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Der Getrayer Emes, Fanye Glants

Yiddish Children's Books

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Dos Yam-Meydele, Hans Christian Andersen

Yiddish Children's Books

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Kauai Beauty, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #56 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Kauai Beauty" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 105".

Creating Business Teaching Cases With Deep Research Ai: The Lov Ai Co-Creation Approach, David Grundy

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This paper examines the use of generative artificial intelligence in the development of teaching cases for MBA programs. The study introduces the Lecturer Oversight and Verification of AI (LOV AI) Co-Creation Approach, which integrates the ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking Deep Research model with structured subject expert supervision to produce teaching extended case studies and related teaching materials. The model is implemented through a multi-step process. First, specific prompts are used to identify and select potential case topics that align with required syllabus objectives. Next, the AI model generates extensive drafts that include narratives, background information, and supporting data for each case. …

Masthead

Seattle University Law Review

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Seattle University Law Review

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Ai, The Liberal Arts, And Indigenous Languages: Forming Code Into Language, Christina Graebner

Summer Research Showcase

During the Summer, Spanish Professor Adam Coon and I worked on creating an annotated biography on AI and Indigenous languages for the Digital Well at the UMN Morris Library. Through this project, we have dived into conversations and research focusing on using AI as a translator. In recent years, the conversation around AI has created a surge of studies and research around the relationship between Indigenous languages and artificial intelligence. AI will only continue to expand, and it creates new ways to open communication but creates new ethical guidelines needed to be followed. Our project gathers research articles, podcasts, and …

Visualizing 25 Years Of Change In The Glades Oak Savanna, Zoe Fieberg

Summer Research Showcase

Oak savannas represent one of the most threatened ecosystems in Minnesota due to changing land use management, particularly absence of fire (Davis, 2001). Frequent burns kill fire-sensitive mesophytic tree species, reducing the dominance of woody understory and allowing for restoration of the oak savanna environment. The GLADES (Grid for Landscape Analysis and Demographic Study) site was established in 1988 in East Bethel, Minnesota to study the effect of frequent burning on oak savanna restoration. Through the use of standardized methods of photography, we compared canopy differences across GLADES between 2001 and 2026. Preliminary observations revealed increased canopy density and reduced …

Do Social Determinants Of Health Affect Tooth Retention For American Indian/Alaska Native (Ai/An) Adults?, Vae Day

Summer Research Showcase

American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults face severe dental disparities due to social determinants of health (SDOH). This study examines how socioeconomic, functional, and cognitive factors influence access to dental care. Quantitative analysis was conducted using SPSS Statistics. Chi-square testing and logistic regression evaluated relationships between variables. Using a strengths-based approach to this research, the outcome variable was recoded to measure “teeth retained” instead of “teeth removed due to tooth decay or gum disease”. Analyses revealed that tooth retention and healthcare access significantly increase with favorable SDOH, including reliable transportation, household income, ability to complete errands independently, having insurance, and retained …

The Wunsch's Of Morris: Empowerment In Time, Landon Shaw

Summer Research Showcase

When diving into history it is easy to find yourself lost in the text. This summer I got to actively sift through history bringing it to life searching to find the real depths that were waiting to be rediscovered. By working with Emily Bruce on studying the Wunsch family that lived in Morris I got to find out about the daughters of the family. In this study I find their lives and bring them into context as we look back at the difficulty of landholding as a woman and how these Wunsch sisters challenged and concurred with the demands of …

Tradition And Representation In The Work Of Contemporary Native American Art, Florence Romero

Summer Research Showcase

This presentation investigates the origins of contemporary Native American art in the mid-to late twentieth century to gain a deeper understanding of the broader contours of the field of contemporary art by Native Americans, to understand some of the key issues that these artists are interested in, and research the work of select contemporary Indigenous artists. Using comparative analysis of six case studies of contemporary Indigenous artists, this presentation will examine how these artists deal with themes of tradition and modernity and respond to how Native Americans have been misrepresented in the past and how these representations have impacted them …

The History And Importance Of Self-Compassion: Lack Of Application In Male Demographics?, Marshall Spilane

Summer Research Showcase

Self-compassion has become an important part of mental health research, though its adoption in male populations has been slower than in others. The objective of this literature review is to expose a lack of implementation of self-compassion practices in male communities. This literature review explores this gap in adoption and provides an example of how research can move forward. The data were collected by analyzing current literature and compiling it. Current research on self-compassion has found evidence that self-compassion can improve emotional regulation and lessen depression symptoms. Many factors could influence the gap in adoption; some research suggests that mental …

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African American Funeral Programs

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Observing System Simulation Experiments For Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, Alex Sawn, Adam Houston, Shawn Murdzek, Terra Ladwig, Eric James

ISARRA 2026

Radiosondes and commercial aircraft are the primary sources of in-situ meteorological data in the upper troposphere. While robust, these systems leave major coverage gaps which can lead to forecast errors in both global and regional numerical weather prediction. Assimilating data collected by Weather-observing uncrewed aircraft systems (WxUAS) have shown potential to yield large improvements in NWP forecast accuracy via profiles up to 2km AGL (Murdzek et al. 2026), but the impact of assimilating WxUAS profiles through the deep troposphere remains unknown. Before deploying WxUAS at scale, it is important to quantify the impact that simulated WxUAS observations have on NWP …

Faculty Insights On Teaching Self-Determination Skills In Postsecondary Education, Jacqueline Lubin

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

While self-determination skills may serve as a predictor of success in higher education, limited research exists on faculty attitudes toward teaching these skills to students with and without disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine faculty’s knowledge of self-determination and perception of teaching self-determination skills to all college students. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance. Findings indicated that while the majority of participants were familiar with the term “self-determination,” and recognized its instructional value, their responses varied on their likelihood to teach skills. On average, faculty reported being somewhat likely to …

Say What You Know: Administering Group Oral Examinations In Undergraduate And Graduate Courses, Lenore Wright, Andrew Arterbury

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

or more than two decades, university professors at the institute of study have implemented group oral examinations as a summative assessment strategy within their courses. This essay offers a critical reflection on the pedagogical benefits of this format, examining its impact on both instructors and students, while also addressing the practical and logistical challenges encountered in its sustained use. In the context of the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence and the corresponding complications it introduces for traditional assessment practices, the authors argue that group oral examinations have gained renewed significance. Specifically, they highlight the capacity of this approach to promote …

Contextualizing Second Language Anxiety In Multilingual Higher Education: Classroom Conditions And Clinical Settings, Busayo O. Ige

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

In South African universities, multilingual students whose first language is not English face distinct challenges that impact academic participation and success. This qualitative study examines how second language (L2) anxiety shapes first-year students’ classroom and clinical experiences at the University of Cape Town. Drawing on open-ended survey data, the study reveals that fear of negative evaluation, communicative apprehension, and prevailing language ideologies contribute to students’ reluctance to speak, feelings of invisibility, and withdrawal from engagement. Although anxiety tends to lessen over time, it rarely disappears completely. Notably, students experienced anxiety differently across settings: classroom discussions elicited greater fear and self-censorship, …

Academic Development As Mentoring In Online Education: Perspectives From Australia., Bopelo Boitshwarelo Dr, Claire Aitchison Dr

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

In recent years, Australian universities have intensified efforts to respond to the growing demand for remote and online study. This shift has underscored the need for academics who are appropriately prepared to design, develop, deliver, and evaluate high-quality online courses. Mentoring represents a key practice that can support the development of such expertise. However, formalized and well-established mentoring practices are not consistently present across Australian higher education institutions. In contrast, most universities maintain academic development units tasked with enhancing teaching capacity, particularly in relation to online learning. This paper conceptualizes aspects of academic development practice as a form of mentoring. …

From Reflection To Confidence: Student Career Self-Efficacy In Course-Embedded Career Learning At A Minority-Serving Institution, Elizabeth J. Muniz, Isaura B. Flores-Breeze

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

From Reflection to Confidence: Student Career Self-Efficacy in Course-Embedded Career Learning at a Minority-Serving Institution

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This study examines undergraduate students’ career decision-making self-efficacy and related performance indicators within course-integrated career readiness assignments at a Hispanic- and minority-serving institution. As higher education institutions seek scalable approaches to workforce preparation, embedding career development into credit-bearing coursework may offer more equitable access to professional learning opportunities, particularly for students at Minority-Serving Institutions. Guided by Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy and the career decision-making self-efficacy framework, this evaluation study analyzes descriptive data from faculty-rated rubric summaries across multiple course-integrated assignments (assignment-level sample sizes varied) …

How Planning For Engineering Instruction Supported Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Pedagogy For Prek–12 Teachers, Kristen V. Napolitano, Amanda M. Gunning, Meghan E. Marrero

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

With the wide adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards across the United States and an increased focus on growing a diverse engineering workforce, learning to teach precollege engineering has become more important than ever. Yet limited precollege engineering certification pathway exists, leaving preK–12 teachers to integrate engineering with few resources or professional learning support. In high-need districts, where teachers are already underresourced and stretched thin, engineering may not make its way into the classroom at all. As a result, access to engineering and other STEM opportunities is disproportionately low among Black and Brown and/or low-income students in these communities, …

Mandate Lifecycle Extensions For Agentic Payment Credentials, Matthew T. Kirby

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous AI agents, including large language model (LLM) agents, increasingly originate payment authorization requests under stored, cryptographically signed mandates derived from natural-language instructions. Existing frameworks verify machine-enforceable constraints — amount, payee, merchant — at transaction time; existing art separately teaches similarity-based transaction screening, single-use transaction-linked authorization credentials, decoupled out-of-band authentication, versioned credential supersession with freshness proofs, and attested display of transaction details. No reference teaches the lifecycle coupling specified here: (1) suspending a payment authorization request when a similarity score between a salted, committed embedding of the natural-language instruction — bound into the signed mandate with a pinned scoring stack …

Multi-Agent Pipeline For Category-Specific Factuality Calibration Using Conformal Inference, Chenyin Gao, Jiaqian Yu, Aniruddha Rao

Defensive Publications Series

A challenge in deploying generative models can be the occurrence of factual inaccuracies, particularly when attempting to maintain consistent reliability across diverse information categories. A disclosed technology describes a multi-agent pipeline that can quantify and calibrate the factual reliability of generated content. The system may operate as a black-box process where specialized agents can parse source material, generate categorized claims, and score their correctness. An evaluator agent can then apply category-specific conformal inference to filter claims that may not meet a defined statistical confidence level. This approach can provide a mechanism to manage the factuality of model outputs by providing …

Fdms‑2.0 — Field‑Domain Multi‑Sensor Mapper & Environmental State Observatory A Synchronized, Multi‑Physics Environmental Measurement And Anomaly‑Detection Instrument For Scientific Research, Structural Monitoring, Wildfire Precursor Detection, Hvac Diagnostics, And Multi‑Domain Environmental Mapping., Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

FDMS‑2.0 is an open‑hardware, FPGA+ARM‑based environmental observatory capable of simultaneously measuring eight physics domains:

• Thermal

• Acoustic

• Infrared

• Vibration

• Optical spectral

• Airflow

• Electromagnetic field

• Low‑frequency EM antenna

All domains are sampled in parallel, timestamped at microsecond resolution, and fused into a unified environmental frame. FDMS‑2.0 establishes a baseline environmental model, computes an Environmental Stability Index (ESI), and detects anomalies only when multiple physics domains deviate simultaneously, eliminating false positives.

FDMS‑2.0 is fully buildable using off‑the‑shelf components, reproducible wiring, open firmware, and compact ASCII diagrams. It integrates optionally with other Caldwell research inventions (CMHRE‑Ω1.0, CUDRE‑1.0, VETI‑4.0, MMRA‑2.0, ONRS‑2.0, VMR Titan‑2.0, CNG‑Loop, URES‑2.0) …

Concurrent Multi-User Testing Framework, Yabin Huang, Dan Shi

Defensive Publications Series

Vehicle infotainment platforms, often referred to as in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, undergo extensive testing covering device compatibility, safety compliance, and system security and stability. However, testing concurrent user interactions in multi-user and multi-display environments remains insufficient. Moreover, traditional single-user testing cannot detect concurrency-specific bugs, such as race conditions or data corruption, and custom-built concurrent tests lack scalability. This publication describes a concurrent multi-user testing system that solves existing testing solution shortcomings by detecting concurrency-related bugs using a simultaneous, isolated testing framework (or parallel execution software validation environment), reusing pre-existing tests for high scalability. Such a system enables simultaneous multi-tenant testing …

Automatic Elevation Brake And Fall-Safety Locking Mechanism For Height-Adjustable Patient Support Tables, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Described herein is an automatic fall-safe braking system for a height-adjustable patient support table that uses a scissor-lift mechanism for elevation. The disclosed system integrates a braking mechanism into the table elevation structure to automatically prevent unintended downward motion when operating power is removed or an unsafe condition occurs. The purpose is to prevent uncontrolled table descent during sudden power loss or service operations, without requiring any manual intervention from an operator or service engineer. The system mounts a braking mechanism directly on a scissor shaft. In some embodiments, the braking mechanism comprises a spring-set, electromagnetically released brake mounted directly …

Novel Crystalline Form Of (S)-1-(4-Fluorophenyl)-1-(2-(4-(6-(1-Methyl1hpyrazol-4-Yl)Pyrrolo[2,1-F][1,2,4]Triazin-4-Yl)Piperazin-Yl)Pyrimidin-5- Yl)Ethan-1-Amine And Its Process For The Preparation, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Hyderabad, India; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy; Kommera Rajasekhar; Garai Abhijit And Mayandi Ramesh

Defensive Publications Series

The present application relates to a novel crystalline form of (S)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-(2-(4-(6-(1-methyl-1Hpyrazol-4-yl)pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-4-yl)piperazin-yl)pyrimidin-5-yl)ethan-1-amine which is represented by the following structural formula-1, which is referred to as Avapritinib.

Formula-1

The present disclosure also relates to a process for the preparation of amorphous form of (S)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-(2-(4-(6-(1-methyl-1Hpyrazol-4-yl) pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-4-yl)piperazin-yl)pyrimidin-5-yl)ethan-1-amine.

Semantic Consistency Verification For Hedged Ai Inference Requests, Durga S. Kala, Tomer Rabani, Chenming Cao, Sreekanth Kanichetty, Sowmya Mothekani

Defensive Publications Series

A method includes receiving, in response to a common input transaction, a first inference response generated by a first inference stack and a second inference response generated by a second inference stack. The method includes generating a first vector embedding based on semantic content of the first inference response and a second vector embedding based on semantic content of the second inference response. The method includes determining a divergence measure between the first vector embedding and the second vector embedding. The method includes determining whether the divergence measure satisfies a semantic consistency criterion. The method includes, in response to determining …

An Integrated, Doctor-Reinforced Ai Healthcare Ecosystem:, Amey Krishna Solkar

Defensive Publications Series

Here's the abstract from DP-2026-HLTH-001:

"This publication discloses an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare technology ecosystem comprising seven complementary AI-assisted subsystems: (1) an AI clinical intake and differential-diagnosis assistant, (2) a generic and accessible medicine alternative finder, (3) an AI-coordinated emergency transport dispatch layer, (4) a personalized food and nutrient deficiency analysis system, (5) a crowd-sourced food adulteration and quality repository, (6) a mental health longitudinal outcomes research engine, and (7) a drug and food combinatorial hypothesis engine. The subsystems share patient context, a common outcome dataset, and a unified governance model under which artificial intelligence operates in a strictly supervised, doctor-reinforcing …

Autonomous Cryogenic Two-Stage In-Loop Sealing Of Microdefects Using Circulating Nanocapsulated Agents (Actis), Volodymyr Kotegov

Defensive Publications Series

Operation of large-scale cryogenic installations—particle accelerators, fusion reactors, space propulsion stages and quantum systems—demands continuous maintenance of leak-tightness in coolant and liquefied-gas circulation loops. Conventional methods for locating and repairing microleaks through intergranular pores of structural materials and microcracks in welded joints require complete shutdown of equipment, prolonged thermal recovery of isolated sectors and external mechanical intervention.

This publication presents a method of Autonomous Cryogenic Two-Stage In-Loop Sealing (ACTIS) in which the working cryogenic fluid itself serves as the carrier medium for functional nanocapsules. The ACTIS method relies on thermodynamic, mechanical, and electro-inductive triggers operating in a dual-stage sequence. Upon …

Between Care And Competence: Rethinking Alternative Provision., Helen V. Mulligan

Plymouth Interdisciplinary Education Open Journal

This opinion piece argues that Alternative Provision (AP) in England is failing to meet the needs of vulnerable young people due to inconsistent staffing, inadequate specialist training, and the normalisation of low educational expectations. Although some AP settings demonstrate high aspirations and committed practice, the sector as a whole remains marked by variability and a lack of coherent pedagogical structure. Drawing on research into educational inequality, emotional labour, ethics of care, and professional identity, the paper contends that systemic reform is urgently required. Recommended actions include mandatory specialist training for AP staff, national standards for curriculum and pedagogy, stronger accountability …