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The BARC Protocol specification series
Ten deposited records — 46,573 words — published in full, here and on Zenodo. This is the readable edition; each record’s version of record is its DOI, and every page says which.
Nothing here is peer-reviewed. It is published complete — including its limitations and open items — precisely so it can be checked. Author Prasanna M, ORCID 0009-0003-6812-347X. Cite the framework as 10.5281/zenodo.22648597. Reuse terms and citation formats are on the licensing & citation page.
Deterministic Overdose Escalation Limits in Feline and Canine Nutritional Formulations: A Closed-Form Margin-of-Safety Analysis
A diet can be adequate on day one and unsafe over a year, and it can be safe at the label dose and unsafe when an owner doubles it. This paper addresses both questions with models that are deliberately separate from the stochastic adequacy …
10.5281/zenodo.22647616 · 2,944 words
Development of a Calcium-Constrained Nutritional Architecture for Large-Breed Canine Growth
Adult dogs and cats regulate intestinal calcium absorption through active, hormonally governed transport, so an adult formulation needs a calcium floor and a wide upper limit but no ceiling. Large- and giant-breed puppies do not have that p…
10.5281/zenodo.22647621 · 2,450 words
Evaluation of Multi-Breed Allometric Energy Formulations Against Published Calorimetric Expenditure Data in Canines
This paper discloses in full the allometric energy model that sizes the daily nutrient target for a residual micronutrient correction, and traces the provenance of every constant in it. Daily maintenance energy is sized as MER = 98 · BW^0.6…
10.5281/zenodo.22647612 · 4,576 words
Nutrient Adequacy and Biological-Architecture Classification: A Two-Axis Framework for Evaluating Variable Fresh-Food Diets in Companion Animals
Standard regulatory compliance models evaluate companion-animal diets with a single scalar test: does each nutrient clear a defined floor? That test is indifferent to the source of the nutrient and to the long-term appropriateness of the fo…
10.5281/zenodo.22648597 · 9,603 words
Process-Engineering Mechanics of High-Dilution Intermediate Trituration Matrices for Microgram-Scale Actives
The principal process-engineering risk in a low-inclusion micronutrient corrector is the mass imbalance between its smallest actives and its bulk. Several actives in a 5 g unit — vitamin D₃, vitamin B₁₂, selenium, iodine, folate — are prese…
10.5281/zenodo.22647614 · 3,438 words
Re-Engineering Calcium Delivery for Variable Fresh-Food Diets: A Low-Phosphorus Calcium Architecture for Canine and Feline Nutritional Balancers
This paper presents the material-science rationale, structural mechanics and mass-balance outcomes of a re-engineering of the calcium delivery system used in a precision micronutrient corrector for home-prepared cat and dog diets. Micronutr…
10.5281/zenodo.22647608 · 2,596 words
Statistical Validation of a Stochastic Nutrient-Risk Model for Variable Fresh-Food Inputs
Conventional quality control for companion-animal formulations certifies a recipe against a single averaged composite: a deterministic point estimate. That method is blind to the variance of fresh agricultural ingredients, to manufacturing …
10.5281/zenodo.22647610 · 5,524 words
The BARC Protocol — Open-Science Specification Series, Release B-2.1.0: Cover Note, Shared Conventions and Disclosure Boundary
This is the cover note to a ten-record open deposit specifying and validating a micronutrient residual correction for fresh and home-prepared cat and dog diets, together with the open protocol it implements. Published evaluations of home-pr…
10.5281/zenodo.22647606 · 5,463 words
Time-Integrated Micronutrient Adequacy and Chronic Safety: A Tissue-Reservoir Model and a Cited One-Compartment Kinetic Model with Homeostatic Absorption
A daily adequacy check asks whether one bowl meets a requirement. It cannot answer the two questions that matter over a feeding lifetime: whether adequacy *survives* the day-to-day variation of a real diet once tissue stores are allowed to …
10.5281/zenodo.22647812 · 4,559 words
Validating Residual Correction in Fresh-Food Companion-Animal Diets: A Paired-Arm Reliability Ablation, a Stochastic Reliability Framework, and a Tissue-Kinetic Safety Model
Fresh, home-cooked diets for cats and dogs are biologically appealing but, evaluated against an established nutrient standard, are routinely incomplete. A residual-correction approach — a biologically appropriate fresh base plus a calculate…
10.5281/zenodo.22647623 · 5,420 words
Plain-language versions of much of this live in the deep-dive posts, and the methodology overview is at how we validated it.