Exploring Black Maternal Suicidal Ideation: A Pilot Study Exploring Risk and Protective Factors for Perinatal Suicidal Thoughts in Black Women - Welz, Natasha (Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2025)
Keywords: Black women; Exploratory research; Feeling; Mental health; Occupational safety and health; Postpartum period; Pregnancy; Public health; Racism; Suicide prevention; dept.swk

Virtual Faculty Development Program for Doctoral Advising - Penny, Frances (Nurse Educator, 2025)
Keywords: Academic advising; Career development; Faculty development; MEDLINE; Professional development; Virtual patient; dept.nur

Alternative Splicing and Gene Expression Variation Underlie Population and Life History Differences in an Amphibian - Hu, Juntao; Ren, Xingyue; Barrett, Rowan; Samma, Eman; Sulkowski, Mikolaj; Brady, Steven (Ecology and Evolution, 2025)
ABSTRACT Phenotypic variation is common across life history and among populations occupying different environments, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these axes of divergence remain poorly understood. Much work has focused on gene expression as a link between genetic variation, environmental variation, and phenotypes, but post‐transcriptional processes such as alternative splicing—which affect how transcripts are assembled rather than how much of a transcript is produced—are increasingly recognized as additional modulators of plasticity and adaptation. Here, we examined gene expression and alternative splicing together in the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), an amphibian with a complex life cycle whose populations differ across replicated gradients of road adjacency and associated pollution. We found extensive transcriptomic differences between hatchlings and adults, with thousands of genes differentially expressed or spliced. Individuals clustered strongly by population for both expression and splicing. Differences at the habitat level were less extensive, but revealed two differentially expressed genes ( HSP70 and Gpsm2 ) and one differentially spliced gene ( Cd82 ) that consistently distinguished roadside and woodland populations. Overall, genetic differentiation between populations was low, suggesting that phenotypic and transcriptomic differences likely emerge in the presence of gene flow and reflect plastic responses. Together, these results highlight transcriptomic plasticity as an important mechanism shaping variation across both development and population differentiation.
Keywords: Alternative splicing; Amphibian; Gene; Gene expression; Genetic variation; Phenotypic plasticity; Population; Transcriptome; alternative splicing; dept.bio; gene expression; local adaptation; maladaptation; population divergence

Conflict and cooperation in male–male partnerships alter paternal care behavior in the ocellated wrasse - Hellmann, Jennifer; Stiver, Kelly; Marsh‐Rollo, Susan; Alonzo, Suzanne (Behavioral Ecology, 2025)
Keywords: Biology; Fish; Fishery; Genetics; Paternal care; Symphodus ocellatus; Wrasse; Zoology; dept.psy; parental care; plasticity; reproduction; sexual selection; temperature

The Selectivity of Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors Revisited - Gambardella, Michael; Wang, Yigui; Pang, Jiongdong (Molecules, 2025)
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors are the primary target for single-molecule anti-Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapeutics. Though AChE has historically been the focus of investigation for small-molecule inhibitors, interest in another cholinergic enzyme, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), has grown in recent years. Attention stems from BChE's role in β-amyloid (Aβ) protein aggregation and an increase in BChE concentration during the late stages of AD, where a decrease in AChE concentration is also observed. Currently, five FDA-approved drugs are on the market for inhibiting AChE, though no BChE-selective drugs have been approved so far. In this review, we focus on newly identified BChE selective inhibitors and present the ideas behind these discoveries.
Keywords: Acetylcholinesterase; Aché; Alzheimer’s disease; BChE selectivity; Butyrylcholinesterase; Cholinergic; Cholinesterase; Enzyme; Selectivity; acetylcholinesterase; butyrylcholinesterase; dept.che; inhibitor; synthesis; virtual screening

Availability of School-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Services - Zhong, Anthony; Szlosek, Donald; Gao, Chloe; Dang, Nhu; Benes, Sarah (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2025)
Keywords: Health services; MEDLINE; Public health; Reproductive health; Sexual behavior; dept.hms

A Study of the Coverage of Open Educational Resources (OER) Through Websites of Colleges and Universities in Connecticut - Brown, Mary; Kim, Hak Joon (Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division, 2025)
Notwithstanding reports of increased awareness and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education, the literature notes that awareness and use of and institutional support for OER remain major challenges to campuses seeking to reduce student cost burden and support access to materials. OER also support faculty who desire to move beyond the traditional textbooks in order to increase their students’ engagement and thereby access to learning, to support pedagogical changes they are making that enhance student learning, and to give faculty greater control over their courses. The university website, as a public-facing vehicle to aid students, parents, alumni, faculty, the community, and interested others in being aware, among other things, of the resources available, is examined for findable support for OER. The purpose of this study is to show, through examination of their websites, a snapshot of the response of Connecticut universities and colleges to OER. Through an examination of these websites, we gage the ability to connect with information related to OER through the university website.
Keywords: dept.ils

Precision measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for dijet production at intermediate pseudorapidity ffiffi in polarized pp collisions at √s = 200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review D, 2025)
The STAR Collaboration reports precise measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, ALL, for dijet production with at least one jet at intermediate pseudorapidity 0.8 < ηjet < 1.8 in polarized proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. This study explores partons scattered with a longitudinal momentum fraction (x) from 0.01 to 0.5, which are predominantly characterized by interactions between high-x valence quarks and low-x gluons. The results are in good agreement with previous measurements at 200 GeV with improved precision and are found to be consistent with the predictions of global analyses that find the gluon polarization to be positive. In contrast, the negative gluon polarization solution from the JAM Collaboration is found to be strongly disfavored. © 2025 American Physical Society
Keywords: Asymmetry; Computer science; Particle physics; Physics; Production (economics); Pseudorapidity; Spin (aerodynamics)

Hyperon global polarization in isobar Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at sNN=200GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2025)
The polarization of Λ , Λ ¯ , Ξ − , and Ξ ¯ + hyperons along the angular momentum of the system has been measured in isobar collisions of Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr at s N N = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. The polarization dependence on collision centrality exhibits an increasing trend in more peripheral collisions. Λ and Λ ¯ polarization dependence on the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity have been investigated, but no significant dependence was observed. The polarizations of Λ and Λ ¯ are found to be consistent with each other, indicating little contribution of the spin-magnetic coupling to the measured polarization. Comparison to previously measured polarization in Au+Au collisions show no obvious system size dependence. The results are qualitatively consistent with hydrodynamic calculations including contributions from shear-induced polarization and thermal vorticity. For the first time in heavy-ion collisions, the dependence of the global polarization on the hyperon’s emission azimuthal angle relative to the second-order event plane has been measured, indicating stronger polarization for the in-plane emitted hyperons at the level of 2.4 σ significance in 20–50 % centrality. The Ξ hyperon polarization measurements via polarization transfer analysis yield finite positive values with 2.9 σ significance in 20–50 % centrality, slightly larger compared to the inclusive Λ polarization. © 2025 The Authors.
Keywords: Global polarization; Hyperon; Vorticity; dept.phy

Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research as a Writerly and Readerly Accomplishment: Introduction to the Special Issue - Van Cleave, Jessica; Wolgemuth, Jennifer; Marn, Travis (Qualitative Inquiry, 2025)
Keywords: Construct (python library); Product (mathematics); Qualitative research; Space (punctuation); Theme (computing); Tinker; Trustworthiness; dept.cur; possibility; publication; scholarly writing; trustworthiness

Breaking the truth bias: the impact of comparable truth baselines and reality interview on veracity judgments by laypeople and police officers - Bogaard, Glynis; Nieuwkamp, Veerle; Colwell, Kevin (Police Practice and Research, 2025)
This study examined whether embedding baselining within the Reality Interview (RI) protocol enhances intuitive veracity judgments. Baselining involves using a person's truthful verbal behavior as a reference point for evaluating the veracity of subsequent statements. We hypothesized that access to a comparable truth baseline (CTB) would improve veracity judgment accuracy. Eyewitnesses of a mock crime were interviewed with the RI and instructed to respond either honestly or deceptively. Laypeople (Experiment 1) and police officers (Experiment 2) evaluated these statements with or without a CTB. With a CTB, laypeople showed significantly higher accuracy in detecting deception and a reduced truth bias. However, police officers showed no improvement, maintaining chance-level performance regardless of statement veracity. These findings suggest that CTBs enhance lie detection in laypeople but not in trained professionals. Future research should explore tailored approaches to improving veracity judgments, perhaps incorporating specific guidelines on how to best use available cues.
Keywords: Baseline (sea); Comparable Truth Baseline; Deception; Interview; Lie detection; Point (geometry); Protocol (science); Reality Interview; Statement (logic); Trustworthiness; dept.psy; lie detection; verbal cues

Listening to Community to Improve Breastfeeding Friendliness: Findings From a Community Readiness Assessment on Breastfeeding - Frieson, Tomeka; Masterson, Amelia; Tran, Victoria; Douglass, Frankie; Duffany, Kathleen (Health Promotion Practice, 2025)
Breastfeeding is a key nutritional behavior for infants during their first years of life. While prenatal breastfeeding intentions do not differ significantly between non-Hispanic Black and White mothers, the ability to meet those intentions decreases over time, and to a greater extent among Black mothers. This is partially due to environments inadequately supportive of individuals' breastfeeding needs (i.e., not breastfeeding-friendly). The Community Readiness Assessment is a powerful tool to assess a community's readiness to take action on pressing health issues. While it is frequently used to understand readiness to prevent negative health outcomes, this study explores how it can be used to understand readiness to promote breastfeeding friendliness and subsequently identify appropriate intervention strategies. Between November 2020 and June 2021, we conducted interviews with 23 key respondents in New Haven, Connecticut, representing five community sectors. Respondents scored five dimensions of readiness on a 9-point scale (1 = no awareness, 9 = community ownership). The overall community readiness score was 4.2, denoting the "preplanning" stage of readiness. The highest-scoring readiness dimension was "community knowledge about the issue" (mean score: 4.5), and the lowest-scoring dimension was "resources related to the issue" (mean score: 3.3). Small business owners reported the highest readiness score by sector (mean score: 5.0), while large employers reported the lowest (mean score: 3.1). Scores stratified by both sector and dimension revealed specific areas within the community where readiness-level-appropriate interventions could be implemented. This study highlights the benefit of assessing community readiness prior to intervention to identify tailored, equitable, and effective intervention strategies.
Keywords: Active listening; Breast feeding; Breastfeeding; Breastfeeding promotion; Community Readiness Assessment; Community health; Intervention (counseling); Psychological intervention; Scale (ratio); breastfeeding; breastfeeding-friendly; community; community assessment; community readiness; dept.hhs; public health practice

Producing Participants: Trustworthiness as Convenient Fiction - Van Cleave, Jessica; Marn, Travis (Qualitative Inquiry, 2025)
Keywords: Objectivity (philosophy); Qualitative research; Quality (philosophy); Reputation; Rigour; Transparency (behavior); Trustworthiness; Verisimilitude; dept.cur; fiction; methodologies; qualitative criteria; qualitative research; transparency; trustworthiness

Karomemphitai. Origin stories of Karians in Egypt and their role in the rise of the Saite dynasty - Scolnic, Benjamin (Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2025)
Keywords: Archaeomagnetic dating; Context (archaeology); Foundation (evidence); Karians; Memphis; Power (physics); Saite dynasty; assimilation; dept.jst; identity; oracles

Artificial Intelligence, Misinformation, and Libraries: A New Frontier for Information Professionals - Salubi, Oghenere (Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2025)
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced rapid advancement, fundamentally transforming the information landscape. This technological shift has not only amplified the dissemination of misinformation but has also posed significant challenges to conventional frameworks of trust and verification. This paper explores the dual impact of AI: its potential to enhance information services while simultaneously amplifying misinformation and disinformation. Seven AI-generated misinformation cases between 2022 and 2025—ranging from deepfakes and political propaganda to impersonation and amplification were analyzed. Through thematic case analysis and interdisciplinary synthesis, the study proposes the AI-Misinformation Resilience Model (AIM-RM), a conceptual framework guiding proactive responses across verification infrastructure, digital literacy, and ethical policy engagement. Drawing on recent scholarly literature and grounded in information ethics, epistemic trust, and sociocultural literacy, the model offers a path forward for LIS professionals seeking to navigate the post-truth era. Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology | Nov. 14 – 18, 2025 | Washington, DC, USA.
Keywords: Deepfakes; Generative artificial intelligence; Information literacy; Library and information professionals; Misinformation; dept.ils

Precision Measurement of Net-Proton-Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical review letters, 2025)
We report precision measurements on cumulants (C_{n}) and factorial cumulants (κ_{n}) of (net) proton number distributions up to fourth order in Au+Au collisions over center-of-mass energies sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7-27  GeV from phase II of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. (Anti)protons are selected at midrapidity (|y|<0.5) within a transverse momentum range of 0.4<p_{T}<2.0  GeV/c. Relative to various noncritical-point model calculations and peripheral collision 70%-80% data, the net proton C_{4}/C_{2} measurement in 0%-5% collisions shows a minimum around 19.6 GeV for significance of deviation at ∼2-5σ. A minimum in C_{4}/C_{2} with respect to a noncritical baseline is expected to be a characteristic feature of the signature associated with a critical point in the QCD phase diagram. In addition, deviations from noncritical baselines around the same collision energy region are also seen in proton factorial cumulant ratios, especially in κ_{2}/κ_{1} and κ_{3}/κ_{1}. Dynamical model calculations including a critical point are called for in order to understand these precision measurements.
Keywords: Net (polyhedron); Nuclear physics; Physics; Proton; dept.phy

AI in Special Education: Bridging Gaps, Easing Workloads, and Inspiring Inclusion - DiBattista, Eileen; Erazmus, Kelly; Tucker, Lauren (Teaching Exceptional Children, 2025)
Keywords: Bridging (networking); Inclusion (mineral); Learning disability; Special education; Teaching method; dept.sed

HST Proper Motions of Andromeda V and Andromeda VI - Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.; Pawlowski, Marcel S.; Girard, Terrence M.; Kanehisa, Kosuke Jamie; Martone, Max; Petroski, Alexander (Astrophysical Journal, 2025)
We measure the absolute proper motions of Andromeda V (And V) and Andromeda VI/Pegasus (And VI) dwarf galaxies, satellites of M31 located near its galactic plane. And VI is located the farthest from M31 among the six satellites with currently measured proper motions. A combination of Advanced Camera for Surveys/wide filed channel (WFC) and WFPC2 exposures is utilized, spanning a 20 yr time baseline. The WFPC2 exposures are processed using a recently developed deep-learning centering procedure as well as the most up-to-date astrometric calibration of the camera. We use on the order of 100 background galaxies per satellite to determine the correction to absolute proper motion. For And V, we obtain an absolute proper motion of (μα, μδ)And V= (26.1 ± 21.5 , − 74.2 ± 19.1) μ as yr−1. For And VI, we obtain an absolute proper motion of (μα, μδ)And VI= (− 1.6 ± 12.3 , − 52.6 ± 11.2) μ as yr−1. Orbit integrations and analyses are made for these two Andromeda satellites using two estimates of both the mass and proper motion of M31. It is found that And V has an orbit consistent within errors with alignment with M31’s disk and counter orbiting it, although this alignment is not well constrained. And VI’s orbit is better determined and is very much consistent with coorbiting with M31’s disk. While currently at a distance of ∼280 kpc from M31, And VI will remain beyond a distance of ∼90 kpc from M31, thus experiencing low tidal influence compared to the other M31 satellites with known orbits. Both satellites are determined to be well-bound to M31. © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Keywords: dept.phy

Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review - Guerrera, Patrick; Sawadogo, Wendemi; Baviskar, Snehal; Pham, Julie; Patel, Nirali; Cyrus, John (Personality and Mental Health, 2025)
Keywords: Association (psychology); Borderline personality disorder; Context (archaeology); Interpersonal relationship; Mental health; Personality; PsycINFO; Social determinants of health; borderline personality disorder; dept.pch; education; income; social determinants of health; social support; socioeconomic status

Beyond algorithm aversion: The impact of psychological readiness on algorithmic advice - Kim, H. (Computers in Human Behavior, 2025)
Keywords: Advice (programming); Advice-taking; Algorithm appreciation; Algorithm aversion; Matching (statistics); Mindset; Openness to experience; Psychological readiness; Trust; Uncertainty; dept.mrk

Exploring the relationship between principal mentoring, teacher assessment, and principal engagement - Gantasala, Venugopal; Gantasala, Swapna; Hakouz, Abeer; Gantasala, Sai (Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning, 2025)
Keywords: Context effect; Perception; Principal (computer security); Principal component analysis; Principals’ mentoring; Statistical analysis; Student engagement; dept.bus; principals’ engagement; teacher assessment

From Theory to Practice: A Tiered Support Model for Increasing Preservice Teachers’ Use of Behavior Specific Praise - Hynes, Kristy; Gershwin, Tracy (Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2025)
Keywords: Praise; Qualitative research; Work (physics); dept.sed

Ingested Plastic in the Great Northern Diver, the Common Loon (Gavia immer) - Hilling, Thomas P.; Reynolds, Hannah T.; Breslin, Vincent T.; Pokras, Mark A. (Northeastern Naturalist, 2025)
Plastic pollution and its impact on water-reliant avifauna is a global, pervasive issue. We evaluated necropsy data of Gavia immer (Common Loon) from freshwater and marine environments in the northeastern US from 2011 to 2022, and found 16.2% (106/654) had ingested plastic items (macroplastics). We examined Common Loons stranded from 2020 to 2022, quantified macroscopic plastic items in detail, and processed the ingesta for suspected microplastics. We found macroplastics in 20.7% (11/53) and suspected microplastic particles, predominately clear fibers, in 100% (37/37) of the Common Loons. While we found no evidence that sex, mass, or geography correlated with microplastic load, both macroplastics and suspected microplastics were widespread and prevalent in Common Loon ingesta in the northeastern US. © 2025 Humboldt Field Research Institute. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.egm

Athletic Training Services Trends Between Public and Private High Schools: A 5-Year Retrospective Analysis - Kim, Donghyeon; Defino, Amir; Eason, Christianne; Casa, Douglas; Yoo, Chaeyeon; Yoshihara, Ayami; Coleman, Kelly; Filep, Erica; Huggins, Robert (Journal of Athletic Training, 2025)
Context Access to athletic trainers (ATs) in high schools is crucial for student-athlete (SA) safety. Although most high schools in the United States have access to athletic training services (ATS), no authors have longitudinally compared ATS trends between public (PUB) and private (PVT) school sectors. Objective To compare ATS trends between PUB and PVT schools from the 2018–2019 through 2022–2023 academic years. Design Longitudinal cross-sectional study. Setting Online survey. Main Outcome Measure(s) High school responses to the Athletic Training Locations and Services survey from all 50 US states and the District of Columbia were queried from the 2018–2019 to 2022–2023 academic years. Average numbers of SAs ( SAs ), sports ( Sports ), full-time ATs ( FtATs ), part-time ATs ( PtATs ), and the sum of full-time and part-time ATs ( ATs ), along with the average weekly contracted hours ( CHrs ) and actual hours ( AHrs ) per school, and ratios of SAs : ATs , Sports : ATs , CHrs : SAs , CHrs : Sports , AHrs : SAs , and AHrs : Sports were examined to track ATS trends over 5 years and compare PUB vs PVT schools. Results Public schools had higher SAs and Sports vs PVT schools (both P < .001). Private schools had higher ATs , CHrs , and AHrs than PUB schools (all P < .050). Ratios of SAs : ATs and Sports : ATs were higher in PUB schools, whereas CHrs : SAs , AHrs : SAs , CHrs : Sports , and AHrs : Sports were higher in PVT schools (all P < .050). From 2018–2019 to 2022–2023, PUB schools increased Sports and Sports : ATs ; PVT schools increased SAs , Sports , ATs , and SAs : ATs (all P < .050). Over the years, PUB schools decreased CHrs : Sports and AHrs : Sports ; PVT decreased CHrs : SAs , AHrs : SAs , CHrs : Sports , and AHrs : Sports . FtATs increased in both sectors, whereas PtATs decreased in only PVT schools. Conclusions Overall, ATS were more extensively provided in PVT schools, based on ATs and ATS hours. Both sectors increased FtATs , which is encouraging. However, as SAs and Sports increased, ATS provided per SA and sport declined.
Keywords: Athletes; Athletic training; Context (archaeology); MEDLINE; Private sector; Training (meteorology); athletes; dept.hms; safety; sports; student health services

“Not Just on the Sideline”: A Phenomenological Study of Disability, Belonging, and Exclusion - Gackenheimer, Christopher; Garrison, Brianna (Children & Schools, 2025)
Keywords: Identity (music); Inclusion (mineral); Inclusion–exclusion principle; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Mainstream; Mainstreaming; Psychology of self; Qualitative research; Special education; adolescents; belonging; dept.swk; disability; inclusion; special education

A systematic investigation of why P2P services are rated higher than traditional services - Unnava, Vasu; Singh, Amit Surendra; Unnava, H. Rao (Journal of Business Research, 2025)
Prior literature has reported a tendency for consumers to rate peer-to-peer (P2P) services more positively than the same services provided by traditional businesses (e.g. Airbnb vs. hotel). We first show that consumers experience greater empathy toward a P2P service provider (a person) than a traditional service provider (a business). We then show that P2P services enjoy higher evaluations because empathy for the provider leads consumers to tolerate minor negative elements in those settings as compared to traditional business settings. Further, we show that this effect is moderated by the perceived size of the business. The implications of this type of rating bias on traditional businesses and consumer welfare, and the limitations of this research, are discussed. © 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
Keywords: Online-reviews; Peer-to-peer; Rating-bias; Willingness-to-tolerate; dept.mrk

Educational Programming to Prevent Violence in Schools in the United States: An Analysis of School Health Profiles - Gao, Chloe; Szlosek, Donald; Zhong, Anthony; Hadland, Scott; Benes, Sarah (The Journal of Pediatrics, 2025)
This repeated, cross-sectional study examined trends in the availability of school-based programming to prevent violence in middle and high schools across the United States from 2008 to 2020. Overall, violence prevention programming increased in respondent schools throughout the study period. However, important gaps remain, with lingering state-level disparities.
Keywords: Human factors and ergonomics; Injury prevention; Occupational safety and health; Poison control; Respondent; Suicide prevention; adolescent health; dept.hms; health education; school violence prevention; teacher training; youth violence prevention

Assistive Technology Multi-Tiered System of Supports (AT-MTSS): Improving AT Delivery - McMahon, Don; Tucker, Lauren (Journal of Special Education Technology, 2025)
Keywords: Assistive technology; CLARITY; Inclusion (mineral); Psychological intervention; Special education; Special needs; Universal Design for Learning; Variety (cybernetics); accessibility; assistive technology; dept.sed; multi-tiered systems of supports; special education teacher preparation; universal design for learning

Measurement of Two-Point Energy Correlators within Jets in p+p Collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV - STAR Collaboration (Physical review letters, 2025)
Hard-scattered partons ejected from high-energy proton-proton collisions undergo parton shower and hadronization, resulting in collimated collections of particles that are clustered into jets. A substructure observable that highlights the transition between the perturbative and nonperturbative regimes of jet evolution in terms of the angle between two particles is the two-point energy correlator (EEC). In this Letter, the first measurement of the EEC at RHIC is presented, using data taken from 200 GeV p+p collisions by the STAR experiment. The EEC is measured both for all the pairs of particles in jets and separately for pairs with like and opposite electric charges. These measurements demonstrate that the transition between perturbative and nonperturbative effects occurs within an angular region that is consistent with expectations of a universal hadronization regime that scales with jet momentum for a given initiator flavor. Additionally, a deviation from Monte Carlo predictions at small angles in the charge-selected sample could result from mechanics of hadronization not fully captured by current models.
Keywords: Collimated light; Hadronization; Jet (fluid); Momentum (technical analysis); Monte Carlo method; Observable; Parton; Parton shower; Substructure; dept.phy

Pharmacotherapies for stimulant use disorder and co-occurring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: protocol for a systematic review and a meta-analysis - Oliva, Henrique; Pulido-Saavedra, Alejandra; Paredes-Naveda, Alisson; Forselius, Emerson; Potenza, Marc; Jegede, Oluwole; Angarita, Gustavo (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2025)
Background Stimulant use disorder (StUD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently co-occur. This comorbidity complicates treatment and worsens clinical outcomes. Despite the high prevalence, shared vulnerability and clinical relevance of this comorbidity, evidence on effective pharmacotherapies among individuals with this dual diagnosis remains limited. Materials and methods This systematic review protocol is reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P) statement and will include randomized controlled trials involving adults with comorbid StUD (cocaine, amphetamines, or methamphetamines) and ADHD. The following databases will be searched: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science. Covidence will be used to support independent screening and data extraction. Two reviewers will independently screen studies (title/abstract and full text). One author will extract data, which will be independently verified by a second reviewer. Quality assessment of included articles will be assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias instrument, and certainty of the evidence for each outcome will be assessed using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) methodology. Primary outcomes include duration of continuous abstinence, odds of stimulant-negative urine samples, ADHD symptom changes, and medication adverse events. Where feasible, meta-analyses will be conducted using random-effects models. Significance and dissemination This review will synthesize existing evidence on the efficacy of pharmacotherapies (stimulants and non-stimulants) for individuals with co-occurring StUD and ADHD. The results of this study will likely inform clinical practice by evaluating outcomes such as reduction in stimulant use and abstinence, and improvement in ADHD symptoms. Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publication and presentations to reach both clinical and academic audiences. Systematic review registration PROSPERO, CRD420250655356.
Keywords: Alternative medicine; Atomoxetine; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Clinical psychology; Internal medicine; Medicine; Meta-analysis; Methylphenidate; Protocol (science); Psychiatry; Psychology; Stimulant; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; co-occurring disorder; cocaine; dept.psy; methamphetamine; stimulant use disorder

Freshwater salinization leads to sluggish, bloated frogs and small, cramped embryos but adaptive countergradient variation in eggs - Brady, Steven; Kang, Samantha; Wang, Z.; Layne, Craig; Calsbeek, Ryan (Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2025)
Keywords: Amphibian; Aquatic ecosystem; Biology; Cottus; Ecology; Ecosystem; Freshwater ecosystem; Habitat; Population; Salinity; Soil salinity; dept.bio

‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938 - Eastman, Michael; Feinberg, Harvey (Journal of Southern African Studies, 2025)
Keywords: Computer science; Measure (data warehouse); Political science; Sociology; South Africa; administration of justice; appeals; courts; criminal justice; dept.his; judges; justice for Africans; magistrates; reviews

Developing a Video Game Metadata Schema and Fillable Form Template for Accessible Interactive Media Cataloging in Public Libraries - Myers, Jason (Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2025)
Keywords: Cataloging; Computer science; Information retrieval; Metadata; Multimedia; Schema (genetic algorithms); Video game; World Wide Web; cataloging interactive media; dept.ils; fillable forms; metadata schema; public libraries; video games

Onset of Constituent Quark Number Scaling in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical review letters, 2025)
Partonic collectivity is one of the necessary signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy nuclear collisions. Number of constituent quarks (NCQ) scaling has been observed for hadron elliptic flow v_{2} in top energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the LHC, and this has been theoretically suggested as strong evidence for partonic collectivity. In this Letter, a systematic analysis of v_{2} of π^{±}, K^{±}, K_{S}^{0}, p, and Λ in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=3.2, 3.5, 3.9, and 4.5 GeV, with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, is presented. NCQ scaling is markedly violated at 3.2 GeV, consistent with a hadronic-interaction dominated equation of state. However, as the collision energy increases, a gradual evolution to NCQ scaling is observed. This beam-energy dependence of v_{2} for all hadrons studied provides evidence for the onset of dominant partonic interactions by sqrt[s_{NN}]=4.5  GeV.
Keywords: Heavy ion; Ion; Nuclear physics; Particle physics; Physics; Quark; Scaling; Scaling law; dept.phy

The fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora enters apple leaves through naturally occurring wounds from the abscission of trichomes - Millett, Felicia; Standish, James; Scanley, Jules; Miller, Katelyn; Inguagiato, John; Zuverza‐Mena, Nubia; Abril, Maritza; Robinson, Victoria; Li, Yan; Sundin, George; Zeng, Quan (The Plant Journal, 2025)
The plant epidermis is a single layer of cells covering all plant organs. How pathogens overcome this barrier and enter plants is an important aspect of plant-pathogen interactions. For bacterial plant pathogens, known entry points include natural openings, such as stomata, hydathodes, and mechanical injuries caused by insect feeding, wind damage, or hailstorms. Here, we report that the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora enters apple leaves through naturally occurring wounds caused by the abscission of trichomes during the course of leaf development. Through macroscopic and microscopic observations, we depicted a clear invasion path for E. amylovora cells, from epiphytic growth on glandular trichomes (GT) and non-glandular trichomes (NT) to entry through wounds caused by abscised trichomes, into the epithem, and subsequent spread through xylem. We further observed that GT and NT undergo an abscission process, and that the amount of naturally occurring wounds during abscission is associated with the increase in E. amylovora population. Key genes important for the colonization of GT and NT were identified. The contribution of the type III secretion system and amylovoran biosynthesis during GT colonization was validated. Our findings propose a novel host entry mechanism of plant pathogenic bacteria through naturally occurring wounds during the abscission of plant surface structures.
Keywords: Abscission; Blight; Colonization; Erwinia; Erwinia amylovora; Fire blight; Trichome; abscission; dept.phy; fire blight; host entry points; trichomes; type III secretion system

Skolem Number of Kagome Lattice Graphs - Carrigan, Braxton; Martone, Max (Theory and Applications of Graphs, 2025)
A proper Skolem labelling of a graph G is a function assigning a positive integer to each vertex of G such that any two vertices assigned the same integer are that distance apart in the graph. The Skolem number of a graph is smallest number n such that there exists a proper Skolem labelling only using the positive integers less than or equal to n. In this paper, we will begin by proving the Skolem number for another family of subgraphs of the hexagonal lattice and then prove the Skolem number for two families of subgraphs of the Kagome Lattice. © 2025 Georgia Southern University. All rights reserved.
Keywords: dept.mat

Resisting multiple empires, cultivating transnational solidarity: a conversation among feminist-of-color scholar-activists - Li, Lin; Kazemi, Sona; Zheng, Wang; Lin, Yi-Chun Tricia (International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2025)
Keywords: China; Iran; Multiple empires; US feminism; dept.wgs; transnational solidarity

Molecular Dynamics Studies on the Inhibition of Cholinesterases by Secondary Metabolites - Gambardella, Michael; Wang, Yigui; Pang, Jiongdong (Catalysts, 2025)
The search for selective anticholinergic agents stems from varying cholinesterase levels as Alzheimer’s Disease progresses from the mid-to-late stage and from butyrylcholinesterase’s (BChE) role in β-amyloid plaque formation. While structure-based and pharmacophore-based virtual screening could search from large libraries in a short time, these methods do not consider dynamic features that result from a ligand’s inhibition of the enzyme and consequently may under- or overexaggerate enzyme selectivity of a given ligand. In this computational study, we probed the selectivity of representative secondary metabolite compounds against acetylcholinesterase and BChE through molecular dynamics simulations. The results were evaluated by analysis of the root mean squared deviation of ligand heavy atoms, the radius of gyration of each inhibited and uninhibited enzyme, root mean squared fluctuation of residues, intermolecular interaction energy, and linear interaction energy approximation of the Gibbs free energy of binding. These considerations further reveal the induced-fit characteristics contributing to ChE selectivity that are predominantly due to the greater flexibility of BChE’s active site gorge.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Chemistry; Gibbs free energy; acetylcholinesterase; butyrylcholinesterase; dept.che; linear interaction energy; molecular dynamics; secondary metabolites

Position Statements for Advocacy: Does Using Physical Activity as Punishment Make Students Leave Physical Education Wanting to Hide or Seek? - Paulson, Lisa; Knipe, Robert (Strategies, 2025)
This article explains how to use and apply the SHAPE America position statement “Physical Activity Should Not Be Used as Punishment and/or Behavior Management” in one’s own teaching and as an advocacy tool. © 2025 SHAPE America.
Keywords: dept.hms

Self-Monitoring to Reduce Student Distraction in Higher Education - Brahm, Meghan; Hynes, Kristy (College Teaching, 2025)
Keywords: Applied behavior analysis; Cognitive psychology; Distraction; Higher education; Mathematics education; Pedagogy; Political science; Psychology; Student engagement; classroom distraction; dept.sed; higher education; self-monitoring; student engagement

Masked-Speech Recognition and Self-Reported Functional Listening in Autistic Young Adults - Wasiuk, Peter; Cook, Barbara; Irwin, Julia (Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 2025)
Keywords: Active listening; Audiology; Autism; Cognitive psychology; Communication; Developmental psychology; Medicine; Perception; Psychology; Speech perception; dept.cmd; dept.psy

Inclusive Access: Evaluating Public Library Resources for Visually and Hearing Impaired Communities - Liu, Yan Quan; Buedinger, Abigale; Murtha, Helene R. (Public Library Quarterly)
This study examines public library services for people with hearing and vision impairments, conducted through website visits and an online survey from summer 2023 over 1.5 years. Surveying 250 libraries nationwide, findings reveal strong ADA awareness, with most libraries addressing physical accessibility but fewer supporting visually impaired and Deaf or Hard of Hearing patrons equally. Assistive resources availability varies significantly, from 0.8% to 83.4%, covering accessible print materials, online resources, magnifiers, and assistive technology. This study underscores specific areas for improvement in supporting these communities in U.S. public libraries.
Keywords: Accessibility; American with Disabilities Act (ADC); SCSU-student; dept.ils; hearing impairments; library services; vision impairments

Adopting Critical Cataloging Practices Post Diversity Audit: Connecting the Community to Your Collection - Anderson, Jessica K.; Liu, Yan Quan (Library Resources & Technical Services, 2025)
To increase patrons’ ability to find resources, it is imperative to investigate barriers and biases in thedescriptive catalog data for inclusive collection management and development standards. This studyused a specially designed descriptive approach to gather quantitative data from 101 public librariansin Connecticut via a Qualtrics survey to identify the key variables that influence the successfulenhancement of online public access catalog (OPAC) metadata after a diversity audit of the librarymaterials. The results revealed factors that promote or impede the integration of inclusive catalogingthat reflects the diversity of the community: (1) appreciating the benefits of audit methods that arefocused on bibliographic records, (2) recognizing the need for buy-in and participation from theentire organization, and (3) stressing the useful integration of institutional and community feedbackto improve the collection’s accessibility and representation. The findings provide practical adviceto public libraries that want to satisfy the diverse demands of their user base by integrating criticalcataloging frameworks into their diversity and inclusion objectives.
Keywords: SCSU-student; dept.ils

Effect of binder concentration on ternary MnO2/CuS/reduced graphene oxide material for supercapacitor applications - Chaudhary, Manika; Oyelola, Lekan; Glidden, Thomas; Broadbridge, C.; LeMaire, Peter; Sharma, Rakesh; Singh, Vinamrita; Sahi, Vikhyat; Singhal, Rahúl (Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 2025)
Keywords: Capacitance; Chemical engineering; Chemistry; Electrochemistry; Electrode; Energy storage; Graphene; Inorganic chemistry; Materials science; Metallurgy; Nanotechnology; Oxide; Physical chemistry; Supercapacitor; Synthesis; Ternary operation; Thermodynamics; X-ray diffraction; dept.phy

Imposed Form in the Early Acheulean? Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia - Stout, Dietrich; Liu, Cheng; Muller, Antoine; Rogers, Michael; Semaw, Sileshi (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2025)
Keywords: Acheulean; Ancient history; Anthropology; Archaeology; Early Stone Age; Ethnology; Geography; Handaxe; History; Large cutting tool; Lithic technology; Pick; Pleistocene; Shaping; Sociology; dept.ant

Developing online considerations for the IASWG standards on Social Work with Groups: a tribute to Charles Garvin - Macgowan, Mark; Gardella, Lorrie; Simon, Shirley; Prinsloo, Reineth; van Baar, Huub; Seck, Mamadou; Astray, Andrés; Cañizares, Catalina; Muskat, Barbara (Social Work With Groups, 2025)
Keywords: Charles D. Garvin; Criminology; Engineering; Environmental ethics; IASWG standards for social work practice with groups; Law; Philosophy; Political science; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Social work; Sociology; Tribute; Work (physics); dept.swk; group work; internationalization; online practice; social work with groups; translation; virtual practice

Adolescent Concern for Body Weight and Engagement in Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors - McCoy, Stephanie; Bryan, Jessica; Rupp, Kristie (American Journal of Health Promotion, 2025)
Keywords: Binge eating; Body mass index; Body weight; Clinical psychology; Demography; Disordered eating; Eating disorders; Environmental health; Gerontology; Internal medicine; Logistic regression; Medicine; Obesity; Odds; Odds ratio; Pill; dept.hms; eating behaviors; obesity; psychosocial health

Examining effective parenting approaches to promote healthy technology use in children: a systematic review - Gagliardi, Jeffrey; O’Brien, Kyle (Journal of Family Social Work, 2025)
Keywords: Clinical psychology; Developmental psychology; Digital literacy; Psychology; dept.rec; parenting strategies; screen time; technology addiction; technology use

Is Your Physical Education Adapted or Adaptive? - Laughlin, Michael K. (Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 2025)
For decades, adapted physical education advocates have passionately engaged in a debate over two adjectives: adapted vs. adaptive. This article explores the reasons why one is preferred over the other and why it matters, especially to students with disabilities. © 2025 SHAPE America.
Keywords: dept.hms

Understand the Changes in Motivation at Work: Empirical Studies Using Self-Determination Theory-Based Interventions - Wang, Zheni; Briand, Mélanie (Behavioral Sciences, 2025)
Managers often need to stay motivated and effectively motivate others. Therefore, they should rely on evidence-based interventions to effectively motivate and self-motivate. This research investigated how self-determination theory-based interventions affect employees' motivation dynamics and motivational consequences within short time frames (i.e., within an hour, within a few weeks or months) in two empirical studies. Study one focused on assessing the effectiveness of a one-day training workshop in helping to improve managers' work motivation, basic psychological needs satisfaction/frustration, subordinates' motivation, and perceptions of managers' needs-supportive/thwarting behaviors within a few weeks. Results support the effectiveness of the training, as managers were rated by their direct subordinates as having fewer needs-thwarting behaviors and reported self-improvement in needs satisfaction and frustration six weeks after completing the training program. Study two used the mean and covariance structure analysis and tested the impact of three types of basic psychological needs-supportive/thwarting and control conditions (3 × 2 × 1 factorial design) on participants' situational motivation, vitality, and general self-efficacy for playing online word games within 30 min. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the scalar measurement invariance, then latent group mean comparison results show consistently lower controlled motivation across the experimental conditions. During a quick online working scenario, the theory-based momentary intervention effectively changed situational extrinsic self-regulation in participants. Supplementary structural equation modeling (SEM; cross-sectional) analyses using experience samples supported the indirect dual-path model from basic needs satisfaction to vitality and general efficacy via situational motivation. We discussed the theoretical implications of the temporal properties of work motivation, the practical implications for employee training, and the limitations.
Keywords: Applied psychology; Autonomy; Computer science; Confirmatory factor analysis; Psychological intervention; Psychology; Self-determination theory; Situational ethics; Social psychology; Structural equation modeling; Work (physics); Work motivation; dept.mgt; employee training and development; motivation change; self-determination theory; theory-based interventions

Polish and Indian teachers’ self-efficacy and attitudes towards inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in regular classrooms - Ćwirynkało, Katarzyna; Parchomiuk, Monika; Gregory, Jess; Ravi, Sunitha; Krishnamurthy, Sita (International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2025)
Keywords: Developmental psychology; Inclusion (mineral); Mainstreaming; Mathematics education; Pedagogy; Psychology; Self-efficacy; Social psychology; Sociology; Special education; Teachers; attitudes towards inclusion; dept.edl; inclusion; self-efficacy; students with disabilities

Living well in extended reality: Training phronesis and Socratic humility in XR - Gabriels, Katleen; Volkman, Richard (Journal of Moral Education, 2025)
Practical wisdom is the intellectual virtue relating to the ability to fix ends and discern in a concrete circumstance how to achieve those ends. It is cultivated through engagement with experience rather than book learning. However, a whole matrix of convergent technologies, such as headsets, haptic suits, AI-driven chatbots, and extended realities, such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), creates new conditions for training practical wisdom. How can moral educators facilitate practical wisdom in this extended reality (XR)? Drawing on Nussbaum’s account of phronesis, we contend the job of moral education in XR is mostly about ensuring students’ critical engagement. We suggest AI assistants can contribute to this task, so long as these technologies and the people using them manifest Socratic humility ensuring that no single interaction serves as an ‘oracle of truth’, leaving critical thinking and judgment firmly in the hands of the student.
Keywords: Environmental ethics; Epistemology; Extended reality; Humility; Hypocrisy; Pedagogy; Philosophy; Phronesis; Psychology; Social psychology; Sociology; Socratic humility; Socratic method; Theology; Training (meteorology); convergence; dept.phi; phronesis

Factors Contributing to Increased Mental Health Symptoms and Suicidality Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: A Scoping Review of Quantitative Research - Lopes, Daniela (Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2025)
Keywords: Anxiety; Clinical psychology; Depression (economics); Medicine; Mental health; Poison control; Psychiatry; Psychological intervention; Psychology; Psychosocial; Sexual minority; Sexual orientation; Suicidal ideation; Suicide prevention; dept.nur

Self-Concept Among Formerly Incarcerated Sexual Minority Women - Stone, Al; Smoyer, Amy; D’Angelo, Karen (Social Sciences, 2025)
Sexual minority women (SMW) are a resilient yet vulnerable population who may experience poor psychosocial outcomes due to minority stress associated with their marginalized status and traumatic experiences resulting from interpersonal and structural violence. When SMW are incarcerated, the trauma of this experience can exacerbate existing mental health challenges. Self-concept is a key measure of mental health that is associated with increased self-efficacy and positive psychosocial outcomes. This analysis explores the ways in which incarceration impacts the self-concept of SMW. Secondary data analysis of three qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated SMW was conducted. Specifically, Gilligan’s Listening Guide was used to create “I poems” that articulate the participants’ narratives and contrapuntal voices. These poems were then analyzed to build knowledge about participants’ self-concept. This analysis informs our understandings of self-concept among SMW, violence against women, the vulnerability of binary constructs, and the ways in which people negotiate past, present and future selves. The findings can inform interventions that seek to mitigate the psychosocial risks faced by SMW and formerly incarcerated people and improve outcomes for these populations.
Keywords: Clinical psychology; Developmental psychology; LGBT; Listening Guide; Psychology; Sexual minority; Sexual orientation; Social psychology; dept.swk; incarceration; lesbian; qualitative; self-concept; sexual minority women; transgender

Generational Differences in Nursing Students' Perceptions of Faculty Caring Behaviors and Presence in Online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs. - Macario, Kimberly Cardaci (International Journal for Human Caring, 2025)
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore how students of different generations perceived presence and caring behaviors by faculty in online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs. Results showed that millennials reported statistically significant higher perceptions of social presence when compared with nonmillennials. Although generation was not a predictor of caring, all presence subscales were positively and significantly correlated with the total caring score. Teaching presence was a significant predictor of students' perceptions of caring in online courses.
Keywords: Adult; Adult: 19-44 years; Age Factors; Caring Evaluation; Colleges and Universities; Conceptual Framework; Convenience Sample; Correlational Studies; Descriptive Research; Descriptive Statistics; Education, Non-Traditional; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Educational Measurement; Exploratory Research; Faculty, Nursing; Faculty-Student Relations; Human; Intergenerational Relations; Learning Environment; Middle Age; Middle Aged: 45-64 years; Nursing Practice, Evidence-Based; Presence; Professional-Patient Relations; Program Evaluation; Quantitative Studies; Questionnaires; Registered Nurses Psychosocial Factors; Regression; Social Behavior Evaluation; Statistical Significance; Student Attitudes Evaluation; Students, Nursing Psychosocial Factors; Summated Rating Scaling; Teaching Methods; United States; dept.nur

A New Version of the Golden Eagle Optimizer Algorithm And Its Application For Solving A Trio-Objective Skillful Team Formation Problem In A Social Network - Elashmawi, Walaa; Sheta, Alaa; Alqadi, Basma; AbdElminaam, Diaa; Alsekait, Deema (Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, 2025)
Abstract Metaheuristic methods have demonstrated their utility in tackling global optimization problems with and without constraints. However, existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms often suffer from limitations such as premature convergence, inefficient exploration-exploitation balance, and poor adaptability to complex discrete optimization problems like Team Formation (TF). The Golden Eagle Optimizer (GEO) algorithm is a promising metaheuristic that addresses some of these challenges by effectively managing its hunting spiral motion using two control parameters: cruise (exploration) and attack (exploitation). Despite its strengths, the standard GEO algorithm requires modifications to handle the discrete and multi-objective nature of the TF problem effectively. This paper proposes an amended version of GEO, called AGEO, which integrates specialized operators to enhance its performance in TF scenarios. A skillful TF aims to form teams of experts with complementary skills in social networks (SN) while optimizing multiple objectives, including minimizing communication costs, maximizing the similarity score between team members, and achieving minimal team cardinality. AGEO preserves GEO’s powerful exploitation and exploration mechanisms while introducing tailored operator strategies to overcome the challenges inherent in TF. The AGEO undergoes testing on several well-established benchmark datasets, including Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Database Systems & Logic Programming (DBLP). Additionally, a comparative study against SOTA metaheuristic algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA), Crow Search Algorithm (CSA), and Jaya Algorithm demonstrates AGEO’s superior performance in forming highly optimized teams with the least communication cost, lowest team cardinality, and highest similarity score.
Keywords: Adaptability; Algorithm; Artificial intelligence; Benchmark (surveying); Computer science; Machine learning; Mathematical optimization; Mathematics; Metaheuristic; Particle swarm optimization; dept.csc

An Exergames Program for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: Qualitative Study of Acceptability - Mak, Selene S.; Nally, Laura M.; Montoya, Juanita; Marrero, Rebecca; DeJonckheere, Melissa; Joiner, Kevin L.; Nam, Soohyun; Ash, Garrett I. (JMIR Diabetes, 2025)
Background: Numerous barriers to moderate to vigorous physical activity exist for youths with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The virtual exercise games for youth with T1D (ExerT1D) intervention implement synchronous support of moderate to vigorous physical activity including T1D peers and role models. Objective: This study aims to understand the acceptability of this intervention to participants. Methods: We conducted postprogram, semistructured, televideo interviews with participating youths to elicit perspectives on the acceptability of the intervention and experience with the program. Two coders independently reviewed and analyzed each transcript using a coding scheme developed inductively by senior researchers. Discrepancies were resolved by team discussion, and multiple codes were grouped together to produce 4 main thematic areas. Results: All 15 participants provided interviews (aged 14-19 years; 2 nonbinary, 6 females; median hemoglobin A1c level of 7.8% (IQR 7.4%-11.2%), 5 with a hemoglobin A1c level of ≥10%). Qualitative data revealed four themes: (1) motivation to engage in physical activity (PA)—improving their physical capabilities and stabilizing glucose levels were cited as motivation for PA and challenges of living with T1D were cited as PA barriers; (2) experience with and motivation to manage diabetes while engaging in PA—participants provided details of accommodating the inherent uncertainty or limitations of PA with diabetes and sometimes preparing for PA involved psychological and motivational adjustments while some relayed feelings of avoidance; (3) peer support encouraged engagement with the intervention—participants appreciated the peer aspects of components of ExerT1D and participants’ reflections of the facilitated group experience highlight many benefits of a small-group virtual program; and (4) improvements in PA and diabetes self-management efficacy—all participants credited the program with improving or at least raising awareness of T1D management skills. Conclusions: Our virtual PA intervention using an active video game and discussion component provided adolescents with T1D the confidence and peer support to engage in PA, improved awareness of diabetes-specific tasks to prepare for exercise, and improved understanding of the effect of PA on glucose levels. Engaging youths with a virtual video game intervention is a viable approach to overcome barriers to PA for adolescents with T1D. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05163912; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05163912
Keywords: Computer science; Diabetes mellitus; Medicine; Preprint; Psychology; Qualitative research; Sociology; Type 2 diabetes; World Wide Web; dept.hms; peer-reviewed

WIC Participation During Pregnancy and Low and Very Low Birth Weight by Race and Ethnicity - Sawadogo, Wendemi; McGuire, Neil; Evans, Marian; Tangbe, Praise (Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2025)
Keywords: Anthropology; Biology; Ethnic group; Gender studies; Low birth weight; Medicine; Obstetrics; Pregnancy; Race (biology); Sociology; WIC; dept.pch; low birth weight; peer-reviewed; pregnancy; race and ethnicity; very low birth weight

Digitization Practices in U.S. Urban Libraries: Tools, Technologies, and Metadata Standards - Torres, Natalia; Liu, Yan (Public Library Quarterly, 2025)
Keywords: Business; Computer science; Cultural heritage preservation; Data science; Digitization; Engineering; Library science; Metadata; SCSU-student; Telecommunications; World Wide Web; dept.ils; digital collections; digitization practices; online accessibility; urban libraries

Are charitable gifts truly appreciated by the recipients who requested them? Impact of gift type and amount on recipients’ appreciation - Kang, In-Hye; Kim, Hyoseok (Journal of Business Research, 2025)
• For requested gifts during rite-of-passage occasions, appreciation for charitable vs. recipient-benefiting gifts depends on gift amount. • For low gift amounts, recipients appreciate charitable gifts more than recipient-benefiting gifts. • For moderate to high gift amounts, appreciation is similar between charitable and recipient-benefiting gifts. • In distant (vs. close) giver-recipient relationships, the effect of gift type on appreciation for low amounts is attenuated. • When gifts are not requested, recipients appreciate charitable gifts less than recipient-benefiting gifts. Requests for charitable cash gifts during rite-of-passage occasions (e.g., weddings) are becoming increasingly common. This research examines whether recipients’ appreciation differs depending on whether a requested cash gift is charitable (e.g., donating to support people in need) or recipient-benefiting (e.g., renovating the recipient’s kitchen). Across five studies, we find that the effect of the gift type on appreciation is moderated by the gift amount. For low amounts, recipients appreciate charitable gifts more than recipient-benefiting gifts. However, for moderate and high amounts, appreciation is similar across gift types. This effect is mediated by the recipients’ perception of whether the gift amount meets their expectations and their subsequent perception of thoughtfulness. Consistent with our mechanism, in distant giver-recipient relationships, the effect of the gift type on appreciation for low amounts is attenuated. When gifts are not requested, recipients appreciate charitable gifts less than recipient-benefiting gifts.
Keywords: Advertising; Business; Charitable gifts; Charitable giving; Conflict of interest; Donation; Economic growth; Economics; Finance; Gift appreciation; Gift giving; Gift price; Gift-giving; Marketing; Psychology; Social psychology; dept.mrk; peer-reviewed

Health Information Access Behaviors by Sexual Orientation: A Secondary Data Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey - Gagnon, Kelly; Corey, Stephanie; Gordon, Jacob; Risisky, Deb; Coulter, Robert (Journal of Homosexuality, 2025)
Sexual minority (SM) adults are at increased risk for adverse health outcomes and face unique barriers to engagement and retention in healthcare, including stigma and discrimination. Given known barriers to care, SM adults may prefer online platforms due to limited access to in-person clinical care and fear of discrimination. To date, there is limited knowledge of these behaviors among subgroups of SM adults. This study was a cross-sectional, secondary data analysis of the United States National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Adult Sample Data Set, 2018. Utilizing descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regressions, we found that bisexual females had significantly greater odds (AOR = 1.58, CI: 1.04-2.39) of seeking health information online compared to straight females. Similarly, when compared to their straight male counterparts, gay males had significantly higher odds of seeking health information online in the past 12 months (AOR = 2.96, 95% CI: 2.00-4.37). These findings indicate the need for targeting messaging and interventions to address the health concerns of these populations. It also suggests that virtual platforms are viable and perhaps preferred for these subgroups of SM adults. Through continued efforts and research, the field can target relevant health information to populations who need it most by leveraging where they seek it.
Keywords: Environmental health; Health Information National Trends Survey; Health care; Health information; Homosexuality; Medicine; National Health Interview Survey; Orientation (vector space); Political science; Psychology; Reproductive health; Sexual behavior; Sexual minority; Sexual minority health; Sexual orientation; Social psychology; Survey data collection; bisexual women; dept.pch; gay men; health information access; healthcare utilization; online health information; peer-reviewed; public health

Green banking: prospects and challenges - D'Amora, Emily C.; Andoh, Samuel K (Southwest Business and Economics Journal, 2025)
The paper examines the concept of green banking and sustainable financing, the forces driving green banking, and the reasons for this. The paper suggests that the move toward green banking and financing is the result of environmental degradation and the public’s demand for remediation. As enablers of the industries that create pollution, financial institutions bear a significant responsibility in leading the efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Also, greenhouse gas emissions are the result of market failures; therefore, there is a need for governments to act. The paper also examines the challenges facing green banking and its prospects. The conclusion is that while green banking displays good growth prospects, there exists three major challenges: (1) limited awareness of green products and services that banks can offer, (2) greenwashing, and (3) the high cost of offering green financial services. Despite these challenges, the paper affirms the potential of green banking to promote sustainability and mitigation of the environmental crisis.
Keywords: banking; climate change; dept.eco; environmental crisis; environmental degradation; financial institutions; green banking; greenwashing; peer-reviewed; sustainability; sustainable financing

Mothers who use opioids and are involved in the criminal justice system: A transformative justice approach - Boeri, Miriam; Lamonica, Aukje; Smith, Sierra (Human Organization, 2025)
Keywords: Criminal justice; Criminology; Developmental psychology; Economic Justice; Law; Political science; Psychology; Restorative justice; Sociology; Theory of criminal justice; Transformative learning; dept.pch; mothers; opioids; recovery; relapse

Bitcoin return dynamics volatility and time series forecasting - Anand, Punit; Sharan, Anand Mohan (International Journal of Financial Studies, 2025)
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency returns show higher volatility than equity, bond, and other asset classes. Increasingly, researchers rely on machine learning techniques to forecast returns, where different machine learning algorithms reduce the forecasting errors in a high-volatility regime. We show that conventional time series modeling using ARMA and ARMA GARCH run on a rolling basis produces better or comparable forecasting errors than those that machine learning techniques produce. The key to achieving a good forecast is to fit the correct AR and MA orders for each window. When we optimize the correct AR and MA orders for each window using ARMA, we achieve an MAE of 0.024 and an RMSE of 0.037. The RMSE is approximately 11.27% better, and the MAE is 10.7% better compared to those in the literature and is similar to or better than those of the machine learning techniques. The ARMA-GARCH model also has an MAE and an RMSE which are similar to those of ARMA.
Keywords: ARMA; ARMA-GARCH; Econometrics; Economics; Financial economics; MAE; Mathematics; RMSE; Series (stratigraphy); Statistics; Time series; Volatility (finance); bitcoin; dept.fin; time series

Glacial and postglacial interpretation of Late Paleozoic sedimentation in a tectonically active mountain front in Paganzo Basin, Argentina - Colombi, Carina; Alonso-Muruaga, Pablo; Kusick, Allison; Isbell, John; Fedorchuk, Nicholas; Alarcón, Carlos; Limarino, Carlos (Journal of Palaeogeography, 2025)
The Guandacol Formation corresponds to glacial episode 4 of the "Late Paleozoic Ice Age" in western Gondwana. It represents the final glaciation of westernmost Gondwana and the beginning of deglaciation that swept across the supercontinent throughout the rest of the Paleozoic. A succession of transitional sedimentary facies associations characterizes the eastern outcrops of the Guandacol Formation. These facies associations are interlayered with several deposits of mass-transport complexes (MTC) and present the occasional opportunity to conduct a deep-time analysis of the effect of tectonism in what is interpreted to be glacially-influenced deposits. Six sedimentary facies associations were recognized in the lower part of the Guandacol Formation. Facies association 1 (interbedded diamictites, sandstones, and mudstones) overlies MTC 1 and is interpreted as sedimentation into a marine glacially-influenced outwash fan. Facies association 2 (ponded interbedded sandstones, mudstones, and diamictites) was deposited as subaqueous underflows/turbidites and debris flows covering the irregular paleotopography of MTC 2. Facies association 3 (white medium- to coarse-grained sandstones and conglomerates) represents a small deltaic system. Facies association 4 (rhythmites with dropstones and sandstones) was deposited in a partially ponded water body resulting from the collapse and paleotopography of MTC 3. Facies association 5 (coarsening-upward cycles of mudstones and sandstones) was deposited in prodelta to delta front environments. Finally, facies association 6 (conglomerates, sandstones, and mudstones) corresponds to the subaerial deltaic platform. The evolution of depositional environments suggests three glacially-linked stages: Stage 1 — Initial retreat of the nearby ice masses (facies association 1); Stage 2 — Further retreat of glaciers and the progressive decoupling between ice masses and sea (facies associations 2 and 3); and Stage 3 — Postglacial sedimentation dominated by deltaic progradation during highstand conditions (facies associations 4 to 6). The importance of the paleogeographic context is emphasized in which the tectonism triggered recurrent events of MTC that continually modified the topography and sedimentary patterns, interrupting and complicating the stratigraphy of the interpreted glacial and postglacial sedimentation.
Keywords: Diamictites; Front (military); Geology; Geomorphology; Glacial period; Mass transport complex; Oceanography; Paleontology; Paleozoic; Postglacial sedimentation; Sediment; Sedimentation; Structural basin; Tectonism; dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Generalist CEOs and operational efficiency - Chung, Hanyong (Finance research letters, 2025)
Keywords: Accounting; Board of directors; Business; Economics; Firm size; Generalist CEO; Generalist and specialist species; Operational efficiency; dept.acc; peer-reviewed

President Nixon and Senator Kennedy on Health Care: How Rivalry Shaped Reform - Hopper, Jennifer (Congress & the Presidency, 2025)
Keywords: Economics; Health care; Health care reform; Health policy; Law; Law and economics; Political science; Public administration; Rivalry; Sociology; dept.psc; peer-reviewed

Reentry court judges: the key to the court - Salvatore, Christopher; , Michalsen ,Venezia; and Taylor, Caitlin (Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2020)
Over the last few decades, treatment-oriented court judges have moved away from being neutral arbitrators in an adversarial court process to treatment facilitators. In the problem-solving court model, judges are part of a more therapeutic treatment process with program participants and a courtroom work group. The shift from the use of the traditional criminal justice process toward the use of more treatment-oriented models for some populations highlights the need to systematically document key elements of treatment court models. In particular, it is important to clearly document the role of Reentry Court Judges because they are a key component of the Reentry Court model. The current study used interviews with members of the courtroom work group, as well as a focus group interview of former participants in the program, to help identify the role of the judge and activities the judge engages. Findings revealed that the judges played a supportive, informal role, balanced with a more formal, authoritarian role, and the judges engaged participants in pre-court meetings, as well as courtroom sessions. Further, the judges facilitated interactions with program participants outside the courtroom, demonstrating that the judge is a core component of success for participants in Reentry Court.
Keywords: dept.soc; judges; peer-reviewed; probationers; reentry; reintegration; treatment

Positive Mood and the Perception of Variability Within and Between Groups - Stroessner, Steven J.; Mackie, Diane M.; Michalsen, Venezia (Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2005)
Three experiments investigated the effects of positive mood on perceptions of variability within and between groups. Participants formed impressions of two different and highly variable groups under a neutral or positive mood. When participants expected to learn about both groups, positive mood increased perceived intergroup similarity but did not affect perceived intragroup variability. In contrast, when participants expected to learn about only one group, judgments of intergroup and intragroup similarity were both affected by mood. Mood and the intergroup context influenced the nature and degree of information processing and resultant judgments of variability in social groups.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Not All Women Are Mothers: Addressing the Invisibility of Women Under the Control of the Criminal Justice System Who Do Not Have Children - Michalsen, Venezia; Flavin, Jeanne (The Prison Journal, 2014)
Research has consistently shown that most women under the control of the criminal justice system are mothers. The robustness of this finding has been accompanied by a failure to consider the characteristics and needs of women without children. In this study, we examine data on 1,334 formerly incarcerated women. Findings indicate that while mothers and non-mothers share some characteristics, they differ on several others, most notably demographic profile, mental health, and timing of contacts with the criminal justice system. These results suggest a need to recognize the diversity among women offender groups, particularly when developing policies and programs need.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

More than Visiting Hours: Maintaining Ties Between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children - Michalsen, Venezia; Flavin, Jeanne; Krupat, Tanya (Sociology Compass, 2010)
The majority of people in America’s prisons are the parents of minor children. Incarcerated mothers, in particular, were likely to have been a part of their children’s lives before their imprisonment, and most will soon be returning to the community and to their children. Research has shown that it is in the best interests of the mothers and the children to maintain a relationship across the prison bars. In this article, we use the example of New York State to show how institutional policies and structures can impede or encourage efforts to maintain ties between women and their children and why demonstrating support for family ties must extend well beyond having visiting hours.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Abolitionist Feminism as Prisons Close: Fighting the Racist and Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System - Michalsen, Venezia (The Prison Journal, 2019)
The global prison industrial complex was built on Black and brown women’s bodies. This economy will not voluntarily loosen its hold on the bodies that feed it. White carceral feminists traditionally encourage State punishment, while anti-carceral, intersectional feminism recognizes that it empowers an ineffective and racist system. In fact, it is built on the criminalization of women’s survival strategies, creating a “victimization to prison pipeline.” But prisons are not the root of the problem; rather, they are a manifestation of the over-policing of Black women’s bodies, poverty, and motherhood. Such State surveillance will continue unless we disrupt these powerful systems both inside and outside prisons.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

A Cell of One’s Own? Incarceration and Other Turning Points in Women’s Journeys to Desistance - Michalsen, Venezia (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2019)
Research has shown the importance of turning points in desistance from criminal behavior. Using qualitative data from a sample of 100 formerly incarcerated mothers interviewed about their criminal behavior, this article explores their descriptions of transition moments and whether and how those moments affected their criminal behavior. The findings indicate that whereas parenting emerges as a turning point, the practical difficulties of reentry may reduce the impact of mothering on women’s desistance. More self-focused turning points, such as those due to incarceration, arrest, and sobriety appeared to be particularly important to the women’s desistance. This article emphasizes the need for research into the subjective and environmental factors that affect women’s desistance behaviors.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Trigger Warnings: From Panic to Data - Laguardia, Francesca; Michalsen, Venezia; Rider-Milkovich, Holly (Journal of Legal Education, 2017)
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Mothering as a Life Course Transition: Do Women Go Straight for Their Children? - Michalsen, Venezia (Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2011)
In this study, qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted with 100 formerly incarcerated mothers to explore the relationship between attachment to children and desistance from criminal behavior. Exploratory data analysis revealed that mothers do believe that children play important roles in their desistance, consistent with the tenets of life course theory. However, children were also described as sources of great stress, which may in turn promote criminal behavior. Women also related desistance to reliance on self and a higher power, and to a desire to avoid future involvement with the criminal justice system. The article concludes with a call for more research on women's desistance, and increased consideration of parent–child relationships in corrections policy decision making.
Keywords: attachment; children; dept.soc; desistance; life course theory; mothers; peer-reviewed; reentry

Are Suicide Attempters Who Self-Mutilate a Unique Population? - Stanley, Barbara; Gameroff, Marc J.; Michalsen, Venezia; Mann, J. John (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2001)
OBJECTIVE: Individuals who mutilate themselves are at greater risk for suicidal behavior. Clinically, however, there is a perception that the suicide attempts of self-mutilators are motivated by the desire for attention rather than by a genuine wish to die. The purpose of this study was to determine differences between suicide attempters with and without a history of self-mutilation. METHOD: The authors examined demographic characteristics, psychopathology, objective and perceived lethality of suicide attempts, and perceptions of their suicidal behavior in 30 suicide attempters with cluster B personality disorders who had a history of self-mutilation and a matched group of 23 suicide attempters with cluster B personality disorders who had no history of self-mutilation. RESULTS: The two groups did not differ in the objective lethality of their attempts, but their perceptions of the attempts differed. Self-mutilators perceived their suicide attempts as less lethal, with a greater likelihood of rescue and with less certainty of death. In addition, suicide attempters with a history of self-mutilation had significantly higher levels of depression, hopelessness, aggression, anxiety, impulsivity, and suicide ideation. They exhibited more behaviors consistent with borderline personality disorder and were more likely to have a history of childhood abuse. Self-mutilators had more persistent suicide ideation, and their pattern for suicide was similar to their pattern for self-mutilation, which was characterized by chronic urges to injure themselves. CONCLUSIONS: Suicide attempters with cluster B personality disorders who have a history of self-mutilation tend to be more depressed, anxious, and impulsive, and they also tend to underestimate the lethality of their suicide attempts. Therefore, clinicians may be unintentionally misled in assessing the suicide risk of self-mutilators as less serious than it is.
Keywords: dept.soc; peer-reviewed

Integrating tacit knowledge transfer model in academic context: a sem analysis approach - Shahzad, I.; Soroya, S.H. (Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2025)
Tacit knowledge is more precious as compared to explicit, as it is the intellectual property of the knower and resides in one’s mind. A major part of our knowledge is tacit, which is either lost or not recorded/ captured. In the late 1950s, the term “tacit knowledge” appeared in the literature and received the attention of the researchers. However, a majority of the studies pertaining to tacit knowledge (TK) have primarily focused on non-educational contexts, despite the fact that pragmatic knowledge holds paramount importance within academic settings. This study is designed to examine the tacit knowledge process from capturing to sharing in an academic setting. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey research method was adopted to conduct this research, and data was collected through a well-structured questionnaire. Postgraduate students at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, were the study population. The findings revealed that cognitive skills enable and motivate individuals to capture tacit knowledge, and the positive capturing behavior leads to better handling and more sharing of tacit knowledge, whereas technical skills enable them to better handle tacit knowledge, which ultimately leads to wise utilization of tacit knowledge, and social skills help them in capturing, keeping, and use of tacit knowledge. The study argues that tacit knowledge flow is depending on a certain set of skills and behavior. The findings of the study will be supportive of higher academic institutions as they are the powerhouse of knowledge creation. © This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2024.
Keywords: Higher education; Implicit knowledge; Knowledge management; Social behaviors; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Moral Disengagement, Machiavellianism and Academic Dishonesty - Prince, Melvin; Wang, J.; Priporas, Constantinos‐Vasilios (Journal of Academic Ethics, 2025)
Keywords: Academic Dishonesty; Academic dishonesty; Big Five personality traits; Cheating; Deviance; Dishonesty; Educational Research; Machiavellianism; Machiavellianism, Social Cognitive Theory; Moral Development; Moral Disengagement; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics; Moral Psychology; Moral disengagement; Morality; Personality; Psychology; Social psychology; Students; dept.mrk; peer-reviewed

Gender congruence and entrepreneurial investments: the role of others’ reactions - Wieland, Alice (International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2025)
The purpose of this research is to explore the decision processes that underlie the gender gap in entrepreneurial investments. The present research explores how gender congruence with a sex-typed business opportunity influences anticipated reactions from others who may provide or withhold support and resources, how these affect the assessed probability of venture success and the amount the entrepreneur is willing to invest (WTI) in the opportunity.,A theoretical model is presented and empirically tested via path analysis. A pilot and an experimental study model explore how gender congruence influences entrepreneurial investment decisions. The experimental study uses a repeated measures design examining the experimental effects two sex-typed business opportunities crossed with participant gender (gender congruence) on anticipated others’ reactions, assessed probability of venture success and investment amount (WTI).,Gender congruence of a business opportunity influences anticipated others’ reactions, whether they will be supportive or not, of pursuing the opportunity. This in turn influences the estimated probability of success of the venture and the amount the prospective entrepreneur is willing to invest in it. These socio-cognitive decision processes reinforce the gender gap in entrepreneurship since participants anticipate less access to others’ support for gender incongruent opportunities. Although the mediational model indicates most proposed relationships and paths are invariant across genders, the exception was that women did not report higher WTI for the gender congruent venture.,The research applies the latest thinking in social psychology on gender norm violations to entrepreneurship, measuring how anticipated reactions from others are a factor in predicting estimates of venture success probability and self-investments.
Keywords: dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Bilingual autobiographical memory: unveiling the significance of memories encoded in multiple languages - Sorokina, Anastasia (Multilingua, 2025)
Keywords: Autobiographical memory; Cognitive psychology; Cognitive science; Computer science; Linguistics; Philosophy; Psychology; Recall; bilingual autobiographical memory; dept.wll; memory phenomenology; mixed memories; peer-reviewed

US bank lending to small businesses: an analysis of covid-19 and the paycheck protection program - Abugri, Benjamin A.; Osah, Theophilus T. (Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2025)
This paper examines the characteristics of banks and their lending behavior in relation to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and commercial and industrial (C&I) loans to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings show that lenders facing greater risk tended to lend more PPP loans, consistent with the risk-aversion theory. Specifically, banks with a higher loan–deposit ratio, lower overall profitability, poorer loan quality, and higher exposure to risks in business (C&I) loans are characterized by higher PPP loans. C&I loans to all businesses are negatively related to the loan–deposit ratio and loan loss allowance ratio, but are positively linked with the capital ratio. However, we find important differences in C&I lending to small businesses versus large businesses. Furthermore, there is evidence regarding the success of targeting PPP loans towards more productive sectors of the US economy. Using FDIC-defined banks’ lending specializations, we show that banks focused on international lending had a limited role in PPP lending.
Keywords: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Business; COVID-19 pandemic; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Medicine; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); US banks; Virology; commercial and industrial loans; dept.fin; paycheck protection program; peer-reviewed; risk aversion; small business lending

Summer Nursing Symposium: An Immersive Educational Program Inspiring Underrepresented Minorities for College and a Career in Nursing - Knickerbocker, Joshua; Krol, Maria; Bartlett, Andrew; Borgognone, Kristen; Martinez, Kelly (Hispanic Health Care International, 2025)
Keywords: Medical education; Medicine; Nurse education; Nursing; Psychology; Underrepresented Minority; dept.nur; peer-reviewed

Liver metabolomic profiles of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) are influenced by sex and maturation stages - Tamrakar, Sonam; Huerta, Belinda; Chung‐Davidson, Yu‐Wen; Li, Weiming (Metabolomics, 2025)
INTRODUCTION: Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a unique vertebrate model to examine how liver metabolomes support different reproductive functions. Juvenile sea lamprey prey on other fish species by attaching to their body and feeding on their blood and body fluids. Once reaching adulthood, they cease feeding, migrate to spawning streams and begin their final sexual maturation. During these processes, the male livers produce large quantities of bile acid pheromone precursors to be modified and released via gills, whereas the female livers synthesize vast amounts of vitellogenin (yolk lipophosphoprotein) to be transported to the ovary. OBJECTIVE: We aim to test the hypothesis that the liver metabolic pathways exhibit dramatic changes during sexual maturation of sea lampreys that support their reproductive strategies. METHODS: Liver tissues from prespermiating (PSM) and spermiating (SM) males, and preovulatory (POF) and ovulatory (OF) females were homogenized, extracted and analyzed using the Thermo Q-exactive Orbitrap UPLC/MS/MS. Progenesis QI, Compound Discoverer, and Metaboanalyst were used for alignment, peak picking, deconvolution, and annotation. Data were subjected to analyses such as PCA and PLS-DA, using the SIMCA® software. The glycogen and triglyceride content in liver were also examined to determine levels of stored energy. RESULTS: Overall, we found upregulations of amino acid and fatty acid metabolisms in mature male sea lamprey compared to the immature ones. Although the metabolic differences were comparatively subdued in the sexually immature males and females, amino acid regulation was slightly higher in females. CONCLUSION: We conclude that the metabolic dynamics in sea lamprey livers are consistent with their reproductive strategies.
Keywords: Bile acids; Bioinformatics; Biology; Computational biology; Fatty acids; Fishery; Hepatic Physiology; Hepatocytes; Hepatology; Lamprey; Maturation; Metabolism; Metabolomics; Petromyzon; Petromyzon marinus; Reproductive Physiology; Sex; Untargeted metabolomics; Zoology; dept.che; peer-reviewed

Perceived awareness, benefits, and strategies of Pakistani editors regarding open-access journal publishing - Raza, Muhammad Zahid; Rafiq, Muhammad; Soroya, Saira Hanif (Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 2025)
This study aims to discover the perceived awareness, benefits and suitable strategies of the Pakistani editors of Higher Education Commission (HEC)-recognized scholarly journals regarding open-access (OA) journal publishing in Pakistan.,A structured questionnaire-based survey method of quantitative research approach was adopted to achieve the study’s objectives by collecting data from the editors of 329 HEC-recognized journals in Pakistan.,The awareness level of the respondents of the Pakistani journals is low regarding the OA concepts, resources and initiatives. The respondents of OA journals have better awareness levels than the respondents of non-OA journals. All the respondents of journals are convinced and have the view that OA journals have wider benefits for the academic community, and they need to flourish. A majority of the respondents are of the view that HEC should sponsor financial resources and technical training for OA journal publishing. The respondents of OA journals are more in favor of supporting OA journal publishing than the respondents of non-OA journals.,This study covered the lists of HEC-recognized journals of 2019. More studies may be conducted based on updated lists of HEC-recognized journals by using different research paradigms such as qualitative or pragmatic research approaches.,To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first comprehensive study on this phenomenon and is an effort to fill this gap and invigorate the scholarly literature. It may attract the attention of the policymakers, funding bodies, parent institutions of the journals and the HEC to cope with the low awareness level of the Pakistani editors regarding the OA concepts, resources and initiatives; and suitable strategies required to uplift the OA journal publishing paradigm in Pakistan.
Keywords: dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Freshwater salinization of seasonal ponds: high salinity and stratification threaten critical, overlooked habitats - Brady, Steven; Benoit, Gaboury (Environmental Science & Technology, 2025)
Keywords: Biology; Critical habitat; Ecology; Environmental science; Fishery; Geology; Habitat; Oceanography; Salinity; Soil salinity; Stratification (seeds); dept,bio; peer-reviewed

Insomnia Symptoms, Mental Health Diagnosis, Mental Health Care Utilization, and Perceived Barriers in U.S. Males and Females - Sawadogo, Wendemi; Njoku, Anuli; Jegede, Joy (Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025)
Objective: We aim to determine the association between insomnia symptoms and mental health in females and males and compare mental health care utilization and perceived barriers between females and males with insomnia symptoms. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study using the National Health Interview Survey. Insomnia symptoms included self-reported “trouble falling asleep”, ‘trouble staying asleep”, and “waking up feeling not well rested”. Mental health included self-reported anxiety and depression. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the association between insomnia symptoms and mental health in females and males. Results: A total of 26,691 adults were included. The mean age was 48.2 years; 51.4% were females, and 48.6% were males. Insomnia symptoms were associated with anxiety and depression for both females and males. These associations were stronger in younger adults (<50 years) than older adults (≥50 years). Females with insomnia symptoms were more likely to receive mental health care (OR = 1.7; 95% CI = 1.53, 1.87) but also to delay mental health care because of its cost (OR = 1.96; 95% CI: 1.67, 2.30) or needed mental health care but did not get it because of the cost (OR = 2.14; 95% CI: 1.82, 2.50) than their males counterpart. Conclusions: Insomnia symptoms were associated with mental health in females and males, being stronger in younger adults than older adults, with gender differences in mental health care utilization and financial barriers to mental health care. Holistic approaches involving prevention and better access to mental health care are warranted.
Keywords: Anxiety; Cross-sectional study; Depression (economics); Feeling; Health care; Insomnia; Internal medicine; Logistic regression; Medicine; Mental health; Psychiatry; Psychology; dept.pch; dept.swk; peer-reviewed

Black women's same-gender dating preferences - Maldonado, Jessany (Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, 2024)
Scholarship exploring Black women-loving women's (Black WLW) romantic attraction to one another is scarce. Using a mixed methods design, this qualitative analysis reveals that Black WLW wield unwavering expectations as it pertains to dating qualifications. Characteristically, Black WLW prefer potential mates to have ethnic pride, intelligence, confidence, communication skills, and career ambition. Physically, Black WLW prefer potential mates who are curvaceous, and brown and/or dark-skinned in skin tone—especially if they themselves share the same features. Congruent with previous scholarship, Black WLW assign more value to an individual's character, aura, and personality over physical attributes when assessing attractiveness and desirability.
Keywords: dept.wgs; peer-reviewed

Unanticipated money growth and unemployment in the Philippines - Patalinghug, Jason C. (Journal of Applied Economic Sciences (JAES), 2024)
The Philippines has had high levels of unemployment for years. During the 2000s, the unemployment rate hovered between seven and ten percent. High unemployment can have adverse effects on individuals and society. The question that this paper analyses is how unanticipated money growth affect the unemployment situation in the Philippines. There has been literature on the relationship between unanticipated growth on the money supply and unemployment. The paper proposes that only unanticipated money movements will affect real economic variables like unemployment and the output level. In order to test our hypothesis, it is important that we need to quantify the concepts of anticipated and unanticipated money movements. This paper uses time-series data on several economic variables as well as a model based on Geetha et al. (2023). Using an error-correction model, the results show that an unanticipated increase in M2 money is a factor that contributes to unemployment in Philippines.
Keywords: Philippines; dept.eco; peer-reviewed; time-series data; unanticipated money; unemployment

The Situation With Modern Leadership Stacking: Racial Politics, Racial Discourse, and the Realities for Black American Coaches—Who Keeps Moving the Goalposts? - Harrison, C.; Mebane, Karreem; Fennell, Marcis; Griffin, Whitney; McAllister, Dre; Hart, Richard; McArdle, Danielle (Kinesiology Review, 2025)
Keywords: Black male; Gender studies; Law; NFL hiring practices; Political science; Politics; Psychology; Race (biology); Racial bias; Rooney Rule; Social psychology; Sociology; coaching pipeline; dept.rec; peer-reviewed; racial stacking

Building TRUST: Empowering Teachers to Support Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders - Mitchell, Carolyn; Gershwin, Tracy; Robinson, Jason; Hynes, Kristy (Intervention in School and Clinic, 2025)
Keywords: Applied psychology; Developmental psychology; Emotional and behavioral disorders; Learning disability; Mathematics education; Pedagogy; Psychology; Reading (process); Special education; dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Book Review: Culture 2.0: The Intersection of National and Organizational Culture and Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression - Milburn, Trudy (Management Communication Quarterly, 2024)
Keywords: book review; dept.aa

Perceptions of the Pakistani editors for open access journal publishing: a developing country’s perspective - Raza, Muhammad; Rafiq, Muhammad; Soroya, Saira (Information Development, 2025)
Objectives This study has been designed to determine Pakistani editors’ perceptions regarding the Open Access (OA) publishing practices of the Higher Education Commission (HEC)-recognized journals in Pakistan, and to assess their best OA publishing models. Methodology A structured questionnaire-based survey method of quantitative research approach was adopted to achieve the study’s objectives by collecting data from the editors of all 329 HEC-recognized journals in Pakistan. Findings This study exposed that public and teaching institutes are leading in OA journal publishing in Pakistan as compared to private and research institutes. Diamond OA, and Gold OA publishing models are popular among the respondents; however, respondents are not convinced to follow any specific OA publishing model due to their different choices. A large majority (92%) of the journals belong to the Y category (the lowest) of journals. A large majority (72%) of the journals in Pakistan is adopting the Open Journal System (OJS), and parent institutions installed web browsers. CC-BY-NC and CC-BY licenses are their favorite licenses. Significance The present study is the first comprehensive study on editors’ perceptions for OA journal publishing and is an effort to fill this gap to invigorate the scholarly literature. This study may enable the journals, editors, and publishers to follow the best OA journal publishing practices of the Pakistani journals for global OA usage of scholarly journals. The results have practical and theoretical ramifications for academic and research institutions, federal and provincial higher education commissioners, policy organizations, and parent institutions of journals.
Keywords: Computer science; Developing country; Economic growth; Economics; Library science; MEDLINE; Media studies; Open access journal; Open access publishing; Perception; Perspective (graphical); Political science; Psychology; Public relations; Publishing; Scopus; Sociology; dept.ils; peer-reviewed

Exploring capacitive swipe gesture for user authentication using a new large dataset - K.C., Kiran; Hossain, Shafaeat; Haberfeld, Carl (Computers & Security, 2025)
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Authentication; Authentication (law); Biometrics; Capacitive sensing; Capacitive swipe gesture; Computer science; Computer security; Gesture; Operating system; Smartphone security; SwIPe; Touchscreen; dept.csc

Moving toward more inclusive, affirming, and health-promoting nutrition education - Benes, Sarah; and Burtnyk, Erin (Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2025)
Nutrition units are a staple in many health education courses. While nutrition units can support the acquisition of critical functional knowledge and the development of important skills, there is also the potential for harm and the potential to perpetuate beliefs, ideas, and norms that can lead to disordered eating, the development of unhealthy relationships with food, or shaming of self and others (e.g., fat shaming). The purpose of this article is to outline several factors that may influence how health educators think about and teach nutrition, as well as practical strategies for creating inclusive, affirming, and health-promoting nutrition units.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Empathy in action: nurturing sustainable educational change through Nel Noddings' ethics of care - Hadid, Alia; Hos, Rabia; Hauber-Özer, Melissa (Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 2025)
This introduction synthesizes the research presented by the contributors to this special issue to explore sustainable educational practices for refugees. A common thread across the articles is that they share components of Nel Noddings’ ethics of care framework, which emphasizes establishing welcoming, nurturing, and supportive environments that enable refugees to build meaningful relationships while honoring their cultural identities. We recommend action steps gleaned from the 11 papers in this issue that call for the concerted efforts of all those involved. Central to this vision are teachers, who serve as the backbone of the education system; however, to fulfill this role, they must be equipped with the necessary resources and skills to foster culturally responsive educational environments that emphasize students’ identities and provide equitable learning. This introduction underscores the importance of holistic and relational approaches as foundational to achieving sustainable educational equity for refugee learners.
Keywords: Community; dept.grad; empathy; empowerment; equity; inclusive; peer-reviewed

The Qz5 Survey. I. How the H i Mass Density of the Universe Evolves with Cosmic Time - Oyarzún, Grecco A.; Rafelski, Marc; Christensen, Lise; Ozyurt, Fiona; Jorgenson, Regina A.; Neeleman, M.; Fumagalli, Michele; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Worseck, G.; Wisz, M. E.; Becker, George D.; López, Sebastián (The Astrophysical Journal, 2025)
We report that the neutral hydrogen (H i) mass density of the Universe (ρH i) increases with cosmic time since z ∼ 5, peaks at z ∼ 3, and then decreases toward z ∼ 0. This is the first result of Qz5, our spectroscopic survey of 63 quasars at z ≳ 5 with VLT/X-SHOOTER and Keck/ESI aimed at characterizing intervening H i gas absorbers at z ∼ 5. The main feature of Qz5 is the high resolution (R ∼ 7000–9000) of the spectra, which allows us to (1) accurately detect high column density H i gas absorbers in an increasingly neutral intergalactic medium at z ∼ 5 and (2) determine the reliability of previous ρH i measurements derived with lower resolution spectroscopy. We find five intervening damped Lyα absorbers (DLAs) at z > 4.5, which corresponds to the lowest DLA incidence rate () at z ≳ 2. We also measure the lowest ρH i at z ≳ 2 from our sample of DLAs and subDLAs, corresponding to ρH i Mpc−3 at z ∼ 5. Taking into account our measurements at z ∼ 5 and systematic biases in the DLA detection rate at lower spectral resolutions, we conclude that ρH i doubles from z ∼ 5 to z ∼ 3. From these results emerges a qualitative agreement between how the cosmic densities of H i gas mass, molecular gas mass, and star formation rate build up with cosmic time.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Self perception of leadership styles and behavior in secondary school athletic trainers - Coleman, Kelly; Singe, Stephanie (Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2025)

What increases the urban–rural gap in firm entry rates? - Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter (Small Business Economics, 2025)
Keywords: Agglomeration; Business; Economic geography; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Firm entry; Human capital; J24; M13; R11; Rural; Urban; dept.eco; peer-reviewed

Light nuclei femtoscopy and baryon interactions in 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2025)
We report the measurements of proton-deuteron (p-d) and deuteron-deuteron (d-d) correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 3 GeV using fixed-target mode with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). For the first time, the source size (RG), scattering length (f0), and effective range (d0) are extracted from the measured correlation functions with a simultaneous fit. The spin-averaged f0 for p-d and d-d interactions are determined to be -5.28 ± 0.11(stat.) ± 0.82(syst.) fm and -2.62 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.24(syst.) fm, respectively. The measured p-d interaction is consistent with theoretical calculations and low-energy scattering experiment results, demonstrating the feasibility of extracting interaction parameters using the femtoscopy technique. The reasonable agreement between the experimental data and the calculations from the transport model indicates that deuteron production in these collisions is primarily governed by nucleon coalescence.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

#scholar #famous #monster - Wolgemuth, Jennifer; Lester, Jessica; Guyotte, Kelly; Koro‐Ljungberg, Mirka; Marn, Travis (Educational Researcher, 2025)
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics and wonder about the future of public scholarship and the monstrous scholarly selves we are becoming. Thinking of monstrosity, with Krecˇicˇ and Žižek, as the preontological domain that rests beneath society and constitutes alterity and otherness, we ask what kinds of #scholarfamousmonsters we want to be, become, and promote in the digital era.
Keywords: Aesthetics; Art; Epistemology; Law; Literature; Media studies; Monster; Philosophy; Political science; Psychology; Scholarship; Social media; Social psychology; Sociology; Wonder; dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Perceived Religious Social Support in Faith Communities for Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia - Garrison, Brianna; Myers, Dennis; Parrish, Danielle; Oxhandler, Holly (Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2025)
Keywords: Dementia; Faith; Gerontology; Medicine; Psychology; Psychotherapist; Social support; caregiver; dept.swk; faith community; peer-reviewed; social determinants of health; social support

Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study - McConwell, Alison; Bogacz, Magdalena; Brecevic, Char; Haber, Matthew; Wu, Jingyi; Roe, Sarah (Philosophy of Science, 2025)
Abstract There is an “underrepresentation problem” in philosophy departments and journals. Empirical data suggest that while we have seen some improvements since the 1990s, the rate of change has slowed down. Some posit that philosophy has disciplinary norms making it uniquely resistant to change. We present results from an empirical case study of a philosophy department that achieved and maintained male-female gender parity among its faculty as early as 2014. Our analysis extends beyond matters of gender parity because that is only one, albeit important, dimension of inclusion. We build from the study to reflect on strategies that may catalyze change.
Keywords: Computer science; Epistemology; Philosophy; Sociology; dept.his; peer-reviewed

Corruption, Natural Capital and Economic Development: A Dynamic GMM Analysis - Ang, Joshua; Patalinghug, Jason (Review of Economic Analysis, 2025)
Using a dynamic panel dataset of 150 countries for the period of 2006-2018 and a two-step system GMM estimation model, this paper shows that natural resources have a positive effect on economic development while holding corruption constant. Our findings support the notion that natural resources have a positive effect on the economy of a nation. When a country has less corruption, it improves the appropriation of economic gains from natural resources which serves as natural capital that would drive further capital accumulation and further development. We also find that physical capital, human capital, and freedom from corruption show strong positive effects on economic development, controlling for other economic and institutional variables.
Keywords: Corruption; Dynamic Panel Study; Econometrics; Economic Development; Economics; Human Capital; Language change; Natural Resources; Physical Capital; dept.eco

Integrating edTPA into Physical Education Teacher Education: Teacher Educators’ Perceptions and Experiences in Preparing Teacher Candidates - Olsen, Edward B.; Wyant, James D.; Tsuda, Emi; Laughlin, Michael K.; Baxter, Deborah S. (Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024)
Purpose: In the United States, 15 states maintain policies and 25 states represent some level of edTPA affiliation. This study investigated how the edTPA was integrated and aligned into different physical education teacher education (PETE) programs in New Jersey. It also sought to understand teacher educators’ perceptions and experiences in preparing teacher candidates for the edTPA. Methods: This study utilized three data sources: semistructured interviews (n = 4), one focus group interview (n = 1), and documents (n = 17). Data analysis reflected a conventional approach toward qualitative content analysis. Results: In analyzing the data, four themes were established: (a) benefits and drawbacks of edTPA in PETE, (b) goals and success of edTPA in PETE, (c) integrating edTPA into PETE—macro- and microperspectives, and (d) analytic insights into edTPA and future recommendations. Discussion/Conclusion: In states requiring the edTPA, early exposure, scaffolding, curriculum mapping, and a shared mission and vision are critical. In states not requiring the edTPA, programs may want to consider indicators of performance, such as artifacts, reports, elements of the edTPA, university-based assessments, or a portfolio. Regardless of the type of assessment, “a” performance-based assessment may help to determine teacher candidates’ ability to plan, instruct, assess, and reflect.
Keywords: dept.hms; faculty; peer-reviewed; performance-based assessments; preservice teachers

The story so far: scoping review of narratives in deaf children - Puhlman, Jane; Sabatino, Lauren; DeLuca, Zara Waldman; Lorio, Ciera; Decker, Lindsay (The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025)
Narrative language samples can be used to measure language development in children, but research on narrative development in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children is scarce, limiting knowledge of developmental stages and best practices for collection and analysis. This scoping review included 39 articles that explored recent methodologies and achievements in oral or signed narratives of DHH children, including comparisons with hearing peers and within-group analyses of early auditory experience, device use, and other measures. Articles featured DHH participants aged < 4 to 18 years, varying in device use, communication modalities, and educational settings. Most studies utilized story generation tasks with early elementary-aged children and analyzed either microstructure or macrostructure. Mixed results in comparisons with hearing children emphasized the need to consider individual differences (e.g., speech perception and age of spoken language access) in DHH narrative assessments. Findings also suggest that comparability across studies would be improved by more consistent terminology and procedures in narrative collection/analysis.
Keywords: dept.cmd; peer-reviewed

Gendered cognitions: a socio-cognitive model of how gender affects entrepreneurial preferences - Wieland, Alice M.; , Kemmelmeier ,Markus; , Gupta ,Vishal K.; and McKelvey, William (Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2019)
This research explores the social-cognitive factors which lead both women and men to pursue ventures consistent with their gendered social identity, therefore, reinforcing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. We measured the self-assessments of individuals presented with experimentally manipulated entrepreneurial opportunities that were either consistent or inconsistent with their self-reported gender. A theoretical model derived from Social Role Theory is presented and tested. It posits that a gender match (mismatch) with the entrepreneurial opportunity results in higher (lower) reported self-efficacy, anticipated social resources, and venture desirability and lower (higher) venture risk perceptions. The experimental data are tested in a sequential mediation SEM model. We find evidence that self-efficacy and anticipated social resources mediate the effect of gender congruency on perceived risk and venture desirability. The results provide insight into the insidious barriers that play a role in reproducing a gender gap in entrepreneurial outcomes by ‘nudging’ women into lower-return ventures in less lucrative industries.
Keywords: Entrepreneur; gender; gender gap; gender norms; gender role; opportunity evaluation; sex

Service, emotional labor, and mindfulness - Wang, Emma (Junhong); Berthon, Pierre; Pitt, Leyland; McCarthy, Ian P. (Business Horizons, 2016)
From the seclusion of monastic life to the noise of Silicon Valley, the ancient practice of mindfulness has ‘come out of the cloister.’ As an antidote to mindless cognition and behavior, the practice of mindfulness—with its principle of grounding attention in the present moment—has been shown to have powerful and positive effects at both the individual and the collective level and in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, schooling, prison programs, law and negotiation, business, and even the army. This installment of Marketing & Technology introduces mindfulness to managers and explores its potential for enhancing the service encounter. We begin by reviewing the two main conceptualizations of mindfulness: the cognitive and the contemplative. We then explore the service encounter from the perspective of emotional labor and show how mindfulness can change surface acting into deep acting, thereby significantly improving the service encounter for both the consumer and provider. We also explore the other benefits of mindfulness and their application to the service encounter: adaptability, flexibility, and creativity. We conclude by sharing resources for managers interested in implementing mindfulness training.
Keywords: Creativity; Emotional labor; Mindfulness; Service encounter; dept.mrk

Emerging Trends of Acquisition in Public Libraries of Pakistan: Challenges and Issues - Bashir, Faiza; Hanif Soroya, ,Saira; Soroya, M. Shahid; Khanum, Almas (Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services, 2015)
Acquiring material in public libraries is a core library activity to fulfill the unique needs of the reader's community. The present study aims to explore the trends of monograph acquisition in public libraries. The population consists of the four major public libraries of Lahore. A case study approach has been used to achieve the objectives of the study. Research is based on primarily the personal visits of the researcher to the acquisition departments of these libraries in order to collect data. Structured interviews were carried out with acquisition librarians to investigate the process of purchasing. The analysis of data reveals that a high ratio of Urdu language books has been purchased during the last decade, literature and religion being the major purchase area, whereas, art and architecture, pure sciences, and languages are the most neglected. The findings further revealed that the studied libraries have primarily been using traditional and informal techniques for acquiring material.
Keywords: Pakistan librarianship; acquisition trends; dept.ils; monograph acquisition; public libraries

Reading Trends of Youth in Pakistan: A Pilot Study - Soroya, Saira Hanif; Ameen, Kanwal (Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, 2016)
The present study, a part of researcher's Ph.D. project, aimed at exploring the reading trends of young Pakistani students (i.e., Generation Y: born during the 1980s and early 1990s, also known as internet generation), and the impact of digital media on their reading behavior. It was conducted as a pilot study on final year's master level students of the University of the Punjab. Quantitative research design, based on a survey was used. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from 50 students through questionnaire survey. It revealed that the students' reading behavior has been significantly changed during the last five years. Their overall reading time and digital reading time has been increased due to the availability of digital devices and digital reading material. The findings of this study are helpful in identifying the trends of reading behavior as well as in planning and designing library services with regard to the considering of the behavior of the students.
Keywords: dept.ils

Academic Integrity: Effects of Demographic Variables on Students’ Conduct - Soroya, Dr Muhammad Shahid; Hashmi, Dr Muhammad Amir; Soroya, Saira Hanif (South Asian Studies, 2020)
This study aimed to find out the effects of demographic variable i.e. gender, age, group of studies, GPA etc. on level of academic integrity among Pakistani students. The design of the study is quantitative in nature, in which the survey research method was employed to gather data from the respondents. A self-reported questionnaire was adapted on the basis of previously developed and validated questionnaire, with the consent of the authors. The developed scale was validated with the help of experts and pilot tested. Multilevel stratified convenience sampling technique was used to collect data from 4 provinces and federal area of Pakistan. The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 version
Keywords: dept.ils

Application of marketing approach in academic libraries: an exploratory study of Punjab University Libraries (PULs) - Soroya, Saira Hanif; Ameen, Kanwal (Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal, 2017)
Keywords: dept.ils

What do they want? Millennials and role of libraries in Pakistan - Soroya, Saira Hanif; Ameen, Kanwal (The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2018)
The present study is aimed at determining the future role of libraries in Pakistan as perceived by the Millennials (people born during the 1980's and late 1990's) considering the current ongoing digital development. The quantitative research design, based on survey has been used for the study. The population consisted of students from large and medium sized general universities of Lahore, Pakistan. Stratified purposive sampling technique was carried out to select the pool of the subjects e. A self-constructed and validated instrument was used to collect data. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS (16.0). The results revealed that Millennials want future libraries to allow easy access to a wide range of reading material in both print and digital form. They want to be able to round the clock access to electronic and print resources.
Keywords: 21st century library users; Future role of libraries; Millennials; Pakistan; dept.ils

Users' Satisfaction as a Valid Measure for Information Resources: A Case of Public Libraries - Bashir, Faiza; , Soroya ,Saira Hanif; and Khanum, Almas (Journal of Library Administration, 2018)
The mission of public libraries is to serve the unique needs of their local communities. Public library User's play a very vital role in the development of these libraries by suggesting or recommending additions to the collection. This study aims to evaluate the satisfaction of users with the quality and quantity of library collection. A self structured questionnaire based on open and close ended question was constructed. A purposive sample of one hundred users was selected. The data were qualitatively analyzed using a thematic approach. Positive opinion observed related to the library response towards the suggested titles. Almost half the population of respondents was satisfied with the availability of their suggested titles in library. Most of them were dissatisfied regarding the maintenance of equal collection of books and they are not encouraged by the library staff during the books suggestion process. It concludes that there is a need to evaluate the existing library collections.
Keywords: dept.ils; information quality; information resources; public libraries; user satisfaction

Do We Deliver What They Expect? Finding the Gap Between Users' Expected and Currently Received Library Services. - Ara, Mehvish; Soroya, Saira Hanif (Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal, 2018)
This research aims to assess tire service quality of public libraries of Lahore by evaluating the disparities between the users' expectation and currently received services. The survey method based on questionnaire was used. Four of the largest libraries in Lahore, in terms of services, collection and other facilities, were the population of the study. A sample of four hundred library users was selected with one hundred library users for each library based on convenience sampling. A modified LibQUAL+ tool was adopted to collect the data. The findings revealed that users have very high expectations regarding the accessibility of library's electronic resources from home or office, library website, printed material, availability of electronic information resource, modem equipment, tools that allow the users to find the material themselves, and provision of the information in an easy manner. The findings are helpful for public libraries' authorities to redcsign/upgradc the quality of library services, policies and procedures according to users' expectations and requirements.
Keywords: ACCESS control; INTERNET access for library users; LAHORE (Pakistan); LIBRARY public services; LIBRARY records; Libraries; Libraries and Archives; PUBLIC libraries; dept.ils

Communicative relevance: Color references in bilingual and trilingual speakers - Pavlenko, Aneta; Jarvis, Scott; Melnyk, Svitlana; Sorokina, Anastasia (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017)
The study examined granularity of lexical partitioning of the blue area in speakers of English, which encodes the term blue; Russian, which encodes two terms, sinij [dark/navy blue] and goluboj [light/sky blue]; and Ukrainian, which encodes the terms synij [dark/navy blue] and blakytnyj and golubyj [light/sky blue]. Five groups of participants took part in the study: (1) 30 L1 speakers of English, (2) 30 L1 speakers of Russian, (3) 30 Russian–English bilinguals, (4) 30 English–Russian bilinguals, and (5) 25 Ukrainian–Russian–English trilinguals. Quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that L1 Russian speakers referred to different types of blue significantly more frequently than all other groups, while bilinguals patterned with L1 English speakers. These findings suggest that classroom exposure to L2 Russian does not make the distinction between sinij and goluboj communicatively relevant for L1 English speakers and that everyday use of L2 English may trigger attrition of the contrast in L1 Russian.
Keywords: Russian; bilingual lexicon; color; communicative relevance; crosslinguistic influence; dept.wll

Crimean crisis of 2014 in the conservative and liberal U.S. media - Sorokina, Anastasia N. (Russian Journal of Communication, 2017)
Keywords: Crimean crisis; U.S. media; critical discourse analysis; dept.wll; transitivity

Managerial Talent and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): How Do Talented Managers View Corporate Social Responsibility? - Chatjuthamard, Pattanaporn; Jiraporn, Pornsit; Tong, Shenghui; Singh, Manohar (International Review of Finance, 2016)
Motivated by the ongoing debate on the costs and benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we explore how talented managers view CSR investments. Based on nearly 20,000 observations across 17 years, our evidence reveals a nonmonotonic effect of managerial talent on CSR. Exploiting a novel measure of managerial ability, we find that talented managers view CSR investments favorably. However, only those with especially strong talent are in favor of CSR investments. For executives ranked above the 75th percentile in terms of managerial talent, an increase in managerial ability leads to more CSR investments, suggesting that these strongly talented managers perceive CSR as enhancing firm performance. In contrast, for those with weaker talent, CSR investments are negatively associated with managerial ability, implying that these weakly talented managers view CSR as a wasteful deployment of resources. Further evidence shows that our conclusion is unlikely confounded by endogeneity.
Keywords: G30; G32; M14; dept.mrk

Is there an optimally diversified conglomerate? Gleaning answers from capital markets - Nejadmalayeri, Ali; Iyer, Subramanian Rama; Singh, Manohar (Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2017)
Motivated by recent productivity-based theories of diversification, we argue that only conglomerates with an optimal degree of diversification can utilize their comparative advantages across various industries and achieve economies of scope by eliminating redundancies. Evidence from both corporate bond and equity markets suggests that optimally diversified conglomerates consist of either (1) approximately five equally weighted divisions, or (2) one large core business segment that roughly accounts for 75 % sales. Moreover, the relative size of divisions has a critical impact on how diversification affects credit spreads and excess values. Nonparity among divisions correlates with greater costs that increase with the number of divisions.
Keywords: Conglomerates; Credit spreads; Equity discount; G10; G11; G12; Optimal diversification; dept.mrk

Response to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention by age of onset of obesity - Rupp, K.; Taverno Ross, S. E.; Lang, W.; Jakicic, J. M. (Obesity Science & Practice, 2016)
Background The purpose of this study was to examine weight loss, physical activity, fitness and diet changes in response to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention in adults with self-reported juvenile onset (n = 61) or adult onset (n = 116) obesity. Methods Participants (n = 177; 43.0 ± 8.6 years; body mass index [BMI] = 33.0 ± 3.4 kg m−2) engaged in an 18-month standard behavioral weight loss intervention. Participants were randomized into three different intervention groups as part of the larger parent trial. BMI, physical activity, fitness and diet were assessed at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months. Separate adjusted mixed models were constructed using SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). Results There was significant weight loss, increased physical activity, improved fitness and reduced caloric intake over time (p < 0.001). There were no significant differences in these outcome variables by obesity onset group. However, there was a significant group by time interaction for fitness (p = 0.001), with the adult onset making significantly greater gains in fitness from baseline to 6 months (p < 0.001); however, this difference was no longer present at 12 or 18 months. Conclusions With the exception of fitness at 6 months, weight loss, physical activity and diet did not differ between juvenile onset and adult onset participants, suggesting that those with juvenile onset obesity are equally responsive to a standard behavioral weight loss intervention in adulthood.
Keywords: Obesity; dept.hms; physical activity; weight loss interventions

“I'm Not Good Enough for Anyone”: Legal Status and the Dating Lives of Undocumented Young Adults - Pila, Daniela (Sociological Forum, 2016)
The impact of legal status on romantic relationships has not been adequately explored in the literature. Based on video and phone interviews with 25 undocumented activists from the ages of 18 to 28 years old, this research examines how legal status affects the romantic relationships of undocumented women and men. The hegemony of traditional dating scripts made it difficult for those without legal status to participate. Gender roles were consistent with stereotypical male and female roles in dating, which often attribute more power and responsibility to men. As such, women experienced a slight advantage because traditional notions of courtship did not require them to provide the resources required for dating, such as money or transportation, which in contrast were commonly expected of the men. In contrast, women noted the difficulties of disclosing their legal status and depending on their partners for everyday activities. Additionally, both men and women faced exclusion that inhibited their dating lives, as a direct result of their legal status. This suggests that the impact of legal status may be salient at all stages of family formation and that undocumented young adults are experiencing a distinct phenomenon compared to their documented and native-born peers.
Keywords: citizenship; dating; dept.soc; immigration; legality; undocumented; young adults

Development and preliminary testing of PROGRESS: a Web-based education program for prostate cancer survivors transitioning from active treatment - Miller, Suzanne M.; Hudson, Shawna V.; Hui, Siu-Kuen Azor; Diefenbach, Michael A.; Fleisher, Linda; Raivitch, Stephanie; Belton, Tanisha; Roy, Gem; Njoku, Anuli; Scarpato, John; Viterbo, Rosalia; Buyyounouski, Mark; et al. (Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, 2015)
PURPOSE: This formative research study describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a theory-guided, online multimedia psycho-educational program (PROGRESS) designed to facilitate adaptive coping among prostate cancer patients transitioning from treatment into long-term survivorship. METHODS: Guided by the Cognitive-Social Health Information Processing Model (C-SHIP) and using health communications best practices, we conducted a two-phase, qualitative formative research study with early stage prostate cancer patients (n = 29) to inform the Web program development. Phase 1 included individual (n = 5) and group (n = 12) interviews to help determine intervention content and interface. Phase 2 employed iterative user/usability testing (n = 12) to finalize the intervention. Interview data were independently coded and collectively analyzed to achieve consensus. RESULTS: Survivors expressed interest in action-oriented content on (1) managing treatment side effects, (2) handling body image and comorbidities related to overweight/obesity, (3) coping with emotional and communication issues, (4) tips to reduce disruptions of daily living activities, and (5) health skills training tools. Patients also desired the use of realistic and diverse survivor images. CONCLUSIONS: Incorporation of an established theoretical framework, application of multimedia intervention development best practices, and an evidence-based approach to content and format resulted in a psycho-educational tool that comprehensively addresses survivors' needs in a tailored fashion. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: The results suggest that an interactive Web-based multimedia program is useful for survivors if it covers the key topics of symptom control, emotional well-being, and coping skills training; this tool has the potential to be disseminated and implemented as an adjunct to routine clinical care.
Keywords: Humans; Internet; Male; Middle Aged; Program Development; Prostatic Neoplasms; Qualitative Research; Survivors; Telemedicine; dept.pch

Developing a Learner-Centered Curriculum for a Rural Public Health Program - Njoku, Anuli; Wakeel, Fathima; Reger, Michael; Jadhav, Emmanuel; Rowan, Julie (International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017)
Rural communities, compared with their urban counterparts, have higher rates of disease and adverse health conditions, fueling disparities in health outcomes. This encourages the need for effective curricula to engage students and enable them to address such disparate health outcomes as imminent health professionals. Incorporating learner-centered teaching strategies, such as collaboration and power-sharing, into public health (PH) courses can enhance student learning and help faculty enable future health professionals to address needs of rural, underserved populations. Successfully engaging students to explore issues related to rural health disparities in their education, research, and training can thereby advance PH practice. This paper describes the collaborative efforts of five PH faculty, an instructional designer, and administrators to develop a learner-centered curriculum for a newly launched PH program in a rural Midwestern United States (US) university.
Keywords: Audience Response Systems; College Faculty; Course Descriptions; Disadvantaged; Diseases; Health Personnel; Instructional Design; Program Descriptions; Program Development; Public Health; Rural Areas; Student Centered Curriculum; Teacher Collaboration; Teaching Methods; Workshops; dept.pch

Teaching Health Disparities Awareness in Undergraduate Public Health Courses - Njoku, Anuli (International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018)
Keywords: dept.pch

Dismantling Occupational Therapy Provider Licensure Barriers for Individuals Who Are Underdocumented - O’Brien, Kyle; Miller-Kuhaneck, Heather (American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2025)
Keywords: Business; Certification; Licensure; Medical education; Medicine; Occupational therapy; Political science; Public relations; Workforce; dept.rec

Shopper Search in Response to Conditional Promotions: A Function of Basket Sizes and Incentive Types - Kulkarni, Atul; Yuan, Hong (Psychology and Marketing, 2025)
Keywords: Advertising; Business; Computer science; Consumer Attitudes; Consumer Behavior; Economics; Function (biology); Incentive; Incentives; Mathematics; Microeconomics; Shopping; dept.mrk; peer-reviewed

Impact of an emergency department take-home naloxone program on subsequent overdose and death - Wills, Brandon; Keyser‐Marcus, Lori; Sawadogo, Wendemi; Gizaw, Andinet; Melmer, Monica; Nguyen, Tammy; Nguyen, Natalie; Davis, Theresa; Ringwood, Katy; Moeller, F. (Heliyon, 2025)
Abstract Background Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) following nonfatal opioid overdose represent a high-risk population with 5 % of patients dying within a year of the index visit. Objective To evaluate subsequent overdose and death before and after the implementation of an ED discharge naloxone program. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of ED patients who presented at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health ED with an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) chief complaint before and after a discharge naloxone program. The pre-naloxone cohort was consecutive ED OUD patients from August 15, 2021, to August 14, 2022, and the post-naloxone cohort from August 15, 2022, to August 14, 2023. The outcomes were subsequent overdose, ED visit to same hospital (VCU), and death within six months of the index visit. Results In total, 1,053 patients were included, of which 529 were in the pre-naloxone cohort and 524 patients in the post-naloxone cohort. The mean age was 44.2 years (SD = 14.0) and 69 % were males. There was a reduction in overdose requiring ED visiting (subsequent ED overdose) and death (4.6 % vs 9.2 % p = 0.03 and 2.0 % vs 5.6 % p = 0.02 respectively) in the post-naloxone cohort compared to the pre-naloxone cohort. After adjusting for sociodemographic and clinical factors, there was a 48 % reduction in the risk of subsequent ED overdose (RR = 0.52, 95 % CI: 0.27, 1.02) and a 63 % reduction in the risk of death (RR = 0.37, 95 % CI: 0.14, 0.95). Conclusion Implementing an ED take-home naloxone program was associated with a reduction in subsequent overdose and death at six months.
Keywords: (+)-Naloxone; Drug overdose; Emergency department; Emergency medicine; Internal medicine; Medical emergency; Medicine; Naloxone; Opioid; Opioid antagonist; Opioid overdose; Poison control; Psychiatry; dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Reflective thinking processes as a tool for social justice - Fumiatti, S.S. (International Journal of Pedagogy and Curriculum, 2025)
In the United States (US) kindergarten through twelfth-grade public school system, the classroom library has come to be a critical part of literacy instruction within the language arts classroom. This fact is especially true in the middle school grade levels (grades five through eight), where reading volume begins to rapidly increase. Additionally, a developmental norm for students within this age range includes a growing sense of independence and choice, as well as a desire to share and voice opinions. Classroom libraries have come to be tools that are used regularly and are heavily influential on the way that students grow to perceive themselves, the world around them, and the way they fit into that world. However, classroom libraries have remained stagnant and underrepresent the diverse populations of the students in those classrooms. This article aims to connect deep reflective thinking with anti-oppressive and transformative learning theories, exploring how these frameworks can be used to problematize current practices in classroom libraries. Through a content analysis of what is seen as deep and critical thinking practices and reflective thinking practices, anti-oppressive and transformative learning theories can be linked to foster a social justice classroom culture within US public middle school language arts classrooms. © 2025 Common Ground Research Networks. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Anti-oppressive Education; Classroom Libraries; Reflective Thinking; Social Justice; dept.edu; peer-reviewed

The Solar Neighborhood. LII. M Dwarf Twin Binaries—Presumed Identical Twins Appear Fraternal in Variability, Rotation, Hα, and X-Rays - Couperus, Andrew A.; Henry, Todd J.; Osten, Rachel A.; Jao, Wei-Chun; Vrijmoet, Eliot Halley; Kar, Aman; Horch, Elliott (The Astronomical Journal, 2024)
We present an investigation into the rotation and stellar activity of four fully convective M dwarf “twin” wide binaries. Components in each pair have (1) astrometry confirming they are common-proper-motion binaries, (2) Gaia BP, RP, and 2MASS J, H, and K s magnitudes matching within 0.10 mag, and (3) presumably the same age and composition. We report long-term photometry, rotation periods, multiepoch Hα equivalent widths, X-ray luminosities, time series radial velocities, and speckle observations for all components. Although it might be expected for the twin components to have matching magnetic attributes, this is not the case. Decade-long photometry of GJ 1183 AB indicates consistently higher spot activity on A than B, a trend matched by A appearing 58% ± 9% stronger in L X and 26% ± 9% stronger in Hα on average—this is despite similar rotation periods of A = 0.86 day and B = 0.68 day, thereby informing the range in activity for otherwise identical and similarly rotating M dwarfs. The young β Pic Moving Group member 2MA 0201+0117 AB displays a consistently more active B component that is 3.6 ± 0.5 times stronger in L X and 52% ± 19% stronger in Hα on average, with distinct rotation at A = 6.01 days and B = 3.30 days. Finally, NLTT 44989 AB displays remarkable differences with implications for spindown evolution—B has sustained Hα emission while A shows absorption, and B is ≥39 ± 4 times stronger in L X, presumably stemming from the surprisingly different rotation periods of A = 38 days and B = 6.55 days. The last system, KX Com, has an unresolved radial velocity companion, and is therefore not a twin system.
Keywords: dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Early Cretaceous stress field variations and relationship to intraplate magmatism in the New England portion of the eastern North American margin - Boemmels, J.R. Cooper; Crespi, J.M.; Fleming, T.H. (GSA Bulletin, 2024)
Shallow mantle processes such as edge-driven convection are thought to play an important role in shaping the passive margin setting. Previous geophysical investigations of northern New England suggest this process is likely operating beneath this portion of the eastern North American margin today. In western Vermont and eastern New York, USA, Early Cretaceous magmatism dated at ca. 140–130 Ma in the Burlington lobe and at ca. 110–100 Ma in the Taconic lobe of the New England–Quebec igneous province may represent the upper crustal expression of edge-driven convection operating beneath the eastern North American margin in the geologic past. This investigation addresses the potential relationship between these two episodes of magmatism and upper crustal deformation in northern New England through paleostress analysis of Early Cretaceous sheet intrusions and mesoscale normal faults, and geochemical analysis of sheet intrusions. The two episodes of magmatism are geochemically similar, display typical characteristics of intraplate alkaline magmatism, and are likely the product of a common source. Paleostress analysis and crosscutting relationships indicate that Burlington lobe magmatism was associated with a subhorizontal N–S extensional stress field, and Taconic lobe magmatism was associated with a subhorizontal NW–SE extensional stress field. Both stress fields represent short-term perturbations to the regional Early Cretaceous subhorizontal NE–SW extensional stress field. Each perturbation coincided with and likely continued following magmatism. The magmatism, geographic and temporal scale of the stress field changes, and return to regional subhorizontal NE–SW extension following these events are consistent with the periodic nature of edge-driven convection and associated small-scale delamination events. This field-based documentation of intraplate magmatism and its association with short-term changes in the stress field improves our understanding of the upper crustal expression of edge-driven convection at passive margins.
Keywords: dept.esc; peer-reviewed

Teaching teamwork and collaboration: A task-centered clinical design - Morrill, Deborah (Nurse education today, 2018)
Keywords: dept.nur

Service-Learning as a Mechanism to Prepare School Psychology Graduate Students: A Case Example. - McPherson, Casey; Karahalios, Vicky; Shriberg, David (Trainers' Forum, 2017)
An ongoing challenge in the preparation of school psychologists, particularly in the first year of graduate training, is finding learning experiences that provide students with an opportunity to apply foundational skills, such as consultation and data-based decision-making, in a culturally responsive manner. Service-learning is a well-established teaching mechanism designed to address just this need, yet there is scant scholarship on ways to utilize this methodology in school psychology training. This manuscript describes a service-learning experience at an urban tutoring center in which first-year school psychology Ed.S. and Ph.D. students gathered agency-wide comprehensive academic screening data and provided targeted consultation support in the area of reading comprehension to identified fourth- through sixth-grade students and their tutors. Indicators of the positive impact of this work across stakeholder groups is provided.
Keywords: dept.csp

International adoption of the Second Step program: Moderating variables in treatment effects - Moy, Gregory; Polanin, Joshua R.; McPherson, Casey; Phan, Thuy-Vy (School Psychology International, 2018)
Second Step is a universal social-emotional learning program designed to decrease antisocial behaviors, increase prosocial behaviors, and increase knowledge about content curriculum. Given the international focus of using Second Step to improve social-emotional skills, it is especially important to provide an updated synthesis on the effect of the intervention. A single-program meta-analysis was completed in order to determine effects of participating in Second Step and to explore moderators of program effectiveness on prosocial and antisocial behavior outcomes as well as knowledge of emotions. Five moderators were explored, including (a) program saturation, (b) dependent variable source, (c) grade range, (d) metro area, and (e) geographical location. A combined total of 18,847 participants were included in the analysis of 27 studies. Results of the current study indicate that Second Step’s impact on students’ knowledge and attitudes of violence and violence prevention is much stronger than on increasing prosocial behavior or reducing antisocial behavior.
Keywords: dept.csp

Developing an Appropriate Goalball Unit for Secondary Physical Education - Laughlin, Michael K.; Happel, Kathleen (Strategies, 2016)
Goalball, a sport designed for those with visual impairments, is a competitive and recreational sport enjoyed by athletes around the world. Students with and without visual impairments can experience positive outcomes when teachers appropriately include a goalball unit as part of their inclusive secondary physical education curriculum. This article aims to help teachers identify these outcomes through strategies that encourage student success and appreciation for the sport. A framework to implement a goalball unit is provided along with strategies to target skill, tactical and game-play development.
Keywords: dept.hms

What’s Going on Out There? An exploration of K–12 PE Curricular Models and Content Taught in Public Schools - Hodges, Michael; Laughlin, Michael; Brusseau, Timothy (The Physical Educator, 2018)
Little is known about which curricular models and activity units are being taught in public schools. This exploratory study examined the K–12 physical education (PE) content and curricular models being implemented. Supervisors of PE recruited from one northeastern state participated in a 25-item questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and frequencies were calculated. Sixty-nine of 92 questionnaires were usable and included in the data analysis. Findings suggest that few districts were using a curricular model at the elementary (K–5) level (27%). Another common response of adopted curricular models at the elementary level was Movement Education (17.6%). At the secondary level, No Model (35%) and Fitness Education (25.6%) were common responses. Specific units such as volleyball, basketball, and weight training yielded the highest responses, while field hockey, golf, archery, lacrosse, and tennis yielded the fewest responses. The findings suggest that K–12 PE curricula may not reflect current trends and mandates. The key determinants could be a lack of curricular model use and heavy reliance upon activities known to present challenges toward standards-based education (i.e., softball). Perhaps K–12 PE and PE preparation programs can connect to effectively articulate a curriculum, and adopt and train on curricular approaches aiming to increase teacher effectiveness and reach national standards.Subscribe to TPE
Keywords: Content; Curricular Models; PETE; Units; dept.hms

Assistive Technology: What Physical Educators Need to Know - Laughlin, Michael K.; , Murata ,Nathan M.; , Gonnelli ,Michele; and Larranaga, John (Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2018)
Assistive technology supplements and supports the learning of students with disabilities in school and at home. Thanks to federal mandates, students with disabilities receive consideration for assistive technology devices and services — the tools and supports needed to achieve determined learning outcomes. Assistive technology devices and services operate as a process, ensuring students with disabilities receive optimal access to learning across all educational settings and subject areas. This article provides physical educators with a working knowledge of the assistive technology process along with recommendations for supporting their students with disabilities.
Keywords: dept.hms

Construal-level Mindsets Enhance Behavioral Persistence in Response to Incentive Valence - Kulkarni, Atul A.; Yuan, Hong (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2017)
In this research, we find that incentive valence and construal-level mindsets can interact to influence behavioral persistence on challenging tasks. An abstract mindset improves persistence in response to positively framed incentives whereas a concrete mindset improves persistence in response to negatively framed incentives. This interaction effect can be observed even when the cues inducing construal-level mindsets are not related to the incentives or the incentivized tasks. Participants in our studies were either positively or negatively incentivized to solve a set of difficult anagrams, and were primed with an abstract or a concrete mindset using spatial (Study 1) and social (Study 2) cues. The participants persisted longer in response to the positively framed incentive when primed with spatially or socially remote cues. In contrast, for the negatively framed incentive, participants persisted longer when primed with spatially or socially proximal cues. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: construal-level; dept.mrk; incentive valence; mindset; persistence

A Conceptual Framework for Tiered Intervention in Physical Education - Dauenhauer, Brian; Keating, Xiaofen; Lambdin, Dolly; Knipe III, Robert (Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2017)
Our goal as physical educators is to help all students develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be physically active for a lifetime. Despite efforts to address the diverse needs of students through quality physical education, the reality is that some students still need additional support beyond physical education to achieve their full potential. Response to intervention (RTI) is a proactive approach to educational-service delivery that relies on data-driven decision making to identify student needs and to tailor support. Traditionally, RTI has focused on addressing the needs of lower-performing students through tiered interventions. The purpose of this article is to review the basic principles of RTI, discuss how they have been applied in physical education thus far, and expand the conceptual framework so it can be used to address the needs of both higher- and lower-performing students.
Keywords: dept.hms

Development of a Scale Measuring Chinese Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Beliefs About the Physical Education Profession - Fan, Yao; Keating, Xiaofen D.; Liu, Jingwen; Zhou, Ke; Shangguan, Rulan; Knipe, Robert (The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018)
This project aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale measuring Chinese preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs about the physical education profession (PPET-BPEP). The domains and items were created from a conceptual analysis of the previous literature and PPETs’ responses to an open-ended survey. Six experts in the field of physical education and educational psychology evaluated the content validity of the scale. The reliability and factorial validity of the scale were examined utilizing a sample of 696 Chinese PPETs. The PPET-BPEP scale with 12 items embedded in two domains revealed acceptable content validity, internal structure validity, and internal consistency. The two domains were labeled as “sense of calling” and “value of physical education profession” based on the shared content of items in each domain. We recommend using PPET-BPEP scale for PPET recruitment and preparation. The scale can also help establish teacher belief scales in other subject matters. Future validation of the scale is needed in different countries and institutions.
Keywords: Future physical education teacher; Professional beliefs; Survey development; Validity and reliability; dept.hms

Modeling the impact of social problem-solving deficits on depressive vulnerability in the broader autism phenotype - Jackson, Scott L. J.; Dritschel, Barbara (Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2016)
The social communication and interaction deficits associated with the autism phenotype can have serious emotional consequences for individuals on the autism spectrum. This can be particularly true during young-adulthood, a period of increased social demands and expectations. The current study investigated the specific role of social problem-solving deficits as a mediator in the relationship between autism phenotype severity and depressive symptomology in young-adults. A sample of 230 university students (48% male) ranging in age from 18 to 30 (M=21.30, SD=2.48) were assessed on autism phenotype expression (Autism-Spectrum Quotient), social problem-solving ability (Social Problem-Solving Inventory, Revised) and depressive symptomology (Beck’s Depression Inventory). Results indicated that deficient social problem-solving skills account for a significant portion of the depressive symptomology associated with increased autism phenotype expression. Path model analysis output suggested that increased expression of the social components of the autism phenotype are associated with both ineffective social problem-solving styles and attitudes, while increased detail orientation discourages the use of an impulsive problem-solving style. The findings of this investigation provide preliminary evidence suggesting that programs designed to improve social problem-solving skills could be beneficial in the reduction of depressive vulnerability for young-adults on the autism spectrum.
Keywords: Autism phenotype expression; Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ); Depression; Path model analysis; Social problem solving; University students; dept.aa

Effects of flow intermittency and pharmaceutical exposure on the structure and metabolism of stream biofilms - Corcoll, Natàlia; Casellas, Maria; Huerta, Belinda; Guasch, Helena; Acuña, Vicenç; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Serra-Compte, Albert; Barceló, Damià; Sabater, Sergi (Science of The Total Environment, 2015)
Increasing concentrations of pharmaceutical compounds occur in many rivers, but their environmental risk remains poorly studied in stream biofilms. Flow intermittency shapes the structure and functions of ecosystems, and may enhance their sensitivity to toxicants. This study evaluates the effects of a long-term exposure of biofilm communities to a mixture of pharmaceutical compounds at environmental concentrations on biofilm bioaccumulation capacity, the structure and metabolic processes of algae and bacteria communities, and how their potential effects were enhanced or not by the occurrence of flow intermittency. To assess the interaction between those two stressors, an experiment with artificial streams was performed. Stream biofilms were exposed to a mixture of pharmaceuticals, as well as to a short period of flow intermittency. Results indicate that biofilms were negatively affected by pharmaceuticals. The algal biomass and taxa richness decreased and unicellular green algae relatively increased. The structure of the bacterial (based on denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of amplified 16S rRNA genes) changed and showed a reduction of the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) richness. Exposed biofilms showed higher rates of metabolic processes, such as primary production and community respiration, attributed to pharmaceuticals stimulated an increase of green algae and heterotrophs, respectively. Flow intermittency modulated the effects of chemicals on natural communities. The algal community became more sensitive to short-term exposure of pharmaceuticals (lower EC50 value) when exposed to water intermittency, indicating cumulative effects between the two assessed stressors. In contrast to algae, the bacterial community became less sensitive to short-term exposure of pharmaceuticals (higher EC50) when exposed to water intermittency, indicating co-tolerance phenomena. According to the observed effects, the environmental risk of pharmaceuticals in nature is high, but different depending on the flow regime, as well as the target organisms (autotrophs vs heterotrophs).
Keywords: Algae; Bacteria; Ecotoxicology; Intermittent rivers; Multiple stressors; Pollution; dept.che

Determination of a broad spectrum of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in biofilm from a waste water treatment plant-impacted river - Huerta, B.; Rodriguez-Mozaz, S.; Nannou, C.; Nakis, L.; Ruhí, A.; Acuña, V.; Sabater, S.; Barcelo, D. (Science of The Total Environment, 2016)
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the main sources of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds in freshwater ecosystems, and several studies have reported bioaccumulation of these compounds in different organisms in those ecosystems. River biofilms are exceptional indicators of pollution, but very few studies have focused on the accumulation of these emerging contaminants. The objectives of this study were first to develop an efficient analytical methodology for the simultaneous analysis of 44 pharmaceuticals and 13 endocrine disrupting compounds in biofilm, and second, to assess persistence, distribution, and bioaccumulation of these contaminants in natural biofilms inhabiting a WWTP-impacted river. The method is based on pressurized liquid extraction, purification by solid-phase extraction, and analysis by ultra performance liquid chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer (UPLC–MS/MS) in tandem. Recoveries for pharmaceuticals were 31–137%, and for endocrine disruptors 32–93%. Method detection limits for endocrine disruptors were in the range of 0.2–2.4ngg−1, and for pharmaceuticals, 0.07–6.7ngg−1. A total of five endocrine disruptors and seven pharmaceuticals were detected in field samples at concentrations up to 100ngg−1.
Keywords: Bioaccumulation; Biofilm; Endocrine disruptors; Extraction; Pharmaceuticals; dept.che

Bioaccumulation and trophic magnification of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in a Mediterranean river food web - Ruhí, Albert; Acuña, Vicenç; Barceló, Damià; Huerta, Belinda; Mor, Jordi-Rene; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Sabater, Sergi (Science of The Total Environment, 2016)
Increasing evidence exists that emerging pollutants such as pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) can be bioaccumulated by aquatic organisms. However, the relative role of trophic transfers in the acquisition of emerging pollutants by aquatic organisms remains largely unexplored. In freshwater ecosystems, wastewater treatment plants are a major source of PhACs and EDCs. Here we studied the entrance of emerging pollutants and their flow through riverine food webs in an effluent-influenced river. To this end we assembled a data set on the composition and concentrations of a broad spectrum of PhACs (25 compounds) and EDCs (12 compounds) in water, biofilm, and three aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa with different trophic positions and feeding strategies (Ancylus fluviatilis, Hydropsyche sp., Phagocata vitta). We tested for similarities in pollutant levels among these compartments, and we compared observed bioaccumulation factors (BAFs) to those predicted by a previously-developed empirical model based on octanol–water distribution coefficients (Dow). Despite a high variation in composition and levels of emerging pollutants across food web compartments, observed BAFs in Hydropsyche and Phagocata matched, on average, those already predicted. Three compounds (the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, the lipid regulator gemfibrozil, and the flame retardant TBEP) were detected in water, biofilm and (at least) one macroinvertebrate taxa. TBEP was the only compound present in all taxa and showed magnification across trophic levels. This suggests that prey consumption may be, in some cases, a significant exposure route. This study advances the notion that both waterborne exposure and trophic interactions need to be taken into account when assessing the potential ecological risks of emerging pollutants in aquatic ecosystems.
Keywords: Bioaccumulation factors (BAFs); Biomagnification; Contaminants; Macroinvertebrates; Pharmaceutical drugs; dept.che

Do pharmaceuticals bioaccumulate in marine molluscs and fish from a coastal lagoon? - Moreno-González, R.; Rodríguez-Mozaz, S.; Huerta, B.; Barceló, D.; León, V. M. (Environmental Research, 2016)
The bioaccumulation of 20 pharmaceuticals in cockle (Cerastodema glaucum), noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis), sea snail (Murex trunculus), golden grey mullet (Liza aurata) and black goby (Gobius niger) was evaluated, considering their distribution throughout the Mar Menor lagoon and their variations in spring and autumn 2010. The analytical procedure was adapted for the different matrices as being sensitive and reproducible. Eighteen out of the 20 compounds analysed were found at low ngg−1 in these species throughout the lagoon. Hydrochlorothiazide and carbamazepine were detected in all species considered. The bioaccumulation of pharmaceuticals was heterogeneous in the lagoon, with a higher number of pharmaceuticals being detected in fish (18) than in wild molluscs (8), particularly in golden grey mullet muscle (16). В-blockers and psychiatric drugs were preferentially bioccumulated in fish and hydrochlorothiazide was also confirmed in caged clams. The higher detection frequency and concentrations found in golden grey mullet suggested that mugilids could be used as an indicator of contamination by pharmaceuticals in coastal areas. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that shows data about hydrochlorothiazide, levamisole and codeine in wild marine biota.
Keywords: Bioaccumulation; Bivalve; Coastal lagoon; Distribution; Fish; Gastropod; Pharmaceuticals; Seasonality; dept.che

Internal exposure dynamics drive the Adverse Outcome Pathways of synthetic glucocorticoids in fish - Margiotta-Casaluci, Luigi; Owen, Stewart F.; Huerta, Belinda; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Kugathas, Subramanian; Barceló, Damià; Rand-Weaver, Mariann; Sumpter, John P. (Scientific Reports, 2016)
The Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) framework represents a valuable conceptual tool to systematically integrate existing toxicological knowledge from a mechanistic perspective to facilitate predictions of chemical-induced effects across species. However, its application for decision-making requires the transition from qualitative to quantitative AOP (qAOP). Here we used a fish model and the synthetic glucocorticoid beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) to investigate the role of chemical-specific properties, pharmacokinetics, and internal exposure dynamics in the development of qAOPs. We generated a qAOP network based on drug plasma concentrations and focused on immunodepression, skin androgenisation, disruption of gluconeogenesis and reproductive performance. We showed that internal exposure dynamics and chemical-specific properties influence the development of qAOPs and their predictive power. Comparing the effects of two different glucocorticoids, we highlight how relatively similar in vitro hazard-based indicators can lead to different in vivo risk. This discrepancy can be predicted by their different uptake potential, pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) profiles. We recommend that the development phase of qAOPs should include the application of species-specific uptake and physiologically-based PK/PD models. This integration will significantly enhance the predictive power, enabling a more accurate assessment of the risk and the reliable transferability of qAOPs across chemicals.
Keywords: Ecophysiology; Environmental sciences; Physiology; dept.che

Bioaccumulation and bioconcentration of carbamazepine and other pharmaceuticals in fish under field and controlled laboratory experiments. Evidences of carbamazepine metabolization by fish - Valdés, M. E.; Huerta, B.; Wunderlin, D. A.; Bistoni, M. A.; Barceló, D.; Rodriguez-Mozaz, S. (Science of The Total Environment, 2016)
There is a growing interest in evaluating the presence of pharmaceutical residues and their metabolites in aquatic biota. In this study, twenty pharmaceuticals, including carbamazepine (CBZ) and two metabolites, were analyzed in homogenates of two fish species (Gambusia affinis and Jenynsia multidentata) captured in polluted areas of the Suquía River (Córdoba, Argentina). The twenty target pharmaceuticals were found in G. affinis, while only fifteen were detected in J. multidentata. We observed a noticeable difference in the accumulation pattern of both fish species, suggesting different pathways for the bioaccumulation of polar pharmaceuticals in each fish. In order to investigate uptake and tissue distribution of pharmaceuticals, a detailed study was performed under controlled laboratory conditions in J. multidentata, exposed to CBZ. CBZ and two of its metabolites (carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide – CBZ-EP and 2-hydroxycarbamazepine – 2-OH-CBZ) were monitored in five organs of fish under laboratory exposure. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the presence of CBZ and its metabolite 2-OH-CBZ in gills, intestine, liver, brain and muscle of fish, while the metabolite carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide (CBZ-EP) was detected in gills and muscle. A ratio CBZ-EP/CBZ close to 0.1 suggests that gills and muscle of J. multidentata could metabolize CBZ through the CBZ-EP pathway. Our results reinforce the need of analyzing multiple species to account for the environmental impact of pollutants, negating the simplification of a single, “representative model” during ecotoxicological biomonitoring. To our knowledge, the biotransformation of CBZ to its metabolites (CBZ-EP, 2-OH-CBZ) in fish, under controlled laboratory in vivo exposures, is reported for the first time.
Keywords: Bioconcentration; Carbamazepine biotransformation; Carbamazepine metabolites; Fish; Pharmaceutical bioaccumulation; dept.che

Anti‐anxiety drugs and fish behavior: Establishing the link between internal concentrations of oxazepam and behavioral effects - Huerta, Belinda; Margiotta‐Casaluci, Luigi; Rodríguez‐Mozaz, Sara; Scholze, Martin; Winter, Matthew J.; Barceló, Damià; Sumpter, John P. (Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2016)
Psychoactive drugs are frequently detected in the aquatic environment. The evolutionary conservation of the molecular targets of these drugs in fish suggests that they may elicit mode of action–mediated effects in fish as they do in humans, and the key open question is at what exposure concentrations these effects might occur. In the present study, the authors investigated the uptake and tissue distribution of the benzodiazepine oxazepam in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) after 28 d of waterborne exposure to 0.8 μg L−1, 4.7 μg L−1, and 30.6 μg L−1. Successively, they explored the relationship between the internal concentrations of oxazepam and the effects on fish exploratory behavior quantified by performing 2 types of behavioral tests, the novel tank diving test and the shelter‐seeking test. The highest internal concentrations of oxazepam were found in brain, followed by plasma and liver, whereas muscle presented the lowest values. Average concentrations measured in the plasma of fish from the 3 exposure groups were, respectively, 8.7 ± 5.7 μg L−1, 30.3 ± 16.1 μg L−1, and 98.8 ± 72.9 μg L−1. Significant correlations between plasma and tissue concentrations of oxazepam were found in all 3 groups. Exposure of fish to 30.6 µg L−1 in water produced plasma concentrations within or just below the human therapeutic plasma concentration (HTPC) range in many individuals. Statistically significant behavioral effects in the novel tank diving test were observed in fish exposed to 4.7 μg L−1. In this group, plasma concentrations of oxazepam were approximately one‐third of the lowest HTPC value. No significant effects were observed in fish exposed to the lowest and highest concentrations. The significance of these results is discussed in the context of the species‐specific behavior of fathead minnow and existing knowledge of oxazepam pharmacology. Environ Toxicol Chem 2016;35:2782–2790. © 2016 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC.
Keywords: dept.che

Effects of subinhibitory ciprofloxacin concentrations on the abundance of qnrS and composition of bacterial communities from water supply reservoirs - Marti, Elisabet; Huerta, Belinda; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Barceló, Damià; Balcázar, Jose Luis; Marcé, Rafael (Chemosphere, 2016)
We used a short-term microcosm approach to investigate the influence of two different subinhibitory concentrations of ciprofloxacin (0.01 and 0.1 μg/ml) on both the abundance of a plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinant (qnrS) and the structure and composition of bacterial communities from impaired and pristine water supply reservoirs. The results showed that the abundance of the qnrS gene increases in water samples exposed to both subinhibitory concentrations of ciprofloxacin, especially in water samples from La Llosa del Cavall, which represents the pristine system. Subinhibitory ciprofloxacin concentrations also induced changes in bacterial community composition as indicated by the relative abundances of each operational taxonomic unit (OTU) across treatments. Therefore, our findings may be of significant importance because subinhibitory ciprofloxacin concentrations may promote antibiotic resistance and affect bacterial community composition in environmental settings.
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance genes; Aquatic systems; Bacterial community; Quinolones; Water supply reservoirs; dept.che

Fluvial biofilms exposed to desiccation and pharmaceutical pollution: New insights using metabolomics - Serra-Compte, Albert; Corcoll, Natàlia; Huerta, Belinda; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Sabater, Sergi; Barceló, Damià; Álvarez-Muñoz, Diana (Science of The Total Environment, 2018)
In many arid and semi-arid systems, biological communities in river ecosystems are submitted to flow interruption and desiccation, as well as to the impact of urban wastewaters. In this work, we studied (using a LC-LTQ-Orbitrap) the metabolomic response of biofilm communities exposed to both hydrological and chemical stressors. Fluvial biofilms were exposed to a mixture of 9 pharmaceuticals at a total concentration of 5000ng/L (mimicking concentrations and compounds found in polluted aquatic environments) and/or to seven days of desiccation, under laboratory conditions. The biosynthesis of fatty acids was the main metabolic pathway disrupted in biofilms. Endogenous biofilm's metabolites (metabolome) altered due to these stressors were identified. The metabolites that significantly changed only due to one of the stressors could be proposed as potential specific biomarkers. A biomarker of pharmaceutical exposure was the lysophosphatidic acid, which decreased a 160%, while for desiccation stearidonic acid (increased 160%), 16-Oxohexadecanoic acid (increased 340%) and palmitoleic acid (decreased 290%) were the biomarkers proposed. Besides, other metabolites showed different responses depending on the treatment, such as palmitic acid, linolenic acid, behenic acid, lignoceric acid and azelaic acid. The Carbon:Phosphorus (C:P) molar ratio increased due to all stress factors, whereas the algal community composition changed mainly due to desiccation. A possible relationship between those changes observed in structural parameters and the metabolome of biofilms was explored. Overall, our findings support the use of metabolomics to unravel at molecular level the effects from chemical and physical stressors on complex microbial communities, such as biofilms, and pinpoint biomarkers of exposure.
Keywords: Biofilms; Biomarkers; Environmental stressors; Metabolomic profiling; dept.che

Uptake and Metabolism of Human Pharmaceuticals by Fish: A Case Study with the Opioid Analgesic Tramadol - Tanoue, Rumi; Margiotta-Casaluci, Luigi; Huerta, Belinda; Runnalls, Tamsin J.; Nomiyama, Kei; Kunisue, Tatsuya; Tanabe, Shinsuke; Sumpter, John P. (Environmental Science & Technology, 2017)
Recent species-extrapolation approaches to the prediction of the potential effects of pharmaceuticals present in the environment on wild fish are based on the assumption that pharmacokinetics and metabolism in humans and fish are comparable. To test this hypothesis, we exposed fathead minnows to the opiate pro-drug tramadol and examined uptake from the water into the blood and brain and the metabolism of the drug into its main metabolites. We found that plasma concentrations could be predicted reasonably accurately based on the lipophilicity of the drug once the pH of the water was taken into account. The concentrations of the drug and its main metabolites were higher in the brain than in the plasma, and the observed brain and plasma concentration ratios were within the range of values reported in mammalian species. This fish species was able to metabolize the pro-drug tramadol into the highly active metabolite O-desmethyl tramadol and the inactive metabolite N-desmethyl tramadol in a similar manner to that of mammals. However, we found that concentration ratios of O-desmethyl tramadol to tramadol were lower in the fish than values in most humans administered the drug. Our pharmacokinetic data of tramadol in fish help bridge the gap between widely available mammalian pharmacological data and potential effects on aquatic organisms and highlight the importance of understanding drug uptake and metabolism in fish to enable the full implementation of predictive toxicology approaches.
Keywords: dept.che

Abundance of antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial community composition in wild freshwater fish species - Marti, Elisabet; Huerta, Belinda; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Barceló, Damià; Marcé, Rafael; Balcázar, Jose Luis (Chemosphere, 2018)
This study was aimed to determine the abundance of four antibiotic resistance genes (blaTEM, ermB, qnrS and sulI), as well as bacterial community composition associated with the intestinal mucus of wild freshwater fish species collected from the Foix and La Llosa del Cavall reservoirs, which represent ecosystems with high and low anthropogenic disturbance, respectively. Water and sediments from these reservoirs were also collected and analyzed to determine the pollution level by antibiotics. The blaTEM gene was only detected in brown trout and Ebro barbel, which were collected from La Llosa del Cavall reservoir. In contrast, the sulI and qnrS genes were only detected in common carp, which were collected from the Foix reservoir. Although the ermB gene was also detected in common carp, the values were below the limit of quantification. Likewise, water and sediment samples from the Foix reservoir had higher concentrations and more classes of antibiotics than those from La Llosa del Cavall. Pyrosequencing analysis of 16S rRNA genes revealed significant differences in bacterial communities associated with the intestinal mucus of fish species. Therefore, these findings suggest that anthropogenic activities are not only increasing the pollution of aquatic environments, but also contributing to the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in organisms that inhabit such environments.
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance genes; Aquatic environments; Bacterial community composition; Wild fishes; dept.che

Presence of pharmaceuticals in fish collected from urban rivers in the U.S. EPA 2008–2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment - Huerta, Belinda; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Lazorchak, Jim; Barcelo, Damia; Batt, Angela; Wathen, John; Stahl, Leanne (Science of The Total Environment, 2018)
Fish are good indicators of aquatic environment pollution because of their capability to uptake pollutants contained in water. Therefore, accumulation of pharmaceutical compounds in freshwater and marine fish and other aquatic organisms has been studied extensively in the last decade. In this context, the present study investigates the occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in wild fish from 25 polluted river sites in the USA, downstream from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Sample sites constitute a subset of urban rivers investigated in the U.S. EPA's 2008–2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment. Thirteen pharmaceuticals (out of the twenty compounds analyzed) were quantified in fish fillets at concentrations commonly below 10ngg−1, in accordance with the findings from previous studies in the USA and Europe. The psychoactive drugs venlafaxine, carbamazepine and its metabolite 2-hydroxy carbamazepine were the most prevalent compounds (58%, 27% and 42%, respectively). This group of drugs is highly prescribed and rather resistant to degradation during conventional treatment in WWTPs as well as in natural aquatic environments. Salbutamol, a drug used to treat asthma, and the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide were also frequently detected (in >20% of the samples). Occurrence of six pharmaceutical families due to chronic exposure at environmental concentrations in water was detected in eight fish species.
Keywords: Accumulation; Fish; Pharmaceuticals; Trophic level; dept.che

Contaminants of emerging concern in freshwater fish from four Spanish Rivers - Pico, Y.; Belenguer, V.; Corcellas, C.; Diaz-Cruz, M. S.; Eljarrat, E.; Farré, M.; Gago-Ferrero, P.; Huerta, B.; Navarro-Ortega, A.; Petrovic, M.; Rodríguez-Mozaz, S.; Sabater, L.; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2019)
This study investigated the occurrence of 135 contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) – pharmaceuticals, pesticides, a set of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) (parabens, bisphenols, hormones, triazoles, organophosphorus flame retardants and triclosan), UV-filters, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) – in 59 fish samples, collected in 2010 in 4 Spanish Rivers (Guadalquivir, Júcar, Ebro and Llobregat). Of the 135 CECs, 76 including 8 pharmaceuticals, 25 pesticides, 10 EDCs, 5 UV-filters, 15 PFASs and 13 HFRs were detected. Pharmaceuticals were the less frequently found and at lower concentrations. Pesticides, EDCs, UV-filters, PFASs and HFRs were detected more frequently (>50% of the samples). The maximum concentrations were 15 ng/g dry weight (dw) for pharmaceuticals (diclofenac), 840 ng/g dw for pesticides (chlorpyrifos), 224 ng/g dw for EDCs (bisphenol A), 242 ng/g dw for UV-filters (EHMC), 1738 ng/g dw for PFASs (PFHxA) and 64 ng/g dw for HFRs (Dec 602). The contaminants detected in fish are commonly detected also in sediments. In light of current knowledge, the risk assessment revealed that there was no risk for humans related to the exposure to CECs via freshwater fish consumption. However, results provide detailed information on the mixtures of CECs accumulated that would be very useful to identify their effects on aquatic biota.
Keywords: Accumulation; Aquatic organisms; Co-occurrence of contaminants; Fish consumption; Risk assessment; River quality; dept.che

The Hours Before the Hours: Books of Hours and Almanacs at the Redwood. - Crowley, Patrick (Etc.: The Magazine of the Redwood Library and Athenæum., 2018)
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John J. Slocum the Collector. - Crowley, Patrick (Etc.: The Magazine of the Redwood Library and Athenæum, 2018)
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Ocean acidification does not impact shell growth or repair of the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Broderip, 1833) - Cross, Emma L.; Peck, Lloyd S.; Harper, Elizabeth M. (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2015)
Marine calcifiers are amongst the most vulnerable organisms to ocean acidification due to reduction in the availability of carbonate ions for skeletal/shell deposition. However, there are limited long-term studies on the possible impacts of increased pCO2 on these taxa. A 7month CO2 perturbation experiment was performed on one of the most calcium carbonate dependent species, the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva, which inhabits the Southern Ocean where carbonate ion saturation levels are amongst the lowest on Earth. The effects of the predicted environmental conditions in 2050 and 2100 on the growth rate and ability to repair shell in L. uva were tested with four treatments; a low temperature control (0°C, pH7.98), a pH control (2°C, pH8.05), mid-century scenario (2°C, pH7.75) and end-century scenario (2°C, pH7.54). Environmental change impacts on shell repair are rarely studied, but here repair was not affected by either acidified conditions or temperature. Growth rate was also not impacted by low pH. Elevated temperature did, however, increase growth rates. The ability of L. uva to continue, and even increase shell production in warmer and acidified seawater suggests that this species can acclimate to these combined stressors and generate suitable conditions for shell growth at the site of calcification.
Keywords: CO; Calcification; Carbonate saturation; Climate change; dept.egm; pH

Long-term effects of altered pH and temperature on the feeding energetics of the Antarctic sea urchin, Sterechinus neumayeri - Morley, Simon A.; , Suckling ,Coleen C.; , Clark ,Melody S.; , Cross ,Emma L.; and Peck, Lloyd S. (Biodiversity, 2016)
This study investigated the effects of long-term incubation to near-future combined warming (+2 °C) and ocean acidification (−0.3 and −0.5 pH units) stressors, relative to current conditions (−0.3 °C and pH 8.0), on the energetics of food processing in the Antarctic sea urchin, Sterechinus neumayeri. After an extended incubation of 40 months, energy absorbed, energy lost through respiration and lost as waste were monitored through two feeding cycles. Growth parameters (mass of somatic and gonad tissues and the CHN content of gonad) were also measured. There were no significant effects of combined ocean acidification (OA) and temperature stressors on the growth of somatic or reproductive tissue. Despite more food being consumed in the low temperature control, once food processing and maintenance costs were subtracted, there were no significant effects of treatment on the scope for growth. The biggest significant differences were between amounts of food consumed during the two feeding cycles. More food was consumed by the low temperature (0 °C) control animals, indicating a potential effect of the changed conditions on digestive efficiency. Also, in November, more food was consumed, with a higher absorption efficiency, which resulted in a higher scope for growth in November than September and may reflect increased energetic needs associated with a switch to summer physiology. The effect of endogenous seasonal cycles and environmental variability on organism capacity is discussed.
Keywords: Carbonate saturation; climate change; dept.egm; echinoderm; energetics; ocean acidification; peer-reviewed; physiology; resilience

No ocean acidification effects on shell growth and repair in the New Zealand brachiopod Calloria inconspicua (Sowerby, 1846) - Cross, Emma L.; Peck, Lloyd S.; Lamare, Miles D.; Harper, Elizabeth M. (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2016)
Surface seawaters are becoming more acidic due to the absorption of rising anthropogenic CO2. Marine calcifiers are considered to be the most vulnerable organisms to ocean acidification due to the reduction in the availability of carbonate ions for shell or skeletal production. Rhychonelliform brachiopods are potentially one of the most calcium carbonate-dependent groups of marine organisms because of their large skeletal content. Little is known, however, about the effects of lowered pH on these taxa. A CO2 perturbation experiment was performed on the New Zealand terebratulide brachiopod Calloria inconspicua to investigate the effects of pH conditions predicted for 2050 and 2100 on the growth rate and ability to repair shell. Three treatments were used: an ambient pH control (pH 8.16), a mid-century scenario (pH 7.79), and an end-century scenario (pH 7.62). The ability to repair shell was not affected by acidified conditions with >80% of all damaged individuals at the start of the experiment completing shell repair after 12 weeks. Growth rates in undamaged individuals >3 mm in length were also not affected by lowered pH conditions, whereas undamaged individuals <3 mm grew faster at pH 7.62 than the control. The capability of C. inconspicua to continue shell production and repair under acidified conditions suggests that this species has a robust control over the calcification process, where suitable conditions at the site of calcification can be generated across a range of pH conditions.
Keywords: dept.egm; peer-reviewed

10 Questions: Siobhan McGuiness - Aschenbach, Jamie Marie (Information Outlook, 2017)
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Negotiating Your Best Journal Deals Yet - Aschenbach, Jamie Marie (Information Outlook, 2017)
Keywords: dept.lib

Brief Report: Bullying and Anxiety in High-Functioning Adolescents with ASD - van Schalkwyk, Gerrit; Smith, Isaac C.; Silverman, Wendy K.; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)
Youth with ASD are more likely to experience bullying than their typically developing peers. This risk has not been studied in youth with ASD transitioning to college. We examined the occurrence of bullying in 35 high functioning youth with ASD who were preparing to attend college. We also examined youth anxiety and ASD symptoms. Fifty-one percent of the sample reported being recent victims of bullying; 31% of parents reported their child was a victim of bullying. Parent report of bullying correlated significantly with ratings of youth social anxiety symptoms. These findings suggest that bullying is an issue of concern for higher functioning, older adolescents with ASD, and that their own reports may be particularly important in identifying its occurrence.
Keywords: Anxiety; Autism spectrum disorder; Bullying; Postsecondary education; dept.sed

Preface: Special Issue—College Experiences for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Jackson, Scott L. J.; Hart, Logan; Volkmar, Fred R. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)
Keywords: dept.aa; dept.sed

Educational Professionals’ Decision Making for Professional Growth using a Case of Twitter Adoption - Tucker, Lauren (TechTrends, 2019)
This paper is a report of an examination of educational professionals’ perspectives on their decision processes to use a Twitter personal learning network (PLN). When investigating each of the participants’ decision-making processes to accept or reject the use of a Twitter PLN, the externally supported individualized learning experience was integral to the educational professionals’ active decision to adopt the new tool. The five major findings revealed external stimulus and support is (1) vital to address pre-existing attitudes and beliefs, (2) to target the acquisition of technical and implementation knowledge, and (3) to encourage continued exposure, interaction, and exploration. The final two findings focus on the (4) interaction with a social learning community supports decision making and informal learning, and (5) personal experimentation and exploration of a Twitter PLN allows educational professionals to build their professional network, quickly access high quality information, and read educational material. Educational professionals’ informal learning activities were also revealed while using their PLN. Educational professionals reported sharing information and resources with colleagues as having the most significant impact on professional practice. In addition to interviews, the nature of the Twitter platform provided valuable evidence of informal learning activities. These activities reflected in the educational professionals’ tweets included: reading educational subject matter, reflection and collaboration. Also, a new category: Resource Collection was created to reflect the second most popular activity on educational professionals’ Twitter PLN.
Keywords: Decision Making; Digital Education and Educational Technology; Informal Learning; Personal Learning Network (PLN); Professional Growth; Social Media; Twitter; dept.sed

A bridge too far: Implications of the Common Core State Standards for students with different types of reading problems - Spear-Swerling, Louise (Implications of the Common Core for, 2015)
Keywords: dept.sed

Listening comprehension, the Cinderella skill - Spear-Swerling, Louise (Perspectives on language and literacy, 2016)
Keywords: dept.sed

From Townsend and Malthus to the Poor Law Report: An Examination of the Influence of Ideas Concerning the Relationship of Public Aid and Reproduction on Policy Development, 1786-1834 - Tomczak, Stephen Monroe (Journal of Sociology and Social Work, 2015)
Keywords: dept.swk

Exploring the Science of Conducting Surveys for Studying Men’s Sexual Assault Perpetration Behaviors - Aguilar, Jemel; Mahapatra, Neely; Busch-Armendariz, Noël; Dinitto, Diana M. (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2016)
Focus groups were used to explore the most appropriate ways to conduct survey research about men’s relationships with women and their sexual assault behaviors that result in high response rates and decrease socially desirable answers. A racially diverse group of 24 English-speaking heterosexual men, aged 18 years or older, were recruited for participation in 3 focus groups. The men were asked to review a survey instrument used in a previous study and the results from that study. Analysis of the focus group transcripts indicates that the men responded to the survey instrument from 3 distinct perspectives: (a) perpetrators, (b) victims, and (c) respondents. From these perspectives, the men also commented on participant anonymity, survey construction and delivery method, question wording, and potential pitfalls in asking men about sexual assault.
Keywords: Engaging men; dept.swk; rape or sexual assault; survey methodology

Everyone’s responsibility: Community partnerships and shared commitment for mental health promotion - Jung, Hyejin; Aguilar, Jemel P. (Social Work in Mental Health, 2016)
In this article, we use qualitative methods to understand the ways in which community involvement in a community-based mental health promotion conference encourages mental health care in an African-American community. We collected data through key informant interviews, focus groups, and participant observations at conference planning meetings and conferences, as well as archival documents related to the conference. We identify community partnerships and shared commitment as drivers of the outreach to people in the community, creators of a culturally relevant and supportive environment for mental health education, and, consequently, promoters of mental health care in the African-American community.
Keywords: African Americans; case studies; community partnerships; community-based programs; dept.swk; mental health and illness; mental health promotion

HIV Knowledge, Risk Behavior, Stigma, and Their Impact on HIV Testing among Asian American and Pacific Islanders: A Review of Literature - Sen, Soma; Nguyen, Hoang Dung; Kim, So Yung; Aguilar, Jemel (Social Work in Public Health, 2017)
Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the fastest growing population in the United States with documented increases in HIV rates. AAPIs are as likely as other racial/ethnic groups to engage in HIV-related risk behaviors, while being concomitantly less likely to have been HIV tested. Testing is a critical step in HIV prevention. Research points to various barriers to HIV-related testing including HIV knowledge and attitude and stigma. However, these factors and their impact among AAPIs are poorly understood. Myths about this population's “model minority” status compound AAPIs' sociocultural factors including English language proficiency, access to healthcare, and a culture of “silence” that negatively influences HIV-related research. In this article, the authors review the scientific literature on knowledge, risk behavior, and stigma to document the current state of research. Based on the review the authors offer a set of research, policy, and practice recommendations for social workers and other service providers working with AAPIs.
Keywords: HIV and AAPI; Social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS; dept.swk; health disparities and HIV/AIDS

Assessment criteria indicative of deception (ACID): Replication and gender differences - Suckle-Nelson, Jessica A.; Colwell, Kevin; Hiscock-Anisman, Cheryl; Florence, Samantha; Youschak, Kimberly E.; Duarte, Arianne (The Open Criminology Journal, 2010)
Keywords: dept.psy

Writing Wisdom, Reviewing Identity: Positive Outcomes of Participating in a Memoir Course for Older Adults - Bivona, Marissa A.; Kahlbaugh, Patricia E.; Budnick, Christopher J. (The International Journal of Reminiscence and Life Review, 2020)
Constructing a personal narrative and consolidating identity is an ongoing process that becomes pressing in the face of mortality. The current pilot study examined the process of life review in a sample of older people, specifically examining the effects of participation in a memoir course on wisdom, identity, and well-being. We hypothesized that wisdom, identity fidelity and coherence, and subjective well-being would increase for those in the memoir group compared to a control. Eighteen elderly individuals from two senior retirement communities were randomly assigned to participate in weekly classes, for four weeks, either to work on a memoir or discuss films (control group). After engaging in the process of organizing their life story and writing about important memories, the nine individuals in the memoir group scored significantly higher on self-report measures of wise reminiscence, identity fidelity, and subjective well-being compared to those in the control group. Furthermore, exploratory analyses found that wise reminiscence statistically mediated relationships between the memoir condition and the outcome measures of identity fidelity, identity coherence, and subjective well-being. These findings point to the benefits of memoir writing for positive aging as well as potential mechanisms underlying its effectiveness.
Keywords: Identity; Life Review; Narrative; Subjective Well-Being; Wisdom; dept.psy

Turning molehills into mountains: Sleepiness increases workplace interpretive bias - Barber, Larissa K.; Budnick, Christopher J. (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2015)
Three studies draw from evolutionary theory to assess whether sleepiness increases interpretive biases in workplace social judgments. Study 1 established a relationship between sleepiness and interpretive bias using ambiguous interpersonal scenarios from a measure commonly used in personnel selection (N = 148). Study 2 explored the boundary conditions of the sleepiness–interpretive bias link via an experimental online field survey of U.S. adults (N = 433). Sleepiness increased interpretive bias when social threats were clearly present (unfair workplace) but did not affect bias in the absence of threat (fair workplace). Study 3 replicated and extended findings from the previous two studies using objective measures of sleep loss and a quasi-experimental manipulation of minor sleep loss (N = 175). Negative affect, ego depletion, or personality variables did not influence the observed relationships. Overall, results suggest that a self-protection/evolutionary perspective best explains the effects of sleepiness on workplace interpretive biases. These studies advance the current research on sleep in organizations by adding a cognitive “threat interpretation” bias approach to past work examining the emotional reaction/behavioral side of sleep disruption. Interpretive biases due to sleepiness may have significant implications for employee health and counterproductive behavior. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: Conditional Reasoning Test of Aggression; dept.psy; fairness; interpretive bias; sleep; work perceptions

Behind sleepy eyes: Implications of sleep loss for organizations and employees - Budnick, Christopher J.; Barber, Larissa K. (Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2015)
Sleep loss and daytime sleepiness are common experiences for employees across many occupations. Although researchers commonly focus on the detrimental effects of sleep issues for attention and vigilance during task performance, we review research that examines how sleep issues influence interpretations of, and interactions in, the work environment. This review begins by differentiating between sleep loss and sleepiness. We then highlight how sleep issues can negatively bias the interpretation of environmental information and result in aggressive responding. We also examine how sleep issues impair self-regulatory ability and contribute to workplace deviance. After each section, we discuss the implications of these findings for the work environment. A closer examination of sleep’s influence on workplace interactions can spur a beneficial discussion for researchers across a variety of disciplines and employees across all organizational levels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Aggressive Behavior; Employee Productivity; Health; Occupations; Organizations; Personnel; Self-Control; Sleep Deprivation; Sleepiness; Stress; Working Conditions; dept.psy

Carving a Space for Elite Republicanism: Hierarchy, Deference and Paternalism in American Political Development - O'Hara, Jonathan (Europolis, Journal Of Political Science And Theory, 2010)
The present article is a review of the American Political Development literature dealing with the issue of national administrative politics and development in late nineteenth century American history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which historical institutionalists discount the importance of elite republican ideology as an explanation of national administrative growth. Attention is also paid to the ways in which sociological institutionalists view republicanism as a viable ideological alternative only for far flung and marginalized social interest groups. The article argues for studying the ideology also in terms of its elitist tradition and the tradition’s application to national administrative politics and development in the American context, emphasizing categories of hierarchy, deference and paternalism. As a review of seminal works related to the research program of American Political Development, this article is of particular use to those studying American development at the turn of the twentieth century.
Keywords: American politics; United States; dept.psc; elitism; ideology; republicanism

Diplomatic Amateurs or Qualified Professionals? Profiling the American Ambassador - Calin, Costel; Fitzpatrick, Kathy R. (White House Studies, 2013)
Are U.S. ambassadors qualified to lead America’s diplomatic missions abroad? This age-old question—often raised but seldom seriously considered by diplomacy scholars— is the focus of this study, which examined the professional credentials of American ambassadors appointed by former U.S. President George W. Bush. The article explores the relationship between the professional status of U.S. ambassadors and the power status and economic importance of host countries. The results showed that preferred destinations for amateur ambassadors were mostly Western European countries and countries with which the United States has large economic exchanges. Professional ambassadors were mostly appointed to African and Asian countries and to countries that have lower trade with the United States. The vast majority of semiprofessional diplomats were appointed to the most powerful countries.
Keywords: AMERICAN ambassadors; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; DIPLOMATIC & consular service; GOVERNMENT missions; INTERNATIONAL relations; PRESIDENTS of the United States; dept.psc

The sources of presidential foreign policy decision making: Executive experience and militarized interstate conflicts - Calin, Costel; Prins, Brandon (International Journal of Peace Studies, 2015)
Keywords: dept.psc

Stock Market Price Forecasting Using Metaheuristic Search Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis - Sheta, A.L.A.A.; Abdel-Raouf, A.M.A.L. (International Journal of Computing, 2024)
Stock market forecasting is an essential factor in the daily operations of many companies and individuals. However, the complex and nonlinear nature of the stock market and the unpredictable variations in factors affecting stock prices present significant challenges in accurate forecasting. To address this, we employ four model-based metaheuristic search algorithms (MHs), namely the Crow Search Algorithm (CSA), Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO), Gray Wolf Optimizer (GWO), and Dandelion Optimizer (DO), to estimate the parameters of stock market prices models. The data utilized in our experiments are extracted from the widely recognized stock index of Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500), that serves as a representative benchmark for the United States stock market. Our findings demonstrate that the CSA outperforms other MHs by providing the best combination of parameters for modeling stock market prices. The optimized parameters for the CSA model yielded Variance-Account-For (VAF) values of 97.846% in the training set and 93.483% in the testing set. This suggests that CSA offers promising capabilities for enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of stock market forecasting models. © (2024), (Research Institute of Intelligent Computer Systems). All rights reserved.
Keywords: Algorithm; Computer science; Econometrics; Economics; Engineering; Mathematical optimization; Mathematics; Metaheuristic; Particle swarm optimization; Stock (firearms); Stock market; Stock market forecasting; Stock market index; computational intelligence; crow search algorithm; dandelion optimizer; dept.csc; gray wolf optimizer; metaheuristic search algorithms; particle swarm optimizer; peer-reviewed

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among Primiparous Black Women - Griswold, Michele; Crawford, Sybil; Person, Sharina; Rosenberg, Lynn; Palmer, Julie; Cozier, Yvette (Breastfeeding Medicine, 2025)
Background: Social determinants of health account for racial inequities in breastfeeding rates in the United States. There is a gap in the role of neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) as it relates to breastfeeding disparities. Methods: Using longitudinal data from the Black Women’s Health Study, we assessed associations of NSES with breastfeeding initiation and duration in a cohort of primiparous U.S. Black women. We also explored associations within strata of important economic indicators, including education, occupation, and marital status. Results: Breastfeeding initiation ( n = 2,705) increased with NSES quartile, from 75.2% in the lowest quartile to 88.3% in the highest quartile ( p < 0.0001). Compared with women living in the highest NSES quartile, those in the lowest quartile had a 41% (odds ratio: 0.59 [95% confidence interval: 0.43, 0.81]) decreased odds of initiating breastfeeding. For breastfeeding duration ( n = 2,172), women residing in NSES quartiles 1–3 were significantly less likely ( p < 0.0001) to breastfeed (44.4%) for 6+ months compared with those living in the highest quartile (62.8%). Adjusted relative risks for those in quartiles 1–3 compared with 4 (highest) were 0.63 (0.45, 0.87), 0.50 (0.37, 0.68), and 0.64 (0.47, 0.86), respectively ( p = 0.0001). There was no statistically significant evidence of effect modification by education, occupation, marital status, and region ( P interaction = >0.05). Conclusion: Living in a lower NSES environment was associated with reduced breastfeeding initiation and duration compared with a higher NSES environment. Research is needed to understand the mechanisms by which neighborhood-level factors influence breastfeeding initiation and duration for Black women in the United States.
Keywords: Black women; Breast feeding; Breastfeeding; Demography; Duration (music); Environmental health; Medicine; Obstetrics; Pediatrics; Population; Socioeconomic status; dept.pch; peer-reviewed

Acute arterial stiffness responses to on-ball kneeling and sitting: Effects of exercise fragmentation and exercise order - Xiao, Yaru; Chen, Wei; Latchman, Peter; Zhou, Zhixiong; Zhu, Weili (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2025)
Keywords: Arterial stiffness; Ball balance; Blood pressure; Cardio-ankle vascular index; Cardiology; Exercise physiology; Fragmentation; Human physiology; Internal medicine; Kneeling; Medicine; Moderate exercise; Order; Physical exercise; Physical medicine and rehabilitation; Physical therapy; Posture; Sitting; Sports medicine; dept.hms; peer-reviewed

A pilot study on diabetes detection using handheld fundus camera and mobile app development - Al-Absi, Hamada R. H.; Muchori, Gilbert Njihia; Musleh, Saleh; Basit, Syed Abdullah; Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Mou, Younss Ait; Alam, Tanvir (Discover Applied Sciences, 2025)
Diabetes, affecting more than 500 million individuals worldwide, is the most widespread non-communicable disease, globally. The early identification and effective management of diabetes are crucial for controlling its spread. Currently, the HbA1c test is the gold standard for the detection of diabetes with high confidence. But this is an invasive, expensive pathology test. Therefore, alternative non-invasive and inexpensive methods have been proposed in the literature for the early detection of diabetes.
Keywords: Android Mobile application; Artificial intelligence; Computer graphics (images); Computer science; Computer vision; DMPred; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic retinopathy; Fundus (uterus); Fundus camera; Handheld camera; Human–computer interaction; Medicine; Mobile apps; Mobile device; Ophthalmology; Ophthalmoscopy; Retinal; Retinal fundus image; World Wide Web; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Plant-engineered ZnO and CuO nanoparticles exhibit pesticidal activity and mitigate Fusarium infestation in soybean: A mechanistic understanding - Karmous, Inès; Elmer, Wade; Zuverza‐Mena, Nubia; Vaidya, Shital; Tlahig, Samir; Scanley, Jules; Bharadwaj, Anuja; White, Jason; Dimkpa, Christian (Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2025)
Keywords: Antifungal activity; Artemisia vulgaris; Biogenic copper and Zn oxide nanoparticles; Biology; Botany; Chemistry; Fusarium; Infestation; Materials science; Nanoparticle; Nanotechnology; Soybean; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Recent Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Risk and HIV-Related Worry: Examining the Mediating Effects of Sexual Autonomy - Willie, Tiara; Callands, Tamora; Phillips, Karlye; Flowers, Bianca; Kershaw, Trace (Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2025)
Keywords: Anxiety; Autonomy; Clinical psychology; Criminology; Domestic violence; Environmental health; HIV; Intimate partner violence; Medicine; Poison control; Political science; Population; Psychiatry; Psychology; Reproductive health; Sexual health; Sexual violence; Suicide prevention; Worry; dept.pch

Local scale climate change variability in New England, United States - Miller, Matthew (Climatic Change, 2025)
Keywords: Cartography; Climate change; Climatology; Ecology; Environmental science; Geography; Geology; Interpolation; Mathematics; Meteorology; New England; Oceanography; Physical geography; Precipitation; Scale (ratio); Spatial ecology; Spatial variability; Statistics; Temperature; Variation (astronomy); dept.egm; peer-reviewed

Relationships Matter: The Art of Creating Meaningful Interactions With Students - Hynes, Kristy; Gershwin, Tracy; Robinson, Jason; Mitchell, Chrissa (Beyond Behavior, 2025)
Keywords: Foundation (evidence); Mathematics education; Pedagogy; Psychological intervention; Psychology; dept.sed; peer-reviewed

Elementary preservice teachers' use of the crosscutting concepts to plan NGSS ‐aligned science lessons in explicit versus non‐explicit contexts - Sherwood, Carrie‐Anne; Benedict‐Chambers, Amanda (School Science and Mathematics, 2025)
Keywords: Context (archaeology); Discipline; Lesson plan; Mathematics; Mathematics education; Next Generation Science Standards; Pedagogy; Plan (archaeology); Psychology; Science education; Significant difference; Sociology; dept.cur; peer-reviewed

Attitudes About Aging and Beliefs About When you Have Been or Will be Your Best Self - Kahlbaugh, Patricia; Biblekaj, Viktoria; Shortell, Malori (The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2025)
Keywords: Anxiety; Clinical psychology; Developmental psychology; Gerontology; Healthy aging; Internalization; Medicine; Psychiatry; Psychology; Successful aging; dept.psy; peer-reviewed

The Impact of Attentiveness Interventions on Survey Data - Fuller, Christie; Simmering, Marcia; Waterwall, Brian; Ragland, Elizabeth; Twitchell, Douglas; Wall, Alison (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2025)
Social and behavioral science researchers who use survey data are vigilant about data quality, with an increasing emphasis on avoiding common method variance (CMV) and insufficient effort responding (IER). Each of these errors can inflate and deflate substantive relationships, and there are both a priori and post hoc means to address them. Yet, little research has investigated how both IER and CMV are affected with the use of these different procedural or statistical techniques used to address them. More specifically, if interventions to reduce IER are used, does this affect CMV in data? In an experiment conducted both in and out of the laboratory, we investigate the impact of attentiveness interventions, such as a Factual Manipulation Check (FMC) on both IER and CMV in same-source survey data. In addition to typical IER measures, we also track whether respondents play the instructional video and their mouse movement. The results show that while interventions have some impact on the level of participant attentiveness, these interventions do not appear to lead to differing levels of CMV.
Keywords: Affect (linguistics); Applied psychology; Communication; Mathematics; Medicine; Post hoc; Psychological intervention; Psychology; Quality (philosophy); Social psychology; Statistics; Survey data collection; Survey research; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Sex Differences in Response to a 12-Week Resistance Training Exercise Intervention After Cardiac Surgery: A Proof-of-Concept Intervention Trial - Safdar, Basmah; Jarman, Angela; Madsen, Tracy; DeLamielleure, Lauren; Zhou, Bin; Axtell, Robert; Geirsson, Arnar; Mangi, Abeel (Clinical Therapeutics, 2025)
Keywords: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR); Cardiac surgery; Cardiovascular disease (CVD); Intervention (counseling); Medicine; Nursing; Physical therapy; Randomized controlled trial; Resistance strength training; Resistance training; Safety and feasibility; Sex differences; Surgery; dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Electric-charge-dependent directed flow splitting of produced quarks in Au+Au collisions - STAR Collaboration (Physics Letters B, 2025)
We report directed flow (v1) of multistrange baryons (Ξ and Ω) and improved v1 data for K−, p¯, Λ¯ and ϕ in Au+Au collisions at sNN=27 and 200 GeV from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We focus on particles whose constituent quarks are not transported from the incoming nuclei but instead are produced in the collisions. At intermediate impact parameters, we examine quark coalescence behavior for particle combinations with identical quark content, and search for any departure from this behavior (“splitting”) for combinations having non-identical quark content. Under the assumption of quark coalescence for produced quarks, the splitting strength appears to increase with the electric charge difference of the constituent quarks in the combinations, consistent with electromagnetic effect expectations.
Keywords: Directed flow; Electric charge; Electromagnetic field; Heavy-ion collisions; Strangeness; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Denialism and its consequences: the epistemic injustice of national narratives - Marsoobian, A.T. (Pragmatism Today, 2024)
An analysis of how national narratives are inevitably forms of epistemic injustice, depriving individuals of epistemic and moral agency. Denying access to knowledge about the past is a tool of all autocratic regimes, commonly used for the purpose of retaining power and exerting dominance over individuals or groups subordinate to the ruling elite. Yet such narratives and the falsifications used to buttress them, are not the exclusive instruments of autocracies but can be found to pervade the national narratives of what we often nominally label as democracies. The denial of crimes against humanity and genocide are the most egregious examples of the harms perpetrated against victims and survivors. Miranda Fricker’s writings on epistemic injustice are employed in the analysis. Turkish and Azerbaijani genocide denial of the Armenian Genocide are used to illustrate how epistemic injustice lies at the heart of denialism. © 2024 Central European Pragmatist Forum. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Melanie Altanian; Miranda Fricker; denialism; dept.phi; epistemic injustice; genocide; national narratives; peer-reviewed

Energy dependence of polarized 𝛾⁢𝛾→𝑒+⁢𝑒− in peripheral Au+Au collisions at √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁=54.4 and 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at RHIC - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2025)
We report the differential yields at mid-rapidity of the Breit-Wheeler process (𝛾⁢𝛾→𝑒+⁢𝑒−) in peripheral Au+Au collisions at √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁=54.4 and 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as a function of energy √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁, 𝑒+⁢𝑒− transverse momentum 𝑝T, 𝑝2T, invariant mass 𝑀𝑒⁢𝑒, and azimuthal angle. In the invariant mass range of 0.4<𝑀𝑒⁢𝑒<2.6GeV/𝑐2 at low transverse momentum (𝑝T<0.15GeV/𝑐), the yields increase while the pair √⟨𝑝2T⟩ decreases with increasing √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁, a feature that is correctly predicted by the QED calculation. The energy dependencies of the measured quantities are sensitive to the nuclear form factor, infrared divergence and photon polarization. The data are compiled and used to extract the charge radius of the Au nucleus.
Keywords: Computer science; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Trends in school mental health and substance use education - Gao, Chloe; Szlosek, Donald; Zhong, Anthony; Hadland, Scott E.; Benes, Sarah S. (JAMA, 2025)
The percentage of US youths experiencing mental health and substance use problems has risen rapidly in recent years. Schools are important settings for prevention, but whether preventive programming meets student needs is unknown. This study examined trends in school programming related to mental health and substance use and teacher professional development across US middle and high schools from 2008-2020.
Keywords: dept.hms; peer-reviewed

Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia - Stinchcomb, Gary E.; Rogers, Michael J.; Semaw, Sileshi (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025)
The Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area in the Afar Region of Ethiopia arguably contains one of the most complete records of archaeological sites anywhere in the world, from the earliest Oldowan dated to 2.6 Ma, to the Later Stone Age (LSA) dated to ca. 12-7 Ka. This makes Gona an ideal place to examine long-term trends in hominin-environment interaction. We revisited archaeological and hominin fossil sites at Gona and characterized the fossil soils using paleopedology and found evidence of paleo-Fluvisols, -Cambisols and -Vertisols. Greater than 70% of those archaeological sites spanning Oldowan to the Later Stone Age are found in buried paleosols with A-C and A-Bk-C paleosol profiles resembling modern-day Fluvisols or Fluvic Cambisols. Fluvisol morphology shows presence of bedding, incipient soil structure development and overprinting after burial. Stratigraphy and lithofacies show that these paleo-Fluvisols were proximal to the ancestral Awash River (Type I depositional system) or a distal fan channel (Type II depositional system). These data suggest that soil burial rates were rapid due to proximal flooding, where this would be a primary factor inhibiting soil development. This style of sedimentation and weathering resembles a narrow (5–10 m width) strip of land in a modern-day channel shelf and bar setting, separating the river from the adjacent gallery forest. A review of the literature shows that the frequent association of artifacts with paleo-Fluvisols may be prevalent throughout eastern Africa and indicates a long history of hominin reliance on a riverine ecosystem edge, proximal stream water and gallery forest resources within broader river valleys. The few older archaeological sites (e.g., Oldowan and Acheulian) found in/on more well-developed paleosols at Gona are an exception to this rule. These latter sites may hint at different land-use patterns and thus differing trajectories of hominin-environmental interactions. Because most paleosol studies at Gona and elsewhere in eastern Africa use paleo-Vertisols or other more well-developed calcareous soils to reconstruct paleoenvironment, there is a potential spatial and temporal decoupling between those well-studied paleosols and the more weakly-developed ones where archaeology is found.
Keywords: Archaeology; Artificial intelligence; Astronomy; Computer science; Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution; Geography; Geology; Gona; Mathematics; Paleoecology; Paleontology; Paleosol; Physics; Preference; River corridors; Statistics; Term (time); dept.ant; peer-reviewed

Divided by a common language? The impact of a joint international field trip on student skills - Lane, Timothy; Rourke, Maeve; Kelly, Miriah; Graves, Scott; Dalrymple, Sarah; Dick, Jonathan; Matthews, Tom; Onnis, Patrizia; Slomba, Jeff; Pétursson, Ólafur; Heidkamp, C. (Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025)
Fieldwork is often cited as one of the most important and effective parts of geography education, despite increasing scrutiny over its environmental and financial cost. As a result, it is imperative that any overseas fieldwork is as impactful as possible, enabling deep experiential learning. Here, we investigate the success of a joint field trip (Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Southern Connecticut State University, USA) to East Iceland. Such field trips are rare but have the potential to be extremely impactful on both cohorts of students. We outline the origins of the field trip, the considerations taken into account during planning, and the student skills we embedded into teaching. Surveys and interviews demonstrated that the field trip was highly successful, with students reporting excellent development of environmental and global awareness as well as research and leadership skills. Students also developed strong, lasting social networks, including those in the alternate university, and in Iceland. Cohorts responded similarly, suggesting that the trip presents similar opportunities to all students. We demonstrate that undertaking a joint field trip can deliver huge benefits to students, becoming a “perspective changing, and a once in a lifetime opportunity” affecting future study and career choices.
Keywords: Civil engineering; Engineering; Field (mathematics); Geography; Joint (building); Mathematics education; Pedagogy; Psychology; dept.egm; fieldwork; higher education; pedagogy; peer-reviewed; skills development

Measurement of directed flow in Au+Au collisions at √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁=19.6 and 27 GeV with the STAR event plane detector - STAR Collaboration (Physical Review C, 2025)
In heavy-ion collision experiments, the global collectivity of final-state particles can be quantified by anisotropic flow coefficients (𝑣𝑛). The first-order flow coefficient, also referred to as the directed flow (𝑣1), describes the collective sideward motion of produced particles and nuclear fragments in heavy-ion collisions. It carries information on the very early stage of the collision, especially at large pseudorapidity (𝜂), where it is believed to be generated during the nuclear passage time. Directed flow therefore probes the onset of bulk collective dynamics during thermalization, providing valuable experimental guidance to models of the pre-equilibrium stage. In 2018, the Event Plane Detector (EPD) was installed in STAR and used for the Beam Energy Scan phase-II (BES-II) data taking. The combination of EPD (2.1<|𝜂|<5.1) and high-statistics BES-II data enables us to extend the 𝑣1 measurement to the forward and backward 𝜂 regions. In this paper, we present the measurement of 𝑣1 over a wide 𝜂 range in Au+Au collisions at √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁= 19.6 and 27 GeV using the STAR EPD. The results of the analysis at √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁= 19.6 GeV exhibit excellent consistency with the previous PHOBOS measurement, while elevating the precision of the overall measurement. The increased precision of the measurement also revealed finer structures in heavy-ion collisions, including a potential observation of the first-order event-plane decorrelation. Multiple physics models were compared to the experimental results. Only a transport model and a three-fluid hybrid model can reproduce a sizable 𝑣1 at large 𝜂 as was observed experimentally. The model comparison also indicates 𝑣1 at large 𝜂 might be sensitive to the QGP phase transition.
Keywords: Algorithm; Atomic physics; Charged particle; Computer science; Flow (mathematics); Ion; Mechanics; Nuclear physics; Physics; Pseudorapidity; Thermalisation; dept.phy; peer-reviewed

Comprehensive Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection - Sheta, Alaa; Elashmawi, Walaa H.; Djellal, Adel; Braik, Malik; Surani, Salim; Aljahdali, Sultan; Subramanian, Shyam; Patel, Parth S. (International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (ijacsa), 2024)
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a prevalent health issue affecting 10-25% of adults in the United States (US) and is associated with significant economic consequences. Machine learning methods have shown promise in improving the efficiency and accessibility of OSA diagnoses, thus reducing the need for expensive and challenging tests. A comparative analysis of Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Gradient Boosting (GB), Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithms was conducted to predict Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). To improve the predictive accuracy of these models, Random Oversampling was applied to address the imbalance in the dataset, ensuring a more equitable representation of the minority class. Patient demographics, including age, sex, height, weight, BMI, neck circumference, and gender, were employed as predictive features in the models. The RFC provided outstanding training and testing accuracies of 87% and 65%, respectively, and a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) score of 87%. The GBC and SVM classifiers also demonstrated good performance on the test dataset. The results of this study show that machine learning techniques may be effectively used to diagnose OSA, with the Random Forest Classifier demonstrating the best results.
Keywords: dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Maternal prepregnancy body mass index and risk of preterm birth: the role of weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity - Sawadogo, Wendemi; Tsegaye, Medhin; Gizaw, Andinet; Newland, Hunter; Adera, Tilahun (American Journal of Perinatology, 2024)
Objective Preterm birth (PTB) is one of the leading causes of infant and neonatal mortality. Prepregnancy body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) has been linked to PTB but the evidence of this association by weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity is limited. This study aimed to assess the association between maternal prepregnancy BMI and PTB stratified by weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. Study Design The U.S. natality data from 2017 to 2021 were used. In this analysis, we included mothers who had a live singleton birth and available data for prepregnancy BMI, gestational age at birth, weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. Logistic regression models were used to assess the association between prepregnancy BMI categories and PTB stratified by weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. Results A total of 17,311,509 singleton live births were included of which 1,393,889 (8.05 %) were PTBs. After adjusting for confounders, compared with normal prepregnancy BMI mothers (18.5–24.9), those with underweight BMI (<18.5) were at increased odds of PTB regardless of weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. However, for mothers with a prepregnancy BMI above the normal weight (≥25), the association between prepregnancy BMI and PTB differs by weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. Asian mothers with obesity II (35.0–39.9) had 93% (odds ratio [OR] = 1.93, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.62–2.30) increased odds of PTB for weight gain during pregnancy of 31 to 40 pounds. Their White, Hispanic, and Black counterparts experienced lower odds of PTB for similar weight gain during pregnancy (White: OR = 1.56, 95% CI: 1.51–1.60; Hispanic: OR = 1.48, 95% CI: 1.41, 1.54; and Black: OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.17–1.27). Conclusion Mothers with underweight BMI were at increased risk of PTB regardless of weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. However, the association between high prepregnancy BMI and PTB varied by weight gain during pregnancy, race, and ethnicity. Key Points
Keywords: body mass index; dept.pch; ethnicity; obesity; peer-reviewed; pregnancy; preterm birth; race; weight gain during pregnancy

Machine Learning for Enhanced COPD Diagnosis: A Comparative Analysis of Classification Algorithms - Elashmawi, Walaa H.; Djellal, Adel; Sheta, Alaa; Surani, Salim; Aljahdali, Sultan (Diagnostics, 2024)
Background: In the United States, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a significant cause of mortality. As far as we know, it is a chronic, inflammatory lung condition that cuts off airflow to the lungs. Many symptoms have been reported for such a disease: breathing problems, coughing, wheezing, and mucus production. Patients with COPD might be at risk, since they are more susceptible to heart disease and lung cancer. Methods: This study reviews COPD diagnosis utilizing various machine learning (ML) classifiers, such as Logistic Regression (LR), Gradient Boosting Classifier (GBC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Gaussian Naïve Bayes (GNB), Random Forest Classifier (RFC), K-Nearest Neighbors Classifier (KNC), Decision Tree (DT), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). These models were applied to a dataset comprising 1603 patients after being referred for a pulmonary function test. Results: The RFC has achieved superior accuracy, reaching up to 82.06% in training and 70.47% in testing. Furthermore, it achieved a maximum F score in training and testing with an ROC value of 0.0.82. Conclusions: The results obtained with the utilized ML models align with previous work in the field, with accuracies ranging from 67.81% to 82.06% in training and from 66.73% to 71.46% in testing.
Keywords: artificial neural network (ANN); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); dept.csc; machine learning (ML); peer-reviewed; random forest classifier (RFC)

Evolutionary optimization of Yagi–Uda antenna design using grey wolf optimizer - Braik, Malik; Sheta, Alaa; Aljahdali, Sultan; El-Hefnawi, Fatma; Al-Hiary, Heba; Elashmawi, Walaa H. (Neural Computing and Applications, 2024)
Meta-heuristic optimization algorithms have become widely used due to their outstanding features, such as gradient-free mechanisms, high flexibility, and great potential for avoiding local optimal solutions. This research explored the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) to find the ideal configuration for a six-element Yagi–Uda antenna. The GWO algorithm adjusted the lengths of the antenna wires and the spacings between them. The goal was to maximize the antenna’s ability to transmit signals (throughput gain). Optimal antenna selection relies on various parameters, including gain, bandwidth, impedance matching, frequency, side-lobe levels, etc. The optimization of a six-element Yagi–Uda antenna presents a challenging engineering design problem due to its multimodal and nonlinear nature. Achieving optimal performance hinges on the intricate interplay between the lengths of the constituent elements and the spacing configurations. To this end, a multiobjective function was adopted to design this antenna. The performance of several meta-heuristic algorithms, including genetic algorithms, biogeography-based optimization, simulated annealing, and grey wolf optimizer, was compared. The GWO-based approach has performed better than its competitors. This optimized antenna design based on GWO reported a gain of 14.21 decibel. Therefore, the GWO-based method optimizes antennas that can be further investigated for other antenna design problems.
Keywords: Antenna design; Artificial Intelligence; Gain optimization; Grey wolf optimizer; Meta-heuristic algorithms; Multi-objective optimization; dept.csc; peer-reviewed

Scholars in health equity: a program of structured physician faculty development - Ring, Jeffrey; Torres, Daisy; Ramos, Rosio; Gonzalez, Cristina M.; Nahid, Musarrat; Morales, Susana; Phillips, Erica (Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024)
Structured faculty development programs focused on integrating health equity into medical education curricula remain limited.
Keywords: adult learning theory; anti-racist curricula; dept.dei; faculty development; health equity; medical education; peer-reviewed

Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Nineteenth-Century Nature Essay - Ellis, Scott (ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 2024)
Keywords: dept.eng; peer-reviewed