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The Purity Crusader, Volume 1. July 1904 - May 1905

Berachah Home Collection

"The Purity Crusader" published by Berachah Rescue Society in Arlington, Texas. Volume 1. A newsletter with articles written from various persons regarding purity and life at Berachah Home. Published in 1905.

The Purity Crusader, Volume 1. July 1904- June 1905

Berachah Home Collection

"The Purity Crusader" published by Berachah Rescue Society in Arlington, Texas. Volume 1. A newsletter with articles written from various persons regarding purity and life at Berachah Home. Published in 1905.

Finding Aid For The Blues Subject Files (Mum00958)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Educational Needs Of Primary Care Providers Around Post-Intensive Care Syndrome In Pediatrics (Pics-P)- A Cross-Sectional Survey, Sarah Rubin, Katie Joy, Sarah Springer, Ericka Fink, Jessica Jarvis

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Introduction: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) survivors often experience new functional impairments after hospital discharge, known as Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p). Unaddressed impairments may lead to life-long developmental delays. Primary Care Providers (PCPs) are responsible for recognizing and managing PICS-p. Understanding PCP preparedness for this role is critical to optimizing recovery after critical illness. Objectives: To characterize PCP’s 1) awareness and understanding of PICS-p, 2) access to resources for PICS-p impairments, 3) barriers to post-PICU care, 4) preferred educational strategies. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of university-affiliated PCPs from October to December 2023. An anonymous, 18-item Microsoft Forms survey was …

Barriers To Adherence Of Early Mobilization Protocols In The Picu, Katherine M. Rodriguez, Taemyn Hollis, Valerie Kalinowski, Marylouise Wilkerson

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Objective: Children who survive critical illness suffer many sequelae of prolonged hospitalization. National guidelines recommend pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) employ ICU care bundles to combat acquired delirium, pain, and weakness. While use of early mobility (EM) protocols has increased in PICUs, there remain challenges with adherence. Here we describe the results of a cross-sectional survey conducted at a single center tertiary PICU. The aim of this study is to better understand perceived barriers to EM in the PICU. We hypothesized that providers would be most concerned about safety of EM. Methods: A total of 94 PICU providers were included …

Iatrogenic Withdrawal Syndrome In Critically Ill Neonates: A Review Of Mechanisms, Assessment, Management, And Prevention, Isaque Nilton Dos Santos, Carolina Teixeira Goulart Peano, Ericks Sousa Soares, Helena Iturvides Cimarosti

Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care

Considering that neonatal pain is a relevant matter given its implications and consequences, many neonates, particularly those undergoing critical care, are subjected to analgo-sedation therapies, which commonly include treatment with opioids and benzodiazepines. These drugs, however, can induce tolerance and dependency, leading to the development of the so-called iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome (IWS) which is observed following discontinuation of these therapeutic agents particularly when utilized for a prolonged period of time (>= 5 days). IWS consists of signs and symptoms manifested especially in young children, such as term and premature newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), who are …

Regenerative Tourism And Transformative Destination Management: Developing A Framework Through The Case Of County Offaly, Yi (Alex) Yu, Mary Loonam Dr, Tony Johnston

Irish Journal of Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure and Event Research

The increasing urgency of climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic transition has generated growing interest in tourism approaches that move beyond sustainability towards more transformative forms of development. While sustainable tourism has become the dominant paradigm within tourism planning and policy, it has been criticised for its emphasis on impact mitigation and its limited capacity to address systemic challenges. In response, regenerative tourism has emerged as an alternative framework that seeks to restore and enhance ecological, social, cultural, and economic systems through tourism activity.

This paper explores the potential of regenerative tourism as a framework for transformative destination management. Drawing …

Designing Smart Charity: A Tri-Tiered Systems Engineering Framework For Global Capital Allocation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional philanthropic capital allocation models consistently exhibit binary systemic failure modes: low-velocity palliative aid loops that induce sovereign moral hazards, or hyper-insulated frontier engineering moonshots that leave present-day socio-economic baselines highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. This specification introduces the Tri-Tiered Systems Engineering Framework for Philanthropy, an objective, non-weaponizable technical model that treats charitable giving as an essential infrastructure risk-management protocol rather than a speculative moral luxury.

By segmenting capital allocation into three distinct, non-interchangeable tiers—Palliative Stabilization (Tier 1), Environmental Upgrades (Tier 2), and Frontier Innovation (Tier 3)—this architecture models global civilizational utility as a complex physical system. We leverage historical …

Test Point Insertion System For Hard‑To‑Detect Hierarchies Using Netlist Structural Signature Analysis, Krunal Siddhapathak, Aditya Phatak, Ankit Garg

Defensive Publications Series

Achieving complete fault coverage in complex System‑on‑Chip (SoC) designs during Automated Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) can cause test pattern volume inflation, as standard Test Point Insertion (TPI) techniques distribute test points uniformly rather than targeting specific structural bottlenecks.  Disclosed is a predictive test point insertion system that analyzes synthesized netlists to identify Hard‑to‑Detect (HTD) logic hierarchies through structural signature evaluation.  The system parses logic cones, pinpoints structural barriers (e.g., sequential state machines, wide comparators), and concentrates test point placement within the identified HTD hierarchies.  Concentrating test points into these structural bottlenecks reduces total test pattern volume while preserving fault coverage …

Decentralized System For Agent-Mediated Querying Of Personal Knowledge Repositories, Calvin Huang, Fei Wang, Zening Li, Shu-Wei Cheng, Snigdha Saha

Defensive Publications Series

The capture of tacit knowledge in organizations may be hindered by friction associated with manual documentation. A decentralized system can address this by providing each user with a personal knowledge repository (PKR) hosted on a shared, searchable file system. A local software agent, operating on a user's computing device (e.g., a laptop, smartphone, or wearable device), can populate the PKR through explicit commands or passive monitoring of work activities, with user consent. This agent can also directly query the PKRs of other users across a peer-to-peer network to retrieve information. The system can provide a method for accessing distributed information, …

Hierarchical Traffic Scheduling Architecture For Multi-Engine Network Interface Controllers, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A hierarchical port scheduler for a multi-engine network interface controller provides unified transmit arbitration across independent protocol engines sharing traffic classes and downstream resources. The scheduler ingests transmit descriptors, optionally computes full on-wire frame length, and stores descriptors in per-port queues. A two-level hierarchical token bucket applies per-queue and per-group committed/peak rate limiting with configurable queue-to-group mapping. Per-queue and per-group colors are combined via a programmable truth table to form a combined color, and a global strict color priority selects eligibility vectors across groups. An eligibility masking stage accounts for downstream constraints including transmit buffer credits, priority-based flow control pause, …

Automated Code Change Verification Via Differential Trace Analysis, Shu-Wei Cheng, Fei Wang, Yao-Sheng Tsai, Akhila Immadisetty, Zening Li

Defensive Publications Series

A system for automated code verification can address challenges associated with verifying high-velocity code changes, where manual review may be slow and broad automated testing might lack specificity. The system can utilize a multi-agent approach for differential trace analysis. A synthesizer agent can, for example, analyze a specific code change to generate a targeted test plan. This plan may be executed in parallel on a control version of a software component without the change and an experiment version that includes it. During execution, observation agents can capture detailed execution traces and performance metrics from both runs. The system may first …

Temporal Pixel Modulation For Client-Side Video Piracy Prevention And Anti-Screen-Recording, Paras Thakur

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional digital rights management and visual watermarking fail to prevent video piracy through the analog hole or significantly degrade user viewing experiences. To address this, a client-side Temporal Pixel Modulator can be implemented within a video player's GPU rendering pipeline using WebGL fragment shaders. The shader dynamically modulates individual pixel luminance values at a high frequency above the human critical flicker fusion threshold, maintaining a flicker-free visual experience for legitimate viewers. However, when captured by digital sensors, this modulation can interact with camera shutter speeds and exposure intervals to induce temporal and spatial aliasing. This aliasing structurally corrupts unauthorized recordings …

Event-Triggered Selective Rank Warming And Always-On Shadow Completion For Compute Express Link Dynamic-Capacity Memory, Vadlamudi Venkata Girish

Defensive Publications Series

This technology integrates Event-Triggered Selective Rank Warming and an Always-On Shadow Completion Bridge to manage power-gated Compute Express Link Dynamic-Capacity Memory. A memory controller intercepts a mandatory out-of-band memory allocation handshake and uses this event to deterministically trigger a power-exit sequence for only the specific physical memory blocks being allocated. If a host access occurs before this sequence completes, the Always-On Shadow Completion Bridge handles the request using an always-powered internal staging store. The bridge emulates read completions with deterministic data and absorbs write transactions, preventing host timeouts. After the physical memory becomes fully operational, the controller transparently drains the …

Reinterpreting The Lux-Zeplin High-Energy Nuclear Recoil Anomaly: Localized Boundary Strain And Substrate Pushback Dynamics As An Alternative To Heavy Inelastic Wimps, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract

On September 1, 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration reported a single, highly unexpected high-energy nuclear recoil event within an extended energy window up to ~270 keV, exhibiting a 2.6-sigma significance level (0.5% background probability). While mainstream interpretations attribute this June 16, 2023 event to an ultra-heavy inelastic Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) exceeding \(200 \text{ GeV/c}^2\), this paper presents a rigorous mathematical alternative grounded in the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Cosmology (DEHP) framework. We demonstrate that this singular interaction can be perfectly modeled without exogenous dark matter particles. By treating the local vacuum as an incompressible fluid substrate bounded by …

Flexible Placement Ac-Cbu Rack With Upstream Current Transformer And Feedback Control, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

An AC-integrated capacitor bank unit (AC-CBU) rack architecture places a current transformer (CT) at an upstream location, such as a low-voltage switchgear, relative to both the AC-CBU racks and the payload racks. The upstream CT measures the aggregate load current for a group of racks. Multiple AC-CBU racks share this measurement data from the single CT and use feedback control to smooth power fluctuations on the power busway. This configuration results in a flexible layout compatible with standard data center designs, as the AC-CBU racks can be physically distributed among payload racks and connected in a daisy-chain to share the …

Device-Level Revocation Of Digital Asset Signing Capabilities, Paul J. Rohde

Defensive Publications Series

Attackers can circumvent content provenance standards by physically modifying a device to generate valid device attestation reports, allowing the attacker to sign fake digital assets such as images, video, or audio content as authentic assets captured using the device. For example, an attacker may physically interact with and voltage-glitch the device's random-access memory (RAM) to obtain runtime root access, disable security modules, and impersonate an authorized capturing process to generate valid attestation reports. This disclosure describes techniques for revoking certificates assigned to a device detected as having been used to produce a fraudulent digital asset. The techniques involve generating a …

Remote Display Spatial Pointing Using Processed Inertial Sensor Data From A Mobile Device, Chien-Feng Yu, Pei-Yu Chen, Eusden Lin, Shang Wei Lin, Dewita Sonya

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile computing device (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, wearable device, augmented reality glasses, etc.) may function as a spatial pointer for a remote display by processing data from an on-board inertial measurement unit. An on-device spatial engine can translate the device's physical orientation and movement into two-dimensional screen coordinates. This translation process may, for example, involve techniques such as isotropic aspect ratio correction and a dynamic motion amplification layer that adjusts sensitivity based on angular velocity. The processed coordinates can then be streamed to the remote display over a low-latency network protocol. This approach may provide improved cursor control …

Fully Isolated Floating Nut Terminal Block For 3-Phase High Voltage Systems

Defensive Publications Series

In electric vehicle (EV) powertrains, establishing robust electromechanical connections between the inverter and the electric motor's stator busbars (U, V, W phases) is critical. Traditional terminal blocks utilize a fixed-type geometry that cannot account for manufacturing and assembly tolerance variations. This rigidity introduces severe mechanical stress into the busbars, potentially leading to material fatigue, weld failures, and fluid leakage at the inverter’s overmolded housing seals. This proposed solution discloses an innovative, fully isolated floating nut terminal block. By integrating floating threaded subassemblies within a polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) overmolded bracket containing specific hexagonal grooves, the system allows multi-axis movement to absorb …

Runtime Adaptation Of Controller-To-Operating-Point Mapping Policies For Thermal, Power, And Performance Coordination In A System On A Chip, Mohsen Heidarinejad, Farid Kenarangi, Arpit Mittal

Defensive Publications Series

A system on a chip (SoC) converts outputs from its temperature and power controllers into operating points through mapping policies set during nominal silicon characterization.  Because thermal and electrical behavior shifts with workload activity, silicon process variation, and aging, a fixed mapping policy can leave thermal and power budgets underused or request operating points that press measured temperature or power toward platform limits.  The disclosed system retains existing temperature and power control loops while adding a temperature impact block, a power impact block, and a performance impact block that evaluate measured SoC behavior and propose localized refinements to the mapping …

Macroscopic Momentum-Space Tomography: Utilizing High-Z Cryogenic Target Arrays As Resonant Phase-Retrieval Lenses For Substrate Interferometry, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This paper introduces a formal engineering architecture to transition the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model from numerical simulation to empirical instrumentation. Integrating the spatial phase-retrieval mechanics of 3D Photoemission Orbital Tomography (3D-POT) with the high-density containment engineering of deep-underground liquid xenon detectors, we outline a method for a macroscopic momentum-space microscope. Rather than treating the September 1, 2026 LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV anomaly as an exogenous particle collision, we demonstrate that a high-Z condensed target array can function as an active, resonant phase-retrieval lens. We provide the complete mathematical tensor frameworks, specific material specifications, and structural engineering steps required to …

Machine‑Learning Estimation Of Static Ir Drop In System‑On‑Chip Power Grids Using Gradient‑Boosted Regression And Image‑To‑Image Translation, Prateek Pendyala

Defensive Publications Series

Designing the power delivery network of a system‑on‑chip (SoC) involves repeated changes to the layout and to the power grid, and engineers conventionally re‑evaluate each change with a commercial static current‑resistance (IR) drop analysis.  These analyses can run from tens of minutes to several hours across many compute workers, which lengthens each design iteration.  This disclosure describes a machine‑learning approach that estimates per‑node static IR drop for multi‑million‑node power grids from electrical and spatial features of a design database.  The approach provides two complimentary techniques: a gradient‑boosted decision‑tree regression that predicts incremental IR drop from extracted power and resistance features, …

Early Prediction Of Design‑Rule‑Check Violation Hotspots From Placement‑Stage Congestion Feature Maps Using A Fully Convolutional Network, Prateek Pendyala

Defensive Publications Series

In the physical design of a system‑on‑chip (SoC) layout, design‑rule‑check (DRC) violations often appear late, during detailed routing (a stage that can take days to complete and that may trigger repeated placement adjustments).  This document describes a method that estimates where DRC violation hotspots may gather earlier in the process, working from feature maps that become available after placement and global routing.  The method arranges these maps (macro regions, cell and pin densities, rectangular uniform wire density (RUDY) maps, and routing congestion) as multi‑channel two‑dimensional inputs to a fully convolutional network (FCN) built as a multi‑scale encoder‑decoder with skip connections …

A Place‑And‑Route‑Independent Solver For Early Voltage‑Drop Estimation Of System‑On‑Chip Power Grids, Prateek Pendyala

Defensive Publications Series

Designing the power grid of a system‑on‑chip (SoC) balances two competing goals: a denser grid maintains voltage drop within a target, while a sparser grid frees routing resources for timing closure and layout density.  Reaching a workable balance calls for repeated passes through grid design, electromigration and voltage‑drop analysis, floor-planning, and place‑and‑route.  Preparing those passes with separate commercial tool flows can take up to forty minutes for a single grid specification.  This document describes a standalone solver that reads a power‑grid specification, builds a resistor‑and‑via mesh model of the grid, and computes the direct‑current node‑voltage distribution by assembling and solving …

Localized Generation Of Privacy-Preserving Ambient Chronicles, Karl Tao, Gaurav Arora

Defensive Publications Series

A system is disclosed for generating a localized activity chronicle within a private environment. Local cameras capture sparse static snapshots of room environments over a local network. A local smart hub platform receives each snapshot directly into an ephemeral, volatile memory buffer. An on-device vision model, such as a quantized vision-language model executed by a local hardware neural processing unit or other local processing resource, processes the snapshot to generate a time-stamped natural-language description of activities within the private environment. Immediately following text generation, the raw snapshot is purged from the volatile memory, preventing raw image data from being stored …

Wearable Apparatus Configured For Ambient Marker Sensing And Application Actions, Carlos Henrique Esteves Mendonca, Joost Korngold

Defensive Publications Series

Transactions involving physical objects often require manual interaction with a mobile device, such as opening a camera application to scan a visual marker, resulting in an interruptive and multi-step process. A wearable extended reality apparatus or device (e.g., smart glasses) is described that may be configured for hands-free processing of digital transactions. The device can use an ambient camera to sense visual markers in an environment. To establish user intent, a dwell mechanism may evaluate gaze duration before triggering a secondary image capture. The device is configured to decode a uniform resource identifier from the visual marker and link to …

Semantics-Aware And Controllable Hand-Object Grasp Generation, Alberto García, Dominik Thabo Beeler, Jesús Pérez, Vasileios Choutas, Hiroyasu Akada, Emre Aksan

Defensive Publications Series

Current systems configured to generate three-dimensional interactions between a hand and an object typically rely on fragmented computational pipelines that can fail to generalize to novel target objects and may offer restricted control. A system is disclosed for generating poses of a hand utilizing a hand diffusion transformer configured to process conditioning signals, such as target object geometry and a direction of a hand. The hand diffusion transformer may output a distance profile, which represents target distances between regions of a hand and surfaces of an object. A subsequent optimization layer can use the distance profile to refine candidate hand …

Real-Time Relighting Of Physical Hands In Mixed Reality Using 3d Skeletal Tracking And Skin Thickness Estimation, Ashish Singh, Ahmet Cengiz Öztireli

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes a framework for seamlessly integrating a user’s physical hands into a Mixed Reality (MR) environment by replacing real-world lighting with virtual illumination in real-time. The technique utilizes 3D skeletal tracking to generate a simplified volumetric model of the hand, which is then used to estimate skin thickness and define material properties (albedo and surface texture). By incorporating 3D bone velocity data, rather than standard 2D pixel tracking, the system stabilizes the decomposition process during rapid movements. The resulting maps allow virtual lighting to be applied realistically, simulating effects like light translucency through thin tissue (e.g., finger webbing) …

Cross-Surface Ad Narrative Orchestration Using Llm Sequential Reasoning With Engagement-Responsive Story Branching, Tamar Yakar, Ilia Labzovsky, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A system orchestrates stateful, multi-chapter advertising narratives across different digital platforms within real-time bidding environments. The system separates the ad-serving process into an asynchronous control plane for computationally intensive planning and a synchronous data plane for low-latency auction execution. The asynchronous control plane uses a large language model (LLM) to generate a narrative directed acyclic graph (NDAG) that defines a story arc with branching logic based on potential user engagement. The system then compiles this narrative graph into a deterministic state transition matrix for execution at the network edge. To track user progression, the synchronous data plane uses a compact …

September 2, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.