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A Remarkable Journey Of Faith And Perseverance, John Zimmerman

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Ten months ago, Colin Jambekar was sitting through chemotherapy treatments that lasted up to seven hours a day while trying to keep pace with a demanding civil engineering course load.

On May 9, 2026, he walked across the commencement stage at Calvin University as a college graduate, cancer survivor, and conference champion student-athlete.

Differences In Response Rates To A Previsit Electronic Portal Questionnaire In Outpatient Clinics: A Retrospective Observational Study Of The Standard Dermatology Outcome Measures, Rene F. Chen, Udeyvir S. Cheema, Beiyu Liu, Cynthia L. Green, Matilda W. Nicholas, Suephy C. Chen

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

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Wildfire Risk & Preparedness For Urban Rail Operators Supporting Large Stadium Events, Karl Kim, Eric Yamashita, Daniele Spirandeli, David Rother

Mineta Transportation Institute

The project team, in collaboration with partners and stakeholders, developed a four-hour training course designed to build a foundational understanding of how wildfire hazards affect rail systems infrastructure operations and how this knowledge can help equip urban rail operators with tools and best practices for proactive risk management. Led by the University of Hawaiʻi and the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, in partnership with Haley & Aldrich, Inc., this technical report presents an overview of the four modules and scenario planning exercise that together make up the four-hour Wildfire Risk & Preparedness for Urban Rail Operators Supporting Large Stadium Events …

Enhancing Wildfire Resilience In The Rail Industry: Developing A Community Resilience Extreme Events Portal (Creep), Karl Kim, Eric Yamashita, Daniele Spirandeli, David Rother, Chris Chiesa, Greg Hampe, Michele Toner

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Community Resilience Extreme Events Portal (CREEP) provides a centralized platform for accessing wildfire danger indices, critical asset locations, and vulnerability scores for rail segments. The project team developed a data-driven, indicator-based vulnerability assessment framework that defines vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. To build this framework, the team selected publicly available datasets, prioritizing national datasets whenever possible to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and scalability. The portal allows users to analyze and visualize vulnerability across 1-kilometer segments of Class I freight and passenger rail lines in California, supporting planning and mitigation prioritization to help reduce rail-related fatalities, …

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2026 Decisions

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Td Spec: Topological Helical Embedding Constraints For Hyperbolic Slingshot Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a non-perturbative, effective field theory (EFT) governing the topological transformation of a two-dimensional quantum information substrate into macroscopic three-dimensional volumetric space-time metrics. While standard holographic frameworks, such as the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, establish that boundary data can mathematically define a bulk volume, they often rely on unverified high-dimensional compactifications or free parameters to model local mass-energy tensors.

This paper introduces a coordinate-free, macroscopic dual mechanism: physical matter and spatial geometry emerge natively when a parameter-agnostic 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane experiences localized coordinate compression (The Fold) and asymmetric rotational torque (The Twist). By restricting the …

Artificial Intelligence (Ai)-Driven Reproduction Of Network Device Failures From Pre-Failure Evidence Capture, Kamakshi R Devisetty, Nikhil Alampalli Ramu

Defensive Publications Series

A system predicts imminent network-device failures and initiates causally coherent evidence capture before volatile state disappears. In response to a causal token, device-local agents collect native, capability-aware evidence from selected causal neighbors, fuse relevant change context, and normalize the resulting artifacts into a vendor-agnostic bundle. A tiered reproduction engine uses the bundle to recreate the failure through simulation, virtual-device organic state arrival, or hardware-sandbox execution, and then ablates the reproduction to identify a minimal action set that still produces the failure signature. The system enables reproducible diagnosis of intermittent, multi-device network failures without requiring a central mirror or orchestrator.

Genai-Driven Detection Of Infrastructure Role Mutation Using Behavioral Embeddings, Dinesh Verma

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method detect infrastructure role mutation by learning a semantic operational identity for each monitored infrastructure entity from multi-layer runtime telemetry.  The system maintains an adaptive temporal trajectory of each entity's role and detects when that role diverges from its established purpose using semantic distance metrics, without requiring predefined rules, static baselines, or known threat signatures. By incorporating cross-entity graph context, the system distinguishes legitimate orchestrated changes from unauthorized infrastructure repurposing, enabling early detection of role mutation that is invisible to conventional monitoring and security tools.

Malt-Nsom Ground Truth: Integrated Electromagnetic, Thermodynamic, And Acoustic Tensor Dataset For Biophysical Modeling, Daniel Schramm

Defensive Publications Series

Title: MALT-NSOM: A Multi-Physics 3D Tensor Dataset for AI-Driven Oncological Biosensing and Targeted Therapeutics

Abstract:

This dataset provides a high-fidelity, multi-physics ground-truth benchmark for the MALT-NSOM (Metal-Assisted Lossless-Dielectric Nanophotonic Sub-diffraction Optical Microscopy) platform. Unlike noisy clinical datasets, this archive contains 3D tensor fields derived from first-principles Maxwell, Poisson, and Acoustic wave equations. It is designed for researchers developing machine learning models for predictive biomarker detection, sub-cellular diagnostic imaging, and non-invasive therapeutic targeting.

Data Generation & Methodology:

The dataset was constructed using three primary high-performance physics engines:

1. Optics (MEEP/FDTD): 3D Maxwell tensor simulations of a bi-spherical Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) dimer cavity …

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Caldwell Heavy‑Duo Multi‑Stage Vortex‑Flash Atmospheric Water Engine Beta‑2 Heavy Edition — Dual‑Lane Parallel Var Architecture, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This document provides the complete fabrication blueprint, dimensions, bill of materials, wiring, assembly steps, and test protocol for constructing the Caldwell Heavy‑Duo Multi‑Stage Vortex‑Flash Atmospheric Water Engine (Beta‑2 Heavy Edition).

This machine uses:

• Two parallel VAR vortex cones

• Two parallel 3‑stage cascaded condensation banks

• 400–600 CFM dual‑lane airflow

• Forgecell PCM thermal buffering

• Janus PDMS–TiO₂ radiative cooling deck

• Closed‑loop coolant system (TEC or chiller)

• WSM humidity halo

• UV‑C purification

• ESP32‑S3 control fabric

This design is 100% buildable using:

• CNC machining

• Aluminum sheet fabrication

• Off‑the‑shelf TECs or mini‑chiller

• Standard blowers

• Common sensors

• Basic wiring

• No nanomaterials

• No exotic chemistry

Expected performance at …

Motion-Driven Audio Instrument With Same-Signal Cadence Lock And Beat-Aligned Handoff To Tempo-Matched Media, Using The User's Own Measured Motion Cycle As A Variable-Length Rhythmic Bridge, Harnek Gulati

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile device continuously synthesizes an audio voice modulated in real time by its own inertial motion, so that a user physically swinging or carrying the device hears themselves as sound. The same inertial signal that drives the synthesis is simultaneously used as the detection carrier for a periodicity estimator, which locks onto the user's repetitive-motion period (gait cadence, arm swing) by folding N recent cycles per candidate period and scoring inter-cycle coherence. Octave ambiguity — the classic step-versus-stride error — is resolved by folding at twice the candidate period and testing the two resulting half-cycles for asymmetry, exploiting the …

A Process For The Preparation Of Pure Zavegepant Or Its Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Hyderabad, India; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy And Singavarapu Adilakshmi.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of pure Zavegepant or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts and its intermediates. The structure of Zavegepant of formula-1 is shown below:

Formula-1.

System And Method For Green Energy-Aware Traffic Engineering Path Computation, Abhishek Garg, Rajeev Anand, Jaiesh Thapar

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents a distributed control-plane mechanism that enables green energy-aware Traffic Engineering (TE) path computation in IS-IS and OSPF-TE networks. A router configured as renewable-energy-powered advertises a new Green Energy Capability sub-TLV in its TE advertisements. Routers in the same IGP domain learn this attribute and build a green-aware topology map. A tunnel-level policy can then constrain TE path computation to green-enabled nodes only. The mechanism is backward compatible and does not require an external controller.

Existence-Oracle-Free Cross-Node Recall In A Multi-Node Organisational Memory, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for serving a recall request across nodes of an organisational agent memory such that the requester cannot infer the existence of records they are not authorised to see. A blocked recall is indistinguishable, to the requester, from a recall that found nothing. The disclosure pins the property to three observable equalities between the authorised view and the ground-truth view (result count, latency, and the form of the observable audit chain), establishes byte-identity of results as a fourth, separately provable property, and describes the mechanism that discharges them: the authorisation predicate is evaluated at the query layer …

Transitive Multi-Hop Erasure With Proof Of Absence In A Derived-Store Agent Memory, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for discharging an erasure request in an agent memory whose records are copied, aggregated and derived across hops and nodes. An erasure request at the origin propagates transitively along declared derivation edges into every derived store, and completion is demonstrable by a re-runnable query returning zero rows rather than asserted by a receipt. The disclosure pins three obligations (derivation recorded as an explicit edge at write time, fan-out along those edges rather than at the addressed store alone, and a query as the post-condition) and describes the enabling arrangement, including the separation between the record of …

Statutory Co-Determination As A Fail-Closed Architectural Invariant Of A Governed Data Flow, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for treating employee-representative oversight not as a policy layer above a system but as a structural precondition of the governed data flow itself: if oversight cannot be made visible, the flow does not happen. The disclosure pins six obligations (exactly one oversight record per flow keyed on the flow's correlation identity; written before delivery; fail-closed on failure of the oversight write; a machine-checked data class that fails closed to personal; the co-determination flag carried at flow granularity by the relationship between the two parties rather than by an application manifest; and an oversight history that survives …

Contradiction-Preserving Attributed Organisational Memory With Per-Contribution Erasure, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for holding a memory shared by several members of one organisation such that conflicting statements are kept both, attributed, and marked contested rather than merged into one clean truth, and such that a single member's erasure removes that member's contributions without destroying a co-author's. The disclosure pins five obligations (provenance as a many-to-many edge rather than a column; attribution keyed on the chain-stable identity of a claim so that versioning does not sever co-authorship; corroboration yielding one record with two edges rather than a duplicate; granular per-contributor erasure with the record's standing re-derived from surviving edges; …

Works-Council-Visible-Or-Blocked: A Fail-Closed Oversight Gate For Personal-Data Flows Between Nodes, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is the concrete arrangement by which a system makes every cross-node personal-data flow visible to employee representatives before the flow occurs, and blocks the flow when that visibility cannot be established. The arrangement combines: a machine-checked data class that fails closed to personal; a co-determination flag carried at flow granularity by the bilateral relationship grant; a non-downgrade rule under which neither the classifier nor the flag can remove a non-empty flow from oversight visibility, so that classifier blind spots cannot open the gate; exactly one oversight record per flow, enforced by a uniqueness constraint on the flow's correlation identity …

Credential-Bound Capability Chokepoint For Agent-Memory Access By Installed Applications, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a species-level arrangement for governing an installed application's access to an agent memory through a single enforced facade, with four pinned properties: the acting identity and the data scope are derived from the presented credential and the installation record, never asserted by the caller; the invocation record is written before any output leaves; the application's own writes are readable back through the same door under an application-private provenance scope rather than through a second, ungoverned path; and the data resources an application may touch are declared in its manifest and separately granted in the installation ledger, with both …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Wearable Biomimetic Harmonic Alignment Liner And Micro-Distributed Gan Power Stage Matrix For Biological Homeostasis, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the mechanical, electrical, and topological architecture for a wearable, direct-dermal biomimetic alignment garment designed to mitigate the systemic biological degradation pathways caused by prolonged microgravity exposure. Traditional aerospace paradigms treat gravity loss as an external mechanical force deficit, attempting to resolve bone-density wastage and fluidic intracranial crowding via clumsy macro-scale kinetic countermeasures (e.g., spinning centrifuges) or localized chemical vectors.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, biology is re-modeled as a scale-invariant series of localized wave packets vibrating against a 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (\(z=0\)). This paper introduces an integrated, lightweight backpack …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator And Molecular Conduction Wave Filters For Visorless Atmospheric Envelopes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the physical architecture and low-level firmware constraints for a body-worn, spine-mounted Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator capable of establishing a localized, un-tethered atmospheric breathing envelope and active radiation shield directly around an individual operator in a hard vacuum. Traditional extravehicular activity (EVA) systems rely heavily on high-friction mechanical containment units (e.g., pressurized polycarbonate visors and multi-layered fabric suits) that restrict joint mobility, maximize structural failure vectors, and demand high-mass portable life support back-assemblies.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, macroscopic matter is treated as a scale-invariant series of localized wave-knots collapsed from an underlying two-dimensional …

The Smart Glasses Structure Enhanced With Attached Deformable Structures That Will Enable To Connect Rigid Physical Structures To The Smart Glasses Structure Where The Connected Rigid Physical Structures Can House Rigid Electronic Entities Of The Smart Glasses., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a smart glasses structure enhanced with attached deformable structures that will enable to connect rigid physical structures to the smart glasses structure where the connected rigid physical structures can house rigid electronic entities of the smart glasses. The enhanced smart glasses structure will consist of the smart glasses structure itself that is deformable, the attached deformable structures, the connected rigid physical structures and the entities that are housed within the connected rigid physical structures that will be required for the functionality of the smart glasses, which will include the rigid electronic entities. The smart glasses structure itself …

Process For The Preparation Of (S)-1-(4-Fluorophenyl)-1-(2-(Piperazin-1-Yl) Pyrimidin-5-Yl)Ethan-1-Amine Or Its Salts, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Hyderabad, India; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Revu Satyanarayana, Bakthavachalam Ananthan And Chitikela Rama Teerdha.

Defensive Publications Series

The present application relates to a process for the preparation of (S)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-(2-(piperazin-1-yl)pyrimidin-5-yl)ethan-1-amine of formula-2 or its salt which is a key intermediate used in the preparation of Avapritinib.

Formula-2.

Essex Package Realty Llc V. Lewis

All Decisions

After sua sponte sanctions hearing, court imposed $4,500 in sanctions each on petitioner and counsel (Green & Cohen PC) for frivolous conduct in continuing to prosecute a failure-to-sign-renewal-lease holdover for six months after respondent signed the lease, despite having at least five distinct opportunities to discontinue. Court held that high-volume practice does not diminish counsel's obligation to ensure filings retain a legal and factual basis.

Developing And Validating A Socio-Technical Bim-Lean Integration Maturity Model For Predicting Construction Project Performance, Felix Delmonte

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

This study proposes a socio-technical, multi-level maturity model that integrates BIM and Lean to explain variation in project performance across cost, schedule, productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability, and outlines a sequential mixed-methods design-science programmed for instrument development and validation. Combining systematic review, semi-structured expert interviews, Delphi consensus, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, multi-criteria weighting, and PLS-SEM, the approach separates adoption, subsystem capability, and integration maturity, and treats integration as an emergent property of aligned infrastructure, human capability, governance, and continuous-improvement routines. Measurement development emphasizes reflective multi-item constructs for BIM technical capability, Lean production governance, system integration quality, socio-technical alignment, and …

An Integrated Bim, Ipd And Lean Capability Maturity Model For Construction, Felix Delmonte

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

This study proposes an integrated BIM–IPD–Lean maturity construct that conceptualizes digital information management, contractual governance, and production system discipline as interdependent socio-technical capabilities and develops a validated measurement architecture to relate this higher order construct to project performance. A mixed methods strategy is described that uses qualitative interviews and expert panels to generate items and maturity level descriptions, followed by pilot testing and rigorous psychometric evaluation (EFA, AVE, Composite Reliability, CFA/PLS-SEM) to establish convergent and discriminant validity for BIM, IPD, and Lean subscales. Hypotheses anticipate a positive association between integrated maturity and quality, time, cost, safety, productivity, sustainability, and stakeholder …

Institutional Support Environments In Higher Education: Rethinking The Role Of Military-Affiliated Student Centers, Coby W. Dillard

Human Resource Development Student Publications and Presentations

Military-affiliated student centers have become common features of higher education institutions serving veterans, active-duty service members, and military-connected students. Despite their growing presence, these centers are often institutionally positioned and evaluated primarily through administrative and compliance functions related to federal education programs. This framing risks overlooking the broader developmental and engagement functions these environments can provide for adult learners transitioning from military to academic contexts. Drawing on organizational support theory, social exchange theory, and belonging frameworks in higher education, this Perspectives essay proposes a conceptual reframing of military-affiliated student centers as institutional support environments rather than transactional service units. Institutional …

Single Fluorogens And Orientation-Localization Microscopy For Quantifying Chemical And Biomolecular Dynamics At The Nanoscale, Yiyang Chen, Yuanxin Qiu, Matthew D. Lew

Electrical & Systems Engineering Publications and Presentations

Many chemical systems look uniform only because ensemble measurements average over their most interesting molecules. Electron-transfer rates vary across electrode surfaces; lipid membranes contain nanodomains with distinct packing and fluidity; peptide aggregates exhibit local polymorphism; and biomolecular condensates contain transient networks of interactions that are blurred in ensemble images. A central challenge in chemical imaging is not simply to see smaller structures, but to measure chemical variables such as polarity, redox potential, and molecular confinement at the single-molecule level. In this Account, we describe how fluorogens, molecules whose brightness, blinking, spectral shifts, orientation, rotational mobility, and motion are directly shaped …

Purdue University School Of Nursing Ai Use And Disclosure Scale, Laura M. Moffat, Amanda Obourn, Courtney Henchon

Purdue School of Nursing Generative AI Toolkit

The Purdue University School of Nursing AI Use and Disclosure Scale provides a five-level framework for communicating expectations for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use in learning activities and assessments. The cumulative scale ranges from work completed without GenAI assistance to activities in which extensive GenAI use may be permitted. Each level identifies allowable uses and corresponding disclosure expectations while maintaining student responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and quality of submitted work. Faculty may select the level appropriate to the learning outcomes and assessment purpose. The scale promotes consistent communication, transparent disclosure, responsible GenAI use, and the development of AI literacy …