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The Shorthorn: September 27, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 28, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 25, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 26, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 21, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 20, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 14, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 13, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 7, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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The Shorthorn: September 5, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 2006

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 2006

A Stochastic Maximum Principle For Singular Mean-Field Regime-Switching Optimal Control, Maalvladedon Ganet Some, Edward Korveh

Journal of Stochastic Analysis

In this paper, we investigate a mean-field singular stochastic optimal control problem for systems governed by mean-field regime-switching singular stochastic differential equations. The state process is assumed to depend on both a regular and a singular control, and the coefficient associated with the singular component is allowed to be regime dependent. We derive both necessary and sufficient singular stochastic maximum principles. Because the regular control domain is not assumed to be convex, we employ the spike variation technique and obtain the necessary maximum principle by introducing a second-order adjoint process. As an application, we use the main theoretical results to …

Distributed Reconfigurable Logic Cells For Zero-Respin Post-Tapeout Silicon Defect Recovery, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Distributed reconfigurable logic cells are integrated across a system-on-chip and/or multi-chiplet package to enable post-tapeout remediation of defects in hardened circuitry without redesign. Small micro-FPGA cells are placed proximate to selected hardened IP blocks and coupled via local interfaces and steering circuitry. After fabrication, a configuration controller programs one or more proximate cells at boot time and/or runtime with remedial logic that replaces, augments, or bypasses defective behavior, and activates routing/steering to apply the fix. Unused cells may be power-gated or clock-gated to reduce static and dynamic power. The cells may also be repurposed for debug, test, monitoring, security patches, …

Aggregate Cpu Core Frequency Scoring For Instant Mobile Device Performance Classification, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described for instant performance classification of a computing device using an aggregate CPU frequency score. A client device obtains, for each CPU core, a maximum clock frequency value from an operating system-exposed hardware descriptor and computes a continuous score by aggregating the per-core maximum frequencies, such as by summation. The score can be computed with low overhead and reported in telemetry to a backend service that builds a device capabilities table keyed by device model identifier and serves scores via a cache. Feature gates use threshold comparisons against the continuous score to enable, disable, or adapt compute-intensive features. …

Autonomous Configuration Parameter Range Discovery And Optimization Using Co-Located Runtime Feedback, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A configuration intelligence layer (CIL) is executed as a companion process co-located on the same computing node as a target configurable application. The CIL locally ingests a parameter schema that includes declared parameter ranges and current values, and locally monitors runtime key performance indicators and error/event streams with low latency. Using closed-loop optimization, the CIL iteratively adjusts parameter values and detects boundary-limited optimization when improvement trends are constrained at a declared minimum or maximum. Under safety controls such as canary application, change budgets, and rollback on error thresholds, the CIL explores beyond declared bounds to gather operational evidence. The CIL …

Provenance-Bound Capability-Envelope Pinning Of An Mcp Tool Surface With Block-And-Re-Approve Enforcement On Semantically-Meaningful Structural Change And Import-Time Semantic-Intent Screening, Tiago Rosado

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses a mechanism, at a security gateway that mediates an AI agent's use of tools served over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), for governing the *tool surface* an imported MCP server advertises — as opposed to only inspecting the traffic that passes through it. At the time an MCP server is imported and approved, the gateway, through its own gated broker path, fetches the server's complete advertised surface (its tool list and prompt list, including each tool's name, human-readable description, parameter schema, and declared return shape), computes a content hash over that complete surface, and records it in …

Gci Seismic Resilience Suite V1.0 A Full, Open‑Hardware, Builder‑Ready Seismic Protection Architecture, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The GCI Seismic Resilience Suite v1.0 is a unified, multi‑layer seismic protection architecture that integrates early warning, passive isolation, semi‑active damping, structural health monitoring, and off‑grid power resilience into a single, buildable open‑hardware system. This suite combines proven physics with modular, fabrication‑ready components drawn from the Caldwell ecosystem, enabling any qualified engineering team to construct, test, and deploy a next‑generation seismic protection platform.

At its core, the system merges three primary layers:

1. Early Warning: The GCI Arachne‑Vortex Detection Web uses distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) on existing fiber‑optic lines to detect P‑waves seconds to tens of seconds before destructive shaking. Local …

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Method For Accelerating Field-Programmable Gate Array Emulation Using Pre-Optimized Memory Implementation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to a method for optimizing the compilation flow of field-programmable gate arrays by streamlining memory resource allocation. The approach uses pre-partitioned memory wrappers during the register transfer level design phase to bypass automated memory mapping. By decomposing large design memories into sub-memory blocks that correspond directly to native physical memory dimensions, the method reduces computational overhead and shortens verification cycles. Two distinct allocation strategies—depth-first and width-first—are evaluated to optimize hardware resource utilization. Keywords: field-programmable gate array, emulation, compilation, memory mapping, register transfer level, wrappers, and resource allocation.

Hybrid Thermal Bridge System For Cooling Irregular Electronic Components In Sealed Server Chassis, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A thermal management system provides targeted cooling for densely packed, highly irregular electronic components within a sealed environment. The system utilizes a closed-loop thermal bridge incorporating an internal thermal baffle, a dedicated local fan, and a local finned heat exchanger. The internal thermal baffle forms an isolated fluid duct over components having uneven topographies, while the local fan continuously circulates air through this duct. Heat transferred to the air from the active components is subsequently dissipated through the finned heat exchanger, which interfaces directly with a facility liquid cooling loop. This configuration effectively cools complex power delivery components while maintaining …

Service-Aware Dynamic Voltage And Frequency Scaling Via Thread Attribution And Synchronous Lock Interception, Vadlamudi Venkata Girish

Defensive Publications Series

In mixed-criticality computing systems, latency-critical services can be delayed when lower-priority tasks hold shared resource locks, causing a priority inversion.  Software that performs aggregate-based power scaling responds more slowly to these events than hardware.  This publication describes a service-aware power management architecture that utilizes synchronous lock interception and hardware-assisted thread profiling to resolve resource contention.  An event-driven interceptor monitors synchronization primitives to detect when a critical task is blocked by a lower-priority thread.  Before altering a power state of the lower-priority thread, however, the system queries hardware performance counters to verify that the blocking task is compute-bound rather than memory-stalled. …

African Americans’ Perceptions And Experiences Of Aesthetic Environments As A Determinant Of Stress, Clarence Gardener

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Seamus Heaney And The “Mode Of Grief”: Three Elegies Of Field Work, Lucy Whitney

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In 1981, Seamus Heaney discussed the role of poetry as “more a mode for grief than grievance” (407). This essay is concerned with how Heaney used poetry to grieve suffering, death, and loss, especially within the context of “The Troubles” in Ireland from roughly 1965 to 1998. To better understand Heaney’s poetry, this essay will explore three elegies, “Casualty,” “The Strand at Lough Beg,” and “In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge.” These three grieving poems examine different facets of both the elegy and Irish history and conflict. Within them, Heaney creates modes of both mourning and healing for the many emotions associated …

Environmental Tolerances And Habitat Association Of Three Endemic Crayfish Species In Texas, Andrew Walker

Biology Theses

Little is known about many of the 52 crayfish species in Texas. This thesis investigates physiological tolerances of three species endemic to the Jackson Vale ecoregion of Southeast Texas, the Bastrop crayfish (Procambarus texanus), Nueces crayfish (Procambarus nueces), and the Fayette’s crayfish (Procambarus fayettei) as well as the White River crayfish (Procambarus acutus), which is ubiquitous throughout East Texas. Thermal, hypoxia, and acidity tolerances were tested on wild caught individuals through laboratory assays. Findings from this study will inform wildlife managers of future conservation strategies relating to these endemic species.

Semantic-Geometric Decoupling For Universal Spatial Anchoring In Extended Reality, Danila Kharitonenkov, Haichao Miao, Vuthea Chheang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance in semantic reasoning tasks. However, it is still challenging for them to fully understand 3D spatial environment. Trained on 2D data, the model does not understand the relationship between positions and the first-person viewpoint, leading to viewpoint confusion, which is especially evident during egocentric tasks. The VLMs use 2D image Red-Green-Blue channel (RGB) pattern matching instead of actual point cloud coordinates for distance calculations. This modality could prevent the model’s 3D space geometry understanding, and leads to metric hallucination, as the model guesses the distance without mathematical calculations. In addition, the industrial …

Programmes That Integrate Parenting Support And Financial Well-Being Support: A Systematic Scoping Review, Eleanor F. Bryant, Morwenna Rogers, Amy Bond, Georgia Smith, Rebecca Summers, James Hall, Kristin Liabo, Iain Lang, Vashti Berry, Nick Axford

Peninsula Medical School

Childhood experiences of economic disadvantage have harmful and long-lasting effects on child health. Early intervention can reduce some harms but it is unclear whether addressing economic disadvantage alongside psychosocial support yields additional benefits. This systematic scoping review aimed to identify evaluated programmes that integrate parenting support (PS) and financial well-being support (FWbS) for parents of children aged 0–19. The objectives were to describe programmes, relevant components, evaluation designs and impact on outcomes, and to consider if any programmes merit replication and testing in a UK context. Outcome or implementation evaluations of integrated PS and FWbS programmes published in English were …

A Core Outcome Set For Family-Centered Care In Neonatal Intensive Care Settings: An International Edelphi Study And Online Consensus Meeting, Cansel Kocakabak, Agnes Van Den Hoogen, Aurelia Abenstein, Anna Axelin, Karen M. Benzies, Livia N. Bonnard, Beatrix Callard, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, Linda S. Franck, Mary Anne Ryan, Pernilla Rönnholm, Patricia Schofield, Nicole Van Veenendaal, Eleni Vavouraki, Anna Zanin, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background/Objectives: Family-centered care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) can improve infant and family outcomes. Inconsistencies in outcome reporting across FCC trials limits the comparability of findings. Aim: To develop a core outcome set (COS) for evaluating FCC interventions in neonatal intensive care settings. Methods: A list of outcomes was generated through systematic reviews and stakeholder focus groups. A three-round eDelphi study with stakeholders was conducted, followed by an expert consensus meeting. Results: The reviews and focus groups identified 72 outcomes for round 1. Sixty-three healthcare professionals (HCP), 37 parents and five ex-NICU patients completed round 1, with 12 …

Investigating Burnout Among Hospital Social Workers: A Qualitative Exploration, Crystal Marie Herring

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Teachers’ Experiences And Suggestions For Improving Parental Involvement In Low Socio-Economic Status Elementary Schools, Dennis Gamble

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Diego Buri Mora V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Obesity And Keratoconus: A Mediation Study Based On The Chinese Keratoconus Cohort, Kaili Yang, Anqi Chang, Runqi Tu, Liyan Xu, Yuwei Gu, Qi Fan, Shanshan Yin, Yi Yuan, Yifan Wang, Chenchen Yin, Yonghao Zang, Changxiu Li, Chenjiu Pang, Daniela Oehring, Yibin Hao, Shengwei Ren

School of Health Professions

Purpose: Growing evidence indicates a strong association between obesity and keratoconus (KC), although the potential mediating factors remain largely unknown. This study aimed to explore the potential pathways through which corneal biomechanical and topographic parameters might link obesity and KC using structural equation modeling (SEM). Methods: This case-control study included 759 participants (363 patients with KC and 396 controls) from the Chinese Keratoconus (CKC) Cohort Study. Associations among body mass index (BMI), corneal biomechanical parameters, topographic parameters, and KC were analyzed using generalized linear regression models. SEM was used to construct latent variables for corneal biomechanical and topographic parameters. Three …