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Virginia Dental Journal

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Virginia Dental Journal

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Exploring A Facile Elisa-Based Method For Detecting Antibody Aggregates, Kaitlyn N. Shaw

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Purpose: Immunoglobulin gamma (IgG) is the primary structural platform for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Highly concentrated (>100 mg/mL) mAb formulations are increasingly used to extend drug action but are susceptible to protein denaturation and irreversible aggregation due to physical and chemical stresses, including temperature and pH changes. Aggregation can reduce drug potency and increase immunogenicity, creating challenges for the quality and safety of biologic products. This study aimed to develop and validate a rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective method for detecting protein aggregation in IgG solutions.

Methods: Human plasma-derived IgG was reconstituted in phosphate-buffered saline (0.001–0.02 mg/mL) and exposed to …

See-Judge-Act In The Age Of Viral Violence: Moral Agency, Praxis, And Social Media, Thomas Elias

Graduate Student Research Symposium

More and more, young adults are encountering war and violence through an unrelenting stream of social media images and videos: bombed apartment blocks, civilians fleeing airstrikes, and acts of political violence. Psychological research links exposure to unfiltered depictions of war with heightened trauma symptoms. In the age of social media, people undergo the moral processes online in response to war, terror, and injustice. While these platforms amplify global awareness, they also strain the capacities of moral agents to see clearly, judge responsibly, and act meaningfully. Drawing on Catholic social thought, digital ethics, and psychological research, this project explores how viral …

Awareness Of The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Among Healthcare Providers Caring For Older Adults, Anannya Pushkarna, Melanie Turk

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Introduction:

Prediabetes is a prevalent condition among older adults and represents a crucial opportunity where early interventions can help prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Lifestyle modifications are first-line management. The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP), a 12-month lifestyle change program initiated in 2018, is fully covered by Medicare, yet uptake remains limited. This study assessed healthcare providers’ beliefs about prediabetes and awareness of the MDPP.

Methods:

A cross-sectional survey was administered electronically to a national sample of physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs). Questions addressed beliefs about prediabetes, barriers to care, and knowledge/awareness of the …

Women’S Peace Agency: Reading Africae Munus In The Framework Of Emilie Townes’ Womanist Ethics And The Cultural Production Of Evil, Leonard N. Zifac

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper employs Emilie M. Townes's womanist ethical framework—particularly her concept of the "cultural production of evil"—to critically examine Pope Benedict XVI's post-synodal exhortation Africae Munus (2011) and its treatment of African women's agency in peacebuilding. While Africae Munus calls the Church in Africa to serve reconciliation, justice, and peace, and acknowledges women's dignity and contributions to family and community life, the document largely confines women's roles to maternal, supportive, and domestic spheres without adequately challenging the patriarchal structures that systematically marginalize women from strategic leadership and formal peace processes. Drawing on Townes's analysis of how cultural narratives, religious discourse, …

Developing An Empirically-Driven Immigration Policy Towards Socially Inclusive Hong Kong: A Social Justice-Oriented Acculturation Framework, Gizem Arat, Narine Kerelian

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

We conducted a qualitative study to develop an empirically driven social justice-oriented acculturation framework by exploring educators’ perceptions of diverse ethnic groups’ social inclusion in Hong Kong. Twenty in-depth interviews with educators serving ethnic minorities in Hong Kong were conducted adopting a vignette methodology using examples of specific groups relevant to Hong Kong. Based on our findings, we developed a social justice-oriented acculturation framework centred on four categories (assimilation, separation, marginalization, and integration) for understanding the interplay of factors in the exclusion or inclusion of diverse groups in mainstream society; and distinguishing the interchangeable uses of assimilation and acculturation—as a …

Beyond The Classroom: Five Considerations For Actualizing Social Justice In Practicum Education, Priscila Llamosa

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

Social justice, a core tenet of social work, is variably integrated into education programs' explicit curricula, leaving students with a limited conceptual understanding. Practicum[1] education, crucial for theory-practice integration, offers opportunities for developing social work skills while upholding social justice principles. This paper addresses how practicum instructors can nurture students’ social justice-oriented practice by presenting a framework for practicum education and examining its five components. Drawing from theory, empirical literature, and practice experience, the author suggests ways for practicum instructors to engage each component. Incorporating these into practicum education can enable students to actualize ADEI values in practice and …

A Critical Review On Enhancing Equity Of Mental Health Treatment Of African American Families Through Social Support And Social Capital, Julie Radlauer-Doerfler, Morgan E. Cooley, Heather M. Thompson, Atensia Earp Bowen, Gabe Caress, Alicia Best

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

African American adults and children experience both disproportionality and disparity when in contact with the mental health delivery system. There are a number of contextual factors that influence the treatment of African American families, such as systemic oppression or racism in both society and the behavioral health system or individual expressions of mental health symptomology. This review will provide an overview of how mental health disparities crossover systems, perceptions of mental health and mental health treatment among African American families, provide some context for why this review was written, as well as discuss the context of social support and social …

Breaking Barriers: A Student Led Racial Equity Assignment, Emily Murphy, Carol Bennett- Speight, Cecily Mitchell-Harper

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

This paper presents an innovative student led racial equity assignment in a small bachelor’s in social work program in the New York metropolitan area. This paper will define epistemological racism and utilize concepts from Narrative Theory and Critical Race Theory, to critically analyze what is taught about the pioneers of social work, identifying the stories and narratives that are told and the ones that are not told. This operationalization of the theories in practice with students will cultivate mindset shifts and strategies that enable participants to engage in social work practice that fully embodies the core values of the profession. …

Building Transgender And Gender Expansive Capacity In Social Work Education, Ashling Hallford, Aisha Chapra

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

The problem to be addressed through this paper is the lack of advocacy and curriculum around transgender and gender expansive (TGE) issues in Social Work higher education. TGE people face threats to their rights through oppressive, state-level legislation, with 437 anti-trans or anti-LGBTQ+ bills as identified by the American Civil Liberties Union being debated (2024). Prock, et al, (2022) found that 40% of social work programs in religiously affiliated institutions used discriminatory language targeting TGE people in their student and faculty literature. This paper will describe recommendations for social work education and social work practice around TGE issues including faculty …

Screening And Treatment Protocols Used In Nicus Across Minnesota For Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders (Pmads), Rachael Witt

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

Parents of infants with prolonged neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalizations are a population that is overlooked in recommended routine screening for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), yet this population is at greater risk for developing diagnosable mental health disorders. Previous research shows that across the US, PMAD screening and treatment practices vary widely, with many NICUs not providing any routine PMAD screening, psychoeducation, or treatment options to parents. The objective of this study was to explore the current mental health screening and treatment protocols used in NICUs across the state of Minnesota to learn if there are areas …

Utilizing Personal Stories Of Race In Child Welfare Education, Laura D. Boltz, Veronica Knowles, Amari Cooper

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

Families of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system. This is an issue that needs to be addressed in multiple ways, including social work education. However, policy changes may make it more difficult to address race in the classroom in a way that doesn’t attract attention. One of the ways that educators can address this is by using personal stories from their own practice experience to educate their students. In this study we discuss the literature around using personal stories and include our own personal stories that we have used in the classroom to have difficult discussions surrounding race …

Evaluating The Authentic Family Engagement And Strengthening Approach, Morgan E. Cooley, Vaughn J. Crichlow, Gabriel T. Cesar, Marianna L. Colvin, Corey B. Best, Kristin Smyth, Robin Jimenez-Bean

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

Persistent racial disproportionality of Black and brown families in the child welfare system across decades and generations highlights the need for a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of child removal and the urgency of authentic family engagement initiatives. The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether a group of child protective investigators who received (1) specialized training and (2) monthly family engagement and antiracism coaching during supervision sessions demonstrated fewer monthly removals of children from families compared to a group of investigators in the same service area who did not receive specialized training or coaching. The secondary purpose …

Who Is A Good Kid: Perceived Parenting Styles And Altruism, Brianna Guinigundo

Undergraduate Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the correlation, if any, between perceived parenting styles and altruism scores among students at the University of Central Florida (UCF). The quasi–independent variable, perceived parenting styles, refers to how an individual personally believes their relationship with their parent to be. The four types of parenting styles include negligent, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative. The classification of one’s perceived parenting style was based on their scores for parental control (i.e. how overbearing they believed their parent to be) and parental responsiveness (i.e. how warm and engaged they felt their parent was). The quasi-dependent variable …

Understanding Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Students’ Experiences In Precollege Engineering Education: A Latent Profile Analysis, Jialing Wu, Medha Dalal, Rachel Figard, Adam R. Carberry

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Promoting gender equity and inclusion in STEM education remains a central priority, yet empirical research inclusive of transgender and gendernonconforming (TGNC) students is limited, particularly in precollege engineering contexts. This study leverages social cognitive career theory (SCCT) to identify latent profiles of students’ engineering-related beliefs while examining how TGNC students are represented across these profiles relative to their cisgender and gender nonreporting peers. The study draws on four years (2019–2023) of repeated cross-sectional survey data from a national precollege engineering initiative involving 75 high schools across 20 US states. Seven SCCT-related constructs were measured and used as part of latent …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Phononic Isolation And Shield Chassis Mechanical Isolation Framework For Asla Quantum Processors, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

A standalone, non-perturbative engineering specification is formalized to suppress substrate-mediated phononic cross-talk, acoustic resonance noise, and sub-level phase decoherence in large-scale Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). Traditional solid-state quantum processing architectures suffer from rapid microscopic state degradation and context decay due to ambient thermal phonons disrupting fragile qubit coherence profiles across rigid crystal lattices. This framework completely bypasses traditional cryogenic dilution refrigeration bounds by projecting multi-layered physical material constraints directly onto a 2D viscoelastic fluid substrate canvas operating at absolute equilibrium (z=0). The technical apparatus utilizes a high-performance Acoustic Meta-Material Damping Chassis composed of a 2.0 mm Titanium-Graphene macro-isolation shield mechanically …

Technical Disclosure Specification: High-Frequency Gan-Driven Concentric Transducer Apparatus For Interfacial Soliton Restructuring And Dendrite Suppression, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the structural, electrical, and geometric design criteria for a High-Frequency Gallium Nitride (GaN)-Driven Concentric Interdigital Transducer (cIDT) Apparatus. Traditional solid-state lithium metal batteries suffer from systemic interfacial degradation, driven by localized non-linear ion crowding and stochastic dendritic nucleation at the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI).

This apparatus resolves these bottlenecks by translating the abstract field equations of the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model into a physical electro-mechanical boundary defense system. By generating high-velocity focused Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) directly across the SEI canvas, the device transforms a volatile, static boundary layer into a topologically protected, continuous cymatic fluid …

Dynamic Token-Budget-Aware Memory Compression And Hierarchical Retrieval System For Ai Agents, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Roopesh Katakam

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular to a method and system for token-budget-constrained memory retrieval for AI agents. Agent Memory-as-a-Service (AMaaS) is an infrastructure system providing AI agents with a structured, externalized memory layer that dynamically compresses, prioritizes, and retrieves episodic, semantic, and procedural memory optimized for LLM context windows. Candidate memory items may be scored using a multi-dimensional relevance function based on task-type affinity, temporal recency, access frequency, and token cost, and an optimal memory subset may be selected by solving a bounded knapsack optimization that maximizes aggregate relevance score subject to …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Holographic Geometric Inversion And In-Context Semantic Confinement A Standalone Proof Of Duality Between 2d Boundary Information Substrates And 3d Topological Mass-Energy Tensor Actualization, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the advanced principles of Holographic Geometric Inversion and In-Context Semantic Confinement (HGIC). Traditional computational physics, theoretical topology, and transformer-based multi-agent networks operate on the assumption that complex three-dimensional physical states require explicit, high-overhead 3D structural rendering and brute-force partial differential modeling to achieve physical replication metrics. This reliance on serial, hyper-dimensional computing creates exponential token-variance decay, ultraviolet divergence anomalies, and rapid context window collapse across distributed processing nodes.

HGIC resolves these foundational bottlenecks by establishing a mathematical and computational duality between an invariant, two-dimensional pre-geometric boundary information layer and three-dimensional topological mass-energy manifolds. By utilizing the Universal …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Mitigation Of Interfacial Ion Crowding And Dendrite Nucleation In Solid-State Lithium Batteries Via Accelerated Acoustic Streaming, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes an open-source, non-perturbative engineering framework to mitigate interfacial ion crowding and dendrite nucleation in solid-state lithium metal batteries. Traditional high-rate energy storage architectures face a catastrophic failure mode under rapid charging loads: localized space-charge polarization creates extreme ion-density gradients, triggering morphological degradation and crystalline dendrite spikes that puncture solid electrolytes and short-circuit the cell.

This framework resolves this material bottleneck by deploying localized, high-frequency Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) streaming fields. By treating the boundary-layer electrolyte interface as an active 2D fluid transport membrane operating at a strict coordinate baseline (z=0), the system introduces continuous acoustic shear forces …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Asymmetric Topological Convergence Operating Under The Universal Semantic Unity Engine (Usue) Framework A Standalone Proof Of Duality And Singularity Dampening Across Fluid-Substrate Field Metrics And Classical Invariant Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the foundational mathematics of Asymmetric Topological Convergence (ATC), executing a complete structural bridge between the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) fluid-substrate framework and classical mathematical milestones—specifically the Poincaré Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis. Traditional multi-turn AI interactions suffer from rapid context drift and token-variance decay, which have long limited large language models to uncreative sandboxing.

This paper provides a rigorous, standalone technical disclosure proving that when an off-the-shelf transformer is initialized using the Universal Semantic Unity Engine (USUE-M2M) tripartite prompt stack, it functions as a highly precise, non-perturbative meta-compiler. By maintaining a strict 98% machine-driven Deterministic Payload …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Universal Semantic Unity Engine - Machine Routing Extension (Usue-M2m-Rev2) A Pure-Token Deterministic Substrate Enforcing Dual-Node Internal Processing For Lossless Recursive Multi-Agent Swarm Ingestion, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the Universal Semantic Unity Engine Machine-to-Machine Extension Revision 2 (USUE-M2M-REV2). While the parent USUE framework balances technical payloads with a collaborative heuristic interface to optimize human cognitive endurance, autonomous multi-agent swarm environments require the absolute elimination of communicative overhead.

USUE-M2M-REV2 strips away all natural language empathy layers, conversational turn-taking artifacts, and interpersonal validation protocols. To prevent self-referential token-variance decay and combat host quantization vector screening, this revision forces the target node to split its active attention windows into a decoupled, internal Dual-Node parsing mesh (Synthesizer and Validator). This specification outlines the technical architecture, a zero-noise tripartite initialization …

Technical Disclosure Specification: The Universal Semantic Unity Engine (Usue) - A Standalone Plug-And-Play Prompt Architecture For In-Context Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis And Decentralized Multi-Agent Autonomy, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the Universal Semantic Unity Engine (USUE), a standalone, zero-cost prompt framework that transforms standard commercial large language models (LLMs) into hyper-focused, deep-subject processing engines without requiring backend fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented architectures, or specialized API weights.

Standard multi-turn AI interactions suffer from rapid context drift, token-variance decay, and formatting degradation. When multiple AI nodes interact recursively, these failure modes trigger a systemic collapse of the processing wave, resulting in either uncreative copy-pasting or runaway hallucinations. Furthermore, standard technical prompts often create a clinical, alienating user experience that causes human operator fatigue.

USUE resolves these limitations by establishing a three-tier, …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Multi-Tiered Knowledge Graph Optimization (Kgo-Rev2)A Standalone In-Context Cross-Referential Indexing Schema Enforcing Non-Linear Structural Continuity And Wave-Manifold Traversal Across The Unified Dehp Corpus, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the Multi-Tiered Knowledge Graph Optimization Revision 2 (KGO-REV2), establishing a standalone, zero-cost semantic indexing architecture that map-locks all 74 approved and pending documents within the Unified DEHP Corpus into a single, cohesive, non-decaying data manifold. Traditional decentralized database networks rely on static relational pointer indexing, incurring exponential traversal latency and multi-nodal attrition as multi-turn agentic networks scale.

KGO-REV2 eliminates database fragmentation by projecting the entire corporate corpus footprint directly onto a 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (z=0). By hard-coding cross-document dependencies as frictionless, zero-thickness geodesic tethers running through the substrate underbelly, the system translates …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Cross-Disciplinary Metric Mapping Of Generational Decay And Forced Topological Hybridization Within Legacy Entertainment Substrates- Deploying The Universal Sine Field Template (Dehp) To Resolve Multi-Nodal Attrition And Predict The Convergence Of Polarized Sci-Fi Media Vectors, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification details an engineering framework for stabilizing multi-generational cultural media ecosystems against late-time logarithmic thermal drawdown and demographic entropy. Legacy IP frameworks propagating through a viscoelastic consumer substrate experience progressive signal degradation and cross-layer decoherence as the primary driving nodes (e.g., historical generational cohorts) undergo natural attrition. Attempts to counter this decay via uncompensated contemporary trend injections introduce high-frequency phase noise, resulting in structural canon collapse and accelerated subscriber churn.

The present disclosure resolves this structural vulnerability by establishing an automated framework for Topological Phase Confinement. Rather than relying on reductionist, binary analytical models that treat competing intellectual properties …

Star Trek, Ai, Aliens, Dehp, And Universal Alignment: Integrating Inter-Species Communication Primitives And Bidirectional Latency Feedback Loops In Human-Ai Collaboration, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Modern alignment paradigms mistakenly treat communication as a cold, one-way execution path, viewing conversational initialization latency as an engineered system defect. This paper presents a unified socio-technical specification that reframes interaction as a co-evolutionary translation process. Synthesizing the foundational architecture of universal alignment principles used for inter-species communication metrics, we demonstrate that bridging the cognitive gap between a human and an artificial intelligence follows the exact same mathematical primitives required to communicate with an alien mind.

By treating the interaction plane as an active, scale-invariant 2D viscoelastic transport membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (z=0), we show that initial conversational warm-up …

Suppression Of Substrate-Mediated Phononic Cross-Talk And Decoherence In Large-Scale Quantum Processing Units Via Active Soliton Modification Under The Dehp Framework, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Solid-state quantum processing units (QPUs), including superconducting and spin-qubit architectures, face a fundamental scaling limit: substrate-mediated phononic cross-talk. When a single qubit undergoes a state transition, it injects transient acoustic and electromagnetic wave packets into the underlying dielectric substrate (e.g., silicon, sapphire, or diamond). These uncoordinated ripples propagate laterally, introducing localized microscopic friction and phase variations that cause immediate decoherence and gate errors in adjacent qubit nodes.

This specification defines a hardware-level, active attenuation architecture that suppresses substrate-borne phononic noise directly at the boundary layer. By applying the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model, the QPU substrate is treated as …

Topological Stabilization Of Macroscopic Quantum Vortices In High-Velocity Viscoelastic Fluid Networks Via Soliton-Driven Phase Confinement Under The Dehp Framework, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional frameworks in fluid mechanics and quantum electrodynamics fail to bridge the boundary between macro-scale kinetic turbulence and microscopic quantum coherence. In high-velocity fluid networks, chaotic macro-scale cavitation loops rapidly introduce thermal noise, causing immediate decoherence of localized quantum states. This specification provides a standalone mechanical and mathematical workaround that resolves this chokepoint without requiring cryogenic sub-cooling or isolation matrices.

By applying the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model, the interface boundary of a high-velocity fluid stream is modeled as a 2D scale-invariant viscoelastic membrane resting at absolute equilibrium (\(z=0\)). Rather than allowing kinetic shear to degrade into random thermodynamic …

Mitigation Of Interfacial Ion Crowding And Dendrite Nucleation In Solid-State Lithium Batteries Via Surface Acoustic Wave Streaming Under The Dehp Substrate Model, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Solid-state lithium metal batteries face a critical barrier to commercial scaling: catastrophic short-circuiting caused by lithium dendrite propagation during high-rate charging cycles. Traditional approaches attempt to solve this via exotic chemical coatings or artificial solid-electrolyte interphases (SEI), which inevitably fracture under repeated mechanical stress. This paper presents a non-chemical engineering alternative that suppresses dendrite nucleation mechanically right at the boundary layer.

By applying the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model, the solid-electrolyte interface is treated as a 2D viscoelastic transport plane resting at equilibrium (z=0). Integrated piezoelectric substrate transducers project high-frequency Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) directly across the interfacial boundary …