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Choreographies Of Peruvian Reality: Conflicts In Surf Media's Digital Worlds, Tuck Rodi

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This paper mobilizes the concept of the choreography of surfing to analyze networks of surfers, media creators, digital technologies, and development NGOs through which surfing becomes a device for sociopolitical and economic projects in Peru. Surf media, this paper’s object of analysis, includes all films, video blogs, and documents that incorporate surfing as a constitutive ingredient in their visual and discursive content. With the rise of online video-sharing platforms, surf media has become a digital world unto itself. This world is made through interactions among viewers, photographers, and their surfing subjects. Democratization of video-sharing platforms capacitates filmmakers to break from …

Tourism, Security, And Sacred Space At Bethany Beyond The Jordan, Olivia Stockwell

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Bethany Beyond the Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site advertised as the baptismal site of Jesus of Nazareth, lies on the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. Based on first-person observation, this article provides a semiotic analysis of how tourist spaces, commodification, and security infrastructure interact to create perceptions of sacred space. When placed in conversation with the historical and political contexts of the site, these factors provide insight into how meanings of sacrality are generated. I argue that notions of the sacred at Bethany Beyond the Jordan are shaped by tourism spaces and their organizing of ritual …

The Legacy, Importance, & Impact Of Lend: Evidence And Personal Stories, Emily Zalimeni, Emma Stone, Alexa Fortier, Leia Getchell, Nataliya Kloyzner, Asha Abdullahi, Elizabeth Barkoudah, Meghan Chapman, Meredith Close, Heather Engholm, Melissa Levin, Aanchal Sharma, Sarah Sparks, Patricia Rissmiller, Amy Szarkowski, Jason M. Fogler

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) programs offer an interdisciplinary/interprofessional training opportunity for medical and allied health professionals, and individuals impacted by disability, including family members and self-advocates. Toward the aim of advocating for the enduring need of LEND and similar training programs, this article centers the voices of a subset of our alumni who have advanced the rights and improved the lives of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These stories are intended to illustrate the key lessons and principles of LEND training, including attending to disability issues in education, growing skills within and between individuals working …

D2.02 Game Demonstration: Adventures With Emmy, W. Brian Lane, Patrick Morgan, Cristo Leon

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Demo of Adventures with Emmy, a STEM tabletop RPG supporting inquiry, collaboration, and interdisciplinary learning through structured play. This demo will be presented in English in a pressential format.

Game development, playtesting, and research supported by NSF 251702.

Shrooming Ahead: How The U.S. Is Marching Toward Psilocybin Legalization And What Other Countries May Learn, Titus Scheid

Florida Journal of International Law

The United States is traveling with momentum toward a statutory framework in which the consumption of psilocybin for therapeutic purposes is legal. The psychedelic substance has already been legalized or decriminalized in several cities and states. Most countries, however, have seen no such movement toward legalization. This Note explores how the U.S. psilocybin movement could become a model for other countries to follow suit. Despite long-standing federal roadblocks, the U.S. is starting to excel in terms of individual activism, non-profit organization campaigning, and private investment.

Although psilocybin is subject to widely differing legal treatments throughout the world, it is undeniably …

Locating Bitcoin: Jurisdictional Challenges And Solutions In Digital Asset Law, Ethan Gibson

Florida Journal of International Law

As Bitcoin penetrates the global financial system, its legal classification becomes crucial for determining the appropriate substantive law in both public international law and private international law. This Note argues that Bitcoin, a decentralized digital commodity, is analogous to tangible, movable property for purposes of defining prescriptive jurisdiction. Bitcoin’s unique attributes—its inherent value and rivalrous nature—qualify it as digital, yet tangible property, and suggests that it can have a physical situs. The property’s situs can determine which jurisdiction’s substantive law can apply. By examining different Bitcoin custody models, including single-key wallets, multi-signature wallets, and brain wallets, this Note explores the …

War Of The Unknown: The Increase In Cybercrime Reveals A Lack Of Remedy And Protection Under International Law, Ava Fields

Florida Journal of International Law

The rapid growth of cybercrime poses significant challenges to the international legal framework, revealing gaps in both remedy and protection. This Note examines the rise of cybercrime and its causes, and highlights the inadequacies of current international legal mechanisms. This Note will do so by delving into three prominent case studies to illustrate these challenges and will provide possible solutions to these issues.

Contributions Of Climate Finance And Human Rights Responsibilities In Shaping A North-South Outbound Climate Fdi Promotion Commitment, Zaker Ahmad

Florida Journal of International Law

The distribution of global climate finance is unjust, due to it concentrating on developed nations while leaving developing countries facing a growing shortfall of funds. This Article advocates for incentivizing climate-friendly outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) from developed to developing countries (i.e., North to South) as a potential solution to this persistent challenge. It demonstrates that additional normative support for such a proposition can be drawn from climate change and human rights legal regimes. Under the climate regime, developed countries remain under a strict obligation to provide financial support. In the human rights regime, recent jurisprudential development shows that the …

Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal Of Health Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, July 2026

International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences

Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, July 2026.

The Efficacy Of Title 42 During The U.S. Southern Border Crisis And Covid-19 Pandemic: Analyzing The Effects On The Migration Of Asylum Seekers, Matthew Pearl

Florida Journal of International Law

When the pandemic began, the United States invoked 42 U.S.C. § 265 as a means of restricting immigration in the name of national health. This Note explores the consequences of this action for prospective immigrants, the inconsistencies between the United States’ immigration actions and their international legal obligations, and steps the United States might take moving forward.

The Amalgamation Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Environmental Laws, Shawon Priya Binu

Florida Journal of International Law

This Article investigates whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be incorporated under the realm of Environmental law. It discusses the hazardous business activities by some Bangladeshi and international business enterprises. Further, this Article explores the definition of CSR and approaches taken by certain countries under their respective public policies. This Article unveils international legislation, including the legislation of Bangladesh and how this legislation treats the concept of CSR. This Article focuses on the position of the United Nations (UN), with regard to establishing environmental rights as fundamental ones, and how the UN’s approach has affected many countries’ views on environmental …

The Impact Of Abortion Laws On The Rights Of Future Generations In Climate Change Litigation, Laura Chiu

Florida Journal of International Law

In their own respects, the United States of America, the Republic of Korea (Korea), and India are three vastly different countries, and their differences are also apparent within their respective legal systems and the legal protections, or lack of, in place on abortion. Throughout the years, these three countries have shifted in three distinct directions with their abortion laws. The United States has regressed in its protection of the right to an abortion. Korea has recently decriminalized abortion for the first time in 2021. And India has continued to pass increasingly progressive abortion laws and abortion rulings over the years …

Emancipation, Decolonization, And Gender In The Context Of African Integration, Luwam Dirar

Florida Journal of International Law

The 1960s institutionalization and formalization of Africa’s continental integration was a manifestation of the ontological fragility of the concept of emancipation in the African context. As a concept, continental emancipation excluded concerns of women and formalized the divorce between decolonization and racial domination on the one hand and social emancipatory movements on the other. This divorce was contrary to the expectation of women who sought the end of colonial subjugation as a turning point for women’s emancipation from not only colonial and racial domination but also from social oppression. This Article argues that the continental emancipation project betrayed the hopes …

35th Annual Symposium: Human Rights And Cross-Border Data Flows, Connor Glendinning, Patricia Carreiro, Mark Clark, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

Florida Journal of International Law

The Florida Journal of International Law’s annual symposium. The two esteemed guest speakers (Patricia Carreiro & Mason Clark) today will talk about cybersecurity, privacy, and a hint of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the global stage. This event is going to proceed in three parts––each guest speaker is in turn going to give sort of a mini-lecture on a topic of specialty before we proceed into a panel conversation that is going to be moderated by Professor Lidsky.

Public Trust And Respect For Law Enforcement: United States Vs. Japan, Hannah Stevenson

Florida Journal of International Law

American police have broadly failed to gain public trust, which is essential to their success in protecting communities. By contrast, Japanese police excel at maintaining public trust and cooperation. Drawing on the success of the Japanese, this Note examines the shortcomings of American policing and recommends reforms for the future.

Citizenship And Denizenship In The International Tax Context In An Era Of Global Economy, Tamir Shanan, Doron Narotzki

Florida Journal of International Law

This Article addresses a fundamental issue underlying the international tax system in the 21st century: the use of citizenship as a jurisdictional basis for imposing income tax liability. As a general matter, the United States is the only developed country that allegedly taxes its citizens living overseas on their worldwide income. However, even the United States does not, de facto, tax the vast majority of its citizens living abroad as it offers a generous exclusion for their foreign source income.

This Article analyzes how modern developments in the global economy affect the case for citizenship-based taxation. Though citizenship is closely …

Corporate Manslaughter, Human Rights And Sustainable Development: An Appraisal Of Australian Industrial Killing Laws, S. M. Solaiman

Florida Journal of International Law

The right to life is a universally recognized human right, which is the utmost critical right of any human being residing anywhere in the world with any identity. Despite this, many workers are getting killed while working for a living. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that a total of 2.3 million workers currently die from work-related injuries and diseases worldwide every year, numbering over 6,000 deaths every single day, and another 160 million breadwinners suffer from nonfatal diseases. They are being killed largely with impunity, although they are the mainspring of development, which cannot be sustainable without protecting workers …

A Critical Review Of The Anti-Treaty Shopping Features Of The Indo-Taiwan Bit, S. R. Subramanian

Florida Journal of International Law

As one of the very few Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) signed by India post-revision of Model BIT in 2015, the Indo-Taiwan BIT is remarkable in several respects, especially from an anti-treaty shopping point of view. Recognizing that “indirect investment” poses some of the major treaty shopping concerns, the BIT defined “indirect investment” and mandated that the disputing investor may submit a claim under the BIT only if certain mandatory waivers are filed along with the claim. Also, by granting conditional access to investor-state arbitration, the BIT prescribed several rigorous conditions in the form of waivers against parallel actions to …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Biomimetic Dermal Magnetohydrodynamic Venting And High-Frequency Metric Strain Transmutation Boundaries, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the engineering parameters for a non-mechanical, biomimetic fluidic transport and non-equilibrium thermal boundary layer.

Traditional deep-space vessels treat external plasma shocks and the absolute-zero vacuum as destructive vectors that must be blocked via heavy material bulk. This architecture uses a scale-invariant fluid-substrate approach modeled after microscopic marine dermal structures (vortex attachment denticles).

By embedding a conformal, high-frequency magneto-acoustic micro-transducer array beneath a segmented porous hull, the system drives an effusing hydrogen plasma glove into a series of surface-bound, trailing helical micro-vortices. Instead of venting this mass wastefully into the vacuum, a rhythmic, 4-phase asymmetric

"Heartbeat" phase-shift protocol …

Capacity-Based Lacp Signaling For Proportional Traffic Distribution In Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods optimize link aggregation hashing in a Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MC-LAG) topology in which a Customer Equipment (CE) device is dual-homed to a plurality of Provider Edge (PE) devices. Each PE device determines a capacity value representing its effective forwarding capacity, based on dynamic health metrics including core-facing Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) bandwidth, and encodes the capacity value in an optional Type-Length-Value (TLV) object carried in Link Aggregation Control Protocol Data Units (LACPDUs). The CE device parses the capacity value for each member link and programs an egress hashing engine to perform weighted load balancing, distributing flows across the …

Technical Disclosure: A Framework For Multiphase Magnetohydrodynamic And Torsional Soliton Shielding Architecture, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Current spacecraft shielding paradigms rely heavily on passive mass blocking, which imposes severe mass penalties and introduces dangerous secondary nucleon scattering. This paper formalizes a systematic, geometric approach to active spacecraft defense by treating the spacecraft hull, internal fluid layers, and the surrounding vacuum as a single, continuous-density oscillator matrix.

The framework is bifurcated based on operational requirements into a Segmented Air-Gap Cascading Shield with active degaussing coils for crewed configurations (Module 1A) and a lightweight Solid-State Hardening Enclosure for automated uncrewed platforms (Module 1B). Middle-layer active mitigation utilizes high-frequency Circularly Polarized Microwaves (CPM) matched to a high-performance Rogers RT/duroid® …

Ai Agent Token Generation Based On Dynamic Context, Som Madhab Bhattacharya, Surendra Vyas

Defensive Publications Series

A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by computer including a coordination module, a request to obtain a token and then providing, by the coordination module to a processing network computer comprising a context analysis engine, a request for historical data associated with a specific set of interactions. The method also includes receiving, by the coordination module, the historical data or data derived from the historical data, and determining, by the coordination module, parameters associated with the token based on the historical data or the data derived from the historical data. The method further includes providing, by the coordination …

Device Configuration Memory Bridge With Optional Encryption For Serving Multiple Subtending Devices From A Central Non-Volatile Store, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A device configuration memory bridge serves firmware and configuration data to multiple subtending devices on a circuit pack from a single central non-volatile storage device. The bridge, implemented in a programmable logic device, terminates each serial configuration interface and emulates the memory that the device expects, translating each transaction into a read from the central device. High-rate bursts are buffered and delivered at the lower interface rate, allowing concurrent servicing at power-on. A host port lets the host processor load files and share the storage device as its own primary storage. Loads are optionally stored encrypted and decrypted on the …

The Timepiece Device That Have The Capability To Exist Both As A Traditional Watch And A Smart Watch., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a timepiece device that have the capability to exist both as a traditional watch and a smart watch. The entire timepiece device will consist of a traditional watch that will display the time in a traditional manner and a transparent display that will function as a user interface for a smart watch. The containing traditional watch structure and the smart watch interface will be housed within a physical structure. And the physical structure will house all the entities that will be required to make the containing traditional watch function and will house all the entities that will …

Tactical Cortisol-Defense Confectionery (Tcdc), Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This document details the formulation and technical defense of the Tactical Cortisol-Defense Confectionery (TCDC). The TCDC is a low-glycemic, heat-stable, high-protein functional gummy designed specifically to deliver critical electrolytes, adaptogenic stress-mitigation compounds, and structural bone and tissue nutrients directly to service members in the field without relying on a cold chain.

Ai-Driven Regulatory Compliance Engine With Adaptive Learning And Context-Aware Risk Prediction, Shivam Sharma

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a system for automating regulatory compliance in cross-border transactions. The system receives transaction data associated with a cross-border transaction, where the transaction data including sender information, receiver information, an amount, and currency information. The system collects contextual data based on the transaction data, the contextual data including at least one of geopolitical events or market trends. The system analyzes the transaction data and the contextual data using a context-aware risk prediction module to generate a risk score. The system parses regulatory documents using natural language processing (NLP) to identify compliance rules. The system evaluates the …

Mmra-2.0: Multi-Modal Resonant Array (Physical Prototype Edition) Date: 2026-07-28 Status: Open-Hardware • Builder-Grade • Test-Bench Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The MMRA-2.0 is a physical, buildable sensor array designed to capture and correlate multi-physics environmental data (acoustic, thermal, optical, and vibrational) for research in dementia care environments and early wildfire detection.

Unlike theoretical models, this document provides the exact specifications, Bill of Materials (BOM), schematics, and firmware logic required to construct a functioning prototype using off-the-shelf components. The system does not measure "clarity fields" or "cognitive drift"; instead, it measures measurable proxies:

• Acoustic Resonance: Ambient sound pressure levels and specific frequency bands (e.g., distress calls, fire crackling, calming music frequencies).

• Thermal Gradients: Rapid temperature changes indicative of fire or HVAC …

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Cng-Loop: Cognitive-Neutral Grounding System (Physical Prototype Edition) Date: 2026-07-29 Status: Open-Hardware • Builder-Grade • Test-Bench Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The CNG-Loop is a physical, buildable Ultra-Low Noise Power Distribution and EMI Shielding System. It provides a "neutral ground" for sensitive multi-physics sensors by eliminating electrical noise, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and ground loops that cause data drift and instability.

In engineering terms, "Cognitive-Neutral Grounding" is implemented as Active Power Line Conditioning (APLC) combined with Ultra-Low Noise Linear Regulation and Faraday Cage Shielding. This ensures that the MMRA-2.0 and FDMS-1.0 sensors measure only real environmental signals, not electrical artifacts.

This document provides the exact specifications, Bill of Materials (BOM), schematics, and firmware logic to construct a prototype that achieves <1µV RMS noise and >80dB EMI …

Onrs-2.0: Optical-Neural Resonance System (Physical Prototype Edition) Date: 2026-07-29 Status: Open-Hardware • Builder-Grade • Test-Bench Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The ONRS-2.0 is a physical, buildable Programmable Spectral Lighting and Sensing Array. It generates precise, time-varying light spectra to support circadian rhythm research (dementia care) and utilizes multi-wavelength optical scattering to detect early-stage particulate matter (wildfire smoke).

This system replaces the conceptual "Optical-Neural Resonance" with measurable photobiological and photometric engineering:

• "Optical-Neural Routing" → Dynamic control of Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) and Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) to influence melatonin suppression and alertness.

• "Optical Drift" → Thermal stabilization of LED output and real-time feedback calibration using onboard spectral sensors.

• "Hazard-Avoidance Envelopes" → Dual-wavelength smoke detection algorithms that distinguish between steam, dust, and …

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Accs V4.0: Adaptive Cognitive-Clearance System (Physical Prototype Edition) Date: 2026-07-29 Status: Open-Hardware • Builder-Grade • Test-Bench Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The ACCS v4.0 is a physical, buildable Deterministic Data Routing and Quality-of-Service (QoS) Gateway. It manages the flow of high-speed data from multiple sensors (MMRA, FDMS, ONRS) to ensure that critical "clarity signals" (e.g., fire alarms, distress sounds) are never delayed or lost due to network congestion or interference.

In engineering terms, "Cognitive-Clearance Routing" is implemented as Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Priority-Based Flow Control on an FPGA. This ensures that life-critical data always has a "clear path" (zero latency), while less critical data (e.g., routine temperature logs) is buffered without clogging the system.

This document provides the exact specifications, Bill …