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Leveraging Distributed Semantics from Deep Learning Architectures for Literature-based Discovery
Get PDFLiterature-based discovery (LBD) is a scientific process that introduces methods to automatically identify novel insights between non-interacting sets of literature. To date, numerous statistical and machine learning-based methods have been applied in the biomedical domain to find treatments for diseases such as Raynaud\u27s disease, Parkinson\u27s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis. However, the lack of standardized practices and creation of bespoke methodologies produces a scenario where the adoption of LBD remains challenging in real-world systems. Our work addresses these concerns through the improvement of five critical areas: 1) error propagation within LBD\u27s a priori dependent tasks, 2) exploring the integration of modern DL methods for LBD, 3) reducing the high barrier to entry and promoting open-ended research, 4) performing comparisons with related work, and 5) addressing the lack of confidence in LBD systems. We propose several methods that address these issues by: 1) improving performance in LBD\u27s a priori tasks, 2) integrating various graph and transformer-based deep learning architectures for LBD, 3) evaluating our system against sets of random relationships to determine model efficacy, and 4) introducing the development of methods that reduce the reliance on subject matter experts and facilitate open-ended exploration for novel knowledge generation. Our work provides insights into several methodologies and future directions that can be utilized to build confidence in LBD systems and assess their capacity to generate novel knowledge
Review: The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
Get PDFThe Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, co-curated by Karen Lemmey,
Tobias Wofford, and Grace Yasumura, ambitiously asked: How does American sculpture
intersect with the history of race in the United States?1 Positioning itself as the first major survey
exhibition of American sculpture in decades, this exhibition featured 82 sculptures created by 70
artists spanning from 1792 to 2023
S20, E10: Can He Do That? Remove O\u27Donnell\u27s Citizenship (Aired 10/20/2025)
Get PDFIn this episode, Aughie and Nia explore the question of whether Donald Trump can remove Rosie\u27 O\u27Donnell\u27s American citizenship.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1290/thumbnail.jp
Italian mathematics prison teachers’ perspective on the teaching/learning of mathematics in prison school
Get PDFTeaching in the prison context is characterized by a high complexity level; it is a multifaced activity influenced by several factors depending on the specific context. We present a preliminary but overall picture of schooling in Italian prisons by considering teachers’ reflections regarding their experiences in teaching mathematics in correctional facilities. To address the gap in the current literature on this issue, we conducted a SWOT analysis on the reflection provided by a group of nine Italian mathematics teachers who teach in different prisons and with different experiences and backgrounds. Their reflection allowed us to identify and describe six theory-driven categories and five data-driven categories to characterize the teaching of mathematics within Italian prisons. Some of these characterizations are considered both as positive and negative aspects by the teachers, while other categories are more polarized and then constitute specific threats or opportunities in the prison contex
Special Recital, Maya Collins, voice
Get PDFSpecial RecitalMaya Collins, sopranoDavid Kim, pianoMonday, February 24, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
VCU Symphony, video
No full textVCU Symphony, videoMosaics and MusicConducted byDaniel MyssykWednesday, March 5, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.Sonia vlahcevic Concert HallW.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts922 Park Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
Dialogic Praxis and Racialized Embodiment in Art Education
Get PDFIn this paper, the authors discuss how conversations on racial embodiment can be dialogic praxis that builds solidarity and moves towards anti-racist pedagogy. For the conversations, the authors met via videoconference on several occasions to discuss their experiences on the topic of racialized embodiment from their varied sociocultural perspectives and considered implications for visual art teaching, learning, and research. They recorded the audio and video of these conversations and collaged portions of the transcripts of these talks together to present a single curated conversation that serves as primary content for this paper. The decision to “speak” this article into existence is inspired by the work of Myles Horton and Paulo Freire (1990) in the conversation-turned-book We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Each author of this article embodies a unique and complex sociocultural standpoint and each is committed to the collective as a force for social transformation through and within art education. Through conversation, the authors developed the concept of pursuance, and through emergent themes in the conversation, fleshed out what they call the roots of pursuance. These roots hover in and out of constructed notions of the individual and the collective as they embody the complexities of movement towards anti-racist pedagogy in art education
From Objects to Relationships: Reviving Connectivity through Collaborative Artmaking
Get PDFA shortage of pro-social opportunities during the pandemic brought to the fore a longer, deeper trend toward disconnection. With the broader emphasis on individualized academic achievement compounding pandemic-induced social disenfranchisement, schools and communities are struggling to revive a sense of connectivity and belonging. The arts, on the other hand, have long been associated with social outcomes, historically generating group cohesion and inherently offering participants a sense of unity and synchronicity through collaborative artmaking. Applied to educational settings, pinpointing the concrete aspects of art education that beget social capital and connectedness is a more difficult task. This investigation examines the potential to rebuild our collapsed social ecologies through collective artmaking. Specifically, participatory models such as Community-Based Art Education that cultivate a sense of collective care offer a possible antidote to the effects of diminishing social networks by engaging students in large-scale collaborative work that shifts the focus from objects to relationships in authentic contexts
Junior Recital, Arowyn Almeida, cello, video
Get PDFJunior recital, videoArowyn Almeida, celloDaniel Stipe, pianoMagdalena Adamek, pianoFriday, March 21, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.Recital hallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
S18, E12: Transportation Security Administration (Aired 3/28/2025)
Get PDFAughie and Nia explore the formation, responsibilities, and struggles of the Transportation Security Administration.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1267/thumbnail.jp