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Toxic Plants In Zimbabwe: The Lantana Camara Species, Frank Kapungu, Cecilia Masvingwe

Poisonous Plant Research (PPR)

Lantana camara is a major invasive plant species in Zimbabwe. Its toxic effects pose a threat to livestock production, biodiversity, and development. A survey was carried out throughout the country to investigate the distribution of L. camara in Zimbabwe and assess the extent of its spread. Identification was done by toxicologists with the support of an experienced botanist from the National Herbarium of Zimbabwe. The location of the plants was identified using a portable Garmin eTrex® 10 Handheld GPS navigation device., and the coordinates were recorded. Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) was used to plot the map. L. camara was …

Quality Improvement Project: The Impact Of Self-Assessed Quality Of Sleep On Illness Experience And Job Satisfaction Among Night Shift Nurses, Eunice Ikpekpe

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Compromised sleep quality, illness experience, and job satisfaction are important concerns among registered nurses working night shifts. The purpose of this quality-improvement project was to evaluate changes in self-assessed sleep quality, illness experience, and job satisfaction following participation in the six-week Sleep Hygiene and Recovery Program (SHRP) among night-shift registered nurses at a large, urban, Level I trauma academic teaching medical center. The project used a quantitative, quasi-experimental, single-group pretest–posttest design guided by the Plan-Do-Study-Act framework and Lewin’s Change Management Theory, with the Neuman Systems Model and Pender’s Health Promotion Model providing the theoretical foundation. SHRP was a structured, evidence-informed …

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 68 – Little Mina-2, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of The Trojan Sex Chromosome Approach In The San Juan River: Investigation And Validation Of Feminization Methods For Channel Catfish, Chad Teal

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Epistemic Resilience As A Media Literacy Goal: Moving Beyond Detection In The Age Of Generative Ai, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Generative AI, encompassing large language models, image generators, and voice synthesis tools, has transformed the information landscape in ways that extend well beyond the production of fabricated content. By undermining the evidentiary signals through which individuals and communities have historically calibrated epistemic trust, it poses a structural challenge to existing media literacy frameworks. These frameworks, built around a “detect-and-debunk” paradigm, equip learners to identify false content through source verification, fact-checking, and evidence evaluation. These skills remain valuable but rest on assumptions that generative AI has rendered progressively less tenable. This article proposes “epistemic resilience” as a complementary goal: the cultivated …

Adolescent Vulnerability To Disinformation, Polarisation, Filter Bubbles And Echo Chambers: A Systematic Review With Implications For Media Literacy Education, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Disinformation, polarisation, filter bubbles and echo chambers pose growing risks to adolescents, as they are a group that consumes large amounts of information via social media. This paper presents a systematic review, following the PRISMA method, of the available empirical evidence on these risks among adolescents. Twelve empirical studies, published between 2019 and 2025, and collected from Web of Science and Scopus, were analysed. The results evidence that disinformation is the best-documented risk, whilst polarisation receives only marginal coverage and there is no direct empirical evidence regarding filter bubbles and echo chambers. Adolescents’ vulnerability is not uniform: it depends on …

Kenyon Collegian - September 24, 2026

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Multi-Solution Ternary Grover’S Algorithm For Logic-Based Quantum Machine Learning With Pseudo-Kronecker Reed–Muller Form Minimization, Sophia Lee, Ali Al-Bayaty, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Optimization problems in machine-learning (ML) applications can be computationally challenging for classical methods, particularly when they involve large, unstructured search spaces. Quantum computing offers a promising approach to combinatorial optimization by utilizing quantum superposition and amplitude amplification. This paper presents a new methodology using logic-based quantum machine learning (QML) as a complete framework for employing a multi-solution ternary Grover’s algorithm to minimize incomplete binary functions represented by Pseudo-Kronecker Reed–Muller (PKRO) expansions, consistent with Occam’s razor principle. Unlike previous quantum approaches based on Kronecker Reed–Muller (KRO) or fixed-polarity Reed–Muller (FPRM) representations, our work introduces the first Grover-based optimization framework for PKRO …

2026 September 24 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 171 – Blaine Center, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Final Reclamation Improvement Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Bres No. 9 – Clark Street Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Identifying Barriers To Reporting Concerning Behaviors In A Public Secondary School, Will Durgin

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Threat assessment is an effective school safety practice that allows schools to identify concerning behavior and intervene before it reaches a crisis. Because this process often begins with a staff member recognizing and reporting a concern, this study examined how school staff interpret concerning behavior, understand their responsibility to report it, and what can make reporting more difficult.

The study used a two-phase action research design in a small, rural public school district in western New York. The first phase used a survey built around five behavior vignettes, while the second phase consisted of staff interviews.

Staff generally agreed when …

Exploring Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Perceptions Of The American Criminal Justice System, Martin B. Kalala

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative phenomenological study explored sub-Saharan African immigrants’ perceptions of the United States criminal justice system, including law enforcement, courts, and correctional institutions. Despite the significant and growing presence of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States, their perspectives remain underrepresented in criminal justice research. Grounded in critical race theory and informed by a narrative inquiry lens, this study sought to understand how race, immigrant status, and cultural background shape perceptions of fairness, trust, and legitimacy within the justice system. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 21 sub-Saharan African immigrants residing in the United States. The data were analyzed …

Strategic Effort For Employee Retention In The Financial Industry, Gail Nichole Flores

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Failure to properly retain financial industry employees can cause a chain reaction of detrimental issues, including financial consequences, high turnover rates, and vulnerabilities to an organization’s overall health and success in the industry. Financial industry leaders may struggle to maintain an appealing organization for current and prospective employees, hindering their ability to retain talent profitably and sustainably and gain a competitive advantage in the financial industry. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify and explore effective strategies that financial industry leaders use to retain employees and remain profitable and sustainable. Using Herzberg’s two–factor theory of motivation, …

An Ion-Neutral Reaction To Form Cyanobenzene And Ethynylbenzene In Titan’S Atmosphere, Rachel M. Huchmala, Vincent J. Esposito

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

The ion-neutral reaction between cyanoacetylene (HC₃N) and phenyl anion (C₆H₅^–) leads to the formation of cyanobenzene (C₆H₅CN) and the ethynyl anion (C₂H^–) via a submerged, exothermic pathway. Through a different mechanism, the same two reactants also form ethynylbenzene (C₆H₅C₂H) and CN^–. These new reactions can be a foundation for the production of substituted benzenes using molecules currently present on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Cyclic aromatic molecules like C₆H₅CN and C₆H_{5 …}

Examining The Nexus Of Economic Complexity With Energy Transition And Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review, Neharika Singh, Meenakshi Gupta

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Economic complexity captures the diversity and sophistication of productive knowledge and capabilities embedded in an economy. Research on the relationship between economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental quality is growing rapidly. However, their findings differ across countries, development levels, and different energy and environmental indicators. As a result, the conditions under which economic complexity contributes to energy transition and environmental sustainability remain unclear across different contexts. To address this gap, this study conducts a systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines and applies the Theory–Context–Characteristics–Methodology (TCCM) framework to synthesize evidence on economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental sustainability. The studies were …

The Illusion Of Normative Convergence: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis Of The Ieu-Cepa And Eudr Collision, Pribadi Sutiono, Mansur Juned

Jurnal Wacana Politik

In 2026, The European Union’s geoeconomic strategy is increasingly defined by the systemic dynamics of the renewed US-China rivalry, the transatlantic alliance fracture under the Trump administration, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. To mitigate these dynamics, the EU has aggressively pivoted to the Global South, prioritizing the Indonesia-EU Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA). However, the EU also seeks to enforce its normative climate agenda via the imminent December 2026 implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which contains points that also became central to the discussion on the IEU-CEPA. This research utilizes a Neoclassical Realism (NCR) framework and qualitative …

Securitisation Without Consent: Digital Dissent And State Power In Kenya’S 2024 Protests, Dudley M. Gaciku, Arfin Sudirman, Irman G. Lanti

Jurnal Wacana Politik

This paper examines how digitally mediated dissent is securitised in hybrid regimes using Kenya's 2024-2025 protest cycle as a case study. Although the Copenhagen School gives precedence to audience acceptance in determining the success or failure of a securitising move, the paper critiques this viewpoint drawing on contemporary securitisation scholarship. Through a qualitative case study approach, the research draws on official state communications, social media content, media reports, human rights documentation, and the researcher's reflexive observations during the protests. The findings illustrate that although the #RejectFinanceBill movement was framed by the state as a threat to national stability, public safety, …

September 24, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.

September 24, 2026, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Hardware-Enforced Raw Sensing Data Zeroization And Host-Verifiable Privacy Breakpoint, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Modern AI PCs increasingly rely on cameras and microphones to provide contextual intelligence such as presence detection, occupancy estimation, and environmental awareness. However, conventional sensing architectures often expose raw image and audio data to the host operating system, creating privacy and security risks. This article presents a hardware-enforced privacy breakpoint architecture that keeps raw sensing data within an edge sensing module. The module performs local feature extraction, generates de-identified structured outputs, and subsequently erases raw sensing buffers through a dedicated hardware zeroization mechanism. A hardware verification circuit confirms successful memory sanitization before a protected interface releases feature data to the …

Adaptive Semantic Chunking With Header-Weighted Embeddings, Theo B. Aguilar, Dan Hu

Defensive Publications Series

Methods related to retrieval-augmented generation are disclosed.  A computer system can receive a requestor query.  The computer system can identify one or more context data elements (comprising e.g., “chunks” of documents) that are relevant to the requestor query based on header-weighted embeddings.  The computer system can generate a prompt by combining the one or more context data elements and the requestor query.  The computer system can generate a requestor query response based on the prompt and cause the requestor query response to be provided to the requestor.  The computer system can additionally collect various performance metrics, which can be used …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Extracting Data From A Data File Using A Large Language Model, Ovidiu Dan

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for extracting data from a data file using a large language model. An example method includes: receiving a first data file having first data in a first format; inputting the first data file and a prompt to a non-deterministic LLM; executing, with the LLM, the prompt a plurality of separate times, thereby generating a plurality of separate output files based on the input file; comparing the plurality of output files to generate a score representing a similarity of the plurality of output files; in response to the score satisfying a threshold, generating …

Pre-Commit Conflict Detection And Coordinated Rebase For Optimistic Concurrency In Distributed Microservice Transactions, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

An orchestrator supports optimistic concurrency control across a distributed microservice system in which each service owns its own datastore. The orchestrator has a master broker at the source of a transaction and a broker agent on each participating service. The master broker indicates to the agents that a transaction uses optimistic concurrency. Each agent, on committing any transaction, records the changed data nodes into the context of any active optimistic transaction and merges them with data nodes already tracked, deferring abort because staging may later expand the transaction. Before commit, a detect phase invoked at every agent intersects the tracked …

Vertical Power Delivery Inductor Structure With Copper Ground-Return Path For Crosstalk And Thermal Management, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A vertical power delivery structure supplies power for high-current-density applications, such as accelerator application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The inductor structure within the vertical power delivery structure uses a four-phase trans-inductor voltage regulation (TLVR) inductor that is physically separated into two distinct two-phase inductor halves. A solid copper structure fills the gap between these two halves, mechanically bonding them into a single, free-standing component. The copper filler electrically shields the inductor halves from each other, reducing crosstalk when the two halves are assigned to different power rails. The filler also provides a direct ground-return path for the power stage and forms …

Predictive Workload Scheduling Using Multi-Domain Telemetry And Reliability Scoring, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A system integrates out-of-band physical infrastructure telemetry into software-layer workload orchestration for predictive scheduling. A multi-domain telemetry aggregator ingests and normalizes data from disparate sources, including host hardware via baseboard management controllers, facility infrastructure sensors, and network switches. A predictive reliability engine processes this aggregated data using a machine learning or heuristic model to generate a quantitative reliability score for each compute node. The engine asynchronously updates these scores in a high-speed, in-memory cache to ensure low-latency access for the scheduler. Upon receiving a new workload request, a scheduler plugin queries the cache to filter out nodes with scores below …

Dynamic Glare Reconstruction For Adaptive Displays, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for dynamic environmental light reconstruction and dual-directional optical compensation are disclosed. The system utilizes a multimodal fusion engine combining a dual-engine vision processor (macro-facial shading and micro-corneal reflection) with a hardware hinge-angle sensor. By accurately reconstructing a 3D environmental light vector and correlating it with real-time device kinematics, the system simultaneously predicts physical glare points on the display and direct flare incidents on the camera lens. The system then executes localized display compensation based on a joint gaze-glare probability map, while predictively tuning camera image signal processor (ISP) parameters to ensure optimal visual readability and video …

Integrated Sled System For Multi-Rack Data Center Deployment With Dynamic Shock Isolation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A rack deployment sled (RDS) aggregates multiple information technology (IT), networking, and power racks onto a single structural base to form a shippable unit. The sled incorporates an integrated dynamic isolation system, using components such as wire rope isolators, to protect the combined payload during transport without separate shock-absorbing pallets. This design allows for inter-rack cabling, connections to liquid cooling manifolds, and system validation to be completed upstream before the unit arrives at a data center. A two-stage methodology handles movement, where standard material handling equipment delivers the sled to the server row, and integrated low-profile mechanisms like pneumatic air …

Vol. 6 Issue 3 (May 1910)

Inasmuch

No abstract provided.

Vol. 6 Issue 2 (April 1910)

Inasmuch

No abstract provided.