Arizona State University

Association between handedness and Alzheimer's disease: Results from a large MindCrowd observational study

BackgroundHandedness is tied to the lateralization of brain functions and significantly affects cognitive function and brain activity. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder that leads to declines in memory, thinking skills, and to behavioral changes, which also...

Human‐Centered Monitoring of Asphalt Emissions: Linking Exposure, Climate, and Health

ABSTRACT Urban infrastructure shapes environmental quality not only through its form and function but also through the materials from which it is built. Asphalt is a prominent example: heat, solar radiation, and aging can amplify emissions from this climate‐responsive, chemically...

Heat treatment technique and fuelwood density shape silcrete flake-edge geometry

Silcrete heat treatment was a transformative technological innovation in the Middle Stone Age, enabling toolmakers to improve the flaking properties of this raw material. Recent research has highlighted that silcrete heat treatment is not a uniform process, different silcrete sou...

Nonconsensual sexting experiences are associated with bullying and online gossiping victimization among early adolescents in Nicaragua

BACKGROUND: Nonconsensual sexting experiences are a form of image-based sexual abuse that can have serious consequences for the victim. Prior work has found that the forwarding of sexts can happen in negative peer contexts, such as bullying and online gossiping victimization. Thi...

The Emergence of the Service Techonomy: POPP at the Frontlines and the Rise of AI-Mediated Service Influence

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), data infrastructures, and platform technologies are reshaping services and organizational frontlines. We conceptualize this shift as the emergence of the “service techonomy,” in which omni-personalization manifests via Prescribed, Omnipre...

Coupled effects of fuel corrosion and photothermal aging on asphalt binder degradation for airport pavements

Airport pavements face combined threats from photothermal aging and aviation fuel spillage, yet their synergistic degradation mechanisms are not fully elucidated. This study evaluates asphalt binder performance under coupled damage, revealing a distinct two-stage degradation patt...

Folded futures: the exquisite corpse of citizenship and the emergence of planetizen

This paper introduces the planetizen as a speculative figure of more-than-human planetary belonging, emerging not through coherence but through rupture, absurdity, and relational composition. Drawing on a semester-long collaboration with students in the Planetizing Citizenship co...

Making Peer-Mediated Interventions Work in Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide for Students With Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities

Students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) often experience limited social interactions and have difficulty developing friendships in secondary school settings. Peer-mediated interventions (PMIs) are an evidence-based practice for improving social communi...

From traffic-flow capacity to recovery capacity: An episode-based framework for multi-sector urban resilience

Urban systems experience disruptions that differ in magnitude, duration, and final recovery outcome. Existing resilience measures commonly emphasize performance loss, recovery duration, or trajectory area, but they do not directly represent the peak rate at which a disrupted syst...

Role of Language-Derived Semantics in Knowledge Distillation on Wearable Sensor Data

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been widely studied for understanding human activities from time-series data. However, wearable sensor data exhibit substantial inter-individual variations, while the signal differences between activities can be relativel...

Wildfire Risk Scoring: A Quantitative Wildfire Risk Score Derived from GNSS-R Soil Moisture Data and Thermal Stress

Wildfire Risk Scoring is proposing a calibrated and testable quantitative equation for estimating the probability of a wildfire in a designated ground grid cell from two satellite observables: surface soil moisture retrieved by GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R) and land surface tempera...

Trajectory-Constrained Feature Transformation Optimization Framework for Stable Tabular Data Reprogramming

Tabular data reprogramming is a cornerstone of Data-Centric AI, which seeks to mathematically reconfigure raw features into more expressive and model-efficient representations. This process has traditionally relied on extensive manual engineering. Further, recent automated featur...

Use of Ultralow Dosages of Graphene to Enhance the Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of 3D-Printed Cementitious Mortars

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) concrete printing offers an economical and sustainable option for rapid, formwork-free construction of geometrically unique structures. However, 3D-printed concrete elements often suffer from print-induced anisotropy and reduced mechanical performa...

Valorization of Industrial Mill Scales into Multiphase Iron Oxide Nanostructures for Alkaline Water Splitting and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation

Herein, value-added iron oxide nanostructures are successfully synthesized directly from industrial steel mill scale via a simple precursor-free planetary ball milling technique for sustainable hydrogen production and environmental remediation. Comprehensive XRD analysis confirms...

Maternal mirroring predicts positive behavioral and socioemotional adjustment beyond infancy: Interactions with an infant carrying intervention

Little research has examined how affective caregiving processes, such as maternal mirroring, interact with physical caregiving contexts, such as infant carrying, to influence later child adjustment. The present study examined whether maternal mirroring during infancy prospectivel...

Obtaining maximum information from colony counts with REPOP

Abstract Bacterial counts from native environments, such as soil or the animal gut, often show substantial variability across replicate samples. This heterogeneity is typically attributed to genetic or environmental factors. A common approach to estimating bacterial populations i...

Seeing What Matters: A Systematic Review of Aerial Person Detection for Drone-Based Search and Rescue

Drones have become critical tools in search and rescue (SAR) missions by providing real-time situation awareness and access to difficult terrain. However, operators must process large amounts of visual data under time pressure, creating significant cognitive demands. Object detec...

Differential impacts of Colorado River shortage operations on agricultural adaptation and groundwater reliance in Central Arizona

Severe Colorado River reservoir declines triggered mandatory Tier 1 delivery reductions since 2022. The resulting agricultural adaptations and groundwater impacts remain poorly quantified as the reductions fall disproportionately among water users with different delivery prioriti...

Better together: Multi‐Agent system teamwork

Abstract While most present‐day multi‐agent system (MAS) deployments involve teams of agents within a single institution orchestrated by one or a few actors, some researchers are already beginning to appreciate the promise of more complex ecosystems consisting of hybrid human‐age...

Epigenetic aging and transposon dysregulation reflect size-related lifespan compression in dogs

The extraordinary lifespan variation in domestic dogs provides a natural experiment for testing how intrinsic rates of biological aging shape lifespan. Using 1640 methylomes from 894 dogs, we developed an epigenetic clock that predicted mortality and demonstrated that epigenetic...