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Blue Economy, Climate Risk, And Fisherfolks: An Inquiry Into The State Narrative Of Blue Economy And Right Of Fisherfolks, S.Mohammed Irshad Smi

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The blue economy is an extension of finance capital into the coast and is a larger frontier expansion project. This capital is confronted with climate risks as well. The blue economy creates new economic zones, which fall into a risk zone in which output and productivity deplete over time. The blue economy projects conflict with the declining fisheries resources, which puts the fishing community's life at risk. The policies that promote the blue economy often neglect the resource-dependent communities across the coastal areas.

Modelling The Financial Viability Of Offshore Aquaculture Using A Case Study Of A Sea Bass Farm In The Bay Of Lion, France, Jeremy Van Dyken, Houshang Habibniya, Suzan Dsouza, Tyler Sclodnick

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The extension of net pen aquaculture to open ocean sites provides many advantages to the industry including opportunity for expansion, utilization of high energy sites, and better resilience to certain near shore or surface-associated stressors. The industry has been slow to develop due to high perceived risks and a lack of operating farms to provide financial information for open ocean farm operations. A model was developed to evaluate the economic viability of a hypothetical sea bass aquaculture venture in the open French Mediterranean Sea that utilizes open ocean submersible farming systems. Advanced open ocean equipment, including submersible net pens, environmental …

Valuation Methods And Their Relevance In Achieving Marine Protected Areas Targets: A Systematic Review, Jacob Ankamah, Stephen Hynes, Daragh O'Leary

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The prolific human-induced pressures on marine ecosystems leading to negative externalities such as beach erosion, biodiversity loss, and climate change are matters of global concern. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a tool to conserve marine biodiversity and support human livelihoods. This paper reviews the global research landscape, the evolution of concepts and the relevance of valuation techniques related to the assessment of the contribution of MPAs to societal welfare. The review indicates that less than 3% of the wider MPA literature explores the economic valuation of MPA designation. Of those, there is an obvious preference for non-market-based methods …

Sustainable Utilization Challenges And Opportunities Of The Blue Economy Resources In Bangladesh, Tasnia Bahar Chowdhury

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

Bangladesh’s Blue Economy, emphasizing the sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources, presents both immense opportunities and pressing challenges. Following maritime boundary settlements with India and Myanmar, the country gained an exclusive economic zone of 118,813 km² and an extended continental shelf of 37,000 km² in the Bay of Bengal, offering substantial potential in fisheries, aquaculture, renewable energy, tourism, shipping, and marine biotechnology.

The study synthesizes secondary data to examine the sustainable utilization of resources under the blue economy. Marine fisheries contribute 17% of national fish production, supporting millions of livelihoods, while ecosystems such as the Sundarbans and Saint Martin’s …

When The Modern Public Square Goes Private: The Supreme Court's Struggle Over Social Media As The New First Amendment Frontier, Jason M. Shepard, Kathleen Bartzen Culver

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decisions in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the meaning of free expression in the digital age is being rewritten. Our research analyzes how the Court, advocates, and amici invoked decades of First Amendment and media law precedent to define whether social media platforms act as speakers with editorial rights or as common carriers open to regulation. Relevant doctrines include First Amendment implications of medium-specific regulations, common carrier definitions, speaker autonomy, editorial discretion, expressive conduct, intermediate and strict scrutiny analysis, content-based regulations, viewpoint neutrality, and public forum analysis. Drawing on an …

Chin Music: Chilling Legal Advocacy Through Executive Orders Attacking Law Firms, Robert S. Chang

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Introduction to amicus brief challenging executive orders targeting law firms.

The amicus brief itself is reproduced as filed with the Supreme Court of the United States.

Barriers To Mental Health Treatment In A Rural County: Perceptions From Local Service Providers, Jennifer Cantu

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Though the prevalence of mental health issues is similar in rural and urban areas, it has been found that those living in rural areas experience significant disparities related to mental health treatment. This qualitative study examined how professionals’ perceptions of barriers to mental health is a rural county in Texas. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with service providers across health, social service, and community settings. A thematic analysis of the data found that the county experienced a shortage of mental health providers, limited transportation, high out-of-pocket costs, gaps in insurance, and inconsistent broadband access, which could limit the effectiveness of telehealth. …

Adult Sexual Grooming Needs Its Own Model: A Critical Conceptual Analysis, Christin M. Aletky

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Adult sexual grooming (ASG) is understudied, conceptually ambiguous, and often conflated with child sexual grooming (CSG). Existing models rely heavily on child-centered frameworks, limiting the field’s ability to recognize the adult-specific dynamics of manipulation, coercive control, and institutional vulnerability. This paper examines the limitations of current definitions and argues that ASG requires its own conceptual foundation. Drawing on the literature, the paper highlights three core distinctions between ASG and CSG: the erosion of meaningful consent in adult contexts, the relational ambiguity inherent in roles such as mentor, pastor, supervisor, or professor, and the influence of rigid power structures that legitimize …

The Digital Responsibility Index: Quantifying Perceived Multi-Layered Responsibility In Cybersecurity, Mircea Ţălu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

In the evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity responsibility extends beyond technical safeguards to include individual behavior, organizational governance, and societal impact. This study introduces the Digital Responsibility Index (DRI), a novel metric that quantifies multi-layered accountability across four domains: technical, individual, organizational, and societal. Data were collected through scenario-based Likert-scale surveys with 120 cybersecurity professionals, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with senior leaders. Results reveal that while technical and organizational responsibilities are consistently prioritized, individual and societal accountability remain under-recognized. Leadership engagement significantly enhances responsibility scores across all layers. The proposed DRI framework provides a measurable and potentially actionable basis for assessing …

1824: Honors Academic Journal, Fall 2026

1824: Honors Academic Journal

Table of Contents:

1 - Meet The Team

2 - About The Journal

3 - Editor's Foreword

4 - Assistant Editor's Foreword

5 - Advisor's Foreword

6 - “Trust, Bias, and Gender Disparities in Pain Perception, Diagnosis and Treatment” by Alina Karayiannis

10 - “The Global Burden of Infertility on Women’s Mental Health: Cultural Contexts and Call for Personalized Intervention” by Subika Rajendiran

18 - “Medical Mistrust and Iatrophobia in Racial and Gender Minorities” by Hannah Magdziak

22 - “HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Theories: The Silent Killer in a Trust-Starved World” by Kavi Shahnawaz

28 - “Islands Under Authoritarian Rule: Youth-Led Political …

Effects Of A 12-Week Tai Chi And Qigong Training Program On Neuromuscular Function And Postural Stability In Elderly Men With Sarcopenia, Muthanna Harith Ekrayyem, Ali Fawzi Ahmed, Saif Rasheed Ghanim

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Background: Sarcopenia is associated with progressive declines in neuromuscular function, balance, and increased systemic inflammation in older adults. This study investigated the effects of a 12-week Tai Chi and Qigong training program in elderly Iraqi men with sarcopenia. Materials and Methods: Thirty men aged 60–65 years with sarcopenia were randomly assigned to an intervention group (n = 15) or a control group (n = 15). Neuromuscular performance, postural stability, gait speed, electromyographic amplitude, IGF-1, and CRP-hs were assessed before and after the intervention. Results: The intervention group showed significant improvements in reaction time, electromyographic amplitude, postural stability, gait …

Beyond Screening In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Domain-Standardized, Measure-Flexible Framework For Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment, Etiane Navarro

Archives of Assessment Psychology

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder in which cognitive, behavioral, language, and social-cognitive changes may occur across clinical phenotypes, including the ALS-frontotemporal spectrum. Neuropsychological assessment is important for characterizing nonmotor manifestations and identifying changes relevant to autonomy, everyday functioning, and clinical management. This systematic review examined literature identified through APA PsycINFO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and supplementary searching to characterize neuropsychological domains, measures, phenotype-related findings, and disease-specific limitations relevant to comprehensive assessment. Two hundred records underwent title and abstract screening, 150 reports were reviewed in full text, and 61 resources were retained for synthesis. ALS-specific screening instruments, including …

Her Discerning Eye, Abigail Stepnitz

ConLawNOW

Court watchers read each Supreme Court term like tea leaves, seeking in the record a deeper meaning about who we are and where we are going. To read the recent term, this Essay takes up Oliver Wendell Holmes’s image of law as a tapestry woven for its initiates and Robert Cover’s account of courts as jurispathic, killing competing legal meanings to preserve a coherent archive. It sees the 2025–26 term not as a set of doctrinal developments or even political compromises, but as a weave of foreclosed claims, in which what the discerning eye can read is those foreclosures, those …

Ambientsi™: Natural-Hazard Mode For Spaces With Ambient Ai, Entered Only On Verified Alerts Or Independent Sensors, With Safe States, Time-Limited Life-Safety Sensing And Re-Verification After The Event, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes how a space with ambient AI, such as a home, an office, a school or a shop, prepares for and responds to natural hazards, including earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfire smoke and extreme heat. The space's house rules include a hazard plan that sets, for each hazard, what may trigger hazard mode, the safe state of every class of device, what extra sensing is allowed to protect life, what responders may receive, and how normal operation resumes. Hazard mode is entered only on an official alert whose signature the hub verifies, on agreement among independent safety-grade sensors on …

Ambientsi™: A Live Conformance Mark For Spaces With Ambient Ai, Shown At The Entrance, Verified By Any Visitor's Phone And Withdrawn Automatically When Any Device In The Space Falls Out Of Conformance, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a conformance mark for a physical space, such as a home, an office, a shop or a public building, in which ambient AI devices and agents operate. Instead of certifying devices one by one, the mark certifies the space as a whole: every ambient AI device and agent admitted to it, the space's governance hub, its house rules and its single stop. The mark is live. The hub continuously reports the attested conformance of every admitted device, the result of its own self-tests and any open incident to the certification body, which issues a short-lived signed status …

Control System And Method For Fecral Heating Assemblies, Martin Baumgaertl, Gianluca Pauletto

Defensive Publications Series

The present technical disclosure relates to a control system for an electrically heated process apparatus as well as to a corresponding method of operating, in particular of controlling, an electrically heated process apparatus comprising a plurality of FeCrAl heating elements supplied and/or driven by at least one three-phase thyristor power supply unit, in particular configured in delta, open delta or star with or without neutral, the method comprising:

(a)   measuring per-leg voltage and current;

(b)   calculating instantaneous resistance R;

(c)   comparing the calculated resistance R to a reference resistance R₀;

(d)   computing a ratio R₀/R;

(e)   automatically reducing a process …

Mission-Locked Cooperative Governance Architecture For Community-Owned Production Of Life Essentials, Joseph Sack

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract

This disclosure describes a proposed mission-locked cooperative governance architecture for the community-owned production of life essentials, including energy, food, water, housing, and healthcare. The architecture separates technology development from infrastructure ownership. A nonprofit research and development entity independently develops and stewards the underlying technology and releases it under open licensing terms. Production infrastructure is owned by local member cooperatives operating under democratic member voting.

A mission-locked legal framework connects these layers. It combines four protective mechanisms: (1) a mission-protected charter with amendment controls that restrict changes to the stated purpose; (2) dedicated charitable assets with dissolution provisions that direct …

Neighborhood Inference Using Partitioned Lsh And Probabilistic Sketches, Oleg Golubitsky, Dake He, Alexey Strokach, Misha Berlinkov, Kianoosh Abbasi

Defensive Publications Series

Classifying large sets of unlabeled entities in high-dimensional embedding spaces from a small number of labeled examples can present computational challenges, for example, when performing exhaustive nearest neighbor searches. Systems and methods can address these challenges by combining partitioned locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) with probabilistic data structures, such as multiset sketches. High-dimensional entity embeddings can be converted to partitioned LSH hashes, which may be used to build an index where each hash partition maps to a sketch aggregating information about labeled entities. For an unlabeled entity, corresponding sketches can be retrieved and merged. This final sketch can be queried to generate …

Scoring-Setting, Distance-Label, Ammunition And Clock Checks From Electronic Target Records, Conrad Young

Defensive Publications Series

Five methods are described for checking the settings and records of electronic scoring targets that store, for each registration, a time, a landing position and a velocity at the target, and for each string a bullet diameter, a target face and a distance. (1) A wrong bullet-diameter setting is detected by comparing each string's stored setting with the match's and the line's; the values it affected are found by re-scoring every registration under both diameters, with margins; and the same re-scoring identifies the shots that sit on a scoring line. (2) A string whose stored distance and face were set …

Automated Duplicate Support Ticket Management Using A Multi-Tiered Logical Framework, Parnika Singhal

Defensive Publications Series

The creation of duplicate support tickets in high-volume case management platforms can inflate ticket volumes and consume agent resources. An automated system can manage these redundant service requests using a multi-tiered logical framework. For example, a first tier may apply rule-based filters based on case metadata, such as the submitter and time of submission, to identify a candidate pool of potential duplicates. A second tier can analyze these candidates using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to perform a semantic evaluation of the case content. This approach can facilitate the identification, classification, and closure of duplicate tickets, which may reduce …

Automated Business Verification Using Multimodal Analysis Of Geospatial Imagery, Ashish Kumar, Satyam Kumar, Chandan Shanbhag

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional business verification techniques may be inefficient or limited by automated processes that can result in false negatives. A system and method for automated business verification can use a multi-stage data processing pipeline. For example, a multimodal large language model can perform a blind extraction of textual information from geospatial imagery associated with a business's claimed location. Subsequently, a semantic audit process may compare the extracted visual evidence against claimed business data, which can account for context, abbreviations, and synonyms. This approach can provide a programmatic method for verifying the physical existence of commercial entities and enriching data records with …

Strategic Visual Canvas: Context-Aware Ar Storefront Advertising, Vineet Verma, Harsh Singh

Defensive Publications Series

A spatial computing architecture and method may provide context-aware augmented reality (AR) digital overlays anchored to physical retail storefronts via wearable head-mounted displays (HMDs). The system may transform physical storefront facades into dynamic media spaces by coordinating visual positioning systems, on-device intent profiling across a sliding N-day search window, real-time backend inventory validation, and a gaze-activated progressive disclosure user interface.

A Farewell To Ohms - Reducing The Heat Signature Of Computing By <98%, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This proposal suggests an intermediate Memory segment between ROM and RAM that allows for the tokenization of calculation. The bridge would be rewritable to allow for changes over time but be effectively 'hardwired' as an adjunct of ROM .By totally avoiding duplication, the system runs on a streamlined basis

Technical Specification: Spec-208-Core Title: Solid-State Surface Acoustic Wave (Saw) Waveguides And Matrix Residue Separation Filters, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the mathematical and hardware criteria for Solid-State Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Waveguides and Matrix Residue Separation Filters. The system is engineered to manipulate localized high-frequency acoustic wave vectors across crystalline lattice matrices, utilizing an integrated multi-probe interdigital transducer (IDT) array to actively suppress boundary layer limit crises and eliminate structural data contamination at room temperature. By deploying an out-of-band matrix residue separation filter, this architecture partitions complex wave propagation paths row-wise across orthogonal virtual nodes to track phase velocities and isolate ancestral human priority art. This framework serves as a public-domain defensive barrier against the proprietary privatization, …

A Process For The Preparation Of Substantially Pure 7-Cyclopentyl-N,N-Dimethyl-2-{[5-(Piperazin-1-Yl) Pyridin-2-Yl]Amino}-7h-Pyrrolo[2,3-D]Pyrimidine-6-Carboxamide Or Its Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Hyderabad, India; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Nithiyanandam Ravi Kumar; Seetharaman Sritharan; Irukuvajjula Venkata Subrahmanya Vithal; Gade Srinivas Reddy; Thota Siva Prasad; Yeole Prashant Ramesh; Kesari Sai Manoj Krishna; Thippireddy Purna Chandrasekhar Reddy; Ragam Naveen; Bhatraju Daveedu And Pulijala Karunakar.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to processes for the preparation of high purity 7-cyclopentyl-N,N-dimethyl-2-{[5-(piperazin-1-yl) pyridin-2-yl]amino}-7H-pyrrolo [2,3-d]pyrimidine-6-carboxamide or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts substantially free of nitrosamine impurities, other genotoxic and carcinogenic impurities below threshold concentration. The structure of formula-1 is shown as below:

Formula-1.

The present disclosure also describes the process for the pharmaceutical composition and its process for the preparation of Ribociclib or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts.

Cicis-X: Waste-Heat Amplified Autonomous Water-Positive Data Center Infrastructure Using Thermoacoustic Heat Elevation, Non-Membrane Water Regeneration, And Integrated Thermal-Hydraulic Monitoring, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Modern artificial intelligence and hyperscale data centers increasingly face a dual resource limitation:

1. high-density thermal rejection requirements,

2. growing freshwater availability constraints.

Recent academic and industrial deployments demonstrate that waste-heat-driven desalination and wastewater regeneration are technically viable. However, widespread deployment remains limited due to six major barriers:

• insufficient waste-heat temperature,

• compressor energy penalties,

• membrane fouling,

• contaminant accumulation,

• cooling-loop corrosion,

• unfavorable capital economics.

This disclosure presents a unified open-hardware architecture designated CICIS-X.

CICIS-X integrates thermoacoustic thermal amplification, vortex-assisted contaminant destruction, multi-stage vacuum distillation, autonomous remineralization, structural health monitoring, thermal-hydraulic optimization, and closed-loop cooling infrastructure into a single water-positive compute facility.

Unlike conventional …

Si Data Bank™: "Forget That", Provable Erasure Of Recent Ambient Capture On Request By Anyone Present, Across Every Device In A Space And Everything Derived From It, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method by which any person present in a space with ambient AI devices, and not only the devices' owner, can ask for everything captured in a recent period to be forgotten, and receive proof that it has been. The request may be spoken, made with a gesture or sent from a phone, and names a period, such as "the last ten minutes". The space's governance hub verifies that the requester was present during the period, then sends a signed erasure order to every admitted device. Each device destroys the encryption keys of the raw buffers covering …

Si Regulator™: An Attention Budget For Proactive Ai, With Urgency Classes, A Ban On Persuasion, And A Rule That Ambient Observations Are Never Used For Advertising, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method of protecting people's attention and autonomy from proactive AI systems that observe them continuously and may interrupt, suggest or persuade without being asked. Each person has an attention budget: a limited number of unprompted interruptions per period, shared by every AI agent that serves them, held and enforced at a governance point rather than by each agent. Every proposed interruption carries an urgency class from a published vocabulary, with declared criteria; only safety-of-life interruptions may exceed the budget or break quiet hours, and their use is audited. Interruptions that are deferred are batched into a …

Si Regulator™: One Governance Point For A Shared Space In Which Ai Devices From Many Makers Operate, With House Rules, Guest Mode, Agent Arbitration And A Single Stop, Edward D. H. Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a governance hub for a physical space, such as a home, an office, a classroom or a shop, in which ambient AI devices and agents from several makers operate. The hub holds the space's house rules in one signed policy: which senses may be used in which rooms and at which times, what may be kept and for how long, quiet hours, who is a member of the space, how guests are treated, and which actions agents may take on their own. A device or agent may operate in the space only after the hub admits it, …

Mapping The Global Trends And Knowledge Of Hand, Foot, And Mouth Disease: A Bibliometric And Visual Analysis From 2002 To 2022, Yu Sheng, Kailei Wang, Leying Jin, Yan Zhang, Zonglang Zhou

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the research evolution process, hotspots, and trends of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) over the past 20 years and try to explore future development directions. Methods: Publications related to HFMD were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). Based on bibliometric analysis, the keywords toward the publications, countries, institutions, authors, journals and references in the field of HFMD were quantitatively and visually analyzed using VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Results: A total of 4,279 publications related to HFMD were published in 880 journals by 49,435 authors from 3,312 institutions in 93 countries/regions, with …