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Cover - Green Humanities, Vol. 4, 2024

Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts

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Utilization Of Empathy As A Learning Tool Among Educators At Kate Bond Elementary, Heather Demarest

Capstone Collection

This qualitative research study explores the opinions and experiences of a group of six educators at Kate Bond Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee. This research examines how these educators utilize empathy as a teaching tool, how they choose to implement social-emotional learning into their classrooms, and how their own educational histories impact their current teaching practices. Data collection spanned four weeks and consisted of six interviews. The findings suggest that empathy not only plays a role in education but is, for this group of educators, inseparable from the academic learning they facilitate in their classrooms. The educators interviewed in this study …

The Social Experiment: How The First Amendment Influences Private Social Media Companies, Collyn J. Kim

Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review

Social media has become one of the biggest mediums by which people communicate, socialize, and interact with each other. People follow political figures, cultural icons, and news outlets, among others, to gain knowledge on current events or the hot topic of the day. Many users, regardless of the platform, use their medium of choice to speak their own opinions and comment on the world’s issues. From prime ministers to popular memes, social media is a never-ending timeline of speech. With the constant speech and expression exhibited on social media, two important questions must be asked. First, does the First Amendment …

Helms School Of Government Undergraduate Law Review: Masthead, Vol. 2

Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review

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Meet The Consultants And Acknowledgements

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Meet The Writers

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Consultation Reflections On "'Disability Porn': A Cbs Sunday Morning News Special", Tahlia Little, Henry Shaw

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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“Disability Porn”: A Cbs Sunday Morning News Special, Tahlia Little

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Consultation Reflections For "Normativity As The Root Of Secrecy And Moral Degeneration In Ellen Hart’S A Whisper Of Bones", Ava King, Lauren Ehlers

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Normativity As The Root Of Secrecy And Moral Degeneration In Ellen Hart’S A Whisper Of Bones, Ava King

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Consultation Reflections On "Beyond The Binary: An Exploration Of The Implications Of Gender Binaries In Fashion And Choice", Taylor Hardin, Juliana Zeller

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Beyond The Binary: An Exploration Of The Implications Of Gender Binaries In Fashion And Choice, Taylor Hardin

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Consultation Reflections On "Transgender Women In The Athletic World", Corvus Endo, Tenzin Kunga

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Transgender Women In The Athletic World, Corvus Endo

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Consultation Reflections For "The Ethics Of Getting Dressed", Charvi Beniwal, Henry Shaw

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Prologue Vol. 15

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Front Matter

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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The Ethics Of Getting Dressed, Charvi Beniwal

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

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Attention Analysis Using Multiple Sensors Inferencing During Conferencing To Determine User Action/Intent., Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This approach utilizes a multi-modal classification machine learning algorithm to suggest user actions based on user attention analysis. The ML model analyzes auditory, visual cues to determine the appropriate action a user is most likely to prefer at any given moment. Auditory speech pattern inferencing in addition to other contextually aware engagement cue inputs are analyzed to determine if a user is focused on using their PC or engaged in other non-PC attentive activities. Data collection of speech patterns, duration, pacing, voice modulation, and keyword usage are indications of user attention and when considered in conjunction with one another provide …

Tts (Text To Speech) Adapter For Computer Displays, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure relates to the field of computer displays (monitors) with application of audio components to better meet accessibility standards.

Diffractive Waveguide Grating For Improved Image Sharpness In Augmented Reality Displays, Thomas Hoekman, Jun Yang

Defensive Publications Series

Diffractive, waveguide-based, augmented-reality displays couple light from a light engine into an optical waveguide while enabling environmental light to enter the eye. Phase discontinuities at diffraction-grating boundaries of the waveguide can cause a drop in image quality. This disclosure describes techniques to mitigate phase discontinuities between adjacent regions of a grating structure by adjusting the difference in residual layer thickness (RLT) of the waveguide between its blank regions and its input coupler. The RLT can be adjusted by controlling the spacing/size of inkjetted droplets in an inkjet nanoimprint lithography process; by secondary etching/ablation/polishing of the RLT; by introducing a depth …

Improved Image Quality In Near-Eye Displays Via Pre-Imprint Surface Modification, Thomas Hoekman, Joe Lowney, Kang Luo

Defensive Publications Series

Inkjet nanoimprint lithography, a technique for fabricating waveguide combiners used in near-eye displays (NEDs), can introduce predictable surface variations (ripples) in the diffractive waveguide combiner. The ripples diffract and scatter light, reducing image quality. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce surface undulations in near-eye displays using waveguide surface modification and/or stamp surface modification. The techniques reduce the surface energy of the droplets deposited on the waveguide by the inkjet, causing them to spread out more and producing a smoother final surface, in turn resulting in better image quality with lesser scattering and diffraction. Surface modification can be made using surface …

Offline, Privacy-Preserving, Contact-Based Nearby Device Discovery, Darren Krahn, David Mccloskey, Kevin Wei Li Yeo

Defensive Publications Series

Contact-based discovery is where a first device attempts to discover nearby devices that have a contact-based relationship; i.e. a device can be configured to only be discoverable by people in its contact list. Existing contact-based discovery and data-sharing suffer from scalability issues and/or privacy-related concerns. This disclosure describes techniques for privacy-preserving, offline, contact-based nearby device discovery by combining an anonymous receive intent advertisement followed by a probabilistic identity filter and private set intersection (PSI) exchanges to check for contact presence of the other party in an address book. Personally identifiable information (PII) is exchanged only across secure channels authenticated by …

Enhanced Video Viewing With Artificial Intelligence Based Contextual Assistance, Sathya Anurag Siruguppa

Defensive Publications Series

When viewing online videos, users can engage in additional activities such as making notes, researching, summarizing, or seeking help in understanding the material. However, performing such actions can need frequent context switching which can be frustrating and time-consuming. Further, users may lose interest in certain videos if the content is difficult to understand or lacks context. This disclosure describes techniques for enhancing the online video viewing experience by providing an artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant (chatbot) that assists users in tasks such as note taking, summarization, video bookmarking, etc. and that can also support contextual interaction. The AI assistant can …

Techniques To Facilitate Service Level Management Of Business Workflows, Jaideep Padhye, Tom Jose, Amogh Perumal Ramaswamy

Defensive Publications Series

Business process workflow monitoring can be very useful for business users to track the health of their business workflows. Proposed herein is a system that can be utilized to define service level objectives (SLOs) for business journey milestones and overall journeys, including error budgets and proactive burn rate alerts, which can be used to facilitate service level management of business workflows. Thus, an approach to performance management is proposed that may leverage service level indicators (SLIs) in order to enhance reliability and operational excellence within business processes.

An As-A-Service Mechanism To Interpret Mobile Network Service Provider Defined Service Specifications And Tariff Plans, Supratim Chakraborty, Nithin Chitta, Somaraju Kaki, Koushik Padavalli Gowrish, Mahesh Chittur Kalyanakrishnan

Defensive Publications Series

The lifecycle for a service provider (SP) to launch a new service or tariff plan often requires months of planning and testing, which can result in high costs for the SP. In order to address such issues, the combination of an ontology algorithm and a large language model (LLM) are proposed herein to provide for the ability to generate network configurations.

Method To Mitigate The Effect Marine Fouling On Vent Valves

Defensive Publications Series

In the application of unbonded flexible pipes in offshore oil and gas field locations, the top riser supports might be located in the splash zone or just below the water line. At this location, both the vent valve and the end fitting are in a region which is prone to marine fouling, which may lead to blocking and damage to valves and consequently the riser itself.

The recommended practice for these types of pipe, API 17B, requires verification of the performance of the venting equipment, and clearly informs that the objective of this test is to verify the continued operation …

Ar Ir Keys On The Back Of A Notebook, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

As AR and VR continue to gain traction many technologies such as IR passthrough in VR are becoming ubiquitous. However, there are no peripherals or notebooks that empower the user to do more in these spaces.

Imagine you’re are working with a team in Facebook Horizon Spaces. You are completely immersed in VR and cannot see anything outside the virtual space. In the virtual space you see a screen which is a copy of your notebook screen. And below that you see a IR pass through where you can see your keyboard. However, you cannot see the letters because the …

Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation With Permissions Awareness, Kishore Jagannath

Defensive Publications Series

The baseline capabilities of LLMs are not always optimally suited to respond to queries within organizational contexts that involve internal, proprietary content with domain-specific language and jargon. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can enable LLMs to deliver responses that take into account proprietary content of an organization as query context, there is no well-defined approach to deploy RAG while safeguarding content. This disclosure describes techniques that enhance RAG to enable any user affiliated with an organization to perform semantic queries limited to the context of the documents the user has the rights to access. Permissions-aware RAG is implemented by retrieving the …

Using File-Level Dependencies To Achieve Targeted Software Testing, Xiting Xie, Fei Wang, Zening Li, Yue Hu, Shu-Wei Cheng, Yogalakshmi Sadasivam

Defensive Publications Series

In complex software projects with numerous constituent files, a minor code change can cause the re-execution of hundreds of tests, many of which are irrelevant to the code change. Test execution can last tens of minutes, creating inefficiencies. This disclosure describes techniques that use individual file dependencies for selecting tests to be run on software under development. Files that directly or indirectly rely on those changed within the code are found. Dependencies between code changes and test targets are analyzed to trim the test list to those tests that are relevant to the changes. As a result, more targeted testing …