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Convocation, The Honorable Genine Johnson Edwards

St. John's Law Review

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Judge Edwards delivered a brief convocation to begin the event.

Opening Remarks: Celebrating Alumni In The Judiciary, Jelani Jefferson Exum

St. John's Law Review

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Good evening and welcome! I am deeply honored to address such a distinguished group of alumni, our alumni who serve as judges— perhaps the most important role a lawyer can have. Law professors may argue with that, but I think tonight we can let the judges have it!

But, seriously—today, perhaps more than ever, we recognize how profoundly judges—especially those who graduated from St. John’s Law—shape our profession with distinction and unwavering integrity. Your excellence on the bench—your courtroom presence, your thoughtful judgments and opinions, and your steadfast dedication to St. John’s Law—all reflect tremendously upon our law school …

Celebrating 100 Years In The Judiciary: Honoring St. John’S Law Alumni And History, St. John’S Law Review Editorial Board

St. John's Law Review

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On November 20, 2025, St. John’s Law School hosted an event at the New York City Bar Association celebrating our judicial alumni. The event specifically honored the Honorable Mary Kay Vyskocil ‘83, and the Honorable Joseph William Bellacosa ‘59C, ‘61L, ‘87HON. The program featured remarks by Dean Jelani Jefferson Exum, Professor John Q. Barrett, Judge Vyskocil, Judge Bellacosa, and a convocation delivered by the Honorable Genine Johnson Edwards ‘92. Below are the lightly edited remarks of the evening speakers.

Officers Of Administration And Faculty

St. John's Law Review

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Volume 100, 2026, Number 1

St. John's Law Review

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Table Of Contents

St. John's Law Review

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Zero-Sum Empathy: The Supreme Court's 2025 Term Decisions On Gender Identity, Susan Etta Keller

ConLawNOW

This past term, the Supreme Court majority continued to follow a pattern of rendering transgender individuals essentially invisible in the cases that concern their rights. In last year’s United States v. Skrmetti, the transgender youth affected by the ban on transgender care were largely absent from the majority opinion holding that such bans discriminated on the basis of neither sex nor transgender status. This term, the majority continued a similar trend, deciding two cases on the emergency docket that ignored the lived experience of transgender individuals while significantly affecting them, and one case on the merits, West Virginia v. …

Propuesta Metodológica Para La Evaluación De La Pobreza Energética En Chiapas, México, Mario Alejandro Sánchez Trujillo, Pascual López De Paz, Marcelino García Benítez, Amina El Mekaoui, Bassam Alí, Jesús Francisco Escalante Euán

Journal of Maya Heritage

Resumen. El acceso inequitativo e insuficiente a servicios energéticos de calidad constituye uno de los principales obstáculos para el desarrollo socioeconómico y el bienestar humano en México, siendo el estado de Chiapas una de las entidades con mayor vulnerabilidad socioambiental. Este trabajo presenta una propuesta metodológica cuantitativa y geoespacial para evaluar la pobreza energética de las siete subprovincias fisiográficas de Chiapas. La metodología combina datos de censos de población y vivienda 2020 (INEGI), la estandarización Min-Max, el análisis de correlación de Pearson y el análisis de componentes principales (PCA) para la construcción de un índice de pobreza energética (IPE) multidimensional. …

Significantly Higher Frequencies Of Macrocytosis, Vitamin B12 Deficiency, And Hyperhomocysteinemia In Male Than In Female Patients With Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis, Chun-Pin Chiang

Articles in Press

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Anemia, Hematinic Deficiencies, Hyperhomocysteinemia, And Gastric Parietal Cell Antibody Positivity In Younger And Older Patients With Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis, Chun-Pin Chiang

Articles in Press

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Anemia, Hematinic Deficiencies, Hyperhomocysteinemia, And Gastric Parietal Cell Antibody Positivity In Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Patients With Or Without Microcytosis, Chun-Pin Chiang

Articles in Press

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Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy In Dentistry: Biological Rationale, Clinical Evidence, And Therapeutic Limitations, Pao-Chang Chiang

Articles in Press

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Antler Stem Cell Conditioned Medium Mitigates Temporomandibular Joint Inflammation By Modulating Sirt6 Associated Macrophage Responses, Ting-Yi Renn

Articles in Press

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Narrative Medicine: Essays On Health And Care Vol 2, Robert B. Hackey, Will Toner, Megan Lessard, Jessica A. Smith, Glorimar De Los Santos Mejia, Jillian M. Spinali, Paige M. Daly, Brianna De La Fuente, Julia M. Renzelmann, Clare C. Diffin

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Editor's Note, Robert Hackey

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Listening To Patients, Michael Stout Md

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Passionate Animists: Xin Cang And Yi Lan 激情返魅的泛灵论者：苍鑫和兰一, Xin Cang 苍鑫

Zhou Documents

This art critique examines and analyzes the artists Xin CANG and Yi LAN from the perspective of animism. It indicates an era in which “rationality” has become the prevailing call, and humans are no longer seen as part of the world or as creations of the divine. And explore how these artists use their art to “re-enchant” and rebuild the world of their own. (Angela Tan '28)

Adaptive Soft Region-Of-Interest Selection For Metrology Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning, Yoel Shimo Arieli

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method are disclosed for adaptive selection of a measurement region-of-interest (ROI) in metrology images, such as semiconductor overlay and critical dimension metrology. Instead of a binary inclusion/exclusion mask, a soft ROI is used: a pixel-wise weight map assigning each pixel a continuous value representing its reliability and informational contribution, so that pixels dominated by edge diffraction, stray light or neighboring-structure interference are down-weighted rather than discarded. The weight map is produced by a machine-learning model, in one embodiment a Physics-Informed Neural Network trained with a composite objective comprising a measurement accuracy term based on reference metrology data …

Closed-Loop Axial Gap Control And Hybrid Bearing Architecture For An Axially Floating Orbiter In A Double-Flow Scroll Vacuum Pump, Yoel Shimo Arieli

Defensive Publications Series

Two related inventions for a double-flow scroll vacuum pump operating without tip seals are disclosed. Invention I is a closed-loop axial gap control system that maintains the axial gap between the orbiter and the fixed scroll members. It comprises at least two axial gap sensors, temperature sensors and pressure sensors; a control unit sampling at 1 kHz or more and running a PID layer together with an adaptive feedforward layer that learns thermal drift patterns; at least one electromagnetic actuator acting on a tab extending from the orbiter carrier plate; and an optional predictive-maintenance function that raises an alert when …

Si Data Id™: A Persistent, Verifiable Identifier For Every Data Deposit, Version, Segment And Derivative, Binding Content Hash, Depositor, Terms And Region, Linked To Every Model Trained On It, And Resolvable By Anyone To Live Status But Never To Content, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes the identifier on which a governed data custody architecture keys all of its functions. Every unit of data deposited into custody, whether a file, a data set, a record collection or a time segment of a continuous sensor stream, receives a data identifier when it is deposited. The identifier is bound by a signed record to the hash of the content, the version, the depositor, the depositor's terms and the permitted region, and contains no personal information itself. The identifier stays the same when the deposit moves between custodians, is restored from a copy, or is re-encoded …

Planetary Core Mass And Material Distribution, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

Explains the distribution and composition of Planetary Cores as a simple consequence of Sun Activity

Liquid-Cooled Dual-Polarity Busbar With Grounded Hollow Return Conductor Coolant Channel, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A liquid-cooled busbar assembly uses a hollow, extruded copper return conductor as a Grounded Hollow Return Conductor Coolant Channel (GHRCCC). The return conductor connects to earth ground, allowing a grounded coolant to flow in direct contact with the conductor’s interior surface. This direct contact transfers heat from the return conductor into the fluid without passing through any thermal interface materials. A solid copper positive conductor is positioned adjacent to the return conductor and is separated from it by an electrically isolative, thermally conductive polymer. Heat from the positive conductor transfers through the polymer to the return conductor and subsequently into …

Dynamic Health Tracking And Automated Preservation Control System For Power Electronics And High-Ambient Hvac Infrastructure, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A predictive health and control system performs Dynamic Health Tracking for power electronics and energy storage components within high-ambient HVAC infrastructure. The system polls real-time thermal telemetry and operating parameters from internal components — including DC bus capacitors, insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), and variable frequency drives (VFDs) — as well as indirect thermal proxies (such as cabinet ambient air, outdoor yard ambient, cooling fan status, carrier switching frequency, and DC bus voltage ripple) at established intervals. Using this telemetry, an integrated controller or an analytics engine applies a time-integrated cumulative thermal-stress degradation function (such as an Arrhenius reaction rate …

Mutation-Qualified, Authority-Scoped Evaluator Routing For Versioned Engineering Ai Systems, Bharath Raj C, Mukund Anandan, Gourav Gourav

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for qualifying evaluators used to review generated technical material in versioned engineering artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The system creates controlled degradations from protected technical obligations, measures the technical dimensions for which each evaluator demonstrates competence, and limits promotion authority to current qualified dimensions. Dimension-specific authority rules prevent lower-authority votes from overriding controlling technical sources, while named dependency envelopes invalidate affected qualifications when relevant sources, platforms, releases, or evaluator configurations change. Unaffected evaluator capabilities and still-valid prior decisions remain usable, allowing localized promotion, rejection, owner review, or insufficient-evidence outcomes.

Acoustic Resonant Self-Cleaning Assembly, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

An active self-cleaning assembly programmatically removes particulate buildup from temperature sensors and deflector baffles within data center cooling modules. The system uses a high-frequency acoustic transducer (e.g., piezoceramic PZT, magnetostrictive transducer, electromagnetic actuator, or piezo-composite stack) clamped to a structural guy-wire, which serves as an acoustic waveguide to transmit ultrasonic standing waves ranging across a broad spectrum of 15 kHz to 100 kHz (nominally 28 kHz to 40 kHz). These waves propagate to the coupled temperature sensor and baffles, inducing high-acceleration microscopic vibrations that overcome surface adhesion forces and shed accumulated dust into the leaving airstream. A fancoil controller with …

Pressure-Balanced Plenum Latching System With Integrated Mechanical Emergency Override, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A pressure-balanced door latch for a data center containment plenum uses the differential pressure gradient between a hot aisle and a cold aisle to engage its latching mechanism. The latch housing contains a dual-ported pneumatic chamber with a piston mechanically coupled to a deadbolt. As the differential pressure rises (typically in the range of 0.010 to 0.200 inches of water), the force on the piston extends the deadbolt through a stroke gap of 0.25 to 1.5 inches, creating a scalable clamping force that provides a tight seal and self-releases at low pressure via a return spring. A mechanical emergency override, …

Zero-Stall Hazard Resolution For Pipelined Multipliers Via Cycle-Indexed Product Collapse, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

An in-flight history buffer, a shift register indexed by pipeline stage, tracks resource state updates still propagating through a multi-stage multiplier pipeline. Hazard detection compares the resource identifier of an incoming transaction against the buffer entries, and on a match forwards the uncommitted updated state in place of the stale state. Within the hazard window the elapsed-time operand equals a known small integer i+k, so single-cycle combinational constant-scaling logic forms the product r×(i+k). This product collapse bypasses the multiplier pipeline without duplicated multipliers or timestamp subtraction logic, and the transaction completes in the same cycle slot it would have occupied …

Floor Map-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Management For Wifi 8, Vijay S. Reddy, Ardalan Alizadeh, Peiman Amini, Navid Reyhanian

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for coordinating WiFi 8 Dynamic Sub-channel Operation (DSO), Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA), and Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion (DBE) across a fleet of access points (APs). The system uses floor map-aware radio frequency (RF) modeling to generate location-dependent DSO policies and coordinated cross-AP NPCA channel plans, validates wired backhaul capacity before permitting DBE, and uses aggregated client capability information to tailor DSO policies to a site's client mix. For operation in the 6 GHz band, the system incorporates Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) channel and power constraints into DSO and NPCA policy generation and pre-computes fallback configurations before …

Hardware-Anchored Bidirectional Mutual Authentication With Combined Entropy For Secure Integrated Circuit Life Cycle Transitions, Miguel Osorio, Michael Schaffner

Defensive Publications Series

A hardware life cycle controller gates each life cycle transition behind a bidirectional handshake. An external agent writes a 128-bit user nonce U, and the controller concatenates it with a 128-bit device nonce X drawn from the on-chip entropy source (ES) and with the monotonic transition counter CNT, forming a 288-bit challenge that neither party fixes alone. A KMAC engine then performs two passes over that challenge. The first pass derives a device proof Z1 = KMAC(Y1, U || X || CNT) from a shared secret Y1 and exposes Z1, along with X and CNT, in read-only registers, allowing the …

Multi-Material Integrated Circuit Package Stiffener Architecture, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to a multi-material package stiffener ring configuration capable of modulating localized mechanical stress and thermal deformation across an integrated circuit package. By strategically incorporating materials with tailored coefficients of thermal expansion at specific locations, such as corner regions, overall z-axis displacement can be tuned and mitigated. Variations include full-thickness inserts, partial-thickness stacked material layers, multi-material package lids, and regional mold compound formulations.

Keywords: Integrated Circuit Packaging, Warpage Modulation, Multi-Material Stiffener Ring, Coefficient of Thermal Expansion, Substrate Deflection, Corner Stiffener Inserts, Semiconductor Packaging Mechanics.