Fordham University

Accuracy of commercial pollen forecasts in the United States

Approximately 80 million Americans suffer from seasonal pollen allergies, and many rely on commercial pollen forecasts to guide exposure reduction and medication timing. However, these forecasts are proprietary, and their accuracy has never been comprehensively evaluated. Here, w...

Mediating effect of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the association between depression, anxiety, and cardiometabolic disorders in a multiethnic US population

Abstract Neuroinflammation is associated with depression and anxiety risk, both of which demonstrate a bilateral relationship with cardiometabolic disorders. Systemic inflammation was also commonly described in patients with cardiometabolic disorders. It is, thus, unclear whether...

Elements of olfactory intelligence in Drosophila

The ability to make the world of odorants intelligible is a key capability of the Drosophila olfactory system that we shall call olfactory intelligence. Characterizing the functional logic of the Drosophila early olfactory system that makes the natural world of odorants intelligi...

Family economic security after the COVID-19 outbreak: unions, work-life balance policies and employment outcomes

Unionization has been associated with benefits to workers, including higher wages compared to non-unionized workers and greater access to family-friendly work arrangements. In this paper, we consider another potential benefit of union representation by examining whether and how u...

Robustness of Hybrid Classical-Quantum Transfer Learning Models Under Differential Privacy Constraints

We propose a hybrid classical-quantum transfer learning framework that combines a frozen pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone with a trainable classifier head that can be instantiated either as a Parametrized Quantum Circuit (PQC) or a parameter-matched classical head, a...

Muslim identity, criticism of Israel, and attitudes toward Jews: a test of the new antisemitism thesis

This paper tests two hypotheses of the new antisemitism thesis: (1) criticism of Israel leads to more negative attitudes toward Jews and (2) Muslims are more likely than non-Muslims to have negative attitudes toward Israel and Jews. Analysis of data from a nationally representati...

“M. and the USA”: The Political Teaching of Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli

Abstract Scholars have read Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958) as a theological-political treatise that offers timeless truths about politics. This article argues that it also aimed to convince American conservatives to embrace a muscular foreign policy. Strauss’s corre...

It is time to revisit the external determinants of state terror

Authoritarian regimes are frequently influenced by external policies and transnational relationships when shaping domestic repression strategies. Existing empirical research has largely focused on demonstration and diffusion effects, emphasizing how governments emulate repressive...

“Shelter in place”: Early COVID-19 TV news reporting at the intersection of housing and health policy

How do local media report on housing and health during major crises? The current study examines how housing and policy issues were discussed in the local television (TV) media during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, when policy measures were first introduced and communi...

Public Finance and Agricultural Methane Emissions: A Cross-National Panel Analysis

Agricultural methane, from livestock, manure, and rice cultivation, is the largest human source of the second most important greenhouse gas. Because methane is potent but short-lived, reducing it is one of the fastest available levers on near-term warming. The obstacle, however,...

Guided Toward Equity: Communities of Practice and Organizational Change in Community Colleges

ABSTRACT Although community colleges advance equity by providing opportunities for marginalized students to pursue higher education, barriers to earning credentials remain, particularly for students of color. Higher education stakeholders are investing in “equity work” as organiz...

Searching the Literature by Meaning: Benchmarking Free and Commercial Word Embedding Models on Social Work Text

<p><b><i><span>Purpose</span></i></b><span>: Locating relevant studies is the first step of evidence-based practice, yet most searching relies on keyword matching. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools called embedding models search by...

Introduction to the ‘Special issue: Academic freedom in decline’

This article introduces the IRSR Special Issue on Democratic Backsliding and Academic Freedom by further exploring how the two concepts are interrelated and contingent on one another. We do so by (1) providing some empirical background on the decline of academic freedom in countr...

Genome evolution and long-term demographic history in true crocodiles

Abstract Reference-quality genomes remain scarce for true crocodiles (Crocodylus), limiting comparative analyses of genome evolution and demographic history. Here, we generated and analyzed 2 long-read genomes, 1 for Crocodylus intermedius and 1 for C. niloticus, to investigate g...