development of new, powerful features for general knowledge applications. The overall goal of our research is to establish a Bayesian framework for probabilistic ontologies, providing a basis for plausible reasoning services in the Semantic Web. As an initial effort towards this broad objective, this dissertation introduces a probabilistic extension to the Web ontology language OWL, thereby creating a crucial enabling technology for the development of probabilistic ontologies. The extended language, PR-OWL (pronounced as “prowl”), adds new definitions to current OWL while retaining backward compatibility with its base language. Thus, OWL-built legacy ontologies will be able to interoperate with newly developed probabilistic ontologies. PR-OWL moves beyond deterministic classical logic (Frege, 1879; Peirce, 1885), having its formal semantics based on MEBN probabilistic logic (Laskey, 2005). By providing a means of modeling uncertainty in ontologies, PR-OWL will serve as a supporting tool for many applications that can benefit from probabilistic inference within an ontology language, thus representing an important step toward the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) vision for the Semantic Web. In addition, PR-OWL will be suitable for a broad range of applications, which includes improvements to current ontology solutions (i.e. by providing proper support for modeling uncertain phenomena) and much-improved versions of probabilistic expert systems currently in use in a variety of domains (e.g. medical, intelligence, military, etc).
Analysis of rainfall-induced runoff generation in a highly glacier-covered catchment with the help of stable water isotopes (in the Swiss Alps)
Creators: name: Benelli, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: hydrology, rainfall, stable isotopes of water, high alpine streamflow, glacier,

description: This Msc-thesis analyzes the rainfall-runoff response of the Oberaargletscher (Swiss Alps) with the help of stable isotopes of water sampled from streamflow, glacier ice and rainfall.
title: Investigating the Deterrent Effect of Distracted Driving Laws
Creators: name: Conroy, Josh
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Accidents
subject: Fatalities
subject: Distracted driving
subject: Cell phone

description: Following the growth of cell phone use nationwide in the last 20 years, driving while distracted is more common than ever. Deterrence theory implies that states with laws related to distracted driving would witness a decline in distracted driving after those laws came into force. Previous studies have shifted the focus of deterrence theory concluding that the certainty of being caught or apprehended is ultimately what deters an individual from committing a crime. This research explored the relationship between the implementation of distracted driving laws and cell phone related distracted driving accidents and fatalities. A paired samples t-test was used to explore changes in before-and-after mean scores of distracted driving accidents and fatalities in states with laws and in states without laws. Additionally, a one-way ANOVA test was used to compare changes in before-and-after mean scores between states with different levels of strictness in laws related to distracted driving. Findings show no support for a deterrent effect of distracted driving laws relating to cell phone use.
title: The ethnoprimatology of the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon and implications for primate conservation
Creators: name: Roncal, Carla Mere
name: Bowler, Mark
name: Gilmore, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Year: 2018

description: In Amazonia, primates are not only an important food source but they also hold significant cultural and symbolic value for many indigenous groups. We document the relationship between primates and community members of the Maijuna indigenous community of Sucusari in the Peruvian Amazon and describe how ethnoprimatological studies provide a better understanding of the significance of primates in people’s lives. Additionally, we explore how ethnoprimatological studies can help inform and enhance primate conservation initiatives.
Supplementary document for Design of non-Gaussian Multispectral SWIR Filters Assessed by SSRs on ECOSTRESS Library - 6360321.pdf
Creators: name: Fonseca, Germano
name: Gomes, José Gabriel
name: sá, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Optimisation
Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits
Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Supplemental document with additional figures to the Sections 4.3 and 4.4.
title: Development of a Gas-phase Chemiluminescence Detection System for the Measurement of Arsenic in Environmental and Biological Samples
Creators: name: Assegid, Kirubel
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Arsenic
subject: Water
subject: Kirubel
subject: Toxic
subject: Arsine
subject: Chemiluminescence

description: Arsenic in groundwater used for drinking is now regarded as one of the most serious health hazards of this decade. Long term exposure to low concentrations of arsenic has been reported to cause cancer of the skin, bladder and other internal organs. Also, various ionic forms of arsenic are known to be very toxic to most microorganisms. Measurement of trace arsenic at parts per billion (ppb) levels in environmental and biological samples is a key component for the mitigation and understanding of this crisis. This M.S. Thesis Project deals with the development of an analytical technique for the measurement of arsenic based on a gas-phase chemiluminescence reaction between ozone (O3) and arsine (AsH3) as the detection principle. The approach is capable of analyzing arsenic concentration in a 1.0 mL sample in one minute. The determination of As(III) and As(V) was achieved based on the different pH dependence and the reducibility of these species to arsine gas by sodium borohydride (NaBH4). The intense chemiluminescence formed in a reflective glass reaction cell from the reaction of AsH3 – O3 is detected by a sensitive photomultiplier tube (PMT). The signal is further amplified, digitalized and recorded with a complete data acquisition computer controlled system. The limit of detection (LOD) is 0.146 μg/L (ppb or 146 ppt) for total arsenic concentration in 10 determinations. To validate the performance of the gas-phase chemiluminescence based arsenic analyzer, results were compared with Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (HG-AAS) and Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy (AFS) techniques. The chemiluminescence detection system was also coupled with a flow injection system to enhance its efficiency. Sequential procedures including direct chemical and data analysis methods and step by step development of the analyzer are described in depth. The system has been effectively tested using standard and unique field water samples from several regions of Ethiopia.
Blind Extraction of Equitable Partitions from Graph Signals
Creators: name: Scholkemper, Michael
name: Schaub, Michael Thomas
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

description: 8 Seiten (2022).
title: Newspaper Column: Will Southlakes High Climb Higher?
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Southlakes High School
subject: National Merit Scholars
subject: Education
subject: Fairfax County (VA) Schools

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: South Lakes High School is a defining asset of Reston. No one beyond the closed circle of teachers, administrators, students and parents can ever know how such a complicated institution as a high school really works or fails to work. But there has been speculation that the initial promise of South Lakes has somehow been dissipated. In 1980 South Lakes had the highest number of merit scholars among the high schools of Fairfax County. Since then, a number of Reston scholars have decamped to enroll at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Last year’s record on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests was disappointing. This year’s preliminary SOL report is better, but lags somewhat behind Herndon High on most subjects. Rumors of less than perfect order in corridors and classrooms have circulated.
title: Host response during Yersinia pestis infection of human bronchial epithelial cells involves negative regulation of autophagy and suggests a modulation of survival-related and cellular growth pathways
Creators: name: Alem, Farhang
name: Yao, Kuan
name: Lane, Douglas
name: Calvert, Valerie
name: Petricoin, Emanuel F.
name: Kramer, Liana
name: Hale, Martha L.
name: Bavari, Sina
name: Panchal, Rekha G.
name: Hakami, Ramin M.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: RPMA
subject: Yersinia pestis
subject: Host response
subject: Signaling pathways
subject: Apoptosis and autophagy
subject: Phosphorylation changes
subject: Cell growth
subject: Proteomics

description: Yersinia pestis (Yp) causes the re-emerging disease plague, and is classified by the CDC and NIAID as a highest priority (Category A) pathogen. Currently, there is no approved human vaccine available and advances in early diagnostics and effective therapeutics are urgently needed. A deep understanding of the mechanisms of host response to Yp infection can significantly advance these three areas. We employed the Reverse Phase Protein Microarray (RPMA) technology to reveal the dynamic states of either protein level changes or phosphorylation changes associated with kinase-driven signaling pathways during host cell response to Yp infection. RPMA allowed quantitative profiling of changes in the intracellular communication network of human lung epithelial cells at different times post infection and in response to different treatment conditions, which included infection with the virulent Yp strain CO92, infection with a derivative avirulent strain CO92 (Pgm-, Pst-), treatment with heat inactivated CO92, and treatment with LPS. Responses to a total of 111 validated antibodies were profiled, leading to discovery of 12 novel protein hits. The RPMA analysis also identified several protein hits previously reported in the context of Yp infection. Furthermore, the results validated several proteins previously reported in the context of infection with other Yersinia species or implicated for potential relevance through recombinant protein and cell transfection studies. The RPMA results point to strong modulation of survival/apoptosis and cell growth pathways during early host response and also suggest a model of negative regulation of the autophagy pathway. We find significant cytoplasmic localization of p53 and reduced LC3-I to LC3-II conversion in response to Yp infection, consistent with negative regulation of autophagy. These studies allow for a deeper understanding of the pathogenesis mechanisms and the discovery of innovative approaches for prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of plague.
title: Walled: Divided Societies & Impact on Identity
Creators: name: Tuğberk, Suzan D.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Identity
subject: Basic Human Needs
subject: Walls
subject: Berlin Wall
subject: Structural Violence
subject: Green Line (Cyprus)

description: This research aims to understand how and if walls built during conflicts have an impact on identity. Walls are a common mechanism of conflict dating back in history, but serve varying purposes. Whatever the reason, walled societies undergo transformations not only during a wall’s existence, but after the wall is removed or opened, leaving residual damage. These transformations affect the identity structures and related areas of basic human needs and security that have changed over time. To better understand the impact on individuals and society at-large, a flexible research design employing symbolic interactionism, ethnographic studies and data collection through secondary sources will be used in a comparative case study. The Berlin Wall in Germany and the Green Line in Cyprus are the two cases chosen because of their similar and different identity qualities, as well as presenting a historical and contemporary context. Both examples utilize physical division barriers to provide specific functions, but have separationist side-effects. Overall, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that walled societies compromise and shift the identity, well-being and security of a person, group and/or nation.
From Roots to Ruminants: The Vital Role of Trees in Goat Nutrition"
Creators: name: Sakshi Tomar1, Indu Kale2, Pooja3, Karina Dogra4, Komal Thakur5
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

Fodder trees are a vital resource for goats, offering high-quality feed rich in crude protein year-round. Their leaves are an excellent concentrate for sheep and goats, especially for resource-poor farmers relying on low-cost feeding methods. When goats cannot browse freely, lopping provides an essential fodder source. Seasonal constraints on cultivated green fodder, such as limited irrigation and seed availability, make fodder trees particularly important from December to June, when grasses are depleted. These trees ensure consistent, high-quality nutrition, supporting goat health and productivity during periods when other feed options are scarce.
title: Wheels
Creators: name: Robinson, David
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Automobile
subject: Wheels
subject: Albany
subject: Arbor Hill
subject: Wilson

description: This work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.
description: This thesis is the beginning section of Wheels, a novel set in Albany in the twentieth century.
Ciência de dados aplicada à sistemas híbridos de ensino-aprendizagem
Creators: name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
name: Alves, Fernanda Beatriz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education

description: Conforme os desenvolvimentos de tecnologias inovadoras, promovendo novas ideias, os conceitos a respeito da educação virtual estão sendo alteradas rapidamente. Em respostas à tais transformações, muitas instituições têm trabalhado em métodos estratégicos e diferenciais para implementar um contexto de ensino híbrido, que engloba educação presencial conectado aos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Este trabalho proporciona uma discussão sobre o uso do Google Classroom como um aplicativo de apoio a educação, nos cursos da área de Informática do Instituição de Ensino Técnico e Superior do Triângulo Mineiro – Campus Patrocínio. Assim, o objetivo do projeto consistiu em analisar, por meio das opiniões de parte do corpo discente do Instituto, a eficácia das plataformas educacionais que foram adotadas, Google Classroom e Virtual IF (Portal do Aluno). Por fim, com a análise de dados e os resultados obtidos através de um questionário indicaram que a maioria dos alunos aprovaram a nova metodologia adotada.
title: Macroscopic complexity from an autonomous network of networks of theta neurons.
Creators: name: Luke, Tanushree B.
name: Barreto, Ernest
name: So, Paul
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Theta neuron
subject: Type-I neuron
subject: Hierarchical network
subject: Neural field
subject: Macroscopic behavior
subject: Coherence
subject: Synchrony
subject: Chaos

description: We examine the emergence of collective dynamical structures and complexity in a network of interacting populations of neuronal oscillators. Each population consists of a heterogeneous collection of globally-coupled theta neurons, which are a canonical representation of Type-1 neurons. For simplicity, the populations are arranged in a fully autonomous driver-response configuration, and we obtain a full description of the asymptotic macroscopic dynamics of this network. We find that the collective macroscopic behavior of the response population can exhibit equilibrium and limit cycle states, multistability, quasiperiodicity, and chaos, and we obtain detailed bifurcation diagrams that clarify the transitions between these macrostates. Furthermore, we show that despite the complexity that emerges, it is possible to understand the complicated dynamical structure of this system by building on the understanding of the collective behavior of a single population of theta neurons. This work is a first step in the construction of a mathematically-tractable network-of-networks representation of neuronal network dynamics.
A subset-selection-based derivative-free optimization algorithm for dynamic operation optimization in a steel-making process
Creators: name: Liu, Yongxia
name: Xu, Te
name: Tang, Lixin
name: Wu, Jian
name: Liu, Chang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Steel-making production is a dynamic process that has the characteristics of high temperature and heat, and a complex reaction mechanism that causes the mechanism model possibly to be unavailable and the system to be a black box. In this article, a dynamic operation optimization (DOO) problem is refined from the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel-making process, and the system model is formulated by a data analytics method. This prevents to solve the optimization problem with derivative-based optimization methods. To circumvent these difficulties, a surrogate-model-based derivative-free optimization algorithm is proposed for solving the DOO problem. In order to establish the surrogate model with the least number of function evaluations, a subset selection strategy is designed to find a sparse structure for the optimization problem, based on which a set of simple bases is determined to establish the surrogate model. Moreover, this also reduces the scale of the parameter optimization problem. Numerical experiments on actual production data verify the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.
title: Letter: C Harrison Mann, Jr. to W. Roy Smith, January 7, 1976
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: George Mason University School of Law

description: Letter: 3 pgs, typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Letter from C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Rep. W. Roy Smith of the Virginia House of Delegates regarding the establishment of a law school at George Mason University. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 20.15
Supplementary document for Optical near fields for ablation of periodic structures - 6360483.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Yi-Shi
name: Li, Zhen-Ze
name: Fan, Hua
name: Liu, Yue-Feng
name: Xia, Hong
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Chen, Qi-Dai
name: Wang, Lei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary parameters and details
Robust optimization with uncertainty using a stochastic multivariate Gaussian process model
Creators: name: Feng, Zebiao
name: Wang, Jianjun
name: Ma, Yizhong
name: Zhou, Xiaojian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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
subject: Computational Biology

description: In robust parameter design (RPD), estimating the response surface model from the noisy experimental data is critical for parameter optimization. The multivariate Gaussian process (MGP) model has become a popular tool for response surface modelling. However, most existing MGP models may not effectively evaluate the uncertainty of noisy data. This article proposes a stochastic MGP for efficient emulation and robust optimization by considering uncertainty. Firstly, the hierarchical modelling technique is adopted to estimate the relationship model with noisy data. Secondly, the hyperparameters are estimated by the Gibbs technique, and the Bayesian averaging method is used to measure the parameter uncertainty. Finally, a novel optimization model integrated with the Bayesian averaging and quality loss function is developed to find the optimal solution. Two case studies are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed approach obtains smaller quality loss than the existing ones.
title: Latent Fingerprint Development on Adhesive Surfaces After Application to Fabric
Creators: name: Boarts, Jason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fingerprint
subject: Forensics
subject: Latent fingerprints

description: One of the many items of evidence found at a crime scene that can yield breakthrough clues if handled and processed appropriately is adhesive tape. Through fracture matching and DNA analysis, a person can be linked to the tape and, therefore, the scene of the crime. Another way adhesive tape can link a person to the crime is with development of latent fingerprints. Thorough research and real-life case work have proven latent fingerprints can be developed from adhesive surfaces through a variety of processing techniques. A search of extant literature shows this to be true, but there is little information found on the ability to develop comparative latent fingerprints from adhesive surfaces after they have been applied to fabrics. This study adds to the literature through the deposition of simulant laden latent fingerprints on tan packing tape, clear packing tape and grey duct tape, then applying the tape to denim, polyester, and cotton fabric samples. The tape was processed utilizing crystal violet, black wet powder and small particle reagent. Careful processing and analysis of 135 samples of adhesives and 405 latent fingerprints determined adhesive and fabric types coupled with processing methods play a role in the ability to develop latent fingerprints from adhesive surfaces that have been applied to fabrics. The results of the study fill an apparent gap in the literature and provides investigators and lab analysts another means of potentially identifying persons of interest in criminal investigations.
Supporting information from Demographic consequences of heterogeneity in conspecific density dependence among mast-fruiting tropical trees
Creators: name: O'Brien, Michael J.
name: Hector, Andy
name: Kellenberger, Roman T.
name: Maycock, Colin R.
name: Ong, Robert
name: Philipson, Christopher D.
name: Powers, Jennifer S.
name: Reynolds, Glen
name: Burslem, David F. R. P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Contains additional methods, tables and figures.
title: Electrochemical Separation and Detection of Chemical Species in Flow Cell: Examination of a Microfluidic Device
Creators: name: Park, Sean
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Separation
subject: Detection
subject: Microfluidics
subject: Electrochemistry

description: The development of microscale devices or “Lab-on-a-Chip” has intrigued widespread interest due to its possible analytical applications in the field of medical, environmental, and material science. For example, microscale flow cells exhibit great surface-to-volume ratio and therefore provide a high sensitivity even from a weak surface interaction. Furthermore, different configurations of flow cells deliver their specific electrochemical properties used for analyzing the electroactive species. The detection of redox species is commonly practiced and comprehended however, the separation by electrochemical field is not well understood. In order to better understand the separation phenomenon with the microfluidic channel, a simple wall jet flow cell has been tested. Then, the results obtained from these experiments were used to design experiments where separation and detection can be done on the same platform. The electrochemical potential modulated microchannel (EPMM) is the device capable of separating and detecting electroactive species on the same platform. Both EPMM and wall jet flow cell were used in this research to determine the area of the electrodes, diffusion properties, time constant, and other electrochemical analysis with K3Fe(CN)6 and metal ions. Various analytical parameters such as scan rate, flow rate, and concentrations also helped on characterizing the system. As a result, 2.5mM K3Fe(CN)6 flowing at 4μL/min to the system and scanned at different rates determined the area of an electrode and the diffusion coefficient to be (1.00±0.05) x 10-3cm2 and (8.05±0.3) x 10-6cm2/s, respectively. Several plots were constructed with the observed electrochemical parameters and confirmed the system is quasireversible. The plots also determined the detection limits as 0.1mM for concentration and 0.14nA for current. Furthermore, the electron transfer rate constant was found to be (5.52±0.04) x 10-3cm/s. Besides the basic voltammetric properties of the cell and the redox couple, the detection of metal ions was attempted at a ppb level using the EPMM device in addition with the AC modulation voltage and frequency. In effect of electrolysis on detecting the metal ions with AC modulation of 1.0V and 1.0MHz, there were at least seven distinctive peaks correspondent to the metal ions with respect to their retention order. The detection limit of 0.20 - 1.15ppb and the sensitivity level of 50 - 250nA/ppb showed possibilities of enhancement.
Liouville's theorem for infinitely neighbor-coupled hamiltonian system on infinite-dimensional torus (Japanese)
Creators: name: Yagisita, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: [Comments] This can be considered a problem of a "singular Hamiltonian system" in the sense of being the limit of a "normal Hamiltonian system," but more narrowly, it may also be possible to consider a problem of a "singular integrable system" (an example of a neighbor-coupled system would be the Toda lattice).
Baccalaureate Service, 1939
Creators: name: State Teachers College
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1939
Subjects: subject: State Teachers College
subject: Commencement ceremonies

description: Baccalaureate service program for June 11, 1939, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
title: Purchase Replaced by License: Impact on Cultural Heritage and Research
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research Subject Categories

description: Although information seems but just a click away, when libraries embraced licensing as a means of acquisition, the choice had far reaching implications. The hard hit to academic library budgets is well documented, but the impact even encumbers access to our cultural heritage. Societal costs are incurred through the restrictions to access, barriers to discovery, impediments to fair use, and the overall length of copyright. While vendors try to create a comprehensive platform and tools under one click, librarians have stayed the course to fight for vendor neutral collections, open access alternatives, and reduced digital rights management constraints. The scope of licensing practices is expanding to address not only legal but technical specifications, privacy concerns, authors’ rights, accessibility, national information standards and emergence of preservation registries. With copyright constraints unlikely to revert back to its original 17 years of protection, the library community’s struggle under the effects of licensing are leading to clever and creative initiatives that will begin to write a new chapter in digital information management.
Supplementary document for Tunable and controllable multi-channel time comb absorber based on continuous photonic time crystals - 6360671.pdf
Creators: name: Dong, Rui-Yang
name: Di, Zhi
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Zhou, Jia-Hao
name: Zhang, HaiFeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: support material
Microglia and infiltrating macrophages in ictogenesis and epileptogenesis
Creators: name: Bröer, Sonja
name: Pauletti, Alberto
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: macrophage
subject: microglia
subject: inflammation
subject: seizure
subject: phagocytes
subject: epileptogenesis
subject: innate immune cells
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Phagocytes maintain homeostasis in a healthy brain. Upon injury, they are essential for repairing damaged tissue, recruiting other immune cells, and releasing cytokines as the first line of defense. However, there seems to be a delicate balance between the beneficial and detrimental effects of their activation in a seizing brain. Blocking the infiltration of peripheral phagocytes (macrophages) or their depletion can partially alleviate epileptic seizures and prevent the death of neurons in experimental models of epilepsy. However, the depletion of resident phagocytes in the brain (microglia) can aggravate disease outcomes. This review describes the role of resident microglia and peripheral infiltrating monocytes in animal models of acutely triggered seizures and epilepsy. Understanding the roles of phagocytes in ictogenesis and the time course of their activation and involvement in epileptogenesis and disease progression can offer us new biomarkers to identify patients at risk of developing epilepsy after a brain insult, as well as provide novel therapeutic targets for treating epilepsy.
title: Οργανοληπτική αξιολόγηση ενός δείγματος λευκών ξηρών οίνων της ποικιλίας Ασύρτικο, παρασκευασμένων με αυτόχθονες γηγενείς ζύμες
title: Organoleptic evaluation of a sample of dry white wines of the Assyrtiko variety prepared with indigenous yeasts
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κάνδρου, Ιωάννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Περιγραφική ανάλυση οίνου
Ασύρτικο
Panel δοκιμαστών
Οργανοληπτική αξιολόγηση
Αυτόχθονες γηγενείς ζύμες

description: Η παρούσα πτυχιακή εργασία αποσκοπεί στην αναγνώριση της επίδρασης των γηγενών ζυμών στην παρασκευή οίνων, από την ποικιλία Ασύρτικο, ως προς τα οργανοληπτικά χαρακτηριστικά που προσφέρουν . Η οργανοληπτική αξιολόγηση διεξήχθη από ένα εκπαιδευμένο panel δοκιμαστών από το Τμήμα Επιστημών Οίνου , Αμπέλου και Ποτών, το οποίο έχει προηγουμένως ελεγχθεί ως προς τις αισθητηριακές του ικανότητες και έχει εκπαιδευτεί στην περιγραφή των αρωμάτων και γεύσεων των οίνων χρησιμοποιώντας συγκεκριμένο λεξιλόγιο. Το panel χρησιμοποιώντας ένα λεξιλόγιο συνολικά τριάντα εφτά (37) όρων, μελέτησε τα αρώματα μύτης , τα αρώματα στόματος, τις βασικές γεύσεις , την αίσθηση του στόματος και την επίγευση στα διαφορετικά δείγματα οίνων και τα αξιολόγησε σε μια βαθμονομημένη κλίμακα. Η μέθοδος που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την αξιολόγηση των δειγμάτων ήταν μια παραλλαγή της ποσοτικής περιγραφικής ανάλυσης, μια προσέγγιση αισθητηριακής αξιολόγησης που χρησιμοποιείται ευρέως σε τρόφιμα και ποτά.
title: ЦЕННОСТЬ ДИАЛОГА В ГРУЗИНО-ЮГООСЕТИНСКОМ КОНТЕКСТ
Creators: name: Аллен, Сюзан
name: Каланадаришвили, Нино
name: Тадевосян, Маргарита
Publisher: name: Университет Джорджа Мейсона
Year: 2021

description: Эта публикация также доступна на других языках. Грузинская версия: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/12984 Английская версия: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/12981 За содержа- ние публикации полную ответственность несут авторы статей. Содержание публикации ни при каких обстоятельствах не может рассматриваться как позиция ЕС и ПРООН или Университета Джорджа Мейсона.
description: В этом сборнике мы собрали статьи, в которых представлен широкий спектр подходов к рассмотрению ценности диалога. В статьях также пред- ставлены различные взгляды на то, как диалог вписывается в социальную, политическую и экономическую структуру каждого из обществ и какую роль он играл на разных этапах конфликта. Некоторые из наших авторов пред- ставляют взгляды, которые акцентируют важные аспекты осетинского соци- ально-политического дискурса и нарративов. Другая группа авторов выде- ляет взгляды грузинской стороны о ценности диалога и раскрывает мотивы вовлечения в диалог. Сборник также включает анализ экспертов, практиков и ученых, которые, несмотря то что не являются представителями этого реги- она, уже давно работают на Южном Кавказе и представляют свой професси- ональный взгляд на оценку ценности диалога. СОДЕРЖАНИЕ Слово от редакторов • Обреченность диалога в грузино-осетинском урегулировании: есть ли выход Арчил Гегешидзе • Механизмы по разрешению грузино-югоосетинского конфликта и новые вызо- вы для диалога: грузино-югоосетинский контекст Дина Алборова • Почему Грузия не должна опасаться неформальных грузино-югоосетинских отношений? Иване Абрамашвили • Почему Цхинвали не желает диалога? Экономико-финансовое измерение во- проса Георгий Канашвили • Роль диалога в миротворчестве и правозащитной деятельности Лира Козаева • Итоги сотрудничества политики и гражданского диалога: история одного об- мена Паата Закареишвили • Роль медиа в организации диалога между конфликтующими сторонами: со- временный аспект грузино-югоосетинского конфликта Лана Парастаева • Монополия на роль жертвы: роль нарративов о травмах в грузино-югоосетин- ском диалоге Натия Чанкветадзе • Установление внутриобщественного консенсуса как первый шаг к началу про- цесса мирного урегулирования грузино-осетинского конфликта Анна Парастаева • Социально-философский подход к анализу ценности диалога для мирного бу- дущего Мария Кумаритова • Возможности в тупике: роль России в грузино-югоосетинском контексте Сергей Уткин • Важность диалоговых процессов в конфликтных пространствах: опыт обще- кавказских процессов Джульетта Шофилд и Лариса Сотиева • Ценность диалога: взгляды фасилитаторов из университетов США на грузи- но-югоосетинский диалог Сюзан Аллен, Пола Гарб и Маргарита Тадевосян
Volunteering, Skills and Livelihoods in Uganda - Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda Working Paper 1
Creators: name: Okech, Moses
name: Baillie Smith, Matt
name: Mills, Sarah
Publisher: name: Northumbria University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440602
subject: Development geography
classificationCode: 440403
subject: Labour, migration and development

description: This Working Paper is part of the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) project, an interdisciplinary research project funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This Working Paper 1 is co-authored by Dr Moses Okech, Prof Matt Baillie Smith and Prof Sarah Mills and discusses initial findings on volunteering policy and practice and its relationship to refugee youth skills in Uganda.
title: Three foci at the science-policy interface for systemic Sustainable Development Goal acceleration
Creators: name: Pradhan, Prajal
name: Weitz, Nina
name: Daioglou, Vassilis
name: Abrahão, Gabriel M.
name: Allen, Cameron
name: Ambrósio, Geanderson
name: Arp, Frederike
name: Asif, Furqan
name: Bennich, Therese
name: Benton, Tim G.
name: Biermann, Frank
name: Cao, Min
name: Carlsen, Henrik
name: Chen, Fang
name: Chen, Min
name: Daams, Michiel N.
name: Dawes, Jonathan H. P.
name: Dhakal, Shobhakar
name: Gilmore, Elisabeth
name: Miguel, Luis J.
name: Hubacek, Klaus
name: Hu, Yuanchao
name: Jager, Wander
name: KC, Samir
name: Kearney, Norman M.
name: Khot, Utkarsh Ashok
name: Kluck, Teun
name: Kulkarni, Shridhar
name: Leininger, Julia
name: Li, Chaohui
name: Li, Jing
name: Lotze-Campen, Hermann
name: Parrado-Hernando, Gonzalo
name: Pedercini, Matteo
name: Phuyal, Ram Kumar
name: Prell, Christina
name: Rijal, Arpan
name: Schweizer, Vanessa
name: Sijtsma, Frans J.
name: Soergel, Bjoern
name: Spittler, Nathalie
name: Van Vuuren, Detlef
name: Warchold, Anne
name: Weber, Eartha
name: Wicke, Birka
name: Widerberg, Oscar
name: Wilts, Rienne
name: Wingens, Christopher
name: Wu, Chaoyang
name: Xing, Qiang
name: Yan, Jin
name: Yuan, Zifeng
name: Zhou, Xin
name: Zimm, Caroline
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental sciences
subject: Scientific community
subject: Sustainability
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: The integrated and indivisible nature of the SDGs is facing implementation challenges due to the silo approaches. We present the three interconnected foci (SDG interactions, modeling, and tools) at the science-policy interface to address these challenges. Accounting for them will support accelerated SDG progress, operationalizing the integration and indivisibility principles.
title: Φυτοχημεία, Διατροφική αξία, Παραδοσιακές χρήσεις και Θεραπευτική δράση της κάπαρης (Capparis spinosa L.)
title: Phytochemistry, Nutritional Value, Traditional Uses and Therapeutic Action of Caper (Capparis spinosa L.)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σικαλιά-Τράκου, Ελπίδα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Capparis spinosa
Κάπαρη
Φυτοχημεία
Διατροφική αξία
Παραδοσιακές χρήσεις
Θεραπευτική δράση

description: Η Capparis spinosa ή στα ελληνικά κάπαρη είναι ένας πολυετής θάμνος που ανήκει στην οικογένεια των καπαροειδών, αναπτύσσεται σε όλη την Μεσόγειο και έχει μια αξιοσημείωτη προσαρμοστικότητα στις αντίξοες συνθήκες του περιβάλλοντος. Η φυτοχημική σύσταση του φυτού είναι ιδιαίτερης σημασίας καθώς πέραν την υψηλής διατροφικής του αξίας με βιταμίνες Α, Ε, C, K, νιασίνη, ριβοφλαβίνη, φολικό οξύ, ανόργανα συστατικά και λιπαρά οξέα, είναι πλούσιο και σε αλκαλοειδή, θειογλυκοζιτικές ενώσεις, φλαβονοειδή, παράγωγα φουρανίου και πυρρολίου, τετρατερπένια, φαινολικά οξέα και στερόλες τα οποία μπορούν να επηρεάσουν θετικά την ανθρώπινη υγεία. Σύμφωνα με έρευνες το φυτό κάπαρη φαίνεται να είχε ανακαλυφθεί από την αρχαιότητα και το χρησιμοποιούσαν στην μαγειρική και στην ιατρική. Η μαγειρική του χρήση είναι σαν ορεκτικό ή γενικά σαν καρύκευμα σε διάφορα φαγητά λόγω της πικάντικης και ελαφρώς καυτερής γεύσης που έχει. Ενώ η ιατρική του χρήση είναι κυρίως ως διουρητικό, αναλγητικό, αντιυπερτασικό και γενικά θεραπευτικό της αναιμίας, των ρευματισμών, του κρυολογήματος και των γαστρεντερικών λοιμώξεων. Εξαιτίας όλων αυτών των θεραπευτικών αλλά και μαγειρικών ικανοτήτων, η κάπαρη θεωρείται μοναδική. Συγκεκριμένα τα εκχυλίσματα της, έχουν αποτελεσματικές αντιμικροβιακές, αντιοξειδωτικές, ηπατοπροστατευτικές, αντιφλεγμονώδεις, αντικαρκινικές, νευροπροστατευτικές και αντιδιαβητικές δράσεις. Η παρούσα ανασκόπηση έχει ως σκοπό να συνοψίσει πληροφορίες για την Capparis spinosa όσον αφορά την προέλευση, την βοτανική και ταξινομική περιγραφή, την καλλιέργεια, την φυτοχημεία, την διατροφική αξία, τις παραδοσιακές χρήσεις και τις θεραπευτικές δράσεις.
title: Lipid-polymer nanoparticles to probe the native-like environment of intramembrane rhomboid protease GlpG and its activity
Creators: name: Sawczyc, Henry
name: Tatsuta, Takashi
name: Öster, Carl
name: Kosteletos, Spyridon
name: Lange, Sascha
name: Bohg, Claudia
name: Langer, Thomas
name: Lange, Adam
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysical methods
subject: Lipidomics
subject: Membrane biophysics
subject: Membrane proteins
subject: Membrane structure and assembly
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: Polymers can facilitate detergent-free extraction of membrane proteins into nanodiscs (e.g., SMALPs, DIBMALPs), incorporating both integral membrane proteins as well as co-extracted native membrane lipids. Lipid-only SMALPs and DIBMALPs have been shown to possess a unique property; the ability to exchange lipids through ‘collisional lipid mixing’. Here we expand upon this mixing to include protein-containing DIBMALPs, using the rhomboid protease GlpG. Through lipidomic analysis before and after incubation with DMPC or POPC DIBMALPs, we show that lipids are rapidly exchanged between protein and lipid-only DIBMALPs, and can be used to identify bound or associated lipids through ‘washing-in’ exogenous lipids. Additionally, through the requirement of rhomboid proteases to cleave intramembrane substrates, we show that this mixing can be performed for two protein-containing DIBMALP populations, assessing the native function of intramembrane proteolysis and demonstrating that this mixing has no deleterious effects on protein stability or structure.