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The Purple Owl, March 1922, The Times Print, Florence, Ala.

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March 1922 publication of The Purple Owl at State Normal School.

The Purple Owl, November 1922, State Normal School

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November 1922 publication of The Purple Owl at State Normal School.

Detection Of C60 Combination Bands In The Near-Ir Spectrum Of Tc 1, Morgan M. Giese, Vincent J. Esposito, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Jan Cami, Els Peeters, Charmi Bhatt, Dries Van De Putte, A. G. G. M. Tielens, Michael J. Barlow, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Alessandra Candian, Bryan Changala, Nick L. J. Cox, Harriet L. Dinerstein, D. A. García-Hernández, Marco A. Gómez-Muñoz, Kay Justtanont, Kathleen E. Kraemer, Eric Lagadec, Arturo Manchado, Ana Monreal Ibero, Raghvendra Sahai, Ameek Sidhu, G. C. Sloan, N. C. Sterling, Jeremy R. Walsh, Roger Wesson, Joshua Cole Whitman, Albert Zijlstra

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

We report the detection of a set of new near-infrared emission features between 3.5 and 5.2 μm in JWST/NIRSpec observations of Tc 1, the planetary nebula known for displaying the cleanest and most prominent mid-infrared cosmic fullerene spectrum. These broad features share the same spatial distribution as the well-known C₆₀ and C₇₀ mid-infrared emission bands, peaking in an asymmetric ring approximately 5″–6″ from the central star. Through comparison with new anharmonic quantum chemical calculations, we demonstrate that these features arise from C₆₀ combination bands, marking their first detection in an astrophysical environment. The total energy radiated …

Where To Now With Privacy? A Systematic Literature Review With Human–Artificial Intelligence Synthesis (Slr-Hais), Moulik M. Zaveri, Ameet Pandit, Violetta Wilk, Steven D’Alessandro

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Purpose – The development of digital technologies has led to changes in how consumers perceive privacy. This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to introduce human–artificial intelligence (AI) synthesis (HAIS) as a novel methodology for extending traditional SLRs. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive review of the privacy literature is conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of the SLR with HAIS (SLR-HAIS) approach, using 149 articles published by top marketing journals on consumer privacy. The PRISMA approach is adopted as the organizing framework. In addition, the TCCM framework is applied in conjunction with Leximancer-driven HAIS analysis, which utilizes natural language processing techinques for thematic …

Proteomic Analysis Of Ammonia-Induced Stress In Chinese Hamster Ovary (Cho) Cell Cultures, David Ryan, Michael Henry, Christiana Kondylo Sideri, Esen Efeoglu, Paula Meleady

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Ammonia (NH₃) and its ionic form ammonium (NH₄⁺) are both metabolic waste products and essential nitrogen sources within Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell cultures. Although necessary for amino acid synthesis, excessive accumulation in the extracellular environment can exert stress, reducing cell proliferation and impairing the efficiency of recombinant protein production. Proper endoplasmic reticulum (ER) function is critical for CHO cells as biotherapeutic producers. Previous work has linked elevated ammonia concentrations to reduced productivity via altered N-glycosylation pathways, but its broader effects on ER biology remain unclear. In this study, we applied high-resolution mass spectrometry to perform a comprehensive …

Book Review: Chokepoints: American Power In The Age Of Economic Warfare, Jared Massie

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Edward Fishman

Reviewed by: Major Jared Massie

Economic tools are reshaping global power in ways military professionals cannot ignore. From sanctions to tech controls, modern statecraft is increasingly defined by financial and industrial leverage.

©2026 Jared Massie

Book Review: War In The Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity And The Crises At Our Fingertips, Caitlan Fealing

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Author: Matthew Ford

Reviewed by: Caitlan Fealing

This review of War in the Smartphone Age highlights Matthew Ford’s argument that mass smartphone use is transforming modern warfare. Using recent conflicts, the book shows how civilian-generated data and connectivity accelerate decision making and reshape the conduct of war.

©2026 Caitlan Fealing

Book Review: America’S Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions And The Stakes For Us Reputation, Eric Setzekorn

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Authors: Michael A. Hunzeker and Mark A. Christopher

Reviewed by: Eric Setzekorn

This review of America’s Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation highlights how Michael A. Hunzeker and Mark A. Christopher assess allied perceptions of US reliability in a Taiwan crisis. Drawing on extensive interviews with policymakers in Australia, Japan, and South Korea, the book argues these perceptions—rather than raw military power alone—will shape allied responses and the broader strategic outcome.

©2026 Eric Setzekorn

Book Review: The Boundaries Of War: Local And Global Perspectives In Military History, Stephen G. Harlan

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Edited by Lee L. Brice and Timothy M. Roberts

Reviewed by: Stephen G. Harlan, historian, 99th Readiness Division

The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History, edited by Lee L. Brice and Timothy M. Roberts, challenges traditional narratives by exploring how warfare is shaped by both local conditions and global forces. Through case studies ranging from ancient Rome to the World Wars, the book asks whether military history should be understood through regional uniqueness or broader transnational patterns. This thought-provoking collection redefines how we study conflict by bridging the gap between micro-level experiences and macro-level trends.

Book Review: A Violent Peace: A Global Military History Of The Interwar Peace, Ryan Wadle

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Edited by Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm

Reviewed by: Dr. Ryan Wadle, John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research, US Naval War College

In A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Peace, editors Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm challenge the myth of a tranquil interlude between the world wars by revealing a landscape of persistent and widespread conflict. Spanning four continents, the book uncovers forgotten wars, ideological clashes, and military transformations that shaped the global order long before 1939. This compelling volume reframes the interwar years as a violent and formative era, essential …

Integrated Decision-Support Framework For Enhancing Coastal Community Resilience Against Hurricane-Induced Hazards, Kooshan Amini, Tanmoy Palit, Abigail L. Beck, Jayant Patil, Tao Lu, Himadri Sen Gupta, Yousef Darestani, Et. Al

Michigan Tech Publications

Coastal communities face escalating threats from hurricanes, necessitating a shift from descriptive risk assessment to prescriptive, optimized portfolio planning to enhance resilience. This study introduces an integrated decision-support framework that couples high-fidelity, multi-hazard socio-physical system modeling with a multi-objective optimization model. The framework quantifies the cascading impacts of hurricane-induced wind, storm surge, and waves on a community’s interdependent buildings, transportation network, and detailed distribution-level electric power network (EPN), along with the resulting population dislocation and long-term recovery. It then identifies Pareto-optimal portfolios of mitigation strategies by simultaneously minimizing three conflicting objectives—economic loss, population dislocation, and recovery time—under various budget constraints. …

Autophagic Flux Blockade Under Hypocapnia Reveals Co2-Sensitive Regulation Of Autophagy-Lysosome Homeostasis

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Hypocapnia, a reduction in partial pressure of carbon dioxide (CO2), commonly occurs in clinical contexts such as mechanical ventilation, panic disorder, and brain injury, yet its impact on cellular homeostasis remains poorly understood. Given the central role of autophagy in stress adaptation, we investigated how low CO2 influences autophagic flux and lysosomal function. We found that hypocapnia induces autophagosome accumulation while impairing cargo degradation, indicating a blockade in autophagic flux. This response was accompanied by increased lysosome biogenesis but, paradoxically, reduced autophagosome-lysosome fusion and lysosomal proteolytic activity. Mechanistically, hypocapnia promoted TFE3 dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation, driving transcriptional activation of lysosomal …

Macropinocytosis Inhibition Attenuates Profibrotic Responses In Lung Fibroblasts And Pulmonary Fibrosis Models, Juan D Cala-Garcia, Alan R Waich Cohen, Elisa Ruiz-Echartea, Scott A Ochsner, Daniel C Kraushaar, Lindsay J Celada, Dandan Sun, Francesca Polverino, Cristian Coarfa, Neil J Mckenna, Konstantin Tsoyi

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating chronic lung disorder with limited treatment options. Macropinocytosis is one of the key cellular processes involved in nutrient consumption from the extracellular environment under stress conditions. Here, we studied the role of macropinocytosis in experimental pulmonary fibrosis models. We found that macropinocytosis is increased in human lung fibroblasts (HLFs) derived from patients with IPF. The inhibition of macropinocytosis with 5-(n-ethyl-n-isopropyl)-amiloride (EIPA) inhibited profibrotic responses in IPF-derived and TGF-β1-stimulated HLFs and reduced pulmonary fibrosis in bleomycin-injured (Bleo-injured) mice. EIPA exerted its antifibrotic effects by regulating amino acid uptake, mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 …

Guideline On Stress Echocardiography - 2026, Marcelo Dantas Tavares De Melo, Daniela Do Carmo Rassi Frota, Silvio Henrique Barberato, Fabio Villaça Guimarães Filho, Harry Acquatella, Vera Márcia Lopes Gimenes, Jorge Alfredo Lowenstein, Ricardo H Pignatelli, José Maria Del Castillo, Joselina Luiza Menezes Oliveira, José Sebastião De Abreu, José Luis De Castro E Silva Pretto, Issam Shehadeh, Alex Dos Santos Felix, Mercedes Maldonado Andrade, Antônio Carlos Sobral Sousa, Maria Estefânia Bosco Otto, Andrea De Andrade Vilela, Pedro Gutierrez Fajardo, Liz Andréa Villela Baroncini, Cristiano Vieira Machado, Fábio Cañellas Moreira, José María Hernández Hernández, Marco Stephan Lofrano Alves, Samira Saady Morhy, Márcio Silva Miguel Lima, Miguel Osman Dias Aguiar, Wilson Mathias Junior, Letícia Dos Santos De Oliveira Rocha, João César Nunes Sbano, Barbara Athayde Linhares Martins Vrandecic, Fabio Roston, Arnaldo Rabischoffsky, Juliana Paixão Etto Rolim, Raphael Aparecido Barreto Da Silva, Guilherme De Rossi, Kamila Fernanda Staszko, Jolie Britt, Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

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Ultrasound-Enabled Refreshable Electrochemical Sensors For Cardiac Biomarker Monitoring, Elizabeth Zhanov, Connor Malone, Md Saifur Rahman, Ayse Akcan-Arikan, Limei Tian

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is the gold-standard biomarker for acute myocardial infarction, yet current laboratory-based high-sensitivity assays require centralized infrastructure, trained personnel, and serial testing, limiting their suitability for real-time or continuous monitoring in resource-limited settings. Point-of-care electrochemical sensors have shown promise for rapid cTnI detection, but their reliance on antibodies as biorecognition elements and redox mediator solutions, and single-use operation restricts practical translation. Here, we report an ultrasound-enabled refreshable electrochemical biosensor for sensitive, stable, and repeatable cTnI monitoring. The device employs a cTnI-specific peptide as the biorecognition element, providing enhanced stability during storage, transport, and operation. Label-free electrochemical impedance …

Gpr182 Is A Lipoprotein Receptor For Dietary Fat Absorption, Zhiwei Sun, Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The lymphatic system plays a central role in lipid absorption by transporting triglyceride-rich particles called chylomicrons (CMs) from the small intestine to the systemic circulation. However, the molecular mechanism by which CMs get into the intestinal lymphatics is unknown. Here, we demonstrated that GPR182, an atypical chemokine receptor in lymphatic endothelial cells, mediates dietary fat absorption. GPR182-KO mice exhibited a selective increase in circulating high-density lipoproteins and are resistant to diet-induced obesity. GPR182 ablation in mice led to poor lipid absorption and thereby a delay in growth during development. GPR182 broadly interacted with and transported lipoproteins. Transmission electron microscopy analysis …

Monospecific Mass Occurrence Of The Dimerelloid Brachiopod Halorella Amphitoma In A Shallow Marine Environment Of The Late Triassic Dachstein Platform (Bakony Mountains, Hungary), Tamás Müller, Attila Vörös, János Haas, Tamás Budai, Clemens V. Ullmann, Gregory D. Price, József Pálfy

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dimerelloid brachiopods with patchy but cosmopolitan geographical distribution, including the Late Triassic (Norian) Halorella amphitoma, offer a unique opportunity to identify and reconstruct specific palaeo-microenvironments in the geological past. The group and this species are commonly associated with hydrocarbon seepage in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic records. In addition, mass occurrences of H. amphitoma are also known from neptunian dykes and palaeokarst cavities on the vast Late Triassic Dachstein carbonate platform. It has been suggested that the shells were either washed into these structures or the animals were living directly there in a dark environment, but normal marine conditions were implied for …

Eddy Current Generated From Bicyle Brake Disc., John Riley Mr

Defensive Publications Series

A magnet & coil assembly situated close to (but not in direct physical contact) a bicycle brake disc  which when rotating, generates an eddy current creating electricity for bike lights.

Reverse Hook Tent Peg, John Riley Mr

Defensive Publications Series

Revised / alternative design to my UK Registered Design  6454255.

Reverse hook tent peg allowing for redirection of forces, improving holding power by up to 80% & providing stability & flexibility to maintain guy line tension more effectively.

Self-Healing Qos Queue Management, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A self-healing quality of service (QoS) queue management system and method are disclosed for a multi-service network node. Ingress traffic is classified by a class of service (COS) map and forwarded by a scheduler to a normal queue set of per-service egress queues. A queue monitor aggregates per-queue telemetry, including credit accumulation statistics, drops, and depth, and feeds the telemetry to a self mapping correction engine over a feedback path. The correction engine distinguishes a queue freeze from transient congestion by detecting that a queue has available credits yet is not draining, and in response rebinds the affected service to …

Robust Overnight Heart-Rate-Variability Estimation Independent Of Sleep/Wake Staging, For Movement-Disordered Sleep (Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder / Parkinson's), Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

Consumer wearables compute overnight heart-rate variability (HRV) — a widely used "readiness" or recovery signal — by first staging sleep from body movement and then aggregating HRV over the epochs labeled as sleep. In people with movement-disordered sleep, paradigmatically REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), which is strongly associated with Parkinson's disease, this fails: dream-enactment movement during REM is misclassified as wakefulness, so valid cardiac data is discarded and the resulting figure is unreliable. This disclosure describes a method that computes the nightly HRV figure over the full in-bed window — without conditioning on the device's sleep/wake or sleep-stage classification — …

Synchronized Multi-Line Digital Signal Generation Using Plural Independent Software-Triggered Serializer Peripherals With Open-Loop Fixed Start-Skew Compensation, Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

A method is disclosed for generating two or more time-aligned digital output signals — for example a differential pair such as the USB D- / D+ data lines, or more generally any paired, differential, multi-phase, polyphase, quadrature, or multi-channel synchronized output — on a microcontroller or system-on-chip that provides plural independent hardware serializer peripherals (such as two or more SPI master transmit/MOSI engines) but provides no single peripheral and no dedicated hardware capable of driving the desired multi-line signal directly.

Each output line is assigned its own serializer and preloaded with a precomputed bitstream. The serializers are started by back-to-back …

Heart-Rate-Recovery-Gated Rest-Interval Timing With Audio Status Updates Through A Consumer Earbud, Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method of dynamically gating the rest interval between exercise rounds based on real-time heart-rate recovery rather than a fixed-duration timer, with audio feedback announcing the remaining recovery distance through a consumer earbud.

At the end of each round the system records the round-end heart rate and computes a personalized recovery target as a percentage of an age-derived maximum heart rate. A minimum rest duration prevents excessively short rests when heart rate drops rapidly; a maximum rest duration prevents excessively long rests when heart rate does not recover. The next round begins when either (1) the current …

Consumer Earbud As A Closed-Loop Biometric Sensor And Ambient Feedback Device For Exercise Support, Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes the use of a single consumer earbud — an in-ear device with an integrated optical (photoplethysmographic) heart-rate sensor — simultaneously as both the heart-rate sensor and the sole audio feedback channel for real-time, hands-free, screen-free exercise support, without any separate wearable such as a smartwatch or chest strap.

Heart-rate and related samples (active energy, respiratory rate, step count, distance, flights climbed) are obtained through the host operating system's on-device health and workout framework, keeping all biometric computation on the device. A heart-rate zone configuration is derived from age (maximum heart rate estimated as 208 minus 0.7 times …

Crediting Recorded Prior Activity Toward An Exercise Warm-Up, With Heart-Rate-Gated Warm-Up Termination And Audio Status Through A Consumer Earbud, Gerard Ziemski

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method for shortening or waiving the warm-up period before an exercise session by crediting the user's recorded prior activity, in combination with heart-rate-gated warm-up termination and audio status delivered through a consumer earbud.

A fitness application queries a platform health-data store (for example Apple HealthKit or Google Fit) and/or its own session log for activity bouts ending within a recency window before the present session — a previously recorded workout, or elevated active-energy or heart-rate samples. When a qualifying bout is found, the minimum warm-up duration is reduced or waived, with the amount of credit scaling …

Dynamic Video Resolution For Background Playback, Daniel Vik, Jugal Manjeshwar

Defensive Publications Series

This document describes techniques for a context-aware media scaling system that dynamically adjusts the resolution for video playback on devices (e.g., resource-constrained devices such as smart televisions) based on the current state and navigational context of a user interface (UI). The system determines the current state by actively tracking an application’s view context or page identifier (ID) to detect navigational transitions between a primary viewing UI (e.g., a “Watch” page) and a secondary navigational UI (e.g., for browsing content). The system maps the current state to a specific resolution policy. For example, for a transition from the primary viewing UI …

Calibration Of A Quantum Random Number Generator System Using Machine Learning, Ashish Kundu, Ramana Kompella, Peng Zhao, Eneet Kaur

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed are techniques for calibrating a quantum random number generator (QRNG) system using machine learning to detect noise, drift, and entropy degradation across devices and the QRNG pipeline. One or more models evaluate device data, entropy quality, and system conditions to determine whether recalibration is needed, which devices should be recalibrated, and when recalibration should occur. The techniques may also support predictive recalibration and calibration planning to improve entropy quality and overall QRNG reliability.

Autonomous Multi-Agent System For Declarative Data Center Lifecycle Management, Ananya Simlai, Niccolò Cascarano

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional data center management can involve manual workflows or static declarative systems that may not effectively adapt to real-time conflicts or complex events, potentially resulting in unpredictable deployment timelines and increased operational risk. Systems and methods are described that can utilize a multi-agent ecosystem for managing data center resources. In such a system, specialized, autonomous software agents can communicate and negotiate with one another through a medium such as an asynchronous fabric to interpret high-level declarative goals. The agents may autonomously orchestrate complex actions, resolve resource conflicts, and adapt to changing conditions. This approach can improve operational resilience and agility …

Adaptive Video Sampling Using Multi-Factor Analysis For Multimodal Ai, Larry Lai, Ruixi Fan, Lan Wang, Youbao Tang

Defensive Publications Series

Processing continuous video streams can be computationally expensive and may lead to information loss with fixed-rate sampling techniques. A content-aware filtering system for adaptive video sampling may utilize a set of parallel analysis components to examine a video stream in real-time for factors such as scene changes, motion, semantic content, and latent feature similarity. Based on the aggregated output of these components, the system can select information-rich keyframes for downstream processing. A selected keyframe may be paired with a temporal timestamp. This approach may reduce data volume and computational load compared to fixed-rate sampling, while seeking to preserve temporal details …

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Audio Enhancement And Synchronization In Smartphones For Hearing Aids, Pranav Kuriakkattil

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes systems and techniques for providing artificial intelligence (AI) assisted audio enhancement and synchronization for hearing aids using an associated smartphone to improve audio quality available to the hearing aid user.  The system overcomes the hardware limitations of conventional hearing aids and improves the user experience, by utilizing the processing power, sensors, and connectivity of the user’s smartphone. The system creates a distributed microphone array by combining hearing aid microphones with smartphone microphones and offloading signal processing to the smartphone to preserve hearing aid battery life. Utilizing AI models for environment classification, speaker tracking, and binaural synchronization, the …