Canada Sent No One To Make Its Case Against U.S. Tariffs. So I Went Instead. What I Saw Sickened Me | Opinion, Barry Appleton

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Thermal Ablation Of Hypervascular Liver Tumors After Selective Intra-Arterial Lipiodol Injection (Siali): A Technical Narrative Review Of Technique, Institutional Variations, And Published Evidence, Kiyon Naser-Tavakolian, Abin Sajan, Alyssa Knight, Nikhil Jacob, Stephen P. Reis, Ahmed Abdelal, Binta Patel, Michael A. Clifton, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Kirema Garcia-Reyes, Leigh Casadaban, Maarten L.J. Smits, Zachary T. Berman, Venkatesh P. Krishnasamy

Student Publications

Purpose: Percutaneous thermal ablation of hypervascular liver tumors is limited by lesion conspicuity on conventional imaging, challenges with ablative margin assessment, and unequal global access to advanced technologies such as ablation confirmation software and radioembolization. This review describes the selective intra-arterial lipiodol injection (SIALI) technique, its technical variations across institutions, and summarizes published clinical outcomes for SIALI-guided thermal ablation of hepatic malignancies.

Methods: A narrative review was conducted through structured searches of the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases using terms including "selective intra-arterial lipiodol injection," "lipiodol-guided ablation," "SIALI," and "hepatic arterial lipiodol." Studies were selected based on relevance to SIALI …

Exploring Workforce-Informed Competency Pathways In Computing Education, Mihaela Sabin, Christian Servín, Svetlana Peltsverger, Vangel V. Ajanovski, Matthew Barr, Olga Glebova, Corinna Hörmann, Adri Jovin John Joseph, Bonnie K. Mackellar, Rajendra K. Raj, Charles Wallace, Tiffany Young

Michigan Tech Publications

Computing educators strive to align curricula with workforce needs yet rarely articulate how professional competencies, behaviors, and responsibilities develop across different educational pathways. As the community moves beyond the 2027 curriculum revision cycle, bridge pathways spanning vocational, undergraduate, graduate, and non-computing entry routes are rapidly expanding. At the same time, widespread AI use requires curricula to more explicitly address professional judgment, accountability, and ethical reasoning, in addition to technical skills. This working group brings participants together to map, compare, and synthesize real curriculum and pathway artifacts using shared academic and workforce frameworks. Participants will build a competency-oriented pathway framework, identify …

Services For The Underserved-Mental Health Programs, Inc. V. Nettels

All Decisions

In this holdover in a supportive housing unit alleging objectionable conduct, the court ordered the petitioner to comply with the respondent's demand for a verified bill of particulars. The court rejected the petitioner's argument that a list of the names of people allegedly impacted by the tenant's conduct is evidentiary material beyond the scope of a bill of particulars, applying an important distinction between mere witnesses and content that constitutes the petitioner's prima facie case. The court also held that a bill of particulars is an appropriate vehicle to obtain dates and times of alleged incidents of misconduct.

Diplomacy Country Desk Updates, Susan Craig

Generative AI Teaching Activities

Students will use the gem/activity through the semester to stay up-to-date on their assigned country desk for a graduate level course on diplomacy.

Iron-Containing Cookware For The Reduction Of Iron Deficiency Anemia Among Children And Females Of Reproductive Age In Low- And Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review, Julia Dorf, Alana Schreibman, Sherry Morgan, Alexa Dietrich, Divine Oludi, Elizabeth Lowenthal, H. Okatch

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

Background: Worldwide, anemia impacts 40% of children aged 6 to 59 months and 30% of reproductive-aged women; about half of these cases are due to iron deficiency (IDA). Iron ingots are inexpensive, lightweight, and easy-to-use IDA treatments. This systematic review assessed the effect of iron ingots on IDA and described variability in iron ingot use. Methods: We included studies that evaluated the effectiveness of iron ingots for dietary iron supplementation and described ingot use conditions. Our search yielded 106 articles, 10 of which met inclusion criteria. Multiple authors independently performed data extraction and quality assessment. Results: Four articles were laboratory-based, …

4-H At The Hopkinton State Fair 2026, Alison Coleman

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Compound Multi-Hazard Assessment Under Cmip6 Climate Scenarios: Tracking Seasonal Flood-Landslide And Drought-Fire Interactions Across Nepal, Kripa Shrestha, Karthik Reddy Duddukunta, Pankaj Lal, Md Mehedi Hasan, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Neera Shrestha Pradhan

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Climate-induced hazards in mountain systems rarely occur in isolation, instead they interact through cascading and compounding pathways that single-hazard assessments fail to capture. In Nepal, extreme monsoon rainfall can trigger landslides that dam rivers and generate secondary flooding, while prolonged dry spells create drought, desiccate vegetation fuels, and elevate fire risk. Yet, most regional studies map hazards independently, providing limited insight into how compound zones emerge under climate change. We therefore, develop a seasonal multi-hazard framework that model drought, forest fire, flood, and landslide susceptibility for historical baseline (1991-2020) and future (2021-2100). Three machine learning algorithms (Explainable Boosting Machine, Random …

Are "Different" Employee-Organizational Bonds All That Different? A Review And Comparative Meta-Analysis Reconciling Employee-Organizational Bonds Constructs, Edileide Oliveira, Valeriei Sessa, Wesley Johnson, C Notari, F Vinal, Na Bowling

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The fundamental human need to bond, connect, or attach to others is as crucial to humankind as the need for food and water, and this inherent drive extends into the workplace as well. Employee-organizational bonds have long been recognized as central to understanding employees' relationships with their organizations. However, questions remain regarding whether several widely studied bond constructs represent empirically distinct phenomena or overlapping conceptual space. The present research examined the distinctiveness of four major employee-organizational bond constructs: organizational commitment, organizational identification, job embeddedness, and perceived organizational support. We reviewed existing meta-analyses and conducted a large-scale comparative meta-analysis spanning more …

Healthcare Provider's Perceptions Of Family Values When Making End-Of-Life Care Decisions For Their Children: Developing And Implementing A Survey Tool., Nithya Sivakumar, Stephanie Kukora, Cherie Ginwalla, Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Jennifer Rosenthal

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers help families navigate end-of-life care decisions in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); however, limited studies exist regarding what values providers perceive families utilize when in these situations.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate providers' perceptions of values that families considered when making end-of-life care decisions for their child.

DESIGN: Develop a novel survey tool to understand providers' perceptions of values families considered when making end-of-life care decisions for their children and distribute the survey tool to providers in a single quaternary care children's hospital within a university hospital.

METHODS: The novel survey tool …

Decoding The Allosteric Grammar Of Protein Kinases: A Dual-Stream Framework Integrating Protein Language Models And Energy Landscape Frustration Analysis, Will Gatlin, Max Ludwick, Lucas Turano, Brandon Foley, Kamila Riedlova, Vít Škrhák, Marian Novotný, David Hoksza, Gennady M. Verkhivker

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The spatial and energetic encoding of allosteric regulatory sites remains a major challenge in structural biology, frequently representing a “blind spot” for sequence-based artificial intelligence (AI) models. We present a protein language model (PLM)-guided approach complemented by the energy landscape frustration analysis as a dual-stream framework to investigate the relationship between AI prediction of binding sites and biophysical organization of regulatory pockets across the human kinome. By probing a fine-tuned residue-level PLM classifier across 453 kinase structures, a clear performance gap is discovered between highly predictable orthosteric pockets (Types I, I.5, and II) and poorly resolved distal allosteric sites (Type …

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Rivera, Samuel (2026-06-05)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

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3.469:03 Externally Funded Travel Pre-Authorization Form

999.x Policy Forms

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Decentralized System And Method For Purchasing Power Stabilization Via A Thermodynamic Oracle And Damped Homeostatic Control., Ibrahim Acaymo Baute Villalba

Defensive Publications Series

The invention consists of a desentralized financial method and system designed to protect purchasing power against macroeconomic inflation and eliminate the extreme volatily of traditional stable crypto-assets. It proposes the creation of a digital asset whose target value is not pegged to a fiat currency (such as the dollar), but rather to real-world metrics and tangible scarcity.

Adapting Media Management Applications To Macro-Level User Context, Ashwin Goyal, Nicholas James Staubach

Defensive Publications Series

Media management applications such as photo libraries enable users to organize their photos and videos around various themes, search their content, retrieve historical media, share media content with others, etc. Over a substantial time period, such applications act as a repository for the user’s dominant capture context. However, current media management applications provide a static user interface that does not adapt to the user’s capture context. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, automatically detect a dominant context for media capture and automatically adapt a media management application to the detected context. The context is determined by analyzing captured …

Nasa Mission Upgrade Suite (Nmus‑1.0) A Unified Open‑Hardware Architecture For Mars Brine Processing, Thermal Management, Dust‑Resilient Fluidics, And Solid‑State Habitat Support, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ABSTRACT (NASA‑Facing)

NASA’s Moon and Mars missions face four persistent engineering challenges:

1. Corrosive brine handling (Mars ISRU water extraction)

2. Thermal management in vacuum (habitats, rovers, ISRU plants)

3. Dust‑resilient fluidics (regolith destroys seals and bearings)

4. Low‑maintenance, solid‑state systems (long-duration missions)

This disclosure presents NMUS‑1.0, a unified, solid‑state, open‑hardware upgrade suite integrating four builder‑ready Caldwell inventions from the TDC ecosystem:

• The Nexus Cell — Arachne Gyroid Structural‑Thermal Substrate

• Arachne Gen‑3 v3.4.1 “FORTRESS” — High‑Thermal Dyneema Microfluidic Interposer

• Thermal‑Energy Harvesting Loop (TEHL‑v1.0) — Vacuum‑Compatible Waste‑Heat Recovery

• TV‑RPPH V3.0 — Mars‑Optimized Solid‑State MHD Brine Pump

All components are grounded in standard physics and use …

Technical Disclosure: A Multi-Variable, Object-Oriented Database Schema And Api Protocol For Ai-Guided, Performance-Based Curriculum Routing, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical disclosure details the architecture for an automated, multi-variable, object-oriented data schema and Application Programming Interface (API) designed to execute performance-based curriculum routing without age-segregated grade boundaries. The system structures diverse academic, kinetic, and technical disciplines into standardized, interoperable data objects called Discipline Blueprints. Each blueprint enforces a non-linear advancement pipeline governed by two immutable checkpoints: a zero-assist algorithmic velocity sprint and a physical/systemic product generation milestone. A localized machine learning agent parses real-time telemetry from user interactions, dynamically matching individual cognitive profiles against localized workforce shortages and trade vectors to prevent network drop-out. Crucially, the architecture incorporates an …

From Ai To Alien(S): Universal Alignment Principles And The Architecture Of Inter-Species Communication Metrics, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

The critical bottleneck in both contemporary Artificial Intelligence (AI) alignment and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anthropomorphic bias. Modern AI alignment models rely heavily on human linguistic structures, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and qualitative ethical frameworks. These models degrade rapidly when scaled to non-human or multi-agent networks. Similarly, traditional SETI protocols look for messages encoded in cultural or linguistic formats that assume shared biological or social evolutionary tracks.

This paper introduces a foundational framework for AI-Alien Alignment Principles (AAAP). By treating communication as a problem of non-linear dynamical systems integration, this model establishes Topology, Vector Calculus, …

Interaction Boundary Constraint, Brian Harber

Defensive Publications Series

Compositional AI systems increasingly operate through orchestration layers, retrieval mechanisms, external tooling, routing systems, and probabilistic model behavior. Under these conditions, evaluation often occurs through observable interaction surfaces while direct visibility into the full composition producing an interaction remains limited, partial, or absent at the point of interaction.

This paper defines the Interaction Boundary Constraint as a limit on what can be legitimately inferred from interaction surfaces alone under conditions where producing composition is not fully present at the point of interaction. The constraint distinguishes between reconstruction and compositional presence and constrains the scope of claims that interaction-surface evaluation alone …

The Composite Immersive Projection Observing Configuration That Contains A Centrally Located Square Shaped Projection Configuration And 4 Surrounding Trapezoidal Shaped Projection Configurations Where The Eye Can Be Inserted Into A 3-Dimensional Immersive Projection Observing Space., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a composite immersive projection observing configuration that contains a centrally located square shaped projection configuration and 4 surrounding trapezoidal shaped projection configurations where the eye can be inserted into a 3-dimensional immersive projection observing space. The centrally located square shaped projection configuration will have the capability to provide the central projection observing area for the central field of vision of the user of the composite immersive projection observing configuration. And the 4 surrounding trapezoidal shaped projection configurations will have the capability to provide the surrounding projection observing area for the surrounding field of vision of the user …

Dynamic Synthesis And Insertion Of Personalized, Context-Aware Media Segments, Zebeedee Pedersen

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and techniques are described for dynamically generating personalized, context-aware media segments for insertion into media streams. A system can analyze user profile data in conjunction with the primary media content, such as its audio transcript and visual elements, to establish a specific context. A script generation module may then author a new script based on this context, which a multimodal synthesis model can use to create a new audiovisual segment, for instance, employing voice cloning and conditional video generation. This new segment may then be inserted into the primary media stream, such as by manipulating a streaming manifest file, …

The Agentic Framework For Automated Product Research And Prototype Planning, Zebeedee Pedersen, David Benjamin

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional product development processes can involve the manual coordination of multiple teams. This disclosure describes a system that can utilize a cooperative framework of specialized software agents to automate aspects of product research and prototype planning. The system can execute a multi-stage workflow where agents may perform roles, such as research agents gathering data, analyst agents synthesizing information to identify trends, and planner agents generating machine-readable implementation plans. The framework can also include oversight agents to facilitate quality control through automated feedback loops. This agentic system can provide a method for identifying, analyzing, and developing new product or service concepts, …

System And Techniques To Facilitate Probabilistic Attribute-Based Security Policy Conversions, Renato Morais

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is an artificial intelligence (AI) for information technology operations (AIOps)-driven engine and system that provides for the ability to automate the transition from legacy Internet Protocol (IP)-based rules to identity-centric, zero trust policies. In this context, Security Group Tags (SGTs) are used as an illustrative example of such attribute-based policies. The system correlates identity metadata with real-time traffic telemetry and applies a Stability Index (SI) to evaluate whether a legacy rule can be converted to an attribute-based policy with reduced risk of service disruption. The SI considers identity consistency, temporal persistence, and traffic coverage so that conversion recommendations …

Polymer Precipitation Influences Membrane Mechanical Properties Of Small Extracellular Vesicles (Sevs), Bianca Mercado Velez, Eduardo Barbieri, Taravat Sarvari, Erico Freitas, Paul Goetsch, Caryn Heldt

Michigan Tech Research Data

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are promising biomarkers and therapeutic delivery vehicles for disease diagnosis and treatment. However, standardizing isolation and characterization techniques is essential, as different isolation methods can alter the biophysical properties of the sEVs. In this study, we compared the physicochemical properties of HEK-293-derived sEVs isolated by polymer precipitation (PP) and sucrose cushion ultracentrifugation (UC). Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and chemical force microscopy (CFM), we measured the morphology, adhesion, Young’s modulus, and lipid membrane tethering events to understand how the choice of isolation method influences the sEV properties. AFM topographic images revealed the presence of polymeric residues …

Explainable Machine Learning Revealing The Impact Of Mental And Physical Health On Arthritis, Ma Shams, S Fatema, Dmh Islam, A Datta, David Eisenberg, Dt Mridula, J Mawa, A Sultana, N Ahmed, M Islam, Ts Pias

Department of Information Management and Business Analytics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Objectives To develop a robust and interpretable machine learning framework for arthritis risk prediction and to identify important risk factors associated with the disease.Methods This study used four datasets, which are Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2019, BRFSS 2021, National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2020 and NHIS 2022. We evaluated 11 machine learning and deep learning architectures including a custom stacked ensemble combined with five resampling techniques to address class imbalance and 9 imputation methods to handle missing data. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), sensitivity, specificity and balanced accuracy are used to evaluate model performance, with …

Gust-Induced Aerodynamic Performance In Insects' Forward Flapping Flight, Arash Farsani, Ori Stearns, Gal Ribak, Roi Gurka

Physics and Engineering Science

Flapping-wing flight is inherently unsteady, where atmospheric gusts can substantially degrade the aerodynamic performance when their characteristic time scales are comparable to the wingbeat period. This study presents a numerical investigation and time–frequency characterization of gust-induced aerodynamic response of flapping wings of varying size, inspired by the flight of a longhorn beetle, Batocera rufomaculata. Geometrically similar wings spanning the biological range were simulated in forward flight under identical prescribed kinematics and a transient frontal gust with a smoothly ramped profile. Three-dimensional unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulations using the shear stress transport k–ω turbulence model were performed to resolve the instantaneous pressure …

St-04 - Montana 2026-07-08, Katie Morrison

State Representatives

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Lindenwood Digest, July 8, 2026, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

• Event & Date: The Lindenwood University Employee Digest published on July 8, 2026, outlines the STL Headliner voting period concluding on July 26, 2026, a LinkedIn Learning Course Club meeting on July 14, 2026, and Performance Evaluation Review & Calibration Sessions scheduled for July 13 and July 14, 2026.

• Geographic Grounding: Operations and sessions are located at the Spellmann Center and LARC 09, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri.

• Key Honorees/Awards: Senior Admissions Counselor Kayla Galer received recognition for cross-departmental alignment initiatives; Campus Experience Coordinator Molly Moran and Assistant Director of Traditional Undergraduate Admissions Trenece Crawford received commendations for operational support …

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Integrating Nutrition And Stress Into Life History Stages Of Wild Free-Ranging Female Pronghorn, Cole A. Bleke, Eric M. Gese, Juan J. Villalba, Shane B. Roberts, Susannah S. French

Wildland Resources Student Research

Studies addressing seasonal changes in diet quality and hormones are important for understanding the interactions between ecology and physiology. We collected fecal samples from free-ranging adult female pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) to examine the relationships between indicators of nutrition and glucocorticoid activity. This occurred during three population-level, life-history-correlated sampling periods across five subpopulations. We evaluated nutrition via fecal nitrogen, fecal 2,6-diaminopimelic acid (DAPA), and assessed glucocorticoid activity using fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGM). We found positive relationships between fecal nitrogen and DAPA, whereas DAPA and fecal nitrogen with FGM varied in influence and strength, depending upon life history stage. Generally, …

Sand Could Be Key To Safer, Stronger Structures, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Engineers have been working to protect buildings, bridges and other structures from severe weather and natural hazards damage for centuries, but one of the best methods may begin with sand, according to a new published study.