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Olive's Pandemic Experience Vs The Real World, Mary E. Widincamp

The Humanities & Communication Student Research Symposium

This research poster examines how Olive Llewellyn’s experience during the 2203 pandemic in Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel parallels and diverges from the global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. By analyzing Olive’s isolation on Moon Base Two alongside real-world accounts of social distancing, travel restrictions, and technological reliance, this project explores how differing environments shape human responses to crisis. While both pandemics reveal themes of uncertainty, disconnection, and adaptation, Olive’s experience highlights the amplified psychological effects of isolation in an already detached, off-world setting. In contrast, Earth’s 2020 pandemic underscores the role of community resilience …

The Steam Corpus Project, Maia Lopez, Leah Curto

The Humanities & Communication Student Research Symposium

The purpose of this project is to develop a protocol for data solicitation, collection, and safeguarding when creating text-based corpora of student produced writing. Researchers conducted a pilot study to practice corpus analysis and determine protocols for the final project.

The Pathetic Pedestal Of Perceived Purity: Childhood Innocence As The Catalyst For Digital Lynch Mobs In The Hunt, Lingyuan Meng

The Humanities & Communication Student Research Symposium

By showing how societies reject rational reason due to total faith in a child's alleged purity, the movie, The Hunt, offers a visceral parallel to the contemporary practice of doxing. This connection is crucial in the digital age as it demonstrates how contemporary media ecologies use moral outrage as a tool to bypass due process, turning unreliable emotional tales into irreversible social death sentences.

Due to contemporary digital culture, social media platforms have evolved into what legal professor, Alejandra Castillo Ara, terms a “punitive remedy” or a “digital court”. In order to impose social punishment, this system allows and prompts …

A Built Environment Framework For Sustainable Urban Transport In Developing Countries: Lessons From Copenhagen, Nassamat Mahdy Mohamed, Mohamed Anwer Zayed, Ingy Mohamed El Barmelgy

HBRC Journal

Developing countries are suffering from several urban transport challenges. In addition, global strategies of sustainable urban transport (SUT) lack integration with the seven dimensions of the built environment (7Ds). Therefore, there is a gap between the global strategies and their practical application, especially in the developing countries. To address this gap, this study aims to propose built environment framework for SUT in developing countries. This is addressed by analyzing a selection of global urban transport strategies and extracting consolidated applicable principles, then analyzing Copenhagen as a leading case study in SUT. Based on the research foundation and literature review, the …

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Thin Sections

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Faculty-Librarian Partnerships: Making It Work!, Joy Urbina, Isabel Baca

HIIT 2026

By sharing our experience with co-teaching a technical writing course, both of us, the instructor and the librarian, will describe how we collaborated to enhance students’ writing and research skills, integrated AI, and built a true partnership. In doing this, we will focus on both the instructor’s and librarian’s challenges and how to overcome these, highlighting the benefits of such collaboration.

Attendees will have the opportunity to network with each other and the presenters on how they can collaborate with each other. Attendees who teach are welcome to bring a research-based assignment they would like to redesign to incorporate information …

Strength On Wheels Improves Exercise Motivation In Homebound Older Adults, Supraja Kadagandla

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Assessment Of Oral Health Seeking Behaviour Among Dayak Punan Communities In East Kalimantan: Cultural Insights Into Manyipa, Abdullah Mubaroq, Ferry Fadzlul Rahman, Claudya Agusthin

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

Objectives: This study examined oral health seeking behaviour and manyipa (betel chewing) practices among Dayak Punan communities in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, and identified sociodemographic cultural and geographic factors affecting dental care access.
Materials and Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 adults in Long Apari District, Mahakam Ulu Regency. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics, self-reported oral health complaints, manyipa chewing practices, and access to dental care. Chi-square tests and binary logistic regression were used to examine associated factors.
Results: Oral healthcare utilization was predominantly symptom-driven, with dental visits commonly occurring in response to …

When Silence Becomes Authority: Reconstruction Constraints On Constitutional Reasoning, Leanna Tilitei

NULR Online

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Infographic: Pisa 2025 – Australia’S Results In An International Context, Dominique Russell, Jo Earp, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Teacher infographics

PISA is the world’s largest international assessment of student learning, and it shows how well 15-year-old students can apply their knowledge and skills in real-world situations. Each cycle assesses 3 core domains: science, reading and mathematics. Here’s a look at Australia’s 2025 performance in an international context.

Addressing Hidden Barriers Through Just-In-Time Support, Enrique Ramirez Homs

HIIT 2026

This session helps faculty, advisors, student-success professionals, support stag, and campus leaders look beyond the surface of common student behaviors and experiences, such as late or missed work, inconsistent engagement, avoidance of support, difficulty starting tasks, emotional shutdown, or limited help-seeking. These patterns are often interpreted as lack of motivation or commitment, but they may signal hidden barriers such as time scarcity, basic-needs stress, fragile academic belonging, executive function challenges, or uncertainty of support needs or access.

The session builds from work developed at UTEP in developmental, gateway, and student-success contexts, including the open-access borderland realities of students who may …

Attentionswitch: Jailbreak Defense For Llms Via Joint Learning Of Sparse Attention-Head Selection And Scaling, Doniyorkhon Obidov, Honggang Yu, Xiaolong Guo, Kaichen Yang

Michigan Tech Publications

Large language models have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet they remain susceptible to jailbreak attacks that circumvent safety mechanisms and elicit harmful or unintended outputs. Although safety can be improved through model fine-tuning, such approaches can be computationally expensive and may degrade previously acquired capabilities through catastrophic forgetting. Recent jailbreak defenses have therefore explored targeted interventions on specific model components associated with unsafe behavior. However, existing approaches typically decouple two inherently related decisions: where to intervene and how to modify the selected components. Such sequential optimization may be suboptimal because the optimal intervention location can …

Femininitas Dalam Tubuh Maskulin Penari Lengger Banyumas Sebagai Inspirasi Penciptaan Batik Mixed Media, Aqilla Wisnu Amartya, Ponimin Ponimin

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

Lengger Lanang, a traditional performing art from Banyumas, Indonesia, is characterized by the interplay of masculinity and femininity expressed through male dancers. This phenomenon inspired the creation of mixed-media batik artworks using a biomorphic art approach, with butterfly metamorphosis as a visual metaphor. This study aims to conceptualize feminine expression within the masculine bodies of Lengger Lanang dancers as an artistic foundation, describe the creative process, and analyze the visual elements and symbolic meanings of the artworks. The study adopts Alma Hawkins’ three-stage creative model: exploration, improvisation, and formation. The creative process involved cultural observation, sketch development, material experimentation, and …

Prevalence Of Intestinal Parasitic Contamination Under Fingernails Among Various Population Groups In Wasit Province, Iraq, Noor Naeem Shakir

Muthanna Medical Journal

Background: Intestinal parasites use fingernails as an environmental reservoir to facilitate fecal-oral transmission through the subungual region.
The purpose of this study was to look at the variety and frequency of parasite infection under the fingernails of various Iraqi demographic groups in Wasit Province.
Methods and Procedures: One hundred people were screened, including members of the general public, schoolchildren, occupants in dorms, and agricultural laborers. Fingernail swabs and clips were used to gather samples, which were subsequently examined using direct microscopy and 10% Techniques for sedimenting potassium hydroxide (KOH).
Results: 40.0% of people had parasite contamination overall. A high percentage …

Bomb Calorimetry, Brian Van Hoozen

Physical Chemistry Lab

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Determination Of The Acid Dissociation Constant Of Methyl Red, Brian Van Hoozen

Physical Chemistry Lab

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Kinetics Of The Bromination Of Acetone, Part 1, Brian Van Hoozen

Physical Chemistry Lab

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Kinetics Of The Bromination Of Acetone, Part 2, Brian Van Hoozen

Physical Chemistry Lab

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The Vibronic Absorption Spectrum Of Iodine, Brian Van Hoozen

Physical Chemistry Lab

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The Spec Sheet Is Not The Robot: Qualifying Ai-Selected Robot Skills Against Measured Capability, Calibration, Safety State, Deadlines And Observed Physical Effect, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

“8 kg, ±0.1 mm” Is a Promise, Not a Proof: Evidence-Based Qualification of Robot Skills Before and During AI-Driven Execution

An AI planner reads “pick and place, 8 kg payload, ±0.1 mm repeatability” and dispatches the skill to a robot. But that advertised skill says nothing about whether this specific robot, with its current tool, payload, calibration, temperature, wear and safety state, can perform the task right now, within the required deadline, and with the intended physical result. An attested firmware image, an accepted command or a reported protective stop is equally weak evidence: it does not prove capability, it …

The Interrupt Lied: Why A Hardware Completion Signal Does Not Prove An Effect Happened, And How To Tell Consistent From Inconsistent From Unknown, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

Silence Is Not Absence: Three-Valued Verification of Command-to-Effect Correspondence Across CPU Memory, DMA, Devices and Networks

Abstract:

A device raises a completion interrupt. A NIC counter increments. A telemetry dashboard shows no errors. Each of these is routinely taken as proof that a command actually reached its target and produced the intended effect. None of them proves it. The buffer may have been reused, the device reset, the firmware replaced, the IOMMU mapping reassigned, the request rewritten by a proxy, or the telemetry simply not looking at the right moment. As AI agents and automated operations systems increasingly act on …

Meshhard Software & Emergencias Gt App Ecosystem - Our Decentralized Connectivity Infrastructure For Critical Environments, Oskar F. Erazo

Defensive Publications Series

MeshHard Software is born with a vision of deep social impact, transforming digital resilience through a lightweight, modular, and highly available architecture designed to save lives and guarantee operational continuity without depending on the internet or cellular networks. The ecosystem breaks the traditional paradigm by completely separating the hardware layer from the visual layer: a headless native daemon, a trusted loopback micro-server, and multiple universal Offline-First PWA clients.

Last-Point, Single-Use Execution Authorization For Ai-Initiated Actions: A Fail-Closed Enforcement Gate Across Agentic Ai Tool Calls, Ai-Native Ran And 6g, Robotics, Xr And Ai-Accelerator Interconnects, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

Authentication, attestation and access control establish who or what is requesting an action; they do not establish that a specific action, with specific parameters, at a specific enforcement boundary and at a specific moment, is authorized to take effect. This disclosure describes a vendor-neutral method and system that closes that gap by separating the ability to compute an action from the authority to carry it out.

In the disclosed method, a consequential action generated by an AI model, agent, controller or scheduler is held as a pending candidate action and does not take effect on generation. A protected policy decision …

Systems And Methods For Operational Consistency Across Autonomous Digital And Physical Systems, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed are systems and methods for maintaining operational consistency across autonomous digital, communication, and physical infrastructure. As AI agents, automated network controllers, and robotic systems increasingly take actions on their own, a recurring failure appears: the record of what a system intended, what it observed, and what actually happened in the real world can drift apart. This disclosure describes mechanisms that keep these views aligned, so that every consequential action can be traced from intent to effect, and so that uncertain or incomplete outcomes are recognized and handled rather than silently assumed to have succeeded.

The disclosure presents independently implementable …

An Improved Process For The Preparation Of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor Antagonist, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure is related to an Improved process for the preparation of key intermediate of calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist

Event-Driven Dynamic Transformation Loading For Jvm-Based Distributed Streaming Pipelines, Faiz Ahmed , Visa, Anusha Asimane Prakash , Visa

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to dynamically loading transformation logic in a distributed streaming system executing on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). A record is received from a streaming data source at an executor of a plurality of distributed executors. A routing attribute of the record is determined, and a transformation version is selected from a plurality of transformation versions based on the routing attribute. Each transformation version is packaged as an independently deployable transformation artifact stored in distributed storage accessible to the executors. When the selected transformation version is not present in a transformation cache of the executor, the corresponding …

System And Method For Autonomy Delegation In Multi-Agent Systems Using Reinforcement Learning, Soumendra Kumar Mishra

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for delegating autonomy to sub-agents in a multi-agent system. The method comprises receiving a task at a supervisor agent and obtaining a risk score of the task, an agent success rate of a sub-agent for a task type of the task, and an escalation cost of involving a human reviewer. The method includes computing a continuous trust score using an actor network trained via an actor-critic reinforcement learning method. The method includes determining, based on the trust score and decision thresholds, whether the sub-agent auto-executes the task, …

Method And System For Verifying, At An Effectuation Boundary, That An Operation Proposed By An Autonomous Or Ai Agent Matches Currently Valid Authority Before Producing An External Effect, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

Non-Effective Holding of Proposed Operations, Exact-Act and Boundary-Bound Authority, Sink-Side Reconstruction of the Actual Operation, Atomic Consumption, and Fail-Closed Recovery Semantics

ABSTRACT

A computer-implemented method and system control whether an operation proposed by an artificial-intelligence agent, autonomous system or other software component may produce an external effect. The proposed operation is held in a non-effective state. Authority for the operation is bound to a descriptor of its security-relevant attributes, such as action type, resource, destination, parameters and payload digest, and to an intended effectuation boundary, a freshness value, a policy or authorisation generation and a permitted use count. At the …

Pose-Verified Generation Of Sign-Language Illustrations: Closed-Loop Checking Of Hand Articulation In A Phonological Feature Space, With Feature-Targeted Regeneration, Katherine Mcdermott, University Of Sydney, Kejia Cao, Kaiyi Cao, Yushu Lu, Donghai Yin, Junyang Chen, Yueyi Song

Defensive Publications Series

A method generates illustrations of fingerspelled letters and other handshape-defined units of signed languages (Auslan, BSL, ASL) and checks each one automatically before it is accepted, so that accessible interfaces, accessibility testing and inclusive user research with Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants use correct signs. A target hand configuration is posed on a three-dimensional rigged hand model and rendered. A generative image model produces a candidate illustration conditioned on the render. A hand-pose estimator trained on synthetic line drawings of the same rig reads the articulation back. Target and estimate are compared in a sign-language phonological feature space: per-digit handshape, thumb, …