cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Visualising The Parasitic Whipworm Trichuris Muris Using X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, James
name: Else, Kathryn
name: Behnsen, Julia
name: Starborg, Tobias
name: Cruickshank, Sheena
name: Macdonald, Andrew
name: Withers, Philip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: trichuris muris
trichiuriasis
whipworm
parasite
nematode
gut
intestine
micro-CT
CT
microcomputed tomography

description: Trichuriasis is a tropical disease that affects an estimated 500 million people worldwide, especially children in tropical regions. It is caused by a parasitic nematode, Trichuris trichiura (whipworm). Current drugs lack efficacy, and there is no vaccine. Adult worms live partially buried in the mucosal epithelium of the intestine of the host, which makes them hard to study by traditional microscopy methods. As a consequence, little is known about how they feed, develop, and avoid the immune response of the host.

Micro X-ray CT of largely intact sections of intestine allows studying the intimate relationship between the parasite and host epithelium whilst avoiding the more damaging cutting of samples needed for 2D microscopy methods. In this contribution, we present data from adult Trichuris muris parasites found within infected mice. A scanning electron microscopy staining protocol was used for fixing and staining 5 mm sections of gut and caecum of the mice. Osmium tetroxide, used as a staining agent, was effective at producing x-ray absorption contrast in adult worms and their internal morphology, including the bacillary band, stichosome and oesophagus.

Novel observations about the positioning of the parasites were gained during this work. The heads of four out of six adult worms analysed were found to be orientated down the Crypts of Lieberkühn towards the basal lamina. Stichosome exposure to the lumen has relevance to novel drug development as epithelial penetrance of current anthelminthic drugs is poor. We measured the length of the exposed stichosome and the number of breaks in the epithelial layer covering the tunnel that the worm creates. Even though variance between worms is high, a part of the stichosome was always found to be exposed to the lumen.

We show that X-ray tomography is an effective approach to gain spatial and morphological information about Trichuris muris. In addition our data reveal T. muris in the mouse to be a useful model system with which to optimise imaging methodologies for the analyses of soft tissues in health and in disease.
MAMLAKATIMIZDA INKLYUZIV TA'LIMNING RIVOJLANISHI VA ISTIQBOLLARI
Creators: name: Maxmudov, Jasur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: maqolada inklyuziv talimning O’zbekistondagi rivojlanishi, inklyuziv ta’limning O’zbekistondagi huquqiy – me’yoriy asoslari, ushbu sohada maktab va maktabgacha ta’lim muassasalarida olib borilayotgan islohotdlar va inklyuziv ta’limning O’zbekistonda inklyuziv ta’limning rivojlanishi va istiqbollari xususida so’z yuritiladi.
title: Another Problem of the Body
Creators: name: Chergosky, Shane
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poetry
subject: Another problem of the body
subject: Headwind
subject: Lyric poetry
subject: Cope is collision
subject: Experimental

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until April 2031 at the earliest.
description: This thesis seeks to investigate the gaps between sensory and rational experience; and what it means to cope with an existence in which the harmony of control and decontrol is a lifetime of improvisation.
Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Steinbeck Christoph
name: Namrata, Kale
name: Kenneth, Haug
name: Thévenot Etienne
name: Rocca-Serra Philippe
name: Cascante Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Data Management
Privacy
Ethics

description: This deliverable describes the initial data management plan for all the submitted and derived research data that will be generated with the PhenoMeNal infrastructure. Each dataset described in this deliverable includes data set description, standards and metadata, data sharing, ethical and legal compliance and data archiving.
title: Report: Anonymous, "Analyzing the Market for a New-Town-in-Town," July 1978
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, copy with pencil markings; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by an anonymous author entitled "Analyzing the Market for a New-Town-in-Town" dated July 1978. This report discusses how to analyze the potential market for a new community within an existing city. The report discusses methods for determining housing demand, potential residents, and the potential for a new development to generate demand. An appendix is also included with the report that provides suggestions for improving the report. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.13
The Post-Pandemic Central Business District (CBD): Re-Imagining the Creative City?
Creators: name: Gibson, Christopher
name: Brennan-Horley, Christopher
name: Cook, Nicole
name: McGuirk, Pauline
name: Warren, Andrew
name: Wolifson, Peta
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4406
subject: Human geography
classificationCode: 33
subject: Built environment and design
classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning

description: After central business districts (CBD) emptied from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and widespread working-from-home, culture and creativity feature prominently within recovery strategies, enrolling the arts and events to enliven urban precincts and attract people back into city centres. We draw upon resilience theory and creative city policymaking to critique present formulations of CBD revitalisation, and suggest alternatives. Despite overtures to social inclusion and environmental sustainability, revitalisation strategies mobilise pre-existing “vehicular ideas” that support corporate business interests in and claims on central city space. We articulate concerns around inclusivity, financial and property interests, creativity as consumption rather than production, livelihood concerns, and underwhelming acknowledgement of pandemic disruption. Instead of placing creativity in service of the competitive positioning of the CBD, we ask: what is the very purpose of the post-pandemic CBD, and who is the CBD for? Answering these questions invitesmore courageous propositions that seize once-in-a-generation opportunities for transformational change.
The closure of Russian schools in Estonia: education, reform, or forced assimilation?
Creators: name: Ryabova, Kristina
Publisher: name: Eurac Research
Year: 2025

description: In 2022, the [Estonian government reinforced](https://news.err.ee/1609440881/overview-the-transition-to-estonian-language-education) its plans to transition the education system entirely to the Estonian language by cutting funding for schools where subjects are taught in Russian.
title: Spring Season of a Resounding Success
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Beginning the Second of its Regular Seasons of Plays
subject: New York City Center Theatre Company, The City Center of Music and Drama
subject: Ferrer, Jose
subject: Jonson, Ben
subject: O'Neill, Eugene
subject: Capek, Karel and Josef
subject: Brodkin, Herbert
subject: Roche, Emeline

description: Fliers.
title: Green Energy for Information Technology Data Centers: An Analysis of Energy Procurement Options for the Federal Government
Creators: name: Kavitz, Paul
name: Moore, Kevin
name: Morgan, Adam
name: Nottberg, Travix
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Data centers

description: Introduction by Dr. Catherine Rudder
description: This report compares alternatives to current data center service procurement trends based on: (1) total emissions, (2) relative cost, (3) performance, and (4) feasibility. Overall, the research herein suggests that, due to the complexity and variety of data center technology needs, a transformative green policy option is not currently available for data center services. However, it is recommended that the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) mandate energy measurement standards and encourage agency procurement officers to incorporate the Energy Star® Program guidance into future data center procurements
The BridgeDb framework
Creators: name: Willighagen, Egon
name: Mélius, Jonathan
name: Brenninkmeijer Christian
name: Soiland-Reyes, Stian
name: Anwesha Bohler
name: Kutmon, Martina
name: Waagmeester, Andra
name: Pico, Alex
name: Riutta, Anders
name: Gray, Alasdair
name: Leemans, Christ
name: Batchelor, Colin
name: Spjuth, Ola
name: Nunes, Nuno
name: Evelo, Chris
name: Goble, Carole
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description:
What is BridgeDb? Biological systems consist of many thousands of genes, proteins, and metabolites. Our collective knowledge about these entities is collected in many hundreds of disparate databases, each focusing on particular themes of knowledge or types of experiments. Importantly, to capture this focus, each database uses its own definition of the key entities and have a matching collection of entity identifiers. Linking all these identifiers requires a flexible tool that provides identifier mappings (IDmaps) but that also knows about these complexities. BridgeDb (bridgedb.org) offer IDmaps and understands the difference between a gene, a DNA sequence, a microarray probe, and a protein. Likewise, it understands the difference between stereoisomers, protonation states, and compound classes for metabolites and other small molecules. Modules and plugins are available to use BridgeDb in many bioinformatics toolsets.
Supplementary document for Pseudoheterodyne interferometry for multicolor near-field imaging - 6392191.pdf
Creators: name: Vicentini, Edoardo
name: NUANSING, WIWAT
name: Niehues, Iris
name: Amenabar, Iban
name: Bittner, Alex
name: Hillenbrand, Rainer
name: Schnell, Martin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement
title: Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Gest, Justin
name: Boucher, Anna
name: Challen, Suzanna
name: Burgoon, Brian
name: Thielemann, Eiko
name: Beine, Michel
name: McGovern, Patrick
name: Crock, Mary
name: Rapoport, Hillel
name: Hiscox, Michael
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Immigration policies
subject: Global migration
subject: International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) database
subject: Cross-national migration policies

description: This is the pre-peer-reviewed version of the following article: Gest, J., Boucher, A., Challen, S., Burgoon, B., Thielemann, E., Beine, M., McGovern, P., Crock, M., Rapoport, H. and Hiscox, M. (2014), Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions. Global Policy, 5: 261–274. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12132 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12132/full.
description: Academics and policy makers require a better understanding of the variation of policies that regulate global migration, asylum and immigrant naturalization. At present, however, there is no comprehensive cross-national, time-series database of such policies, rendering the analysis of policy trends across and within these areas difficult at best. Several new immigration databases and indices have been developed in recent years. However, there is no consensus on how best to conceptualize, measure and aggregate migration policy indicators to allow for meaningful comparisons through time and across space. This article discusses these methodological challenges and introduces practical solutions that involve historical, multi-dimensional, disaggregated and transparent conceptualizing, measuring and compiling of cross-national immigration policies. Such an approach informs the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) database.
Determinants of the development of shared mobility services based on the example of an innovative car-sharing project in city of Poznań
Creators: name: Stęchły, Jakub
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150799 Transportation and Freight Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: The article identifies selected determinants for the development of new mobility based on the example of an innovative car-sharing project in Poznań and the analysis of the elements of the environment closest to the organisation. The concept of car sharing, as part of the sharing economy within a sustainable urban mobility framework, has been introduced, along with a description of the potential benefits resulting from the use of this type of service in the city. Moreover, various models of car-sharing services were described, along with their types and components. Both the model using pre-determined places of rental and return of vehicles (the station model) as well as the model in which cars are picked up and returned anywhere in previously designated zones of the city (the free-floating model) were analysed. As part of the research, the competitive environment – customers, co-operators and regulators – was analysed, including local public administration institutions. At the same time, the advantages resulting from the implementation of these services for individual and business clients were indicated, as well as the key instruments of the system supporting the development of such services in the city, which can significantly increase the chance of success of the car sharing project. The systematic analysis of the environment closest to the organisation allowed for the identification of selected development conditions for car-sharing services in Poznań.
title: ANTA Magazine
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Theatre
subject: Drama Guild
subject: Broadway
subject: ANTA
subject: Campbell, C. Lawton
subject: Freedley, George
subject: Jones, Margo
subject: Draper, Margaret
subject: Butler, Bill
subject: Brandt, Alvin
subject: Gilder, Rosamond
subject: Jones, Kleine
subject: see page 19

description: Spring 1948 issue of ANTA magazine.
THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUP WORK IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Creators: name: Lapasova, Zarifa
name: Zubaydova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the field of language education, group work is becoming an increasingly essential component of teaching English. This article delves into the significance of group work in the teaching of English. It highlights how collaboration helps both students and teachers. Also, the article aims to demonstrate how group work can enhance language learning outcomes and contribute to the overall success of English language education.
Neonatal bacteraemia in Ireland: A ten-year single-institution retrospective review
Creators: name: Powell, James
name: Beirne, Irene
name: MINIHAN, BRID
name: O'Connell, Nuala H.
name: Sharma, Santosh
name: Dunworth, Margo
name: Philip, Roy K.
name: Dunne, Colum P.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Neonatal sepsis is a catastrophic condition of global concern, with reported mortality rates exceeding 10%. Bloodstream infections are an important cause of sepsis, and epidemiological studies of these infections are crucial for predicting the most common aetiological agents and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and for developing antimicrobial guidelines. For the ten-year study period from July 2013 to June 2023, all neonatal bacteraemia cases were reviewed prospectively using an enhanced surveillance protocol. The patients were stratified according to their age at the time of blood culture collection: early onset if diagnosed in the first 72 hours of life, and late onset if diagnosed after that time. During the study period, 170 blood cultures were positive from 144 patients, of which 89 specimens from 64 patients represented the growth of significant pathogens. Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) were the most common pathogens identified (52%, 33/64), followed by Escherichia coli (14%, 9/64), Group B Streptococcus (GBS: 11%, 7/64) and Staphylococcus aureus (11%, 7/64). GBS was more commonly identified in early onset patients, while CoNS were predominantly associated with late onset. The presence of an intravascular catheter, maternal urinary tract infections and the receipt of total parenteral nutrition or transfused blood were identified as significant risk factors. The fatality rate was 8% (5/64). in summary, this study provides a detailed overview of the epidemiology of neonatal bacteraemia in a large teaching hospital in the Midwest of Ireland over a decade
title: Report: Jack A. Underhill, "Pro's and Con's of Abolition of Title VII," Undated
Creators: name: Underhill, Jack A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Press Release, copy; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Undated report by Jack C. Underhill entitled "Pro's and Con's of Abolition of Title VII." This report is a draft containing many edit marks in pencil. The report discusses some problems with the guarantees provided under Title VII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970. Underhill compares Title VII to Title X extensively. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.18
The Monopole and the Coulomb field as duals within the unifying Reissner-Nordstrom geometry
Creators: name: Garat, Alcides
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are going to prove that the Monopole and the Coulomb fields are duals within the unifying structure provided by the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime. This is accomplished when noticing that in order to produce the tetrad that locally and covariantly diagonalizes the stress-energy tensor, both the Monopole and the Coulomb fields are necessary in the construction. Without any of them it would be impossible to express the tetrad vectors that locally and covariantly diagonalize the stress-energy tensor. Then, both electromagnetic fields are an integral part of the same structure, the Reissner-Nordstrom geometry.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1306.0602, arXiv:1306.4005, arXiv:1306.2174
title: Analysis of Environmental Impacts of Large-scale Wind Farms Using Remote Sensing
Creators: name: Walsh-Thomas, Jenell M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Wind Energy
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Environmental Impacts
subject: Wind Farms
subject: Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper

description: Wind energy is increasingly becoming a prevalent alternative, renewable energy resource as societies worldwide are attempting to reduce their carbon footprint in an effort to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and to compensate for the ever decreasing supply of worldwide fossil fuel sources. There are many benefits to utilizing wind energy due to the lack of pollutant releases in the atmosphere, ocean or soil. Particularly important is the decreased carbon dioxide emissions, which has been associated with mitigating climate change. Wind energy is a renewable resource, it can have a positive economic impact, and there are several locations on the planet that are good candidates for wind energy production. While there are many advantages in harnessing wind energy to produce electricity, the impacts of wind turbines and perhaps more importantly of large scale wind farms on the environment need to be determined and examined in a quantitative way in order to make and support sound decisions on the placement of wind farms as well as the mitigation of any harmful environmental impacts. Any direct environmental impact of large scale wind farms needs to be investigated because it could impact agriculture, economics, health, society, and technology. Baidya Roy, et al (2004); Baidya Roy & Traiteur (2010); and Baidya Roy (2011), have published a series of manuscripts analyzing data obtained from meteorological towers in conjunction with predictions based on computer modeling and hypothesize that large-scale wind farms produce a measureable effect on ambient air temperature. Collecting in situ data quickly becomes difficult from a practical perspective as the size of the wind farm facility increases because many sensors are needed over a large area. Satellite remote sensing observations are particularly suited to study temperature changes over large areas due to the availability of high resolution measurements over many years. While the hypothesis based on relevant literature review is that wind farms have a measureable impact, the proposed goal of this thesis is to quantitatively assess the environmental impacts of operational wind farms, specifically surface temperature and vegetation, with the potential to expand to other variables, using Landsat and other satellite derived imagery, such as from Terra equipped with a moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS) or SPOT equipped with a vegetation mapper with 1 km spatial resolution.
title: Patent Applications and the America Invents Act: How Genre Mediates Social Actions and Ideological Goals
Creators: name: Bae, Jongsung
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genre
subject: Social action
subject: Ideological goal
subject: Patent application
subject: America Invents Act
subject: AIA

description: A patent-reform initiative called the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was signed into law in 2011. The act placed patent applications at the center of the reform and changed the rhetorical situation surrounding writing patent applications. Successful patent writers need to fully grasp the big picture of the rhetorical situation and apply it to their work no matter how confusing the message may be at a superficial level. For this reason, this study hypothesizes and examines a theoretical framework for the purpose of making the most of this change by fully understanding the big picture. The hypothesis is that “a genre mediates between social actions and ideological goals,” and this study will illuminate dynamic relations among social actors, their ideological goals, and the patent reforms embedded in the genre of patent applications.
title: Implementation and Evaluation of SAT-based Attacks on Hybrid STT-CMOS Circuits for Reverse Engineering
Creators: name: Shenoy, Gaurav
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Reverse engineering
subject: SAT-based attacks
subject: STT-CMOS hybrid

description: The Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain has been undergoing changes inorder to adapt and sustain to the growing costs and technology changes borne by the IC Design house . These changes also add vulnerabilities in the supply chain making the Intellectual Property (IP) susceptible to different forms of counterfieting and reverse engineering. An awareness of these threats have led to several new IC protection techniques to be proposed. This thesis comprises of the security analysis of layout level IC protection techniques such as programmable non-volatile Spin Transfer Torque-based Lookup Tables (STT-based LUTs) with the help of a strong SAT-based reverse engineering model. The partial netists using this IC protection technique is derived from ISCAS’85 and ISCAS’89 bench circuits. The technique is evaluated using various metrics against different parameters to determine its level of security and at the same time testing the SAT-based model’s reliability to crack them.
Serum neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein for predicting response to apheresis in steroid-refractory multiple sclerosis relapses
Creators: name: Vardakas, Ioannis
name: Dorst, Johannes
name: Huss, André Michael
name: Mayer, Benjamin
name: Fangerau, Tanja
name: Taranu, Daniela
name: Tumani, Hayrettin
name: Şenel, Makbule
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Clinical trial
subject: Immunoadsorption
subject: MS relapse
subject: Multiple sclerosis
subject: Plasma exchange
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Background and purpose The predictive value of serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) and serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) for apheresis outcome in steroid-refractory multiple sclerosis (MS) relapse has not yet been evaluated. Methods We used pre- and postapheresis serum samples from 38 participants of the IAPEMS trial (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02671682), which investigated the use of immunoadsorption versus plasma exchange for the treatment of steroid-refractory MS attacks. Response to apheresis was classified based on improvement on (i) the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), (ii) the affected functional system scores (FSS) of the EDSS, or (iii) the visual acuity for patients with optic neuritis, 4 weeks postapheresis. sNFL and sGFAP were measured by single molecule arrays. Results Preprocedural sGFAP levels could discriminate between responders and nonresponders, determined by FSS improvement (p = 0.017). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, younger age (odds ratio [OR] = 0.781, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.635–0.962, p = 0.020) and lower sGFAP levels (OR = 0.948, 95% CI = 0.903–0.995, p = 0.031) could predict response to apheresis in the overall cohort. We could observe a trend towards a favourable apheresis outcome with higher sNfL levels (OR = 1.413, 95% CI = 0.965–2.069, p = 0.076). Analysis of the sNfL-to-sGFAP ratio showed an OR of 1.924 (95% CI = 1.073–3.451, p = 0.028) for predicting apheresis response. The ratio showed a better predictive value than the individual parameters. Neither biomarker was affected by the number of steroid cycles preapheresis. Conclusions Lower sGFAP levels, a higher sNfL-to-sGFAP ratio, and younger age are associated with a favourable apheresis outcome.
Hidden-anisotropy-induced $π$ phase shift in all-optical magnetization precession
Creators: name: Wang, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser-induced magnetization precession of an in-plane magnetized Pt/Co/Pt film with perpendicular interface anisotropy was studied using time resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. An additional $π$ shift in the phase of precession is needed to describe the measured data if only the demagnetization energy is considered. Based on an augmented microscopic model description of the laser-induced magnetization dynamics, the additional $π$ phase is found to be rendered by the dependence on the phonon temperature of the hidden interface anisotropy, in contrast to the dependence on the electron temperature of the demagnetization energy. The observation that the phase of precession is affected by both the electron and the phonon temperature warrants a detailed knowledge about the forms of anisotropy present in the system under investigation for a holistic description of laser-induced magnetization precession.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Supplemental Coverage Option Expanding as Part of the Farm Safety Net
Creators: name: Goeringer, Paul
name: Leathers, Howard
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: supplemental coverage option
crop insurance
Risk Management Agency
USDA
risk management tool

description: The 2014 Farm Bill created Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO), a new add-on crop insurance option which provides supplemental coverage on a producer’s underlying crop insurance policy.  SCO operates by mimicking a producer’s individual crop insurance coverage and covering a portion of the deductible based on county-level yield or revenue.  
	SCO is available in select Maryland counties for apples, barley, corn, grain sorghum, green peas, oats, peaches, processing beans, soybeans, sweet corn, and winter wheat, as of the 2017 crop year.  USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) continues to expand covered counties and crops covered, and begin distinguishing by practices (such as irrigated compared to non-irrigated).
description: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland Extension, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and USDA
The equivalence between local inertial frames and electromagnetic gauge in Einstein-Maxwell theories
Creators: name: Garat, Alcides
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are going to prove that locally the inertial frames and gauge states of the electromagnetic field are equivalent. This proof will be valid for Einstein-Maxwell theories in four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes. Use will be made of theorems proved in a previous manuscript. These theorems state that locally the group of electromagnetic gauge transformations is isomorphic to the local Lorentz transformations of a special set of tetrad vectors. The tetrad that locally and covariantly diagonalizes any non-null electromagnetic stress-energy tensor. Two isomorphisms, one for each plane defined locally by two separate sets of two vectors each. In particular, we are going to use the plane defined by the timelike and one spacelike vector, plane or blade one. These results will be extended to any tetrad that results in a local Lorentz transformation of the special tetrad that locally and covariantly diagonalizes the stress-energy tensor.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1306.2174, arXiv:1306.0602, arXiv:1306.5784, arXiv:1306.4005
On the exotic Grassmannian and its nilpotent variety
Creators: name: Fresse, Lucas
name: Nishiyama, Kyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a decomposition of a vector space $V=V_1\oplus V_2$, the direct product $\mathfrak{X}$ of the projective space $\mathbb{P}(V_1)$ with a Grassmann variety $\mathrm{Gr}_k(V)$ can be viewed as a double flag variety for the symmetric pair $(G,K)=(\mathrm{GL}(V),\mathrm{GL}(V_1)\times\mathrm{GL}(V_2))$. Relying on the conormal variety for the action of $K$ on $\mathfrak{X}$, we show a geometric correspondence between the $K$-orbits of $\mathfrak{X}$ and the $K$-orbits of some appropriate exotic nilpotent cone. We also give a combinatorial interpretation of this correspondence in some special cases. Our construction is inspired by a classical result of Steinberg and by the recent work of Henderson and Trapa for the symmetric pair $(\mathrm{GL}(V),\mathrm{Sp}(V))$.
description: 33 pages. Minor corrections. To appear in Represent. Theory
title: Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Increases APP and Phospho Tau within the Hippocampus of a Novel APP/Tau Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Coschigano, Natalie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's Disease
subject: Traumatic brain injury
subject: Transgenic mice
subject: Immunohistochemistry
subject: Tau
subject: APP

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 2 years and will not be available until July 2021 at the earliest.
description: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Mild TBIs are the most common and often occur during adolescence there is an increased risk of sustaining an additional TBI following the first one. The TBI/AD association thus demonstrates a need to model repetitive mild TBI (rmTBI) since rmTBIs lead to the development of tau tangles and amyloid plaques, similar to those in AD. Despite this, no study to date has assessed the impact of rmTBI during adolescence on a mouse model of AD containing both amyloid and tau. J20 (hAPP) mice were crossed with rTg4510 (TauP301L) mice to create our novel mouse model displaying both Aβ plaques and tau tangles. Mice were split into four groups: AD TBI, AD sham, wildtype (WT) TBI, and WT sham. At 8 weeks of age, the mice underwent rmTBI every other day for a total of 5 hits. Behavioral assessment of the burrowing and nesting tasks were taken at 9 weeks and 3 months. The mice were aged to 8 months when immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed. Behavioral testing and IHC showed that the AD mice performed worse on burrowing and nesting and also showed higher levels of APP and GFAP than WT mice in both the hippocampus and infralimbic cortex. AD TBI mice also showed significantly higher levels of both APP and phospho tau in the hippocampus than AD sham mice, consistent with other studies and confirming that rmTBI is a risk factor for AD.
Approximate robust output regulation of boundary control systems
Creators: name: Humaloja, Jukka-Pekka
name: Kurula, Mikael
name: Paunonen, Lassi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93C05, 93B52 (93D15, 35G15, 35L05)

description: We extend the internal model principle for systems with boundary control and boundary observation, and construct a robust controller for this class of systems. However, as a consequence of the internal model principle, any robust controller for a plant with infinite-dimensional output space necessarily has infinite-dimensional state space. We proceed to formulate the approximate robust output regulation problem and present a finite-dimensional controller structure to solve it. Our main motivating example is a wave equation on a bounded multidimensional spatial domain with force control and velocity observation at the boundary. In order to illustrate the theoretical results, we construct an approximate robust controller for the wave equation on an annular domain and demonstrate its performance with numerical simulations.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures
Coalgebraic Behavioral Metrics
Creators: name: Baldan, Paolo
name: Bonchi, Filippo
name: Kerstan, Henning
name: König, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study different behavioral metrics, such as those arising from both branching and linear-time semantics, in a coalgebraic setting. Given a coalgebra $α\colon X \to HX$ for a functor $H \colon \mathrm{Set}\to \mathrm{Set}$, we define a framework for deriving pseudometrics on $X$ which measure the behavioral distance of states.
 A crucial step is the lifting of the functor $H$ on $\mathrm{Set}$ to a functor $\overline{H}$ on the category $\mathrm{PMet}$ of pseudometric spaces. We present two different approaches which can be viewed as generalizations of the Kantorovich and Wasserstein pseudometrics for probability measures. We show that the pseudometrics provided by the two approaches coincide on several natural examples, but in general they differ.
 If $H$ has a final coalgebra, every lifting $\overline{H}$ yields in a canonical way a behavioral distance which is usually branching-time, i.e., it generalizes bisimilarity. In order to model linear-time metrics (generalizing trace equivalences), we show sufficient conditions for lifting distributive laws and monads. These results enable us to employ the generalized powerset construction.
Online Sparse Subspace Clustering
Creators: name: Madden, Liam
name: Becker, Stephen
name: Dall'Anese, Emiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper focuses on the sparse subspace clustering problem, and develops an online algorithmic solution to cluster data points on-the-fly, without revisiting the whole dataset. The strategy involves an online solution of a sparse representation (SR) problem to build a (sparse) dictionary of similarities where points in the same subspace are considered "similar," followed by a spectral clustering based on the obtained similarity matrix. When the SR cost is strongly convex, the online solution converges to within a neighborhood of the optimal time-varying batch solution. A dynamic regret analysis is performed when the SR cost is not strongly convex.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Copyright 2019 IEEE. Published in the 2019 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW 2019), scheduled for June 4-6, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
title: Grounded Theories of Change in an Azerbaijani-Armenian Youth Peacebuilding Project
Creators: name: Palandjian, Tamar
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Youth Peacebuilding Project
subject: Conflict Resolution
subject: South Caucasus
subject: Armenia - Azerbaijan Peacebuilding
subject: Theories of Change

description: The use of Theories of Change as a practice in the conflict and peacebuilding evaluation community has gained attention in recent years as a way to strengthen the field’s understanding of what are the efforts that help to bring about social change and how are they are able to do it. Within these efforts, there has been a significant focus on deductive methods of coming up with Theories of Change; however, this has excluded the perspectives of the project stakeholders. This research project aims to explore the practice of cultivating the stakeholders’ perspectives on the Theories of Change through an inductive or “bottom-up” approach which the researcher calls, Grounded Theories of Change. In particular, it focuses on a case study of Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation working to promote peacebuilding in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by implementing Track 2 level cross-border joint projects and activities with Armenian and Azerbaijani youth.
A generalization of Steinberg theory and an exotic moment map
Creators: name: Fresse, Lucas
name: Nishiyama, Kyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15 (primary), 17B08, 53C35, 05A15 (secondary)

description: For a reductive group $G$, Steinberg established a map from the Weyl group to the set of nilpotent $G$-orbits by using moment maps on double flag varieties. In particular, in the case of the general linear group, it provides a geometric interpretation of the Robinson-Schensted correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard tableaux of the same shape.
 We extend Steinberg's approach to the case of a symmetric pair $(G,K)$ to obtain two different maps, namely a \emph{generalized Steinberg map} and an \emph{exotic moment map}.
 Although the framework is general, in this paper we focus on the pair $(G,K) = (\mathrm{GL}_{2n}(\mathbb{C}), \mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C}) \times \mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C}))$. Then the generalized Steinberg map is a map from \emph{partial} permutations to the pairs of nilpotent orbits in $ \mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathbb{C}) $. It involves a generalization of the classical Robinson--Schensted correspondence to the case of partial permutations.
 The other map, the exotic moment map, establishes a combinatorial map from the set of partial permutations to that of signed Young diagrams, i.e., the set of nilpotent $K$-orbits in the Cartan space $(\mathrm{Lie}(G)/\mathrm{Lie}(K))^* $.
 We explain the geometric background of the theory and combinatorial algorithms which produce the above mentioned maps.
description: 51 pages, 3 figures. Minor modifications. Accepted in the International Mathematics Research Notices
LSMI-Sinkhorn: Semi-supervised Mutual Information Estimation with Optimal Transport
Creators: name: Liu, Yanbin
name: Yamada, Makoto
name: Tsai, Yao-Hung Hubert
name: Le, Tam
name: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan
name: Yang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Estimating mutual information is an important statistics and machine learning problem. To estimate the mutual information from data, a common practice is preparing a set of paired samples $\{(\mathbf{x}_i,\mathbf{y}_i)\}_{i=1}^n \stackrel{\mathrm{i.i.d.}}{\sim} p(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y})$. However, in many situations, it is difficult to obtain a large number of data pairs. To address this problem, we propose the semi-supervised Squared-loss Mutual Information (SMI) estimation method using a small number of paired samples and the available unpaired ones. We first represent SMI through the density ratio function, where the expectation is approximated by the samples from marginals and its assignment parameters. The objective is formulated using the optimal transport problem and quadratic programming. Then, we introduce the Least-Squares Mutual Information with Sinkhorn (LSMI-Sinkhorn) algorithm for efficient optimization. Through experiments, we first demonstrate that the proposed method can estimate the SMI without a large number of paired samples. Then, we show the effectiveness of the proposed LSMI-Sinkhorn algorithm on various types of machine learning problems such as image matching and photo album summarization. Code can be found at https://github.com/csyanbin/LSMI-Sinkhorn.
description: ECML/PKDD 2021
Novel Methods for the Analysis of Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials
Creators: name: Kennedy-Shaffer, Lee
name: De Gruttola, Victor
name: Lipsitch, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-CRTs) have become increasingly popular and are used for a variety of interventions and outcomes, often chosen for their feasibility advantages. SW-CRTs must account for time trends in the outcome because of the staggered rollout of the intervention inherent in the design. Robust inference procedures and non-parametric analysis methods have recently been proposed to handle such trends without requiring strong parametric modeling assumptions, but these are less powerful than model-based approaches. We propose several novel analysis methods that reduce reliance on modeling assumptions while preserving some of the increased power provided by the use of mixed effects models. In one method, we use the synthetic control approach to find the best matching clusters for a given intervention cluster. This approach can improve the power of the analysis but is fully non-parametric. Another method makes use of within-cluster crossover information to construct an overall estimator. We also consider methods that combine these approaches to further improve power. We test these methods on simulated SW-CRTs and identify settings for which these methods gain robustness to model misspecification while retaining some of the power advantages of mixed effects models. Finally, we propose avenues for future research on the use of these methods; motivation for such research arises from their flexibility, which allows the identification of specific causal contrasts of interest, their robustness, and the potential for incorporating covariates to further increase power. Investigators conducting SW-CRTs might well consider such methods when common modeling assumptions may not hold.
description: 49 total pages, 14 figures
La biblioteca universitaria ante los retos y desafíos para el fomento de una cultura de integridad académica.
Creators: name: Valverde, Jorge Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA NACIONAL
COSTA RICA
ESTUDIOS DE USUARIOS
USUARIOS DE LA INFORMACIÓN
BIBLIOTECOLOGÍA
CALIDAD EDUCATIVA
INTEGRIDAD ACADÉMICA
NECESIDADES DE INFORMACIÓN
ALFABETIZACIÓN INFORMACIONAL DIGITAL

description: Los constantes cambios sociales, tecnológicos, económicos, políticos y la globalizaciónhacen que se amplíen las brechas y desigualdades requieran de una pronta atención ybúsqueda de soluciones, sobre las necesidades que deben de atender los gobiernos y lasinstituciones de educación, para formar una educación de calidad que promuevamotivación, liderazgo, competitividad, innovación además de un aprendizaje integral ypermanente en el desarrollo de competencias, habilidades y destrezas que le permita a laspersonas tomar decisiones con criterios sólidos y éticos, respetando los derechos depropiedad intelectual, en la generación o actualización del conocimiento, que se logra pormedio de la investigación, lo que a la vez contribuye al fortaleciendo y la competitividadque colabora en la creatividad y a generar un desarrollo humano sostenible en la sociedad.
O'ZBEK OILASIDA ERKAK VA AYOLNING MUOMALA MADANIYATI VA GENDER TENGLIGINI  MUSTAHKAMLASH MASALALARI
Creators: name: Egamberdiyeva, I.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O‘zbekistonda oilaviy munosabatlar tarixiy va madaniy ildizlarga ega bo'lib, erkak va ayolning oiladagi o'rni va ularning bir-biriga nisbatan muomalasi jamiyatning ijtimoiy tarkibiga sezilarli ta'sir ko'rsatadi. O‘zbek oilasida erkak va ayolning muomalasi an’anaviy qadriyatlar va zamonaviy o‘zgarishlar ta’sirida shakllanmoqda. Erkakning mas’uliyatli va qat’iyatli bo'lishi, ayolning esa mehribon va sabr-toqatli bo‘lishi o‘zbek oilasining mustahkamligiga xizmat qiluvchi asosiy omillardir. Shu bilan birga, zamonaviy jamiyatda gender tengligi masalalari ham katta ahamiyat kasb etib, erkak va ayolning oila ichidagi o‘rni va muomalasiga yangi mazmun berishi kutilmoqda. Ushbu maqola o‘zbek oilasida erkak va ayolning muomalasini tahlil qilishga qaratilgan.
Optimal Uncertainty-guided Neural Network Training
Creators: name: Kabir, H M Dipu
name: Khosravi, Abbas
name: Kavousi-Fard, Abdollah
name: Nahavandi, Saeid
name: Srinivasan, Dipti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The neural network (NN)-based direct uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods have achieved the state of the art performance since the first inauguration, known as the lower-upper-bound estimation (LUBE) method. However, currently-available cost functions for uncertainty guided NN training are not always converging and all converged NNs are not generating optimized prediction intervals (PIs). Moreover, several groups have proposed different quality criteria for PIs. These raise a question about their relative effectiveness. Most of the existing cost functions of uncertainty guided NN training are not customizable and the convergence of training is uncertain. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a highly customizable smooth cost function for developing NNs to construct optimal PIs. The optimized average width of PIs, PI-failure distances and the PI coverage probability (PICP) are computed for the test dataset. The performance of the proposed method is examined for the wind power generation and the electricity demand data. Results show that the proposed method reduces variation in the quality of PIs, accelerates the training, and improves convergence probability from 99.2% to 99.8%.