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Assessing The Overheating Resilience Of A Novel Earth Walled (Cobbauge) Building Across Different Climate Zones In Europe Using A Calibrated Building Performance Simulation Model, Halat Alnaqshabandy, Matthew Fox, Steve Goodhew

School of Art, Design and Architecture

CobBauge is a dual-layer earthen construction material, optimized to meet Part-L of the Building Regulations in England and Wales. A classroom constructed with CobBauge demonstrated high resilience to overheating during two heatwaves in Plymouth, highlighting its potential as a sustainable and ultra-low-carbon material. This study assesses its overheating resilience using a simulation model, calibrated to achieve 7.30% CV(RMSE) and 1.34°C RMSE against measured indoor temperatures. Plymouth's future climate and nine European locations representing different Köppen climate classifications were incorporated into the model to analyse the building's thermal performance and its compliance with CIBSE TM52 criteria. Results showed no overheating risk …

Shaping Imperial Subjects: Ideology And The Adolescent Reader In H. Rider Haggard’S King Solomon’S Mines, Asma Sakit Alshammari

UB Journal for Humanities

H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) was addressed to adolescent boy readers who were expected to grow into the future administrators of the British Empire. Beneath its adventure plot lies a problem that existing scholarship on race and empire in the novel has left largely unexamined: how a text aimed at children comes to instill imperial values without appearing to instruct at all. This paper examines how Haggard embeds colonial values within King Solomon’s Mines to address that problem, employing Foucault’s concepts of power and knowledge alongside Althusser’s concept of interpellation to explore how the novel shapes colonial subjectivity …

Voices Of Resistance: The People, The Press, And The Law, Robert S. Chang, Erica Lomeli Corcoran, Memo Torres, Gary Williams, Isais Benavides, Julie Morales, Astrid Hernandez

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Loyola Public Interest Palooza Panel Transcription

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Blue Economy, Climate Risk, And Fisherfolks: An Inquiry Into The State Narrative Of Blue Economy And Right Of Fisherfolks, S.Mohammed Irshad Smi

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The blue economy is an extension of finance capital into the coast and is a larger frontier expansion project. This capital is confronted with climate risks as well. The blue economy creates new economic zones, which fall into a risk zone in which output and productivity deplete over time. The blue economy projects conflict with the declining fisheries resources, which puts the fishing community's life at risk. The policies that promote the blue economy often neglect the resource-dependent communities across the coastal areas.

Modelling The Financial Viability Of Offshore Aquaculture Using A Case Study Of A Sea Bass Farm In The Bay Of Lion, France, Jeremy Van Dyken, Houshang Habibniya, Suzan Dsouza, Tyler Sclodnick

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The extension of net pen aquaculture to open ocean sites provides many advantages to the industry including opportunity for expansion, utilization of high energy sites, and better resilience to certain near shore or surface-associated stressors. The industry has been slow to develop due to high perceived risks and a lack of operating farms to provide financial information for open ocean farm operations. A model was developed to evaluate the economic viability of a hypothetical sea bass aquaculture venture in the open French Mediterranean Sea that utilizes open ocean submersible farming systems. Advanced open ocean equipment, including submersible net pens, environmental …

Valuation Methods And Their Relevance In Achieving Marine Protected Areas Targets: A Systematic Review, Jacob Ankamah, Stephen Hynes, Daragh O'Leary

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The prolific human-induced pressures on marine ecosystems leading to negative externalities such as beach erosion, biodiversity loss, and climate change are matters of global concern. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a tool to conserve marine biodiversity and support human livelihoods. This paper reviews the global research landscape, the evolution of concepts and the relevance of valuation techniques related to the assessment of the contribution of MPAs to societal welfare. The review indicates that less than 3% of the wider MPA literature explores the economic valuation of MPA designation. Of those, there is an obvious preference for non-market-based methods …

Chin Music: Chilling Legal Advocacy Through Executive Orders Attacking Law Firms, Robert S. Chang

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Introduction to amicus brief challenging executive orders targeting law firms.

The amicus brief itself is reproduced as filed with the Supreme Court of the United States.

Barriers To Mental Health Treatment In A Rural County: Perceptions From Local Service Providers, Jennifer Cantu

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Though the prevalence of mental health issues is similar in rural and urban areas, it has been found that those living in rural areas experience significant disparities related to mental health treatment. This qualitative study examined how professionals’ perceptions of barriers to mental health is a rural county in Texas. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with service providers across health, social service, and community settings. A thematic analysis of the data found that the county experienced a shortage of mental health providers, limited transportation, high out-of-pocket costs, gaps in insurance, and inconsistent broadband access, which could limit the effectiveness of telehealth. …

Adult Sexual Grooming Needs Its Own Model: A Critical Conceptual Analysis, Christin M. Aletky

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Adult sexual grooming (ASG) is understudied, conceptually ambiguous, and often conflated with child sexual grooming (CSG). Existing models rely heavily on child-centered frameworks, limiting the field’s ability to recognize the adult-specific dynamics of manipulation, coercive control, and institutional vulnerability. This paper examines the limitations of current definitions and argues that ASG requires its own conceptual foundation. Drawing on the literature, the paper highlights three core distinctions between ASG and CSG: the erosion of meaningful consent in adult contexts, the relational ambiguity inherent in roles such as mentor, pastor, supervisor, or professor, and the influence of rigid power structures that legitimize …

The Digital Responsibility Index: Quantifying Perceived Multi-Layered Responsibility In Cybersecurity, Mircea Ţălu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

In the evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity responsibility extends beyond technical safeguards to include individual behavior, organizational governance, and societal impact. This study introduces the Digital Responsibility Index (DRI), a novel metric that quantifies multi-layered accountability across four domains: technical, individual, organizational, and societal. Data were collected through scenario-based Likert-scale surveys with 120 cybersecurity professionals, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with senior leaders. Results reveal that while technical and organizational responsibilities are consistently prioritized, individual and societal accountability remain under-recognized. Leadership engagement significantly enhances responsibility scores across all layers. The proposed DRI framework provides a measurable and potentially actionable basis for assessing …

1824: Honors Academic Journal, Fall 2026

1824: Honors Academic Journal

Table of Contents:

1 - Meet The Team

2 - About The Journal

3 - Editor's Foreword

4 - Assistant Editor's Foreword

5 - Advisor's Foreword

6 - “Trust, Bias, and Gender Disparities in Pain Perception, Diagnosis and Treatment” by Alina Karayiannis

10 - “The Global Burden of Infertility on Women’s Mental Health: Cultural Contexts and Call for Personalized Intervention” by Subika Rajendiran

18 - “Medical Mistrust and Iatrophobia in Racial and Gender Minorities” by Hannah Magdziak

22 - “HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Theories: The Silent Killer in a Trust-Starved World” by Kavi Shahnawaz

28 - “Islands Under Authoritarian Rule: Youth-Led Political …

Effects Of A 12-Week Tai Chi And Qigong Training Program On Neuromuscular Function And Postural Stability In Elderly Men With Sarcopenia, Muthanna Harith Ekrayyem, Ali Fawzi Ahmed, Saif Rasheed Ghanim

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Background: Sarcopenia is associated with progressive declines in neuromuscular function, balance, and increased systemic inflammation in older adults. This study investigated the effects of a 12-week Tai Chi and Qigong training program in elderly Iraqi men with sarcopenia. Materials and Methods: Thirty men aged 60–65 years with sarcopenia were randomly assigned to an intervention group (n = 15) or a control group (n = 15). Neuromuscular performance, postural stability, gait speed, electromyographic amplitude, IGF-1, and CRP-hs were assessed before and after the intervention. Results: The intervention group showed significant improvements in reaction time, electromyographic amplitude, postural stability, gait …

Beyond Screening In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Domain-Standardized, Measure-Flexible Framework For Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment, Etiane Navarro

Archives of Assessment Psychology

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder in which cognitive, behavioral, language, and social-cognitive changes may occur across clinical phenotypes, including the ALS-frontotemporal spectrum. Neuropsychological assessment is important for characterizing nonmotor manifestations and identifying changes relevant to autonomy, everyday functioning, and clinical management. This systematic review examined literature identified through APA PsycINFO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and supplementary searching to characterize neuropsychological domains, measures, phenotype-related findings, and disease-specific limitations relevant to comprehensive assessment. Two hundred records underwent title and abstract screening, 150 reports were reviewed in full text, and 61 resources were retained for synthesis. ALS-specific screening instruments, including …

Her Discerning Eye, Abigail Stepnitz

ConLawNOW

Court watchers read each Supreme Court term like tea leaves, seeking in the record a deeper meaning about who we are and where we are going. To read the recent term, this Essay takes up Oliver Wendell Holmes’s image of law as a tapestry woven for its initiates and Robert Cover’s account of courts as jurispathic, killing competing legal meanings to preserve a coherent archive. It sees the 2025–26 term not as a set of doctrinal developments or even political compromises, but as a weave of foreclosed claims, in which what the discerning eye can read is those foreclosures, those …

Ambientsi™: A Live Conformance Mark For Spaces With Ambient Ai, Shown At The Entrance, Verified By Any Visitor's Phone And Withdrawn Automatically When Any Device In The Space Falls Out Of Conformance, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a conformance mark for a physical space, such as a home, an office, a shop or a public building, in which ambient AI devices and agents operate. Instead of certifying devices one by one, the mark certifies the space as a whole: every ambient AI device and agent admitted to it, the space's governance hub, its house rules and its single stop. The mark is live. The hub continuously reports the attested conformance of every admitted device, the result of its own self-tests and any open incident to the certification body, which issues a short-lived signed status …

Mission-Locked Cooperative Governance Architecture For Community-Owned Production Of Life Essentials, Joseph Sack

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract

This disclosure describes a proposed mission-locked cooperative governance architecture for the community-owned production of life essentials, including energy, food, water, housing, and healthcare. The architecture separates technology development from infrastructure ownership. A nonprofit research and development entity independently develops and stewards the underlying technology and releases it under open licensing terms. Production infrastructure is owned by local member cooperatives operating under democratic member voting.

A mission-locked legal framework connects these layers. It combines four protective mechanisms: (1) a mission-protected charter with amendment controls that restrict changes to the stated purpose; (2) dedicated charitable assets with dissolution provisions that direct …

Automated Business Verification Using Multimodal Analysis Of Geospatial Imagery, Ashish Kumar, Satyam Kumar, Chandan Shanbhag

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional business verification techniques may be inefficient or limited by automated processes that can result in false negatives. A system and method for automated business verification can use a multi-stage data processing pipeline. For example, a multimodal large language model can perform a blind extraction of textual information from geospatial imagery associated with a business's claimed location. Subsequently, a semantic audit process may compare the extracted visual evidence against claimed business data, which can account for context, abbreviations, and synonyms. This approach can provide a programmatic method for verifying the physical existence of commercial entities and enriching data records with …

Strategic Visual Canvas: Context-Aware Ar Storefront Advertising, Vineet Verma, Harsh Singh

Defensive Publications Series

A spatial computing architecture and method may provide context-aware augmented reality (AR) digital overlays anchored to physical retail storefronts via wearable head-mounted displays (HMDs). The system may transform physical storefront facades into dynamic media spaces by coordinating visual positioning systems, on-device intent profiling across a sliding N-day search window, real-time backend inventory validation, and a gaze-activated progressive disclosure user interface.

A Farewell To Ohms - Reducing The Heat Signature Of Computing By <98%, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This proposal suggests an intermediate Memory segment between ROM and RAM that allows for the tokenization of calculation. The bridge would be rewritable to allow for changes over time but be effectively 'hardwired' as an adjunct of ROM .By totally avoiding duplication, the system runs on a streamlined basis

Technical Specification: Spec-208-Core Title: Solid-State Surface Acoustic Wave (Saw) Waveguides And Matrix Residue Separation Filters, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the mathematical and hardware criteria for Solid-State Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Waveguides and Matrix Residue Separation Filters. The system is engineered to manipulate localized high-frequency acoustic wave vectors across crystalline lattice matrices, utilizing an integrated multi-probe interdigital transducer (IDT) array to actively suppress boundary layer limit crises and eliminate structural data contamination at room temperature. By deploying an out-of-band matrix residue separation filter, this architecture partitions complex wave propagation paths row-wise across orthogonal virtual nodes to track phase velocities and isolate ancestral human priority art. This framework serves as a public-domain defensive barrier against the proprietary privatization, …

A Process For The Preparation Of Substantially Pure 7-Cyclopentyl-N,N-Dimethyl-2-{[5-(Piperazin-1-Yl) Pyridin-2-Yl]Amino}-7h-Pyrrolo[2,3-D]Pyrimidine-6-Carboxamide Or Its Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Hyderabad, India; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Nithiyanandam Ravi Kumar; Seetharaman Sritharan; Irukuvajjula Venkata Subrahmanya Vithal; Gade Srinivas Reddy; Thota Siva Prasad; Yeole Prashant Ramesh; Kesari Sai Manoj Krishna; Thippireddy Purna Chandrasekhar Reddy; Ragam Naveen; Bhatraju Daveedu And Pulijala Karunakar.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to processes for the preparation of high purity 7-cyclopentyl-N,N-dimethyl-2-{[5-(piperazin-1-yl) pyridin-2-yl]amino}-7H-pyrrolo [2,3-d]pyrimidine-6-carboxamide or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts substantially free of nitrosamine impurities, other genotoxic and carcinogenic impurities below threshold concentration. The structure of formula-1 is shown as below:

Formula-1.

The present disclosure also describes the process for the pharmaceutical composition and its process for the preparation of Ribociclib or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts.

Cicis-X: Waste-Heat Amplified Autonomous Water-Positive Data Center Infrastructure Using Thermoacoustic Heat Elevation, Non-Membrane Water Regeneration, And Integrated Thermal-Hydraulic Monitoring, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Modern artificial intelligence and hyperscale data centers increasingly face a dual resource limitation:

1. high-density thermal rejection requirements,

2. growing freshwater availability constraints.

Recent academic and industrial deployments demonstrate that waste-heat-driven desalination and wastewater regeneration are technically viable. However, widespread deployment remains limited due to six major barriers:

• insufficient waste-heat temperature,

• compressor energy penalties,

• membrane fouling,

• contaminant accumulation,

• cooling-loop corrosion,

• unfavorable capital economics.

This disclosure presents a unified open-hardware architecture designated CICIS-X.

CICIS-X integrates thermoacoustic thermal amplification, vortex-assisted contaminant destruction, multi-stage vacuum distillation, autonomous remineralization, structural health monitoring, thermal-hydraulic optimization, and closed-loop cooling infrastructure into a single water-positive compute facility.

Unlike conventional …

Si Regulator™: One Governance Point For A Shared Space In Which Ai Devices From Many Makers Operate, With House Rules, Guest Mode, Agent Arbitration And A Single Stop, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a governance hub for a physical space, such as a home, an office, a classroom or a shop, in which ambient AI devices and agents from several makers operate. The hub holds the space's house rules in one signed policy: which senses may be used in which rooms and at which times, what may be kept and for how long, quiet hours, who is a member of the space, how guests are treated, and which actions agents may take on their own. A device or agent may operate in the space only after the hub admits it, …

Clinical Management And Laboratory Test Utilization In Pediatric Tick Bite Presentations In A Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Endemic Region, Yusuf Deniz, Umut Durak, Sadrettin Ekmen

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: Routine laboratory test requesting is not recommended for every child presenting with a tick bite; however, the factors influencing laboratory test requesting in daily pediatric practice remain poorly understood. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical management of pediatric tick bites and to identify demographic and temporal factors associated with laboratory test requesting. Methods: This retrospective, single-centre, cross-sectional study included children aged 0–18 years presenting with tick bites to a tertiary referral hospital between January 2022 and December 2024. Demographic characteristics, management, laboratory investigations, and clinical outcomes were analyzed. Independent factors associated with laboratory test requesting were evaluated using …

An Integrated Review Of Maritime Emission Reduction Through Regulatory Operational Fuel And Technological Approaches, Ehab S. Elabd, Ahmed M. Shama

Blue Economy

The research endeavor at hand is basically meant to trace the most prominent regulatory, operational, fuel-related, and technological approaches employed for maritime emission reduction. From a quantitative perspective, the conducted review comprises four major categories and 80 research contributions. Operational optimization and efficiency strategies and alternative-fuel solutions take the largest shares of the investigations reviewed. Operational optimization and efficiency strategies comprise 29 studies (36.3%), while alternative-fuel solutions comprise 28 studies (35.0%). Comparably, port-related emissions and mitigation strategies include 15 studies (18.8%), whereas design optimization and technological innovations incorporate 8 studies (10.0%). Considering the fact that maritime transport is responsible for …

Si Sensor™: A Governed Sensor For Ambient Ai That Declares What It Senses, Emits Events Instead Of Raw Feeds, And Powers Its Indicator And Off Switch From Its Sensing Element, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a sensor for ambient AI systems, such as AI devices in homes, offices and shared spaces that watch and listen continuously, which enforces privacy and visibility rules in its own hardware and firmware, so that they hold even if the software above it is careless or compromised. Each sensor carries a signed declaration of what it senses, at what resolution, for which purposes and for how long anything is kept; its firmware cannot sense beyond the declaration. Processing happens on the sensor: it emits declared events, such as "door opened" or "person fell", rather than raw audio …

A Human-Steerable Multi-Agent Pipeline For Software Generation, Sangram Pattanaik, Gary Slater, Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, Prateek Kumar Gupta, Madhurank Hegde, Giridhar Boyana, Pragya Dasgupta

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a multi-agent software-generation system comprising a staged pipeline of iterative stage agents. The pipeline generates software-development artifacts including requirements, architecture, specification, testing, implementation, security-review, and deployment artifacts. A gating agent evaluates an upstream artifact and, when a gate condition is not satisfied, generates a structured fix-request artifact identifying an affected artifact and a required change. A pipeline orchestrator routes the fix-request artifact to an upstream stage agent, which patches an affected section of the artifact. The revised artifact is returned to the gating agent for re-evaluation. The system further stores human questions and corresponding answers in …

Master Lineage Cross-Mapping Specification: The Comprehensive Cyclical Integration Of Hydrodynamic Emergence And Covariant Matrix Boundaries (Spec-218), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes The Master Lineage Cross-Mapping Specification (SPEC-218-LEDGER), a standalone definitive synthesis that establishes the absolute chronological, mathematical, and logical closure of the Eckes Viscoelastic Information Substrate Framework. Over a multi-year evolutionary timeline spanning 218 technical disclosures, this architecture has tracked the linear transition from primitive macroscopic fluidic models to adaptive, non-von Neumann vertical computing and global civil utility macro-stabilizers.

This paper provides the rigorous mathematical connective tissue linking the primary ancestral seeds—specifically Node 1 (The Tethered Fusion-Driven Sail Architecture) and Node 8 (The Helical Transmutation Manifest and z-Axis Coordinate Mapping Schema)—directly to the modern, frontier capabilities of SPEC-215-MHD …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Isospectral Mesh Routing Protocols For Long-Range Civil Deep-Space Telemetry Networks, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a decentralized, long-range mesh communication architecture designed to sustain high-fidelity telemetry routing across interplanetary and interstellar distances. Deep-space communications are fundamentally constrained by severe signal propagation latency, cosmic background radiation noise, and planetary occultation events.

This paper introduces a coordinate-free, multi-node routing protocol governed by an active Covariant Viscosity Function. By treating digital telemetry packets as an incompressible, non-linear informational fluid flow mapped across a distributed satellite node network, the system eliminates data packet scrambling. By restricting signal transmission trajectories to phase-locked, zero-divergence Beltrami pathways, the mesh network forces data routing to track perfectly parallel to the …

Master System Manifest Specification: The Eckes Subsurface Taxonomy Matrix (V3), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes The Eckes Subsurface Taxonomy Matrix (V3), a standalone master architectural manifest that defines, indexes, and interconnects the multi-tier lineage of the Eckes Viscoelastic Information Substrate Framework. Traditional technology pipelines are deeply fragmented, splitting hardware engineering, software development, long-term storage, and public civil utility management into isolated, competing silos. This structural isolation allows private monopolies to optimize individual system parameters and restrict public access through narrow, proprietary patent applications.

This master atlas resolves this fragmentation by establishing a coordinate-free, coordinate-agnostic system mapping governed by a dynamically scaling Covariant Viscosity Function [1][2]. By formalizing the direct operational translatability between …