Research works

Testing Moderate Madness: Legitimation and the Persistence of Grade Inflation at Princeton University

Grade inflation is widely documented in selective higher education, yet sustained institutional attempts to restrain it are rare and often short-lived. This article examines Princeton University’s 2004–2014 numerical grading policy as a difficult test of a process theory of stabl...

Macro-Systemic Theoretical Extension (Variant N) (Civil Thermal Fission, Thorium MSRs & Controlled Magnetic Fusion)

This document serves as the theoretical culmination and extreme-boundary application of the cyber-physical control principles developed throughout the author's prior works. The control architecture—initially introduced for sub-seafloor/subsurface phase transitions in the original...

Multimodal nanomedicine for precision colorectal cancer management: integrated diagnosis, targeted therapy, and personalized theranostics

Colorectal cancer (CRC) imposes a substantial health burden because of its high incidence and mortality. Despite advances in surgical procedures, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, the overall efficacy is still unsatisfactory, especially for advanced...

Icosahedral Symmetry and Caspar-Klug Geometry Govern Viral Capsid Architecture — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Icosahedral symmetry is the dominant structural motif in viral capsids, enabling efficient genome packaging and self-assembly. | MATH: Icosahedral group order = 60 (rotational) or 120 (full); capsid geometry follows Caspar-Klug theory: T = h² + hk + k², where h,k are non...

From Planar to 3D Nanophotonic Lenses: Advancing Design, Fabrication, and Applications

ABSTRACT Nanophotonic lenses are transformative optical elements for nanoscale light manipulation and miniaturized optical systems. For a given material platform, the finite thickness of a planar metalens limits the phase and group‐delay response available for simultaneously achi...

Suppression of Peierls Instability in a Metal−Halide Porous Framework

ABSTRACT Peierls distortion is a lattice instability in low‐dimensional materials driven by electron–phonon coupling, which opens an energy gap at the Fermi level and induces a metal–insulator transition. Suppressing this distortion is crucial for stabilizing metallic and superco...

Electrochemical Charge–Discharge Behavior of a Binder‐Free 3D ‐Printed LCNO ‐Derived Multiphase La–Cu–Ni–O Ceramic Electrode

ABSTRACT In this study, the electrochemical charge–discharge behavior of a binder‐free, self‐supporting, porous three‐dimensional (3D) LCNO‐derived multiphase La–Cu–Ni–O ceramic electrode (LCNO‐MP) fabricated from a nominal La 2 CuNiO 6 precursor powder (LCNO) was investigated. T...

Defined Dinuclear Nickel Sites on Mesoporous Silica Translate Molecular Surface Mimics to Heterogeneous Catalysis

ABSTRACT Metal–metal cooperativity in dinuclear transition‐metal systems offers unique opportunities for controlling reactivity and selectivity in catalytic transformations. Here, we report, inspired by molecular chemistry, the assembly of a bimetallic nickel system grafted onto...

First Level Voynich Key

A first step Wheel Cypher key that was found within Zodiac Page, further keys are needed, however this establishes a mechanism in which way it was encrypted.

Two mathematical defects in the IT³ "Perez Hourglass" architecture (Zenodo 21792530): a metric signature change at the poles, and failure of the stated O_h invariance

Comment on V. Logvinovich, “The Macroscopic Vacuum Architecture: Perez Hourglass Topology, Counter-Rotating Bowls, and m=6⊕12 Fractal Superposition in the Solar System (IT3 Framework v6.0)”, Zenodo, 2026-08-04, doi:10.5281/zenodo.21792530. Two equations displayed in the target ma...

Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome in a Frail Elderly Patient: It's Not Always Pneumonia

Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a rare condition characterized by positional dyspnea and arterial desaturation that worsens in the upright position and improves when supine. It is most commonly associated with intracardiac right-to-left shunting, often through a patent fo...

The Substrate Modulation of Decay Constants

Title: The Substrate Modulation of Decay Constants: Resolving Annual Nuclear Half-Life Oscillations via Solar Spatial Deletion Traffic and the Topological Drag Constant ($\mathcal{C}_\delta$) Author: Marco Lindenbeck Description: Standard nuclear physics operates under the founda...

An Adelic Spectral Operator, Einstein–Cartan Torsion and Helical Light Propagation: Pipeline Code and Laboratory Protocol for MS v3.0

This repository contains the complete technical framework, cryptographic pipeline code, and laboratory verification protocol associated with Manuscript v3.0 of the QCAL research initiative. We model a geometric candidate operator on the adelic Hilbert space L²(C_Q¹) designed to r...

Babylonian Base-60 System: Superior Computational Power for Ancient Astronomy — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Babylonian base-60 (sexagesimal) system provided superior computational power for astronomy and complex arithmetic, enabling precise division and fraction handling. MATH: - Base 60: 60 = 2² × 3 × 5 (highly composite, 12 divisors: 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30,60) - Key frac...

IronClad AI Agent: A Secure-by-Design, Rust-Native Autonomous AI Agent Orchestration Framework for Consumer Hardware

As large language models (LLMs) transition from conversational interfaces to autonomous agents that interact directly with operating systems, the risk of destructive actions, data exfiltration, and prompt-injection exploits increases significantly. Traditional Python-based orches...

A Physics Canon as a Replayable Algebraic Object: Verifier-Governed Extraction, Representation, and Minimality Classification

A verifier-governed method for converting a changing foundational-physics corpus into a byte-pinned algebraic presentation, testing a representation against contracts frozen before evidence, and classifying its minimality. The accepted weak representation is irreducible and rigid...

Golden Ratio φ Generates Icosahedron, 600-Cell, and E8-Linked Quasicrystal — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Icosahedral vertex coordinates are explicitly generated by the golden ratio φ, and the 600-cell (4D regular polytope) is the 4D analogue of the icosahedron, with its vertices also expressible in terms of φ. The 120-cell (4D dodecahedron) is dual to the 600-cell. An icosa...

Model of Cosmic Equilibrium

This work introduces a parametric hypothesis of structural coupling of an object with field geometry — the dimensionless index Gp. The formula is not derived from the equations of Newton, Coulomb or Einstein, but ispostulated as a working combination consistent with the hierarchy...

Coordinated optimization of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and reactive power compensation in active distribution networks with V2G services

This work presents an innovative strategy to augment the efficiency and profitability of electrical distribution networks (DNs) in the context of increasing plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) acceptance. The method focuses on the optimal assignment of PEV charging stations and capaci...

Human, AI, and Organizational Performance (HAOP): A Safety Framework for the AI Era

Human, AI, and Organizational Performance (HAOP) is a safety framework extending Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) to work systems in which AI performs consequential functions. The framework recognizes three performers in one work system – the human who adapts, the AI th...