cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Globule
Creators: name: Silva, Bruno
name: Anjos, Helena
name: Meintjes, Lola
name: Tavares, Pedro
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: When people are connected to the internet, their personal data is being shared with companies that use it for their own benefit, almost as a factory farm for human beings. Hence, by tracking and profiling everyone, those companies make profits by manipulating our behavior. In fact, they are not trying to sell their products; each one of the internet users becomes “the product.”

In addition, there is the “filter bubble”, a term that refers to the results of the algorithm that constrains what one finds online, creating a unique universe of information for each of the users, altering the search results.

Globule is a free software that allows the users to scan all the information available about themselves across the internet, listing the data shared and creating new profiles of data to manipulate the algorithm and increase the level of control of internet search results. It offers a complete customization of the alternative profiles, creating a random profile.

Thus, this app interferes with the algorithm used to collect information, according with the user’s profile: controls the search results, preventing the filters and reducing restriction, debugging and redirecting them, to provide access to others; to boycott, deceive and confuse the system, or those using the data collected, in order to avoid any kind of harassment; or to protect the privacy users by managing the data that becomes available online.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 1 (2021): Inside - Outside
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: Outside - Inside can be freely interpreted, allowing all declinations the authors would desire. Inside as in the physical space, inside at home, but also inside as inside yourself, personal feelings locked inside ourselves, intimate impulses. Outside spatially as the public space, and outside as the relations we have with others, our contact points with the exterior world mediated by our senses. The Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal give both written and visual space for exploratory research on cross domains that contact the mentioned topics.

BBDS journal is focused on applied research, and we welcome exclusively image based submissions with secondary supportive texts. The images can be of work planning, doodling, photos, collages, diagrams, visual ideas or other.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 1 (2021): Inside - Outside
Enhancing Emotion Prediction in News Headlines: Insights from ChatGPT and Seq2Seq Models for Free-Text Generation
Creators: name: Gao, Ge
name: Kim, Jongin
name: Paik, Sejin
name: Novozhilova, Ekaterina
name: Liu, Yi
name: Bonna, Sarah T.
name: Betke, Margrit
name: Wijaya, Derry Tanti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Predicting emotions elicited by news headlines can be challenging as the task is largely influenced by the varying nature of people's interpretations and backgrounds. Previous works have explored classifying discrete emotions directly from news headlines. We provide a different approach to tackling this problem by utilizing people's explanations of their emotion, written in free-text, on how they feel after reading a news headline. Using the dataset BU-NEmo+ (Gao et al., 2022), we found that for emotion classification, the free-text explanations have a strong correlation with the dominant emotion elicited by the headlines. The free-text explanations also contain more sentimental context than the news headlines alone and can serve as a better input to emotion classification models. Therefore, in this work we explored generating emotion explanations from headlines by training a sequence-to-sequence transformer model and by using pretrained large language model, ChatGPT (GPT-4). We then used the generated emotion explanations for emotion classification. In addition, we also experimented with training the pretrained T5 model for the intermediate task of explanation generation before fine-tuning it for emotion classification. Using McNemar's significance test, methods that incorporate GPT-generated free-text emotion explanations demonstrated significant improvement (P-value < 0.05) in emotion classification from headlines, compared to methods that only use headlines. This underscores the value of using intermediate free-text explanations for emotion prediction tasks with headlines.
description: published at LREC-COLING 2024
Defining Threats on World Heritage Sites over Dresden, Liverpool, Vienna, and Kosovo
Creators: name: Yücel, Gökçen Firdevs
name: Tabak Abacılar, Pınar
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) supports and monitors the conservation of heritage sites around the world. It uses the help of some tools like “World Heritage List”. UNESCO adds areas to the “World Heritage in Danger List” if it detects a threat about their conservation issues. The aim is to define major threat parameters urban heritage areas experience and categorize them starting from the major problems to the least important ones. Two cities that are still on UNESCO World Heritage in Danger List and two former cities that lost their World Heritage status were examined in the context of the study. These cases are Liverpool (Britain), Vienna (Austria), Kosovo, and Dresden (Germany). In order to define major threats, the reasons why these areas were added to Danger List were studied. The threat parameters of different researches were compared with these cases to rank leading problems heritage sites experience. Building and development issue was approved to be the most common threat in urban heritage areas.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 1 (2021): Inside - Outside
Passing Though
Creators: name: Tutt, Sarah
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: Passing Through is a drawing-score project that took place over 2020 and 2021. A score was developed for drawing-walks in urban environments during lockdown. It was shared with 14 artists, from 7 countries, who interpreted the score 12 times each. 144 of these drawings were brought together in exhibition at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK in April 2021.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 1 (2021): Inside - Outside
The Coast of Teeth and Eyes: Drawing the seaside from the inside out
Creators: name: Netter, Louis Richard
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: The ongoing research/book project provisionally titled A Coast of Teeth, is an exploration of English seaside towns through drawing and writing. My own role as a reportage artist is to respond to what I see and document it in-situ. What we have found on our travels to Torquay, Paignton, Bournemouth, Clacton-on-Sea, Jaywick and Weston Super Mare are landscapes which are reflective of the socio-economic realities on the ground and a people who bare the physio-psycho trauma of such conditions in their behaviours and physicality. Internal conflict manifests itself in physical conditions such as obvious physical disability, anti-social behaviour, obesity and malnutrition from drug use. Working with a writer, it is interesting to see how the writing and the drawing speaks to internal and external realities and the convergence of past and present as an evolving circumstance for people in these towns who struggle for relevance and economic sustenance. Drawings evolve from the same process as all vision and understanding; a refined cataloguing of people, places and things. This piece explores how drawings can capture momentary insights that elude writing and approximate the complex convergence of vision, thought and experience. 
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 2 (2021): Outside - Inside
Drawing Urban Complexity and Simultaneity
Creators: name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: The complex and overwhelming nature of impressions that continuously affect the urban dweller and the simultaneity of possible events that unfold in each single moment in any given city, seem to pose a challenge for urban studies, especially when applying traditional textual forms of inquiry. In this article, sketching was used as a research method to capture events and impressions during a weekend in the French city of Bordeaux. Instead of recounting experiences in a textual, hence structured and mostly linear fashion, a ‘stream of consciousness’-sketch was chosen as mode of inquiry, in order to intuitively and accessibly depict memories of the city of Bordeaux. The result is one large Procreate canvas that captures fragments of memories, scenes, sceneries, and experiences, documenting and exploring a stay in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Drawing and sketching appear to be apt tools for documenting and addressing urban complexity and simultaneity, allowing for a multiplicity of connections to be established between drawn elements. Also, they offer an intuitive and easily applicable tool for depicting and analyzing city life, while at the same time serving as a means for reflection and meditation for the researcher. Combined with traditional, textual forms of representation, sketching and drawing can add to a multimodal perspective on urban surroundings that can more accurately capture the direct experience of contemporary urban spaces.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 2 (2021): Outside - Inside
Walking avenue, tea pulling, trance dance, helicopter landing-pad
Creators: name: Croft, Michael
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2021

description: The visual essay presents and discusses four sets of sketches that find commonality in the drawing-based artist’s concern with the observation of perception. All work was completed in Thailand although this is largely an incidental feature, since the sketches convey mainly generic interest in the human figure and/or the artist himself in movement. It may be said, however, that the individual nature of the situations had inspired the sketching. Concerning the first set, the artist walked the length of a beachside avenue with, in mind, the philosopher Husserl’s crossing of horizontal and transverse axes as one’s consciousness of time, piking up on instances of humans passing by and crossing his path. The second set, which is in response to Malay tea pulling, concerns more centrifugal movement, the theoretical reference in retrospect being to the philosopher Bergson’s idea of the ‘present image’. With the third set, in response to trance dancing, the artist suggests to some extent a filtering of the highly animated nature of the occasion into his own anxious attempts to make the sketches. With the fourth pair of sketches concerning his walking the length and back of a helicopter landing-pad, the artist indicates differences between perspective views as shown in snapshots of the location, and suggests how perception is both necessary to observation but is also its own subjectively constituted phenomenon. The essay ends with two larger sketches that visually demonstrate the sustaining issue of the previously referenced sketches discussed in the text.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 2 (2021): Outside - Inside
Anthropocentric urban creativity
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: This essay touches two very unstable realms. The first deals with the relation of “urban design” and anthropocentrism, and the second with sketching, drawing and painting, as research tools.

This said, it is only with exploratory pretension that this essay is shared. It is not intended to prove any stable point of view. In fact it follows ongoing experimental development based on sketching, drawing and painting practises.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
Cities as shared imaginary matrices
Creators: name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
name: Spiegelfeld, Camillo
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: In this research project we have used drawing as a research tool to investigate imaginary perspectives on city transformation in a context of Arts Based Research. We drew over photographs of a vast urban transformation site in the periphery of Vienna and analyzed the results. Thereby, we want to highlight visual structures of perception, unearth possible imaginaries that are bound to urban transformation and create creative input for future urban planning processes. Results have shown that images of newly built structures appear visually sealed, straight lined and somewhat antiseptic, with highly ordered, rectangular forms dominating the frame. In contrast, edited images with structures from the 20th century or a mix of old and new buildings exhibited organic, chaotic forms, less clear cut, straight-lined edges and an overall dominance of organic matter in the photographs. From this we infer that a balance of organic and inorganic matter develops over time and is not omitted or forgotten in the planning process. Also, the artificial, visually sealed design and the limitation of green spaces in images of new buildings are most striking. Plants simply need time to grow, engaging newly build structures in a dialogue that can be witnessed in the different images included in this article. Also, we show that imaginations of urban planning appear to be largely based on functional forms and straight-lined facades, with a balance of natural and artificial structures mostly neglected. Drawing, however, can highlight these aesthetic principles and constitute a tool to break up encrusted, traditional imaginaries of urban planning, serving as an inspiration for urban planners and architects alike. In this context, drawing can provide a welcome tool for collaboration and aesthetic experimentation that is accessible to all parties in the planning process.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
title: Evolving Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Strategy
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Center For Strategic and International Studies
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: United States
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Foreign policy
subject: International relations
subject: Center for Strategic and International Studies

description: Commentators lament the absence of grand strategy in the foreign policies of the United States. Indeed, the real need for a more strategic vision in U.S. policy provided the original impetus to the founding of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1962. The need is far easier to identify than to meet, and much of what passes for strategic thinking is a disappointing rehash of ideology or budget rationale. The essays that follow shed new light on the character of U.S. strategy and the choices confronting Americans today.
The Piki Toi
Creators: name: Woodruffe, Paul
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: The Piki Toi project was initially a response to social problems identified in the publication Inside the Cup, a document co-designed and produced by community support organisation Lifewise for Auckland Council, which researched begging, or ‘hustling’ as it’s known on the street, in the central city. Lifewise was exploring the use of creativity to find alternatives to hustling, and was at the time establishing a unit for social-enterprise projects for the homeless in Auckland City. This was led by Sophia Beatson and her team of co-designers, all of whom had lived experience of homelessness. They were employing new strategies for introducing and managing entrepreneurial activities and opportunities for people with lived experience of homelessness, and were open to trying new approaches. The everyday collective laboratory from Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology approached Sophia and her team with the concept of using an inexpensive product called a ‘piki,’ a paper object in the size and shape of a feather, and adorned with art sourced from the street community, as a product to sell. The piki could be sold by people on the street as an alternative to hustling. This idea was based on the findings of Inside the Cup, but was conceived with little knowledge of the reality of homelessness on the streets of Auckland; however, Sophia and her team saw enough merit in the idea to support further research and a street trial.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
Being (back) There
Creators: name: Rennie, Julian
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: During the recent Covid-19 lockdown I stumbled upon an sketchbook of my first trip overseas to the USA (in 1986). More particularly my month long stay in Manhattan, (where one didn’t need a car to get around). Within this urban island I would get going early, walk, walk and take in sights, sounds and smells which was all new to my (distant) Kiwi senses, then exhausted at the end of the day would take the subway home. Within the March 2020 lockdown viewing these sketches took me back, to the quiet times of finding a place, and looking, seeing, listening, rendering with just a Rotring pen, all the while, people going about their daily business, largely ignoring me, was it because I was so still? Or was it because they were rush rushing with their “Man-hectic” lives. Lingering longer as required for a sketch, not clicking one’s SLR camera and moving on to the next ‘image.” Manhattan a place where I too learnt to walk along a “sidewalk,” (a “footpath” to me), eating a folded slice of pizza like other “Manhattaners!” These drawings seem to me to hold unspoken memories that upon viewing afresh, rather like a smell (e.g. a perfume) can transport one back in time in an instant. The sketches remain silent, yet for me they bring back the 24/7 noise and bustle of a large urbanity. This offering will unpack these nuances, set within other writers’ armchair travel texts and attempt to position how hand sketching remains experiential and visceral in contrast to the uber-paced virtual world we now find ourselves in.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
The Drawing Bureau: An overview with notes toward an event
Creators: name: Luzar, Robert
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: Drawing Bureau was a project presented at the exhibition Centre of Gravity, which took place between October 2nd and November 1st, 2020, at the former Gardiner Haskins building, now The Soapworks, in Bristol.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
Fish shipping related correspondence and other records
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Correspondence, shipping instructions, contracts and other records related to shipping canned fish to the United States of America and to Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Osaka and Kobe. Documentation also concerns fishing licences and canning regulations, transport of fish within British Columbia, fuel purchases, cold storage of fish, rent on Newcastle Island, and affairs of O. Higashide, a business partner of Yip Sang.
MAKTABGACHA 6 YOSHLI BOLANING TASHABBUSKORLIGINI OSHIRISH
Creators: name: Tojiboyeva, Mahdiyabonu
name: Kadirova, Omadxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur ishda maktabgacha ta’lim yoshidagi, xususan 6 yoshli bolalarning tashabbuskorligini oshirish yo‘llari o‘rganilgan. Bolaning ijtimoiy-psixologik rivojlanishida tashabbuskorlik muhim o‘rin tutadi, chunki u bolaning mustaqil fikrlashi, yangilikka intilishi va o‘z fikrini erkin ifoda eta olish ko‘nikmalarini shakllantiradi. Tadqiqotda bolalar tashabbuskorligini rag‘batlantirishga qaratilgan interfaol o‘yinlar, rolli mashg‘ulotlar, ijodiy topshiriqlar va o‘yinli faoliyat turlarining samaradorligi tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, pedagog va ota-onalarning bu jarayondagi o‘rni, ularga beriladigan tavsiyalar yoritiladi. Ish natijasida 6 yoshli bolalarda tashabbuskorlikni rivojlantirishga xizmat qiluvchi samarali usullar taklif etiladi.
RUN VERTICAL (Running up the Side of a Building)
Creators: name: McCall, Carali
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: This Article is solely by Dr Carali McCall -





Proposal made by artist Carali McCall to perform the artwork titled, RUN VERTICAL (Running up the Side of a Building). The documented drawings and notes are used to exercise and question how does physical endurance and training impact an artwork – the idea, the sketch, the dialogue, and some fluid results.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Contemplation
Supplementary document for Dissipative Kerr-solitons in integrated Fabry-Perot microresonators - 6377587.pdf
Creators: name: Herr, Tobias
name: Wildi, Thibault
name: Gaafar, mahmoud
name: Voumard, Thibault
name: Ludwig, Markus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Stuff in Jars
Creators: name: Lyons, Lucy
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description:  


The spaces I occupy to create my work are usually in situ; in museums, medical collections, archives, conservation rooms, anatomy labs, galleries and storerooms. Fascinated by specimens and prosections most of my time has been spent drawing stuff in jars.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Contemplation
Road crossing at Stobart
Creators: name: Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Western Division
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Correspondence written and received by Peter MacPherson, Right of Way and Lease Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Western Division, regarding a road diversion at Stobart Station, Alberta. Includes an identification card for this file, February 2, 1914, and an "Order from the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada", November 14, 1910.
Contemporary Reportage Drawing
Creators: name: Netter, Louis Richard
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: The field of contemporary reportage practice is diverse and divergent. No longer is reportage drawing restricted to the commissioning structures of print media and accompanying expectations of journalistic doctrine. In contemporary reportage drawing, practitioners are seeking subjects and circumstances that are both personally significant and provide some opportunity to exploit the political and social dimensions of their subject. The authorial shift in reportage drawing is not a refutation of its journalistic origins and rather takes those ideals and applies them inward. This contemporary moment for reportage drawing has come to be most vividly about drawing itself. This paper seeks to explore past and contemporary reportage artists and my own work as an example of how the practice has come to highlight the qualities of drawing and experience and, how self-initiated work has meant an evolution of the relationship between text, image and journalism.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
Medical Inspired Images
Creators: name: Hosea, Birgitta
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: Images created as part of the brainstorming process to apply for a Human Cell Atlas art/science commission to engage with mapping all the cells in the human body on the theme of 'Performing Normality'


Also - Research drawings fpr work-in-progress animation for Holes, a peepshow instalation with animation on show insidde.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Contemplation
Train Journey
Creators: name: Foa, Maryclare
Publisher: name: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
Year: 2020

description: During the 2000’s I often travelled south west through England from London to Honiton by train – a journey of around 3 hours. Occupied at that time with my practice-based PhD (focused on drawing in response to the outside environment), I was fascinated by the idea that motion impacts work and motion could be employed as a material for drawing, so I drew the fleeting glimpses of layered landscape from the carriage window. Exhilarated by the struggle to keep up with the passing vista and excited by anticipation of the unpredictable results, the continued movement through the landscape activated my viewpoint into a tantalising frame that slowly revealed the approach and then, as one view seamlessly rolled into another, vanished the departing vista. How observed building seem to move on their axis (from two dementional to three dementional ), as the observer moves past, reminded me of Dutch chemist and meteorologist Buys Ballot’s Doppler Shift, he had musicians on a train on the Utrecht-Amsterdam line, playing a calibrated note to prove the change of tone (frequency on a wave) as sound passes. If the Doppler Shift defines the change of a frequency in a passing wave, then perhaps the observed change of a building’s perspective as it is passed might be termed a Doppler Slip.
description: BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Contemplation
title: Evaluation of the Impact of the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program on the Elderly
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: As Medicare expenditures continue to increase, pay-for-performance programs have been implemented to curb costs and improve the quality of care. As the first federally mandated pay-for-performance program, the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program links a portion of payment to a dialysis facility’s performance on pre-established quality measures. More accurately described as a penalty program, the QIP does not provide financial rewards for attaining high scores on performance measures. The maximum payment reduction which Medicare can apply to any facility is two percent. Concerns about the effectiveness of the incentive program since its implementation in 2012 have been expressed. While the financial incentive is aimed to change provider behavior in order to generate patient health improvements and cost reductions, these outcomes have been questionable. Provider interventions are not easily attributable to patients’ achieving the targeted measures, and unintended consequences of the incentive program are a challenge. For elderly dialysis patients, who experience different physiological changes and treatment goals than their younger counterparts, the incentive program may not be responsive to their individual needs and lead to unwanted outcomes. This dissertation describes the development and impact of the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP), a federally funded initiative to cost effectively improve delivery of patient care and patient health outcomes. An introductory first chapter chronicling the history of the ESRD program leading to its current status will be followed by the second chapter, which include the research questions and hypotheses. The third chapter is a systematic review, which synthesizes the available literature on the status of the ESRD QIP. Chapters 4 and 5 empirically examine longitudinal data of dialysis patients, facilities and neighborhood characteristics since the implementation of the ESRD QIP. Chapter 4 evaluates high and low scoring dialysis facilities, while Chapter 5 assesses patient health outcomes for ESRD QIP targeted and non-targeted measures. Chapter 6 discusses the principal findings and a critical discussion of the results. The dissertation will conclude with Chapter 7, which consists of the study significance, limitations and policy implications.
Supplementary document for A very high frequency, gate tunable CrPS₄ nanomechanical resonator with single mode - 6377598.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Bo-Lin
name: Guo, Meng-Lin
name: Chen, Jun-fan
name: Fang, Jia-wei
name: Fan, Boyu
name: Zhou, Qiang
name: WANG, You
name: Song, Hai-Zhi
name: Niu, Xiaobin
name: Arutyunov, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Data supplementation and interpretation
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in International Investment Risk Analysis
Creators: name: Zibahalat Monfared, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
Investment Risk Analysis
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Financial Markets
Portfolio Optimization
Geopolitical Risk

description: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in financial markets has transformed investment decision-making, particularly in assessing and mitigating risks associated with international investments. As global financial systems become increasingly complex and interconnected, traditional risk assessment methodologies struggle to process the vast and dynamic datasets necessary for accurate forecasting. AI, through its capabilities in machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive analytics, provides sophisticated tools to analyze investment risks more efficiently and effectively.
Fallbuch zum sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt Lernen. Praxisbeispiele in Inklusion und Förderschule in Bayern (Version 0.3)
Creators: name: Lutz, Stephanie
name: Gebhardt, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Inklusion, Förderschule, Lernbehinderung, Lernschwierigkeiten, Förderbedarf, Unterstützungsbedarf, sonderpädagogischer Schwerpunkt, Lernen, Fallbeispiele, Bayern, Unterstützungssysteme, Lehrkräftebildung, fallbezogenes Arbeiten, Hochschuldidaktik, problem-based learning (PBL)
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Das Fallbuch zum sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt Lernen stellt exemplarisch Fallbeispiele von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Lernschwierigkeiten in verschiedenen schulischen Kontexten dar. Studierende der Sonderpädagogik können mittels der Fallbeschreibungen komplexe Problemlagen und die Entstehung von Lernschwierigkeiten nachvollziehen. Durch realistische, aber fiktive Beispiele aus der Praxis wird ein Einblick in die vielfältigen Bedingungs- und Einflussfaktoren auf den Lernprozess gegeben. Im ersten Teil des Buches wird in die verschiedenen Organisationsformen, Finanzierungsformen und die Unterstützungssysteme in Bayern eingeführt und die schulischen Übergänge sowie Abschlüsse werden beschrieben. Der zweite Teil beinhaltet eine geordnete Darstellung einzelner Fallbeispiele zu den Feldern häusliches Umfeld, Kindergarten & Primarbereich, Sekundarstufe & beruflichen Bereich sowie zu extremen Problemlagen inkl. Arbeitsaufträge. 
Seit Version 0.2 enthält das Fallbuch das Einzelfallraster für pädagogische Diagnostik sowie ein sonderpädagogisches Fördergutachten sowie eine Anleitung zur Arbeit mit dem Fallbuch nach dem Ansatz des problem-based learning (PBL). 
Mit Version 0.3 wurden umfangreiche Aktualisierungen vorgenommen. Zudem wurde im vierten Kapitel der Übergang Schule und Beruf gekürzt und restrukturiert, um in eigenem Werk ausgegliedert und umfangreich ergänzt zu werden. Alle Maßnahmen und Möglichkeiten der beruflichen Vorbereitung und Ausbildung für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf sind nun ausführlich im Buch „Berufliche Inklusion“ (Lutz & Völlings, 2025) zu finden. 
Das Fallbuch ist als veränderbares Werk mit Open Access angelegt und dient als Grundlage für Kasuistik-Seminare. Es richtet sich an Studierende der Sonderpädagogik (vor allem des Studiengangs „Pädagogik im sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt Lernen“ an der Universität Regensburg), aber auch an Dozierende oder Interessierte, die sich näher mit dem sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt Lernen auseinandersetzen wollen.
The Impact of Green Employment on Organizational Behavior of Employees in Al Hayat Pharmaceutical Industries
Creators: name: Omar Subhi Abdullah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The current study aims to analyze the direct impact of green employment on the organizational behaviors of employees at Al Hayat Pharmaceutical Industries, including their commitment to environmental goals, level of interaction among employees, and overall job performance. The study seeks to explore the extent of the company's commitment to green employment policies and how this commitment is reflected in work culture, as well as its effect on raising environmental awareness within the organization. Additionally, the research addresses the obstacles and challenges the company may face in adopting green employment practices, such as financial, structural, and cultural challenges within the workplace. The study adopts a descriptive analytical approach, utilizing a questionnaire to collect data from a sample of 53 individuals. Results indicate that green employment serves as an effective tool in promoting certain aspects of organizational behavior, particularly organizational citizenship and loyalty. Furthermore, the findings highlight that adopting sustainable employment practices contributes to fostering belongingness and commitment to environmental behaviors among employees, thereby supporting a culture of sustainability within the organization. Despite the lack of a strong statistical significance of green employment on organizational commitment, the study confirmed the role of environmental policies in building positive and supportive relationships between employees and management. The study recommends that the company continue to develop its environmental programs and strengthen green employment policies as part of its strategy to achieve corporate sustainability, thereby improving employee performance and enhancing the company’s reputation as an environmentally responsible workplace.
title: Progress Report on the Northern Virginia University Center, 1952
Creators: name: Finley, J.N.G.
Publisher: name: University of Virginia Extension Division
Year: 1952
Subjects: subject: Finley, John Norville Gibson
subject: Zehmer, George B.
subject: Extension schools
subject: Northern Virginia University Center

description: Report: 6 pgs, typescript 6" X 9" (15.2 X 22.9cm)
description: Report by J.N.G. Finley on the progess of the Northern Virginia University Center for the year 1951-1952. George Mason University Archives, C. Harrison Mann Collection, Box 53, Folder 1.
title: Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Sport: Investigating Partnerships and the Desire for Authenticity
Creators: name: Kartun, Leah K
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sport
subject: Corporate social responsibility
subject: Partnership
subject: Authentic

description: The increasing focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sport indicates its growing influence on brand, organizational structure and fulfillment of stakeholder needs. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was two-fold: to investigate professional sport organizations’ (PSO) perceptions of their CSR partnerships and to examine the concept of authenticity as it may relate to such social responsibility efforts. Findings indicated that the PSO respondents feel favorably toward their current CSR partnership efforts wherein philanthropic and ethical social responsibilities have a greater impact over economic and legal duties, and work to incorporate perceived elements of authenticity (i.e., passion, collaboration, consistency) into these relationships. A low response rate limits the ability to generalize results to the larger population, but the research does help to unpack notions of authenticity as well as highlight external and internal priorities that may help serve as a road map for PSOs that desire to be influential and genuine partners.
title: Puppets and The Theater
Creators: name: Moreno, Carlos
name: Clason, Carla
name: Borja, Amparo
name: Dibble, Gary
Publisher: name: Center for International Education - UMass Amherst
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Theater in community development
subject: puppets; education fairs

description: The Ecuador Non-Formal Education Project is a joint project of the Ministry of Education in Ecuador and the University of Massachusetts, Center for International Education, funded under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development. Spanish version: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_techrpts/32/
description: Summary: Discussion of the design and incorporation of theater techniques, such as the Campesino Theater and puppets in an Educational Fair and their use as instruments of literacy and consciousness awareness within rural communities.
title: Student Perceptions of L2 Instructors: How Foreign Accent and Cultural Education Affect Student Learning and Perceived Instructor Credibility
Creators: name: Kueppers, George
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: L2 instructors
subject: Cultural education
subject: Affective learning
subject: Foreign accent
subject: Cognitive learning
subject: Perceived instructor credibility

description: Though a great deal of instructional communication research has explored the influence of various instructor traits on student learning, little attention has been paid to the role differences in linguistic background can play in educational contexts. This study sought to inform this underexplored area of research by determining how an L2 instructor’s foreign accent influences students’ perceptions both of the instructor’s credibility and of their own learning, while also evaluating the effectiveness of a cultural sensitivity training designed to reduce students’ negative perceptions of L2 speakers. Using a 2 (Intervention vs. No Intervention) x 2 (Accent vs. No Accent) factorial experimental design, participants (N = 355) viewed two videos and then completed questions measuring their learning and perceptions of the instructor. Results indicated no significant relationship between accent and learning nor accent and credibility, though there was a significant positive relationship between intervention and perceived learning. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed, followed by recommendations for future research in this area.
Graph-based techniques and spectral graph theory in control and machine learning
Creators: name: Morisi, Rita
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2016
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: Graphs are powerful data structure for representing objects and their relationships. They are extremely useful in the study
 of dynamical systems, evaluating how different agents interact among each other and behave. An example is represented by the consensus problem where a graph models a
 set of agents that locally interact and exchange their opinions with the aim of reaching a common opinion (consensus
 state). At the same time, many learning techniques rely
 on graphs exploiting their potentialities in modeling the relationships between data and determining additional features
 related to the data similarities. To study both the consensus
 problem and specific machine learning applications based on
 graphs, the study of the spectral properties of graphs reveals fundamental. In the consensus problem, the convergence rate to the consensus state strictly depends on the spectral properties of the transition probability matrix associated to the agents network. Whereas graphs and their spectral properties are fundamental in determining learning algorithms able to capture the structure of a dataset. We propose a theoretical and numerical study of the spectral properties of a network of agents that interact with the aim of increasing the rate of convergence to the consensus state keeping as sparse as possible the graph involved. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the proposed approach in reaching the consensus state faster than a classical approach. We then investigate the potentialities of graphs when applied in classification problems. The results achieved highlight the importance of graphs and their spectral properties handling with both semi-supervised and supervised learning problems.
A logic-based approach to specify and design spatio-temporal behaviours of complex systems
Creators: name: Nenzi, Laura
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2016
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: Models of complex systems, composed of many heterogeneous
 interacting components, are challenging to analyse, due to
 the size and complexity of the network of interactions among
 the individual entities. The analysis becomes even more challenging
 when the spatio-temporal aspects of the system are to
 be taken into account. In this thesis, we propose a framework
 of efficient techniques to validate and analyse the behaviour
 of complex systems with spatio-temporal dynamics, both in
 the stochastic and deterministic cases. In particular, we define
 Signal Spatio-Temporal Logic (SSTL), a spatial extension of Signal
 Temporal Logic (STL). SSTL presents two new operators:
 the bounded somewhere and the bounded surround, that can be
 used to specify metric and topological properties in a discrete
 space. Given an SSTL formula, we design efficient monitoring
 algorithms to check its validity and compute its satisfaction
 (robustness) score over a spatio-temporal trace. To deal with
 stochastic systems, we define a stochastic version of the quantitative
 semantics of STL that we extended later to SSTL. We
 then combine it with machine learning techniques to define efficient
 parameter estimation and system design procedures. The
 specification and validation of SSTL formulae have been implemented
 in a Java tool, jSSTL. Finally, the expressivity of
 SSTL and the efficiency of the algorithms developed in this
 work are showed on interested and challenging case studies,
 including an epidemic spreading model of a waterborne disease,
 a pattern formation example for reaction-diffusion systems
 and a french flag model of the morphogen Bicoid
title: Report: George Mason College Summary of Accomplishments July 1966 - June 1967; ca. June 1967
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: George Mason College

description: Report: 6 pgs, typescript unsigned, 8.5" x 11" (21.6cm x 27.9cm)
description: A month by month summary of the progress and accomplishments at George Mason College from July 1966 to June 1967. The accomplishments cited were expanded faculty and staff, new buildings and courses, and rising enrollment. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 9.14
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 118 - Predicting the Past - 2015 Year in Review
Creators: name: Roy Rosenzweig Center For History And New Media, /
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library of Congress
subject: MOOCs
subject: NEH
subject: Open access
subject: Privacy
subject: Proquest
subject: Year in review

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
description: In the 2015 installment of the Digital Campus Year in Review podcast, regulars Dan Cohen, Amanda French, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Stephen Robertson look back at 2015 and predict the big news of 2016. Cheers went out to the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program, Congress (c.1965), the retirement of James Billington as Librarian of Congress, and the US Court of Appeals decision in favor of Google Books. Eliciting jeers were the Ad-blocker controversy, the behavior of Proquest (with Amanda dissenting), and the news that Jennifer Howard has left the higher education beat. Much of what the group predicted for 2015 came to pass, to some extent: universities were hacked; SHARE developed; the push to learn to code continued; and Proquest and Gale moved to provide data mining access to their collections (at considerable additional cost to libraries). And, with the FAA moving to require that drones be registered, Mills’s prediction from 2013 that an Amazon drone will be shot down over Texas looks ever more likely. If you are impressed by those predictions, then in 2016 you should expect the Wu Tang Clan album to leak, Virtual Reality MOOCs to be launched, a digital humanist to win a Macarthur Fellowship, hypothes.is not to take off (or to enjoy the same success as DPLA), and emojis to replace text as our primary form of communication.
A formal approach to decision support on Mobile Cloud Computing applications
Creators: name: Morichetta, Andrea
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2016
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is an emergent topic growths
 with the explosion of the mobile applications. In MCC systems,
 application functionalities are dynamically partitioned
 between the mobile devices and cloud infrastructures. The
 main research direction in this field aims at optimizing different
 metrics, like performance, energy efficiency, reliability
 and security, in a dynamic environment in which the MCC
 application is located. Optimization in MCC refers to taking
 advantages from the offloading process, that consists in
 moving the computation from the local device to a remote
 one. The biggest challenge in this aspect is to define a strategy
 that is able to decide when offloading and which part of
 the application to move. This technique, in general, improves
 the efficiency of a system, although sometimes it can lead to
 a performance degradation.
 To decide when and what to offload, in this thesis we propose
 a new general framework supporting the design and the
 runtime execution of applications on their own MCC scenarios.
 In particular the framework provides a new specification
 language, called MobiCa, equipped with a formal semantics
 that permits to capture all characteristics of a MCC system.
 Besides the strategy optimization achieved by exploiting the
 potentiality of the model checker UPPAAL, we propose a set
 of methods for determining optimal finite/infinite schedules.
 They are able to manage the resource assignment of components
 with the aim of improving the system efficiency in
 terms of battery consumption and time. Furthermore, we
 propose two optimized scheduling algorithms, developed in
 Java, based on the exploitation of parallel computation in order
 to improve the system performance.