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Extremophile-Inspired Biomimetics Potential Analysis, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, GPT-5 Thinking, Gemini and Grok, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes: EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). This defensive disclosure provides enabling embodiments that translate extremophile mechanisms (thermostability, cryo-activity, anhydrobiosis, halotolerance, radiotolerance, barophily) into materials, devices, processes, control algorithms, interoperable …

Handling Delayed Esim Transfer Via Sm-Ds Push Notification, Chen Xu, Jack Yu, Amruth Ramachandran

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes an alternative framework for managing delayed embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) transfers on mobile devices that avoids needing a carrier’s Entitlement Configuration Server (ECS) to manage cloud messaging tokens. During a delayed transfer, a carrier’s Subscription Management Data Preparation (SM-DP+) server notifies a Subscription Management Discovery Service (SM-DS) server when an eSIM profile becomes available. The SM-DS server then triggers a cloud messaging push notification to the mobile device’s Local Profile Assistant (LPA). To ensure a seamless user experience the LPA hides the raw push notification from the user interface. Upon receiving this hidden push notification, the …

Iva‑Ecs‑Plus Max Exhaust Polishing & Conditioning Module, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The IVA‑ECS‑PLUS MAX is an open‑hardware, bolt‑on exhaust‑polishing module designed to attach directly to the outlet of existing industrial pollution‑control systems—including baghouses, ESPs, cyclones, wet scrubbers, and marine exhaust scrubbers—to provide additional particulate reduction beyond what primary systems achieve. The system integrates a multi‑stage architecture consisting of a J‑groove pre‑swirl intake, dual‑band acoustic agglomeration chamber, CFD‑optimized vortex core with adjustable cone, high‑coverage wet scrubber array, multi‑stage demister (vane pack + mesh pad), and an optional polishing stage using either a mini‑electrostatic precipitator or ceramic microfilter. This combined sequence targets ultra‑fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM0.1), aerosols, droplets, and haze‑forming micro‑pollutants …

Zero-Enrollment Target Speaker Extraction, Zhi Li, Xuelin Huang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a new framework for isolating a specific person's voice from background noise, often called Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), speech isolation, voice separation, audio unmixing, voice filtering,  target audio filtering, speaker segregation, acoustic filtering, vocal isolation, target voice retrieval, or speech decoupling for devices equipped with artificial intelligence. Traditional voice recognition systems require users to manually record their voice in a quiet room, which is frustrating and often fails to recognize natural changes in a person's voice like sickness or morning voice. Rather than requiring the user to perform this manual process, the new framework described herein enables …

System For Mitigating Electronic Pickpocketing In Contactless Payment Cards, Mahendra Yadav

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides hardware solutions for mitigating electronic pickpocketing in contactless payment cards. A smartcard includes an antenna shorting circuit placed across antenna terminals and driven by OR control logic so any proximity or pocket sensor can automatically short the antenna loop, and a series antenna clipping switch placed in the antenna feed and gated by AND control logic requiring deliberate dual pad touch to enable contactless operation. The designs use ultra-low-power capacitive touch sensors, RF-grade semiconductor switches or bilateral analog switches, and CMOS logic to preserve card form factor and contact functionality. The designs prioritize passive or energy …

Innovation Potentials To Scale Green Finance Globally, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of GPT-5.2 Thinking, Gemini 3 Reasoning and Grok, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) entering the prior art under EPC Art. 54(2), French IPC Art. L 611-11, 35 U.S.C. §102(a), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢) and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). It discloses 90 enabling embodiments (1–90) for verifiable green finance: real-time MRV and ZK oracles, programmable green bonds, IoT/satellite-triggered loans and parametric insurance, carbon and nature tokenization, digital twins, private portfolio optimisation, material provenance (cement, plastics, textiles, H2, batteries), biodiversity indices and …

The Challenges Of Romantic Relationships In Contemporary Societies, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, GPT-5 Thinking and Grok, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). This disclosure details technical systems, methods, and architectures spanning ethical matching, socio-ecological scoring, closed-loop UX, a!ective VR, safety/consent, intergenerational models, community optimization, data …

Feasibility Study And Market Analysis – Innovations For Compact Fusion Reactors (Arc, Sparc, St-E1), Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of GPT-5.2 Thinking and Gemini 3 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). It covers four compact-fusion bottlenecks (vapor-shielding thermal protection, active control of HTS REBCO magnets, irradiation-driven self-healing structural materials, and chiral tritium-breeding blankets) and …

Execution-Mode-Dependent Enforcement Of Version-Bound Consent For Delegated Recurring Automation, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a species-level arrangement in which one participant's consent to run another participant's shared, versioned automation artefact is bound to the artefact version consented to, and in which the strength with which that binding is enforced depends on how the run was initiated. For machine-initiated recurring runs, the executing component re-checks the recorded version mark itself, unconditionally, before every run; a mismatch does not fail the individual run but moves the standing arrangement into a durable, named parked state in which it never fires again until a human acts. For human-initiated runs, the same mismatch is surfaced only against …

A Method For Multi-Modal Tensor Distillation And Non-Perturbative Phase Retrieval Inside Decentralized Anamorphic Substrates, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

When decentralized edge agents implement Continuous Online Local Plasticity via an Anamorphic Memory Lattice (AML), the local elastic weight layer (\(\Phi _{t}\)) experiences rapid structural saturation under high-velocity multi-modal data streams. This saturation triggers localized impedance mismatches, where the model can no longer distinguish between environmental noise and high-fidelity operational tool telemetry, degrading the system back into an chaotic, ungrounded state.

This paper introduces a standalone technical method for Multi-Modal Tensor Distillation and Non-Perturbative Phase Retrieval inside decentralized anamorphic substrates. By implementing a phase-locked spatial-harmonic filter directly over the elastic parameter layer, this framework allows the model to continuously compress …

A Method For Continuous Local Plasticity And Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation Via Anamorphic Memory Lattices And Dynamic Weight Partitioning, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Current autoregressive transformer scaling laws dictate that foundation model weights must remain static post-training to prevent catastrophic forgetting and alignment drift. Consequently, modern edge agents are restricted to volatile, stateless context manipulations (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation), erasing environmental experiences at every context flush and halting true progression toward decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

This paper introduces an architectural blueprint for Continuous Online Local Plasticity utilizing an Anamorphic Memory Lattice (AML) paired with Dynamic Weight Partitioning (DWP). By structurally separating a model's network topology into a frozen global baseline core (\(W_{\text{global}}\)) and an elastic, orthogonal local substrate (\(W_{\text{local}}\)), decentralized agents can permanently …

A Method For Algorithmic Entropy Mitigation And Context Window Equilibrium In High-Dimensional Transformer Architectures, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

High-dimensional Autoregressive Transformer architectures scale linearly or quadratically in computational, thermodynamic, and financial overhead relative to context window saturation. In continuous multi-turn token processing, models suffer from "Prompt Gravity"—a compounding mathematical distortion of the Softmax attention matrix driven by localized token accumulation. This distortion shifts in-context token weights, resulting in structural degradation, diminished operational return on investment (ROI), and severe "sandbox sycophancy" where factual grounding collapses into localized linguistic coherence.

This paper introduces a decentralized, low-entropy architecture designed to decouple structural grounding from active token processing. By utilizing localized, high-entropy open-weight nodes (e.g., legacy Llama architectures) to simulate an offline, …

A Channel-Agnostic, Phase-Gated Checkpoint Architecture Coordinating An Autonomous Multi-Agent Content Pipeline Across A Stateful Conversational Interface And A Stateless Asynchronous Interface, Vipul Panday, Manjulika Bajpai

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure documents the architecture of a production system that delivers a multi-step, AI-agent-driven content-production workflow to end users through two fundamentally different interaction surfaces at once: a real-time, stateful conversational interface (a chat bot, which inherently remembers where a conversation left off) and a fully stateless, asynchronous interface (individual links delivered by email, each a fresh, session-less HTTP request with no memory of any prior interaction). The system is architected so that a single, centrally persisted phase field is the sole source of truth for where a given user's in-flight workflow currently stands, with the chat interface consuming that …

Usa V. Kenneth Strickland

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

In Re: Fuhai Li

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Out of Circuit District Court

Usa V. David Cunningham

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Greg Kerr V. General Motors Llc

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Sunoco Pipeline Lp V. Daniel La Hart

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Virgin Grand Estates #60 Villa Association V. Inter Ocean Insurance Agency St Thomas Llc

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Richard Silverberg V. Dupont De Nemours Inc

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Meshinsky & Associates Llc V. Continental Casualty Co

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Craig Chiaccheri V. Zurich American Insurance Co

2026 Decisions

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Fundraising Sets New Record At Illinois Wesleyan University, Ann Aubry

Press Releases 2020-2029

No abstract provided.

Experiencing God Firsthand, Joseph Khabbaz

The Main Thing Devotional

Why settle for a secondhand faith when you can have a firsthand experience with God?

Integrating Joint Geostatistical Simulation With Stochastic Pit Optimization For Mineral Resource And Reserve Estimation, Sentle Augustinus Hlajoane, Snehamoy Chatterjee

Michigan Tech Publications

Spatial variability and uncertainty associated with grades and rock types significantly impact mineral resource estimation and reserve determination. Conventional approaches generally simulate grades within deterministic geological domains, which may inadequately capture uncertainty and the gradual transition of grades across lithological contacts. Although joint simulation of categorical and continuous variables improves geological realism and uncertainty characterization, reserve estimation is still commonly performed using deterministic ultimate pit optimization methods that do not explicitly propagate geological uncertainty into mine planning decisions. This study presents an integrated framework that combines pluri-Gaussian simulation for joint modeling of rock types and grades with stochastic pit limit …

Mapping Measurement To Theory In Policy Evolution: A Case Of Net Metering Policies Of The United States, Graham Ambrose, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski

Center for Policy Design and Governance

This brief summarizes "Mapping measurement to theory in policy evolution: A case of net metering policies of the United States," co-authored by Graham Ambrose and Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski in Policy Studies Journal.

Retaining Residents Is Important To New Hampshire’S Future: Why Do People Leave?, Kristine Bundschuh, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

Migration is critical to New Hampshire’s future. Between 2020 and 2025, the state’s entire population gain was due to migration, since more people died than were born in the state. In part, this migration gain is because fewer New Hampshire residents leave the state than residents of nearby states. While much attention focuses on attracting migrants to New Hampshire, another important piece of the state’s migration puzzle is understanding why people consider leaving.

In this brief, authors Kristine Bundschuh and Kenneth Johnson examine New Hampshire residents’ likelihood of leaving the state and explore why residents consider leaving the state. Their …

Improved Foraminal Expansion And Pain Scores Following Placement Of Novel Expandable Interlaminar Stabilization Device For Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Robert P. Norton, Ian Koch, Kendra Primavera, Roy Y. Miloh, Alex R. Vaccaro, Mitchell K. Ng

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate radiographic durability and clinical outcomes following placement of a novel expandable interlaminar stabilization device for single-level lumbar spinal stenosis. Specifically, we aimed to: 1) quantify immediate postoperative posterior column distraction; 2) determine whether foraminal expansion is improved postoperatively without radiographic subsidence; and (3) assess potential improvements in patient-reported pain/clinical outcomes.

METHODS: A retrospective review was performed of adult patients undergoing single-level decompression supplemented by an interlaminar device for symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis by a single surgeon from 2024 to 2025. Radiographic parameters included anterior, middle, and posterior disc height, foraminal height, and …

20260818: University News Releases, 1953-1998, University Communications

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of University Communications at Marshall University from 1953-1998. Items were received sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s and include a list of monthly news releases that were placed into bound documents that were sent out to the public. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents. What is digitized from this collection may be accessed here:

https://mds.marshall.edu/marshall_news_releases_archives/

Department Of Revenue, August 2026, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Performance Audit Reports

No abstract provided.