cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Examining the Role of Social-Cognitive Appraisals as a Mechanism Linking Friendship and Dislike Networks to Loneliness in Adolescence
Creators: name: Whitmore, Sedona
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Adolescence
subject: Rejection sensitivity
subject: Networks
subject: Loneliness
subject: Fear of negative evaluation
subject: Appraisals

description: Recent research has evaluated the influence of peer relationships on internalizing symptoms, such as loneliness, in adolescence. There remains an increasing need to understand the mechanisms by which peer relationships contribute to elevated loneliness. The present study drew on developmental psychopathology, evolutionary perspectives on loneliness, and peer relationship frameworks to examine how social-cognitive appraisals, namely fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and rejection sensitivity (RS), mediated the relationship between friendship and dislike networks with loneliness in adolescence. It was hypothesized that greater FNE and RS would mediate associations among smaller friendship networks, larger dislike networks, and elevated loneliness. The present study also hypothesized that these associations would be stronger for adolescent girls, younger adolescents and for minorities. These questions were examined using a sample of 279 6th graders and 435 9th graders from public schools in a metropolitan area in the Southwest U.S. (51% female; 28% European-American, 7% African American, 50.8% Hispanic/Latino, 1.3% Asian, and 2% American Indian or Alaska Native). Results indicated that rejection sensitivity mediated the link between friendship network popularity, gregariousness, and loneliness. The indirect effects of RS and FNE on the link between peer networks and loneliness were not conditional on gender, grade, or ethnicity/race. These findings extend our understanding of the mechanisms and their heterogeneity in how peer networks were associated with loneliness. Discussion focuses on implications of findings and ways to advance the existing knowledge on peer networks, social-cognitive appraisals, and loneliness in adolescence.
PepComposer: computational design of peptides binding to a given protein surface
Creators: name: Lepore, Rosalba
name: Obarska-Kosinska, Agnieszka
name: Iacoangeli, Alfredo
name: Tramontano, Anna
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: There is a wide interest in designing peptides able to bind to a specific region of a protein with the aim of interfering with a known interaction or as starting point for the design of inhibitors. Here we describe PepComposer, a new pipeline for the computational design of peptides binding to a given protein surface. PepComposer only requires the target protein structure and an approximate definition of the binding site as input. We first retrieve a set of peptide backbone scaffolds from monomeric proteins that harbor the same backbone arrangement as the binding site of the protein of interest. Next, we design optimal sequences for the identified peptide scaffolds. The method is fully automatic and available as a web server at http://biocomputing.it/pepcomposer/webserver.
title: City and nature
title: Caces of nature in urban planning
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Πόλη και φύση
title: Θεωρήσεις της φύσης στον πολεοδομικό σχεδιασμό
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Athanasiou, Evangelia
Publisher: name: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
Year: 2016
Subjects: ΒΙΩΣΙΜΕΣ ΠΟΛΕΙΣ
ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟΣ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ
ΠΟΛΕΟΔΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ
ΣΥΜΠΑΓΗΣ ΠΟΛΗ
ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΧΥΣΗ
ΦΥΣΗ
ΑΝΘΕΚΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΟΛΕΙΣ
ΑΣΤΙΚΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΙΣΜΟΣ
ΝΕΑ ΠΟΛΕΟΔΟΜΙΑ
ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΑ ΦΙΛΙΚΕΣ ΓΕΙΤΟΝΙΕΣ
ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΟΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΑ
ΠΕΡΙΒΒΑΛΟΝΤΙΚΗ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ
ΚΡΙΣΗ
Sustainable Cities
Environmental Planning
Urban Planning
Compact City
Urban Diffusion

description: Το βιβλίο πραγματεύεται τις μεταλλασσόμενες θεωρήσεις της σχέσης της πόλης με τη φύση στον πολεοδομικό σχεδιασμό. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο ανιχνεύονται οι καταβολές των εννοιών της αστικής βιωσιμότητας και της ανθεκτικότητας σε πρώιμες εκφάνσεις του περιβαλλοντικού κινήματος και αναδεικνύονται σημαντικές σύγχρονες μετατοπίσεις. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο εστιάζει στον τρόπο που εννοιολογείται η φύση και επιδιώκεται η ένταξη ή η σύξευξή της με την πόλη στον πολεοδομικό σχεδιασμό. Η συζήτηση για τη βιώσιμη και ανθεκτική πόλη αναλύεται στις επιμέρους θεματικές της και καταγράφονται ενδεικτικά στοιχεία της περιβαλλοντικής προσέγγισης σε κάθε θεματική. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο δίνεται έμφαση στην διερεύνηση των αστικών μορφών που προωθούνται ως βιώσιμες. Παρουσιάζονται υλοποιημένα παραδείγματα νέων γειτονιών και υπαρχουσών πόλεων που επιδιώκουν μία νέα σχέση με το περιβάλλον μέσα από συνολικές και πολυεπίπεδες αστικές στρατηγικές.
Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο συζητώνται κριτικές προσεγγίσεις στη σύγχρονη αντίληψη της σχέσης της πόλης με τη φύση, με έμφαση στον σύγχρονο λόγο της αστικής πολιτικής οικολογίας. Η κριτική εκκινεί από μία διαφορετική εννοιολόγηση της φύσης που αμφισβητεί τον διανοητικό διαχωρισμό της από την κοινωνία. Στο πλαίσιο μιας τέτοιας εννοιολόγησης αναδεικνύονται οι πολιτικές διαστάσεις των περιβαλλοντικών προβλημάτων της πόλης.
Τέλος, στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο του βιβλίου φωτίζονται πτυχές της σχέσης της ελληνικής αστικοποίησης με το περιβάλλον όπως αυτές αναδεικνύονται μέσα από τη μελέτη της επίσημης κρατικής πολιτικής, του θεσμικού πλαισίου της πολεοδομίας και μεμονωμένων αστικών πολιτικών και παρεμβάσεων.
ConTra v3: a tool to identify transcription factor binding sites across species, update 2016
Creators: name: Łukasz Kreft
name: Bleser, Pieter De
name: Hulpiau, Paco
name: Soete, Arne
name: Botzki, Alexander
name: Saeys, Yvan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Transcription factors are important gene regulators with distinctive roles in development, cell signaling and cell cycling, and they have been associated with many diseases. The ConTra v3 web server allows easy visualization and exploration of predicted transcription factor binding sites in any genomic region surrounding coding or non-coding genes. In this updated version, users can choose from nine reference organisms ranging from human to yeast. ConTra v3 can analyze promoter regions, 5'-UTRs, 3'-UTRs and introns or any other genomic region of interest. Thousands of position weight matrices are available to choose from, but the user can also upload any other matrices for detecting specific binding sites. Besides this visualization option, additional new exploration functionality is added to the tool that will automatically detect transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) having both the highest regulatory potential and the highest conservation scores of the genomic regions covered by the predicted transcription factor binding sites. The regulatory potential is calculated based on the number of predicted TFBSs weighed by their distances to the reported transcription start site of the gene of interest. A typical analysis is run in four simple steps of choosing the gene, the transcript, the region of interest and then selecting one or more transcription factor binding sites for visualization or, alternatively, let ConTra v3 explore the transcription factors most likely regulating your gene of interest. The ConTra v3 web server is freely available at http://bioit.irc.ugent.be/contrav3/index.php
title: After Roe v. Wade overturn: how the Biden government and the MAGA government act with IVF
Creators: name: Lin, Yenting
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: abortion
subject: Women's rights
subject: IVF

description: This policy memo explores the implications of the 2024 Roe v. Wade overturn on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the response of the Biden administration, bipartisan Congress, think tank, and advocacy group. IVF is a procedure that helps individuals or couples get pregnant outside the body in a lab (Yale Medicine, 2023). Following the Supreme Court of Alabama's ruling that classified frozen embryos as "children," services in Alabama faced significant restrictions, prompting federal action. The Biden administration reacted by issuing executive orders to protect and expand access to IVF and enhancing IVF benefits for service members and federal employees. Bipartisan congressional efforts included drafting laws to regulate and protect IVF access, such as the IVF Protection Act. However, deep-seated ideological differences prevented the passing of key legislation. The memo outlines the influence of advocacy groups, PACs, and think tanks on shaping public opinion and policy, highlighting the strategic role of IVF in the 2024 election. While Democrats position IVF and abortion rights as central campaign issues, Republicans face internal conflicts between their pro-life stance and support for IVF. The memo concludes that IVF policy will be pivotal in the presidential and congressional races, suggesting timely strategic positioning by the think tank. This analysis underscores the complex dynamics between political, social, and ideological stakeholders in shaping national reproductive health policy.
Using CATH-Gene3D to explore the impacts of disease-associated genetic variations
Creators: name: Dawson, Natalie
name: Orengo, Christine
name: Sillitoe, Ian
name: Sayoni Das
name: Ashford, Paul
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Abstract:

CATH classifies 3D structures from the PDB into superfamilies of protein domains that are evolutionarily related. Since protein structure tends to be much more highly conserved than sequence, CATH superfamilies are often able to trace further back in evolution than sequence methods alone. Currently, CATH classifies more than 300,000 domain structures (from ~80% of PDB structures) into ~2700 evolutionary superfamilies. Once these distant structure-based evolutionary relationships have been established, the Gene3D resource uses start-of-the-art sequence comparison technology to augment these superfamilies with more than 50 million protein domain sequences from ~20,000 cellular genomes. Many of these superfamilies contain protein sequences with detailed functional annotations, which enable a deep understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms by which functions evolve. A recent development is the identification of functional families within CATH superfamilies and the establishment of a new function prediction protocol, which has been highly ranked by the CAFA independent assessment. CATH-Gene3D is an endorsed resource of the UK ELIXIR Node and our HMM libraries are used to provide structural and functional annotations in the ELIXIR marine metagenome infrastructure use case. CATH-Gene3D is also a member of the Genomics England Functional Effects Domain, for which we are using our function family data to explore the impacts of disease-associated residue mutations and identify the specific protein domains that are enriched in such mutations. CATH-Gene3D is a member of a consortium of UK structural bioinformatics groups contributing to an ELIXIR training initiative that is developing web-based training workflows to analyse the impacts of mutations.
Simplicits: Mesh-Free, Geometry-Agnostic, Elastic Simulation
Creators: name: Modi, Vismay
name: Sharp, Nicholas
name: Perel, Or
name: Sueda, Shinjiro
name: Levin, David I. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The proliferation of 3D representations, from explicit meshes to implicit neural fields and more, motivates the need for simulators agnostic to representation. We present a data-, mesh-, and grid-free solution for elastic simulation for any object in any geometric representation undergoing large, nonlinear deformations. We note that every standard geometric representation can be reduced to an occupancy function queried at any point in space, and we define a simulator atop this common interface. For each object, we fit a small implicit neural network encoding spatially varying weights that act as a reduced deformation basis. These weights are trained to learn physically significant motions in the object via random perturbations. Our loss ensures we find a weight-space basis that best minimizes deformation energy by stochastically evaluating elastic energies through Monte Carlo sampling of the deformation volume. At runtime, we simulate in the reduced basis and sample the deformations back to the original domain. Our experiments demonstrate the versatility, accuracy, and speed of this approach on data including signed distance functions, point clouds, neural primitives, tomography scans, radiance fields, Gaussian splats, surface meshes, and volume meshes, as well as showing a variety of material energies, contact models, and time integration schemes.
Bridging literature and data using text-mined annotations in Europe PMC
Creators: name: Aravind Venkatesan
name: Gobeill, Julien
name: Jee-Hyub  Kim
name: Talo, Francesco
name: Ide-Smith, Michele
name: Ruch, Patrick
name: McEntyre, Johanna
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Bio-curation is essential in maintaining high quality information in biological databases. With the exponential growth in data, curators are faced with a challenging task of bridging the gap between raw data and the knowledge it represents. Curators are required to develop or extend structured vocabularies and tag data with functions, molecular interactions and gene-disease associations by manually extracting information from literature. Biological databases are both dependent and required for this process. Therefore, it is critical that the literature is linked effectively to underlying data and related biomolecular databases, aiding curators extract the essence from the articles. Some links to data are currently made available through data citations, however, deeper integration is required to make curation more scalable. To this end, text mining offers a solution by tagging entities, for instance,  gene names, functions and ontological concepts, reducing the burden of manual curation.

Here we present a new Europe PMC [1] service  - SciLite – that allows text-mined annotations from any source or provider to be displayed on full text articles. The goal of this annotation system is to expose text-mining outputs from the community in useful ways for curators, as well as other interested stakeholders. In the context of ELIXIR, this system will support database curation processes and provide a mechanism to make deep links between the literature and data for clear provenance of curatorial statements.

References:	Europe PMC Consortium (2015). Europe PMC: a full-text literature database for the life sciences and platform for innovation. Nucleic acids research, 43(D1), D1042-D1048 [PMC4383902].
Additional file 4 of A new trial monitoring plan (TMP) template for clinical trials: output from a Delphi process
Creators: name: Taheri, Shiva
name: Yorke-Edwards, Victoria
name: Sydes, Matthew R.
name: Isaacs, Talia
name: Love, Sharon B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biotechnology
Science Policy
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 4: Trial monitoring template.
Inferring disease specific interaction networks
Creators: name: Allahyar, Amin
name: Ridder, Jeroen De
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction:

In cancer outcome prediction, biological networks are used to aggregate functionally related genes with added discriminative power and biological relevance. However, recent studies revealed that comparable performance might be achieved using many different biological networks [1]. We aimed to investigate this issue by constructing a candidate synergistic network in which two genes are connected if their integration yields prediction beyond what is attainable individually. This is done by evaluating all pairwise combination of genes. A biological network may perhaps be useful in cancer outcome prediction if it signifies more connections between identified synergistic pairs compare to random pairs.

In the next phase, we constructed a new classification problem in which topological properties of two genes (e.g. shortest path etc.) are considered as features and synergistic status between these genes are labels. Using this framework, apart from being able to combine evidences from multiple topological measures, we can exploit any arbitrary number of biological networks.

Results:

We observed that none of considered biological networks sufficiently resemble the synergistic pairs. Next, we aimed to predict synergistic pairs using topological measures of several biological networks. Our extensive experiments showed that the synergistic pairs can be accurately identified (~85% AUC) using combination of topological measures. Remarkably, our framework identified efficacy of known topological measures (e.g. page rank) as well as several new ones (e.g. eigenvector centrality) that were not recognized before.
title: Press Release: Terrabrook, "Terrabrook Breaks Ground on the Fairfax County Parkway," May 9 2000
Creators: name: Terrabrook
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Press Release, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Press Release from Terrabrook entitled "Terrabrook Breaks Ground on the Fairfax County Parkway" dated May 9, 2000. This release announces the beginning of construction on the segment of Fairfax County Parkway from Sunset Hills Road to Baron Cameron Avenue in Reston, Virginia. The release also discusses the contributions that Terrabrook made towards transportation improvements in the Reston area. Terrabrook is a developer that creates mixed-use developments. Planned Community Archives Collection, mcd.02
Supplementary document for Characterisation of multi-layered structures using a vector-based gradient descent algorithm at Terahertz frequencies - 6373602.pdf
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Amlan kusum
name: Wassmann, Sven
name: Wenzel, Konstantin
name: Globisch, Björn
name: Kohlhaas, Robert
name: Liebermeister, Lars
name: Preu, Sascha
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: More imaging examples and discussion about Sigmoid function
DIRECTIONS OF PREVENTION OF THE CLINICAL COURSE OF CHRONIC COLECYSTITIS IN THE GERONT - SUPERGERONT POPULATION OF FERGANA VALLEY
Creators: name: Botirov, J.A.
name: Mamasoliev, N.S.
name: Madazimov, M.M.
name: Nishonova, N.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: From the results of the research conducted in Uzbekistan, it is known that 6 syndromes dominate the clinical presentation of cholecystitis in the geront and supergeront population: pain syndrome or feeling, dyspeptic syndrome, cholecystocardial syndrome, neurotic syndrome, vegetodystonia syndrome and allergic syndrome. In young and middle age, as well as from clinical studies, these indicators differ by relatively low [1;2;3;4;5].
Uniform and slops account book for the first C.P. R.M.S. Empress of Japan
Creators: name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Consists of one account book for sales of uniforms and accessories such as buttons for the sailors of the first C.P. R.M.S Empress of Japan. Also enclosed is a letter to Dr. Wallace B. Chung from John Edmond regarding this book and other related material.
Controlling the color appearance of objects by optimizing the illumination spectrum
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Mariko
name: Tsuchida, Masaru
name: Matsumoto, Takahiro
name: Tokunaga, Tetsuro
name: Mochizuki, Takayoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.5

description: We have developed an innovative lighting system that changes specific target colors while keeping the lights appearing naturally white. By precisely controlling the spectral power distribution (SPD) of illumination and harnessing the unique phenomenon of metamerism, our system achieves unique color variations in ways you've never seen before. Our system calculates the optimal SPDs of illumination for given materials to intensively induce metamerism, and then synthesizes the illumination using various colors of LEDs. We successfully demonstrated the system's implementation at Paris Fashion Week 2024. As models step onto the stage, their dresses initiate a captivating transformation. Our system altering the colors of the dresses, showcasing an impressive transition from one stunning color to another.
Rethinking Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Grading: A Few Shot Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach
Creators: name: Belton, Niamh
name: Hagos, Misgina Tsighe
name: Lawlor, Aonghus
name: Curran, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating disease affecting over 250 million people worldwide. Currently, radiologists grade the severity of OA on an ordinal scale from zero to four using the Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) system. Recent studies have raised concern in relation to the subjectivity of the KL grading system, highlighting the requirement for an automated system, while also indicating that five ordinal classes may not be the most appropriate approach for assessing OA severity. This work presents preliminary results of an automated system with a continuous grading scale. This system, namely SS-FewSOME, uses self-supervised pre-training to learn robust representations of the features of healthy knee X-rays. It then assesses the OA severity by the X-rays' distance to the normal representation space. SS-FewSOME initially trains on only 'few' examples of healthy knee X-rays, thus reducing the barriers to clinical implementation by eliminating the need for large training sets and costly expert annotations that existing automated systems require. The work reports promising initial results, obtaining a positive Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient of 0.43, having had access to only 30 ground truth labels at training time.
Geometric Understanding of Discriminability and Transferability for Visual Domain Adaptation
Creators: name: Luo, You-Wei
name: Ren, Chuan-Xian
name: Xu, Xiao-Lin
name: Liu, Qingshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To overcome the restriction of identical distribution assumption, invariant representation learning for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has made significant advances in computer vision and pattern recognition communities. In UDA scenario, the training and test data belong to different domains while the task model is learned to be invariant. Recently, empirical connections between transferability and discriminability have received increasing attention, which is the key to understanding the invariant representations. However, theoretical study of these abilities and in-depth analysis of the learned feature structures are unexplored yet. In this work, we systematically analyze the essentials of transferability and discriminability from the geometric perspective. Our theoretical results provide insights into understanding the co-regularization relation and prove the possibility of learning these abilities. From methodology aspect, the abilities are formulated as geometric properties between domain/cluster subspaces (i.e., orthogonality and equivalence) and characterized as the relation between the norms/ranks of multiple matrices. Two optimization-friendly learning principles are derived, which also ensure some intuitive explanations. Moreover, a feasible range for the co-regularization parameters is deduced to balance the learning of geometric structures. Based on the theoretical results, a geometry-oriented model is proposed for enhancing the transferability and discriminability via nuclear norm optimization. Extensive experiment results validate the effectiveness of the proposed model in empirical applications, and verify that the geometric abilities can be sufficiently learned in the derived feasible range.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
title: Press Release: Reston Land Corporation, "Reston First Quarter Office Leasing Action Tops Last Six Months of 1988," May 5, 1989
Creators: name: Reston Land Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Press Release; staple holes and hole punched, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Press release from the Reston Land Corporation from May 5, 1990 entitled "Reston First Quarter Office Leasing Action Tops Last Six Months of 1988." This release concerns the amount of commercial space leased in Reston during the first quarter of 1989. Leasing for the first quarter was 422,720 square feet, which exceed the previous six months figures by 147, 176 square feet. Also discussed are new groups moving into Reston (such as the NASA Space Station Program), new building projects, and the growth of commercial space. Planned Community Archives Collection, 456.01
Research Paper On Case Study (Iii): “Barriers That Citizens Face Regarding Their Intellectual Property Rights” (Deliverable 5.5)
Creators: name: Guarda, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: IPR, Intellectual Property Rights. barriers to access online cultural content

description: Creativity and innovation within the European Union are part of a harmonized system of protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs); the latter include legal tools such as industrial property rights and copyright and related rights. The fundamental principles of the internal market (free movement of goods and services and free competition) are based in particular on the harmonization of IPRs at the European level. The protection of intellectual property is subject to a number of international conventions, the supervision of which is largely up to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). To fulfil its obligations in the area, the European Union has created the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), in charge of the registration of European trademarks and European designs. The Commission is currently engaged in the effective implementation of a common EU patent system, less costly and more effective from a legal point of view, able to ensure the competitiveness of European business and enterprises. Finally, the protection of IPRs also implies that they must be safeguarded against piracy, illegal trade and counterfeiting.

The Internet and digital technologies play a pivotal role in this context, since they are transforming the world we live in, with reference to all the aspects of life and all sectors of activity. EU must embrace this digital revolution and open new digital opportunities for citizens and business, by leveraging the strength of the EU single market. The existence of barriers to online activities prevents citizens from taking advantage of a wider range of goods and services. Therefore companies and public administrations cannot reap the benefits of digital tools. The final scope of the Digital Single Market (DSM) aims at breaking down regulatory barriers in order to establish a single market, in place of the partially harmonized 28 national markets now existing.

This research report is aimed at identifying and analysing the possible barriers that the European citizens/digital service users face in enjoying their rights when they aim to access to online cultural contents. In light of this, DSM strategy of the European Commission has been taken as a point of reference for pintpointing the legal and factual barriers, describing what are the reform projects in progress and outlining some possible, future (policy) solutions.
title: Microenterprise Development: A Tool for Addressing the Structural Conflict Between Rich and Poor
Creators: name: Beinhart, Eric
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1994

description: “Conflict resolution and micro enterprise development are both fledgling fields. This paper attempts to show the relevance of viewing micro enterprise development within an overarching analytical framework of structural conflict. Johan Galtung provides the foundation, and Hernando De Soto, Muhammad Yunus and Mary Clark add supporting beams to this analytical construct. The modernization, dependency, and world system theories of development are dismissed as inadequate frameworks for analyzing micro enterprise development.”
title: Report: Anonymous, "Appendix A: Town Center Development Land Area Summary," Undated
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: report, typescript original with edit marks; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Undated report by an anonymous author entitled "Appendix A: Town Center Development Land Area Summary." This report was part of a larger report dealing with the rezoning of the land that would become Reston Town Center. This appendix discusses the land owned by others and the "applicant." The applicant is probably Reston Land Corporation, but this is not clearly identified in the report. Planned Community Archives Collection, 522B.01
Additional file 8 of NSDHL contributes to breast cancer stem-like cell maintenance and tumor-initiating capacity through TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway in MCF-7 tumor spheroid
Creators: name: Yoon, So-Hyun
name: Lee, Sangeun
name: Kim, Hoe Suk
name: Song, Junhyuk
name: Baek, Moonjou
name: Ryu, Seungyeon
name: Lee, Han-Byoel
name: Moon, Hyeong-Gon
name: Noh, Dong-Young
name: Jon, Sangyong
name: Han, Wonshik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 8: Table S1. Sequences of siRNAs and shRNAs. Table S2. Specific primer sequences used for real-time RT-PCR. Table S3. RNA-Seq analysis of siCtrl- or siNSDHL MCF-7-spheroids.
La Citizen Science utilizzata come metodologia didattica innovativa  per sviluppare conoscenza e consapevolezza riguardo la biodiversità urbana:  l'esperienza del progetto GuardaMI
Creators: name: Nova, Marina
name: Deaddis, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Citizen Science Italia
subject: Citizen Science
subject: Biodiversity conservation

description: GuardaMI è un progetto di citizen science che prevede un percorso formativo rivolto alle scuole al fine di conoscere la biodiversità urbana, il territorio cittadino e le problematiche associate. Nato nel 2017 in collaborazione con Il Liceo Artistico di Brera di Milano e il Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, progetta e implementa attività di monitoraggio partecipato. Un corso di formazione e una web-app appositamen sviluppata guidano e facilitano i " citizen scientists" nel riconoscimento delle specie e nel trasmettere le loro osservazioni.
Supplementary document for Efficient coupling between free electrons and the supermode of a silicon slot waveguide - 6373648.pdf
Creators: name: DMello, Yannick
name: Dahan, Raphael
name: Bernal, Santiago
name: Shi, Xihang
name: Kaminer, Ido
name: Plant, David
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
Stellar Radial Migration In Discs: A Quantification Of Churning And Blurring
Creators: name: Halle, Anaelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Discs in galaxies

description: Radial stellar migration in galactic discs has received much attention in studies of galactic dynamics and chemical evolution, but remains a dynamical phenomenon that needs to be fully quantified. We present results from Halle et al 2015 and extensions on the churning (change in angular momentum) and blurring (radial epicyclic oscillations) in simulations of bar-dominated discs, and we discuss the influence of radial migration on the dynamical heating of stellar discs.
title: Iran and America: Is Rapprochement Finally Possible?
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Iran
subject: America
subject: International relations

description: The definitive version of this document can be found at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com This document was created using OCR technology, and may contain minor discrepancies from the published document.
Additional file 1 of Factors influencing the uptake of antenatal care in Uganda: a mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Bhutada, Kiran
name: Venkateswaran, Mahima
name: Atim, Maureen
name: Munabi-Babigumira, Susan
name: Nankabirwa, Victoria
name: Namagembe, Flavia
name: Frøen, J. Frederik
name: Papadopoulou, Eleni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy
title: Press Release: Reston Land Corporation, "The Urban Land Institute Recongnizes Reston, Virginia With Distinguished Award for Excellence," October 27, 1989
Creators: name: Reston Land Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Twenty fifth Anniversary of Reston

description: Textual: Press Release; staple holes and hole punched, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Press release for the Reston Land Corporation from October 27, 1989 entitled "The Urban Land Institute Recognizes Reston, Virginia with Distinguished Award for Excellence." This release concerns the presentation of the Urban Land Institute’s Award for Excellence in New Community Development to Reston Land Corporation at the Institute’s Fall Meeting. This press release also makes mention of the silver anniversary celebration of Reston planned for December. Planned Community Archives Collection, 456.01
A parallel evolutionary algorithm to optimize dynamic memory managers in embedded systems
Creators: name: Risco-Martín, José L.
name: Atienza, David
name: Colmenar, J. Manuel
name: Garnica, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For the last thirty years, several Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and energy consumption of each DMM differs, software engineers often face difficult choices in selecting the most suitable approach for their applications. This issue has special impact in the field of portable consumer embedded systems, that must execute a limited amount of multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.), demanding high performance and extensive memory usage at a low energy consumption. Recently, we have developed a novel methodology based on genetic programming to automatically design custom DMMs, optimizing performance, memory usage and energy consumption. However, although this process is automatic and faster than state-of-the-art optimizations, it demands intensive computation, resulting in a time consuming process. Thus, parallel processing can be very useful to enable to explore more solutions spending the same time, as well as to implement new algorithms. In this paper we present a novel parallel evolutionary algorithm for DMMs optimization in embedded systems, based on the Discrete Event Specification (DEVS) formalism over a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework. Parallelism significantly improves the performance of the sequential exploration algorithm. On the one hand, when the number of generations are the same in both approaches, our parallel optimization framework is able to reach a speed-up of 86.40x when compared with other state-of-the-art approaches. On the other, it improves the global quality (i.e., level of performance, low memory usage and low energy consumption) of the final DMM obtained in a 36.36% with respect to two well-known general-purpose DMMs and two state-of-the-art optimization methodologies.
title: Correspondence: Donald S. Parris and C. Harrison Mann, Jr.; August 17, 1969-December 10, 1969
Creators: name: Parris, Donald S.
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006

description: Letter A: typescript signed, 8.5" x 11" (21.6cm x 27.9cm); Letter B: typescript unsigned, 8.5" x 11" (21.6cm x 27.9cm)
description: Correspondence between Donald S. Parris and C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding widening I495, raising speed limits, and appropriating more funds for Virginia prisons and mental institutions. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 3.23
[Letter with return envelope from Lee K. Ching of the Chinese Herb Co. of San Francisco, California, to Mr. J.D. McPheters of Portland, Oregon]
Creators: name: Ching, Lee K.
name: Chinese Herb Co.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Letter sent to Mr. J.D. McPheters by Lee K. Ching, Chief Herbalist of the Chinese Herb Co., asking for more information about his symptoms so that a proper diagnosis can be formed. Return envelope is enclosed.
Additional file 2 of Factors influencing the uptake of antenatal care in Uganda: a mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Bhutada, Kiran
name: Venkateswaran, Mahima
name: Atim, Maureen
name: Munabi-Babigumira, Susan
name: Nankabirwa, Victoria
name: Namagembe, Flavia
name: Frøen, J. Frederik
name: Papadopoulou, Eleni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Checklist
title: A Human Like the Rest of Us
Creators: name: Morris Lakes, Elizabeth Deanna
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Poetry
subject: Trauma
subject: Fairy tales
subject: Violence
subject: Myth
subject: Pennsylvania

description: This work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.
description: In this book-length collection of poetry divided into two sections, I explore the catalyst and impetus and then the aftermath of violence on the human body and mind. In the first section of the manuscript, Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf, I utilize two speakers, named in the title, whose narratives push and pull toward what they both believe to be an inevitable end: Ashley’s death. These poems also utilize the folkloric understanding of the wolf and the chased girl. In the second section, The Rest of Us, I explore the consequences that these violences have on the people left behind. These poems focus on real events and people, who lived along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. Images of the river also infuse this section, using the beauty and brutality of nature to balance the rest of the text.
title: Gait Modification to Reduce Lower Extremity Joint Load: a Review and Investigation into Unintended Consequences
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: Gait modification using real-time biofeedback may positively alter mechanical load at the knee. Currently, there is no consensus regarding the most effective gait-modification strategy, magnitude of modification, or mode of biofeedback. The effects on the biomechanical parameters of the non-modified limb also remain unclear. Additionally, trunk modifications are associated with frontal plane knee moment reductions ranging from 9% to 65%, and involve a shift of the center of mass to the implicated side. Increased trunk dynamics are associated with increased spinal load, and implicated in the pathomechanics of lower back pain. Three studies were conducted to achieve the objective of this dissertation. Their purposes were to (1) systematically assess the efficacy of gait modification using real-time biofeedback for reducing frontal plane knee moment; (2) investigate the acute changes in the biomechanical parameters of the non-modified side in individuals undergoing unilaterally implemented medial knee thrust, lateral trunk lean, and toe-in foot progression gait modification; and (3) to investigate the effects of subject-specific trunk lean gait modification on trunk kinetics. Overall, the findings of this dissertation inform gait-retraining-related research. Gait modification produced frontal plane knee moment reductions, although available evidence was of low quality. During the medial knee thrust gait modification, the loading environment of the non-modified knee for our healthy cohort appeared compromised. We further found increased spinal load throughout the gait cycle during the lateral trunk lean gait condition. Future experimental studies using experimental designs should investigate acute and chronic adaptations to gait modification within both healthy and pathological populations.
title: Global Projections of Deep-Rooted US Pathologies
Creators: name: Galtung, Johan
Publisher: name: School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Year: 1996

description: Barbara W. Tuchman, in her fine book The March of Folly,' studies four cases of foreign policy actors-Troy in the Battle of Troy. the Renaissance Popes during the Protestant Reformation, England and the American Revolution. and the USA in Vietnam-and concludes that their actions cannot be described as anything but simply foolish.? What they enacted worked out extremely badly. Their so-called decisions made them look foolish, if not to their contemporaries, then at least to posterity.
Synthesis of some polyphenolics from contents of onion skin and discovery of the promoter effect on barley germination
Creators: name: Üngören, Şevket Hakan
name: Kıbrız, İbrahim Evren
name: Eroğlu, Halil Erhan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Facile synthesis and characterisation of three natural compounds and their two synthetic analogues based on onion skin content were performed. Both OSE and 2,4,6-trihydroxyphenylglyoxylic acid was induced effect on cell proliferation during barley germination with a difference of approximately %4 compared to the control group.
On Bounds and Diophantine Properties of Elliptic Curves
Creators: name: Anand, Navvye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11Gxx, 14Hxx

description: Mordell equations are celebrated equations within number theory and are named after Louis Mordell, an American-born British mathematician, known for his pioneering research in number theory. In this paper, we discover all Mordell equations of the form $y^2 = x^3 + k$, where $k \in \mathbb Z$, with exactly $|k|$ integral solutions. We also discover explicit bounds for Mordell equations, parameterized families of elliptic curves and twists on elliptic curves. Using the connection between Mordell curves and binary cubic forms, we improve the lower bound for the number of integral solutions of a Mordell curve by looking at a pair of curves with unusually high rank.
description: 17 pages. Comments/Suggestions Welcome!
Additional file 3 of Factors influencing the uptake of antenatal care in Uganda: a mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Bhutada, Kiran
name: Venkateswaran, Mahima
name: Atim, Maureen
name: Munabi-Babigumira, Susan
name: Nankabirwa, Victoria
name: Namagembe, Flavia
name: Frøen, J. Frederik
name: Papadopoulou, Eleni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: List of Included Studies
title: Newsletter: Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, September 15, 1960
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Lynchburg Training School and Hospital
subject: Mental institutions

description: Newsletter: 4 pgs, typescript, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Newsletter from the Lynchburg Training School in Colony, Virginia. Topics covered are pre-admissions, emergencies, admission of children, and several miscellaneous items. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 21.15
Cas13d-mediated Resistance against Non-coding RNA Viroid in Potato - Supplementary Data.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Yonghong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300804
subject: Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Supplementary Figures and table for manuscript of Cas13d-mediated Resistance against Non-coding RNA Viroid in Potato.
Additional file 1 of Corporate activities that influence population health: a scoping review and qualitative synthesis to develop the HEALTH-CORP typology
Creators: name: Burgess, Raquel
name: Nyhan, Kate
name: Freudenberg, Nicholas
name: Ransome, Yusuf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Implementing the draft Graph Query Language Standard
Creators: name: Crowe, Malcolm
name: Laux, Fritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.1; H.3

description: The International Standards Organization (ISO) is developing a new standard for Graph Query Language, with a particular focus on graph patterns with repeating paths. The Linked Database Benchmark Council (LDBC) has developed benchmarks to test proposed implementations. Their Financial Benchmark includes a novel requirement for truncation of results. This paper presents an open-source implementation of the benchmark workloads and truncation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Brochure: Simon Enterprises, "The Reston Center for Industry and Government," Undated
Creators: name: Enterprises, Simon
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: brochure, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Brochure from Simon Enterprises entitled "The Reston Center for Industry and Government" that is undated. This brochure discusses plans for the development of Reston, Virginia. Aspects of Reston discussed included population density, transportation, and recreational, commercial and industrial facilities. Several maps and architectural drawings for portions of the development are also given. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm01.02
title: Representations of Higher Education for Female Refugees in the United States
Creators: name: Kruczek, Shelby
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Refugee student
subject: Refugee education
subject: Higher education
subject: Female refugee
subject: College access
subject: Underrepresented student population

description: This thesis describes the qualitative experiences of women with a refugee background as they pursued a college education in the Washington, D.C. Metro region. Conducted with five female refugee participants who were currently enrolled or aspiring to enroll in a community college or university, narrative interviews shed light on their experiences and attitudes related to higher education. A literature review contextualizes the challenges related to access and retention for refugee students as a marginalized college student population in the United States and abroad. Bronfenbrenner’s (1995) ecological systems model serves as a guiding conceptual framework for the research analysis, which describe themes of identity development, transitions, social responsibility, and the value of education. Despite significant hardships in their educational journeys, participants were largely hopeful about the role of college in their lives and were eager to use their education to make a positive difference in their communities. The findings benefit policy, practice, and scholarship on access and support for refugee students in higher education.