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Estimation Of The Reliability Function Of The Maxwell - Boltzmann Distribution Using The M-Robust Estimation Methods And Comparing Them With Conventional Methods, Shaymaa Riyadh Thanoon

Baghdad Science Journal

To achieve the best possible outcomes. The reliability function estimation was also established for the In this study, the scal parameter Maxwell distribution was estimated using both traditional and robust methods, and the results were compared typical estimation methods, which included the Maximum Likelihood method (MLE), the moments method (MOM), and the M- robust method The results were compared using the mean error squared (MSE). The M-robust technique was found to have the lowest mean square error across all sample sizes, as demonstrated by the findings hence, it is regarded as being more effective than the conventional estimate methods. In …

Improving Energy And Capacity-Awareness Of Effective Satellite Communication In 6g Heterogeneous Internet Of Things, Ahmed Mahdi Jubair, Khitam Abdulbasit Mohammed, Fouad H. Awad

Baghdad Science Journal

The spreading of Sixth Generation (6G) communication within the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the recent innovations in networking services. As the number of devices becomes increasingly connected through extensive communication network connectivity, energy efficiency has become a significant concern with the widespread use of massive IoT devices. While general lack of energy optimization can lead to several issues, including data loss, link failure, and high-power utilization, directly affect the communication quality of the network. To address these challenges, it is crucial to develop a model that combines effective optimization and resource allocation, based on both Quality of …

Robust Qr Code Counterfeit Detection By Integrating Vgg19 Neural Embedding And Triplet Loss, Gede Putra Kusuma, Yulianto Yulianto, Renaldy Fredyan, Hendi Chandi, Jeffry William Tan, Philip Kwan, Muhammad Dafa Syukur

Baghdad Science Journal

Detecting counterfeit Quick Response codes plays a critical role in protecting the integrity of products and documents. This paper presents a novel methodology to increase the reliability of QR code counterfeit detection by integrating neural embedding VGG19 and triplet loss. The approach uses deep neural networks. Specifically, the modification of the VGG19 architecture is used to extract unique features from QR codes. These features are embedded in a multi-dimensional space using neural embedding methods. The use of the triplet loss function aims to increase the discriminative power of the embeddings, ensuring the discriminative power of the embeddings, and ensuring that …

Bioinformatics-Inspired Secure Video Encryption Using Chaotic Maps And Light Streaming Algorithms, Rajaa K. Hasoun, Rasha S. Ali, Ahmed G. Hameed, Ghassan H. Abdul-Majeed

Baghdad Science Journal

The Traditional encryption methods, such as AES, can be too slow for large video files, necessitating the development of faster and more efficient solutions for real-time video security. This research aims to enhance video security during transmission by developing a novel video encryption algorithm that is both fast and robust, specifically designed to handle large video datasets efficiently. The proposed video encryption algorithm integrates lightweight streaming algorithms for enhanced speed, modern cryptographic techniques, and chaotic maps for heightened security. The encryption process involves three key steps: Dividing the video into frames and scrambling/encrypting each frame, employing three innovative techniques: vertical …

From Retaliation To Restoration: Evaluating Norwegian Prison Rehabilitation Models For United States Integration, Lucas I. Abbott

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study evaluates the viability of implementing Norwegian rehabilitative frameworks within the American prison system by gathering the perspectives of formerly incarcerated men in the United States. Using a qualitative phenomenological design, the research sought to understand how American offenders perceive Norwegian normalization techniques, such as single-occupancy rooms, humane architectural environments, respectful inmate-officer relationships, and their potential to promote rehabilitation and reduce recidivism. Fifteen participants who had served a minimum of three weeks in correctional institutions completed open-ended questionnaires analyzed through conceptual content analysis. Findings revealed strong support for individualized rooms, normalized environments, and increased positive human interaction as transformative …

Cattle Drives To Coal Cars: Norfolk & Western And The New South Industrialization Of Tazewell County, Virginia, 1880-1930, Hannah Beth Hensley

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Addressing the impact of the New South gospel of industrialization on Tazewell County, Virginia, this research seeks to examine the county’s shift from a primarily agricultural, barter economy prior to 1880 to one of both industry and agriculture by 1930. It traces Virginia’s early railroads and coal mines, following the creation and collapse of the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad and subsequent birth of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, and details early geographic studies indicating the presence of coal in Southwest Virginia’s mountains. Tazewell County became the gateway to the rich Pocahontas coal fields of West Virginia with the boom …

Evaluating The Central Themes Of The Pentateuch In Apocalypse In Light Of The Pentateuch Author’S Compositional Strategy, Donald Registe

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation presents a theological interpretation of the thematic analogies between the Pentateuch and the book of Revelation, arguing that the central themes of the Pentateuch reach their consummation in John’s Apocalypse. Previous scholarship has not systematically traced these themes within Revelation, nor placed them in their broader canonical context. This study addresses that gap by demonstrating how the eschatological structures of the Pentateuch find their climax in Revelation. The research employs a methodology grounded in primary biblical texts, supported by critical engagement with Old and New Testament scholarship, accepting conclusions only when warranted by evidence. The first three chapters …

Espoused Eschatology, An Extension Of Inaugurated Eschatology, Steven Earnest Splechter

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Jewish weddings are as important to Jewish culture today as they were in the time of Christ. There is a process to the event that begins with a betrothal period, followed by a wedding procession and a lavish feast. In ancient Judah, the groom brought his bride to a place he prepared for her at his father's house. The Gospel of John reveals a distinct methodical interaction with the cultural and institutional norms of Judaism, as is argued to reveal the motif of a divine betrothal process. While the Synoptics have been argued to be more concerned about historical matters, …

Egfr Inhibitor-Resistant Lung Cancers Exhibit Collateral Sensitivity To A Covalent, Cysteine-Independent Keap1 Oligomerizing Molecular Bridge, Christopher F Bassil, Kerry Dillon, Gray R Anderson, Benjamin Mayro, Kayleigh N Askin, Peter S Winter, Stefan Harry, Samuel Gruber, Tierney M Hall, Jacob P Hoj, Christian Cerda-Smith, Haley M Hutchinson, Shane T Killarney, Ava Heffernan, Caroline Teddy, Katherine R Singleton, Li Qin, Kévin Jubien-Girard, Cécile Favreau, Guillaume Robert, Barr Tivon, Ella Livnah, Nir London, Rachid Benhida, Patrick Auberger, Ann Marie Pendergast, Liron Bar-Peled, David M Lonard, Anthony R Martin, Alexandre Puissant, Kris C Wood

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Targeted therapies have revolutionized cancer care. Unfortunately, most patients develop refractory, multifocal resistance to these therapies within a matter of months. Here, we demonstrate that the evolution of resistance to EGFR inhibitors in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer endows cells with hypersensitivity to a PAINS-like small molecule, MCB-613. Systematic proteomic, functional genomic, and biochemical studies revealed that MCB-613 binds KEAP1 in a covalent, cysteine-independent fashion, acting as a divalent molecular bridge that relies upon lysine residues in the KEAP1 dimerization domain to join monomers of KEAP1 together. Oligomerization of KEAP1 by MCB-613 sets into motion a fatal cascade of KEAP1 …

Progress And Challenges In Profiling Protein-Rna And Protein-Associated Rna-Rna Interactions, Zhuoyi Song, Eric L Van Nostrand

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play essential roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation by interacting with a wide range of RNA targets. In addition to regulating RNA processing via individual RBP-RNA interactions, there is a growing appreciation of the regulatory impact of protein-associated RNA-RNA interactions that include both well-studied examples of small regulatory RNAs (e.g. microRNAs, snRNAs, snoRNAs, piRNAs) guiding ribonucleoprotein complexes to their targets as well as structured RNA elements defining the interaction landscape for an RBP. To elucidate the full scope of RBP-RNA interactions, CLIP ( crosslinking and immunoprecipitation)-based methods have emerged as powerful tools. Even with the wide application …

Resolution Of A Human Chromosomal Mystery: Evolutionary Complexity Revealed, Jeffrey Rogers

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The human complement of chromosomes differs from our closest primate relatives by virtue of a unique chromosome fusion event. In this issue of Cell Genomics, Yang et al. provide the first detailed analysis of the site of chromosome fusion and reconstruct the complex evolutionary relationships among the genomic elements within the human fusion site and their related sequences in our great ape relatives.

A Thank-You Gift To My Dad: Illustrations Based On Olaf Stapledon’S Star Maker, Alex Combs

Journal of Conscious Evolution

This essay reflects on a series of etchings created as a personal tribute to my father, Allan Leslie Combs, and inspired by Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker. Blending memoir, art, and cosmological imagination, the article explores creative gratitude, spiritual vision in science fiction, and the connection between art and consciousness.

Keywords: Allan Leslie Combs, Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, consciousness and creativity

The Impact Of Skin Tone On Performance Of Pulse Oximeters Used By Nhs England Covid Oximetry @Home Scheme: Measurement And Diagnostic Accuracy Study, Exakt Study Investigators, Daniel S Martin, James C Doidge, Doug Gould, Tasnin Shahid, Alex Cowden, Walton N Charles, Amelia Francis Johnson, Roger Garrett, Catherine Mbema, Olusegun Olusanya, Eugene Healy, Kathryn Rowan, Paul Mouncey, David A Harrison

Peninsula Medical School

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of skin tone on the measurement and diagnostic accuracy of five fingertip pulse oximeters used by patients in the NHS (National Health Service) England COVID Oximetry @home scheme.

DESIGN: Measurement and diagnostic accuracy study (exploring pulse oximeter accuracy across skin tones-EXAKT).

SETTING: Twenty four intensive care units in England between June 2022 and August 2024.

PARTICIPANTS: 903 critically ill adults admitted to intensive care units screened for or enrolled into a trial evaluating different approaches to oxygen therapy.

INTERVENTIONS: Pulse oximetry derived peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurements were compared with paired arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) …

Electronic Encyclopedia Of Traditional Medicinal Plants At The Museum Pusaka Nias As Supporting Media For Students’ Plant Awareness, Ester Novi Kurnia Zebua, Siti Zubaidah, Sitoresmi Prabaningtyas

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Low student awareness of the existence, diversity, and importance of plants in daily life—referred to as plant awareness, which includes attention, attitudes, relative interest, and knowledge toward plants—remains a challenge in biology learning, partly due to the limited use of electronic learning media that integrate biodiversity with local wisdom or indigenous knowledge. Traditional medicinal plants from the Museum Pusaka Nias have strong potential as contextual learning resources; however, they have not been optimally developed in electronic form. This study aimed to develop an electronic encyclopedia of Nias traditional medicinal plants for high school biology learning and to examine students' plant …

Development Of A Structured Inquiry-Based Heat Transfer E-Module To Encourage Elementary School Students' Critical Thinking Skills, Chintia M. P Ati, Alvin J. Hano

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The study is undermanned by the students' lack of critical thinking skills and the lack of digital learning media. The purpose of the study is to produce credible, pragmatic, and effective e-modules to improve critical v-grade thinking skills. The study USES model development methods Lee and Owens, 2004. The 36 student classes vs. SDN oesapa small 2 mussels are traveling in kalor transfer content during the full term of year 2021-2022. Analysis shows that an e-module effectively enhances the student's critical thinking skills. Critical n-gain thinking skills by 0.7201. The conclusion that structured e-modules effectively promote critical thinking skills. This …

Niebuhr's America, Charles Lemert

Fast Capitalism

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Remembering Derrida, Robert J. Antonio

Fast Capitalism

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Politics And Self In The Age Of Digital Re(Producibility), Robert W. Williams

Fast Capitalism

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Media Culture And The Triumph Of The Spectacle, Douglas Kellner

Fast Capitalism

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Timescapes Of The Network Society, Robert Hassan

Fast Capitalism

Since the late ‘70s, the mutually reinforcing interaction between neoliberal economics and the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world in many ways. “Globalization” is what we have come to call this process, and many aspects of its profound effect have been analyzed from a range of perspectives (e.g. Appadurai 1990; Robertson 1993; Omahe 1993; Waters 1995; Bauman 1998; Steger 2003). This paper discusses a central element of this change through globalization that has so far received relatively little attention—our relationship with time and how this is changing, in turn, the nature of power and politics. …

Speed: Through, Across, And In — The Landscapes Of Capital, Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey

Fast Capitalism

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Cyberculture’S Abstract Utopia: Silicon Valley And Cleaner, Greener, Leaner Rules For A “New Economy”*, Timothy W. Luke

Fast Capitalism

This preliminary analysis connects the dilemmas of eco-pessimism and eco-optimism and links them to a number of core and peripheral thinkers in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who have sought an escape, or “an out,” from the deepening deterioration of both Nature and Society making many feel pessimistic about the environment. As New York City choked through eerie days cloaked by nearly impenetrable clouds of wood smoke in June 2023, the sky turned a Martian orange in the sunlight from dawn to dusk. At the same time, coastal homeowners along Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific beaches received notices …

“You Are Not Independent In Any Way”: Biopolitics, Gig Economy Work And The Emergence Of Illegible Antagonisms, Tony Iantosca

Fast Capitalism

In this article, I examine the qualitative dimensions of gig economy work, labor power, and potentiality using two categories of biopolitical subjugation developed by Lazzarato (2012; 2015): social subjection and machinic subjugation. As Lazzarato defined and elaborated these techniques in the wake of the financial crisis, I also contextualize gig economy work as the evolution of economic processes that Marx and subsequent post-workerist scholars have analyzed, namely, circulation and formal and real subsumption. I claim that it is through Lazzarato’s two techniques of biopolitical subjection and subjugation that the gig economy attempts to manage workers’ subjective dispositions while extracting data …

Blood In Their Mouths: Lies, Violence, And Fascist Politics, Henry Giroux

Fast Capitalism

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Climate Change Deniers Versus Climate Change Decriers: The Pragmatics Of Climate Defense In The Age Of Disinformation, Timothy W. Luke

Fast Capitalism

Thirty-five years ago, Bill McKibben published his best-selling popular depiction of climate change, The End of Nature. Nearly a decade ago, Naomi Klein's global best-seller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate presented her detailed brief: “thought leaders” must resist and reverse the degradation of Earth's climate in the face of denials that this policy change was impossible. As popular activists, McKibben and Klein both believe “more information leads to good and great change.” This gambit presumes when presented disturbing facts on how and why rising fossil fuel use is degrading the climate, like-minded readers will wisely rise, readily organize …

Strategies To Reduce Safety Accidents In Chemical Facilities, Travon Eshawn Herriotte

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Chemical-industry accidents remain a persistent threat capable of injuring workers, damaging communities, and destabilizing organizations, despite decades of safety regulations and technological advancements. Chemical facility managers, workers’ families, emergency responders, local communities, and entire supply chains bear the burden of every preventable failure. Grounded in human capital theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic research project was to identify and explore effective strategies that managers use to reduce safety accidents in chemical facilities. The participants were six managers from chemical facilities in the eastern United States. Data were collected using semistructured and publicly available documents. Through reflexive thematic analysis, five …

Dairy And Food Science Student Newsletter, January 13, 2026, Department Of Dairy And Food Science

Dairy and Food Science Student Newsletter

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Primate Gut Microbiota Induce Evolutionarily Salient Changes In Mouse Neurodevelopment., Alex R Decasien, Jacob E Aronoff, Elizabeth K Mallott, Sahana Kuthyar, Sriram Chitta, Brian T Layden, Maria L Savo Sardaro, Stanton Gray, Lawrence E Williams, Emma R Liechty, Hyo M Lee, Won Lee, James P Curley, Christopher W Kuzawa, Katherine R Amato

Faculty Research 2026

Multiple primate species, including humans, evolved brains that are exceptionally large relative to their body sizes. These large brains coevolved with metabolic adaptations that enhance cerebral energy supply, including increased circulating glucose levels. While the gut microbiota (GM) is known to influence host metabolism, its potential role in primate brain evolution remains unclear. To investigate this, we inoculated germ-free mice with the GMs of primate species selected to separate the effects of brain size (encephalization) from phylogenetic relatedness: humans (large-brained, Catarrhini), macaques (smaller-brained, Catarrhini), and squirrel monkeys (large-brained, Platyrrhini). We first show that differences in brain gene expression between mice …

Ole Miss Honors Mlk Day Through Service, Celebration, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Many Mississippians may enjoy a family gathering, trip to the National Civil Rights Museum or, possibly, sleeping-in on Jan. 19. But this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, more than 150 University of Mississippi community members have scheduled different plans: serving their community.

Shelf-Life Prediction Of Oil-Preserved Meat Based On Volatile Basic Nitrogen, He Li, Dan Li, Diao Shangpeng, Xing Yage, Yang Lulin, Liu Aiming

Food and Machinery

[Objective] To establish a shelf-life prediction model for oil-preserved meat based on total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N). [Methods] Under the storage conditions of 4, 25, and 37 ℃, changes in the following parameters of oil-preserved meat are determined: water activity, pH value, TVB-N value, thiobarbituric acid (TBARS value), peroxide value (POV value), and sensory quality. A comprehensive analysis is conducted using the first-order kinetic model and the Arrhenius equation. [Results] Storage temperature significantly affects the quality deterioration rate of oil-preserved meat. The TVB-N value is closely correlated with storage time (R2=0.992) and is therefore selected as the key indicator to …