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Referral-Bound Purchase Claims: Binding An Operator-Issued Referral Id To An Anonymous On-Chain Purchase Commitment For Verifiable Word-Of-Mouth, Takuya Ogura

Defensive Publications Series

A method for making word-of-mouth posts verifiable without revealing buyer identity. A purchase is recorded on a blockchain as a hiding commitment that does not identify the buyer. When the buyer chooses to post about the purchase on social media, a separate per-purchase binding record is written that contains the buyer's public account handle and, in plaintext, an operator-issued referral ID. The referral ID is generated from random bytes and exists only inside the buyer's personal connector (token) URL, which is issued automatically upon payment confirmation. A third party can therefore compare the referral URL in a post against the …

Defeating The Rider Paradox: Thermodynamic Decoupling And Quantum Resonance Maintenance In P-11b Fusion Via A Hybrid Quad-Ionic/Bi-Ionic Architecture, Daniel Schramm

Defensive Publications Series

The pursuit of proton-boron (p-11B) fusion has historically been stalled by the thermodynamic paradox established by Rider (1995): classical plasmas in thermal equilibrium will rapidly transfer required ion kinetic energy to background electrons, resulting in fatal X-ray Bremsstrahlung radiation before ignition. To bypass this limit, the reactor must operate outside thermal equilibrium. This paper and accompanying dataset present a hybrid quad-ionic architecture driven by internally situated bi-ionic macroscopic coils designed to achieve this decoupling. By generating a continuous 454 kV/m electric field crossed with a 0.0424 T axial magnetic field, the architecture creates an aggressive centrifugal shear that isolates and …

“System And Method For Privacy-Preserving Federated Fraud Embedding Centroid Aggregation Across Visa Network Members Without Raw Transaction Data Sharing”, Durga S Kala, Jun Xu, Tanner Kumar Barcelos, Ankana Sonowal, Yidong Fu

Defensive Publications Series

Computer-implemented fraud intelligence sharing systems and methods for detecting fraudulent transactions across a network while preserving member privacy are disclosed. Each network member generates transaction embeddings from confirmed fraudulent transactions, clusters the embeddings, and computes local cluster centroids representing fraud patterns. Differential privacy noise is applied locally to the centroid vectors, including dimension-wise noise and noise scaling based on cluster size, such that smaller clusters receive greater obfuscation. Only the privacy-protected centroid vectors are transmitted to a central aggregator, which computes aggregated network centroids using weighted contributions based on factors such as cluster size and confidence. The aggregated centroids are …

Agentic Games Testing And Exploration, Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang, Raymond Leo Buse, Danie Jalova, Xun Gong, Michael Sheely, Faith Chan, John Kim, Vaibhav Rastogi

Defensive Publications Series

Creating a game application has become faster and easier with the advancements of artificial intelligence; however, game testing and quality assurance have advanced at a much slower pace. This publication describes techniques to combat the widening gap between game creation and quality assurance by utilizing an agentic framework for automated game QA and autonomous game testing to assure the quality of game applications in a scalable, efficient, and cost-effective format. Described techniques may enable the reconstruction of a pseudo view-hierarchy (or DOM reconstruction) from game graphical user interface images using UI crawling and computer vision testing, identify and utilize specified …

Solid Dispersion Of 4-[(2r,3s,4s,5r)-3-(3,4-Difluoro-2-Methoxyphenyl) -4,5-Dimethyl-5-(Trifluoromethyl)Oxolane-2-Amido]Pyridine-2-Carboxamide, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy; Rajashekar Kommera; Venkata Subbaiah Batchanaboina; Savarala Triveni

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to a solid dispersion of 4-[(2R,3S,4S,5R)-3-(3,4-difluoro-2-methoxyphenyl)-4,5-dimethyl-5-(trifluoromethyl)oxolane-2-amido]pyridine-2-carboxamide

Anonymous Purchase Commitment With Optional Public Account Binding: Verifiable First-Hand Purchase Claims On A Public Ledger, Takuya Ogura

Defensive Publications Series

A method for letting readers, and AI agents acting for readers, distinguish real first-hand purchase accounts from fabricated ones without revealing buyer identity. Each paid purchase is recorded on a blockchain as a commitment computed as plain SHA-256(nonce || buyerId), so the buyer can open and verify their own record with a single hash on any machine, without the chain's SDK or the seller's cooperation; the identity was measured on chain to match an externally computed digest byte for byte. Separately, a buyer who chooses to speak publicly can attach a plaintext account handle to one purchase as a second, …

Disney And Critical Global Citizenship: Border Politics And Linguistic Decolonization In The Lion Guard, Gordana Lazić

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

In this essay, I analyze the Disney television series The Lion Guard as a site of public pedagogy and argue that the show fosters a form of critical global citizenship among young viewers. It does this, I further maintain, in two primary ways: the progressive treatment of and careful attention to immigration and border politics, and disruption of the hegemony of the English language. Through age-appropriate plot development and dialogue, The Lion Guard actively participates in public pedagogy urging future policy and decision-makers to develop critical global consciousness.

Ephemeral Secrets Runtime For Kubernetes Workloads, Ananya Verma, Raouf Khan

Defensive Publications Series

Ephemeral Secrets Runtime For Kubernetes Workloads

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure relates to a system for ephemeral secrets runtime in Kubernetes workloads which includes an ephemeral secrets runtime system configured to receive a request from a Kubernetes workload for accessing a protected downstream resource, collect Kubernetes-workload identity attributes and runtime trust signals associated with the Kubernetes workload, generate a unified trust context by aggregating the collected identity attributes and runtime trust signals, evaluate the unified trust context against authorization policies to determine credential issuance parameters, generate a short-lived credential based on the credential issuance parameters, cryptographically bind the short-lived credential to …

A Multi-Stage Low-Voltage Electromagnetic Compatibility (Emc) Filter Topology For Powertrain Inverters

Defensive Publications Series

A multi-stage low-voltage (LV) electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filter topology independently suppresses common-mode (CM) and differential-mode (DM) high-frequency noise in automotive e-powertrain inverters. The circuit implements structural staging combined with damping resistors to enable frequency-specific noise attenuation. By partitioning the filter into three distinct DM stages and two distinct CM stages, the architecture allows precise, independent tuning across low, middle, and high-frequency spectrums without causing negative resonance or affecting adjacent bands.

Advanced Control Method For Magnetic Bearings In High-Speed Shaft Systems

Defensive Publications Series

Active magnetic bearing (AMB) systems applied in high-speed turbomachinery and compressors are subject to severe internal and external dynamic forces that induce structural resonances and vibrations. Standard state-feedback approaches rely heavily on high plant model fidelity and require extensive calibration time, while remaining vulnerable to model-mismatch state disturbances caused by in-controller parameter uncertainties. This proposed solution discloses an advanced control method that integrates an Input Disturbance Observer (IDO) methodology with an Iterated Linear-Quadratic (ILQ) state-feedback controller. The framework dynamically estimates and counteracts external loads and model-mismatch discrepancies directly within the magnetic bearing force domain. This design eliminates the need for …

Profile Detection For Seat Adjustment, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

This invention fixes a memory seat issue that occurs when a key fob (or Phone As Key) is shared among users. Normally, the seat auto-adjusts to a saved position linked to the key fob, but if a different-sized person uses it, the seat still moves incorrectly, causing discomfort. The invention detects this occupant mismatch by using the driver facing camera and prevents unwanted repositioning.

Comparative Analysis Of Bacterial Recbcd And Sbcc-Sbcd Systems And The Yeast Mre11-Rad50 Complex During Dna Replication, Tannos Seyedjavadi

Dissertations and Theses

Accurate completion of DNA replication when forks converge is essential for genome stability. In Escherichia coli, several proteins have been identified including RecG, ExoI, RecBCD, and SbcCD, that contribute to completing replication, and loss of these factors causes genetic instability. Eukaryotes encode proteins with homology to several E. coli completion enzymes. Mre11–Rad50 complex is structurally and functionally conserved with bacterial SbcCD, and Rrm3 shares homologous motifs with bacterial RecBCD. These proteins are often described as being involved in homologous double strand break repair. Whether they are also conserved and play a similar role as their E. coli counterparts in …

Homoeopathic Management Of Primary Venous Leg Ulcer With Apis Mellifica: A Case Report, Tejashri V. Thakare, Alfisha T. Shaikh

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Introduction: Venous leg ulcers are common chronic lower-limb ulcers, primarily resulting from chronic venous insufficiency, venous hypertension, and impaired venous return. They are associated with oedema, pain, skin changes, restricted mobility, delayed healing, and significant morbidity. Despite conventional approaches such as compression therapy, wound dressings, antibiotics, and surgical interventions, healing may be prolonged, and recurrence is common. Case Summary: A 76-year-old male presented with a three-month history of a non-healing ulcer of the left lower limb, accompanied by oedema, pain, swelling, and difficulty in walking. Based on individualisation of symptoms, Apis mellifica 30C was prescribed. Significant symptomatic relief was observed …

Evidence-Based Interventions For Suicide Prevention, Deepthi Gilla

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

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A Numerical Solution Of Parabolic Integro-Differential Equations Using The Left Rectangular Rule, Ali Kamil Al-Abadi, Shurooq Kamel Abd

Baghdad Science Journal

This study presents a numerical technique for addressing parabolic integro-differential equations encountered in various scientific and engineering domains. The backward Euler method for temporal discretization with the left rectangular rule for estimating the memory integral term, is integrated into this proposed method. The semi-discrete and fully discrete formulations of the problem are used to obtain a finite element framework. To evaluate the accuracy of the numerical approximation, the mathematical formulation is established, and error estimates are analyzed. Numerous numerical experiments are conducted and juxtaposed with established exact solutions to assess the efficacy of the proposed method. The results show that …

Reduced Kinetic Modelling Of Reactive Oxygen And Nitrogen Species Formation In Microwave Plasma Jets, Hayder M. Hadi, Abdul Hussain A. Khadyair, Hamid Al-Jibbouri

Baghdad Science Journal

Cold atmospheric-pressure microwave plasma jets are crucial sources of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) in the fields of biomedicine, environment, and industry. A reduced kinetic model has been constructed to model RONS production in microwave-driven plasma jets at different process parameters in this paper. The model employs a simplified system of coupled ordinary differential equations representative of the dominant plasma-chemical reactions to characterize the time evolution of six high-interest species (OH, O, O₃, NO, NO₂, and H₂O₂). The influence of gas composition, gas flow rate, surface humidity, and microwave power on …

Novel Solitary Wave Solutions And Stability Analysis Of The Generalized (3+1)-Dimensional Chaffee–Infante Equation, Mostafa M. A. Khater

Baghdad Science Journal

The generalized (3+1)-dimensional Chaffee–Infante equation, a nonlinear evolution equation with dispersive, dissipative and nonlinear effects, is considered a member of the class of reaction–diffusion models. Applying the Khater III method, we obtain seventeen exact analytical solutions of hyperbolic, trigonometric and rational function forms. The accuracy of these solutions is verified by comparison with the numerical simulations obtained by He's variational iteration method. The satisfactory consistency at absolute error levels less than 10^ - 9 supports the reliability of the analytical results. The analysis shows different dynamical patterns: solitary waves, periodic structures and singular wave profiles and studies their stability properties …

I-V Characteristics Of Corona Discharge Of The Upper-Lower Electrode Arrangement, Asep Yoyo Wardaya, Zaenul Muhlisin, Isnain Gunadi, Pandji Triadyaksa, Muhammad Nur, Susilo Hadi

Baghdad Science Journal

Corona discharge characterization is essential for industrial plasma devices such as electrostatic precipitators, where effective sharp electrode configurations can generate high discharge currents at relatively low potential differences efficiently and measurably. This study aims to determine the characteristic equation of the current-voltage (I-V) curve for DC corona plasma with both electrodes sharp, which represents the optimal condition for producing corona discharge. A geometric approach based on modified capacitance by introducing a current multiplier factor (k) on the sharp electrode surface is implemented. Corona discharge is assumed to depend on the maximum local electric field at the electrode tip, while k …

Staying Ahead Of Murphy’S Law: A Proactive Approach To Quality Improvement, Cristina L. Ritzema, Jessica Schweitzer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The purpose of this initiative was to proactively minimize the risk for patient harm related to errors in the administration of IV Pitocin and/or magnesium (Mg) during emergent situations in the labor and delivery unit, through best-practices and evidence-based strategies.

Background: Pitocin and Mg are high-risk IV medications in obstetrics, frequently given during stressful situations. After a serious Pitocin-related error at another facility caused adverse outcomes, the staff recognized their own vulnerability to similar mistakes. While quality improvement and risk management initiatives are often reactive responses to poor outcomes, the team chose a proactive approach. It implemented fail-safe solutions …

The Psychosocial Experience Of Black Pentecostal Pastors In Western America Post-Pandemic, Isaiah Kelley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted religious institutions, altering how Black pastors provided spiritual leadership, community support, and social connection. Limited research has examined how these disruptions affected the social identity and psychosocial well-being of African American Pentecostal pastors. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of 11 African American Pentecostal pastors in the western United States following COVID-19 church closures. Guided by social identity theory, semi-structured interviews examined changes in participants’ social identity. Data were analyzed using Moustakas’s phenomenological approach: first- and second-cycle coding, member checking, reflective journals, and thematic analysis. Four themes emerged: psychological and emotional burden, social isolation …

Is My Child's Heart Murmur Dangerous?, Bob Underwood, Mahmoud Jaara, Pezad Doctor

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

Is my child's heart murmur dangerous or just harmless? Heart murmurs and when they matter — Pezad Doctor, MD, Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Mercy - Pediatrics in Practice - CME, and Mahmoud Jaara, MD, pediatric cardiology fellow at Children's Mercy - Pediatrics in Practice - CME, explain how to tell innocent murmurs (soft, systolic, short, position‑dependent) from concerning ones, which symptoms and family history raise concern, and what to expect at a cardiology visit (exam, oxygen saturation, pulses).

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Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda September 21, 2026, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

3:00 pm Call to Order

Approval of Minutes - August 24, 2026

3:05 University Business

3:20 Faculty Senate Business

3:35 Report

Honors Program Annual Report

3:45 Information

EPC Report - September 3, 2026

4:00 Additional Business

Faculty Authored Course Materials Policy

Adjourn: 4:30 pm

Chimes: September 21, 2026, Calvin University

Chimes

Calvin ends legacy, mosaic and first-generation awards by Jorie Cho

An overview of Calvin’s new AI policy by Ellery Johnson

Update: DHS policy blocked by judge, current immigration policy to remain in place by Ian Tjoelker

Pickleball club is an instant hit among Calvin students by Evangeline Anga

New solar array to deliver renewable energy to campus by Lucas Phelps

Calvin becomes a Coca-Cola campus and other changes to dining services by Alec DeYoung

Jose Lemus Palma V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Raman Spectroscopy Characterisation Of 5c Potency Of Homoeopathic Drugs Nux Vomica, Thuja Occidentalis And Nitricum Acidum, Alfonso Tramontana, Giuseppe Acri, Lucia Denaro, Massimo Mattozzi, Maria Antonietta D'Avanzo, Barbara Testagrossa

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background: The physicochemical characterisation of homoeopathic medicines remains a challenge. Raman spectroscopy is a promising tool for identifying structural modifications in the solvent matrix and specific vibrational ``fingerprints'' induced by the potentisation process. Objective: This study aimed to characterise three remedies (Nux vomica, Thuja occidentalis, and Nitricum acidum - 5C potencies) using Raman spectroscopy to identify specific vibrational markers and evaluate the technique's ability to differentiate between different preparations within a complex matrix. Materials and methods: The drugs were analysed as crushed granules (solid state) and after dissolution in betamethasone disodium phosphate (liquid state). Raman spectroscopy was …

A Retrospective Descriptive Profile Of Cancer Patients Seeking Homoeopathic Care In A Semi-Rural South African Setting, Radmila Razlog

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background: Patient profiling renders valuable information about the population's healthcare-seeking behaviours, critical for effective patient management. Khula Natural Health Centre (KNHC) in South Africa provides healthcare to rural communities, within the scope of Homoeopathy. Objective: The study aimed to create a preliminary cancer patient profile of KNHC from April 2017 to August 2024. Method: This retrospective study adopted a descriptive, exploratory design. Anonymised patient data was extracted from the KNHC database. Data that met the inclusion criteria were descriptively analysed to summarise and describe the dataset. Results: Forty-six participants' data, presenting a range of cancers, consulted at KNHC for homoeopathic …

Actinic Lichen Planus Treated With An Individualised Homoeopathic Approach: A Case Report, Aloke Kumar Ghosh, Shilpa Mandal, Ritika Bose, Sumanta Kamila

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Introduction: Lichen planus (LP) is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory disorder of the skin and mucous membranes. Actinic lichen planus is a rare photosensitive variant that affects sun-exposed areas and may significantly impair quality of life due to its disfiguring nature. Conventional management primarily involves topical or systemic corticosteroids, which are associated with adverse effects and frequent relapses. Scientific literature on homoeopathic management of actinic LP remains limited. Case summary: A 61-year-old woman presented with pruritic, purple-black plaques over the forehead and was clinically diagnosed with actinic LP persisting for the last five months. Causticum in LM potency was prescribed after …

Research Highlights, Gandham Kumuda, Monika Chandyoke

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

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World Homoeopathy Day 2026: Homoeopathy For Sustainable Health, Candy Benny, Sonu Kumar, Divya Taneja, Pankhuri Misra, Renu Mittal, Subhash Kaushik

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

The World Homoeopathy Day (WHD) 2026 – a two-day interactive forum to commemorate the 271^st birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, founder of Homoeopathy, was held on 10^th – 11^th April 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, India. The event was organised by CCRH, NCH, and NIH under the aegis of the Ministry of Ayush. Centered on the theme of ``Homoeopathy for Sustainable Health'', the event emphasised the role of Homoeopathy in promoting and ensuring sustainable health. The event witnessed participation from approximately 1,800 delegates comprising policy makers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students. There were a …

Emergency Departments And The Return Of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Closing The Preparedness Gap, Eve A. Spear, Steven J. Spear

URGENT Matters

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