Welcome to USMA Athena
USMA Athena is a secure digital service managed by the United States Military Academy Library to make the work of USMA scholars freely available, while also ensuring these resources are organized to preserve the legacy of USMA scholarship. The mission of USMA Athena is to showcase the academic impact and intellectual capital that has become synonymous with the celebrated heritage of educational prowess attributed to the Long Gray Line. Scholarship submitted to USMA Athena benefits from added visibility and discoverability via Google Scholar in addition to the use of persistent URLs that will provide enduring access to the work over time.
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Item GeoJitter: a flexible toolkit for region-aware node jittering in spatial networks(Discover Networks, 2026-01-28)GeoJitter is an open-source Python package for region-aware randomization of node locations in spatial networks, designed to preserve network structure while mitigating privacy risks and supporting spatial visualization of incomplete or uncertain data. Existing open-source randomization techniques rarely incorporate geospatial boundaries, limiting their applicability for spatial analysis; GeoJitter addresses this gap and provides tiling solutions when region data is unavailable. Performance was compared against Radius and K-Nearest Neighbor randomization across 100 trials on Brightkite and Gowalla networks; structural metrics remained stable with the most disparity in average path length, which changed by 0.14–0.28 (versus 0.06–0.09 for benchmarks). Changes in betweenness were near zero (− 0.0001 overall), clustering coefficient shifted by approximately 0.009, and modularity by − 0.015. These results demonstrate comparability to established methods while introducing a flexible, region-aware approach for privacy-sensitive spatial analysis.Item The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience- Summer 2024 Full Issue(West Point Press, 2024)The Managing Insider Risk & Organizational Resilience (MIROR) Journal (Online ISSN 2832-5427 Print ISSN 2832-5419) is a scholarly Open Access journal published by the West Point Press, the publishing arm of the United States Military Academy, and produced by the Insider Threat Research Research Program at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. The views expressed in the journal are those of the authors and not the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. The mention of companies and/or products is for demonstrative purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.Item The MIROR Journal: Managing Insider Risk and Organizational Resilience- Summer 2023 Full Issue(West Point Press, 2023)The Managing Insider Risk & Organizational Resilience (MIROR) Journal (Online ISSN 2832-5427 Print ISSN 2832-5419) is a scholarly Open Access journal published by the West Point Press, the publishing arm of the United States Military Academy, and produced by the Insider Threat Research Research Program at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. The views expressed in the journal are those of the authors and not the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. The mention of companies and/or products is for demonstrative purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.Item Imagery Training Session Workshop - Supporting Handouts(2025-05-02)These handouts were used in support of a collaborative research study that examined military musicians’ perceived impact of guided imagery on performance anxiety and overall performance quality. Participants engaged in a series of structured imagery sessions designed as benign behavioral interventions, during which they reflected on their cognitive, emotional, and physiological experiences related to performance. The intervention was supported by four purpose‑built handouts that scaffolded the sessions: (1) an introduction to imagery and its role in music performance, (2) a worksheet for identifying personal anxiety triggers and performance goals, (3) a guided script for constructing individualized performance imagery, and (4) a post‑session reflection and self‑assessment tool. Together, these handouts ensured consistency across sessions and provided musicians with a structured framework for developing and applying imagery techniques. Findings from participant reports contribute to understanding how imagery‑based interventions may reduce performance anxiety and enhance readiness among military musicians.Item Video-Integrated System for Testing Augmented Reality (VISTA): A Rapid Testing Methodology for AR Platforms(Springer Nature, 2025-05-30)This paper evaluates a methodology aimed at enhancing the iterative development of augmented reality (AR) systems. We introduce the Video-Integrated System for Testing Augmented Reality (VISTA), a solution addressing two key challenges for AR developers: slow application deployment and the requirement for users to wear an AR headset for testing. Our approach leverages Holographic Remoting software and the Device Portal application to create short demonstration videos, enabling users to observe users interacting with and the physical world without deploying the application to a device or requiring headset use. To pilot VISTA, we surveyed novice software developers for feedback on an AR application we created, which yielded encouraging results.
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