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Accelerometer-Based Longitudinal Center Of Gravity Estimation With Lateral Acceleration Compensation, John Wynne

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Spatially separated accelerometers and measured rotational motion can enable estimation of an aircraft’s longitudinal center-of-gravity (CG) location. Because the unrestricted rigid-body governing equations form an underdetermined system, the problem is reduced by assuming known lateral and vertical CG coordinates. The resulting estimator uses the lateral acceleration equation, where sensitivity to longitudinal CG is governed by the rotational excitation term 𝑀_21 = 𝑝𝑞 + 𝑟̇. Three representations of lateral acceleration at the CG are evaluated: a zero- acceleration assumption, a linear sideslip angle model, and a model based on sideslip angle and true airspeed squared. Each model is calibrated using known …

The Computed Microwave Spectrum Of The Protonated Fullerene C60H+, Laszlo Nemes, Jos Oomens, Vincent J. Esposito, Vincent Boudon, Alexander G. G. M. Tielens

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

The largest known molecule in the interstellar medium of galaxies, C₆₀, has been detected in its neutral and cationic form through its vibrational, UV-driven fluorescence emission spectrum and its electronic absorption spectrum, respectively. The detection of several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules through their pure rotation spectrum in cold, dense, molecular cloud cores suggests that C₆₀ might be present in these environments as well. The low flux of UV pumping photons in molecular cloud cores and the absence of suitably bright background stars, make detection of C₆₀ and its cation through the commonly used methods impractical. As …

The 2025 Measles Outbreak In Texas, Tamer Oraby, Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: In 2025, Texas experienced its largest measles outbreak in decades, reporting 762 cases by mid-August. Measles is a highly contagious but vaccine-preventable infection transmitted mainly among unvaccinated individuals and capable of causing severe outcomes.

Methods: We investigate counterfactual measles control scenarios based on daycare and school closures and reactive vaccination of infants and children, including mixed interventions. We analyze the 2025 Texas outbreak using an age-structured multi-stage SEIR model formulated as a system of ordinary differential equations. The model is fit to case data using Bayesian inference to estimate the effective reproduction number and generate posterior predictive trajectories under …

Prescription Opioid Misuse Among High School Athletes During The Opioid Prescribing Limit Law Era: Yrbss 2017-2023, Francine R Vega, Andrea J Yatsco, Audrey Sarah Cohen, James R Langabeer, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, Rakshitha Vijendra, Christine Bakos-Block

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background/Objectives: School-age athletes occupy a paradoxical position in the adolescent opioid crisis, combining health-oriented activity with elevated risk of sports-related injury and prescription opioid exposure. In response to the opioid epidemic, states enacted opioid prescribing limit laws (OPLLs) beginning in 2016-2017, yet whether these supply-side policies reached high-risk youth subgroups remains unclear. This study evaluated national temporal trends in prescription opioid misuse among U.S. high school students during the period of OPLL implementation and examined differences across athletic participation, concussion history, sex, grade, race/ethnicity, and substance-use profiles.

Methods: Using four biennial waves of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System with …

Childhood Cancer Predisposition Study: A Prospective Registry And Biorepository Protocol, Melissa R Perrino, Suzanne P Macfarland, Luke Maese, Jennie Vagher, Junne Kamihara, Surya Rednam, Philip J Lupo, Garrett M Brodeur, Joshua Schiffman, Lisa Diller, Lauren Desrosiers-Battu, Sharon E Plon, Kim E Nichols, Samuel L Volchenboum, David Malkin, Anita Villani, Christopher C Porter

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Introduction: Cancer is the most common cause of disease-related mortality in children, highlighting the urgent need for improved care in this population. It is estimated that >15% of children diagnosed with cancer harbour a germline pathogenic variant in a cancer predisposition gene which confers an increased risk to develop cancer. There are over 100 genes associated with cancer predisposition syndromes (CPSs) and greater availability and acceptability of genetic testing in the last decade has facilitated their recognition in childhood. However, individually, each of these CPSs is rare, impeding robust research and advancement of clinical care. Once a specific CPS is …

Characterizing Candidate Blazar Counterparts Of The Ultra-High-Energy Event Km3-230213a, O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi, M. Alshamsi, S. Alves Garre, S. Rani, Et Al.

Michigan Tech Publications

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the most promising neutrino sources. The KM3NeT experiment reported the detection of an ultrahigh-energy neutrino with an energy estimate of ∼220 PeV, the most energetic yet observed. The neutrino arrival direction has a 99% confidence region of 3° radius centered at R.A. 94 (Formula presented) .° 3, decl. −7 (Formula presented) .° 8 (J2000). In this work, 17 candidate blazars located within this region are identified. Comprehensive new observations and archival data analysis for these sources are presented. …

The Buildings Of Muslim Al-Majdal Asqalān (Ashqelon) In Their Historical-Geographic And Economic Context, Avraham Sasson

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In the course of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, six villages were established in the al-Majdal Asqalān area in the southern coastal plain of Palestine, the status of this area enhancing in the 1830s when its geographic and economic advantages were appreciated. The small villages were built on the kurkar ridge slopes with minimal planning, traversed by two or three main arteries adjoined by narrow lanes. The houses were mostly built of mud bricks. Only the central village, al-Majdal Asqalān, developed on flat ground, where there was ample land for construction: most of its buildings were built of kurkar stones. …

The Importance Of An ‘Unimportant’ Toy: Children In The Ancient Domestic Sphere, Rona S. Avissar Lewis

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This paper examines an often-overlooked sector of households: children. The paper first presents the importance of children within the framework of the household and society, pointing out significant references from textual sources and imagery, such as orthostats. Then, a set of artifacts identified in the archaeological record is presented, which may be defined as spinning toys, comprising two components: a string and a perforated object. The conclusions discuss the way these toys reflect on the importance of children in society.

There’S No Place Like Home: Identifying Women In Iron Age Houses, Deborah Cassuto

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From rural farmsteads to urban environments, the excavation of domestic contexts in the Southern Levant provides a rich dataset for investigating how households structured quotidian activities, social interactions, and meanings through spatial organization. This article examines how the material culture of Iron Age dwellings can aid in reconstructing patterns of behavior, social organization and ideologies pertaining to women. Comparing the contextual distribution of archaeological finds with ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological and textual data, can shed light on the use of space in Iron Age households and how this reflects on gender-associated activities and economic behaviors of the individuals who lived there. This …

Editorial, Débora Sandhaus

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From Global Principles To National Implementation: The 9th Un Conference And Its Product Safety Resolution, Suruchi ., Kumar Jyotish

International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice

The 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection of 2025 advanced international consumer protection law by extending its scope. The Product Safety Resolution adopted at the Geneva-based conference is the first binding global resolution on product safety. Addressing the wide scope of problems associated with the emergence of more complex global and online markets, the Resolution presents a set of legal criteria to ensure the safety of goods, liability of defaulting manufacturers, rights of consumers, and the laying out of appropriate procedures. This paper presents a critical evaluation of the normative context of the Resolution and its variation …

The Palestinian Arendtian Condition: Worldlessness In Kanafani’S Men In The Sun, Kareem Alsawalha

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The Palestinian Arendtian Condition: Worldlessness In Kanafani’S Men In The Sun

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Navigating Digital Transformation: Students’ And Lecturers’ Perceptions And Experiences Of Online Teaching In South African Higher Education, Precious Dube, Yolisa Madolo

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The digital transformation of higher education has reshaped teaching and learning practices, but experiences in South African universities remain diverse because of differences in technological access, digital readiness and institutional support. This systematic literature review aimed to examine students' and lecturers’ perceptions and experiences of online teaching and learning in South African tertiary institutions. The review employed studies retrieved from Google Scholar, ERIC, Scopus, and Web of Science. A total of 1253 studies from across the globe were identified and screened using Covidence, resulting in 21 South African studies meeting the inclusion criteria. The selected studies were analysed thematically to …

Td Spec: Topological Helical Embedding Constraints For Hyperbolic Slingshot Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a non-perturbative, effective field theory (EFT) governing the topological transformation of a two-dimensional quantum information substrate into macroscopic three-dimensional volumetric space-time metrics. While standard holographic frameworks, such as the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, establish that boundary data can mathematically define a bulk volume, they often rely on unverified high-dimensional compactifications or free parameters to model local mass-energy tensors.

This paper introduces a coordinate-free, macroscopic dual mechanism: physical matter and spatial geometry emerge natively when a parameter-agnostic 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane experiences localized coordinate compression (The Fold) and asymmetric rotational torque (The Twist). By restricting the …

Genai-Driven Detection Of Infrastructure Role Mutation Using Behavioral Embeddings, Dinesh Verma

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method detect infrastructure role mutation by learning a semantic operational identity for each monitored infrastructure entity from multi-layer runtime telemetry.  The system maintains an adaptive temporal trajectory of each entity's role and detects when that role diverges from its established purpose using semantic distance metrics, without requiring predefined rules, static baselines, or known threat signatures. By incorporating cross-entity graph context, the system distinguishes legitimate orchestrated changes from unauthorized infrastructure repurposing, enabling early detection of role mutation that is invisible to conventional monitoring and security tools.

Malt-Nsom Ground Truth: Integrated Electromagnetic, Thermodynamic, And Acoustic Tensor Dataset For Biophysical Modeling, Daniel Schramm

Defensive Publications Series

Title: MALT-NSOM: A Multi-Physics 3D Tensor Dataset for AI-Driven Oncological Biosensing and Targeted Therapeutics

Abstract:

This dataset provides a high-fidelity, multi-physics ground-truth benchmark for the MALT-NSOM (Metal-Assisted Lossless-Dielectric Nanophotonic Sub-diffraction Optical Microscopy) platform. Unlike noisy clinical datasets, this archive contains 3D tensor fields derived from first-principles Maxwell, Poisson, and Acoustic wave equations. It is designed for researchers developing machine learning models for predictive biomarker detection, sub-cellular diagnostic imaging, and non-invasive therapeutic targeting.

Data Generation & Methodology:

The dataset was constructed using three primary high-performance physics engines:

1. Optics (MEEP/FDTD): 3D Maxwell tensor simulations of a bi-spherical Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) dimer cavity …

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Motion-Driven Audio Instrument With Same-Signal Cadence Lock And Beat-Aligned Handoff To Tempo-Matched Media, Using The User's Own Measured Motion Cycle As A Variable-Length Rhythmic Bridge, Harnek Gulati

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile device continuously synthesizes an audio voice modulated in real time by its own inertial motion, so that a user physically swinging or carrying the device hears themselves as sound. The same inertial signal that drives the synthesis is simultaneously used as the detection carrier for a periodicity estimator, which locks onto the user's repetitive-motion period (gait cadence, arm swing) by folding N recent cycles per candidate period and scoring inter-cycle coherence. Octave ambiguity — the classic step-versus-stride error — is resolved by folding at twice the candidate period and testing the two resulting half-cycles for asymmetry, exploiting the …

Transitive Multi-Hop Erasure With Proof Of Absence In A Derived-Store Agent Memory, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for discharging an erasure request in an agent memory whose records are copied, aggregated and derived across hops and nodes. An erasure request at the origin propagates transitively along declared derivation edges into every derived store, and completion is demonstrable by a re-runnable query returning zero rows rather than asserted by a receipt. The disclosure pins three obligations (derivation recorded as an explicit edge at write time, fan-out along those edges rather than at the addressed store alone, and a query as the post-condition) and describes the enabling arrangement, including the separation between the record of …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Wearable Biomimetic Harmonic Alignment Liner And Micro-Distributed Gan Power Stage Matrix For Biological Homeostasis, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the mechanical, electrical, and topological architecture for a wearable, direct-dermal biomimetic alignment garment designed to mitigate the systemic biological degradation pathways caused by prolonged microgravity exposure. Traditional aerospace paradigms treat gravity loss as an external mechanical force deficit, attempting to resolve bone-density wastage and fluidic intracranial crowding via clumsy macro-scale kinetic countermeasures (e.g., spinning centrifuges) or localized chemical vectors.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, biology is re-modeled as a scale-invariant series of localized wave packets vibrating against a 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (\(z=0\)). This paper introduces an integrated, lightweight backpack …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator And Molecular Conduction Wave Filters For Visorless Atmospheric Envelopes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the physical architecture and low-level firmware constraints for a body-worn, spine-mounted Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator capable of establishing a localized, un-tethered atmospheric breathing envelope and active radiation shield directly around an individual operator in a hard vacuum. Traditional extravehicular activity (EVA) systems rely heavily on high-friction mechanical containment units (e.g., pressurized polycarbonate visors and multi-layered fabric suits) that restrict joint mobility, maximize structural failure vectors, and demand high-mass portable life support back-assemblies.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, macroscopic matter is treated as a scale-invariant series of localized wave-knots collapsed from an underlying two-dimensional …

The Smart Glasses Structure Enhanced With Attached Deformable Structures That Will Enable To Connect Rigid Physical Structures To The Smart Glasses Structure Where The Connected Rigid Physical Structures Can House Rigid Electronic Entities Of The Smart Glasses., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a smart glasses structure enhanced with attached deformable structures that will enable to connect rigid physical structures to the smart glasses structure where the connected rigid physical structures can house rigid electronic entities of the smart glasses. The enhanced smart glasses structure will consist of the smart glasses structure itself that is deformable, the attached deformable structures, the connected rigid physical structures and the entities that are housed within the connected rigid physical structures that will be required for the functionality of the smart glasses, which will include the rigid electronic entities. The smart glasses structure itself …

Innovation And Control In Curriculum Reform: An Autobiographical Inquiry From A Seoul Future Innovation School, Sunyoung Kim

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This autobiographical inquiry examines the lived experience of a teacher–researcher navigating curriculum reform within a centralized education system during her first year at a Seoul Future Innovation School. The study explores how policy ideals of curriculum autonomy, innovation, and student-centered learning encounter institutional realities of documentation, compliance, and performative accountability. Drawing on reflective journals and narrative reconstruction, the analysis identifies four tensions shaping reform enactment: the gap between reform discourse and school culture, the symbolic labeling of innovation, technocentric expectations that narrow curricular legitimacy, and the emotional labor of navigating stakeholder demands. The study illustrates how institutional conditions both constrain …

From Reluctance To Resilience: The Link Between Attitude And Growth Mindset In Calculus Students, Olivia Valente, Kathryn E. Pedings-Behling, Amy N. Langville

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Many postsecondary students enter general education mathematics courses with negative attitudes, shaping their willingness to engage with the content. This study explores the relationship between students’ attitudes towards mathematics and their growth mindset, revealing effective strategies to enhance learning experiences, particularly for students who are reluctant learners. The research investigates two questions: (1) How do students’ Attitude Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) scores and Growth Mindset Scale (GMS) scores relate? and (2) Do gender or course modality affect this relationship? This study addresses a gap in literature by examining how enjoyment, motivation, self-confidence, and perceived value connect with growth mindset. The …

Our Heritage Vol Ii 2026, Ana Iraheta, Jake R. Turcotte, Siobhan Lahiff

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

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Carta Para Mi Tierra/Letter To My Country, Britnnie Minaya

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

Britnnie misses her country, values her culture and her memories.

Barreras Rotas/Broken Barriers, Rachel Barrón

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

María faces change, grows through challenges, and honors her parents’ sacrifices.

Aprendí A Querer Mi Nombre/I Learned To Love My Name, Cici Martinez Osorio

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

Citlally learns to love her name and value her culture.

#Narctalk: Analysis Of Perceptions Of Personality Disorders In Tiktok Content, Amanda C. Dediego, Auna Nelson, Feven Seifu, Amanda D. Tracy, Madeline Grubb, R.J. Schoen

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

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Strategies For Integrating Death Education Into Asynchronous Online Counselor Training, Kara E. Wolff

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

Online counselor education has grown exponentially, with a greater number of courses being offered in an asynchronous format. This presents challenges and opportunities for counseling training in death education, a subset of grief counseling. Death anxiety and death avoidance can result in counselors-in-training's disengagement with strictly didactic materials in this area. Instead, death education must offer opportunities for experiential processing and personal reflection to be effective. Specific teaching strategies that foster the development of death acceptance and death competence within asynchronous online counselor education courses are offered.