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From Global Principles To National Implementation: The 9th Un Conference And Its Product Safety Resolution, Suruchi ., Kumar Jyotish

International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice

The 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection of 2025 advanced international consumer protection law by extending its scope. The Product Safety Resolution adopted at the Geneva-based conference is the first binding global resolution on product safety. Addressing the wide scope of problems associated with the emergence of more complex global and online markets, the Resolution presents a set of legal criteria to ensure the safety of goods, liability of defaulting manufacturers, rights of consumers, and the laying out of appropriate procedures. This paper presents a critical evaluation of the normative context of the Resolution and its variation …

The Palestinian Arendtian Condition: Worldlessness In Kanafani’S Men In The Sun, Kareem Alsawalha

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The Palestinian Arendtian Condition: Worldlessness In Kanafani’S Men In The Sun

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Navigating Digital Transformation: Students’ And Lecturers’ Perceptions And Experiences Of Online Teaching In South African Higher Education, Precious Dube, Yolisa Madolo

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The digital transformation of higher education has reshaped teaching and learning practices, but experiences in South African universities remain diverse because of differences in technological access, digital readiness and institutional support. This systematic literature review aimed to examine students' and lecturers’ perceptions and experiences of online teaching and learning in South African tertiary institutions. The review employed studies retrieved from Google Scholar, ERIC, Scopus, and Web of Science. A total of 1253 studies from across the globe were identified and screened using Covidence, resulting in 21 South African studies meeting the inclusion criteria. The selected studies were analysed thematically to …

Td Spec: Topological Helical Embedding Constraints For Hyperbolic Slingshot Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a non-perturbative, effective field theory (EFT) governing the topological transformation of a two-dimensional quantum information substrate into macroscopic three-dimensional volumetric space-time metrics. While standard holographic frameworks, such as the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, establish that boundary data can mathematically define a bulk volume, they often rely on unverified high-dimensional compactifications or free parameters to model local mass-energy tensors.

This paper introduces a coordinate-free, macroscopic dual mechanism: physical matter and spatial geometry emerge natively when a parameter-agnostic 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane experiences localized coordinate compression (The Fold) and asymmetric rotational torque (The Twist). By restricting the …

Genai-Driven Detection Of Infrastructure Role Mutation Using Behavioral Embeddings, Dinesh Verma

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method detect infrastructure role mutation by learning a semantic operational identity for each monitored infrastructure entity from multi-layer runtime telemetry.  The system maintains an adaptive temporal trajectory of each entity's role and detects when that role diverges from its established purpose using semantic distance metrics, without requiring predefined rules, static baselines, or known threat signatures. By incorporating cross-entity graph context, the system distinguishes legitimate orchestrated changes from unauthorized infrastructure repurposing, enabling early detection of role mutation that is invisible to conventional monitoring and security tools.

Malt-Nsom Ground Truth: Integrated Electromagnetic, Thermodynamic, And Acoustic Tensor Dataset For Biophysical Modeling, Daniel Schramm

Defensive Publications Series

Title: MALT-NSOM: A Multi-Physics 3D Tensor Dataset for AI-Driven Oncological Biosensing and Targeted Therapeutics

Abstract:

This dataset provides a high-fidelity, multi-physics ground-truth benchmark for the MALT-NSOM (Metal-Assisted Lossless-Dielectric Nanophotonic Sub-diffraction Optical Microscopy) platform. Unlike noisy clinical datasets, this archive contains 3D tensor fields derived from first-principles Maxwell, Poisson, and Acoustic wave equations. It is designed for researchers developing machine learning models for predictive biomarker detection, sub-cellular diagnostic imaging, and non-invasive therapeutic targeting.

Data Generation & Methodology:

The dataset was constructed using three primary high-performance physics engines:

1. Optics (MEEP/FDTD): 3D Maxwell tensor simulations of a bi-spherical Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) dimer cavity …

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Motion-Driven Audio Instrument With Same-Signal Cadence Lock And Beat-Aligned Handoff To Tempo-Matched Media, Using The User's Own Measured Motion Cycle As A Variable-Length Rhythmic Bridge, Harnek Gulati

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile device continuously synthesizes an audio voice modulated in real time by its own inertial motion, so that a user physically swinging or carrying the device hears themselves as sound. The same inertial signal that drives the synthesis is simultaneously used as the detection carrier for a periodicity estimator, which locks onto the user's repetitive-motion period (gait cadence, arm swing) by folding N recent cycles per candidate period and scoring inter-cycle coherence. Octave ambiguity — the classic step-versus-stride error — is resolved by folding at twice the candidate period and testing the two resulting half-cycles for asymmetry, exploiting the …

Transitive Multi-Hop Erasure With Proof Of Absence In A Derived-Store Agent Memory, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for discharging an erasure request in an agent memory whose records are copied, aggregated and derived across hops and nodes. An erasure request at the origin propagates transitively along declared derivation edges into every derived store, and completion is demonstrable by a re-runnable query returning zero rows rather than asserted by a receipt. The disclosure pins three obligations (derivation recorded as an explicit edge at write time, fan-out along those edges rather than at the addressed store alone, and a query as the post-condition) and describes the enabling arrangement, including the separation between the record of …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Wearable Biomimetic Harmonic Alignment Liner And Micro-Distributed Gan Power Stage Matrix For Biological Homeostasis, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the mechanical, electrical, and topological architecture for a wearable, direct-dermal biomimetic alignment garment designed to mitigate the systemic biological degradation pathways caused by prolonged microgravity exposure. Traditional aerospace paradigms treat gravity loss as an external mechanical force deficit, attempting to resolve bone-density wastage and fluidic intracranial crowding via clumsy macro-scale kinetic countermeasures (e.g., spinning centrifuges) or localized chemical vectors.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, biology is re-modeled as a scale-invariant series of localized wave packets vibrating against a 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (\(z=0\)). This paper introduces an integrated, lightweight backpack …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator And Molecular Conduction Wave Filters For Visorless Atmospheric Envelopes, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the physical architecture and low-level firmware constraints for a body-worn, spine-mounted Spherical Harmonic Field Confinement Generator capable of establishing a localized, un-tethered atmospheric breathing envelope and active radiation shield directly around an individual operator in a hard vacuum. Traditional extravehicular activity (EVA) systems rely heavily on high-friction mechanical containment units (e.g., pressurized polycarbonate visors and multi-layered fabric suits) that restrict joint mobility, maximize structural failure vectors, and demand high-mass portable life support back-assemblies.

Under the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) cosmology, macroscopic matter is treated as a scale-invariant series of localized wave-knots collapsed from an underlying two-dimensional …

The Smart Glasses Structure Enhanced With Attached Deformable Structures That Will Enable To Connect Rigid Physical Structures To The Smart Glasses Structure Where The Connected Rigid Physical Structures Can House Rigid Electronic Entities Of The Smart Glasses., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a smart glasses structure enhanced with attached deformable structures that will enable to connect rigid physical structures to the smart glasses structure where the connected rigid physical structures can house rigid electronic entities of the smart glasses. The enhanced smart glasses structure will consist of the smart glasses structure itself that is deformable, the attached deformable structures, the connected rigid physical structures and the entities that are housed within the connected rigid physical structures that will be required for the functionality of the smart glasses, which will include the rigid electronic entities. The smart glasses structure itself …

Innovation And Control In Curriculum Reform: An Autobiographical Inquiry From A Seoul Future Innovation School, Sunyoung Kim

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This autobiographical inquiry examines the lived experience of a teacher–researcher navigating curriculum reform within a centralized education system during her first year at a Seoul Future Innovation School. The study explores how policy ideals of curriculum autonomy, innovation, and student-centered learning encounter institutional realities of documentation, compliance, and performative accountability. Drawing on reflective journals and narrative reconstruction, the analysis identifies four tensions shaping reform enactment: the gap between reform discourse and school culture, the symbolic labeling of innovation, technocentric expectations that narrow curricular legitimacy, and the emotional labor of navigating stakeholder demands. The study illustrates how institutional conditions both constrain …

From Reluctance To Resilience: The Link Between Attitude And Growth Mindset In Calculus Students, Olivia Valente, Kathryn E. Pedings-Behling, Amy N. Langville

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Many postsecondary students enter general education mathematics courses with negative attitudes, shaping their willingness to engage with the content. This study explores the relationship between students’ attitudes towards mathematics and their growth mindset, revealing effective strategies to enhance learning experiences, particularly for students who are reluctant learners. The research investigates two questions: (1) How do students’ Attitude Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) scores and Growth Mindset Scale (GMS) scores relate? and (2) Do gender or course modality affect this relationship? This study addresses a gap in literature by examining how enjoyment, motivation, self-confidence, and perceived value connect with growth mindset. The …

Our Heritage Vol Ii 2026, Ana Iraheta, Jake R. Turcotte, Siobhan Lahiff

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

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Carta Para Mi Tierra/Letter To My Country, Britnnie Minaya

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

Britnnie misses her country, values her culture and her memories.

Barreras Rotas/Broken Barriers, Rachel Barrón

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

María faces change, grows through challenges, and honors her parents’ sacrifices.

Aprendí A Querer Mi Nombre/I Learned To Love My Name, Cici Martinez Osorio

Our Heritage: Short Stories of Bilingual Youth in the Northeastern United States

Citlally learns to love her name and value her culture.

#Narctalk: Analysis Of Perceptions Of Personality Disorders In Tiktok Content, Amanda C. Dediego, Auna Nelson, Feven Seifu, Amanda D. Tracy, Madeline Grubb, R.J. Schoen

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

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Strategies For Integrating Death Education Into Asynchronous Online Counselor Training, Kara E. Wolff

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

Online counselor education has grown exponentially, with a greater number of courses being offered in an asynchronous format. This presents challenges and opportunities for counseling training in death education, a subset of grief counseling. Death anxiety and death avoidance can result in counselors-in-training's disengagement with strictly didactic materials in this area. Instead, death education must offer opportunities for experiential processing and personal reflection to be effective. Specific teaching strategies that foster the development of death acceptance and death competence within asynchronous online counselor education courses are offered.

Clinicians’ Reflections On Explainable Ai (Xai) In Counselor Education And Diagnostic Training: An Exploratory Qualitative Study, Kuo Deng, Xiaomeng Ye, Yi Li-Brown, Cara Miles, Angelina F. Pennino

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

Current approaches to teaching clinical diagnosis in counselor education and supervision often

rely on self-reports, brief vignettes, and supervisors’ recollections—methods that can be resource- intensive and prone to bias, contributing to diagnostic inaccuracy among trainees. While artificial

intelligence (AI) has gained traction in healthcare, many machine learning (ML) models function as “black boxes,” limiting transparency and educator trust. Explainable AI (XAI), which focuses on making AI processes interpretable, offers a potential solution for counselor training. This exploratory qualitative study examined eight licensed psychologists’ reflections after viewing a live demonstration of an original XAI model trained to predict depression. Using Reflexive …

Simulation-Based Education In A Counseling Skills Course: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study, Alexandra Gantt-Howrey, Hana Shewamoltot Meshesha, Renyi Huang, Elizabeth A. Doughty Horn, Renee Howells, Adenike Ololade Adedapo

Journal of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

Simulation-based education (SBE) is a technique that introduces students to real-world experiences (Gaba, 2004) in a safe way (Holmes et al., 2023). Scholars have suggested that SBE may be a promising means of enhancing counselor education (e.g., Pope & Hilliard, 2024). We recruited a sample of N = 12 counseling skills students who completed up to 12 simulation-based education (SBE) activities using Simucase (2025) across one semester. We conducted an embedded, qualitatively-driven mixed methods pilot study (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2017) to understand participants’ perspectives on and impacts of the SBE activities on their perceived counseling self-efficacy and multicultural competence. …

Optimizing Life Care Planning For Palliative Home Health Care Patients, Lilian Muraya

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: In this home health palliative microsystem, many seriously ill patients begin care without timely goals‑of‑care conversations or documented advance directives, leading to fragmented communication and potentially avoidable emergency visits and rehospitalizations.

Context: This quality improvement project took place in a hospital-based home health palliative care program in Northern California, where an interdisciplinary team identified inconsistent Life Care Planning (LCP) practices and variable staff comfort with conducting goals‑of‑care discussions.

Intervention: A structured LCP workflow was developed so that newly admitted palliative home health patients receive a goals‑of‑care discussion and advance directive review within 7 days of start …

Same-Day Cancellation Reduction In An Ambulatory Surgery Unit, Anthone Dalit Vengersammy

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: Same-day surgical cancellations in the outpatient surgery setting remain a significant operational and patient care challenge. Preventable cancellations negatively affect patient experience, operating room efficiency, staff productivity, and healthcare costs. 

Context: A microsystem and organizational culture assessment identified several factors contributing to same-day cancellations, including unclear preoperative instructions, incomplete medical clearance, inconsistent patient education, lack of standardized workflows, unclear staff responsibilities, and communication gaps among interdisciplinary teams. SWOT and gap analyses were used to identify opportunities for improvement and guide intervention planning.

Interventions: Quality improvement interventions were implemented through iterative Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. Strategies included revising preoperative patient instructions, …

Closing The Awareness–Behavior Gap: A Role-Based Phishing Training Framework For Higher Education, Ranylene O. Olaybal, Ryan A. Olaybal

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Phishing remains one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats facing higher education institutions, where diverse user populations and highly connected digital environments increase exposure to social engineering attacks. Although cybersecurity awareness initiatives are widely implemented, high awareness does not always translate into secure behavior. This study examined phishing awareness, phishing-related practices, phishing susceptibility, and phishing experiences among college students, teaching faculty, and administrative staff in a private higher education institution in the Philippines. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design, data were collected from 553 respondents through a validated survey instrument and analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, Tukey's honestly …

Highly Localized Droplet Clustering In Shallow Cumulus Clouds, Birte Thiede, Michael Larsen, Freja Nordsiek, Oliver Schlenczek, Yewon Kim, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Gholamhossein Bagheri

Michigan Tech Publications

The size and spatial clustering of water droplets in warm clouds influence cloud evolution and radiation properties and thus are of fundamental importance for the Earth’s energy balance and water cycle. Some proposed mechanisms for droplet growth and precipitation initiation in warm clouds require strong droplet clustering. Resolving such clustering on sub-cm scales remains a challenge. The most detailed observations, collected from aircraft, showed weak mm-scale droplet clustering averaged over kilometer scales in stratocumulus clouds. Here we present spatially resolved in-situ holographic measurements from a tethered aerostat, demonstrating that clustering in shallow cumulus clouds is significantly stronger and far more …

College Sports Clubs: Engines Of Emotional And Social Development, Robert Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the relationship between structured campus involvement and the development of campus connectedness among students at Rowan University. While the transition to university life is a critical period marked by social, emotional, and academic adjustments, this study highlights how sport clubs serve as a primary social anchor to facilitate successful integration. Utilizing a qualitative thematic analysis of focus group data across diverse campus organizations, this research clarifies how these spaces foster identity formation and resilience. Findings reveal that participation in sport clubs significantly enhances student wellbeing by providing support networks that mitigate early feelings of isolation. A key …

Depictions Of Girls With Adhd In Contemporary Picturebooks: A Critical Content Analysis, Madison Briann Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines how girls with ADHD are depicted in contemporary picturebooks through the theoretical framework of critical disability studies (CDS). While research has increasingly explored disability representation in children's literature, depictions of girls with ADHD remain underexamined despite the ways in which ADHD manifests in female populations and the historical underdiagnosis of females with the condition. Using critical content analysis (CCA), six contemporary picturebooks featuring female protagonists with ADHD were analyzed for their visual and textual representations of neurodiversity. Findings were organized into two overarching themes: strength-based and deficit-based depictions. Strength-based portrayals emphasized creativity, identity formation through adult mentors, …

Tackling Oversmoothing, Heterogeneity, And Label Distributions For Robust Graph Learning, Yufei Jin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

With the tremendous development of graph neural networks, graph learning has become a dominant solution applied to various applications naturally integrated with graph structures, including traffic networks [82], molecule networks [40, 22, 1, 30, 32], social networks [4], etc. While most existing graph learning solutions can handle homogeneous graphs (graphs with a single node type and a single edge type) and homophily graphs (graphs where node labels tend to be the same as their neighbors) for multi-class node classification downstream tasks well, in real world applications, graph structures can be more complex with heterogeneous graphs (graphs with multiple node types …