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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...

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-...

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...

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...

C.E.R.B.E.R.U.S.™ v2 — Comprehensive Enterprise Resilience, Boundary Enforcement, Risk Unification & Security Architecture System: An Integrated Governance, Resilience, Risk & Security Architecture for Complex and Regulated Enterprises

C.E.R.B.E.R.U.S.™ v2 Comprehensive Enterprise Resilience, Boundary Enforcement, Risk Unification & Security Architecture System TOP_INSTITUTIONAL Canonical Publication Release Complete Reproducible Research Artifact, Cybersecurity Architecture Framework, Audit Evidence, Cryptogra...

C.E.R.B.E.R.U.S.™ v2 — Comprehensive Enterprise Resilience, Boundary Enforcement, Risk Unification & Security Architecture System: An Integrated Governance, Resilience, Risk & Security Architecture for Complex and Regulated Enterprises

C.E.R.B.E.R.U.S.™ v2 Comprehensive Enterprise Resilience, Boundary Enforcement, Risk Unification & Security Architecture System TOP_INSTITUTIONAL Canonical Publication Release Complete Reproducible Research Artifact, Cybersecurity Architecture Framework, Audit Evidence, Cryptogra...

School Suspensions and Juvenile Justice Punishment: An Assessment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline

This study investigated the influence of school suspensions on three juvenile court outcomes among male students referred from school: dismissal, diversion, and probation. It also investigated whether the relationship between school suspensions and court outcomes were moderated b...

AI Cannot Be Sovereign: Affective Uptake, Terminal Accountability, and the Limits of Procedural Legitimacy

This working paper argues that advanced artificial intelligence may improve prediction, consistency, optimization, administrative efficiency, and even procedural design, but these achievements do not by themselves generate legitimate political authority. The central question is n...

Ruins and the hyper-sensorium: embodied spatial engagement and other neurodivergent practices in urban exploration

Urban exploration is a contemporary practice of accessing and documenting abandoned or off-limits places. In these borderlands of modernity, the rules and norms of mainstream society may seem suspended. Previous literature frames such marginal incursions as leisure, play, and sub...

Black rhetorical citizenship, complicity, and coherent democratic futures

Since 1619, African American rhetorical practice has attempted to work through the trauma that remains vivid in our authoritarian moment and has faced the question: how to reconstruct American rhetoric and democracy without reproducing the racial reasoning that gave birth to this...

The Future Self as Beneficiary: Future Exploitation and Retaliatory Foreclosure

Why should a benefit available only in the future bind the present bearer of its cost? Research on intertemporal choice explains future-oriented action through delayed reward, trust, episodic prospection, and psychological connectedness to a future self. This article develops ret...

The Future Self as Beneficiary: Future Exploitation and Retaliatory Foreclosure

Why should a benefit available only in the future bind the present bearer of its cost? Research on intertemporal choice explains future-oriented action through delayed reward, trust, episodic prospection, and psychological connectedness to a future self. This article develops ret...