Maryland Shared Open Access Repository

MD-SOAR is a shared digital repository platform for twelve colleges and universities in Maryland. It is currently funded by the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Library Consortium (usmai.org) and other participating partner institutions. MD-SOAR is jointly governed by all participating libraries, who have agreed to share policies and practices that are necessary and appropriate for the shared platform. Within this broad framework, each library provides customized repository services and collections that meet local institutional needs. Please follow the links below to learn more about each library's repository services and collections.

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Georgina Quentin, Harriette Wilson, and the Memoirs of “Mrs. Q”
(2025-10-16) Yoder, Rodney
In this essay, a persistent confusion in Regency-era history between two women-- Georgina Lawrell Quentin (1784-1853) and Harriette Wilson (1786/8-1845)-- is addressed, and its source is uncovered. Georgina Quentin was an army officer's wife and prominent in Regency society; as "Mrs. Q," she was notoriously satirized as a mistress of King George IV in a string of caricatures during 1820-21. The source of her confusion with Harriette Wilson, a famous courtesan of the same time, was a pseudonymous 1822 pamphlet that purports to be Mrs. Quentin's "Memoirs." The pamphlet is shown to be entirely fictional, written for political purposes; whether or not Georgina Quentin was actually a mistress of George, Prince of Wales, is impossible to determine.
The presence of chemical cues likely alters motivation, rather than perception of weak visual cues
(2025-08-28) Puffer, Georgie; Martins, Emília P.; Suriyampola, Piyumika S.
Animals encounter information simultaneously, combining input from multiple sensory systems before responding behaviorally. When cues in different sensory modalities interact, they may have direct impacts on sensory perception, allowing the animal to perceive stimuli that it would otherwise have missed, or the cues may instead impact motivation, tightly honing the animal's focus onto a stimulus or distracting it. Here, we investigated how interacting chemical and visual cues affected behavior in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Chemical cues can enhance the visual perception of zebrafish directly, for example, through the terminal nerve axons of the olfactory bulb that project to the neural retina. Alternatively, chemical cues may increase attention to or distract individuals from visual cues. Furthermore, the salience or strength of each cue may determine how the animal responds. Specifically, we tested if the reflexive response to an optomotor response (OMR) visual cue differed when presented with alanine, an amino acid that mimics foraging chemical cues, to explore if cues in a second sensory modality can affect reflexive responses. We found that foraging chemical cues did not affect zebrafish's likelihood of responding to the visual cue, and thus likely did not affect perception of visual cues. However, fish took longer to respond to visual cues in the presence of chemical cues, and that this delayed response was significant only when the visual cue was weak. These findings suggest that the primary effect of secondary sensory cues may be through shifts in motivation rather than perception. We also found that the relative significance (salience) of interacting cues has important implications on determining the outcomes of sensory interactions.
March 2024 Lunch and Learn Cybersecurity Policy: Emerging Issues and Questions
(ASPA: Science and Technology in Government, 2024-03-27) Mateczun, Laura; Norris, Donald; McKay, Tamecka; Ganapati, Sukumar
Our speakers are: Donald Norris, Emeritus Professor from the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has authored many recent papers on cybersecurity, including the book “Cybersecurity and Local Government” (published by John Wiley in April 2022); Laura Mateczun is a policy analyst with the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. She is a co-author of several publications with Dr. Norris. Tamecka McKay, Chief Information Officer of the City of Fort Lauderdale. She has been instrumental in several innovative digital transformation projects in the city. Dr. Sukumar Ganapati is the moderator.
Scaling Cyber Education Statewide
(U.S. Cyber Range of Virginia Tech, 2025-03-31) Mateczun, Laura; Freemal, Becky; Seuss, Jack
How do you scale cybersecurity education across an entire state? In this episode of Next Gen Cyber: The Future of Cybersecurity, host Becky Freemal sits down with Jack Seuss (VP of IT & CIO, UMBC) and Laura Mateczun (Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives, UMBC) to explore Maryland’s groundbreaking approach to cybersecurity training. Learn how the state partnered with Virginia Tech’s U.S. Cyber Range to provide hands-on learning opportunities for K-12, community colleges, and universities, all while keeping costs low and accessibility high.
Internet of Vehicles Security Threats, Countermeasures, Open Challenges With Future Research Directions
(IEEE, 2025-09-01) Hakim, Safayat Bin; Adil, Muhammad; Ali, Aitizaz; Farouk, Ahmed; Song, Houbing
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is growing rapidly with the potential to revolutionize transportation systems. Considering the promising future and potential contributions of IoV’s technology, it has attracted the attention of researchers, industry stakeholders, and potential intruders. However, the IoV’s network topological infrastructure faces several connectivity and communication challenges, along with security issues that are beyond the scope of current literature. Although each aspect and challenge has its own consequences, this work focuses on Physical Layer Security (PhyLaySec) threats, which are the most devastating because they undermine the trust of all stakeholders associated with this technology. In the literature, this topic is bearly focused, which demonstrates that the existing PhyLaySec countermeasures would not be able to counter future security challenges in IoV in terms of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) authentication, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) authentication, vehicles-to-everything (V2X) authentication, etc., due to factors such as high vehicle mobility, dynamic network topologies, limited bandwidth, and ultra-fast communication. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a systematic review of state-of-the-art PhyLaySec techniques from 2017 to 2025, with a focus on their strengths and weaknesses. Through our review, we identify key open research questions that require further investigation to enhance the security of IoV’s technologies. Moreover, we highlight potential future research directions that aim to ensure the foolproof security of IoV technology with respect to underlined challenges. Finally, we acknowledge that this is the first paper to comprehensively address the topic of PhyLaySec of IoV technology, which makes it a valuable resource for researchers and professionals working in this field.