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Automatic Discovery And Refinement Of Tool Catalogs From Conversational Data, Joshua Huang, Steve Yuan, Bryan Horling, Mahdi Zafarmand

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for generating a tool catalog for conversational agents from historical conversation data, which can address challenges associated with manual catalog creation. The described technology can use a multi-stage process that may begin with a discovery engine, which could leverage a large language model, to analyze conversations and extract potential tools with their respective inputs and outputs. A subsequent refinement stage can employ a critic-actor architecture to iteratively identify and address potential logical issues in the extracted catalog, such as duplicate functions or unresolved parameter dependencies. This process can result in a dependency-aware tool catalog with …

Tranche-Based Datacenter Deployment Using Temporary Life-Safety Barriers And Secure Access Tunnels, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A large multi-row data hall is divided, both logically and physically, into tranches. The tranches are bounded by temporary barriers that separate an active tranche serving customers from an adjacent construction tranche inside the same hall. Each tranche receives its own electrical lineup and cooling capacity, built to production standards. The delivered tranche maintains full life safety and security, while the remaining unfinished spaces operate under relaxed requirements, so capacity reaches the customer in proportion to build progress rather than only after the full hall is complete. The temporary barriers incorporate penetration panels that pass cable tray, piping, and other …

System And Method For Asynchronous Network Simulation Telemetry, Topological Environment Remediation, And Generative State-Machine Security, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

An automated, state-aware network orchestration and evaluation platform provides asynchronous security exercise assessment and environment management. The platform initializes isolated virtual guest environments by executing guest agent software that dynamically generates unique boot-time cryptographic artifacts and sends them to a centralized evaluation engine to dynamically compile a grading rubric. User submissions are evaluated using a dual-pipeline generative language model configured with a strict schema contract that concurrently determines semantic equivalence and detects structural anomalies or prompt injection attempts. Trainee progression across simulation objectives is tracked using a topological directed acyclic graph that triggers automated hypervisor commands to mutate guest environment …

An Experimental-Verification Program For The Corpus Mechanisms Of The Register Of Anticipated Ai Failure Modes, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

Companion document to the Register of Anticipated AI Failure Modes.

Purpose: to turn each of the register's 12 domains from a general statement that "experimental verification is needed" into a concrete, honestly bounded plan — stating what is testable now, by what means, at what stage, and what is categorically not testable by a small group at present.

Program design: (1) each proposed experiment carries an explicit evidence-class label, separating results that can move a domain’s Mapping status from results that only confirm a mechanism’s internal logic in isolation; (2) Phase 0 is limited to the one item in this …

Register Of Anticipated Ai Failure Modes, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

This register collects twelve classes of AI failure that are documented today, in published research or in reproducible experiments, at a level of generality above any single system in the author's corpus. It exists because the author's own architecture documents — Verifiable Trust, the Charter of Procedural Standing, GVAA, BRAA, Physical Oracles, and the Local Multi-Scale Contour specification — each address a subset of these failure classes from within their own scope, and no one of them shows how the classes interact across system boundaries.

The existence of this register reduces the probability that a failure class is simply forgotten. …

Method And System For Multi-Model Consensus Embedding Based Authorization In Payment Transactions, Durga S. Kala, Jun Xu, Benjamin Nativi, Om Pande

Defensive Publications Series

A method (500) for multi-model consensus embedding based authorization in payment transactions includes receiving (505) an authorization request associated with a payment transaction, obtaining (510) a plurality of outputs from a plurality of models, determining (515) inter-model relationship characteristics among the plurality of outputs including agreement, disagreement, partial consensus, or decision divergence, generating (520) a multi-model consensus embedding comprising a vector representation of a joint inference state associated with the payment transaction, storing (525) the atomic transaction record in memory (135), determining (530) a transaction risk assessment during processing of a real-time transaction authorization requests based on the atomic transaction …

Real-Time Predator Detection And Child-Centered Intervention In Multi-Platform Messaging: A System Architecture, Aubrey L. Douglas

Defensive Publications Series

We describe a system for detecting adult predatory behavior directed at minor users across five mobile messaging platforms (Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, SMS/MMS, Roblox) via on-device passive capture on the minor's own Android device. The system introduces three novel techniques not previously documented in either academic literature or commercial parental-monitoring products: (1) cross-platform stylometric fingerprinting that links blocked adult accounts to newly-created accounts by writing style rather than platform identifiers; (2) in-context grooming pedagogy delivering real-time named-tactic warnings to the child at the moment of manipulation, using non-punitive framing and one-tap protective action; and (3) three-stream ingestion with concealment-as-evidence semantics, where …

Offshore Ai Data Center Platform — Version 3.0 (Oadc V3.0) Self-Sustaining Marine Compute & Ecosystem Intelligence Infrastructure Closed-Loop Resource Recovery + Planetary Early-Warning Node, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

OADC v3.0 is a single offshore platform that is simultaneously:

1. A 10–100 MW AI compute facility (seawater-cooled, renewable-powered)

2. A planetary early-warning node (seismic, tsunami, contamination, marine heatwave)

3. A marine ecosystem management system (eDNA census, whale collision prevention, IUU enforcement, coral bleaching prediction)

4. A resource recovery plant (fresh water, ocean plastic → fuel, brine minerals)

5. A maritime AI service provider (1–5 ms inference to shipping and fishing)

No existing platform on Earth performs more than two of these five functions. The closest analogs — China's HiCloud Shanghai UDC (24 MW, May 2026), Panthalassa Ocean-3 (wave-powered, $1B valuation), Seatrium/Mocean 30 MW FDC, …

Dynamic Exposure Weighting Based On Motion Heat Map Analysis, Adam Grant Mccauley

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a motion-adaptive automatic exposure (AE) system that dynamically reshapes an image signal processor (ISP) weighting table using aggregate motion heat maps. Motion data accumulated over a configurable temporal window identifies high-activity regions, such as roadways or crosswalks, and converts those regions into higher exposure weights, while static regions such as sky or water receive lower weights. A minimum baseline weight remains in low-activity regions to preserve forensic visibility if an unexpected event occurs. Unlike center-weighted, spot, matrix, or object-detection-based metering, the system learns where activity occurs without requiring classification of a person, vehicle, package, or other object. …

Analysis Of Factors Affecting Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Performance In Private Hospital “X” Surabaya, Yuliana Yuliana, Dewi Sri Surya Wuisan

International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR)

This study investigates the effect of six key factors on pharmaceutical supply chain performance (PSCP) at Private Hospital “X” in Surabaya: inventory level control, demand forecasting, supply chain flexibility, supply chain integration, supply chain visibility, and information sharing. A quantitative approach was applied using a questionnaire survey in April 2025, with 187 medical and non-medical staff meeting the inclusion criteria. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), complemented by Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) and Prediction-Oriented Segmentation (PLS-POS). Results show that all factors positively and significantly influence PSCP (p < 0.05), with inventory level control being the most dominant (β = 0.336), followed by supply chain visibility (β = 0.224). IPMA identifies inventory level control and demand forecasting as high importance–high performance, while supply chain visibility shows high performance but lower perceived importance. These findings align with the Resource-Based View (RBV), highlighting the strategic value of integrated internal resource management. The study recommends enhancing pharmaceutical supply chain systems to improve hospital efficiency, adaptability, and sustainability.

Modeling Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies In Egyptian Cities Using Envi-Met, Islam M. Gaber, Abbas M. Hassan, Tarek Elkashef, Ola A. Gad, Ahmed M. Abdo, Abdelrazek Elkomy

HBRC Journal

Mitigation techniques for urban heat islands (UHI) have emerged as a critical concern for global urban environmental sustainability. Passive cooling employing cool materials and/or urban greening has shown to be the most effective strategy for mitigating the impacts of UHI. This latter method, however, is relatively new in the literature of urban environmental studies, and research on it is still limited, particularly for cities in hot-dry climatic zones. This study aims to investigate the possibility of improving albedo rates and adopting urban greening measures, such as greening building roofs, roadways, and walkways, in several Egyptian cities located in various climatic …

September 24, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.

85 E. End Owner, Llc V. Ferraro

All Decisions

App Term partially modifies a Housing Court default judgment in this GCEL holdover for failure to sign a renewal lease. The lower court denied tenant's motion to vacate the default — tenant offered no explanation for missing the inquest — and App Term agrees on that point. But App Term adds a 30-day cure period under RPAPL § 753(4), holding that the statute, a remedial provision construed liberally to extend its "beneficial effects as widely as possible," reaches GCEL holdovers grounded in a tenant's failure to renew a lease.

Graduate Medical Education (Gme) In The Mountain West, 2025, Mia Tschan, Phillip Seo, Kerima Awol, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Health

This fact sheet presents data on graduate medical education (GME) capacity and physician retention across five Mountain West states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Data are reported on the number of Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) granting institutions, teaching hospitals, residents in training, Medicare-supported GME slots, residents training in slots not supported by Medicare direct GME (DGME), and the percentage of physicians trained in each Mountain West state. The data are derived from the 2025 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) report, “State-by-State Data on Graduate Medical Education,” which includes graduate medical education data …

Listening To The Society Of Yeager Scholars: An Interpretive Companion For Institutional Memory And Strategic Reflection, Brian A. Hoey

Publications of the Honors College at Marshall University

Listening to the Society of Yeager Scholars is an interpretive companion for institutional memory and strategic reflection. Rather than offering a definitive history of the Society of Yeager Scholars or prescribing its future direction, the document reads the Society as an institution with a culture—one shaped over nearly four decades through educational purposes, relationships, traditions, expectations, and changing interpretations of what the Society is and should be.

Drawing on early oral histories, Alison Gerlach’s history of the Society’s first thirteen years, contemporary accounts, institutional records, strategic-planning materials, and sustained institutional experience, the document identifies recurring ways participants have understood the …

Applying Lonergan’S Method To A First Year Seminar Reflective Essay, Fr. John Thompson

San Jose - Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy

Reflection on past experiences is crucial to spiritual and emotional growth.  Often times students in college do not spend enough time reflecting deeply on their experiences and as a result they do not realize the profundity of an event or experience for their overall life or for a sense of belonging to the University community.  Lonergan provides us with a framework for how we come to insight to make a decision about our experiences.  The process includes naming the experience, understanding the experience, making a judgement about the experience and concludes with a decision about the experience.  While stages may …

Fear, Threat, And Google Searches: Examining Ideological Shifts Using Big Data, Erin M. Cerasaro

Master's Theses

In their review of research on factors that affect political conservatism, Jost et al. brought together research from several theoretical viewpoints. This produced a model of psychological needs and motives in individuals which react with stimuli that make them feel fearful and threatened (F/T), increasing adherence to conservative ideology. While some research supports these claims, evidence shows that in some contexts these variables increase ideological polarization overall, but may also have a greater impact on conservative attitudes specifically. Researchers have had difficulty in investigating these relationships in naturalistic settings due to an inability to manipulate events that precipitate this ideological …

Effectiveness Of Pancreatic Cancer Screening In High-Risk Elderly Individuals In Florida, Adeleke A. Aromolaran

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Routine preventive care supports early identification and management of health conditions among adults at high risk for pancreatic cancer. Evidence is limited regarding socioeconomic and health care access factors associated with engagement in routine preventive care among Florida adults aged 65 years and older at high risk for pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional correlational study was to examine these associations among this population. The health belief model served as the theoretical framework. Secondary data from the 2022 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were analyzed for N = 4,032 participants using two multivariable binary logistic regression models …

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 75 – National Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 57 – Little Mina-1, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 180 – Tullamore Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 160s – Syndicate Pit Dumps, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

For Venida, For Kalief, Filmmakers Legal Clinic (Flc), Cardozo Fame Center

2026–2027 Flyers

Join filmmaker Sisa Bueno after the screening for a discussion about the making of this film, Rikers Island, and prison reform in New York City.

Multi-Solution Ternary Grover’S Algorithm For Logic-Based Quantum Machine Learning With Pseudo-Kronecker Reed–Muller Form Minimization, Sophia Lee, Ali Al-Bayaty, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Optimization problems in machine-learning (ML) applications can be computationally challenging for classical methods, particularly when they involve large, unstructured search spaces. Quantum computing offers a promising approach to combinatorial optimization by utilizing quantum superposition and amplitude amplification. This paper presents a new methodology using logic-based quantum machine learning (QML) as a complete framework for employing a multi-solution ternary Grover’s algorithm to minimize incomplete binary functions represented by Pseudo-Kronecker Reed–Muller (PKRO) expansions, consistent with Occam’s razor principle. Unlike previous quantum approaches based on Kronecker Reed–Muller (KRO) or fixed-polarity Reed–Muller (FPRM) representations, our work introduces the first Grover-based optimization framework for PKRO …

A Custodian's New Beginning, September 24, 2026, Tisa Mason Ed.D.

Heart of a Tiger Columns

No abstract provided.

A Systematic Approach For Controlling Tem Sample Thicknesses, Monte Kozell

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Historically, TEM prep has been an artisan craft without a systematic workflow that ensures quantified control over TEM sample thickness. Over- and under-thinning is a significant problem in the TEM prep process. A direct measurement process was demonstrated to control the final thickness of the TEM lamella. Final lamella thickness was controlled by directly measuring lamella thickness in real time using a 10–15 kV SEM while performing secondary electron imaging at the mill position, allowing for (human-mediated) closed-loop processing. We demonstrated the utility of this technique by systematically thinning five TEM samples to discretely target thicknesses ranging from 100 nm …

Epidemic Dynamics Under Pulse Population Exchange, Hannah Kravitz, Christina Durón, Moysey Brio

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many epidemiological models assume either closed populations or continuous demographic turnover. We consider an intermediate setting in which exchange occurs through discrete pulses. In this paper, we introduce a population-conserving compartmental epidemiological model with pulse population exchange at a set of prescribed times. At each pulse, a fraction of the population in each compartment is replaced by a combination of susceptible and immunized individuals. In contrast to typical pulse birth or pulse vaccination models where only a single compartment undergoes a pulse population change, the pulses in this model have competing effects: removing infectious individuals reduces the force of infection, …

Supporting The Academic Success Of Undergraduate Nursing Students Through Peer Mentoring, Kate Fayer, Jill Campbell, Erin Higley

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The profession of nursing is incredibly demanding requiring extensive knowledge, clinical skills, and experience to develop the clinical judgment necessary to provide safe and effective patient care. According to Wang et al.¹, undergraduate nursing students describe higher levels of stress and stress-related symptoms than the general student population. This increased level of stress is one of the most significant barriers facing undergraduate nursing students ability to complete their studies^1-3. A peer mentoring program with undergraduate nursing students can help alleviate the adverse effects of stress and improve their overall academic performance^1,4-5.

Nursing student mentees …

Sugary Beverages And The Rise Of Chronic Disease Among Hispanic Women, Jailene Lemus Hurtado, Natalia Andrea Villegas Rodriguez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background and Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and a major source of morbidity among Hispanics in the U.S. (1,2). Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are known to be associated with an increased risk of CVD, diabetes and obesity (3,4). However, there is a lack of information concerning SSB consumption patterns and perceptions of related health risks among Hispanic women in the U.S. This study aims to investigate SSB consumption patterns and perceptions among Hispanic women.

Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study included 40 fluent Spanish-speaking Hispanic women ages 18 to 44 from North Carolina who participated in a …

Assessing Spanish-Speaking Latinas' Perceptions Of Postpartum Education On Maternal Warning Signs, Lucero Rocha-Dela Cruz, Natalia Villegas Rodriguez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Introduction: Pregnancy-related deaths remain a significant public health concern in the US, with approximately 78% occuring during the postpartum period. Latinx birthing individuals may face increased risk of postpartum complications due to barriers in accessing postpartum education that is culturally and linguistically appropriate. Little is known about education on maternal warning signs received among Latinx birthing individuals in the postpartum period. Patient education can reduce pregnancy-related deaths associated with postpartum complications. The purpose of this study was to assess perceptions of postpartum education, with a focus on maternal warning signs, among Spanish-speaking Latinx birthing individuals.

Methods: This quantitative descriptive study …