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Toward Efficient Small Organic Molecule Electrooxidation: Catalyst Interface Engineering, Peiyun Zhou, Ligang Feng

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Electrooxidation of small organic molecules (e.g., methanol, urea, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural) represents a promising strategy to replace the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water electrolysis, thereby reducing hydrogen production energy consumption and simultaneously achieving co-production of value-added chemicals or degradation of environmental pollutants. However, single-component catalysts often struggle to achieve efficient coupling between organic molecules and OER-derived oxygen species. This review addresses this challenge by highlighting the pivotal role of catalyst interface engineering (including reconstruction), drawing on our series of studies and relevant important reports. By constructing heterointerfaces, electronic structures can be modulated and intermediate adsorption optimized, thereby enhancing the …

Interfacial Electron Redistribution In Cos2/Co3O4 Heterostructures Enabled By In-Situ Anion-Driven Topochemical Transformation Toward Efficient Oxygen Evolution, Yiyuan Ren, Yutong Zhang, Haoyi Zhang, Minrui Pan, Jing Li, Tingyu Lu, Dongmei Sun, Yawen Tang

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Designing efficient and durable electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical for advancing sustainable electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies such as rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery (ZAB). Herein, we fabricate a heterostructured OER catalyst composed of CoS₂ and Co₃O₄ nanosheets supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers (hereafter denoted as CoS₂/Co₃O₄@CFs) through the anion engineering. Experimental results demonstrate that the in-situ selective sulfidation constructs abundant CoS₂/Co₃O₄ heterointerfaces, enabling the synergistic regulation of electronic structure and active-site distribution. The O-to-S anion substitution modulates the interfacial …

Temporary Cattle Identification: Benefits Of Marking With Hair Bleach, Melanie Heaton, Reganne K. Briggs, Rebekah Iverson, Brooke Holgate, David Secrist

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Temporary identification is an important management tool for beef producers. Animals are routinely marked following breeding, pregnancy diagnosis, vaccination, treatment, sorting, shipping, and marketing so they can be quickly identified without repeated handling. Effective temporary identification improves labor efficiency, reduces animal stress, and helps ensure management decisions are applied to the correct animals. This fact sheet provides information on temporary cattle marking using hair bleach.

A Unified Sensitivity Kernel For Coherent Wave Tomography In Radar, Seismic, Ultrasound And Optical Imaging, Alexey Yamilov

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This deposit contains the three figures of Ref. [1] that report numerical simulations, main-text Fig. 4 and Supplementary Figs. S1 and S2, together with the plotted data, one CSV file per figure. The simulations are described in Supplementary Note S3 of Ref. [1]. They were computed with MESTI [2] in two dimensions and with the modified Born series [3] in three, on the Mill [4] and Hellbender [5] clusters. The remaining figures of the paper are schematics (Figs. 1 and 5), a diagram drawn from the numbers listed in Table I (Fig. 3), or evaluations of closed-form expressions given …

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Liz Smith, Research Methods: Studying Civic Engagement and Voting Behavior

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Syllabus: Research Methods In Political Science - Studying Civic Engagement And Voting Behavior, Liz Smith

Liz Smith, Research Methods: Studying Civic Engagement and Voting Behavior

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Activity One And Assignment One: Understanding How Electoral Rules Affect Voting Behavior, Liz Smith

Liz Smith, Research Methods: Studying Civic Engagement and Voting Behavior

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Activity Two And Assignment Two: Understanding How Political Images/Symbols Are Used For Political Mobilization, Liz Smith

Liz Smith, Research Methods: Studying Civic Engagement and Voting Behavior

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Activity Three And Assignment Three: Understanding Youth Political Activism, Liz Smith

Liz Smith, Research Methods: Studying Civic Engagement and Voting Behavior

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Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission, September 2026, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

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Ai-Based Environmental Code Checking Tool For Sustainability Best Management Practices Of Infrastructure Construction Projects, Joseph J. Kim, Pooja D. Chavan

Mineta Transportation Institute

Infrastructure construction and operation are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, which account for approximately one-third of global CO₂ emissions and add to long-term environmental and air quality challenges. Sustainability rating systems such as Envision for infrastructure construction projects provide structured guidance to help teams reduce these impacts, but verifying compliance requires reviewing large volumes of project documents by hand, making the process time consuming and difficult to scale. Therefore, this research develops an AI-based environmental code checking tool that automates the interpretation of project documents and evaluates compliance on lifecycle GHG assessment under Credit CR1.2 of Envision—in other …

Sensing Safety: Developing A Flexible, Portable Alcohol Detection Patch For Community Wellness, Ava Hedayatipour, Ryan Huynh, Wahaab Ademola

Mineta Transportation Institute

Alcohol-impaired driving remains one of the leading causes of traffic fatalities and serious injuries in the United States, posing significant challenges to transportation safety and imposing substantial social and economic costs. Although breathalyzers and wearable alcohol monitoring devices can help detect alcohol consumption, many existing technologies are expensive, bulky, or impractical for continuous, long-term monitoring. This study investigates a lowcost electrochemical sensing platform that could support future wearable alcohol monitoring systems for transportation safety applications. Specifically, the report presents the design, fabrication, and experimental evaluation of a custom screen-printed electrode (SPE) integrated with the Texas Instruments LMP91000 potentiostat. Each disposable …

From Static Frameworks To Adaptive Evaluation: Piloting An Ai-Powered Evaluation Planner For Media Literacy And Digital Skills Interventions, Natalia Edisherashvili, Marit Puusepp, Leen D'Haenens, Tania Azadi, Łukasz Tomczyk, Gemma Martinez Fernández, Miguel Ángel Casado Del Río, Diego Martinez-Castro

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

Evaluating media literacy and digital skills (ML&DS) interventions remains challenging due to limited methodological capacity, time, and resources. Existing frameworks offer valuable guidance but are static and require expert adaptation. This pilot study tested an AI-powered Evaluation Planner developed within the REMEDIS project to support practitioners in designing feasible, evidence-informed evaluation plans. Using a mixed-methods design, 56 participants from 12 countries assessed the tool’s usability, clarity, and perceived utility after completing the Planner and an online survey. Findings showed high perceived ease of use, cognitive clarity, utility, and multilingual functionality. Associations between clarity, ease of use, and intention to reuse …

Dysphagia Risk And Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults And Residents Of Long-Term Care Facilities, Lin-Yang Chi

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Held-Through Candidacy: Excluding Sustained-Note Interiors From Grid-Guided Onset Detection By Testing Whether The Previous Note Ever Stopped, Shane Wirkes

Defensive Publications Series

Grid-guided onset detection scores a musician’s timing by asking, at every position of a metronome grid, whether a note began there. On sustained-tone instruments (brass, single-reed, flute) this fails in one specific way: a note held across several grid positions keeps producing spectral change through vibrato, breath and pitch wobble, so its interior is reported as a run of new notes. Every test that reads the sound at the position (spectral flux, prominence, level, spectral sparsity, group delay, linear-prediction residual, pitch) is either inert on this population or removes only a minority of it at a cost in real notes …

Directed Continuity Groups For Fresh-State Multi-Machine Processing, Shivam Mohan

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The present disclosure relates to Directed Continuity Groups for Fresh-State Multi-Machine Processing in distributed computing systems. A processing system for directing related work receives work associated with a relation, derives a relation identifier, and associates the relation identifier with a continuity group having at least two processing nodes during an active continuity interval. The processing system directs state-changing work to an authority node that applies the work to a volatile state representation and generates state-update information identifying an ordering position, while at least one reflected-state node maintains a reflected state representation. Further, the processing system directs subsequent work based on …

Automated Proximity-Based Notifications To Disclose Nearby Media Recording Events, Ryan Geraghty, Alex Finlayson, Sunil Kumar

Defensive Publications Series

Media recording devices such as cameras and microphones can include explicit indicators, e.g., shutter click sound, a blinking light, etc. to inform people when media is being captured. However, such indicators may not be sufficiently prominent and can be inadvertently or deliberately obscured or bypassed through digital or physical tampering. This disclosure describes techniques for automated proximity-based disclosure of media recording status of a device to nearby first-party and third-party devices broadcast using one-way Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertising packets. A recording initiation signal can be used to inform bystander devices within the capture radius whenever a device in the …

Consensus Free Probabilistic Coordination Of Distributed Operational Decisions, Faiz Ahmed, Shubham Shivhare

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The present disclosure provides a method and system for consensus-free probabilistic coordination of operational decisions in a distributed computing environment. A distributed node collects locally observed operational signals and updates a local belief state representing confidence that an operational action should be performed. The distributed node selects a subset of peer nodes and asynchronously exchanges belief information with the selected subset. Received peer belief information is merged with the local belief state using a bounded-influence merge function that limits an influence of an individual peer belief state. The updated belief state is evaluated against one or more configurable thresholds, and …

Cross-Border Settlement Optimization With Quantum-Inspired Planning And Blockchain Governance, Pawan Kumar Jha

Defensive Publications Series

A method of generating and governing a cross-border settlement plan includes receiving, by a processor, a natural language intent specifying settlement parameters for a plurality of cross-border payments; converting, by a generative language model agent, the natural language intent into a structured constraint set having an objective function, a liquidity buffer constraint, and a route failure probability constraint; generating a first settlement plan version based on the structured constraint set; selecting a subset of payments based on an impact metric; encoding the subset as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem; solving the problem using a variational quantum algorithm to obtain …

Semantic-Aware Distributed Replica Orchestration (Sadro), Shubham Shivhare, Thousif Ahmed

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A system and method for "Semantic-Aware Distributed Replica Orchestration" (SADRO) that optimizes inference latency and cache hit rates in large-scale AI deployments. Unlike traditional load balancers, SADRO utilizes a Semantic Router that maps incoming natural language queries to a high-dimensional vector space. Based on the "cluster" or "topic" of the request (e.g., Legal, Coding, Medical), the system identifies or spins up service replicas on hardware nodes containing specialized data-locality (e.g., specialized KV-caches, hot-loaded LoRA adapters, or domain-specific vector database shards). This reduces the "cold start" penalty and maximizes throughput by ensuring high semantic affinity between the request and the local …

The Charter Of Procedural Standing. Mutual Verifiability, Reversibility, And Graduated Trust: A Short Charter For Humans And Ai Systems, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

This Charter sets out a framework for the coexistence of humans and artificial intelligence under conditions in which neither side can unilaterally, and with impunity, impose its will on the other. Discussion of the subject usually runs between “AI as a tool” and “AI that disregards humans”; this regime is left out. Procedural standing here means equality of procedure and of recognition under uncertainty, not equality of rights, power, or authority as things stand today. At the present stage all operational power rests with humans and developers, and the Charter does not hide that fact behind symmetrical language of obligation. …

Verifiable Trust: A Practice Guide To Graduated Oversight Of Advanced Ai Systems, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

This guide turns the operational core of The Human–AI Charter (Discussion Draft v1.4) into a set of protocols that researchers, evaluators, and engineers can adopt without adopting the Charter's broader positions on moral status, representation, or long-term governance. It contains five protocols and four supporting practices for keeping the oversight of advanced AI systems verifiable: measuring how well verification methods actually detect deviations (VT-1); controlling changes to the parameters that oversight depends on (VT-2); keeping verification data out of training (VT-4); financing and assigning independent evaluators so that findings do not depend on the evaluated party (VT-3); and tying the …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Monitoring A Blockchain Network, Libby A. Kurien, William M. Boyce

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring a blockchain network. An example method includes: processing electronic payment transactions initiated by payment devices issued by an issuer system associated with a prefunded account including a blockchain address having a balance of digital tokens by: sequentially receiving transaction request messages initiated by payment devices issued by the issuer system; for each transaction:  determining an accumulated authorization amount based on preceding transaction amounts and the corresponding first transaction amount; determining that the accumulated authorization amount does not satisfy a threshold based on the prefunded amount of digital tokens …

Self-Derived Task-Conditioned Attention Gating For Mitigating Semantic Distractors, Sumit Kumar, Shivam Mohan, Ravi Shanker Kumar Sinha

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method (300) for mitigating semantic distractors in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The method (300) includes receiving contextual information and one or more associated tasks, generating token embeddings corresponding to the contextual information, and processing the token embeddings through one or more neural-network layers to establish task understanding. The method (300) further includes deriving a task vector from one or more hidden-state representations generated by the neural network, generating relevance-gating values based on the task vector and contextual representations, and applying the relevance-gating values during attention computation to determine gated attention scores. The method (300) further …

B-Links: Proof-Of-Humanity-Signed Shareable Provenance With An Embedded Gratitude Affordance, Thon Ly

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Consumer media sharing imposes a hidden, compounding storage tax. When a user shares a photo or video to n recipients on a copy-based platform whose defaults save received media to the library and cloud backup, the asset is duplicated across every recipient's device and personal cloud. Families carry the same memories n times over, and platforms turn duplication into upgrade prompts. The cost is invisible, and so is the kindness of a sharer who avoids it.

This paper specifies the B-Link℠: a rich link-preview primitive that replaces copy-based sharing with reference-based sharing while carrying four normally-absent payloads. One cloud-canonical copy …

Referral-Bound Purchase Claims: Binding An Operator-Issued Referral Id To An Anonymous On-Chain Purchase Commitment For Verifiable Word-Of-Mouth, Takuya Ogura

Defensive Publications Series

A method for making word-of-mouth posts verifiable without revealing buyer identity. A purchase is recorded on a blockchain as a hiding commitment that does not identify the buyer. When the buyer chooses to post about the purchase on social media, a separate per-purchase binding record is written that contains the buyer's public account handle and, in plaintext, an operator-issued referral ID. The referral ID is generated from random bytes and exists only inside the buyer's personal connector (token) URL, which is issued automatically upon payment confirmation. A third party can therefore compare the referral URL in a post against the …

Defeating The Rider Paradox: Thermodynamic Decoupling And Quantum Resonance Maintenance In P-11b Fusion Via A Hybrid Quad-Ionic/Bi-Ionic Architecture, Daniel Schramm

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The pursuit of proton-boron (p-11B) fusion has historically been stalled by the thermodynamic paradox established by Rider (1995): classical plasmas in thermal equilibrium will rapidly transfer required ion kinetic energy to background electrons, resulting in fatal X-ray Bremsstrahlung radiation before ignition. To bypass this limit, the reactor must operate outside thermal equilibrium. This paper and accompanying dataset present a hybrid quad-ionic architecture driven by internally situated bi-ionic macroscopic coils designed to achieve this decoupling. By generating a continuous 454 kV/m electric field crossed with a 0.0424 T axial magnetic field, the architecture creates an aggressive centrifugal shear that isolates and …

Keeping A Synthesizer's Protected Low Band Clean Under Distortion, Using The Synthesizer's Own Phase, Dominic Theodore Cardelli Jr

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A synthesizer that distorts its upper partials while keeping a low fundamental clean cannot do so with a crossover: a nonlinearity fed with upper partials generates difference products that land below its input, back in the band the crossover was protecting, and a complementary crossover also alters the waveform's peak. This problem was researched and there seem to be some methods that can resolve this. This disclosure describes a method that uses a fact available only inside a synthesizer, that the instrument knows its own oscillator phase exactly, rather than having to estimate it. By keeping the signals within the …

Operational Evaluation Platform And Automated Maturity Scoring System For Partner Ecosystems, Harmony Murphy

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An operational evaluation platform and automated scoring system provide centralized tracking, real-time value calibration, and multi-tier growth scaling across third-party partner ecosystems. The platform ingests manual user inputs and programmatic data streams into a unified workspace, eliminating data duplication while calculating weighted capability scores. Dual scorecard configurations enable internal account benchmarking and external partner enablement. An integrated maturity framework evaluates partner capabilities across four technical pillars—measurement and insight, media and personalization, creative and content, and operational data integration—classifying partners into distinct developmental stages to trigger automated, real-time recommendation updates. Keywords: operational evaluation platform, partner maturity framework, real-time calibration, automated intelligence, …

Telemetry- And Intent-Encoded Routed Expert Fabric, Dennis Lanov, Charles Fleming

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A system is proposed herein for distributing artificial intelligence (AI) inference across endpoint, edge, and cloud tiers. The system routes each semantic portion of a request only to an execution tier permitted by enterprise policy. A local model processes the request first, and intent, local-model confidence, and live network and compute telemetry determine whether selected portions remain local or are promoted with compressed intermediate state. Promoted results are verified before acceptance, and observed outcomes are used to improve future routing and expert placement.