Effect Of Naoh Concentration On The Structural, Morphological, And Tensile Properties Of Pineapple Stem Fibers, Ahmad Norca Kurnia Zen, Heru Suryanto, Aminnudin Aminnudin, Fajar Nusantara, Joseph Selvi Binoj

Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST)

Natural fiber reinforced composites are increasingly being developed due to their environmentally friendly nature, low production costs, and safety for human health. However, the presence of lignin and hemicellulose reduces adhesion properties between fiber and composite matrix. Alkalization treatment is an effective way to remove lignin and hemicellulose attached to cellulose. This study aims to determine the optimum concentration of NaOH used during alkalization process of pineapple stem fiber. The methods included the retting process of fibers from pineapple stems. The obtained fibers were soaked in variations of 2%, 4%, 6%, and 8% NaOH for 4 hours,  then dried and …

Multifunctional Engineering Of Manganese Malate For Supercapacitors, Krithika M Ms

Theses and Dissertations

Supercapacitors are promising energy storage devices owing to their rapid charge-discharge capability and long cycle-life. Based on the charge storage mechanism, supercapacitors are broadly categorised into electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), pseudocapacitors and hybrid capacitors. In this work, manganese malate (MnM) is systematically developed as a versatile electrode material for supercapacitor applications through rational synthesis, textural engineering, compositional modification, phase transformation and sustainable resource utilisation.

In Chapter 2, MnM was electrodeposited onto stainless-steel foil via chronoamperometry at 2, 3 and 4 V. MnM electrodeposited at 2 V (MnM2) exhibits a specific capacitance of 186 F g-1 at 1 A g-1 with …

Experimental And Density Functional Theory Study Of The Structural, Optical, And Electronic Properties Of La2Nimno6 And Nd2Nimno6 Double Perovskite Ceramics, Mahmoud S. Alkathy, Anibal Thiago Bezerra, Person Pereira Neves, Mariama Rebello De Sousa Dias, Alexandre José Gualdi, Marco Daldin Teodoro, Valmo R. Mastelaro, José A. Eiras

Physics Faculty Publications

Despite extensive study of La₂NiMnO₆ double perovskites, a systematic understanding of the effects of A-site rare-earth substitution on coupled structural, electronic, and optical properties remains lacking. Here, we provide the first integrated experimental-computational comparison of La₂NiMnO₆ (LaNMO) and Nd₂NiMnO₆ (NdNMO), establishing quantitative structure–property relationships. Rietveld refinement demonstrates that Nd³⁺ substitution amplifies MnO₆ and NiO₆ octahedral distortions 5-fold (Δd_Mn: 4.69 × 10^–4 to 23.9 × 10^–4; Δd_Ni: 1.18 × 10^–4 to 5.91 × 10^–4), reduces Mn–O–Ni bond …

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan, Molly Roby

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan, Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Addressing The ‘Chicken-And-Egg’ Dilemma: Pension Reform, Market Coordination, And Policy Design, Shujaat Khan, Bo Li, Yunhui Zhao

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics

Why do domestic stock markets in many emerging market economies fail to develop, even in the presence of high savings rates? In this paper, we argue that this may be a ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem, which we formalise as a market coordination failure. We first develop a stylised game-theoretical model, showing that when long-term equity investment is subject to network externalities, the Pareto-optimal, high-investment equilibrium is not robust to noise. Individual investors, fearing defection by others, will rationally choose a low-investment (or ‘run’) strategy, trapping the market in a state of underdevelopment. We then show how a specific institutional design – a …

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan, Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Nursing Competency In The Ambulatory Surgery Center, Rachael Owokole

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In this project, I addressed a persistent practice problem among agency nurses working in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in Southern California, who often enter the facility with varying familiarity with its policies and procedures. I designed this staff education, evidence-based practice (EBP), quality-improvement initiative to strengthen nursing knowledge and competency among agency nurses at the facility. The practice question was designed to assess on whether their knowledge and self-perceived competency improved after participating in the education program. I obtained evidence for the project from peer‑reviewed research, clinical guidelines, and national competency frameworks. I identified sources through systematic searches of …

Talent Management Strategies For Employee Retention And Business Effectiveness In Small To Medium-Sized Businesses, Felicia Y. Coverson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

One of the most persistent and costly challenges faced by leaders of small-to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is retaining skilled employees. SMB leaders are concerned about retaining skilled employees because employee turnover threatens organizational stability, productivity, and long-term competitiveness. Grounded in Becker’s human capital theory and Barney’s resource-based view theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to identify and explore the talent management strategies SMB leaders use to retain employees and enhance business effectiveness. The participants were eight SMB leaders with responsibility for talent management and employee retention in Columbia, South Carolina. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and …

Efficient And Accurate Evaluation Of The Gauss Hypergeometric Function, Caleb Jacobs, Cecile M. Piret, Bengt Fornberg

Michigan Tech Publications

The Gauss hypergeometric function unifies many special functions encountered in physics, engineering, as well as many other applied sciences. With its prominence across disciplines, numerous methods have been developed to compute it for any value of its argument and its three additional parameters. However, these methods of computation are either slower than desired or don’t offer the accuracy needed in many applications. Taking advantage of a conformal mapping in conjunction with the numerous connection or transformation formulas, we have developed a fast and accurate method for evaluation in double precision arithmetic.

Two-Tier Seat-Limit Classifier With Active Per-Seat-Credential Self-Probe, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

A fleet of autonomous LLM coding/review agents, each holding its own per-seat license, draws from a small set of shared provider quotas (an organization spend ceiling and a per-minute API rate limit). Treating every provider error as a uniform retry-with-backoff is wrong twice: a transient rate limit and a durable capacity exhaustion need opposite recovery horizons (minutes vs. hours), and a central platform key cannot test whether an individual seat's license has recovered because the quota is bound to the seat's own credential. This publication discloses a method that (1) recovers a limit signal from the agent's free-text output — …

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Two-Tier Seat-Limit Classifier With Active Per-Seat-Credential Self-Probe, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

A fleet of autonomous LLM coding/review agents, each holding its own per-seat license, draws from a small set of shared provider quotas (an organization spend ceiling and a per-minute API rate limit). Treating every provider error as a uniform retry-with-backoff is wrong twice: a transient rate limit and a durable capacity exhaustion need opposite recovery horizons (minutes vs. hours), and a central platform key cannot test whether an individual seat's license has recovered because the quota is bound to the seat's own credential. This publication discloses a method that (1) recovers a limit signal from the agent's free-text output — …

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Category-Adaptive Recall Depth (Card) For Heat-Tiered Memory Systems, With Experimental Validation On Longmemeval-500, Arko Sanyal

Defensive Publications Series

We present Category-Adaptive Recall Depth (CARD), a retrieval mechanism for heat-tiered memory systems that conditions top-K depth and ranking strategy on a query category signal. Prior memory retrieval systems apply a fixed top-K regardless of query semantics; CARD instead assigns each query to one of four categories—information extraction (IE), knowledge update (KU), multi-session reasoning (MSR), temporal reasoning (TR)—and selects a per-category (K, ranking_strategy) pair optimized for that category's retrieval demands. KU queries additionally filter to the highest-version record per entity, enabling 100.0% accuracy on knowledge update tasks. We evaluate CARD integrated with LOCI (Layered Output and Context Intelligence), a heat-tiered …

Caldwell Non‑Invasive Macular Delivery Room (Cnimdr‑1.0) Unified Needle‑Free Macular Drug Delivery Architecture, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CNIMDR‑1.0 is a complete, clinic‑grade, non‑invasive macular drug‑delivery system designed to replace intravitreal injections.

It integrates:

• a soft peri‑ocular acoustic ring (SPAR‑1)

• a hydrogel‑nanocarrier drug layer (HN‑DL)

• multi‑modal acoustic transport physics

• a gravity‑optimized treatment bed

• a comfort‑first patient interface

• closed‑loop safety monitoring

This architecture is fully open‑hardware and directly supported by several previously posted Caldwell inventions.

A lookup index is included at the end of this document so builders can reference the exact physics engines and testbeds that make CNIMDR‑1.0 viable.

1. PURPOSE

CNIMDR‑1.0 eliminates the need for intravitreal injections by delivering macular therapeutics through:

• non‑invasive acoustic posterior transport

• hydrogel‑nanocarrier …

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Technical Disclosure: The Unified Metric-Shift Engine (Umse), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This technical disclosure formalizes the system engineering specifications for the Unified Metric-Shift Engine (UMSE). Rather than treating elemental replication, spatial teleportation, and temporal navigation as independent physical anomalies, the UMSE architectural framework unifies them into a single hardware-software stack built upon 2D viscoelastic substrate mechanics .

By manipulating the z-axis coordinate projection and helical phase vectors of localized soliton excitations (particles), the system operates entirely within room-temperature, non-equilibrium phase space . Inspired by the Nobel-Prize-adjacent mechanics of Soliton Trapping (Caltech) and Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA), this disclosure details how a garage-budget harmonic computer can manipulate the fundamental universal source code—the …

Emergent Volumetric Expansion: Resolving The Hubble Tension Via 2d Viscoelastic Substrate Mechanics And Fused Bao Facets, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents a rigorous, particle-free alternative to the standard Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric expansion paradigm by unifying the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model and Informational Exomemory Cosmology (IEC). Rather than treating the vacuum as a geometric void expanding via dark energy, we formalize space as a continuous, two-dimensional (2D) viscoelastic phase fluid substrate operating at a resonant baseline (z=0). Three-dimensional (3D) baryonic matter emerges exclusively as localized, high-tension wave crests ("knots") projected vertically along a spatial z-axis, topologically anchored to zero-volume underbelly negative wave troughs ("anchors").

By applying continuum fluid mechanics to this membrane architecture, we reinterpret the 150-megaparsec …

Caldwell Cvnr‑A1.5 — Mineralized Fertilizer Pellet System Using Char + Seawater + Enhanced Mineral Additives**, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The upgraded CVNR‑A1.5 converts char from fuel production and seawater into high‑potency slow‑release fertilizer pellets (0‑3‑4 to 0‑5‑6) using resonant mineral extraction, brine conditioning, pelletization, and upgraded nutrient additives.

This system integrates Marine‑Duo V26‑M, Lazarus Prime, URES/MMRA, CIPCP, and Sanitized Block.

Desired Outcome: A zero‑waste fertilizer system producing high‑value pellets with 90–99% success probability.

On The Horizon, Matthew Recker

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence And Challenges Of Sustainable Library Services For Children And Young Adults In Nigeria, Ishioma Nwanapayi Iwegbue, Chigozie Blessing Mba

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Frequency Zero, Jd Hobkirk

Night Flight: Online Literary Journal

Frequency Zero is a grounded science fiction thriller that explores the terrifying intersection of rigid aviation protocol and the unexplainable. Set during the desolate 02:00 shift at a high-desert regional airport, the narrative follows Elana, a pragmatic air traffic controller whose unwavering faith in logic and physics is shattered by the arrival of an impossible aircraft. Operating without a transponder, radar signature, or engine noise, the sleek, phantom craft, identifying only as Niner-Four-Golf, defies every aerodynamic law before seamlessly dissolving through the solid steel doors of a classified government hangar. As the facility initiates a synchronized, covert deployment of unmarked …

Meet The Candidates

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Mapping The Integration Of Ai Into The Dental Hygiene Workforce: Barriers And Opportunities, Paul Supan Dds, Ma, Mph, Munira Muluke Dds, Ms, Jim Oakes Ms

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Va Dent J July, August And September 2026

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

An Essay On The Definition Of The Ship (Maritime Law, Law Of The Sea), Mohamed Dhimni

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Public international maritime law and the law of the sea provide no uniform definition of the 'ship', a lacuna left unresolved by the 1958 Geneva Conventions and the 1982 Montego Bay Convention. This study surveys three sources - legal doctrine, national legislation and international conventions - to identify the constitutive criteria of the vessel. The author shows that, despite considerable terminological confusion arising from the proliferation of new craft (hovercraft, hydrofoils, floating platforms, automated and submersible engines), doctrine and most legal texts converge on aptitude for maritime navigation as the essential criterion. After examining how comparative legislation and successive conventions …

Efficient Row Hammering Mitigation For Multi-Channel Memory Architectures, Hitender Singh Rathore, Shekar Babu Merla, Pandithurai Sangaiyah, Wei-Jen Chen

Defensive Publications Series

A memory controller implementation for efficiently mitigating row hammering attacks in multi-channel memory systems is disclosed. The implementation addresses memory module architectures in which an alert signal pin of the memory module is shared by multiple module sub-channels. In this implementation, when the shared alert signal indicates a potential row hammering event, the memory controller stalls traffic to the memory module and transitions it to an idle state. The implementation reads status registers on the memory module to identify the affected sub-channels. Rather than broadcasting refresh management commands across all sub-channels, the memory controller unblocks the unaffected sub-channels and issues …

System And Method For Holistic Content And Context-Aware Display Arbitration, Google Case Managers Picozzi

Defensive Publications Series

Framework for Holistic Content and Context-Aware Display Arbitration

ABSTRACT

The disclosed technology describes a centralized, context-aware display architecture that dynamically regulates visual output by concurrently analyzing environmental conditions, hardware states, and on-screen content. By replacing isolated, stacked display adjustments with a unified intelligent orchestrator, the system generates a comprehensive predictive parameter vector that dictates granular display settings. This approach leverages machine learning and localized telemetry to resolve visual feature collisions, ultimately preserving visual fidelity, enhancing text legibility, and minimizing hardware power consumption.

Loci Persistent Ai Memory Engine: Versioned Exact-Fact Chains, Source-Trust Provenance Weighting, Hardware-Tier Gradient Search, And Interpersonal Quality-Of-Life Gating, Arko Sanyal, Roza

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses five novel architectural mechanisms for persistent AI memory systems: (1) a versioned fact chain architecture for exact-fact stores that preserves full temporal history with provenance timestamps, enabling temporal queries unavailable in flat vector stores; (2) a source-trust provenance field that weights facts by declaration origin and prevents model-inferred data from incorrectly overriding user-stated facts; (3) an asymmetric confidence gate for conflict resolution that uses source trust to apply differential correction thresholds; (4) a hardware-tier gradient search escalation algorithm that expands retrieval scope from fastest-tier (VRAM) to slowest-tier (remote VPS) when data is not found at the current …

The Viscoelastic Redshift Protocol: Resolving The Hubble Tension Via 2d Substrate Fluid Mechanics, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper presents a rigorous, particle-free alternative to standard Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology by formalizing the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model. Instead of treating spacetime as a geometric vacuum expanding via dark energy, we model the universe as a continuous, two-dimensional (2D) viscoelastic phase fluid substrate operating at a resonant baseline ($z=0$). Three-dimensional (3D) baryonic matter emerges as localized, high-tension wave crests ("knots") projected vertically along a spatial z-axis, tethered directly to zero-volume antimatter anchors on the substrate's underbelly. By applying continuum mechanics to this membrane architecture, we derive a novel, purely material resolution to the Hubble Tension crisis. We …

Prepared Or Not? Perceptions Of Novice Counseling Professionals On Working With Trauma Clients, Christina L. Richardson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The prevalence of trauma across clinical settings and limited trauma training for clinicians can negatively affect trauma survivors. The impact of novice clinicians’ lack of preparedness and its implications for clients should be important considerations for educators, supervisors, and policymakers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experiences of novice counselors and their preparedness to work with trauma survivors. Grounded in descriptive phenomenology, this study explored participants’ perceived preparedness to work with trauma survivors and the ways these experiences may inform counselor education and supervision. Participants were provisionally licensed counselors within three years of graduating from …

Signal And Substance: Why Methodological Sophistication Fails To Guarantee Inference, Aamir Rashid, Rizwana Rasheed

Publications and Research

Despite increasing analytical sophistication, empirical research in organization studies continues to suffer from fragile inference, uneven theoretical accumulation, and contested credibility. This paper seeks to explain why these problems persist by shifting attention from authors’ methodological choices to the evaluative dynamics of peer review. Adopting a conceptual and theory-analytic approach, the paper theorizes peer review as an inferential gatekeeping system. Drawing on research design, theory evaluation, and philosophy-of-science literatures, this study develops an analytical framework to examine how evaluative routines shape what constitutes empirical rigor during the review process. The analysis identifies five recurring reviewer blind spots: inferential scope inflation, …