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Capability-Based Authorization For Compromised Component Containment — Decision-Derived Not Identity, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems in which the right to perform an action — an action entitlement — originates from a validated decision outcome rather than from any property of the party presenting the request. In one embodiment, when a decision outcome establishes that a particular action with particular values is warranted, an action entitlement is derived whose scope is determined entirely by what was decided, excluding all identity-derived factors from the entitlement scope. This decision-derived authorization model inverts the identity-based authorization baseline: instead of asking “who is requesting this?” and matching the answer against permissions, the system asks …

Admission Control For Runtime Process Extension — Structural Validation, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for validated runtime extension of executing multi-step processes with structural safety guarantees. In one embodiment, when a proposed extension comprising additional process steps and their dependencies is submitted for incorporation into an executing process, the system evaluates the proposed extension against a set of structural validation predicates before any modification to the executing process is permitted. The structural validation predicates are deterministic checks that verify structural integrity properties of the proposed extension relative to the current process structure, including termination verification (confirming that the extended structure preserves finite completion), data flow compatibility checking (confirming …

Case-Based Reasoning Post-Retrieval Classification — Immutable Reuse Mode Assignment, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for classifying prior sealed decision records into a plurality of reuse classifications based on structural relationships between contextual positions, where each reuse classification imposes different mode- specific requirements and produces categorically different downstream effects that are sealed at classification time. In one embodiment, a post-retrieval classification process evaluates a candidate sealed decision record relative to a current decision context and selects one reuse classification from among a plurality of reuse classifications. Examples of possible reuse classifications include, but are not limited to, substitutive reuse where the prior record directly satisfies the current request, advisory …

Hierarchical Context Matching For Decision Record Retrieval — Structural Vs Similarity-Based Reuse, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

Structural relationships between scope positions — including structural containment, partial overlap, and generalisation — can determine the reuse eligibility of prior sealed decision records, producing non-binary applicability outcomes where different relationships carry qualitatively different reuse implications. This publication discloses methods and systems that evaluate defined structural relationships between scope positions rather than content similarity, exact-match identity, or administrative classification to discover and reuse prior decisions. In one embodiment, when a new decision request arrives at a request contextual position, the system evaluates structural relationships between the request contextual position and stored record contextual positions to determine whether prior decisions are …

Snapshot Isolation For Policy Evaluation — Temporal Consistency Across Multi-Step Processes, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for ensuring temporal consistency across multi-step decision processes that evaluate organisational decisions against rules and policies drawn from multiple independent sources. In one embodiment, a temporal reference is captured at the initiation of a decision process and carried through all subsequent evaluation steps, ensuring that every step observes the policy environment as it existed at a consistent policy snapshot. Temporal markers obtained from policy sources are treated as opaque — their internal structure is not interpreted by the decision system — and freshness comparison determines whether one marker represents a state at least as …

Schema Mapping — Fidelity-Tracked Transformation Between Independent Semantic Environments, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for defining and applying explicit transformation declarations between independently maintained meaning environments, where each meaning environment governs locally-defined terms, type structures, and interpretation rules for a particular decision context. In one embodiment, a transformation declaration specifies mapping correspondences between meaning entries in a source meaning environment and meaning entries in a target meaning environment, and carries an information preservation classification indicating the nature and degree of information preservation achieved by the transformation. In one embodiment, transformation declarations may be composed sequentially to form transformation chains spanning multiple meaning environments, where the composed preservation classification …

Multi-Dimensional Record Addressing For Decision Management — Contextual Position As Structural Identity, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for addressing decision records by scope coordinates comprising discrete comparable elements that identify a contextual position within an organisational domain. In one embodiment, the scope coordinates are a structural component of the record identity rather than descriptive metadata, such that decision records at different contextual positions are structurally distinct entities even when the decision content is identical. Computable structural relationships between scope positions — including but not limited to containment, partial overlap, generalisation, adjacency, and equivalence — determine decision applicability: whether a previously sealed decision record at one contextual position can satisfy a request …

Formal Specification Verification For Decision Record Completeness — Pre-Execution Contract Validation, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for formal specification verification and specification-declared completeness verification applied to organisational decision questions. A specification declaring its own structural and governance requirements defines what data is needed, what outputs must be produced, what conditions determine whether the question was adequately answered, and how the question should be evaluated. A verification process distinguishes structural validity — whether a decision record conforms to the declared input and output requirements — from substantive completeness — whether the decision was adequately resolved according to declared completeness conditions. In one embodiment, the specification designates an evaluation pathway indicating how …

Synchronized Display Of Composite Musical Information For Collaborative Performance, Paula Marques

Defensive Publications Series

Digital music aids for individual performers can lead to desynchronization and fragmented views when used in a group setting, as each musician may see their part in isolation. This disclosure describes systems and methods for a synchronized, multi-user musical performance environment. A shared session state, including an authoritative playback position, can be maintained across multiple participant computing devices, for example, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, or augmented reality glasses. A composite user interface on each device can concurrently display various forms of musical information, such as lyrics and instrument-specific notation, in a scrolling format against a fixed temporal marker. This can …

Outbound Investment Restrictions And International Law’S Challenge, Harlan Grant Cohen

Seattle University Law Review

The Outbound Investment Rule, restricting U.S. investment in certain Chinese advanced technology sectors, has largely been portrayed as an incremental measure, a modest extension to fill loopholes in the existing investment screening regime. But while perhaps the logical next step in the securitization of the economy, the Outbound Investment Rule actually reflects a momentous shift in the relationship between governments and business, one playing out in the United States and around the world and worth attention. Unlike traditional investment screening, the Outbound Investment Rule operates like a sanctions regime, designed not to protect the U.S. economy, but to hamper the …

Orthognathic Surgery: Why Is It Done?, Mia Gou

Mentorship Program 2025-2026

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 19, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Campus Assembly Minutes 02/19/2025, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

An All-Inclusive Toolkit For Managing Workplace Violence In Healthcare, Brittney L. Williamson, Melissa Rouse

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Violence against nurses is a nationwide problem that has set the stage for unhealthy work environments and has driven nurses away from patient care. So, what can be done to retain our nurses and provide safer work environments? By creating an all-inclusive toolkit for managing violent and aggressive patients, this healthcare organization has made great strides to better protect their nurses.

Impact: To address this problem head on, evidence-based practices were used to develop an all-inclusive toolkit to implement a multifaceted approach to assessment, de-escalation, and allocation of resources. This approach took the guesswork out of what steps to take …

Finding A Voice: Felesha (Townes) Love ’86, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Resilient Dispute Resolution Systems For International Energy Conflicts, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez

Seattle University Law Review

Energy-related conflicts are on the rise, spanning diverse issues such as the impacts of rare mineral mining on local communities, the impacts of sanctions on energy investments due to the Russia-Ukraine war, and the impacts of expanded subsidies on the electric vehicle and solar panel industries. Increasingly, companies, communities, and governments are clashing over the challenges of pursuing disparate and sometimes competing energy policies. This Article argues that dispute resolution mechanisms in the energy investment sector must be fundamentally rethought. Traditional semi-adjudicatory models, which focus on winners and losers, fail to accommodate the complex and multifaceted nature of contemporary energy …

Restricting Data Flows Is A Sign Of Weakness, Nikolas Guggenberger

Seattle University Law Review

There has been a seismic shift in American attitudes toward the free flow of data across borders.  In less than a decade, the United States has transitioned from condemning barriers to digital trade to constructing a digital fortress of its own. It passed legislation requiring TikTok’s parent company to divest its U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban affecting 170 million U.S. users, citing national security concerns about its ties to China and the potential for data surveillance and content manipulation. Upon legal challenge by TikTok on First Amendment grounds, the Supreme Court affirmed the ban’s constitutionality. Recent federal legislation …

Product Nationality And Corporate Identity, Trang (Mae) Nguyen

Seattle University Law Review

Global supply chains have long depended on a deceptively technical device: the attribution of a “nationality” to goods. A trade law principle, rules of origin assign products an “economic passport” that governs how they are treated at the border, including what markets they may enter and which tariff rates apply. In recent years, however, product nationality has taken on a new and far more ambitious role. As U.S. trade policy increasingly intersects with national security and human rights policy, policymakers rely on nationality-based measures to police supply chain linkages, curb geopolitical issues, and discipline firms for their links to forced …

Global Supply Chain Resilience In Emerging Technologies: A Case Study Of Bitcoin Mining, Kishanthi Parella, Carla L. Reyes

Seattle University Law Review

The United States has put into motion bold plans in critical and emerging technologies to bolster its national and economic security.  For example, the federal government created a national bitcoin strategic reserve and a stockpile of other cryptocurrency; while several states have committed to or are considering similar goals.  However, the security of these reserves is dependent on two types of supply chains within the Bitcoin mining industry: analogue supply chains, relating to the physical components needed for Bitcoin mining, and data supply chains, relating to the complex and layered logistical network of actors that create input into the software …

Conditioned Feed Aversion As A Means Of Conditioning Livestock To Avoid Consuming Toxic Plants Growing In South Africa : An Overview, Leendert D. Snyman, Frederick D. Provenza

Poisonous Plant Research (PPR)

Significant economic losses to the livestock industry are caused by the ingestion of toxic plants in South Africa, among which the most dangerous ones are Moraea pallida (geeltulp), Urginea/Drimea sanguinea (rooislangkop), Senecio latifolius (Staggers Ragwort), and Geigeria ornativa (vermeerbos). Conditioned feed aversion is a potential means to address this issue. Treating animals with an aversive substance along with an extract of the sensory characteristics of a specific plant conditions animals to avoid the plant. Geigeria ornativa, unlike the other three plants, is non-aversive. Following treatment for aversion, the induced aversion fades with time and eventually breaks down. Continuous exposure …

The Indiana Statesman, February 19, 2026, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Alex Kor speaks to Honors College; A Tad of Grad: An exhibition of color and wonder

February 19, 2026, Caa

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Volume 49 Masthead

Seattle University Law Review

Volume 49 Masthead

A Comparative Study Of Chinese And American Approaches To Shaping International Outer Space Law And Norms, Ariel G. Silverman

Seattle University Law Review

This article explores convergences and divergencies in the United States and PRC’s responses to the stalemate in the United Nations over the future of outer space resource governance. I do so by systematically analyzing these leading space-faring nations’ policy-positions and tactics deployed to shape norms around three substantive areas of outer space resource governance: rights of ownership and scope of utilization of space resources, mechanization of the “benefits sharing” principle, and the rights and responsibilities of the private sector. I theorize that these leading space-faring nations have adopted divergent approaches due to their differing historical relationships with international law and …

Advancement & Communications Committee Meeting - Notice And Agenda 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Advancement & Communications Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

A Phenomenological Approach To Spastic Movement Disorders: An International Expert Panel Consensus, Bo Biering-Sørensen, Jörg Wissel, Raymond Rosales, Rajiv Reebye, Jorge Jacinto, Gerard E Francisco, Peter Sanderson, Per Ertzgaard

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background and objectives: Hyperkinetic movement disorders, characterized by complex and overlapping motor patterns, present significant challenges in classification and treatment. The inconsistency in definitions and descriptors complicates both research and clinical communication. This study aims to provide an overview of current terminology and definitions related to spasticity and other hyperkinetic movement disorders associated with central nervous system lesions. We propose a unified terminology and classification system for spastic movement disorders (SMD).

Methods: In this scoping review, definitions of spasticity, dystonia, tremor, chorea, hemiballismus, athetosis, myoclonus, and dyssynergia were reviewed, with emphasis on overlaps and diagnostic challenges among these disorders. The …

Management Of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome In The Emergency Department, Janet Fuller

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This Doctor of Nursing Practice project involved development and approval of a clinical practice guideline (CPG) for management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) in the emergency department (ED) of a large community trauma center in the southeastern United States. AWS is a common, potentially life-threatening condition requiring timely assessment and intervention to prevent. Variability in ED screening and treatment contributes to delayed intervention, increased rapid response activations, and intensive care transfers. The project purpose was to develop and obtain expert approval of an evidence-based CPG using the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol–Revised (CIWA-Ar) tool to support standardized screening, symptom-triggered …

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.