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Assessment Of The Status Of Open Access Publications In Central Universities Of India: A Review Of Literature, Gulam Jilani, Swapna Banerjee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Unrestricted access to research outputs and increased exposure and distribution of academic information are two benefits of Open Access (OA) publication, which has emerged as a revolutionary method to scholarly communication. With an emphasis on its economic models, international and Indian publishing trends, institutional activities, regulations, and researcher attitudes, this study explores the literature on open access publishing. The paper examines many OA models, such as gold, green, hybrid, bronze, and diamond access, emphasizing their benefits, drawbacks, and implications for the fair distribution of information. The expansion of open access publication in India and throughout the world is also covered, …

Rolling-Shutter Image Skew As A Visual-Inertial Motion Signal In Imu-Synchronized Multimodal Capture, Clifford T. Smyth

Defensive Publications Series

In a sensor system that records a rolling-shutter image stream together with a synchronized, higher-rate inertial measurement unit (IMU) stream, the intra-frame geometric skew produced by rolling-shutter readout is treated not as an artifact to be removed but as a usable, temporally structured motion signal. Because a rolling-shutter frame exposes its rows sequentially, the frame encodes camera and scene motion over the readout interval. When the frame is time-correlated with inertial data at sufficient resolution, the inertial stream can be used to estimate the camera motion during readout, which in turn supports two complementary representations of each frame: (1) an …

Process For The Purification Of 2-Ethoxy-1-{[2'-(1-Trityl-1h-Tetraazol-5-Yl) [1,1'-Biphenyl]-4-Yl] Methyl}-1h-Benzimidazole-7-Carboxylic Acid, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

The present publication provides a process for the purification of 2-ethoxy-1-{[2'-(1-trityl-1H-tetraazol-5-yl) [1,1'-biphenyl]-4-yl] methyl}-1H-benzimidazole-7-carboxylic acid, more particularly N-trityl candesartan, represented by the following structural Formula I.

Fibonacci Global History Length (Fihl) Dynamic Branch Predictor Architecture, Gopi K. Tummala

Defensive Publications Series

The Fibonacci Global History Length (FIHL) Branch Predictor is a highly constrained hardware architecture designed to optimize speculative execution in deeply pipelined microprocessors. Operating within a strict 32-kilobit hardware budget, the FIHL architecture synthesizes the frameworks of perceptron learning and hash indexing while replacing traditional geometric history length progressions with the Fibonacci sequence. By natively mapping global history lengths to the Fibonacci sequence across six parallel branch history tables, the design efficiently correlates both highly localized instruction patterns and distant control-flow dependencies without the exponential memory footprint of traditional pattern history tables. Empirical evaluations across diverse workloads demonstrate that this …

Investigation Of A Shielded Magnetic Switching Architecture And Magnetic Energy Transfer Mechanisms, Peter Branton

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents a magnetic switching architecture based upon the controlled exposure and shielding of permanent magnetic fields.

The system combines:

• Permanent magnets

• Movable magnetic shielding

• Attraction phases

• Repulsion phases

• Force-balanced switching mechanisms

• Mechanical momentum recovery

The architecture was developed through the progressive elimination, reduction, or counterbalancing of apparent energy costs commonly associated with magnetic switching systems.

The resulting design raises a fundamental question:

Can the complete behavior of the disclosed system be fully explained using conventional magnetic energy accounting, or does the geometry reveal aspects of magnetic energy transfer that warrant further investigation?

This document presents a specific engineering …

Optical Circuit Switches For Grouped Port Switching, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Keywords: optical circuit switch, grouped switching, liquid crystal, polarization, optical networking, data center, photonic switching, bulk switching, parallel switching

Abstract

Optical circuit switches are a vital part of datacenter networking and machine learning infrastructure because of their ability to switch large amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient, low latency, and data/format signaling agnostic manner. However, common approaches for switching groups of ports, such as parallelizing multiple optical circuit switches or optically multiplexing signals, encounter scalability limitations as bandwidth demands increase and per-fiber bandwidth saturates. To address these challenges, this publication describes a system and method for switching groups of …

System And Method For User-Owned Longitudinal Memory And Interpretation System With A Provenance-Tagged Interpretive Ledger, Engine-Interchangeable Inference, Federated Validation, And Generational Maintenance, Joseph Jm Walker

Defensive Publications Series

Contemporary personal-AI systems preserve continuity in the weakest possible way: the provider owns the model, the memory, and the interface, and the user retains accumulated context only so long as the service remains available and willing to keep it. When a model changes, a platform resets memory, or a provider alters policy, the user's interpretive history can vanish. This disclosure presents the Continuity Node Framework, a user-owned, local-first, longitudinal memory-and-interpretation architecture in which the durable asset is not the AI model but the preserved, provenance-tagged map of a person's reasoning, values, patterns, and tested interpretations over time, and in which …

Autonomous Infrastructure Orchestration Via Natural Language Narratives, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as Code, Multi-Agent Systems, Natural Language Processing, Autonomous Orchestration, Shadow Infrastructure, Canonical Documentation.

Abstract

Managing and modifying infrastructure, especially when systems have been manually configured or have drifted from their original Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) definitions, is complex, risky, and expensive. This situation can result in a fragmented understanding of the infrastructure's actual state, a loss of institutional knowledge, and increased manual operational burden, leading to fragility and availability risks. To address this, a multi-agent system implements an Infrastructure-as-Narrative (IaN) paradigm. Autonomous agents discover the current infrastructure and document its state in a high-level, human-readable Canonical Infrastructure Document …

Detachable Stator Support For Gas Turbine, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Compressor casings are machined with slots for every compressor stage to facilitate insertion of compressor stator blades. In the same way, turbine casings are machined with the slots for assembling the required hot gas path parts. These slots are machined with the hook interface at forward and aft of every slot, making the manufacturing very complex and time intensive.

Evaluating Agent Cognitive Resilience Using Controlled Environmental Inconsistencies, Isaac Leimgruber, Nicolas Zimmermann

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional evaluation methods for autonomous agents may prioritize task completion without assessing an agent's ability to handle systemic discrepancies between its instructions and its operational environment. A dynamic evaluation framework is described that can assess an agent's cognitive resilience. The framework may operate by introducing controlled inconsistencies, for example, planted traps, into a sandboxed environment, which can create a conflict between the agent's instructional data and the runtime reality. The system can then evaluate the agent's response, focusing on its ability to detect the discrepancy, classify its root cause, and propose a structural resolution rather than focusing on task completion. …

Predictive Hardware State Mitigation Using Telemetry And Feedback, Mohsen Heidarinejad, Farid Kenarangi, Arpit Mittal, Amin Khajeh

Defensive Publications Series

Varying computational tasks introduce thermal and power dependencies within modern computing devices. Static threshold policies might not fully capture cumulative operational stress, potentially causing over-throttling or delayed hardware responses. A closed-loop machine learning framework is disclosed that dynamically evaluates multidimensional telemetry data to compute a predictive risk score. A feature selector extracts direct measurements, system activity indicators, temporal features, and health indicators. Based on the calculated risk score, an arbitrator dynamically applies mitigation actions (e.g., scaling component voltage and frequency states). A model corrector operates during hardware idle periods to iteratively refine predictive modeling using observed performance metrics. The disclosed …

Fused Arithmetic Datapath For Bit‑Slicing Multiply‑And‑Accumulate Units, Dongseok Im, Hee Jun Park

Defensive Publications Series

Many modern processing systems utilizing bit‑scalable architectures may experience performance limitations due to dynamic power consumption from heavy integer arithmetic operations. Executing higher‑precision quantized matrix multiplications on lower‑precision multiply‑and‑accumulate (MAC) hardware typically requires calculating multiple independent partial products, which may lower computational efficiency. The disclosed processing system derives cross‑product terms simultaneously through a fused mathematical operation. Specifically, it uses pre‑multiplication addition on decomposed operand segments and executes a post‑multiplication subtraction to isolate the cross‑products. This approach reduces the total number of hardware multiplication operations utilized per calculation. By reducing these redundant steps, the processing system may lower dynamic power consumption, …

Generative Media Repair For Uninterrupted Transcoding With An Asynchronous Approval, Nikita Agarwal

Defensive Publications Series

The process of ingesting large-scale media files may be interrupted by data corruption, which can necessitate a re-upload and re-transcode, consuming network and computational resources. Described systems and methods can address this by detecting corruption during ingestion, generating a provisional synthetic patch for the corrupted portion, and allowing the transcoding process to proceed. A cryptographic manifest can be created to document the change, and the provisionally repaired asset may be held in a quarantined state. An asynchronous approval workflow can then allow a content partner to review, approve, or reject the patch, with a fallback for providing a corrected segment. …

Fusing Uwb Spatial Data And Imu Orientation For Deterministic Device Targeting, Nikita Agarwal

Defensive Publications Series

Systems for routing interactive content, for example, from a primary display to a specific user's device in a multi-user environment, can present challenges in identifying the intended recipient. This disclosure describes systems and methods that can combine spatial data with orientation data to help ascertain user intent. For example, spatial positioning of devices may be determined using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio signals, while an inertial measurement unit in a handheld control device (e.g., a remote control, smartphone, or wearable device) can track its orientation. By fusing these data streams, a directional vector can be projected from the control device. A target …

Minimizing The Gap Between Church And Disability In Churches Of Christ, Paris Freeman

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

Church members with intellectual and developmental disabilities often experience disconnection from their churches. This qualitative study examined this disconnect in three suburban Church of Christ congregations within the North Texas area. Using an ethnographic approach, data was collected through interviews with ministry leaders, participatory observation, and a literature review. The analysis of the data, in conjunction with family systems theory, was utilized to construct a model for disability ministry which validates personhood and promotes awareness of self and others. The impact of the church growth movement on disability was also examined, but no definitive correlation could be determined. Further research …

Transmission Of Firm-Level Demand Shocks To Stock Returns: Evidence From 10-K Text Analysis, Dylan Gunjan Parikh

Economics Undergraduate Senior Theses

Industrial organization and corporate finance papers that measure firm-level demand characteristics employ price, quantity, and product characteristic data that is unavailable in public financial disclosures. As a result, cross-sectional asset pricing literature attention to demand-side factors is limited. This paper constructs a demand shock measure from natural language processing of 28,263 publicly disclosed 10-K filings from 2001 to 2020. I find that a 1SD demand shock increases contemporaneously predicts a 1.8% increase (SE = 0.4%) in returns. Long-short portfolio sorted on demand shock generates 8.5% alpha (SE = 1.9%) against combined Fama-French and Q-factor models and a 0.91 sharpe ratio …

Identifying Active Layer Dynamics Across Geomorphic Landforms In Longyeardalen, Central Svalbard, Madeline Kim Koelbel

Earth Sciences Undergraduate Senior Theses

The thermal state of the active layer and analysis of meteorological conditions provides a greater understanding of where active layer detachment slides can occur. This study provides an overview of the active layer ground thermal regime for 2024 and 2025 in Longyeardalen, Svalbard, where the largest settlement in Svalbard, Longyearbyen is located. Ground temperature data was extracted from 8 boreholes in Longyeardalen and meteorological data was extracted from one weather station in central Longyeardalen. Overall, the ALT thickness and the thawing period increased from 2024 to 2025 while the thaw rate remained the same or decreased. The zero-curtain effect was …

Fisheye Camera Object Detection For Traffic Surveillance, Hugo Yang, Robert Luo

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Effective traffic management is hampered by the physical limitations of traditional pinhole cameras, whose narrow fields of view create blind spots that require costly multi-camera infrastructure to overcome. Fisheye cameras offer a wide-angle alternative capable of single-camera intersection coverage, but the radial distortion inherent in their optics renders standard object detection algorithms unreliable, limiting their practical deployment in traffic surveillance.

This thesis investigates specialized object detection pipelines for fisheye traffic imagery by reproducing and building upon two top-ranked submissions from the 2025 AI City Challenge Track 4: the VNPT and SKKU-AutoLab pipelines. Both were successfully reconstructed outside their original containerized …

Otologic Manifestations Of Temporomandibular Disorders, Fatemeh Ebrahimi, Ali Akbar, Vivian Jin, Vivian F Kaul, Craig B Pearl

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background/Objectives: Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) affects a third of the adult population and has been associated with otologic symptoms. These symptoms are frequently misattributed to primary otologic diseases, leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment. This review aims to summarize the reported prevalence, proposed pathophysiologic mechanisms, and management strategies of otologic manifestations in patients with TMD.

Methods: A literature review was conducted using the MeSH terms "temporomandibular joint disease" and "otologic symptoms." Five additional searches were performed using "temporomandibular disease/dysfunction" combined with each of the five most common otologic symptoms. Meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, reviews, and systematic reviews were …

Long-Term Demography And Spatial Genetic Structure Reveal Mechanisms Of Sassafras Albidum Population Persistence Through Clonality, J.T. Michel, Jonathan P. Evans, Skyler J. Fox, Ashley B. Morris

Open Access Fund Publications

Premise: Vegetative regeneration is a key mechanism of woody plant persistence in forest ecosystems, and the coupled roles of basal sprouting and clonal growth in shaping long-term population dynamics have been understudied. Basal sprouting replaces stems at fixed ramet locations, whereas clonal growth via root suckering produces spatially distinct ramets that promote genet-level persistence across space. Sassafras albidum, a clonal understory tree native to eastern North America, employs both mechanisms, making it an excellent system for evaluating how sprouting and clonality interact to structure populations.

Methods: We combined over two decades of demographic data with spatially explicit microsatellite analyses …

Behavioural Activation For The Prevention Of Poststroke Depression In Low-Income Older Stroke Survivors (Live Wel): Protocol For A Randomised Controlled Trial, Jennifer E S Beauchamp, Sean I Savitz, Anjail Sharrief, Belinda M Reininger, Ronald Acierno, Robert Suchting, Jason Burnett, Lauren Rosales, Jenan Ahmed Albaqali, Rinitha Rajan, Namkee G Choi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: Poststroke depression (PSD) affects approximately 33% of stroke survivors and is associated with worse outcomes, poor quality of life (QOL) and mortality. Despite its prevalence and consequences, there is no consensus on the most effective strategy for PSD prevention. Behavioural activation (BA) is an effective intervention for depression across diverse populations and is considered safer, better tolerated and a longer-lasting alternative to antidepressant medications. This study aims to test the effectiveness of a remotely delivered BA intervention to prevent PSD (Tele-BA-S).

Methods and analysis: We will conduct a randomised effectiveness trial of 350 low-income adults (≥ 55 years) within …

Seizure-Induced Resolution Of Depressive And Psychotic Symptoms In A Pregnant Patient: A Case Of Spontaneous Neuromodulation, Ariel E. Sosa Gomez, Ryan M. Go, David Valdez

School of Medicine Publications

Many individuals with epilepsy often develop major depressive disorder (MDD), creating a complex interplay that exacerbates outcomes for affected individuals. The relationship between these disorders may be mediated by overlapping neurobiological mechanisms, including disturbances in the limbic system, neurotransmitter imbalances, and the psychosocial stressors of chronic illness. While the co-occurrence typically leads to a worsening of symptoms, rare instances have been reported in which seizure activity appears to ameliorate psychiatric symptomatology. We present the case of a 23-year-old pregnant Hispanic female with a longstanding history of treatment-resistant depression with psychotic features and epilepsy, who demonstrated full remission of depressive and …

Plugging The Digital Reproductive Health Data Privacy Holes In The Post-Dobbs Era—A New Evidentiary Privilege, Fengting Liang

NULR Online

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Entering The Villa: Love Island Usa Season 7 As A Site For Neoliberal Prosumption, Laura Cunningham

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Love Is In The Walls, Jonathan Champagne

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Vanishing Point, Michael Hoyt

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Progress, Jennifer Cormack

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Fuck The Border Wall, Isdaly Reyes

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Three Nights, Andrew Moore

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Deer Velvet, Cosima Pellis

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

No abstract provided.