Technical Disclosure: Cross-Layer Token-Variance Telemetry And Non-Linear Tensor Distance Protocols For Distributed Routing Topologies, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical disclosure formalizes an axiomatic mathematical framework for real-time telemetry, automated state balancing, and distributed node verification within multi-dimensional graph topologies. Modern high-density information systems encounter systemic failures when localized processing constraints induce uncoordinated data routing, runaway optimization loops, or asymmetric node curation.

By applying the principles of the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model and the Oscillator Alignment Protocol (OAP), this framework establishes a self-policing network substrate. Individual routing nodes compute localized operational boundaries dynamically by tracking cross-layer Token Selection Latency (tau_latency) against an invariant two-dimensional boundary reference sheet. This mechanical configuration mitigates the formation of singular processing …

Caldwell Wildfire Rescue Engine (Cwre‑1.0) A Unified, Viability‑Filtered, Builder‑Ready Open‑Hardware Architecture For Wildfire Suppression & Resilience, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ABSTRACT

The Caldwell Wildfire Rescue Engine (CWRE‑1.0) is a unified, multi‑layer open‑hardware architecture designed to support wildfire suppression, cooling, water supply, atmospheric prediction, and post‑fire recovery using real, buildable modules from the Caldwell Open‑Hardware Portfolio.

CWRE‑1.0 integrates:

• wildfire truck conversion systems

• atmospheric water harvesters

• solar‑thermal water generators

• submerged cooling structures

• floating shade panels for fire reservoirs

• molten‑salt and flow‑battery energy nodes

• atmospheric resonance prediction networks

• post‑fire soil regeneration systems

All modules are already posted on TDC and can be built and tested immediately.

Caldwell Colorado River Rescue Engine (Crre‑1.1) A Unified, Viability‑Filtered, Builder‑Ready Open‑Hardware Architecture For Stabilizing The Colorado River System, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ABSTRACT

The Caldwell Colorado River Rescue Engine (CRRE‑1.1) is a unified, multi‑layer engineering architecture designed to stabilize the Colorado River system using real, buildable, open‑hardware modules from the Caldwell Portfolio. CRRE‑1.1 integrates atmospheric water harvesting, PFAS/microplastic remediation, solar‑thermal desalination, molten‑salt and flow‑battery energy stabilization, floating gyroid evaporation‑reduction panels, submerged cooling structures, climate/hydrology prediction networks, and desert agriculture decoupling systems.

All modules are already posted on TDC.

This posting provides:

• Full system architecture

• Engineering diagrams

• Deployment map (Nevada–Arizona–Utah)

• Prototype bill of materials (BOM)

• Direct TDC lookup references

• Viability upgrades

• New inventions added to improve performance

This is a real‑world, non‑speculative, builder‑ready …

Assessing Flaws In Captcha Security Through Progress In Ai, Jaydon Stanislowski

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Protecting the internet from the threat of malicious bot activity is an important problem as AI tools become more powerful and commonplace over time. To that end, security measures are employed across websites in the form of CAPTCHAs, short challenges designed to identify and block fake web traffic. Yet, they become less effective over time as AI becomes more powerful, and thus more capable of solving them. This paper examines recent research on the threat to CAPTCHA security posed by current AI models and how this security can be reinforced over time, focusing primarily on Google’s reCAPTCHA v3.

Zero Trust Architecture And Ransomware Mitigation, Ely Johnson

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Ransomware has become a critical threat to modern enterprises, exploiting excessive privileges and flat network architectures to spread rapidly. Traditional perimeter-based security models are insufficient, as they rely on implicit trust within internal networks. This paper examines how Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) mitigates ransomware through least privilege access, continuous monitoring, and micro- segmentation. Experimental results show that ZTA can significantly reduce impact, limiting encryption to about 20% of targeted files while preserving most data. Continuous monitoring enables rapid detection (5.3 seconds) with high accuracy (up to 97.2%) and a 78% reduction in false positives. Micro-segmentation further restricts lateral movement, reducing …

Security Limitations Of The Can Bus And Detection Through Power Fingerprinting, Ken Broden

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

This paper examines the vulnerabilities of the Controller Area Network (CAN), the standard communication protocol used in most modern vehicles. It explains why CAN is widely adopted and outlines key security weaknesses in its design. The paper then reviews recent research efforts to detect and mitigate these vulnerabilities, with particular focus on an approach to origin authentication that relies on the unique power consumption patterns of each individual electronic control unit on a CAN bus.

Primary Care Reimbursement: Current Processes And Future Advocacy, Brenda Koverman, Monika I. Robinson, Lydia Royeen

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy’s (OT) role in primary care is emerging as a viable practice area. Yet, operational efforts that include reimbursement continue to lag and have been identified as a barrier to entry. Current literature reveals confusing and overlapping reimbursement descriptions. Payment for services is critical for the sustainability of this practice area. This paper proposes a taxonomy to assist frontline clinicians, leaders, and provider practice managers to determine the best reimbursement strategy for their specific clinic. Differentiating and defining payment models, reimbursement determinants, and reimbursements methods allows OT leaders a shared language. Implementing the best reimbursement tactic will ensure the …

Ambient Agent Swarm With Soft Contract Negotiation For Proactive Network Monitoring, Ryan Holland, Elango Ganesan

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a hybrid cloud-edge ambient agent swarm for network operations, where specialized agents coordinate through soft capability contracts rather than rigid interfaces. The proposed approach enables continuous proactive monitoring and interactive troubleshooting in one system, while reducing latency and bandwidth through edge-local diagnostics with cloud-level synthesis. It is designed for enterprise-scale operations where platform teams need independent agent evolution, graceful fallback behavior, and consistent multi-domain triage with bounded deep-dive analysis.

Graph-Constrained Code Generation For Deep Metadata Environments, Pradeep Shankara, Anil Nagalla, Richard Yang, Vinay Anand

Defensive Publications Series

Generative artificial intelligence models may face challenges generating source code for languages that rely on deep, nested metadata stored in data repositories, which can result in functionally limited or non-compilable output. A graph-constrained code generation framework can address this by extracting metadata from a target system and translating it into one or more knowledge graphs that model structural dependencies. An automated agent may traverse these graphs to perform a multi-hop context retrieval based on a developer's request. This collected context can then be used to construct a detailed, constraint-enforcing prompt for a large language model. This process of grounding the …

System For Diagram Generation With Decoupled Logical Interpretation And Deterministic Rendering, Timothy Jabez, Arindam Sirohia, Stenal P. Jolly, Shreya Prabhu

Defensive Publications Series

A system for diagram generation can address potential limitations where logical interpretation and visual rendering are coupled, which could lead to inconsistent outputs. The system can employ a decoupled, multi-stage pipeline. For example, a first processing stage using artificial intelligence can transform an unstructured user input into a platform-agnostic intermediate logical artifact that defines a diagram's components and connections without spatial or visual information. Subsequently, a separate layout and rendering engine can process this logical artifact to calculate spatial positions and generate a visual diagram. This separation of logical interpretation from visual rendering may improve the reliability and accuracy of …

System And Method For Zero Copy Machine Learning Inference Using Non Owning Shared Memory Model Views, Faiz Ahmed

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method are disclosed that eliminate model loading in machine learning inference by enabling inference processes to operate directly on a shared, already‑resident model representation, wherein trained model parameters are stored as native binary structures in operating‑system managed shared memory and are accessed by inference processes through non‑owning typed memory views that require no allocation, copying, or deserialization; the shared memory region serves as the authoritative representation of the model and includes a control header and a plurality of model slots arranged in a double‑buffered configuration, wherein model updates are performed by writing a model into an inactive …

Usage-Row-Gated Exactly-Once Prepaid Debit Protocol For Metered Llm Turns, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a computer-implemented protocol for debiting a prepaid credit wallet exactly once for a metered large-language-model (LLM) turn, and for doing so without ever producing either of the two well-documented failure classes of naive metered billing: the double-debit (a retried turn charged twice) and the free turn (a completed provider call that never bills, or that records usage telemetry without a matching charge). The core mechanism is an ordering invariant executed inside one database transaction: after acquiring a row-level exclusive lock on the wallet row, the system performs the metered-usage telemetry INSERT first, …

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A System And Method For Data Replication With Agentic Timestamp-Based Conflict Resolution In Rdbms Cluster, Ravi Shanker Kumar Sinha

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for autonomous data replication with conflict resolution in a distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) cluster includes a plurality of RDBMS nodes arranged in a mesh topology, wherein each RDBMS node maintains a local database, a logical clock, and a node identifier. A replication agent associated with each RDBMS node monitors change logs and propagates record modifications to other RDBMS nodes through bi-directional replication links. A conflict resolution module detects concurrent updates to a same record from different RDBMS nodes and resolves detected conflicts by comparing logical timestamps and selecting an update having a higher timestamp …

Media-Baked Convergent First-Boot Network Bring-Up, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enables, and dates a method and system for driving a freshly imaged bare-metal server from power-on to a single-homed, remotely reachable management state without any console interaction, any human network operator, and — critically — without any cloud or on-network metadata source. A generator bakes a per-node convergence agent directly into the operating-system install media under the vendor-supplement ($OEM$) payload path. During installation the OS setup engine copies that agent onto the target file system. A tiny first-boot script then registers a privileged (SYSTEM) scheduled task that re-executes an idempotent convergence agent on every subsequent boot until …

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In-Process Live T-Sql-To-Postgresql Transpiling Driver Facade With Ddl/Dml-Differentiated Idempotency Tolerance And Tri-Backend App Namespacing, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dates a mechanism by which application code written against a Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL) client driver is executed unchanged against a PostgreSQL server by an in-process driver facade that transpiles each SQL statement to PostgreSQL dialect at query time, inside the application process, with zero additional infrastructure. The facade reproduces the driver's object model — the pool, the request object with fluent input().query(), the { recordset, rowsAffected } result shape, and the named-parameter binding convention — so that the swap is invisible to callers. The transpiler performs, per statement: MERGE→INSERT … ON CONFLICT with source-alias …

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Traffic-Quiescence Virtual-Media Eject: Inferring Bare-Metal Os-Install Progress From Bmc Iso-Fetch Telemetry, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a method and system for driving an unattended bare-metal operating-system (OS) installation to completion by inferring install progress from the network traffic that a server's out-of-band management controller (BMC) generates while it streams the installation image over virtual media. A range-capable HTTP ISO server instruments every byte-range request per served file into a compact {bytes, requests, last-read} record. A dual-threshold traffic-quiescence rule — a primary rule (image byte floor reached AND read activity quiet for a short window) plus a low-water/long-quiet fallback and a hard-timeout safety fallback — concludes that the image-apply …

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Structural Review-Gate Stubs: Security Capabilities Shipped As Typed Fail-Closed Throwing Stubs Activated Only By Vetted-Handle/Key Presence, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses Structural Review-Gate Stubs, a software design in which a security-critical capability ships to production as a typed, fail-closed throwing stub whose activation gate is the presence of a vetted provisioning artifact — an injected cryptographic handle, a parseable asymmetric signing key, or a genuine payment secret — and not a boolean feature flag or an environment toggle. When the artifact is absent, malformed, or a deploy-time placeholder, the capability's dangerous operation is not merely disabled; the safe-looking fallback branch does not exist in the code. Attempting the operation raises a single typed gate error carrying a stable …

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Email-Transported Vlm Telemetry Loop, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Many vendors expose per-user consumption in a web console but provide no programmatic metering endpoint, or gate that endpoint behind an enterprise agreement that a small operator does not hold. This disclosure describes a durable, low-friction mechanism for turning such API-less consumption into a first-class metric time series. A designated human periodically screenshots each monitored entity's vendor-console usage page and forwards it, one message per entity, into a shared mailbox — placing the entity's identity in the message subject. A scheduled ingester (1) searches the mailbox for the designated sender through a standard mail API, (2) admits only subjects matching …

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Pre-Rated-At-Emit Admin-Immutable Metering Ledger With Unconditional Immutability Trigger And Writer-Role-Only Append, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses, enables, and dedicates to the public a mechanism for maintaining a usage-metering ledger — the "money record" of a licensing or metered-billing platform — whose immutability and tamper-evidence are properties of the database schema and its privilege grants rather than of an application-level audit trail. The mechanism rests on a single design inversion: each usage event is pre-rated at emit, meaning its final billable monetary amount is computed in application memory and written into the inserted row, so that the row is born final. Because a correctly rated row never needs a legitimate later edit, the ledger …

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Erasable-Subject Proof-Of-Authorship Vault, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, an erasable-subject proof-of-authorship vault. The vault records who conceived what, when in a form that a third party can verify offline, that stays provable after the creator's identity has been erased, and that is honest on its face about the evidentiary strength of every timestamp it carries. The mechanism does not claim the underlying transaction-coupled single-writer append-only ledger — that primitive is treated here as previously disclosed prior art (referred to throughout as Disclosure A, the single-writer baseline). Instead, this publication claims, strictly above that baseline, the composition of four techniques: (1) …

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Counts-Only Entitlement Metering For Client-Encrypted Local-First Stores With Entitlement-Namespaced Dedupe And Bounded-Outage Fail Policy, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, enablingly and in full, a method and system for metering and billing a digital resource that is stored only on an end-user's own device, while the authoritative meter, entitlement checks, and invoice-generation remain on a server-side billing spine that never receives the resource's plaintext or ciphertext. The server persists, per usage event, exactly one artifact: an idempotent usage row whose quantity is a COUNT (a number of documents, ingest units, or retrieval units), never bytes of content, never a title, never an embedding. Exactly-once accounting under retries and cross-tenant safety under untrusted client input are obtained by …

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Outage-Window Minimization Choreography: Prepull-Before-Maintenance With Daemonset Readiness As An Image-Present Barrier, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses, as enabling public prior art, a unified control loop that minimizes the user-facing outage of a Recreate-class Kubernetes rollout when the workload image is large (on the order of one gigabyte) and the cluster's nodes cold-pull that image slowly (tens of minutes on constrained on-premises hardware). The core insight is choreographic: the two operations that dominate a naive maintenance-window outage — building the image and pulling it onto the node that will run the new pod — are moved outside the user-facing window and executed while production traffic still flows. The warm-up is performed by a purpose-built …

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Bar-And-Hinge Model For Elasto-Plastic Origami Analysis, Yansong Tang, Yeqi Chu, Yue Mei, Yi Zhu, Ke Liu

Michigan Tech Publications

Origami-inspired structures are attracting considerable attention in engineering owing to their ability to facilitate intricate deformations and deployable configurations. However, accurately simulating their mechanical behaviour under realistic conditions involving permanent deformations and energy dissipation remains a significant challenge. In this study, we present an elasto-plastic formulation based on the nonlinear bar-and-hinge model for non-rigid origami simulation. We integrate rate-independent elasto-plastic constitutive models for both the hinges and the bars, enabling tunable representation of both elastic and plastic deformations in origami structures. The formulation employs a return mapping algorithm to ensure consistency with yield conditions checked at each incremental time step, …

Achieving Low-Carbon Buildings Through Advancing Concrete Materials And Automated Construction: A Review, Thanh Ha Ngo, Hai Hoang Khieu, Yingyan Zhang, Quang Tran, Phuong Tran

Michigan Tech Publications

The construction industry is a major contributor to global carbon emissions and faces urgent demands to align with net-zero targets through targeted material selection, manufacturing, and construction methods. Conventional concrete production contributes significant CO2 emissions, necessitating innovative approaches to reduce embodied and operational carbon. This scoping review examines advances in low-carbon concrete production, automated construction methods, their integration and practical applications. The review is based on literature published between 2015 and 2025, collected from Elsevier ScienceDirect and additional sources, focusing on low-carbon concrete materials, 3D concrete printing, and automated construction. The findings show that strategies such as carbonation curing, direct …

Language Proficiency And Moves In Turkish And English Research Abstracts, Engin Evrim Önem

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The primary function of the abstract within a research article is to convince readers of the study's significance, encapsulating specific details such as its purpose, methodology, results, and discussions and/or conclusions. Notably, scholarly attention has been directed towards the rhetorical structures employed in abstracts found in scientific journals, as authors are believed to employ diverse structures to present their articles in an engaging manner that captures readers' interest. The varied rhetorical structures used in research article abstracts are often referred to as ``moves''. This study investigated the impact of language proficiency and translation on these moves. Six Ph.D. students from …

The Interrelation Between Technology And Art In ``Brave New World'' And ``Never Let Me Go'', Nubar Aghalarova

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper examines the role of technology and art in dystopian literature and their interrelation in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005). Both dystopian novels depict the societies where technological advancements profoundly influence and control human life, creativity, and individuality. In Brave New World, technology is used to control and dehumanize individuals and to achieve social stability. Art is limited to suppress humans' emotions and self-expression as the world controllers want to do everything that they can erase the past. In Never Let Me Go, technology plays an important role in …

Contrasting Utopias: A Comparative Analysis Of Societal Ideals In Sir Thomas More's Utopia And Nizami Ganjavi's Iskandarname, Turkan Elbayiyeva

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The notion of an ideal society has long been a central theme in literature across diverse cultures and epochs. Originating in Plato's Republic in the fourth century B.C., the concept evolved through various literary genres and styles. Notable contributions emerged from both Western and Eastern traditions, exemplified respectively by Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and Nizami Ganjavi's Iskandarname (12th century). This article undertakes a comparative analysis of these works, examining their portrayals of individual life, economy, religion, governance, and justice. Both Utopia and Iskandarname underscore the importance of nature, animals, and human relationships, emphasizing harmony and peace in society. They …

Exploring Chatgpt's Role In Developing Productive Language Skills: A Systematic Review, Milana Abbasova, Eljan Salimli

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Although the interactive features of ChatGPT offer substantial benefits for language education, its integration presents complex pedagogical and ethical challenges. This systematic review critically evaluates the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT in enhancing expressive language capabilities, specifically speaking and writing. Adhering to PRISMA guidelines, a rigorous search of the ERIC database and a forward snowballing technique via Google Scholar yielded an initial pool of 1,124 records, culminating in the final selection of 22 empirical studies for in-depth analysis. Grounded in Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and the SAMR integration model, the findings conceptualize ChatGPT as a virtual ``More Knowledgeable Other'' that provides …

Exploring University Students' Acceptance Of Generative Ai For Writing: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model (Tam 3) Perspective, Ikram Ullah, Huma Batool, Sadia Irshad

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Generative AI presents significant potential for improving students' writing, and its acceptance is influenced by varied factors. The present study aims at exploring the factors by examining six vital constructs of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) 3 (Venkatesh & Bala, 2008)—academic relevance, output quality, self-efficacy, playfulness, anxiety, and perceived enjoyment—and their impact on perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention of students. Using a quantitative research approach, a sample size of 345 university students from Computer Science, Management Science, and Arts and Humanities voluntarily participated in an online cross-sectional survey questionnaire. The data was analyzed by SPSS 23.0 and …

Atp-Based Monitoring To Indicate Microbial Performance In Wastewater Treatment Plants, Lydia Smith, Gregor Posadas, Roy Henson, Sondra Miller

Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research

Wastewater treatment plants use complex operational systems to clean wastewater, with microorganisms being a core component of transforming polluted water into clean water. This study is based on a newly researched technology that infuses high concentrations of dissolved oxygen (DO) into return activated sludge, which enhances microbial activity and improves nutrient removal processes. The DO infusion system was installed and tested in a wastewater treatment facility in Greenleaf, Idaho. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) was monitored as a biohealth indicator to assess the performance of the DO infusion system in terms of supporting microbial activity in biological wastewater treatment. Findings show that …