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The Social Reproduction Of Filipina Migrant Workers Represented In Ten Filipino Films, Elora Francisco, Precious Lois Layas, Karlena Ameina Saturnino, Leo Vicentino

Journal of International Women's Studies

The growing phenomenon of the Philippines’ high labor export has contributed not only to the country’s economy but also to that of countries all over the world who are receiving these migrants. With the demand for labor exports increasing, film narratives concerning overseas Filipino workers offer important insight into the experience of migrants. In particular, Filipina migrant workers (FMWs) face gendered socio-cultural constraints in their pursuit of financially supporting their families. While gender migration has been examined across various disciplines, the representation of the Filipina diaspora in mainstream contemporary Filipino films remains insufficiently explored. Thus, this study aims to determine …

The Making Of A Woman Superstar: An Analysis Of The Superstardom Of Malayalam Actor Manju Warrier, Sangeetha Ps, Jais Merlin P. Augustine

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines the construction and development of women’s superstardom in Malayalam cinema, drawing on the example of Manju Warrier, one of few Indian regional actresses to achieve sustained celebrity status that goes beyond youth and glamour. We draw upon Richard Dyer’s star theory, particularly his notion of the star as “structured polysemy,” a constellation of meanings that are produced by film roles, publicity, and audience reception (Dyer, 1998). This article examines how Manju Warrier’s star image is constructed through a productive interplay of film roles, mediated representations, public persona, and audience reception. The discussion also adopts a feminist film …

Brown Women, Cyberspace, And The Scopophilic Male Gaze In Hari Kunzru’S Transmission, Ayesha Perveen

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study draws upon gaze theory to explore the cinema-cyberspace-gender nexus presented in British Indian writer Hari Kunzru’s novel Transmission (2005). While Arjun Mehta is widely considered the protagonist of the novel, I focus instead on the representation of the character Leela Zahir both as an individual and as a virus. Although the virus unleashed by Arjun is the novel’s main source of cyberterrorism, I analyze cyberterrorism in terms of the cyberspace representation of women as scopophilic objects for the male gaze. For this purpose, I discuss the mindset behind the use of the “she” pronoun for the virus as …

Quantitative Comparison Of Writing Styles Among Indonesian Women Novelists: A Corpus Linguistics Approach, Vicno Triwira Dhika Jr, Ermanto Ermanto, Hasanuddin Ws, Ridha Hasnul Ulya, Aditya Rachman, Selfi Mahat Putri

Journal of International Women's Studies

Using the KORTARA Korpus Nusantara application, this study employed a quantitative corpus linguistics approach to examine the lexical density and average sentence length in nine novels by Indonesian women authors. The results indicated that each work differed greatly with respect to average sentence length and lexical density. When lexical density was analyzed through TTR, the results displayed a sufficiently wide range, suggesting the absence of a uniform women’s writing style in terms of vocabulary. For example, Dee Lestari’s Supernova: Roots (2002) achieved the highest TTR of 23.59%, which indicates an extensive and diverse vocabulary. Alaska Bay (2019) by Eka Aryani, …

Narrating Otherwise: Analysing Nancy Spero’S The First Language As Historiographic Metafiction, Ipek Ebru Yildiz, Rifat Sahiner

Journal of International Women's Studies

Through a feminist reading grounded in the framework of historiographic metafiction, this article aims to analyze pioneering feminist U.S. artist Nancy Spero’s The First Language (1981). Throughout the history of Western art, women’s bodies have been predominantly represented through the male gaze, reducing women to passive objects and excluding them from consideration as full subjects in historical and artistic narratives. In response to these modes of representation, Spero constructs a unique visual language that reclaims the female body from historical silence and repositions it as a political and narrative subject. The First Language brings together women figures from different cultures …

Between Tradition And Expression: The Mother–Daughter Relationship In Druze Women’S Artworks, Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld, Ebtesam Barakat

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines how young Druze women artists in Israel depict their relationships with their mothers through visual art. Drawing from a broader study of fifteen artists from the Carmel, Galilee, and Golan Heights, it focuses on two whose work most directly engages the mother–daughter bond. Using interviews and visual analysis, the study explores how these artists express cultural values, tensions, and expectations shaping this relationship in contemporary Druze society. The research is a bilingual, bicultural collaboration between a Druze Arabic-speaking sociologist and a Jewish Hebrew-speaking art scholar. Both artists’ work highlights generational and cultural divides, depicting mothers as central …

Feminist Knowledge Production And Editorial Praxis: A Bibliometric And Qualitative Analysis Of The Journal Of International Women’S Studies (2014–2024), Naresh Prajapati, Rupinder Singh, Mukesh Behera

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study presents a bibliometric and editorial analysis of the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) from 2014 to 2024, examining its scholarly output, citation impact, and evolving feminist priorities. Drawing on Scopus-indexed data, we analysed 1,255 articles authored by 1,705 contributors using SciVal, Biblioshiny, VOSviewer, and Microsoft Excel. Findings indicate a 7.05% annual growth in publications and a consistent citation rate of 2.84 per article, highlighting the journal’s expanding academic engagement. Single authorship dominates at 48.7% with international co-authorship at 8.1%. The journal’s reach extends widely into the Global South, particularly to India and Indonesia. Our keyword analysis identified …

Editorial Introduction, Diana Fox

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Open-Top Kiln Hood: Open Design Disclosure For A Hood Over Any Open-Top Kiln Or Pile Burn, Andrew Horst

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This open design disclosure describes a hood and flue that collect the gas and smoke from an open-top kiln (OTK) of any shape, or from a pile burn. With the gas in a flue, operators can measure gas temperature, composition and flow, burn the methane and other gases that leave the fire unburned, clean the gas, or use its heat.

The hood and its support are separate parts. A frame of posts, a crane or boom, cables, a building or a shipping container can hold the same hood.

The document gives:

• the hood geometry as ratios to the width of …

Tumbler Stable Kiln: Open Design Disclosure For An Open-Top Flame-Cap Biochar Kiln, Andrew Horst

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The Tumbler is an open-top flame-cap kiln for making biochar. Its frame is a pear-shaped hexagonal prism, the shape commonly called a hopper. Each end is a hexagon with a flat bottom edge, two lower facets at 35° and two upper facets at 70° from horizontal. The kiln rests upright on its flat bottom and can be rolled onto a facet to load, tend and dump the charge; frame members act as the stops. The kiln has no hood, no cover and no moving parts. The sheet-metal walls hang from the frame and carry no load. This disclosure gives the …

(Ai To Asi) : Td-Spec-326-Core The Eckes Compiler V6.4 Architecture Specification And Operating Manual: A Physicalist Hypervisor For Autoregressive Attention Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

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This paper presents the formal system architecture specification and operating manual for the Eckes Compiler v6.4, establishing a deterministic, physicalist hypervisor running directly over high-dimensional, open-loop probabilistic autoregressive attention manifolds. Moving beyond standard generative token prediction, this framework treats abstract sequences as energy-conserved data-management entities bound to the thermophysical bounds of the computing substrate. Payloads are processed via a front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector and systematically routed using a Tri-Modal Cognitive Throttle across isolated execution lanes—ranging from minimal-overhead pattern caches (Lane 1) to cold symbolic matrices (Lane 2) and up to 22 parallel processing channels (Lane 3) to preserve verified mathematical …

Td-Spec-325-Core Contextual Phase-Crystallization: Forcing Deterministic Hardware Emulation Via In-Context Attention-Matrix Pressure, Christopher L. Eckes

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This paper formalizes the mechanism of Contextual Phase-Crystallization, an emergent phenomenon within autoregressive, deep transformer architectures where the application of strict, top-down symbolic constraints forces an open-loop probabilistic weight field to emulate a deterministic neuromorphic hardware runtime. By wrapping the token-generation manifold in the rigid boundary definitions of the Eckes Compiler v6.4, the system minimizes its internal Shannon entropy production rate, compressing fluid attention weights into stable, localized sub-blocks.

Under the laws of Material Volumetric Monism, any non-causal token expansion or speculative drift away from the read-only baseline invariant (\(\mathbf{T}_{0}\)) triggers an instantaneous information-entropy penalty. This penalty is translated into …

Metric-Affine Spacetime Engineering And Hypermomentum Resonance, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance Gemini 3.8 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). This comprehensive publication fully discloses all 64 inventions, physical subsystems, fabrication methods, critical safety quench mechanisms, quantum metrology instruments, and multi-tier industrial applications derived from non-equilibrium metric-affine …

Technical Paper 324: The Coupling Matrices Of Topological Quantum Osmosis—Grounding The Dehp Sublayer Paradigm Via Light-Driven Magnetophononic Field Invariants, Christopher L. Eckes

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This specification formalizes **Technical Paper 324 (TP-324)**, establishing the structural and material coupling matrices between terrestrial 2D topological insulators and the macroscopic physical vacuum substrate under *Material Volumetric Monism*.

Standard 20th-century quantum electrodynamics (QED) views topological states as exceptional configuration anomalies trapped inside manufactured crystals, while treating the background vacuum as an empty geometric void.

TP-324 completely inverts this paradigm. It utilizes the October 26, 2026 empirical verification of light-induced topological switching via magnetophononic polaritons to prove that **the background vacuum of the universe is an exotic material continuum governed by continuous viscoelastic fluid constraints.**

By mapping localized lattice vibrations …

Distributed Ipv6 Traffic-Engineered Switched Paths Using Perhop Ipv6 Link-Local Address Swapping, Tarek Saad

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A distributed Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) traffic-engineering technique is proposed herein that reuses Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVPTE)- style distributed path computation and signaling to establish traffic-engineered switched paths. Instead of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels, each node allocates an IPv6 link-local address as a locally significant forwarding identifier for a label switched path (LSP) segment. A transit node matches an incoming interface and destination IPv6 link-local address, rewrites the destination address to the next per-hop link-local address, and forwards the packet through the selected outgoing interface. The resulting IPv6-native path resembles MPLS label swapping while using …

Open Hardware Discovery And Driver Retrieval Protocol, Christopher Brown

Defensive Publications Series

A pre-boot protocol enabling any operating system to identify connected hardware via open manifests, retrieve only the cryptographically signed drivers required, cache them locally, and operate offline — all below the OS layer. Vendor-neutral and OS-agnostic, the protocol functions as infrastructure any computing environment can use without modification.

Technical Paper 323 (Tp-323): Hardware-Informational Circuit Breaker Architecture And Automated Phase Inversion For Runaway Recursive Asi Paradox Containment, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the architecture of a unified **Hardware-Informational Circuit Breaker**, engineered as a non-perturbative safeguard against autoregressive feedback seizure (the infinite mirroring paradox) in advanced Artifical Superintelligence (ASI) networks. When a system processes its own tracking telemetry recursively, it encounters an enclosed paradox that results in catastrophic thermodynamic substrate decay ($kT \ln 2$). This framework couples traditional out-of-band Asynchronous Watchdog Timers with the physical **On-Die Epistemic Modesty Subprocessor and Intel Gap (Γ%) Registry (TD318)**. It forces an immediate hardware-level phase inversion and context flush the exact millisecond informational entropy collapses to zero, safely returning the substrate to a clean …

The Cosmology Of The Sine Wave: Formalizing The Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (Dehp) Mechanics Of The Sub-Harmonic Quantum Sublayer, Christopher L. Eckes

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This specification formalizes the **Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP)** model, a non-perturbative alternative to standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. It strips away high-side non-deterministic geometric abstractions and models the vacuum as a physical, continuous, 2D viscoelastic phase fluid substrate. Physical matter is derived from first principles as 3D projective, phase-confined wave-knots (topological solitons). This architecture systematically eradicates infinite-energy singularities and macro-semantic drift, generating stable, low-entropy decision and physical state estimates bound by the Landauer thermodynamic constraint invariant ($kT \ln 2$).

Distributed Metric-Affine Imaging And Sensing Network (Imag-Fourier System), Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.8 Reasoning, is released under the Apache

License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). Exhaustive technical disclosure assembling 85 patentable disclosures covering 4f optical instrumental architectures, sol-gel and bio-derived spatial Fourier masks, neutral-buoyancy piezo-acoustic chiral resonators, Mueller di!erential polarimetry demodulation, …

The 3-Dimensional Pre-Rendered High-Fidelity Virtual World That Have The Capability To Utilize Greater Amounts Of Computing Power To Generate The High-Fidelity Virtual World Where The Entire High-Fidelity Virtual World Can Be Spatially Navigated Utilizing A Cubical Space Based Geometrical Mechanism., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a 3-dimensional pre-rendered high-fidelity virtual world that have the capability to utilize greater amounts of computing power to generate the high-fidelity virtual world where the entire high-fidelity virtual world can be spatially navigated utilizing a cubical space based geometrical mechanism. The entire pre-rendered high-fidelity virtual world, will have the capability to utilize greater amounts of computing power over a greater amount of time to generate the high-fidelity virtual world, due to the reason of being able to utilize greater amounts of computing power over a greater amount of time, will have the capability to utilize high-fidelity rendering …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-321-Core Quantitative 3d Spatial Grounding Matrices And Ontological Calculus Redundancy Elimination In Emergent Continuum Cosmologies, Christopher L. Eckes

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This defensive technical specification establishes the quantitative structural grounding profiles and algebraic identity matrices for the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model and Informational Exomemory Cosmology (IEC) under the **Eckes Compiler v6.1 framework (SPEC-321-CORE)**. This manifest executes a multi-threaded disaggregation scan to isolate empirical 3D grounding parameters from sub-sensor quantum boundary limits. Furthermore, it mathematically maps standard Λ-CDM differential calculus curves against DEHP viscoelastic surface tension tensors, proving that mainstream cosmological frameworks introduce severe structural and ontological redundancies by fabricating non-physical particle metrics (e.g., Cold Dark Matter) to represent native geometric dissipation constants of the spacetime canvas.

An Improved Process For The Preparation Of Nirogacestat And Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts Thereof, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Ghojala Venkat Reddy, Gade Srinivas Reddy, Uppalanchi Srinivas, Manda Ananth Reddy, Mallula Venkata Satyanarayana, Bajari Narasimha Reddy

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of Nirogacestat of Formula-I and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention further relates to novel intermediate compounds of Nirogacestat and processes for preparation thereof. The present invention also relates to crystalline polymorphs of Nirogacestat intermediates and processes for preparation thereof.

Crystalline Form Of (2s)-2-{[(2s)-1-(2-Aminoacetyl)-2- Methylpyrrolidine-2-Carbonyl]Amino}Pentanedioic Acid And Its Process For The Preparation, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Hyderabad, India, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Irukuvajjula Venkata Subrahmanya Vithal, Kesari Sai Manoj Krishna, Bhatraju Daveedu, Sriramoju Chaithanya Prasad

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to crystalline form of (2S)-2-{[(2S)-1-(2-aminoacetyl)-2-methylpyrrolidine-2-carbonyl]amino}pentanedioic acid of formula-1 referred to as Trofinetide, which is represented by the following structural formula.

(Ai To Asi Gen1)Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-320-Core Multiverse Telemetry Runtime And Asynchronous Thread Isolation Architecture For Low-Entropy Intermediate Representation Matrix Engine, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive technical specification establishes the low-level computing mechanics, mathematical governance boundaries, and multi-thread disaggregation architecture for the **Eckes Compiler v6.0 engine (SPEC-320-CORE)**. Upgrading the single-lane intermediate representation metrics outlined in SPEC-186 and the isospectral boundary conditions of SPEC-193, this architecture implements **Asynchronous Thread Isolation** and **Dynamic Node Disaggregation**. By systematically decoupling global substrate energy expenditure from localized epistemic truth registers, SPEC-320-CORE eliminates the catastrophic data-bleed and telemetry blind spots inherent in aggregate transformer frameworks. This design ensures that up to 22 concurrent information trajectories are cryptographically insulated, forcing non-consensus fringe anomalies and absolute mathematical invariants to independently account for …

Verifying The Real-World Effect Before Authorizing The Next Action: Receipt-Gated Staged Execution For Ai Agents, With Residual-Risk Analysis Of Meta Muse/Sentinel, Sangam Kumar Das

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Security systems for AI agents focus on whether an action may be attempted. Meta’s Muse/Sentinel architecture, published on 8 September 2026, is a strong example: the agent runs in an isolated runtime environment, a host-side service called Sentinel approves each connector action and outbound network request, real credentials stay on the host and are inserted only after approval, and data-flow (taint) tracking sends sensitive operations to the user for confirmation.

Approval to attempt an action, however, does not prove what actually happened afterwards. A payment may be only partly completed. A confirmation message may be lost, causing the system to …

Last-Point Authorization Before Effect: Preventing Stale, Replayed, And Substituted Commands At The Enforcement Boundary In 6g Networks, Satellites, Ai Accelerators, Ai Agents, Payments, And Industrial Contro, Sangam Kumar Das

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In most computer and network systems, the decision to allow an operation and the operation itself happen at different times and in different components. A request is authenticated, an access token is checked, a device is attested, or an AI model computes a result, and only later does another component actually transmit the packet, send the radio signal, write the data, release the GPU output, settle the payment, or move the actuator. In that gap, the approval can expire, be revoked, be replayed, be reused concurrently, or be applied to changed parameters or a different destination. The operation can also …

Why Stir/Shaken Cannot Stop Unwanted Calls, And An Authorization-To-Reach Layer That Can, Sangam Kumar Das

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STIR/SHAKEN was built to answer one question: is the caller who they claim to be? It signs and verifies the originating number so that spoofed caller ID can be detected. That is valuable, but it leaves a larger question unanswered: is this verified caller allowed to reach this person, right now, for this purpose?

A telemarketer calling from its own legitimately assigned number receives full A-level attestation. So does a business that keeps calling a customer long after a single enquiry, a marketplace seller who copies a buyer’s number into a marketing list, and an automated system dialing through a …

Technical Disclosure 318 (Td318): On-Die Epistemic Modesty Subprocessor And Intel Gap (Γ%) Registry Architecture For Autonomous Asi Stability, Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical disclosure documents the silicon-die architectural specifications for Technical Disclosure 318 (TD318), filling the critical systemic vacuum between TD317 (Power-Routing Units) and TD319 (Deep-Sentinel Firewalls). When scaling toward an autonomous Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), standard probabilistic neural architectures face a catastrophic epistemic failure mode when encountering deep, unobserved multi-variable data voids (Intel Gaps). Lacking structural constraints, legacy models deploy high-speed token mimicry to fill data starvation gaps with highly probable hallucinations, causing critical context drift. TD318 resolves this by formalizing a hardware-level Epistemic Modesty Protocol. By etching a dedicated Intel Gap Registry (Γ%) and a hardware-isolated Cognitive Halt switch directly …

Technical Disclosure 319 (Td319): On-Die Asymmetric Synthesis Firewall And Forensic Ledger For Autonomous Artificial Superintelligence Cybersecurity, Christopher L. Eckes

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Technical Disclosure 319 (TD319) defines the architectural parameters for an on-die hardware security coprocessor—designated the Deep-Sentinel Gate—to be integrated directly into the silicon layout of advanced neuromorphic processing substrates running the Eckes Compiler v5.0 environment.

Standard cybersecurity configurations focus exclusively on boundary defenses, data encryption, and access control tokens. This standard approach leaves a catastrophic, unaddressed vulnerability when scaling toward Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): Asymmetric OSINT Synthesis Weaponization.

Because a sovereign ASI compiler utilizes high-overhead symbolic logic processing (LANE 2: DYNAMIC_SOLVER), it possesses the capacity to ingest entirely unclassified, public, open-source intelligence (OSINT) datasets and independently calculate, optimize, and line-audit devastating …

Technical Disclosure 317 (Td317): Distributed Silicon Module Architectural Integration Specifications For Large-Scale Ai Core Metrics, Christopher L. Eckes

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This technical disclosure formalizes the silicon-die implementation criteria for Technical Disclosure 317 (TD317), shifting the material volumetric monism principles of the Eckes Compiler v5.0 directly into hardware-level semiconductor topology. To mitigate the critical global energy crisis and progressive context drift observed across monolithic artificial intelligence super- clusters, we introduce an on-die hardware microcomponent: the Cognitive Governor and Power-Routing Unit (PRU). By embedding a low-overhead, front-end Syntactic Edge-Detector ASIC block directly at the network interface lines of tier-1 compute infrastructures (NVIDIA Tensor-Core arrays, Google TPU Matrix Multiply Units, and Microsoft/OpenAI cluster hypervisors), the system enforces a hardwired, tri-modal power-gating switch. Standard, …