cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
They 'Boast of Dressing Like Gentlemen': Cross-Dressing, Print Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideology
Creators: name: Hemphill, Julia Kay
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Women's studies
subject: Gender studies
subject: cross-dressing
subject: gender
subject: nineteenth-century
subject: print media

description: Nineteenth-century gender roles were very strict but cross-dressing challenged these extremely binary roles, often being written about in different forms of print media. The press published stories about cross-dressing people in different ways depending on the actions they took in male attire. Soldier women cross-dressed and entered the military, but were not reprimanded for their decisions because their amount of time in male attire was perceived to be finite and because they were performing a service for their country. Women and male-presenting people who wore male attire and went into male workplaces, took wives, and became heads of household were highly reprimanded in the press in lengthy articles and short stories. Finally, women who wore the reform dress and liberated themselves from enslavement in male attire were spoken about in the press in two competing ways, with people supporting their transgressions and others not. Looking at the different ways that print media discussed these women and male-presenting people is important for looking at how gender roles were structured, and for understanding why powerful men were only threatened by certain cross-dressers.
Additional file 1 of Stressors for farmworker parents during wildfire season
Creators: name: D’Evelyn, Savannah M
name: Nerenberg, Isabel
name: Blancas, Maria
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Suarez, Alyssa
name: Drury, Dennise O
name: Kasner, Edward J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Mechanisms of fructose-induced hypertension
Creators: name: Tran, Trinh Xuan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors and is a global health concern. The most accepted and unifying hypothesis proposes that insulin resistance is the major common underlying abnormality that describes the metabolic syndrome and links it to the development of cardiovascular disease. The fructose-fed rat is an animal model that exhibits several features observed in the metabolic syndrome including insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, hypertriglyceridemia and hypertension. This animal model is used to study the relationship between these metabolic disturbances and hypertension. Numerous mechanisms have been proposed to mediate the link between insulin resistance and hypertension. The objectives of this thesis were to further investigate the underlying mechanisms that have been proposed to contribute to the development of hypertension in fructose-fed rats through the use of various pharmacological agents. We demonstrated that chronic treatment with bosentan, a dual endothelin receptor antagonist, L-158,809, an angiotensin receptor antagonist, prazosin, an α₁-adrenoceptor antagonist or etanercept, a soluble recombinant fusion protein consisting of the extracellular ligand binding domain of tumor necrosis factor receptor type 2, prevented the development of fructose-induced hypertension without affecting insulin levels or insulin sensitivity. These results suggest that increased production and/or activity of the endothelin system, renin angiotensin system or sympathetic nervous system contribute to the development of hypertension through insulin-independent mechanisms. Both the endothelin system and renin angiotensin system are crucial players in the development of fructose-induced hypertension, with endothelin-1 contributing its effects through modulation of angiotensin II. Overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system contributed to the development of hypertension, but does not appear to be an initial, precipitating mediator. Chronic etanercept treatment prevented the development of hypertension by improving vascular function and restoring endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression. Therefore, the pathogenesis of hypertension in fructose-fed rats is complex in nature and involves numerous pathways that do not necessarily function independently from one another.
Verführung im Spannungsfeld von Lust und Gewalt – Der Begriff der Verführung vor dem Hintergrund von 'Consent'-Prinzipien Sexueller Bildung
Creators: name: Boniatowsky, Nyke
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Verführung
subject: Einvernehmlichkeit
subject: Consent-Prinzipien
subject: sexualisierte Gewalt
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::302 Soziale Interaktion

description: Wie stellt sich ein aktuelles Verständnis von dem Begriff Verführung im Kontext von Sexualität im deutschsprachigen Raum dar und ist es mit 'Consent'-Prinzipien der Sexuellen Bildung vereinbar? Die zugrundeliegende These ist, dass es verschiedene aktuelle Verständnisse des Wortes Verführung gibt und Auslegungen davon sich in direktem sexuellen Kontakt sowohl in konsensuellem Spiel miteinander, als auch an der Grenze sexualisierter Gewalt bewegen können.
Additional file 2 of Stressors for farmworker parents during wildfire season
Creators: name: D’Evelyn, Savannah M
name: Nerenberg, Isabel
name: Blancas, Maria
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Suarez, Alyssa
name: Drury, Dennise O
name: Kasner, Edward J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2
Global wife, local daughter : gender, family, and nation in transnational marriages in Northeast Thailand
Creators: name: Sunanta, Sirijit
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation explains the emergence and continuous growth of transnational marriages in Northeast Thailand through a gendered and localized analysis of globalization. The Foreign Husband (Phua Farang) phenomenon, or inter-racial/cross national marriages between Thai women and foreign men, has grown substantially in the last ten years, particularly in Isan or the Northeast Region of Thailand. In 2003-2004 as many as 15,000 women from Isan provinces are married to or engaged in romantic relationships with foreign men mainly from Western European countries and the U.S. Transnationally married Isan women send remittances to their families, schools, and temples, thus contributing to the economic and social transformation of agrarian villages in Thailand’s poorest region. The Phua Farang phenomenon among rural Isan women, and the volume of revenue the phenomenon generates, perplex Thai society and stirs nation-wide debates. I demonstrate through combined gender, class and political economic analyses how the Phua Farang phenomenon in Isan is implicated in the interconnected “worlds” between the global and the local, the macro and micro scales, as well as the production and reproduction realms. Exploring localized global processes that take place at various scales—from the individual, the family and community, to the nation-state and the global political economy—this dissertation reveals on-going struggles between structural forces from “above” and everyday resistance on the ground by classed, ethnicized and gendered subjects exercising their agency. Internal struggles within the Thai nation, shown in ethnicized, classed, and gendered moral and nationalist discourses around the Phua Farang phenomenon, further problematize the dichotomy between the “colonizing global capitalism” and the much celebrated local alternatives to modernity.
Additional file 3 of Stressors for farmworker parents during wildfire season
Creators: name: D’Evelyn, Savannah M
name: Nerenberg, Isabel
name: Blancas, Maria
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Suarez, Alyssa
name: Drury, Dennise O
name: Kasner, Edward J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 3
INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF ACOUSTIC FORCING ON NEURAL NETWORK ACTIVITY
Creators: name: Dutta, Arijit
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bioengineering

description: The increase in the prevalence of neurological disorders, now approximated to affect 15% of the worldwide population, has highlighted the need to fundamentally understand how neuronal networks function in normal and diseased conditions. Acoustic forcing has been identified as a method to advance the fabrication and understanding of how neural networks function via cell patterning and neuromodulation. This phenomenon occurs as acoustic waves at ultrasonic frequencies impart a force on a target through a medium. Cell patterning via acoustic forcing has led to the development of biomimetic neural organoids. Neuromodulation, via acoustic forcing, has been shown to stimulate neuronal activity and is popularly researched in transcranial focused ultrasound. A concern in transcranial focused ultrasound is standing wave formation, and thus pressure gradients, in the brain. The mechanism of how standing wave formation impacts neuronal network activity remains unknown. This thesis elucidates the impact of acoustic standing waves on large-scale neuronal activity through the fabrication and application of a standing-wave generating device on assembled ReNcell human neural progenitor-derived neural networks. The preliminary results showed younger networks to have large decreases in activity while older networks saw minimal change following acoustic forcing application. Additionally, varying intensity from did not affect network activity of older networks during acoustic forcing application.
AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS, COPING, AND HEALTH AMONG BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS
Creators: name: Brown, Rabia
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Counseling psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Black studies
subject: Black college students
subject: Coping
subject: Health
subject: Racial microaggressions

description: Black college students endure racial microaggressions in higher education, and current research highlights how racial microaggressions can negatively impact the health of Black college students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between racial microaggressions in higher education, coping strategies (education/advocacy, resistance, detachment, drug/alcohol use, and internalization), and health quality in Black college students. Participants included 155 Black college students that took an online survey as a part of a larger study conducted at a large Southeastern historically white university. Results from the hierarchical linear regression analyses indicated that racial microaggressions were significantly and negatively associated with mental and physical health quality in Black college students. Additionally, results from the mediation analyses found that detachment coping significantly mediated the association between racial microaggressions and mental health in Black college students. This study provides further evidence of the negative impact of racial microaggressions on the health and well-being of Black college students.
Characterization of a novel Escherichia coli exopolysaccharide and its biosynthesis by NfrB
Creators: name: Fernando, Sashika Hansini Lakmali
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Chemistry
subject: bacteria
subject: biofilms
subject: exopolysaccharides
subject: membrane protein
subject: proteins

description: Biofilms are made from an association of bacterial cells and extracellular products dominated by a plethora of exopolysaccharides. Accumulating evidence have demonstrated that the bacterial second messenger cyclic-di-guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) promotes the synthesis of these exopolysaccharides through direct allosteric activation of glycosyltransferase enzymes. The Escherichia coli inner membrane protein NfrB, which together with the outer membrane protein NfrA acts as a receptor system for phage N4, contains a N-terminal glycosyltransferase domain and C-terminal c-di-GMP binding domain. Recent research revealed that NfrB is a novel, c-di- GMP controlled glycosyltransferase that is proposed to synthesize a N-acetylmannosamine containing polysaccharide product, though the exact structure and function of this remains unknown. Nfr polysaccharide production impedes bacterial motility, which suggests a possible role of the Nfr proteins in bacterial biofilm formation. Here, we carry out in-vivo synthesis of novelNfr polysaccharide followed by its structural characterization. Preliminary data from MALDI- TOF mass spectrometry and Solid State 13C NMR spectroscopy indicated that the Nfr polysaccharide is mainly a homo polymer of poly-?-(1®4)-N-acetylmannosamine, bound to an aglycone. In addition, we report efforts to develop of a Nfr polysaccharide binding and detection tool, through the mutation of YbcH, a putative Nfr polysaccharide hydrolase enzyme. These studies advance the understanding of Nfr polysaccharide biosynthesis and could offer potential new targets for the development of antibiofilm and antibacterial therapies.
Additional file 4 of Stressors for farmworker parents during wildfire season
Creators: name: D’Evelyn, Savannah M
name: Nerenberg, Isabel
name: Blancas, Maria
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Suarez, Alyssa
name: Drury, Dennise O
name: Kasner, Edward J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 4
Additional file 5 of Stressors for farmworker parents during wildfire season
Creators: name: D’Evelyn, Savannah M
name: Nerenberg, Isabel
name: Blancas, Maria
name: Rivera, Laura
name: Suarez, Alyssa
name: Drury, Dennise O
name: Kasner, Edward J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 5
CHILDHOOD BEREAVEMENT AND INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS: RELATIONSHIP QUALITY AS A MECHANISM AND EARLY ATTACHMENT SECURITY AS A BUFFER
Creators: name: Awao, Sayaka
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Developmental psychology

description: Childhood bereavement has been linked with poor psychosocial outcomes. However, few studies have explored the mechanisms and protective factors affecting child outcome following the death of a close family member (i.e., loss), and a limited number of studies have considered the timing of loss. The present study leverages a population-based longitudinal cohort data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine outcomes (internalizing symptoms), mechanisms (relationship quality), and protective factors (early attachment security) at age 9 and 15 for children who experienced the death of a close family member during three developmental stages: early childhood, middle childhood, and late childhood/early adolescence. Although many of the hypothesized associations were not found, findings underscore the enduring impact of early childhood attachment in protecting children in the face of loss. Specifically, the protective role of early attachment security was found at age 15, particularly for individuals experiencing loss during late childhood/early adolescence. The study highlights the importance of continued investigation of the impact of childhood bereavement endured during different developmental stages, and the importance of examining outcomes at different ages.
Additional file 1 of Whole-genome DNA methylomes of tree shrew brains reveal conserved and divergent roles of DNA methylation on sex chromosome regulation
Creators: name: Son, Dongmin R.
name: Kong, Yifan
name: Tan, Yulian
name: Hu, Ting
name: Shi, Lei
name: Yi, Soojin V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional File 1: Table S1. Overview of samples from 3 male and 3 female tree shrews and the processing of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) data. Fig. S1. Overview of DNA methylation data. Fig. S2. DNA methylation patterns near gene region. Fig. S3. Relationships between DNA methylation and gene expression for promoters and gene bodies for the X chromosome and a representative autosome (Chromosome 8) in male and female tree shrews. Fig. S4. Sex-specific read-depth on the X chromosome. Fig. S5. Comparisons of promoter and gene body DNA methylation in females and males for chromosome 8. Fig. S6. Global patterns of female X hypomethylation in tree shrews. Fig. S7. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) between female and male tree shrews in the prefrontal cortex. Fig. S8. The observed hypomethylation of female X chromosomes is not due to biases arising from differing read depths between female (XY) and male (XX) samples. Fig. S9. A comparison of CpG O/E ratios among humans, koalas, and tree shrews. Fig. S10. Overview of differentially expressed genes between the male and female tree shrews. Fig. S11. A conserved DNA methylation pattern near the Xist gene. Fig S12. The putative Sry gene region. Fig. S13. Information on CpG site coverage in our data and the reproduction of results using highly covered CpG sites.
title: LANGUAGE MODELS FOR RARE DISEASE INFORMATION EXTRACTION
title:   EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS AND MODEL COMPARISONS
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gupta, Shashank
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 2
subject: FOS: Engineering and technology

description: End-to-end relation extraction (E2ERE) is a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves identifying and classifying semantic relationships between entities in text. This thesis compares three paradigms for end-to-end relation extraction (E2ERE) in biomedicine, focusing on rare diseases with discontinuous and nested entities. We evaluate Named Entity Recognition (NER) to Relation Extraction (RE) pipelines, sequence-to-sequence models, and generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models using the RareDis information extraction dataset. Our findings indicate that pipeline models are the most effective, followed closely by sequence-to-sequence models. GPT models, despite having eight times as many parameters, perform worse than sequence-to-sequence models and significantly lag pipeline models. Our results also hold for a second E2ERE dataset for chemical-protein interactions.
description: © 2024 Shashank Gupta
Innovative Reuse of Baltimore Harbor Dredged Material as Vegetative Earthen Berms
Creators: name: Smith, Adam
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Dredged sediments
subject: Stormwater
subject: Vegetative earthen berms
subject: Water quality

description: Dredged material (DM) is a sediment excavated from navigable waterways, which haslimited use due to the transport and accumulation of potentially hazardous metals and organic chemicals into these waterways. DM can be used as a recycled material in place of soil, depending on its environmental and physical characteristics, and the specific use. Vegetated Earthen Berms (VEBs), used for stormwater control, is one potential beneficial application of DM. The objective of this research is to assess the environmental and geotechnical suitability of DM in VEBs. A germination study and a battery of column tests were conducted to test the innate properties of the DM and DM amended with straw and sand, as DM blends. Straw and sand were chosen to observe potential improvements to the DM’s physical and chemical parameters. A nine-week mesocosm study was performed to simulate the overall performance of DM and DM blend constructed VEBs for the plant growth and water quality criteria, determined by US EPA water quality limits. Plant cover and growth measurements along with measuring effluent water characteristics were assessed. Straw amended DM was shown to have comparable vegetative establishment parameters relative to topsoil. For the water quality, concentrations of dissolved copper and zinc were reduced relative to typical median stormwater values in DM constructed VEBs. Based on the results of these tests, DM constructed VEBs had reflected desirable qualities for potential reuse based on water quality and vegetative establishment.
Amtliches Verzeichnis der Lehrer, Beamten und Studierenden an der Königlich-Bayerischen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München 1862; 1862
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1862

description: Textfreie Seiten wurden entfernt.
Morphna lucida Anisyutkin 2014
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Morphna
Morphna lucida

description: 55. Morphna lucida Anisyutkin, 2014
Morphna lucida Anisyutkin, 2014: 309.
Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri Hills: Devala.
Depository. MMUM.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 471, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068
Mi Vida, in Rhythm: Resistance and Integration of an Afro- Honduran Immigrant in The United States Through Tap Dance
Creators: name: Lanza Ruiz, Gerson Noé
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Performing arts
subject: Afro Latino
subject: Garifuna
subject: Honduras
subject: Mascaro
subject: Tap dance

description: This article focuses on Mi Vida, in Rhythm, which premiered on October 12, 2023, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. This performance is an autobiographical account of my experience immigrating from Honduras to the United States. At the heart of this production lies the art of storytelling, brough to life through the combination of live music, dance and spoken word. The performance draws heavily from the experiences of Afro-descendant peoples in Central America and the United States. It is steeped in the cultural traditions of the Garifuna, an afro-indigenous people of Honduras, incorporating their language, dance forms of resistance, and everyday choreography. The performance aims to capture the evolution of communication tactics, identity, and coping mechanisms of Afro Latinoe/xs as we navigate the challenges of realizing the American dream.What follows are brief personal accounts that serve as guide to essential artistic discoveries that sparked my curiosity. These curiosities eventually mold my artistry in percussive dance, particularly tap dance. With that, I formally analyze specific segments in Mi Vida, in Rhythm, that serve as reservoir of knowledge for movement and sound exploration. Ultimately my scholarly research dwells in three different topics; First the term Blackness as descriptive of one's ethnicity, race, or both, and the movement practices unique to their demographic and diasporic thread. Second, the understanding of historic privileging of Eurocentric perspectives within higher education. Third, the necessity to highlight Afro-Latinoe/ experiences and dance forms within dance curriculum. The article concludes by highlighting my contributions as an artist, instructor, and creative collaborator steeped in the artistry of bodily percussion practices and the intersectionality of Black cultural terrain and immigration paranoia.
Screening, characterization and inhibition of viral cysteine proteinases
Creators: name: Huitema, Carly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: 3C proteinases (3Cpros) are a family of essential cysteine proteinases found in various viruses of medical and agricultural significance. Three lines of research related to the characterization of 3Cpros were pursued. In the first, biological selections and screens were developed to evaluate proteinase activity in a high-throughput fashion. A selection system based on the cleavage of an engineered transcriptional regulator, XylR, by hepatitis A virus (HAV) 3Cpro failed. However, this strategy facilitated the development of a screen based on the cleavage of fused green fluorescent protein variants, CyPet and YPet. The screen was used to demonstrate that HAV 3Cpro prefers Ile, Val or Leu at the P₄ position of the cleavage sequence, and Gly, Ser or Ala at the P₁’ position. In the second project, the 3Cpro from Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), a dicistrovirus, was investigated. IAPV has been associated with the recent colony collapse disorder afflicting commercial hives. A portion of the replicase including 3Cpro was heterologously produced. The resulting autoprocessed fragments were analyzed using mass spectrometry to identify the 3Cpro cleavage sequence PIVIE/AQT. This cleavage sequence likely occurs between the 3A/3B proteins of the polypeptide and is the first within the replicase to be described in this family of viruses. Thirdly, inhibitors of HAV 3Cpro and SARS 3CLpro were developed. The keto- glutamine analogue (HIP2-171-2) competitively inhibited SARS 3CLpro with a Kic = 0.17 ± 0.03 μM and is among the most potent peptide inhibitors developed against this proteinase. The azapeptide epoxide (APE) KAE-3-91 irreversibly inhibited SARS 3CLpro with a kinact/Ki of 1900 ± 400 M−¹s−¹, which is similar in magnitude to that of the first generation APE’s produced to inhibit caspases. Finally, both SARS 3CLpro and HAV 3Cpro were screened against a library of inhibitory halopyridinyl esters. Each of three halopyridinyl esters inhibited 3Cpro with apparent Kic’s of 120-240 nM. However, further study revealed that the inhibitors were slowly hydrolyzed by both proteinases. Overall, the described screens and inhibitors should facilitate the further characterization of 3C and related proteinases as well as the development of novel antivirals.
Calolamprodes Bey-Bienko 1969
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Calolamprodes

description: Calolamprodes Bey-Bienko, 1969
Subgenus Calolamprodes Bey-Bienko, 1969
Type species: Epilampra laevis Brunner von Wattenwyl.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068
Aktuelle inklusionsorientierte Entwicklungen im Bereich der Kunstvermittlung
Creators: name: Brust, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inklusion
subject: Menschen mit Behinderung
subject: Teilhabe
subject: Barrierefreiheit
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::302 Soziale Interaktion

description: Die Umsetzung des Vorhabens der gleichberechtigten Teilhabe aller Menschen am gesellschaftlichen Leben wird in den verschiedensten Bereichen bearbeitet. ... Auch im Kultursektor müssen also Maßnahmen hinsichtlich der Förderung von Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderung stattfinden. Museen und Bibliotheken sind beauftragt, den Ausbau der Barrierefreiheit in baulicher und inhaltlicher Gestaltung einbeziehen. Kulturveranstaltungen sollten für Menschen mit und ohne Behinderung gleichermaßen erlebbar und bespielbar sein. Kulturschaffende sollten Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderung in Freizeit und Beruf ermöglichen. ... Diese Arbeit beleuchtet davon ausgehend zwei Fragestellungen: Zum einen wird untersucht, auf welche Weise sich Kulturorte wie Museen neue Zielgruppen durch die inklusive Öffnung erschließen und wie sie auch marginalisierte Gruppen dabei erreichen. Zum anderen geht es um die Methoden der Barrierenreduzierung an sich und die Frage nach der Gefahr „dass die Faszination für außergewöhnliche Kommunikationsmedien oder für die Behinderung (...) die künstlerisch-kulturelle Auseinandersetzung überlagert“, also die Methoden ihren rein vermittelnden Zweck verlieren.
The Natural Response of Uniform and Nonuniform Plates in Air and Partially Submerged in a Quiescent Water Body
Creators: name: Fishman, Edwin Barry
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Acoustics
subject: Added Mass
subject: Fluid Mechanics
subject: Fluid–structure interaction

description: The free vibration of three aluminum plates (.4 m wide, 1.08 m long) oriented horizontally is studied experimentally under two fluid conditions, one with the plate surrounded by air, called the Air case, and the other with the bottom plate surface in contact with a large undisturbed pool of water, called the Half-Wet case. Measurements of the out-of-plane deflection of the upper surfaces of the plates are made using cinematic Digital Image Correlation (DIC) over the center portion of the surface and optical tracking of the center point. Three plate geometries and boundary conditions are studied: A uniform plate with 6.35 mm thickness pinned at the two opposite narrow ends (designated UP), a uniform plate with 4.83 mm thickness simply supported at one narrow end and clamped at the opposite end (UC), and a stepped plate with thickness varying from 12.7 mm to 6.35 mm along its 1.08 m length pinned at two opposite narrow ends (SP). The plate's free response is induced using an impact hammer at three locations along the center-line of the plate. Video frames of the motion of the upper surface of the plate are collected from stereoscopic cameras and processed using DaVis-Strainmaster and MATLAB to extract full-field displacements as a function of time. Two-degree-of-freedom displacements of the plate center are also collected by tracking a target attached to the center of the plate's lower surface. Time and frequency response plots are presented for comparison between the Half-Wet and Air cases and analysis of their dynamics. It is found that the added mass of the water results in lower measured natural frequencies and modified mode shapes. In the Air case, these results are compared to mode shapes/frequencies produced in Creo Simulate and found to agree. Further experiments are discussed.
THE “UNEQUAL WRONGS AMENDMENT”: STATE COURT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MARYLAND EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Creators: name: Justement, Shelly
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Women's studies
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Equal Rights Amendment

description: This thesis answers the question: How did Maryland state courts’ interpretations of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) affect the amendment’s meaning? This thesis explores state courts’ interpretations of the amendment in seven cases involving child support, spousal abandonment, abortion, rape, women’s access to exclusively male clubs, and gay marriage between the years of 1972 and 2006. The state courts’ decisions regarding the Maryland ERA promoted legal equality without providing equity between men and women or heterosexual and homosexual couples. The state courts often interpreted the ERA in narrow ways that did not always benefit women’s rights, and indeed, this thesis demonstrates that the courts’ rulings in ERA cases did not produce material equality between men and women or queer and straight couples. The courts’ narrow interpretations of the ERA were reflected by the fact that the judges interpreted the words of the amendment literally without consideration of Marylanders’ socioeconomic realities; the judges limited the reach of the ERA to state actions, not the actions of private individuals or organizations; and the judges limited the application of the ERA to cases in which men and women were treated as separate classes. In examining the consistently narrow nature of the judicial interpretations of the ERA, this thesis acknowledges the limitations of the ERA for women’s as well as gay and lesbian rights in Maryland. While benefits to men did not inherently mean that the courts took rights away from women, the courts’ interpretations of the ERA ended up limiting women’s equity with men more often than promoting it.
"Scandalous Conduct Tending to the Destruction of Good Morals": Dynamics and Tension in Sex Crime Courts-martial in the Interwar U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1919-1941
Creators: name: Forschler, Andrew Cavin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: American history
subject: Sexuality
subject: Court-martial
subject: Homosexuality
subject: Interwar period
subject: Sex crime
subject: United States Marine Corps
subject: United States Navy

description: Interwar (1919-1941) U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sex crime courts-martial had complex dynamics and tension. Written policy criminalized most sex. When policy was enforced, it mostly targeted same-sex crimes. Enlisted men held different beliefs about sex than commissioned officers. Enlisted men’s lived experience was incongruent with policy. Leadership believed that men who had sex with other men should be expelled from the Navy and Marine Corps. Duty was a powerful and frequently used rhetorical tool by judge advocates to argue for conviction for sex crime. The Navy Medical Corps expressed the idea that same-sex sexual activity should not be criminalized as same-sex desire was a mental defect. The dynamics of written policy/policy in action, enlisted men/commissioned officers, and naval service/duty/sexology are explored.
Calolamprodes (Calolamprodes) characterosa
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Calolamprodes
Calolamprodes characterosa

description: 60. Calolamprodes (Calolamprodes) characterosa (Walker, 1868)
Epilampra characterosa Walker, 1868: 209.
References. Princis, 1951: 35 (Epilampra tranquebarica); Princis, 1963: 148; Prabakaran et al., 2009: 57; 2018: 207; Anisyutkin, 2014: 319.
Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu.
Depository. BMNH.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068
CHAOS AND CONSPIRACY: THE HAGERSTOWN DRAFT RIOTS AND THE WHISKEY REBELLION
Creators: name: Lowery, Kourtney Renea
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History
subject: American history
subject: American Revolution
subject: Draft Riots
subject: Early America
subject: Excise Tax
subject: Maryland
subject: Whiskey Rebellion

description: ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: CHAOS AND CONSPIRACY: THE HAGERSTOWN DRAFT RIOTS AND THE WHISKEY REBELLION Kourtney Renea Lowery, Master of Arts, 2024 Thesis Directed By: Professor Holly Brewer, Department of History This thesis explores the events of Washington County, MD in September 1794 to re-establish the significance of the Hagerstown Riots and their connection to the Whiskey Rebellion in Pittsburgh as well as to broader revolutionary ideals. The riots were a localized event in which the militia openly disobeyed orders. Citizens soldiers used militarized force to display their opposition to the excise tax and militia draft. Residents and many local leaders also opposed these measures and favored a progressive political and economic system. The Hagerstown Riots are an important microhistory and look at early American rebellion, protestors, and redress of grievances. The protestors at the Hagerstown Riots were angry with the excise tax and economic and political policies that the federal government created policies that were antiquated and unfairly administered. Hamilton’s taxation scheme was modeled on a British taxation system which colonials had fought against. They viewed these policies as created by elites in the federal government. State governments and officials, meanwhile were becoming more egalitarian in places like Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Washington County, Maryland showcases these frustrations and changes by retracing the dynamics of the rioters, officials, and militia. It also seeks to resolve why this event has been forgotten. The riots decenter the Whiskey Rebellion from an isolated large uprising in Pennsylvania to a broad movement that includes local events such as the Hagerstown riots, and that started before the American Revolution.
Opisthoplatia Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Opisthoplatia

description: Opisthoplatia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
Type species: Polyzosteria orientalis Burmeister.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068
Elachiptera Macquart 1835
Creators: name: Nartshuk, Emilia P.
name: Tschirnhaus, Michael Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chloropidae
Elachiptera

description: Elachiptera Macquart, 1835: 621.
Type species: Chlorops brevipennis Meigen, 1830: 159 — Germany. Designation: original.
Myrmemorpha Dufour, 1833: 218.
Type species: Myrmemorpha brachyptera Dufour, 1833: 219 — Spain. Designation: monotypy. Senior name but not available after article 23 of the Code, see above.
Mirmemorpha Dufour, 1833: 220—error.
Myrmecomorpha Blanchard, 1840: 629 —unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha.
Crassiseta von Roser, 1840: 63.
Type species: Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: Corti, 1909: 12.
Mirmemorpha Rondani, 1841: 281 (Note)—error or unjustified emendation.
Pachychaeta Loew, 1845: 50 —proposed in synonymy with Crassiseta von Roser. Type species Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: Andersson 1977: 68, incorrectly stated as monotypy.
Elachyptera Agassiz, 1847: 135 —unjustified emendation.
Myrmecomorpha Agassiz, 1847: 243 —unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha.
Macrochetum Rondani, 1856: 127
Type species: Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: original.
Macrochoetum Bezzi, 1892: 43 (see O’Hara et al., 2011: 110)
Macrochaetum Bezzi, 1894: 343 (see O’Hara et al., 2011: 110)
Macrochoetum Bezzi, 1894: 351—unjustified emendation.
Ceratobarys Coquillett, 1898: 45.
Type species: Hippelates eulophus Loew, 1872: 104 — USA. Designation: original.
Macrochaetum, error (Corti, 1909: 128).
Myrmecomorpha Corti, 1909: 141 —subsequent usage of the unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha. Type species: Chlorops brevipennis Meigen, 1830: 159 - Germany. Designation: monotypy.
Megachetum Rondani (Becker, 1910: 119) —lapsus.
Doliomyia Johannsen, 1924: 89; as subgenus of Melanochaeta.
Type species: Melanochaeta longiventris Johannsen, 1924: 89 — USA. Designation: original.
Neoelachiptera Séguy, 1938a: 360.
Type species: Neoelachiptera lerouxi Séguy, 1938a: 360 — Kenya. Designation: original.
Melanochaeta authors nec Bezzi, in part.
description: Published as part of Nartshuk, Emilia P. & Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, 2012, New generic synomyms in the Chloropidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae), with additional taxonomic notes, pp. 44-54 in Zootaxa 3267 on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208510
Erstellung eines mobilen E-Learning-Kurses zur App "Go.tour" für ambulante Pflegekräfte
Creators: name: Schwanbeck, Philipp
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Abrechnung
subject: Mobile Smartphone-App
subject: Schulungsbedarf
subject: E-Learning
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::331 Arbeitsökonomie

description: ... Damit Pflegedienstleister ihrer Pflicht zur elektronischen Abrechnung nachkommen können, müssen Mitarbeiter ihre Zeiten und Leistungen ebenfalls in elektronischer Form erfassen. Realisiert wird dies wird durch ein Zusammenspiel stationärer Software und mobiler Smartphone-Apps. Gerade Mitarbeiter, für die der Umgang mit digitalen Medien noch nicht zur Routine geworden ist, benötigen Unterstützung im Umgang mit Apps wie go.tour, mit denen sie ihre Zeiten und Leistungen erfassen können. An dieser Stelle ergibt sich ein Schulungsbedarf, der durch E-Learning gedeckt werden kann. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt sich des Problems an ...
Refining the understanding of the crosstalk between auxin and indolic defense compound metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana to improve transferability of the model system to major crops
Creators: name: House, Lillyanna
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant sciences
subject: ABCB
subject: Auxin metabolism
subject: DAO
subject: IAA
subject: LC-MS
subject: PAA

description: The main natural auxin, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), modulates a diversity of plant growth and developmental responses through the tight regulation of auxin biosynthesis and inactivation, transport, and signaling. Evidence that analogous auxin metabolic pathways contributing to programmed and plastic development exist amongst different plant species, points to the necessity for refinement of the current understanding of auxin metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana to improve its transferability as a model system to major crops. Evaluation of the current understanding of auxin biology in plants and analytical tools available for the visualization and quantification of auxin reveal several gaps of knowledge. This work seeks to address this by 1.) elucidating the specific roles of DIOXYGENASE FOR AUXIN OXIDATION 1 and 2 (DAO1 and DAO2) in the oxidative catabolism of IAA and IA-conjugates and functionality of oxidized IAA (oxIAA), 2.) clarifying the function of ATP-BINDING CASSETTE subfamily B (ABCB) transporters and the interplay of auxin, brassinolide, and ethylene in apical hook development and 3.) investigating the possibility of an analogous auxin metabolic pathway involving the natural auxin, phenylacetic acid (PAA), in Oryza sativa. Herein, it is shown that DAO2 activity is similar to DAO1 and assists in the regulation of auxin homeostasis under high auxin conditions and DAO1 is both soluble and plasma membrane associated. Additionally, oxIAA functions as a weak “anti-auxin” to modulate processes like apical hook development, where a subset of ABCB transporters is found to function in auxin mobilization downstream of ethylene signaling and brassinolide transport. The detection of PAA was achieved using LC-MS, however further method development is required for accurate quantification of PAA in rice tissue samples. Application of previous and new knowledge pertaining to the crosstalk between auxin and indolic defense metabolism in Arabidopsis revealed a seemingly analogous pathway in rice whereby phenyl acetonitrile (PAN) is converted to PAA, likely via nitrolases. The results presented herein, refine the understanding of auxin metabolism in Arabidopsis and exemplify the use of a model system in elucidating similar pathways in agriculturally significant crops.
Men on Boats: A Lighting Design
Creators: name: Laverty, Christina Kouni
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Theater
subject: Design
subject: Lighting Design
subject: Men on Boats
subject: Theatre
subject: Theatre Design

description: This thesis provides written and visual documentation of the lighting design process for Jaclyn Backhaus’ play Men on Boats, produced by the University of Maryland, College Park’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. The production opened on March 1, 2024, and had six performances. This paper details dramaturgical analysis, research, the design process, technical documents, performance photographs, and reflections.
STATE GUN LEGISLATION STRENGTH AND KILLINGS BY LAW ENFORCEMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DANGER PERCEPTION THEORY
Creators: name: Millsap, Kristen Alyse
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The Danger Perception Theory hypothesizes that the use of lethal force by a law enforcement officer can be explained by the level of threat (real or perceived) that an individual officer feels during an encounter. With firearms being ubiquitous throughout the country, I theorize that a state’s gun law permissiveness may contribute to an officer’s perception of “threat” by increasing the probability that a citizen will have a firearm during any given encounter. Using the strength of gun legislation as a proxy for the level of threat an officer might feel, this thesis aims to empirically test the Danger Perception Theory. This thesis uses three years of data (2017 - 2019) from Mapping Police Violence, a crowd-sourced database that tracks police killings, and the legislative scorecards given by Gifford’s Law Center that measures the strength of state gun legislation, to look at individual state variations and test the Danger Perception Theory (DPT). States were matched on thirteen demographic, social, and economic variables, and states that fit the criteria of falling within one standard deviation on each variable and being contiguous with each other, were compared to see if they aligned with the DPT by showing a higher Gifford’s score and a lower rate of police killing per million residents. Using an equal-tailed Jeffrey’s prior interval, two confidence intervals were constructed for each of the three years to find the probability of support for the DPT. None of the tests conducted were statistically significant, but while the tests lacked statistical significance, the results show a pattern of state that tend to follow the reasoning of the DPT, following the conclusions drawn in previous literature on the topic. These findings suggest that more research is needed in this area, specifically analyzing a greater number of comparable two-state comparisons, could strengthen the argument for (or against) the DPT. This thesis adds to the literature suggesting that a possible avenue for reducing the rate of police killings could be in gun legislation.
Opisthoplatia orientalis
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Opisthoplatia
Opisthoplatia orientalis

description: 61. Opisthoplatia orientalis (Burmeister, 1838)
Polyzosteria orientalis Burmeister, 1838: 482.
References. Saussure, 1863: 131 (Polyzosteria pictetiana); Shiraki, 1906: 17 (Opisthoplatia maculata) Princis, 1967: 650; Prabakaran et al., 2009: 57; 2018: 207–208.
Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: China; Japan; Taiwan and Indonesia (Java Island).
Depository. Not recorded.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068
Princisola Gurney & Roth 1976
Creators: name: Gupta, Sunil Kumar
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Blaberidae
Princisola

description: Princisola Gurney & Roth, 1976
Type species: Audreia pulchra Shelford.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2019, An annotated checklist of cockroaches (Blattodea) from India, pp. 461-497 in Zootaxa 4614 (3) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3243068