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Adaptive And Learned Query Optimization: Techniques, Architectures, And Emerging Trends, Rehab Mohammed Abdelhalim Mokhtar, Palanichamy Naveen

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

As databases continue to grow and complexity there is an urgent need to achieve more efficient and faster query processing. This paper presents a technical review of methods that work towards optimization of various types of queries. It progresses by focusing on basic approaches like rules-based optimization and cost-based optimization. Based on this basis, the paper presents a synthesized reference architecture for adaptive and learned query optimizers as a generic framework derived from prior system. It explains on how the classical optimizer components can be enhanced through runtime monitoring integration and feedback mechanisms. From this perspective, it becomes possible to …

Evidence Synthesis Of The Ethical And Legal Challenges Of Generative Artificial Intelligence In The Provision Of Patient Health Information, Krithika Anil, Inocencio Maramba, David Cook, Daniel Cyrus, Zhamayne Fakharuzi, Amir Hossein Namdar, Timothy West, Sandeep Shirgill

Peninsula Medical School

Large language model (LLM)-based generative AI offers the promise of responsive health information for patients and carers but presents ethical and legal challenges when used outside clinical oversight. This review maps these considerations for patients accessing information on long-term conditions in non-clinical settings. Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, and Web of Science) between April and May 2025. The review synthesises 24 cross-sectional studies regarding patient-facing LLMs, excluding clinician-support tools. Results indicate that LLMs perform well on general topics but struggle with specialised information, often generating complex responses with unreliable citations. Ethical concerns highlight inaccuracy, insufficient empathy, …

Shaping Imperial Subjects: Ideology And The Adolescent Reader In H. Rider Haggard’S King Solomon’S Mines, Asma Sakit Alshammari

UB Journal for Humanities

H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) was addressed to adolescent boy readers who were expected to grow into the future administrators of the British Empire. Beneath its adventure plot lies a problem that existing scholarship on race and empire in the novel has left largely unexamined: how a text aimed at children comes to instill imperial values without appearing to instruct at all. This paper examines how Haggard embeds colonial values within King Solomon’s Mines to address that problem, employing Foucault’s concepts of power and knowledge alongside Althusser’s concept of interpellation to explore how the novel shapes colonial subjectivity …

Voices Of Resistance: The People, The Press, And The Law, Robert S. Chang, Erica Lomeli Corcoran, Memo Torres, Gary Williams, Isais Benavides, Julie Morales, Astrid Hernandez

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Loyola Public Interest Palooza Panel Transcription

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Modelling The Financial Viability Of Offshore Aquaculture Using A Case Study Of A Sea Bass Farm In The Bay Of Lion, France, Jeremy Van Dyken, Houshang Habibniya, Suzan Dsouza, Tyler Sclodnick

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The extension of net pen aquaculture to open ocean sites provides many advantages to the industry including opportunity for expansion, utilization of high energy sites, and better resilience to certain near shore or surface-associated stressors. The industry has been slow to develop due to high perceived risks and a lack of operating farms to provide financial information for open ocean farm operations. A model was developed to evaluate the economic viability of a hypothetical sea bass aquaculture venture in the open French Mediterranean Sea that utilizes open ocean submersible farming systems. Advanced open ocean equipment, including submersible net pens, environmental …

Valuation Methods And Their Relevance In Achieving Marine Protected Areas Targets: A Systematic Review, Jacob Ankamah, Stephen Hynes, Daragh O'Leary

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The prolific human-induced pressures on marine ecosystems leading to negative externalities such as beach erosion, biodiversity loss, and climate change are matters of global concern. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a tool to conserve marine biodiversity and support human livelihoods. This paper reviews the global research landscape, the evolution of concepts and the relevance of valuation techniques related to the assessment of the contribution of MPAs to societal welfare. The review indicates that less than 3% of the wider MPA literature explores the economic valuation of MPA designation. Of those, there is an obvious preference for non-market-based methods …

When The Modern Public Square Goes Private: The Supreme Court's Struggle Over Social Media As The New First Amendment Frontier, Jason M. Shepard, Kathleen Bartzen Culver

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decisions in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the meaning of free expression in the digital age is being rewritten. Our research analyzes how the Court, advocates, and amici invoked decades of First Amendment and media law precedent to define whether social media platforms act as speakers with editorial rights or as common carriers open to regulation. Relevant doctrines include First Amendment implications of medium-specific regulations, common carrier definitions, speaker autonomy, editorial discretion, expressive conduct, intermediate and strict scrutiny analysis, content-based regulations, viewpoint neutrality, and public forum analysis. Drawing on an …

Chin Music: Chilling Legal Advocacy Through Executive Orders Attacking Law Firms, Robert S. Chang

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Introduction to amicus brief challenging executive orders targeting law firms.

The amicus brief itself is reproduced as filed with the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Digital Responsibility Index: Quantifying Perceived Multi-Layered Responsibility In Cybersecurity, Mircea Ţălu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

In the evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity responsibility extends beyond technical safeguards to include individual behavior, organizational governance, and societal impact. This study introduces the Digital Responsibility Index (DRI), a novel metric that quantifies multi-layered accountability across four domains: technical, individual, organizational, and societal. Data were collected through scenario-based Likert-scale surveys with 120 cybersecurity professionals, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with senior leaders. Results reveal that while technical and organizational responsibilities are consistently prioritized, individual and societal accountability remain under-recognized. Leadership engagement significantly enhances responsibility scores across all layers. The proposed DRI framework provides a measurable and potentially actionable basis for assessing …

Beyond Screening In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Domain-Standardized, Measure-Flexible Framework For Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment, Etiane Navarro

Archives of Assessment Psychology

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder in which cognitive, behavioral, language, and social-cognitive changes may occur across clinical phenotypes, including the ALS-frontotemporal spectrum. Neuropsychological assessment is important for characterizing nonmotor manifestations and identifying changes relevant to autonomy, everyday functioning, and clinical management. This systematic review examined literature identified through APA PsycINFO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and supplementary searching to characterize neuropsychological domains, measures, phenotype-related findings, and disease-specific limitations relevant to comprehensive assessment. Two hundred records underwent title and abstract screening, 150 reports were reviewed in full text, and 61 resources were retained for synthesis. ALS-specific screening instruments, including …

Her Discerning Eye, Abigail Stepnitz

ConLawNOW

Court watchers read each Supreme Court term like tea leaves, seeking in the record a deeper meaning about who we are and where we are going. To read the recent term, this Essay takes up Oliver Wendell Holmes’s image of law as a tapestry woven for its initiates and Robert Cover’s account of courts as jurispathic, killing competing legal meanings to preserve a coherent archive. It sees the 2025–26 term not as a set of doctrinal developments or even political compromises, but as a weave of foreclosed claims, in which what the discerning eye can read is those foreclosures, those …

Neighborhood Inference Using Partitioned Lsh And Probabilistic Sketches, Oleg Golubitsky, Dake He, Alexey Strokach, Misha Berlinkov, Kianoosh Abbasi

Defensive Publications Series

Classifying large sets of unlabeled entities in high-dimensional embedding spaces from a small number of labeled examples can present computational challenges, for example, when performing exhaustive nearest neighbor searches. Systems and methods can address these challenges by combining partitioned locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) with probabilistic data structures, such as multiset sketches. High-dimensional entity embeddings can be converted to partitioned LSH hashes, which may be used to build an index where each hash partition maps to a sketch aggregating information about labeled entities. For an unlabeled entity, corresponding sketches can be retrieved and merged. This final sketch can be queried to generate …

Spatial Distribution And Ecological Implications Of Phenolic And Chlorinated Pesticides In The Drainage Systems Of Alexandria, Egypt, Manal G. Mahmoud, Mohamed Amer, Laila A. Mohamed, Tarek O. Said

Blue Economy

Anthropogenic activities contribute substantially to the release of toxic organic contaminants into aquatic environments. In the present study, selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and phenolic compounds were investigated in twelve hotspot drainage systems in Alexandria, Egypt. The abundance of organochlorine pesticides across the investigated sites followed the sequence ∑HCHs > ∑CDs > ∑DDTs. Total HCH concentrations ranged from non-detectable levels to 84.0 ng L⁻¹, with an overall mean of 24.1 ng L⁻¹. Concentrations of cyclodiene pesticides (CDs) varied from below the detection limit to 18.52 ng L⁻¹ and averaged 9.36 ng L⁻¹. Meanwhile, total DDT levels ranged from

Phenolic compounds, including phenol, dichlorophenol, …

A Human-Steerable Multi-Agent Pipeline For Software Generation, Sangram Pattanaik, Gary Slater, Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, Prateek Kumar Gupta, Madhurank Hegde, Giridhar Boyana, Pragya Dasgupta

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a multi-agent software-generation system comprising a staged pipeline of iterative stage agents. The pipeline generates software-development artifacts including requirements, architecture, specification, testing, implementation, security-review, and deployment artifacts. A gating agent evaluates an upstream artifact and, when a gate condition is not satisfied, generates a structured fix-request artifact identifying an affected artifact and a required change. A pipeline orchestrator routes the fix-request artifact to an upstream stage agent, which patches an affected section of the artifact. The revised artifact is returned to the gating agent for re-evaluation. The system further stores human questions and corresponding answers in …

Matter Of 186 Norfolk Llc V. New York State Division Of Housing And Community Renewal

All Decisions

The Appellate Division affirmed dismissal of two Article 78 proceedings in which the landlord challenged DHCR's denial of first-rent authorization under Operational Bulletin 95-2. Under the first method, adding 20 square feet from a common-area hallway to a bathroom did not "significantly change the perimeter and dimensions" of the apartment because the standard requires reconfiguration that obliterates the prior apartment's identity — which a minimal square-footage addition cannot accomplish. Under the second method, installing a washing machine in former hallway space did not create a housing accommodation in previously nonresidential space.

Usa V. James Bost

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Sherry Scalercio-Isenberg V. Transunion Llc

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Edward Williams V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

In Re: Abram Degardeyn

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Federal Appeals Court Says Trans Arizonans Can Amend Birth Certificates Without Surgery, Arthur S. Leonard

Other Publications

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Policy Brief: Closing Egypt’S Boardroom Gender Gap, Auc Egypt Women On Boards Observatory, Dcode Consulting

Faculty Journal Articles

Egypt has more than doubled women’s board representation since 2019, but the pace has slowed to 0.5 percentage points a year, less than half of what is needed to reach 30% by 2030.

Since the Women on Boards indicator was established, Egypt has made measurable progress in women’s board representation, rising from 10.0% in 2019 to 24.8% in 2025. This is a 14.8-percentage-point increase, equivalent to a 148% increase from the 10% baseline. Across the four sectors monitored in the AUC Women on Boards Observatory’s 2025 Annual Monitoring Report (banking, non-bank financial services (NBFS), EGX-listed companies and public enterprises), representation …

Distribution Of Hair Pigmentation Phenotypes In The Pakhtun Population Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Sumaia Saif, Manzoor Hussain, Muhammad Israr

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Human pigmentation traits are among the most distinctive and variable phenotypes, providing valuable insight into human hair phenotypic diversity and population variation. Hair color is primarily determined by the relative proportions of eumelanin and pheomelanin, with genetic factors playing a dominant role. This study aimed to assess the distribution of hair pigmentation phenotypes and their association with demographic variables in the Pakhtun population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A total of 1,910 participants, aged 13–40 years, were included in the study after applying the exclusion criteria. Hair color was classified into four groups: black, brown, blond, and red, based on standardized …

Nonlinear Mode Crossing And Spontaneous Frequency Comb Generation In Driven Magnetic Nanodisks, Hasan Pi̇şki̇n

Turkish Journal of Physics

Nonlinear magnetization dynamics in confined nanostructures provide a rich platform for fundamental studies and advanced spintronic applications. Here, we investigate the driven dynamics of a perpendicularly magnetized permalloy nanodisk using high-resolution micromagnetic simulations. In the linear regime, geometric confinement quantizes the uniform precession into discrete radial standing spin-wave (SSW) modes. As the excitation amplitude increases, the fundamental Kittel mode exhibits a pronounced nonlinear frequency shift relative to the higher-order SSW modes, ultimately leading to a critical mode crossing associated with nonlinear resonance overlap and the breakdown of modal orthogonality. Time-domain analysis reveals that strong mode hybridization governs the ensuing dynamics, …

Microscopic Study Of Β-Decay And Stellar Weak Rates In Neutron-Rich Scandium Isotopes, Wajeeha Khalid, Jameel-Un Nabi, Maria Ramzan

Turkish Journal of Physics

This study provides a critical investigation of the β-decay characteristics of neutron-rich scandium isotopes (53-65Sc) using the proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation (pn-QRPA) model. The theoretical framework allows for a microscopic understanding of spin-isospin excitation modes that are essential for examining weak interaction phenomena. Charge-changing Gamow-Teller (GT) strength distributions were calculated and found to agree well with existing experimental results, thereby confirming the model's capacity to accurately represent the nuclear configuration of these isotopes. The computed β-decay half-lives and corresponding log ft values exhibit good agreement with experimental data, further validating the GT strength distributions and reinforcing the consistency of …

Theoretical Construction Of Light Hexaquarks And Their Substantiation By Seven-Dimensional Representation Of Su(2) Group, Mayank Joshi, Shuchi Bisht, Navjot Hothi, Manish Bisht

Turkish Journal of Physics

This manuscript presents a theoretical approach to constructing light hexaquarks using up and down quarks. These light exotic hexaquarks are shown to exhibit a seven-dimensional representation of the SU(2) isospin group. Additionally, the isospin septuplet is developed along with the quintet, triplet, and singlet representations for these light exotic hexaquarks. These particles are essentially mesonic in nature and also satisfy the requirements of the Kronecker product. Furthermore, the physical characteristics and weights of the respective states are intrinsically provided for these light hexaquarks.

Leaflet Stress, Joseph Chibuike Chibuike Nwokeafor, Joshua D. Hofmeister, Brendan B. Yeats, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Charanjit S. Rihal, Juan A. Crestanello, Leigh Griffiths, Mohamad A. Alkhouli, Hoda Hatoum

BILEAFLET TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE (TMV) FINITE-ELEMENT DATASET

This dataset contains numerical results associated with the open-access research article “Comparative Analysis of Leaflet Materials, Stent Materials, and Stent Cell Density for Bileaflet Transcatheter Mitral Valve Design,” published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2026).

The study employed finite element simulations to investigate the effects of leaflet material properties, stent materials, and stent cell density on the biomechanical performance of bileaflet transcatheter mitral valves.

The deposited data support the results reported in the publication.

Data Availability and Reuse: The datasets in this collection are publicly available for research and reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) …

Stent Geometry, Joseph Chibuike Chibuike Nwokeafor, Joshua D. Hofmeister, Brendan B. Yeats, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Charanjit S. Rihal, Juan A. Crestanello, Leigh Griffiths, Mohamad A. Alkhouli, Hoda Hatoum

BILEAFLET TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE (TMV) FINITE-ELEMENT DATASET

This dataset contains numerical results associated with the open-access research article “Comparative Analysis of Leaflet Materials, Stent Materials, and Stent Cell Density for Bileaflet Transcatheter Mitral Valve Design,” published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2026).

The study employed finite element simulations to investigate the effects of leaflet material properties, stent materials, and stent cell density on the biomechanical performance of bileaflet transcatheter mitral valves.

The deposited data support the results reported in the publication.

Stent Stress, Joseph Chibuike Chibuike Nwokeafor, Joshua D. Hofmeister, Brendan B. Yeats, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Charanjit S. Rihal, Juan A. Crestanello, Leigh Griffiths, Mohamad A. Alkhouli, Hoda Hatoum

BILEAFLET TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE (TMV) FINITE-ELEMENT DATASET

This dataset contains numerical results associated with the open-access research article “Comparative Analysis of Leaflet Materials, Stent Materials, and Stent Cell Density for Bileaflet Transcatheter Mitral Valve Design,” published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2026).

The study employed finite element simulations to investigate the effects of leaflet material properties, stent materials, and stent cell density on the biomechanical performance of bileaflet transcatheter mitral valves.

The deposited data support the results reported in the publication.

Opening Area, Joseph Chibuike Nwokeafor, Joshua D. Hofmeister, Brendan B. Yeats, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Charanjit D. Rihal, Juan A. Crestanello, Leigh Griffiths, Mohamad A. Alkhouli, Hoda Hatoum

BILEAFLET TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE (TMV) FINITE-ELEMENT DATASET

This dataset contains numerical results associated with the open-access research article “Comparative Analysis of Leaflet Materials, Stent Materials, and Stent Cell Density for Bileaflet Transcatheter Mitral Valve Design,” published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2026).

The study employed finite element simulations to investigate the effects of leaflet material properties, stent materials, and stent cell density on the biomechanical performance of bileaflet transcatheter mitral valves.

The deposited data support the results reported in the publication.

Beethoven’S Piccolo Apprenticeship: Eighteen Years Of Experimentation Before The Fifth Symphony, Rikki A. Wolpowitz

The Beethoven Journal

Beethoven is routinely credited as the "father of the orchestral piccolo," a claim resting primarily on his deployment of the instrument in the Fifth Symphony (1808). Yet this paternity metaphor obscures a crucial fact: Beethoven composed for the piccolo for nearly eighteen years before that symphonic premiere, producing works for court entertainment, public dances, and military bands that systematically explored the instrument’s capabilities. This article examines Beethoven’s complete piccolo output—nineteen works comprising thirty-two individual pieces—through a three-function analytical framework: the piccolo as range-extender, as vehicle for programmatic effect, and as independent voice. Beginning with the Musik zu einem Ritterballett (1790) …