cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Representative coding sequences of high-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the coding (CDS) sequences of all high-confidence (HC) gene models, without splice variants. Only one representative sequence was selected
			per locus.
title: Time-Dependent Increase in Network Response to Stimulation
Creators: name: Hamilton, Franz
name: Graham, Robert
name: Luu, Lydia
name: Peixoto, Nathalia
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: In vitro neuronal cultures
subject: Neuronal dynamics
subject: Electrical stimulation
subject: Neural networks
subject: Electrode recording

description: In vitro neuronal cultures have become a popular method with which to probe network-level neuronal dynamics and phenomena in controlled laboratory settings. One of the key dynamics of interest in these in vitro studies has been the extent to which cultured networks display properties indicative of learning. Here we demonstrate the effects of a high frequency electrical stimulation signal in training cultured networks of cortical neurons. Networks receiving this training signal displayed a time-dependent increase in the response to a low frequency probing stimulation, particularly in the time window of 20–50 ms after stimulation. This increase was found to be statistically significant as compared to control networks that did not receive training. The timing of this increase suggests potentiation of synaptic mechanisms. To further investigate this possibility, we leveraged the powerful Cox statistical connectivity method as previously investigated by our group. This method was used to identify and track changes in network connectivity strength.
title: Press Release: C. Harrison Mann, Jr., November 28, 1955
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Schools
subject: Integration
subject: Segregation
subject: Desegregation

description: Press Release: 2 pgs, typescript unsigned, 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm)
description: Press release by C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding several issues relating to school integration in Virginia, including a limited Constitutional Convention, educational grants, and the Gray Commission. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 44.09
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 16]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第十六卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Performance of Adaptive Wireless Systems with Feedback
Creators: name: Koduri, Sirisha
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: Future generations of wireless systems will employ versatile transmitters and receivers based on software defined radios that are capable of adapting in response to changes in the operating environment to meet the specified quality of service requirements. In adaptive wireless systems, transmitters use feedback from the receiver to update characteristics of the transmitted signal to changing patterns of interference. In this thesis, the performance of transmitter adaptation algorithms with limited feedback and the system performance as a function in which the interference information is quantized for transmission over the feedback channel are analyzed. The results of this thesis were presented at the 41" IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 2007.
title: Predicting activities of daily living for cancer patients using an ontology-guided machine learning methodology
Creators: name: Min, Hua
name: Mobahi, Hedyeh
name: Irvin, Katherine
name: Avramovic, Sanja
name: Wojtusiak, Janusz
Publisher: name: Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Year: 2017

description: Bio-ontologies are becoming increasingly important in knowledge representation and in the machine learning (ML) fields. This paper presents a ML approach that incorporates bio-ontologies and its application to the SEER-MHOS dataset to discover patterns of patient characteristics that impact the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs). Bio-ontologies are used to provide computable knowledge for ML methods to “understand” biomedical data. This retrospective study included 723 cancer patients from the SEER-MHOS dataset. Two ML methods were applied to create predictive models for ADL disabilities for the first year after a patient’s cancer diagnosis. The first method is a standard rule learning algorithm; the second is that same algorithm additionally equipped with methods for reasoning with ontologies. The models showed that a patient’s race, ethnicity, smoking preference, treatment plan and tumor characteristics including histology, staging, cancer site, and morphology were predictors for ADL performance levels one year after cancer diagnosis. The ontology-guided ML method was more accurate at predicting ADL performance levels (P < 0.1) than methods without ontologies. This study demonstrated that bio-ontologies can be harnessed to provide medical knowledge for ML algorithms. The presented method demonstrates that encoding specific types of hierarchical relationships to guide rule learning is possible, and can be extended to other types of semantic relationships present in biomedical ontologies. The ontology-guided ML method achieved better performance than the method without ontologies. The presented method can also be used to promote the effectiveness and efficiency of ML in healthcare, in which use of background knowledge and consistency with existing clinical expertise is critical.
Representative protein sequences of high-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the protein sequences of all high-confidence (HC) gene models, without splice variants. Only one representative sequence was selected per
			locus.
Advancing FAIR Data in Heritage Science Research: Updates on the INFRA-ART Spectral Library
Creators: name: Cortea, Ioana Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases
subject: Interdisciplinary research
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: Cultural heritage
subject: FAIR data
subject: FAIR principles
subject: Data curation
subject: Open science
subject: Heritage science

description: Invited lecture delivered at the 1st Edition of the International Conference on Optoelectronics and Heritage Science (OptoHS)
Why Does Participation Matter? A Guide to Citizen Engagement
Creators: name: Machado, Jorge
name: Contextos - Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento e Coesão Social, CRL
name: United Societies of Balkans
name: Asociacija "Aktyvus Jaunimas"
name: Centrul Pentru Strategii de Dezvoltare a Tineretului
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Participation
Citizen Engagement
Democracy
Citizens
Decision-Making

description: This publication “Why Does Participation Matter? A Guide to Citizen Engagement” is part of the Communities Driving Change (CIVIC) project, and was developed by the consortium partner organizations of Faro (Portugal) - Contextos - Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento e Coesão Social, CRL; Kaunas (Lithuania) - Asociacija Aktyvus Jaunimas; Thessaloniki (Greece) - United Societies of Balkans; and Timisoara (Romania) - Asociatia Centrul Pentru Strategii de Dezvoltare a Tineretului, aiming to support organizations and citizens on the topic of participation, by providing:

A definition of fundamental concepts such as citizen engagement and citizen participation, individual participation, social participation, and public participation, and the Ladder of Citizen Participation;

A collection of participatory instruments and strategies existing in the four partner countries, at a local level (Participatory Budget, Communal Assembly, Local Youth Strategy, Program of Initiatives) and national level (Youth Parliament, Students’ Union, Youth Council, City Alumni), and at the European Level (Citizens’ Initiative, European Parliament Elections, Conference on the Future of Europe);

A special chapter dedicated to reflecting on participation in times of Covid-19 presents some solutions that were adopted during the confinement times in different countries such as France, Norway, Bulgaria, and others;

A presentation of E-Participation and Digital Tools for Participation examples that are enabling civic participation by using new communication technology, shaping the way participation can happen nowadays and in the future.
description: Project Number: 624914-CITIZ-1-2020-1-PT-CITIZ-CIV
description: Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
title: The Road to the Singing Lagoon: A Novel
Creators: name: Fabiano, Mark
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fiction novel
subject: Fiction father/daughter
subject: Fiction Post-Colonial identities
subject: Fiction South Asian politics
subject: Fiction Sri Lankan Civil War
subject: Fiction brother

description: During the encroachment of the ever-growing ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka, what happens when two brothers, from a small Sri Lankan village, fall in love with a young Sri Lankan woman, from a wealthy estate in the capital city, who is engaged as their private English tutor but who is searching for herself and becomes romantically interested in both of them? The Road to the Singing Lagoon is about two Sinhala Buddhist brothers, Sunil, 19, and Vimal, 17, who both fall for Heleen, 24, their private English tutor, a westernized Sri Lankan burgher, during the onslaught of that nation’s civil war in the early 1980s. It is about the confluence of their interior conflicts with self and others in this environment.
Functional information of high confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the human readable descriptions (functional descriptions) for all high-confidence (HC) gene models without splice variants. Functional
			descriptions were assigned using the AHRD software from MPIZ Cologne. With AHRD, GO terms and INTERPROSCAN (incl. PFAM) domains were computed. For details on AHRD please visit
			https://github.com/groupschoof/AHRD
Structural information of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the structural gene predictions on the IBSC sequence assembly in GTF format for all low-confidence (LC) gene models.
title: Learning and Evolution: An Introduction to Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Computation
Creators: name: Michalski, Ryszard S.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2000

description: The field of evolutionary computation has drawn inspiration from Darwinian evolution in which species adapt to the environment through random variations and selection of the fittest. This type of evolutionary computation has found wide applications, but suffers from low efficiency. A recently proposed non-Darwinian form, called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM, applies a learning process to guide evolutionary processes. Instead of random mutations and recombinations, LEM performs hypothesis formation and instantiation. Experiments have shown that LEM may speed-up an evolution process by two or more orders of magnitude over Darwinian-type algorithms in terms of the number of births (or fitness evaluations). The price is a higher complexity of hypothesis formation and instantiation over mutation and recombination operators. LEM appears to be particularly advantageous in problem domains in which fitness evaluation is costly or time-consuming, such as evolutionary design, complex optimization problems, fluid dynamics, evolvable hardware, drug design, and others.
VeriFish Web App Requirements & Specification Document - D3.2
Creators: name: Petrocelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Seafood sustainability
aquafood
verifiable indicators
FAIR data
nutrition information
environmental impact
social responsibility
GRSF
FishBase
QR code scanning
semantic data integration
open data
RESTful API
VeriFish Knowledge Base
cross-platform App
Flutter
React Native
data visualization
real-time updates
JSON
SPARQL queries

description: This deliverable outlines the functional and technical specifications of the VeriFish Mobile App, designed to support transparent communication about sustainable seafood choices. It builds upon the sustainability indicator framework developed in WP2 and responds directly to the project's mission of enabling citizens, producers, retailers, and stakeholders across the seafood value chain to make informed consumption decisions. The VeriFish Mobile App translates complex datasets into an accessible digital product, integrating data on nutrition, sustainability, biodiversity, and provenance.

The design of the application is user-centric, informed by mock-ups and requirements gathered through a series of stakeholder workshops. The Mobile App will serve as an intuitive front-end to the underlying VeriFish Knowledge Base (KB), presenting FAIR data from sources such as GRSF, FishBase, and EuroFIR within a unified interface. Users will primarily access the system through existing GRSF QR codes, which serve as unique identifiers (UUIDs), enabling seamless linkage between stock-level information and value-added content such as food composition, recipes, and sustainability scores. Ultimately, the Mobile App will be one of the core media products of VeriFish, serving as a flagship tool for engaging a broad range of user groups—from informed consumers to seafood retailers—with verifiable, actionable knowledge.

This document details the system architecture, key components, APIs, data flows, and user interaction models.
title: Investigation of Temporal Expectancy, Memorability and Subjective Duration
Creators: name: Cameron, Ayana
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Time
subject: Duration
subject: Memorability
subject: Perception
subject: Memory
subject: Temporal expectation

description: The current study examines the interaction between time and memory, specifically how a rhythmically structured context influences the memorability of visual stimuli and whether memorability of an image modulates perceived duration. This was achieved through a multi-part study split into two behavioral experiments, the first of which uses a temporal bisection task to evaluate whether images with varying levels of memorability modify how long they are perceived to appear for. Using the same images, the second experiment utilizes a recognition memory test paradigm to measure whether temporal expectancy can improve memory performance. Previous research on time and memory shows that rhythmic priming created through temporal expectancy enhances visual recognition processing and that the memorability of an image is measurable and predicable based on certain properties (such as atypicality or valence). The results of my research support these ideas, as I found that participants perceived images with higher memorability scores as appearing for longer durations. Additionally, despite memorability, images encoded in a structured temporal context resulted in higher accuracy and better recognition memory performance. An expansion of these findings in future research will help us understand the cognitive processes behind these phenomena and how they might interact and be manipulated to modulate time perception and memory.
title: On Maximal Layers Of Random Orders
Creators: name: Banerjee, Indranil
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Posets
subject: Data structures
subject: Half-space tree
subject: Maximal layers
subject: Random order

description: In this thesis we investigate the maximal layers of random partial orders. Main contributions are two-fold. In the first half we investigate the expected size of different maximal layers of a random partial order. In particular when the points are in a plane, we give an enumerative formula for the distribution of the size of these maximal sets. Using Monte- Carlo based simulation we extrapolate the results for higher dimensions. In the second part we explore the computational aspect of the problem. To this end we propose a randomized algorithm for computing the maximal layers and analyze its expected runtime. We show that the expected runtime of our proposed algorithm is bounded by o(kn2) when k is fixed and in the worst case by O(kn2). This is the first non-trivial algorithm whose run-time remains polynomial whenever k is bounded by some polynomial in n while remaining subquadratic in n for constant k. We also extend these results to random orders with arbitrary distributions.
Transcript sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the transcript sequences of all low-confidence (LC) gene models, including splice variants. A transcript sequence is defined as the
			spliced transcript sequence, including UTR and excluding intron sequence.
Coding sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the coding (CDS) sequences of all low-confidence (LC) gene models, including splice variants.
title: Becker, Otto
title: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
titleType: Subtitle
title: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
name: Eberle, Henrik
Publisher: name: Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt,Institut für Landesgeschichte (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: History
classificationCode: 4023025-9
subject: Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4023025-9
classificationCode: 4006804-3
subject: Biografie
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4006804-3
classificationCode: 4166546-6
subject: Landesgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4166546-6
classificationCode: 4051181-9
subject: Sachsen-Anhalt
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4051181-9
classificationCode: 1048495779
subject: Universität Halle (Saale) | Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1048495779
classificationCode: 2024276-1
subject: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Halle (Saale); Wittenberg
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/2024276-1
classificationCode: 4020517-4
subject: Geschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4020517-4
classificationCode: 7504326-9
subject: Universitätsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504326-9
classificationCode: 7504427-4
subject: Wissenschaftsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504427-4
subject: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
subject: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
classificationCode: 120134756
subject: Eberle, Henrik | 1970– | Historiker
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/120134756
classificationCode: 1034070606
subject: Becker, Otto | 1885– | Arzt
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1034070606

description: Das Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt versammelt in Erst- und Zweitveröffentlichung oder zu Zwecken der Langzeitarchivierung Biografien von Menschen aus und in Sachsen-Anhalt. Integriert wurde der Catalogus Professorum Halensis, der durch Mitarbeitende des Instituts für Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg entstand. Dabei handelt es sich um ein bio-bibliografisches Online-Lexikon zu den Professoren der Universität Halle zwischen 1694 und 1968. Die Texte wurden vor allem von Henrik Eberle und anderen Mitarbeitenden zwischen 2005 und 2010 recherchiert und erstellt. Etliche Artikel zum Zeitraum 1694 bis 1817 verfasste Julia Schopferer. Bei der Überführung in das Biografienportal wurden die Lebensangaben neu recherchiert und Metadaten über Verfahren des Named Entity Recogniton erschlossen. Automatisiert erkannt wurden Personennamen, Ortsbezeichnungen und Körperschaften, die in der hier vorhandenen RTF-Datei indexiert vorliegt. Zudem wurden diese mit GND-Einträgen abgeglichen. Weiterhin erfolgte ein Abgleich mit der „Ontologie der historischen, deutschsprachigen Amts- und Berufsbezeichnungen“. Die Texte liegen im Jahr 2024 in zweifacher Ausgabe im Catalogus Professorum Halensis des Universitätsarchivs und des Biografienportals des Historischen Datenzentrums Sachsen-Anhalts vor. Sie werden hier für die Langzeitarchivierung der ursprünglichen Fassung archiviert.
description: https://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/
description: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt: https://www.histdata.uni-halle.de/
Interrogating liminality : threatening landscapes in fifth-century Greek tragedy
Creators: name: Bray, Chloe Francesca Delia
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: PA3136.B82
subject: Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism
subject: Landscapes in literature

description: This thesis interrogates the concept of liminal landscape in ancient Greek tragedy. Landscape studies are a growing area of research, offering valuable new insights into the ancient world; however, there is still a prevalent tendency for classical scholars to fall back on concepts popularised by structuralism in the 1980s. Discussions of landscape often seek to divide space according to binary oppositions, such as civilised/wild and centre/periphery. To demonstrate the wealth of meaning which is overlooked by this tendency, I explore three types of landscape from a variety of distinctive approaches which have been taken up in Classics more recently. First, using Julia Kristeva’s post- structuralist concept of abjection, I identify the sea as an unsettling symbol of boundlessness which threatens both the characters’ and the audience’s sense of self. Second, I analyse mountains using phenomenological theory, demonstrating how bodily experience and sensory perception facilitate memory in mountainous settings. Third, I consider meadows as literary devices, reconstructing unspoken patterns of thought using theory from cognitive linguistics, such as frame semantics and blending theory. This method allows original readings of several plays (including Aeschylus’ Persians, and Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos and Trachiniae, Euripides’ Bacchae and Hippolytus) and a deeper understanding of the cultural perception of landscape. Rather than a broad reflection of symbolic binarism, I find that landscape is used in a variety of ways as a connective device. Integrating historical studies of the uses and experience of these landscapes, I show that landscape can connect places, experiences, and memories, immersing audiences in narrative space on a visceral level. The danger of “liminal” landscapes is often explained by distance and separation from the city; this study suggests instead that their foreboding atmospheres are caused more prominently by the reflections on the instability of human life and fortune which close interactions with landscape encourage.
Protein sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the protein sequences of all low-confidence (LC) gene models, including splice variants.
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan], mu lu
說文聲統 : [十七卷], 目錄
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 21 – To Read or Not To Read
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: Is reading declining in the digital age, or is it simply changing? The Digital Campus team is joined by two guests in our feature segment, Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts and Matt Kirschenbaum of the University of Maryland, to debate the future of reading—and its past. The news roundup covers Microsoft’s [...]
title: Paper: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development New Communities Division, "Survey and Analysis of Large Developments and New Communities Completed and Under Construction in the United States Since 1947," February 1969
Creators: name: Housing, U.S. Dept. Of
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: paper, copy with red pencil marks; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Paper from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Communities Division entitled "Survey and Analysis of Large Developments and New Communities Completed and Under Construction in the United States Since 1947" that is dated February 1969. This paper discusses new communities, attempts to define what they are, and give the general descriptions of the communities surveyed. This paper also provides a list of eighteen new communities that were started or completed between 1947 and 1969. Reston, Virginia is mentioned in this list of new communities. Planned Community Archives Collection, 483.06
title: Cos-Playing with Gender: Subversion and Reproduction of Gender Norms Within the Cosplay Community
Creators: name: Aadahl, Sarah
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosplay
subject: Gender
subject: Subcultures
subject: Subcultural capital
subject: Stigma

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years and will not be available until April 2024 at the earliest.
description: This thesis examines how gender norms are both subverted and reproduced in cosplay through subcultural boundaries and character displays and performance. The cosplay community is examined to understand how cosplay is a location of gender dramatization and inversion marked by boundaries that determine who fits in and who does not. Literature on subcultures such as gothic lolitas, gamers, and nerds focuses on how spaces are created and maintained by both members and gatekeepers. This thesis draws on Erving Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma and its role in boundary maintenance to understand the contradictory dynamics of cosplay spaces. This study utilizes ethnographic methods, including participant observation of four East Coast Japanese media conventions and ten semi-structured interviews. Special attention is paid to how authenticity of members is judged by cosplayers, convention attendees, and cosplay fans. Findings indicate that cosplay spaces are dichotomous ones “free of judgment” and full of gender flexibility and subversion through creating and maintaining boundaries of exclusion and inclusion, ideas of belonging and authenticity. Paradoxically, the ways in which members of this community judged and emphasized authenticity reproduced the very stigma cosplayers, convention attendees, and cosplay fans sought to escape, often in gendered ways regarding the particularly harsh judgment of female cosplayers.
title: Letter: John N. Warfield to J. E. Gibson with Attached Activity Report, September 2, 1982
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Center for Interactive Management (CIM)
subject: University of Virginia

description: Manuscript: photostatic copy of typescript letter and enclosure, 20 pgs., 8.5 x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm)
description: Letter from Warfield to Dean J. E. Gibson of the University of Virginia with enclosed annual Professional Activities Report as well as Center for Interactive Management (CIM) Research Plans. Covers the period from September 1, 1981 to September 1, 1982. Outlines the courses Warfield taught, his research projects, workshops, seminars and meetings attended, publications, the committees he served on, his job duties as President of the Society for General Systems Research and miscellaneous public service. The enclosure also outlines the establishment and first few months of CIM and what its goals were for the period September 1, 1982 to August 31, 1983. John N. Warfield Collection 7.34
Development and understanding of novel small molecules for cancer immunotherapies via REV-ERB regulation
Creators: name: Uriz-Huarte, Amaia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Immunotherapies for cancer have experienced an unprecedented breakthrough over the last decade, becoming one of the most powerful alternatives for cancer treatment. Natural Killer (NK) cells, members of the innate immune response, have risen as a promising strategy for the development of novel immunotherapies. They act upon diseased cells in a non-antigen dependant way and without the need to prior sensitization, with a short life-spam and less toxic cytokine secretion. All of this, potentially, translates into a faster, more potent and safer immunotherapeutic approach than some of the current trends in immunology. REV-ERB is a nuclear receptor that has been identified as the direct regulator of E4bp4, the essential transcription factor involved in NK cells maturation. Inhibition of this regulator enhances the production of NK cells and thus represents a potential opportunity of improved cancer immunotherapy via NK cells. REV-ERB’s role as part of the circadian rhythm has provided essential information regarding its mechanism of action and existing small molecule modulators. Our objective was to further the knowledge on REV-ERB modulation and develop a library of compounds that could allow us to control the expression of E4bp4 as a means to an NK cell-based immunotherapy. As part of this thesis, two generations of REV-ERB ligands have been synthesised and several biological assays have been optimised for their characterisation, including reporter gene assay, viability screenings, ADME characterisation, CETSA, RT-qPCR, knockdown, EMSA and NK cell development analysis via flow cytometry. We have been able to further the understanding on REV-ERB ligands and we have successfully identified compounds with a better activity profile, improved stability, reduced toxicity, good selectivity for REV-ERB and with a positive effect at enhancing NK cell maturation. Overall, this project has provided a strong foundation for the understanding of REV-ERB modulation and contributed towards the development of NK cell-based immunotherapies.
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 06-07]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第六-七卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
title: Office Workbook Mobile Home Industries: Norman Rowland, circa 1969.
Creators: name: Rowland, Norman
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Norman Rowland
subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Mobile Home

description: Workbook: Photocopy of original; hole punched, 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm).
description: Office Workbook for the Reston Low Income Housing Demonstration Program, Mobile Home Industries, Norman Rowland, circa 1969. This item includes an overview of the production process of mobile home construction, a detailed survey of used mobile homes in the New York area, and a discussion of the application of mobile home manufacturing technology to low income housing in Reston, VA. The report also includes a detailed breakdown of mobile home production costs and interviews with major mobile home production companies to ascertain their interest in building homes in Reston. The report is an investigation into the feasibility and cost of using existing low-cost mobile home production techniques for manufacturing houses in Reston, VA. Planned Community Archives Collection, 445.21.
title: Designing Agent-based Simulation to Assess the Impact of Coordination Schemes on Infrastructure Networks Resilience
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Resilience of infrastructure
subject: Agent-based simulation
subject: Resource allocation
subject: Decentralized model
subject: Disruptive events
subject: Restoration of infrastructure

description: Critical infrastructures systems are governed by several sectors working together to maintain social, economic, and environmental well-being. Their cyber-physical interdependencies, on the other hand, influence their performance and resilience to routine failures and extreme events. To balance investment and restoration decisions before, during, and after disruptive events, different mathematical formulations and solutions, mainly focused on centralized view, were presented in the literature. While necessary and useful, not all physical and dynamic characteristics of infrastructure systems and their decision makers can be modeled via mathematical models. In this study, we take a different approach and utilize agent-based modeling to simulate city-scale interdependent infrastructure networks as a complex adaptive system. We first model each infrastructure as a weighted graph with relevant geospatial attributes. Decision makers (e.g., maintenance crew) for each infrastructure sector are represented by intelligent agents. We then define three information and coordination structures among agents, including no communication, leader-follower, and decentralized coalitions. The framework is applied to the interdependent water distribution and road networks in the City of Tampa, FL.We simulate different magnitudes of cyberphysical failures, evaluate resource allocation decisions, made by agents under each coordination structure, and quantify the aggregated resilience. Specifically, we develop a rank aggregation performance measure to evaluate restoration effectiveness for each scenario. This research helps municipalities to quantify the impact of their collective decision making and identify the best coordination structures when interdependencies are modeled in infrastructure systems.
title: A Quiet Procedure and Other Stories
Creators: name: Oglesby, Matthew
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Eugenics
subject: Nephrosis
subject: Rabbits
subject: Sterilization
subject: Johns Hopkins
subject: Poorhouse

description: This thesis features an excerpt from a longer work about American eugenics at the turn of the 20th century. In addition, several unrelated short stories.
title: Exploring Two Alternative BCIs for Improving Alzheimer’s Disease Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Beaini, Fayez
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Dementia

description: Neurodegenerative diseases affect the nervous system of the body, ultimately disturbing movement and or mental function where Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form [1]. Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a technology that allows for an alternative method to previous rehabilitation treatments that help improve human cognitive or sensory-motor functions [2]. Due to the crippling and progressive effects of AD, it gives way for the unique utilization of BCI technology to be used for rehabilitation. A standard BCI utilizes electroencephalography (EEG) stimuli to monitor brain activity to obtain relevant information [2]. These traditional BCIs, rely heavily on instrumental learning, and the users themselves, to assist and control their brain activation [3]. The purpose of this paper is to explore alternative BCIs, such as motor-imagery and emotion-based, to explain if these two alternative BCIs can help in improving AD rehabilitation.
title: Made “Fit for Kings”: The 1960s Kennedy Renovation of Blair House, The President’s Guest House
Creators: name: Botello, John S
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Blair House
subject: Kennedy renovation
subject: Jacqueline Kennedy
subject: White House
subject: Residence
subject: Hospitality

description: This thesis examines the collaborative efforts of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady Claudia {Lady Bird} Johnson, and Ambassador Robin Chandler Dukes’ transformation of the outdated and stark 1940s interiors of Blair House, The President’s Guest House, into a more updated and hospitable environment on par with the White House interiors. Mrs. Kennedy and her collaborators extended the aesthetic of the 1960s White House to Blair House to create the “same feeling [between] Blair House and the White House,” as the First Lady articulated. Blair House’s improved program of American heritage and diplomacy was established during the Kennedy administration’s rejuvenation of the American arts and refined government protocol. Through Mrs. Kennedy’s efforts in restoring and re-designing both the White House and Blair House, she (and those women who assisted her) crafted a hospitable diplomatic presence they deemed suitable for kings and queens.
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 01]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第一卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
Representative transcript sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the transcript sequences of all low-confidence (LC) gene models, without splice variants. A transcript sequence is defined as the spliced
			transcript sequence, including UTR and excluding intron sequence. Only one representative sequence was selected per locus.
Representative coding sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the coding (CDS) sequences of all low -confidence (LC) gene models, without splice variants. Only one representative sequence was selected
			per locus.
Investigating the functional importance of estrogen receptor alpha mutations in endocrine- resistant, metastatic breast cancer
Creators: name: Goldsbrough, Isabella
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: The growth of between 70% and 80% of breast cancers is driven by the expression of estrogen receptor-α(ER). This understanding has led to the development of endocrine therapies which inhibit ER activity. While these have vastly improved patient survival, around 30% of patients will relapse, invariably developing metastatic, incurable disease. Recurring mutations in the ER gene, ESR1, are detected in more than 20% of endocrinerefractory, metastatic tumours, implicating these as an important mechanism of resistance. However, the molecular consequences of many of these mutations are, as yet, poorly-defined. Here, I have explored the transcriptomic actions of ESR1 mutations using CRISPR-cas9 knock-in mutant models in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. I show that MCF7 cells expressing the L536R, Y537C, Y537N, Y537S or the D538G ESR1 mutations express a novel isoform of the transcription factor GATA4. Elevated expression of this isoform is seen in a broad range of cell line and patient-derived ER mutant models. Furthermore, I have generated knock-in models of the ESR1 exon 5 mutation E380Q. I show that, unlike wild-type (WT) parental cells, cells expressing the E380Q mutant are estrogen-independent for their growth. Moreover, I have shown that functionally homozygous, but not heterozygous E380Q mutant cells exhibit decreased sensitivity to selective estrogen receptor modulators and degraders (SERM/SERDs). Surprisingly, transcriptomic analysis by RNA-sequencing revealed that, unlike L536/Y537/D538 mutations, cells expressing E380Q have markedly reduced ER signalling relative to WT cells. Mutant clones were found to express an E380Q-specific gene signature that was associated with poor relapse-free survival in ER-positive breast cancer patients treated with endocrine therapy. Taken together, the results presented in this thesis highlight a role for the E380Q mutation in conferring resistance to estrogen-deprivation therapy. The significance of this mutation in mediating resistance to SERMs and SERDs is less clear, and may be influenced by continued expression of a WT allele. Crucially, work in this thesis provides evidence that the E380Q mechanism of action is distinct from that of mutations in the L536/Y537/D538 ER mutational hotspot.
Representative protein sequences of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the protein sequences of all high low confidence (LC) gene models, without splice variants. Only one representative sequence was selected
			per locus.
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 03]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第三卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 09-10]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第九-十卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]
Functional information of low-confidence genes of barley cv. Morex
Creators: name: IBSC
Publisher: name: e!DAL - Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP), IPK Gatersleben, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Germany
Year: 2016
Subjects: barley
Hordeum vulgare
genome assembly
genome annotation
sequence resource
next-generation sequencing

description: This file contains the human readable descriptions (functional descriptions) for all low-confidence (LC) gene models without splice variants. Functional
			descriptions were assigned using the AHRD software from MPIZ Cologne. With AHRD, GO terms and INTERPROSCAN (incl. PFAM) domains were computed. For details on AHRD please visit
			https://github.com/groupschoof/AHRD.
The Quot scheme Quot^l_S(E)
Creators: name: Stark, Samuel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: We study several aspects of the geometry of Grothendieck’s Quot scheme Quot^l_S(E) of length l coherent sheaf quotients of a locally free sheaf E of rank r on a smooth projective surface S. This scheme has the following four fundamental properties: (I) a quotient E'' of E induces a closed immersion of Quot^l_S(E'') into Quot^l_S(E); (II) a closed subscheme Z of S induces a closed immersion of Quot^l_Z(E|_Z) into Quot^l_S(E); (III) an invertible sheaf L on S induces an isomorphism Quot^l_S(E)->Quot^l_S(E x L); (IV) the automorphism group of E acts naturally on Quot^l_S(E). We study the singular locus of Quot^l_S(E), and conjecture that Quot^l_S(E) has rational singularities. We prove this in the first nontrivial case Quot^2_S(E), and exhibit a modular resolution of singularities of Quot^2_S(E), which we use to compute the cohomology of tautological sheaves on Quot^2_S(E), and obtain a sheaf-theoretic generalisation of a formula of Severi. We then investigate the implications of (I) and (II) on the intersection theory of the scheme Quot^l_S(E). We prove that any locally free quotient E'' of E gives a relation between the fundamental classes (ordinary or virtual) of Quot^l_S(E'') and Quot^l_S(E), with an insertion given by the Euler class of a tautological sheaf. This allows us to compute certain tautological integrals over Quot^l_S(O^r) in terms of tautological integrals over Quot^l_S(O). We show that if C in S is a canonical curve, [Quot^l_S(E)]^vir is the pushforward of (-1)^l [Quot^l_C(E|_C)]. We then combine these results with (III) and (IV) to obtain a structure theorem for tautological integrals over [Quot^l_S(E)]^vir. Using (III), we deduce from this the relation chi^vir(Quot^l_S(E))=chi^vir(Quot^l_S(O^r)) of virtual Euler characteristics. We also study top intersections of the first Chern class of tautological sheaves, and express the corresponding generating series in terms of the Lambert W-function.
การพัฒนานวัตกรรมการเรียนการสอนโดยใช้สื่อวีดิทัศน์ เพื่อเพิ่มผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเรื่อง"ผลิตภัณฑ์การท่องเที่ยว"
Creators: name: ปริวรรต สมนึก
Publisher: name: คณะการจัดการการท่องเที่ยว สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2558
Subjects: นวัตกรรมการเรียนการสอนโดยใช้สื่อวีดิทัศน์,การพัฒนา,ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน

description: วารสารวิชาการการท่องเที่ยวไทยนานาชาติ, 11, 1
Shuo wen sheng tong : [shi qi juan] [juan 11-12]
說文聲統 : [十七卷] [第十一-十二卷]
Creators: name: Chen, Li, 1810-1882
name: 陳澧, 1810-1882
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A manuscript of a Chinese linguistics book.
On double leaves, East Asian binding.
Sealed by Nanzhou shu lou and Yao Junshi.
Edition: [Gao ben]