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Graph-Constrained Code Generation For Deep Metadata Environments, Pradeep Shankara, Anil Nagalla, Richard Yang, Vinay Anand

Defensive Publications Series

Generative artificial intelligence models may face challenges generating source code for languages that rely on deep, nested metadata stored in data repositories, which can result in functionally limited or non-compilable output. A graph-constrained code generation framework can address this by extracting metadata from a target system and translating it into one or more knowledge graphs that model structural dependencies. An automated agent may traverse these graphs to perform a multi-hop context retrieval based on a developer's request. This collected context can then be used to construct a detailed, constraint-enforcing prompt for a large language model. This process of grounding the …

System For Serving A Pre-Compiled User Interface To A Host Environment Using A Local Bridge Server, Jack Livingston

Defensive Publications Series

Development in text-centric environments, such as for large language models, can present challenges in rendering complex user interfaces (UI) for simulation and debugging, which may lead to inefficient workflows. A system can integrate a pre-compiled graphical user interface application within a host development environment. This can be accomplished using a local bridge server that serves a UI application bundle to the host environment via a communication protocol. The host environment may then render the UI, for example, within a sandboxed inline frame. This approach can reduce workflow fragmentation and latency by embedding an interactive simulation and debugging tool into the …

System For Diagram Generation With Decoupled Logical Interpretation And Deterministic Rendering, Timothy Jabez, Arindam Sirohia, Stenal P. Jolly, Shreya Prabhu

Defensive Publications Series

A system for diagram generation can address potential limitations where logical interpretation and visual rendering are coupled, which could lead to inconsistent outputs. The system can employ a decoupled, multi-stage pipeline. For example, a first processing stage using artificial intelligence can transform an unstructured user input into a platform-agnostic intermediate logical artifact that defines a diagram's components and connections without spatial or visual information. Subsequently, a separate layout and rendering engine can process this logical artifact to calculate spatial positions and generate a visual diagram. This separation of logical interpretation from visual rendering may improve the reliability and accuracy of …

Plant And Process For Methanol Production Using High-Pressure Electrically Heated Reforming, Martin Baumgaertl, Gianluca Pauletto

Defensive Publications Series

The present technical disclosure relates to a plant and to a corresponding process for the conversion of a feedstock comprising methane and/or other hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide into methanol. The plant and process integrate an electrically heated reforming reactor within a methanol synthesis loop. The electrically heated reforming reactor is configured to discharge the syngas stream at a pressure equal to or higher than an operating pressure of the methanol synthesis reactor, and the main syngas flow path is free of an intermediate synthesis-gas compressor configured to raise the syngas stream to the operating pressure of the methanol synthesis reactor.

System And Method For Zero Copy Machine Learning Inference Using Non Owning Shared Memory Model Views, Faiz Ahmed

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method are disclosed that eliminate model loading in machine learning inference by enabling inference processes to operate directly on a shared, already‑resident model representation, wherein trained model parameters are stored as native binary structures in operating‑system managed shared memory and are accessed by inference processes through non‑owning typed memory views that require no allocation, copying, or deserialization; the shared memory region serves as the authoritative representation of the model and includes a control header and a plurality of model slots arranged in a double‑buffered configuration, wherein model updates are performed by writing a model into an inactive …

Reference-Model-Equivalent Weekly Utilization Cap Computed Directly From The Billing Ledger, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a method and system for enforcing a periodic utilization cap over heterogeneous large-language-model (LLM) usage without maintaining a separate rate-limit counter store. The consumption of models with different price/performance profiles is normalized onto a single synthetic currency — base-equivalent tokens — by assigning each model a drain weight pinned to the ratio of that model's provider output price to a chosen base model's output price. The cap for a given account is enforced before each call by computing the account's current-window utilization on demand, as a query-time SQL CASE aggregation over the …

Usage-Row-Gated Exactly-Once Prepaid Debit Protocol For Metered Llm Turns, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a computer-implemented protocol for debiting a prepaid credit wallet exactly once for a metered large-language-model (LLM) turn, and for doing so without ever producing either of the two well-documented failure classes of naive metered billing: the double-debit (a retried turn charged twice) and the free turn (a completed provider call that never bills, or that records usage telemetry without a matching charge). The core mechanism is an ordering invariant executed inside one database transaction: after acquiring a row-level exclusive lock on the wallet row, the system performs the metered-usage telemetry INSERT first, …

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A System And Method For Data Replication With Agentic Timestamp-Based Conflict Resolution In Rdbms Cluster, Ravi Shanker Kumar Sinha

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for autonomous data replication with conflict resolution in a distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) cluster includes a plurality of RDBMS nodes arranged in a mesh topology, wherein each RDBMS node maintains a local database, a logical clock, and a node identifier. A replication agent associated with each RDBMS node monitors change logs and propagates record modifications to other RDBMS nodes through bi-directional replication links. A conflict resolution module detects concurrent updates to a same record from different RDBMS nodes and resolves detected conflicts by comparing logical timestamps and selecting an update having a higher timestamp …

Media-Baked Convergent First-Boot Network Bring-Up, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enables, and dates a method and system for driving a freshly imaged bare-metal server from power-on to a single-homed, remotely reachable management state without any console interaction, any human network operator, and — critically — without any cloud or on-network metadata source. A generator bakes a per-node convergence agent directly into the operating-system install media under the vendor-supplement ($OEM$) payload path. During installation the OS setup engine copies that agent onto the target file system. A tiny first-boot script then registers a privileged (SYSTEM) scheduled task that re-executes an idempotent convergence agent on every subsequent boot until …

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Verify-First Phase Autopilot With Out-Of-Band Differential Diagnosis, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, in enabling detail, an autonomous and self-healing bare-metal deployment autopilot. The system drives an end-to-end deployment pipeline through a single uniform per-phase contract — attempt(phase, max, work, verify, heal) — that verifies the desired state before performing any work, performs the phase's work at most once, and on continued failure either remediates and retries or hard-escalates to a human. Verifying first makes every phase idempotent and turns an interrupted run into a resumable one at no extra cost. The defensible element of this disclosure is the mechanism by which the autopilot remediates a node whose in-band control …

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In-Process Live T-Sql-To-Postgresql Transpiling Driver Facade With Ddl/Dml-Differentiated Idempotency Tolerance And Tri-Backend App Namespacing, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dates a mechanism by which application code written against a Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL) client driver is executed unchanged against a PostgreSQL server by an in-process driver facade that transpiles each SQL statement to PostgreSQL dialect at query time, inside the application process, with zero additional infrastructure. The facade reproduces the driver's object model — the pool, the request object with fluent input().query(), the { recordset, rowsAffected } result shape, and the named-parameter binding convention — so that the swap is invisible to callers. The transpiler performs, per statement: MERGE→INSERT … ON CONFLICT with source-alias …

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Self-Wiping Winpe With A Parked Shell: A Fail-Closed Single-Disk Clean Injected Into Boot.Wim For Unattended Remote Re-Image, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, in enabling detail, a fail-closed mechanism for unattended, fully-remote re-imaging of bare-metal servers whose primary disk already carries an operating system, controlled only through an out-of-band management controller that exposes no remote keystroke channel. A user-mode edit of the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) boot image injects a shell manifest (winpeshl.ini) and a launcher script that cleans the partition table of Disk 0 only before the OS installer runs, then parks the shell forever in a sleep loop because the installer entrypoint is a stub that returns before the operating system has been applied. The build step re-extracts …

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Traffic-Quiescence Virtual-Media Eject: Inferring Bare-Metal Os-Install Progress From Bmc Iso-Fetch Telemetry, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a method and system for driving an unattended bare-metal operating-system (OS) installation to completion by inferring install progress from the network traffic that a server's out-of-band management controller (BMC) generates while it streams the installation image over virtual media. A range-capable HTTP ISO server instruments every byte-range request per served file into a compact {bytes, requests, last-read} record. A dual-threshold traffic-quiescence rule — a primary rule (image byte floor reached AND read activity quiet for a short window) plus a low-water/long-quiet fallback and a hard-timeout safety fallback — concludes that the image-apply …

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Structural Review-Gate Stubs: Security Capabilities Shipped As Typed Fail-Closed Throwing Stubs Activated Only By Vetted-Handle/Key Presence, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses Structural Review-Gate Stubs, a software design in which a security-critical capability ships to production as a typed, fail-closed throwing stub whose activation gate is the presence of a vetted provisioning artifact — an injected cryptographic handle, a parseable asymmetric signing key, or a genuine payment secret — and not a boolean feature flag or an environment toggle. When the artifact is absent, malformed, or a deploy-time placeholder, the capability's dangerous operation is not merely disabled; the safe-looking fallback branch does not exist in the code. Attempting the operation raises a single typed gate error carrying a stable …

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Email-Transported Vlm Telemetry Loop, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Many vendors expose per-user consumption in a web console but provide no programmatic metering endpoint, or gate that endpoint behind an enterprise agreement that a small operator does not hold. This disclosure describes a durable, low-friction mechanism for turning such API-less consumption into a first-class metric time series. A designated human periodically screenshots each monitored entity's vendor-console usage page and forwards it, one message per entity, into a shared mailbox — placing the entity's identity in the message subject. A scheduled ingester (1) searches the mailbox for the designated sender through a standard mail API, (2) admits only subjects matching …

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Pre-Rated-At-Emit Admin-Immutable Metering Ledger With Unconditional Immutability Trigger And Writer-Role-Only Append, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dedicates to the public a mechanism for maintaining a usage-metering ledger — the "money record" of a licensing or metered-billing platform — whose immutability and tamper-evidence are properties of the database schema and its privilege grants rather than of an application-level audit trail. The mechanism rests on a single design inversion: each usage event is pre-rated at emit, meaning its final billable monetary amount is computed in application memory and written into the inserted row, so that the row is born final. Because a correctly rated row never needs a legitimate later edit, the ledger …

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Erasable-Subject Proof-Of-Authorship Vault, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, an erasable-subject proof-of-authorship vault. The vault records who conceived what, when in a form that a third party can verify offline, that stays provable after the creator's identity has been erased, and that is honest on its face about the evidentiary strength of every timestamp it carries. The mechanism does not claim the underlying transaction-coupled single-writer append-only ledger — that primitive is treated here as previously disclosed prior art (referred to throughout as Disclosure A, the single-writer baseline). Instead, this publication claims, strictly above that baseline, the composition of four techniques: (1) …

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Counts-Only Entitlement Metering For Client-Encrypted Local-First Stores With Entitlement-Namespaced Dedupe And Bounded-Outage Fail Policy, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enablingly and in full, a method and system for metering and billing a digital resource that is stored only on an end-user's own device, while the authoritative meter, entitlement checks, and invoice-generation remain on a server-side billing spine that never receives the resource's plaintext or ciphertext. The server persists, per usage event, exactly one artifact: an idempotent usage row whose quantity is a COUNT (a number of documents, ingest units, or retrieval units), never bytes of content, never a title, never an embedding. Exactly-once accounting under retries and cross-tenant safety under untrusted client input are obtained by …

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Monotonic Deploy Guard Via Git-Dag Ancestry Against A Cluster-Recorded Live Commit, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses a deploy-time admission mechanism that decides whether a candidate build artifact may be applied to a running service by reasoning over the source-control commit graph (the Git directed acyclic graph, or DAG) at the moment of deployment, rather than over pipeline serial numbers, build clocks, image push order, or semantic version strings. A candidate commit is admitted only when two independent DAG relationships both hold: (1) the candidate is an ancestor-or-equal of the integration-branch HEAD (i.e. it is genuinely merged, not divergent or unmerged work), and (2) the candidate is not strictly behind the last-successfully-deployed commit that …

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Outage-Window Minimization Choreography: Prepull-Before-Maintenance With Daemonset Readiness As An Image-Present Barrier, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a unified control loop that minimizes the user-facing outage of a Recreate-class Kubernetes rollout when the workload image is large (on the order of one gigabyte) and the cluster's nodes cold-pull that image slowly (tens of minutes on constrained on-premises hardware). The core insight is choreographic: the two operations that dominate a naive maintenance-window outage — building the image and pulling it onto the node that will run the new pod — are moved outside the user-facing window and executed while production traffic still flows. The warm-up is performed by a purpose-built …

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Transient Cordon-Fence Pinning Of Recreate Rollouts To The Readwriteonce-Volume-Holder Node, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document establishes public, dated prior art over a deployment-orchestration mechanism that eliminates the ReadWriteOnce (RWO) "Multi-Attach" deadlock during a Recreate-strategy rollout of a Kubernetes workload that mounts a single-attach persistent volume. At deploy time, the mechanism discovers the volume-holder node from the running pod's spec.nodeName, then cordons every other node in the workload's scheduling pool for the rollout window only, so the replacement pod can schedule onto exactly one node — the holder — making Multi-Attach structurally impossible rather than merely unlikely. Bookkeeping is ownership-aware: only nodes this run cordoned are recorded in a ledger; nodes already cordoned by …

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Subscribe, Follow, Save: Podcast Preservation In The Platform Era, Ben Pettis, Jeremy Morris

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Podcasting has produced a glut of cultural content. Collecting and saving these sounds for future study, however, remains challenging. This article asks: “How are recent developments in the platformization of podcasting threatening the ability of users and researchers to save, study, and sustain podcasts and the cultural insights they offer?” To answer, we focus on a podcast preservation project, PodcastRE.org, and discuss strategies for creating an (un)stable repository for future studies of podcasting. While new developments challenge preservation efforts, they also offer archivists opportunities to prioritize the cultural significance of podcasts, rather than the economic motives of the podcast industry …

Ole Miss Helps Make Literacy Success Mississippi's Standard, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The dramatic improvement in Mississippi's early literacy rates has grabbed national attention, spotlighting the work of statewide partnerships to bring about the "Mississippi Miracle."

Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter, July 15, 2026, Jeremy K. Greene

Clemson University Cotton/Soybean Insect Newsletter

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Data For Social Impact - Data Drill Worksheet, Dan Ferris, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Hilary Sedovic

Center for Social Development Research

Emergency response teams often create hypothetical scenarios, such as a natural disaster or mass-casualty event, to test emergency preparedness in a city or community. We are all familiar with fire: orderly filing out of school buildings, meeting in a designated location across the street, and listening for instructions. Drills like these help us surface where there may be gaps in our planning or opportunities to streamline processes so that everybody gets out safely. Data drills adapt this model to focus on the data challenges involved in responding quickly to a crisis. This worksheet is designed to facilitate the planning and …

The Effect Of Retention Threat On Student Learning Gains: Evidence From Ohio, Sarah Souders, Robert Bifulco

Center for Policy Research

Grade retention policies create incentives for students to make adequate progress ahead of evaluation. The threat of retention thus has the potential to affect all students’ academic outcomes, increasing achievement especially among students with test scores near the retention policy’s threshold. By using unique data from Ohio which allows us to implement a regression discontinuity design, we find that students exposed to the threat of retention in Grade 3 experience larger learning gains than students who are not under retention threat. Gains in Grade 3 English Language Arts (ELA) are 0.077 SD and although effects partially fade over time, positive …

Faheem Tariq V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

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"Unmuted America": Oer Assignment And Syllabi For Law/Pol 313 Racial Politics, Camara Silver

Open Educational Resources

Professor Camara Silver created an open syllabus for LAW/POL 313 Racial Politics that includes Unmuted America: Power at Full Volume, a modular political science assignment series. The syllabus and assignment were created as part of an OER course conversion initiative during Spring 2026. The series asks students to examine how power is organized, narrated, defended, and challenged in American public life. Each version uses a two-part structure: “Volume Up,” in which students examine the historical roots, institutional foundations, and present-day structure of a major political issue, and “Volume Down,” in which students analyze a specific case study, source base, …

Case Study: Feasibility Of Creating A Simulated Mobile Data Center For Cross-Disciplinary Academic Programs, Stanley Mierzwa, Christoper J. Schultz, Iassen Christov, Michael Fagioli, Thomas Ikeda, Reinaldo Jaramillo, Giolian Sanagustin

Center for Cybersecurity

This case study examines the potential to envision, create, and deploy a simulated mobile micro data center solution that can be easily replicated and transported between locations and educational settings. The coined term for this solution is the Mobile AI-Centered Data Center (Mobile ACDC), which provides students with a platform to construct, in a hands-on fashion, such a solution and navigate the product to gain greater competencies and understanding of the components found in a data center. Instructor and student feedback assessments from the pilot classroom modules and laboratory experiential learning activities indicate that such a solution helps to improve …

Lowland Tropical Forests Remain A Methane Sink Under Warming And Long-Term Hurricane Disturbance Recovery, Gabriele Larocca Conte, Lucia Zuvela, Rachel Cruz-Pérez, Tatiana Barreto-Vélez, Nibia Becerra-Santillan, Sophia F. Campbell, Molly A. Cavaleri, Et Al.

Michigan Tech Publications

Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas, and tropical forests account for roughly one–third of global atmospheric CH4 uptake by soils. Projected warming and more frequent hurricanes in these ecosystems may alter soil CH4 sink strength, as warmer and wetter soils enhance methanogenesis activity. We measured soil CH4 and CO2 efflux during the calendar summer months of 2023 and 2024 alongside continuous records of soil moisture, soil and air temperature, and precipitation in an in–situ warming experiment (TRACE) located in a lowland tropical forest in Puerto Rico, six to seven years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017). The realized warming …