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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.

Domain-Specific And Sex-Dependent Behavioral Alterations In The Btbr Mouse Model Of Autism, Jacob Jackson, Conlan Houston, Miles Cornils, Ethan Plummer, Chunxiu Yu

Michigan Tech Publications

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social communication deficits and restricted, repetitive behaviors, often accompanied by motor, cognitive, and anxiety-related alterations. Although ASD is diagnosed more frequently in males than females, females remain underrepresented in preclinical studies, limiting understanding of sex-dependent phenotypes. The BTBR T⁺ Itpr3^tf/J (BTBR) mouse strain is a widely used animal model of ASD, yet its sex-specific behavioral profiles across functional domains remain incompletely characterized. Here, we conducted a systematic, multi-domain behavioral assessment in male and female BTBR mice and wild-type (WT) controls, examining action control, motor learning, social behavior, …

Employee Salary Report [University Of Missouri - St. Louis] 2026, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Salary Report

No abstract provided.

From Lab To Clinic: A Toolbox To Address Concerns Regarding Vaccine Safety, Elijah Thalos, Alexandra Yonts, Isabela Gomes

URGENT Matters

No abstract provided.

Uneven Surfaces, Chipped Plates And Hiding Spaces: Pedagogical Practices In The Nordic Outdoor Model Of Education, Karen Walker

Faculty Publications

This article shares insights from a professional study tour of Danish early childhood education programmes, examining how social pedagogical principles are embedded in outdoor learning environments. During June 2024, a group of early childhood teacher educators from the United States visited forest kindergartens, adventure playgrounds and natural playscapes in Denmark as participants in the Nordic Outdoor Model of Education study tour. Through guided visits and observations, we documented pedagogical practices that demonstrate the application of social pedagogy– particularly the integration of head, heart and hands in supporting children’s holistic development. This article connects observed practices to social pedagogical theory, highlighting …

The Colorado River Water Supply Crisis In A Few Graphs: Part 2 Agricultural Water Use In The Lower Basin, Jack Schmidt, Anne Castle, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara

The Traveling Wilburys of the Colorado River

Reductions in Lower Basin water use during the last four years, including

forecast use in 2026, are similar to the initial targets for Lower Basin shortages

described in the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Post-2026

Operational Guidelines and Strategies for Lake Powell and Lake Mead (FEIS)

and the accompanying Record of Decision (ROD).

6 Lower Basin consumptive

use in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and forecast for 2026 has been the smallest for

the entire 2010-2026 period. These four years of smallest use are between 1.4

and 1.7 million acre feet/year (maf/yr) less than the 7.50 maf/yr amount

generally recognized as …

John Roy Hogan Papers, 1910-1949, John Roy Hogan

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Chemistry In The City Module, Ji Kim

Open Educational Resources

This project integrates a historical environmental health report from the CUNY Digital History Archive into an online Introductory Chemistry course to connect core chemical concepts with real urban pollution issues. Students analyze perchloroethylene contamination in apartments above dry cleaners, apply concepts such as volatility, vapor pressure, and concentration units, and reflect on chemical principles underlying indoor air pollution.

Chemistry In The City Module, Ji Kim

Open Educational Resources

This project integrates a historical environmental health report from the CUNY Digital History Archive into an online Introductory Chemistry course to connect core chemical concepts with real urban pollution issues. Students analyze perchloroethylene contamination in apartments above dry cleaners, apply concepts such as volatility, vapor pressure, and concentration units, and reflect on chemical principles underlying indoor air pollution.

The Bg News September 2, 2026, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 2, 2026. Volume 106-Issue 02.

A Study On Police Budgets And Impact On Public Safety, Vera Thompson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Law enforcement agencies face ongoing organizational and resource challenges, yet there is limited research on how changes in police funding relate to crime rates and violent crime. There has been increased public awareness concerning police related encounters with civilians, and this has intensified debates about reducing law enforcement budgets. Current literature indicates that although police funding, staffing, and community trust are closely associated with public safety outcomes, empirical evidence on the relationship between police budget reductions and changes in violent crime and overall crime rates remains limited and insufficient to support definitive policy conclusions. The purpose of this quantitative study …

Nurses' Perceptions On Emotional Exhaustion, Hannah Espera

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study is that U.S. nurses experience high levels of emotional exhaustion (EE) in their role as professional caregivers, adult learners, and educators. Grounded in Maslach's burnout theory, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore U.S. nurses’ perceptions of EE as professional caregivers, adult learners, and educators. For this basic qualitative design, semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses licensed in the United States who were working in direct patient care roles, across multiple specialties, and with various levels of experience and licensure. Through in vivo and pattern coding, the following findings …

Sensory Profile: Understanding Soothers And Stressors, Niki Elliott Ph.D.

Neuroinclusion

Sensory experiences shape how we move through the world: how we learn, focus, connect with others, and sustain energy across the day. For neurodiverse individuals in particular, sensory input is often central to how environments are experienced. Stress, fatigue, withdrawal, or overwhelm often emerge from a mismatch between a person’s sensory needs and the environments they are navigating, rather than from individual deficits or lack of effort. Lighting, noise, movement demands, unpredictability, clutter, and even well-intentioned routines can either support ease and participation or place additional strain on the nervous system. This Sensory Profile is designed to help individuals and …

"Our Heritage From The People", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Writings

A lecture presented to a history seminar at the University of North Alabama in March of 1979. The lecture addresses the geography and geology of North Alabama, removal of indigenous people, cultural influence of settlers, and development of the Tennessee Valley into contemporary settlements.

Mythbusting Cybersecurity Information Sharing And Antitrust, Terence Check

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Programmed To Please, Optimized For Obsession, Ela Ender

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.