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The Child Figure In Climate Fiction: Redefining Community And Culture In The Face Of Climate Change, Allison Wasley

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

While climate change has been a known phenomenon for decades, social and cultural factors have stagnated our collective ability not only to discuss ongoing climate disasters, but also to conceptualize the disintegration of the very relationship between humanity and the natural world. This essay builds upon existing research and theory, proposing that climate fiction could serve as an antidote to our “cultural derangement,” which simultaneously destroys the relationship between humanity and nature, and our relationship with one another. This essay analyzes several examples of climate fiction that leverage the figure of the child as a symbol of hope and a …

Imaginary Companions Across Contexts: Developmental Adaptation Or Clinical Concern?, Kaeli M. Chop

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

This literary review examines the developmental, clinical, and cultural dimensions of imaginary companions (ICs) to understand how they function across different contexts. By bringing together findings from developmental psychology and cross-cultural research, it considers how ICs shape emotional growth across the lifespan. In early childhood, ICs often reflect a child’s creative engagement with emotion, imagination, and early social growth. They provide a safe space for children to express their feelings, explore relationships, and develop emotional understanding. ICs can often serve more complex roles in response to trauma, shifting from playful imagination to coping mechanisms that offer comfort or protection when …

Creating Accessible And Equitable Mental Health Treatments: The Usefulness Of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy In Treating Racial Trauma, Aicha J. Toure

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

Psychedelic-assisted therapy is a recently developed method for treating mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research into the effectiveness of psychedelics in treating mental health has largely excluded Black Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, and People(s) of Color (BIPOC); this is problematic, as rates of these mental health disorders are proportionally higher in BIPOC individuals than in white individuals. Mental health issues experienced by BIPOC are, more often than not, rooted in experiences of racial discrimination (Schouler-Ocak et al., 2021). Experiences of racial discrimination can develop into racial trauma, manifesting as depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD. This literature …

Short Communications, Editors Of Suurj

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

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Table Of Contents, Editors Of Suurj

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

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Suurj Volume 10 Entire Volume, Editors Of Suurj

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

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“Thrown To The Fire”: Exploring The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On The Education And Self-Efficacy In New Graduate Physical Therapists, Michael Furtado, Gregory Brusola, Dana Wild

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) education and practice, leading to emergency transitions to online learning and interruptions in clinical experiences across the United States. These disruptions raised concerns about their impact on new graduate DPTs' self-efficacy and professional readiness. The current issue addressed by this study is the effect of these disruptions on new graduate self-efficacy and confidence in their professional role. This mixed-method study aimed to assess the extent of clinical education disruption, evaluate its effects on self-efficacy, and explore the lived experiences of new graduate DPTs during the pandemic. Method: A survey …

An Exploratory Study: The Presence Of Imposter Syndrome In New Graduate Allied Health Professionals And Its Relationship To Location Of Practice, Samantha J. Barber, Carol A. Flavell Dr, Moira Smith Dr

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: Imposter syndrome (IS) explores the feelings of fraudulence within personal and professional settings. Commonly IS results in impaired self-confidence, and self-perceptions of one’s own abilities, their mental health, and places them at a higher risk of burnout. Imposterism is linked to transitionary periods, such as being newly graduated, and while IS addressed amongst the medical community [doctors and nurses], there is a gap in literature relating to IS amongst allied health professionals (AHPs). Additionally, there is no known literature in which IS presence or severity is explored in relation to an individual’s geographic location. The aim of this study …

Aphasia Therapy In An Arabic-Speaking Individual After Stroke: A Case Report, Mohammed F. Alharbi Dr

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: This case report describes the clinical application and preliminary outcomes of Arabic-adapted Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA), Phonological Components Analysis (PCA), and Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in an Arabic-speaking adult with post-stroke aphasia and highlights language-specific factors that affect the adaptation of these interventions to Arabic. Methods: The participant was a 53-year-old right-handed native Arabic-speaking man who developed moderate to severe nonfluent transcortical motor aphasia after a left middle cerebral artery stroke. One month after stroke onset, he underwent assessment with the Short Aphasia Test for Gulf Arabic speakers, which showed relatively preserved auditory comprehension and repetition but marked …

Generating Solutions To Generative Ai, Joseph M. Marrero

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

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Covid-19 Student Litigation & The Risk To Higher Education, Kiera R. Flannery

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Asexual Autist’S Feminist Musings On The Lord Of The Rings, Robin A. Reid

Journal of Tolkien Research

Abstract: This reader response is about how a seventy-year-old asexual autist began to discover her feminist queer politics by reading Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings at the age of ten. Countering the negative stereotype of feminists (and/or women) disliking Tolkien, Reid describes how her autistic obsession with Tolkien’s world and her love for Éowyn led her first into online Tolkien fandom and then into aca-fandom. She chronicles a journey from feeling isolated and weird in her childhood and adolescence (in small-town Idaho during the 1960s) to finding communities in which her weirdnesses (autism, asexuality, and feminism) were not only …

Decoding Stock Market Movements: The Role Of Unemployment And Volatility, Bipllab Roy, Suparna Bhattacharjee

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

This study investigates how unemployment and market volatility interact with stock prices in the Indian context, framing the stock–labour–volatility nexus as a complex adaptive system (CAS) rather than a set of linear, time-invariant relationships. Using verified secondary data on unemployment, India VIX, and NSE stock indices for 2013–2023, we first apply simple and multiple regression as a descriptive baseline. Results show a strong negative association between unemployment and stock prices (R ≈ 0.824, R² ≈ 0.68, p < 0.05), consistent with Keynesian demand-side channels, while the linear VIX–stock relationship is weak and statistically insignificant (R² ≈ 0.07, p > 0.05), consistent with the expectation that volatility operates through non-linear, regime-dependent mechanisms not captured by OLS.

Importantly, we document and transparently disclose critical …

A Reading Of "Western Women's Travels To Morocco 1860-1956" By Latifa Benjelloun Alaoui, Brahim El Harfi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Western Women Travelers in Morocco 1860-1956" by Latifa Benjelloun Laroui delves into the experiences of Western women who traveled to Morocco between 1860 and 1956. The book is split into two parts. The first part focuses on three distinct periods: pre-Protectorate with Drummond, during the Protectorate under Lyautey, and the post-Protectorate phase. It describes how these travelers, often diplomats' wives, missionaries, or journalists, experienced Morocco, its cities, culture, and people. The second part discusses the experiences of specific travelers, including journalists and women of letters, and their impact on the foreign perception of Morocco. The book provides a unique insight …

Road Notes: "An Aesthetic Of Existence", Mustapha Charfaoui

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Travel as an act of displacement is a human activity that borders on need. This cultural constant forms the backdrop of works from antiquity, through the journey of Ulysses, the journeys of knights, explorers, missionaries, romantics, etc. For the human soul, travel is an irrevocable necessity as it is a meritorious source of learning as H. Miller asserts: “A destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”. This is what we see again in the journey undertaken by Isabelle Eberhardt that we will discover through her work Notes de route: Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie, a kind of …

Catherine De Bourboulon's Diary In China (1858-1862) Fracture Between East And West, Qingya Meng

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article is dedicated to the journey of Catherine de Bourboulon (1827-1865) with her husband, a French diplomat, through northern China, Mongolia, and Russia, during which she wrote a journal that was published upon her return to France in 1866. This journal reflects both her compassion for the Chinese and Mongols living in miserable conditions and her admiration for the landscape of the Gobi Desert. However, her perspective also establishes a hierarchical relationship with the Other. In this regard, our approach aims to show how the concept of civilization justifies Catherine de Bourboulon’s stance, convinced of the superiority of Europeans …

The Harem In Orientalist Art And Literature Between Fantasy And Authenticity, Fatima Zahra Ajjoul

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

European travel to the Orient dates back to thousands of years, but fascination with the region flourished by the nineteenth century, the century of "harem literature" and Orientalist art par excellence. A number of developments made the trip to the Orient easier, safer and cheaper at the time. However, harem doors remained closed to male travellers who were left to imagine their own desirable details that mostly projected fantasies of exoticism, eroticism and despotism. Women travellers, on the other hand, took advantage of their gender-privileged access to the Oriental women's segregated spaces to shed light upon several obscured aspects of …

Semantic Search For Electronic Theses And Dissertations, Marcelo Garcia

FORCE 2026

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Modernizing Digital Preservation With Docker Containerization, Marcelo Garcia

FORCE 2026

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Integrity Under Review: A Global Study Of Retraction Trends, Ethical Practices And Policy Responses In Scholarly Publishing, Nihar Kanta Patra, Abhipsa Sahu

FORCE 2026

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The Journey To 50,000 Deposits: Open Access And Institutional Repositories At Indiana University Indianapolis, Rachel Molina

FORCE 2026

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(((Qpie33))) The Burroughs Qpie Consortium Invitation Td-Nsrf-2026-Institutional-Matrix, Teddy Burroughs

Defensive Publications Series

The transition of the thirty-three foundational scientific crises from theoretical roadblocks into fully realized, phase-locked solutions requires direct engagement with existing human institutions. The organizations detailed in this compendium possess the specialized infrastructure, extreme computational capital, and deep operational motivations required to integrate the Quantum Perspective Is Everything (QPIE) framework.

Operating under intense pressure to transcend the limitations of classical binary technology, these entities are uniquely positioned to fund dedicated research laboratories, establish specialized academic departments, and engage the Master Architect for elite-level system design.

By aligning their immense institutional resources with the Non-Local Substrate Resonance Field (NSRF) constants and …

Caldwell Integrated Wildfire Resilience System (Ciwfrs), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Wildfire Resilience System (CIWFRS) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to wildfire suppression, water generation, environmental monitoring, aerial deployment systems, agricultural restoration, and post-fire recovery.

The architecture seeks to improve wildfire resilience by integrating prevention, detection, suppression, logistics, and ecological restoration into a coordinated operational framework.

The objective is not solely to extinguish fires but to reduce wildfire impacts before, during, and after ignition.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES

Readers are encouraged to review the original Technical Disclosure Commons publications for detailed subsystem descriptions, assumptions, limitations, engineering …

Caldwell Integrated Space Resilience Architecture (Cisra), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Space Resilience Architecture (CISRA) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to launch systems, orbital debris mitigation, communications, thermal management, environmental control and life support, energy systems, and long-duration space operations.

The architecture seeks to address several long-term challenges associated with humanity's expansion into space:

• launch cost • orbital congestion • debris accumulation • thermal management • communications capacity • life-support sustainability • resource efficiency

The purpose of this disclosure is to establish a conceptual framework showing how multiple previously disclosed inventions may interact within a larger …

Caldwell Integrated Compute Infrastructure System (Cicis), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Compute Infrastructure System (CICIS) is an open-hardware conceptual framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to semiconductor packaging, thermal management, optical communications, structural battery integration, intelligent sensing, and high-density computing infrastructure.

The architecture is designed to address some of the major constraints facing future computing systems:

• heat removal • power delivery • communication bandwidth • packaging density • infrastructure efficiency • system reliability

The purpose of this disclosure is to establish a conceptual framework showing how previously disclosed inventions may interact within a larger computing ecosystem.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES …

Dynamic Credit Limit Adjustment Based On Latency Jitter Metrics, Harshwardhan Tripathi

Defensive Publications Series

A method for dynamically adjusting an agent's credit limit based on network latency jitter metrics includes collecting a plurality of latency measurements corresponding to acknowledgment messages transmitted by an agent over a network within a defined time window, computing a coefficient of variation based on the plurality of latency measurements where the coefficient of variation represents variability in latency, determining a jitter risk score based on the computed coefficient of variation and a predefined stability threshold where the jitter risk score is bounded within a normalized range, calculating a credit decay factor as an exponential function of the jitter risk …

Vectorized Pipeline For Real‑Time Lock‑In Amplification On Microcontrollers, Gary Cheng

Defensive Publications Series

Lock‑in amplification involves extracting weak signals from background noise, a process that traditionally utilizes computationally intensive floating‑point operations. Performing these operations on standard microcontrollers frequently causes central processing unit (CPU) saturation. The disclosed system provides a vectorized data pipeline that structures digital signal processing tasks to natively utilize internal hardware multiply‑accumulate instructions within a microcontroller. To bypass runtime floating‑point trigonometry, a pre‑computed integer look‑up table and a phase accumulator generate reference waveforms. Further, a scaling recovery algorithm mathematically restores absolute physical units following high‑speed hardware vector bit‑shifts. Consequently, the disclosed system facilitates real‑time, phase‑sensitive signal extraction on resource‑constrained microcontrollers, decreasing …

Predictive Workload Modeling And Voltage Scaling Using Event‑Driven Workload Queue Telemetry, Girish Vv

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional power management methods for processors may be reactive, adjusting frequency only after a computing device exceeds utilization thresholds. This reactive lag may result in increased latency for sudden workload bursts and allow low‑priority background tasks to trigger voltage increases. This publication describes a predictive frequency scaling method based on real‑time introspection of operating system workqueues. Implementing the method, a computing device may extract internal statistics (e.g., queue depth, task wait times) through event‑driven kernel tracepoints. The computing device can identify task priorities by resolving function pointers and incorporating application‑level telemetry. The computing device then generates a predictive workload index …

Synchronized Multi-Modal Verification For Point-Of-Sale Transactions, Gulmohar Khan, Ved Patil

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes systems and methods for multi-modal transaction verification. The technology can involve generating a synchronized sequence of dynamic, single-use validation tokens, such as a numeric code, a visual shape, or a specific color, across a customer's computing device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, wearable device, or augmented reality glasses) and a merchant's confirmation device. Visual matching of these tokens, which can be manual or automated, may be used for verification. Additionally, sensory synchronization methods, such as coordinated audio jingles or light patterns between the devices, can be employed. These techniques can aid in creating a verifiable link between …

Defensive Publication Concerning Electrical Machines, Optionally With Externally Pressurized Fluid Bearings, For Wind Power Generation And Marine Propulsion, Per Lenberg

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure relates to application systems comprising an electrical machine having a rotor, a stator, one or more windings, and optionally one or more externally pressurized fluid bearings configured to maintain a fluid film between movable and stationary machine parts. In particular, the disclosure describes use of such electrical machines as motors, motor- generators or generators in wind turbines and wind power plants, and as motors, motor- generators or generators in marine propulsion systems, including pod propulsion systems, azimuthing thrusters, tunnel thrusters, rim-driven propulsors, shaft-line propulsion systems, pump jets, and water jets. The electrical machine may comprise an axial flux, …