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Generalized Transaction-Local Provenance-Marker Single-Writer Column Enforcement With Co-Designed Forgery Scanner And Non-Vacuity Red-Team, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enables, and dedicates to the public a generalized database-integrity primitive together with its co-designed hardening. The primitive makes a protected state column writable only by a transaction that has, within the same transaction, appended a matching row to an append-only decision log. The linkage is realized without any application-level privilege: an AFTER INSERT trigger on the log writes a transaction-local marker (PostgreSQL setconfig(..., TRUE)) encoding the exact subject tuple and outcome just logged, delimited by the ASCII Unit Separator (chr(31)); a BEFORE UPDATE guard on the protected column raises an exception unless a same-transaction marker exists whose …

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Self-Converging Multi-Ledger Migration Runner With Ambiguity-Preserving Collision Re-Application, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dates a schema-migration runner whose defining property is self-convergence under ledger drift. Established migration tools — Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic, Rails ActiveRecord, Django — model migration history as a single authoritative table and treat any divergence between that table and the on-disk migration set as an error state that halts deployment or demands a manual repair/stamp/clearCheckSums intervention. The disclosed runner instead computes the applied set as the union of multiple heterogeneous ledgers (a canonical full-filename ledger, zero or more legacy full-filename ledgers, and a numeric-only hand-applied ledger), and treats a specific class of drift — a …

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Declarative Ai-Persona Lifecycle As Kubernetes Custom Resources With Cognitive-Queue-Driven Autoscaling, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, with enabling detail, a Kubernetes-native control-plane pattern for operating fleets of long-lived, autonomous AI personas as declarative infrastructure. Each persona's cognitive lifecycle — the enablement of its cognitive loop, the interval of that loop, its per-day and per-request token budgets, its granted tool set, and the business domains it may act within — is expressed in the spec of an AIOSPersona Custom Resource. A dedicated operator continuously reconciles observed runtime signals into the resource's status subresource, which carries a five-state lifecycle machine — Dormant → Booting → Active → Dreaming → Suspended — together with two live …

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Parallel Multi-Persona Deliberation With A Measured-Token Circuit Breaker And Degrade-To-Best-Single, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as public prior art, an orchestration mechanism that consults the top-N ranked personas (or agents) of a multi-agent AI system concurrently, and then decides whether to execute a costly downstream synthesis stage on the basis of the actual number of prompt and completion tokens the parallel round has already consumed — a quantity measured after the calls return, not estimated before they are issued. Each per-persona consultation runs under an independent Promise.race deadline; a failed or timed-out consultation resolves to a structured, zero-token record rather than throwing, so the orchestrator can always compute a complete per-persona ledger. …

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Taint-Triggered Turn-Scoped Tool Downgrade With Attachment-To-Execution Provenance Audit, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, and thereby places into the public domain as enabling prior art, a mechanism that contains prompt-injection-to-remote-code-execution in tool-using AI agents that accept untrusted document and image attachments. The core control is turn-granular: any conversational turn that introduces a new untrusted attachment is automatically downgraded to read/vision-only for that turn alone — the mutating tools (writefile, editfile, generatefile, runcommand) are hard-denied regardless of the caller's role, and re-enabled automatically on the next attachment-free turn. Three further specifics harden the loop: (1) the untrusted-content taint envelope is re-applied on every history re-hydration, so a poisoned block can never shed …

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Two-Clock Fail-Closed Entitlement Engine, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Software licensing systems that support offline operation face a structural tension: the same cached credential that lets a product keep running during a licensor-side outage also lets a revoked customer keep running. Conventional stacks resolve this by coupling the cached-token lifetime to the grace window, producing a fail-open tail as long as the grace period — often days. This disclosure describes a two-clock, fail-closed entitlement engine that decouples the two concerns. An availability grace clock lives server-side on the activation row and is refreshed per heartbeat; a separate revocation clock is a signer-enforced offline-token TTL (≤24 hours) whose ceiling the …

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Atomic Crypto-Shred With Trigger-Immutable Audit-Ledger Preservation And Machine-Verifiable Zero-Orphan-Pii Proof, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enablingly and with dated priority, a database-layer mechanism that reconciles two requirements normally in direct tension: the data subject's right to erasure (GDPR Article 17; the COPPA parental deletion right for children's data) and the integrity of a trigger-enforced append-only audit ledger whose rows must never be updated or deleted. The mechanism performs, in one database transaction for one subject: (1) a crypto-shred of a per-subject key row — the key material is set to NULL while a keyref tombstone survives; (2) a manifest-driven purge of every plaintext PII surface, capturing each surface's row count before the …

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Shadow-First Anomaly Ladder With Fail-Low Signals, Inversion-Proof Thresholds, And Would-Block Dual Recording, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dates a mechanism for behavioral anomaly gating of autonomous software agents. The distinguishing subject is not the human user but the agent-channel capability exercise: an event in which a principal (a human or a non-human agent) invokes a named capability through a specific channel (an interactive UI, an email-driven command, a messaging bridge, a scheduled job). Six read-only behavioral signals are computed for each such event, each under a fail-LOW contract whereby any datastore error or absent history yields a zero sub-score, so a monitoring blind spot can never fabricate an anomaly. A pure, side-effect-free …

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License-Anchored Llm Capability Governor With Ordinal Down-Only Route Clamp And Tri-Plane Enforcement, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, in enabling detail, a License-Anchored LLM Capability Governor: a system that governs which large-language-model any principal (a human user or an autonomous persona/agent) may cause to run, by resolving exactly one entitlement lever — a license tier — into a concrete model, and then enforcing that resolution wherever a model can be selected. Resolution walks a fixed precedence (per-principal override → role-exception regex → license-to-tier map → legacy role map → global default) and passes through an ordinal capability ladder so that models become comparable, not merely listed. The resolved model is then clamped to the physical …

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Capability-Gate-First Cost-Optimal Llm Task Router With Monotone Hard-Capability Taint, Dif-Fairness-Governed Escalation, And Cheapest-Allowed Self-Clamp, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, in enabling detail, a method and system for selecting, on a per-turn basis, which large language model (LLM) answers a given request in a multi-model deployment. The distinguishing property is that capability feasibility is a hard gate evaluated strictly before any cost or difficulty optimization, and a budget is structurally unable to override a capability-forced selection. A four-stage task assessor emits a set of required capability primitives (tooluse, vision, longcontext) under a monotone taint invariant: each later stage may raise, but never lower, a hard requirement detected by an earlier stage, while websearch is deliberately kept soft …

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Fail-Closed, Persona-Scoped Dlp Egress Policy Engine With Classification-Conditional Provider Steering, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, with sufficient detail to enable a person of ordinary skill in the art to build it, an egress data-loss-prevention (DLP) policy engine that decides what outbound text an autonomous AI system is permitted to transmit to third-party language-model providers. The engine's distinguishing characteristic is that each policy is scoped jointly by three orthogonal dimensions — the internal pipeline route, the identity of the originating AI persona, and the human user role — and that a single first-match decision returns both a content action (allow, redact, block) and the provider that may receive the resulting text. Policies are …

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Fail-Closed Email-As-Agent-Command Channel, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, in enabling detail, a fail-closed protocol that turns inbound email into an authenticated command channel into a tool-using LLM agent. An email carries no HTTP request, so the ordinary web pattern of authenticate-middleware-then-authorize-middleware cannot run; the disclosed protocol reconstructs an equivalent — and in several respects stronger — chain of interlocks as a thirteen-step pipeline where every step fails closed. The three load-bearing novelties are: (1) a DMARC verdict is trusted only when it is stamped by a named trusted relay's authserv-id, reports pass, and is domain-aligned to the parsed sender; (2) execution is gated behind a …

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Ivr-To-Realtime Anti-Language-Drift Session-Instruction Injection, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

A realtime conversational voice LLM tends to mirror the language of its conversation history and of the caller's most recent utterance. When such an agent is reached through a preceding DTMF interactive-voice-response (IVR) menu in which the caller has explicitly selected a language ("press 2 for French"), two structural facts conspire to lose that selection: the IVR subsystem and the realtime-voice subsystem are two disjoint processes joined only by a stateless HTTP redirect, and the realtime model's mirroring tendency silently overrides a one-time greeting in the chosen language. This publication discloses a mechanism with two cooperating parts. First, a language …

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Heuristic Capability-To-Rbac Translator With Dual-Read Shadow Evaluation, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

A platform that began with a flat set of boolean capabilities (CANUSELLM, CANMANAGEUSERS, …) and a few flat roles must eventually migrate to fine-grained, scoped RBAC where permissions are domain:resource:action tuples and roles are wildcard-composable pattern sets. The conventional path is a hand-maintained translation table plus a flag-day cutover, both of which are labor-intensive and risky: a single mis-mapping is a production outage or a silent privilege escalation. This publication discloses a mechanism that (1) heuristically translates each legacy capability into a fine-grained permission — explicit override map first, then a structural parse of the CAN

Caecilia, William J. Marsh

William J. Marsh Papers

Caecilia, a catholic review of musical art.

Tails From The Isle Of Devils: Two New Records Of Non-Native Invasive Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) Successfully Intercepted In Bermuda, Including The First Record Of Caraboctonidae, Danniella Sherwood, Mark Outerbridge, Struan R. Smith, Jenny Gosling, Myles Darrell

Euscorpius

Hadruroides sp. (Scorpiones: Caraboctonidae) is newly recorded as a successfully intercepted non-native invasive species in Bermuda, based on examination of a desiccated and damaged immature female specimen. A second record of an intercepted Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1804) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is reported based on examination of an adult male.

An Introduction To Proactive Principles Related To Environmental Protection And Sustainable Development, Asmaa Alami, Hasnaa Alami

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The Moroccan legislature has established a very robust legal framework for environmental protection. It has also made sustainable development a strategic priority aimed at strengthening measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change and combat desertification, as well as enacting institutional, economic, financial, and cultural reforms in the field of environmental governance. Moroccan lawmakers have enacted a set of proactive principles that serve as a framework to be followed when the state, local authorities, public institutions, state-owned enterprises, and other stakeholders in the fields of the environment and sustainable development formulate and implement policies, strategies, programs, and action plans. These …

What Impact Do Informal Actors Have On Tax Decision-Making?, Najat Elammari, Hicham Bendarkaoui

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This article examines the influence of informal actors on tax decision-making in Morocco, highlighting that this process is not limited to official institutions but is also shaped by the involvement of national and international actors who play influential roles in guiding tax policy. The article demonstrates that international financial institutions, foremost among them the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, have played a prominent role in guiding tax reforms—particularly within the framework of structural adjustment programs—by linking financial support to the implementation of reforms aimed at improving the efficiency of the tax system. It also highlights the role of …

Chemistry Of Co2 Capture And Storage: From Molecular Interactions To Advanced Functional Materials, Nany Hairunisa, Hazim F. Abbas, Amamer M. Redwan

Al-Mustaqbal Journal of Sustainability in Engineering Sciences

In light of the industrial development taking place, the burning of fossil fuels for transportation and electricity generation, and the accompanying carbon dioxide emissions, there is an urgent and continuing need to innovate methods of capture and storage, as well as competitive materials to address increasing carbon emissions. This review describes the importance of this procedure and the technologies that help solve this problem, some of which have been adopted by many countries and industrial institutions and differ in their efficiency, cost, and applicability.

Energy And Exergy Analysis Of Combined Cycle Power Plants: A Comprehensive Evaluation, Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein Hussein

Al-Mustaqbal Journal of Sustainability in Engineering Sciences

Evaluating the thermodynamic performance of combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) requires a comprehensive understanding of both energy quantity and energy quality across highly integrated components, including the gas turbine, heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), steam turbine, and condenser. This study presents a structured critical review of recent developments in energy and exergy analysis of CCPPs, covering studies published between 2001 and 2025. Unlike previous descriptive summaries, this work introduces a comparative synthesis framework that critically evaluates component-level losses, thermodynamic irreversibilities, and system optimization strategies across conventional and advanced CCPP configurations. The review shows that the condenser is the dominant source …

Mitigating The Effects Of Poor Power Quality Conditions Using Adaptive Model Predictive Current Control, B. O. Akinloye, B. G. Ologunwa, A. A. Okubanjo

Al-Mustaqbal Journal of Sustainability in Engineering Sciences

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are susceptible to performance degradation in applications with poor power quality, such as those found in regions with unstable electrical grids. Conventional control strategies often fail to maintain stability and efficiency under simultaneous voltage sags and harmonic distortions. This paper presents an adaptive Model Predictive Current Control (MPCC) framework designed to enhance the resilience of PMSM drives under such composite disturbances. The proposed strategy integrates three key mechanisms: a real-time voltage sag compensation module that adjusts current references and employs flux-weakening, a multivector-based harmonic mitigation technique embedded within the predictive cost function, and a thermal …

Scheduled Coal Plant Retirements In The Mountain West, 2022-2031, Kerima Awol, Sophia Booth, Ty Tan, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Environment

This fact sheet presents data on publicly announced coal-fired power plant retirements in five Mountain West states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, between 2022 and 2031. The Visual Capitalist’s 2021 report, “Road to Decarbonization: U.S. Coal Plant Closures,” includes information on the location, retirement year, and electricity generation capacity of coal-fired power plants scheduled for retirement across the United States.

Ameliorative Effects And Mechanisms Of Crocetin On Insulin Resistance In High-Fat Diet-Induced Diabetic Mice, Wen Jing, Qin Si, Lyu Chenghao

Food and Machinery

[Objective] To investigate the hypoglycemic, lipid-lowering, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects of crocetin in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced diabetic mice, and to preliminarily explore its regulatory effects on hepatic insulin signaling pathways and protein S-nitrosylation levels. [Methods] An insulin resistance model was established in C57BL/6J mice by HFD feeding. Mice were administered low (5 mg/kg), medium (10 mg/kg), or high (20 mg/kg) doses of crocetin for 8 weeks, with metformin (200 mg/kg) used as a positive control. Fasting blood glucose, oral glucose tolerance, serum insulin, lipid profiles, hepatic oxidative stress, and inflammatory cytokines were measured. Western blot was used to detect phosphorylation …

Progress On The Nutrient Components, Functional Activities, And Utilization Of Dictyophora Rubrovalvata, Zhang Lunqing, Wang Xianxing, Li Qiaoqiao, Xu Cunbin, Wang Yu

Food and Machinery

Dictyophora rubrovalvata, a valuable edible fungus in China, is rich in active components such as polysaccharides, proteins, amino acids, and vitamins, exhibiting significant efficacy in antioxidant, anti-fatigue, antitumor, immunomodulatory, hepatoprotective, and anti-inflammatory activities. This paper systematically reviews recent research progress on the nutritional components, functional activities, and utilization status of D. rubrovalvata, both in China and elsewhere, with an outlook on its future development directions and application prospects.

A Review Of Metabolic Mechanisms Of N-Nitroso Compounds And Measures For Their Reduction And Control, Wang Zhulin

Food and Machinery

N-nitroso compounds, as one of the major food contaminants, are widely present in food and pose hazards such as carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and mutagenicity, thus being a key focus in food safety monitoring. Although significant progress has been made in the research on N-nitroso compounds, studies on their metabolic mechanisms and reduction and control measures are still disconnected to a certain extent. Through a review of the classification, detection methods, and toxic effects of N-nitroso compounds, this article analyzes the intrinsic connection between their metabolic pathways in the body and strategies for external reduction and control, aiming to provide theoretical references …

Interactive Mechanism Of Food Packaging Design And Children's Health Consciousness, Yang Qian

Food and Machinery

Food packaging can establish an “entertainment–knowledge–action” interactive closed-loop mechanism for children, effectively guiding them to practice healthy behaviors, overcoming the low efficiency of conventional text- and image-based instruction, and continuously strengthening their health awareness. At present, interactive design for cultivating children’s health awareness through food packaging is constrained by superficial forms of interaction, insufficient integration of entertainment functions, fragmented system construction, and the absence of educational mechanisms in the implementation stage. The “entertainment–knowledge–action” closed-loop design can specifically address the limitations of traditional packaging, including fragmented interaction, superficial cognition, and weak behavioral guidance. Specifically, entertainment serves as the entry point by …

Trustworthiness As Inferential Accountability In Qualitative Research, Aamir Rashid, Rizwana Rasheed

Publications and Research

Trustworthiness is a cornerstone of qualitative research rigor, yet it is frequently operationalized as a procedural checklist rather than as a coherent logic for justifying qualitative knowledge claims. As a result, qualitative studies often demonstrate methodological diligence without fully explicating how empirical materials warrant the interpretations advanced or how the scope of those interpretations should be bounded. The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize trustworthiness as inferential accountability, understood as a governing evaluative principle for qualitative inquiry that provides a coherent and contemporary framework for the justification, evaluation, and delimitation of qualitative claims. The paper adopts a conceptual and …

Building The Next Cybersecurity Workforce: A Grades 7–12 Curriculum To Close The Cyber Talent Gap, Mohammed A. Salam, Iqbal Shareef, Rich P. Manprisio

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, cyberattacks pose increasing threats, yet a global shortage of cybersecurity and digital forensics professionals leaves industries vulnerable, similar to having too few law enforcement officers in a densely populated city. The judicial system faces rising digital crimes and fraud cases, further strained by the lack of experts to analyze and extract digital evidence. Despite high demand, millions of positions remain unfilled. This paper identifies the root causes of the cybersecurity workforce shortage and proposes a targeted solution: a curriculum for Grades 7–12 designed to foster cybersecurity awareness and interest. The methodology included a comprehensive …

Fred Luthans, Unl Business Management, Positive Organizational Behavior, Mark Griep, Fred Luthans

UNL ORCA Interview Series

Fred Luthans was awarded the ORCA in 2008. He was born in Clinton, Iowa in 1939. He earned three degrees from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, located only a few miles from Clinton. His bachelor's was in mathematics in 1961, a Master’s of Business Administration in ‘62, PhD in Management and Psychology in 1965. After serving two years as a captain in the Army at West Point, where he taught psychology and leadership, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Associate Professor of Management. He's had a remarkable career, but I'll only mention three major distinctions. His …

Exploring The Role Of Community Leaders In Building Community Resilience Against Climate Disasters: A Case Study Of A Rural Climate Vulnerable Community, Daniel Tinyogtaa Adama

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Community resilience is widely recognized as a participatory approach to managing climate disasters. However, limited empirical research specifically examines how community leaders carry out the work of building that resilience in rural, climate-vulnerable communities. This qualitative case study addressed that issue by exploring the role of community leaders in building resilience against climate disasters in a rural, climate-vulnerable Midwestern community with a history of such events. Guided by three research questions, the study investigated how leaders identified and leveraged local assets and social networks, the strategies they used to promote collaboration, communication, and shared decision-making, and how their roles and …