cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for Measurement of the birefringence variation induced by dihydrogen diffusion into a polarization maintaining fiber - 6251905.pdf
Creators: name: Aazi, Mohamed
name: Kinet, Damien
name: Renaut, Claude
name: Bertrand, Johan
name: Auguste, Jean-Louis
name: Mégret, Patrice
name: Humbert, Georges
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Figures showing the measurements before applying the calibration curve
"Comprehensive Nursing Approach in the Management of Coronary Artery Disease: A Holistic Perspective"
Creators: name: Manish Kumar Sharma
name: Dr. Reena Thakur
Publisher: name: Brio Innovative Journal of Novel Research (BIJNR)
Year: 2024

description: Abstract: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, significantly impacting patients' quality of life. As frontline healthcare providers, nurses play a crucial role in the prevention, management, and rehabilitation of patients with CAD. This review explores the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approaches, nursing management, and patient education strategies for CAD. A comprehensive nursing approach, incorporating risk factor modification, medication adherence, lifestyle changes, and psychological support, is essential for optimizing patient outcomes. The article also discusses recent advancements in nursing interventions, cardiac rehabilitation, and evidence-based practices that enhance the quality of care for CAD patients.
Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities for Undergraduate Students through Federal Work Study
Creators: name: Nazaire, Denise
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: experiential learning; research-based course; resource/opportunity

description: The Students as Scholars initiative at George Mason University provides opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in research and creative activities. This initiative is designed to be inclusive, encouraging students from all disciplines and all academic levels to participate. In order to increase opportunities to participate in research for all Mason undergraduate students, we collaborated with the Office of Financial Aid in spring 2013 to pilot a program using Federal Work Study funds to support undergraduate research assistant positions. This program offered experiential learning opportunities to undergraduate students by introducing them to the concept of scholarship and the research or scholarly methods in their field. Faculty were given "free" research assistance, with the understanding that they would involve students in research discussions and regularly evaluate them. Using institutional and program data, this poster will highlight the diversity of disciplines and students, demonstrate the process of establishing a program such as this, and define what students learn in these introductory roles.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival
Creators: name: Skallerup Bessette, Lee
Publisher: name: Lexington Books
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Women's studies
subject: Teaching
subject: Critical pedagogy
subject: Women--Sexual behavior
subject: Technology
subject: Personal narratives

description: In this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
Quantum deformation of cubic string field theory
Creators: name: Shabir, Arshid
name: Khan, Amaan A.
name: Quach, James Q.
name: Wani, Salman Sajad
name: Faizal, Mir
name: Rubab, Seemin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we will analyze a quantum deformation of cubic string field theory. This will be done by first constructing a quantum deformation of string theory, in a covariant gauge, and then using the quantum deformed stringy theory to construct a quantum deformation of string field theory. This quantum deformed string field will then be used to contract a quantum deformed version of cubic string field theory. We will explicitly demonstrate that the axioms of cubic string field theory hold even after quantum deformation. Finally, we will analyze the effect of the quantum deformation of string field theory on the string vertices.
description: 15 pages
Zheng yun tong zong : si juan [volume 03]
正韻統宗 : 四卷 [第三冊]
Creators: name: Ren, Shitang
name: 任世鏜
Publisher: name: [China] : Wang Ji
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Evidence-Based Reasoning Across the Curriculum Using COGENT
Creators: name: Boicu, Mihai
name: Tecuci, Gheorghe
name: Marcu, Dorin
name: Lukes, Laura
name: Sprague, Debra
name: Trefil, James
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: technology-enhanced

description: Evidence-based reasoning is at the core of many problem-solving and decision-making activities in a wide variety of domains, including all natural sciences and engineering (e.g., for experimental methods), law, intelligence analysis, forensics, medicine, history, archaeology, and many others. However, many students lack the skills to develop sound arguments based on evidence. This session will present a general systematic approach to evidence-based reasoning and a computer system called COGENT (Cognitive Assistant for Cogent Analysis) that are proposed to be used for teaching critical thinking skills for evidence-based reasoning in a variety of courses, through an effective hands-on approach. Examples of using COGENT in current or future courses in intelligence analysis, physics, geology, and other domains will be presented. The audience will have an opportunity to use COGENT in short, hands-on exercises. The main goal of this session is to encourage other professors to adopt these innovations in their courses as a step toward teaching of evidence-based reasoning across the curriculum.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
The Queer Posthuman in Speculative Fiction from the Asian Diaspora
Creators: name: Hemmann, Kathryn
name: Kim, Adhy
name: Kong, Belinda
name: Liu, Karen
name: Rojas, Carlos
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022

description: Abstracts for MLA 2023 panel on "The Queer Posthuman in Speculative Fiction from the Asian Diaspora."
title: Measuring the Effectiveness of NBA Marketing Techniques: A Comparison between Small and Large Market Teams
Creators: name: Ronkartz, Kyle
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: NBA
subject: Market
subject: Teams

description: This thesis focused on comparing the differences of NBA marketing directors’ perceived values of marketing techniques. NBA teams are constantly looking for the best way to market their team to the fans in the area. In the process of researching and writing this thesis, the author conducted a survey finding the perceived values of a list of marketing techniques by NBA marketing directors. The survey consisted of 20 NBA marketing techniques that the marketing directors rated on a scale 1-5 in relation to their effectiveness. All 30 marketing directors received the questionnaire and all 30 directors completed the survey. This survey is similar to the Dick and Sack (2003) study in which they also surveyed the 29 marketing directors in the NBA at the time. This thesis focused on finding similarities and differences of the marketing directors’ perceived values while centering on the difference in market size.
Peran Pemerintah Desa Dalam Meningkatan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa Kasango Kecamatan Taliabu Barat Laut Kabupaten Pulau Taliabu Propinsi Maluku Utara
Creators: name: Sarman, Rustam Tohopi, Yacob Noho Nani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:
Increasing Student Engagement by Flipping the Course
Creators: name: Sprague, Debra
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: technology-enriched; digital tools; pedagogy; curriculum design

description: Flipping the classroom has gained much attention over the past couple of years. It involves using video and online technologies to provide the lecture portion of a lesson. Students view the online lecture for homework, while class time is spent engaged in applying what is learned from the lecture. By doing this, it is believed students become active learners and take more responsibility for their learning.

Although a skeptic of the flipped learning model (after all, a lecture is a lecture no matter what format it takes) the presenter decided to give it a try and flip one of her teacher education courses. The result was more student engagement, better quality of student work, and increase in student evaluations.

This presentation will focus on strategies for flipping a course through the creation of a hybrid (combination of online and face-to-face) course. The presenter will share with the audience how she provided meaningful online activities and how she engaged the students during the face-to-face classes. Although the course content derives from the education discipline, the strategies presented can fit any content area.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
“The Queer Posthuman in Speculative Fiction from the Asian Diaspora”
Creators: name: Hemmann, Kathryn
name: Kim, Adhy
name: Kong, Belinda
name: Liu, Karen
name: Rojas, Carlos
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022

description: Abstracts for MLA 2023 panel on "The Queer Posthuman in Speculative Fiction from the Asian Diaspora.”
Horizontal and vertical inequity of multi-modal healthcare accessibility in the aging Japan in the post-COVID era: a GIS-based approach
Creators: name: Wang, Siqin
name: Sadahiro, Yukio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Evaluating the inequity of healthcare accessibility across demographic groups in the post-COVID era is of critical importance for an aging society like Japan – it helps to achieve better social equity via distributing healthcare resources in health planning and policy making. Our study contributes to the first post-covid evaluation of multi-modal healthcare accessibility in Tokyo, Japan, the most populated metropolis in the world. A further novelty goes to the multi-dimensional examination of the inequity of healthcare accessibility (i.e. hospitals) by public transit, driving and walking – the horizontal inequity across urban space and the vertical inequity across three demographic groups (the young, adult and elderly) through network analysis, spatial accessibility analysis and inequity indexing. We find that low healthcare access areas mainly appear in the peri-urban space as well as regions less covered by public transit. Compared to the adult group, the elderly group experiences significant inequity of healthcare access particularly in the peri-urban areas where driving is the dominant transport mode to access healthcare facilities. We provide timely evidence to the Japanese government and health authorities to have a holistic and latest understanding of multi-modal healthcare access across different demographic groups in the post-COVID era.
AMP: Mentoring and Advising Platform to Foster Learning
Creators: name: Alvarado, Rhina
name: Reyes, Laydy
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: mentoring/advising; reosurce/opportunity

description: Mason's college access program, Early Identification Program (EIP), houses the Academic Mentoring Program (AMP): a platform that provides mentoring and advising to over 575 first-generation college students in grades 8-12 in the Northern Virginia area from seven local public school systems. AMP provides academic enrichment and support to complement coursework taught at students' base schools. AMP creates a positive learning environment that embodies a student-centered approach that is holistic. AMP offers outreach support to engage students one-on-one to allow them an outlet for self-expression that contributes to their well-being. AMP provides students with over 50 academic mentors: current Mason undergraduates, graduates, international students, and alumni from a wide range of majors across Mason's schools and colleges. Academic mentors play a leadership role in mentoring and advising students regarding college access issues to promote academic development, self-advocacy, and major/career exploration. Blooms taxonomy, inquiry-based learning, and StrengthsFinder are implemented as tools for mentor-mentee engagement. In addition, AMP actively seeks collaborations with Mason units around leadership training and curriculum around study skills, learning styles, and metacognitive strategies and the ways in which these practices contribute to the science of learning.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Creating Global Learning Experiences: Course Design Fundamentals for Internationalizing the Curriculum
Creators: name: Filiatreau, Svetlana
name: Reo, Rick
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: global education; pedagogy; experiential learning; collaborative learning; curriculum design

description: Participants will discuss the integration of global learning into the curricula and examine comprehensive frameworks for global learning. This session will engage participants in designing curriculum/assessment tools and developing partnership strategies that advance an intentional approach to global learning throughout the undergraduate experience. Using the AAC&U Global VALUE rubric, which shows how course specific global learning outcomes (GLOs) align with dimensions of student development, we will cross-reference the rubric to instructional strategies that optimize the achievement of the GLOs; drilling down further, we show how examples of how these GLOs align with appropriate learning activities, assessments, and related learning technologies. Following this basic template, we lead participants working in pairs through an analysis of their syllabi and through a series of structured exercises (worksheets and small group interaction) to co-develop a course learning module or collaborative assignment segment that integrates at least one global learning outcome.

The goals of this session are compatible with Mason's Collaborative Global Classrooms (CGC) Initiative, where faculty are funded to partner with one or more international peer faculty who together transform and then co-teach an existing course or course component into a CGC course. The signature learning experience of a CGC involves high levels of student collaborative engagement with international peers and intercultural skills development in a co-taught learning environment.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
VPIT: Real-time Embedded Single Object 3D Tracking Using Voxel Pseudo Images
Creators: name: Oleksiienko, Illia
name: Nousi, Paraskevi
name: Passalis, Nikolaos
name: Tefas, Anastasios
name: Iosifidis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a novel voxel-based 3D single object tracking (3D SOT) method called Voxel Pseudo Image Tracking (VPIT). VPIT is the first method that uses voxel pseudo images for 3D SOT. The input point cloud is structured by pillar-based voxelization, and the resulting pseudo image is used as an input to a 2D-like Siamese SOT method. The pseudo image is created in the Bird's-eye View (BEV) coordinates, and therefore the objects in it have constant size. Thus, only the object rotation can change in the new coordinate system and not the object scale. For this reason, we replace multi-scale search with a multi-rotation search, where differently rotated search regions are compared against a single target representation to predict both position and rotation of the object. Experiments on KITTI Tracking dataset show that VPIT is the fastest 3D SOT method and maintains competitive Success and Precision values. Application of a SOT method in a real-world scenario meets with limitations such as lower computational capabilities of embedded devices and a latency-unforgiving environment, where the method is forced to skip certain data frames if the inference speed is not high enough. We implement a real-time evaluation protocol and show that other methods lose most of their performance on embedded devices, while VPIT maintains its ability to track the object.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in Neural Computing and Applications (2024), and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10259-2
Multimedia in Teaching and Learning: Content Acquisition Podcasts
Creators: name: Evmenova, Anya
name: Weiss, Margaret
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: technology-enhanced

description: The use of multimedia in K-12 and higher education is expanding. This presentation will discuss the use of Content Acquisition Podcasts (CAPs) for providing accessible professional development in evidence-based practices (EBPs) for current and prospective teachers as well as the further use of CAPs in K-12 classrooms. CAPs are multimedia-based instructional vignettes that deliver instruction for any topic, created using Mayer's 12 effective instructional design principles (Mayer, 2009). Only essential information is presented in CAPs, excluding any irrelevant or extraneous information. All text, images, as well as human and engaging narration used in CAPs are aligned and presented in close proximity. Explicit cues are used to signal the important information, so that the text on the screen highlights the importance of the presented information. CAPs provide multiple practice opportunities for the content and can be accessible for students at any time, not just during class. Sample CAPs have been created in Microsoft PowerPoint using the built-in narration feature and can be found at www.SPEDIntro.com. While the examples provided are all in the area of special education, CAPs can be created and used in absolutely any discipline. Attendees will learn about the research activities and results of the 4-VA grant (CAPs-for-CAPs) recently awarded to the presenters.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Using Distance Learning to Prepare International Students for the Classroom
Creators: name: Debeerst, Birgit
name: Galvin, Michael
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: multilingual students; technology-enriched; Mason student resource

description: The Office of International Programs and Services uses two online tools (the iCenter@Mason and the International Student Launchpad) to better prepare incoming international students for their study at Mason. These tools serve as a pre-arrival guide and educate students about important policies and processes. Current international students have asked for additional instructional modules, such as US classroom culture and academic expectations. Additionally, faculty have expressed that there are certain definitions, standards, and common understanding that they would like international students to have before they arrive in the classroom.

During this poster session, the presenters will demonstrate the current online tools. Participants will have an opportunity to contribute to the development of an additional online module based on their experiences with international students. The new module will be launched in spring 2016.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Crossing the Linguistic Causeway: A Binational Approach for Translating Soundscape Attributes to Bahasa Melayu
Creators: name: Lam, Bhan
name: Chieng, Julia
name: Watcharasupat, Karn N.
name: Ooi, Kenneth
name: Ong, Zhen-Ting
name: Hong, Joo Young
name: Gan, Woon-Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Translation of perceptual descriptors such as the perceived affective quality attributes in the soundscape standard (ISO/TS 12913-2:2018) is an inherently intricate task, especially if the target language is used in multiple countries. Despite geographical proximity and a shared language of Bahasa Melayu (Standard Malay), differences in culture and language education policies between Singapore and Malaysia could invoke peculiarities in the affective appraisal of sounds. To generate provisional translations of the eight perceived affective attributes -- eventful, vibrant, pleasant, calm, uneventful, monotonous, annoying, and chaotic -- into Bahasa Melayu that is applicable in both Singapore and Malaysia, a binational expert-led approach supplemented by a quantitative evaluation framework was adopted. A set of preliminary translation candidates were developed via a four-stage process, firstly by a qualified translator, which was then vetted by linguistics experts, followed by examination via an experiential evaluation, and finally reviewed by the core research team. A total of 66 participants were then recruited cross-nationally to quantitatively evaluate the preliminary translation candidates. Of the eight attributes, cross-national differences were observed only in the translation of annoying. For instance, "menjengkelkan" was found to be significantly less understood in Singapore than in Malaysia, as well as less understandable than "membingitkan" within Singapore. Results of the quantitative evaluation also revealed the imperfect nature of foreign language translations for perceptual descriptors, which suggests a possibility for exploring corrective measures.
description: Published in Applied Acoustics in the Special Issue on Soundscape Attributes Translation: Current Projects and Challenges
Best Practices and Opportunities at Mason for Global Collaborative Classrooms
Creators: name: Purnell-Sayle, Richena
name: Reo, Rick
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: global education; technology-enriched; learning strategies; collaborative learning; curriculum design

description: In the U.S., only 10% of graduating undergraduate students have studied in another country; therefore, U.S. universities are finding other ways to provide meaningful global experiences to all students. Masonâ€™s approach to help students develop a variety of intercultural skills is by supporting the development of Global Collaborative Classrooms (GCCs). In this model, a Mason faculty member partners with an international peer faculty to develop a co-taught learning environment delivered via mutually determined online technology. Besides the thematic content of the course, the key pedagogical component of the GCC is an emphasis on international student collaboration. Therefore, the signature learning experience of GCCs is one in which global learning outcomes aligned with collaborative learning activities, such as group projects, group presentations and/or research, are a significant part of the design. GCCs can be created for most disciplines. The poster will primarily communicate the structural elements of a GCC, but it will also showcase technology integration best practices, internal resources and external faculty partner opportunities, and case studies of successful GCC-like courses. Finally, the poster will describe a new CISCO Systems grant-funded initiative that will provide Mason faculty an opportunity to adapt the GCC model in an existing course. Â
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Modeling the spatial distribution of Spartina alterniflora ecological response to the interaction of flooding and soil salinity base on UAV data in Coastal Wetland
Creators: name: Yan, Dandan
name: Luan, Zhaoqing
name: Wang, Yu
name: Zhu, Wenyan
name: Li, Jingtai
name: Liu, Yao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Spartina alterniflora Loisel poses risks to local vegetation types and coastal wetland. Managing the S. alterniflora invasion necessitates modeling its ecological response to the combined effects of flooding and soil salinity. Therefore, we integrate in situ sampling data and unmanned aerial vehicle point cloud data to quantitatively assess the effect of interaction between inundation and soil salinity on S. alterniflora and model the spatial distribution of S. alterniflora at the landscape scale. The study findings indicated that the optimal ecological amplitude for S. alterniflora in terms of flooding depth ranged from 0 to 1.02 m. Similarly, the optimal ecological amplitude for soil salinity was found to be between 9.47 and 26.13 g/kg. Based on these parameters, we were able to generate comprehensive habitat maps that depict the most suitable locations for the growth of S. alterniflora species across a larger landscape. The optimal distribution ranges for the canopy height and aboveground biomass of S. alterniflora were 1474.88 and 1307.99 ha, respectively. This research represents the first spatially quantitative investigation into the interaction effect of inundation and soil salinity on S. alterniflora. Furthermore, it provides a model for the optimal distribution range of S. alterniflora across expansive landscapes.
Zheng yun tong zong : si juan [volume 01]
正韻統宗 : 四卷 [第一冊]
Creators: name: Ren, Shitang
name: 任世鏜
Publisher: name: [China] : Wang Ji
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
The (Not-So) Secrets to Successful Research- and Scholarship-Intensive Courses
Creators: name: Usher, Bethany
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: pedagogy; experiential learning; problem-based learning; active learning; undergraduate research experiences; curriculum design; Mason faculty resource; inquiry

description: The Students as Scholars initiative encourages faculty and programs to approach teaching research from a developmental and scaffolded perspective. Students are introduced to scholarship in Discovery courses, acquire disciplinary skills in Inquiry courses, and take responsibility for carrying out a scholarly project in Research and Scholarship (RS)-intensive courses.

Using OSCAR materials and information from three years of successful RS courses, this poster will demonstrate:
• Features of RS courses
• The process of applying for an RS designation
• How to use a curriculum map to plan their course
• Developing research assignments beyond the "research paper"
• Models for incorporating RS (and other Students as Scholars) courses into program curricula
Faculty (from all schools and disciplines) who are poised to apply for RS designation, instructors who are exploring the possibility, professors who want to understand what students are doing in RS courses, and program coordinators who want to see how to incorporate RS courses are all invited to visit this poster.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Fair Division with Two-Sided Preferences
Creators: name: Igarashi, Ayumi
name: Kawase, Yasushi
name: Suksompong, Warut
name: Sumita, Hanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We study a fair division setting in which participants are to be fairly distributed among teams, where not only do the teams have preferences over the participants as in the canonical fair division setting, but the participants also have preferences over the teams. We focus on guaranteeing envy-freeness up to one participant (EF1) for the teams together with a stability condition for both sides. We show that an allocation satisfying EF1, swap stability, and individual stability always exists and can be computed in polynomial time, even when teams may have positive or negative values for participants. When teams have nonnegative values for participants, we prove that an EF1 and Pareto optimal allocation exists and, if the valuations are binary, can be found in polynomial time. We also show that an EF1 and justified envy-free allocation does not necessarily exist, and deciding whether such an allocation exists is computationally difficult.
description: Appears in the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023
What is it that we don't know when we don't know the law?
Creators: name: Bystranowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: ignorance
subject: Social Media
subject: counterfactuals

description: "What is it that we don’t know when we don’t know the law? Evidence from 100,00 Reddit posts" -- a poster presented at Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology w Denver, February 2025.
Sponsor Session: Blackboard Presents Competency-Based Education
Creators: name: Blackboard, Sponsor Session:
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015

description: Sponsor Session: Blackboard Presents Competency-Based Education
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
The New Science of Learning: How Research is Changing the Way We Teach
Creators: name: Zakrajsek, Todd
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: pedagogy; student motivation; active learning

description: The "science" in oneâ€™s field is designed to inform and advance the discipline, and where appropriate the society in which one lives. The pace at which new discoveries have changed just about everything over the past 50 years can make oneâ€™s head spin. Televisions that were relatively recently very small and in black and white are now as large as buildings and in 3D. Written communication just 30 years ago was conducted through letters and is now largely replaced by e-mails, instant messaging, and snap chats. What about teaching?Â  What do we now know about how learning works that can inform better teaching practices? Although a proliferation of misinformation pertaining to how students learn and how best to teach still exists, significant advances are being made. This session is designed to provide you with evidence about how students learn, show you methods to get students more involved in the content, and demonstrate relevant applications from pedagogical research that can be used in just about any class.Â
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
Supplementary document for Lifetime prediction of encapsulated CdSexS1-x quantum platelets for color conversion in high luminance LED microdisplays - 6252141.pdf
Creators: name: Quesnel, Etienne
name: Poncet, Séverine
name: Altazin, Stéphane
name: Lin, Yu-Pu
name: Amico, Michele D
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Corrected Supplemental Document
title: Synecological Systems Theory: An Alternative Foundation for Economic Inquiry
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis introduces an original theory of multiple games called synecological game theory and a concomitant framework for social theorizing called synecological systems theory. Synecological game theory is capable of describing the effects of institutional arrangements on the outcomes of gameplay through time. Synecology is a term borrowed from ecology that treats communities as arenas of interaction among species, in contrast to autecology, which treats individual species like duplicates of one another. Synecological systems theory helps theorists understand, describe, and simulate the evolution of entangled interactions, including the process of entanglement itself. Synecological game theory is the primary tool of synecological systems theory, where the systems in question are envisioned as evolving ecologies of games. Synecological game theory is a new branch of game theoretical analysis that describes how agents are able to solve collective action problems. It complements repeated and multistage game analyses, rather than replacing them. Like repeated and multistage games, synecological game theory is process-driven. Unlike repeated and multistage games, player knowledge, computational resources, and cognitive ability is strictly limited. Synecological game theory describes an extended system of action where not all players interact, play the same games, or have the same goals. This thesis contends that explicitly modeling the context of a game with suboptimal or perverse outcomes 1) exposes various institutional dependencies enabling perverse outcomes and which might be subverted through evolutionary or other processes, 2) expands the solution space and thus may provide avenues to different outcomes than predicted by traditional game analyses, and 3) endogenizes policy changes to within the system by requiring public interactions to be explicitly modeled and subject to the same computational, epistemological and cognitive limitations on policy makers as on other players in the system. Synecological systems theory fills a gap in current theoretical approaches to economic problems and can be said to be a kind of mesoeconomics, more systems-aware than microeconomics but more rooted in the action of heterogeneous agents than macroeconomics. This thesis builds a basic theoretical framework for synecological systems theory and provides a first evolutionary model to illustrate how synecological gameplay expands the explorable solution space by explicitly modeling traditionally implicit relationships. The thesis concludes by outlining a new frontier of exploration in social science opened up by the mesoeconomics of synecological systems theory: new questions economic theorists may ask, and the potential for new answers to questions long thought to be closed.
On Confidence Sequences for Bounded Random Processes via Universal Gambling Strategies
Creators: name: Ryu, J. Jon
name: Bhatt, Alankrita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers the problem of constructing a confidence sequence, which is a sequence of confidence intervals that hold uniformly over time, for estimating the mean of bounded real-valued random processes. This paper revisits the gambling-based approach established in the recent literature from a natural \emph{two-horse race} perspective, and demonstrates new properties of the resulting algorithm induced by Cover (1991)'s universal portfolio. The main result of this paper is a new algorithm based on a mixture of lower bounds, which closely approximates the performance of Cover's universal portfolio with constant per-round time complexity. A higher-order generalization of a lower bound on a logarithmic function in (Fan et al., 2015), which is developed as a key technique for the proposed algorithm, may be of independent interest.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (to appear)
Up the Pyramid, Around the Loop—Action Research Cultivates Sustainability Scholars to Green the Campus
Creators: name: Sklarew, Dann
name: Wingfield, Andrew
name: Richards, Allison
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: research-based course; experiential learning?

description: With the support of a three-year curriculum development grant from the Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR), we have integrated undergraduate research in sustainability studies into our curriculum. This presentation details how we use the program's bookend courses, the introductory Sustainable World and capstone Sustainability in Action courses, to scaffold students' ascent of OSCAR's three-level scholarly pyramid: discovery, inquiry, and creation of scholarship.


We also describe our learning loop model, which provides students in the introductory course with opportunities to learn about design and execution of university-funded, campus action research projects directly from students who have completed the capstone. Reciprocally, project ideas from the introductory course are passed forward for potential implementation by subsequent capstone students.


Finally, we share the results of our research into the impact of our curricular approach on our students. In particular, we share our findings regarding how the pyramid and loop affected their individual emergence as sustainability practitioners and scholars as well as their forging of a community of practice among peers and alumni, extending beyond the classroom.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching
title: Person-centred process? Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments
Creators: name: Leishman, Eppie
name: Meers, Jed
name: Halliday, Simon
name: Tomlinson, Joe
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2025

description: This article examines the process of seeking social care needs assessments under the Care Act 2014 in England through the lens of procedural fairness theory. Drawing on interviews with 21 individuals with experiences of needs assessments, we identify the ‘process qualities’—the factors rooted in the literature on procedural fairness—that matter most to people navigating this critical front-line component of the social care system. Our analysis reveals two themes: the importance of ‘dignified treatment’ and system ‘proactivity’, each underpinned by a set of process qualities. These qualities for the former—personalization, empathy, and voice—are well explored in the literature on person-centred care. However, the latter—responsibility taking, dependability, transparency, assistance, and availability—are neglected in current research on experiences of the Care Act 2014. Drawing on these process qualities, we set out the potential for future research grounded in procedural fairness theory in social care.
title: Distributed optimization algorithms: Performance analysis and application in machine learning problems
title: Αλγόριθμοι κατανεμημένης βελτιστοποίησης: Μελέτη απόδοσης και εφαρμογή σε προβλήματα μηχανικής μάθησης
Creators: name: Χαριομπολης Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2025

description: Distributed optimization allows a set of agents to collectively solve a global minimization problem, defined as the numerical average of each agent’s local objective function. In this thesis we examine distributed optimization algorithms in the setting where the agents communicate via a network, where each agent can only communicate with its immediate neighbors, and can not share its objective function (and by extension its training data) directly. More specifically, we investigate how these algorithms can be applied to the classical Machine Learning framework of training a parametrized model to predict labels y from input data x. Typically, distributed optimization algorithms over networks have two main steps: the pooling and then averaging of the parameters of each agent’s neighbors via the consensus protocol, and a gradient descent step towards the minimum of the local function of each agent. We also consider algorithms that build on this scheme by incorporating correction terms, acceleration via momentum, dual ascent, and multiple communication rounds per gradient computation. We experimentally evaluate the performance of a number of distributed algorithms for functions of different classes, namely smooth, and strongly convex functions, as well as objectives with constraints.
description: Οι αλγόριθμοι κατανεμημένης βελτιστοποίησης επιτρέπουν σε ένα σετ από πράκτορες να λύσουν συλλογικά ένα καθολικό πρόβλημα ελαχιστοποίησης, ορισμένο ως τον αριθμητικό μέσο της τοπικής συνάρτησης κάθε πράκτορα. Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζουμε κατανεμημένους αλγόριθμους βελτιστοποίησης στο πλαίσιο όπου οι πράκτορες επικοινωνούν μέσω ενός δικτύου, όπου κάθε πράκτορας μπορεί να επικοινωνήσει μόνο με τους άμεσους γείτονες του, και δεν μπορεί να μοιραστεί την αντικειμενική συνάρτηση (και κατ’ επέκταση τα δεδομένα εκπαίδευσης) άμεσα. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, ερευνούμε πως αυτοί οι αλγόριθμοι μπορούν να εφαρμοστούν στο κλασσικό πλαίσιο Μηχανικής Μάθησης της εκπαίδευσης ενός παραμετρικού μοντέλου ώστε να προβλέπει ετικέτες y από δεδομένα εισόδου x. Συνήθως, οι κατανεμημένοι αλγόριθμοι βελτιστοποίησης σε δίκτυα αποτελούνται από δύο βήματα: τη συγκέντρωση και υπολογισμό της μέσης τιμής των παραμέτρων των γειτόνων κάθε πράκτορα, και ένα βήμα καθόδου βαθμίδας προς το ελάχιστο της τοπικής συνάρτησης κάθε πράκτορα.  Επιπλέον, θεωρούμε αλγορίθμους που χτίζουν πάνω σε αυτό το σχέδιο με την ενσωμάτωση όρων διόρθωσης, επιτάχυνσης μέσω ορμής, διπλής ανάβασης, και πολλαπλών γύρων επικοινωνίας για κάθε υπολογισμό βαθμίδας. Αξιολογούμε πειραματικά την απόδοση ορισμένων κατανεμημένων αλγορίθμων για συναρτήσεις διαφορετικών κλάσεων, συγκεκριμένα ομαλές, και ισχυρά κυρτές συναρτήσεις, καθώς και προβλήματα με περιορισμούς.
Probing coherent quantum thermodynamics using a trapped ion
Creators: name: Onishchenko, O.
name: Guarnieri, G.
name: Rosillo-Rodes, P.
name: Pijn, D.
name: Hilder, J.
name: Poschinger, U. G.
name: Perarnau-Llobet, M.
name: Eisert, J.
name: Schmidt-Kaler, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum thermodynamics is aimed at grasping thermodynamic laws as they apply to thermal machines operating in the deep quantum regime, a regime in which coherences and entanglement are expected to matter. Despite substantial progress, however, it has remained difficult to develop thermal machines in which such quantum effects are observed to be of pivotal importance. In this work, we report an experimental measurement of the genuine quantum correction to the classical work fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR). We employ a single trapped ion qubit, realizing thermalization and coherent drive via laser pulses, to implement a quantum coherent work protocol. The results from a sequence of two-time work measurements display agreement with the recently proven quantum work FDR, violating the classical FDR by more than $10.9$ standard deviations. We furthermore determine that our results are incompatible with any SPAM error-induced correction to the FDR by more than 10 standard deviations. Finally, we show that the quantum correction vanishes in the high-temperature limit, again in agreement with theoretical predictions.
description: 5+4 pages, 3 figures
List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador (Version 2.0)
Creators: name: Victor, Benjamin C.
name: Grove, Jack Stein
name: Long, Douglas J.
name: Robertson, D. Ross
name: Keith, Inti
name: Bensted-Smith, William
name: Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In preparation for the revised new edition of the 1997 book “The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands” by Jack Stein Grove and Robert J. Lavenberg, to be published next year by the EPCA, the East Pacific Corridor Alliance Foundation (www.epcafoundation.org), we have been reviewing literature and museum records and obtaining additional underwater photographs and specimens. A recent expedition sponsored by the EPCA in May 2024 conducted widespread surveys, and, in particular, intensive underwater photography and collecting for tissues for DNA sequencing (targeting cryptobenthic species, new records or species, and unresolved taxa). The fish species list published by us in Grove et al. (2022) is thus here updated, with a number of changes, mostly species added (usually deeper or mesopelagic species), but some species subtracted when we conclude evidence is lacking for inclusion, applying strict scientific criteria (see below). The total number of species listed is up to 683 from 644, the number of families is increased by 18 families to 178 (mostly added mesopelagic or deepwater families, a few taxonomic adjustments, and three removed).
Mason DREAMers: Fostering Inclusion for Our Undocumented Students
Creators: name: Wong, Shelley
name: Kravitz, David
name: Olson, Kate
name: Velasquez, Rodrigo
name: Crewalk, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2015
Subjects: global education; mulitlingual students; pedagogy; experiential learning; mentoring; Mason student resource; Mason faculty resource

description: In this session, become a part of our movement to create more inclusive environments for undocumented students through education and advocacy. Our undocumented students and supportive faculty will lead an interactive discussion on how to better organize, facilitate, educate, and lead on intersections of diversity, culture, history, and policy related to our undocumented populations within the George Mason University campus and community. Grounded in the understanding of critical pedagogy and Paulo Freire's notion of praxis (1970), the Mason DREAMers student organization leads annual events, UndocuAlly trainings, and community outreach initiatives to raise awareness and build critical understanding about the sociopolitical and educational climate of undocumented students and their families. Praxis that involves theory building through learning, action, and reflection is the basis of social transformation and is at the core of the Mason DREAMers mission. The group promotes this critical consciousness to reflect on the multidimensional identities and realities of undocumented students and then empowers participants to become change agents. This interactive session will discuss the praxis involved in being an advocate for undocumented students at George Mason University and will utilize this time and space to detail the concrete opportunities for advocacy and future action that is necessary to improve the social and educational lives of our students. http://www.masondreamers.org/
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 7 (2015): The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching