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“Salvation Must Be Communicated”: An Ecumenical Reading Of The Place Of The Lion, Avery-Claire Galloway

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

While previous scholarship has cautioned against a reductive tendency in the analysis of Charles Williams’s work, this paper offers an analysis that explores the importantly multiplicable nature of meaning used in one of Williams’s most bizarre novels, The Place of the Lion. A close reading of a remark from the novel’s heroine that “salvation must be communicated” provides a lens by which the entire novel can be read, revealing how Williams presents a specific, culture-centered version of Christianity where communication leads to a salvation that is more cultural than doctrinal, more than the erasure of sins, but an experience …

The Path Of Wisdom: Reassessing Tolkien’S Paremiology In The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings, Luis J. Tosina Fernández

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Using previous scholarship on the use of proverbs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the present study reevaluates Tolkien’s use of proverbs in the series, with special attention to the use of pseudoproverbs and trying to provide sources that may have served as inspiration for the creation of Middle-earth proverbs. After close inspection of The Hobbit and the three parts of The Lord of the Rings, the findings point towards a less frequent use of proverbs than anticipated or presumed by previous authors. Moreover, despite including a far from negligible number of pseudoproverbs, for many of which …

Global Research Trends In Library And Medical Information Science, Mahshid Lotfi, Zahra Kalhori, Zahra Bahrani Pour, Faeze Rahmati, Ensieh Badi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction

Determining research directions is an essential method for charting the publication landscape of a scientific discipline. The goal of this study was to explore research trends in library and medical information by reviewing articles indexed in Web of Science, PubMed, Ovid, ProQuest, and Scopus databases between 2000 and 2024.

Methods

This study used scientometric and descriptive methods to analyze librarianship and medical information research trends from 2000-2024, using data from selected databases. Vocabulary co-occurrence and social network analysis were applied, with VOSviewer used for visualization and to identify key elements in the field.

Discussion

The keyword "medical information" appeared …

In The Archive Of All Things: Anselm Kiefer’S Finnegans Wake, James Reath

James Joyce Literary Supplement

No abstract provided.

Free University Press: November 10, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Free University Press: October 26, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Expanding Ai Literacy: The 5cs Of News Literacy In The Era Of Generative Ai, Seth Ashley, Adam Maksl, Paul Cook

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

This article adapts the 5Cs framework of news literacy—context, creation, content, circulation, and consumption—to media environments shaped by generative artificial intelligence. We argue that prevailing discussions of AI literacy overemphasize technical or functional competencies while underemphasizing the social, cultural, political, and communicative systems in which AI operates. Drawing on previous research, we define AI literacy as knowledge of the technical, social, and ethical dimensions of AI-mediated content production, distribution, and consumption, along with the critical capacities needed to exercise agency within those processes. We show how the 5Cs can be reinterpreted for generative AI environments and integrate pedagogical implications for …

Identity Verification And Data Processing In Single Interaction, Kiushan Pirzadeh

Defensive Publications Series

A method includes a computer providing an identity information request message to an identity function. The computer receives an identity information response message comprising identity data. The computer verifies that a current user of the computer matches a user of the identity data. The computer provides an update request message comprising the identity data to update an interaction function. The update to the interaction function updates an interaction device associated with the user using the identity data.

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Allocating Computing Resources, Santosh Kumar Kvs

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for allocating computing resources.  An example system includes a processor configured to publish a list including a plurality of computing resources associated with a server node and receive, from a plurality of service agent models, a plurality of requests for at least one computing resource, each request associated with a service and including a bid value.  The processor is also configured to determine a capacity value of the server node based on the plurality of computing resources associated with the server node.  The processor is further configured to determine an optimal distribution …

Computerized Method For Reverse Logistics Of Medical Devices With Non-Overrideable Safety Blocking, Actual-Cost Valuation, And Atomic Transactions, Alessandro Caccia

Defensive Publications Series

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for managing reverse logistics of medical devices and injectable products with limited remaining shelf life. Each movement is subject to a mandatory safety check per individual unit, designed to operate also in the absence of network connectivity, using a local copy of safety notices. Notices are collected from heterogeneous regulatory sources, with qualified-operator validation for sources lacking a programmable interface, and a two-level block with distinct revocation authorities is applied. In the presence of an active safety notice the product value is zero; otherwise value is calculated from the actual lot purchase price, applying nonlinear …

Asymmetric Workload Offloading For Real-Time Media Moderation On A Local Device Network, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Real-time media moderation on resource-constrained devices, for example, smart televisions, may present computational challenges, while cloud-based solutions can introduce latency and privacy concerns. A system can distribute computational workloads for content moderation across a local area network, such as a Wi-Fi network. A primary media device can operate a lightweight trigger agent to heuristically scan for potential anomalies in a media stream. Upon detection, a segment of the media may be offloaded to one or more available secondary devices, for instance, smartphones or personal computers, on the network. These secondary devices can perform computationally intensive analysis using advanced models and …

Resilient Automated Communication Management Using Limit-Aware Orchestration And Persistence-First Logging, Parnika Singhal, Martin Pauser-Cowman

Defensive Publications Series

In some large-scale data processing environments, such as customer relationship management platforms, automated systems for managing inbound communications can be unreliable. These systems, which can be configured to filter non-actionable cases, may fail silently when platform-enforced processing limits are exceeded, potentially leaving cases unresolved and affecting data integrity. A described technology can provide a framework featuring persistence-first logging and limit-aware dynamic orchestration. For example, before analysis, a durable tracking record can be created to facilitate auditability. An orchestration component can then evaluate platform resource availability and select an execution path, such as synchronous, asynchronous, or batch, to help mitigate failures. …

Multimodal Generative Biosignal Synthesis Using Continuous-Time Diffusion, Dongeek Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Everyday wearable devices, such as smartwatches, smart rings, and fitness trackers, track valuable health metrics, but analyzing this data becomes tricky when sensors record at different speeds, miss measurements, or get bumped during exercise. Traditional processing methods attempt to fix this by dropping or padding data, which visibly destroys important physiological details. This publication describes a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses machine learning to seamlessly combine health signals recorded at different speeds, automatically reconstruct corrupted data gaps (data imputation), and dynamically generate a biometric profile or digital twin of the user’s physiology to run interactive “what-if” simulations and …

System And Method For Recomputation Difficulty Scoring And Cost-Differential Storage Placement For Distributed Ai Pipeline-Execution, Shubham Shivhare, Faiz Ahmed

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for managing intermediate computational states in a distributed artificial intelligence pipeline are disclosed. For each intermediate computational state generated during execution of the pipeline, a recomputation difficulty score is determined based on a plurality of factors comprising a computational cost of regenerating the intermediate computational state, a pipeline latency associated with regeneration, a depth of an upstream dependency chain, a semantic importance of the intermediate computational state, and a likelihood of subsequent reuse. The recomputation difficulty score is mapped to one of a plurality of difficulty classifications, and a storage placement action is selected based on …

Cellular Network Failure Diagnosis Using High-Throughput, Low-Latency Lazy Decoding, Longlong Zhu, Allan Ke, Kuo-Yu Huang

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional diagnostic platforms for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks suffer from several drawbacks, such as garbage collection spikes or pauses, memory fragmentation, memory exhaustion, out-of-memory kernel crashes, and/or LLM context-window overflow. This disclosure describes techniques for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks by performing high-throughput, low-latency lazy decoding of raw binary trace files. For example, temporal anchors received from an edge device are used to selectively load and parse only the relevant frames of the binary trace file that correspond to the anomaly, bypassing non-relevant protocol frames without payload expansion. Protocol state trees are instantiated within a …

Real-Time Protocol Stream Triage And Adaptive Log Slicing At Edge Terminal, Longlong Zhu, Weiyue Huang, Li Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for real-time triage of network anomalies in telecommunication protocol streams and adaptive slicing of binary trace files within an edge terminal. Network anomalies are classified based on a correlation between Layer 1 physical radio performance metrics and Layer 3 protocol state transitions. When a physical channel environmental failure is detected, transmission of diagnostic data is suppressed to save network bandwidth and wear of local flash memory storage. When a protocol stack software defect is detected, a time-bounded log snippet is extracted from a local memory buffer, the log snippet is prevented from being overwritten by subsequent …

Automated Power Measurement For Mobile Devices Using Completion Signaling, David Yu

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for automated power measurement for a mobile device. According to the techniques, prior to initiation of the workload, pre-configuration is performed to establish a session identifier (e.g., a 128-bit ephemeral UUID). The device is disconnected from the host system. Turning off wireless interfaces and disconnecting the host system ensures that there is no interference with physical power measurement during workload execution, since the mobile device is physically untethered and operates in an RF-quiet state. A local background process executing on the mobile device detects completion of the workload and causes the mobile device to transmit an …

System For Ai-Generated Interactive Suggestions On Spatially Annotated Digital Media, Harshita Sharma

Defensive Publications Series

Discussions related to shared digital media may be disconnected from the visual content, which can fragment the user experience and delink comments from specific visual details. Systems and methods are described that can augment media with an interactive, context-aware conversational layer. A user can affix an annotation to a specific spatial location within visual media, such as an image, and this annotation may serve as a contextual prompt for a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model. The AI model can process the annotation's text in conjunction with the visual data of the underlying media region to generate and present relevant follow-up …

Dynamic User Interface Calibration Of An External Display Using A Head-Mounted Device, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

User interfaces on external displays can be static, which may lead to suboptimal viewing experiences at varying distances, while some dynamic solutions can have limitations. Systems and methods are described that use a camera on a head-mounted device (HMD) to determine a user's spatial relationship to an external display. The HMD may capture video of the display, calculate the user's distance and viewing angle based on the display's appearance in the camera's view, and transmit this data wirelessly to the display. In response, the external display can dynamically adjust its user interface, for example, by modifying element sizes and information …

Personalizing A Shared Display Using Context From Egocentric Vision, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Content recommendation systems for shared displays may lack awareness of a user's real-time physical context, potentially affecting the relevance of suggestions. The described techniques detail a system that can use a wearable computing device (e.g., smart glasses with an egocentric camera, a smart watch, etc.) to identify an object a user is interacting with. This object context can be validated and wirelessly communicated (e.g., via a local or personal area network) to a nearby shared display, such as a smart television or public kiosk.

On-Device Bidding Protocol For Context-Aware Dynamic Media Stream Sequencing, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Media consumption may be fragmented across various application-based services, and centralized recommendation engines can operate within separate ecosystems, which may introduce privacy considerations. This disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically compiling a personalized media stream on a client device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, television, or wearable device). The approach can utilize an on-device, multi-agent bidding protocol where a user agent may initiate a content auction by broadcasting abstracted, locally-derived context tokens to multiple streaming service agents that can represent different providers. These agents may then submit bids containing relevant content, and the user agent can select a …

Where Do We Go Now: An Examination Of The Role Of 3d Modeling In Cancer Research, Ella Claire Gregory, Hannah Noelle Cochran

ABE 4523/6523 Biomedical Materials

The development of three-dimensional tumor models has become an important area of cancer research. By incorporating biomaterials that can mimic the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the tumor environment. 3D models can provide a more physiologically relevant environment for studying tumor growth, cell interaction, metastasis, and drug response.

Community-Based Water Management Through Cultural Ecosystem Services: Traditional Wisdom And Modern Adaptation In Senjoyo Spring, Indonesia, Puji Winarti, Sri Haryani, Sri Wardani, Langlang Handayani

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Small-scale freshwater ecosystems play vital ecological and cultural roles. However, community-based water management (CBWM) often lacks a clear analytical approach to integrating cultural ecosystem services (CES) and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), limiting the practical understanding of culturally grounded governance. To address this gap, this qualitative study explores the interactions between CES and TEK, analyzes their roles within CBWM, and identifies their implications for sustainable water governance. The integration between cultural value and local ecological knowledge makes Senjoyo Spring an appropriate location for this study. Data were collected through interviews with 20 key informants, field observations, forum group discussions (FGDs), and …

Envelope 1 Transcript, John Coffee

Transcripts

The collection letters range from 1803-1817 and are concerned with the daily activities of Brigadier General John Coffee and the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen during the War of 1812. The document is an indexed transcription of all letters in envelope one of the physical archival collection.

Transcription Note

All grammatical and spelling errors appeared in the original text and were retained to preserve the text’s original content. Illegible text from the original document is indicated by “[illegible]” or “[?].” Minor editorial clarifications not present in the original are placed in brackets. The text contains several dashes as …

Envelope 2 Transcript, John Coffee

Transcripts

The collection letters range from 1803-1817 and are concerned with the daily activities of Brigadier General John Coffee and the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen during the War of 1812. The document is an indexed transcription of all letters in envelope two of the physical archival collection.

Transcription Note

All grammatical and spelling errors appeared in the original text and were retained to preserve the text’s original content. A dash typically indicates places where John Coffee wrote dashes within the original letters, while a string of successive dashes indicates illegible characters (the amount of dashes roughly corresponds to …

Beyond Fragmentation: A Multidimensional Framework For Green Product Innovation, David Mayorga, Jorge Tello-Gamarra, Martín Hernani-Merino, Sonia Oré

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Green product innovation (GPI) has become an essential strategy for companies to address environmental challenges while strengthening their competitiveness in a sustainable manner. However, important gaps remain in understanding how internal organizational factors interact with external pressures that shape their implementation. Existing conceptual frameworks have advanced the identification of these factors, but they often focus only on direct relationships and overlook the mechanisms that connect them. They also tend to adopt narrow perspectives that fail to capture the hybrid complexity observed in empirical evidence. This study aims to develop an integrative conceptual framework that synthesizes the antecedents, processes, and outcomes …

Developing Oer For Ai-Assisted Ecure Framework, Kuangchiu Joe Ho

OER at Tech Days

No abstract provided.

The Normative Canons Of Criminal Law, Brian G. Slocum

Vanderbilt Law Review

The rule of lenity is an ancient maxim directing that ambiguities in criminal statutes be interpreted in favor of defendants. Courts rarely rely on the rule of lenity, though, and its future is currently being debated. Justice Kavanaugh argues for its elimination, even as Justice Gorsuch argues for it to be strengthened. Most commentators agree with Justice Gorsuch, typically advocating that the rule of lenity be made more powerful. This Article argues for a different approach: The rule of lenity can be strengthened by limiting it to resolving linguistic ambiguity. 

This Article explains why the rule of lenity plays an …

Structured Discussions About Professionalism As Trust: Reframing Professionalism Through Entrustment, Trust Behaviors, And Graphic Medicine, Deborah Simpson, Tricia La Fratta, Kristin Ouweneel, Kathryn Agard, Leah Delfinado, Suzette Caudle, Will Lehmann, Nicole Salvo, Esmeralda Santana, Jacob Bidwell, Jessica O'Brien, William Macdonald, David Irby, Hazel Bidwell

Aurora GME

Introduction

Unprofessional behavior in health professions education adversely affects patient care, team functioning, communication, and learner development. Traditional professionalism curricula often focuses on elements of professionalism (eg, integrity, respect, duty) that may fail to illuminate the relational consequences of unprofessional behaviors. We  developed an educational intervention that reframed professionalism through the lens of trust and entrustment.

Methods

The face-to-face intervention aimed to help learners analyze professional behaviors by examining their effects on patient safety, teamwork, and professional growth using a four-element trust framework. Beginning in February 2026, a multidisciplinary faculty /staff workgroup implemented a series of facilitated educational sessions across …

Community-Based Well Testing And Outreach To Mitigate Human Health Risk From Unsafe Drinking Water, W. Adam Sigler, Katharine Sutphen, Margaret J Eggers, Kaleena Miller, Michelle Grocke-Dewey

Journal of Extension

Twenty-two percent of groundwater wells tested nationwide have one or more contaminants above a health threshold, yet many private well owners are unaware of these risks because they have not tested their water. Researchers piloted a community well testing clinic for education/outreach and surveyed participants about outcomes. Two months later, 75% of participants with high or intermediate health risk water quality results had taken action or intended to, indicating that community private well testing clinics can be effective in mitigating human health risks from contaminated drinking water.