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Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 2011-2013

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 2011-2013

Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 2006

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 2006

Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 2005

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 2005

Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 2000-2001

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 2000-2001

Texas Bluebonnet Chapter, Daughters Of The American Revolution Scrapbook, 1993-1995

Lucretia Council Cochran and Texas Bluebonnet Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks

Scrapbook created by the Texas Bluebonnet Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution containing materials from 1993-1995

Human Artfully Crafted Intellegence .Haci, David Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

human artfully crafted intellegence .haci extended mark up language.

Human Artfully Crafted Intellegence Namespace, David Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

Human artfully crafted intellegence namespace is a family of human ai collab interpreter languages.

Tiered-Boot Capability Kernel For An Ai-Agent Platform, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Large AI-agent platforms aggregate dozens to hundreds of interdependent modules spanning operating-system services, an AI-inference runtime, and business domains. A conventional monolith or undifferentiated plugin host gives no guarantee that such a platform boots deterministically, fails fast on an unmet dependency, or remains operable and manageable when AI or business logic is absent or broken. Critically, when the heavy, fast-iterating AI runtime crashes during startup, it frequently takes the entire process down with it — including the very health endpoint operators need to diagnose the failure. This publication describes a boot architecture that resolves the problem through three combined mechanisms. …

Tiered-Boot Capability Kernel For An Ai-Agent Platform, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Large AI-agent platforms aggregate dozens to hundreds of interdependent modules spanning operating-system services, an AI-inference runtime, and business domains. A conventional monolith or undifferentiated plugin host gives no guarantee that such a platform boots deterministically, fails fast on an unmet dependency, or remains operable and manageable when AI or business logic is absent or broken. Critically, when the heavy, fast-iterating AI runtime crashes during startup, it frequently takes the entire process down with it — including the very health endpoint operators need to diagnose the failure. This publication describes a boot architecture that resolves the problem through three combined mechanisms. …

Capability-Scoped Task Envelopes With Reserved-File Token Broker For Concurrent Ai Coding Agents, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

When several heterogeneous AI code-generation agents write to one shared repository concurrently, branch isolation plus post-hoc merge does not bound per-agent scope and does not prevent reserved-file races on a small set of high-blast-radius files. This publication describes a method that addresses both failures with one coherent mechanism.

A planner classifies each natural-language change request into a kind (create, modify, debug, migrate, deploy, read-only) and a risk label, then emits one or more task envelopes. Each envelope carries a declarative capability budget — allow_paths, deny_paths, max_files_changed, max_lines_changed, and may_add_dependencies — plus an agent-role assignment, required reserved-file tokens, required CI checks, …

Per-Persona Token Budget Tracker With Strategy Bias, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Per-agent and per-tenant large-language-model (LLM) spend is hard to predict, attribute, and govern. The prevailing industry practice is post-hoc observation: token meters, billing exports, and span-level cost-attribution dashboards report what was spent after it was spent. The cost figure, however, never re-enters the agent's own decision loop. As a consequence the agent continues to select the same expensive model and the same long context until a hard spend cap trips, at which point the agent stops abruptly — a cost cliff rather than graceful degradation.

This publication describes a per-persona token budget tracker that converts cost into a closed-loop control …

Per-Persona Token Budget Tracker With Strategy Bias, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Per-agent and per-tenant large-language-model (LLM) spend is hard to predict, attribute, and govern. The prevailing industry practice is post-hoc observation: token meters, billing exports, and span-level cost-attribution dashboards report what was spent after it was spent. The cost figure, however, never re-enters the agent's own decision loop. As a consequence the agent continues to select the same expensive model and the same long context until a hard spend cap trips, at which point the agent stops abruptly — a cost cliff rather than graceful degradation.

This publication describes a per-persona token budget tracker that converts cost into a closed-loop control …

Hybrid Rag Ranking With Graceful Llm Fallback, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines increasingly insert a language-model (LLM) re-ranking stage between candidate retrieval and answer synthesis, because LLM re-rankers materially improve the ordering of retrieved passages. But LLM re-rankers are slow, costly, rate-limited, and intermittently unavailable. The naive integration — retrieve, then await the LLM re-ranker, then return — promotes the slow, failure-prone stage onto the critical path. End-to-end retrieval latency, availability, and cost all become hostage to the LLM provider: one provider timeout or one tripped spend cap converts a sub-100 ms retrieval into a multi-second failure or an outage.

This publication describes a hybrid ranking architecture that …

Benjamin Whiting V. Fbi

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Aligning Artificial Intelligence To The Law, Jack Boeglin

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Protecting Dependent Children In Bankruptcy, Michael D. Sousa, L. Alexis Whitley Esq.

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Lessons From Eugenics: Safeguarding Autonomy In Procreation, Claire Bass

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Persaud V. Price

All Decisions

In this licensee holdover in an allegedly unregulated apartment, the court grants a pre-answer motion to dismiss the petition, which pleaded alternate theories of respondent's relationship to the premises—namely that respondent was a licensee or a tenant at will and/or sufferance. The court found that this demonstrated a lack of 'diligent effort to ascertain the nature of the occupants' possession,' which was 'unreasonable under the circumstances.'

336 Grand Concourse Llc V. Miranda

All Decisions

In this nonpayment proceeding, tenant moved to amend her answer and to dismiss the petition on the grounds that the amount demanded had been paid in full. The court granted leave to amend the answer, finding the proposed amendments were neither patently meritless nor prejudicial. The court dismissed the petition, finding that the amount demanded had been paid even accounting for agency payment earmarking rules under RPAPL §731(4), leaving only post-petition arrears outstanding. Landlord's cross-motion to amend the petition to add post-petition arrears was denied as moot, as the proposed amendment sought rent already paid and bore no meaningful relation …

Most In Massachusetts Say Starting Iran Conflict Was Wrong Decision, Approval Of Trump Remains Low 6/29/2026, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Seven in ten Massachusetts residents say the U.S. made the wrong decision to attack Iran, in the wake of an announcement of a memorandum of understanding to halt the conflict. Most Bay Staters doubt the two countries will reach an agreement to end the conflict and most oppose restarting military operations against Iran if no deal is reached on their nuclear program. President Trump's overall job approval remains low in the state and only a quarter believe the country is on the right track.

Trump Approval Continues To Erode In New Hampshire; Most Believe Iran War Was Wrong Decision 6/29/2026, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nearly two-thirds of Granite Staters say the decision to go to war with Iran was wrong, few expect a full agreement to materialize during the 60-day negotiating window, and most oppose restarting military operations against Iran if no deal is reached on Iran's nuclear program. President Trump’s job approval rating continues to decline and approval of his handling of foreign policy is at its lowest in either of his terms. Only one-third believe the country is headed in the right direction.

Periodic Adjustments — Treaties And Other Issues, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Jeffery M. Kadet

Articles

In his May article, Michael McDonald, a former managing director at Ernst & Young and current adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, criticized the IRS’s recently announced method for applying the commensurate with income (CWI) requirement that addresses the widespread underpricing of intangibles.1 His analysis questioned the IRS’s interpretation of section 482. McDonald argues that, until 2025, Treasury and the IRS applied CWI in a manner consistent with the arm’s-length principle despite congressional misgivings about the arm’s-length principle that were not only expressed in the legislative history of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 but were …

Dietary Hermetia Illucens Larvae Meal Enhances Growth Performance, Intestinal Health And Modulates Intestinal Microbiota Of Juvenile Mirror Carp (Cyprinus Carpio), Sahya Maulu, Ben Eynon, Glenn Harper, Owen Day, Leona Emenike, Mark Rawling, Daniel Merrifield

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

As global aquaculture expands, sustainable alternative feed ingredients are needed to reduce reliance on fishmeal (FM) and conventional plant proteins. Herein, this study evaluated defatted black soldier fly (BSF; Hermetia illucens) larvae meal as a replacement mainly for soybean meal (SBM) and soy protein concentrate (SPC) in juvenile mirror carp diets. Fish (initial weight: 7.28 ± 0.09 g) were reared in a recirculating aquaculture system and fed for 8 weeks on either a control diet or diets containing 20% (BSF20) or 40% (BSF40) BSF meal. After the trial, growth performance was significantly improved in BSF-fed groups, with higher final weight, …

Obesity And Keratoconus: A Mediation Study Based On The Chinese Keratoconus Cohort, Kaili Yang, Anqi Chang, Runqi Tu, Liyan Xu, Yuwei Gu, Qi Fan, Shanshan Yin, Yi Yuan, Yifan Wang, Chenchen Yin, Yonghao Zang, Changxiu Li, Chenjiu Pang, Daniela Oehring, Yibin Hao, Shengwei Ren

School of Health Professions

Purpose: Growing evidence indicates a strong association between obesity and keratoconus (KC), although the potential mediating factors remain largely unknown. This study aimed to explore the potential pathways through which corneal biomechanical and topographic parameters might link obesity and KC using structural equation modeling (SEM). Methods: This case-control study included 759 participants (363 patients with KC and 396 controls) from the Chinese Keratoconus (CKC) Cohort Study. Associations among body mass index (BMI), corneal biomechanical parameters, topographic parameters, and KC were analyzed using generalized linear regression models. SEM was used to construct latent variables for corneal biomechanical and topographic parameters. Three …

Usa V. Samuel Barnes

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Modeling Mathematics Identity In Engineering Pathways: Centrality, Typicality, And Persistence In Stem, Douglas D. Havard, Linh Ho, Adriana Quirós-Arauz

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Inequities in mathematics-intensive engineering pathways persist in part because "being mathematical" is socially recognized as much as it is personally meaningful. Guided by the Social Theory of Numeracy, this study validates a two-factor model of mathematics identity, distinguishing between identity centrality (the integration of mathematics into one's self-concept) and peer-normative typicality (the perceived alignment with academic peer pathways that signal legitimacy and belonging). Engineering degree selection was examined as a focal mathematics-intensive outcome. Using the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), we estimated survey-weighted confirmatory and structural models with Balanced Repeated Replication (200 BRR replicates; Fay = 0.5) on …

A Legal Comedy Of Errors: Foia’S Judicial Drama Over Who Controls The Oversight Script, Caroline Savini

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Lo Femenino Más Allá De Lo Materno. Vínculos Y Rupturas En Animales Domésticos (2003) De Marta Sanz, Alessia De Filippis

Intersecciones Hispánicas: Revista de Cultura, Literatura y Lingüística

El presente artículo se dedica a indagar las ambivalencias de la experiencia maternal y el deterioro de las relaciones maternofiliales a partir del retrato crudo e incómodo que Sanz ofrece en las páginas de Animales domésticos (2003). Como es notorio, el papel de la madre abnegada y cuidadosa es el que tradicionalmente se ha asignado a las mujeres. Se presupone que el instinto materno emerge de manera natural y se espera que la experiencia de la maternidad constituye una fuente de gratificación incondicional, excluyendo toda posibilidad de ambivalencia emocional. En consecuencia, se alimenta una visión colectiva de la maternidad evidentemente …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 06.29.26, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Olivia Rogers ’23 J.D. to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
• Notre Dame Law School Announces Faculty Promotions for Susan Azyndar and Msgr. John Paul Kimes
• ND Law’s Program on Church, State & Society Announces 2026 Writing Competition Winners
• Notre Dame Law School is Cultivating Hope

Faculty Briefs

• Paolo Carozza
• Francisco Urbina
• Mary Ellen O'Connell
• Jeff Pojanowski
• Haley Proctor
• Derek Muller
• Rick Garnett
• Ashley Sanchez
• Susan Azyndar & Yan Yu
• Carter Snead
• Emily Bremmer
• Emilia Powell
• Howard Glickstein

ND Law in the News

• Notre Dame Law School was mentioned in coverage of Indiana’s eviction …

Carolyn Florimonte V. Borough Of Dalton

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania