{"abstention_reason":null,"arm":"SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","candidate_id":"stock_flow_accumulation_control__literature_literary_theory__SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","cell_id":"stock_flow_accumulation_control__literature_literary_theory","decision":"PROPOSAL","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","proposal":{"actors":["Special-collections conservator who sets material-specific exposure ceilings and controls handling conditions","Literary scholar or textual critic examining physical manuscripts for wording, revision, marginalia, sequence, and inscription evidence","Reading-room technician who installs and verifies the noncontact illumination hood and exposure instrument","Independent imaging or conservation specialist who compares condition records without judging the interpretation"],"affected_objective":"Preserve the long-term legibility and evidentiary value of light-sensitive literary manuscripts while permitting close examination of physical features that reproductions may not capture.","arm":"SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","authority_safety":{"authorized_first_step":"The conservator may authorize passive dose measurement during already-approved examinations and a bench test of the hood on a facsimile; deployment on an original requires a material-specific ceiling, noncontact clearance check, and confirmation that the configuration introduces no heat, abrasion, or handling hazard.","decision_authority":"The responsible conservator retains authority over exposure ceilings, eligible objects, and immediate closure of the shutter; scholars decide which authorized regions merit examination but cannot override material-safety limits.","excluded_actions":["Creating additional exposure solely to calibrate or demonstrate the device on an original","Treating unused dose allowance as permission for unnecessary illumination","Placing filters, badges, masks, sensors, or supports directly on a manuscript surface","Using a generic ceiling across inks, pigments, papers, bindings, or prior conditions with materially different sensitivities","Substituting dose measurements for direct condition assessment","Automatically denying scholarly access without conservator review of lower-dose alternatives"],"halt_rollback":"Close the shutter, remove the freestanding hood, and revert to the prior conservation-approved setup if the device raises local temperature, contacts or shadows the object unpredictably, impairs safe handling, produces unreliable dose readings, or prevents the authorized examination. Preserve measurements as audit data and do not compensate for a failed trial with extra exposure."},"baseline":"For six weeks of already-scheduled examinations of one eligible manuscript, record effective actinic irradiance and elapsed exposure by folio region without changing the approved lighting workflow. Include ambient light, task lighting, photography, setup, and transport intervals; reconcile instrument totals with session records and obtain conservator-approved condition images before and after the observation window. No extra illumination is introduced.","candidate_id":"stock_flow_accumulation_control__literature_literary_theory__SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","causal_chain":["Repeated close examination, setup, photography, and incidental room illumination deliver radiant energy to manuscript surfaces.","Staff can keep instantaneous illuminance low while overlooking the time-integrated, spectrally weighted exposure accumulated by particular folio regions across many sessions.","Because absorbed radiant exposure is not cleared when a session ends, small inflows accumulate toward a material-specific ceiling and may drive irreversible photochemical change.","Loss of ink or substrate contrast can erase revisions, cancellations, marginal marks, and material distinctions that support later literary interpretation.","A noncontact integrating instrument makes the regional exposure stock visible and reconciles it with the separate illumination flows from examination, photography, ambient light, and handling intervals.","A wavelength-selective filter physically reduces damaging spectral inflow, an aperture mask confines exposure spatially, and a normally closed shutter stops inflow whenever observation is paused.","A conservator-set warning band prompts use of shorter openings, a smaller aperture, or a different already-captured representation before the ceiling is reached.","Condition comparison and monitoring of illumination outside the hood test whether the dose trajectory changed without displacing exposure to photography, setup, transport, or another folio."],"cell_id":"stock_flow_accumulation_control__literature_literary_theory","consequence":"Cumulative light exposure may irreversibly reduce the contrast of inscriptions or substrate features, narrowing the textual and material evidence available for future close reading, genetic criticism, attribution, and interpretation even though every individual session appeared conservatively lit.","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"P1 governs accumulated interpretive dependencies through a claim ledger and editorial dispositions. This proposal instead controls a physical stock of radiant exposure on manuscript material through spectral filtering, spatial masking, a mechanical shutter, and noncontact dose instrumentation; its affected problem, intervention, and photon-to-photochemical-change causal path are independent of manuscript argument workflow.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","intervention":"Install a freestanding, noncontact examination hood over one conservator-approved literary manuscript. The hood combines a wavelength-selective optical filter, an adjustable opaque aperture that exposes only the region under examination, a normally closed mechanical shutter, and a calibrated integrating actinic-dose instrument positioned in the same illumination plane without touching the object. Define the stock for each folio region as cumulative spectrally weighted radiant exposure in joules per square metre over the designated access cycle. The instrument integrates inflow from each shutter-open interval; session records separately estimate ambient, photography, setup, and transport contributions, with discrepancies retained as residuals. Before use, the conservator assigns a material-specific warning band and hard ceiling. As the warning band is approached, the physical levers are reduced aperture area, shorter shutter-open intervals, stronger safe-band filtering, or cessation of direct illumination. No software is required to filter, mask, or interrupt the radiant-energy flow.","mechanism_mapping":[{"counterfactual_removal":"Without reconciliation, unmetered setup, ambient, photography, or transport exposure could make the displayed total falsely reassuring.","mechanism_slug":"stock_flow_balance_reconciliation","role":"The prior regional dose plus integrated examination, ambient, photography, setup, and transport inflows is compared with the current instrument total; unexplained differences remain an explicit residual."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without a physical lever on radiant-energy inflow, dose measurement would only document approach to the ceiling while exposure continued.","mechanism_slug":"net_flow_lever_adjustment","role":"The spectral filter lowers effective irradiance, the aperture reduces exposed area, and the shutter reduces illuminated time, directly decreasing the long-run accumulation rate."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without a stock-level warning, apparently modest session-level illuminance could continue after repeated examinations had nearly exhausted the safe access-cycle allowance.","mechanism_slug":"accumulation_threshold_alert","role":"The integrating instrument compares cumulative regional dose with a conservator-set warning band and ceiling rather than treating instantaneous illuminance as the safety state."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without checking exposure outside the measured examination interval, apparent improvement could reflect displacement into photography, setup, transport, or examination of an adjacent folio.","mechanism_slug":"hidden_accumulation_probe","role":"Witness measurements and session reconciliation sample coupled locations and activities outside the hood's principal measurement interval."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without spatial buffering, the entire opening would accumulate dose whenever a scholar needed to inspect one word, erasure, or marginal mark.","mechanism_slug":"stock_level_buffering","role":"The opaque aperture shields surrounding material and concentrates the limited exposure allowance on the smallest region needed for the authorized observation."}],"nearest_rivals":["Blanket low-illuminance reading-room rules, which constrain an instantaneous flow but need not measure cumulative regional exposure","Appointment-duration limits, which regulate access time but cannot account for spectral output, shutter closures, aperture area, or exposure outside appointments","Condition photography, which can reveal change after it occurs but does not directly reduce the incoming radiant-energy flow","Full-object covers removed for examination, which alternate between protection and broad exposure rather than confining illumination to the inspected region","Use of existing digital surrogates, which avoids some physical access but may omit surface relief, ink sheen, erasures, sequence evidence, or newly relevant regions"],"negative_tests":{"intervention_falsifier":"The intervention is falsified if, for equivalent authorized examination tasks, measured regional actinic-dose accumulation is not lower than under the baseline setup, residual exposure rises enough to offset the reduction, or independent condition checks reveal heat, handling, or optical harms introduced by the hood.","problem_falsifier":"The proposed problem is absent in the selected collection if repeated measurements show negligible cumulative exposure beyond instrument uncertainty, no folio approaches a conservator-defined warning band over the relevant access cycle, or the material features needed for scholarship are demonstrably insensitive to the encountered spectrum and dose.","risks":["The hood or its supports could create collision, heat, airflow, or handling hazards.","Filtering may reduce contrast and lengthen examination enough to offset some reduction in irradiance.","A poorly positioned sensor may not represent the dose received by the inspected region.","A numerical ceiling may be mistaken for a universally safe exposure level despite uncertainty and heterogeneous materials.","Exposure may shift to photography, setup, transport, adjacent folios, or repeated visits.","Access restrictions near a warning threshold may burden scholars whose questions require physical material evidence."],"strongest_counterevidence":"Matched condition records may remain stable across folios with substantially different measured doses, while most consequential exposure may arise from activities the hood cannot affect; that result would weaken both the proposed stock measure and the intervention's practical leverage."},"next_evidence_step":"Bench-test the hood on a facsimile bearing low-contrast marks, then conduct a conservator-approved alternating-session pilot during twelve already-scheduled examinations of one eligible manuscript, with no added exposure. Compare the baseline setup and hood on integrated regional dose, shutter-open time, aperture area, temperature, task completion, scholar-rated legibility, balance residuals, and exposure displaced to setup, photography, transport, or adjacent folios. Stop immediately at the conservator's preassigned ceiling or any physical-safety signal.","observable_state":"For every designated folio region, a cumulative actinic-dose reading in joules per square metre, its percentage of the conservator-set access-cycle ceiling, and separate time-indexed contributions from examination, ambient light, photography, setup, and transport. The balance is H(t+1)=H(t)+examination+ambient+photography+setup+transport+residual; shutter closure drives examination inflow to zero, while filter transmission and aperture position determine its spectral and spatial magnitude.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","problem":"During repeated physical examination of literary manuscripts, staff manage lamp brightness or session duration as flows but may not track the cumulative, spectrally weighted radiant exposure retained by each folio region. Low illumination across many close-reading, photography, and setup intervals can therefore build an unseen exposure stock toward irreversible fading or contrast loss precisely in revisions, marginalia, cancellations, and other material features on which literary interpretation depends.","proposal_index":2,"remaining_contrastive_claim":"The bounded claim to test is that folio-region actinic exposure behaves as a decision-relevant accumulated stock distinct from instantaneous illuminance, and that passive spectral filtering, spatial masking, and normally closed shuttering can reduce its trajectory during materially equivalent literary examination without shifting an offsetting dose elsewhere.","revision_record":{"claim_changes":["Initial second-slot candidate; makes no claim of novelty, prevalence, universal material sensitivity, or guaranteed preservation effect."],"conceptual_changes":["Mapped stock-flow accumulation control to cumulative radiant exposure of literary manuscript regions rather than to interpretive claims or editorial work."],"evidence_changes":["No external evidence consulted; prior art remains unsearched and all empirical claims are framed for bounded testing."],"operational_changes":["Specified the physical stock and unit, folio-region boundary, exposure inflows, balance residual, material-specific thresholds, passive optical levers, noncontact instrumentation, displacement checks, authority limits, falsifiers, and safe pilot."],"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Complete independent second-slot reverse-innovation candidate","Primary physical/material causal substrate","Explicit stock-flow balance and threshold control","Materially distinct problem, intervention, and causal path from P1","Authority safeguards, negative tests, and bounded evidence step"]},"schema_version":1,"structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Persistent stock with a defined unit, boundary, owner, measurement source, and cadence","domain_realization":"Cumulative spectrally weighted radiant exposure, measured in joules per square metre for each designated folio region over an access cycle, is owned by the responsible conservator and read from a calibrated integrating instrument after every session."},{"archetype_element":"Distinct inflow, outflow, clearance, leakage, conversion, and transfer paths","domain_realization":"Examination lamps, ambient room light, photography, setup, and transport add dose. Absorbed exposure has no practical clearance or outflow; spectral absorption converts incoming energy into photochemical burden, while unmetered intervals form leakage paths."},{"archetype_element":"Net-flow balance and residual reconciliation","domain_realization":"The observed change in cumulative dose is reconciled against separately recorded exposure contributions, with unmatched dose retained as a residual rather than credited to safe handling."},{"archetype_element":"Target band, warning threshold, and capacity ceiling","domain_realization":"The conservator assigns a material- and condition-specific warning band and hard access-cycle ceiling for each eligible object or region before deployment."},{"archetype_element":"Levers that change the accumulation trajectory","domain_realization":"Optical filtering lowers effective spectral inflow, the aperture reduces the exposed surface, and the mechanical shutter shortens exposure time and stops inflow during pauses."},{"archetype_element":"Delays, nonlinear thresholds, saturation, and coupled stocks","domain_realization":"Photochemical change may appear only after accumulated exposure and may vary nonlinearly by material; neighboring folios and exposures during photography, setup, or transport are treated as coupled stocks rather than ignored."},{"archetype_element":"Post-intervention monitoring and retirement or retuning","domain_realization":"Dose trajectory, residuals, temperature, condition images, task success, and displaced exposure are reviewed after each pilot session; filters, apertures, thresholds, or use of the hood are retuned or retired if protection is not demonstrated or new hazards appear."}],"substrate_contract":{"counterfactual_independence":"If all scheduling rules, software, databases, alerts, and digital logs are removed, the optical filter still attenuates selected wavelengths, the opaque aperture still blocks photons from surrounding regions, and the closed mechanical shutter still stops illumination. A local integrating instrument can display cumulative dose without computational interpretation; wrappers improve records but do not supply the essential effect.","forbidden_channel_audit":"The proposal does not obtain its core effect from governance, training, incentives, algorithms, models, databases, information routing, or digital control. Human authorization sets safety bounds, but photon attenuation and interruption are produced by material optical and mechanical components, with measurement instrumentation observing the resulting physical stock.","primary_allowed_process":"PHYSICAL_MATERIAL"},"title":"Dose-Limited Illumination Hood for Close Reading of Literary Manuscripts","version":0},"schema_version":1}