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Recorded Lightning, Amaris Feland Ketcham Feb 2026

Recorded Lightning, Amaris Feland Ketcham

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Secret Museums, B. Pietras Feb 2026

Secret Museums, B. Pietras

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Monsters, Margaret Wardlaw Feb 2026

Monsters, Margaret Wardlaw

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Wait Times, Joe Fassler Feb 2026

Wait Times, Joe Fassler

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Quantum Physics For Mothers, Susan Mccarty Feb 2026

Quantum Physics For Mothers, Susan Mccarty

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Sea, Mackenzie Branson Feb 2026

The Sea, Mackenzie Branson

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Feb 2026

Table Of Contents

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Listening To My Father's Accent, Anna Monardo Feb 2026

Listening To My Father's Accent, Anna Monardo

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Afterdeath, Jill Deasy Feb 2026

The Afterdeath, Jill Deasy

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


How To Hang A Mezuzah, Rachel Beanland Feb 2026

How To Hang A Mezuzah, Rachel Beanland

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Weaponry Of The Cold War, Mary Beth Ellis Feb 2026

Weaponry Of The Cold War, Mary Beth Ellis

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Story Of A Self, Will Storr Feb 2026

The Story Of A Self, Will Storr

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Characterisics Of Children Evaluated For Simultaneous Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever And Brucellosis In An Endemic Region, Kübra Fırtına Topcu, Ayşe Hümeyra Taşkın Kafa, Elif Ünver Korğalı Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty Of Medicine, Department Of Pediatrics, Sivas, Türkiye Feb 2026

Characterisics Of Children Evaluated For Simultaneous Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever And Brucellosis In An Endemic Region, Kübra Fırtına Topcu, Ayşe Hümeyra Taşkın Kafa, Elif Ünver Korğalı Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty Of Medicine, Department Of Pediatrics, Sivas, Türkiye

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and brucellosis are two zoonoses that co-circulate in overlapping endemic areas and share similar clinical features. They may occur concurrently in the same patient. Methods: We aimed to investigate the occurrence of concurrent CCHF and brucellosis in pediatric patients from our endemic region. Results: We reviewed 31 patients younger than 18 years who, between January 2018 and December 2024, underwent concurrent testing with CCHF PCR and the Brucella serum agglutination test (SAT), along with their presenting complaints. Rural residence was present in 45.2% of cases, and a history of tick bite prior to presentation in …


Expression Of Metrnl, Presepsin, And Bmp9 In Peripheral Blood Of Children With Sepsis And Their Roles In Diagnosis And Prognosis, Yang Liu, Cheng Wei Feb 2026

Expression Of Metrnl, Presepsin, And Bmp9 In Peripheral Blood Of Children With Sepsis And Their Roles In Diagnosis And Prognosis, Yang Liu, Cheng Wei

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: Meteorin-like protein (METRNL), soluble CD14 subtype (presepsin), and bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) show promising for sepsis diagnosis and prognosis assessment in children. Their diagnostic and prognostic utility is comprehensively assessed in this study. Methods: A total of 360 children, aged 3-14 years, with sepsis, infection, and healthy groups were retrospectively analyzed. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve evaluated the diagnostic performance of METRNL, presepsin, and BMP9 for sepsis. The 28-day prognostic information was collected for the sepsis group. Risk factors for poor prognosis in the sepsis group were analyzed using logistic regression. A nomogram prediction model for prognostic prediction in …


Unplanned Extubations In Pediatric Critical Care: A Case-Control Study, Krista Wollny, Cameron B. Williams, Raghad Al-Abdwani, Carol Cartelle, Jason Macartney, Helena Frndova, Norbert Chin, Christopher Parshuram Feb 2026

Unplanned Extubations In Pediatric Critical Care: A Case-Control Study, Krista Wollny, Cameron B. Williams, Raghad Al-Abdwani, Carol Cartelle, Jason Macartney, Helena Frndova, Norbert Chin, Christopher Parshuram

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Objectives: To quantify associations between the risk of unplanned extubation and patient-, environment-, and care-related factors in pediatric critical care; and to compare outcomes between children who did and did not experience an unplanned extubation. Methods: Retrospective case-control analysis including patients <18 years who experienced an unplanned extubation during ICU admission (2004-2014). Cases were matched by age, duration of mechanical ventilation, and date to control-patients (4:1) who were intubated but did not experience an unplanned extubation. Conditional logistic regression was used to evaluate associations between unplanned extubations and the abstracted characteristics. Results: We identified 1601 eligible controls matched to 458 case-patients. When adjusted for confounders, eight variables were associated with unplanned extubation: three patient-related factors (previous ICU admission, previous intubation, and the volume of secretions); one environment-related factor (patient room set-up); and four care-related factors (intubation route, and the use of sedation, muscle relaxation and restraints). Patients who had an unplanned extubation had longer length of stay, but lower rate of mortality. Conclusions: This is the largest case-control study identifying variables associated with unplanned extubation in pediatric critical care. Several are potentially modifiable and may provide opportunities to improve quality of care in controlled ICU environments.


Variability In Clinician Awareness Of Intravenous Fluid Administration In Critical Illness: A Prospective Cohort Study, Stephen M. Gorga, Alexander L. Sliwicki, Julie Sturza, Erin F. Carlton, Ryan P. Barbaro, Rajit K. Basu Feb 2026

Variability In Clinician Awareness Of Intravenous Fluid Administration In Critical Illness: A Prospective Cohort Study, Stephen M. Gorga, Alexander L. Sliwicki, Julie Sturza, Erin F. Carlton, Ryan P. Barbaro, Rajit K. Basu

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Objective: Intravenous (IV) fluids are commonly administered to critically ill children, but clinicians lack effective guidance for the correct dose and duration of therapy resulting in variation of prescribing habits which harm children. It is unknown if clinicians recognize the amount of IV fluid that patients receive. We aimed to determine clinician accuracy in the identification of the volume of IV fluids patients will receive over the next 24 hours. Methods: Prospective cohort study enrolled all patients admitted to the PICU from May-August 2021 at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). For each …


Authorization Gateway For Legacy System Integration — Credential-Isolated Proxy With Record Translation, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Authorization Gateway For Legacy System Integration — Credential-Isolated Proxy With Record Translation, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for governed execution proxies that bridge the gap between decision-governed authorization and target systems that cannot implement authorization verification. In one embodiment, a governed execution proxy receives an execution authorization derived from a sealed decision record, performs an authorization verification protocol comprising credential signature validation, condition verification, and invalidation status checking, and upon successful verification translates the authorization into a structured task record in a target system rather than directly executing the authorized action. The proxy enforces a credential isolation boundary where raw authorization credentials are retained within a trusted domain and only derived …


Tamper-Evident Status Derivation From Cryptographic Execution Proof — Eliminating Mutable Status Fields, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Tamper-Evident Status Derivation From Cryptographic Execution Proof — Eliminating Mutable Status Fields, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for determining the derived committed status of sealed decision records by computing that status from the existence and verification of execution proofs rather than reading a stored mutable status value. In one embodiment, a sealed decision record is stored in a tamper- evident immutable record store without any mutable value indicating whether execution has occurred, and committed status is derived at the time of a status query by checking whether a valid execution proof exists in a separate proof store and passes multi-condition verification. The elimination of mutable status values structurally prevents status manipulation …


Privilege Separation Architecture — Structural Confinement Of Analysis Components In Decision Systems, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Privilege Separation Architecture — Structural Confinement Of Analysis Components In Decision Systems, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for structurally separating components that analyse and propose from components that produce external effects within computational decision infrastructure. In one embodiment, a computational system enforces a structural separation between a determination-side partition (the analysis partition) and an effect-side partition (the execution partition) through its construction — such that no component in the analysis partition can directly invoke operations that produce external effects, regardless of that component’s credentials, permissions, or compromise status. The structural isolation is enforced by system architecture rather than by runtime policy or administrative configuration. In one embodiment, the separation applies with …


Snapshot Isolation For Policy Evaluation — Temporal Consistency Across Multi-Step Processes, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Snapshot Isolation For Policy Evaluation — Temporal Consistency Across Multi-Step Processes, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for ensuring temporal consistency across multi-step decision processes that evaluate organisational decisions against rules and policies drawn from multiple independent sources. In one embodiment, a temporal reference is captured at the initiation of a decision process and carried through all subsequent evaluation steps, ensuring that every step observes the policy environment as it existed at a consistent policy snapshot. Temporal markers obtained from policy sources are treated as opaque — their internal structure is not interpreted by the decision system — and freshness comparison determines whether one marker represents a state at least as …


Context-Parameterised Policy Evaluation — Dimensional Context For Multi-Tenant Rule Resolution, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Context-Parameterised Policy Evaluation — Dimensional Context For Multi-Tenant Rule Resolution, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for scope parameterisation of decision operations using structured context. In one embodiment, a context coordinate comprising organisational context parameters and a point-in-time state reference parameterises all decision operations — including rule resolution, reuse eligibility determination, execution permission issuance, and validity verification — such that each operation is evaluated relative to dimensional context rather than against a single global configuration. Context parameters are subject to a parameter stability classification that distinguishes stable context parameters from instance- specific context parameters, enabling different operations to consume different operation-specific context subsets according to each operation’s purpose. In one …


Multi-Dimensional Record Addressing For Decision Management — Contextual Position As Structural Identity, Jayson Winchester Feb 2026

Multi-Dimensional Record Addressing For Decision Management — Contextual Position As Structural Identity, Jayson Winchester

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods and systems for addressing decision records by scope coordinates comprising discrete comparable elements that identify a contextual position within an organisational domain. In one embodiment, the scope coordinates are a structural component of the record identity rather than descriptive metadata, such that decision records at different contextual positions are structurally distinct entities even when the decision content is identical. Computable structural relationships between scope positions — including but not limited to containment, partial overlap, generalisation, adjacency, and equivalence — determine decision applicability: whether a previously sealed decision record at one contextual position can satisfy a request …


Synchronized Display Of Composite Musical Information For Collaborative Performance, Paula Marques Feb 2026

Synchronized Display Of Composite Musical Information For Collaborative Performance, Paula Marques

Defensive Publications Series

Digital music aids for individual performers can lead to desynchronization and fragmented views when used in a group setting, as each musician may see their part in isolation. This disclosure describes systems and methods for a synchronized, multi-user musical performance environment. A shared session state, including an authoritative playback position, can be maintained across multiple participant computing devices, for example, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, or augmented reality glasses. A composite user interface on each device can concurrently display various forms of musical information, such as lyrics and instrument-specific notation, in a scrolling format against a fixed temporal marker. This can …


Orthognathic Surgery: Why Is It Done?, Mia Gou Feb 2026

Orthognathic Surgery: Why Is It Done?, Mia Gou

Mentorship Program 2025-2026

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 19, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Feb 2026

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 19, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.


Finding A Voice: Felesha (Townes) Love ’86, Lindenwood University Feb 2026

Finding A Voice: Felesha (Townes) Love ’86, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Resilient Dispute Resolution Systems For International Energy Conflicts, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez Feb 2026

Resilient Dispute Resolution Systems For International Energy Conflicts, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez

Seattle University Law Review

Energy-related conflicts are on the rise, spanning diverse issues such as the impacts of rare mineral mining on local communities, the impacts of sanctions on energy investments due to the Russia-Ukraine war, and the impacts of expanded subsidies on the electric vehicle and solar panel industries. Increasingly, companies, communities, and governments are clashing over the challenges of pursuing disparate and sometimes competing energy policies. This Article argues that dispute resolution mechanisms in the energy investment sector must be fundamentally rethought. Traditional semi-adjudicatory models, which focus on winners and losers, fail to accommodate the complex and multifaceted nature of contemporary energy …


Global Supply Chain Resilience In Emerging Technologies: A Case Study Of Bitcoin Mining, Kishanthi Parella, Carla L. Reyes Feb 2026

Global Supply Chain Resilience In Emerging Technologies: A Case Study Of Bitcoin Mining, Kishanthi Parella, Carla L. Reyes

Seattle University Law Review

The United States has put into motion bold plans in critical and emerging technologies to bolster its national and economic security.  For example, the federal government created a national bitcoin strategic reserve and a stockpile of other cryptocurrency; while several states have committed to or are considering similar goals.  However, the security of these reserves is dependent on two types of supply chains within the Bitcoin mining industry: analogue supply chains, relating to the physical components needed for Bitcoin mining, and data supply chains, relating to the complex and layered logistical network of actors that create input into the software …


Kim Gyeong-Seok And The Origins Of Northeast Asia’S Corporate Accountability Movement For War And Colonialism, Timothy Webster Feb 2026

Kim Gyeong-Seok And The Origins Of Northeast Asia’S Corporate Accountability Movement For War And Colonialism, Timothy Webster

Seattle University Law Review

For the past three decades, a transnational reparations movement has unfolded across Northeast Asia. Hundreds of victims—assisted by attorneys, academics, and activists—seek remedies from Japan for various atrocities committed during World War II, colonialism, and other historical injustices.  They press their claims in street protests, legislative hearings, dramatic performances, and other fora.  The “comfort women” are the best known of these claimants; their global redress campaign ex-tends from noisy protests outside of Japan’s embassy in Seoul, to mute statues in raucous boroughs of Berlin.  More obscure, though larger in number, were the roughly one million Koreans who performed forced labor …


2026 February 19 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University Feb 2026

2026 February 19 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.