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Uncertainty-Driven Rain-Field Tracking For Satellite Link Control, Dragos Oancea

Defensive Publications Series

A method for satellite link control tracks one or more rain cells with a Kalman filter fed by the signal-quality reports of many user terminals. The filter's error covariance then drives three actions. First, it sets each terminal's fade margin for a target outage probability, so the margin is wide only where the rain picture is uncertain. Second, it decides which terminals report their signal quality next, choosing those whose reports would reduce the uncertainty most within a signalling budget. Third, it separates rain fades from faults at a single terminal, such as mispointing or a failing outdoor unit, through …

Dynamic Precision Tiering For Ai Inference Based On Cluster Congestion And Request Sensitivity, Rohan Grover, Satish Kondalam, Muninder Sambi, Aman Ahuja

Defensive Publications Series

In fixed-capacity computing environments for artificial intelligence inference, high demand can lead to resource saturation. Conventional methods, such as queuing requests or uniformly degrading computational precision for all workloads, may negatively impact service levels and user experience. A system can dynamically manage computational precision on a per-request basis, where a control plane, such as a gateway, can assess real-time cluster congestion by monitoring signals like memory usage and latency. Concurrently, a classifier can analyze an incoming request's features, such as its task type, to determine its sensitivity to reduced precision. A policy engine can use the congestion level and sensitivity …

Replacing Cpu Logic Gates, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This paper follows from #13552 A Farewell to Ohms and offers a logic gate alternative approach that enables multiple outcomes to be considered simultaneously, without expending additional energy

Polymorphic Form Of Resmetirom, Anonymous

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Present authors surveyed the literature related to Resmetirom and repeated a prior art process which when reproduced exactly, multiple times resulted in a consistent polymorphic form which has been reported herein.

Low-Temperature Metallic Sinter Capping For Direct Liquid Cooling Cold Plates, N/A

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A direct liquid cooling system includes a metallic bond between fins and a top enclosure cover for use in high-density electronic cooling applications. Internal fin structures positioned within fluid flow channels transfer thermal energy from heat-generating components to a circulating fluid coolant. To prevent coolant from bypassing the fin structures across top clearance gaps, a copper nanoparticle sintering paste is applied between the top surfaces of the fins and the top enclosure cover. Thermal processing below the melting temperature of bulk copper forms a dense, continuous metallic interface (above mentioned metallic bond) that prevents fluid bypass, avoids thermal expansion mismatch, …

Bridge-First Semiconductor Packaging Architecture With Integrated Conductive Pillars And Direct Substrate Buildup, N/A

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A bridge-first manufacturing method is used to achieve high-density interconnectivity across logic chiplets and memory modules. Silicon bridge dies and tall copper pillars are positioned on a temporary carrier, such as glass, coated with a temporary release layer and encased within an epoxy molding compound. Following grinding of the molded panel to expose contact surfaces, substrate layers containing metallic conductive traces and dielectric layers are built directly on the backside of the bridge dies. Tall copper pillars extend vertically through the molding compound to serve as direct vertical power and signal highways without routing through the bridge dies. Frontside wiring …

Hubble Tension Resolved, Peter Stevenson

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By expanding on Cosmology paper 13448, this paper posits a new paradigm that resolves the Hubble Tension

Cross-System Checkpoint Cohesion For Kafka And Spark Streaming Pipelines, Ananya Verma, Raouf Khan

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The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method and a system for receiving events from an event streaming platform, processing the events using a stream processing engine for a processing epoch to generate an output, and writing the output to one or more sinks. Source progress information indicating a consumption position, and execution state information comprising a state version of a state store and a watermark position, are collected for the processing epoch. Sink durability information indicating durable commitment of the output to the one or more sinks is determined. A candidate unified checkpoint manifest binding the source progress, execution state, …

System And Method For Serving A Plurality Of Process-Isolated Inference Workflows From A Single Host-Resident Model Artifact Through An Opaque Shared-Memory Handle On A Real-Time Transaction Path, Hao Qin, Ruiyang Xia, Victor Genty, Ningyu Shi, Bin Zhang, Yi Li, Wenting Fu

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Systems and methods for serving machine-learning inference are provided. A host runtime loads a model artifact a single time into host-owned memory, providing a single resident instance of the model artifact. Inference workflows sharing the single instance each execute in a respective interpreter process isolated from the host runtime and from one another. Each interpreter process holds an opaque handle referencing the single instance without a copy of the model artifact in an address space of the interpreter process. The host runtime receives, over a shared-memory channel, a scoring request issued by a first inference workflow through the opaque handle …

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Feminine Validation As The Foundation Of Masculine Authority In Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Arianna Walters

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay as they navigate the complexities of gender characteristics within their marriage and family. As the novel progresses, normal marital and familial disputes invoke a deeper question: what is the true authority behind masculinity? Though the instinct is to first answer with dominance, the novel challenges readers to see the fluidity of both feminine and masculine traits. This essay argues that masculine authority is not self-sustaining, but relies on feminine validation to transform relationships within the family. This dependence is clearly fulfilled through Mr. Ramsay’s transformation at the end of the …

Disparate Echoes Of The Virgin Mary In Chaucer's Prioress's Tale And Second Nun's Tale, Brigid Mcglone

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the course of Chaucer’s examination of his contemporary institutional Church, one of the projects he undertakes in The Canterbury Tales, he uses the characters of the Prioress and the Second Nun to dissect one of the most prevalent forms of worship promulgated by the Church: Marian devotion, or the practice of revering the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God. Throughout their respective prologues and tales, both women invoke the Virgin Mary as the muse and guiding light of their words, and present characters who allegorically echo her, but the implications of these representations diverge significantly and …

Shutdown As Strategy: A Repeated Game Model Of Government Shutdowns With Audience Costs And Credible Commitment Problems, Tanisha Mazumder

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Government shutdowns impose enormous costs on the economy and on federal workers, and yet they keep happening, and they keep getting longer. Why? The existing literature treats shutdowns as either a byproduct of legislative gridlock or a symptom of partisan polarization, but neither account explains why rational political actors repeatedly choose an outcome that nobody wants. This paper argues that shutdowns are not bargaining failures but strategic equilibrium outcomes, sustained by the political cost of being seen to back down. I model government shutdown as a repeated Chicken game between Democrats and Republicans with three parameters: the policy benefit of …

Mediation Between Internality And Externality In Woolf’S Gendered Spheres, Grace Laubenthal

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Virginia Woolf was a feminist writer who used stream of consciousness to push the boundaries of capturing one’s thoughts with written words. Though her writing style and the feminist nature of her texts have been extensively analyzed by scholars, they have not been used in tandem to develop a deeper interpretation of her work. Her novel To the Lighthouse is rich in gendered politics as well as an exploration of internality and externality. I will explore this text by reading Woolf’s stream of consciousness style through a feminist lens.  The feminine private sphere is associated with internality through Mrs. Ramsay, …

Debate Driven By Districts: Nullification At The Local Level In South Carolina, Dillon Kantor

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Protective tariffs have long been a controversial topic in the United States, as individual states often have grievances with their implementation. The most dangerous of these controversies was the Nullification Crisis, a sectional conflict that almost led to South Carolina’s secession from the Union 30 years before the Civil War. Despite the wealth of scholarship that has covered the Nullification Crisis, no analysis has fully concentrated on the debates that drove the conflict on the local level. These local meetings and debates sought to settle where individual districts stood on key issues underscoring the crisis, such as the tariff itself, …

A Neurological Perspective Of Phantom Limb Pain And Potential Treatment Through Bionic Prosthetics, Leo Chu, Falisha Johnson, Noorjhan Alam

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Phantom limb pain (PLP) represents a major post-amputation complication, exerting substantial effects on neural processing, rehabilitation, and quality of life in amputees. This review explores the neurological mechanisms behind PLP and the clinical implications of neuro-prosthetics. Paper 1 provided a case study utilizing several questionnaires to draw a negative link between extreme perceptions of PLP and mental health. Paper 2 reported the correlation between PLP and cortical rewiring. Functional MRI (fMRI) data from 30 amputees showed post-amputation reorganization of neuronal signaling in several brain regions: the somatosensory cortex, caudate nucleus, bilateral insula, and anterior cingulate cortex. The brain’s adjustment to …

When The Mas’ Done: The Limits Of Carnival In The Dragon Can’T Dance, Sasha Budesa

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In Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance, Carnival is at once both a resistant cultural inheritance and a politically unstable form of rebellion. This essay argues that while Carnival gives the dispossessed people of Calvary Hill a language through which to assert their personhood, it ultimately misdirects revolutionary potential to temporary, ephemeral forms. Through Aldrick's dragon, Fisheye's steelband, and the failed revolt of the People's Liberation Army, Lovelace exposes the limits of resistance when it remains contained within a spectacle. Through Philo, Sylvia, and the changing people of the Corner, Lovelace further shows that symbolic rebellion is incompatible with …

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Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

An Introduction to the 2026 issue of Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Active Ingredients Of Piper Betle Extracts And Their Antibacterial Effects On Levilactobacillus Brevis, Chao-Jung Chen, Hung-Tse Huang, Jung-Feng Hsieh, Bang-Yuan Chen

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Levilactobacillus brevis, a common beer spoilage bacterium, causes acidification during brewing. In this study, we aimed to investigate the antibacterial activities of Piper betle extracts against L. brevis and identify their active constituents. A crude ethanol extract was obtained from P. betle leaves and further fractionated into chloroform, ethyl acetate (PBAE), and aqueous extracts via liquid-liquid partitioning. Among all extracts, PBAE exerted the strongest antibacterial effects, forming an inhibition zone (diameter = 57.5 ± 0.71 mm) larger than that formed by the P. betle ethanol extract (diameter = 45.5 ± 0.71 mm) and the gentamicin control (diameter = 21.0 ± …

Nanoparticle-Based Innovations In Lung Cancer Treatment: Challenges And Opportunities, Shailesh Sharma, Chamanpreet Kaur, Gurminder Kaur, Surajpal Verma

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Nanoparticles (NPs) present a therapeutic revolution in the context of lung cancer, having several and unique advantages over many traditional drugs, such as increased specificity, minimal side effects on healthy tissues, and increased efficacy. It definitely provides a detailed understanding of preparation techniques for nanoparticles for lung cancer treatment, as well as assessment approaches and therapeutic applications of nanoparticles in cancer treatment. The incorporation of drugs into nanoparticle-based systems is then critically discussed with emphasis on their capability to circumvent MDR and target tumour cell lines. Also, the review mentioned the development in the agnostic application, the nanoparticles that are …

Generative Data Contract Discovery And Large Language Model Self-Healing For Ingestion Validation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A self-healing data system applies generative governance to automate data validation at an ingestion point. The system continuously observes raw incoming data streams to infer underlying business rules, data relationships, and structural schemas. Based on these observations, an artificial intelligence (AI) model dynamically generates a machine-readable data contract. When an incoming record violates the data contract, the system routes the anomalous data and the corresponding data contract to a large language model (LLM) for data cleansing. The LLM autonomously resolves formatting inconsistencies, fixes typographical errors in structural keys, and normalizes values to reconstruct a compliant data record. Following this generative …

An Ssh-Based Hive Query Tool With Automated Multi-Hop Access And Ai-Assisted Query Generation, Mahendra Yadav, Visa

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The present disclosure describes an SSH-based Hive query tool for accessing and querying Hive data warehouses hosted within secured enterprise environments. The tool establishes an authenticated multi-hop SSH session through a bastion host and an edge node using programmatically controlled interactive shell operations, executes HiveQL queries through the authenticated session, and retrieves query results separately from diagnostic output. The tool further provides schema exploration and caching, schema-context-enriched natural-language-to-HiveQL generation, structured result presentation, and credential-management mechanisms that avoid persistent password storage. Together, these capabilities provide a unified environment for secure enterprise Hive data access and analysis

Dynamic Semantic Fidelity Protocol: System And Method For Deterministic Financial Reconciliation Of Generative Artificial Intelligence Assertions Via Internal Attentional State Mapping And Programmatic Collateralization, N/A

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A system, method, and middleware protocol provide deterministic financial reconciliation for assertions generated by non-deterministic generative artificial intelligence models. An inference interception layer captures hidden state activations and logit probability distributions during token generation prior to natural language decoding. An assertion extraction and classification module identifies hard factual assertions, decomposing them into semantic triplets. An entropy-to-escrow mapping engine calculates a fidelity quotient based on normalized semantic entropy, attentional saliency across neural attention heads, and historical participant reliability. When semantic entropy exceeds a threshold, a generative assertion bond is calculated and locked in zero-knowledge escrow via a smart contract. A decentralized …

Twin-Loop Timing Line For Race And Lap Timing: Two Steady Tones, Read By A Single Vertical Coil On The Vehicle, River James

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A timing line for race and lap timing made from two flat wire loops laid across the track side by side, sharing one conductor on the line. A trackside driver puts one steady tone on each loop, at two different frequencies, both always on, with nothing modulated onto either and no command, clock or wake-up sent through the field. Each vehicle carries a single receiving coil with its axis vertical, a linear amplifier and ADC, and a digital lock-in on each tone. Directly above the shared conductor the two vertical fields are equal at any height, so the vehicle is …

Identifying The Track Layout And Checking Laps From A Vehicle's Yaw-Rate Gyro, Without Satellite Positioning, River James

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A method for race and lap timing to tell which layout of a track a vehicle drove on each lap, and whether the lap was clean, using only a yaw-rate gyro and accelerometer on the vehicle and the times it crossed a timing line. It needs no satellite positioning, so it is meant to work indoors too. Between two crossings, the vehicle cuts its yaw-rate trace into corners and records each corner's signed angle. Where a corner has a straight before and after it, the track sets both headings, so the corner turns through close to the same angle whatever …

Value Transfer Control For Third-Party Support To Means-Tested Benefit Recipients Without Creating A Recipient-Held Balance, Kota Imayama

Defensive Publications Series

A system lets a third party (a relative, a neighbour, a company or a municipality) pay for specific needs of a person who receives a means-tested public benefit, without that person ever receiving money, holding a balance, or being asked to declare the support as income. The benefit authority approves, once and in advance, a set of use categories, a cap per category and a validity period. Each later payment instruction from a supporter is only checked against that approved frame and a cumulative usage counter, and, if it conforms, is settled directly from the supporter's account to a registered …

Alginate Raft-Forming Antacid Compositions Of Sodium Alginate, Calcium Carbonate, And Sodium Bicarbonate In Capsule, Tablet, Powder, Liquid, Gel, And Chewing Gum Dosage Forms For Gastroesophageal And Laryngopharyngeal Reflux, Anonymous

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Alginate raft-forming antacid compositions for the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), heartburn, and regurgitation are disclosed, comprising sodium alginate (100 to 2,400 mg per dosage unit), calcium carbonate (0 to 500 mg; 0 to 200 mg elemental calcium, with both compound-weight and elemental-calcium conventions expressly covered), and sodium bicarbonate (0 to 400 mg), together with weight ratios, representative subranges, serving sizes of one to six units, and daily dosage regimens. Four exemplary capsule formulations are set out with formulation input amounts, label amounts, excipients, and capsule specifications, including swallowable HPMC capsules in which the alginate raft …

System And Method For An Ai-Powered Digital Twin For Automated Developer Workflow Orchestration Across Enterprise Tools, Bhushan Ambekar, Saumya Patel, Rishabh Sharma, Komal Mahto

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ABSTRACT

A system (100) for automated orchestration of developer workflows across a plurality of enterprise tool applications (107) includes a polling service (202) configured to retrieve events from external sources (201), a standardizer service (203) configured to convert the retrieved events into thought objects having a unified schema, a filter service (204) configured to apply filtering criteria and to persist qualifying thought objects in a database (205) and enqueue identifiers in a thought queue (206), an event processor (207) configured to retrieve thought objects from the database (205), a memory layer (405) with short term memory (210) and long term …

Signal-Anchored Growth Engine, Shreyas Prabhurao Kc, Ajay Raman Rayapati, Pranay Ashok Vyas, Praveen Subramonia Pillai

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SIGNAL-ANCHORED GROWTH ENGINE

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for generating quantified, evidence-grounded sales opportunities from heterogeneous payment-network data. A governed knowledge substrate is maintained, having a semantic metrics layer that defines certified metrics decoupled from physical storage and a signal ontology and knowledge graph that models, as typed entities and typed relationships, clients, products, enrollment relationships between the clients and the products, and upsell-candidacy relationships between the clients and the products. A selection of a client and a product is received. A planner produces an ordered analysis plan. A quantitative analyst, a relationship analyst, and a market …

K17: A Utxo-Chained Stack Machine With A Liveness Auction And Witness-Verified Bounties On Bitcoin Sv, Jerry D. Chan

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A single unspent transaction output (UTXO) on a Bitcoin-style ledger is made to hold one suspended process of a small stack-machine. The UTXO’s locking script contains a fixed interpreter for a 28-instruction bytecode, derived from Koopman’s Canonical Stack Machine, and a data tail holding the program, the program counter, two stacks, a memory image, an output log and a timestamp. Anyone may spend the UTXO. The spend is valid only if the new output carries byte-identical code plus the state advanced by up to K instructions, and if the spender takes no more than a reward that grows with the …