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Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 68 – Little Mina-2, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Analysis Of Adopting A Holistic View In Project Management For Natural Skincare Product Development, Kavya Jadhav

Harrisburg University Dissertations and Theses

This qualitative study explored how adopting a holistic view in project management may support natural and holistic skincare product development. The study focused on the interconnected challenges involved in product development, the effects of fragmented decision-making, and the potential benefits of greater cross-functional coordination. Data were collected from 13 current and former professionals with experience in skincare and personal care product development across project management, product management, formulation and R&D, sourcing and supply chain, quality and regulatory, and manufacturing and operations. Thematic analysis identified six themes related to interconnected development challenges, competing project priorities, cascading effects of project decisions, fragmented …

Hybrid Deep-Machine Learning For Butterfly Species Image Classification, Maha A. Rajab, Wisal Hashim Abdulsalam, Firas A. Abdullatif, Tole Sutikno

Baghdad Science Journal

Classifying butterfly species is crucial in biodiversity studies and environmental monitoring. However, manual classification is often a laborious process that requires specialized expertise and is prone to error, especially when species have similar visual characteristics. To address these drawbacks, this paper presents a hybrid approach that combines machine learning with deep learning for feature extraction. To enhance the visibility of important features, preprocessing techniques such as background removal and binarization are applied to butterfly images. Feature extraction was performed using the SqueezeNet convolutional neural network, pretrained on the ImageNet dataset. By discarding the final classification layer, the network produced discriminative …

Deepfinsec: Advancing Online Financial Fraud Detection Via Structural Similarity-Based Graph Embedding, Diksha Sharma, Robin Prakash Mathur, Manmohan Sharma

Baghdad Science Journal

The frequent use of digital technology has significantly increased the use of online transactions. Most financial activities are conducted electronically. Financial fraud involves deceiving individuals or businesses for monetary gain. The proposed graph node embedding technique, FA-Struc2vec, is applied to the financial transaction network to extract graph node features based on their structural similarity and generate node embeddings. The node embeddings serve as input to DeepFinSec, which classifies transactions into desired classes. DeepFinSec is a proposed DL-based model that is a hybrid of CNN and LSTM. CNN processes transaction data and extracts local and high-level abstract features while LSTM captures …

Epistemic Resilience As A Media Literacy Goal: Moving Beyond Detection In The Age Of Generative Ai, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Generative AI, encompassing large language models, image generators, and voice synthesis tools, has transformed the information landscape in ways that extend well beyond the production of fabricated content. By undermining the evidentiary signals through which individuals and communities have historically calibrated epistemic trust, it poses a structural challenge to existing media literacy frameworks. These frameworks, built around a “detect-and-debunk” paradigm, equip learners to identify false content through source verification, fact-checking, and evidence evaluation. These skills remain valuable but rest on assumptions that generative AI has rendered progressively less tenable. This article proposes “epistemic resilience” as a complementary goal: the cultivated …

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 171 – Blaine Center, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 9 – Clark Street Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Exploring Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Perceptions Of The American Criminal Justice System, Martin B. Kalala

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative phenomenological study explored sub-Saharan African immigrants’ perceptions of the United States criminal justice system, including law enforcement, courts, and correctional institutions. Despite the significant and growing presence of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States, their perspectives remain underrepresented in criminal justice research. Grounded in critical race theory and informed by a narrative inquiry lens, this study sought to understand how race, immigrant status, and cultural background shape perceptions of fairness, trust, and legitimacy within the justice system. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 21 sub-Saharan African immigrants residing in the United States. The data were analyzed …

The Ketupat War As A Cultural Performance: Ritual, Community Participation, And Cultural Preservation In Tempilang, Bangka Belitung, Fawarti Gendra Nata Utami, Budi Setiyono, Muhammad Fazli Taib Saearani

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This study examines the Perang Ketupat tradition in Tempilang Village, Bangka Belitung Province, Indonesia, as a form of cultural performance. It aims to analyze the tradition through five dimensions: ritual, performing arts, community participation, cultural education, and community-based safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Employing a qualitative approach based on performance ethnography, data were collected through participant observation, in-depth interviews, document analysis, and a literature review during the 2024 Ketupat War Festival. The findings reveal that the tradition functions not only as a ritual for warding off misfortune but also as a living cultural performance that reinforces cultural identity, strengthens …

Examining The Nexus Of Economic Complexity With Energy Transition And Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review, Neharika Singh, Meenakshi Gupta

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Economic complexity captures the diversity and sophistication of productive knowledge and capabilities embedded in an economy. Research on the relationship between economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental quality is growing rapidly. However, their findings differ across countries, development levels, and different energy and environmental indicators. As a result, the conditions under which economic complexity contributes to energy transition and environmental sustainability remain unclear across different contexts. To address this gap, this study conducts a systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines and applies the Theory–Context–Characteristics–Methodology (TCCM) framework to synthesize evidence on economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental sustainability. The studies were …

September 24, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, September 24, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 15

Fault-Tolerant Concurrent Data Retrieval And Processing Engine Using Acyclic Dependency Graphs, Davide Cazzin, Valentin Mercier

Defensive Publications Series

A lightweight, embedded computational graph engine provides fault-tolerant, concurrent data retrieval and processing across heterogeneous data backends. Operational tasks and data pipelines are modeled as execution nodes organized within a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Programmatically defined task dependencies are dynamically resolved using topological sorting, allowing independent nodes to execute concurrently via a thread pool executor. Data payloads, represented as state mappings, are transferred between completing nodes and downstream dependent nodes to facilitate automated aggregation, joining, and transformation. Granular fault tolerance is achieved by classifying execution nodes as either critical or non-critical. When a non-critical node fails, the failure is caught, …

Persistent Delegated Communication Brokering System And Method For Individuals With Intermittent Communication Access, Eric Zavesky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for persistent delegated communication brokering on behalf of individuals with intermittent communication access is disclosed. The system captures a requester's outreach objectives during a brief communication session and structures them into a persistent obligation object that survives session termination, continuing to execute outreach, information gathering, and action coordination after the requester's communication channel has closed. The system resolves non-dialable contact references through multi-source discovery with contextual confidence scoring and a trust-tiered no-auto-contact gate. A multi-modal outreach agent conducts autonomous outreach with mandatory self-identification, optionally employing biometric cloning of the requester, and continuously classifies contacted-party responses into …

Adaptive Semantic Chunking With Header-Weighted Embeddings, Theo B. Aguilar, Dan Hu

Defensive Publications Series

Methods related to retrieval-augmented generation are disclosed.  A computer system can receive a requestor query.  The computer system can identify one or more context data elements (comprising e.g., “chunks” of documents) that are relevant to the requestor query based on header-weighted embeddings.  The computer system can generate a prompt by combining the one or more context data elements and the requestor query.  The computer system can generate a requestor query response based on the prompt and cause the requestor query response to be provided to the requestor.  The computer system can additionally collect various performance metrics, which can be used …

Predictive Workload Scheduling Using Multi-Domain Telemetry And Reliability Scoring, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A system integrates out-of-band physical infrastructure telemetry into software-layer workload orchestration for predictive scheduling. A multi-domain telemetry aggregator ingests and normalizes data from disparate sources, including host hardware via baseboard management controllers, facility infrastructure sensors, and network switches. A predictive reliability engine processes this aggregated data using a machine learning or heuristic model to generate a quantitative reliability score for each compute node. The engine asynchronously updates these scores in a high-speed, in-memory cache to ensure low-latency access for the scheduler. Upon receiving a new workload request, a scheduler plugin queries the cache to filter out nodes with scores below …

Dynamic Glare Reconstruction For Adaptive Displays, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for dynamic environmental light reconstruction and dual-directional optical compensation are disclosed. The system utilizes a multimodal fusion engine combining a dual-engine vision processor (macro-facial shading and micro-corneal reflection) with a hardware hinge-angle sensor. By accurately reconstructing a 3D environmental light vector and correlating it with real-time device kinematics, the system simultaneously predicts physical glare points on the display and direct flare incidents on the camera lens. The system then executes localized display compensation based on a joint gaze-glare probability map, while predictively tuning camera image signal processor (ISP) parameters to ensure optimal visual readability and video …

Security Operations Decision Attribution And Reasoning Trace Evaluation Framework For Autonomous Security Triage And Investigation Agents, Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin Walter, Nicholas Smith, Ruowen Wang, Jeffrey Bickford

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes the Security Operations (SecOps) Decision Attribution and Reasoning Trace framework, an integrated ground-truth construction pipeline and evaluation harness for benchmarking autonomous security triage and investigation agents at enterprise scale. Evaluating security agents presents two fundamental challenges: first, historical human closure notes are inherently sparse, unstructured, and omit implicit investigative steps, making it difficult to systematically codify expert reasoning ground truth. Secondly, conventional verdict-based metrics fail to detect when an agent arrives at the correct conclusion through flawed logic, coincidental data lookups, or deficient reasoning paths. The SecOps Decision Attribution and Reasoning Trace framework aims to resolve both …

Automated Proactive Software Defect Discovery And Verification Framework, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Software maintenance in complex repositories benefits from automated mechanisms capable of identifying defects prior to production failure or manual reporting. This publication describes an automated system designed for the proactive discovery and verification of software vulnerabilities across large-scale source code repositories. By integrating local compute pre-processing, structure-aware code parsing, and graph-augmented semantic retrieval, the framework optimizes code representation for large language model analysis. Potential software defects are identified through automated vulnerability hypotheses, followed by the synthesis of executable test cases designed to reproduce the hypothesized conditions. The framework enforces a strict verification phase where candidate test cases are executed in …

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Vol. 5 Issue 4 (June 1909)

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Vol. 3 Issue 9 (Nov 1907)

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Vol. 1 Issue 4 (June 1905)

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Vol. 1 Issue 3 (May 1905)

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Tourism Investments, Coastal Reclamation, And Marine Environmental Change Along The Alexandria Corniche: A Review Of Socioeconomic Trade-Offs And Sustainability Challenges, Noura H. S. Hassan

Blue Economy

Coastal tourism has become a major driver of economic growth and urban development across Mediterranean coastal regions. However, rapid tourism expansion and coastal reclamation have intensified pressures on fragile marine and coastal ecosystems, creating complex trade-offs between economic development, environmental sustainability, and social well-being. This review synthesizes current scientific evidence on the environmental, economic, and social implications of tourism investments and coastal reclamation along the Alexandria Corniche, Egypt.

A structured literature review was conducted using peer-reviewed publications, institutional reports, and international policy documents retrieved from major scientific databases and authoritative organizations. The evidence was synthesized through an interdisciplinary framework integrating …

Harnessing Nigeria’S Aquaculture And Fisheries Component Of The Blue Economy, B. S. Awe, O. Adeoti

Blue Economy

Nigeria aims to diversify from carbon to blue economy. Target 7 of Goal 14 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the creation of the Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, and the passage of the National Policy on Marine and Blue Economy (2025 -2034) in May 2025 are the three frameworks driving this ambition. However, water pollution and changes in climate are central to harnessing the aquaculture and fisheries component of the blue economy. With increasing waste disposal in waterways and waterbodies and decreasing river water flow due to changes in climate, these have implications for …

Effects Of Learning Activities Based On The Stem Education Concept On The Problem-Solving Skills And Learning Management Design Abilities Of Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers, Saowaphak Wongkrai, Parichart Poophakdee

Journal of Education Studies

The objectives of this research were to: 1) determine the effectiveness of the STEM education lesson plan in accordance with the 75/75 efficiency criteria 2) compare students' knowledge of STEM education before and after by using STEM education-based learning activity. 3) compare students' problem-solving skills before and after by using STEM education-based learning activity. 4) study the students' ability to design learning by using STEM education-based learning activity. This study employed experimental research designing to evaluate learning activities based on the STEM education concept. The sample consisted of 27 third-year pre-service mathematics teachers. The sample was selected through cluster random …

Experimental And Predictive Modelling Assessment Of Spear Grass Ash As A Partial Cement Replacement In Concrete, Abraham Divine, Festus C. Onyeka, Agori Ebipuakebina John, Obayehagweme Ezekiel

Engineering and Technology Journal

The global construction industry is under increasing pressure to minimize its environmental impact, especially that of cement manufacture, which contributes approximately 5 to 8% of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. This study investigates Spear Grass Ash (SGA) as a partial replacement for Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), focusing on workability, compressive strength, and split tensile strength. OPC was replaced with SGA at 0% to 30% by weight in 5% increments, at a constant water-to-cement ratio of 0.50. The ash was characterised by X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and both strengths were tested at 28 and 56 days. XRF confirmed a combined SiO₂, …

Hardware-Rooted Integrity Attestation For Ai Agents, Niranjan M M

Defensive Publications Series

The proposal introduces a hardware-rooted integrity attestation framework for AI agents that enables a platform to verify that a live agent instance is genuine, untampered, and running in an approved execution state before it is trusted with sensitive actions. By measuring agent-specific artifacts such as binaries, models, plugins, policies, and runtime composition, and binding that measured state to a trusted platform identity and freshness evidence, the system enables real-time and continuous trust decisions for AI agents across physical and virtual environments. In some embodiments, the attestation pipeline is further strengthened using a hardware quantum entropy source to improve nonce generation, …

One-Tap Emoji Actions On Chat Messages, Qiujun Zhao

Defensive Publications Series

A system is described herein that turns an emoji reaction on a chat message into a no-typing instruction to an artificial intelligence (AI) agent while preserving the emoji's ordinary emotional use. A quick tap adds the normal reaction, whereas a press-and-hold, or an equivalent action affordance, causes the AI agent to read the reacted message and its context, interpret the emoji intent, and select a concrete action suited to the content. The same emoji can therefore troubleshoot an error in one message and fact-check a claim in another. When the confidence score satisfies a configurable threshold, the action runs automatically …