cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Bergner, Georg
title: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
titleType: Subtitle
title: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
name: Eberle, Henrik
Publisher: name: Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt,Institut für Landesgeschichte (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: History
classificationCode: 4023025-9
subject: Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4023025-9
classificationCode: 4006804-3
subject: Biografie
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4006804-3
classificationCode: 4166546-6
subject: Landesgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4166546-6
classificationCode: 4051181-9
subject: Sachsen-Anhalt
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4051181-9
classificationCode: 1048495779
subject: Universität Halle (Saale) | Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1048495779
classificationCode: 2024276-1
subject: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Halle (Saale); Wittenberg
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/2024276-1
classificationCode: 4020517-4
subject: Geschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4020517-4
classificationCode: 7504326-9
subject: Universitätsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504326-9
classificationCode: 7504427-4
subject: Wissenschaftsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504427-4
subject: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
subject: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
classificationCode: 120134756
subject: Eberle, Henrik | 1970– | Historiker
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/120134756

description: Das Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt versammelt in Erst- und Zweitveröffentlichung oder zu Zwecken der Langzeitarchivierung Biografien von Menschen aus und in Sachsen-Anhalt. Integriert wurde der Catalogus Professorum Halensis, der durch Mitarbeitende des Instituts für Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg entstand. Dabei handelt es sich um ein bio-bibliografisches Online-Lexikon zu den Professoren der Universität Halle zwischen 1694 und 1968. Die Texte wurden vor allem von Henrik Eberle und anderen Mitarbeitenden zwischen 2005 und 2010 recherchiert und erstellt. Etliche Artikel zum Zeitraum 1694 bis 1817 verfasste Julia Schopferer. Bei der Überführung in das Biografienportal wurden die Lebensangaben neu recherchiert und Metadaten über Verfahren des Named Entity Recogniton erschlossen. Automatisiert erkannt wurden Personennamen, Ortsbezeichnungen und Körperschaften, die in der hier vorhandenen RTF-Datei indexiert vorliegt. Zudem wurden diese mit GND-Einträgen abgeglichen. Weiterhin erfolgte ein Abgleich mit der „Ontologie der historischen, deutschsprachigen Amts- und Berufsbezeichnungen“. Die Texte liegen im Jahr 2024 in zweifacher Ausgabe im Catalogus Professorum Halensis des Universitätsarchivs und des Biografienportals des Historischen Datenzentrums Sachsen-Anhalts vor. Sie werden hier für die Langzeitarchivierung der ursprünglichen Fassung archiviert.
description: https://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/
description: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt: https://www.histdata.uni-halle.de/
title: Photo: Anonymous, "Vernon Walker," Undated
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Walker, Vernon

description: Image: photograph with description, black and white original; 8" x 6" (20.3 cm x 15.2 cm) description 8.5" x 3.125" (21.6 cm x 7.9 cm)
description: Photo by an anonymous photographer of Vernon Walker that is undated. This is an image of Vernon Walker, who was the first director of the Nature Center in Reston, Virginia. In 1987, a new nature center was named for Walker. In this image, Walker can be seen outside in a corduroy jacket writing in a notebook. Trees without leaves are visible in the background. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm05.11
Non-consensual pornography in India
Creators: name: Lakshané, Rohini
Publisher: name: Centre for Internet and Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gender studies
subject: NCII
subject: IBSA
subject: NCP
subject: TFGBV
subject: GBV
subject: OGBV
subject: VAW
subject: image-based abuse
subject: non-consensual pornography
subject: Sexual violence
subject: non-consensual intimate images

description: Slide deck on non-consensual pornography, also known as non-consensual intimate images (NCII) and commonly known by the misnomer 'revenge porn'.

This slide deck accompanied a talk Rohini Lakshané delivered at the National Conference on Sexual Expression in 2015.

It contains abridged findings of her research on non-consensual circulation and shooting of nude and sexually explicit content online in India. This was a part of the second phase of the Exploratory Research on ICTs and Sexuality (EroTICs) project in the country in the years 2013-14.

Slide deck originally uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Non-consensual_intimate_imagery_in_India.pdf&page=2
Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities
Creators: name: Barigozzi, Francesca
name: Ma, Ching-To Albert
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: We study subgame-perfect equilibria of the classical quality-price, multistage game of vertical product
differentiation. Each firm can choose the levels of an arbitrary number of qualities. Consumers’ valuations
are drawn from independent and general distributions. The unit cost of production is increasing and convex
in qualities. We characterize equilibrium prices, and the equilibrium effects of qualities on the rival’s price
in the general model. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for equilibrium differentiation in any of
the qualities.
title: SYNTHESIS OF NEW HALOGENATED AND BENZYLATED QUINOLONES
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: Quinolone derivatives have been used as antibiotics since the introduction of nalidixic acid in the 1960s. Antibiotic quinolone drugs are thought to bind to DNA, inhibiting the action of topoisomerase II, an enzyme which cuts both strands of DNA during replication, unwinds them, and then rejoins them. Without this enzyme’s action, no cell division is possible. Some antibiotic quinolone drugs are fluorinated and many contain a carboxyl group to facilitate aqueous solubility. At least one quinolone drug has been used to treat muscular dystrophy. The new quinolone derivatives described do not follow the existing template for quinolone drugs, but are similar. Some of these new quinolones were nitrated in order to enhance their solubility in water, and all were fluorinated or chlorinated. The quinolone derivatives described here were tested against three common bacteria, S. saprophyticus, E. coli, and P. stutzeri. None was found to be effective against any of these three bacteria.
Search for a Diffuse Neutrino Emission in the Southern Sky with the Antares Telescope
Creators: name: Fusco, Luigi Antonio <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: FIS/01 Fisica sperimentale

description: Compelling evidence of the existence of cosmic neutrinos has been reported by the IceCube collaboration. Some features of this signal could be explained by a Northern/Southern sky asymmetry of the flux. This possible asymmetry would be related to the presence of the bulk our Galaxy in the Southern sky.

The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea, consists of a three dimensional array of 885 10-inch photomultiplier tubes distributed along twelve vertical lines. Its effective area and its good exposure to the Southern Sky would allow to constrain an enhanced muon neutrino emission from extended sources.

An excess of events from the Galactic Plane is searched for. A signal region around the inner Galactic Plane is defined; the background from atmospheric events is estimated looking at data from off-zones for which ANTARES has the same exposure as for the signal region. The ANTARES sensitivity to such a flux has been computed. The results of the analysis after unblinding will be presented.
title: Restorative Validity: Exploring How Critical Participatory Inquiry Can Promote Peace, Justice, and Healing
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Axiology
subject: Decolonizing epistemology
subject: Decolonizing methodology
subject: Participatory action research
subject: Participatory methods
subject: Research ethics
subject: Social research
subject: Peace studies
subject: Educational evaluation

description: This dissertation begins with a simple premise: (re)imagining a healing and restorative space for inquiry. Across three manuscripts, the work of a critical participatory inquiry collective—composed of Kaqchikel Maya community members and nonprofit staff in Guatemala, and a university-affiliated researcher—is examined as we conceptualized and tested a model: restorative validity. Through our work, we sought to understand how inquiry could be used as a means to reclaim and restore the humanity of researcher and researched alike, and the research process itself. The first manuscript, “How does it feel to be my research problem?: On restorative validity”, reviews how interrelated research orientations—toward relationships, justice, and liberation—are situated across disciplines (e.g., critical theories; research methodology; peace, rights, justice studies). After mapping these concepts, reflexive questions are outlined to guide those interested in addressing potential and real harms in/from inquiry. The second manuscript, “Seeking restoration and healing through inquiry: A visual ethnographic case study in Guatemala” presents co-researchers’ observations of inquiry and its restorative potential. Narratives are supplemented through photographs of our activities, which included community consultations, storytelling, and interactive data collection and analysis techniques. The last manuscript, “Can research heal?: Axiological commitments and methodological obligations as contact zones toward restorative validity”, illuminates co-researchers’ words as counternarratives, flanked against dominant interpretations of methodology, validity, and assumptions on participation and empowerment. In its totality, it is a call to action: That researchers and practitioners create forms of inquiry that seek to heal and restore, rather than simply prove a point.
title: Introducing Digital Humanities Now
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Scholarly communication
subject: Twitter
subject: Academia
subject: Crowdsourcing
subject: Publishing

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
title: Overhead: Dewberry & Davis, "Deluca Plan Overhead (Includes Land Use)," Undated
Creators: name: Dewberry & Davis
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Vienna (VA)

description: Image: Overhead, plastic on cardboard matting; 10” x 8” (25.4 cm x 20.3 cm)
description: Undated overhead produced by Dewberry & Davis entitled "Deluca Plan Overhead (Includes Land Use)." This overhead shows proposed land use for Virginia Center, created by the Hazel/Peterson Companies (now Peterson Companies) next to the Vienna Metro Station at the Nutley Street exit off of Interstate 66. The land use proposed in this overhead was not developed. Instead, Virginia Center became a condominium complex now called Marquis at Vienna Station. Planned Community Archives Collection, 638.02.01
title: Utilizing Music Therapy in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Creators: name: Nahigian, Courtney
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013

description: The CATS published in MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service; mars.gmu.edu) are submitted by students after they have been reviewed, revised, and approved by their instructor. All CATs are current at the time of original publication but will not be updated over time.
description: Purpose: To determine if music therapy makes a positive difference in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.
Report and evidence of the Commission of Inquiry into the loss of the British steamship "Empress of Ireland" of Liverpool (0. No. 123972) through collision with the Norwegian steamship "Storstad", Quebec, June, 1914
Creators: name: Canada. Commission Of Inquiry Into Casualty To British Steampship "Empress Of Ireland"
Publisher: name: Ottawa :  J. de L. Tache
Year: 2015

Abstract
Blazing the trail through the Rockies : the story of Walter Moberly and his share in the making of Vancouver
Creators: name: Robinson, Noel, 1947-
Publisher: name: [Vancouver] : News-advertiser, printers
Year: 2016

description: Handwritten inside the front cover: Presentation copy to Richard Marpole ; marginal notes and correction made by Moberly himeself.

Handwritten annotations are made throughout the book.
title: Report: Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc. "Reston Transportation Study," June, 1970
Creators: name: Voorhees, Alan M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: report, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc. Entitled "Reston Transportation Study" dated June 1970. This report is a transportation study of Reston, Virginia, which focused on mass transportation needs for the community. Fairfax County, Virginia and the Urban Mass Transportation Administration instituted this study. The excerpt given here includes the table of contents, introduction and summary of the report. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm05.07
In the matter of the complaint of the Vancouver Board of Trade alleging discrimination in freight rates by the Railway companies operating in the Province of British Columbia : and the consideration of the matter of rates for the carriage of freight traffic upon railway lines in Canada, West of Port Arthur, Ontario File no. 18755 ; Judgment
Creators: name: Board Of Railway Commissioners For Canada
Publisher: name: Ottawa : King's Printer
Year: 2015

Abstract
Time-Dependent Simulations of One-dimensional Quantum Systems: from Thermalization to Localization
Creators: name: Naldesi, Piero <1987>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: FIS/02 Fisica teorica, modelli e metodi matematici

description: In the first part of this thesis we study the Aubry-André model for interacting fermions. We numerically describe its phase diagram at half filling, performing both DMRG and QMC simulations. We show the existence of a localized phase and other three regimes: luttinger liquid, charge density wave and productstate. We study the properties of the excited states of the Hamiltonian, looking for a many-body mobility edge in the spectrum, i.e. an energy threshold that separates localized from ergodic states. Analyzing many indicators we prove its existence. Finally we propose a quench-spectroscopy method for detecting the mobility edge dynamically. In the second part we study the expansion dynamics of two bosons in a one-dimensional lattice as ruled by the Bose-Hubbard model Hamiltonian, both in the attractive and repulsive regime. Using the Bethe Ansatz we identify the bound states effects and how the two-particles state evolves in time. We show that, independently from the initial state, there exists a strong relation between the expansion velocity and the presence of bound states in the spectrum. Moreover, we discuss the role of the lattice in the system expansion. In the third part we study the time evolution of the entanglement entropy in the Ising model, when it is dynamically driven across a quantum phase transition with different velocities. We computed the time-evolution of the half chain entanglement entropy and we found that, depending on the velocity at which the critical point is reached, it displays different regimes: an adiabatic one when the system evolves according to the instantaneous ground state; a a sudden quench regime when the system remains frozen to its initial state; and an intermediate one, where the entropy starts growing linearly but then displays oscillations. Moreover, we discuss the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for the transition between the paramagnetic and the ordered phase.
title: The Role of Public Diplomacy in U.S. Counter Violent Extremism Policy: A Case Study of Pakistan
Creators: name: Latif, Farah
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: US public diplomacy
subject: Consensus building
subject: Counter violent extremism
subject: Pakistan

description: Public diplomacy (PD) has been a crucial tool in United States’ international relations, especially since the Cold War era. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the word PD was synonymously used with coercive terms such as propaganda and psychological warfare. Public diplomacy still holds these negative stereotypes. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 revived the need for PD, only this time for a radically different purpose to counter terrorism and violent extremism. The information age, technology and changing international affairs require that PD is viewed in a new way of strategic communication and be practiced keeping in mind the demands of the information age stakeholders. Currently, PD literature does not provide a definition that is widely acceptable and without which understanding of PD suffers, consequently, the United States government may be spending national resources wastefully. The researcher presents a framework of PD practice, based on Burkart’s (1994, 2007) consensus-oriented public relations (COPR). Burkart (1994, 2007) is inspired by Jürgen Habermas, especially in its emphasis on ethical considerations in communication. The researcher conducted 13 in-depth interviews with professionals and scholars with a broad range of expertise and used textual analysis of scholarly journals, books, official government reports, online texts from credible research institutes, newspapers and Senate hearings to examine the role of PD to counter violent extremism in Pakistan. The research suggested that there are inconsistencies in various U.S. agencies in how they understand and practice PD. Moreover, the study sheds light on the modern-day challenge in PD especially difficulties met in conducting PD in Pakistan which reiterates the view that PD needs a theoretical and practical overhaul. Finally, the researcher makes recommendations that will help the advancement of the profession of PD, and its role in an important mission such as the counter violent extremism (CVE). Key words: U.S. State Department, public diplomacy, PD practitioners, PD theory, consensus-oriented PD, Jürgen Habermas, Burkart, Pakistan, terrorism, counter violent extremism.
Clinicopathological and molecular features of sporadic early onset colorectal cancers
Caratterizzazione clinico-patologica e molecolare del cancro colon-rettale ad insorgenza precoce
Creators: name: Eusebi, Leonardo Henry Umberto <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: MED/06 Oncologia medica

description: The increasing occurrence of CRC developing in young patients with no identified genetic predisposition, defined as sporadic early onset colorectal cancers (EOCRCs), demands maintaining a high index of suspicion when people below 50 years of age present with symptoms. 
To define the clinicopathological features and the stage at presentation of EOCRCs, as well as to understand whether the histological, immunohistochemical and molecular analyses were associated with particular clinicopathological parameters and oncologic outcome, a total of 94 cases of EOCRCs diagnoses between 2006 and 2014 at the Sant’Orsola University Hospital were studied.
Indeed, EOCRCs appear frequently as an aggressive disease located in the sigmoid colon and rectum, and most patients are symptomatic at the time of presentation, mainly presenting with rectal bleeding, haematochezia or abdominal pain.
The genetic basis in the majority of early onset colorectal carcinomas remains unknown, however, most EOCRCs, not related hereditary syndromes, appear to arise through the same pathways as sporadic CRCs, such as the classical adenoma-carcinoma sequence, but with only rare involvement of the methylator pathway.
Taken together, the analyses described in this study suggest that, in the absence of screening programs for patients under 50 years of age, the risk factor of a family history and the presence of symptoms may be considered as an indication for prompt endoscopic investigation in these patients, since this may reduce the stage of disease at diagnosis and likely have an impact on improving survival.
title: Defense Against Cache Based Micro-architectural Side Channel Attacks
Creators: name: Bhat, Sahil
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Side channel attacks
subject: Malware detection
subject: Hardware performance counters
subject: Hardware security
subject: Flush + Reload
subject: Adversarial

description: To overcome the performance overheads incurred by the traditional software-based malware detection techniques, Hardware-assisted Malware Detection (HMD) using machine learning (ML) classi ers has emerged as a panacea to detect malicious applications and secure the systems. To classify benign and malicious applications, HMD primarily relies on the gener- ated low-level micro-architectural events captured through Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs). Moreover, the hardware security domain in recent years has seen many state-of- the-art cache based side channel attacks (SCAs) which have posed and continue to pose threats to the integrity of our data. These attacks function by exploiting the side-channels which invariably leak important data during various operations of its (application) execution. These attacks have been successful to steal the private keys from RSA encryption by observing the sequence of operations. Shutting down the side channels is not a feasible approach due to various restrictions it would pose to system performance, hence it is neces- sary to reduce the entropy of the side channels to reduce the leakage and thus, thwart such attacks. This work creates an adversarial attack on the HMD systems to tamper the security by introducing the perturbations in the HPC traces with the aid of an adversarial sample generator application. To craft the attack, we rst deploy an adversarial sample predictor to predict the adversarial HPC pattern for a given application to be misclassi ed by the deployed ML classi er in the HMD. Further, as the attacker has no direct access to manipulate the HPCs generated during runtime, based on the output of the adversarial sample predictor, we devise an adversarial sample generator wrapped around a normal application to produce HPC patterns similar to the adversarial predictor HPC trace. As the crafted adversarial sample generator application does not have any malicious operations, it is not detectable with traditional signature-based malware detection solutions. With the proposed attack, malware detection accuracy has been reduced to 18.04% from 82.76%. We also propose a method to minimize the side channel leakage thus thwarting the attack. A wrapper code adds perturbations to the data leaked by the victim application thereby reducing entropy which makes the data on the attacker's side resemble leaked secret data but with perturbations added which makes it arduous to retrieve the original secret data. The wrapper code 'Entropy Shield' can be implemented to protect any encryption algorithm with only a few tweaks.
Essays on Identity Social Construction, Multidimensionality, and its Effect on Creative Products' Performance in Electronic Dance Music
Creators: name: Formilan, Giovanni <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese

description: My Ph.D. thesis consists of three research papers focused on actors’ identity as social outcome, its intrinsic multidimensionality raised by multiple identity-shaping sources, and the relationship between identity dimensions and market performance. The first paper offers an overview of the literature on identity, social identity, and two identity-determining tools – social categories and network relations. It discusses how identity emerges from multiple identifying social forces that determines its multidimensionality. The second paper qualitatively explores the idea of multidimensionality in Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Through interviews with New York-based artists and producers, and secondary data analysis, EDM is unveiled as a field in which complex interrelations and exchanges occur among its actors. This complexity is then transferred to identity, and the word Sound emerges as vernacular term to refer to that multi-sided element that allows mutual recognition and collaboration – EDM actors’ socially constructed, multidimensional identity. Finally, the third paper tests four hypotheses relating EDM releases’ performance to external categorization, alliance portfolio, and their interaction. Regression models test: 1) the relationship between EDM releases’ Grade of Generalism (the weighted number of spanned styles) and commercial performance, 2) the relationship between releasing artists’ Relational Pluralism (the number of commercial partners) and releases’ performance, and 3) the combined effect of Generalism and Pluralism on releases’ performance. Results show a curvilinear relationship between both Generalism and Relational Pluralism and releases’ performance, and statistically confirm the existence and relevance of identity multidimensionality, especially from an inter-temporal perspective. Overall, my Ph.D. dissertation introduces the idea of multidimensional identity, and explores it in qualitative and quantitative terms. Moreover, the dissertation presents and unveils Electronic Dance Music as novel and relevant context for organization research.
The Ubiquitous Role of New Social Media Channels and Innovative Mobile Services: Are Consumers Ready?
Creators: name: Frigui, Soumaya <1985>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese

description: Over the past decade, the world of social media is evolving at warp speed. In light of this rapid evolution, investigating social media users behaviour is top of the agenda for many managers and marketing researchers today (Kaplanand Haenlein, 2010). Indeed, still there are several areas in which we believe social media channels such as social networking, e-commerce, s-commerce, and blogs will make the most trivial evolution in years to come. 
Given the background provided about social media platforms adoption and strategic usage, there are some interesting and relevant topics that are particularly relevant in research on consumer behaviour towards these geo-information platforms and await further empirical exploration. Firstly, considering the cross-cultural aspects in studying the LBSN adoption on mobile phones, in a relationship social context, is a key driver of the growth and success of mobile LBSN and is even crucial to telecommunication operators to implement these services. 
Secondly, recently s-commerce is considered as a new form of social media that has arisen which due to its social features seem to have a great power of influence on consumers’ purchasing decision-making process. The marketing area has thus evolved from a time where marketers had the power of influence to today where consumers have a greater power of influence on their peers (Jaffe, 2010). 
Finally, with the advent of 4G mobile devices and the mobile location based advertising, consumers’ preferences can be pre-identified and advertising content can therefore be delivered to consumers at the right time and at the right place with the right message (Chen and Hsieh, 2012). Therefore, it becomes necessary and reasonable to enhance our understanding about the role of mobile advertising in mediating consumers shopping experience, since we begin to find ourselves bringing our mobile devices everywhere we go.
title: Is There a Relationship Between Characteristics of the Locations of Terrorism Events and the Number of Fatalities that Result?
Creators: name: Mansfield, Lauren E.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Terrorism
subject: Environmental criminology
subject: Fatalities
subject: Location
subject: Routine activities theory

description: This thesis analyzes the relationship between characteristics of the locations of terrorism events and the number of fatalities that result. Through the lenses of environmental criminology, routine activities theory, and opportunity theory, the characteristics of locations that suffered an attack are collected and examined against the number of fatalities in that attack using the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Global Terrorism Database and major news outlets. Although limited in available data, this study cautiously finds a statistically significant relationship between fatalities and certain types of guardianship in an unexpected direction, time, and method of attack of the terrorist organization. These findings question the appropriateness of applying routine activities theory and environmental criminology to the study of terrorism.
Mobile Robots Control and Path Planning Strategies
Creators: name: Furci, Michele <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/04 Automatica

description: Mobile robots gained lots of attention in the last decades. Because of its flexibility and increased capabilities of automation, mobile robots are used in many applications: from domotic, to search and rescue missions, to agriculture, environment protection and many more.
The main capability of mobile robots to accomplish a mission is the mobility in the work environment. To move in a certain environment the robots should achieve: guidance, navigation and control.
This thesis focuses on guidance and control of mobile robots, with application to certain classes of robots: Vertical Take Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (VTOL UAV) and Differential Wheel robots (DWR).
The contribution of this thesis is on modeling and control of the two classes of robots, and on novel strategies of combined control and motion planning for kinodynamic systems.
A new approach to model a class of multi-propeller VTOL is proposed, with the aim of generating a general model for a system as a composition of elementary modules such as actuators and payloads.
Two control law for VTOL vehicles and DWR are proposed. The goal of the first is to generate a simple yet powerful control to globally asymptotically stabilize a VTOL for acrobatic maneuvers. The second is a simple saturated input control law for trajectory tracking of a DWR model in 2D.
About planning, a novel approach to generate non-feasible trajectories for robots that still guarantees a correct path for kinodynamic planning is proposed. The goal is to reduce the runtime of planners to be used in real-time and realistic scenario. Moreover an innovative framework for mobile robots motion planning with the use of Discrete Event Systems theory is introduced. 
The two proposed approaches allow to build a global, robust, real-time, quasi-optimal, kinodynamic planner suitable for replanning.
Location and Map  Awareness Technologies in Next Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Guerra, Anna <1987>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/03 Telecomunicazioni

description: In a future perspective, the need of mapping an unknown indoor environment, of localizing and retrieving information from objects with zero costs and efforts could be satisfied by the adoption of next 5G technologies. Thanks to the mix of mmW and massive arrays technologies, it will be possible to achieve a higher indoor localization accuracy without relying on a dedicated infrastructure for localization but exploiting that designed for communication purposes. Besides users localization and navigation objectives, mapping and thus, the capability of reconstructing indoor scenarios, will be an important field of research with the possibility of sharing environmental information via crowd-sourcing mechanisms between users. Finally, in the Internet of Things vision, it is expected that people, objects and devices will be interconnected to each other with the possibility of exchanging the acquired and estimated data including those regarding objects identification, positioning and mapping contents. To this end, the merge of RFID, WSN and UWB technologies has demonstrated to be a promising solution. Stimulated by this framework, this work describes different technological and signal processing approaches to ameliorate the localization capabilities and the user awareness about the environment. From one side, it has been focused on the study of the localization and mapping capabilities of multi-antenna systems based on 5G technologies considering different technological issues, as for example those related to the existing available massive arrays. From the other side, UWB-RFID systems relying on passive communication schemes have been investigated in terms of localization coverage and by developing different techniques to improve the accuracy even in presence of NLOS conditions.
Development of New Methodologies for Prediction of Performances of Asphalt Mixtures
Creators: name: Lamperti, Riccardo <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ICAR/04 Strade, ferrovie ed aeroporti

description: This thesis proposes the use of new methodologies for prediction of performances of asphalt mixtures. 
Recent improvements in technology make it possible to adopt new methods of investigation with the dual objective of improving the performance in the survey of the parameters and investigate new properties so far not analyzed. In particular, the image analysis and the tyre/surface interaction belong to an innovative framework, which is next to flank, if not replace, the classic measurements so far employed.
The thesis deals with the use of these technologies for the analysis of three rubberized stone mastic asphalts, which were laid on a stretch of road close to Bologna, Italy. 
Three different surveys were carried out on site during the first year of service. The surveys included the change in texture and skid resistance due to the traffic, along with the acoustic properties of the pavement. Local as well as dynamic continuous measurements were carried out, involving the use of a profilometer and a skiddometer.
A second phase involved the prediction of the surface parameters with different stages of simulated trafficking on Road Test Machine. At each stage change in macrotexture, skid resistance, adhesion between bitumen and aggregates, contact pressures and areas were assessed. 
The image analysis is used for the assessment of the adhesion between the bitumen and the aggregate. 
The images are then processed in order to create 3D models of the asphalt specimens and investigate the surface and volume properties.
The tyre/pavement interaction is another fundamental phenomena that received little considerations from the research, given its importance.
A final discussion summarizes these investigations by separately review three different simulated periods, i.e. the early life, the in-service equilibrium and the end of life. In order to accelerate the distress, one slab was subjected to Immersion Wheel Track test.
Morphological and Molecular Analysis Using RAPD in Biofield Treated Sponge and Bitter Gourd
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Earth sciences

description: Plants are known to have sense and ca respond to touch, electric and magnetic field. The present study was designed on the sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica) and bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) seeds with respect to biofield energy treatment. The seeds of each crop were divided into two groups, one was kept control, while the other group was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’ biofield energy treatment. The variabilities in growth contributing parameters were studied and compared with their control. To study the genetic variability after biofield energy treatment, both the seeds were analyzed for DNA fingerprinting using RAPD method. After germination, the plants of sponge gourd were reported to have uniform colored leaves and strong stem. The leaves and fruits of sponge gourd showed no infection, with anti-gravity properties during early stage of fruiting as compared with the control group. Similarly, treated bitter gourd showed uniform color of leaves, strong stem, with disease free fruits in biofield treated seeds as compared with the control. The true polymorphism (%) observed between control and treated samples of sponge and bottle gourd seed sample was an average value of 7.8% and 66% respectively. In conclusion, Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment has the ability to alter the plant growth rate that may by interacting with plant genome, which resulted in high yield of crops.
Wastewater and Sludge Reuse Management in Agriculture
Creators: name: Kalavrouziotis, Ioannis K.
name: Koukoulakis, Prodromos
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2016

description: Huge quantities of treated wastewater (TMWW) and biosolids (sludge) are produced every day all over the world, which exert a strong pressure on the environment. An important question that is raised is “what to do with them?”.An effort is put by the scientific community to eliminate the concept of “waste” and to replace it with the concept of “recycling of resources”, by means of effective management, which does  not concern only the users, but all the other groups involved in the problem, such as facility administrators, operations, politicians, scientific community and the general  population. Sludge concentration data showed that there exist 516 chemicals in biosolids which create a serious health risk.   It is pointed out that this risk will be greatly exacerbated by chemical toxins present in the sludge which can predispose skin to infection by pathogens. Consequently, the need for science-based policies are necessary to effectively protect public health. The risk assessment due to sludge, is difficult to evaluate of due to the large number of unknown interactions involved. People living near the sludge application sites may suffer from such abnormalities as:  eye, nose, and throat irritation, gastrointestinal abnormalities, as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, including cough, difficulty in breathing, sinus congestion, skin infection and sores. Many problems seem to be related to biosolid and wastewater application in agriculture, which should be solved. A universal one, acknowledged as an “international health crisis” is the resistance of pathogens to antibiotics and to the evolution of multidrug resistance of bacteria”. Certain anthropogenically created environments have been identified as major sources of multidrug resistance bacteria such as in water treatment plants, concentrated animal feeding operations etc. All these, and many other health problems, render the safety of sludge and biosolid and wastewater agricultural reuse, for the time being questionable even though the application is done according to official guidelines. It is therefore necessary that more research work be conducted on the short and long term application effects of sludge on human health, and on the environment so as to successfully address these problems Also,the existing guidelines must be reconsidered on the basis of the research findings to be attained. It is only then that the application of these inputs to land could be as safe as possible.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 20 (2016)
Heavy Metals Backgrounds in Sediments From the Sacca di Goro (NE, Italy)
Creators: name: Natali, Claudio
name: Fogli, Riccardo
name: Bianchini, Gianluca
name: Tassinari, Renzo
name: Tessari, Umberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: heavy metals; coastal lagoon; Sacca di Goro; geochemical evolution; biomarker

description: A textural and geochemical characterization of sediments from the Sacca di Goro lagoon floor has been performed in order to evaluate the present day granulometric distribution and the geochemical budget with respect to literature values. 10 samples have been collected along a WE transect crosscutting the whole Sacca di Goro lagoon in order to explore the maximum lithological variability and to identify geochemical trends. Results show that the present day superficial sediment are coarser in grain size with respect to those studied in the past, in turn implying lower concentrations of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTE). PTE enrichments miming those observed 20 years ago are recorded only locally, in connection with parallel increase of fine fraction and organic matter. Traces of Cu, V and Pb have been also found in the shells of farmed Manila clam (Ruditapes Philippinarum) collected within the sediment samples, suggesting PTE bioavailability and accumulation. The comparison of the results with literature data highlights that PTE contents of the Sacca di Goro lagoon deserve more frequent and systematic monitoring both for the high hydrodynamicity of this environment and for the high anthropogenic impact. The analysis of metals in Manila clam shells has a twofold purpose because it represents a further biomarker of the ecosystem, and also provide a geochemical fingerprint of the local shellfish production that could help the traceability in the market, and discrimination from shellfish produced in other area that are not properly controlled from the sanitary point of view.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 20 (2016)
title: A search for KCNRG mutations in multiple myeloma cell lines
Creators: name: Coon, Stephanie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: KCNRG
subject: Cancer
subject: Tumor suppressor
subject: Multiple myeloma
subject: B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

description: Deletions and/or rearrangements on chromosome 13q14.3 are observed in more than half of multiple myeloma (MM) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cases and are also frequently seen in other hematopoietic malignancies. The minimal common deleted region (CDR) in MM cells contains candidate tumor suppressor gene KCNRG (potassium channel regulating gene), the product of which suppresses assembly of the Kv channels and Kv currents. KCNRG exerts growth suppressive and pro-apoptotic effects in HL-60, LNCaP and RPMI-8226 cells. In this study, the KCNRG gene was sequenced in three multiple myeloma cell lines, NCI-H929, RPMI-8226 and U266B2. The RPMI-8226 cell line was found to contain a delT mutation in the core promoter initiator element. Deletion of T decreases matrix similarity of this DNA element from 0.945 to 0.941, and, therefore, might negatively influence expression of KCNRG in RPMI-8226 cells. The haploinsufficiency of KCNRG might be relevant to the progression of CLL and MM at least in a subset of patients.
A REIA Study of Marble Mining Activities in District- Nagaur (Rajasthan)
Creators: name: Arif, Mohammed
name: Saxena, Neha
name: Yadav, Rajesh Kumar
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mining; REIA; Nagaur

description: Conventional and unscientific mining poses severe threat to life, public property and continuation of mining in the area. Incompatible land uses, huge waste dumps and large scale land transformation have resulted in land degradation, ponding, flooding, water contamination and health hazards in Makrana mining area. Segregation of dumps, compatible land use, research and development activity for use of marble slurry are suggested measures for reclamation and restoration of the degraded land. While for the purpose of development and economic upliftment of people, there is a need for establishment of industrial project, but these have to be environmentally friendly. Therefore it is essential to assess the impacts of mining on different environmental parameters, before starting the mining operations, so that abatement measures could be planned in advance for eco-friendly mining in the area. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a systematic process that examines the environmental consequences of development action like mining, cement, transport, river valley. EIA systematically examines booth beneficial and adverse consequences of the proposed project and ensures that these impacts are taken into account during the project design.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 20 (2016)
Phytoavailability of Geogenic Arsenic and Its Partitioning in Soil: a Case Of Study in a Thermal Area of Central Italy
Creators: name: Stazi, Silvia Rita
name: Mancinelli, Roberto
name: Allevato, Enrica
name: Marabottini, Rosita
name: Campiglia, Enio
name: Marinari, Sara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: Arsenic; tomato uptake; translocation; partitioning

description: Arsenic (As) is an ubiquitous metalloid that is introduced into the environment from both anthropogenic and geochemical sources. The As can be introduced in food chain through plants grown on polluted soil and/or contaminated irrigation water. The element may impair plant growth, moreover its toxicity and cancerogenicity poses a threat for human health. Most plants tolerate soil As concentrations up to 50 mg kg−1. However, at higher levels some plants might be negatively affected, while some others develop strategies to adapt to these conditions. It is known that As absorption, translocation and accumulation depend on plant species. The As tends to concentrate mainly in plant roots and old leaves, with a minor concentration in stems and young leaves, and the lowest concentrations is in fruits. In this study soil As mobility, tomato phytoavailability, and As plant partitioning were measured in an naturally As reach agricultural area (57.49 mg kg-1).  The results show that As compounds mainly accumulate in the roots (2.85 mg kg-1), whereas only a small portion is translocated to fruits (0.08 mg kg-1) making the risk for human health negligible.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 20 (2016)
title: Servant Leadership: Race Organizers, Volunteers, and the Marathon Industry
Creators: name: Sullivan, Amy Jo
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Marathon industry
subject: Volunteerism
subject: Servant leadership

description: This thesis describes the use of servant leadership by experienced marathon race organizers. A qualitative study was conducted to reveal how servant leadership principles are present in race organizers’ volunteer programs. Robert K. Greenleaf coined the phrase “servant leadership” in 1970, which describes a leader focusing on the moral, emotional, and relational dimensions of ethical leadership behavior, rather than “competency inputs” or “performance outputs.” In other words, a servant leader/servant organization aims to collaborate with the follower and wants the follower to become more independent, confident, and autonomous. Questions are developed based on the servant leader literature to provide in-depth knowledge of the leaders’ interactions with their volunteers. Findings from the qualitative analysis of the reports will aim to provide insight into helping special events organizations develop and grow a volunteer base, create servant-led events, and improve over organizational performance.