Georgia State University

Insights from coproduced scenarios toward urban sustainability transformations

Urban sustainability transformations call for fundamental shifts in how cities are organized, developed, and governed. Yet we need a better understanding of the diversity of visions and pathways that can enable transformative change. We address this gap through an analysis of 60...

The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination

Fever is a common adverse reaction to vaccination, contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake. To understand variation in fever risk, we longitudinally profiled fecal microbiota, oral temperature, and serological markers in 171 healthy adults receiving Severe acute resp...

Does the Pilot Long-Term Care Insurance Work as Expected in China? Examining its Impact on Hospital Utilizations, Medical Expenses, and Health

This study investigates the impact of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on older adults’ hospital service utilization, medical expenses, and health. Using national representative data from four waves of CHARLS (2011, 2013, 2015, 2018), we find that LTCI decreases older adults’ mont...

Intellectual humility and eudaimonic well-being among emerging religious/spiritual leaders

Religious/spiritual leaders remain an understudied at-risk population for lower eudaimonic well-being. We explored the potential for intellectual humility to promote greater eudaimonia with divine struggles as a mediator. We used a diverse sample of leaders obtaining graduate the...

Exploring Ionizing Radiation at Aviation Altitudes Through Machine Learning and Muon Detection

Cumulative exposure to ionizing radiation at aviation altitudes poses significant health risks for aircrews and, at higher altitudes, astronauts. Physics-based models are commonly used to estimate radiation levels during flight; however, they often do not fully capture the rapidl...

Cybersecurity as a precondition for the carbon–neutral grid: an investment framework for U.S. utility cybersecurity capital allocation

Abstract The transition to a carbon–neutral electricity system depends on the widespread integration of distributed and inverter-based renewable resources. The U.S. Department of Energy and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation have identified these resources as inc...

Leveraging conversations: The role of extended feedback and linguistic structures in prekindergartners' vocabulary development

This study investigated the unique and combined contributions of extended teacher feedback—information, expansion, and vocabulary comments, along with follow-up questions—and associated linguistic structures (lexical diversity, complex syntax, and high-utility academic vocabulary...

Ferroptosis in liver biology and diseases.

Ferroptosis is a form of non-apoptotic cell death driven by iron-dependent lipid peroxidation (LPO). Ferroptosis is closely associated with hepatic metabolic pathways, particularly those involving iron, fatty acids, amino acids, and redox changes. This review aims to provide a co...

Association of antiplatelet and anticoagulant use history with 30-day outcomes after lumbar puncture: a population-based retrospective study

Abstract Objective The safety of lumbar puncture in patients with a history of anticoagulant or antiplatelet use remains incompletely characterized. This study evaluated the coded occurrence of blood patch, paralysis, and spinal decompression within 30 days of lumbar puncture usi...

Intellectual Humility Promotes Balanced and Integrated Understandings of Controversial Information in Multiple Documents

This study examined associations between individual differences and construction of mental representations of belief-consistent and belief-inconsistent claims. Individual differences included topic beliefs, confidence in belief accuracy, and interest, and the focal construct (int...

From Data-Model Fit to Model-World Fit: A Framework for Integrating Domain Knowledge into Artificial Intelligence

Machine-learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems often perform well in controlled settings but fail when deployed in the real world. These failures stem from a fundamental problem: ML/AI models optimize data-model fit by increasing statistical performance on training d...

Recovering subjective probability distributions: a Bayesian approach

Abstract An individual reports subjective beliefs over continuous events using a proper scoring rule, such as the Quadratic Scoring Rule. Under mild additional assumptions, it is known that these reports reflect latent subjective beliefs if the individual is risk neutral. We demo...

An Application of Gelfand’s Formula in Approximating the Roots of Polynomials

The purpose of this paper is to show how Gelfand’s formula and balancing can be used to improve the upper and lower bounds of the spectrum of a companion matrix associated with a given real or complex polynomial. Examples and other related ideas are provided. This inclusion regio...

W1. POSTPARTUM STRESS CAUSES TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND EPITRANSCRIPTOMIC CHANGES IN THE BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA OF RAT DAMS

Background Maternal postpartum stress caused by low resource parenting can produce enduring affective and stress-reactivity phenotypes in offspring, yet the effects on the maternal brain are largely unexplored. We aimed to define how postpartum stress reshapes isoform usage and t...

Conceptions of Calling: A Four Generation Inquiry

Recent research on the concept of calling has expanded, yet differences in how various generational cohorts conceptualize calling remain underexplored. This study employed qualitative and descriptive methods to examine definitions of calling among working adults and college stude...

Sexual frustration, low self-control, and cybercrime victimization: A survey analysis of U.S. adults

Research suggests that sexual frustration can increase people's willingness to engage in aggression, violence, or crime, but has not examined whether it also increases their risk of victimization. For this study, we examined the relationship between sexual frustration, low self-c...

Removing barriers to college credits: Where and for whom AP exam fee waivers work

We study the effects of North Carolina’s Advanced Placement (AP) exam fee-waiver policy on exam participation and potential college-credit attainment conditional on AP enrollment. Using student-course level administrative data, we first exploit within-student variation among stud...

From policy to practice: overcoming barriers to harm reduction vending machine deployment

Drug overdose deaths remain a leading cause of mortality in the U.S., largely driven by a drug supply frequently contaminated with fentanyl. Harm reduction vending machines (HRVMs) provide low-barrier access to naloxone and fentanyl testing strips (FTS). However, legacy state law...

Beyond redlining: Gentrification, displacement, disadvantages, and exclusivity predict urban environmental and health inequities

This study investigated environmental justice by developing and comparing four contemporary urban segregation typologies (persistent exclusivity, persistent disadvantage, recent gentrification, and recent displacement-hosting) with historical Homeowners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) z...

The Future of Crime Revisited: Artificial Intelligence and the Next Phase of Crime Exponentiation

In earlier work, Nikolovska and I (2020) argued that technological change had outpaced the historical equilibrium between crime and the institutional response to it, producing a condition we termed crime exponentiation, the compounding expansion of criminal opportunity through th...