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Hidden In Plain Sight: Uk Social Work Educator Views Of Preparedness To Work With Individuals And Families Affected By Abi., Caroline Bald, Alyson Norman, Akudo Amediegwu, Talis Spirit, Temi Ademakinwa, Mark A. Linden, Mark Holloway, Michael Clarke, Andrew Bateman

School of Psychology

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is the leading cause of adulthood injury-related death and disability worldwide. Despite ABI’s prevalence, little is known about the extent to which social workers are prepared for brain injury working and specifically pre-qualifying brain injury curricula. This study employed a nine-item survey regarding brain injury social work knowledge. The survey asked about curricula inclusion within social work pre-qualification via multiple education providers to understand the extent to which brain injury training is incorporated within UK courses. This included a series of open-ended questions. Data from 36 survey respondents identified that 1) there was an acknowledged gap …

Healthcare System Barriers To Somali Refugees In Kenya, Zahra Sharif Hashim

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Access to health care is a fundamental right of every refugee, yet gaps in implementing Kenya's Refugees Acts of 2006 and 2021 continue to limit access for Somali refugees in Dadaab camp. Existing research has documented resource constraints, movement restrictions, and other barriers to refugee health care, but how policy implementation gaps shape access in Dadaab has not been well explored. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand barriers to health care access for Somali refugees resulting from gaps in implementing Kenya's refugee health policies. The narrative policy framework guided the study. Data from semistructured interviews with …

Visual Arts Teachers’ Perception Of Integrating Visual Arts To Help With Student Core Content Achievement, Amanda Munoz

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem addressed in this study was that local school districts in Texas do not offer a visual arts-integrated curriculum despite the known academic and social-emotional benefits for K–12 students. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of Texas K–12 visual arts teachers regarding arts integration to enhance core content learning. Grounded in Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, the research questions focused on teachers' perceptions of arts integration and their recommendations for implementation. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 10 K–12 visual arts teachers in Texas who had at least 1 year of teaching experience. …

Training For Social Prescribing Link Workers: A Scoping Review, S. Tierney, G. Hanley, H. Napierala, L. Burns, K. Husk

Peninsula Medical School

Background: Social prescribing involves connecting people to community-based resources to address non-medical determinants of health. Central to its delivery are link workers; their effectiveness depends, in part, on the availability and quality of training. Despite rapid expansion of the link worker role on an international scale, training provision for this workforce remains fragmented and poorly mapped. Aim: To identify and describe training programmes for link workers reported in the published and grey literature. Methods: We followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology on scoping reviews. Six electronic databases were searched alongside targeted grey literature searching. Sources were included if they described …

Artificial Intelligence In Food Engineering For Food Safety, Quality Assurance, And Human Health, Ayad Abbood Abdulhasan, A. M. Mustafa, F. F. Sayyid, Marwan B. Hussein, Mohanad Muzahem Khalaf

AUIQ Technical Engineering Science

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping food engineering by providing data-driven tools for safeguarding food safety, ensuring quality assurance, and improving human health outcomes. This review synthesizes current evidence on the application of machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and the Internet of Things (IoT) across the food production continuum, from raw material inspection to consumer-facing nutrition guidance. We examine how convolutional neural networks, hyperspectral imaging, and sensor-fusion approaches enable rapid, non-destructive detection of contaminants and pathogens, and how predictive models support shelf-life estimation and quality grading. We further discuss AI-enabled traceability systems, including blockchain-integrated supply chains, and the growing …

Microwave Thermal Pre-Treatment To Improve Nickel Extraction From Lateritic Ore, Johana Borda, Daniel Sosa, Robinson Torres

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Two heat treatment processes for a nickeliferous laterite sample are presented, one by the conventional muffle route and the other by microwave. The heating was carried out in order to improve the dissolution of nickel in an acid medium. The study describes the changes observed in the mineral for the increase in temperature as a consequence of radiation in the microwave and in the muffle. The changes in the mineral crystalline phases were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The leaching media consisted of a 1 M sulfuric acid solution at ambient conditions for 7 h. The interaction between the reagent and …

Finding Aid For The Blues Subject Files (Mum00958)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

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Regenerative Tourism And Transformative Destination Management: Developing A Framework Through The Case Of County Offaly, Yi (Alex) Yu, Mary Loonam Dr, Tony Johnston

Irish Journal of Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure and Event Research

The increasing urgency of climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic transition has generated growing interest in tourism approaches that move beyond sustainability towards more transformative forms of development. While sustainable tourism has become the dominant paradigm within tourism planning and policy, it has been criticised for its emphasis on impact mitigation and its limited capacity to address systemic challenges. In response, regenerative tourism has emerged as an alternative framework that seeks to restore and enhance ecological, social, cultural, and economic systems through tourism activity.

This paper explores the potential of regenerative tourism as a framework for transformative destination management. Drawing …

Ai-Generated Counterfactual Timeline Visualizations Using Personal Social Media History Data, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods generate illustrated counterfactual timeline visualizations using personal social media history. A user selects a life milestone from a stored timeline and provides a “what if” prompt defining a hypothetical scenario. The system derives structured context from the user’s timeline data, including anchor points such as dates, locations, and key events associated with the selected milestone. The system provides the prompt and the structured context to a generative model configured to output non-photorealistic, stylized illustrations. One or more illustrations depicting a speculative alternate timeline are generated and assembled into a visual story arranged relative to the anchor points. …

Temporal Pixel Modulation For Client-Side Video Piracy Prevention And Anti-Screen-Recording, Paras Thakur

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional digital rights management and visual watermarking fail to prevent video piracy through the analog hole or significantly degrade user viewing experiences. To address this, a client-side Temporal Pixel Modulator can be implemented within a video player's GPU rendering pipeline using WebGL fragment shaders. The shader dynamically modulates individual pixel luminance values at a high frequency above the human critical flicker fusion threshold, maintaining a flicker-free visual experience for legitimate viewers. However, when captured by digital sensors, this modulation can interact with camera shutter speeds and exposure intervals to induce temporal and spatial aliasing. This aliasing structurally corrupts unauthorized recordings …

Event-Triggered Selective Rank Warming And Always-On Shadow Completion For Compute Express Link Dynamic-Capacity Memory, Vadlamudi Venkata Girish

Defensive Publications Series

This technology integrates Event-Triggered Selective Rank Warming and an Always-On Shadow Completion Bridge to manage power-gated Compute Express Link Dynamic-Capacity Memory. A memory controller intercepts a mandatory out-of-band memory allocation handshake and uses this event to deterministically trigger a power-exit sequence for only the specific physical memory blocks being allocated. If a host access occurs before this sequence completes, the Always-On Shadow Completion Bridge handles the request using an always-powered internal staging store. The bridge emulates read completions with deterministic data and absorbs write transactions, preventing host timeouts. After the physical memory becomes fully operational, the controller transparently drains the …

Large Language Model (Llm) Powered Input Method Editor (Ime), Liyang Jiang, Heng Su, Gang Feng

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional Input Method Editors (IMEs) that provide next phrase prediction to ease data entry have limited context and lack deep semantic understanding. The prediction accuracy of such IMEs is suboptimal for long-tail phrases such as domain-specific vocabulary, acronyms, slang, etc. or in contexts where the text entry has a long semantic context. This document describes techniques that integrate a Large Language Model (LLM) into the text decoding and prediction path of an IME to reduce keystroke overhead and improve output quality by providing advanced state-dependent predictions. An asynchronous prediction pipeline is implemented where a client application (e.g., that operates as …

Device-Level Revocation Of Digital Asset Signing Capabilities, Paul J. Rohde

Defensive Publications Series

Attackers can circumvent content provenance standards by physically modifying a device to generate valid device attestation reports, allowing the attacker to sign fake digital assets such as images, video, or audio content as authentic assets captured using the device. For example, an attacker may physically interact with and voltage-glitch the device's random-access memory (RAM) to obtain runtime root access, disable security modules, and impersonate an authorized capturing process to generate valid attestation reports. This disclosure describes techniques for revoking certificates assigned to a device detected as having been used to produce a fraudulent digital asset. The techniques involve generating a …

Remote Display Spatial Pointing Using Processed Inertial Sensor Data From A Mobile Device, Chien-Feng Yu, Pei-Yu Chen, Eusden Lin, Shang Wei Lin, Dewita Sonya

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile computing device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, wearable device, augmented reality glasses, etc.) may function as a spatial pointer for a remote display by processing data from an on-board inertial measurement unit. An on-device spatial engine can translate the device's physical orientation and movement into two-dimensional screen coordinates. This translation process may, for example, involve techniques such as isotropic aspect ratio correction and a dynamic motion amplification layer that adjusts sensitivity based on angular velocity. The processed coordinates can then be streamed to the remote display over a low-latency network protocol. This approach may provide improved cursor control …

Localized Generation Of Privacy-Preserving Ambient Chronicles, Karl Tao, Gaurav Arora

Defensive Publications Series

A system is disclosed for generating a localized activity chronicle within a private environment. Local cameras capture sparse static snapshots of room environments over a local network. A local smart hub platform receives each snapshot directly into an ephemeral, volatile memory buffer. An on-device vision model, such as a quantized vision-language model executed by a local hardware neural processing unit or other local processing resource, processes the snapshot to generate a time-stamped natural-language description of activities within the private environment. Immediately following text generation, the raw snapshot is purged from the volatile memory, preventing raw image data from being stored …

Wearable Apparatus Configured For Ambient Marker Sensing And Application Actions, Carlos Henrique Esteves Mendonca, Joost Korngold

Defensive Publications Series

Transactions involving physical objects often require manual interaction with a mobile device, such as opening a camera application to scan a visual marker, resulting in an interruptive and multi-step process. A wearable extended reality apparatus or device (e.g., smart glasses) is described that may be configured for hands-free processing of digital transactions. The device can use an ambient camera to sense visual markers in an environment. To establish user intent, a dwell mechanism may evaluate gaze duration before triggering a secondary image capture. The device is configured to decode a uniform resource identifier from the visual marker and link to …

Ai-Driven Browser Automation System For Attribute-Based Resource Access, Benjamin Albert Azose, Akancha Murlidhar Gupta, Theodore Thomas Olsauskas-Warren

Defensive Publications Series

An AI-driven browser agent framework is disclosed to facilitate attribute-based access to resources by enabling resource access decisions based on user or account characteristics rather than transferable authorization mechanisms. With user permission, the framework allows a browser agent to communicate user credentials, selected eligibility-related information requested by a resource provider for evaluating predefined eligibility criteria associated with a requested resource. Based on the evaluation, the browser agent may be granted immediate access to a resource acquisition workflow, assigned access at a future date or time, placed into a waiting queue, or denied access. By supporting multiple communication mechanisms, coordinated admission …

Dynamic Binary Patching Of Sub-Processes In A Multi-Process Browser Architecture Without Application Relaunch, Kentaro Hara

Defensive Publications Series

A vulnerability window is created when software patches are committed to open source repositories before an application restart is executed. An approach is disclosed where a primary process remains active on an original binary while helper processes run on updated binary versions. These updates are restricted to changes that preserve inter-process communication boundaries and shared memory layouts. New rendering processes are initiated from the updated binary during web navigations. Graphics and network processes are restarted using the updated binary during unutilized periods. Security updates are deployed to a running application without a full restart or modifying live memory structures.

Plastic Resins Or Adhesive Resins With Uv Fluorescent Additive As Tracers, Steven Crochiere, Michael Yi Zhao Yao, Anothai Kamphan, Randi Walz

Defensive Publications Series

UV fluorescent additives are added to primary sources of plastic resins or adhesive formulations to serve as tracers and contamination-detection aids. When a plastic or adhesive particle/debris is detected in failed hard disk drives (HDDs) or at other locations, the different tracers added in different plastic or adhesive items (such as trays, assembly tools, direct plastic components, or adhesives used on direct components or indirect materials in manufacturing processes) help identify and narrow down the source(s) of the plastic or adhesive particle/debris.

2026-03 March Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2026-04 April Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

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2026-05 May Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2026-07 July Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2026-08 August Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2026-09 September Newsletter, Sammi Williams

NMOER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Employee Salary Report [University Of Missouri - St. Louis] 2026, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Salary Report

No abstract provided.

Mythbusting Cybersecurity Information Sharing And Antitrust, Terence Check

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Programmed To Please, Optimized For Obsession, Ela Ender

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood Digest, September 2, 2026, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

• Event & Date: The Lindenwood University Employee Digest was published on September 2, 2026, outlining administrative initiatives and upcoming university events, including the September 18 Lindenwood Night at the Ballpark.

• Geographic Grounding: Documented faculty support activities and institutional operations took place at Roemer Hall, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri.

• Key Honorees/Awards: The Q2 Moments section recognized Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities Dr. Travis McMaken for academic classroom support; Public Safety and Security Office Assistant Woody Ellis for providing after-hours faculty security.

• Institutional Context: The university announced the launch of the Slate CRM system for enrollment management and …

The Bg News September 2, 2026, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 2, 2026. Volume 106-Issue 02.