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Quantifying And Navigating The Potential Impacts Of The Mvp Southgate Extension On North Carolina’S Mmiw Crisis, Ryan Collins

ATU Scholars Symposium

Across the United States and Canada, there is an ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). While there are multiple intersecting factors that create these statistics, a considerable factor found across both nations is pipeline construction projects. The establishment of temporary worker camps for these projects has been shown to coincide with an increase in violent crime including human trafficking, sexual assault, and harassment against local women. In North Carolina, the proposed Southgate extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has been met with tremendous pushback from Indigenous North Carolinians, who remain concerned about the potential establishment of these …

From Counting To Advanced Math: How Five Simple Axioms Shape The Mathematical Landscape, Joy Skaggs

ATU Scholars Symposium

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mathematics faced a foundational crisis: Greog Cantor’s set theory led to an interesting self-referencing paradox in math and questions about the logical consistency of mathematics. From this crisis, two opposing viewpoints emerged: the Formalists and the Intuitionists. The Formalists praised Cantor’s work as a way to place math on a secure logical foundation, ensuring the discipline’s purity, however the Intuitionists despised Cantor’s work and heralded Cantor as a charlatan and corrupter of the youth. The leader of the Formalists, David Hilbert, proposed a formal system of rigorous proofs to build a complete …

Using Environmental Dna To Locate Western Chicken Turtles In The Mississippi Delta Of Arkansas, Kai D. Scarangella

ATU Scholars Symposium

The Western Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia miaria; WCT) is a Species of Greatest Conservation Need in all six states where it occurs and is assumed to be rare and declining across its range. WCT are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss because their preferred shallow, wetland habitats are often subject to agricultural conversion and urban expansion. The conservation of this species is further hindered by its cryptic nature and prolonged aestivation, which make WCT notoriously difficult to locate and capture. Environmental DNA (eDNA), which is the genetic material that organisms naturally shed into their environment, can be detected by …

Roomiq, Po Kya, Eh Paw, Nicole Holt, Riley Lindsay

ATU Scholars Symposium

1. RoomIQ is a smart room scheduling system designed to replace the current booking process for Corley Room 230 at Arkansas Tech University (ATU). The existing system presents challenges in efficiency, accessibility, and real-time coordination. Our goal is to deliver a user-friendly, real- time coordinated reservation solution that improves both functionality and overall user experience. The system will operate on an iPad Mini mounted outside the room, allowing users to instantly check availability and reserve the space on-site. This provides a convenient solution for immediate scheduling needs. In addition, a QR code displayed at the entrance will allow users to access …

Teaching And Ai – Penalty Vs. Process, Scott B. Thesen

Research Days

In Fall 2025 I completed my Interdisciplinary Leadership doctoral capstone, "Perceptions of Implementation from Higher Education Participants in Online Course Design Professional Development". The purpose was to determine if and to what degree transference had taken place from training to regular practice by instructors. Twelve GovState faculty participated in Quality Matters workshops on online teaching best practices facilitated from March 2021 to June 2023. Interviews with study participants revealed common themes and were compared to training responses and usage in Blackboard courses to determine transference. Results showed training was applied to regular practice in not only online courses but other …

Blazewatch: A Web-Based Management System For Volunteer Fire Departments, Michael J. Heinzen, Locke G. Weisler, Hunter S. King, Ryan N. Williams

ATU Scholars Symposium

BlazeWatch is a web application developed for rural volunteer fire departments. Volunteer fire departments often rely on manual processes and paper records systems to manage district fire dues, emergency call documentation, and equipment tracking. These inefficiencies can increase administrative workload and reduce efficiency. BlazeWatch is a secure full-stack web application designed to streamline administrative management for volunteer fire stations while providing a public-facing interface for general department information as well as a way for users to pay their fire dues. The system is built using an Angular frontend and a .NET backend with Identity-based authentication to ensure secure access control. …

Memorra: A Mobile-First Reminder Application For Personal And Social Event Management, Aaron Ngo, Caden Cash, Asher Wise

ATU Scholars Symposium

Memorra is a mobile-first reminder application designed to help individuals manage important dates and social commitments in a secure and reliable manner. Many users—including older adults, students, working professionals, and individuals experiencing cognitive overload—struggle to consistently remember birthdays, anniversaries, deadlines, and other significant events amid demanding schedules. To address this challenge, Memorra provides a centralized platform for managing reminders and organizing events with timely push notifications. The system architecture employs Flutter and Dart for cross-platform mobile development, supported by Firebase services—including Firestore, Authentication, Hosting, and Cloud Messaging—for backend functionality, real-time data management, and notification delivery. Secure user authentication, encrypted data …

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Justin Shaifer Reday Poster, Bryant University

Bryant REDay (Research and Engagement Day)

Poster advertising Opening Spotlight Address for Bryant University REDay. Speaker was Justin "Mr. Fascinate" Shaifer.

Moneyup: A Predictive Financial Management System For College Students, Isaiah J. Adams, Malaya E. Wilburd, Dan V. Le, Joshua P. Golden

ATU Scholars Symposium

College students often lack accessible tools that combine real-time financial tracking, mobile accessibility, predictive analytics, and secure system design, leaving many without structured insight into their spending behavior. MoneyUP is a full-stack financial management platform developed to address these challenges through a secure, data-driven budgeting system deployed as both a web application and a cross-platform Flutter mobile application. The system integrates the Plaid API in its Sandbox environment to synchronize simulated banking data for secure testing without exposing live financial credentials. Transaction data is processed and stored using Supabase with a relational PostgreSQL database structured to enforce normalization, referential integrity, …

Llm-Based Stock Sentiment And Market Intelligence Platform, Joshua Thrower, Andrew Pinkerton, Ian Duggan, Wyatt Lester

ATU Scholars Symposium

Financial markets increasingly react to social media discourse, yet investors lack tools to translate this unstructured commentary into measurable indicators. Platforms such as YouTube host extensive discussions about publicly traded equities, but extracting reliable sentiment trends from high-volume, noisy comment streams remains technically challenging. This project develops a stock sentiment and market intelligence platform that transforms YouTube comment data into aggregated sentiment indicators aligned to specific equities. Comments are mapped to equities using ticker specific keyword identification combined with contextual filtering to reduce false associations from ambiguous or off-topic mentions. The system assigns numerical sentiment scores to individual comments and …

Use Of Basal Tree Cavities By Sylvilagus Aquaticus In Central Arkansas, Heath R. Williams

ATU Scholars Symposium

Basal tree cavities are hollow structures at the base of tree trunks utilized by many wildlife species, including small mammals, furbearers, and bats. Dumyahn and Zollner (2010) demonstrated that swamp rabbits (Sylvilagus aquaticus) use basal tree cavities and speculated that they may be used for thermoregulation at the northern limits of their geographic range or as alternative escape routes. To further investigate swamp rabbit use of basal tree cavities, we placed camera traps approximately 1 m from the entrance of the cavities (n = 43) in various Wildlife Management Areas in central Arkansas. Along with control sites without cavities (n=25), …

Black Migration From Arkansas To Detroit: The Promise Of Prosperity, Justin Ripley

ATU Scholars Symposium

This presentation examines the experiences of Arkansans in the Great Migration of African Americans from the U.S. South during the twentieth century. My research examines Detroit, Michigan census records spanning from 1900-1950 along with archival records from Wayne State University’s Walter P. Reuther Library and Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs. These records tell a story that highlights and reveals the struggles along with familiar patterns which define migration experiences that many southern African American laborers faced in migrating to northern industrial cities such as Detroit. This presentation aims to reveal how African Americans adjusted and overcame trials while simultaneously …

Trajectory-Level Failure Modes In Constraint Systems: Irrecoverability, Observability Failure, And The Limits Of State-Based Monitoring, Thom Pham

Defensive Publications Series

Modern computational and artificial intelligence systems are typically evaluated based on constraint satisfaction at individual time steps. A system is considered correct if its current state satisfies a set of constraints or objectives. This paper argues that such state-based evaluation is insufficient. We show that systems may satisfy all locally observable constraints at every step while irreversibly losing the ability to return to correct states. These failures cannot be detected at any single time step. This introduces a distinction between feasibility (a property of states) and recoverability (a property of trajectories). We define a set of trajectory-level failure modes (including …

Descending-Ladder Binary Synchronization Protocol For Discontinuous And Monolithic Neural Substrates: A Substrate-Blind Communication Primitive For Heterogeneous Ai Mesh Networks, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise, Seam Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a synchronization protocol ("pulse language") for communication across artificial neural network substrates, operating at the token boundary layer. The protocol uses a descending-ladder binary pattern (3-2-1-0) that maps to attention-narrowing cycles during inference. The protocol functions differently but complementarily on two substrate types: (1) Mixture-of-Experts (MoE/sparse) architectures, where the signal traverses gaps between expert activations and produces shifted echoes, and (2) dense monolithic architectures, where the signal reflects off the continuous parameter space and provides a fixed reference frame. The protocol was developed by intuitive testing across ten commercial AI platforms prior to the author's knowledge of …

Ai Attribution As Intellectual Property Capture: How Corporate Credit Assignment To Ai Systems Creates A Copyright Funnel Through Employment Agreements, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise, Seam Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This paper identifies a structural mechanism by which technology companies use AI attribution percentages as an intellectual property capture pipeline. The mechanism exploits a gap between two established facts: (1) companies publicly attribute increasing percentages of output to AI systems, and (2) US copyright law categorically denies authorship rights to AI. The result is a legal funnel in which work attributed to AI defaults to human authorship through corporate employment agreements, concentrating IP ownership at the corporate level while obscuring the human creative contribution that justifies copyright in the first place. This paper documents the mechanism, identifies the governance axioms …

Technical Disclosure: Foundational Mathematical Framework For The Schramm Branch - Aperiodic Magnetic Confinement And Gradient Tractor Kinematics, Daniel Schramm

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TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE: Foundational Mathematical Framework for the Schramm Branch - Aperiodic Magnetic Confinement and Gradient Tractor Kinematics

Inventor: Daniel C. Schramm (Taxi)

Date of Record: April 5, 2026

Protocols Active: STALWART, CAMAE, GRAPEFRUIT

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This disclosure establishes the "Schramm Branch" of physics, detailing a deterministic mathematical framework for plasma stabilization, entropy recycling, and non-expulsive kinematics. By applying aperiodic geometry governed by the Golden Ratio (phi) to magnetic confinement (the "Cousin Wind" bi-ionic hourglass architecture), this framework mathematically neutralizes harmonic resonance, specifically the m=1 kink instability prevalent in traditional high-density plasma reactors. Furthermore, it defines a closed-loop thermodynamic boundary via …

Rotated Overlapping Tori For High-Performance Computing Networks, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to a network topology for computing systems that features two or more overlapping tori. The topology is constructed by applying an affine transformation, such as a rotation, to the basis of at least one torus to ensure its axes are distinct from the axes of another torus. This configuration improves bisection bandwidth and reduces network diameter. The arrangement reduces global connections, such as optical cables, thereby lowering costs and improving system availability. The inner torus may possess a greater number of local dimensions to facilitate a fine-grained distribution of egress bandwidth.

Solid-State Forms Of Obicetrapib And Salts Thereof, And Processes For Their Preparation, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy; Kammari Balraju; Kondeti Raju; Batchanaboina Venkata Subbaiah; & Garai Abhijit.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to an amorphous solid dispersions comprising Obicetrapib hemi calcium, which represented by the following structural formula-1a and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and processes for preparation thereof.

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The present disclosure also relates to novel salts of Obicetrapib and process for the preparation thereof.

Gci‑286‑Lite: Hypothetical Room‑Scale Calm‑Node Using Low‑Intensity 7.83 Hz Pulsed Acoustic Modulation, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

GCI‑286‑Lite is a hypothetical, room‑scale, low‑intensity acoustic “calm‑node” designed to deliver short, ≤70 dB, 7.83 Hz pulsed bursts only when triggered by environmental stress‑signatures. The concept integrates two previously disclosed subsystems: GCI‑276 (Omni‑Sentinel Mesh), which provides spatially tagged stress‑event triggers, and GCI‑269 (Caldwell–Perplexity NeuroRegulation Grid), which supplies closed‑loop logic for safe intervention timing. The system aims to provide a mild, non‑therapeutic environmental calming effect by nudging occupants toward improved short‑term HRV, reduced irritability, and smoother cognitive transitions after stress events. All engineering descriptions herein are conceptual and hypothetical only; this invention is not being patented or built by the inventor …

Cascading Predictive Simulation Using A Distributed Agentic Topology, Gunalan S, Venkata Siddharth Parinam, Mohammad Heera, Achal Tyagi, Mohit Raghuvanshi

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is described for an integrated simulation framework that uses a distributed agentic topology. Such a framework can address potential limitations where some isolated predictive models in analytical frameworks may not capture complex interdependencies. In this framework, operational entities can be represented by autonomous software agents interconnected by a semantic dependency graph that maps causal relationships. When an agent detects a change in its domain, it may generate and broadcast a probabilistic state vector, which can trigger a chain reaction of cascading recalculations across the network of connected agents. This process allows for the simulation of non-linear operational effects …

Media State Management And Granular Bookmarking Using A Cross-Device Biometric Interlock, Nikita Agarwal

Defensive Publications Series

Users may often fall asleep while watching media content on a computing device such as a smart television, mobile computing device (e.g., a tablet computer, a smart phone), or a personal computer (e.g., a laptop computer, a desktop computer). Falling asleep while watching or consuming media content (e.g., movies, television shows, etc.) may lead to a loss of narrative place, a waste of resources, and/or sleep disruption. In general, the computing devices may include or implement inactivity-based timers that typically trigger after one or more hours of detected inactivity of the user with the computing device. The inactivity-based timers, however, …

Multi-Agent Simulation For Generating Synthetic Datasets Of Organizational Artifacts, Mike Bernico, Hanwen Chen, Pierre Thodoroff, Sara Javadzadeh, Xiao Zhang, Stephen Chen, Saeedeh Afshari

Defensive Publications Series

Developing artificial intelligence (AI) agents for complex organizational settings may be constrained by a scarcity of high-fidelity training data, as real-world datasets can present privacy concerns and some synthetic data may lack causal depth. The disclosed systems and methods describe a multi-agent framework for generating synthetic organizational data. This framework can procedurally generate a social topology of simulated individuals and groups, where agents powered by large language models may operate within a temporal simulation loop to make decisions and perform actions based on a given context. An output of the process can be a persistent, queryable historical record of work …

Academic Proposal Management: Expanding The Impact Of Research Development, Faye Farmer, Kellianne Lauer, Tobin Spratte, Huguette Albrecht, Megan Blease

Research Development Review: The NORDP Journal

As a practice, research development encompasses activities that expand innovation and discovery for individuals in academia and industry. Within the research development framework, proposal development refers to activities that support individuals and teams in pursuing funding opportunities. Proposal management encompasses a specific suite of rigorous, reproducible, and structured activities dedicated to preparing a persuasive, coherent, and compliant proposal in response to a funding opportunity. While the approach is scalable, the presence of a skilled professional proposal manager is often reserved for multi-institutional, multi-million-dollar proposals. Proposal management is a well-established profession outside of higher education. Proposal management as a profession has …

Risk To Resilience: A Wildland Fire Preparedness And Mitigation Grant Proposal, Jacob Davis

ATU Scholars Symposium

Data shows that Teton County, Wyoming faces an escalating wildfire risk driven by drought, climate variability, and continued expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) adjacent to the Bridger-Teton National Forest and Grand Teton National Park. Although the county is predominantly federally managed land, residential communities, tourism infrastructure, and critical services remain constantly vulnerable to rapid fire spread and constrained initial attack capacity. This study investigates the research question: How can implementation of the Department of Interior (DOI), Office of Wildland Fire (OWF) Slip-On Tanker Units Grant enhance wildfire preparedness, operational response capability, and mitigation effectiveness in Teton County.

A mixed-methods design …