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Multivariate Penalized-Complexity-Like Priors for Exploratory Factor Analysis

Factor analysis is an important technique for modeling multivariate data. Researchers remain interested in developing Bayesian procedures to recover simpler structures to explain how observed variables relate to the underlying factors. We propose a new penalized-complexity-like p...

Entanglement–Algebraic Spacetime: Notes on Scope, Terminology, and Use

This document accompanies a collection of papers developing the Entanglement-Algebraic Spacetime (EAS) framework. It does not present new results or summarize individual papers. Its purpose is limited to clarifying scope, terminology, and the manner in which the papers relate to...

Daron L. Davis — Academic CV — August 21, 2026

Academic CV of Daron L. Davis, Independent Scholar and Black Governance Researcher, current as of August 21, 2026. The record documents the Institutional Authority Dynamics research enterprise, five framework manuscripts in the publication program, DOI-backed conceptual and metho...

Storytelling, technology, and justice: the National Film Board of Canada’s role in human rights education

This article explores the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as a site of human rights education (HRE). It applies a critical global citizenship education lens to consider how four NFB works—Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Bear 71, The Orchid and the Bee, and Biidaaban: Fi...

The copulative hermeneutics of the veil: pornographizing the truth

This article explores Shannon Bell’s project of deploying the obscene, grotesque, and pornographic to dismantle totalitarian philosophical thought. Bell challenges the notion of ‘truth’ as a pure, noetic concept, reframing it as an authoritarian mechanism that suppresses bodily c...

Introduction to the Palestine, National Liberation, and Self-Determination Special Issue

Rather than treating the question of Palestine as part of a “religious conflict,” solely a response to October 7th, or a situation eliciting only pity and despair, this special issue argues that the current genocide in Palestine is part of a longer, historical arc of British, and...

‘ No Braids, No Beads, No Locking of Hair ’: ‘Race’, Nation and Identity in (Post)‐Colonial Jamaica

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the links between hair and Jamaica's often unnamed ‘race’ politics as an expression of waywardness. Using a court ruling in which a 7‐year‐old, female student was mandated to cut her hair—at the time worn in locs hairstyle—it teases out the links bet...

Post-quantum lightweight cryptographic algorithm for secure real-time decision-making in distributed optimization networks

Abstract The imminent threat posed by quantum computing to classical cryptographic systems necessitates the development of quantum-resistant, efficient, and scalable encryption techniques, especially for real-time distributed optimization networks critical to national infrastruct...

Poetry of Umesh Solanki

પ્રિયેપીઠ શેકતા રોડરોડ વચ્ચે શિસ્તબદ્ધ છોડબેચાર છોડને છોડી નાનકડું એક વૃક્ષએમ વૃક્ષોવૃક્ષોમાંઆવે ને જાય ને અટકેઆવે ને જાય ને અટકેવાયરાનું આવું વારે-વારે થાય.રોડ પડખે હરોળબદ્ધ ઇમારતોસૈનિકની જાણે ઊભી...

Early Companion-Vector CORDIC Architecture for QRD-RLS Systolic Adaptive Beamforming: Evidence from Publications by Roger Guorong Hu, 1990–1994

This historical technical report reconstructs and documents early CORDIC-based QR-decomposition recursive least-squares (QRD-RLS) systolic architectures for adaptive beamforming developed and published by Roger Guorong Hu and collaborators between 1990 and 1994. The central docum...

Early Companion-Vector CORDIC Architecture for QRD-RLS Systolic Adaptive Beamforming: Evidence from Publications by Roger Guorong Hu, 1990–1994

This historical technical report reconstructs and documents early CORDIC-based QR-decomposition recursive least-squares (QRD-RLS) systolic architectures for adaptive beamforming developed and published by Roger Guorong Hu and collaborators between 1990 and 1994. The central docum...

Mobility, variety, and community in popular Nanyang entertainment from the 1930s to the 1970s

This essay showcases nine photographs and images from various sources, including the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries Special Collections, the National Archives of Singapore, and th...

Digital mourning: Revisiting COVID-era #funeral discourse on Twitter

The COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted funeral practices across the world, as public health restrictions limited gatherings and altered how funerals and mourning practices could take place. This study serves as a retrospective account of funeral-related discourse on Twitte...

Beyond Containment: Establishing the Critical Parameters of Mythotechnic Fiction

This paper establishes the critical, methodological, and quantitative framework for distinguishing Mythotechnic Fiction, Meta-Mythic Delphic Fiction, and Ontological Systems Fiction from adjacent literary genres and subgenres. It develops the multidimensional genre-space model, d...

Gulf Pragmatism at a Crossroads: Al-Sabah Political Conduct and Kuwait Town's Foreign Policy toward Four Powers during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

This manuscript investigates pragmatism as an analytical lens for understanding the foreign policy of Kuwait Town during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular attention to the political conduct of the ruling sheikhs of the al-Sabah family. It asks whether pragm...

Meta-Para-Ontology: The Architecture of Reality Across Four Ontological Registers

What are the structural conditions under which any ontology becomes possible? Contemporary philosophy has produced a remarkable diversity of metaphysical systems, yet the principles governing their formation, comparison, and mutual intelligibility remain largely unexplored. Meta-...

Referral Theology: The Freedom to Believe and the Freedom from Judgement

Referral Theology presents a novel analytical linguistic framework designed to resolve the classical paradox of theological discussion: the inevitability of human cognition producing finite constructs versus the prohibition against idolatry for doing so. Utilizing linguistic real...

Referral Theology: The Freedom to Believe and the Freedom from Judgement

Referral Theology presents a novel analytical linguistic framework designed to resolve the classical paradox of theological discussion: the inevitability of human cognition producing finite constructs versus the prohibition against idolatry for doing so. Utilizing linguistic real...

When the Environment Becomes the Body: Architectural Body Intelligence and Inverted Embodiment

Embodied artificial intelligence typically treats a local chassis moving through the world as the agent's body. This paper proposes Architectural Body Intelligence (ABI), which reverses this spatial relation. In ABI, sensory surfaces distributed across the floor, walls, and ceili...

Measures for intersectional mental healthcare: results from a participatory interview and focus group study with psychosocial counsellors, people with experience of using mental health services and providers

BACKGROUND: Discriminatory practices and barriers to care are increasingly recognised as a significant challenge for mental healthcare institutions. Yet, little research has considered what measures people with experience of using mental health services and mental healthcare serv...