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Institutionalization Of The Myanmar Government’S Illiberal Peacebuilding In The Karen National Union (Knu) Armed Conflict, Salsabilla Azzahra, Adhi Cahya Fahadayna

Jurnal Wacana Politik

This article examines the Myanmar government’s illiberal peacebuilding practices in addressing the ongoing conflict with the Karen ethnic group. Using qualitative descriptive methods and a literature review, the author analyzes the dynamics of the relationship between the state and the Karen ethnic group, examining how security strategies, co-optation, and discriminatory policies are employed to suppress resistance. Using Comparative Historical Analysis as its method, this article will discuss the issue of this conflict from 2015 to 2021. The study shows that the 2015 nationwide ceasefire agreement failed to achieve inclusive peace; the Myanmar government prioritized stability and territorial control through repressive …

Prabowo’S Independent Active Foreign Policy On Palestine And Its Global Implications, Syafiuddin Fadlillah, Ujang Komarudin

Jurnal Wacana Politik

This study discusses the implementation of Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy under President Prabowo Subianto concerning the Palestinian issue and its implications for Indonesia’s global role. The principle of Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy serves as the foundation for determining the direction of its foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israel–Palestine conflict. This research employs a qualitative method using Rosenau’s Foreign Policy Analysis theory to analyze the domestic and international factors influencing Indonesia’s foreign policy decisions, and interviews with experts. The findings indicate that President Prabowo reaffirmed his commitment to Palestinian independence through active diplomacy at the United Nations …

Conscious Ai Thought Origination In Llm, Shreyas Kc, Yu Gu

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically to conscious AI systems integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs) for autonomous ideation and decision-making. The present disclosure introduces a consciousness layer to a fine-tuned LLM, enabling the model to continuously generate candidate topics, rank them using a weighted scoring algorithm, and select the highest-priority topic for ideation. The consciousness layer captures and stores intermediate outcomes, embeddings, agent actions, and metadata, which are vectorized and re-injected into the LLM’s context to maintain continuity. This loop operates without external prompting, emulating humans like spontaneous thought and topic …

Estimation Of Net Premium For Flight Delay Insurance Using The Aggregate Loss Model: A Case Study Of Indonesia Otas, Azka Nurul Husna, Yulial Hikmah, Ira Rosianal Hikmah

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

Air transportation, as one of the most chosen transportation modes, is frequently susceptible to delays. Flight Delay Insurance offers a vital solution to mitigate the financial losses associated with this risk. Premium pricing is a key factor influencing the decision to purchase this insurance, particularly on Online Travel Agent (OTA) platforms where product offerings are often highly comparable. The aggregate loss method is employed herein to ascertain the net premium (or pure premium) price. The loss severity component (X) is modeled using an empirical distribution, while the loss frequency component (N) is modeled using a Negative Binomial distribution with parameters …

Bridging Physics And Data: Hybrid Modelling Of Nox And Soot Emissions In Alternative-Fuel Diesel Engine, Fatih Okumuş

Seatific Journal

In this study, a basic machine learning approach based on fuel type for estimating NOx and soot emissions in diesel engines was comparatively evaluated against a physics-based model incorporating physical indicators related to the combustion process. Experimental data were obtained from a single-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engine under single and dual fuel conditions using diesel, biodiesel, and ammonia. Quantities derived from the in-cylinder pressure signal, including IMEP, maximum pressure rise rate, maximum pressure, the crankshaft angle corresponding to maximum pressure, the CA10–CA90 combustion interval, ignition delay and total combustion duration, were integrated into the model as quantitative indicators representing the engine’s …

The Impact Of Imo Regulations On Ship Emission Research: A Bibliometric Analysis, Halil İbrahim Sönmez

Seatific Journal

The regulation of ship emissions has become an important issue in the context of global environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation, and maritime policy. This study examines the impact of International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations on academic research related to ship engine emissions using a bibliometric methodology. A dataset consisting of 1,275 publications from 1995 to 2025 was extracted from the Scopus database and analyzed using the Biblioshiny package in RStudio. The average age of the studies was 5.77, while international collaboration was determined to be 28.08%. Outcomes show a 185.19% increase in post 2018 academic outputs following the implementation of …

Law 14-07: A Revised Legal Framework For The Land Title Registration Procedure, Aissam Zine-Dine

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

This article presents Law 14-07 as a redesigned legal framework governing land title registration (immatriculation fonciere) in Morocco. It outlines the objectives of the reform, including improving legal security, clarifying procedures, and strengthening the reliability of land registers. The paper also notes persistent challenges—such as limited territorial coverage of registered titles and the continued use of informal practices—that contribute to land disputes. The author argues for broader adoption of the registration system and for continued procedural modernization to reduce litigation and enhance property rights protection.

Pdr-Stgcn: An Enhanced Stgcn With Multi-Scale Periodic Fusion And A Dynamic Relational Graph For Traffic Forecasting, Jie Hu, Bingbing Tang, Langsha Zhu, Yiting Li, Jianjun Hu, Guanci Yang

Faculty Publications

Accurate traffic flow prediction is a core component of intelligent transportation systems, supporting proactive traffic management, resource optimization, and sustainable urban mobility. However, urban traffic networks exhibit heterogeneous multi-scale periodic patterns and time-varying spatial interactions among road segments, which are not sufficiently captured by many existing spatio-temporal forecasting models. To address this limitation, this paper proposes PDR-STGCN (Periodicity-Aware Dynamic Relational Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network), an enhanced STGCN framework that jointly models multi-scale periodicity and dynamically evolving spatial dependencies for traffic flow prediction. Specifically, a periodicity-aware embedding module is designed to capture heterogeneous temporal cycles (e.g., daily and weekly patterns) and …

Fatigue Crack Length Estimation Using Acoustic Emissions Technique-Based Convolutional Neural Networks, Asaad Migot, Ahmed Saaudi, Roshan Joseph, Victor Giurgiutiu

Faculty Publications

Fatigue crack propagation is a critical failure mechanism in engineering structures, requiring meticulous monitoring for timely maintenance. This research introduces a deep learning framework for estimating fatigue fracture length in metallic plates through acoustic emission (AE) signals. AE waveforms recorded during crack growth are transformed into time-frequency images using the Choi–Williams distribution. First, a clustering system is developed to analyze the distribution of the AE image-based dataset. This system employs a CNN-based model to extract features from the input images. The AE dataset is then divided into three categories according to fatigue lengths using the K-means algorithm. Principal Component Analysis …

Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: I’M Sorry Dave, I’M Afraid I Can’T Do That: Competence, Confidentiality, And Communication, Cliff Mckinney

Arkansas Law Notes

In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spaceship’s onboard computer, HAL, calmly refuses to follow the astronaut’s command with the chilling words, “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s response has become a cultural shorthand for what happens when human expectations collide with machine limitations. The line endures because it captures the chilling reality that machines may appear capable, but they cannot always be trusted to act in ways humans expect or need.

This installment explores three pillars of Formal Opinion 512: competence, confidentiality, and communication. These pillars focus on what lawyers need to understand about …

Possible Intervertebral Disc Disease Related To Ventricular Tachycardia In A Labrador Retriever, Nadthagarn Glaewketgarn, Sirilak Disatian Surachetpong

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Ventricular arrhythmia (VA) is a common arrhythmia in dogs. Several extracardiac causes such as pain may contribute this condition. This case report describes a 9-year-old neutered male Labrador Retriever with ventricular tachycardia (VT) potentially related to severe neck pain due to intervertebral disc disease (IVDD). The dog was referred with a sign of inability to walk, tachypnea and an irregular heartbeat. Electrocardiography confirmed VT at 160-200 bpm and an increased cardiac troponin I level (35.22 ng/ml). Despite antiarrhythmic treatment, the VT persisted. Cardiac evaluation revealed no structural abnormalities. Interestingly, VT episodes were provoked by cervical palpation and resolved following analgesic …

Gpr156 Is Required In Sensory Hair Cells For Proper Auditory And Vestibular Function., Amandine Jarysta, Brandie Morris Verdone, Elli I Hartig, Kathleen E Cullen, Basile Tarchini

Faculty Research 2026

Proper orientation of the apical cytoskeleton in auditory and vestibular hair cells is essential for their sensory function. A recently identified regulator of hair cell orientation is the G protein-coupled receptor GPR156, which signals through inhibitory heterotrimeric G proteins. In hair cells expressing the transcription factor EMX2, GPR156 is apically enriched and polarized at cell junctions. There, GPR156 signaling reverses the interpretation of tissue-level core planar cell polarity cues, effectively reversing the orientation of Emx2-positive compared to Emx2-negative hair cells. This mechanism establishes key anatomical features, such as the correct alignment of auditory outer hair cells and the …

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Johnston, Frank (2023-04-13)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

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The Nostalgia Of Jon Stewart: The Looming Extinction Of Journalism, James C. Smoot

Fast Capitalism

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Europe: Dream Of Unity, Reality Of Divisions, Aleš Debeljak

Fast Capitalism

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Blast Wind: Phantomenology, Modernity, And The Remains Of Art, Gary Kochhar-Lindgren

Fast Capitalism

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Looking Over The Cliff: Globalizing Inequalities And The Challenge For A Global Social Theory, Jason Powell

Fast Capitalism

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Activism In The Fast Lane: Social Movements And The Neglect Of Time, Kamilla Kamilla Pietrzyk

Fast Capitalism

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Full Issue, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

Fast Capitalism

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An Unlikely Ironic Intervention: Reimagining The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Of America, Jennifer Paola Hernandez

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

The project of interest is an intervention in the United States of America to reform racial and minority vote dilution, along with systemic entrenchment of power within gerrymandering, to undo the legacies of colonialism and racism within the states. Holding the government accountable to Constitutional and human rights is a patriotic act, even if many Americans don’t see it that way. Though often linked to the Global South, peacebuilding can also include institutional reform in non-war contexts. Peacebuilding processes are intended to improve society’s institutional structures for the betterment and sustainability of its constituents. I argue that the United States …

The Iranian Uprisings And The Challenge Of The The New Media: Rethinking The Politics Of Representation, Henry A. Giroux

Fast Capitalism

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The Workers May Yet Unite: Media Misdirection Versus The Political And Cultural Economy Of The Us Auto Industry And Worker Attitudes, George L. Lundskow, Brian Phillips, Phyllis Curtiss, Katherine Rehorst, Allison M. Wehr Bennett

Fast Capitalism

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Appetite For Destruction: On Naomi Klein's Neo-Liberal Utopia-Dystopia, Mark Featherstone

Fast Capitalism

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Sign Story: Shifting Discourse On ‘Signage’ In Progressive Grocer Magazine, Or The Supermarket Under Late Capitalism, Mario Rodriguez

Fast Capitalism

The supermarket industry is an “industry in flux.”[1] Modern grocery stores face multinational opposition at the millennium paralleling the extinction of neighborhood “mom-and-pop” stores with the rise of chain stores of the late 19th century (Strasser, 1989). With this large-scale reorganization of the grocery store industry comes a concomitant restructuring of what constitutes a grocery store itself—its architecture, services, and signs. The following study analyzes the evolving discourse on signs—or ‘signage,’ as it is called in the industry—in Progressive Grocer magazine over the 12-year period from 1996 to 2008. First, signs are contextualized in terms of the history of in-store …

The Cult Of Exchange Value And The Critical Theory Of Spectacle, Mark P. Worrell

Fast Capitalism

The concept of ‘spectacle’ entered the vocabulary of the social sciences with the publication of Debord’s classic Society of the Spectacle. Debord and company were concerned with art, aesthetics, urbanism, the city, architecture, and so on, but, as Lefebvre points out, as these multiple concerns fell by the wayside the Situationists were left with generally little more than an abstract critique of society and polemics (McDonough 2002: 275-76, 281) with the notion of spectacle at the center of it all. To the extent that Situationism still exerts an influence on critical theory it is apparently in just this notion of …

The Contribution Of Implosion To The Exuberance Of The Dead, George Sanders

Fast Capitalism

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Ethnography, Torture And The Human Terrain / Terror System, Neil L. Whitehead

Fast Capitalism

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Full Issue, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

Fast Capitalism

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Assessing The Student Awareness To Age Friendly Design: The Case Of Ain Shams University- Architecture Students, Shorouk Saleh Ali Kabel, Samah Mohamed Elsayed Atteia Elkhateb, Rowaida M. O. Mohamed Rashed, Wesam M. El-Bardisy

HBRC Journal

With Egypt’s rapid urbanization and projected demographic shift, where individuals aged 60 and above are expected to constitute more than 15% of the population by 2050, addressing the needs of older adults in urban design has become increasingly urgent. Despite global recognition of the importance of age-friendly design, its integration into Egyptian architectural education remains limited, particularly concerning accessibility, safety, and inclusivity.

This study evaluates the level of awareness of Age-Friendly Design (AFD) principles among architecture students at Ain Shams University using a mixed-methods approach. Quantitative data were collected through an online questionnaire assessing students’ familiarity with the concept, while …

Roads To Regulation: A Discussion On Non-State Armed Groups' International Health Law Obligations, Eric Fogle

Journal of Law and Health

Non-state actors can look and operate like governments, yet without formal statehood, they exist in a regulatory gray area. Non state actors play an increasingly influential role in international law, yet they remain largely unregulated. This paper examines non-state actors as a class, with particular attention to non-State armed groups (NSAGs), and analyzes the regulatory gap they occupy specifically within international health law. The paper first surveys the rise, diversity, authority, and legitimacy of non-state actors in relation to States, highlighting their growing involvement in governance functions traditionally reserved for States. This paper then introduces the World Health Organization (WHO) …