Brigham Young University

Strategies to Promote HIV Self-Testing and Long-Acting Injectable PrEP Among Ghanaian Youth: Results from the Y-FIT GH National Crowdsourcing Open Call

Abstract Crowdsourcing is a participatory problem-solving approach that engages a large and diverse group of individuals to generate ideas or solutions. In HIV prevention, it provides a structured mechanism for involving youth in shaping intervention strategies. The Innovative To...

Ultrafast Faraday rotation probe of chiral phonon-polaritons in LiNbO 3

A strong magnetic response in materials after time reversal symmetry breaking excitation of circular ionic motion may open avenues for ultrafast control. By combining a pair of perpendicularly polarized terahertz pulses with the right relative delay, we create a chiral terahertz...

Algorithms and ABCs: Associations between US parents’ educational media motivations and content quality on YouTube

YouTube usage among young children is highly prevalent, but prior content analyses suggest that YouTube contains substantial amounts of low educational content. We examined associations between parental motivations to use media to educate, child YouTube usage, and educational con...

Time Heals Some Wounds? Burnout but Not Secondary Traumatic Stress in Critical Care Nurses

Background Burnout among new nurses has been widely documented. Less is known about how years of professional experience relate to distinct components of professional quality of life, including compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress. Early-career nurses appear par...

Evidence for endemism and local adaptation in Antarctic soil bacteria

Antarctic soils represent one of the more extreme environments for microbial life on Earth, yet they harbor heterogeneous and diverse microbial communities. Biologists have long hypothesized that Antarctic microorganisms are unique from those found on other continents due to the...

A Thickness‐Invariant Origami Robot With Integrated Actuation and Multimodal Locomotion

ABSTRACT Origami robots possess the potential for advanced reconfigurability in various contexts and environments. This paper describes and demonstrates the function of an origami robot following a thickness‐invariant version of the Yoshimura tessellation. This thickness‐invarian...

Inverse design of bespoke interatomic potentials via active learning by information-matching

Interatomic potentials (IPs) enable large-scale atomistic simulations beyond the reach of first-principles methods, but their predictive reliability depends critically on the selection of training data, quantified uncertainty, and model expressiveness. Active learning (AL) provid...

Sediment Resuspension Controls Light Attenuation and Ecosystem Function in a Large, Shallow, Eutrophic Lake

Light limitation can constrain primary production and ecosystem recovery in shallow eutrophic lakes even when nutrients remain abundant. We evaluated the effects of reduced physical disturbance on underwater light availability in Utah Lake, Utah, USA, using large limnocorrals tha...

Compassion in Mental Health Nursing: A Scoping Review

Compassion is widely recognised as a core component of mental health nursing, yet its meaning and application within this specialty remain underexplored. This scoping review examined how compassion is conceptualised, experienced, and enacted in mental health nursing practice, and...

Reframing the human–robot ratio: Collaborative autonomy and the attention‐demand economy

Abstract The human–robot ratio is a useful design heuristic for supervisory robot control. However, advances in AI, computation, and reliable autonomy enable existing systems to extend beyond hierarchical supervision to more flexible organizations of interdependent team members....

The information content of private information acquisition: evidence from FOIA requests to the SEC

Abstract This study examines whether Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Securities and Exchange Commission convey value-relevant information about publicly traded firms and whether sophisticated investors trade on that information. Our empirical analysis reveals he...

Beyond Burnout: Determinants and Consequences of Sustainable Nonprofit Leadership

Much of the scholarship on leadership wellbeing and effectiveness has focused on ways to avoid burnout, rather than explaining how leaders actively sustain wellbeing and effectiveness over time. This paper integrates multiple theoretical frames using an exploratory, sequential mi...

Machine learning prediction of organic compound melting points informed by condensed-phase and electronic descriptors

Melting point (MP) is an important thermophysical property for the chemical process industry, yet accurate prediction of MP for organic compounds in the absence of experimental data remains challenging due to the complex interplay between molecular packing, intermolecular interac...

Narrative Cues Guide Visual Attention in 360-Degree News Video

This study uses eye-tracking to assess gaze behavior in a 360-degree video environment and test the impact of narration and audiovisual correspondence on visual search and scene guidance. The analysis showed how viewers divided attention between specific visual targets denoted by...

Bidirectional associations between loneliness and physical multimorbidity and the mediating role of social inactivity

Physical multimorbidity and loneliness are increasingly recognised as public health concerns, but the nature of their potential relationships remains unclear. Here we report bidirectional associations between physical multimorbidity and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults...

A 3D-printed interface holding chamber for rodent brain slice electrophysiology

Ex vivo rodent brain slices are used extensively in biomedical research to study neurophysiological processes such as synaptic transmission, seizures, and spreading depolarization. These experiments require holding chambers to maintain brain tissue health between preparation and...

Sibling Relationship Scale For Emerging Adults: Turkish Adaptation and Validation Study

The development of sibling relationships across the life course can be context and culture specific. The current study aimed to adapt and validate a new measure of sibling relationship quality the Emerging Adults’ Relationship with Sibling Scale (EARSS) to assess Turkish emerging...

Moderate Biochar–Compost Mixture Is More Effective in Improving Biomass, Nutrient Fluxes, and Photosynthetic Outputs for Sustainable Land Restoration and Soil Fertility

ABSTRACT Soil nutrient depletion severely constrains crop productivity in degraded and saline environments. Strategies such as biochar–compost integration could be useful for sustainable agriculture and land restoration on a global scale. This study evaluated the effects of bioch...

From a Viral Application to a Clinical Imperative—Dying Alone

This Viewpoint examines the interaction between technology and solitary death.

Phylogenomics of Manticorini tiger beetles supports ancient Gondwanan vicariance and recent American amphitropical disjunction

Abstract Disjunct distributions have long fascinated biologists, particularly those found in the Southern Hemisphere. Gondwanan vicariance has been invoked to explain these patterns, with relatively limited studies having phylogenetically tested this hypothesis. Another intriguin...