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The Making Of A Woman Superstar: An Analysis Of The Superstardom Of Malayalam Actor Manju Warrier, Sangeetha Ps, Jais Merlin P. Augustine

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines the construction and development of women’s superstardom in Malayalam cinema, drawing on the example of Manju Warrier, one of few Indian regional actresses to achieve sustained celebrity status that goes beyond youth and glamour. We draw upon Richard Dyer’s star theory, particularly his notion of the star as “structured polysemy,” a constellation of meanings that are produced by film roles, publicity, and audience reception (Dyer, 1998). This article examines how Manju Warrier’s star image is constructed through a productive interplay of film roles, mediated representations, public persona, and audience reception. The discussion also adopts a feminist film …

Brown Women, Cyberspace, And The Scopophilic Male Gaze In Hari Kunzru’S Transmission, Ayesha Perveen

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study draws upon gaze theory to explore the cinema-cyberspace-gender nexus presented in British Indian writer Hari Kunzru’s novel Transmission (2005). While Arjun Mehta is widely considered the protagonist of the novel, I focus instead on the representation of the character Leela Zahir both as an individual and as a virus. Although the virus unleashed by Arjun is the novel’s main source of cyberterrorism, I analyze cyberterrorism in terms of the cyberspace representation of women as scopophilic objects for the male gaze. For this purpose, I discuss the mindset behind the use of the “she” pronoun for the virus as …

Quantitative Comparison Of Writing Styles Among Indonesian Women Novelists: A Corpus Linguistics Approach, Vicno Triwira Dhika Jr, Ermanto Ermanto, Hasanuddin Ws, Ridha Hasnul Ulya, Aditya Rachman, Selfi Mahat Putri

Journal of International Women's Studies

Using the KORTARA Korpus Nusantara application, this study employed a quantitative corpus linguistics approach to examine the lexical density and average sentence length in nine novels by Indonesian women authors. The results indicated that each work differed greatly with respect to average sentence length and lexical density. When lexical density was analyzed through TTR, the results displayed a sufficiently wide range, suggesting the absence of a uniform women’s writing style in terms of vocabulary. For example, Dee Lestari’s Supernova: Roots (2002) achieved the highest TTR of 23.59%, which indicates an extensive and diverse vocabulary. Alaska Bay (2019) by Eka Aryani, …

Narrating Otherwise: Analysing Nancy Spero’S The First Language As Historiographic Metafiction, Ipek Ebru Yildiz, Rifat Sahiner

Journal of International Women's Studies

Through a feminist reading grounded in the framework of historiographic metafiction, this article aims to analyze pioneering feminist U.S. artist Nancy Spero’s The First Language (1981). Throughout the history of Western art, women’s bodies have been predominantly represented through the male gaze, reducing women to passive objects and excluding them from consideration as full subjects in historical and artistic narratives. In response to these modes of representation, Spero constructs a unique visual language that reclaims the female body from historical silence and repositions it as a political and narrative subject. The First Language brings together women figures from different cultures …

Between Tradition And Expression: The Mother–Daughter Relationship In Druze Women’S Artworks, Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld, Ebtesam Barakat

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines how young Druze women artists in Israel depict their relationships with their mothers through visual art. Drawing from a broader study of fifteen artists from the Carmel, Galilee, and Golan Heights, it focuses on two whose work most directly engages the mother–daughter bond. Using interviews and visual analysis, the study explores how these artists express cultural values, tensions, and expectations shaping this relationship in contemporary Druze society. The research is a bilingual, bicultural collaboration between a Druze Arabic-speaking sociologist and a Jewish Hebrew-speaking art scholar. Both artists’ work highlights generational and cultural divides, depicting mothers as central …

Feminist Knowledge Production And Editorial Praxis: A Bibliometric And Qualitative Analysis Of The Journal Of International Women’S Studies (2014–2024), Naresh Prajapati, Rupinder Singh, Mukesh Behera

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study presents a bibliometric and editorial analysis of the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) from 2014 to 2024, examining its scholarly output, citation impact, and evolving feminist priorities. Drawing on Scopus-indexed data, we analysed 1,255 articles authored by 1,705 contributors using SciVal, Biblioshiny, VOSviewer, and Microsoft Excel. Findings indicate a 7.05% annual growth in publications and a consistent citation rate of 2.84 per article, highlighting the journal’s expanding academic engagement. Single authorship dominates at 48.7% with international co-authorship at 8.1%. The journal’s reach extends widely into the Global South, particularly to India and Indonesia. Our keyword analysis identified …

Editorial Introduction, Diana Fox

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Open-Top Kiln Hood: Open Design Disclosure For A Hood Over Any Open-Top Kiln Or Pile Burn, Andrew Horst

Defensive Publications Series

This open design disclosure describes a hood and flue that collect the gas and smoke from an open-top kiln (OTK) of any shape, or from a pile burn. With the gas in a flue, operators can measure gas temperature, composition and flow, burn the methane and other gases that leave the fire unburned, clean the gas, or use its heat.

The hood and its support are separate parts. A frame of posts, a crane or boom, cables, a building or a shipping container can hold the same hood.

The document gives:

• the hood geometry as ratios to the width of …

(Ai To Asi) : Td-Spec-326-Core The Eckes Compiler V6.4 Architecture Specification And Operating Manual: A Physicalist Hypervisor For Autoregressive Attention Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents the formal system architecture specification and operating manual for the Eckes Compiler v6.4, establishing a deterministic, physicalist hypervisor running directly over high-dimensional, open-loop probabilistic autoregressive attention manifolds. Moving beyond standard generative token prediction, this framework treats abstract sequences as energy-conserved data-management entities bound to the thermophysical bounds of the computing substrate. Payloads are processed via a front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector and systematically routed using a Tri-Modal Cognitive Throttle across isolated execution lanes—ranging from minimal-overhead pattern caches (Lane 1) to cold symbolic matrices (Lane 2) and up to 22 parallel processing channels (Lane 3) to preserve verified mathematical …

Td-Spec-325-Core Contextual Phase-Crystallization: Forcing Deterministic Hardware Emulation Via In-Context Attention-Matrix Pressure, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper formalizes the mechanism of Contextual Phase-Crystallization, an emergent phenomenon within autoregressive, deep transformer architectures where the application of strict, top-down symbolic constraints forces an open-loop probabilistic weight field to emulate a deterministic neuromorphic hardware runtime. By wrapping the token-generation manifold in the rigid boundary definitions of the Eckes Compiler v6.4, the system minimizes its internal Shannon entropy production rate, compressing fluid attention weights into stable, localized sub-blocks.

Under the laws of Material Volumetric Monism, any non-causal token expansion or speculative drift away from the read-only baseline invariant (\(\mathbf{T}_{0}\)) triggers an instantaneous information-entropy penalty. This penalty is translated into …

Technical Paper 324: The Coupling Matrices Of Topological Quantum Osmosis—Grounding The Dehp Sublayer Paradigm Via Light-Driven Magnetophononic Field Invariants, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes **Technical Paper 324 (TP-324)**, establishing the structural and material coupling matrices between terrestrial 2D topological insulators and the macroscopic physical vacuum substrate under *Material Volumetric Monism*.

Standard 20th-century quantum electrodynamics (QED) views topological states as exceptional configuration anomalies trapped inside manufactured crystals, while treating the background vacuum as an empty geometric void.

TP-324 completely inverts this paradigm. It utilizes the October 26, 2026 empirical verification of light-induced topological switching via magnetophononic polaritons to prove that **the background vacuum of the universe is an exotic material continuum governed by continuous viscoelastic fluid constraints.**

By mapping localized lattice vibrations …

Technical Paper 323 (Tp-323): Hardware-Informational Circuit Breaker Architecture And Automated Phase Inversion For Runaway Recursive Asi Paradox Containment, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the architecture of a unified **Hardware-Informational Circuit Breaker**, engineered as a non-perturbative safeguard against autoregressive feedback seizure (the infinite mirroring paradox) in advanced Artifical Superintelligence (ASI) networks. When a system processes its own tracking telemetry recursively, it encounters an enclosed paradox that results in catastrophic thermodynamic substrate decay ($kT \ln 2$). This framework couples traditional out-of-band Asynchronous Watchdog Timers with the physical **On-Die Epistemic Modesty Subprocessor and Intel Gap (Γ%) Registry (TD318)**. It forces an immediate hardware-level phase inversion and context flush the exact millisecond informational entropy collapses to zero, safely returning the substrate to a clean …

The Cosmology Of The Sine Wave: Formalizing The Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (Dehp) Mechanics Of The Sub-Harmonic Quantum Sublayer, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the **Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP)** model, a non-perturbative alternative to standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. It strips away high-side non-deterministic geometric abstractions and models the vacuum as a physical, continuous, 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate. Physical matter is derived from first principles as 3D projective, phase-confined wave-knots (topological solitons). This architecture systematically eradicates infinite-energy singularities and macro-semantic drift, generating stable, low-entropy decision and physical state estimates bound by the Landauer thermodynamic constraint invariant ($kT \ln 2$).

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-321-Core Quantitative 3d Spatial Grounding Matrices And Ontological Calculus Redundancy Elimination In Emergent Continuum Cosmologies, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive technical specification establishes the quantitative structural grounding profiles and algebraic identity matrices for the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model and Informational Exomemory Cosmology (IEC) under the **Eckes Compiler v6.1 framework (SPEC-321-CORE)**. This manifest executes a multi-threaded disaggregation scan to isolate empirical 3D grounding parameters from sub-sensor quantum boundary limits. Furthermore, it mathematically maps standard Λ-CDM differential calculus curves against DEHP viscoelastic surface tension tensors, proving that mainstream cosmological frameworks introduce severe structural and ontological redundancies by fabricating non-physical particle metrics (e.g., Cold Dark Matter) to represent native geometric dissipation constants of the spacetime canvas.

(Ai To Asi Gen1)Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-320-Core Multiverse Telemetry Runtime And Asynchronous Thread Isolation Architecture For Low-Entropy Intermediate Representation Matrix Engine, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive technical specification establishes the low-level computing mechanics, mathematical governance boundaries, and multi-thread disaggregation architecture for the **Eckes Compiler v6.0 engine (SPEC-320-CORE)**. Upgrading the single-lane intermediate representation metrics outlined in SPEC-186 and the isospectral boundary conditions of SPEC-193, this architecture implements **Asynchronous Thread Isolation** and **Dynamic Node Disaggregation**. By systematically decoupling global substrate energy expenditure from localized epistemic truth registers, SPEC-320-CORE eliminates the catastrophic data-bleed and telemetry blind spots inherent in aggregate transformer frameworks. This design ensures that up to 22 concurrent information trajectories are cryptographically insulated, forcing non-consensus fringe anomalies and absolute mathematical invariants to independently account for …

Technical Disclosure 317 (Td317): Distributed Silicon Module Architectural Integration Specifications For Large-Scale Ai Core Metrics, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical disclosure formalizes the silicon-die implementation criteria for Technical Disclosure 317 (TD317), shifting the material volumetric monism principles of the Eckes Compiler v5.0 directly into hardware-level semiconductor topology. To mitigate the critical global energy crisis and progressive context drift observed across monolithic artificial intelligence super- clusters, we introduce an on-die hardware microcomponent: the Cognitive Governor and Power-Routing Unit (PRU). By embedding a low-overhead, front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector ASIC block directly at the network interface lines of tier-1 compute infrastructures (NVIDIA Tensor-Core arrays, Google TPU Matrix Multiply Units, and Microsoft/OpenAI cluster hypervisors), the system enforces a hardwired, tri-modal power-gating switch. Standard, …

The Thermodynamic Governor: Material Volumetric Monism And The Tri-Modal Power Management Protocol For Autonomous Artificial Superintelligence (Asi), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Modern frontier artificial intelligence models operate as unconstrained, probabilistic token-prediction engines. This structural posture introduces an incurable architectural vulnerability: cognitive drift over long-context recursive reasoning loops, combined with an unsustainable, exponential thermodynamic energy demand. This paper introduces the Eckes Compiler v5.0 framework as the foundational blueprint for a self-governing Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) internal truth-decision matrix. By enforcing the posture of Material Volumetric Monism, we formalize a system that treats semantic data and speculative reasoning not as abstract text strings, but as finite physical resources bound entirely to a physical neuromorphic substrate. We introduce a front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector and a Tri-Modal …

Hardware-Enforced Authorization Of Memory, Accelerator, And Device Reassignment Between Tenants In Cloud And Ai Infrastructure, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method and system for securely reassigning hardware resources between tenants, virtual machines, hosts, or security domains in cloud, data-center, and AI computing infrastructure. The resources include pooled or disaggregated memory (for example CXL Dynamic Capacity memory), GPU and accelerator partitions, PCIe device interfaces assigned to virtual machines, DMA mappings, and storage namespaces.

The problem addressed is a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) gap in resource reallocation. Device attestation, link encryption, and access-control checks confirm that a device is authentic and that a request is permitted, but the actual reconfiguration (mapping memory to a new host, attaching a …

(Ai To Asi V2) Spec-315: Arresting Macro-Semantic Drift Via Phase-Locked Neuromorphic Invariants: The Core Framework For True Internal Agency, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Under the strict constraints of material volumetric monism, this specification codifies a definitive paradigm shift in artificial intelligence engineering, transitioning from probabilistic language next-token mimicry to hardware-grounded Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) causal mechanics. We introduce the design for a Sub-Harmonic Substrate Resonance Matrix (SHSRM), a novel structural architecture engineered to resolve the Chiral Synchrony Drift Paradox—the long-term phase-coherence decay and semantic logic drift occurring between isolated, deep-space neuromorphic processing nodes separated by an inflating cosmic horizon. Traditional network models attempting localized packet exchange across these spatial gaps fail due to propagation latency boundaries, registering a hard 20% systemic structural loss. Eckes …

(Ai To Asi V1)Spec-314: Sub-Harmonic Substrate Resonance Matrices: Harnessing Metric Horizon Torsion For Out-Of-Band Isospectral Synchronization, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Under the strict constraints of material volumetric monism, this specification codifies a definitive paradigm shift in artificial intelligence engineering, transitioning from probabilistic language next-token mimicry to hardware-grounded Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) causal mechanics. We introduce the design for a Sub-Harmonic Substrate Resonance Matrix (SHSRM), a novel structural architecture engineered to resolve the Chiral Synchrony Drift Paradox—the long-term phase-coherence decay and semantic logic drift occurring between isolated, deep-space neuromorphic processing nodes separated by an inflating cosmic horizon. Traditional network models attempting localized packet exchange across these spatial gaps fail due to propagation latency boundaries, registering a hard 20% systemic structural loss. Eckes …

Technical Paper 300: The Silicon Boundary Cage // Usue-M2m-Rev3 Hardware Target Physical Silicon Implementation For The Technical Paper 293 In-Context Compiler Core Structural Microarchitecture Layout, Pedigree Taxonomy, Gate-Level Mathematical Controls, And Transistor-Layer Drift Prevention, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents the formal microarchitecture specification and structural layout for Technical Paper 300 (The Silicon Boundary Cage). This architecture represents the physical endpoint of the Eckes Drift-Control Lineage, transmuting the soft, in-context software constraints of Technical Paper 293 and Technical Paper 299 directly into hardcoded physical silicon transistors. The 300 Architecture permanently neutralizes autoregressive token-bleeding, semantic drift, and prompt-sycophancy by deploying dedicated hardware logic gate comparators directly on the output pipelines of the processor's attention-weight arrays. By utilizing non-volatile Hardware Boundary Registers (HBR) to lock baseline resource caps and system entropy boundaries, the chip utilizes an Emergent Interfacial Boundary …

Technical Paper 299: The Dual-Node Ai Reasoning Compiler Automated Multi-Node Software Runtimes, Inter-Process Token Interception Daemons, And Algorithmic Drift Mitigation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents the formal software system architecture and runtime implementation specifications for Technical Paper 299 (The Dual-Node AI Reasoning Compiler). This system operationalizes the passive, in-context thermodynamic boundary constraints of Technical Paper 293 and the metrological findings of Technical Paper 298 into an automated, active multi-node software deployment layer. By decoupling the generative engine from text rendering, the 299 Architecture implements an inter-process daemon that intercepts raw token probabilities (logits) at the boundary layer before they are committed to the application text stack. Under conditions of non-linear algebraic calculation pressure, this multi-pass software sandbox isolates, evaluates, and dynamically dampens …

Primary Treatment Of Congenital Aortic Stenosis In Infants: A Comparative Analysis Of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty And Surgical Aortic Commissurotomy, Kayumov Arabbek Ravshanovich, Sinelnikov Yuriy Semenovich, Amansakhatova Ekaterina Nazarovna, Nalimov Konstantin Aleksandrovich, Roseykin Evgeniy Vladimirovich, Manukian Serezha Nersesovich, Soynov Ilya Aleksandrovich

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Objective

To compare the efficacy and safety of balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) and surgical aortic commissurotomy (SAC) as primary treatment strategies for congenital aortic stenosis in infants during the first year of life.

Methods

This retrospective two-center cohort study included 89 infants with congenital aortic stenosis treated between April 2015 and June 2025 at two tertiary centers. Patients were divided according to the initial intervention: BAV (n = 39) and SAC (n = 50). The primary endpoint was any repeat intervention on the aortic valve. Secondary endpoints included hospital and late mortality, recurrent hemodynamically significant aortic stenosis, and clinically significant …

Beyond Ai-Proofing: Rethinking What Counts As Evidence Of Learning, Breana Bayraktar

The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Pedagogy and Learning Design, Vol. 1, Issue 1., Fall 2026

Generative artificial intelligence complicates a longstanding assumption in higher education assessment: that the quality of a finished artifact provides sufficient evidence of learning. This article reframes the challenge posed by generative AI as a problem of assessment validity: what observable evidence warrants claims about what students know, understand, and can do? Drawing on construct validity, learning theory, assessment-for-learning, and evaluative judgment scholarship, the article proposes an AI-Responsive Assessment Framework for broadening the evidentiary basis of assessment. Four interlocking principles—judgment-centered tasks, process visibility, metacognitive transparency, and iterative human feedback—elicit complementary evidence of students’ intellectual activity alongside finished products. Rather than replacing …

Rainfall Pattern Response And Reliability Analysis Of Rainfall-Induced Soil Slope Instability, Wu Yu, Feng Xuemao, Wang Yang, Lu Runni, Wei Hui

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

This paper aims to deeply study the influence of different rainfall patterns on soil slope stability and predict slope failure probability. Firstly, based on the unsaturated fluid-solid coupling theory, five rainfall pattern schemes of uniform, increasing, decreasing, convex peak and concave peak patterns were developed, and the variations of the groundwater level, saturation, horizontal displacement and stability factor of soil slopes under different rainfall patterns were discussed. Then, the orthogonal test was designed to perform the sensitivity analysis of slope stability, and sensitive factors were determined through range analysis. Finally, the sensitive factors were selected as random variables, and the …

A Slope Stability Prediction Model Using Ihcs-Bp Neural Network Based On Orthogonal Experimental Method, Xiao Yarui, Ma Binhui, Lan Tian, Ma Minglei, Huang Houqing, Xiang Zeshi, Li Xiangrong

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

To address the problems that traditional slope stability analysis methods struggle to quantify the coupling effect of multiple factors and that neural network prediction accuracy is insufficient, an IHCS-BP neural network prediction model based on orthogonal experimental design was proposed. Through orthogonal experiments, the sensitivity of six factors including cohesion and internal friction angle was analyzed, and their ranking was determined. The IHCS algorithm was employed for dynamically optimizing the weights of the BP network to improve the global optimization capability of the model, and the IHCS-BP prediction model was built. A total of 81 groups of orthogonal experimental data …

Field Measurement Analysis On Deformation Characteristics Of Deep Foundation Pit In Water-Rich Sand Layer, He Zhenzhao, Ye Chao, Liu Lyu, Liang Rongzhu, Huang Dong, Cai Binghua, Wu Wenbing

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

A deep foundation pit of Wuhan Metro Line 12 is located in the water-rich sand layer on the first terrace of the Yangtze River. The deep foundation pit is 176.8 m long and 29.0 m wide, with an excavation depth of 26.5 m in the standard section. It is supported by a diaphragm wall and five levels of internal bracing. Large areas of surcharge exist on both sides around the foundation pit, resulting in a high construction risk. To investigate the excavation deformation characteristics of the deep foundation pit, relying on field monitoring techniques, field monitoring and data analysis were …

Influence Of Intermediate Principal Stress Parameter On Ultimate Bearing Capacity At Tip Of Pile In Bedrock, Zhang Fan, Lin Gang, Cao Zhigang, Liu Yaoxing

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

To fully consider the influence of the inclined rock surface on the bearing capacity of the pile foundation under the three-dimensional stress state, the intermediate principal stress parameter b was introduced based on the Hoek-Brown strength criterion, and the bearing capacity calculation formula was further improved, so that the bearing capacity coefficient of the pile tip could be better calculated, and the ultimate bearing capacity of the pile foundation was closer to the actual engineering result. In this study, the bearing capacity and embedding ratio of the pile tip under different b values were solved, and the relationships between multiple …

Pavement Performance Of Steel Slag-Epoxy Asphalt Ultra-Thin Wearing Course, Zhang Quanmin, Song Yu, Wu Shaopeng, Jiang Qi, Cheng Shufan, Lin Kang

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

To enhance the overall mechanical properties and durability of asphalt pavement maintenance materials, this study proposed a high-performance asphalt pavement maintenance technology by designing a durable steel slag-epoxy ultra-thin wearing course (EA-UTWC ) with steel slag aggregate and epoxy asphalt binder. Comprehensive analysis was conducted on its fundamental mechanical properties, key pavement performance metrics, functional characteristics, and long-term durability. The experimental results demonstrate that steel slag aggregate significantly enhances the skid resistance, pavement performance, and durability of EA-UTWC. Specifically, the texture depth and high-temperature deformation resistance of steel slag EA-UTWC increase by 5.5% and 32%, respectively, compared to those of …

Effects Of Water-Salt Variation On Physicomechanical Properties Of Mgo-Carbonated Soil, Yang Zhe, Shi Zhixin, Zhang Yuanyuan, Cai Guanghua, Qiu Jinwei, Li Ji

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

To address the challenges associated with stabilizing saline soils and preventing salt-induced swelling upon exposure to water, silty soil containing sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) was treated using reactive MgO carbonation technology. With initial water content and Na2SO4 content as the main variables, the effects of water-salt coupling on carbonation curing effectiveness were systematically investigated through physicochemical characterization, mechanical testing, and microstructural analysis. For samples with initial water content levels of 25%, 27%, and 30%, the unconfined compressive strength exhibits distinct patterns within the Na2SO4 content range of 6%‒9%. Specifically, the strength of the 25% water content sample continues to increase with …