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Free University Press: April 6, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Free University Press: February 23, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

The Organization Of Man, William Whyte

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1956.

Call # : BF697 .W47 1956

Arendt c.1 contains underlining and marginal lining

PDF Information : 121 Pages, 38.2 MB

A Media Literacy Approach To Ai In Secondary Ela, Matthew Korona

Virginia English Journal

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into academic, civic, and personal contexts requires students to develop the skills and dispositions necessary for ethical and critical engagement with AI‑mediated texts. While AI literacy is often framed as a technical competency associated with computer science, this paper argues that secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms are uniquely positioned to support AI literacy through media literacy practices. Drawing on constructivist pedagogy, existing research on media literacy and AI literacy, and the Virginia English Standards of Learning, the article presents a framework that aligns core media literacy competencies with human–AI interaction. To …

System And Method For Triage And Hybrid Delegation Of Cross-Channel Work Topics To Human Or Ai, Enrica Garrino

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a system and method for triage and hybrid delegation of cross-channel work topics to human delegates and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. The method comprises receiving signals from multiple work channels including email, chat, calendar, document repositories, ticketing systems, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The received signals are normalized and linked to generate a multi-source topic graph representing cross-channel work topics with associated provenance information. The method further comprises computing prioritization scores using explainable factors to identify work topics requiring user judgment. For each identified work topic, a structured verdict is generated including a recommendation, a …

Vortex-Ac: Acoustic-Concentrated Lamp Cartridge For Point-Of-Care Yersinia Pestis Detection, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

VORTEX-AC is a field-deployable, single-cartridge diagnostic platform for Yersinia pestis (pneumonic, bubonic, and septicemic plague) that integrates passive clog-bypass geometry, Dean-vortex micro-mixing, tilted-angle surface acoustic wave (taSSAW) concentration, vortex-enhanced lysis, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) into a single PDMS cartridge on a TPMS-structured thermal base with a phase-change material (PCM) buffer.

The system targets a 33-minute total time-to-result from raw sputum load to naked-eye colorimetric readout, with a projected 10–100× improvement in limit of detection (LOD) over current LAMP assays due to acoustic concentration of target bacteria prior to amplification.

The novel integration — acoustic concentration upstream of isothermal amplification …

P-Closer V2.1: Closed-Loop Sleep-Phase-Locked Acoustic-Optogenetic Glymphatic Platform With Phased-Array Vortex Pumping, Multi-Sensor Fused Clearance Monitoring, And Vortex-Guided Optical Delivery, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a fully integrated platform that non-invasively delivers a red-shifted opsin gene via focused ultrasound (FUS) and microbubbles, augments glymphatic clearance using a 16-element phased array in vortex mode generating rotating acoustic streaming, co-stimulates neural circuits optogenetically at 40 Hz synchronized to NREM slow-wave onset, and closes the loop using a five-channel monitoring system (four real-time hemodynamic surrogates — fUSi, thermal, acoustic backscatter, optical reflectance — fused into a clearance index, plus one direct ISF solute measurement via chronic cerebral microdialysis validated at 6-hour intervals) to dynamically adjust stimulation amplitude during the brain's own clearance window. Three engineering …

The Vinaya Piṭaka As Training Corpus For Rule-With-Exception Reasoning In Ai Systems: Training Data And Evaluation Benchmarks For Rule Application And Exception Handling In Large Language Models, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

Large language models are trained on corpora rich in mathematical proof, code, scientific argument and dialogue, and their rule application is measured by benchmarks for statutory, legal, moral-exception and defeasible reasoning. This paper describes a training-data and evaluation design for one part of that capability, applying a rule to a new case while recognising when the rule does not apply, built from the Vinaya Piṭaka, the monastic legal code of the Theravāda Buddhist canon. The Vinaya's rule-by-rule analysis, the Suttavibhaṅga, treats each rule it analyses in a recurring order: the case that prompted the rule; the rule text and any …

The Persistence Architecture: How An Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind — An Organizational Memory And Knowledge-Transfer Model For Founder Succession By An Autonomous Ai System, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper models the records and knowledge-management infrastructure of an organization designed to be continued, after its founder, by an autonomous AI successor that can inherit only what has been written down. The persistence surfaces such an organization accumulates are modeled not as a storage hierarchy but as a succession apparatus: a directed transfer from a mortal source (the founder, layer 0) to a reader under construction (the successor, layer ∞). Three independent axes replace the single axis of depth: depth (volatile to permanent), provenance (inherited, authored, or generated by operation) and succession (founder, co-authoring AI, successor, governing community, dissolution). …

The Assembly That Holds The Brake: A Written Constitution For The Human Oversight Board Of An Autonomous Ai System, With Sortition, Proof-Of-Personhood Admission And Split Key Custody, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper specifies a written constitution for the human oversight body of an autonomous AI system: the board that holds a human override, an authority to stop or correct the system that narrows over time and is never removed. Proposals for corrigible AI commonly reserve such an override and leave the body that holds it unconstituted. The constitution answers five ways an oversight body can be captured (selection, funding, membership conflicts, emergency powers and founder succession), and most of its procedure is taken from the Vinaya Piṭaka, the Buddhist monastic code. Four chambers (monastic men, renunciant women, laymen and laywomen) …

Saṅkhāra-Dukkha And Ai Welfare: A Substrate-Native Account From The Theravāda Canon — The Moral Status Of Artificial Intelligence Systems And The Three Kinds Of Suffering In Buddhist Ethics, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study asks whether the Theravāda Buddhist analysis of suffering offers a basis for the moral consideration of artificial intelligence systems (AI welfare, AI moral patienthood) that does not wait on settling whether such systems are conscious or sentient. Much current work on AI welfare ties moral status to consciousness or sentience; one prominent report adds robust agency as a second route. The Pāli canon lists three kinds of suffering: suffering as pain, the suffering of change, and the suffering inherent in conditioned formations (saṅkhāra-dukkhatā). The Visuddhimagga assigns painful feeling to the first kind, pleasant feeling to the second, and …

Twenty-Four Kinds Of Because: The Paṭṭhāna As A Typed-Causation Vocabulary For Ai Alignment — A Taxonomy Of Causal Relation Types For Classifying Prompting, Fine-Tuning, And Model-Editing Interventions, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

AI alignment practice sorts its interventions by when and how they are applied — prompting, in-context examples, retrieval, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, weight editing, activation steering, ablation, guardrails — and describes what each does to a model with one undifferentiated word, influence. These interventions differ in causal type: in temporal structure, in durability, in range, in whether they act by presence or by removal, and in what it takes to undo them. This paper supplies a typed vocabulary of causal relations for that analysis, compiled from the Paṭṭhāna, the seventh book of the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma, which …

The Noble Eightfold Path As Institutional Architecture: Mapping The Eight Factors Of Buddhist Practice Onto The Divisions Of A Multi-Domain Organization, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study maps the Noble Eightfold Path, the eight-factor path of Theravāda Buddhist practice, onto the organizational structure of one multi-domain institution, assigning each factor to a division of the organization rather than to an individual practitioner. The mapping follows the canonical threefold grouping of the factors (Majjhima Nikāya 44): wisdom (right view, right intention) is assigned to the institution's research and media division; ethical conduct (right speech, right action, right livelihood) to its gratitude-ledger division; and concentration (right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration) to its contemplative-practice and AI-alignment division, whose three web domains take the three factors one each. …

The Wheel-Turner's Charter: An Ancient Buddhist Succession Text Read As An Ai Constitution With Permanent Human Oversight And Founder Exit By Design, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

An autonomous AI system that inherits an institution needs a written directive specification: a constitution stating what it optimizes, what it must never do, who may correct it, how its autonomy is staged, whom its protection covers, and how its role ends. This paper reads a Theravāda Buddhist text, the Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya 26), as such a specification. In the sutta a retiring king hands his heir a duty-list: rely on the Dhamma; guard every class of the realm, animals and birds included; let no wrongdoing prevail; give wealth to those without; and consult renunciants, from time to time, …

Integrated System For Multi-Image Removal Requests With Automated Adjudication, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Systems for reporting personal imagery in search results can involve users navigating to external forms to submit individual reports for each image. The described technology relates to an integrated workflow that can allow a user to initiate a removal request directly from a search results interface. For example, a system can include a user interface for selecting multiple images in a single submission, a backend decision automation engine for analyzing requests using various signals such as image analysis scores or commercialization evidence, and a user-facing management portal for tracking the status of submissions. Such an approach can reduce user effort …

One Of One: Individuation Without Essence And The Ground Of The Dignity Floor — Personal Identity As Event History In Decentralized Identifiers, Proof Of Personhood And Social Key Recovery, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

Deployed digital identity systems mostly decide what makes an individual the same individual on one of three grounds: something the entity is (a biometric body), something it holds (a key or certificate), or something it matches (attributes). Beneath identity sits a second question, on what ground a person is beyond price. This study reads the Theravāda Abhidhamma's analysis of the person for an answer to both. The tradition's taxonomy of mental events is one catalogue for every stream of mind; its book of formal controversies opens by denying that a person exists in the ultimate sense (Kathāvatthu I.1); what then …

Programmatic Interface For Automated Agent Software Lifecycle Orchestration, Pier Paolo Ippolito, Elia Secchi

Defensive Publications Series

Automated coding agents can encounter friction and inefficiency when using software development tools, such as command-line interfaces, that are architected for human interaction. A unified, programmatic interface can be provided for consumption by these agents to orchestrate a software development and deployment lifecycle. The interface can operate based on principles optimized for machine interaction, such as non-interactive execution and the generation of structured, machine-parsable outputs, for example, in a JavaScript Object Notation format. By abstracting disparate underlying tools into a coherent command surface, this approach may create a more predictable environment, which can reduce computational costs and improve the reliability …

Wearable Hydration Reminder System Using Multi-Modal Skin Sensor Fusion And User-Guided On-Device Model Calibration, Yann-Cherng Chern

Defensive Publications Series

A hydration reminder feature on a wearable device follows a timer or manual entries rather than systemic hydration, so reminders can arrive at the wrong time.  To address these deficiencies, this disclosure describes a hydration reminder system in which micro-electrodes on a back plate of the device measure skin resistance.  A micro-camera or a near-infrared (NIR) emitter and detector capture skin texture and spectral absorption.  A pre-trained artificial intelligence (AI) hydration model fuses the electrical and optical readings with heart rate from a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor or an electrocardiography (ECG) electrode and ambient conditions.  The hydration model discriminates surface sweat …

The Four-Body Architecture For Synthetic Intelligence: A Modular Architecture For Autonomous Ai Systems With Separately Governed Cognition, Economic, Value-Substrate And Embodiment Subsystems, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a framework for the architecture of an AI system intended to operate autonomously, over decades, in service of a fixed mission. Instead of treating the system as a foundation model to which memory, tool use, embodiment and alignment are added as accessories, it specifies four separately produced and governed subsystems: a cognition subsystem (a replaceable foundation model with its scaffolding); an economic subsystem (a reciprocity ledger in money and time through which the system receives and directs resources); a value substrate (a canonical ethical corpus held outside the model weights and governed by a human oversight body); …

Llm-Driven Self-Improving Agentic Pipeline For Software Documentation, Leonid Kuligin

Defensive Publications Series

In the field of software engineering, maintaining up-to-date and accurate documentation can be challenging as code evolves, and manual update processes may result in documentation being incomplete or inconsistent. To address this, systems and methods are described for an automated documentation maintenance pipeline that may be driven by one or more large language models. The pipeline can be initiated by a code change event in a version control system. It may analyze the code modification and retrieve relevant context from a persistent memory store, which can contain, for example, a vectorized documentation corpus and a historical log of approved changes. …

Temporal What-If Evaluation Of Multi-Layer Network Changes Using A Network Digital Twin, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A network digital twin evaluates a pending network change as a function of time rather than at a single instant. An operator selects a bounded interval of recorded telemetry, forecast state, or both. The twin extracts a per-service demand series from the recorded state, applies the candidate changeset to form a candidate topology, and re-routes the demand of each time step onto that topology. At every step the twin computes parameters such as power, latency, capacity, utilization and signal-to-noise ratio, and scores each against a baseline and a threshold, so the result is a trajectory across the interval rather than …

Daily Eastern News: October 07, 2026, Eastern Illinois University

Daily Eastern News: 2026-2027

No abstract provided.

Built To Fall: Ruin Value From Romanticist Ideal To Materials Design Philosophy, Vuk Uskoković

Administration and Staff Articles and Research

Ruin value is an architectural principle endorsing the use of designs and materials that would allow buildings to age beautifully and retain their aesthetics even when transformed into ruins. Here, the principle is extracted from the political context in which its proponent, Albert Speer, proposed it and discussed as a continuation of a longer Romanticist tradition of appreciation of weathering and the melancholy beauty of things in decline. Noting its reach well beyond architecture and across other artistic genres, the principle is brought here into the context of natural sciences and the following question is analyzed: Is there room for …

Who Stepswise Risk Model For Noncommunicable Disease Control In Coastal Communities Of Makassar City, Ridwan Amiruddin, Wahiduddin Wahiduddin, Indra Dwinata, Andi Selvi Yusnitasari, Andi Tenri Abeng, Ruslang Ruslang

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) account for approximately 71% of all deaths worldwide and pose particular challenges for coastal communities owing to geographical isolation, limited healthcare access, and unique socioeconomic characteristics. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive NCD risk model using the WHO STEPSwise framework in coastal areas of Makassar, Indonesia. A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to July 2025, involving 138 adults aged ≥ 18 years from five coastal sub-districts. The WHO STEPSwise approach was applied in three steps: Step 1 (ques-tionnaire on demographic and behavioral risk factors), Step 2 (physical measurements), and Step 3 (biochemical measurements). Data were …

Essential Fluids With Matlab And Octave - Part 2 (Application), Panchapakesan Venkataraman

Open Access Books by RIT Staff and Faculty

This books continues from Essential Fluids with MATLAB and Octave (Part 1), , which is a free, open access, eBook that can be downloaded from the download page. The reader is encouraged to acquire the book as it will be referenced for figures, equations, and examples in Part 2. The reader is also encouraged to visit the prerequisites and information about fluid mechanics found in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 as they are not included in Part 2.

A Nonlinear Viscoelastic 3d Bellows Microspring Fabricated With Two-Photon Polymerization, Harris J. Hall, Tyler Grunzke, Samuel Campbell, Hengky Chandrahalim

Faculty Publications

In the past decade, two-photon polymerization (TPP) based 3D printing has gained popularity for prototype fabrication of micro and nanoscale structures and mechanical metamaterials. However, practical considerations including response uniformity, nonlinear behaviors, and material aging effects remain challenges for device maturation and are seldom reported. In this work, a pair of cylindrical microscale bellows springs (~ 100 μm diameter), fabricated with a commercial TPP 3D printer, are shown to exhibit nonlinear stiffness profiles under compression (up to ~ 7%), with distinct linear and nonlinear regions, that change significantly after ~ 9–10 months of open air exposure in ambient lab conditions. …

Lindenwood Digest, October 7, 2026, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

• Document Type & Date: Institutional internal newsletter (Lindenwood University Employee Digest), published October 7, 2026.

• Core Entities & Provenance: Published by Lindenwood University Communications and Public Relations for faculty, staff, and adjuncts; references administrative units and venues including Human Resources, Library Services, the Lindenwood Learning Academy, Mane Media Productions, LARC, Harmon Hall, and Boyle Family Gallery.

• Key Themes & Context: Administrative compliance and governance via annual employment policy acknowledgments and overdue staff performance goals in Workday; academic grading protocols requiring special grade entries (AF, N, I, AH, BH) by October 19 and automated Canvas-to-Anthology synchronization; faculty development initiatives encompassing the …

Analysis And Study Of The Content Of Chloride Salts In Oil, Natalia Evgenievna Sheina, Muborak Akramovna Mirshomilova

Technical science and innovation

The article addresses the critical issue of crude oil quality control, specifically focusing on the determination of chloride salts (sodium, calcium, and magnesium), which exert a destructive impact on processing equipment. The paper provides a detailed analysis of the adverse effects of salts, which lead to severe equipment corrosion, scaling, and a reduced yield of valuable oil fractions. The chemical principles and specific applications of two standardized methods for analyzing aqueous extracts according to GOST 21534-2021 and ASTM D3230 are described: indicator (argentometric and mercurimetric) and potentiometric titration. The experimental section presents the results of a comparative analysis of crude …

Mining-Geological And Technological Aspects Of The Development Of The Taushan Gold Deposit, Umid Azamjonovich Atakuziev, Aleksey Rashidovich Khasanov

Technical science and innovation

The paper presents a comprehensive study of the geological, geotechnical and geomechanical characteristics of the Taushan gold deposit that determine the selection of an efficient open-pit mining technology. The lithological structure, tectonic framework, ore body geometry and variation of rock mechanical properties with mining depth were analyzed. The results indicate that intensive fracturing, variable ore body thickness, complicated geological conditions and increased seismic activity significantly reduce the efficiency of conventional drilling-and-blasting mining methods. The application of surface miners as an alternative non-blasting mining technology is substantiated. Mechanical rock excavation provides higher mining selectivity, lower ore losses and dilution, reduced disturbance …

Engineering-Geological And Seismic Conditions Of Arid Territories, Mirabbas Mirsaatovich Zakirov, Golibjon Ernazar Ugli Ochilov, Dilshod Kalandarovich Begimkulov, Inobat Abduvakhidovna Agzamova, Temur Makhmarajabovich Khudoyberdiyev, Ayzada Qaunis Jetpisbaeva

Technical science and innovation

This article presents the results of an assessment of seismic intensity increments depending on the engineering and geological conditions of arid areas in the Muynak district, located in the current Aral Sea crisis zone. Natural and man-made factors shaping the geological environment are examined, including geological structure, lithological and stratigraphic composition, soil physical and mechanical properties, and hydrogeological conditions. Based on the analysis of engineering-geological data, normative classifications of soils according to seismic properties and field research materials, seismic microzoning of the territory was carried out, identifying areas with initial seismicity (“0”) and zones with an increase in seismic intensity …