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The Advent Of The Disappointed: Why The Millerites Joined The Shakers And Why They Quickly Left, Caroline Clarke

Communal Societies

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Harmonist Demography And Town Planning In New Harmony, Indiana, Michael Strezewski

Communal Societies

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The Emancipation Of Shakerism, Philippe Chavance

Communal Societies

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Review Of Martyrs Mirror: A Social History, Rod Janzen

Communal Societies

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Review Of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia To Well-Set Table, Thomas A. Guiler

Communal Societies

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Sustainability In Practice: A Comparative Case Study Analysis Of The Ecovillage At Ithaca, Earthaven, And Sirius, Jesse Sherry, Alison Ormsby

Communal Societies

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Fall 2025 - Volume 35, Number 2

CompassPoint

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Review Of City Of Refuge: Separatists And Utopian Town Planning, Martha Bradley-Evans

Communal Societies

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Apocalyptic Anticipations: Mormon Millenarianism In The Early Years, Grant Underwood

Communal Societies

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The Influence Of Moravian Brethren Religious Thought And Practice On The Development Of Camphill Communities, Robin Jackson

Communal Societies

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Death Of A Guru: An Analysis Of The Postcharismatic Phase In The Transcendental Meditation Movement, Lane Atmore

Communal Societies

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Lived Utopianism: Everyday Life And Intentional Communities, Lucy Sargisson, Lyman Tower Sargent

Communal Societies

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The Paradox Of Barring Early-Release Defendants From Section 1983 Relief, Emily M. Puckett

Kentucky Law Journal

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Disproportionate School Brutality Upon Black Children, Nicole Tuchinda

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Right To Record Police Must Be Clearly Established, Cole S. Manion

Kentucky Law Journal

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Proceedings Of The 11th Geia Seminar (2024), Patrícia Tosqui Lucks, Juliana De Castro Santana

GEIA Seminar

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At The Crossroads: Ryan Coogler’S Metaphysical Meditation On Blues Music’S Power Of Salvation And The Terror Of Racial Predation In “Sinners”, Terri Bowles

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

In Sinners (2025), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, intercultural histories of music, religion and oral tradition inform a modern and complex horror tale confronting the terror of Jim Crow in the post–World War I Mississippi Delta. The film, starring frequent Coogler collaborator and muse Michael B. Jordan as twin war veterans out to reestablish their lives as juke joint owners, coalesces themes of economic repression, racial voyeurism, and secular and religious entanglements with cinematic horror allegories of objectification, consumption and possession. This review explores the film’s tense and violent examination of these themes and the lived and imagined spaces …

From Prompt To Prejudice: Visual Evidence From Ai Image Generation Platforms, Jinu K. Varghese, Padma Rani

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This study examines how AI image generation systems perpetuate digital orientalism through systematic cultural representation patterns that increasingly shape global digital markets and international development discourse. Using visual social semiotics methodology, we conducted comparative analysis of Midjourney and ChatGPT platforms across nine culturally specific prompts examining religious imagery, contemporary social dynamics, and power structures in Indian cultural contexts. Our findings reveal that both platforms consistently reproduce colonial-era representational frameworks despite culturally sensitive prompting and advanced technical capabilities. The analysis identifies three systematic patterns: temporal displacement strategies that acknowledge modernity while containing it within orientalist categories, institutional validation requirements that privilege …

Aging And The Screen: Toxic Commodification Of The Female Body In The Substance (2024), Damlasu Uyug Sengun, Tuncer Mert Aydın, Zeynep Ozdamar Ertekin

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Representations of the aging female body have increased in media, but their presence is still shaped by social norms and market-driven ideals. On the contrary, The Substance (2024), an absurd, postmodern body horror, provides us a provocative critique of contemporary society’s obsession with youth and beauty and the way our culture defines and commodifies aging, especially in relation to women’s bodies and identities. Our review of The Substance incorporates consumer culture theory with Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject (1982), Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze (1975), and Barbara Creed’s notion of the monstrous-feminine, (1993) to explore the toxic …

Navigating The Open-Loops: Actor Dynamics And Bottlenecks In The Transition Towards Circular Household Waste Supply Chains, Burcin Ozdamar, Aysu Göçer

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Household waste supply chains (HWSCs) in developing countries often suffer from fragmented actor structures, weak coordination, and informal practices that limit their overall performance and circularity potential. Existing studies tend to focus on isolated aspects such as waste types, technologies, or individual actors, without systematically examining the broader network and interdependencies shaping HWSC outcomes. Addressing this gap, this study investigates the key components (e.g. actors and waste processes) and bottleneck points that hinder the structure and functioning of current HWSCs to transform into circular systems. Drawing on industrial network theory, the research analyzes how actor relationships and system configurations influence …

Dynamic Transmit Power And Duty Cycle Control For Wireless Range Extension, Omar El Ayach, Nihar Jindal

Defensive Publications Series

Wireless communication range for certain devices (e.g., a smartphone, smart watch, wearable device, augmented reality glasses, etc.) can be limited by regulatory transmit power constraints, such as for specific absorption rate, which may contribute to unreliable connections at a network edge. Systems and methods are described for dynamically managing a transmitter's duty cycle and instantaneous power. For example, a link assessment module can monitor wireless conditions and, upon detecting a power-limited state, a duty cycle modulator can reduce the transmitter's active time using techniques such as inter-frame space elongation or control frame mechanisms. This reduction can create a power budget …

Dynamic Adjustment Of User Interface Colors Based On Contextual Signals, Tim Whalin

Defensive Publications Series

The user interface colors extracted from source content may exhibit reduced legibility and inconsistent visual fidelity when viewed under different conditions. Factors such as device screen brightness, ambient lighting, and system display modes can alter the perceived color. A system can receive a base color and a set of real-time contextual signals from a computing device and a transformation algorithm can then process these signals to modify properties of the base color, for example, its lightness and saturation, while often preserving its hue. This process can improve the perceptual consistency and readability of user interface colors across various viewing environments …

Autonomous Agentic Analytics -Ai System For Financial Datasets, Santosh Babu Kanutala, Karthikeyan Kandasamy, Nick G. Roberts

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for automatic agentic analytics for proactive, intelligent analytics through coordinated artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The system monitors one or more real-time financial data sources and generates user context features, data context features and organizational context features based on the monitoring. The system combines the user context features, the data context features, and the organizational context features to generate a combined feature vector. Further, the system processes the combined feature vector to identify AI agents to be activated and determines agent coordination strategies for the identified AI agents.

Multimodal Llm For Automated Validation And Correction Of Geospatial Data., Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon

Defensive Publications Series

Manual verification of potential map inaccuracies can be resource and time intensive. Some systems may utilize a multimodal large language model (LLM) as a reasoning engine for map data validation. An LLM can be configured to ingest and analyze disparate data sources, such as user-generated reports, street-level and satellite imagery, and anonymized aggregate location data. By performing a cross-validation analysis on these inputs, the system may calculate a confidence score for a potential map discrepancy. In some examples, when the score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system can automatically execute a correction in a geospatial database. This automated correction process …

Method Of Electrically Insulating And Mechanically Protecting Multi-Chip Modules (Mcm) To Enable Re-Work Capabilities

Defensive Publications Series

Electronics for down-hole drilling operations, missile or high-power applications are exposed to harsh environments. In particular high temperatures can cause quick failure of printed-circuit board (PCB) electronic assemblies using microelectronic components (e.g. bare dies) with an organic package due to chemical degradation. Hence, typically hermetically sealed multi-chip modules (MCMs) are applied for high-temperature harsh environment applications. These modules consist of active (e.g. bare dies) and passive components assembled on various substrates in a hermetically sealed housing with pin connectors enabling external control. MCMs designed to be used for harsh environments providing a much higher reliability typically are significantly more cost …

How Can Smart Resilience Cities Provide Sdgs? An Integrative Framework Regarding Climate Change Mitigation, Asmaa M. Hassan, Manar A. Kotb

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Urbanization and climate change influence public health and wellbeing, which presents challenges facing architects and urban planners towards providing sustainable and resilient cities. In this context, smart city concept has been adopted to contribute to mitigating such influence. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis within the previous scope. Then an integrative framework for climate change mitigation towards resilient smart cities based on SDGs is accomplished. The results indicate that further efforts are needed to develop “smart tools”, “urban economy”, and “carbon footprint. In addition, the proposed framework provides a significant paradigm shift towards mitigation of climate change impacts, …

Evaluation Of The Relationship Between Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome And Hypertension: A Case-Control Study, Ayat Salim Khaleel, Abeer Gheaid Yousif Al-Fatlawi, Wasan Ghazi Aboud Al-Safee

Al-Ameed Journal for Medical Research and Health Sciences

Background: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder affecting reproductive-aged women. It has been associated with metabolic disturbances that may increase the risk of hypertension. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the association between PCOS and hypertension, with a particular focus on anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) as a potential biomarker. Methods: A case-control involving women aged 15-45 years (mean of age 28.666±6.837) years, divided into two groups n=45 (mean of age 31.689 ± 6.842) used as controls and n=45 patients (mean of age 24.644 ± 5.390), The serum LH, FSH, insulin, prolactin, and testosterone were measured …

Gastric Adenocarcinoma With Enteroblastic Differentiation Presenting As Lung Nodules: A Diagnostic Dilemma, Jain Evani, Yadav Devvrat, Sainatham Chiranjeevi, Kc Manisha, Jain Anirudh, Jindal Vishal

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Background: Gastric Adenocarcinoma with enteroblastic differentiation (GAED) is a rare subtype of AFP-producing gastric cancers characterized by a tubulo-papillary pattern resembling fetal gastrointestinal epithelium. It expresses at least one of the following enteroblastic markers (EMs): glypican-3 (GPC3), spalt-like transcription factor 4 (SALL4), and α-fetoprotein (AFP). Case Report: A 78-year-old man with a history of chronic dry cough was found to have multiple fluorodeoxyglucose avid lung nodules with CDX-2 positivity on immunohistochemistry (IHC). Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Caris GPSai were inconclusive. Endoscopy revealed a fungating mass at the gastroesophageal junction. Histology revealed well-differentiated adenocarcinoma with mucinous features. IHC was positive …

Bullous Myringitis In An Adult With Chronic Noise Exposure, Oluchi Ndulue, Faisal Elali, Sahibjot Sandhu, Michal Preis, Michael Marcelin

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Bullous Myringitis (BM) is an acute painful infection in which vesicles or bullae form on the tympanic membrane. It is rare in adults and could be present with acute otitis media (AOM) if the middle ear is involved. This case report details a 55-year-old male with a history of recurrent childhood ear infections, chronic military noise exposure, smoking, and Crohn’s disease presenting with severe right ear pain, hearing loss, and fever. Examination revealed signs of AOM with perforations in the tympanic membrane and purulent drainage. Initial management included antibiotics and analgesics, but symptoms progressed, requiring further investigation. Imaging showed complete …

Infective Endocarditis With Coronary Artery Embolization And Multisystem Involvement In A Patient With A History Of Iv Drug Use: A Case Report, Abdul Moiz, Khawaja Owais Omar

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare cause of myocardial infarction (MI). In contrast to other embolic phenomena associated with IE, the incidence of coronary embolism is65%. Common risk factors of IE include intravenous drug use (IVDU), hemodialysis and the use of cardiac devices. We present a unique case of multiple coronary artery involvement on 2 separate occasions highlighting the need for increased awareness among healthcare professionals.

Case Report: A 38-year-old female with history of IVDU, hepatitis B and C presented with acute chest pain and was found to have NSTEMI and active aortic valve vegetation. Left heart catheterization (LHC) …