Carleton University

An amphibious untethered inchworm soft robot for fast crawling locomotion

Untethered soft robots are essential for advancing the real-world deployment of soft robotic systems in diverse and multitasking environments. Inspired by soft-bodied inchworm, we present a fully untethered soft robot with a curved, flexible structure actuated by magnetic forces....

Cloud‐Native and Distributed Systems for Efficient and Scalable Large Language Models—A Research Agenda

ABSTRACT Objective Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming artificial intelligence applications, but their unprecedented computational, memory, communication, and data‐management demands pose significant challenges to existing computing infrastructures. Traditional...

A standardized permafrost ground temperature collection for Canada 2025

Abstract. Ground temperature is an essential variable for monitoring the thermal state of permafrost, developing models, and conducting fundamental research. However, the usability of GT data in Canada is often hampered by inconsistent file formats, a lack of metadata standardiza...

Unlocking the potential of aquatic animal telemetry research to advance management and conservation: Barriers and a blueprint for Great Britain and Ireland

Aquatic animal telemetry research can provide important knowledge for how populations, anthropogenic pressures and, indeed, entire ecosystems are managed. However, the true scale, extent and impact in Britain and Ireland is poorly understood. We surveyed 53 researchers about past...

Improper guilt: On exceptional postponements in the formal manufacture of criminals

The sociology of law has not yet taken stock of the crucial role played by the admission of guilt in summary justice: it allows criminal law to absolve itself from the violence it employs to manufacture criminals and produce “just” punishments. Relying on some elements of Luhmann...

The overlooked role of food and cultural dimensions in recreational fisheries

Our study examines the diversity of values within a superficially homogeneous recreational fishery and its relationship to angler diversity. We collected data on fishing preferences, behaviors, catch usage, and sociodemographics from 443 shore anglers across 10 cities in the lowe...

Cortisol Cutoffs for Adrenal Insufficiency Using Elecsys II: A Systematic Review

ABSTRACT Objective Adrenal insufficiency (AI) is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality if improperly managed. Adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) stimulation testing is the most widely used AI diagnostic test. Historically, a serum cortisol threshold of 500 nmol/L (18...

On the Discovery of the First Tetrapod Burrow from the Pennsylvanian-Age Clifton Formation, Stonehaven, New Brunswick, Canada

Reported trace fossils from the Clifton Formation, New Brunswick, Canada, are limited to a single occurrence of a temnospondyl trackway and invertebrate trackways identified in the Pennsylvanian continental strata. Our study builds on this with a description of a horizontal burro...

Safeguarding global terrestrial vertebrate species from future sea-level rise

Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens terrestrial biodiversity, yet its spatiotemporal and species-specific impacts remain unclear. Integrating relative SLR projections across five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) with Area of Habitat (AOH) maps for 34,120 terrestrial vertebrate spe...

No effect of short‐term exposure to ocean acidification on individual‐level variation in behaviour and susceptibility to predation in a Great Barrier Reef damselfish

Abstract Ocean acidification, caused by rising carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the atmosphere, has been reported to negatively impact a wide variety of behaviours in fishes, including activity, exploration, and predator avoidance. These effects have been documented at the population le...

Recall of overlearned speech in noise: Developmental ERP findings and an episodic buffer frame for culturally situated brain activity

How does extensively practiced speech memory remain dependent on momentary sensory input, and how does this interaction shape brain activity during development? This perspective integrates exploratory behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) findings from a culturally situate...

Technology scanning: a systematic mapping review using text analytics

Abstract In rapidly changing technological environments, companies must effectively identify and evaluate technological changes to sustain their dynamic capabilities. The growing body of research on technology scanning and innovation trajectories makes it difficult to perform sys...

Local order average-atom interatomic potentials

This article describes an extension to the effective average-atom method for random alloys to account for local ordering (short-range order) effects by utilizing information from partial radial distribution functions. The new Local Order Average-Atom (LOAA) method is rigorously d...

Signal-Adapted Kernels and Lazy-Evaluation Gaussian Process Regression

Abstract Constant-bandwidth radial basis function (RBF) regression models are popular due to their simplicity, but they exhibit oscillatory patterns that resemble the Runge and Gibbs phenomenon on many real-world datasets. The Gaussian process regression (GPR) can be considered a...

Self-supervised attention-based domain adaptation for robust occluded face recognition

Cross-domain face recognition remains a challenging problem when datasets exhibit significant variations in data distribution, imaging conditions, and occlusion patterns. These challenges are particularly critical in practical scenarios where faces are partially occluded by masks...

Understanding memory confidence in childhood: Evidence from self-reflection and vignette scenarios

While researchers have examined the link between children's memory confidence and accuracy, little is known about how children understand what confidence represents. This study involved interviewing school-aged children ( N = 253; 6- to-14-years-old) about their conceptualization...

Performance of a 307 kHz acoustic telemetry system in a small freshwater lake

Abstract Background Acoustic telemetry is widely used to study the movements of aquatic animals, yet spatial and temporal variation in acoustic system performance can bias inferences if not properly accounted for. Here, we conducted the first field-based assessment of detection e...

“Middling” Powers and Systemic Dis-Integration: Brazil, Canada, and Mexico in Comparative Perspective

Brazil, Canada, and Mexico rank among the world's largest economies and have long been active, and sometimes influential, participants in the post-war multilateral order. This article compares how the decay of that order affects each of them, combining a realist reading of classi...

Behavior of cross-laminated timber panels subjected to contact detonations

This paper presents the results of an experimental test programme on the performance of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels subjected to contact detonations stemming from live high explosive detonations. Quasi-static three-point bending tests were conducted to establish reference...

Construction and characterisation of the DarkSide-20k veto silicon photo-multiplier tiles

Abstract Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting a single photoelectron under cryogenic conditions, with potentially lower radioactivity than widely used photomultiplier tubes. The DarkSide-20k experiment, designed to perform direct dar...