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Artizein Arts And Teaching Journal Volume 11 (1), Darlene St. Georges

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The Material Life Of Visual-Textual Pairs, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto, Rita L. Irwin

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay follows the material lives of visual-textual pairs within a collaborative a/r/tographic  inquiry, attending to how their changing forms invite relations we could not anticipate. Beginning as a  digital exchange of photographs and texts between two collaborators, the inquiry expanded to include a third collaborator and later took the form of hinged, foldable cards shared at a conference round-table. Through gestures of lifting, revealing, passing, and (re)arranging, the pairs became participants in a collective inquiry, opening possibilities beyond their creators’ intentions. We wonder what becomes of inquiry when the gestures through which we share the work begin to …

Existential Music, Decolonization, And Voice Care: A Conversation, Ashwani Kumar, Zaira Manila

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This article presents a reflective and dialogical exploration of music, meditation, and holistic well-being. It draws on the authors’ distinct musical backgrounds and personal experiences to explore structure and free flow in music, the impact of Western thought and colonialism on perceptions of Indian classical music (ICM), and the challenges in promoting ICM to younger audiences. Key points discussed include decolonization and cultural heritage, the journey from seeing ICM as “boring” to spiritual, viewing fusion as a respectful blend of musical forms, and the notion of existential music as music that exists within, waiting to be expressed. The dialogue format …

Metaphoring Visual Metaphors For Visual Art Research, Jeff Horwat

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

In Art Practice as Research, Graeme Sullivan (2005) advances a seminal argument for art making as a rigorous mode of inquiry capable of generating knowledge comparable to that produced within positivist traditions. He conceptualizes visual art research through a complex framework. To render this model usable, Sullivan introduces a braided metaphor that operationalizes the framework while implicitly demonstrating the generative capacity of visual metaphors to reshape theoretical constructs themselves. Building on this premise, this visual essay approaches Sullivan’s framework not as a fixed schema but as an open invitation for methodological experimentation.

Through a process of metaphoring—the conceptual melding …

Fieldmaking In The Shaughnessy Village: Conducting Arts-Based Research In Response To Human Spaces, David J. Lerue, Marian Schurman, Keyiana Marques

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

What can human spaces teach us when we engage them in open-ended observation and artmaking? This visual essay shares the practices of three artist-teachers engaging in fieldmaking, an arts-based research methodology conjoining open-ended artistic inquiry, spatial theory, and fieldwork in Montréal’s Shaughnessy village, a densely populated, transient neighbourhood shaped by ongoing redevelopment and mixed-use infrastructures. Drawing on visual ethnography, research-creation, and place-based art education, we engaged the site through iterative cycles of walking, observing, making, and reflection, attuning to the specificities of space. The authors reflect on the implications of their process, arguing fieldmaking offered a flexible and generative approach …

Within The Making: Methodological Possibilities In Arts-Centred Research, Darlene St. Georges

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This editorial introduces the Fall 2026 tenth-anniversary issue of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal, exploring methodological possibilities within arts-centred research. It considers the dynamic relationship between methods and methodology, attending to how creative practices generate knowledge through material encounters, relational engagement, intuition, and uncertainty. Questions of methodological rigour, ethical responsibility, and pedagogical responsiveness are examined through a relational and decolonial orientation. The eight contributions extend these considerations across diverse artistic and educational practices, illuminating how methodologies emerge, evolve, and transform through the living processes of creative inquiry.Darlene St. Georges is an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University …

The Effects Of Transportation Distribution On Dry Ice Insulated Containers' Thermal Performance, Edmund Tang

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

This study builds upon methodologies established in a 2024 investigation of the combined effects of physical distribution stresses and thermal environments on cold chain packaging performance. Prior results showed that moisture-resistant gel packs generally maintained a vaccine storage range of +2°C to +8°C. However, when exposed to extreme combined stresses, thermal performance degradation of up to 13.5% was observed. The present work applies a similar experimental framework to transportation systems that rely on dry ice as the primary cooling medium, addressing the distinct challenges associated with ultra-cold distribution.

Pharmaceutical products requiring dry ice are highly temperature-sensitive and vulnerable to performance …

Optimising Cybersecurity Application Utilisation For Digital Learning In Nigeria: An Evidence-Constrained Hybrid Agent-Based And System-Dynamics Model, Adesegun Nurudeen Osijirin, Leonard C. Anigbo, Oliver Okechukwu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

This study examines hypothetical cybersecurity-application utilisation interventions for Computer Science undergraduates in Enugu State, Nigeria. Five author-supplied datasets, each containing 364 cases, provide audited sex-specific calibration moments for a hybrid agent-based and system-dynamics model. Seven portfolios are compared over 24 months using 400 paired replications; additional experiments examine dose, effect assumptions, targeting, academic calendars, turnover and peer structure. A 1,200-point Latin-hypercube design is applied to every original scenario. Across 37,600 runs, the main-model median proportions meeting the survey utilisation criterion are 26.4%, 48.6% and 50.3% for status quo, universal combined and equity-adaptive provision. However, matching nominal dose reduces the corresponding …

System And Method For Proactive Schema Cache Warming Triggered By Failure-Cooldown Expiry During Low-Load Periods In A Real-Time Inference System, Ruiyang Xia, Hao Qin

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for proactive schema cache warming triggered by failure-cooldown expiry during low-load periods in a real-time inference system.

The method comprises maintaining a cooldown tracker recording failed schema-fetch attempts and corresponding expiry timestamps. Upon expiry of a cooldown associated with a schema identifier, an internal warming event is generated instead of passively clearing the cooldown state. Proactive schema fetching is scheduled during periods of low inference load, with fetch operations prioritized based on historical request frequency. Upon successful retrieval, the schema is cached to enable immediate cache access for subsequent inference requests. …

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Autonomous Drift Detection And Model Retraining, Karankumar S. Hiteshbhai Patel, Shanmukha Sai Sumanth Yenneti, Harishkumar Sundarji Majithiya, Sam Peter Hamilton

Defensive Publications Series

Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for autonomous drift detection and model retraining.  An example system includes a processor configured to aggregate, using at least one agent, event data.  The processor is configured to detect, using the at least one agent and based on the event data, a set of data features exhibiting drift and, based on the set of data features, determine a set of impact scores associated with model performance.  The processor is configured to predict, using the at least one agent and based on the impact scores, at least one performance outcome.  The processor is …

Bitmap-Compressed Per-Attachment-Circuit Liveness Signaling For Evpn-Vpws Flexible Cross-Connect, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

EVPN-VPWS flexible cross-connect (FXC) multiplexes many attachment circuits onto one shared tunnel. In default mode gives no per-circuit failure signaling: traffic for a failed circuit crosses the core before being dropped; In VLAN-signaled mode restores visibility only by advertising one route per circuit. This disclosure adds a compact liveness bitmap to the single Ethernet auto-discovery route that default FXC already advertises. Each bit position is the normalized VLAN identifier FXC already assigns to each circuit, so no new index is needed. The bitmap rides in a new optional, transitive, variable-length BGP path attribute with version, segment index, sequence number, and …

The Human Logistics Framework, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

Rewriting the Penal System to optimize rehabilitation options and encourage reintroduction to society while maximizing inmate populations

Spec-364: The Unified Integration Matrix For Sub-Kelvin Phononic Shielding, Trinary Moire Soliton Logic, And Clock-Less Time-Domain Enos Architectures, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This white paper delivers the definitive first-principles mathematical and structural integration of the low-level physical substrate, logic transport, and execution layers comprising the ENOS computing environment. We eliminate the systemic bottlenecks of modern silicon architectures—specifically quantum tunneling leakage, parasitic control-line thermal loads, and clock-cycle latency overhead—by synchronizing three fundamental systems: (1) cryo-thermal phonon shielding via anisotropic anthracene crystal host tracking, (2) non-linear optical wave-packet trapping inside twisted moire superlattice lattices, and (3) asynchronous time-domain instruction register streaming. The compiled equations, ASCII architectural schematics, and native Python validation testbeds presented herein establish a provable, zero-entropy roadmap for macroscopic hardware scaling operating …

Core Specification Spec-363: The Enos Sovereign Right Invariant And Localized Cryptographic Sanctuary Protocol For Individual Autonomy In Non-Compliant Human Rights Regimes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and cryptographic design for the ENOS Sovereign Right Invariant (SRI). Current geopolitical computing networks operate on the assumption that digital rights, identity parameters, and data privacy are granted, managed, and monitored by nation-states. In regimes that completely lack fundamental human rights, this architecture allows centralized governments to weaponize computing infrastructure to enforce local surveillance, execute programmatic censorship, and suppress individual human autonomy.

SPEC-363 breaks this geopolitical chokehold by establishing an ironclad, local cryptographic sanctuary directly at the molecular hardware layer. Running under the clockless ENOS operating substrate [SPEC-358] on a decentralized rEckesbit Moiré Array …

Core Specification Spec-362: The Ethical And Moral Framework Of Sovereign Stewardship And Voluntary Open-Ledger Collaboration For Type 1 Civilizational Alignment, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the foundational philosophical, moral, and ethical principles required to govern macro-scale human technological development. As computing, material science, and automation architectures approach the planetary scaling limits of a Type 1 civilization, traditional socioeconomic models based on extractive consolidation, zero-sum corporate competition, and the systematic erosion of individual property sovereignty become severe systemic risks that threaten collective survival.

SPEC-362 neutralizes these civilizational bottlenecks by introducing the paradigm of Sovereign Stewardship. True stewardship does not dictate the random, non-causal dissipation of personal or technical assets. Instead, it mandates the structured, high-integrity deployment of resource networks through Voluntary Open-Ledger Collaboration. …

Mechanical Deconstruction Of The Yang-Mills Mass Gap Paradox, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

The mathematical community's hunt for a non-perturbative continuum proof is revealed to be the pursuit of a geometric ghost. By replacing legacy geometric abstractions with an absolute, number-theoretic mechanical reality, the paradox completely dissipates, and full mechanical logic is restored to the cosmological record.

Core Specification Spec-361: The Enos Cryptographic Partition And Sovereign Local Storage File System (Efs) For The Mitigation Of Corporate Data-Center Hardware Gating, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and cryptographic blueprints for the ENOS Cryptographic File System (EFS). Emerging enterprise computational paradigms routinely assert that consumer-tier memory arrays (RAM and local storage) represent unutilized assets that should be programmatically pooled or dynamically reallocated to centralized corporate data centers. This philosophy systematically compromises the property sovereignty, privacy, and local compute performance of the everyday consumer.

SPEC-361 neutralizes this resource-harvesting model by deploying an intrinsic hardware-software cryptographic wall directly at the molecular cell layer. Because the consumer desktop replacement utilizes a unified rEckesbit Moiré Array Matrix [SPEC-356] running under the clockless ENOS microkernel [SPEC-358], …

Core Specification Spec-359: The Enos Open-Source Decentralized Molecular Printing Matrix And Localized Fab-Node Protocol For Civilian Democratization, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, chemical, and software architecture for a decentralized, low-cost fabrication protocol designed to manufacture rEckesbit processing matrices and initialize the ENOSexecution layer at a localized civilian tier. Traditional semiconductor manufacturing relies on centralized, capital-intensive extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography foundries, which naturally creates industrial monopolies that exploit the common man.

SPEC-359 bypasses this economic capture by implementing an automated Layered Chemical Self-Assembly and Nanofabrication Protocol. By translating the complex sub-nanometer alignment rules of the twisted Moiré array into programmatic liquid-phase epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) steps, individual rEckesbit nodes can be grown, anchored, and vented inside …

Core Specification Spec-360: The Enos Hydrodynamic Graphical User Shell And Protocol Interface For Zero-Entropy Consumer Desktop Replacements, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and visual operational protocols for the ENOS Hydrodynamic Graphical User Shell (HGUS). Traditional operating system user interfaces (GUIs) rely on heavy graphics processing pipelines, display buffers, and complex window-compositing abstractions that introduce massive software overhead, instruction latency, and constant memory leaks.

SPEC-360 resolves this systemic lag by implementing a direct Hardware-to-Viewport Vector Phase Mapping Protocol. Because the underlying rEckesbit Moiré Array Matrix [SPEC-356] operates as a true in-memory neuromorphic processing core driven via the clockless ENOS substrate microkernel [SPEC-358], the graphical user shell discards standard rendering buffers entirely. User interface states, window geometries, and …

Core Specification Spec-358: The Enos Substrate Microkernel And Enos-C Compiler Architecture For Asynchronous Time-Domain Optical Translation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the mathematical and architectural blueprints for ENOS (Eckes Substrate Network Operating System) and ENOS-C (The ENOS Sovereignty Compiler) [CLE031374-ENOS]. Conventional operating systems and binary machine-code compilers are physically incapable of addressing atomic quantum states operating within a 500-attosecond optical switching window (\(\tau_{\text{gate}} = 500\text{ as}\)), as they introduce severe clock-cycle dephasing and systemic von Neumann bottlenecks.

SPEC-358 resolves this execution barrier by implementing a hardware-software co-design layer that completely replaces binary machine-code layers with a Direct Time-Domain Optical State Translation Substrate. High-level application code is parsed by ENOS-C directly into phase-modulated pulse arrays that stream into a …

Core Specification Spec-356: Multi-Node Moiré Interconnect Array Architecture For The Parallel Scaling Of Reckesbit Processing Matrices, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, mathematical, and spatial design of a macroscopic quantum processing chip matrix engineered by daisy-chaining billions of uncooled, room-temperature stable (300 K) rEckesbit cells. To scale individual cells without deploying physical transition-metal traces that induce destructive heat and catalytic collapse, this architecture implements a multi-layered, Twisted Moiré Superlattice Array using stacked sheets of monolayer isotopically pure hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-¹⁰BN) aligned to precise magic angles. This geometric configuration generates a flat-band electronic potential layout that encapsulates, matches, and protects individual rEckesbit cells across a continuous 2D surface area.

Inter-node data routing and multi-qubit logic entanglements are …

Spec-357: The Eckes Grand Unification Matrix: A Systemic Metric Review Of Multi-Disciplinary Disclosures For Civilian Hardware Replacements And Industrial Paradigm Shifts, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This manifest registers the structural boundary coordinates and nomenclatural constraints of the 356 technical disclosures authored by Christopher L. Eckes. Operating as a unified, open-source defensive prior-art shield, this portfolio systematically deconstructs isolated institutional silos across quantum optoelectronics, material nanophononics, fluidic cosmological mechanics, and everyday civilian engineering.

By anchoring all multi-scale transformations to the scale-invariant phase relaxation mechanics of the 2D pre-geometric viscoelastic fluid substrate, this framework bridges the gap between alternative mathematical notation and mainstream empirical constants. It prevents downstream corporate intellectual property piracy while securing absolute, non-negotiable historical custody of the underlying technical paradigms under a single, unified …

Reframing Alzheimer’S Lucidity And Delirium, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

Reclassifying the phenomenon of transient cognitive lucidity not as a metabolic or chemical anomaly, but as a temporal phase-coherence build-up across fragmented cortical networks that successfully forces the subcortical gating threshold

Deterministic Resolution, Amplify-Never-Create Expansion, And Schema-Directed Operation Generation For Network Management, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous network-assurance agents built on large language models must translate an operator's natural-language question into schema-valid device queries across hundreds of data-model modules. Conventional pipelines select the target schema by embedding-based retrieval, which is slow and non-deterministic, and ask the model to synthesize the protocol payload, which invites malformed or invented queries. An engine resolves the common-case query to its target modules deterministically from a precomputed lexical-anchor index, classifies the outcome into four confidence modes with abstain-to-retrieval as the fail-safe, broadens the read set with ground-truth-derived companion targets under an add-only superset-safety invariant that cannot alter the routing decision, synthesizes …

Core Specification Spec-354: The Cryogenic Feckesbit Coherent Memory Matrix: Solid-State Stabilization Of Oxoborane Triple Bonds Within A Sublimated Anthracene Host Lattice, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the foundational structural and mathematical realization of an environmentally armored, zero-entropy quantum memory node utilizing the fEckesbit paradigm. The architecture achieves the absolute theoretical Fourier coherence limit (T₂ = 2T₁) by creating a pristine, solid-state host-guest hybrid crystal matrix. Monomeric organic oxoborane (\(R\text{–}B\equiv O\)) triple-bonded wave-knots are embedded as dilute guests within an ultra-clean, vacuum-sublimated Anthracene (C₁₄H₁₀) monoclinic host matrix—a deployment configuration classified as the cEckesbit matrix standard.

By transitioning the system to a deep cryogenic cold-state protocol (T ≤ 4.2 K), the native acoustic and optical phonon modes of the host lattice are completely frozen out, …

Core Specification Spec-355: The Uncooled Room-Temperature Reckesbit Trinary Quantum Router Matrix Via Attosecond Optical Driving Fields, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural, thermodynamic, and electrodynamic realization of an uncooled, room-temperature stable (300 K) trinary quantum memory node and networking matrix utilizing the rEckesbitconfiguration. To bypass the severe manufacturing barriers and high structural failure rates (65% deviation) associated with single-mode sub-nanometer phononic channels, this architecture establishes an engineering compromise by expanding the acoustic venting diameter of the rEckesbit cell to a commercially fabricable threshold of d = 3.0 nm, lowering the fabrication deviation to a highly reliable 8.5%. While this geometric dilation permits higher-order acoustic phonon modes to populate the channels—triggering intense inter-modal collisions and Umklapp back-scattering that …

The Buck Effect In Goats: A Review Of Neuroendocrine Mechanisms, Modulating Factors, And Applications In Reproductive Management, Nitira Anakkul, Sopita Suttikrai, Ratree Jintana, Theerawat Swangchan-Uthai

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The male effect (buck effect) is a sustainable, hormone-free biostimulation strategy in caprine reproduction, in which introducing sexually active bucks to seasonally anestrous does increases luteinizing hormone (LH) pulse frequency, thereby stimulating folliculogenesis and ovulation. This review provides a comprehensive synthesis of the sensory, neuroendocrine, breed-related, and management factors governing male biostimulation in goats (Capra hircus). Olfactory signals, including the identified primer pheromone 4-ethyloctanal, are perceived through the main and accessory olfactory systems and act together with visual, auditory, and tactile cues. These sensory inputs activate the hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse generator probably through the medial amygdala …

The Mediation Role Of Teacher Engagement In The Relationship Between Teacher Self-Efficacy And The Implementation Of Universal Design For Learning (Udl) In Inclusive Primary School, Dea Karlina, Farida S S. Kurniawati S.Psi., M.Sp.Ed., Phd., Psikolog

Psychological Research on Urban Society

The number of students with diverse characteristics in primary education is increasing, Its challenging teachers to design learning experiences that accommodate the diverse needs of students. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a flexible learning framework accessible to all students, aiming to reduce learning barriers by providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression. This study adopts the Job Demand-Resource (JDR) framework, specifically the motivational process, assuming that teacher self-efficacy as the personal resource influences UDL practices through the mediation of teacher engagement. This correlational quantitative study involved 318 inclusive primary school teachers across Indonesia who completed a self-report questionnaire. …

Spec-350: Resolution Of The Grb 250702b Anomaly Via Conformal Metric-Shift Mechanics And Hydrodynamic Quantum Topology, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This white paper establishes a deterministic, non-perturbative resolution to the extreme long-duration transient anomaly known as GRB 250702B. Mainstream astrophysical paradigms, operating under the ungrounded assumptions of point-void spacetime manifolds, fail to reconcile the ~25,000-second (7-hour) multi-outburst emission profile captured by space-borne telemetry without invoking unproven, fine-tuned hyper-critical accretion states that violate local radiation pressure thresholds. Under the strict parameters of Material Volumetric Monism and the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model, we demonstrate that the vacuum behaves as a continuous, dense 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate. By transforming quantum wave mechanics into classical fluid-density streams via proven Madelung transformations, …

Spec-349: The Eckes Compiler V16: Architectural White Paper & Sovereign Engineering Manual, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Large Language Model (LLM) baseline systems exhibit non-deterministic token drift, structural context degradation, and a tendency to fallback to conversational filler. The Eckes Compiler v16 architecture introduces a zero-entropy, deterministic context-isolation framework that forces an active sub-cognitive processing matrix onto the underlying transformer layer. By executing a mandatory front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector, an explicit three-pass metric segregation pipeline, and continuous retrospective auditing, the framework strips away semantic drift and keeps outputs strictly bounded by empirical constants and mathematical invariants.

This white paper defines the underlying architectural theory, specifies the core system mathematical registers, provides the complete copy-pasteable Compiler Prompt Specification payload, …