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Sexuality And Gender Roles In Utopian Communities: A Critical Survey Of Scholarly Work, Jon Wagner Feb 2026

Sexuality And Gender Roles In Utopian Communities: A Critical Survey Of Scholarly Work, Jon Wagner

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Structural Arrangements And Organizational Strategies By Urban Communes, William L. Smith Feb 2026

The Use Of Structural Arrangements And Organizational Strategies By Urban Communes, William L. Smith

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.


The Rajneesh Experience: A Report, Louis C. Androes Feb 2026

The Rajneesh Experience: A Report, Louis C. Androes

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.


Bolton Hall's Free Acres Experiment: The Single Tax And Anarchism In New Jersey, Martin A. Bierbaum Feb 2026

Bolton Hall's Free Acres Experiment: The Single Tax And Anarchism In New Jersey, Martin A. Bierbaum

Communal Societies

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Intergenerational Discontinuity In The Israeli Kibbutz, Jack Quarter Feb 2026

Intergenerational Discontinuity In The Israeli Kibbutz, Jack Quarter

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.


The Urban Middle-Class Communal Movement, Lewis E. Durham Feb 2026

The Urban Middle-Class Communal Movement, Lewis E. Durham

Communal Societies

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Afterwords, Rebecca Butorac Feb 2026

Afterwords, Rebecca Butorac

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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A Different Kind Of Truth, Gabriel Scala Feb 2026

A Different Kind Of Truth, Gabriel Scala

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Suffering Self, Minh Phuong Nguyen Feb 2026

Suffering Self, Minh Phuong Nguyen

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Skeleton Woman, Casey Clabough Feb 2026

The Skeleton Woman, Casey Clabough

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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The Utopian Project In A Communal Experiment Of The 1930'S: The Sunrise Colony In Historical And Comparative Perspective, Francis Shor Feb 2026

The Utopian Project In A Communal Experiment Of The 1930'S: The Sunrise Colony In Historical And Comparative Perspective, Francis Shor

Communal Societies

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Communitarian Connections: Josiah Warren, Robert Smith, And Peter Kaufmann, Kit Firth Cress Feb 2026

Communitarian Connections: Josiah Warren, Robert Smith, And Peter Kaufmann, Kit Firth Cress

Communal Societies

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Crossing The Dark River: Shaker Funerals And Cemeteries, Barbara Rotundo Feb 2026

Crossing The Dark River: Shaker Funerals And Cemeteries, Barbara Rotundo

Communal Societies

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Angle Offset And Electrode Alignment Impact On Townsend Discharges, Andrew Murphy, Seth Gerow Feb 2026

Angle Offset And Electrode Alignment Impact On Townsend Discharges, Andrew Murphy, Seth Gerow

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The work seeks to improving the understanding of atmospheric electricity on Earth and beyond through the modeling of Townsend electrostatic discharges. The successful outcome this work will answer questions relating to these discharges and how the electrode shape, angular offset from the vertical, and material composition impact the initiation of gas discharges. Specifically, the proposed work seeks to build off of the work seen in the Bench for Automated Measurements of Electrical Discharges (BeAMED) through control and measurement of vertical angular offset of the electrode through use of induced flux probes. This will reduce uncertainty in future experimentally determined results …


Interplanetary Trajectory Optimization With Artificial Intelligence, Shiloh Cuffe Feb 2026

Interplanetary Trajectory Optimization With Artificial Intelligence, Shiloh Cuffe

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Trajectory optimization is an essential component of mission planning and space mission control. Mission planning involves developing a trajectory that allows a spacecraft to complete objectives, like performing orbital maneuvers, rendezvous missions, or planetary impacts, while also minimizing resource utilization and avoiding physical and functional violation of constraints. In interplanetary mission planning, a vehicle must travel to another planet using the same concepts. This task requires a reliable trajectory planning algorithm that could handle uncertainties in the environment. Traditional methods utilizing models and numerical methods have been used to solve these problems before. While these approaches are efficient in that …


Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (Safs), Kayla Schijveschuurder Feb 2026

Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (Safs), Kayla Schijveschuurder

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS) is an emerging variant of schlieren imaging that addresses the alignment, access, and noise limitations of conventional and focusing schlieren systems. Schlieren techniques visualize refractive-index gradients in transparent flows but traditionally require matched optical components and dual-sided access, which complicates implementation and increases sensitivity to vibration and background disturbances. SAFS integrates source and cutoff functions into a single self-aligning optical element, leveraging retroreflection and polarization optics to provide simplified setup. This project will develop and set up an operational 2-inch-diameter optics SAFS system for flow visualization and analysis.


Seed-Induced Uniqueness In Transformers: Subspace-Aligned Latent Keys For Authentication, Ayse Okatan Feb 2026

Seed-Induced Uniqueness In Transformers: Subspace-Aligned Latent Keys For Authentication, Ayse Okatan

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

We introduce Model-Bound Latent Exchange (MoBLE), a decoder-binding property in Transformer autoencoders that we formalize as Zero-Shot Decoder Non-Transferability (ZSDN). In a controlled character-level identity task with iso-architectural models trained on identical data but different random seeds, we observe that self-decoding achieves 86-92% exact sequence match and ≈98-99% token accuracy, while zero-shot cross-decoding collapses to chance (≈ 1/vocabulary size) with 0% exact matches. This sharp separation persists despite identical architectures and training recipes, and is corroborated by weight-space distances and attention-divergence diagnostics. We argue that ZSDN is best interpreted as model binding-an authentication and accesscontrol mechanism for latent representations-on identity …


Reduction Of Lunar Dust Adhesion Via Biomimetic Surfaces, Alyssa Vega Feb 2026

Reduction Of Lunar Dust Adhesion Via Biomimetic Surfaces, Alyssa Vega

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Lunar regolith poses significant risks to exploration machinery and equipment due to its highly abrasive, fine, angular, and electrostatic nature, as observed during the Apollo missions. A promising approach to mitigate these effects is the use of bio-inspired, or biomimetic, surfaces. These surfaces replicate natural micro and nanoscale textures to achieve functional properties such as reduced adhesion and enhanced durability. This study aims to quantify the correlation between surface morphology, surface energy, and adhesion in engineered biomimetic samples. Additively manufactured samples were investigated using optical profilometry to quantify surface roughness and topography, enabling correlation of morphology with adhesion and wettability …


Intelligent Detection And Response System For Attacks On Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based On Hybrid Ai Models, Mlp And Autoencoder, Kristiyan Stefanov Feb 2026

Intelligent Detection And Response System For Attacks On Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based On Hybrid Ai Models, Mlp And Autoencoder, Kristiyan Stefanov

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

This paper presents an intelligent hybrid system for detecting and responding to cyberattacks targeting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Existing UAV defense systems rely heavily on centralized processing and cannot effectively detect new or unknown attacks in real time. To address this gap, the proposed architecture integrates two artificial intelligence models: a supervised Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) for classifying known threats and an unsupervised Autoencoder (AE) for detecting behavioral anomalies. Both models operate onboard using edge AI hardware, allowing autonomous processing without ground connectivity. The system analyzes telemetry, GPS, IMU, and network control data to detect attacks such as GPS spoofing, RF …


Stellar Evolution And The Lane-Emden Equation: A Comprehensive Study Of Closed-Form And Numerical Solutions, Payton Miller, Henry Vu Feb 2026

Stellar Evolution And The Lane-Emden Equation: A Comprehensive Study Of Closed-Form And Numerical Solutions, Payton Miller, Henry Vu

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Stars are often modeled as self-gravitating, spherically symmetric polytropic gas spheres. The Lane-Emden equation describes the density profile of such a system, with different systems being represented by their polytropic index. Although analytical solutions exist for polytropic indices 0, 1 and 5, it is still open to find the analytical solution for other polytropic indices. However, numerical methods yield approximate solutions that offer valuable insights into the nature of stars. In this project, we begin by exploring known analytic solutions to the equation. Then we implement numerical methods to find approximate solutions for various polytropic indices using Python. To this …


Red Sauce, Elaine Harrigan Feb 2026

Red Sauce, Elaine Harrigan

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Now Here, Now There, Molly Wizenberg Feb 2026

Now Here, Now There, Molly Wizenberg

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Intimacy Of Forks, Liesl Schwabe Feb 2026

The Intimacy Of Forks, Liesl Schwabe

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


From The Editor: What's The Story?, Lee Gutkind Feb 2026

From The Editor: What's The Story?, Lee Gutkind

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.


Constraining The Impact Threat From Small Bodies In Near Earth And Cislunar Space, Skylar G. Butler, Jarrett Dieterle, Henry Sanders, Aiden Kelleher Feb 2026

Constraining The Impact Threat From Small Bodies In Near Earth And Cislunar Space, Skylar G. Butler, Jarrett Dieterle, Henry Sanders, Aiden Kelleher

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Understanding and mitigating the impact threat posed by small bodies in near-Earth and cislunar space is vital for planetary defense, spacecraft safety, and sustainable space operations. This research integrates dynamical evolution modeling, synthetic observations, and reprocessed infrared data to assess the origins and potential hazards of debris from young asteroid families. By modeling the trajectories and orbital evolution of fragments from the Datura, Emilkowalski, 1992 YC2, Lucascavin (Nesvorný & Vokrouhlický, 2006), and Veritas (Nesvorný et al., 2003) families, we constrain how these sources contribute to near-Earth debris populations. Reprocessing Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data with Fourier-filtering techniques reveals fine-structure variations …


Solar Wind–Magnetosphere Coupling During The September 2025 Cme: Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Using Mms And Omni Data, Skylar G. Butler, Margret Stanley Feb 2026

Solar Wind–Magnetosphere Coupling During The September 2025 Cme: Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Using Mms And Omni Data, Skylar G. Butler, Margret Stanley

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

A sequence of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) impacted Earth in early September 2025, producing consecutive geomagnetic disturbances. The first CME, launched on 31 August 2025 and observed as a halo in SOHO/LASCO imagery, reached Earth on 1 September (~20:45 UTC), generating a clear interplanetary shock. OMNI 1-min solar-wind data show a sudden rise in |B| from ≈ 5 nT to > 25 nT, proton density and velocity increases (≈ 350 → 600 km s⁻¹), and a southward IMF Bz interval that drove enhanced coupling. The Kyoto Dst index recorded a sudden storm commencement followed by a minimum of −75 nT …


How Hidden Companions Skew Stellar Ages: A Binary-Inclusive Analysis Of Ngc 2168, Skylar G. Butler Feb 2026

How Hidden Companions Skew Stellar Ages: A Binary-Inclusive Analysis Of Ngc 2168, Skylar G. Butler

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

We expand upon our previous analysis of NGC 2168 (M35), which investigated the precision of isochrone-based age determination for individual main-sequence stars using photometric modeling. Building on that earlier framework, we now assess how inferred stellar ages change when each object is modeled under the assumption that it may possess an unresolved binary companion. Using post burn in posterior samples from the same dataset, we computed the mean Stage 3 ages for more than 3,000 cluster members with binaries turned on, allowing a direct comparison to our prior results with binaries turned off. The resulting age distribution peaks near 2.1 …


Modeling The Secondary Catastrophic Disruption Of The Veritas Family, Jarrett Dieterle, Skylar G. Butler, Aiden Kelleher Feb 2026

Modeling The Secondary Catastrophic Disruption Of The Veritas Family, Jarrett Dieterle, Skylar G. Butler, Aiden Kelleher

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The Veritas asteroid family, located in the outer main belt, is believed to have formed from the catastrophic breakup of a parent body approximately 8.3 million years ago (e.g., Nesvorný et al., 2003). Larger fragments remained in the main belt, while smaller particles evolved inward under radiation forces, forming a toroidal dust structure observable in infrared data as paired bands. Previous studies (e.g., Dermott et al., 2001) have shown that these bands can be linked to their parent families and modeled from their initial disruptions. We propose that the 10° dust bands associated with Veritas may record evidence of a …


Building The Erau Solar Telescope: Advancing Heliophysics Research And Education Through Optical Innovation, Erin Abraham, Sarah Hoover, Skylar G. Butler, Margret Stanley, Gwynlyn Hannah Feb 2026

Building The Erau Solar Telescope: Advancing Heliophysics Research And Education Through Optical Innovation, Erin Abraham, Sarah Hoover, Skylar G. Butler, Margret Stanley, Gwynlyn Hannah

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The new Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) Solar Telescope represents a campus-wide collaboration to design and install a high-resolution solar observatory. The ERAU solar telescope, aiming for first light by Summer 2026, will integrate research-grade instrumentation, student training opportunities, and expand public engagement with the ERAU observatory. The telescope is housed within a 2.3-meter refurbished dome structure whose electrical and structural systems are being upgraded to support automated dome rotation and environmental stabilization. The optical design features a multi-element lens and mirror assembly optimized for a 1° field of view. The optical assembly includes a downport centered in the dome that …


Development Of An Artificial Immune System Based Intruder Detection Algorithm For Comparison With A Novel Intruder Detection Strategy., Jaden Caradine Feb 2026

Development Of An Artificial Immune System Based Intruder Detection Algorithm For Comparison With A Novel Intruder Detection Strategy., Jaden Caradine

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

"This project aims to develop an Artificial Immune System inspired intruder detection system based on current state-of-the-art strategies. Traditional intruder detection systems are not equipped to handle the evolving landscape of cyber security. Signature based detection systems require a database of known signatures and traditional anomaly detection systems are plagued with false positives. By contrast, Artificial Immune Systems can respond to threats never encountered. They are adaptive, proactive, and resilient to interference. This makes them ideal for determining when a system is behaving abnormally. Researchers are developing a novel intruder detection system, but they need a baseline to compare it …