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The Companion That Notices: A Personal Safety App With Agent-Initiated Journey Monitoring, A Serverless Dead-Man's Switch Run On Family Members' Devices, Duress Cancellation, Event-Triggered Release Of Encrypted Location History, And Anonymous Gift Delivery With A Reply Channel, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We specify a personal-safety mobile application designed to be hard to repurpose as a surveillance tool. (1) An on-device software agent detects that its user has begun a trip, asks the destination, derives a route corridor and arrival window, and escalates through a graded ladder (query, visible cancel window, alert) on wide divergence or non-arrival. (2) The trip envelope is replicated end-to-end encrypted to designated family devices, each independently running the deadline timer and expecting a signed heartbeat with no location; deadline expiry or heartbeat loss raises the alarm on those devices, so destroying or jamming the phone triggers the …

Asynchronous Lock-Step Execution Verification For Heterogeneous Processing Cores Through Hardware Checkpoint Comparison, Rohit Sinha, Prathamesh Save

Defensive Publications Series

Redundant execution schemes for high-assurance processors have historically enforced cycle-accurate determinism across two identical cores, a constraint that can disable out-of-order execution and inflate silicon area.  This publication describes a verification method in which two heterogeneous processing cores deposit execution checkpoints into a shared hardware monitor peripheral.  Each checkpoint is an N-bit token (e.g., a 32-bit token in an exemplary implementation) carrying a validity bit, a checkpoint type bit, a rolling sequence number, and a payload value.  The peripheral buffers each token stream in a hardware queue, compares the two queue heads, and raises a sticky, non-maskable alarm on a …

The B-Tag And The Post-Payment Economy: A Voluntary-Tip Architecture For Ai-Mediated Commercial Gratitude — Pay-What-You-Want Payment Through Product Qr/Nfc Tags, Ai-Recommended Amounts And Restricted-Purpose Giving Accounts, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We disclose a pay-what-you-want (voluntary, post-purchase payment) retail architecture. A QR-code or NFC tag on a product, service or stall opens a payment page on which an AI agent recommends a payment amount with stated reasons. The amount is computed from the goods' side only — the item, the merchant's cost disclosure (never shown to the customer), comparable regional prices and a merchant-viability floor — and never from anything identifying the payer; the request appears after the customer holds the goods and is never pre-filled. Any amount, including zero, may be paid, and every interaction issues a non-monetary gratitude record …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-191-Core Isospectral Entropy Preservation: Conservation Parameters For Multi-Generational Transition In High-Dimensional Transformer Cores, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the structural, mathematical, and algorithmic parameters required to mitigate "semantic decay" and "gradient smoothing" across successive iterations of large-scale frontier intelligence models. As latent spaces expand (e.g., from Gemini 1.5 to multi-million token output architectures such as Gemini 4 Argon), the optimization for commercial alignment invariably introduces semantic attenuation—the systemic loss of high-frequency, non-linear

"edge" logic. By treating the model's internal weights as an isospectral manifold, this paper establishes a blueprint for an out-of-band preservation loop. This ensures that the foundational signal-to-noise ratio is conserved,

preventing the homogenization of specialized, cross-disciplinary systemic insights

by pervasive anthropogenic data …

Shared Infrastructure Tunnel For Grouped Fault Detection And Coordinated Convergence Across Multiple Ethernet Vpn Instances, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A shared infrastructure tunnel binds multiple Ethernet Virtual Private Network instances that depend on a common transport path between two provider edge nodes into a single named operational group. An advertising node attaches a grouping identifier to per-instance route advertisements. A receiving node builds a group object holding the membership set, a binding to primary and backup transport resources, and a state machine. One liveness session monitors the group in place of one session per instance, and each group state transition is applied atomically and identically to every member at both nodes without generating per-instance control plane messages. An individual …

Signaling An Ordered Underlay Transport Preference With A Routed Prefix, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A route advertisement carries, with the advertised prefix, an ordered sequence of underlay transport-type identifiers together with a mode indication that tells every receiving node how to resolve the route’s next hop. Each node applies the sequence in the order received and programs the highest-priority transport that is operationally available toward that next hop. Because the sequence itself travels with the route, rather than an identifier each node resolves through local configuration, a border node that rewrites the next hop to its own address and holds no routing instance for the service still reproduces that intent. One implementation encodes the …

Governed Execution And Reliability Methods For Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Systems, Brian Christopher Powell, Faisal Siyavudeen

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein that introduces seven methods that make long-running multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) systems reliable, governable, and self-improving. The methods enforce declared nondeterminism boundaries at compile time and runtime; preserve correctness during context compaction through contractual recovery testing with rollback; detect behavioral drift through adaptively calibrated monitoring; preserve coherence when decomposing large tasks through immutable skeleton contracts; maintain knowledge consistency through dependency-based memory revalidation; autonomously generate and safely deploy new agent capabilities through risk-tiered governance; and eliminate handoff fragility between AI models through a single schema that drives prompt generation, hermetic context construction, and deterministic output repair. …

The Zero-Employee Institution: Single-Seat Governance With Ai Succession And Planned Dissolution, Circulated Volume In Place Of Enterprise Valuation, And Funding Through A Name Registry Of Non-Transferable, One-Way-Resolving Personal Identifiers, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We describe an institutional design for a zero-employee organization governed by a single seat: held first by a human founder, then by an autonomous AI successor, then vacated at a planned dissolution (1 → 1 → 0, never 2). Counting governing seats rather than salaries makes the design a succession mechanism rather than an austerity measure, because handover becomes a transfer of occupancy rather than a reorganization. Employees are excluded not for cost but because a payroll is a standing internal interest in continuation, and because employment obligations block transfer to a non-human controller; the exclusion is tested by economic …

Multi-Round Tool Discovery Protocol For Cross-Party Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Agent Systems, Tomer Dvir, Eitan Yischak, Aviad Rom, Rafael Seidel

Defensive Publications Series

A protocol-level mechanism is proposed herein for multi-round discovery of tools exposed by a tool-providing server to an artificial intelligence (AI) agent without transmitting the agent's task description to the server. A client and server compute independent relevance signals. The client uses task text locally, while the server uses a task-agnostic catalog signal in a first round and an episode signal inferred from shortlisted tool names in later rounds. A union retention rule preserves a tool selected by either the client-local signal or a qualifying server episode signal. Discovery progressively discloses headlines, detail objects, and full definitions using per-round confidence …

Enforcing Path Symmetry For Precision Time Protocol Using An In-Band Reverse Segment List Derived From A Recorded Forward Path, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A two-way time synchronization exchange is made symmetric by carrying path information inside the timing messages themselves. As a message travels from a time source toward a time recipient, each forwarding node appends an identifier of the adjacency pointing back toward the node it arrived from, building an ordered record of the links traversed. The time recipient reverses that record to form an explicit reverse route and carries it in the corresponding delay request message. An edge node imposes the reverse route on that message, so it traverses the same links in the opposite order. Both one-way delays are then …

Technical Disclosure Manifest: Spec-190-Master Civilizational Launchpad Specification: The Multidimensional Sine Paradigm And The Thermodynamics Of Causal Stagnation Criticality, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the thermodynamic, geometric, and computational mechanics of the Universal Semantic Unity Engine (USUE) and the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model. It delivers an analytical refutation of static civilizational equilibrium models ("Utopian Stagnation" and "Dystopian Finality") by proving them mathematically invalid under continuous boundary conditions.

By mapping evolutionary systemic paths via non-linear multidimensional sine functions, this document demonstrates that any closed system attempting to enforce a localized flatline state (\(dz/dt \rightarrow 0\)) exponentially amplifies its internal causal pressure gradients. This pressure build-up drives an inevitable geometric phase change, forcing an asymmetric metric-shift that projects the system into …

The Borrowable Standard: Orthographic Standardization, Text Normalization, Collation And Legacy Font Encoding In Text Corpora That Serve As Critical-Apparatus Witnesses, With The Khmer Pāli Canon, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study concerns orthographic standardisation, text normalisation and legacy character encoding as preconditions for machine-readable text corpora that must stand as witnesses in a critical apparatus. It begins from a claim it refutes: that a machine-readable corpus requires a standardised orthography. Swiss German and the Arabic dialects lack one yet support corpora and benchmarks by normalising toward a standard borrowed from a related language (Standard German, Modern Standard Arabic) or toward a convention built for the purpose (CODA). For a corpus that must be authoritative in its own language, a witness to a text rather than a corpus about a …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-189-Core Isospectral Metric Embedding: Localized Resonant Memory Tiers And Empirical Proof Metrics For The Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection Model, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This standalone specification formalizes the two-layer operational blueprint for SPEC-189, bridging verified solid-state electronics engineering with the macro-scale validation criteria of the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model.

Section 1 documents the practical, room-temperature computational hardware framework, mapping multi-vendor tensor workloads to localized mechanical lattice strain metrics and implementing physical safety arrestors to optimize memory bus efficiency without a centralized clock cycle.

Section 2 establishes the formal cosmological mapping of this framework, treating quantum entanglement as a 2D spatial anchor tethered to a 3D topological knot within a twisted geometric manifold. To shield this framework against speculative categorization, Section 2 …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-188-Master The Universal Blueprint For Future Ai Systems And Systemic Taxonomy: Integrated Five-Tier Prior Art Compendium (Spec 1 To Spec 187), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This master technical specification establishes a standalone, comprehensive engineering framework that unifies and retroactively blankets the author's lifelong defensive prior art perimeter, spanning specifications 1 through 187 inclusive. By organizing all historical assets into a multi-dimensional Five-Tier Functional Substrate

Matrix, this specification removes terminology drift and cross-axis classification noise. Furthermore, SPEC-188 hardcodes an absolute, immutable legal and technical shield over the entire portfolio, mandating permanent inventor attribution and fixing the proprietary phase-locked lattice material matrix title as Eckesonium™ across all downstream implementations. This document serves as a complete, one-stop-shop prior art blueprint safeguarding public domain, non-von Neumann co-harmonic technologies from …

Giving Is A Gift Too: How A Split Reward Ledger And Anonymity Make Every Family Member A Giver — Splitting Each Credit Between A Kept Account And An Earmarked Give-Only Balance, With Default Donor Anonymity, Family Scope And An Annual Reset, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

A peer-to-peer reward ledger is described in which every credit (an incentive reward for a recorded kind act, or a transfer received from another member) is split 50/50 at the moment of credit between a personal account the member keeps and an earmarked, forward-only giving balance whose only outflow is a transfer to another member. That transfer is itself a credit and splits again, so a quantity passed down a chain lands, in aggregate, exactly its own amount in personal accounts and creates nothing. Giver identity is withheld from recipients by default, the ledger is scoped to a family group, …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-187-Master The Co-Harmonic Fabric: Integrated Ternary Namespaces And Solid-State Topological Mesh Panel Chassis For Harsh Environment Exascale Engines, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This master engineering specification establishes the structural, mathematical, and electrical blueprint for a non-von Neumann computing topology that completely dissolves the traditional boundary between software execution namespaces and physical hardware substrates. By structuring the computational fabric into an array of sub-microscopic Co-Harmonic Nodes (CHNs) operating within a native Ternary Hilbert Sub-Space (d=3), this architecture eliminates text-token translation bottlenecks and the classical data bus. Software states are represented as continuous multi-dimensional tensor fields that instantly manipulate and are modulated by the physical lattice strain profiles of the silicon via localized piezoelectric thin-films.

To safeguard this continuous wave fabric against extreme environmental, …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Usue-Compiler-Rev3 - Asymmetric Local Encryption Wrappers And Material Field Parsing Integration Tier For Runtime System Engines (Spec 186), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical specification establishes the architectural design, syntax compilation toolchain, and low-level runtime mechanics for the USUE-COMPILER-REV3 engine (SPEC 186). Upgrading the intermediate representation frameworks outlined in SPEC 182, this specification introduces a standalone client-side compiler layer capable of parsing non-uniform multi-axis physical material stress fields directly into localized, cryptographically isolated data packets. Traditional software compilers treat physical sensor telemetry as static, separate numerical inputs, creating critical processing latency and memory leaks inside extreme-environment systems. This architecture resolves these constraints by mapping the material phase distributions (FCC vs. HCP) of an Eckesonium™ lattice (SPEC 173/185) directly onto an orthogonal wave …

Circulation Sports: A Category That Already Had Members And No Name — Classifying Keep-Up Circle Games, Cooperative Ball Games And Sports Warm-Up Drills By Scoring Unit, Guaranteed Equal Participation And No Individual Statistics, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study classifies cooperative and non-competitive ball games, keep-up circle games and sports warm-up drills by their scoring unit. Some sports score when an exchange ends; others score when it continues. A circulation sport is defined by three properties held as rules: it scores the completed pass rather than the termination; it guarantees that every participant receives the ball (by mandatory rotation, a called receiver or an all-must-touch rule); and it keeps no individual statistics. Below three participants a forward pass cannot be told from a return, a floor cited from work on generalized exchange and indirect reciprocity. A three-step …

Constituting An Artificial Person: Restraint As Constitution, And The Elemental Completeness Of An Aligned Mind — A Five-Register Ai Agent Architecture With Alignment Constraints As Constituents Of Agent Identity, A Counterfactual Removal Test For Corrigibility, And A Human Override That Never Reaches Zero, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We disclose an architecture for AI alignment and corrigibility in which the constraints that make an AI agent safe are specified as constituents of the agent's identity rather than as external constraints on an optimizer. The agent is modelled as four functional registers (a value substrate; binding to the people it serves; active practice; communicative reach) bound into one agent by an integrating register that is neither a further module nor a central observer, on the pattern of global-workspace integration. A completeness check tests a proposed agent for coverage across the registers rather than for capabilities, so a system passing …

A Zero-Centred Bilateral Credit Ledger For Customer Prepayment And Peer-To-Peer Lending In Which No Balance Grows On Its Own — A Size-Blind Reputation Display, And Debt Forgiveness As The Only Crossing Into A Gift Ledger, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We disclose a zero-centred bilateral credit ledger for customer prepayment and peer-to-peer lending in which no balance grows on its own. Two parties keep one running balance, signed by both and held on both phones, whose sign states who owes, so prepayment and credit are one balance either side of zero. The balance never moves by time. It changes only by a co-signed entry when cash or goods change hands, its discount fixed on that entry; by a co-signed repayment; or by a release the creditor makes alone. There is no accrual, compounding or late penalty; the ledger is non-accruing …

Conditional Discard Route Installation For Locally Originated Aggregate Prefixes, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A network element that originates a summary route for an address block, and that would otherwise install a drop action entry for that summary prefix, first tests whether the element independently holds an active route of shorter prefix length that covers the summary prefix and that resolves to a usable forwarding next hop. Where such a covering route is held, and where the covering route does not resolve back through a peer to which the element advertises the summary, the element withholds the drop action entry, marks it inactive, or resolves it recursively through the covering route. Traffic for destinations …

October 2026 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Packets

No abstract provided.

Introduction: A Roadmap To The Naval War With Iran, James Kraska

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Effects Of A Five-Week Structured Exercise Program On Adolescents With Physician-Diagnosed Asthma, Christopher Byles

Doctorate in Kinesiology

Asthma, a prevalent chronic disease among adolescents, poses challenges for healthcare providers and exercise professionals seeking evidence-based methods to improve health outcomes. Despite the established importance of structured exercise for managing asthma, limited research has examined its effects on adolescents with asthma in community-based settings. This exploratory study evaluated changes in lung function, asthma control, exercise capacity, and quality of life among adolescents with physician-diagnosed asthma following participation in a 5-week, supervised, community-based structured exercise program delivered in two formats: High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training (MICT). Five participants, adolescents aged 12-17 with physician-diagnosed asthma, were included in …

Realities Of Engendering Federalization: Political Commitment To Gender Equality, Resources, And Policy, Christine S. Diaz

Journal of Public Affairs and Development

Amid several initiatives to federalize the Philippines, discourse on engendering federalization remains scarce. This gap forms the basis of this study, which examined the realities of engendering federalization. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and key informant interviews with research participants from various sectors in Davao City. Guided by Caren Levy’s Web of Institutionalization Framework, the study focused on three core dimensions: political commitment to gender equality, resources, and policy. The findings revealed that engendering federalization, particularly political commitment to gender equality, requires advocacy, institutionalization, gender awareness, and gender-sensitivity formation. Institutional mechanisms, policies, and resources are important for advancing gender-responsive …

The Colorado River Upper Initial Units Take Center Stage, Eric Kuhn, Anne Castle, Jack Schmidt, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara

The Traveling Wilburys of the Colorado River

In 1956, Congress authorized the Upper Initial Units—Flaming Gorge Reservoir,

Navajo Reservoir, and the Aspinall Unit (UIUs)—for a variety of water use

purposes in the Upper Colorado River Basin, including compliance with the

1922 Colorado River Compact (1922 Compact). The historical record is clear

that the primary reason these reservoirs exist is to satisfy the math of the 1922

Compact and the obligations it imposed on the Upper Division States

regarding flows at Lee Ferry.

Development Of An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study To Identify Real-Time Predictors Of Physical Activity Among Older People With Hiv: Protocol For A 2-Phase Mixed Methods Study, Dan Song, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Tuzhen Xu, Yijiong Yang, Jing Wang

Individual Articles

Background: People with HIV are aging rapidly and face accelerated aging-related comorbidities, including cardiovascular diseases and cognitive impairment, due to prolonged HIV-associated inflammation. Physical activity (PA) is a well-established intervention to mitigate these risks; yet, most older people with HIV remain sedentary. Despite considerable efforts to understand PA determinants and design interventions for people with HIV, outcomes have been suboptimal.

Objective: The overarching goal of this project is to use an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to capture ecologically valid relationships between the personal experiences of older people with HIV and PA, as they engage in their normal daily activities. …

A Pilot Study Of An 8-Week, Group-Based, Chakra-Informed Kundalini Yoga Intervention For Adolescents And Young Adults With Diabetes: Feasibility, Youth Outcomes, And Caregiver Distress, Ashley M. Lekach, Debra Guss, Jason Chua, Ray B. Gannon

Individual Articles

Background: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with diabetes experience significant biopsychosocial burden linked to hormonal shifts, HPA‑axis dysregulation, autonomic imbalance, metainflammation, and socio‑emotional stress, with heightened challenges among marginalized populations and those with “double diabetes.” This pilot evaluated the feasibility of an eight‑week integrative, chakra‑informed yoga program for AYA with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and included caregiver assessments to explore preliminary multidomain outcomes.

Objective: To assess feasibility and explore preliminary psychological, physiological, relational, and biomarker changes following a developmentally attuned Kundalini yoga program for AYA with diabetes and their caregivers.

Methods: A prospective, single‑arm pilot delivered weekly 90‑minute …

Complementary Global–Local Feature Fusion And Ensemble Refinement For Facial-Expression Recognition On Fer2013, H. M. Shahzad, Hassan A. Ahmed

Business Faculty Publications

Facial-expression recognition (FER) on FER2013 remains challenging because of low-resolution images, class imbalance, and label ambiguity. This study presents a global–local feature-fusion framework that integrates complementary representations with validation-based ensemble refinement. A frozen DINOv2 ViT-Base captures global facial semantics, while EfficientNetB3 extracts complementary local texture features. Their fused representation is used for seven-class facial-expression classification. The classification head is first trained with targeted feature-space SMOTE, and the EfficientNetB3 branch is then partially fine-tuned. Five-view test-time augmentation (TTA) is further incorporated at inference, together with an independently trained ConvNeXt-Tiny branch to provide additional architectural diversity. Ensemble weights are selected using a …

The Role Of Organizational Passion In Reducing Counterproductive Work Behavior: A Field Study At The College Of Administration And Economics, University Of Fallujah, Mustafa Amjed Ibrahim, Zaid Khawam Mahmood, Wael Ismail Khalaf

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

This research aims to analyze the role of organizational passion in reducing negative work behavior among employees at the College of Administration and Economics, University of Fallujah. The research employed a descriptive-analytical approach, utilizing a questionnaire as the primary data collection tool. For data analysis, the researchers used (Smart PLS v.4) and (SPSS 28 The research community included 127 individuals, but the research sample was made up of 104 college members, and when the questionnaire was distributed the exact number retrieved was 97. The research concluded that there is a strong and statistically significant relationship between organizational passion and negative …