Michigan State University

How content sophistication shapes climate discourse on YouTube

We analyze 3163 climate-related YouTube videos posted between 2006 and 2021. More sophisticated videos—those with higher production quality, richer descriptions, longer duration, and specialized terminology—draw climate-related comments that lean toward explicit position-taking a...

It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, c...

Service-Level Utilization in Risk-Based Contracts and a Benchmarking Approach for Fee-Schedule Reforms

Importance Despite revived interest in reforming the physician fee schedule, it is unclear how policymakers should modify more than 1000 different physician service prices to promote high-value care. One systematic approach could leverage service-level utilization patterns in ful...

Ferrocene-functionalized covalent organic framework exceeding the ultimate hydrogen storage targets: a first-principles multiscale computational study

Abstract The development of efficient hydrogen storage materials is crucial for advancing the hydrogen economy and meeting the U.S. Department of Energy’s targets of 6.5 wt% and 50 g L −1 for automotive applications. We present a computational study of ferrocene-functionalized co...

Sky-Plane Velocity Distributions of Interstellar Objects and Implications for Their Detection

Abstract In the past decade, three macroscopic-scale interstellar objects have been discovered, implying that a larger galactic population exists. In this paper, we investigate the possibility that the rapid sky-plane velocities of interstellar objects may preclude their discover...

Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings

Review of Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings by Tim Altenhof. Princeton University Press, March 2026. 248 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-945861-11-6 (h/c), $38.00. https://bookshop.org/a/107144/9781945861116. Reviewed September 2026 by Stephanie Beene, Associate Professor,...

Francisella orientalis in Aquacultured Tilapia ( Oreochromis spp.): A Case Work‐Up of Diagnostics and Pathologic Findings in the North Central Region ( USA )

Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) is an increasingly popular aquacultured fish worldwide. While tilapia enjoy a 'hardy-fish' reputation among fish farmers, they are susceptible to a variety of infectious diseases that can be difficult to recognize pondside and have similarities in their...

Genetic Modeling of Dyadic Behavioral Traits: Implications for Estimation and Interpretation of Variance Components

Studying the genomic control of dyadic social interactions is gaining traction in animal genetics. However, genetic modeling of social interactions poses several challenges, one of which is whether social interactions should be treated as dyadic traits or as aggregated traits at...

What happens after the boom? Aquaculture, land use change, and smallholder resilience in Central Thailand

There has been a proliferation of research on Southeast Asian crop booms over the past 15 years. Most studies take place at the height of booms or examine the immediate trajectory of boom and subsequent ‘bust’. Few take a longer-term perspective. In this article we draw on the li...

Spray-Induced Gene Silencing Suppresses Gene Expression and Growth of the Fruit-Rot Pathogen Colletotrichum fioriniae

The fungal pathogen Colletotrichum fioriniae causes disease in plant species such as hops, blueberries, and apples. Management of the pathogen is highly reliant on conventional synthetic fungicides, with cultivars having uncharacterized or incomplete resistance. This is increasin...

Firearm owners’ support for policies regulating firearms left in vehicles

Abstract Purpose Firearms stolen from vehicles are a leading source of gun theft in the US. In response, there has been growth in the number of proposed and enacted policies at the state and local levels. Yet firearm owners’ attitudes toward policies regulating firearms left in v...

Is Wastewater Surveillance Predictive during the Endemic Phase of Respiratory Disease? An Analysis Based on Clinical, Wastewater, and Digital Search Data in Detroit, Michigan

Abstract Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a major public health innovation catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, its potential remains underexplored during and after COVID-19’s transition to endemicity. This study evaluates WBE’s potential to identify the...

Deployment-oriented benchmark for automated UAV-based facade defect detection

Integrating computer vision with UAVs can automate parts of building facade inspection while reducing labor and access risks. Applying UAV-based defect detection to regional multi-building screening, however, requires planning of coverage-derived data construction, task definitio...

SN 2024iss: A Multiwavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-time Ultraviolet Spectrum and Shock-breakout Constraints

Abstract We present multiwavelength observations and analysis of SN 2024iss, a Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) located at ∼14 Mpc. The first Zwicky Transient Facility detection of SN 2024iss is ∼40 minutes after first light (one of the earliest detections of a SN IIb to date) and a H...

Validity of Ips chinensis Kurentzov & Kononov confirmed with DNA data

Knížek, Milos, Cognato, Anthony I. (2017): Validity of Ips chinensis Kurentzov & Kononov confirmed with DNA data. Zoological Systematics 42 (2): 229-235, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201712, URL: http://zoobank.org/4a1b1e1e-e7cc-4b03-a626-ddb031acc92b

Intravascular imaging in myocardial infarction and ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries

Abstract Myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) and angina or ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA/INOCA) are heterogeneous syndromes that cannot be adequately characterized by coronary angiography alone. Optical coherence tomography...

When AI Policy Becomes an Accessibility Barrier

General-purpose AI may function as assistive technology when a person with a disability uses it to increase, maintain, or improve a functional capability. The companion paper names that function Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA) and offers a three-prong functi...

Foliar metabolomes of woody plant communities across an elevational gradient on Mount Washington (New Hampshire, USA)

Abstract Background and Aims Plants produce myriad specialized metabolites that constitute the metabolome and mediate responses to abiotic and biotic factors. Elevational gradients, where environmental conditions change predictably over short distances, are natural laboratories f...

Genome-wide prediction and association mapping of potato common scab with historical data

Abstract Common scab, caused by Streptomyces spp., is worldwide an important skin disease of potato, capable of significant reductions in marketable value. Resistant varieties developed through phenotypic selection have been the most effective strategy thus far. Previous studies...

Ultrafast venous and sagittal sinus constrictions in the brain driven by abdominal pressure

Nearly all the blood supplying the cortex exits via the bridging veins (BVs) that drain into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), making these vessels key chokepoints for cerebral blood flow. Using optical imaging in head-fixed mice, we found that the SSS, BVs, and some other pial...