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Mccrea V. Crawford

All Decisions

Handwritten opinion. In this holdover proceeding, after trial, the court dismissed the petition because Petitioner's Good Cause Eviction Law notice under RPL § 231-c failed to disclose all of the properties owned by the landlord, as required for the small landlord exemption.

Pcmh 2950 Grand Concourse L.P. V. Wilson

All Decisions

In a nuisance holdover proceeding, tenant moved to dismiss and filed a subpoena; landlord moved to quash the subpoena. The court held that the Good Cause Eviction Law notice requirement under RPL § 231-c applies to nuisance holdover proceedings brought under RPAPL § 741, distinguishing prior authority to the contrary. Landlord's motion to quash the subpoena was denied and production of the subpoenaed records was ordered.

Alvarez V. Z&Y Llc

All Decisions

In this Housing Preservation (HP) action, the court granted petitioner's motion to amend the petition to add a harassment claim and to add the Department of Buildings (DOB) as a nominal respondent (the DOB addition had been opposed). The court held that the proposed pleading stated a cognizable claim sounding in landlord-tenant harassment under the Housing Maintenance Code, citing Berg v Chelsea Hotel Owner, LLC, 203 AD3d 484 [1st Dept 2022]. In adding DOB, the court held that given DOB's specialized role in enforcing regulations related to structural stability, joining DOB as a nominal party would promote the public interest …

Eastern 1090 Realty Llc V. Joseph

All Decisions

Landlord moved for leave to reargue the court's prior denial of a default judgment against pseudonymous respondents John Doe and Jane Doe. The court denied reargument, holding that a landlord seeking default judgment against unnamed respondents must still demonstrate due diligence in attempting to identify the individuals by name and provide a description sufficient to fairly apprise them that they are the intended defendants, and that a defaulting party's admission of traversable allegations does not relieve the petitioner of establishing a prima facie case.

210-212 East 87th Street, Llc V. Kaitz

All Decisions

Landlord commenced a lease-expiration holdover proceeding. The court dismissed the petition sua sponte under CPLR § 409(b), finding the annexed Good Cause Eviction Law notice fatally contradictory: it simultaneously indicated the premises was not subject to GCEL and that it was, and that the landlord both was and was not offering a renewal lease. The irreconcilably contradictory notice failed to meet the baseline requirement of a clear, unambiguous predicate notice.

Ai Cyber First Responders: Bottleneck Analysis Of Heterogeneous Cpu–Gpu Pipelines For Security Operations Center Triage, Christine Pierce

Harrisburg University Other Works

Abstract — Modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs) must continuously process massive volumes of heterogeneous security telemetry while meeting stringent throughput, latency, and operational continuity requirements. Although transformer-based artificial intelligence has significantly improved threat detection and alert prioritization, most cybersecurity research evaluates model accuracy rather than the end-to-end behavior of AI-enabled operational pipelines. Consequently, relatively little is known about how heterogeneous CPU–GPU coordination, scheduling overhead, memory movement, and synchronization collectively influence operational SOC performance. This paper presents the AI Cyber First Responder, a heterogeneous SOC triage architecture that integrates GPU-accelerated transformer inference with CPU-based doctrine-driven reasoning to investigate end-to-end pipeline behavior …

System Leadership For Sdg-Aligned Research Security In Ireland, Seán Lacey

Publications

What is new?

Research security has rapidly emerged as a priority in research governance across Europe and internationally. However, discussions frequently frame research security primarily in terms of national security or geopolitical risk, with limited attention to how security measures intersect with sustainable development objectives. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the relationship between research security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using the emerging Irish research security framework as an illustrative context. It argues that research security and sustainable development are not inherently in conflict; however, aligning them requires coordinated system leadership to ensure that security measures protect …

Parental Thermal Environment Affects Offspring Resilience To Winter And Spring Weather Anomalies, Ruzhuo Chen, Mariel Dunn, Caroline A. Curtis, Mariana Abarca

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Recent increases in the frequency and intensity of thermal anomalies can result in recurrent stressful weather events. Among annual insects, this phenomenon may expose parents and offspring to a succession of different weather anomalies (e.g. summer heatwaves and late spring frosts). Parental stress can alter offspring physiology and performance, potentially affecting their tolerance of environmental variation. We investigated the transgenerational effects of thermal anomalies on a univoltine wetland butterfly. We induced parental thermal stress by exposing pupae to a constant temperature, ranging from stressfully cold to stressfully hot (10 ◦C, 26 ◦C, 28 ◦C, 32 ◦C), for three days. Offspring …

Syllabus: Political Philosophy (Philo 24600 / Polsc 20401), Georgie Malone

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus was created for Political Philosophy (PHILO 24600) (POLSC 20401) at Hunter College. It is an intermediate/advanced introduction to key texts in the history of political philosophy. Course description: In this course, we will journey through the major contributions of those thinkers that have shaped the field we call political philosophy. We will begin with Plato and Aristotle, followed by the social contract theorists of the early modern period—Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—before turning to the critical perspectives of Fanon and Marx. We will then turn to the vastly influential work of 20th century liberal philosopher John Rawls and …

Psychological Interventions For Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities In The Context Of Neurodiversity: A Systematic Review, Kalliopi Megari, Dimitra V. Katsarou, Evangelos Mantsos, Soultana Papadopoulou, Efthymia Efthymiou, Maria Theodoratou, Maria Sofologi, Eugenia Toki

All Works

Highlights What are the main findings? What is the implication of the main finding?Highlights What are the main findings? What is the implication of the main finding?Abstract Background/Objectives: This systematic review examines psychological interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities within a neurodiversity framework, emphasizing that variations in cognition, behavior, and neurological functioning represent natural forms of human diversity rather than deficits. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted across the PubMed, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar databases for studies published between 2010 and 2025. Studies were included if they focused on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), learning or intellectual disabilities …

Race And Ethnicity And Overall Survival In Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Daniel J. Zheng, Long Khuong, Catherine Aftandilian, Kira Bona, Emi H. Caywood, Caitlin W. Elgarten, Brian T. Fisher, Cody-Aaron L. Gathers, Taumoha Ghosh, M. Monica Gramatges, Gary Hettinger, Meret R. Henry, Yuan-Shung V Huang, Yimei Li, Kelly Maloney, Amir Mian, Tamara P Miller, Arunkumar Modi, Rajen Mody, Regina M. Myers, Haley Newman, Jose Ortiz, Alix E. Seif, Caroline Smith, Jamie Stokke, Naomi Winick, Jennifer J. Wilkes, Victor Wong, Richard Aplenc, Kelly D. Getz

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

IMPORTANCE: Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have historically experienced worse survival outcomes compared with non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) children. Understanding specific intermediate pathways underlying these outcome disparities is a critical step to directing interventional efforts and resources.

OBJECTIVE: To compare survival outcomes by race and ethnicity in a large contemporary cohort of pediatric patients with AML and to examine presentation acuity, frontline organ toxic effects, and relapse as potential mediators of any observed outcome disparities.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This retrospective cohort study was analyzed from April 2025 to January 2026 and included …

Pre-Implementation Factors For Active Music Engagement (Ame): Barriers And Facilitators To Integrating An Evidence-Based Dyadic Intervention Into Pediatric Oncology Care., Kristin M. Story, Elizabeth Harman, Kristin Stegenga, Jelena Golubovic, Sheri L. Robb

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Pediatric cancer treatment is a difficult and distressing experience that often results in sustained, interrelated distress in young children and parents, and traumatic stress symptoms for some parents. Few evidence-based interventions address this dyadic distress. Active Music Engagement (AME) is a manualized, evidence-based music play intervention that significantly reduces distress in child/parent dyads and mitigates traumatic stress and improves well-being among highly distressed parents and those experiencing sociodemographic risk. Successfully integrating AME into standard care requires a systematic understanding of implementation factors. This study aimed to identify site-specific barriers and facilitators that influenced successful AME delivery during a recently …

Wilson Brito-Hidalgo V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Bcg Overexpressing Ag85b Reprograms Host Immune Response Through Coordinated Transcriptional Networks, Vivek Chauhan, Rakesh Kumar, Raja Veerapandian, Enrique I. Ramos, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Shrikanth Gadad, Subramanian Dhandayuthapani

School of Medicine Publications

Antigen 85B (Ag85B), an immunodominant protein secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), induces robust T-cell-mediated immunity in host cells. Previous studies have demonstrated that recombinant BCG strains overexpressing Ag85B (BCG85B) confer significant protection against tuberculosis in mouse models. This study hypothesized that enhanced protection by recombinant BCG85B results from modulation of host immune gene expression by the Ag85B antigen. To test this, RNA-seq analysis was performed on splenocytes from mice immunized with the wild-type BCG (BCG-WT) and BCG85B strains. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the splenocytes of BCG85B-immunized mice indicated upregulation of immune-related KEGG pathways, including Th1/Th2 and Th17 differentiation, NF-kappa …

Between Their Hands And Mine, Ellie Barnes

Art and Art History Honors Projects

We better understand the people who came before us through objects, images, and stories. Between Their Hands and Mine is a studio art honors project that connects wheel-thrown ceramics to the stories and experiences of the women in my life, known and unknown. Adorning the home with love and care through objects like cups with butterflies was common in my upbringing. My family’s Norwegian background inspired the florals and stripes that decorate the surface. This series of plates, bowls, mugs, and other dinnerware set amongst a dining room and ancestral objects is reminiscent of the homemaking women in my life.

System And Method For Collateralized Generative Advertising: Programmatic Truth-Bonding In Interactive Shopping Ad Units, N/A Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and protocols for establishing programmatic financial and linguistic accountability in generative conversational shopping advertisements. An interactive ad unit parses a live dialogue stream of a generative conversational agent to identify a verifiable commercial assertion. Upon identifying the assertion, the system calculates a probability of model hallucination using token-level log-probabilities and softmax temperatures. A portion of an advertising budget or a pre-funded collateral pool is dynamically diverted into a smart contract escrow as a fidelity bond, where the bond amount scales with the probability of hallucination and a product category liability multiplier. Following a transaction, a …

A Self-Evolving, Multi-Agent Ecosystem For Autonomous Advertising, Aura Yavary

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a self-evolving, multi-agent architecture and associated methods for autonomous digital advertising orchestration, structured as a deeply interconnected network of specialized, goal-directed, and continuously learning agents. Each core function of the digital advertising lifecycle is embodied as an autonomous agent that possesses adaptive, modular capabilities, performs independent decision-making, and communicates via decentralized protocols. The architecture incorporates a synchronized, high-fidelity causal digital twin that models user behavior and competitor actions. This twin is queried by the agents to perform causal counterfactual analysis, massive offline training, and real-time simulation-to-real policy validation. As automated decision-making scales, it is critical to mitigate …

Generative Alteration Of Linear Media Streams Via Multimodal Context Analysis, Harsh Rajotiya, Akash Verma

Defensive Publications Series

Linear media consumption can be a passive experience, and some interactive media formats may be limited by pre-scripted decision trees. This disclosure describes systems and methods for the generative alteration of media streams. A system can analyze a playing media program's visual, auditory, and metadata streams to build a temporal, multimodal understanding of the narrative context. When a user provides an open-ended query, such as a what-if scenario, the system can use this ingested context to interpret the request and a generative rendering engine may synthesize a new, stylistically coherent audio-visual segment reflecting the proposed alteration. This approach can allow …

Nftdve-1.0 Caldwell Non-Invasive Fluid & Transport Discovery / Validation Engine A Modular, Quantitative, Artifact-Resistant Open-Hardware Research Instrument For Discovering, Comparing, And Reproducing Non-Invasive Transport Mechanisms In Standardized Phantom Systems, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

NFTDVE-1.0 is a modular open-hardware research instrument designed to answer a basic engineering question:

Can a proposed non-invasive physical excitation produce measurable, repeatable, and independently verified transport through a standardized phantom under controlled laboratory conditions?

The system is deliberately designed as an experimental measurement platform rather than a therapeutic device.

NFTDVE-1.0 combines a replaceable phantom cartridge, controlled fluid circuit, independently measured excitation system, optical tracer measurement, pressure and flow instrumentation, temperature monitoring, vibration measurement, synchronized data acquisition, calibration procedures, artifact rejection, automated experimental sequencing, and a standardized data structure.

The central design principle is that NFTDVE must be capable of …

The Active Metamaterial Structural Integrity Field (Sif): A Dynamic Stress-Routing Architecture For Advanced Spaceframes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This white paper presents the design, architectural framework, and engineering specifications for a solid-state, real-time Structural Integrity Field (SIF). Traditional spaceframe engineering is bound by a rigid mass-to-rigidity paradox: mitigating extreme localized dynamic, kinetic, or thermal loads requires a proportional increase in material mass, which introduces severe propulsive and structural penalties. The SIF architecture breaks this paradox by shifting the burden of structural survival from structural mass to information-theoretic latency and active stress-routing. By treating structural loading as a continuous elastodynamic wave vector propagating through a medium, we define a modular, multi-vector design matrix.

This paper establishes three independent, hot-swappable …

Caldwell Highway Fire Shield (Chfs-1), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The CHFS-1 (Caldwell Highway Fire Shield) is a retrofitted, remote-operated fire suppression unit designed to patrol highway shoulders during wildfires. It replaces human crews walking with hoses, utilizing a surplus military truck chassis, a slip-in water skid, remote-controlled monitors, and thermal/radar sensor fusion to operate safely in zero-visibility smoke.

Critical Advantage: High Wind Operational Capability Unlike aerial assets (helicopters and drones) which are grounded when sustained winds exceed 35–40 mph or when gusts create turbulence, the CHFS-1 remains fully operational in 60+ mph winds. Its 10,000+ lb anchored mass provides stability where aircraft cannot fly, and its low-altitude nozzle placement …

System Architecture For Cross-Domain Intent Orchestration, Institutional Latency Mitigation, And Distributed Post-Labor Commerce, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure specifies a multi-tiered software and network architecture designed to resolve the systemic bandwidth, cognitive load, and training-data saturation bottlenecks (collectively termed the Epistemic Squeeze) that occur when linear human operational capacity interfaces with exponentially scaling technological and informational systems. The architecture establishes a structured, three-tiered human-machine orchestration environment that shifts human input from low-level manual execution to high-abstract intent orchestration. By introducing a middleware context-translation layer (AI Scaffolding), the system automates semantic embedding mapping across hyper-isolated, domain-specific ontologies, drastically reducing the multi-decade training lifecycle traditionally required to reach technological frontiers.

Furthermore, to mitigate the socio-economic displacement of human …

The Helical Manifold Hypothesis: Time As A Latency Function Of Volumetric Quantum Wave Collapse, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper introduces the Helical Manifold Hypothesis (HMH), a unified geometric and informational framework that models 3D space and linear time as emergent macroscopic phenomena derived from a fundamental, timeless 2D quantum substrate. We propose that baseline energy fields exist on this substrate as highly coiled, localized topological structures. Upon interaction or observation, these wave functions undergo an asymmetric volumetric collapse, uncoiling outward into 3D space to form a visible matter vector, while their anti-matter counterparts remain anchored to the negative side of the substrate. This split establishes physical spacetime coordinates (x, y, z, t). Under this framework, linear time …

Physiologically Derived, Per-Control Input Debouncing For Tremor-Affected Touch And Key Input, Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an accessibility technique, making no health claim: filtering the unintended repeated activations caused by hand tremor from discrete user input, deriving the rejection window from the physiology of the tremor rather than choosing it by feel or exposing it as a user setting.

A tremor at frequency f spaces its repeats approximately 1/f apart. The method sets the debounce window to one full tremor period, W = 1/f, and makes explicit the rule that follows: a window W rejects every repeat sooner than W, and so suppresses every tremor faster than 1/W. The uncovered edge is therefore …

System And Method For Adaptive Data Flow Optimization For Middleware Integration, Kirtee Shree Sinha, Prasenjit Das, Ramadurai Pandian

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides an adaptive orchestration framework for optimizing data transfer between enterprise sourcing systems and financial databases through a middleware integration layer. The framework employs an AI-driven optimization engine that analyzes business metadata from sourcing platforms, system telemetry from middleware, and transaction feedback from the database. A hybrid scoring algorithm computes a PriorityScore used to dynamically reconfigure middleware parameters, including thread concurrency, queue thresholds, and data routing, without interrupting ongoing data flows. The framework maintains consistency between forward and reverse synchronization through a Sync Controller that coordinates bidirectional data flows based on forward-flow completion and load metrics. The …

Global Architecture For Planetary Infrastructure Parity: The Unified In-Context Compilation And Runtime Execution Protocol (Apip-5), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional computing architectures have reached an unyielding thermodynamic and informational bottleneck in 2026. The industry's reliance on autoregressive next-token prediction demands historic capital expenditures and unsustainable grid energy, while facing imminent mathematical decoherence due to the proliferation of low-variance, AI-generated synthetic data.

This comprehensive specification introduces APIP-5, a unified runtime execution protocol that bridges decentralized satellite/edge routing meshes (APIP-3) with raw silicon and cymatic substrates (APIP-2). By establishing a strict dual-track engineering paradigm, this paper provides an immediate, industrially viable deployment model utilizing commercial silicon and hardware filters (Level 3 on the Eckes Feasibility Matrix) alongside an evolutionary, low-entropy computing …

Operational Synthesis Matrix (Apip-4), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the final capstone module for the Global Architecture for Planetary Infrastructure Parity (APIP-4). It formalizes the Automated Cryptographic Resource Allocation Clearinghouse, the programmatic software engine that manages the Level 2 Regional Logistics and Energy Smart Grid layers.

APIP-4 replaces manual trade negotiations and political embargoes with a trustless, decentralized Resource Clearing Ledger driven by automated smart contracts. This engine balances global resource distribution dynamically based on real-time infrastructure telemetry, automatically executing system-level isolation or resource reallocation based on the compliance metrics established in MS #12661, MS #12662, and MS #12663.

By anchoring global logistics to objective network …

Architectural Framework For Decentralized Satellite Routing Schemas And Global Commons Connectivity (Apip-3), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the network transport and routing topologies of the Global Architecture for Planetary Infrastructure Parity (APIP-3). It defines the Universal Civic Identity and Voting Application (UCIVA) transport framework, engineered to bypass state-level telecommunication shutdowns, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls, and terrestrial routing interdictions.

APIP-3 implements an un-jammable, asynchronous, Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) utilizing a cascading local mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P) mesh topology that interfaces natively with an orbital Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. By utilizing hardware-bound, non-biographical cryptographic identity proofs generated via device secure enclaves, APIP-3 creates a zero-knowledge planetary consensus network.

This infrastructure decouples citizen-tier regulatory input from state-controlled …

Global Architecture For Planetary Infrastructure Parity: Silicon-Level Technical Specification (Apip-2), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the micro-architectural and firmware-level layers of the Global Architecture for Planetary Infrastructure Parity (APIP-2). It establishes the precise hardware blueprints required to embed the Multi-Agent Symmetry of Agency Protocol (MSAP) directly onto the silicon processor die. By allocating custom Machine-Mode (M-Mode) Control and Status Registers (CSRs) within open-source execution pipelines, this specification moves computing nodes from software-dependent safety configurations to hardwired, physical-layer boundary enforcement.

The architecture includes the Asynchronous Deceleration Interrupt (ADI) loop—an un-bypassable microcode trap that forces processor clock attenuation or execution thread-fencing when autonomous system entropy anomalies are registered at the pipeline stage.

Integrated alongside …

Global Architecture For Trans-National Informational Infrastructure And Sovereign Risk Mitigation (Apip-1), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the Architecture for Planetary Infrastructure Parity (APIP-1), a deterministic, multi-layered technical framework engineered to eliminate the systemic risks of runaway, machine-velocity autonomous cyber-escalation. As distributed artificial intelligence systems reach agentic execution speeds that operate independently of human cognitive and diplomatic processing intervals, traditional international treaties become structurally obsolete. APIP-1 resolves this enforcement gap by embedding the Multi-Agent Symmetry of Agency Protocol (MSAP) directly into the firmware and core routing layers of the global digital commons.

By employing non-interactive zero-knowledge telemetry verification (zk-SNARKs), this framework allows sovereign states and multinational corporate entities to continuously audit cross-border system behaviors …