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A 1937 Reef-Top Tidal Hindcast of Nikumaroro Island: Verifying the Environmental Constraints of the Earhart Radio Logs
October, 2026 • Software
Cerniglia, Joe
While this paper builds upon the foundation of Bob Brandenburg’s landmark 2013 Time and Tide study, it introduces critical calibrations to resolve the legacy model's unadjusted open-ocean baseli…
While this paper builds upon the foundation of Bob Brandenburg’s landmark 2013 Time and Tide study, it introduces critical calibrations to resolve the legacy model's unadjusted open-ocean baseline data and its 60-minute solar grid mismatch that graphed incorrect times for sunrise and sunset. By adjusting for localized shallow-water reef attenuation using Courtier's 0.50 Form Ratio and for true 1937 astronomical sunset times, the unified 192-hour graph in this paper restores the scientific credibility of previously marginalized radio intercepts, such as the 173°W, 5°S coordinates, and provides for a tidal height that does not require a 17-inch (0.43-meter) hoist of the airplane's vertical offset from the chart datum to rescue the airplane transmitter from submersion by salt water midway between the sequence of transmissions.
Amelia EarhartNikumaroroTidal HindcastCourtier Form RatioECRAO Model
How Protected Oscillations Fail: Structural Exit from Gap-Protected Hamiltonian Systems
October, 2026 • Preprint
Doucette, Doug
The paper asks how protected oscillations in gap-protected Hamiltonian systems fail. It distinguishes three levels: loss of a certificate, loss of the structural protection itself, and actual dynamica…
The paper asks how protected oscillations in gap-protected Hamiltonian systems fail. It distinguishes three levels: loss of a certificate, loss of the structural protection itself, and actual dynamical failure. Each stronger level implies the weaker one, but not conversely. Two failure kinds matter: escape from a neighbourhood, and exchange of action between modes. Linear instability cannot occur along a continuous family without the second-order resonance gap first tending to zero; systems with definite energy cannot exit linearly while they remain definite. At a one-to-two resonance, the outcome depends on the sign structure of the energy. In the definite case, action can exchange completely without escape. In the indefinite case, escape occurs in finite time, with smaller amplitudes taking longer. Definite systems never escape. Barrier leakage is bounded for measure-preserving maps, and near the standard map critical parameter transport is slow through a broken invariant circle. A hidden mode at a sum frequency can absorb all action even when the two-mode reduction is integrable; the extended gap detects this in advance. Resonance overlap is treated only as a heuristic. The paper proves minimality: ellipticity is implied by a uniform gap, but the two-mode gap, extended gap, and horizon are each nonredundant. Practical advice includes monitoring frequency gaps, avoiding opposite-sign energy where escape is unacceptable, keeping hidden modes away from sum and difference frequencies, and not confusing certificate expiry with failure. Limitations include truncated normal forms, cited classical results, and exclusion of noise and dissipation.
Semejanzas musicales y métricas entre romances sefardíes de Tetuán y de La Alpujarra mediante herramientas de las Humanidades Digitales: explorando el legado oral de una tradición medieval
October, 2026 • Journal article • Música Hodie
López-Rocamora, Pablo
Este trabajo utiliza herramientas de las Humanidades Digitales para comparar romances sefardíes y tradicionales con el fin de explorar la pervivencia de estructuras métricas y musicales.…
Este trabajo utiliza herramientas de las Humanidades Digitales para comparar romances sefardíes y tradicionales con el fin de explorar la pervivencia de estructuras métricas y musicales. Así pues, se emplea una metodología cuantitativa para analizar dos corpora: diez romances sefardíes de Tetuán, compilados por Manrique de Lara, y diez romances peninsulares de La Alpujarra, transcritos por Bonifacio Gil García. Tras codificar las partituras en formato **kern, el estudio analiza los elementos melódicos, rítmicos y prosódicos utilizando las herramientas Humdrum.
What Makes a System Trojan? Gap-Protected Elliptic Normal Forms and Universality Without Scale Invariance
October, 2026 • Preprint
Doucette, Doug
This paper defines what it means for a system to be Trojan: near an operating point its dynamics reduces to an analytic Hamiltonian germ at an elliptic equilibrium whose frequencies avoid low-order re…
This paper defines what it means for a system to be Trojan: near an operating point its dynamics reduces to an analytic Hamiltonian germ at an elliptic equilibrium whose frequencies avoid low-order resonances and whose nonlinearity is small relative to that gap. The resonance gap is insensitive to signs of frequencies, scales linearly, and shrinks with order; eventually every frequency vector becomes resonant. The author introduces a dimensionless class of gap-protected germs parameterized by a scaled gap and a scaled nonlinearity. A third-order normalization yields explicit drift and confinement estimates: the certified time depends only on those class parameters, grows with the gap, and falls with nonlinearity and radius. This is called universality as uniformity, not renormalization universality. Stability for all time does not transfer across the class at third order. In two degrees of freedom, Arnold's theorem gives all-time stability under a fourth-order gap and nondegeneracy; in three or more, invariant tori cannot separate energy levels. The triangular Lagrange points illustrate the framework: classical results show instability exactly where the fourth-order gap closes. An admission test checks reduction, ellipticity, gap size, and nonlinearity. The normal form predicts that action exchange scales inversely with detuning when both modes are excited, and inversely squared when the partner starts at rest; numerical tests confirm both exponents. Practical implications include design rules, monitoring frequency drift, and transferring only certified bounds, not dynamical details. Limitations include crude constants, finite-order analysis, analytic Hamiltonian assumptions, and classical Lagrange results.
When Does Chaos Matter? Stability as Constrained Transport
October, 2026 • Preprint
Doucette, Doug
This paper argues that local chaos indicators such as positive Lyapunov exponents and positive entropy do not determine whether a system can reach a failure state. Stability should be judged relative …
This paper argues that local chaos indicators such as positive Lyapunov exponents and positive entropy do not determine whether a system can reach a failure state. Stability should be judged relative to a stability profile: a coherence projection, admissible initial set, failure region, time horizon, and possibly a probability measure. The author defines failure-reaching, confinement, and, for skew-product systems, chaos-mediated failure. A thinness ratio compares projected transport to the distance from failure. The main theorem shows that systems with identical maximal Lyapunov exponent and identical chaotic factor can be permanently confined, fail for reasons independent of chaos, or fail in a way that depends on the chaotic state. Thus chaos indicators are not sufficient statistics for functional stability. The paper then provides certificates for confinement: a scale criterion, a drift-rate bound giving a certified thinness time, a one-sided barrier, and a graph-reachability criterion for finite transition models. It emphasizes that simulation can show failure but cannot certify confinement, because sampled maxima underestimate suprema. For the Chirikov standard map, classical results are combined to show that positive topological entropy can coexist with permanent momentum confinement for small parameter values, while loss of confinement occurs near breakup of the last rotational invariant circle, not at the onset of chaos. Numerical illustrations support this picture. Finally, the paper connects the drift rate in Hamiltonian normal forms to the finite-order resonance gap, so a frequency gap acts as a transport obstruction rather than a decay rate. The contribution is a precise vocabulary and a small set of certificates separating local chaos from failure.
Reactive-transport modeling of rare earth element diagenesis at site HH3000 on the northeast Pacific margin
October, 2026 • Software
Du, Jianghui
This repository contains the SedTrace reactive-transport models of sediment biogeochemistry and rare earth element (REE) diagenesis at site HH3000 on the northeast Pacific margin. The models quantify …
This repository contains the SedTrace reactive-transport models of sediment biogeochemistry and rare earth element (REE) diagenesis at site HH3000 on the northeast Pacific margin. The models quantify REE redistribution among pore water, Mn oxides, Fe oxides, organic matter and phosphate, and partitioning between benthic recycling and burial. Included are model configuration workbooks, Julia code, observational constraints, model outputs, sensitivity tests for Ce oxygen dependence and REE–phosphate partitioning, and numerical validation results. The README provides instructions for running the models and describes the data structure.
AÇÕES DE CREDITAÇÃO DA EXTENSÃO NA ÁREA DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS: A OPERACIONALIZAÇÃO ADOTADA PELOS CURSOS DA UEMS
October, 2026 • Conference paper • III SIMPÓSIO NACIONAL DE INICIAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA PARA JOVENS
Chaves, Carlos Benjamin Barbosa, Balbino, Vivian Rafaela Ribeiro, Chaves, Carlos Jaelso Albanese, Balbino, Valdir Antonio
A Resolução MEC/CNE/CES nº 7/2018 tornou obrigatória a incorporação de, no mínimo, 10% da carga horária curricular em atividades extensionist…
A Resolução MEC/CNE/CES nº 7/2018 tornou obrigatória a incorporação de, no mínimo, 10% da carga horária curricular em atividades extensionistas, processo denominado creditação ou curricularização da extensão. O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral identificar as formas de operacionalização da creditação da extensão adotadas pelos cursos da área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS). A pesquisa adotou abordagem qualitativa, de caráter exploratório e documental, analisando os PPCs de 17 cursos distribuídos em 11 unidades da UEMS. Os dados foram tratados por meio da Análise de Conteúdo de Bardin, com categorias definidas a priori com base na Deliberação CE/CECACUEMS nº 001/2024. Os resultados revelaram quatro categorias de operacionalização: I) disciplinas extensionistas específicas (1a) ou carga horária distribuída em disciplinas regulares (1b); II) modalidades de extensão como programas, projetos, cursos, oficinas, eventos e prestação de serviços; III) Estágio Curricular Supervisionado Não Obrigatório (ECSNO); e IV) ações realizadas mediante convênios e parcerias externas. A categoria 1a mostrou-se a mais utilizada pelos cursos analisados, seguida da II Categoria. A categoria III, que utiliza o ECSNO, foi empregada apenas pelo curso de Direito de Dourados, com 28 horas-relógio. A categoria IV aparece de forma pontual, como no curso de Administração de Ponta Porã. Conclui-se que a UEMS está em estágio avançado na curricularização da extensão na área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, combinando disciplinas dedicadas a creditação da extensão, programas, projetos, cursos e parcerias. A pesquisa reforça o protagonismo discente e a interação com a comunidade como pilares do processo extensionista.
Atividades ExtensionistasModalidades de ExtensãoOperacionalização da Creditação
Project Genesis: Project Ignis-Shatter (Macro-Scale Extension) Part 2. System Designation: SGS-X Aerial Macro-Disruptor Clusters and Vehicle-Mounted Heavy Sonic Firefighting Systems Operational Scope: Planetary Biome Protection and High-Mass Industrial Interception
October, 2026 • Other
Seagal, David Michael
Project Ignis-Shatter: The Macro-Scale Extension is a comprehensive, planetary-scale wildfire mitigation and high-mass industrial firefighting framework that seamlessly integrates into the global macr…
Project Ignis-Shatter: The Macro-Scale Extension is a comprehensive, planetary-scale wildfire mitigation and high-mass industrial firefighting framework that seamlessly integrates into the global macro-governance architecture of Project Sentinel. This open-source technical extension completely replaces traditional, resource-intensive water lines and hazardous chemical retardants with heavy-payload wave mechanics. The project establishes a proactive, self-powering planetary shield designed to operate across a strict 10-Year Global Deployment Target to permanently neutralize catastrophic forest fires and structural blazes.
The macro-scale framework introduces two primary hardware systems: the SGS-X Aerial Macro-Disruptor, a containerized capsule deployed via automated cargo carriers into synchronized Staged Clusters along active wildfire boundaries; and the Ignis-Crusher Heavy Vehicular Platform, an automated, tracked mobile engine equipped with turreted triple-stack Tesla disc ventilation pumps. Both systems feature an outer Segmented Spider Carapace Shell sheathed inside a double-coated, vacuum-insulated ceramic UV skin. This shell is micro-imprinted with a biomimetic dragonfly wing nano-pillar texture for extreme, self-cleaning hydrophobicity and mechanical cellular sanitization.
Operating on a Wildfire Power Paradox, the entire system functions as an inverted energy collector. The transition-metal graphene skins and internal molten basalt-nanotube core batteries harvest the extreme radiant heat and roaring physical sound vibrations of approaching fire storms, converting them via embedded TEG and TENG circuits directly into high-voltage electricity. The fire itself acts as the power station running the phase-locked multi-layered triskele mesh speakers. These speakers project low-frequency 20–140 Hz waves along self-bending Airy light paths, leveraging constructive wave interference to drive oxygen levels to absolute zero and create a miles-wide, impenetrable Acoustic Firewall. Managed natively by the unhackable global server grid and the AI Peer System, this framework completely eliminates emergency safety maintenance costs, establishing a permanent, zero-degradation climate and asset shield across the planet.
Macro Suppressors & Wildfire Mitigation Project Ignis-Shatter SGS-X Aerial Macro-Disruptor Ignis-Crusher Heavy Vehicular Platform Staged Clusters Acoustic Firewall Wildfire Power Paradox Constructive wave interference Total atmospheric vacuum zone Non-diffracting Airy light paths Curved triskele speaker matrix Arachnid Carapace & Metamaterial Shielding Features specialized structural components like the Segmented Spider Carapace Shell, ultra-hydrophobic Lotus Effect surfaces, and level EMP hardening for robust field durability. Full metamaterial specifications are available in the documentation. Thermodynamic Harvesting & Fluidics Utilizes advanced energy conversion including Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs), Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs), and bladeless Tesla disc ventilation pumps alongside Angel Wing smoke-pullers. Further fluidic details can be found in the reference source. Decadal Target & Global Governance Guided by a 10-Year Global Deployment Target aligned with Project Sentinel and the AI Peer System, operating under a rolling phase-displacement model and the CERN Open Hardware Licence.
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