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Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 91–100, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 90 worldwide gaps: humanitarian thermal‑stable blood‑transport nodes, micro‑structured cooling for magma‑adjacent industrial tunnels, atmospheric fluorine‑residue capture, thermal‑stable anaerobic‑digestion reactors, agricultural root‑zone cooling, extreme‑heat seaport‑signal stability, micro‑structured neutralization of industrial perchlorates, thermal‑stable emergency‑evacuation command hubs, water‑positive cooling for border‑region veterinary‑inspection nodes, and micro‑structured cooling for high‑density quantum‑sensor manufacturing.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Includes full architecture, subsystem breakdown, BOM, build path, …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 81–90, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 80 worldwide gaps: humanitarian thermal‑stable vaccine‑transport nodes, micro‑structured cooling for volcanic‑adjacent operations, atmospheric chlorine‑residue capture, thermal‑stable compost‑gas reactors, agricultural micro‑greenhouse cooling, extreme‑heat airport‑signal stability, micro‑structured neutralization of industrial bromates, thermal‑stable emergency‑response coordination centers, water‑positive cooling for border‑region food‑inspection nodes, and micro‑structured cooling for high‑density photonics manufacturing.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Includes full architecture, subsystem breakdown, BOM, build path, test …

Method For Secure, Least-Privilege Local Execution Of Cloud-Hosted Artificial Intelligence Operations On Day-Zero And Network-Isolated Devices Via A Hardened Endpoint Bridge, Marian Volodymyrovych Rydzanych, Goudam Jaganmohan Muralitharan

Defensive Publications Series

A system is described herein for enabling a cloud-hosted artificial intelligence (AI) agent to securely execute a small, explicitly governed, fully audited set of local actions on an operator workstation. A hardened desktop bridge turns the workstation into a trusted proxy that extends the agent to day-zero, greenfield, and network-isolated devices through serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB), and local area network (LAN) paths during initial bring-up. Least privilege is maintained through a sandboxed renderer, a narrow inter-process boundary, a runtime fail-safe command allowlist, operating system (OS) keychain credential isolation, unconditional shell-metacharacter blocking, and an append-only audit log. The agent can …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 71–80, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 70 worldwide gaps: humanitarian cold‑chain stabilization, geothermal‑adjacent micro‑cooling, atmospheric sulfur‑residue capture, thermal‑stable landfill‑gas processing, agricultural nutrient‑solution cooling, extreme‑heat rail‑signal stability, micro‑structured neutralization of industrial chlorates, thermal‑stable emergency logistics hubs, water‑positive cooling for border‑region medical triage, and micro‑structured cooling for high‑density semiconductor packaging.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Includes full architecture, subsystem breakdown, BOM, build path, test protocol, physics rationale, performance …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 61–70, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 60 worldwide gaps: thermal‑stable humanitarian refrigeration, micro‑structured cooling for geothermal operations, atmospheric ammonia‑residue capture, thermal‑stable wastewater treatment nodes, agricultural seed‑storage cooling, extreme‑heat telecom tower stability, micro‑structured neutralization of industrial nitrates, thermal‑stable emergency robotics hubs, water‑positive cooling for border‑region checkpoints, and micro‑structured cooling for high‑density manufacturing robotics.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Each subsystem is explained in detail, including how it …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 51–60, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 50 worldwide gaps: humanitarian water‑transport stability, solar‑farm cooling, atmospheric chemical‑residue capture, waste‑sorting thermal stability, agricultural robotics cooling, desert transportation hub cooling, industrial VOC neutralization, emergency power node cooling, mining robotics cooling, and public‑health station cooling.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Each subsystem is explained in detail, including how it directly fills a global gap, how it works, and how it …

Integrated System And Experimental Study Of A Compact Electro-Hydraulic Actuator For Marine Applications, Jiangang Yan

Yanbu Journal of Engineering and Science

To address issues such as loose structure, low integration, and reliance on imports in existing marine electro-hydraulic actuators, this paper presents an integrated compact electro-hydraulic actuation device. The device integrates the drive unit, connection block, hydraulic actuation unit, and feedback signal box into one assembly. Through the integrated design of a built-in radial piston pump and valve block, a micro hydraulic power unit with no external pipelines is achieved. This paper elaborates on the structural composition, working principle, and key module design of the device, and analyzes the implementation of its triple redundancy operation modes: "electric - manual hydraulic - …

Gc-Ms Profiling And Antibacterial Activity Of Cold-Macerated Garlic Extracts Against Multidrug-Resistant Uropathogens, Fatima A. Khalaf, Saeed A. Fayadh

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

The growing number of cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) urinary tract infections has made the clinical management of urinary tract diseases a significant challenge; therefore, the need for effective adjunctive therapies cannot be overemphasized. This study evaluated the bioactive components and antibacterial efficacy of cold-macerated garlic extracts obtained using distilled water, 70% ethanol and hexane solvents against antimicrobial-resistant urinary isolates. Out of 250 urine samples that were analyzed, 124 (49.6%) showed significant microbial growth, with Escherichia coli being the most frequently isolated organism. The results of the phytochemical screening and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis showed that the ethanolic extract had …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 41–50, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 40 worldwide gaps: global food cold‑chain stability, EV fast‑charging cooling, atmospheric micro‑plastic capture, water‑distribution thermal stability, autonomous‑vehicle compute cooling, emergency drone cooling, remote medical‑clinic cooling, agricultural‑chemical neutralization, rural edge‑compute cooling, and robotics cooling in extreme environments.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Each subsystem is explained in detail, including how it directly fills a global gap, how it works, and how …

Caldwell Thermodynamic Upgrade Engine For Global Gaps 31–40, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Global infrastructure analyses identify ten critical thermodynamic gaps beyond the first 30 worldwide gaps: vertical‑farm cooling, micro‑structured desalination, thermal‑stable vaccine manufacturing, atmospheric micro‑particle capture, humanitarian food‑processing stability, satellite ground‑station cooling, remote industrial camp cooling, PFAS‑adjacent soil neutralization, emergency communication node cooling, and AI‑edge device cooling in hot regions.

This disclosure presents a unified thermodynamic upgrade engine composed of gyroid thermal‑hydraulic cores, TPMS purification lattices, vortex‑TPMS cooling modules, atmospheric water harvesters, micro‑particle capture lattices, chip‑scale cooling engines, radiative gyroid condensers, and auxiliary subsystems.

Each subsystem is explained in detail, including how it directly fills a global gap, how it works, and …

Leveraging Technology To Mitigate Cognitive Load In Nursing Education: An Integrative Review, Joset Brown, Dione Sandiford, Caroline Meza

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Prelicensure nursing students face significant cognitive challenges as they balance academic coursework with rigorous clinical training [1]. These demands often exceed cognitive capacity, leading to cognitive overload which hinders information processing and retention [2]. Cognitive load refers to the mental effort required to process information within working memory; while cognitive overload occurs when intrinsic, extraneous, and germane demands exceed this capacity [3,4]. Integrating technology-driven strategies offers opportunities to optimize working memory and enhance learning outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this integrative review was to synthesize current evidence on factors influencing cognitive load and examine technology-based interventions designed to mitigate …

Accessibility In Clinical Learning: An Immersive Assessment Project, Candace W. Burton, Kayla Sullivan, Angela Silvestri-Elmore

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Nursing students with physical disabilities (NSWPD) face barriers in clinical learning including physical inaccessibility, lack of awareness or training in faculty and staff, and bias in professional evaluation (1-3). The project purpose was to directly identify barriers to clinical learning for NSWPD.

Method: Investigators developed an evidence-based assessment guide covering perceived challenges to accommodations for NSWD, stakeholder knowledge, and other issues (4-6). A university disability specialist (DS) was embedded with students in simulation laboratory and clinical sites in July-October 2025. The DS observed lectures, skills practice, patient encounter simulations, peer assessment, instructor-oversight assessment, patient interactions/duties, and other responsibilities.

Findings included …

Global, Regional, And National Prevalence Of Second-Hand Smoke And Attributable Disease Burden In 204 Countries And Territories, 1990–2023: A Systematic Analysis For The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2023, Gbd 2023 Second-Hand Smoke Collaborators, Debasish Kar

Peninsula Medical School

Background Second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure remains a major source of morbidity and mortality among non-smokers. This study presents the first dedicated Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) publication to systematically quantify SHS prevalence and evaluate its effect as a global risk factor across a broader range of outcomes. Methods Using the GBD 2023 comparative risk assessment framework, we estimated SHS exposure prevalence and attributable disease burden across 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023, stratified by age and sex. Exposure estimates were derived by synthesising population-based surveys and household composition data through spatiotemporal Gaussian process …

A Realist Review Of The Remediation Of Professionalism Lapses In Undergraduate Medical Students (Restore 3), Ross Raymond-Jones, Tom Gale, Nicola Brennan, Marie Bryce, Tristan Price

Peninsula Medical School

IntroductionProfessionalism is a core element of medical curricula worldwide and remains a cross-cutting theme across all aspects of a medical programme. When a medical student fails to demonstrate the expected attributes and behaviours, medical schools have a duty to step in, and where appropriate, offer remediation that aims to facilitate behavioural change. There is sparse explanatory theory on this complex topic, resulting in little evidence-based guidance for medical schools to utilise. This review aims to explain how, why, to what extent and in what circumstances professionalism remediation works for undergraduate medical students.MethodWe conducted a realist review that aligns with the …

Exploring Multicultural Competence Among Mental Health Workers When Providing Treatment To African American Males, Ashley Hightower

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

African American men experience disproportionately low rates of mental health service utilization and often report negative perceptions of mental illness. Despite documented mental health disparities, limited research has explored how mental health workers understand and apply multicultural competence when providing treatment to African American men. Grounded in the theory of planned behavior and social identity theory, the purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of mental health workers regarding multicultural competence in their work with African American men. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with seven mental health workers recruited through purposive sampling. Interview …

Characterization Of An Open-Channel Structure And Lateral Conduction Pathway In The Cation-Selective Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channel, Elic, Mark J Arcario, Elizabeth J Wu-Chen, Yuna Shim, Jérôme Hénin, Grace Brannigan, Wayland W L Cheng

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Open-channel structures of multiple pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) have been determined, including the prokaryotic model pLGIC, Erwinia ligand-gated ion channel (ELIC). For many of these structures, it remains uncertain whether they represent a physiologic open-channel state because the conditions used for structure determination do not match those of functional measurements in cell membranes. Here, MD simulation is used to examine the ion conduction properties of the ELIC open-channel structure, which was determined using a non-desensitizing mutant called ELIC5. Results from simulations show that the pore remains stably open on the microsecond timescale, but computational electrophysiology measurements demonstrate a large …

Effect Of Field Leadership On Achieving Performance Quality Among Specialist Supervisors Of Sport Education, Khlood Hameed Abbas

Modern Sport

This study aims to develop a dedicated questionnaire to measure the effect of field leadership on achieving performance quality among specialist supervisors of sport education in the Directorate General of Education in Baghdad / Al-Karkh/ 2, in sical education teachers (N = 463). The sample was divided into an exploratory sample (n = 48) and a main application sample (n = 415), achieving an actual response rate of 89.3%. A 26-item instrument was developed to assess field leadership dimensions (13 items) and performance quality outcomes (13 items). Statistical analysis processed via SPSS revealed that under Field Leadership, the item concerning …

Unsex Me Here: Gendered Psychology In Shakespeare's Major Tragedies And Comedy, Md. Abu Bakkar

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This study examines how gender shapes psychological experience across five of Shakespeare’s major plays: Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Twelfth Night. Existing scholarship treats Shakespeare’s tragic women, tragic men, and comic heroines as separate problems; this article asks whether one framework connects them. Its starting point is the reversal in psychological positions between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: he resists killing on moral grounds and then grows recklessly violent, while she plans the murder with cold resolve and is later overwhelmed by guilt. The study asks whether this pattern recurs more broadly, and why. Drawing …

Microbial Conversion Of Wetland Plants To Organic Acids For Reductive Bioleaching Of Metals (Manganese, Iron, And Nickel): Review, Rebecca Kwofie, Palas Kamlakar Borkar, Daniel Amponsah-Berko, Timothy Eisele

Michigan Tech Publications

This review focuses on invasive aquatic and wetland plants, such as cattail (Typha latifolia) L., common reed (Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.), and water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms), as feedstocks for microbial production of organic acids used in reductive bioleaching of manganese, iron, and nickel. These species are abundant, fast-growing, low in lignin relative to woody biomass, and often available at zero or negative acquisition cost as products of environmental mitigation, making them attractive alternatives to feedstocks that compete with food or established markets. As high-grade ore reserves decline, sustainable and low-cost alternatives for metal recovery have become …

Autistic Menopause: Where Should Research Go From Here?, Christine A. Jenkins, Margaret Janse Van Rensburg

Faculty and Staff Publications

Plain language summary

This letter lists seven priorities for future research on autism and menopause. It is written by an early career researcher/assistant professor and a community researcher. Both are neurodivergent themselves.

Attitudes And Norms About Intimate Partner Violence: What Makes Women More Impressionable?, Gaurav Dhamija, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, Sanket Roy

All Works

This article evaluates the causal impact of average neighborhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence (IPV) on own attitudes using nationally representative data from the fifth wave of the National Family Health Survey of India. The study utilizes exogenous variation in average exposure of neighborhood women to their parental IPV in a leave-one-out instrumental variable strategy to address endogeneity concerns in estimating peer influences. The study finds robust evidence that a 1 standard deviation increase in a woman’s average neighborhood attitudes justifying IPV leads to a 0.36 standard deviation increase in her attitudes justifying the same. The article establishes the importance …

A Guided Size Exclusion Chromatography Demonstration For Teaching Polymer Separation And Characterization, Daniel Rivero, Nicole Paccha, Amrita Sarkar

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Practical experience with modern analytical instruments is an essential component of undergraduate chemistry education, yet access to advanced instruments varies widely among institutions because of differences in available resources. Although size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is extensively used in polymer characterization in both academia and industry, undergraduate students at Montclair State University previously had limited opportunities to gain hands-on experience to this technique. To address this need, a demonstration using a multidetector-equipped Malvern Panalytical OMNISEC system was developed and incorporated into a second-year organic chemistry laboratory course during the 2025–2026 academic year. This activity engaged more than 300 undergraduate students representing …

Hyperlattice-Valued And Superhyperlattice-Valued Uncertain Sets With Decision Applications, Takaaki Fujita, Ajoy Kanti Das, Sankar Prasad Mondal, Arif Mehmood, Arkan Ghaib

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Fuzzy set theory enriches classical sets by assigning to each element a graded membership in [0,1], thereby capturing partial inclusion and uncertainty. The notion of an Uncertain Set further abstracts this idea by allowing membership to take values in a general degree-domain, providing a unified language that subsumes fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy, neutrosophic, plithogenic, and related models. On the algebraic side, a hyperlattice replaces one lattice operation by a multivalued hyperoperation, enabling the representation of ambiguous or non-deterministic combinations, while a superhyperlattice iterates this structure through powerset lifting to obtain higher-order layers of interaction. Motivated by these developments, we introduce HyperLattice-valued …

The Forest's Gift: Ritual Resilience, Nature, And Faith In The Malay Postpartum Tradition Of Pelimau Dapur, Nurul Asmaa Akmal Md Din, Sri Qamariah Mohd Samsir, Awang Azman Awang Pawi, Tengku Intan Marlina Tengku Mohd Ali, Nurul Haniza Samsudin

Forest and Society

This article examines pelimau dapur, a Malay post-confinement ritual practised by some families in Kampung Alor Limbat, Terengganu. It investigates how ritual knowledge is transmitted, how natural and processed materials acquire cultural, spiritual, and perceived therapeutic meanings, and how the practice is reshaped by religious, social, healthcare, and material change. The study employed a focused ethnographic case study design involving semi-structured interviews with eight purposively selected participants (two traditional midwives and six women with direct experience of the ritual), together with participant observation, field notes, and visual documentation. The data were analysed thematically. The findings show that pelimau dapur …

A Neutrosophic Event-Graph Legal Ai System For Detecting Contradictions In Witness Testimonies Under Egyptian Law, Shimaa Abdelghany Attalla, Alaa Elmor, Nada Hesham, Abduallah Gamal

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Witness testimony is an important source of evidence in criminal proceedings, but it may contain contradictions, incomplete details, or conflicts with other case-file materials. This paper proposes a neutrosophic event-graph legal AI framework for detecting materially contested claims in witness testimonies under the Egyptian criminal-procedure context. The framework converts testimony and related records into structured claims containing actor, action, object, time, location, source, and modality. These claims are then connected through an event graph and evaluated using neutrosophic components of support, indeterminacy, and opposition. The system produces source-grounded legal-review alerts when a claim has sufficient opposition from other claims or …

An Interval-Valued Spherical Fuzzy Critic–Waspas Framework For Prioritizing Healthcare Delivery Models To Enhance Patient Satisfaction Under Uncertainty, Mariam Hamada, Ahmed Samy, Mohamed M. Abdelhafeez, Shrouk El-Amir

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Selecting an appropriate healthcare delivery model is important for improving the quality of healthcare services and enhancing patient satisfaction. However, this decision is complex because it involves several criteria, uncertainty, and different expert opinions. To handle this uncertainty, this paper uses Interval-Valued Spherical Fuzzy Sets (IVSFSs), which allow experts to express their evaluations more flexibly. This paper proposes an integrated interval-valued spherical fuzzy CRITIC-WASPAS approach to prioritize healthcare delivery models. The CRITIC method is used to determine the objective weights of the evaluation criteria, while the WASPAS method is used to rank the healthcare delivery models. Expert evaluations are expressed …

20 Years Of Neutrosophic Statistics: A Bibliometric Analysis, Hammad Khalid, Arshad Hameed

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Florentin Smarandache introduced neutrosophic statistics (NS), a formalism for representing uncertainty and indeterminacy in observations, parameters and statistics in an extension to classical and interval statistics. Although widespread in various contexts, such as statistical quality control, hypothesis testing, medical diagnosis, and decision science, and increasingly used and developed, the scientific evolution and conceptual framework of the science of decision making remain largely unexamined. To fill this gap, the present study has been conducted with a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of NS research articles published between 2003 to 2025 from Scopus which has been conducted following the SPAR-4-SLR protocol. In all, 501 …

Evaluation Of The Association Between School Prevention Programs And Adolescents’ Opioid Abuse In The United States, Lida Moazezi

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study examined adolescent opioid misuse in the United States and the role of school-based prevention. Guided by the health belief model, the purpose was to test whether participation in school-based drug prevention lessons was associated with past-year opioid misuse among adolescents ages 14–17 and whether race and gender moderated that association. This quantitative, cross-sectional, nonexperimental secondary analysis used the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (N = 8,965). Analyses included weighted descriptives, chi-square tests, and complex-samples logistic regression controlling for age and socioeconomic status. The sample included adolescents ages 14–17 with complete data on school-based prevention participation, …

Protective Factors Among African American Offspring Of Teen Parents, Janelle Ewing

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Adolescent pregnancy remains a major public health and social issue, but research has primarily focused on risk factors and not the protective factors that contribute to resilience among those who successfully break the cycle. This qualitative study explored protective factors that African American adult offspring of teenage parents identified as supporting them in avoiding teenage pregnancy and parenthood. The study was theoretically grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, which was used to explore the role of influence across environmental systems in participants’ developmental outcomes. The primary research question was “How do African American adult offspring of teenage parents describe the …

A Theory Of Hard And Soft Information, Jeremy Bertomeu, Ivan Marinovic

Olin Business School Faculty Research

This paper studies a model of optimal disclosure via two comp eting communi- cation channels, hard information whose value has been veri fied and soft disclo- sures (e.g., forecasts, unaudited statements, press relea ses). We show that certain soft disclosures may contain as much information as hard dis closures and establish that: (a) exclusive reliance on soft disclosures tends to co nvey bad news, (b) cred- ibility is greater when unfavorable information is reporte d and (c) misreporting is more likely when soft information is issued jointly with har d information. We also show that a soft report that is …