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Interview With Craig Bernier

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Kathryn Harrison: Cutting Beneath, Catherine Wald

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

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Christmas On The Palisades, Adam Gussow

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Mountaineer, Craig Bernier

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Three Minute, Thomas Wanebo

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Then You’Ll Be Straight, Margaret Price

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Ghost Children, D. Winston Brown

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Without A Map, Meredith Hall

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The Rules Of The Room, Gwen Gray

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Fourteen Years In The Making, Megan Foss

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Essays From The Edge, Lee Gutkind

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From “A Writer’S Life”, Gay Talese

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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 …

Comprehensive Framework For Artificial Intelligence Model Testing: Integrated Validation Methodologies, Global Regulatory Compliance, And Enterprise Implementation Strategies For 25 Years, Ramkumar Bharathan

Defensive Publications Series

The proliferation of artificial intelligence systems across critical infrastructure necessitates a paradigm shift from traditional software quality assurance toward probabilistic validation methodologies. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for AI model testing that synthesizes regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions—including the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), NIST AI Risk Management Framework 2.0, Federal Reserve SR 11-7, Colorado AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, and sector-specific regulations—into an integrated validation architecture applicable across financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and retail sectors.

The framework encompasses twelve distinct testing dimensions: functional correctness, performance benchmarking, bias and fairness assessment, robustness and adversarial resilience, explainability validation, …

Prismatic Subspace Projection For Semantic Control Of Vector Embeddings, Thomas Joseph Duerig, Yichang Chen, Jiří Iša

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Vector search effectiveness may be reduced by semantic mismatches where nuisance dimensions, such as formality or complexity, can degrade retrieval relevance. Addressing these dimensions could involve resource-intensive model retraining. Systems and methods are described for dynamically modifying vector embeddings using prisms, which can be vector representations of certain semantic concepts. For example, a prism can be calculated from the vector difference between embeddings of two data items that differ primarily along a given semantic axis. To refine a search, a query or document embedding can be modified through a geometric projection into a subspace orthogonal to a prism vector. This …

Continuous Data Streaming Via A Jtag Interface, Harsharaj Ellur

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional JTAG data transfers often face limitations due to the “stop-and-wait” nature of the IEEE 1149.1 protocol. High overhead is introduced because the Test Access Port (TAP) state machine must be transitioned between SHIFT-DR and UPDATE-DR states for every individual data word. This disclosure describes a JTAG-to-AXI bridge microarchitecture that implements a streaming-write mechanism. A Command FIFO is utilized to decouple JTAG programming from AXI bus execution. An internal bit-shift counter and control logic are employed to automatically push data into a Write FIFO after a fixed number of bits are shifted. This allows a JTAG host to remain in …