Jewish Women’S Folk Memory Of Argentine Schooldays, 1900–1955, Jacqueline Laznow

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

This essay explores the folkloric formation of Jewish-Argentine female identity through schoolyard experiences and domestic resistance in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with women who later made aliyah, the study analyzes these accounts as personal experience narratives, arguing that painful memories of antisemitism and “otherness” are cognitively restructured through folk processes into a symbolic frame for communal interpretation. These narratives function as “legend discourse,” sparking commentary and intergenerational transmission, and serve as mechanisms for reconstructing daily life within a dominant Christian culture. They reveal a “hyphenated” Jewish-Argentine identity reimagined from the perspective of the narrators’ …

Introduction: The Folklore And Ethnology Of Antisemitism, Simon J. Bronner

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

A global rise in incidents and beliefs in the twenty-first century that monitoring and polling organizations label “antisemitic” raises several questions addressed by contributors to this special issue. A basic one is definitional regarding discourse about the shifting meaning of antisemitism in light of post-Holocaust events and digital age communication. A historical question is whether contemporary forms of antisemitism are connected to or a break from the term’s nineteenth-century roots. Related to that issue in modern discourse is whether antisemitism is an umbrella concept or separate from anti-Judaism, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionism movements. The materials of folklore—both as esoteric forms …

Solid Dispersion Of Tetrahydro-N,N-Dimethyl-2,2-Diphenyl-3-Furanmethanamine Hydrochloride, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Hyderabad, India, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy, Kommera Rajasekhar, Batchanaboina Venkata Subbaiah, Kondeti Raju

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to a solid dispersion of Tetrahydro-N,N-dimethyl-2,2-diphenyl-3-furanmethanamine hydrochloride

System And Method For Designated-Verifier Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Arguments Using Batch Arguments, Navid Alamati, Suvradip Chakraborty

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a system and method for generating and verifying designated-verifier non-interactive cryptographic arguments. The method includes generating a common reference string (CRS) and verifier-specific cryptographic information including a designated verifier secret key, and receiving a statement representing an instance of a computational relation and a corresponding witness. Commitment information and encrypted information are generated based on the statement and the witness using one or more commitment operations and one or more encryption operations. A non-interactive batch proof is generated to collectively establish validity of the commitment information and the encrypted information. A designated-verifier argument package comprising the …

Design And Structural Architecture Of A Non-Equilibrium Hydrothermal Liquefaction Reactor Utilizing Multi-Stage Wave-Field Catalysis And Fluidized Acoustic Boundary Transport, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical design paper presents the formalized architecture for a continuous-flow, process-intensified Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) system designed to convert heterogeneous, highly viscous organic waste streams—such as municipal sewage sludge, microplastics, and halogenated industrial wastes—into drop-in synthetic biocrude and valuable chemical fractions.

Legacy HTL systems suffer from severe, interlocking mechanical liabilities: thermal boundary-layer coking, flow stagnation, extreme chloride/fluoride corrosion, and rapid catalytic deactivation via structural sintering. This architecture systematically bypasses these limits by abandoning static reactor geometry and internal dynamic mechanical components.

The physical configuration relies on a vertical, gravity-assisted cascade of high-pressure, un-equilibrated spherical reaction vessels constructed from high-performance alloys …

Crc-Based Dynamic Te Metric Adjustment And Recovery Mechanism For Rsvp-Te Tunnels, Abhishek Garg, Jaiesh Thapar, Rajeev Anand

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a proactive traffic engineering recovery mechanism for Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) tunnels based on physical-layer link degradation indicators, such as cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors. Existing RSVP-TE and transport control-plane mechanisms generally react only after hard failures, such as link-down events, loss of signal, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) timeout, or RSVP signaling timeout. However, high-speed optical and packet networks may experience soft failures in which a link remains operationally up while packet corruption or error rates increase due to fiber degradation, dirty connectors, optic issues, or other physical-layer impairments. In such cases, traffic continues …

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Marvels & Tales

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Review Of Supernatural: A History Of Television’S Unearthly Road Trip By Erin Giannini, Duane Ebesu

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

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Fostering Responsible Ai Use In Communication: An Integrated Approach To Digital Literacy Education, Omer Keynan, Liron Mishkin Drezner, Yuval Gozansky

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The paper presents an innovative approach to teaching digital literacy to eighty-two B.A. communication students, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). Over a semester, students developed proficiency in using AI tools for content creation while exploring their ethical implications. The course integrated practical skills with ethical considerations, providing hands-on experience with AI platforms and facilitating critical discussions on issues such as AI biases. For their final projects, students created social media campaigns using AI tools, accompanied by introspective reports on their creative process and ethical reflections. We aimed to equip future communication professionals with skills to navigate AI-driven content creation responsibly. …

Mapping Media Literacy Assessment: A Systematic Review To Connect The Dots, Lara Azar, Casey Frechette, Hafsa Zia, Joy Amulya

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The goal of this study was to address persistent challenges in assessing media literacy by reviewing assessments developed between 2011 and 2020. We combined landscape analysis, research synthesis, and grounded theory to select assessments, identify key attributes, iteratively code, analyze, and create an integrated synthesis of approaches to media literacy assessments. The analysis classified media literacy constructs by learning dimension (knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors) and participation mode (consumption, engagement, creation). The results showed that while most assessments focused on consumption-oriented constructs, engagement- and creation-oriented constructs were also included. Assessments primarily served three research purposes: evaluating media literacy levels in populations, …

Too Close For Comfort: Indigenous ‘Genre’ Film As Impactful In Pedagogies Of Reconciliation, Brendan M. Burrows

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article examines the pedagogical potential of Indigenous-created genre film—specifically, Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Barnaby, 2013)—in promoting critical engagement with the legacies of colonial violence in Canada. Drawing on Susan Dion’s (2009) concept of the perfect stranger and film activist Ariel Smith’s analysis of Indigenous horror cinema, the study examines how three educators responded to the film and reflected on its curricular applications. Using constructivist grounded theory and cultural studies frameworks, the research reveals both the transformative promise and institutional constraints of integrating emotionally intense media into classroom settings. Findings suggest that while the film evokes affective responses …

Demographic Context Of Media And Information Literacy (Mil) Skills Among Senior High School Students In Ghana, Patience Emefa Dzandza Ocloo, Aurelia Ayisi, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Annie Oye

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper explores the media and information literacy (MIL) competencies of young Ghanaians in senior high schools. It is premised on the rising spate of misinformation, online security breaches, and the avalanche of content young people must navigate. Together, these factors demand young persons to be new media savvy in order to use the affordances of the current media ecology to their benefit. To advocate for comprehensive MIL education in senior high schools in Ghana, the study adopts a comparative analysis logic to examine demographic differences that attend young people’s media and information literacy. A nationwide survey of 1200 senior …

Empowerment Or Oppression? College Students’ Interpretations Of Sex And Relationships In The Popular Media, Nicola Mcclung, Riana Pella

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Scholars have long emphasized the harmful effects of overtly sexist and oppressive media images on young people’s understandings of sex and relationships. Yet, this emphasis on explicit harm leaves a gap in understanding how college students interpret subtle, hidden, and ambiguous media messages. To address this gap, we asked 196 California college students at a large public university to critique a range of mainstream media content— from overtly oppressive, to affirming of nondominant gender identities, to containing mixed messages about empowerment and oppression. Responses were coded using our media literacy scoring guide for assessing students’ ability to critically analyze media …

Automated Media: Challenges And Opportunities For Media Literacy Education, Arnaud Claes, Jerry Jacques, Antonin Descampe, Victor Wiard

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper offers a theoretical reflection on the evolving landscape of automated media, focusing on how automation and so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) are reshaping traditional media-related practices and the competences required for media literacy. It examines how automated media technologies, such as recommendation algorithms and generative AI, might reshape the critical skills necessary to navigate a complex digital ecosystem. By framing AI-driven media practices through a social-action perspective and treating media as human activities, we argue that media literacy models should encompass competences related to the operation of computational automata, particularly through the management of inbound and outbound information flows. …

Eschatological Echoes: Reading The Bible And The Harry Potter Series, Athira Mohan Dr

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Death has been a major topic in children’s and adolescent literature , which has invited scholarly discourse over different ages. While death was very commonly featured in the puritanical texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was also deemed to be a subject too sensitive for the genre of children’s literature in the early twentieth century(Aries 1975), due to a combination of factors such as lowered child mortality rate and heightened concern for childhood as a special social category. However, contemporary children’s and adolescent literature focuses on death as an important part of human life, and invites discussions on …

Factors Associated With Health Literacy And Chronic Disease Services Performance Among Village Health Volunteers In Chiang Rai, Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study, Sunaree Tanapek, Saroj Nakju

Journal of Health Research

Background: The growing burden of NCDs in Thailand highlights the need for effective community management by Village Health Volunteers (VHVs). This study investigated factors associated with health literacy and chronic disease service performance among VHVs in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 325 VHVs via two-stage cluster sampling between June and July 2023. Data were collected using a validated five-part questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.93–0.98). Data analysis included descriptive statistics, content analysis, Chi-square tests, and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

Results:VHVs demonstrated good health literacy (41.8%) and a high level of chronic disease service performance …

Caf‑100 V2.0 “Phoenix‑Eco” Open‑Hardware Water‑Derived Synthetic Fuel Engine & Modular Refinery Drop‑In Replacement For Gasoline & Diesel — No Patents, No Secrets, Free For Humanity, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CAF‑100 v2.0 “Phoenix‑Eco” is a fully open‑hardware synthetic fuel system that converts water + atmospheric CO₂ + renewable electricity into drop‑in liquid hydrocarbon fuels compatible with all existing gasoline and diesel infrastructure.

This version integrates:

• Phoenix‑Cracker v2.0 hydrodynamic cavitation reactor

• VMR Titan v2.5‑T plasma‑acoustic microbubble refiner

• Solar‑Thermal Direct Air Capture (DAC) using Water System #30

• Arachne Gen‑3 v3.4.1 “FORTRESS” thermal recycling loop

• Single‑Atom Iron (Fe‑N‑C) or Fe‑Co catalysts

• CVNR‑F1.5 molten‑salt fuel conditioning

• Hydrocarbon Normalization Platform v1.5

This architecture achieves:

• Fuel cost target: ~$1.20 per liter

• Yield: ~3× industry standard

• CO₂ capture cost: –$47/ton

• Reaction speed: minutes

• Thermal efficiency: >60%

• Octane: …

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Point-Of-Generation Pfas Capture And Destruction For Manufacturing Emissions: An Open Technical Disclosure For Industry, Ernest N. Sumrall

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive publication discloses an integrated system for capturing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at their point of generation in manufacturing processes and destroying them on site. Process emissions containing PFCAs, PFSAs, perfluoroalkane sulfonamides, and functionalized perfluoropolyethers are captured under negative pressure and transferred into a circulating water loop by fine-bubble scrubbing, exploiting the surfactant character of PFAS; foam fractionation concentrates the compounds into a minimal liquid volume. The concentrate is pre-treated in a closed-loop hydrodynamic cavitation stage — high-to-low pressure nozzle transitions into a low-pressure collision chamber, with a pump drawing suction from the low-pressure chamber and discharging into …

Ers‑Ω20 V5.2 — Gyroid‑Stabilized Multi‑Modal Emergency‑Response Coordination, Hazard‑Mapping & Field‑Stability Engine, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ERS‑Ω20 v5.2 is a mobile emergency‑response coordination engine designed for:

• Wildfire zones

• Collapse zones

• Disaster sites

• Medical‑triage fields

• Off‑grid and unstable environmental conditions

It integrates:

• Gyroid structural damping (Sanitized Block‑2.0)

• Atmospheric hazard‑mapping (ARPN‑2.0 + ARG‑CM‑2.0)

• Environmental‑resilience modeling (CIFRS‑N + CWRE‑1.0)

• Resonance stabilization (CMRS‑1 + APR AI)

• Smart‑skin telemetry (Arachne‑Chip‑2.0)

• Thermal buffering (Forgecell Prime‑2.0)

• Off‑grid power (Mechanic’s Battery‑2.0)

• Optional robotics integration (RBT‑Ω16)

ERS‑Ω20 v5.2 is fully grounded in posted Caldwell TDC inventions and is designed to be builder‑ready, test‑ready, and deploy‑ready for real‑world emergency‑response scenarios.

CORE SUBSYSTEMS (All Posted on TDC)

• Sanitized Block‑2.0 — Gyroid Structural Panel System

• UGCRM‑1.0 — Universal …

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Paired Price-Vs-Departure-Duration Charts As A Direct Selection Surface For Round-Trip Flight Itineraries, Laurent Tran

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a user-interface technique for selecting the two legs of a round-trip (or, more generally, a multi-leg) air itinerary directly from data-visualization charts rather than from a ranked textual list. Two coordinated charts — one for the outbound leg and one for the return leg — each plot every candidate flight offer at a position determined by its price along one axis and its departure time along the other axis, and each chart serves as the primary selection control: a traveler chooses a leg by activating the graphical mark that represents a flight. The two charts are coupled, …

Reinforcement Learning-Based Anti-False Triggering Onlooker Detection System And Method, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A reinforcement learning-based anti-false triggering onlooker detection system and method for intelligent laptops are disclosed to mitigate alert fatigue and accidental lockouts caused by dynamic environments. The system continuously captures multi-modal environmental status information via a sensor module. When the status satisfies a low-power threshold, a primary trigger processor awakens a backend reinforcement learning decision engine, which outputs a graded defense action based on a dynamic confidence threshold. Within a predefined observation window following the action, the system captures implicit user feedback to calculate a reward signal, updating policy network parameters in real time. The invention significantly improves triggering accuracy, …

Vision-Centric Multimodal System For False-Positive Mitigation Via Lightweight Wireless-Acoustic Verification, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure details a vision-centric multimodal system for mitigating false-positive face detections on portable computing devices. The system distinguishes physical human users from 2D media displays—including high-resolution photographs and digital screens—by cross-referencing a primary computer vision module with lightweight acoustic source localization and Wi-Fi channel state analysis. By evaluating the spatiotemporal synchronization among visual facial features, auditory signals, and wireless ambient micro-movements, the system identifies and suppresses non-physical facial entities in real-time. Crucially, this multi-modal pipeline operates locally on low-power edge hardware without invoking the primary application processor or relying on neural network acceleration, thereby maximizing energy efficiency and ensuring …

Recessed Platen Parking Zone For Media Edge Holders In Large‑Format Printing Devices, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This device relates to a platen configuration for large‑format printers that include removable media edge holders. The device introduces a dedicated parking zone in which a portion of the platen surface is recessed by several millimeters. This defined zone allows edge holders to be positioned below the operational envelope of the carriage when not in use. As a result, mechanical interference and collision risks are significantly reduced.

"Where's The Writing?": A Content Analysis Of Writing Practices In Second Grade Core Knowledge Language Arts, Jessica Pierce

Theses and Dissertations

One current and increasingly common trend in elementary and early childhood English Language Arts (ELA) instruction is the use of scripted literacy programs requiring teachers to implement the curriculum with fidelity. This has consequences for writing instruction as students continue to score below proficiency levels on national writing assessments (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2011), and the tendency for a mismatch between recommended writing instruction and classroom practice. Therefore, the purpose of this content analysis was to explore the writing instruction found in the Knowledge Strand of the 2nd-grade Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum. Analyses revealed three overarching themes: …

Biomechanical And Talar Cartilage Responses To Running In Individuals With Chronic Ankle Instability, Minsub Oh

Theses and Dissertations

Context: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) has shown altered movement patterns and joint loading, which increase the risk of posttraumatic ankle osteoarthritis. Abnormal vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) during running may contribute to talar cartilage degeneration; however, the acute biomechanical and cartilage responses to running in individuals with CAI remain unclear. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare running biomechanics and changes in talar cartilage thickness and T2 relaxation times before and after running between individuals with CAI and healthy controls. Methods: Twenty individuals with CAI and 20 healthy controls completed running biomechanics and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sessions. …

2026 July 23 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

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Fundamental Solutions To The Fractional Heat Operator, Jacob Flores

Math Theses

In this thesis, we are interested in showing the existence of a fundamental solution to the fractional heat operator. The fractional heat operator is a nonlocal linear operator used to model the time evolution of anomalous diffusion processes whose applicability arises in a wide variety of fields in the physical sciences, engineering, economics, and finance. Fundamental solutions to a partial differential operator are a class of generalized solutions formulated with rich mathematical analysis grounded in classes of well-behaved smooth functions referred to as test functions and their continuous linear functionals referred to as distributions. A primary tool that we use …

Simulations Of Skyrmions And Merons, Ryan Friesen, Aidan Kirk, Tom Carroll, Xuemei Cheng

Physics and Astronomy Summer Fellows

Skyrmions and merons are particle-like spin structures that are found in specific magnetic materials. Due to their stability and nanoscale size, these quasiparticles have been proposed as promising candidates for qubits in quantum computing applications. Our goal is to design materials that can host and stabilize these quasiparticles. Skyrmions and merons exist only under specific conditions, and the parameter space for these materials is vast. Thus, we use the simulation package MuMax3 to run simulations to test the viability of potential materials to simplify this search. We present on our simulations of these skyrmions and merons. This work was supported …

Effectiveness And Ethics Of Biometrics In Homeland Security, Aaron Akintayo Akindiya

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Homeland security agencies increasingly deploy biometric technologies, including facial recognition and fingerprint scanning, to enhance identity verification and threat detection at airports and borders. However, these technologies raise ethical concerns regarding privacy, algorithmic bias, data protection, and civil liberties. Limited research captures the perspectives of frontline professionals who implement these systems. This study explored how homeland security professionals perceive the balance between effectiveness and ethics. Guided by the technological determinism theory, semistructured interviews were conducted with 13 professionals from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Thematic analysis revealed four themes: effectiveness in enhancing …

Locoregional Therapy Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery For Liver Cancers, Thomas Eggleston, Bassem Fayek, Jacqueline Kowalke, Mina Makary

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Hepatic malignancies account for a substantial portion of global cancer mortality, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHC), and metastatic liver disease representing the most common diagnoses. While surgical resection and liver transplantation remain curative options for eligible patients, most patients are diagnosed at stages unsuitable for surgery. This has shifted medical management towards locoregional therapies (LRTs) which are often catheter-directed. Of these interventions, the use of conventional end-hole catheters for therapeutic infusion has been a mainstay of treatment, but this method is constrained by retrograde particle escape and elevated tumoral interstitial fluid pressure. Together, these factors limit drug penetration …