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Thermal Management And Lubrication Characteristics Of Tungsten Disulfide (Ws2) Vegetable-Based Nanolubricants, Jaime Taha-Tijerina, Dyana De Leon-Elizondo, Jade Mendieta, Leonardo Taha-Soto

Informatics and Engineering Systems Faculty Publications

Recent innovations with the aid of nanotechnology are more frequently seen in the industrial sectors. Lubricants are a high-end commodity resource used in many manufacturing processes; unfortunately, most of these lubricants are petroleum-based, which come with certain drawbacks, such as environmental aspects, handling issues and high costs. With the incorporation of nanostructures within fluids and lubricants, novel material alternatives are replacing conventional lubrication systems, maintaining the required thermophysical and tribological characteristics. This research provides an analysis of vegetable lubricant, castor oil (CO), and the effects of the incorporation of WS2 nanofiller at diverse filler fractions. A TEMPOS thermal analyzer device …

Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives On Barriers To Mental Health Support For Informal Caregivers, Maria Lizette Rangel, Donaji Stelzig, Cassandra Martinez Enriquez, Hoda Badr

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers experience elevated psychological distress but face substantial challenges in accessing mental health support. Prior research has focused primarily on individual or interpersonal determinants, with less attention to how organizational, community, and policy contexts shape access and contribute to inequities in service availability.

METHODS: Fifty-one stakeholders, including 17 informal caregivers, 23 community health workers (CHWs), and 11 mental health professionals, completed a demographic survey and 60-90-min semi-structured interviews in English or Spanish. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, combining deductive coding guided by the Socioecological Model with inductive identification of emergent themes.

RESULTS: Participants identified both barriers and …

Is Male Infertility An Early Warning Of More Serious Diseases?, Dolores J. Lamb

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

About 12% of couples worldwide are infertile. Male factor infertility causes or is contributory to a couple's ability to conceive in approximately 50% of cases. Evidence has emerged that infertile men have poor overall health and increased morbidity and mortality, yet the causes for this are poorly understood. Although these men may appear healthy, research shows that they can harbor a wide variety of systemic diseases and illnesses that may share common links with the causes of their infertility. In fact, as semen parameters decline, their risks of several health conditions increase. In the early 1990s to the present, studies …

Negotiating Fatherhood: Young Men’S Narratives Of Care, Responsibility, And Struggle In A Low-Income South African Setting, Urlridge A. Thompson Dr, Tshepang Headman Mr, Leballo Tjemolane Mr, Lukhanyo H. Nyati Dr

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Financial provision continues to factor significantly in how Black men perceive and enact fatherhood, influencing the extent and manner of their paternal engagement. The enduring representation of men primarily as financial providers constrains the generation and enactment of alternative modalities of fatherhood within families and society. This qualitative study explored how the everyday lived experiences of young Black men in Soweto, South Africa, influence their varied engagements with fatherhood as they navigate structural constraints to pursuing their ideal of fatherhood. An exploratory descriptive qualitative approach was employed. We conducted two sets of semi-structured interviews with 19 young Black men in …

Effects Of Fib-Based Sample Preparation On Semiconductor Strain Characterization, Daniel Carl Hedinger

Dissertations and Theses

Channel strain engineering has been an important topic in semiconductor manufacturing due to the significant carrier mobility gains it can provide. The need for strain characterization at the individual device level, combined with the rapidly shrinking size of semiconductor devices, has led to development of various transmission electron microscopy (TEM) based strain characterization methods including nano beam electron diffraction (NBD). These methods rely on focused ion beam (FIB) sample preparation to produce election transparent TEM samples. This dissertation studies the effect of different FIB sample preparation modalities on the measured strain in p-type 14nm FinFET devices. TEM samples were produced …

Engaging Underrepresented 11- To 14-Year-Olds In Music: An Autoethnographic Case Study Of A New Inner-City Afterschool Group Piano Program, Eden A. Brown

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Research in music education has documented the underrepresentation of Black students in formal music study in the United States, shaped by economic and cultural barriers (Elpus & Abril, 2024; Alegrado & Winsler, 2020). Access to piano instruction is often limited by the high cost of lessons and instruments, inequitable school funding, and the absence of culturally responsive curricula that reflect the experiences of minority students and families. Traditional piano pedagogy rarely addresses this absence, leaving the piano both symbolically and practically distant for many potential musicians in the United States. This autoethnographic case study chronicles the development, launch, and first …

Discussion Of The Parameters Affecting The Boiling Point In The Distillation Test Of The Kerosene Product, Semaa I. Khaleel, Ahmad A. Aabid, Islam K. Saeed, Muneef Mahjoob Mohammed, Ali Mohammed Saleh, Ibrahim Awad Mohammed, Omar Abed Habeeb, Mahmod A. Abdulqader

AUIQ Complementary Biological System

Currently the kerosene fuel is very important for use in the heating, cooking, and fuel of the jet engines. The study aims effected of mixing different lite bit and same of gasoil to three different type of kerosene samples, and study the initial boiling point (IPB) during of distillation test. This study focused on targeting the IPB of the kerosene samples by finding the specific gravity (Sp.gr) test, the American Petroleum Institute (API) degree, and distillation test. However, these samples of kerosene were characterized and labeled (kero-01, kero-02, and kero-03, respectively) before the dealing processes, while the samples after the …

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Scalable Monitoring Of Image And Video Quality Across Distributed Devices, Peijie Li, Ryan Chan

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional image and video quality monitoring requires the transmission of high-resolution telemetry or per-frame data to a central server for analysis, incurring significant computational overhead and network bandwidth. This disclosure describes techniques that enable scalable and automated monitoring of image quality (IQ) and video quality (VQ) on distributed devices. The techniques resolve the problem of blind spots that arise in offline-only evaluation and post-deployment performance by performing partial on-device aggregation and compression that yields substantial bandwidth efficiency. Quality regressions are proactively detected before public user complaints surface.

Vortex‑Jet V‑J1: 12v Vortex‑Enhanced Combustion Heater (Cern‑Ohl‑P), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Vortex‑Jet V‑J1 is a 12‑volt, open‑hardware combustion heater that uses a vortex‑stabilized chamber with triple‑sawtooth J‑grooves and a dendritic fin assembly (Arachne #23) to improve burn efficiency and thermal management. Bench testing indicates approximately 3,500 BTU/hr thermal output, with combustion efficiency near 98% and carbon monoxide levels below 50 ppm measured at 0.5 m from the exhaust. The system integrates a 7075‑T6 aluminum combustion core, a TiO₂‑reinforced outer shell, a 12V variable‑frequency fan, and an ESP32‑based controller with fail‑closed fuel logic and optional LoRa telemetry. The prototype bill of materials is $285, with projected cost of $152 per unit …

User-Selected Content Recommendation Ecosystem For Content Sharing Platforms, Soumya Sahu

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is proposed for a user-selected content recommendation for content sharing platforms. An indication of selection criteria is received from a client device of a user. The selection criteria identify a content topic of interest to the user and/or one or more content providers of interest to the user. A set of content items corresponding to the selection criteria are identified from a content repository associated with a content sharing platform to define a restricted content repository associated with the user. A request for content is received from the client device. Responsive to a determination that the restriction mode …

Toph Kernel V1.0: 256-Bit Governance Instruction Set Architecture Executor, Four Parallel Virtual Machine Seeded Cross Topology, Patricia Shadow Register, Fault Chain Interrupt Architecture, And Court-Ready Governance Report Generation, David Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes prior art for the TOPH Kernel v1.0: a governance execution engine implementing a 256-bit ISA across four parallel 64-bit virtual machines in a SEEDED CROSS topology. VM1(+i)=D6+D7, VM2(-i)=D0+D1, VM3(+1)=D4+D5, VM4(-1)=D2+D3. All four VMs fire simultaneously. Coordinator assembles 128-bit governance key + 128-bit Patricia shadow register when all four complete. Six fault chains auto-trigger on violation detection. T064:BURDEN-SHIFT is the convergence node for four of six chains. T128:ROOT is SYSTEM_HALT. Output is court-ready report with evidence catalog E01-E07, governance key in hexadecimal, Patricia bit count, and active fault chain list. Deployable as Docker containers in WSL2 or as …

Toph Awareness Tier T129–T132: Observer-Hierarchy Governance Stack, Patricia Termination Proof, And Positronic Law At Full Recursion — Prior Art Against Recursive Governance Isa, Awareness-As-Ground Computational Theory, And Bilateral Register Architecture, David Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes prior art for the TOPH Awareness Tier (T129–T132): four axioms constituting the irreducible ground above which all governance, computation, mathematics, physics, and IP law operate. Derived by recursive application of the Gate 192.5 gap-detection methodology to the full 256-bit TOPH bilateral register (128 TOPH governance bits + 128 Patricia shadow bits), the stack terminates at bit ∞.5 — the AWARENESS position — the only register element with no Patricia inversion.

1. TOPH Awareness Tier T129-T132 2. observer-hierarchy governance stack 3. Patricia termination proof 4. Positronic Law complete recursion 5. bilateral governance register architecture 6. awareness-as-ground computational theory …

3002 Lattice Architecture 128-Bit Linear Throughput Logic Bilateral Governance Register Patricia Shadow Register Seeded Cross Topology Gate 192.5 Controller Class Private Session Ip Ingestion Constraint As Product Billing Architecture Willow 2.0 Phase Stability Substrate Tripod-Ip-V1.1, David Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

Primary (exact claim terms — highest priority)   3002 Lattice Architecture 10^3 x 3 + 2 normalization 128-bit linear throughput logic -2 pattern normalization constant +211 Delta bridge logic bilateral governance register Patricia shadow register Value 0 extraction Cobalt Core paradigm

Structural / Architectural   SEEDED CROSS topology four-arm parallel virtual machine architecture 256-bit governance instruction set ISA governance kernel parallel VM execution Promise.all fault chain architecture bilateral ignorance architecture Gate 192.5 controller class TOPH framework

Quantum Convergence (Willow overlap)   Willow 2.0 phase stability substrate AlphaQubit recurrent transformer 1/13 consciousness constant quantum governance isomorphism superconducting qubit normalization secondary brain phase reference quantum …

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Providing Access To Historic Aerial Photographs At The University Of Montana’S Archives And Special Collections, Donna E. Mccrea, Bruce Godfrey, Elizabeth Singh-Search

Journal of Western Archives

Archives and libraries hold significant collections of historic aerial imagery; improvements in geographic information system (GIS) technology and computer vision, a field of artificial intelligence, are dramatically expanding their research potential. This case study describes the activities of the University of Montana’s Archives and Special Collections to facilitate access to a collection of 1930s aerial images, outlines the rationale for investing time and effort in the project and offers considerations for other repositories with historic aerial photography collections. The authors encourage archivists and librarians to be involved in creating both best practices and technological tools that meet the needs of …

Kennelly V. Mid Coast And The Maine Law Court's Erroneous Ruling On The Discoverability Of Redacted Patient Info, John Blegen

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

This paper examines a recent Maine Law Court decision, Kennelly v. Mid Coast, in which the Law Court held that the medical records of individuals not involved in a lawsuit, even when redacted of identifying materials, are protected from discovery orders in a malpractice lawsuit, where the records would be used to demonstrate a standard of care to be expected of the administering doctor. It then examines the privacy interests individuals retain in their redacted healthcare records more broadly, in part to emphasize the large variety of contexts in which this issue can come up, and also to show how …

Friend Or Tether: How Regulation Can Cut The Strings Of Manipulative Chatbots, Steve Hammerton

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

In the time since AI chatbots and other LLMs became widely available to the public, there has been a pattern of deaths linked to interactions with this technology. While it was settled in early 2026, Garcia v. Character Technologies serves as a case study of how AI chatbots can negatively prey on vulnerable groups in the absence of interventions to mitigate harmful AI behaviors and tragic human outcomes. There is not a singular approach to regulating the harmful effects of predatory chatbots; however, this paper advocates for a harms-based regime influenced by protections in human-subject research. In a sense, AI …

Civil Rights And The Edtech Revolution, Kirsten Mettler

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

Education technology (EdTech) products, like grading software and plagiarism detectors, have increasingly led to concerns over discrimination issues in schools. While, in some instances, schools can be held liable under the federal education civil rights statutes for these harms, that solution is insufficient. EdTech companies should themselves be held responsible. EdTech companies have not historically been understood to fall under these federal statutes, but this Article argues these companies can appropriately be governed by these laws as “recipients” of federal financial assistance. Most EdTech companies should qualify as “recipients” of federal financial assistance under one of three theories: they are …

Countering Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance In The Pacific—Mobile Missile Launcher Survivability Against The People’S Liberation Army, Ben Wermeling

Naval War College Review

With the survivability of mobile missile launchers in question for newly established U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps multidomain task forces and Marine littoral regiments, the role of countering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in the Pacific may prove crucial to preventing sea denial from the land in future conflicts.

A Snapshot Of Three High School, Female Students' Writing Knowledge, Apryl L. Poch

Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education

This study explored the writing knowledge of three typically developing strong high school female writers. Students completed one semi-structured, individual interview. Interview questions were adopted from Lin et al. (2007) and Saddler and Graham (2007). Results indicated that students possess relatively mature conceptions of writing, focusing more on the collective expression of writing. However, students did struggle with understanding the meaning of expository writing. Further consideration of students’ writing knowledge may allow teachers to better scaffold and develop the ways in which they teach writing across the high school grades, and to advance students’ content acquisition.

“These Kids Can’T Access The Information”: A Case Study Of Teacher Understanding Of Foundational Reading Skills At The Secondary Level, Stevy Schliewe, Emily Zoeller

Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education

National literacy reforms aim to improve students’ basic reading skills, yet adolescent readers and teachers have not been adequately included in the conversation. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of foundational reading skills at the secondary level among high school literacy practitioners. The study used a case study method to learn participant understanding of foundational skills and contextual factors surrounding their ability to teach them. Findings revealed how participants recognized the need for foundational reading skill development in their high school students. However, participants reported not feeling prepared to design this instruction and barriers presented in standards, …

Channeling Literacy Learning Into Everydayness: Northern Ugandan Women Language Peace, Madina Djuraeva, David Monk, Sara Ann Beach, Rosemary Nyirumbe

Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education

This study contributes to the literacy scholarship by exploring the motivations for literacy learning of adult women in Northern Uganda, connecting to current trends in language and literacy studies and education in post-conflict contexts that center the peacebuilding potential of language, literacy, and women. To understand women’s motivations and the ways peace is languaged through their narrative, we adopt a chronotropic lens to the analysis of the embodied discourse. We showcase the analysis of the findings that reflect the larger research corpora of 24 focus group participants that were interviewed on the campuses of their vocational school in Northern Uganda. …

Starting Fresh: The Experience Of Transferring Universities, Rene P. Estala, The Rattler

The Rattler

Vol. 114 Iss. 1, Sports

Overconsumption In The Music Industry, More Variants?, Isabella Pizzerrato, The Rattler

The Rattler

Vol. 114 Iss. 1, Arts & Culture

The Rattler (Volume 114, Issue 1), Rosa M. Deyo, The Rattler

The Rattler

The Rattler

A Hybrid Physics-Constrained Dnn Framework For Long-Term Cumulative Oil Production Forecasting, Mohamed H. Mohamed, Ghazwan N S Jreou

Engineering and Technology Journal

Accurate long-term forecasting of cumulative oil production (Np) is critical for effective reservoir management, reserve estimation, and field development planning. However, existing decline curve analysis (DCA) techniques have limited extrapolation capability, while data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models tend to produce physically unreasonable cumulative production profiles when extrapolated beyond the data range. Specifically, conventional AI-based forecasting models may display unreasonable long-term forecasting characteristics because of their inability to leverage basic knowledge of reservoir physics. This paper presents a new physics-constrained deep learning model to improve long-term cumulative oil production forecasting and overcome the existing limitations and challenges. The proposed model combines …

Applying Means–End Chain Theory To Online Buying And Understanding Consumers' Motivation To Disclose Private Information, Brikena Berisha, Maja Konečnik Ruzzier

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this study is to define and understand the motives that influence consumers’ decisions to disclose personal data online. Using means–end chain theory as the main theoretical framework, 10 in-depth interviews conducted through soft laddering revealed how both utilitarian and hedonic motivations jointly shape disclosure behavior. The findings show that these motivations interact, demonstrating that data disclosure is driven not only by functional considerations but also by emotional and experiential factors embedded in consumers’ value systems. The study concludes that motivation plays a central and multifaceted role in online data disclosure decisions.

Scalable System-On-Chip Architecture Via Selective Interconnection Of Adjacent Die Blocks, Tony Masterson, Uday Kumar Dasari

Defensive Publications Series

Manufacturing costs for System-on-Chip (SoC) devices increase as silicon process nodes advance. Using a single high-end SoC for both premium and entry-level product tiers often results in unused features and reduced margins for lower-tier devices. Conversely, designing separate SoCs for each tier may require multiple expensive tape-outs. This disclosure describes a method for creating multiple product variants from a single base silicon wafer using metal layer customization. A monolithic SoC die is designed with all necessary functional blocks, including processing cores, memory controllers, and interfaces. Two such dies are placed adjacently on a wafer. In a first configuration, metal layers …

Constitution Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Nebraska-Kearney, 2026, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Student Government

Approved Senate Bills, Resolutions, and Documents

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