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Multi-Provider Voice Pipeline With Lazy Key Routing, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Production voice-agent platforms typically hardcode their speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) providers, and they read provider credentials from process environment variables at start-up. As a result, switching providers (or serving two tenants with different providers from a single process) requires a code change or a process restart, and it forces every tenant's secrets to coexist in one shared environment. This disclosure describes a real-time voice pipeline that removes those constraints through a specific combination of mechanisms: (1) each of the three pipeline stages — STT, brain language-model (LLM), and TTS — is resolved at call time by looking up a …

Proactive-Action Engine With Layered Cooldowns, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous AI agents are overwhelmingly reactive: they wait for an inbound trigger and act only in response, missing the proactive opportunities a competent human handles unbidden — an approaching deadline, a review gone stale, a recommended self-improvement, a teammate who has gone quiet. The naive countermeasure — "act every N minutes" — spams the agent's own queue, drowns urgent items, and wastes inference budget on duplicate nudges.

This publication describes a Proactive-Action Engine that closes the gap without the spam. On a configurable idle-scan interval, a single pass interrogates a plurality of heterogeneous signal sources — a deadline source, a …

Framing Tragedy: Discourse And Influence In Us Media Coverage Of The 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Andrew P. Young

Journal of 20th Century Media History

There is little doubt as to the mark left by the 1994 Rwandan genocide on historical discourse and perhaps even the American cultural consciousness. U.S. evening news broadcasts carried images of suffering and death into homes across the US, and in the process made Rwanda the site of one of the most recognized traumas in human history. While cultural proximity in mass media coverage played a role, the characterization of media coverage of the genocide, often defined in the press as explicit and constant, requires analysis. This project analyzes US evening network news broadcasts to address the actualities and implications …

[De]Constructing Jimmy's Grin: Doing Cultural Studies Through The Lens Of Boston Globe Editorial Cartoonist Paul Szep's Showcase Of Carter's White House Campaign, Lori Amber Roessner

Journal of 20th Century Media History

Heeding journalism historians Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennan’s call for inquiries that provide a new understanding of historical working conditions, this study explored the production of a sample of Szep’s editorial cartoons that surrounded Jimmy Carter’s campaign and presidency from 1976 to 1980. In particular, the manuscript considered the historical conditions and personal circumstances that influenced the cultural production of Szep’s body of work surrounding Jimmy Carter’s presidency; representations of Carter and his White House campaign in the sample of 20 editorial cartoons produced by Szep; moments of consumption by active Boston Globe audiences; the practice of identity [de]construction related …

The Ghostly Cyborg Author And The Living Reader Wonder, Supervision, And Scholarly Formation In The Age Of Ai, Connie Morrison, John L. Hoben

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

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Human-Centred Generative Ai In Postgraduate Education Why Mediation, Calibration, And Contextual Flexibility Matter, Gabriela Zapata

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

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Academic Integrity As A Socio-Technical System, Karlis Valtins

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

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Introducing Artificial Intelligence To The Metaverse, John O'Connor

Journal of Academic Research and Innovation

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F1) Walk Of Mutual Repair: Pilgrimage In The Context Of Peirce's Triadic Philosophy, Tadeja Jere Jakulin, Dane Munro

International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conferences

Pilgrimage and pilgrim tourism are recognised in reductionist everyday thinking as phenomena that occur in the context of belief or tourism, among other things, and are also researched from this perspective. In our research, we will present pilgrimage as a complex system that requires an in-depth, systemic approach to understanding. In doing so, we will draw on Charles Sanders Peirce's triadic philosophy to present the evolution of the pilgrim, who travelled as a believer and passive participant, to the pilgrim who experiences regeneration and actively cares for sacred spaces. The contribution examines the historical development of pilgrimage studies from Turner's …

How Gyms Should Use Commitment Devices: The Role Of Deposit Contracts In Attracting Consumers, Zehua Hei, Alan Morse

Global Sport Business Journal

Amid growing health concerns, increased competition among fitness centers, and declining staff-to-customer ratios, gym operators are seeking effective ways to reduce customer attrition. Drawing on Prospect Theory, this study examines how commitment devices in gym promotions (e.g., deposit contracts and transformation challenges) influence consumers’ intentions to join a gym. Two experiments with 609 participants (Study 1 = 204; Study 2 = 405) investigated the mediating role of perceived attractiveness and the moderating role of contractual flexibility. Results indicate that membership options incorporating a commitment device were perceived as more attractive, leading to stronger registration intentions. However, this effect was observed …

The Shorthorn: October 29, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 28, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 26, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 27, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 22, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 20, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 21, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 19, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 14, 1982b

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 15, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 14, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 13, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 12, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 7, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 8, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 6, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 5, 1982b

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 5, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: October 1, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: September 30, 1982

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

No abstract provided.