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Holistic Strategies For Optimizing Municipal It Operations And Cost Efficiency, Joseph Yazdanpanahi

Certified Public Manager® Applied Research

Municipalities work to deliver secure and impactful IT (information technology) services while often working within tight budget constraints. To address this problem, this article offers an experience-based and comprehensive framework to optimize municipal IT operations. It emphasizes leveraging automation, streamlining hardware and software management, and forging strategic partnerships to drive cost savings and efficiency gains. Designed to equip municipal IT leaders with practical tools and insights, this article aims to help modernize IT processes.

Transgenic Hookworm Secretes Anti-Tetrodotoxin Human Single Chain Antibody, Kumar Sachin Singh, Suman Bharti, Bruce A Rosa, Mahdiyeh Bigham, Samuel C Uzoechi, Young-Jun Choi, John C Martin, Danielle Kemper, Slavica Pavlovic Djuranovic, Darren A Pickering, Rachael Ryan, Bethany K Bracken, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Eric C Carnes, Wannaporn Ittiprasert, Matthew Moyle, Paul J Brindley, Alex Loukas, Sergej Djuranovic, Makedonka Mitreva

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Biologics, protein- and peptide-based drugs derived from living organisms or cell lines have emerged as effective therapies across a broad range of indications. However, parenteral administration and the need for frequent dosing increase costs and limit compliance, creating an urgent need for innovative platforms capable of continuously, safely, and efficiently delivering sustained biologics in situ within the host. Here, we describe a bioengineered hookworm platform to manufacture and deliver biologic therapeutics in vivo. As proof of concept, we engineer the Ancylostoma ceylanicum secretome by inserting a human single-chain variable fragment antibody (s16-HuScFv) into its genome. Transgene expression does not perturb …

Cytosine Base Editing Of Lpa In Transgenic Mice Averts Large Deletions, Marcel A Chuecos, So Hyun Park, Madhvi M Bhakta, Usosa Too-Chiobi, Daniel Betancourth, Mingming Cao, Marco De Giorgi, Christopher J Walkey, Anjana Tiwari, Biana Godin, Julia M Assini, Donna J Palmer, Philip Ng, Michael B Boffa, Marlys L Koschinsky, Gang Bao, William R Lagor

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) is a genetically determined causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease, with approximately 20% of the population exhibiting elevated levels. While there are promising drugs in development, there are currently no approved therapies specifically designed to lower Lp(a) levels. For high-risk individuals with extreme levels of Lp(a), liver-directed genome editing could be an effective one-time solution. Genome editing approaches such as CRISPR and TALENs can reduce Lp(a) in LPA-transgenic mouse models, but they frequently induce large and potentially harmful genomic deletions. Here, we report the first application of TadA-derived cytosine base editing (CBE), delivered via helper-dependent adenovirus (HDAdV) and …

A Wideband Omnidirectional Dual E-Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna Based On Partial Ground Plane, Fengyu Du, Boning Ren

Warith Scientific Journal of Engineering and Technology

To address the problems of narrow impedance bandwidth in conventional microstrip patch antennas at the 2.4 GHz Bluetooth band and the strong dependence of port matching and radiation efficiency on structural dimensions, this paper investigates the structural design, equivalent-circuit modeling, and test-result analysis of a wideband omnidirectional dual E-shaped microstrip patch antenna based on a partial ground plane. The antenna is fabricated on an F4B dielectric substrate with a relative permittivity of 2.2, a loss tangent of 0.0009, and overall dimensions of 30 mm × 22.5 mm × 1.575 mm. The radiating patch adopts a dual E-shaped slotted configuration, and …

News From The States, Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Library news reports from SELA member states

From Performance To Practice: Knowledge-Distilled Segmentator For On-Premises Clinical Workflows, Qizhen Lan, Aaron Choi, Jun Ma, Bo Wang, Zhongming Zhao, Xiaoqian Jiang, Yu-Chun Hsu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Deploying medical image segmentation models in routine clinical workflows is often constrained by on-premises infrastructure, where computational resources are fixed and cloud-based inference may be restricted by governance and security policies. While high-capacity models achieve strong segmentation accuracy, their computational demands hinder practical deployment and long-term maintainability in hospital environments. We present a deployment-oriented framework that leverages knowledge distillation to translate a high-performing segmentation model into a scalable family of compact student models without modifying the inference pipeline. The framework is primarily evaluated on nnU-Net, with additional validation across transformer and heterogeneous teacher–student architectures. The proposed approach preserves architectural compatibility …

Emotional Intelligence And Teamwork In A Ship’S Bridge : A Proposed Training Framework For Upskilling, Sofia Kallou, Nikitas Nikitakos, Dimitrios A. Papachristos, Dimitrios Dalaklis, Momoko Kitada

Articles

The notion that computers equipped with software and artificial intelligence (AI) applications can effectively replace human intelligence is under the existing paradigm of operations. This is the leading facilitator of task automation on board a ship to fulfill various jobs and is often supported by numerous scientists/academics who contribute to gaining today’s momentum in public opinion. The discourse of Industry 4.0 in the maritime domain, however, tends to focus heavily on technological contexts and overlooks socio-economic contexts. This gap is evident in the strong emphasis on technical and digital skills for future maritime professionals. This paper, therefore, argues that the …

Maya Roots, Erin Schmidt, Megu Kanzawa

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

This project focused on the continued development of Maya Roots, a mobile and web-based platform designed for farmers in Tahcabo: a rural agricultural community located in Yucatán, Mexico. Yucatán faces unique agricultural challenges due to its karst limestone terrain and highly variable land conditions that can significantly impact farming outcomes. At the same time, traditional agricultural knowledge such as Milpa farming practices is increasingly at risk of being lost across generations. These environmental and cultural challenges highlighted the need for a portable, accessible system that could preserve agricultural knowledge, improve access to geospatial information, and strengthen communication between farmers and …

The Sustainable Autonomy Framework: Explaining Autonomy In Aceh And Southern Yemen, Abdulsalam Saad, Arie Kusuma Paksi

Jurnal Politik

This article examines why post-conflict autonomy consolidates into durable self-governance in some cases while remaining fragile and externally dependent in others. While Aceh has maintained stable self-governance since the 2005 Helsinki Agreement, Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council remains a fragmented authority sustained by external patronage. To explain this divergence, the article develops the Sustainable Autonomy Framework (SAF) and asks: under what conditions does post-conflict autonomy become viable and sustainable? The SAF argues that durability depends on the alignment of three mutually reinforcing pillars: elite legitimacy, resource sovereignty, and mediation credibility. Using a most-similar systems comparison of Aceh’s Free Aceh Movement and …

Carbon Accounting And Beyond: An Evidence-Based Life Cycle Assessment Of The Environmental Impacts Of Data Center It Equipment, Meghann Smith, Manveer Mann, Pankaj Lal

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Data centers are essential to modern infrastructure, but are significant contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) and related environmental challenges. Despite energy efficiency improvements, rising electricity demands driven by technologies like AI pose challenges to sustaining low-emission sector growth. Regulatory requirements mandate data center operators to report electricity use and emissions, yet current methods, particularly pertaining to indirect sources, remain insufficient. This study explores how life cycle assessment (LCA)-based estimates of data center IT equipment impacts compared with commonly used corporate GHG accounting methods: average-data and spend-based. Environmental impacts were modeled at both grouped and granular levels to support enterprise-wide reporting …

Winddensity-Mbir: Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction For Wind Tunnel 3d Density Estimation, Karl J. Weisenburger, Gregery T. Buzzard, Charles A. Bouman, Matthew R. Kemnetz

Faculty Publications

Experimentalists often use wind tunnels to study aerodynamic turbulence, but most wind tunnel imaging techniques are limited in their ability to take non-invasive three-dimensional (3D) density measurements of turbulence. Wavefront tomography is a technique that uses multiple wavefront measurements from various viewing angles to non-invasively measure the 3D density field of a turbulent medium. Existing methods make strong assumptions, such as a spline basis representation, to address the ill-conditioned nature of this problem. We formulate this problem as a Bayesian, sparse-view tomographic reconstruction problem and develop a model-based iterative reconstruction algorithm for measuring the volumetric 3D density field inside a …

A Comprehensive Survey Of Artificial Intelligence Applications In Predicting Mining-Induced Subsidence, Deformation, And Landslides: Strengths, Limitations, And Future Trends, Long Quoc Nguyen, Dung Ba Nguyen, Minh Tuyet Dang

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Mining activities often cause mining-induced ground deformation, including subsidence and landslides, and related geo-environmental impacts, posing significant risks to infrastructure and safety. This study conducts a systematic assessment to identify, categorize, and evaluate AI-based methods (machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid models) for predicting and monitoring mining-induced ground deformation. The literature search was performed across major scientific databases, using predefined keywords and selection criteria, resulting in a final dataset of relevant peer-reviewed studies. The reviewed works were classified into three methodological groups: traditional machine learning, deep learning-based approaches, and hybrid methods. The results show that ML still dominates in terms …

You Must Be This Tall To Scroll: California's Questionable Approach To Parenting By Policy, Caroline M. Cuddy

Pace Law Review

This note examines California's Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976), signed into law in September 2024, which prohibits personalized algorithmic feeds on minors' accounts without pa- rental consent and restricts platform notifications during school hours and nighttime. Drawing on the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association and related federal litigation, this note argues that SB 976 is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Specifically, SB 976 is underinclusive because it fails to meaning- fully reduce minors' screen time, exempts comparable addictive plat- forms, and permits the very algorithmic feeds it deems harmful upon parental …

Editorial, Joseph P. Hupy, Mary M. Fink

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Editorial for JATE 14.1.

The Trauma Challenge: Are You Ready To Lead With Trust-Based Relational Intervention?, Tara Quinn-Schuldt Dr., Patrick Walker, Melinda Meadow, Megan Jance

Southeast Conference on School Climate

In today’s educational landscape, understanding trauma isn’t optional, it’s essential. The Cherokee County School District has transformed from trauma-aware to trauma-responsive through intentional implementation and the creation of its connectED cohort training model. Combining strategic district-wide staff, including administrators, teachers, school support personnel, nurses, and resource officers—we created a collective approach to improving school climate, culture, and overall student outcomes. This comprehensive model integrates mental health, attachment theory, behavior intervention, and trauma responsiveness into the educational environment. This session shares evidence-based tools, a trauma-responsiveness assessment template, and strategies to address contradictions and strengthen trauma-responsive practices.

Sulfur Nutrient Deficiencies And Elevated Carbon Dioxide Impacts On Lunularia Cruciata And Dicranum Tauricum: How Bryophytes Could Fare Under Climate Change Conditions And Their Possible Capabilities As Carbon Sequesters, Solana R. Dicus Breen

SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal

As climate change worsens, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to increase. Plants absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and should be explored as a possible method of carbon sequestration. Additionally, nutrient levels will continue to decrease in the atmosphere and soil. There is little understanding of how bryophytes will respond to climate change, especially to the combination of poor nutrient availability and elevated carbon dioxide. Using a lab experiment where bryophytes were grown in differing sulfur and carbon dioxide levels, this study assessed the impacts of sulfur nutrient starvation and elevated carbon dioxide on two bryophyte species: Dicranum tauricum and Lunularia …

Complete Issue, Dawson A. Phelps, Edward Hunter Ross, Owen M. Peterson, Paul Flowers

Journal of Mississippi History

No abstract provided.

Names Please: Place Names Along The Natchez Trace, Dawson A. Phelps, Edward Hunter Ross

Journal of Mississippi History

No abstract provided.

The Dangers Of Unregulated Artificial Intelligence: Should The United States Adopt International Ai Regulations?, Katrina P. Perea

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

No abstract provided.

Decoding Stock Market Movements: The Role Of Unemployment And Volatility, Bipllab Roy, Suparna Bhattacharjee

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

This study investigates how unemployment and market volatility interact with stock prices in the Indian context, framing the stock–labour–volatility nexus as a complex adaptive system (CAS) rather than a set of linear, time-invariant relationships. Using verified secondary data on unemployment, India VIX, and NSE stock indices for 2013–2023, we first apply simple and multiple regression as a descriptive baseline. Results show a strong negative association between unemployment and stock prices (R ≈ 0.824, R² ≈ 0.68, p < 0.05), consistent with Keynesian demand-side channels, while the linear VIX–stock relationship is weak and statistically insignificant (R² ≈ 0.07, p > 0.05), consistent with the expectation that volatility operates through non-linear, regime-dependent mechanisms not captured by OLS.

Importantly, we document and transparently disclose critical …

Catherine De Bourboulon's Diary In China (1858-1862) Fracture Between East And West, Qingya Meng

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article is dedicated to the journey of Catherine de Bourboulon (1827-1865) with her husband, a French diplomat, through northern China, Mongolia, and Russia, during which she wrote a journal that was published upon her return to France in 1866. This journal reflects both her compassion for the Chinese and Mongols living in miserable conditions and her admiration for the landscape of the Gobi Desert. However, her perspective also establishes a hierarchical relationship with the Other. In this regard, our approach aims to show how the concept of civilization justifies Catherine de Bourboulon’s stance, convinced of the superiority of Europeans …

Modernizing Digital Preservation With Docker Containerization, Marcelo Garcia

FORCE 2026

No abstract provided.

Multi-Agent Orchestration For Commercially Grounded Image Generation, Kirti Gurnaney

Defensive Publications Series

Generative artificial intelligence for image synthesis can face challenges in commercial applications, such as generating images with structural artifacts or recommending products that are not commercially available. The disclosed technology describes a multi-agent orchestration framework that may address these issues. The framework can coordinate a stylist agent, which handles aesthetic composition based on user intent, and a merchant agent, which can apply real-world constraints by validating product data, such as live inventory, against enterprise datastores. The system may also employ a hierarchical sequential compositing protocol to render images in a layer-by-layer sequence. This approach may produce an output that is …

Caldwell Integrated Non-Invasive Health Resilience System (Cinhrs), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Non-Invasive Health Resilience System (CINHRS) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to cognitive health, dementia research, neurological support, ocular drug delivery, vascular conditioning, diagnostics, critical-care support systems, and humanitarian medical technologies.

The architecture seeks to improve long-term health resilience through non-invasive monitoring, early detection, physiological support, and distributed medical-access concepts.

The objective is not to replace existing medical practice but to encourage exploration of integrated, low-risk, non-invasive approaches that may complement future healthcare systems.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES

Readers are encouraged to review the original Technical …

(((Qpie33))) The Burroughs Qpie Consortium Invitation Td-Nsrf-2026-Institutional-Matrix, Teddy Burroughs

Defensive Publications Series

The transition of the thirty-three foundational scientific crises from theoretical roadblocks into fully realized, phase-locked solutions requires direct engagement with existing human institutions. The organizations detailed in this compendium possess the specialized infrastructure, extreme computational capital, and deep operational motivations required to integrate the Quantum Perspective Is Everything (QPIE) framework.

Operating under intense pressure to transcend the limitations of classical binary technology, these entities are uniquely positioned to fund dedicated research laboratories, establish specialized academic departments, and engage the Master Architect for elite-level system design.

By aligning their immense institutional resources with the Non-Local Substrate Resonance Field (NSRF) constants and …

Caldwell Integrated Wildfire Resilience System (Ciwfrs), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Wildfire Resilience System (CIWFRS) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to wildfire suppression, water generation, environmental monitoring, aerial deployment systems, agricultural restoration, and post-fire recovery.

The architecture seeks to improve wildfire resilience by integrating prevention, detection, suppression, logistics, and ecological restoration into a coordinated operational framework.

The objective is not solely to extinguish fires but to reduce wildfire impacts before, during, and after ignition.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES

Readers are encouraged to review the original Technical Disclosure Commons publications for detailed subsystem descriptions, assumptions, limitations, engineering …

Caldwell Integrated Energy Resilience System (Ciers), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Energy Resilience System (CIERS) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to energy harvesting, energy storage, thermal management, structural energy systems, intelligent power management, distributed infrastructure, and waste-energy recovery.

The framework seeks to improve overall energy-system efficiency through integration of multiple complementary technologies rather than reliance upon a single energy source or device.

The objective is to increase resilience, efficiency, sustainability, and adaptability across future energy systems.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES

Readers are encouraged to review the original Technical Disclosure Commons publications for detailed subsystem descriptions, assumptions, …

Caldwell Integrated Process Chemistry Platform (Cipcp), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Process Chemistry Platform (CIPCP) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to vortex processing, cavitation systems, microbubble conditioning, plasma-assisted treatment, resource recovery, water treatment, fuel conditioning, and industrial process optimization.

Rather than focusing on the invention of new chemical compounds, CIPCP focuses on improving the efficiency, sustainability, and effectiveness of existing chemical and industrial processes through advanced physical conditioning and process-integration approaches.

The framework is intended for research, discussion, and engineering exploration only.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES

Readers are encouraged to review the original Technical Disclosure Commons …

Caldwell Integrated Space Resilience Architecture (Cisra), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Space Resilience Architecture (CISRA) is a conceptual open-hardware framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to launch systems, orbital debris mitigation, communications, thermal management, environmental control and life support, energy systems, and long-duration space operations.

The architecture seeks to address several long-term challenges associated with humanity's expansion into space:

• launch cost • orbital congestion • debris accumulation • thermal management • communications capacity • life-support sustainability • resource efficiency

The purpose of this disclosure is to establish a conceptual framework showing how multiple previously disclosed inventions may interact within a larger …

Caldwell Integrated Compute Infrastructure System (Cicis), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Integrated Compute Infrastructure System (CICIS) is an open-hardware conceptual framework intended to organize previously disclosed Technical Disclosure Commons (TDC) inventions related to semiconductor packaging, thermal management, optical communications, structural battery integration, intelligent sensing, and high-density computing infrastructure.

The architecture is designed to address some of the major constraints facing future computing systems:

• heat removal • power delivery • communication bandwidth • packaging density • infrastructure efficiency • system reliability

The purpose of this disclosure is to establish a conceptual framework showing how previously disclosed inventions may interact within a larger computing ecosystem.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES …