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From The Editor: A Million Little Choices, Lee Gutkind

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Creative Nonfiction: A Movement, Not A Moment, Lee Gutkind

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Interview With Craig Bernier

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Interview With Adam Gussow

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Interview With D. Winston Brown

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Interview With Thomas Wanebo

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Interview With Margaret Price

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Kathryn Harrison: Cutting Beneath, Catherine Wald

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Cover To Cover: Reviews Of New Books, Joshua Lapekas, Bill Semins, Savannah Schroll

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Christmas On The Palisades, Adam Gussow

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Mountaineer, Craig Bernier

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Three Minute, Thomas Wanebo

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Then You’Ll Be Straight, Margaret Price

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Ghost Children, D. Winston Brown

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Without A Map, Meredith Hall

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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The Rules Of The Room, Gwen Gray

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Fourteen Years In The Making, Megan Foss

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Essays From The Edge, Lee Gutkind

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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From “A Writer’S Life”, Gay Talese

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Consumer Decision-Making Constructs: Differences Among Generational Cohorts, Heather M. Meyer, Chloe Murphy

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

Generational cohort theory has been popular in the social sciences for decades, yet it remains a niche topic in the consumer behavior literature. Prior studies have found relationships between generational cohorts and various product categories. In this study, the relationship between generational cohorts and consumer decision-making constructs is assessed. A nationally representative survey was conducted. MANOVA and ANOVA analyses revealed relationships between generational cohorts and promotion focus, information acquisition, quality consciousness, compulsive buying, and consumer debt characteristics. A separate linear regression analysis showed significance between age and some of these decision-making characteristics. Limitations, implications, recommendations, and directions for future research …

A Pilot Study Evaluating Child Resistant Closures In Pharmaceuticals In The Developing Nation Of Ghana: Informing Global Paediatric Safety And Usability Standards, Samuel Ofosu, Kojo Agyapong Afrifah, Laura Bix

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Despite their proven effectiveness in preventing unintentional paediatric medication poisoning in high-income countries, the performance and usability of Child Resistant Closures (CRCs) remain underexplored in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

To provide pilot data regarding the potential efficacy of using CRCs in LMICs, we conducted a study of the approach in a low-resourced region (Ghana, West Africa) by adapting testing protocols utilized in the United States (16 CFR Part 1700.20). The study utilized a convenience sample of children (n=50; 42-51 months) and adults (n=50; 50-70 years) to develop preliminary data related to the efficacy of a single design of CRC …

In Solidarity With The People Of Minneapolis, Supriya Baily

Critical Internationalization Studies Review

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Style-Preserved Inference Flow (Spif): Real-Time Style-Locked Image Generation Through Model Pruning And Latent Space Optimization, Douglass W. Sharp

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses Style-Preserved Inference Flow (SPIF), a system for real-time style-locked image generation that maintains consistent artistic style across frames at interactive rates. The core innovation is structural model pruning guided by style-consistency metrics rather than general image quality, producing compact single-purpose models that generate images in a specific artistic style at 60+ frames per second. Additional disclosed techniques include latent-space frame coherence (bootstrapping sequential frames from previous latent states, analogous to dirty-rectangle optimization in game rendering), composable latent object descriptors for real-time scene manipulation, and voice-driven continuous generation loops. Working prototypes demonstrate 3.35 FPS full-pipeline generation at 1024×1024 …

A Stateful, Hypothesis-Driven Framework For Long-Context Root Cause Discovery In Telemetry Analysis, Aakash Phoughat

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques that leverage a large language model (LLM) to perform root cause analysis (RCA) on high-volume telemetry data. The techniques can handle datasets whose size exceeds the context window of the LLM by traversing the data using a stateful log-walker that recursively passes an investigation state between LLM inference calls. A vector search is executed to retrieve a domain-specific structured graph of expected state transitions. The log stream is ingested in sequential blocks. A mutable investigation state which is a structured object that tracks the validation status of the steps of the schema is maintained. The object …

Screenshot Tokenization Guided By User Interface Tree, Florian Hartmann, Duc-Hieu Tran

Defensive Publications Series

Image tokenization is a technique that divides an image into multiple patches and embeds each patch into a vector space. Image tokenization is important for large language models (LLMs) to effectively answer queries relating to an image. A limitation of current image tokenization techniques for screenshots is that the patches are chosen in a manner that does not take into account user interface semantics, resulting in low information efficiency of tokens and user interface (UI) elements being split across tokens. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage UI element trees to guide screenshot tokenization, leading to higher quality screenshot tokens and …

Physical Design With Diagonal Cut Floorplan To Resolve Routing Congestion Hotspots, Sachin Ramrao Waghmare

Defensive Publications Series

In VLSI physical design, a Hard Macro (HM) instantiation with a vertical and horizontal cut can often intrude into the logic placement area. Typically, all routing layers are blocked in HMs. As a result, any nets passing through the area face a routing resource crunch that can cause routing congestion and design rule check (DRC) failures. This disclosure describes techniques for creating an HM instantiation during the PD phase of a digital design with a diagonal cut. The HM instantiation is cut using small notches formed by short vertical and horizontal cuts, which cumulatively provide a cut that is effectively …