cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mapping a Paradox: The African-American Cultural Landscape in Antebellum Baltimore County, Maryland
Creators: name: Abe, Kimberly Ruth
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Slavery -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- History -- To 1863
subject: Slaves -- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- Maryland -- Baltimore County
subject: African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- History -- To 1863
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: Slavery sites and other cultural resources associated with antebellum African­ American life in Baltimore County, Maryland, and nationally, have historically been under-researched. Thus, many of these buildings and sites are unrecognized as historically significant and are needlessly demolished or neglected. The losses are particularly tragic because these resources are some of the only remaining records of lives that were largely undocumented in writing. Consequently, the failure to document America's slavery sites is indirectly resulting in the destruction of history itself. This thesis presents historical geography as an innovative research approach for identifying and protecting Baltimore County's slave past through the partial construction of an atlas to portray the county's antebellum African-American experience. This research approach extends recognition of resources beyond the slave cabin to the larger cultural landscape that included the farmstead, towns, and other types of physical environments. This Baltimore County cultural landscape is one of the country's most complex and intriguing. By 1860 this county had the largest free black population in the country living within in a slave society, and bordering on the free state of Pennsylvania. An antebellum African-American atlas illustrating the paradoxical nature of slavery in Baltimore County provides a comprehensive geographic perspective for efficient study and presentation of the locations of, and relationships between, sites of slavery, runaway slaves' sites of origin, free black communities, and other resources. Foremost, this prototype map strengthens the case for protection of these sites as both records and as monuments to convey the country's largely untold story of slavery.
Epistemic Injustice in Sexual Assault Trials
Creators: name: Tilton, Emily
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Those who commit sexual assault are rarely brought to justice: for every 1000 rapes, only seven will result in a felony conviction. There are numerous factors that contribute to the fact that sexual assault goes largely unpunished, and legal reform alone is not a sufficient solution'but it is an important part of the solution. In this paper, I develop an account of the epistemic injustice that rape victims face in criminal trials, and I argue that this, at least in part, helps to explain not only why conviction rates are so low, but why previous feminist legal reform has not helped to improve conviction rates. I then argue that more radical legal reform is necessary, and that we ought to consider lowering the standard of evidence in sexual assault cases.
Are Traditional Preservation Tools and Techniques Applicable to the Preservation of Lake Geneva, its Economy and its Heritage?
Creators: name: Wheeler, Lynn Ellen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Historic preservation -- Economic aspects -- Wisconsin -- Lake Geneva
subject: Heritage tourism -- Wisconsin -- Lake Geneva
subject: Lake Geneva (Wis.) -- History
subject: Lake Geneva (Wis.) -- Economic conditions
subject: Lake Geneva (Wis.) -- Economic policy
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is known as the Newport of the Midwest, where wealthy Chicagoans built elaborate "cottages" many designed and landscaped by noted architects. Prior.to becoming a Gilded Age resort, Lake Geneva was a grain-milling center. The history and culture of both eras of development are manifest in the historic resources of the area. Through statistical analysis of regional tourism data and the extrapolation of the results to Lake Geneva, this thesis makes the case that an economy dependent upon heritage tourism is likewise dependent on preservation of its historic resources. Moreover, the economic benefits of heritage tourism are multiplied exponentially as tourist expenditures are recycled through the economy. Preservation issues are developed through case studies of past and present situations involving preservation of historic properties. Research and analysis of the various tools and techniques of historic preservation, results in the identification of numerous federal, state and local mechanisms applicable to the preservation issues identified. This thesis concludes that potential threats to Lake Geneva historic resources are not immediate rather, they are long-term and the result of economic and social pressures that impinge upon the historic properties. Furthermore, the tools and techniques to mitigate future threats are available. The greatest threat to Lake Geneva's historic resources is the lack of long-term planning for the future protection of the area's historic assets, economic growth and community development. If the past is a predictor, one thing is certain, change will occur. Lake Geneva must anticipate change, not merely respond to it.
Hegel's Empty Formalism Critique
Creators: name: Kausar, Auj
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In the Elements of the Philosophy of Right, G.W.F Hegel asks: can the Categorical Imperative (CI) determine our duties' Though Kant thinks that the CI can indicate to us (a) what our duties are, and (b) why we are obligated to do them, Hegel thinks that Kant is mistaken. According to Hegel, the CI is not able to do either (a) or (b) because it employs only a universalizability test and the criterion of non-contradiction to give an account for both. If Kant is able to direct us to our duties from the CI, it is only because, in Hegel's view, Kant has presupposed certain content-filled principles in the universalizability test. However, Kant is not justified to bring in outside content because of his formalist commitment to adhere only to the form of universality when conducting practical legislation.
Niche Construction Theory: Difficulties for a Practice Approach to Theoretical Pluralism
Creators: name: Hazelwood, Caleb
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, I reconstruct C. Kenneth Waters' 'practice-centered approach' to philosophy of biology. The objective of the approach is to resolve theoretical debates in biology by appealing to how theories are used to predict and control a phenomenon, not just explain it. By turning our attention to how theories are used in practice (e.g., developing new hypotheses or predicting novel results), we can see that two conceptually incompatible theories can actually coextend. I put the approach to the test with a contemporary case study: the debate between the Standard Evolutionary Theory and Niche Construction Theory. The debate centers on whether to amend the concept of an evolutionary process. Waters argues that the practice-centered approach resolves the debate with a pluralist framework. I argue that a pluralist framework is not warranted in this case, thus demonstrating that Waters' approach is not a panacea for all theoretical debates in biology.
The Impact of Climate Action on the Financial Performance of Food, Grocery, and Supermarket Retailers in the UK
Creators: name: Olarewaju, Tolu
name: Dani, Samir
name: Obeng-Fosu, Collins
name: Olarewaju, Tayo
name: Jabbar, Abdul
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: We examined the impact of climate action on the financial performance of eleven food, grocery, and supermarket retailers listed on the London Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2022. Our findings reveal a positive association between the climate mitigation efforts of these businesses and financial performance, particularly in terms of returns on assets (ROA). Through Ordinary Least Squares estimation, we identified that climate action practices such as renewable energy usage, waste reduction, adoption of energy-efficient technologies, eco-friendly packaging, and optimized transportation are significantly associated with the ROA of UK-based food, grocery, and supermarket retailers. This study is significant as these retailers often have extensive operations and supply chains that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. It demonstrates that engaging in climate mitigation measures can still lead to a positive ROA.
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Forecasting and visualization of time series
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2023
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python
It technologies
time series
forecasting
methods
visualization
data processing

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description: This paper considers an approach to predictive modeling and data visualization using predictive models. The approach is based on the use of the widely available Python programming language and publicly available libraries. By performing a comparative analysis of different models, the most effective ones for accurate forecasting were identified.
The Limits of Rationality: Aristotle on the Possibility of Practical Reason
Creators: name: Helder, Russell
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: I argue that Aristotle thinks desire is what motivates all animal movement and human action. Reason never motivates us directly, but it can exert an influence on what we desire. I argue that whether reason successfully does so depends on our character states, and that this is one reason why Aristotle is correct to say that virtue makes the end (i.e., the object of desire) right. The object of rational desire is the good, and it is because we have character states of a certain kind that we find the ends that reason proposes to be good. So it is because we are virtuous or vicious that we desire what reason proposes. Since reason cannot motivate us directly, reason can only be practical by affecting our desires. Since reason only affects our desires insofar as we are virtuous or vicious, it is virtue and vice that make practical reason possible.
Kant and Joseph Butler on Autonomy, Moral Obligation, and Stoic Virtue
Creators: name: Munroe, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Scholars have compared Joseph Butler and Immanuel Kant's moral theories, claiming that they both center on the concept of autonomy. In this thesis, I argue that, despite this superficial similarity, they disagree about the core commitments of their conceptions of autonomy. Butlerian autonomy relies on inferring from the normative authority of conscience to the descriptive that human nature is adapted to virtue, and from this descriptive claim about human nature to moral obligation. Kant rejects these inferences, and therefore rejects the key components of Butlerian autonomy. Moreover, I argue that Kant's rejection of Butler's conception of human nature renders Butler's stoic conception of virtue unavailable to Kant.
Nuclear norm regularized loop optimization for tensor network
Creators: name: Homma, Kenji
name: Okubo, Tsuyoshi
name: Kawashima, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a loop optimization algorithm based on nuclear norm regularization for tensor network. The key ingredient of this scheme is to introduce a rank penalty term proposed in the context of data processing. Compared to standard variational periodic matrix product states method, this algorithm can circumvent the local minima related to short-ranged correlation in a simpler fashion. We demonstrate its performance when used as a part of the tensor network renormalization algorithms [S. Yang, Z.-C. Gu, and X.-G. Wen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110504 (2017)] for the critical 2D Ising model. The scale invariance of the renormalized tensors is attained with higher accuracy while the higher parts of the scaling dimension spectrum are obtained in a more stable fashion.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Development of a system for visual control of tests for hot ultimate plasticity of the material at the "Gleeble 3800" complex
Creators: name: Ð¡ÐµÑÐ´ÑÐºÐ¾Ð², Ð¡ÐµÑÐ³ÐµÐ¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·
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contour analysis
canny detector
color segmentation
visual control system

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ Ð¸ ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð½Ð° Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ðµ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿Ð»ÐµÐºÑÐ° Â«Gleeble 3800Â». ÐÐ°Ð´Ð°ÑÐ¸, ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµ ÑÐµÑÐ°Ð»Ð¸ÑÑ Ð² ÑÐ¾Ð´Ðµ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ: 1. ÐÐ·ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð°Ð¿Ð¿Ð°ÑÐ°ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿Ð»ÐµÐºÑÐ° Â«Gleeble 3800Â» Ð¸ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ð¼ÑÑ Ð¸ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹. 2. ÐÐ½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ. 3. Ð Ð°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ° ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ. Ð Ð°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½Ð° Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ Ð±Ð¸Ð±Ð»Ð¸Ð¾ÑÐµÐº OpenCV Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¼ Ð½Ð° ÑÐ·ÑÐºÐµ C++. ÐÑÐ» Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ, Ð²ÑÑÐ²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð½Ð°Ð¸Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÐµÐµ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ¾Ð´ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð² Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸ Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð° Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ðµ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð°, Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¾ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ ÑÐ°ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÐºÐ°Ð¼ÐµÑ. Ð ÑÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐµ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð° ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð½Ð° ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ð° Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ Ð½Ð° Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ðµ Ð´ÐµÑÐµÐºÑÐ¾ÑÐ° Canny Ð¸ ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐµÐ³Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ Ð±Ð¸Ð±Ð»Ð¸Ð¾ÑÐµÐº OpenCV Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¼ Ð½Ð° ÑÐ·ÑÐºÐµ C++. â
description: The topic of the research work: "development of a system for visual control of tests for hot ultimate plasticity of the material at the Gleeble 3800 complex". This work is devoted to the study of visual control systems and the development of a system based on the Gleeble 3800 complex. Tasks that were solved during the study: 1. Study of the hardware complex "Gleeble 3800" and the tests carried out. 2. Analysis of visual control systems. 3. Development of a visual control system. The work was carried out using OpenCV libraries with C++ code. The analysis of visual control systems was carried out, the identification of the most suitable image processing methods based on contour analysis was carried out, the optimal location of cameras was determined. As a result, a visual control system based on the Canny detector and color segmentation using OpenCV libraries with C++ code was developed.
Respecting an Incompetent Person's Autonomy
Creators: name: Ronning, Erica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, I will argue that in cases of surrogate decision making, proxies better respect an incompetent person's autonomy when using the current values approach only in very specific cases where the loss of competence has rendered someone an entirely new person. In all other cases, I believe that the counterfactual view provides a better basis for respecting an incompetent person's autonomy.
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Narrative Exploration of Antibiotic Overprescribing, Stewardship Interventions, and Performance Metrics
Creators: name: Meesters, Kevin
name: Buonsenso, Danilo
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Antibiotic overprescribing is prevalent in pediatric emergency medicine, influenced by clinician–caregiver dynamics and diagnostic uncertainties, and poses substantial risks such as increasing antibacterial resistance, adverse drug reactions, and increased healthcare expenditures. While antimicrobial stewardship programs have proven effective in optimizing antibiotic use within inpatient healthcare settings, their implementation in pediatric emergency medicine presents specific challenges. Existing biomarkers like white blood cell count, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, and presepsin have limitations in their ability to distinguish (serious) bacterial infections from other etiologies of fever. Furthermore, rapid antigen detection tests and guidelines aimed at guiding antibiotic prescriptions for children have not consistently reduced unnecessary antibiotic use. To improve antibiotic prescribing practices, potential strategies include the utilization of decision support tools, audit and feedback, establishing follow-up procedures, implementing safety netting systems, and delivering comprehensive training and supervision. Notably, host genome signatures have also gained attention for their potential to facilitate rapid and precise diagnoses of inflammatory syndromes. Standardized metrics are crucial for evaluating antimicrobial use within pediatric healthcare settings, enabling the establishment of benchmarks for assessing antibiotic utilization, quality enhancement initiatives, and research endeavors.
Breaking the Metric Voting Distortion Barrier
Creators: name: Charikar, Moses
name: Ramakrishnan, Prasanna
name: Wang, Kangning
name: Wu, Hongxun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the following well-studied problem of metric distortion in social choice. Suppose we have an election with $n$ voters and $m$ candidates located in a shared metric space. We would like to design a voting rule that chooses a candidate whose average distance to the voters is small. However, instead of having direct access to the distances in the metric space, the voting rule obtains, from each voter, a ranked list of the candidates in order of distance. Can we design a rule that regardless of the election instance and underlying metric space, chooses a candidate whose cost differs from the true optimum by only a small factor (known as the distortion)?
 A long line of work culminated in finding optimal deterministic voting rules with metric distortion $3$. However, for randomized voting rules, there is still a gap in our understanding: Even though the best lower bound is $2.112$, the best upper bound is still $3$, attained even by simple rules such as Random Dictatorship. Finding a randomized rule that guarantees distortion $3 - ε$ has been a major challenge in computational social choice, as prevalent approaches to designing voting rules are known to be insufficient. Such a voting rule must use information beyond aggregate comparisons between pairs of candidates, and cannot only assign positive probability to candidates that are voters' top choices.
 In this work, we give a rule that guarantees distortion less than $2.753$. To do so we study a handful of voting rules that are new to the problem. One is Maximal Lotteries, a rule based on the Nash equilibrium of a natural zero-sum game which dates back to the 60's. The others are novel rules that can be thought of as hybrids of Random Dictatorship and the Copeland rule. Though none of these rules can beat distortion $3$ alone, a randomization between Maximal Lotteries and any of the novel rules can.
description: JACM, to appear
Dismantling Rape Culture: The Need for a Comprehensive Educational Approach
Creators: name: Halsne, Chase
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The perpetuation of rape culture is a central issue for feminist theory. In this paper, I argue for a comprehensive educational approach for undermining rape culture. I begin by outlining the reliance of rape culture on problematic social norms, particularly dominant conceptions of sexuality. I then briefly sketch a comprehensive educational approach and its advantages. Included in this sketch are critiques of two other feminist strategies for undermining rape culture: feminist legal reform and feminist self-defense training. I conclude by considering possible objections and attempt to provide solutions to foreseeable problems with my approach.
Experience-Based Intuitions
Creators: name: Zhu, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, I argue that many identification intuitions, such as one that helps you identify the authorship of a painting you are seeing for the first time, fall under the class of experience-based intuitions. Such identification intuitions cannot arise without intuition generating systems (IGSs) that are shaped by experiences accumulated during one's life. On my view, experience-based intuitions are produced by domain-general learning systems of hierarchical abstraction which may be modeled by deep convolutional neural networks. Owing to the mechanism of such IGSs, the reliability of experience-based intuition X depends on the quality of the experiences underlying the IGS which produces X. Lastly, I suggest that insofar as some philosophical thought experiments elicit experience-based identification intuitions, we can use the case method to glean information about our experiences as well as uncover certain conceptual commitments.
Supplementary document for Terahertz laser field manipulation on electronic and nonlinear optical properties of laterally-coupled quantum well wires - 5662871.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Guanghui
name: cao, yanan
name: Liu, Renming
name: Chen, Gengyan
name: Wu, Feng
name: Zheng, Yunbao
name: Chen, Zhanxu
name: Guo, Kangxian
name: Lu, Liangliang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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Historic Preservation as a Component of Community-University Urban Neighborhood Revitalization
Creators: name: James, Jennifer Irsfeld
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Housing rehabilitation -- Case studies
subject: Neighborhood planning -- Case studies
subject: Community and college
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis examines some of the ways that historic preservation can be a useful component of larger long-range sustained revitalization efforts in distressed and transitional urban neighborhoods that are home to private nonprofit universities. Case studies demonstrate that university involvement in support of historic preservation as a component of partnered revitalization can lead to healthier neighborhoods, fewer "town- gown" conflicts, and stronger universities in terms of student retention and other factors of well-being. The thesis is organized in three sections. The first section examines current problems facing the many distressed and transitional urban university neighborhoods, the historical development of those problems with a mini case study of the University of Chicago in Illinois, and the negative effects on universities, the surrounding neighborhoods, and the host cities. The second section reviews the history of historic preservation in distressed and transitional neighborhoods, the development of preservation planning with a mini case study of the College Hill neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and the benefits of using historic preservation within revitalization strategies. The third section looks at the components of successful community-university partnerships and then presents two contemporary case studies where historic preservation has been incorporated into community-university partnered revitalization plans. The two case studies are University City and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Huguenin Heights, Tatnall Square Heights, and Beall's Hill and Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Problems and benefits of incorporating historic preservation into revitalization plans are explored, in part through interviews with stakeholders.
Automated Deception Detection from Videos: Using End-to-End Learning Based High-Level Features and Classification Approaches
Creators: name: Dinges, Laslo
name: Fiedler, Marc-André
name: Al-Hamadi, Ayoub
name: Hempel, Thorsten
name: Abdelrahman, Ahmed
name: Weimann, Joachim
name: Bershadskyy, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deception detection is an interdisciplinary field attracting researchers from psychology, criminology, computer science, and economics. We propose a multimodal approach combining deep learning and discriminative models for automated deception detection. Using video modalities, we employ convolutional end-to-end learning to analyze gaze, head pose, and facial expressions, achieving promising results compared to state-of-the-art methods. Due to limited training data, we also utilize discriminative models for deception detection. Although sequence-to-class approaches are explored, discriminative models outperform them due to data scarcity. Our approach is evaluated on five datasets, including a new Rolling-Dice Experiment motivated by economic factors. Results indicate that facial expressions outperform gaze and head pose, and combining modalities with feature selection enhances detection performance. Differences in expressed features across datasets emphasize the importance of scenario-specific training data and the influence of context on deceptive behavior. Cross-dataset experiments reinforce these findings. Despite the challenges posed by low-stake datasets, including the Rolling-Dice Experiment, deception detection performance exceeds chance levels. Our proposed multimodal approach and comprehensive evaluation shed light on the potential of automating deception detection from video modalities, opening avenues for future research.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures (19 if counting subfigures)
Collaboration as a Strategy to Enhance a Heritage Tourism Program in King County, Washington
Creators: name: James, Diana E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Heritage tourism -- Washington (State) -- King County
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis demonstrates that collaboration between partners is a strategy that will enhance the development of a heritage tourism program in King County, Washington. It describes a theoretical segment for a Heritage Trails Initiative. The Initiative, currently proposed by 4Culture, a funding agency for the arts and heritage, would promote county heritage resources as visitor attractions. This research selects heritage sites, preservation organizations and agencies, economic organizations and agencies, and the travel and tourism industry as potential partners to test the feasibility of collaboration when developing an Industrial Achievements Loop, a component for the Heritage Trails Initiative. This thesis studies sites and organizations, conducts interviews with representatives of the selected organizations, and analyzes the information. Research and case studies provide the foundation for discussing and analyzing the impact of heritage tourism and related collaborations. A brief history of tourism provides context for the contemporary role of heritage tourism. This study defines the current status of heritage tourism and the heritage tourist, and it elaborates upon the synergistic relationship between historic preservation and heritage tourism. This thesis also examines federal, state, and county policies and programs supportive of heritage tourism. Case studies portray a variety of existing collaborations around the country. The focus then narrows to King County, presenting a heritage overview and introducing the proposed Heritage Trails Initiative and theoretical Industrial Achievements Loop. The thesis findings enumerate the benefits of collaboration, or the collaborative advantage, and the attributes of strong partners. It describes and analyzes the qualifications and attractions of potential partners for the Loop. The research finds that in King County there are an abundance of industrial heritage sites, that there are interested, even eager, potential partners among preservation, economic, and travel and tourism entities, and that there is a desire to collaborate in a heritage tourism endeavor. Capitalizing on this momentum, it is clear that there would be support for 4Culture to move forward with the Heritage Trails Initiative, and some suggestions are made for starting the process. This thesis demonstrates that collaboration has the potential to enhance a heritage tourism program not only in King County, but wherever there is a collective will.
Assymetric Epistemic Labor as Hermeneutical Injustice
Creators: name: Owens, Margaret
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The semantic gaps of hermeneutical injustice can be and are routinely overcome. The effort involved in responding to hermeneutical injustice, though, should be included in a taxonomy of epistemic injustice. Those who overcome hermeneutical injustice are deprived non-arbitrarily of access to the epistemic labor of others, and so their choices about where to direct their epistemic labors are unjustly limited.
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion and his Critique of German Idealism
Creators: name: Linhares, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: A significant but easily overlooked metaphilosophical theme in Schopenhauer's corpus concerns the relationship between religion, philosophy, and 'man's need for metaphysics' (WWR II 162). I discuss the importance of this theme, and its attendant methodological commitments, for how we should understand Schopenhauer's unique approach to global religious and mystical traditions. I demonstrate that explication of this theme provides a coherent, cogent way to identify and evaluate the substantive reasons, often unstated and which may otherwise appear to lack coherence or cogency, that underlie Schopenhauer's criticism of philosophers associated with the tradition of German Idealism.
Planning for the Successful Adaptive Use of American National Guard Armories
Creators: name: Hein, Pamela Dale
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Armories -- Conservation and restoration -- United States
subject: Armories -- Remodeling for other use -- United States
subject: United States -- National Guard -- Facilities -- History
subject: United States -- National Guard -- Facilities -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: The premise of this thesis is that the American National Guard armory, a unique building type, is worthy of preservation based on its historical and architectural significance. Furthermore, remaining historic armories in this country are threatened resources, presenting resource managers and potential developers with a number of challenges for redevelopment. This study begins by establishing an historic overview of the National Guard and the development of the armory as a building type. It then examines the management and care of armories while under National Guard ownership, evaluating possible inconsistencies and shortcomings in preservation legislation and National Guard policy. In order to develop resource management strategies for this building type, the study examines published literature, which highlights successful armory adaptive use case studies. In addition, four armory reuse projects in Illinois are analyzed and compared. One example, the Chicago Military Academy in Bronzeville, shows how an abandoned and decrepit armory in an inner city neighborhood has become a success story for preservation teamwork. The case study evaluation determines that the key to preserving historic armories through adaptive use is effective resource management. This begins with the armory's original owners, the National Guard, and continues with state and local resource managers. Although finding a new use for the buildings is an important part of their preservation, this thesis concludes that it is careful planning, administration, and monitoring which will enable historic American National Guard armories to remain viable community assets.
title: Fan Model Test at Varying Ambient Pressure - Efficient Product Validation at Full Scale Reynolds and Mach Number
Creators: name: Saul, Sebastian
name: Matyschok, Berthold
name: Pelz, Peter F.
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: The paper discusses the advantages of fan performance and efficiency measurements on standardized test rigs in a pressure vessel. The resulting ability to control the ambient pressure allows a decoupling of the Mach and Reynolds number and extends the achievable Reynolds number range. Thus, Mach number effects (the compressibility of the flow) and Reynolds number effects (the change of friction losses) are investigated independent of each other. The design of the pressurized test rig and the results are presented as well as the validation of scaling methods recently developed at Technische Universität Darmstadt. The here introduced concept of a pressurized test rig may serve an elegant approach to product validation in testing small-scaled models at full scale Reynolds number.
Reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess in a new cosmic ray propagation model
Creators: name: Lv, Xing-Jian
name: Bi, Xiao-Jun
name: Fang, Kun
name: Yin, Peng-Fei
name: Zhao, Meng-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $γ$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate, which leads to great disfavor of the dark matter scenario. In the work, we incorporate the recent progress in cosmic rays propagation and reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess. Recent observations indicate that cosmic rays propagation in the Milky Way may be not uniform and diffusion in the Galactic disk should be slower than that in the halo. In the spatial-dependent propagation model, the positrons/electrons are more concentrated in the disk and lead to smaller dark matter annihilation/decay rate to account for the positron excess and also a smaller deficit in the background positron flux. Especially for the $μ^+μ^-$ channel the positron spectrum fit the AMS-02 latest data perfectly and the annihilation rate satisfies all the present constraints from $γ$-ray and CMB observations.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
A (Partial) Rehabilitation of Euthyphro
Creators: name: Gilley, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: I argue that the character Euthyphro in the dialogue that bears his name has a more sophisticated conception of religion than he is typically regarded to have, even if he cannot articulate it. Through an analysis of Euthyphro's use of the word 'pollution' in the dialogue, I establish that Euthyphro has non-traditional religious views, in contrast with the common interpretation that he represents a typical Athenian view. I then argue that Socrates, too, has religious views, and that the two characters have a surprising amount of common ground in their religious beliefs. Finally, I defend Euthyphro's character by appealing to his commitment to pollution and cleansing his father.
Convergence Liberalism and the Limits of State Coercive Power: A Case Against the Public Justification Principle
Creators: name: Rice, Sean
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Kevin Vallier defends a theory of the normative limits of the use of coercion by the state known as convergence liberalism. Central to this theory is a principle of public justification according to which the coercive power of the state is justified and legitimate if and only if each member of the public has sufficient reason to endorse the coercion. I argue that this principle is too demanding. Certain epistemological limitations render cost-benefit analyses of many, if not all, laws and policies inconclusive. This, together with the fact of evaluative pluralism, make it the case that very few coercive laws and regulations will be publicly justified. The result is that convergence liberalism threatens to obstruct the state's capacity to protect the environment and address preventable forms of injustice.
How Has the Evolution of Paved Road Systems Impacted Rural Historic Districts? Waterford Virginia: A Case Study
Creators: name: McGinn, Timothy H.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Historic districts -- Conservation and restoration -- Virginia -- Loudoun County
subject: Rural roads -- Virginia -- Loudoun County -- History
subject: Rural roads -- Virginia -- Loudoun County -- Design and construction
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: One of the birthmarks of civilization, roads have played a pivotal role in influencing the relationships between people and their environment. This thesis investigates one of those relationships: the evolution of paved roads and their effects upon the fabric of rural historic districts. It begins with a brief history of our transportation systems, and proceeds to consider their roles in shaping our society and the country's development. It traces the evolution of our nation's roads from their beginnings as pathways followed by Native Americans, to the highways of our present autocentric world. Focused on the evolution of roads that traverse the rural regions of Virginia through what are now rural historic districts, it investigates the issues surrounding their financing and construction during the Great Depression, when limited funds and engineering expertise fashioned the methods used for their improvement. The thesis establishes that the roads of Loudoun County's rural historic districts have been paved repeatedly, without the benefit of a comprehensive road drainage maintenance and management plan, and that successive layers of paving have raised road grades to heights that now impact the natural and constructed environments of these historic districts. More specifically, the failure to provide and maintain proper drainage has created environments that accelerate deterioration of building materials, and in some cases has led directly to structural failures. Improper drainage also has expanded the dispersion of water with damaging effects to the landscape. These consequences have skewed understanding of the districts' evolution, their historic resources and interpretation of the characteristics that warranted historic designation. The thesis concludes with recommendations for procedural and substantive standards for recovering and retaining the qualities that contribute to district integrity. Implementation of these recommendations would accomplish both short- and long-term goals for returning and maintaining district roadways to a condition that protects and enhances the qualities that contribute to district integrity and significance.
Marxism, Racism, & Capitalism: A Critical Examination of Nancy Fraser
Creators: name: Murphy, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: An ongoing point of contention within political philosophy'particularly among those on the Left'is to what extent, if at all, Marxist theory is useful in addressing certain forms of oppression found under capitalism, such as racist oppression. Leftist critics of orthodox Marxism, prominently including Nancy Fraser, often claim that Marx's critique of capitalism is class-essentialist and unduly narrow and that his theory of exploitation'which these critics allege is the essence of Marx's theory'is inadequate for the purposes of understanding 'extra-economic' forms of oppression. I disagree with these critics. Focusing on Fraser, my aim is to show precisely why the critics are wrong and, moreover, to offer at least an outline for a positive account of a Marxist theory of race and racism, particularly as situated within capitalism.
"Fairly Comfortable": Temporary Officer Housing at Camp A.A. Humphreys, Virginia, 1919-1922
Creators: name: Lione, Brian Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Temporary housing -- Virginia -- Fort Belvoir -- History -- 1919-1922 -- Case studies
subject: Temporary housing -- Virginia -- Fort Belvoir -- History -- 1919-1922
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This study examines the evolution of American prefabricated architecture and its confluence with Army construction practices during the first quarter of the twentieth century, specifically during the World War I era. Using established criteria and methodology as defined by the National Park Service, the study applies an enhanced historic context to evaluate the significance and integrity of extant prefabricated units constructed by the Army between 1919 and 1922 at present-day Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Primary source research in federal repositories and archives at the local, regional, and national levels is the foundation for an improved understanding of the historical significance of the temporary quarters. Preliminary research into the topic suggested that the temporary officers' housing at Fort Belvoir was likely constructed between 1919 and 1922 as a considered, deliberate response to the constraints and restrictions of the post-World War I military establishment, to include (but not limited to): public attitude towards the military, standing government orders concerning limits on new construction, ongoing Congressional inquiries into wartime construction contracts, and the uncertainty of the permanence of post-war infrastructure. Ultimately, this statement is proven mostly correct through extensive research on the origin of the quarters, including the intent and details of their construction. Using the expanded understanding of the units' history as a guide, the study reevaluates the integrity of extant quarters and reconsiders previous determinations of their significance. This study concludes that eleven quarters retain sufficient historic identity to be considered significant and worthy of preservation.
Don’t quit the long game
Creators: name: Raff, Stefan
name: Murray, Fiona
Publisher: name: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Year: 2025

description: Living cells that produce biofuel; robots that assist factory workers; intelligent machines that guide drug discovery—these technologies are “deep” in that they achieve something extraordinary—often thought impossible—and push society forward. Indeed, so-called “deep tech” powers the future of medical breakthroughs, resilient energy grids, and clean industrial processes, among other frontiers. But deep tech requires more of everything to become a reality—research and development, specialized talent, time, risk-taking, and funding. The US government has been the world’s largest investor in this enterprise. Yet cuts to federal support for deep tech threaten this entrepreneurial engine at its source—university labs. Without sustained federal support, the country risks losing its technological edge, threatening economic competitiveness and national security.
Joseph Butler on Self-Reverence as a Moral Duty
Creators: name: Tamariz, Ruby
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Joseph Butler characterizes his account of virtue as fulfilling the 'true meaning' of the ancient precept that one ought to revere one's self. The idea that self-reverence is important to moral conduct opposes a common view that moral conduct involves solely other-regarding attitudes and actions, and it also seems problematic for Butler's theological commitments as an Anglican Bishop. In this thesis, I provide an interpretation of Butler's sermons that makes sense of the role self-reverence plays in his moral thought. I argue 1) that self-reverence motivates obedience to conscience, which for Butler, secures virtue, and 2) that for Butler, self-reverence is a genuine obligation that we have. I close by considering reasons why Butler was not more explicit about the importance of self-reverence to virtue.
A Critique of Practice-Based Directives for Personal Relationship Law
Creators: name: Stanton, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Whether a liberal state should sanction marriages, and if so, in what form, is a hotly contested topic in liberal political theory.  This essay responds to a radical proposal by Clare Chambers to end state sanctioned marriage and replace the institution with a network of practice-based directives aimed at ensuring gender equality and liberty.  I argue that this proposed framework suffers from the serious defect of not only failing to ensure liberty but actively undermining it due to the way directives will inevitably either include too many people under their scope to preserve liberty or too few to ensure equality.  While the presence of this defect does not settle the debate concerning how liberal states should handle marriage, it makes clearer the tradeoffs involved in selecting new personal relationship law frameworks to replace marriage.