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Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, And Biological Evaluation Of Ag(I), Ni (Ii), And Mn(Ii) Complexes With A Tridentate (N, O,O) Hydroxyazo Ligand, Hussein Hayder Abbood, Azal Shakir Waheeb

Muthanna Medical Journal

Background: HMSA was prepared as a new hydroxyazo ligand with an N, O, O donor arrangement, then used to form Mn (II), Ni (II), and Ag(I) complexes. Objective: The work examined the structural features of HMSA and the prepared metal derivatives and compared their biological responses. Materials and methods: CHNS analysis, FT-IR, UV–Visible and NMR spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), and FE-SEM were used for characterization. Antibacterial, DPPH antioxidant, and cytotoxicity tests were applied for biological evaluation. Results and conclusion: Spectral changes supported coordination of HMSA through azo nitrogen and phenolic oxygen sites, with a different environment around each studied …

Firearm Safety And Suicide Prevention In Older Adults: A Primary Care Clinical Framework., Rebecca Delp, Erik E. Langenau

PCOM Scholarly Works

Firearm-related injury and suicide represent a critical public health challenge in the United States, with older adults experiencing the highest rates of firearm suicide. Approximately 70 % of suicides among older adults involve a firearm, with white males over age 70 at the highest risk. Despite high household firearm access and unsecured storage, standardized screening and counseling in primary care remain underutilized. Primary care physicians are uniquely positioned to identify clinically vulnerable patients and evaluate lethal means safety through longitudinal relationships during routine encounters. This clinical practice report presents an evidence-based framework for firearm suicide risk assessment, clinical communication, and …

A Unified Sensitivity Kernel For Coherent Wave Tomography In Radar, Seismic, Ultrasound And Optical Imaging, Alexey Yamilov

Research Data

Overview:

Six figures of the manuscript that report numerical simulations, main-text Fig. 5 and Supplementary Figs. S3 to S7, each as a PDF together with the plotted data in one CSV file per figure. The simulations are described in the Methods and in Supplementary Note S10 of the manuscript (arXiv:2609.31583). They were computed with MESTI in two dimensions and with the modified Born series in three, on the Mill and Hellbender clusters. The README describes the files and the layout of the CSV files.

Turkish Translation And Cultural Adaptation Of The Evaluation In Ayres Sensory Integration (Easi), Aymen Balikci, Ayse Firdevs Aracikul Balikci, Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille, Gamze Cagla Sirma, Fatos Kirteke, Zoe Mailloux, L. Diane Parham, Susanne Smith Roley, Roseann C. Schaaf

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

INTRODUCTION: Cultural sensitivity and relevance are critical components for best practice in occupational therapy assessment. The Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI) is a performance-based assessment designed to evaluate sensory perception, sensory reactivity, postural control, ocular control, bilateral integration, and praxis abilities in children aged 3-12 years. Before the development of this tool, no standardized performance-based assessment of sensory integration functions had included a normative Turkish sample. The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the EASI for Türkiye.

METHOD: A seven-step process for translation and cross-cultural adaptation, grounded in established methodology, was applied. The steps included …

Re: Comment Letter For Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft 2025 Groundwater Monitoring Data Summary Report January – December 2025 (Dated May 29, 2026), Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Phenomenological Study Of Protective Buffering By Afsoc Civilian Spouses During Military Deployments, Janell C. Cotton

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Protective buffering (PB) is used by civilian military spouses to withhold or deny stressful information or concerns to protect their spouse, others, or themselves, from upset or burden. This coping mechanism is commonly used during military deployments, yet is associated with negative physical, psychological, and social consequences. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of when and why civilian military spouses engage in PB during military deployments. Guided by the communication privacy management theory and the transactional stress and coping theory, the study examined the civilian spouses’ perceptions of their active-duty spouses’ stressors, and …

Longing For Home In The House Of God, Justin Bailey

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"God’s house is not yet what it is meant to be. It may seem ruined. Some have lost hope and have abandoned it. But we cannot abandon the church, because it is still the household of our God."

Posting about longing for home in In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

"Longing for Home in the House of God

Chapter 10: Swipe, Reward, Repeat: Gamification, Intimacy, And Emotional Labor In Digital Dating, Emma Taylor

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

The rise of online dating platforms has transformed how individuals approach romantic relationships, with many users increasingly engaging in these spaces for entertainment as well as connection. Central to this shift is the phenomenon of gamification – the integration of game-like mechanics into non-game contexts, which has redefined user behaviors, shaped romantic choices, and influenced relationship outcomes. This chapter critically examines the gamification of online dating, exploring how swiping, match notifications, rankings, and rewards reframe intimacy as entertainment, alter decision-making, and marketize romantic engagement. Drawing on psychoanalytical and ultra-realist frameworks, and using original qualitative data from interviews, the analysis reveals …

Ocean Sediments And Shifting Baselines—A Call To Revise European Habitat Classifications, Rebecca S. Turley, Shion E.A. Reynell, Sian E. Rees, Marija Sciberras, Timothy Scott, Bryce D. Stewart, Duncan Vaughan, Emma V. Sheehan

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Many ocean sediment habitats on the continental shelf have been extensively trawled and dredged with bottom-towed fishing gear before scientific baselines of the seabed could be recorded. Observations of ocean sediments may reflect shifted baselines towards more mobile and homogenous environments, dominated by disturbance-tolerant, short-lived species. This will have implications for the appropriateness of existing Marine Protected Area (MPA) management. Low levels of trawling and dredging in the Isles of Scilly provide an opportunity to study a UK example of minimally impacted sediment habitats, where absence of bottom-towed fishing since 2013 has provided the chance for 10 years of ecological …

Regional Creative Economy Resilience Index: An Analysis Of The Creative Industry's Role In Fostering National Economic Resilience According To Asta Cita, Dks Nugraha Nugraha, Ramadhania Mumtaz Keesa

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

Indonesia's creative economy has survived worldwide economic shifts, especially the COVID-19 epidemic. This industry now drives innovation, culture, and technology. No systematic technique exists to quantify the creative ecosystem's impact on regional economic resilience. The Regional Creative Economy Resilience Index (IRED) is a conceptual model based on Asta Cita 2024–2029's eight strategic missions. This article uses the Asta Cita framework to describe how the creative industry strengthens national economic resilience and advances the IRED idea as a data-driven research and policy tool. This qualitative-descriptive study synthesizes 20 periodicals (2020–2025), analyzes policy, and maps themes using Asta Cita. Source triangulation …

The Fragmentation Of Helcar: A Paratethyan Model For Rhûn, Núrnen And The Dead Marshes, Federico Manzoni

Journal of Tolkien Research

This work proposes a conjectural paleogeographic model linking the Sea of Rhûn, Núrnen and the Dead Marshes to the former Sea of Helcar. Beginning from Christopher Tolkien's suggestion that Rhûn may represent Helcar ``vastly shrunken,'' the study combines textual evidence, the Ambarkanta, Fonstad's cartographic reconstructions, and terrestrial analogues drawn from the evolution of the Paratethys, the Messinian Salinity Crisis and other endorheic basins. Helcar is interpreted not merely as an isolated body of deep water but as the centre of a broader hydrological province subsequently partitioned by relief change, sedimentary infilling, basin isolation and drainage reorganization. Within this model, Rhûn …

Cognitive Resilience At The Edge: Hyperdimensional Computing Versus Deep Learning For Hardware-Degraded Rf Classification, Adrian B. Cisneros, Jeong Yang

Military Cyber Affairs

Autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) operating in contested electromagnetic environments must classify Radio Frequency (RF) signals on edge silicon that degrades over the mission lifetime due to thermal stress, radiation, and manufacturing variation. Deep neural networks dominate RF classification on pristine hardware, but their weights are precise and interdependent, causing catastrophic accuracy collapse as the underlying chip ages. We investigate whether Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC), a brain-inspired paradigm that distributes information across thousands of dimensions, can provide a reliability floor where Deep Learning fails. Using the RadioML 2016.10A dataset filtered to five digital modulations relevant to drone command-and-control links, we trained …

Hands-On Ransomware: An Experiential Wannacry Case Study For Undergraduate Cybersecurity Education, Eli Creek Richmond, Thomas R. Devine

Military Cyber Affairs

Ransomware represents one of the most disruptive threats in the cyber landscape, yet hands-on malware analysis remains rare in undergraduate cybersecurity curricula. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experiential learning module centered on the WannaCry ransomware case study, deployed in a senior-level course at West Virginia University. Students performed static and dynamic analysis using industry-standard tools. Pre- and post-module assessments demonstrated measurable gains in self-reported competency across seven technical dimensions. The module's competencies align directly with DoD Cyber Workforce Framework Work Role 212, Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst, supporting education-to-workforce pipeline development.

From Framework To Toolchain: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture In Cloud-Native Environments For Dow Compliance, Shelby C. Snyder

Military Cyber Affairs

Federal agencies face a fiscal year 2027 target for enterprise-wide Zero Trust deployment, but NIST SP 800-207A defines logical components without identifying the Kubernetes technologies that implement them. This paper proposes a three-tier mapping of the Policy Engine, Policy Administrator, and Policy Enforcement Point to service mesh, microsegmentation, and perimeter tooling, stating the criteria by which each component is classified. It then applies a defined rubric to six Zero Trust vendors across component alignment, Kubernetes capability, federal authorization posture, and evidence quality, finding that no single vendor covers all three tiers. The mapping is a testable architectural proposition; a Stage …

Characterizing Advanced Persistent Threats With Cyber Attack Flow Metrics, Tyler Miller, Caleb Chang, Shouhuai Xu

Military Cyber Affairs

Cyber attack campaigns vary not only in scale but in structure, yet conventional characterizations often reduce them to a single dimension such as technique count or impact severity. In this paper we extend the concept of cyber attack flows by defining three new metrics, novelty, technique complexity and flow complexity. Then we characterize the attack flows of three advanced persistent threat campaigns using these metrics and draw insights regarding their capabilities. Our findings include that low novelty does not equate to low attack capabilities and that exploitation of an internet-facing appliance is a common initial attack vector.

Semantic Shields: Automating Critical Infrastructure Defense Via Nlp-Driven Ransomware Profiling, Henry Trowbridge, Ian Zalcberg, Ryan Schley, Carter Yagemann, Natasha Phan, Srikar Maduposu, Vimal Buck

Military Cyber Affairs

Ransomware poses a growing threat to critical infrastructure, where successful attacks can disrupt operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) with significant public safety consequences. However, attributing ransomware incidents to specific threat actors remains challenging due to ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems, actor rebranding, and the obfuscation of traditional indicators of compromise. This paper presents Semantic Shields, an NLP-driven attribution framework that leverages BERT-generated semantic embeddings and DBSCAN clustering to profile ransomware actors through the linguistic characteristics of ransom notes. Using a dataset of 295 ransom notes from 189 distinct threat groups, the framework achieved an 87.2% true positive clustering rate and …

Closing The Interpretability Gap: Explainable Ml-Based Malware Detection For Defensive Cyberspace Operations, Tashi Stirewalt, Sean Hodgson, Puumaaya Tahiru, Assefaw Gebremedhin

Military Cyber Affairs

This paper presents an end-to-end, explainable malware triage pipeline designed for defense-oriented cyber operations. It combines high-performance static detection methods with analyst-centered interpretability. Utilizing the EMBER 2024 Windows PE subset, we train and evaluate four classifiers and select LightGBM as the production model based on its predictive performance, inference efficiency, and compatibility with exact tree-based attribution. The deployed system consists of four sequential components: PE feature extraction, malware probability scoring, dual explainability (using SHAP and LIME), and large language model (LLM) report generation, all integrated within a Flask web interface. On a temporal test set of 1,080,000 samples, LightGBM achieves …

Llm-Generated Countermeasures For Iot Cyberattacks, James Alger, Michael Tu

Military Cyber Affairs

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced significant cybersecurity challenges, particularly for resource-constrained devices that traditional intrusion detection systems often fail to protect effectively. This paper proposes a novel, two-phase autonomous security pipeline designed to bridge the gap between probabilistic threat detection and deterministic network enforcement. The framework first utilizes a custom Time Series Transformer (TST) to classify multivariate network traffic and identify specific attack vectors, such as ransomware, SQL injections, and malicious file uploads. In the second phase, an agentic AI layer, comprising a locally hosted Large Language Model (LLM) orchestrated via LangGraph, processes the …

Letter From The Director: Mastery In Practice, Joseph Schafer

Military Cyber Affairs

No abstract provided.

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Journal IDA

The Journal IDA is a peer-reviewed, scientific periodical owned and published by the Indiana Dental Association, a constituent of the American Dental Association.

Journal IDA concentrates on the clinical aspects of dentistry, including case studies and research; practice management and business aspects of dentistry, from start up to transition; and also includes special and regular feature articles.

Journal Ida 2023 102 3

Journal IDA

The Journal IDA is a peer-reviewed, scientific periodical owned and published by the Indiana Dental Association, a constituent of the American Dental Association.

Journal IDA concentrates on the clinical aspects of dentistry, including case studies and research; practice management and business aspects of dentistry, from start up to transition; and also includes special and regular feature articles.

Breaking Free From Gender Norms: Adolescent Constructions Of Femininity Through The Patriarchy And High School Musical, Ina Tolentino

Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition

Ina is a double major in nursing and psychology from Elk Grove, CA. Ina “always had trouble embracing myself with the way masculinity and femininity are pitted against each other” and found meaning in writing this essay, as they believe “there’s so much value in painting ourselves however we want … regardless of the expectations of gendered roles.” As a non-binary individual, Ina feels that writing this piece was a healing experience and a reminder to embrace all aspects of who they are. They love reading and writing, which has led to a bedroom flooded with different kinds of books. …

Rage Against The Machine: How Screen Time Is Impairing Our Intelligence And What We Can Do About It, Jillian Steeves

Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition

Jillian is a history major from Danvers, MA. Her essay was inspired by an article she read in her composition class about how screens could damage cognitive functioning, and she thinks that “for a lot of people, myself included, overindulgence in tech is increasingly affecting our quality of life.” Jillian noted the irony of a history major writing about a current topic, but she “found there to be a lot of overlap between my history studies and the topic of my essay,” and she was able to “take many of the skills I’ve picked up as a historian — research, …

The Brain, The Block, The Bummed Writer, Karina Silva

Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition

Karina is a psychology major with a biology minor from Winthrop, MA. Karina says that writer’s block has “always been an obstacle for me, especially whenever I have to write papers for classes.” She notes that this paper was one of the first that she felt passionate about writing, and she feels that “researching the neurology behind writer’s block” enabled her to “further appreciate the wonders of the brain” and “develop an interest in research surrounding neuroscience and psychology.” Karina is a Brazilian-American who speaks Portuguese as well as English. Her hobbies include drawing, and she notes that art helps …

Race And Rhetoric: Examining How The Audience’S Race Creates Rhetorical Constraints And Influences Rhetoric, Quinn Gabrielle Cantor

Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition

Quinn is a mathematics major living in Jamaica Plain, MA, but born in the Philippines. Quinn rhetorically analyzes Linda Villarosa’s essay from the 1619 Project by The New York Times by investigating how Villarosa’s “intended audience and purpose ultimately culminated into her published essay.” Quinn says her analysis is supported both by the rhetorical knowledge gained in her Composition I course and by a history class she took in high school that investigated race relations and discrimination. Quinn’s experiences as a student in both the Philippines and the United States has made her “deeply care about the importance of a …

The Autobiography Of Giambattista Vico, Giambattista Vico

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Ithaca, N.Y., Great Seal Books [1963, ©1944]

Call # : B3583 .V53 1963

Contains marginalia, underlining and notes on p. 241.

PDF Information : 23 Pages, 8.4 MB

Oswald Spengler, A Critical Estimate, Henry Stuart

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

New York : Scribner, 1952.

Call #: B3332.S44 H8

Contains marginalia, endpaper notes, marginal lining and underlining. PDF information: 24 pages - 7.9 MB

Dysphagia Risk And Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults And Residents Of Long-Term Care Facilities, Lin-Yang Chi

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Held-Through Candidacy: Excluding Sustained-Note Interiors From Grid-Guided Onset Detection By Testing Whether The Previous Note Ever Stopped, Shane Wirkes

Defensive Publications Series

Grid-guided onset detection scores a musician’s timing by asking, at every position of a metronome grid, whether a note began there. On sustained-tone instruments (brass, single-reed, flute) this fails in one specific way: a note held across several grid positions keeps producing spectral change through vibrato, breath and pitch wobble, so its interior is reported as a run of new notes. Every test that reads the sound at the position (spectral flux, prominence, level, spectral sparsity, group delay, linear-prediction residual, pitch) is either inert on this population or removes only a minority of it at a cost in real notes …

Directed Continuity Groups For Fresh-State Multi-Machine Processing, Shivam Mohan

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to Directed Continuity Groups for Fresh-State Multi-Machine Processing in distributed computing systems. A processing system for directing related work receives work associated with a relation, derives a relation identifier, and associates the relation identifier with a continuity group having at least two processing nodes during an active continuity interval. The processing system directs state-changing work to an authority node that applies the work to a volatile state representation and generates state-update information identifying an ordering position, while at least one reflected-state node maintains a reflected state representation. Further, the processing system directs subsequent work based on …