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Free University Press: November 10, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Free University Press: October 26, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Fup Extra

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

Newsletter for Free University Press.

Free University Press: May 11, 1970

UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

No abstract provided.

Identity Verification And Data Processing In Single Interaction, Kiushan Pirzadeh

Defensive Publications Series

A method includes a computer providing an identity information request message to an identity function. The computer receives an identity information response message comprising identity data. The computer verifies that a current user of the computer matches a user of the identity data. The computer provides an update request message comprising the identity data to update an interaction function. The update to the interaction function updates an interaction device associated with the user using the identity data.

System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Allocating Computing Resources, Santosh Kumar Kvs

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for allocating computing resources.  An example system includes a processor configured to publish a list including a plurality of computing resources associated with a server node and receive, from a plurality of service agent models, a plurality of requests for at least one computing resource, each request associated with a service and including a bid value.  The processor is also configured to determine a capacity value of the server node based on the plurality of computing resources associated with the server node.  The processor is further configured to determine an optimal distribution …

Computerized Method For Reverse Logistics Of Medical Devices With Non-Overrideable Safety Blocking, Actual-Cost Valuation, And Atomic Transactions, Alessandro Caccia

Defensive Publications Series

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for managing reverse logistics of medical devices and injectable products with limited remaining shelf life. Each movement is subject to a mandatory safety check per individual unit, designed to operate also in the absence of network connectivity, using a local copy of safety notices. Notices are collected from heterogeneous regulatory sources, with qualified-operator validation for sources lacking a programmable interface, and a two-level block with distinct revocation authorities is applied. In the presence of an active safety notice the product value is zero; otherwise value is calculated from the actual lot purchase price, applying nonlinear …

Sensor-Driven Synthesis Of Group-Optimized Models Using Personalized Adapters, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Intelligent agents on shared computing devices, such as smart displays or in-vehicle infotainment systems, may not effectively serve groups of concurrent users, as they can be tied to a single user account or a generic profile, which can limit their ability to adapt to a specific group composition. After obtaining appropriate permissions and consent, the disclosed technology can use on-device sensors, for example, cameras and microphones, to detect and identify multiple users. For each identified user, a corresponding personalized, parameter-efficient adaptation module can be retrieved. These modules may then be dynamically weighted based on real-time contextual signals, such as user …

Multimodal Generative Biosignal Synthesis Using Continuous-Time Diffusion, Dongeek Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Everyday wearable devices, such as smartwatches, smart rings, and fitness trackers, track valuable health metrics, but analyzing this data becomes tricky when sensors record at different speeds, miss measurements, or get bumped during exercise. Traditional processing methods attempt to fix this by dropping or padding data, which visibly destroys important physiological details. This publication describes a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses machine learning to seamlessly combine health signals recorded at different speeds, automatically reconstruct corrupted data gaps (data imputation), and dynamically generate a biometric profile or digital twin of the user’s physiology to run interactive “what-if” simulations and …

System And Method For Recomputation Difficulty Scoring And Cost-Differential Storage Placement For Distributed Ai Pipeline-Execution, Shubham Shivhare, Faiz Ahmed

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for managing intermediate computational states in a distributed artificial intelligence pipeline are disclosed. For each intermediate computational state generated during execution of the pipeline, a recomputation difficulty score is determined based on a plurality of factors comprising a computational cost of regenerating the intermediate computational state, a pipeline latency associated with regeneration, a depth of an upstream dependency chain, a semantic importance of the intermediate computational state, and a likelihood of subsequent reuse. The recomputation difficulty score is mapped to one of a plurality of difficulty classifications, and a storage placement action is selected based on …

Cellular Network Failure Diagnosis Using High-Throughput, Low-Latency Lazy Decoding, Longlong Zhu, Allan Ke, Kuo-Yu Huang

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional diagnostic platforms for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks suffer from several drawbacks, such as garbage collection spikes or pauses, memory fragmentation, memory exhaustion, out-of-memory kernel crashes, and/or LLM context-window overflow. This disclosure describes techniques for diagnosing complex field failures in cellular networks by performing high-throughput, low-latency lazy decoding of raw binary trace files. For example, temporal anchors received from an edge device are used to selectively load and parse only the relevant frames of the binary trace file that correspond to the anomaly, bypassing non-relevant protocol frames without payload expansion. Protocol state trees are instantiated within a …

Cloud Diagnostic Platform For Wireless Network Failure Diagnosis Utilizing An Asymmetric Edge-Cloud Architecture, Longlong Zhu, Jie Tang, Kevin Tsailin, Vincent Huang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes an asymmetric edge-cloud architecture for distributed telecommunication fault diagnosis. Per the techniques, an edge processing terminal processes high-dimensional binary baseband events into a low-dimensional semantic summary and timestamp array associated with an anomaly and sends the data to a cloud-based diagnostic platform server. The server allocates contiguous physical memory pages on-demand using zero-copy memory-mapped file offsets, constrains an LLM-based diagnostic engine via a dynamically structured constraint matrix generated based on target segments of raw binary protocol trace files to obtain an RCA report, and executes an automated diagnostic action, such as transmitting a physical control command to …

Real-Time Protocol Stream Triage And Adaptive Log Slicing At Edge Terminal, Longlong Zhu, Weiyue Huang, Li Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for real-time triage of network anomalies in telecommunication protocol streams and adaptive slicing of binary trace files within an edge terminal. Network anomalies are classified based on a correlation between Layer 1 physical radio performance metrics and Layer 3 protocol state transitions. When a physical channel environmental failure is detected, transmission of diagnostic data is suppressed to save network bandwidth and wear of local flash memory storage. When a protocol stack software defect is detected, a time-bounded log snippet is extracted from a local memory buffer, the log snippet is prevented from being overwritten by subsequent …

Automated Power Measurement For Mobile Devices Using Completion Signaling, David Yu

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for automated power measurement for a mobile device. According to the techniques, prior to initiation of the workload, pre-configuration is performed to establish a session identifier (e.g., a 128-bit ephemeral UUID). The device is disconnected from the host system. Turning off wireless interfaces and disconnecting the host system ensures that there is no interference with physical power measurement during workload execution, since the mobile device is physically untethered and operates in an RF-quiet state. A local background process executing on the mobile device detects completion of the workload and causes the mobile device to transmit an …

Ranging Technology Transition With Make Before Break, Roshan Pius, James Eidson, Ante Culo

Defensive Publications Series

Proximity-based service use cases use ranging technologies to provide distance measurements. However, in such use cases, a single static ranging technology is chosen before a ranging session and used throughout the session. This can degrade ranging performance. This disclosure describes techniques for dynamically switching between different ranging technologies during an ongoing ranging session. Per the techniques, when switching from a first to a second ranging technology, the second technology is activated concurrently with the first technology when a corresponding transition criteria is satisfied and the first technology is deactivated only after an ok-to-stop criteria is satisfied. This prevents gaps in …

Autonomous Net-Snare Device For Dismounted Soldiers (Ansd), Adam Kwas

Defensive Publications Series

A soldier-portable counter-UAS system (targeting FPV-class drones) that integrates passive acoustic detection, automatic net-launcher deployment, and networked squad alerts via a mesh network.

Unified Phase-Cycle Model Of Cosmology, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This model explains cosmology without relying on any paradoxes whatsoever. In doing so, it explains most, if not all, unresolved cosmological questions. And it maintains mass energy equivalence, confirming the Law of Conservation.

System And Automated Method For Isomorphic Concept Discovery And Cross-Domain Architectural Synthesis Via Controlled Hallucination And Reverse Constrained Mapping: Vector-Isolated Rag Pipeline And Bi-Directional Optimization Loop For Open-Domain Structural Analogy Generation., Herbert Gillis

Defensive Publications Series

An automated data processing system and computer-implemented method are disclosed for programmatically synthesizing novel structural architectures in a vacant target domain space utilizing the invariant physical or structural laws of a highly validated source domain. The system executes a generative forward loop by extracting an ordered tuple of structural and functional mechanics from a source domain, removing forward-validation lexicon filters, and enforcing aggressive semantic isolation and lexical pruning to block known industry-specific terms. Forced into a vector space void, an optimization engine or generative model synthesizes a structurally constrained neologism and an associated set of invented mechanisms. The system then …

Dynamic User Interface Calibration Of An External Display Using A Head-Mounted Device, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

User interfaces on external displays can be static, which may lead to suboptimal viewing experiences at varying distances, while some dynamic solutions can have limitations. Systems and methods are described that use a camera on a head-mounted device (HMD) to determine a user's spatial relationship to an external display. The HMD may capture video of the display, calculate the user's distance and viewing angle based on the display's appearance in the camera's view, and transmit this data wirelessly to the display. In response, the external display can dynamically adjust its user interface, for example, by modifying element sizes and information …

Personalizing A Shared Display Using Context From Egocentric Vision, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Content recommendation systems for shared displays may lack awareness of a user's real-time physical context, potentially affecting the relevance of suggestions. The described techniques detail a system that can use a wearable computing device (e.g., smart glasses with an egocentric camera, a smart watch, etc.) to identify an object a user is interacting with. This object context can be validated and wirelessly communicated (e.g., via a local or personal area network) to a nearby shared display, such as a smart television or public kiosk.

On-Device Bidding Protocol For Context-Aware Dynamic Media Stream Sequencing, Vivek Kushwaha

Defensive Publications Series

Media consumption may be fragmented across various application-based services, and centralized recommendation engines can operate within separate ecosystems, which may introduce privacy considerations. This disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically compiling a personalized media stream on a client device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, television, or wearable device). The approach can utilize an on-device, multi-agent bidding protocol where a user agent may initiate a content auction by broadcasting abstracted, locally-derived context tokens to multiple streaming service agents that can represent different providers. These agents may then submit bids containing relevant content, and the user agent can select a …

Volume Cxlvi, Number 3, October 9, 2026, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Integrating Dietitians Into Primary Dental Care For Paediatric Populations: Developing A Conceptual Service Pathway Through A Professional Stakeholder Workshop, Lauren Hallewell, Raul Bescos, Zoe Brookes, Robert Witton, Patricia Casas-Agustench

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND: Diet is a common risk factor influencing both oral and systemic health, yet dietary support within dental care is often limited to brief advice focused on sugar intake. Integrating dietitians into primary dental care for the paediatric population may support earlier identification of dietary concerns and provide the opportunity for dietetic care. However, no established integrated dietetic-dental service pathway for paediatric populations has been identified within primary dental care settings in the United Kingdom.

OBJECTIVE: To explore how selected full-consensus agreement statements could be configured into a conceptual dietetic-dental service pathway for paediatric populations attending primary dental care services …

Re: Comment Letter For The Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, Remedial Design Documents For The Blacktail Creek Area Groundwater Hydraulic Control System (Dated July 31, 2026), Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final 2023 Reclamation Improvement Sites Sampling: Bres No. 17 – Paymaster Dump Site Evaluation Summary Report, Molly Roby

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Approval Letter For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Unreclaimed Sites: Ur-35 Construction Completion Report (Ccr), Molly Roby

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area (Sbcca) Butte Reduction Works (Brw) Air Monitoring For Interim Demolition Activities – Phase Ii Data Summary Report (Dsr), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Improving Employee Engagement: Strategies Used By It Department Managers In Hybrid And Remote Work Settings, Pauletoria Jones Walz

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As remote and hybrid work become continuing features of the modern workplace, employee disengagement has emerged as a critical organizational challenge for department managers within information technology (IT) focused organizations, potentially eroding productivity and increasing turnover risk. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore effective strategies used by department managers within IT-focused organizations to improve employee engagement in remote and hybrid work environments. The project population consisted of 10 department managers from medium-sized and large IT-focused organizations in the United States. Self-determination theory, which emphasizes autonomy, competence, and relatedness, grounded the research project. Data were collected through …

Preventable Hospitalizations In Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease: The Role Of Race, Ethnicity, And Insurance Coverage, Ronisha King

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the most prevalent non-communicable disease worldwide. Preventable hospitalizations accounted for $79 million in hospital spending costs for patients with CKD. Due to the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act, millions are expected to lose their Medicaid coverage. Without insurance, individuals may have to rely on hospital care to manage CKD or, worse, go without care. The lack of access to preventive care in underserved populations with CKD and the impact of insurance coverage on preventable hospitalizations serve as the research problem. The purpose of this study, guided by Andersen’s behavioral model of health services, was to examine …

Recipient Of The 2026 Alumni Trailblazer Award, Jared Kaplan ’01

Alumni Trailblazer Award

Jared Kaplan is Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI lab dedicated to developing safe, beneficial AI. His research on scaling laws revolutionized the field by providing a framework for understanding and predicting advanced AI systems, guiding resource allocation and technological development. He also helped pioneer Constitutional AI, an approach designed to align AI systems with predetermined principles and values. A theoretical physicist for 15 years, Jared helped build GPT-3 and Codex at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic. He is also an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches deep learning foundations. Jared holds a Ph.D. in …