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Spec-225-Core: Unified Vertical Computing Stack Matrix For Non-Von Neumann Co-Harmonic Hardware, Decentralized Software Protocols, And Macromolecular Biomolecular Storage Layer Systems, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural design rules and mathematical criteria for a Unified Vertical Computing Stack Matrix capable of executing seamless trans-tier data translation without Von Neumann bottlenecking or structural context decay. Operating as a standalone integrated technology cell (originally designated as SPEC-212 on the master system manifest atlas), this architecture links room-temperature phononic hardware waveguides, decentralized semantic software routing layers, and macromolecular biomolecular memory arrays into a single, cohesive processing node. By passing continuous state transformation arrays through an explicit 12x12 singular value decomposition (SVD) matrix convergence filter and governing the boundaries via a dynamically scaling functional viscosity …

Spec-224-Core: Anisotropic Phonon-Focusing Thermal Wrap Panels And External Chassis Shielding For Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Cores, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural design rules and mathematical criteria for an external Anisotropic Phonon-Focusing Thermal Wrap Array designed to physically envelope magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma containment systems. Operating as a direct external layer to supplement SPEC-222-CORE, this architecture incorporates the room-temperature quantum heat wave profiles established in SPEC-221-CORE to manage violent localized thermal gradients. By routing high-flux waste heat away from the internal reactor core chassis using the non-diffusive, star-shaped ray-trajectories of high-purity crystallographic sub-structures, the engine prevents structural warping and thermal back-pressure on the interior fluid canvas. The external field vectors are processed through an explicit 12x12 singular …

Spec-223-Core: Monolithic Structural Integration Of Ternary Solitonic Cores And Lipid-Encapsulated Hydrodynamic Waveguide Inter-Node Entanglement Bridges, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural design rules and mathematical criteria for the monolithic structural integration of a room-temperature ternary quantum computer processor core. The architecture prioritizes interior logic routing by defining the physical structural constraints of lipid-encapsulated hydrodynamic waveguide bridges linking parallel resonator cavities. By mapping continuous phase vectors through microscopic fluidic channels governed by an explicit 12x12 singular value decomposition (SVD) matrix convergence filter, the engine native-executes non-local entanglement transitions via classical momentum-space coupling. This framework completely eliminates the requirement for subatomic cryogenic environments or high-overhead digital error-correction schemes, introducing a zero-friction, hallucination-immune computational matrix. This standalone framework …

Spec-222-Core: Topological Magnetohydrodynamic Fusion Shields Spec-215-Mhd: Topological Magnetohydrodynamic Fusion Shields And Plasma Field-Collinear Confinement Matrix, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural design rules and mathematical criteria for a Topological Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Fusion Shield capable of executing stable, non-equilibrium plasma containment. The architecture prioritizes interior field priorities over external outliers by enforcing a hard, field-collinear alignment condition directly within the core plasma current density vectors. By passing continuous plasma velocity arrays through high-frequency active Gallium Nitride (GaN) phase arrays governed by an explicit 12x12 matrix convergence filter, the engine forces chaotic, ionized currents parallel to core magnetic field vectors. This structural constraint completely eliminates destructive convective tearing modes and localized magnetic reconnection anomalies without relying on …

Spec-221-Core: Anisotropic Phonon-Focusing Ray Maps And Isospectral Thermal Boundary Shielding For Room-Temperature Ternary Compute Cores, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural layout and mathematical criteria for integrating directional, ray-like anisotropic phonon transport profiles directly into the inter-node entanglement bridges of a room-temperature ternary quantum computer. It provides an immediate institutional upgrade to the open computing baseline, directly absorbing and defensive-blanketing the October 2026 UCLA experimental observations of room-temperature quantum heat waves. By exploiting the intrinsic, non-diffusive phonon-focusing ray paths of high-purity boron arsenide (BAs) and synthetic lithium niobate (LiNbO3) sub-structures, this framework routes chaotic environment-induced thermal noise away from localized fluid computing canvas trays. The system passes continuous thermal wave vectors through an explicit 12x12 …

Spec-220-Core: Multi-Axis Matrix Convergence Filters And Supplemental Attachment For Eckesonium™ Structural Grids, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive architectural design rules and mathematical criteria for a multi-axis structural optimization compiler core designed to supplement the parent framework SPEC-173 (Eckesonium™). Because the primary parent filing is structurally locked within the repository data stream, this standalone engine provides the necessary mathematical convergence filters to permanently eliminate strain-rate tracking anomalies and boundary-collapse vulnerabilities across the Eckesonium™ metastable high-entropy alloy (iMHEA) matrix. Provenance audit PROV-SPEC-173-MOD1 revealed that under extreme, non-uniform transient impact velocities, single-point linear phase fraction calculations allow for localized math drift exceeding the mandatory 1.5 defensive envelope threshold. This specification intercepts the continuous 2D spatial …

Spec-219-Core: Dual-Track Hybrid Continuous-Variable Compilation Matrices And Phononic Isospectral Cadence Decoding, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive mathematical criteria and structural compilation matrices for bridging continuous-variable (CV) macro-scale acoustofluidic wave mechanics with discrete logical states. It provides an immediate institutional and physical expansion of the open computing baseline, directly responding to and encapsulating the October 2026 MIT/LBNL hybrid hardware paradigms. By mapping the interaction of continuous bosonic wave fields within a fluid canvas to discrete fermionic data states, this framework completely resolves the computational tracking debt and signal erasure bottlenecks associated with optical read-head phase-boundary conversions. The primary objective is to harden the defensive prior art perimeter established across the Technical Disclosure …

Synthetic-Only Global Gradient Boosting With Eager-Lazy Complementary Forecasting And Feedback-Informed Retraining For Contact-Center Workload, Iyer Venkataraman Vaidyanathan, Dinesh S. Kumar, Dhaanish Mohamed, Sudheendra B A, Rajiv Shankar Daulath, Supratik Biswas, Hemanth Kumar B M, Nikita Banerji

Defensive Publications Series

A forecasting architecture is described herein that uses a global Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) trained exclusively on synthetic data parameterized by contact-center queue-behavior archetypes and operating alongside a lazy k-nearest neighbor (KNN) baseline. Both models independently predict each interval, with the lazy learner serving as a calibration anchor. A feedback loop compares the eager model output with the lazy baseline, extracts pattern characteristics of missed intervals and calibration gaps, and uses those characteristics to refine synthetic data generation and feature engineering for a later retraining cycle. Independent quality gates for call volume and average handle time (AHT) determine whether …

Ai-Driven Cross-Domain Optimization Function (Cdof) For Next-Generation Mobile Networks For Adaptive Signaling, Resource Management And Network Intelligence, Swapnil Barai, Sharad Chandra, Ravi Shekhar

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, cross-domain optimization of next-generation mobile networks, including fifth-generation (5G) Advanced and sixth-generation (6G) networks. The system provides a Cross-Domain Optimization Function (CDOF) that continuously analyzes peer communication behavior, network function interactions, compute-resource utilization, traffic demand, mobility events, and radio conditions. Based on learned behavioral patterns across network functions, slices, cloud infrastructure, and radio domains, the CDOF dynamically adjusts per-peer signaling intervals across heterogeneous protocols, derives dynamic operational slice characteristics from observed compute and workload behavior, forecasts compute and traffic demand, and generates proactive optimization recommendations for the core network and radio …

Fpga-Resident Guardrail Fabric For Large Language Model Security, Privacy, And Safety Enforcement, Barry Qi Yuan

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for hardware-interlocked release of artificial intelligence (AI) prompts, retrieved context, model responses, tool requests, and tool results. Release-critical state remains under chip control, and each guarded object reaches RELEASED only through an atomic commit binding the object digest and sequence, the applicable guardrail action, a protected-state update, a package epoch, and cryptographically authenticated enforcement evidence; failure leaves the original destination disabled. The system combines deterministic controls, a placement-flexible semantic model operating within a signed quality envelope on approved measured, attested, or host-isolated compute, and authenticated escalation for unresolved or high-consequence cases while the hardware interlock …

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Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

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Infographic: Australian’S Views Of The Teaching Profession, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

The third annual Australian Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Science survey asked 1,255 adult respondents about their beliefs and attitudes towards science and various professions, including teachers. Here, we share some of their responses.

Towards A Mechanism For Artificial Intelligence Into University Education For Environmental Architecture A Comparative Analytical Study To Evaluate The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Self- Learning In Environmental Design., Heba Mahrous Ali Abd El-Aal

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Architectural education is a field that uniquely targets the creativity and continuous development of architecture students. This is especially true within environmental architecture, which relies on diverse spatial and temporal variables that create unique interactions for students, based on the specific concept of environmental design.

Effects Of A Virtual Reality-Based Nature Video Intervention On Sleep Quality And Mental Well-Being In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial ​, Hati̇ce Yağci Karamanli, Nuray Bi̇ngöl

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: Sleep quality and mental health are negatively affected in many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of virtual reality (VR) on sleep quality and mental well-being.

Materials and methods: The study was designed as a randomized controlled trial. Data were collected from patients with MS who presented to a hospital in Türkiye. The study was completed by 21 participants in the experimental group and 22 participants in the control group. Participants in the experimental group watched nature videos using VR headsets for 6 weeks. Participants completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) …

Effect Of Beverages With Varying Acidity On The Surface Microhardness Of Resin Composites: An In Vitro Study, Vishnu S, Shweta Purohit, Yashas Dm, Mangala G K, Chinnu Mary Jose, Athira Bs

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introductions: The increasing consumption of acidic beverages has raised concerns regarding their impact on the longevity of composite resin restorations. Surface microhardness is a critical parameter for evaluating the mechanical performance and durability of restorative materials.

Aim: To evaluate and compare the effect of beverages with varying acidity on the surface microhardness of different composite resin materials and to assess the relationship between beverage pH and microhardness reduction.

Materials and Methods: This in vitro experimental study included 140 disc-shaped specimens of four composite resins: Filtek Z350 XT, Tetric N-Ceram, Beautifil II, and Charisma Smart (n = 35 …

Stem Cell-Based Therapies In Periodontology And Implant Dentistry: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Abdullah Saeed, Marycris Padrigo

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: Periodontal disease and peri-implantitis remain the leading causes of tooth and implant loss, and conventional regenerative procedures consistently fall short of full structural restoration. Stem cell therapies have emerged as a promising alternative, operating through multi-lineage differentiation, immunomodulation via paracrine signaling, and extracellular vesicle communication. Prior systematic reviews, however, lacked methodological rigor — omitting clustering adjustments, REML/HKSJ estimation, prediction intervals, and publication bias modeling.

Aim: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether stem cell therapy produces superior clinical and radiographic outcomes compared to cell-free controls in adults with periodontal or peri-implant bone defects.

Methods: Searches across …

Montana Kaimin, October 15, 2026, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Overcoming Barriers To Housing And Community Engagement In The Bronx, Pamela Ransom Dr., Aboubkar Keita

eJournal of Public Affairs

Understanding the complex factors affecting engagement related to available community resources related to housing access and supports in urban areas where housing is scarce, is crucial because of the varied hazards contributing to current high levels of housing demand and stress impacting large numbers. This project explored perceptions, barriers, and opportunities to foster community engagement around housing supports, with a special focus on issues in the Bronx in New York City. By prioritizing attention to a holistic, collaborative approach to needs assessment and implementation of a pilot project for change using the Constructive Action educational methodology, the article presents a …

Community Engagement And A Preservice Teachers Mathematics Course, Jean M. Mistele

eJournal of Public Affairs

This article focuses on a civic engagement experience, as defined by Ehrlich (2000), between preservice teachers enrolled in a math class and a local community-based partner located in a mid-Atlantic state in rural Appalachia. The mathematics course is one of three required for graduation and it is taught in the Mathematics and Statistics department. The content includes algebra, probability, and statistics for grades K-8. Some of the mathematics lessons include social issues such as water quality and endangered species using real world data, which is the foundation for the two semester project options: 1) research or 2) community engagement. The …

Integrated Multigeneration System Utilizing Industrial Gas Engine Waste Heat For Power, Oxygen, Hydrogen Generation, And Process Heat Supply: A Thermodynamic, Exergo-Economic, And Environmental Analysis, Md Musfiqur Rahman, Md Shahriar Mohtasim, Barun K. Das

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Integrating waste heat recovery units into industrial energy infrastructure provides a sustainable solution by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and improving substantial plant efficiency. Recent studies have addressed this issue using Brayton, Rankine, organic Rankine, thermoelectric, and electrolysis-assisted waste heat recovery systems for power, heat, hydrogen, or other useful outputs. However, many configurations recover exhaust gas and jacket water heat separately, focus mainly on electricity, and provide limited source-to-sink matching for industrial steam, process heat, oxygen demand, cost, and environmental performance. This study proposes a source-to-sink matched multigeneration system for a 10 MW Wärtsilä 20V34SG gas engine, where each waste …

Stewards Of Data: A Practical Handbook For Undergraduate Researchers In Engineering And Applied Sciences, Şenay Purzer, Wei Zakharov, Carla B. Zoltowski

Purdue University Press Books

Filled with actionable guides and real-world examples, Stewards of Data: A Practical Handbook for Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering and Applied Sciences allows readers to utilize the provided templates and guides almost immediately. In today’s world, data is ubiquitous and AI is growing exponentially. Practicing ethical data management is, therefore, crucial. Ensuring that data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable is essential. This book is an interdisciplinary effort aimed at embedding ethical data life-cycle management education into undergraduate research. The authors present a Data Steward Framework, which serves as a guide for undergraduate researchers, the graduate students who mentor them, postdocs, …

Hrae-Stack: A Leakage-Controlled, Calibrated, And Explainable Stacking Framework For Icu Mortality Prediction, Kareem Hameed Khalaf, A. Moallemi Khiavi, Dhafar Hamed Abd

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

ICU mortality prediction requires more than good discriminative ability; the development process should minimize optimistic bias and produce clinically meaningful probabilities. In this work, we introduce HRAE-Stack, a heterogeneous stacking method that combines fold-dependent preprocessing, consensus feature selection, four tree-based models, entropy-modulated out-of-fold meta-features, Bayesian ridge averaging, and probability calibration. We estimated all transformations and model selection decisions within development folds and fixed them before the model is evaluated on the unobserved held-out partition. Mean receiver operating characteristic–area under the curve (ROC-AUC) was 0.974 ± 0.018, and the mean Brier score was 0.045 ± 0.032 for 10-fold cross-validation. ROC-AUC for …

Building Services Engineering September/October 2026

Building Services Engineering

This issue of Building Services Engineering explores Ireland's net-zero transition, highlighting AI data centre liquid-cooling innovations, critical energy infrastructure updates, ASHRAE and CIBSE safety insights, commercial heat pump selections, decarbonising elevators, and examples of engineering innovation and leadership across the building services sector.

Green Lithium Extraction From Alkaline Brines Using A Dibenzoylmethane Octanol System, Maryam Gonbadi, Shayan Abrishami, Ozra Gholipour, Ana Vafadar, Amir Razmjou

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The escalating global demand for lithium necessitates the development of efficient, selective, and environmentally sustainable extraction technologies from brine resources. This study presents a novel solvent extraction system employing dibenzoylmethane (DBM) as a lithium-selective β-diketone chelating extractant and 1-octanol as a biodegradable diluent for lithium recovery from alkaline salt lake brines. The effects of critical process parameters, including aqueous phase pH, extractant concentration, and total dissolved solids (TDS), on lithium extraction efficiency and selectivity were systematically investigated. Under optimized conditions (pH 12, 0.3 M DBM in 1-octanol), the system achieved a single-stage lithium extraction efficiency of 80.8% with exceptional separation …

The 2023 Mw 6.8 Al Haouz, Morocco Earthquake: A Multi-Layer Reconnaissance Framework For The Remote Sensing And Field Assessment Of Landslides, Building And Heritage Damage, And Road Access Disruption In The High Atlas Region, Viviana Novelli, Martin Stokes, Sarah Boulton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

On 8 September 2023, a Mw 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco’s High Atlas region, causing nearly 3,000 fatalities and widespread damage across rural, mountainous settlements dominated by traditional and non-engineered construction, and affecting cultural heritage assets. The event triggered landslides that further increased the isolation of affected communities. This study presents findings from the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) mission. Different radar and optical remote sensing techniques were used to identify areas most affected by earthquake-induced landslides and building damage, guiding the field investigations. A total of 2,671 earthquake-induced landslides were identified; although relatively limited for an event of this …

Explainable Ai For Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Detection From Chest X-Rays: Multi-Level Interpretability And Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning: Multi-Level Interpretability And Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning, Joan Mnyambo, Amir Aly, Emmanuel Ifeachor, Yinghui Wei

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) continues to pose a major global health challenge, with hundreds of thousands of new cases reported annually, resulting in a substantial mortality burden. Delayed or inaccurate diagnosis contributes to ongoing transmission, treatment failure, and increased deaths, highlighting the need for timely and dependable detection, particularly in low-resource healthcare settings. Although chest X-rays (CXRs) are widely available and commonly used for tuberculosis screening, reliable and interpretable approaches for distinguishing drug-resistant from drug-sensitive tuberculosis (DS-TB) remain limited. Despite recent advances in deep learning, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods for DR-TB identification are still underexplored, thereby reducing clinical trust and …

2026 Persimmon Creek - Full Journal, Beth Keefauver, Wayne C. Robbins

Persimmon Creek

Dear Readers: Literary journals are a common component of colleges and universities spanning across many continents. As many students experience the drastic transition from childhood to independence, emotions can feel overwhelming, and life can quickly become flooded with anxiety. Writing is an outlet for many; a place humanity turns to as a form of secure therapy.

In William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, Berowne muses, “Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were temper’d with Love’s sighs” (Act 4, Scene 3).

Without emotion, writing has no depth. The words on the page might seem eloquent, but the …

Meet Phoenix, Feng Jiang

Persimmon Creek

One act play

Roadkill, Kristi S. Miller

Persimmon Creek

Dear Beth Keefauver,

Thank you for considering my short story “Roadkill,” a 3371-word short story, for inclusion in Persimmon Creek. Below is my biography:

“Could you kill someone?” is Kristi Miller’s favorite question. It divides the keepers from the bores, and she can’t tolerate boredom. After growing tired of being a molecular biologist, she moved to Western North Carolina to teach kayaking and live in a van down by the river. Now she’s a professor of nursing. Her husband supports her need for drama – when their biological daughter was almost two, they adopted a sibling group of three. If …

The Use Of Case-Based Experiential Learning With First-Year Occupational Therapy Students: A Two-Year Pilot Study, Michelle Jackson

Journal of Applied Disciplines

Background: Understanding and applying biomechanical principles to participation in functional activities is vital to occupational therapy (OT) education. Exposure to such principles underlying prosthetic use and occupational engagement related to lower extremity (LE) limb loss provides opportunities to better understand these concepts as well as the role of OT with this population.

Method: An experiential learning framework was used to develop a three-phase, case-study-based pilot project, completed with first-year graduate-level OT students from two cohorts (n = 26, n = 31).  At the conclusion of the project, an anonymous Likert-style survey and a reflection assignment were completed by all students. …