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Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Constraint Breeds Lethality: Three Models Of Military Ai Adoption, Branko Ruzic

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This article argues that the United States faces an institutional, not technological, adaptation gap in military artificial intelligence (AI). Constraints drive adversaries toward optimization choices that generate greater operational lethality than abundance-driven Western procurement allows. Departing from algorithmic or budget-centric commentary, it compares three procurement architectures (compliance-optimized, battlefield-validated, and systematically extractive) and treats Ukraine as a distinct wartime adoption system rather than a fourth model. Using Russian ZALA Lancet loitering munition strike data, Chinese-language doctrine on dissipative warfare, and US and NATO acquisition documentation, the analysis offers acquisition executives and combatant commanders five reforms achievable within existing authorities.

Parameters Autumn 2026, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Getting There First: Strategic Competition Requires A Proactive Mindset, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This Strategic Competition Corner analyzes a recent war game dealing with strategic competition in Africa over critical minerals. It argues US military and policy practitioners need to think more about ways to leverage crises to America’s advantage and to its competitors’ disadvantage.

New Faculty Guide, 2026, University Of Mississippi. Provost

New Faculty

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Asymmetric Janus Monolithic Biocomposites Via Silica Stratification In Cellulose Diacetate Films For Enhanced Adsorption, Efraín Mauricio Santos Rebolledo, César Alejandro Ortiz Martinez, Santiago Emilio Calvo Betancur, Dariana Geraldine Erazo Rondon, David Felipe Ordoñez Obando, Astrid Lorena Giraldo Betancur, Daniel Fernando Hincapie Rojas, César Leandro Londono Calderón

Artículos científicos

This study presents a waste-to-interface strategy for engineering high-performance Janus monolithic adsorbents through a circular biorefinery pathway utilizing coffee and rice residues. We demonstrate that a critical loading of 20 wt% biogenic submicron silica into a coffee-derived cellulose diacetate matrix triggers a definitive gravityinduced stratification, transforming a traditional isotropic film into a sophisticated asymmetric architecture. This Janus transition yields a superhydrophilic interface (contact angle < 5◦) and significantly enhances surface porosity, effectively bypassing the diffusion barriers that typically limit homogeneous biocomposites. Methylene Blue adsorption trials reveal that this 20 wt% threshold achieves rapid adsorption kinetics (p < 0.05) by maximizing active-site accessibility. In contrast to conventional powder adsorbents, these monolithic films enable zero-energy manual recovery, entirely eliminating the need for energy-intensive post-treatment separation. By bridging the gap between multi-feedstock valorization and anisotropic materials science, this work provides a scalable blueprint for sustainable, high-flux water remediation

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Draft Final Butte Mine Waste Repository Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Plan (Dated August 3, 2026), Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Personal Experiences With Remarkable Outcomes Of Stage 4 Cancer: A Phenomenological Study, Gail Firman Porter

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Prayer as a source of improved physical outcomes for individuals with medically diagnosed Stage 4 cancer has not been thoroughly addressed in recent academic literature, despite an increase in individual reporting within nonacademic sources.. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of individuals in the United States who experienced remarkable healing from Stage 4 cancer after receiving Christian prayer for healing. Using the biopsychosocial-spiritual model as the conceptual framework, this study investigated the lived experiences of participants regarding their decision to seek prayer to heal their Stage 4 cancer, and its subsequent effects on their …

Investigation Of Bridge Foundation Depth Using Geoelectrical Dipole Configuration, Devi Oktaviana Latif, Amalia Ula Hazhiyah, Adhitya Yoga Purnama, Ika Rahmawati Suyanto, Surya Dewi Puspitasari, Heru Budi Utomo

Makara Journal of Technology

Bridges are constructed to facilitate the crossing of pedestrians, vehicles, or trains and are essential components of land transportation infrastructure, which is crucial for ensuring the smooth flow of traffic. As part of the reconstruction project for the south side of the Muja Muju Bridge on Jalan Kusumanegara, the Yogyakarta City Government rebuilt this section of the bridge, which had become unfit for traffic use. The area features two bridges, serving as transportation routes: the Muja Muju Bridge on the north side and the newly reconstructed bridge on the south side. The demolition of the south side of the Muja …

Early Detection Of Alzheimer’S Disease Using Federated Learning Based On Personalized Gans: A Data-Driven Approach, Iffat Fatima, Uzair Iqbal, Uzair Ishtiaq, Muhammad Burhan Ul Islam Khan

Makara Journal of Technology

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complicated neurodegenerative disease marked by the slow worsening of memory and cognitive functions. Early detection is a key to effective disease management, but the creation of reliable machine learning models is not an easy task because medical data are limited, and there are strict privacy requirements, such as GDPR and HIPAA, that inhibit the creation of central databases. In this paper, a new privacy-saving model that combines personalized federated learning (PFL) with generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Under the proposed method, the synthesis of data using GAN is conducted on …

Design Of A Pneumatic Actuator-Based Solar Tracker To Address The High Costs And Energy Shortages In A Center Pivot Irrigation System In The Karbala Desert, Mustafa A. Abdul-Hussein, Jamal A.-K. Mohammed

Makara Journal of Technology

CPI systems used to spray crops in the Karbala Desert face two main problems: the cost of generating electricity with generators and the difficulty of delivering electricity from the grid to remote areas. Second, the fixed solar panels feeding some of these systems cannot produce enough electricity because they cannot track the sun’s rays. To solve these issues, appropriate actuators must be combined with these panels to form solar trackers. Due to their advantages over others, pneumatic actuators are proposed to enable the panels to constantly track the sun’s rays. This leads to the production of as much energy as …

Thermal Management Solutions For Ev Batteries: Advanced Heat Transfer Mechanisms And Material Innovation, Hyginus Chidiebere Onyekachi Unegbu, Danjuma Saleh Yawas

Makara Journal of Technology

Effective thermal management is critical for ensuring the safety, performance, and longevity of EV batteries. This study presents a comprehensive assessment of advanced BTMSs using CFD simulations, experimental validation, and statistical modeling. Three advanced heat transfer mechanisms microchannel cooling, heat pipes, and jet impingement cooling— were evaluated alongside novel materials, including graphene-enhanced TIMs and hybrid PCMs incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Jet impingement cooling provided the lowest peak temperature (33.8 °C) and the greatest heat dissipation efficiency (94.5%) among the tested systems. Microchannel cooling maintained 34.5 °C with superior temperature uniformity while graphene CNT hybrid PCMs reached thermal conductivities of up …

Great Crypto Vanishing Act: Illusory Contracts And The Economic Loss Rule, Henry H. Perritt Jr.

Idaho Law Review

Cryptocurrencies have gained respectability with enactment of the federal GENIUS Act, which lays a regulatory foundation for the safest type of cryptocurrency, stablecoins, while leaving significant uncertainty with respect to unbacked crypto assets like Bitcoin and other cryptomoney and crypto investments that do not come within the GENUIS Act’s scope. The vulnerability of cryptocurrencies to wild fluctuations in value and to outright collapse are legion. The GENIUS Act may tame some actors who choose to operate within its framework, but many questions remain.

Legal remedies available to victims of cryptocurrency mishaps, from exchange collapses to issuer fraud, depend heavily on …

Vt‑Tce V1.0 — Standalone Buildable Disclosure Vortex‑Tube Thermal Conditioning Engine A Passive Hot/Cold Separation Thermal‑Conditioning System For Remote Energy Installations, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

VT‑TCE v1.0 is a builder‑ready, open‑hardware, standalone thermal‑conditioning engine based on:

• vortex‑tube hot/cold separation

• passive thermal routing

• synthetic‑coolant compatibility

• hot‑stream buffering

• cold‑stream electronics/sensor cooling

It is designed for remote energy installations, providing:

• cold‑stream electronics cooling

• hot‑stream thermal buffering

• auxiliary heat routing

• passive thermal stabilization

This version contains no external invention references and is fully buildable and testable by engineering teams.

Self-Exhausting Fleet-Level Failure Pattern Detection Via Persistent Graph Coloring And Human-In-The-Loop Validation, Nilay Gupta, Wayne W Chen

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are proposed herein for detecting and validating recurring failure patterns across a fleet-scale corpus of causal event graphs. A pattern-discovery engine groups taxonomy-normalized node labels and categories, computes support as the number of distinct incident graphs containing a pattern, and classifies retained patterns into new taxonomy categories and known but unvalidated patterns. Engineers confirm or reject ranked patterns through a human-in-the-loop workflow. Confirmed patterns are recorded in a persistent validated-pattern registry that is structurally independent of the graph index and reapplied after index rebuilds. The registry acts as a partial graph coloring and active-learning oracle: future discovery operates on …

Context-Aware Multimodal Generative Copilot And Cross-Surface Discovery Engine For Automotive Passenger Displays, Richa Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an operating-system-level passenger copilot, also referred to as an in-car assistant, passenger companion, or media helper, for vehicles equipped with passenger displays, rear-seat entertainment screens, or secondary displays. The system coordinates video screen image capture (frame ingestion), voice isolation (seat-isolated routing), cross-device watch history syncing (watch graph synchronization), and on-screen landmark navigation (point of interest extraction) to enhance the in-vehicle entertainment experience without distracting the driver. When a user taps an on-screen icon or speaks into a dedicated microphone, the vehicle operating system captures a video frame, screenshot, or image from a streaming video application. A multimodal …

System For Providing Playback-Synchronized Contextual Content To A Secondary Device, Aritri Chakraborty, Himank Airon, Ayushi Goyal

Defensive Publications Series

Obtaining contextual information for content on a primary display can disrupt a viewing experience or involve fragmented manual searches on a separate device. Systems and methods are described that can address this by synchronizing a secondary computing device (e.g., a smartphone, tablet, or wearable device) with a primary display. The primary device may broadcast synchronization data, such as a content identifier and a playback timestamp, to a companion application on the secondary device. This application can then query a backend system to retrieve pre-processed, time-coded metadata corresponding to a specific moment in the media. This process can provide context-aware information …

Edge-Based Causal Analysis For Remediating Micro-Temporal Resource Congestion, Ajit Singh

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for mitigating micro-temporal resource congestion in multi-tenant computing environments, where conventional schedulers may not effectively resolve sub-second interference. A decentralized control plane can operate at the node level, using local probabilistic profiling to generate compressed summaries of system behavior. A causal analysis engine can then calculate a correlation coefficient to attribute performance degradation in a affected workload to the resource consumption of a potential source workload. The system can handle analysis edge cases, such as resource saturation, and can employ a return-on-investment framework to select a remediation action, for example, throttling the source, boosting the …

Dynamic And Granular Source Attribution For Structured Content, Hugo Navarrete, David Fengyu Ke

Defensive Publications Series

Systems for presenting structured content, such as lists, can face challenges in providing clear source attribution. Placing a single citation at the end of a list may create a disconnect between a specific claim and its source, potentially making verification difficult for a user. To address this, techniques are described for a system that can dynamically place attribution markers within the content. This system can analyze properties, such as list length, nesting depth, and source mapping, to apply a rules-based strategy, for example, inserting citations on a per-item or sectional basis. The system can then modify the content to insert …

An Innovative Surgical Simulator For Globe And Orbit Procedures, Anuj U. Patel, George Lin, Rishi Hoskeri, Chelsea L. Reighard, Marguerite C. Weinert, Zahra Nourmohammadi, David Zopf

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Increased access to procedural opportunities for trainees in ophthalmology is needed to refine critical surgical skills, including manipulating and suturing the conjunctiva and sclera.

Purpose: To develop an in vitro high-fidelity globe and orbit model, made from synthetic materials and 3D-printing techniques, and to report our experience using the model in a structured wet lab training session on conjunctival and scleral suturing.

Methods: The model was implemented into two resident wet lab courses. Trainees and expert evaluators were asked to perform the same procedures. Evaluators were asked to incise and repair the simulated conjunctiva and sclera …

Gender Disparities In Academic Productivity Of Early Career Ophthalmologists With Children, Olivia J. Killeen, Theodora Vorias, Stacy L. Pineles, Reshma Jagsi, Laura B. Enyedi, Arghavan Salles, Amanda L. Ely, Michelle T. Cabrera

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Female academic physicians are less likely than males to be promoted. Gender disparities related to parenthood and academic productivity may contribute to differing promotion trajectories for men and women.

Purpose: We investigated the association of gender and parenthood on academic productivity among early career ophthalmologists.

Methods: An email questionnaire was distributed to assistant professors of ophthalmology at U.S. institutions from February to April 2023. The questionnaire included items related to demographics, family responsibilities, and academic productivity. Descriptive statistics were calculated by gender alone and gender with parenthood status. Negative binomial regression models were used to analyze …

Exposure To A Vision Screening Program In A Community-Based Clinic Improves Medical Student Confidence And Funduscopy Skills, Karanpreet S. Multani, Jibran A. Sharieff, Justin D. Dvorak, Kai Ding, Tammy Yanovitch

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Vision is critical to overall health, yet ophthalmology training in medical education has declined over the past 50 years, leaving many graduates underprepared to manage common eye conditions. The Johns Hopkins ViSION program demonstrated that structured participation improved students’ confidence and knowledge in ophthalmology, suggesting that integrating vision screening into medical training may enhance medical students’ confidence in performing ophthalmic examinations and recognizing common ophthalmic conditions.

Purpose: To evaluate whether participation in community-based vision screening programs enhances medical students’ ophthalmic examination confidence, examination proficiency, and diagnostic performance.

Methods: Thirty-eight medical students from the University of Oklahoma …

Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike Of 1934

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

Destruction Of An Army : First Campaign In Libya, Sept. 1940 - Feb. 1941, Great Britain. War Office.

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

A New Utopia Called A League-For-A-Living

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

The Draft Soviet Constitution, Denis Nowell Pritt, J. B. Priestley, W. Rust

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

Employees' Suggestion Systems, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Policyholders Service Bureau.

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

L'Action Pour La Paix Et La Voie De L'Unité. Discours Prononcé à La Session Du Comité Central De Saint-Dénis, Le 10 Décembre 1949., Maurice Thorez

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.

Free Ferrero And Sallitto, Ferrero-Sallitto Defense Conference

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

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Pioneers In U.S. Cryptology., Center For Cryptologic History

Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.