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Role Of Orbital Ultrasound In The Monitoring Of Children With Raised Intracranial Pressure-Prospective Observational Study Conducted In Tertiary Care Centre, Nithiya Selvam, Narayanan Parameswaran, Ramesh Ananthakrishnan Feb 2026

Role Of Orbital Ultrasound In The Monitoring Of Children With Raised Intracranial Pressure-Prospective Observational Study Conducted In Tertiary Care Centre, Nithiya Selvam, Narayanan Parameswaran, Ramesh Ananthakrishnan

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Objectives: To evaluate the role of optic nerve sheath diameter measurement by orbital ultrasound in monitoring children with non-traumatic coma and increased ICP. Methods: A single-centre prospective observational study. conducted in the PICU of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Puducherry, INDIA. Children admitted to the PICU with features of raised ICP were enrolled. Baseline characteristics and raised ICP characteristics were recorded.ONSD measurements were taken in all children in the supine position using bedside ultrasound with a twelve MHZ linear probe. The probe was initially placed in the axial plane and measurements were taken at a distance of 3 mm …

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Authorization Gateway For Legacy System Integration — Credential-Isolated Proxy With Record Translation, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Authorization Gateway For Legacy System Integration — Credential-Isolated Proxy With Record Translation, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for governed execution proxies that bridge the gap between decision-governed authorization and target systems that cannot implement authorization verification. In one embodiment, a governed execution proxy receives an execution authorization derived from a sealed decision record, performs an authorization verification protocol comprising credential signature validation, condition verification, and invalidation status checking, and upon successful verification translates the authorization into a structured task record in a target system rather than directly executing the authorized action. The proxy enforces a credential isolation boundary where raw authorization credentials are retained within a trusted domain and only derived …

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Tamper-Evident Status Derivation From Cryptographic Execution Proof — Eliminating Mutable Status Fields, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Tamper-Evident Status Derivation From Cryptographic Execution Proof — Eliminating Mutable Status Fields, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for determining the derived committed status of sealed decision records by computing that status from the existence and verification of execution proofs rather than reading a stored mutable status value. In one embodiment, a sealed decision record is stored in a tamper- evident immutable record store without any mutable value indicating whether execution has occurred, and committed status is derived at the time of a status query by checking whether a valid execution proof exists in a separate proof store and passes multi-condition verification. The elimination of mutable status values structurally prevents status manipulation …

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Data Provenance Verification For Multi-Stage Processing Pipelines — Chained Integrity Binding, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Data Provenance Verification For Multi-Stage Processing Pipelines — Chained Integrity Binding, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for constructing and verifying provenance chains that link verifiable commitments across the semantically distinct processing stages of a determination pipeline, providing data provenance verification for multi-stage processing pipelines. In one embodiment, a provenance chain is formed by producing a verifiable commitment at each processing stage, where each stage’s commitment incorporates the preceding stage’s commitment together with the current stage’s content, creating stage-to-stage binding that makes the chain tamper- evident. The resulting forward-only provenance chain ensures that stages cannot be reordered, removed, or inserted without producing a detectably different commitment at each subsequent stage. In …

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Constrained Bearer Credentials For Decision-Gated Process Authorization, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Constrained Bearer Credentials For Decision-Gated Process Authorization, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for purpose-limited, scope-bound execution permits that constrain process authorization to the specific parameters approved by an originating decision. In one embodiment, an execution permit is derived from a sealed decision record and carries a parameter binding digest computed over a deterministic encoding of the approved action parameters, such that any modification to the parameters renders the permit invalid. The execution permit is scope-bound: it is valid only within the specific organizational context under which the originating decision was evaluated, and the execution environment independently determines context values rather than inheriting them from the permit. …

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Automated Policy-To-Code Translation — Ai-Driven Governance Artifact Construction From Policy Documents, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Automated Policy-To-Code Translation — Ai-Driven Governance Artifact Construction From Policy Documents, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for AI-driven governance artifact construction within decision infrastructure systems. The disclosed methods relate to the field of automated policy-to-code translation, where techniques from obligation extraction and model-driven engineering transform unstructured policy documents into formal governance specifications. In one embodiment, an AI constructor analyses source material — including policy documents, regulatory standards, and process descriptions — and proposes governance artifacts that declare structural and governance requirements for organisational decisions. The AI constructor performs automated decision specification authoring by translating natural language source material into formal governance specifications, proposed context configurations identifying contextual dimensions along which …

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Admission Control For Runtime Process Extension — Structural Validation, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Admission Control For Runtime Process Extension — Structural Validation, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for validated runtime extension of executing multi-step processes with structural safety guarantees. In one embodiment, when a proposed extension comprising additional process steps and their dependencies is submitted for incorporation into an executing process, the system evaluates the proposed extension against a set of structural validation predicates before any modification to the executing process is permitted. The structural validation predicates are deterministic checks that verify structural integrity properties of the proposed extension relative to the current process structure, including termination verification (confirming that the extended structure preserves finite completion), data flow compatibility checking (confirming …

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Snapshot Isolation For Policy Evaluation — Temporal Consistency Across Multi-Step Processes, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Snapshot Isolation For Policy Evaluation — Temporal Consistency Across Multi-Step Processes, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for ensuring temporal consistency across multi-step decision processes that evaluate organisational decisions against rules and policies drawn from multiple independent sources. In one embodiment, a temporal reference is captured at the initiation of a decision process and carried through all subsequent evaluation steps, ensuring that every step observes the policy environment as it existed at a consistent policy snapshot. Temporal markers obtained from policy sources are treated as opaque — their internal structure is not interpreted by the decision system — and freshness comparison determines whether one marker represents a state at least as …

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Federated Ontology Management For Polysemous Terms — Context-Dependent Vocabulary Binding, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Federated Ontology Management For Polysemous Terms — Context-Dependent Vocabulary Binding, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for associating context-dependent meaning definitions with terms used in decision evaluation, where the meaning of a given term varies depending on the decision context in which it is evaluated. In one embodiment, a decision evaluation system manages terms through a controlled vocabulary definition in which each governed term identifier maintains a single managed identity across all decision contexts — for purposes of lifecycle management, alternative name resolution, and administrative tracking — while the interpretation rules, typing constraints, and validation logic associated with that term differ depending on which decision context references it. In one …

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Outbound Investment Restrictions And International Law’S Challenge, Harlan Grant Cohen Feb 2026

Outbound Investment Restrictions And International Law’S Challenge, Harlan Grant Cohen

Seattle University Law Review

The Outbound Investment Rule, restricting U.S. investment in certain Chinese advanced technology sectors, has largely been portrayed as an incremental measure, a modest extension to fill loopholes in the existing investment screening regime. But while perhaps the logical next step in the securitization of the economy, the Outbound Investment Rule actually reflects a momentous shift in the relationship between governments and business, one playing out in the United States and around the world and worth attention. Unlike traditional investment screening, the Outbound Investment Rule operates like a sanctions regime, designed not to protect the U.S. economy, but to hamper the …

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 19, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Feb 2026

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 19, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

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Resilient Dispute Resolution Systems For International Energy Conflicts, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez Feb 2026

Resilient Dispute Resolution Systems For International Energy Conflicts, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez

Seattle University Law Review

Energy-related conflicts are on the rise, spanning diverse issues such as the impacts of rare mineral mining on local communities, the impacts of sanctions on energy investments due to the Russia-Ukraine war, and the impacts of expanded subsidies on the electric vehicle and solar panel industries. Increasingly, companies, communities, and governments are clashing over the challenges of pursuing disparate and sometimes competing energy policies. This Article argues that dispute resolution mechanisms in the energy investment sector must be fundamentally rethought. Traditional semi-adjudicatory models, which focus on winners and losers, fail to accommodate the complex and multifaceted nature of contemporary energy …

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Restricting Data Flows Is A Sign Of Weakness, Nikolas Guggenberger Feb 2026

Restricting Data Flows Is A Sign Of Weakness, Nikolas Guggenberger

Seattle University Law Review

There has been a seismic shift in American attitudes toward the free flow of data across borders.  In less than a decade, the United States has transitioned from condemning barriers to digital trade to constructing a digital fortress of its own. It passed legislation requiring TikTok’s parent company to divest its U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban affecting 170 million U.S. users, citing national security concerns about its ties to China and the potential for data surveillance and content manipulation. Upon legal challenge by TikTok on First Amendment grounds, the Supreme Court affirmed the ban’s constitutionality. Recent federal legislation …

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Product Nationality And Corporate Identity, Trang (Mae) Nguyen Feb 2026

Product Nationality And Corporate Identity, Trang (Mae) Nguyen

Seattle University Law Review

Global supply chains have long depended on a deceptively technical device: the attribution of a “nationality” to goods. A trade law principle, rules of origin assign products an “economic passport” that governs how they are treated at the border, including what markets they may enter and which tariff rates apply. In recent years, however, product nationality has taken on a new and far more ambitious role. As U.S. trade policy increasingly intersects with national security and human rights policy, policymakers rely on nationality-based measures to police supply chain linkages, curb geopolitical issues, and discipline firms for their links to forced …

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Global Supply Chain Resilience In Emerging Technologies: A Case Study Of Bitcoin Mining, Kishanthi Parella, Carla L. Reyes Feb 2026

Global Supply Chain Resilience In Emerging Technologies: A Case Study Of Bitcoin Mining, Kishanthi Parella, Carla L. Reyes

Seattle University Law Review

The United States has put into motion bold plans in critical and emerging technologies to bolster its national and economic security.  For example, the federal government created a national bitcoin strategic reserve and a stockpile of other cryptocurrency; while several states have committed to or are considering similar goals.  However, the security of these reserves is dependent on two types of supply chains within the Bitcoin mining industry: analogue supply chains, relating to the physical components needed for Bitcoin mining, and data supply chains, relating to the complex and layered logistical network of actors that create input into the software …

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Third-Party Funding: Balancing Transparency, National Security, And Access To Justice, Victoria Shannon Sahani Feb 2026

Third-Party Funding: Balancing Transparency, National Security, And Access To Justice, Victoria Shannon Sahani

Seattle University Law Review

Many lawmakers who have recently become aware of the multi-billion-dollar global third-party funding industry are raising new national security concerns that further complicate preexisting, longstanding debates about transparency, disclosure, access to justice, and the best way to regulate third-party funding. In response, this Article briefly asserts three main points relating to the question of how best to regulate third-party funding. First, this Article explains the third-party funding industry, including its global regulatory landscape and how it serves three distinct populations: consumers, businesses, and law firms. Second, this Article explains that third-party funding is one tool that can help expand access …

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The Field Of International Business Transactions Law, Kathleen Claussen Feb 2026

The Field Of International Business Transactions Law, Kathleen Claussen

Seattle University Law Review

This Article studies the evolution of the scholarly subfield referred to as the law of “international business transactions” (IBT). It reviews data on academic articles, courses, textbooks and other signifiers of the growth of this research area. Beginning around 1960, scholars began to use the term “international business transactions” and by the 1980s, several law schools were offering a course by that title. A handful of dedicated textbooks soon followed. These data reflect a gradual increase in research on the topic of IBT, particularly in the United States, but also considerable diversity of subject matters covered by those works. The …

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Kim Gyeong-Seok And The Origins Of Northeast Asia’S Corporate Accountability Movement For War And Colonialism, Timothy Webster Feb 2026

Kim Gyeong-Seok And The Origins Of Northeast Asia’S Corporate Accountability Movement For War And Colonialism, Timothy Webster

Seattle University Law Review

For the past three decades, a transnational reparations movement has unfolded across Northeast Asia. Hundreds of victims—assisted by attorneys, academics, and activists—seek remedies from Japan for various atrocities committed during World War II, colonialism, and other historical injustices.  They press their claims in street protests, legislative hearings, dramatic performances, and other fora.  The “comfort women” are the best known of these claimants; their global redress campaign ex-tends from noisy protests outside of Japan’s embassy in Seoul, to mute statues in raucous boroughs of Berlin.  More obscure, though larger in number, were the roughly one million Koreans who performed forced labor …

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Navigating Compliance In A Geopolitical Era: The Case Of Chinese Multinationals In The United States, Ji Li Feb 2026

Navigating Compliance In A Geopolitical Era: The Case Of Chinese Multinationals In The United States, Ji Li

Seattle University Law Review

This Article examines how Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) approach compliance in the United States amid deepening geo-political rivalry and intensified regulatory scrutiny. Drawing on original survey data, this Article maps variations in compliance structures, staffing, and governance mechanisms across Chinese firms and identifies key determinants such as industry-specific regulatory intensity, listing status, and organizational imprinting from headquarters. The analysis employs a dual institutional framework to explain how compliance systems emerge from the interplay between host-state regulatory demands and home-state institutional legacies, producing hybrid structures that blend local adaptation with headquarters-driven replication. Findings reveal that while certain compliance features—such as committee …

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Volume 49 Masthead Feb 2026

Volume 49 Masthead

Seattle University Law Review

Volume 49 Masthead

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A Comparative Study Of Chinese And American Approaches To Shaping International Outer Space Law And Norms, Ariel G. Silverman Feb 2026

A Comparative Study Of Chinese And American Approaches To Shaping International Outer Space Law And Norms, Ariel G. Silverman

Seattle University Law Review

This article explores convergences and divergencies in the United States and PRC’s responses to the stalemate in the United Nations over the future of outer space resource governance. I do so by systematically analyzing these leading space-faring nations’ policy-positions and tactics deployed to shape norms around three substantive areas of outer space resource governance: rights of ownership and scope of utilization of space resources, mechanization of the “benefits sharing” principle, and the rights and responsibilities of the private sector. I theorize that these leading space-faring nations have adopted divergent approaches due to their differing historical relationships with international law and …

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Advancement & Communications Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf Feb 2026

Advancement & Communications Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Losac Minutes 2026-02-19, Library Operating Staff Advisory Committee Feb 2026

Losac Minutes 2026-02-19, Library Operating Staff Advisory Committee

University Libraries Archives

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Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf Feb 2026

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Table Of Contents Feb 2026

Table Of Contents

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents

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Partial Mitochondrial Genome Of The Enigmatic Bermuda Fireworm Odontosyllis Enopla Verrill, 1900 (Annelida, Syllidae, Eusyllinae) And Its Phylogenetic Implications, Lynette D. Wyant, Brendan A. Cruz, Aydanni D. Gonzalez, Joshua M. Kovalcik, Maria A. Carolus, Lauren C. Hutto, Hope Chutjian, Jude C. Roman, Anneau Cappelmann, John J. Ankney, Aidan Popp, James B. Wood, D. Tye Pettay, Mercer R. Brugler Feb 2026

Partial Mitochondrial Genome Of The Enigmatic Bermuda Fireworm Odontosyllis Enopla Verrill, 1900 (Annelida, Syllidae, Eusyllinae) And Its Phylogenetic Implications, Lynette D. Wyant, Brendan A. Cruz, Aydanni D. Gonzalez, Joshua M. Kovalcik, Maria A. Carolus, Lauren C. Hutto, Hope Chutjian, Jude C. Roman, Anneau Cappelmann, John J. Ankney, Aidan Popp, James B. Wood, D. Tye Pettay, Mercer R. Brugler

Natural Sciences Faculty Publications

The Bermuda fireworm, Odontosyllis enopla Verrill, 1900, is a marine polychaete that displays a unique bioluminescent mating ritual. Despite the first sighting of O. enopla more than 534 years ago, molecular data have been limited. Several syllid mitogenomes are currently available; however, there are only three published genes for O. enopla: two partial mitochondrial genes (16S [508 bp] and cox1 [653 bp]; 1,161 bp total) and one partial nuclear gene (18S [1,339 bp]). This study bioinformatically mined previously published transcriptomes of O. enopla for mitochondrial reads and subsequently assembled and annotated a partial mitochondrial genome (10,172 bp). The partial mitogenome …

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Analytical Framework For Understanding Broader-Based And Sectoral Bargaining Models, Sara Slinn Feb 2026

Analytical Framework For Understanding Broader-Based And Sectoral Bargaining Models, Sara Slinn

Articles & Book Chapters

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Spectator 2026-02-19, Editors Of The Spectator Feb 2026

Spectator 2026-02-19, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

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Exploring Noise Induced Extreme Events In Neuronal Oscillators Networks And Machine Learning Forecasts, Hariharan S Mr Feb 2026

Exploring Noise Induced Extreme Events In Neuronal Oscillators Networks And Machine Learning Forecasts, Hariharan S Mr

Theses and Dissertations

This doctoral dissertation comprehensively investigates the underexplored phenomenon of noise-induced extreme events (EE). The word “extreme” is accompanied by an occurring “event” when the deviation is extreme or higher than that of regular occurrences. These extreme occurrences are rare, abrupt, sudden, and irregular, often causing a profound impact on the system and its surroundings. Tsunami, earthquakes, solar flares, and tornadoes are such events that do not occur often but still significantly cause damage to mankind. This thesis particularly focuses on EE in neuronal systems where sudden synchronization can trigger seizures, tremors, and strokes which serve as classic examples of such …

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The Colby Echo (2026-02-19), Colby College Feb 2026

The Colby Echo (2026-02-19), Colby College

The Colby Echo

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