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Technical Disclosure Specificationmodule 4 Monolithic Interdigital Transducer (Idt) Array Casing And Radio-Frequency Electro-Acoustic Coupling Interfaces For Master Multiblock Quantum Topologies, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure specifies the physical hardware housing, radio-frequency (RF) impedance-matching circuitry, and sub-micron metalized finger geometries required to interface classical control electronics with the non-equilibrium solitonic fluid computing core. To drive the foundational dual-loop acoustic architecture—comprising the 210.75 MHz continuous harmonic processing carrier wave (Loop 1) and the 600 MHz / 1.2 GHz sub-harmonic structural phase-cancellation torque vector array (Loop 2)—a high-precision electro-acoustic transduction layer must be bonded directly to the anisotropic coupling faces of the fused silica (SiO₂) matrix.

This module resolves the critical hardware interface crisis: injecting extreme high-frequency radio waves and converting them into surface acoustic wave …

Master System Architecture For Room-Temperature Ternary Quantum Computers - Monolithic Structural Integration Of Solitonic Cores, Inter-Node Entanglement Bridges, And Modular Control Interfaces, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional quantum hardware development remains fragmented by isolated design cycles, where core qubits, routing networks, driver electronics, and control software are engineered in separate silos. This systemic fragmentation introduces massive integration friction, leading to severe signal mismatches, thermal leaks, and immediate wave collapse when components are wired together. This disclosure specifies a comprehensive, multi-layered Master System Architecture that unifies the complete hardware, software, sensing, and manufacturing layers of a non-equilibrium, room-temperature ternary quantum computer into a single monolithic framework.

This master framework integrates and anchors six distinct operational layers: the core qubit blocks (MS #12489), the fluidic inter-node entanglement ribbons …

Non-Local Solitonic Entanglement Bridges: Lipid-Encapsulated Hydrodynamic Waveguide Architectures For Multiblock Quantum Topologies, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional multi-node quantum computing architectures remain heavily bottlenecked by severe insertion losses, phase velocity dispersion, and environmental decoherence during inter-chip data routing. Standard approaches rely on complex, high-loss optoelectronic conversions to translate quantum states into photons for fiber-optic transmission, leading to high error rates and immediate wave collapse. This paper introduces an alternative, non-local routing architecture that bypasses classical material transit by establishing foundational quantum entanglement directly within a fluidic mechanical medium.

Discrete computing blocks—comprising self-assembled Hexagonal Close-Packed (HCP) inverse opal matrices—are interconnected via flexible anisotropic fused silica ribbons housing micro-etched transmission tracks. To protect traveling mechanical wave functions from …

Non-Equilibrium Phase-Change Quantum Topology: Reversible Solitonic Wave-Field Stabilization Inside Self-Assembled 3d Inverse Opal Lattices, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Current paradigms in quantum computing remain heavily bottlenecked by environmental decoherence, brute-force cryogenic scaling constraints, and the mechanical fragility of localized qubits. This paper introduces an alternative top-down, wave-first hardware architecture that shifts the operational paradigm from brute-force isolation to dynamic phase boundary transport. By utilizing a solid-state, self-assembled Hexagonal Close-Packed (HCP) 3D inverse opal matrix constructed from fused silica (SiO₂), we establish an omnidirectional phononic bandgap that isolates volatile computational wave-fields from external ambient noise.

The internal hollow spherical cavities of this matrix are lined via Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) with an Interfacial Phase-Change Memory (iPCM) superlattice structure composed …

Bounded-Blast-Radius Operation Of An Untrusted (Byte-Authentic, Behaviourally-Tainted) Language Model At A Security Gateway, By Composing An Egress- Contained Model Runtime, Output-Path Data-Loss Inspection, Least-Privilege Per-Model Capability Identity, A Quarantine-To-Promote Onboarding Gate, Digest-Bound Inference Provenance, And Fleet- Wide Digest Revocation, Tiago Rosado

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses an architecture, at a security gateway that mediates a language model’s use inside an organisation, for operating a model that must be assumed untrusted — because the dominant model supply-chain threat is behavioural, not byte-level. A poisoned or backdoored model (weight-level backdoor, trigger-phrase exfiltration, memorised-secret leakage, injection-amplification, steganographic encoding) is byte-authentic: its content hash and any signature over its weights verify perfectly, because the taint lives in learned behaviour, not in the bytes.

Detecting such behavioural backdoors from weights is an open research problem this disclosure does not claim to solve. Instead the disclosed principle …

Longitudinal Learner Profile Construction From Aggregated Multi-Source Educational Data For Personalized Tutoring, Brittany Arthur, Tim Taylor, Teresa Chang, Craig Chase, Mauricio Mendez Ruiz, Gerardo Ocampo Diaz, Sam Goodgame, Tricia Jamison

Defensive Publications Series

Existing educational platforms often operate without longitudinal awareness of student academic histories, with performance data remaining fragmented across disconnected systems, courses, and academic years. This fragmentation limits the ability of tutoring systems to identify root causes of learning difficulties or to leverage documented student strengths when generating instructional responses. The disclosed technology provides a tutoring system that aggregates academic records from multiple educational data sources and constructs unified learner profiles by analyzing both structured data, such as assessment scores, and unstructured educational artifacts, such as essays and teacher feedback. A response generation component synthesizes personalized explanations based on the comprehensive …

Reference Pattern Mapping For Metrology Of Augmented Reality And Virtual Reality Devices, Zhenxing Hu, Qianli Ma, Ali Karbasi, Wenchun Hu, Jun Yang

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes a method for improving the reliability of metrology for characterizing an optical system in augmented reality and virtual reality devices. The method uses pattern mapping based on a reference pattern to detect regions of interest. This pattern mapping approach eliminates the need for repetitive, parameter-sensitive image preprocessing to locate an ROI in an image and enables highly consistent optical metrology across different testers and devices (e.g., displays).

Method For Glint Correspondence, Pezhman Firoozfam, Jason Todd Spencer

Defensive Publications Series

A system, such as a head-mounted device, may include an eye tracking subsystem configured to determine a user's cornea position by analyzing specular reflections (i.e., glints) from light sources of the system, which are directed at the user’s eye and captured by a camera of the system. This disclosure describes a software-based method to configure the system to accurately match bright specular reflections in an image to the specific light sources that created them. To achieve this, the algorithm calculates candidate cornea center locations based on the image reflections and determines the most probable center from these accumulated candidates. This …

Initiating Augmented Reality Experience On Smartglasses Based On Quick Response (Qr) Code, Benjamin Hawthorne Hersh, Ruofei Du

Defensive Publications Series

Distributing applications for wearable devices such as smartglasses can involve the installation of dedicated software on companion devices such as smartphones. This installation creates friction for both users and developers. Machine-readable optical labels such as quick response (QR) codes are utilized to quickly access web-based applications. The QR code is captured by the smartglasses. The smartglasses determine an address such as a universal resource locator (URL) based on the QR code. The smartglasses transmit a request for content with the determined URL to the smartphone. The smartphone retrieves web-based content from a server and sends the content to the smartglasses. …

Power-Managed Navigation Via Wearable Motion Sensing And Event-Triggered Image Capture For Auditory Hazard Alerts, Sumukh Shevde, Nazih Almalki

Defensive Publications Series

Premature battery depletion is caused in a head-worn computing device by the persistent capture of visual data for spatial navigation in low-visibility environments. To mitigate energy consumption, motion data is collected by a wrist-worn peripheral using dead reckoning to estimate positional changes. Image capture functions on the head-worn computing device are held in a suspended state during standard locomotion. Individual frames are captured at a frequency of one frame per second upon calculation of a proximity threshold to a potential hazard. The single frames are transferred over a localized wireless connection to a central mobile unit for hazard identification. Short …

Dynamic Switching Between Low-Resolution Color And High-Resolution Grayscale Images Based On Text Content Queries, Lijun Li

Defensive Publications Series

Text character recognition within visual streams from head-mounted displays is impacted by data transmission constraints and low electrical capacities. Visual data is captured at a default baseline rate (e.g., of one frame per second) to manage data traffic. An image pyramid structure comprising a full-resolution monochrome representation and downscaled color representations is maintained within an image signal processing pipeline. Cooperative processing logic on a paired device determines when context demands greater detail, triggering a transition to the fullresolution monochrome layer. Data transmission volume and power usage are reduced while character recognition processing is sustained.

Context Management Across Browser Windows, Tabs, And Devices, Benjamin Albert Azose, Akancha Murlidhar Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

A browser-based agent controlling system is disclosed for intelligently handling contextual information associated with browser-agent interactions when a user opens a new browser tab, browser window, browser instance, application interface, or computing device. The system maintains contextual information associated with one or more browser-agent sessions and determines whether an agentic interface to be instantiated within a newly created browsing environment. The system further determines whether contextual information to be inherited, copied, synchronized, shared, isolated, or otherwise propagated to the newly created browsing environment. Such determinations may be based on domain similarity, content similarity, website category classifications, user interaction history, aggregate …

Adaptive Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence For Information Technology Operations System For Deterministic, Topology-Aware Network Troubleshooting And Remediation With Closed-Loop Learning, Nikhil P C, Sebastian Jeuk, Atahar Khan, Shibu Nair

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a decision-map-driven Troubleshooting Retrieval and Context Software Development Kit (SDK) that converts an incident into an abstract, structured representation and deterministically routes retrieval, using supervisory-tagged data, across non-linear knowledge sources. The sources may include historical incidents, methods of procedure (MOPs), workflows, documentation, telemetry, and topology or Configuration Management Database (CMDB) relationships. The SDK assembles a pre-tokenization structured context bundle that bounds and standardizes evidence for downstream reasoning, improving precision and consistency relative to static runbooks or generic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). In some implementations, the SDK enriches incident cases with normalized public outage and environmental intelligence based on …

The Composite Computer Structure That Will Facilitate The Ventilation Procedures Of The Computer System That Will Contain The Composite Computer Structure., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a composite computer structure that will facilitate the ventilation procedures of the computer system that will contain the composite computer structure. The composite computer structure will be utilized for facilitating the ventilation procedures of the computer system that will contain the composite computer structure. The entire computer system that will contain the composite computer structure will consists of a computer that will include a removable computer back cover and the composite computer structure, which will be utilized for facilitating the ventilation procedures. The utilizing composite computer structure will consist of a structure with multiple hollow compartments containing …

Agentic Ai System For Multimodal Event Analytics And Narrative Generation, Huanhuan Wang, Jun Hui Au, Sherelyn Wan Quan Chan

Defensive Publications Series

An agentic artificial intelligence system for multimodal event analytics and narrative generation includes a multi-layer computational framework configured to autonomously acquire, transform, integrate, and produce event-related analytics. The system includes an event parameterization interface configured to receive user-defined parameters, a specialized orchestration engine configured to coordinate workflow and trigger parallel data processing streams, and a context formulation layer comprising a semantic data synthesis module, a public data extraction module, and a function calling module. The system includes a knowledge integration layer comprising a domain style and context adaptation module, a conflict resolution module configured to utilize a hierarchical dependency graph …

Analysis Of Communicable Disease Trends In Children: Babylon Governorate, Iraq From 2022 To 2024, Sahar Hassan, Kareem Jebur Dhaidan

Al-Ameed Journal for Medical Research and Health Sciences

Background: Infectious diseases are a great challenge to the health of children globally. This paper provides an epidemiological scenario and patterns of these diseases among children in the Hilla Babylon Governorate, Iraq, and specifically, the re-emergence of meals.

Methods: The retrospective study was carried out on 7851 medical records of children aged below 15 years between the period of January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. The registry of Babylon Maternity and Children Hospital was used to extract data. Data were analyzed in terms of trends and distributions by age, sex and time using descriptive statistics and inferential tests.

Results: …

Benefits Of Regional Anesthesia Versus Opioids In The Management Of Postoperative Pain Following Excision Of A Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor., Duveen Nalamothu, Mauricio Arce Villalobos, Joseph D Tobias

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

Postoperative opioid exposure in opioid-naive patients may carry a risk of persistent opioid use. We present the case of a 16-year-old female with no significant family history who was recently diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1 and found to have a rapidly enlarging mass in her left upper extremity. She was scheduled for excisional biopsy. To minimize the need for postoperative opioids, analgesia via a continuous peripheral nerve catheter was employed following resection of the malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. This case report reviews the clinical applications of multimodal analgesia via a continuous peripheral nerve catheter in pediatric patients, including placement …

Identifying Daily Oil Market Shocks: Evidence From The Hormuz Crisis, Davide Valenti Dr., Chiara Casoli, Matteo Manera, Luca Pedini

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper develops a daily Bayesian structural VAR model of the global crude oil market that decomposes the real price of oil into three fundamental drivers: shocks to global real economic activity, shocks to oil price expectations and shocks to physical oil supply. We combine a daily sign-restriction identification strategy with a posterior filtering step based on monthly physical oil market data, which sharpens the economic interpretation of the estimated daily shocks. We apply the model to provide a real-time interpretation of the main drivers behind the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, one of the largest and most abrupt oil …

Exploring Predictors Of Student And Parent Attendance In A Tier 2 School-Based Program: Implications For Optimizing Attendance In The Coping Power Program, Heather Mcdaniel, Alexa C. Budavari, Belinda E. Hernandez, Elise T. Pas, Catherine P. Bradshaw

Faculty Publications

There is growing interest in the use of multi-component Tier 2 preventive interventions to help address youth behavior problems in schools, yet parent and youth attendance at sessions can be suboptimal, and, if not optimized, can compromise outcomes. The current study explored baseline predictors of parent and youth attendance at the school-based Early Adolescent Coping Power (EACP) program, a preventive intervention for middle schoolers with externalizing problems. Data come from the 375 seventh graders (62% male, 72% Black) who were in the 20 middle schools randomized to receive the EACP intervention and their parents. We identified two latent profiles of …

Using Temporal Genomic Data To Uncover Patterns Of Genetic Diversity And Signatures Of Selection For Management Of A Threatened Minnow Species, Erika A. Dunn

Biology ETDs

The Little Colorado River (LCR) spinedace persists only in three isolated watersheds within the LCR Basin in Arizona. This imperiled minnow faces ongoing pressure from habitat alteration, climatic shifts, and invasive non-native predators. Over the past two decades, managers have translocated spinedace within watersheds to increase abundance and expand habitat occupancy. We sequenced a reference genome and analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 475 individuals over their geographic range. DNA samples were obtained from a previous study in the mid-1990s and compared with samples from 2024 and 2025, allowing us to track genetic diversity, effective population size, population structure, and …

Scale-Dependent Drivers Of Demographic Change For American Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) In Glacier National Park, Montana: Local Habitat Characteristics Vs. Regional Climate Trends, Danielle M. Owens

Biology ETDs

Climate change is shifting thermal environments globally, driving range contractions, upslope movement, and poleward shifts across taxa. However, these changes are not uniform: microclimates, shaped by topography, can amplify or decouple operative temperatures from regional trends. The American pika is an ideal model for studying climate-driven population change given its strong site fidelity and thermal sensitivities. We re-surveyed 173 sites in Glacier National Park, originally surveyed in 2007-2010, using an AIC-based model selection to test competing local and regional hypotheses driving three demographic processes: persistence, colonization, and within-patch density change. Pika occupancy increased over the 15-year period, with a net …

Finding Fish Families: Movement And Demography Of Loach Minnow (Tiaroga Cobitis) Inferred From Gt-Seq-Enabled Kinship Analysis, Patrick C. Baca

Biology ETDs

River fragmentation poses major threats to freshwater biodiversity by reducing connectivity and limiting persistence of imperiled desert fishes. Connectivity in streams is impaired by anthropogenic changes, including road crossings, prompting the installation of engineered fish passage structures at low-water road crossings and raising questions about the dispersal of aquatic species across these structures. This thesis investigates the movement of the threatened Loach Minnow (Tiaroga cobitis) by applying a close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) framework in a restored stream (including a fish passage) and a stream without rehabilitation efforts. We developed and optimized a GT-seq panel for relatedness analysis and used it to …

Naturalistic Aided Language Intervention For Children Who Have Multiple Disabilities Including Visual Impairment, Naomi Nattress

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

ABSTRACT

This dissertation examined aided AAC interventions for individuals with multiple disabilities, including visual impairment, across three original studies. Chapter 2, a meta-analysis, found limited rigorous research for this population while showing that individuals at early symbolic stages with diverse visual profiles can successfully engage with AAC when appropriate adaptations are provided. The pilot study in Chapter 3 indicated that caregivers and graduate student clinicians can learn and implement naturalistic AAC techniques and VI accommodations with high fidelity through structured coaching. The mixed methods study in Chapter 4 introduced the ImPAACT-VI program, showing strong outcomes in educator performance, students’ symbolic …

Recovery Through Connection: The Role Of Positive Social Interactions In Early Alcohol And Opioid Recovery Outcomes, Hannah Avery Carlon

Psychology ETDs

Recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) is influenced by both positive emotional functioning and social connectedness. However, empirical research has yet to examine how these two protective factors interact to influence recovery. The present study aimed to address this gap by exploring positivity resonance, or the shared experience of positive emotions, in the first year of recovery. In Aim 1, we examined change trajectories of positivity resonance and recovery capital over the first year of recovery among adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD; n=470) and opioid use disorder (OUD; n=61), the associations between these change trajectories (1a), and …

Understanding The Long-Run Effect Of Historical Redlining Practices, Yujian Lu

Geography ETDs

Historical redlining practices initiated by Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s have produced enduring persistent socioeconomic and environmental disparities in U.S. cities. This dissertation examines their long-term impacts on social vulnerability, urban flood risk, along with public discourse about redlining practices. Results indicate that neighborhoods with HOLC grade A (greenlined) exhibit the lowest overall social vulnerability, while those graded D (redlined) face the highest across U.S. cities. In Chicago, associations between redlining practices and flood risk disparities are stronger than in Los Angeles, reflecting place-specific characteristics among environmental, socioeconomic, and demographic factors shaping flood risk disparities in long …

How Forest Structure And Climate Influence Snowpack For Water Resources In The Southwestern United States, Lindsey L. Rotche

Geography ETDs

Climate change, declining snowpack, and increasing wildfire risk have profound impacts on water availability in the southwestern United States. Because the southwestern United States is a global hotspot for freshwater vulnerability, and snowpack provides much of the region’s freshwater, understanding how climate and forest structure influence snowpack dynamics is increasingly important. In this dissertation I aim to better understand and communicate these dynamics through empirical data collection and the development of a simple vegetation driven temperature-index snow model: SNOW-17(VEG). I then implement the model at a watershed scale using remotely sensed imagery to create vegetation zones and climate simulations to …

Reading The Martian Surface: Impact Crater Distributions And Geochemical Signatures In Gale Crater As Recorded By The Curiosity Rover, Megan E. Hoffman

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater, a large impact basin near the Mars equator since 2012. This mission has greatly improved our ability to explore the surface of Mars with a suite of geologic tools and cameras and has revealed that Mars likely once resembled present-day Earth. In this dissertation, I utilize measurements and data taken by Curiosity to analyze the distribution and preservation of small impact craters at meter scales, I quantify the formation characteristics of a small impact crater cluster, and I examine the presence of barium in a geologic unit with high-Si to constrain sediment …

Keeping Communities Safe Through An Alternative First Response Model: Predictors Of Civilian First Responders’ Self-Efficacy In Handling Crisis Situations, Jasmine Desiderio

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

The expansion of civilian alternative first responder models reflects a national shift toward community-based approaches to crisis intervention. Grounded in Albert Bandura’s social learning theory, this study examined the extent to which demographic characteristics are associated with crisis self-efficacy, explored how perceptions of the responder role relate to confidence, and identified supports necessary for effective crisis response. A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was employed with civilian first responders in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Quantitative data were collected with the Crisis Self-Efficacy Scale, and semi-structured interviews gathered qualitative data. Exploratory regression analyses (n=31) were not reliably associated with crisis self-efficacy, while role …

Transforming Faculty Development: Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Arts-Based Design, And Communities Of Transformation In Stem Education, Kristen L. Ferris

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

This dissertation investigates the relational conditions enabling institutional transformation and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) within STEM higher education. Despite needs for systemic change, sustaining faculty engagement remains difficult due to entrenched power dynamics, lack of pedagogical training, and political repression. To address these barriers this research introduces Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) as an analytic lens and functional infrastructure for change.

Through three papers, this study 1) establishes OCB via a systemic literature review as an actionable metric for faculty development; 2) details the design of a cross-institutional Community of Transformation (CoT) as a design case; and 3) Presents …

Ole Miss Strengthens Campuswide Fight Against Hazing, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Division of Student Affairs has completed the three-year Hazing Prevention Consortium program, designed to benefit students across campus. Ole Miss is the only Mississippi university and among only a handful in the SEC to do so.