{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"substrate_lineage_risk_audit__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["thermal paper receipts image fading preservation microfilm archival","thermal paper records preservation photocopy microfilm guidance","thermal receipts microfilm accounting records"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["thermographic paper archival storage ISO 9706 receipts","thermofax preservation microfilm faded thermographic paper","thermal paper microfilming preservation"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["silver gelatin microfilm thermal paper filtered light step wedge preservation","ISO 18901 processed silver gelatin type black-and-white films specifications stability microfilm","archival microfilming technical standards resolution target step wedge density preservation microfilm"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["thermal paper spectral imaging filtered light faded text","thermal paper image stability accelerated ageing study receipt optical density","Forensic examination of thermal papers using Video Spectral Comparator","thermal paper accelerated aging image stability receipt light heat study"],"source_ids":["SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Managing records on thermal papers","publisher":"National Archives of Australia","url":"https://www.naa.gov.au/information-management/storing-and-preserving-information/preserving-information/managing-records-thermal-papers","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Thermal-paper image-forming layers remain chemically active after printing.","Modern thermal images can fade, while heat, light, friction, solvents, and PVC-related vapours can accelerate fading or background darkening.","Thermal paper is unsuitable for long-term records; archival copying, controlled storage, light limitation, and physical separation are recommended."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"The Selection And Preparation Of Records For Publication On Microfilm","publisher":"U.S. National Archives and Records Administration","url":"https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/microfilm-prep.html","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Archival microfilming is an established way to provide copies, reduce handling, and insure against loss of information.","Poor source contrast, faded media, and darkened paper can cause detail loss during microfilming.","Established practice includes identifying targets, special instructions for low-contrast records, inspection of every exposure, and retakes of unsatisfactory images."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"ISO 18901:2010 — Imaging materials — Processed silver-gelatin-type black-and-white films — Specifications for stability","publisher":"International Organization for Standardization","url":"https://www.iso.org/standard/51029.html","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["A current international standard establishes stability specifications for photographic films intended for record storage.","Its scope includes processed black-and-white silver-gelatin emulsions on polyester or safety-cellulose-ester bases.","The standard distinguishes qualifying wet-processed silver films from dry-thermal, chromogenic, colour, and other excluded film systems."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Forensic examination of thermal papers using Video Spectral Comparator (VSC) and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics: Non-destructive approach","publisher":"U.S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed record for Spectrochimica Acta Part A)","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34051637/","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["A published study used non-destructive spectral examination to characterize and discriminate thermal-paper samples.","Video spectral comparison was used to decipher artificially and naturally faded thermal printing.","The study examined how different storage conditions affected fading rates, demonstrating measurable material- and environment-related behavior."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The inherited-substrate problem is visible: official archival guidance identifies stock-dependent thermal-paper instability, continuing chemical activity, fading or darkening, and environmental and contact hazards, while primary research demonstrates discrimination among thermal papers and measurable fading under different storage conditions. The retained sources do not establish how often accounting archives depend exclusively on such receipts or quantify resulting audit failures, so the accounting-specific prevalence and consequence remain unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Archival copying and controlled storage of thermal-paper records","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Recognizes thermal paper as an unstable inherited medium and recommends early archival copying, backup creation, cool storage, limited light, and separation from other records.","remaining_difference":"It does not use paper/printer/source lineage groups, matched-coupon aging, filtered-light selection, or calibrated silver-gelatin film capture."},{"name":"Standards-based archival microfilming of low-contrast records","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"overlap":"Transfers records to stable processed silver-gelatin film and uses identifying targets, quality inspection, and special handling where poor contrast threatens reproduction.","remaining_difference":"It is not specifically driven by thermal-paper lineage or sacrificial aging results, and the located guidance does not prescribe receipt-level filtered-light and co-imaged step-wedge sequences."},{"name":"Non-destructive spectral discrimination and recovery of faded thermal-paper printing","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Combines thermal-paper sample discrimination, spectral viewing of faded printing, and investigation of storage-dependent fading—closely matching the proposal's lineage, observability, and environmental-response components.","remaining_difference":"It is forensic examination research rather than an accounting preservation station and does not migrate each image onto calibrated archival silver-gelatin microfilm with a separately stored duplicate."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"The remaining falsifiable claim is that, for identifiable thermal-receipt groups, matched-coupon aging plus non-destructive spectral selection can prospectively identify higher-risk receipts and choose a reproducible illumination band, and that direct co-calibrated silver-gelatin microfilm capture then yields more repeatable field transcription after stress than ordinary visible-light photocopying or inert storage alone. The individual elements are established or adjacent; only their receipt-lineage-driven integration remains distinct in this bounded search.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if a direct prior practice or publication is found that already combines thermal-paper lineage grouping, matched-coupon aging, spectral selection, co-imaged calibration, and archival silver-gelatin microfilming for record preservation; experimentally, it is falsified if lineage or coupon results fail to predict contrast loss, filtered exposures are not repeatable, or calibrated film does not outperform ordinary photocopies on blinded transcription and processing-quality endpoints.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct wording, historical terms such as Thermo-Fax and thermographic paper, archival copying and microfilm standards, and combinations involving spectral examination, material discrimination, fading, and accelerated aging. Exactly four opened sources span official guidance, an international standard, and primary research from four publisher contexts.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Official guidance and primary research support thermal-paper fading, environmental sensitivity, material variability, and potential information loss. Accounting-specific prevalence is unmeasured, making the evidence partial but sufficient for this gate.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although copying, archival microfilm, spectral recovery, and thermal-paper discrimination are prior art, the proposed linkage of matched-coupon lineage testing to illumination choice and calibrated photochemical migration remains operationally distinct and falsifiable.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A six-group sacrificial-coupon study with dark, heat, and light arms; ordinary-photocopy and calibrated-film comparators; blinded field transcription; repeatable spectral exposures; and film quality controls is small, measurable, reversible for originals, and directly tests the remaining contrast.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The authorized first test confines stress to expendable matched coupons, uses only non-destructive imaging on originals, retains originals, and assigns chemical processing to a qualified laboratory. Record-owner approval, evidentiary approval, privacy controls, handling precautions, and chemical safety remain necessary operational conditions but are not obvious categorical stops.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This light, bounded search supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a testable residual combination claim. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, accounting admissibility across jurisdictions, realized preservation life, or realized audit value."}