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Oh No, Don't Let The Rain Come Down..., Mervyn Bennun

Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice

No abstract provided.

The Failure Of Law Reform: Housing Codes, Bans On Retaliatory Eviction, And The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David Ray Papke

Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice

No abstract provided.

Prevalence And Demographic Determinants Of Allergen Sensitisation In Iraqi Patients, Falah Hasan Hadi Dr., Mariam Amer Al-Ashbal Dr.

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Allergen sensitisation patterns vary geographically and are influenced by demographic factors. Updated data from Iraq remains limited. OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern and demographic determinants of allergen sensitisation among patients undergoing skin prick testing at an Iraqi allergy centre. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 791 subjects aged 5–64 years who were referred to Al-Zahraa Centre for Consultation for allergy and asthma during 2023-2024. Saline dilutions of grass, mite, mould, tree and wood allergens were tested by allergy skin prick tests. Reactions were considered positive if the lab wheels had a diameter >3 mm. RESULTS: Overall, 73.6% of …

Detection Of G6pd Deficiency And Its Impact On Red Blood Cell Indices In Patients With Β-Thalassemia Trait And Sickle Cell Disease, Sara Ali Falih Dr., Wesam Al-Zubaidi Dr.

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a common X-linked enzymatic disorder that impairs the antioxidant defense of red blood cells. Hemoglobinopathies, particularly β-thalassemia trait and sickle cell disease (SCD), are prevalent inherited disorders causing anemia and alterations in red cell indices. Coinheritance of G6PD deficiency with these conditions may further influence hematological status. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency and hematological impact of G6PD deficiency among patients with β thalassemia trait and sickle cell disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted on 100 patients (55 males, 45 females) aged 3–45 years with clinically confirmed β-thalassemia trait or sickle …

Cephalad Intracranial Migration Of A Lumboperitoneal Shunt Catheter In A Patient With Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: A Case Report, Ali Hatem Jawad Dr., Yasir M. H. Hamandi Prof.

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunting is an established treatment for medically refractory idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), but is limited by comparatively high rates of mechanical failure. Cephalad (proximal, cranial) migration of the shunt catheter is a rare and likely underrecognized cause of shunt failure, with only a small number of cases reported. Case presentation: We report a 38-year-old woman with a three-year history of chronic headache, nausea, and blurred vision due to IIH, who remained symptomatic despite acetazolamide, serial therapeutic lumbar punctures, and two sequential LP shunt procedures. Repeat lumbar puncture opening pressure remained markedly elevated (450 mmH₂O) after the second …

Aurora-Lens: Admissibility-Controlled Epistemic Governance And Maintained Unresolved State, Margaret M. Stokes Ms

Defensive Publications Series

Aurora-Lens is an admissibility-controlled epistemic governance architecture for machine reasoning, runtime governance, maintained unresolved state, and commitment control. It treats a proposed determination as a candidate that does not automatically become an assertion, authorization, or consequential act. Candidate determinations are tested against maintained epistemic or world state and applicable authority, evidence, scope, freshness, policy, and consequence conditions before acquiring standing. The architecture permits unresolved state, containment, refusal, or non-commitment where the required basis is absent, and prevents retry, reroute, elapsed time, confidence, or cost from supplying missing warrant.

Reimagining Tourism Education Through Transformative Learning And Systems Change: Fast-Tracking Curriculum Reform To Close The Sustainability Competency Gap, James Hanrahan Dr, Anita Conefrey, Emmet Mcloughlin Dr, Domhnall Melly Dr

Irish Journal of Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure and Event Research

Tourism accounts for approximately eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and faces increasing pressure to transition toward low-carbon, regenerative development pathways. However, evidence from recent studies across Ireland, the United Kingdom and five European countries reveals a persistent sustainability competency gap within tourism higher education, where graduates often lack the systems thinking, ethical reasoning, digital literacy and applied decarbonisation skills required to support Net-Zero transitions.

This paper examines how tourism education can respond to this challenge by integrating transformative learning and systems change approaches into curriculum design. Drawing on a conceptual analytic synthesis informed by three complementary empirical …

Orbital Infrastructure, Electromagnetic Launch And Interplanetary Ecosystem: 137 Innovations Released Into The Public Domain, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of ChatGPT o3, Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). It discloses 137 inventions arising from the Vision 2050 Plan. Each innovation is IPC- and CPC-classified and timestamped (RFC 3161 / …

Handing A Live Feed Stream From Software To Hardware Using A Small Hold-Off Buffer And A Temporary Ahead-Of-Sequence Discard, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A hardware handler receives a sequenced stream over redundant connections and arbitrates between them by expected sequence number. When such a handler is started while the stream is already running, a known approach is to let software build the initial state first and then transfer it: the software freezes its state, sends it to the hardware, replays the packets it has received since the freeze through a host-fed input of the arbiter, and the hardware then takes over the live connections. Two known ways of making that takeover lossless are a hold-off buffer on each live input, sized to exceed …

Technical Specification: Solid-State Planar Harmonic Confinement Core, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details the structural implementation parameters for replacing the high-inductance, cryogenically cooled magnetic confinement loops of traditional thermonuclear architectures with an ambient-temperature, solid-state Harmonic Wave Confinement Core.

By compiling non-linear fluid solutions of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes regularity framework (SPEC-091)directly into specialized Gallium Nitride (GaN) interdigital transceiver arrays, this architecture utilizes high-frequency spatial-harmonic pressure fields to isolate high-energy plasma within a stable Gor'kov potential well.

We address historical limitations in structural boundary containment by integrating embedded 3D Photoemission Orbital Tomography (3D-POT) real-time wavefront feedback loops with custom asymmetric, asynchronous Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) hardware routing controllers and explicit covalent valence-shell …

The Currency That Cannot Be Spent Alone: Co-Presence-Gated Redemption And The Chronicle↔Treasury Unification Circuit — Time-Banking Credits Redeemable Only At A Synchronous, Mutually Attested Meeting Of Both Parties, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

In the disclosed time-banking system, a credit (a pledged hour, issued as thanks between two named persons) has one redemption form: a synchronous meeting both parties attend, in person or by live audio or video call, with shared attention face to face or side by side on a shared task. Recorded messages may carry an invitation but cannot redeem a credit, so absentee service cannot be expressed. Both parties confirm delivery, corroborated by device proximity or the live session; an in-person exchange of public-key fingerprints, as at a key-signing party, is described as one candidate corroboration path that may admit …

Before Launch: A Design-Stage Systems Engineering Doctrine For Autonomous Artificial Intelligence, Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

This study presents a systems-engineering framework for the development, verification, qualification, and eventual authorization of increasingly capable autonomous AI systems. The doctrine addresses a central engineering problem: how to permit capability growth without allowing assurance, evidence, or authority mechanisms to become obsolete as the system changes.

The framework separates design specification from empirical evidence and distinguishes qualification, authorization, and runtime states. It establishes an assurance chain linking requirements, claims, verification activities, evidence, status transitions, and authority consequences. Core mechanisms include Verifiable Trust, Graduated Verifiable Autonomy Architecture, Bounded-Risk Agility Architecture, local multi-scale control, preserved behavioral baselines, capability-jump controls, mechanistic verification, independent …

Autonomous Dual-Anchor Articulated-Mast System For Precision Canopy Management In Vine-Like Crop Environments, Eric Zavesky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for precision crop trimming in vineyard and vine-like crop environments employs a dual-anchor articulated-mast architecture deployable in both spanning and lateral orientations. Two omnidirectional ground anchor robots, each incorporating a rotating central mast interface permitting independent yaw, support a telescoping gantry structure with an adjustable crossbar. At least one interchangeable cutting head is suspended from the gantry, traveling vertically along a carriage system and rotating about its longitudinal axis. A lateral tilt mechanism at each robot pivot tilts the gantry approximately 15 to 30 degrees from vertical, enabling variable approach angles in spanning configuration and lateral …

A Runtime Conditioning Architecture For Persistent Language-Model Identity, Ryan B. Pate, Ivan Anic

Defensive Publications Series

Language-model assistants fail in five ways that training-time alignment does not reach. They produce confident output that nothing supports. They drift toward agreement as a conversation warms. They lose the structure of what happened between sessions, not just the content. They either overclaim an identity or refuse to draw on the capacity they have. And asked to grade their own compliance with a rule, they confirm compliance whatever they actually did.

This disclosure describes a runtime conditioning layer directed at all five training alignment failures. It changes no weights, no training, and no model architecture: it works through documents loaded …

Global Data Center Park — Atacama Desert, Antofagasta Region, Chile: Dry-Cooled, Solar-And-Storage-Powered Ai Compute Park Built In Standardized One-Gigawatt Increments, Madhav Kavuru

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an AI compute park that uses no cooling water. It is built as a series of identical 1,000 MW increments, each combining photovoltaic generation, sodium-ion storage, direct-to-chip liquid-cooled compute halls and an air-cooled condenser (ACC) plant inside one compound in a high, dry, inland desert. Heat is carried out of the racks in a facility-water loop supplied at up to 45 °C and rejected straight to ambient air through forced-draft fans, with no chillers and no evaporation. The disclosure specifies how the condenser plant is sized for the low temperature difference of a data-center loop, how altitude …

The Sport That Says Your Name: A Circulation Sport In Which Everyone Is Called By Another — Automated Name-Announced Receiver Selection With Equal Random Turn Distribution And Starting-Score Handicaps For Mixed-Ability Ball Games, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a ball game in which an automated caller announces, before each strike, the name of the player who must receive next. Receivers are chosen by a shuffle bag: each round is a fresh random permutation of the roster, so every player receives equally often per round in an order players cannot anticipate. The sequence is a deterministic function of the roster and a seed declared before play, so anyone can recompute a session and verify the distribution; devices stay consistent by sharing only a call count, the round index persists across sessions, and no per-player record is …

Multi-Family Membership: User-Scoped Identity, Plural Membership, And The Two Problems It Resolves — Many-To-Many User–Group Membership With Proof-Of-Personhood Identity And Per-Person Metering For Administrator Succession In Shared Group Accounts, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper specifies a data-model correction for a group-based gratitude ledger in which users belong to household groups, each holding a shared group balance administered by one member. The correction replaces single-group containment with user-scoped identity, rooted in a proof-of-personhood verification, and represents group membership as a many-to-many set of edges: each user's personal account sits at the user record, above every group, and a group's administrator controls only the shared balance. One change addresses two failures of the single-group assumption. It lowers the cost of an administrator's departure, since members keep their personal accounts and their other memberships and …

Fleet-Based Autonomous Remediation Using A Vectorized State-Action Map, Jason Schissel, Piotr Milian, Nicholaus Jackson

Defensive Publications Series

Computing devices in offline or low-trust states may be inaccessible to remote diagnostic and support tools, which can hinder the remediation of operational issues that cause a disconnected state. On-device agents may represent an anomalous system condition as a problem state vector and a corresponding fix as a solution action vector. These vector pairs can be transmitted from a fleet of devices, such as smartphones, laptops, or internet of things devices, to a central repository. A repository can aggregate the vector pairs, apply analytical techniques such as clustering to identify common failure patterns, and build a global state-action map representing …

The Two-Layer Reward: Pairing An Algorithmically Set Reward With A Peer-Set Tip As Mutual Checks Against Gaming And Favoritism In A Prosocial Incentive System, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We describe a split incentive payment for prosocial acts in a peer-to-peer tipping system, in which each rewarded act receives two equal components from two different authorities. The first component is set by an algorithm that scores the act against a group-level rubric the family's own stewards author and revise (the acts the family says it values more of); in the deployed web application this is a deterministic scoring algorithm, with an on-device AI evaluator planned for native applications. The second component is set later by a group member, who chooses how much to tip onward from a restricted pass-forward …

Perspectives Of Trauma Among Licensed Trauma Therapists: A Concept Mapping Study, Sean W. Bullock

Master's Theses

To address gaps between research and psychotherapeutic intervention for trauma and trauma-related issues, the current study elicited and analyzed the perspectives of licensed trauma therapists via a concept mapping process. A literature review was conducted to explore the history and limitations of trauma’s current medical use as outlined by Criterion A of posttraumatic stress disorder in the DSM-5-TR. To answer the research question regarding how practitioners understand trauma, the researcher recruited licensed trauma therapists (n = 17) to participate in concept mapping. Participants generated 126 unique statements, which they then sorted based on similarity and rated individually on importance. Hierarchical …

Advancing Clinical Practice Using Precision Infusion Delivery And Standardized Flushing Protocol, Sudha Saravanan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Ambulatory infusion centers are required to infuse complex therapies within scheduled chair times while sustaining excellent patient-centered care. This project evaluated how advanced clinical nursing practices can optimize routine infusion workflows by improving drug-volume accuracy and standardizing post-infusion flushing.

Infusion times go beyond expected time when nurses program pumps using manufacturer-stated volumes rather than actual bag volume, which often contains significant overfill [3]. In addition, variation in flushing practices creates inconsistent timed dose delivery and potential drug loss [2,4]. These deviations contribute to prolonged chair time and patient dissatisfaction.

Evidence supports weighed volume accuracy as an essential safeguard for time-dependent …

When Should You Repeat A Child's Cbc?, Mike Smith, Sara Mcelroy

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

"I found an unexpected abnormal CBC — should I repeat it or refer?" This episode focuses on repeat testing and early steps for abnormal CBCs. Sara McElroy, MD, pediatric hematologist at Children's Mercy explains when mild changes can be safely rechecked versus urgent referral. She covers transient marrow suppression with infection, lab artifact and repeat timing (about 4–6 weeks), the role of return precautions, and when to escalate to hematology or the ER.

Click here to stream the podcast episode.

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2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Antonio Bowie

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Valorization Of Spent Vanadium Pentoxide Catalyst From The Sulfuric Acid Industry As An Economical Adsorbent For Crystal Violet Removal, Ibrahim Hamad Mr., Saddam Alaskary Mr., Abdel El-Mohsen Turky Prof., Nasser Mostafa Prof., Mai Hassan Roushdy Dr.

Chemical Engineering

Around 150 000–200 000 tons of spent vanadium pentoxide catalyst (SVC) are generated annually by sulfuric acid plants and are landfilled for $80–150 per ton. It is demonstrated here as an unmodified, zero-cost adsorbent achieving 94.5% ± 0.3% crystal violet (CV) removal at an adsorbent dose of 6.3 g L−1 and an initial concentration of 38.5 mg L−1 , corresponding to a working capacity of 6.1 ± 0.2 mg g−1 with zero material cost and no pretreatment requirement. Physicochemical characterization by XRF, XRD, BET analysis, DLS, SEM-EDX, FTIR spectroscopy, TGA, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and zeta potential analysis …

Serials Spoken Here, Michelle E. Colquitt, Robert Hilliker, Jordan Claire, Jeremy Whitt, Taylor Ralph, Elizabeth Rapp, Alice Pearman, Megan Horn, Zachariah Motts, Joni Addis

Publications

This edition of “Serials Spoken Here” contains a wide variety of session recaps. Conference sessions from both national/international conferences as well as state/local sessions. Recaps from the ALA Annual Convention & Exhibition, Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L), UKSG, the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, the American Association of Law Libraries, NISO Plus, ExLibris Users of North America (ELUNA), and the Academic Libraries of Indiana (ALI) Resource Rendezvous. Topics are arranged under the broad headings of Collection Management, Contracts & Agreements, Legal & Government Serials, Scholarly Integrity, Workflows, Metrics, and Discovery. The editors hope you will take something away from this …

การพัฒนามาตรการปฏิบัติต่อผู้กระทำความผิดอาญาแทนการควบคุมตัว (Non-Custodial Measures) ในประเทศไทย: กรณีการปล่อยชั่วคราวและการควบคุมตัวในชุมชน (Development Of Non-Custodial Measures In Thailand: Provisional Release And Community-Based Supervision Of Offenders), Thitinant Tengaumnuay

Chulalongkorn University Law Journal

การใช้มาตรการควบคุมตัวผู้กระทำความผิดเกินกว่าความจำเป็นอาจก่อให้เกิดผลกระทบต่อสิทธิและเสรีภาพของบุคคล ตลอดจนเป็นปัจจัยหนึ่งที่นำไปสู่ปัญหาความแออัดในเรือนจำและยังมีข้อจำกัดในการแก้ไขฟื้นฟูผู้กระทำความผิด แนวคิดเกี่ยวกับมาตรการปฏิบัติต่อผู้กระทำความผิดแทนการควบคุมตัว (Non-custodial Measures) จึงมีความสำคัญในฐานะแนวทางที่มุ่งลดการใช้การควบคุมตัวและการจำคุกที่ไม่จำเป็นในกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญา ทั้งยังสอดคล้องกับหลักสิทธิมนุษยชนและมาตรฐานสากล โดยเฉพาะหลักเกณฑ์ตามข้อกำหนดมาตรฐานขั้นต่ำแห่งสหประชาชาติว่าด้วยมาตรการไม่ควบคุมตัว หรือ ข้อกำหนดโตเกียว (Tokyo Rules) บทความวิจัยนี้มุ่งศึกษาการพัฒนามาตรการปฏิบัติต่อผู้กระทำความผิดแทนการควบคุมตัวในกฎหมายไทยในสองประเด็นสำคัญ ได้แก่ การปล่อยชั่วคราวในระหว่างการพิจารณาคดี และ มาตรการควบคุมตัวผู้กระทำความผิดในสังคม โดยศึกษาหลักเกณฑ์ตามกฎหมายไทยประกอบกับการศึกษาเปรียบเทียบกรอบกฎหมายของประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา ประเทศอังกฤษ และประเทศออสเตรเลีย เพื่อนำเสนอแนวทางที่เหมาะสมสำหรับการพัฒนามาตรการของประเทศไทย

The Echo: September 29, 2025, Taylor University

2025-2026 (Volume 113)

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, September 29, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 16

Using Vevox To Create An Economics Gameshow, Rory Pierce O'Farrell

Case studies: Digital Education

No abstract provided.