cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emission Wavelength Dependence of Flourescence Lifetimes of Bacteriological Spores
Creators: name: Thomas, Ann
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: Ann Thomas is a senior majoring in Physics with concentration in Computer Science. She is also a president of Goucher Physics Club and a first female student to major in physics in almost thirty years. Ann spent summer and fall of 2004 in the research laboratory of Professor David Baum investigating strategies for effectively detecting and quickly identifying bacteriological spores, thus enabling the spores to be easily distinguished from materials with similar appearances. Ann Thomas presented her research at the National Conference on the Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Lexington, Virginia as well as published her results in the NCUR proceedings. This research was supported by funds from the United States Army.
description: Concern about biological terror has increased greatly in the 21st century, and correspondingly, so has the need for
accurate detection and identification of biological hazards, such as B. anthracis. Optical techniques have been
shown to be useful for this purpose1,2,3,4. Use of fluorescence lifetimes as a function of emission wavelength for
different materials using point detection methods appears to be an additional viable option. Although the lifetimes
range only between 2 and 6 nanoseconds, most materials that were tested were distinguishable. A preliminary
database has been compiled for use in a possible future detection system; single-blind tests of unknown materials
confirmed the usefulness of the database.
description: Dr. Dave Baum
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/verge-2/
Ein Museum transformieren
Creators: name: Heraeus, Stefanie
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: What practices, perspectives, questions and approaches can artists invoke at a museum that are significantly different from curatorial formulations? Under the direction of Clémentine Deliss, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt has declared that its collaboration with artists is the basis for all of the museum’s work. The ethnological collection was given the status of a historical artefact. On site, in the museum, new artistic productions were created to engage with the objects in the collection. In a process of changing media, remediation, both the type of museum and the medium museum with its exhibitions were modified. Transcending discipline-specific expertise and the categories inherent in cultural studies, new paths were explored in the postcolonial treatment of ethnological collections.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
THE USE OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY IN STUDYING THE COURSE "HISTOLOGY, EMBRYOLOGY AND CYTOLOGY" AT A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: T.N. Kushnir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article discusses the use of situational analysis technology in teaching the discipline "Histology, Embryology and Cytology". The characteristics of the organization of the educational process in the study of this discipline are given. The paper analyzes the possibility of applying multi-level situational tasks in practical classes. The differences in the content of tasks of different levels of complexity are described. In conclusion, we briefly discuss the use of this type of knowledge testing in discipline exams.
Were Their Eyes Watching the Ladies?: The Treatment of African American Women in Harlem Renaissance Literature
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Helen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the faculty nominator, Angelo Robinson: Helen McLaughlin’s essay is superbly written, offering a much overlooked analysis and critique of Harlem Renaissance literature. McLaughlin argument that the “culturally-motivated dialogue on race consciousness and racial identity” does in many ways marginalize and often leave out discussions of gender equality in terms of theme and characterization of African American females. McLaughlin proceeds to examine how “[m]ost trailblazers of the period overlooked the tenuous dynamic between the sexes in favor of a seemingly larger argument between the race” with key texts from this period with thoughtful and persuasive scholarly secondary sources, never losing command of her thesis or the subject matter.
description: I wrote this paper at the conclusion of the course, Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, with Angelo Robinson. I wanted to investigate Nanny's statement in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- the black woman is "the mule of the world" -- in relation to other novels of that period, and in relation to more current musings on the otherwise ignored area where race and gender issues intersect. I have never felt so consumed by a subject as I was with this paper and the research that preceded its writing. From the faculty nominator, Angelo Robinson: Helen McLaughlin’s essay is superbly written, offering a much overlooked analysis and critique of Harlem Renaissance literature. McLaughlin argument that the “culturally-motivated dialogue on race consciousness and racial identity” does in many ways marginalize and often leave out discussions of gender equality in terms of theme and characterization of African American females. McLaughlin proceeds to examine how “[m]ost trailblazers of the period overlooked the tenuous dynamic between the sexes in favor of a seemingly larger argument between the race” with key texts from this period with thoughtful and persuasive scholarly secondary sources, never losing command of her thesis or the subject matter.
description: Angelo Robinson
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/verge-2/
Museum als Schauplatz reflexiver anthropologischer Situationen
Creators: name: Schafaff, Jörn
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: In 1998 the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art presented Rirkrit Tiravanija’s exhibition Das soziale Kapital. Recognized by the press mostly for its participatory approach and the convivial sociability of some of the exhibition’s offerings, the show was in fact designed as a set of environments evoking diverse modes of interaction, perception and behaviour: a fully functional Migros supermarket, a car repair shop, or several works by the artist inviting visitors to play music together or share a meal. Completed by artworks from the museum’s collection, the scenery thus oscillated between art exhibition, ethnographic museum and everyday life. Drawing on some of Tiravanija’s earliest works I will therefore argue that Das soziale Kapital should be understood as a performative critique of the prevailing conventions of exhibition culture.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Aspekte der Positioniertheit
Creators: name: Küster, Bärbel
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: This paper presents four examples of exhibitions in which artists engaged with items from ethnographic collections. They are scrutinized with regard to the concept of positionality and analysed to what extent they meet the criteria of contemporary museum ethics. It becomes clear from these examples that the engagement with colonial history and claims to decoloniality from a contemporary standpoint cannot be achieved with every concept. Not only can the idea of Carte Blanche, that is free rein in the development of a concept from the artist side, lead to very different results, but also these projects vary in each case with regard to the debate about the crisis and renewal of ethnological collections and museums of the last 30 years.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Verschwindende Vermächtnisse
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Annette
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: What happens when different exhibition regimes meet in one curatorial space? In 2017, the exhibition Disappearing Legacies – The World as a Forest inserted thirteen positions by contemporary artists dealing with the destruction of tropical habitats in the Anthropocene into the Permanent Collection of the Zoological Museum Hamburg at the Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak). This case study investigates the diverging mechanisms of agency in such a joint venture and examines the moments of contact in which the different narratives and scientific orderings of collection presentation on the one hand and temporary exhibition on the other intersect. The exhibition’s re-configuration of objects and discourses allows visitors to re-read both the exhibits and the archives and reveal – like clues in a forensic investigation – the colonial, historical, and political entanglements of the objects, and thereby to question established display strategies.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Supplementary document for Metallic nanosphere-assisted coupling ultrafast surface plasmon polaritons background-free tip nanofocusing - 5498551.pdf
Creators: name: Meng, Chao
name: Li, Weijian
name: xie, zhonglin
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Xu, Lei
name: Gao, Feng
name: Zhang, Wending
name: Mei, Ting
name: Zhao, Jianlin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Plasma Physics

description: Supplemental document
Eine Unternehmenssammlung als Readymade?
Creators: name: Wien, Iris
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Duchamp’s readymade, Bethan Huws conceived the exhibition On the Subject of Ready- Made or Using a Rembrandt as an Ironing Board on behalf of Daimler Contemporary Berlin. Starting by addressing the constellation of power implicit in the invitation to position herself at meta-level of the curator, the essay is devoted to a close reading of Huws’s strategies of appropriation in response to this institutional framework. Huws rejected the suggestion originally put forward by curator Renate Wiehager of depicting the reception history of the readymade concept by using examples from the corporate collection, together with one of Huws’s works to illustrate the continuance of this artistic direction. She did, however, seize upon the idea of genealogical descendancy in regard to Duchamp’s concept of the readymade. But instead of reaffirming this principle, this article argues that Huws appropriated the exhibition format and – by reactivating Duchamp’s idea of the Readymade réciproque – converted it into an artistic form.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Trend and Typology of Area Based Management in Japan from the View of Organizations and ActivitiesFocusing on Areas based on "Urban Regeneration Improvement Plan" in Japan
Creators: name: Song, Junhwan
name: IZUMIYAMA, Rui
name: Mitarai, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design
classificationCode: 440714
subject: Urban policy
classificationCode: 440408
subject: Urban community development

description: Recently, Area Based Management activities become more diverse and complicated making it difficult to provide the guideline as a reference to other areas. The study aims to clarify the tendencies and classify 493 area based management organizations from four viewpoints: Organization, Activity, Finance and Effect. By using the Principal Component Analysis, four factors were consequently drawn explaining the area based management activities: Business-Orientation, Vitality Activity-Orientation, Private Facility Utilization-Orientation and Private Network -Orientation. As a result of typology, it is possible to classify eight groups of organizations. The trend and characteristics of each group are clarified through the analysis based on the Principal Component Scores. The affinities among organizations, activities and finances are determined through the comparative analysis of each group.
In wessen Interesse?
Creators: name: McGovern, Fiona
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: Under what circumstances and with what aims are artists invited to work with museum collections? And to what degree do such „joint ventures“ equally represent the interests of both parties? The article discusses these questions by drawing on Fred Wilson’s now canonical museum intervention Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore in 1992/93 and Always, Always, Others. Unklassische Streifzüge durch die Moderne, a collection presentation at mumok in Vienna in 2015/16, which was co-curated by the artist Ulrike Müller and the museum’s in-house curator Manuela Ammer. The analyses are embedded in reflections on the legacy of institutional critique and debates that more recently have unfolded around the concepts of hospitality, care and sustainability in relation to curatorial practices. In conclusion, ethics is understood as the term that unites all three principles.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Are intravitreal injections essential during the COVID-19 pandemic? Global preferred practice patterns and practical recommendations
Creators: name: Tan, A. C. S.
name: Schwartz, R.
name: Anaya, D.
name: Chatziralli, I.
name: Yuan, M.
name: Cicinelli, M. V.
name: Faes, L.
name: Mustapha, M.
name: Phasukkijwatana, N.
name: Pohlmann, D.
name: Reynolds, R.
name: Rosenblatt, A.
name: Savastano, A.
name: Touhami, S.
name: Vaezi, K.
name: Ventura, C. V.
name: Vogt, D.
name: Ambati, J.
name: De Smet, Marc D.
name: Loewenstein, A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Tertiary outpatient ophthalmology clinics are high-risk environments for COVID-19 transmission, especially retina clinics, where regular follow-up is needed for elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. Intravitreal injection therapy (IVT) for chronic macular diseases, is one of the most common procedures performed, associated with a significant burden of care because of the vigorous treatment regimen associated with multiple investigations. While minimizing the risk of COVID-19 infection transmission is a priority, this must be balanced against the continued provision of sight-saving ophthalmic care to patients at risk of permanent vision loss. This review aims to give evidence-based guidelines on managing IVT during the COVID-19 pandemic in common macular diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macula edema and retinal vascular disease and to report on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected IVT practices worldwide. To illustrate some real-world examples, 18 participants in the International Retina Collaborative, from 15 countries and across four continents, were surveyed regarding pre- and during- COVID-19 pandemic IVT practices in tertiary ophthalmic centers. The majority of centers reported a reduction in the number of appointments to reduce the risk of the spread of COVID-19 with varying changes to their IVT regimen to treat various macula diseases. Due to the constantly evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the uncertainty about the normal resumption of health services, we suggest that new solutions for eye healthcare provision, like telemedicine, may be adopted in the future when we consider new long-term adaptations required to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abstrakte Kabinett in Hannover
Creators: name: Katenhusen, Ines
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2022

description: Partly based on primary sources, the article investigates the genesis of one of the earliest spatial art works of Modernism: the “Abstraktes Kabinett” (Abstract Cabinet) which, opened in the Hanover Provinzialmuseum in 1927, was commissioned by the museum director Alexander Dorner as part of his curatorial concept, and was based on earlier works of the artist El Lissitzky created for different contexts. Which tasks did the art historian and the artists respectively associate with this pioneering enterprise, which accents were they able to set, and where did their goals converge or diverge? Which political motifs were inscribed in the Kabinett and how and why did they change over the period of the two decades of its existence? And, lastly, in what way did these divergences and convergences shape the reception history of this space?
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2022): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Noise protection in urban areas - the new legal framework in Germany
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: More and more people are returning to cities with their liveliness as well as their multi-faceted cultural attractions and dining experiences, but living space is scarce. Each year, about 400,000 flats would need to be built in Germany to meet that demand. In order to address these ambitious targets, the building law was amended in 2017. The objectives are as follows: reduction in land consumption, creation of new opportunities for housing constructions, and providing further tools for more densely built-up areas with higher buildings, also promoting the coexistence between residential and industrial estates. Urban planning and housing will be simplified for municipalities. The recently established 'urban area' follows the urban model: short distances, local jobs and social diversity. Traffic should be avoided and reduced; living spaces and public spaces should be supported. Promotion of urban development through the redirection of the demand for land into areas which are already populated, reutilization of brownfields, filling of vacant lots, post urbanization, mixed-use development, qualitative upgrading of existing structures and adaptation to user's changing needs in turn lead to a higher noise level and therefore to a higher obligatory tolerance. The central issue of numerous urban projects will be an appropriate conflict resolution. Measures, such as passive sound insulation, enforcement of operational duties and allocation are gaining center stage. Thereby, the protection against noise from the outside area is important in order to ensure the quality of life. This requires further scientific knowledge of noise impact in relation to the combined impact by simultaneous exposition to all kinds of noise sources. In: Steindorf, Annett: Noise protection in urban areas - the new legal framework in Germany / Annett Steindorf. - Online-Ausgabe; Dateigröße / Dateiumfang: 192,16 KB. In: 47th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (INTERNOISE 2018) : Impact of Noise Control Engineering ; Proceedings. - Chicago, Illinois. - (2018), 1 Onlineressource (7 Seiten). - ISBN 978-1-5108-7303-2
Do changes in primary care service use over time differ by neighbourhood income? Population-based longitudinal study in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Lavergne, M.R.
name: Bodner, A.
name: Peterson, Sandra
name: Wiedmeyer, M.
name: Rudoler, D.
name: Spencer, S.
name: Marshall, E.G.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Strong primary care systems have been associated with improved health equity. Primary care system reforms in Canada may have had equity implications, but these have not been evaluated. We sought to determine if changes in primary care service use between 1999/2000 and 2017/2018 differ by neighbourhood income in British Columbia. Methods We used linked administrative databases to track annual primary care visits, continuity of care, emergency department (ED) visits, specialist referrals, and prescriptions dispensed over time. We use generalized estimating equations to examine differences in the magnitude of change by neighbourhood income quintile, adjusting for age, sex/gender, and comorbidity, and stratified by urban/rural location of residence. We also compared the characteristics of physicians providing care to people living in low- and high-income neighbourhoods at two points in time. Results Between 1999/2000 and 2017/8 the average number of primary care visits per person, specialist referrals, and continuity of care fell in both urban and rural settings, while ED visits and prescriptions dispensed increased. Over this period in urban settings, primary care visits, continuity, and specialist referrals fell more rapidly in low vs. high income neighbourhoods (relative change in primary care visits: Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR) 0.881, 95% CI: 0.872, 0.890; continuity: partial regression coefficient -0.92, 95% CI: -1.18, -0.66; specialist referrals: IRR 0.711, 95%CI: 0.696, 0.726), while ED visits increased more rapidly (IRR 1.06, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.09). The percentage of physicians who provide the majority of visits to patients in neighbourhoods in the lower two income quintiles declined from 30.6% to 26.3%. Conclusion Results raise concerns that equity in access to primary care has deteriorated in BC. Reforms to primary care that fail to attend to the multidimensional needs of low-income communities may entrench existing inequities. Policies that tailor patterns of funding and allocation of resources in accordance with population needs, and that align accountability measures with equity objectives are needed as part of further reform efforts.
ANALYSE DE LA CONTRIBUTION DES ENTREPRISES FORESTIERES AU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE DES POPULATIONS LOCALES A TRAVERS LEUR RESPONSABILITE SOCIETALE
Creators: name: 1Liliane RIGHOU
name: 2Pierre Gaëtant ANGO NGUEMA
name: 3Marcellin NGOMO ONDO ENGUE
name: 4Louis Bernard AVELE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Résumé

Cet article évalue la responsabilité sociétale de l'entreprise forestière Hua Jia dans la forêt du Komo-Kango en utilisant les critères et indicateurs sociaux du CIFOR. Les résultats montrent que, sauf pour le critère 3 du Principe 2 qui obtient un score acceptable de 3,75, tous les autres critères affichent des scores inférieurs au seuil acceptable de 3, indiquant une gestion RSE insatisfaisante. Hua Jia ne parvient pas à garantir un accès équitable aux ressources et aux bénéfices économiques, à assurer la participation des parties prenantes, et à maintenir la santé, la vitalité culturelle et la qualité sanitaire des forêts. Ces déficiences révèlent une gestion inadéquate de la RSE vis-à-vis des populations locales. Cette étude souligne l'importance des évaluations rigoureuses des pratiques de RSE pour identifier les domaines nécessitant des améliorations et inciter les entreprises forestières à adopter des pratiques managériales plus responsables et durables. Il est recommandé à ces derniers de renforcer leur engagement envers le bien-être des populations locales en respectant leurs obligations de RSE.

Mots clés : Responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE), Critères et Indicateurs Sociaux, Komo-Kango, Développement durable.
Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China
Creators: name: Xu, Weizhen
name: Zheng, Dulai
name: Huang, Peilin
name: Yu, Jiao
name: Chen, Ziru
name: Zhu, Zhipeng
name: Dong, Jianwen
name: Fu, Weicong
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Intensified urbanization has caused a linear decline in the quality of urban biodiversity and indirectly harms our current human settlement environment. Urban mountain parks provide a refuge for the animals and plants and play a vital role in satisfying residents’ lives. At present, few studies are focusing on the impact of biodiversity on human mental health benefits of urban mountain parks in high-density construction areas along the coast of the Eastern Hemisphere. Here, we examined the relationship between bird abundance, Shannon diversity, Simpson diversity, and Richness and momentary mental health (positive, negative, and anxiety) in urban mountain parks. The timed species counts method was used to conduct three surveys of birds in urban mountain parks, and linear regression was performed on the relationship between bird diversity and mental health among sites. According to the regression model results, we found no significant correlation in any disturbance levels. As urban mountain parks are an essential part of the human settlement environment, how to improve the biodiversity and mental health of urban mountain parks is one of the focuses of research on biodiversity well-being in the future. Urban planning authorities and public mental health researchers should pay attention to the importance of biodiversity in urban development and consider how to realize the beautiful vision of the harmonious coexistence of humans, animals, plants, and the environment in which we live.
Consuming Location: The Sustainable Impact of Transformational Experiential Culinary and Wine Tourism in Chianti Italy
Creators: name: Esau, Darcen
name: Senese, Donna
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Tourists visit wine and culinary destinations for unique, geographically indicated experiences that are place specific. The objective of this research is to understand how the transformational potential of experiential wine and culinary tourism best promotes sustainability in the context of international educational travel. Our case study in the iconic Chianti Region of Italy applies a ‘Hopeful Tourism Enquiry’ perspective and focuses on participatory, co-transformative learning, and mindful sustainability. A mixed qualitative research strategy was implemented that integrates the results of in-depth interviews with industry experts, excerpts from expository travel journals simultaneously captured during the experience, and focus group dialogues with participating students at the end of the field course. This case study revealed three overlapping thematic results that illustrate the influence of experiential educational tourism on the sensory and cultural experience of sustainable food and wine to produce co-transformative learning. The co-creation of memorable experiences establishes a unique sensual representation of provenance through the interaction with the region through narrative so that not only is the food and wine being consumed, but also the consumption of place through the storyscape of a positive and memorable experience.
Revealing the cosmic evolution of boxy/peanut-shaped bulges
Creators: name: Kruk, Sandor
name: Erwin, Peter
name: Debattista, Victor
name: Lintott, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Bar-driven processes are believed to produce vertically thickened components, known as boxy/peanut-shaped bulges. Boxy/peanut bulges are found in the majority of massive disc galaxies in the local Universe, including our own. Nevertheless, their formation time and mechanism have been elusive. We investigate for the first time how the frequency of boxy/peanut bulges in barred galaxies evolves in the last 8 Gyr, using a large sample of moderately inclined barred galaxies selected from the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS survey and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We account for observational biases by matching the samples in resolution, rest-frame band, and stellar mass, and identify, based on the isophotes, boxy/peanut bulges. We find the first examples of boxy/peanut bulges in galaxies at z=0.8. In addition, in Kruk et al. 2019 we study the redshift evolution of the strong stellar mass dependence of the boxy/peanut bulges reported in nearby barred galaxies. Our observations place important constraints on the formation time of boxy/peanut bulges, and our study demonstrates what can be achieved with future large imaging surveys such as the ESA Euclid mission.
Cyber Ninja Psychic Killers
Creators: name: Colin, Davis
name: Segedy, Jim
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: Colin Davis and Jim Segedy wrote this program as part of a course on computer game programming. The assignment was to write a 3D shooter game. Although the topic may sound frivolous, there are a number of substantial computer science concepts illustrated in this project, including three-dimensional computer graphics and artificial intelligence. Colin and Jim made use of a scripting language to allow easy modifications to the game play and included some very interesting elements, which I won’t give away to the player. Lastly, their project is simply a lot of fun!
description: Most people who think about art never consider a computer. Indeed, art in its most primitive form is meant to impress but one of the 5 senses. There are sculptures, paintings and architectural creations to pleasure our eyes; music to satisfy our ears; culinary arts to tantalize our tongues and noses; and things like massage therapy and acupuncture to tickle our sense of touch. But even in the earliest times, there was theatre, an art form capable of entertaining both sight and sound simultaneously. The whole effect of a good theatre performance, it may be argued, it greater than the sum of its parts. By combining sight and sound, audiences were emotionally moved. They laughed, cried, and experienced catharsis. While there have been other art forms that involve 1 or 2 senses, few have been able to satisfy more. Computer games and computer simulations have. In a computer game, like in a movie or theatre performance, the creators are able to control what the player sees and hears to a degree. But computer games go beyond that; they react to the player. In a computer game, what you see, hear, and actually physically feel through feedback is both a product of the game designers and the player. You can only see the final level of the game if you are able to take the actions that get you to the final level. Or in other words, the player can only experience all of my world if he or she is able to explore it all. This interactivity isn't exactly a sense, but it gives players something that other art doesn't: a chance to use what they gain from their senses. They react to what they experience, and in turn the game reacts to them. A designer builds in rewards for certain actions and punishments for others. One could even say that a relationship forms between the game's designer and the player, and that's the magic of making a computer game. While this game is nowhere near as advanced as a modern video game, it's a start. It's my first attempt at creating a world for you, the player, to experience, and I hope that our journey is fun and successful.
description: Jill Zimmerman
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/3-2/
The Attraction England Left Out
Creators: name: Cincotta, Molly
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: This paper was written for the course “Dance and Theatre as Cultural Metaphors,” the January ICA in London. Chrystelle Bond (Co-teacher) and I asked students to choose a research topic where residence in London would be particularly useful in fulfilling their research goals. Students were free, however, to pick any topic related to the course’s theme. Molly, as an English major, chose to pursue criticism. Her early research proposal was to compare Oscar Wilde (whose work she had studied in a special topics course in the English department) and Tom Stoppard, a playwright she as a passionate theatergoer, admired. On our ninth day in London when we attended Michael Bennett’s play History Boys at the National Theatre, Molly saw the potential to use this play in her paper. Molly’s academic knowledge of Wilde, her love of the theatre and Stoppard, and the serendipitous introduction to the wit of Bennett provided the foundation for her paper. Interestingly, the three points of entry into the subject matter --scholarship, passion and experience --touch on the multifarious nature of “knowing” that is examined in “The Attraction England Left Out.”
description: During the Dance and Theatre trip to London, I had the opportunity to see the National Theatre's production of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. At the time I had been reading Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love as part of my preliminary research for my paper topic -- tracing the influence of Oscar Wilde on Stoppard's writing. Watching the production, I was struck by the similarities between the lives of these modern private school boys and A. E. Housman and his schoolmates from more than a century ago in Invention of Love. Both shows, I realized, demonstrated similar battles between the rigid morality of upper class English society and the inevitable passions that occur as a part of everyday life. This tension appeared to be based on an idealization of the ancient world as the paradigm of literary and scientific accomplishment, while omitting the references to baser realities of the time. The more I researched, the more I realized that both Stoppard and Bennett were reflecting a real paradox of English morality that existed throughout history. I found the challenge of this paper to be linking my three playwrights, not only to each other, but also to the historical circumstances they were trying to represent.
description: Allison Campbell
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/verge-2/
Supplementary document for Deep learning based brightfield image generation from a single hologram using unpaired dataset - 5500802.pdf
Creators: name: Terbe, Dániel
name: Orzó, Laszlo
name: Zarándy, Ákos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed result table and more samples.
Numerical Solutions to the Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation for the Harmonic Oscillator Potential
Creators: name: Ul Abideen, Zain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this study, we solved the time-independent schrodinger equation by substituting equivalent forms for the single and double derivative operators. The resulting expression was converted to a matrix eigenvalue problem, and solved by computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors numerically. All the calculations and plots were done in the scilab language.
Redefining Justice: Rwanda's development of Inkiko Gacaca -- a village-based community justice
Creators: name: Wheeler, Anita
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: Anita was a student in my PCE 241 class, Issues in Conflict Resolution. Immediately she took an interest in the post conflict situation in Rwanda. Having traveled there, she was aware from a personal level of the trauma that was inflicted as well as the work that had to be done to heal and reconcile the country. During our semester, Anne Aghion who produced the documentary Gacaca Living Together Again in Rwanda?" spoke on campus. Anita met with her. This paper is the result of a deep desire to understand the basis of this horrific event, but also a realization that peace can be achieved after such calamity. Finally, this paper presents a picture of hope for the future. Anita's work is extremely well written and researched. She is most deserving of this honor.
description: In May 2003 I had the honor of traveling to Rwanda for a peace and justice training sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. That year marked the 10 year commemoration of the victims of the Genocide. I traveled not knowing what to expect from a country that had experienced one of the most tragic events in human history. The inescapable trauma of the genocide continues to haunt the minds and hearts of many people I talked with in Rwanda. As a woman of African descent this journey had a deep spiritual sense of homecoming. Living in Baltimore City, where crime and conflict are symptomatic of urban poverty, I always wondered in the back of my mind how people on the grassroots can resolve issues peacefully. After visiting Rwanda and witnessing peace building and reconciliation, I now know that alternative forms of justice and conflict resolution exist.
description: David Smith
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/verge-2/
title: World History Connected, Vol. 10 No. 2: Summer 2013
title: Summer 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: World History Connected
Publisher: name: World History Connected
Year: 2013

description: Using Food History Texts in the World History Classroom: A Review Essay
Digital Resources for Travel Writing and Travel Narratives in World History
Mapping Student Learning: Course Assessment using Concept Maps in a World History Survey Course
Most Exquisite Curiosities of Nature and Art: The Dutch East India Company, Objets d'Art and Gift Giving in Early Modern Japan
Teaching about Haiti in World History: An Introduction
Teaching the Old China Trade: A 'Glocal' Approach in Early American Travelogues
"The Impractical Scheme of a Visionary:" Thomas Stevens and the Quest to Travel Round the World on a Bicycle
Medieval Muslim Women's Travel: Defying Distance and Danger
From Imposter to Imperialist: Ludovico de Varthema's Journey from Italy to India, 1502–1508
Korean Explorations between Civilization and Barbarism in the Eighteenth Century Including a translated excerpt of Hong Taeyong's Dialogue at Mount Ŭimuryŏ
Introduction to Forum: Travel and Travel Accounts in World History, Part 2
Editor's Message: "Traveling from the Forum to the Classroom"
Dehydroepiandrosterone in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a translational study
Creators: name: Guler, Sabina A.
name: Machahua, Carlos
name: Geiser, Thomas K.
name: Kocher, Gregor
name: Marti, Thomas M.
name: Tan, Benjamin
name: Trappetti, Verdiana
name: Ryerson, Christopher J.
name: Funke-Chambour, Manuela
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a precursor sex hormone with antifibrotic properties. The aims of this study were to investigate antifibrotic mechanisms of DHEA, and to determine the relationship between DHEA-sulfate (DHEAS) plasma levels, disease severity and survival in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Methods Human precision cut lung slices (PCLS) and normal human lung fibroblasts were treated with DHEA and/or transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 before analysis of pro-fibrotic genes and signal proteins. Cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, cell cycle and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity were assessed. DHEAS plasma levels were correlated with pulmonary function, the composite physiologic index (CPI), and time to death or lung transplantation in a derivation cohort of 31 men with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and in an independent validation cohort of 238 men and women with fibrotic ILDs. Results DHEA decreased the expression of pro-fibrotic markers in-vitro and ex-vivo. There was no cytotoxic effect for the applied concentrations, but DHEA interfered in proliferation by modulating the cell cycle through reduction of G6PD activity. In men with IPF (derivation cohort) DHEAS plasma levels in the lowest quartile were associated with poor lung function and higher CPI (adjusted OR 1.15 [95% CI 1.03–1.38], p = 0.04), which was confirmed in the fibrotic ILD validation cohort (adjusted OR 1.03 [95% CI 1.00–1.06], p = 0.01). In both cohorts the risk of early mortality was higher in patients with low DHEAS levels, after accounting for potential confounding by age in men with IPF (HR 3.84, 95% CI 1.25–11.7, p = 0.02), and for age, sex, IPF diagnosis and prednisone treatment in men and women with fibrotic ILDs (HR 3.17, 95% CI 1.35–7.44, p = 0.008). Conclusions DHEA reduces lung fibrosis and cell proliferation by inducing cell cycle arrest and inhibition of G6PD activity. The association between low DHEAS levels and disease severity suggests a potential prognostic and therapeutic role of DHEAS in fibrotic ILD.
Aztlanolagus agilis Russell and Harris 1986
Creators: name: Christopher
name: Jass, N.
name: Usa
name: J. J.
name: Usa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Aztlanolagus
Aztlanolagus agilis

description: Aztlanolagus agilis Russell and Harris, 1986
Referred Specimens —See Appendix 1.
Description —The p3s of Aztlanolagus agilis are characterized by the presence of five reentrant folds (Fig. 4a; Russell and Harris 1986). No extant North American leporid retains this pattern, and among fossil taxa only Nekrolagus is similar (Russell and Harris 1986). All specimens identified as A. agilis exhibit a strongly developed anterointernal fold and a well-developed posterointernal fold (Fig. 4b) or lake. The presence of a strongly developed anterointernal fold on the p3 distinguishes A. agilis from Nekrolagus, in which the fold is less developed or absent (Russell and Harris 1986). The degree of crenulation within individual folds varies among individual specimens from Cathedral Cave. Table 1 summarizes the number of major crenulations in the anteroexternal reentrant, along the posterior wall of the posterointernal reentrant, and along the posterior wall of the posteroexternal reentrant. For specimens of A. agilis from Cathedral Cave, the p3 average length is 2.40 mm (n = 25; SD = 0.23; range = 1.7–2.8) and average width is 2.29 mm (n = 25; SD = 0.34; range = 1.2–2.8). These are slightly larger than average measurements recorded by Winkler and Tomida (1988) for other localities in the southwestern United States.
Discussion— Aztlanolagus is known from Blancan to late Rancholabrean deposits in the western United States and Mexico. Records other than Cathedral Cave come from localities within Porcupine Cave, CO (Barnosky and Hopkins 2004, Baxter 2004), and localities in northern Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas (Russell and Harris 1986, Winkler and Tomida 1988). Although Winkler and Tomida (1988) tentatively referred all specimens that they examined to A. agilis, Baxter (2004) reported Porcupine Cave specimens as Aztlanolagus spp. because of variation in tooth size and crenulation patterns.
Aztlanolagus might be synonymous with Pliopentalagus, an extinct leporid known mostly from China that has five reentrant folds on the p3 (Tomida and Jin 2002, 2004). However, until the argument for synonymy is formalized, Aztlanolagus should be retained. Taxonomic issues notwithstanding, the disappearance of A. agilis is one of the few known late Quaternary small mammal extinctions in continental North America.
The records of Aztlanolagus agilis from Cathedral Cave presented here represent its first known occurrence in the Great Basin. The only other specimen known from the Great Basin is unnumbered in bulk material from Smith Creek Cave, Nevada, housed at the Nevada State Museum (Jass personal observation).
description: Published as part of Christopher, Jass, N., Usa, J. J. & Usa, 2009, Pleistocene lagomorphs from Cathedral Cave, Nevada, pp. 1-12 in PaleoBios 29 (1) on pages 3-4
Supplementary document for Deep learning based brightfield image generation from a single hologram using unpaired dataset - 5500802.pdf
Creators: name: Terbe, Dániel
name: Orzó, Laszlo
name: Zarándy, Ákos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed result table and more samples.
Brachylagus idahoensis
Creators: name: Christopher
name: Jass, N.
name: Usa
name: J. J.
name: Usa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Leporidae
Brachylagus
Brachylagus idahoensis

description: Brachylagus idahoensis (Merriam, 1891)
Referred Specimens —See Appendix 1.
Description — Three specimens of Brachylagus idahoensis were identified from Cathedral Cave (Fig. 4c). Two of the specimens retain simple anteroexternal reentrants and the trigonid and talonid are either completely (TMM 43693-1777), or nearly (TMM 43693-1776), separated by cementum. The extension of the anteroexternal folds across the tooth is characteristic of B. idahoensis (Ramos 1999b). Length and width of the p3s were: (TMM 43693-1777) - l = 1.8 mm, w = 1.6 mm; (43693-1776) - l = 1.8 mm, w = 1.8 mm.
A third p 3 specimen (TMM 43693-1775) with a damaged occlusal surface that was also identified as Brachylagus idahoensis is unique. In ventral view, it has a posteroexternal reentrant that extends across two-thirds of the tooth, but exhibits an enamel lake in the position of a posterointernal reentrant. Because the joining of the posteroexternal reentrant with the enamel lake would result in a morphology more similar to B. idahoensis than B. coloradoensis (see below), the specimen is identified as the former. Further review of variation in the p3 enamel patterns of B. idahoensis is needed.
Discussion— Brachylagus is distinguished from most extant and fossil North American leporids by the lack of an anterior reentrant on the p3 (Kurtén and Anderson 1980, Ramos 1999a). The extinct genus Hypolagus is similar in some qualitative aspects to an extinct form of Brachylagus (B. coloradoensis) but is larger in size (Ramos 1999b). Until recently, the genus Brachylagus was considered monotypic, with B. idahoensis as the only recognized species (Ramos 1999b).
Fossils of Brachylagus idahoensis are known only from the western United States and most fall within or near the present distribution of the species (Kurtén and Anderson 1980). Exceptions are the records from Isleta Cave No. 2 and Sheep Camp Shelter in New Mexico (Harris 1993). The occurrence of B. idahoensis at Cathedral Cave was previously noted by Ramos (1999b).
description: Published as part of Christopher, Jass, N., Usa, J. J. & Usa, 2009, Pleistocene lagomorphs from Cathedral Cave, Nevada, pp. 1-12 in PaleoBios 29 (1) on page 4
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROJECT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE THEATER PARK AT THE RGISI
Creators: name: V.A. Zherebtsova
name: E.A. Bereslavets
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The layout of the Theater Park at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RGISI) in Kemerovo will include modern frame buildings, benches, paths made of environmentally friendly materials, as well as flower beds that will give the park an aesthetic appearance and small groups of trees for landscaping the urban environment. The park will be designed for recreation of students and citizens. The design of the theater park will be made in a mixed style with an emphasis on Art Nouveau. The paper presents a sketch of a future landscaping project.