Michigan State University

Do Legislative Agenda-Setters Constrain Judicial Decision-Making? Evidence from the European Union

Abstract Judicial review allows courts to serve as a powerful check on policymakers. Nonetheless, courts face the possibility of the legislature overriding unwanted decisions when adjudicating cases in which legislators have an interest. I argue that this threat heightens when co...

Symmetry analysis and ancestral sequence reconstruction reveal a symmetrical translocation pathway and activity determinants of ZIP metal transporters

Membrane transporters frequently exhibit internal structural symmetry, reflecting evolutionary origins through gene duplication and fusion events, and this feature has been widely used to infer transport mechanisms. Yet its application to the Zrt-/Irt-like protein (ZIP) family of...

A Fokker-Planck framework for control of epidemics

Abstract We present a control framework for stochastic compartmental models in epidemiology. In this framework, rather than directly controlling the stochastic system, we perform optimal control of an associated Fokker-Planck equation, with the goal of steering the distribution o...

WSINDy for model predictive control with applications to fusion, drones and chaos

Abstract The control of complex dynamical systems remains a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, where strong nonlinearities, the presence of noise and computational constraints often pose significant obstacles in traditional control approaches. Recent advances in da...

The organization and dynamics of viral factories

ABSTRACT Viral factories (VFs) are dynamic, virus-induced microcompartments that serve as centralized hubs in the host cell for viral genome replication, transcription, and virion assembly. These structures employ unique viral mechanisms for remodeling cellular architecture to cr...

Youth With Eating Disorders Have a Higher 3-Month Rate of Adverse Postoperative Outcomes Following Common Orthopedic Surgeries

Purpose: To quantify surgery-related outcomes among patients ≤21 years old with eating disorders compared with the general youth population without eating disorders. Methods: This retrospective cohort study identified youth up to 21 years of age with and without eating disorders...

Linking COPD Prevalence with Income Distribution: A Spatial Heterogeneous Compositional Regression via Geographically Weighted Penalized Approach

Income inequality is a major contributor to health disparities, yet its effects often vary by geography and are commonly represented as compositional distributions (e.g., proportions of households across income brackets). Existing spatial regression methods struggle in this setti...

Serum Chloride Trajectories and Acute Kidney Injury in Children With Diabetic Ketoacidosis

OBJECTIVES: To characterize serum chloride (Cl) burden during diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), examine associations between Cl metrics and creatinine-defined acute kidney injury (CDAKI) and hospital length of stay (LOS), and to assess the relationship between initial beta-hydroxybuty...

Longitudinal Metabolic Risk Factors Are Associated With Microvascular Complications

ABSTRACT Objective Determine associations between summaries of longitudinal metabolic risk factors and microvascular complications. Methods We performed a secondary analysis of participants with and without diabetes enrolled within the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study th...

Serving Epistemic Justice Through Critical Writing Pedagogies in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Writing in Science and Technology Studies (STS) reproduces STS knowledge, yet ways of writing remain invisible and normative within a discipline committed to epistemological openness. Ways of knowing and languaging are inextricably linked: written knowledge plays a central role i...

AANEM Consensus‐Based Guideline for Grading the Severity of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

ABSTRACT Electrodiagnostic (EDX) reports for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) often include a description of severity, but considerable variability in approach creates confusion for referring physicians, patients, and EDX practitioners. The purpose of this project was t...

Peer Vaping as a Predictor of Adolescent Nicotine/Tobacco Vaping and Definitions as a Mediator: A Test of Social Learning Theory

Social learning theory is a robust framework for explaining substance use. However, research on the framework and its mechanisms for explaining nicotine/tobacco vaping remains limited. The present study sought to address this gap in the literature by examining peer vaping as a pr...

Harnessing Trust in Directed Graphs: Redefining Robustness of Graph Learning

Existing research on robust Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) focuses predominantly on undirected graphs, overlooking the trustworthiness inherent in the link directions of directed graphs. In this work, we analyze the limitations of current approaches from both the attack and defense...

A pathway towards decentralized studies of radioactive post-lead elements and their applications in beyond standard model physics

Abstract Molecules have proven to be sensitive tools for studying physics beyond the Standard Model, with heavy and deformed nuclei offering decisive sensitivity to parity- and time-reversal-violating effects. However, almost all elements beyond lead, occupying the 6p to 5f atomi...

MetaHQ: v1.2.0-rc1

Release candidate for v1.2.0 of the MetaHQ data package - data required to utilize the metahq-cli Python package. Changes made: Adds over 360,000 samples and 16,000 studies to the MetaHQ database Harmonized over 89,000 DiSignAtlas sample-level tissue annotations Harmonized over 3...

Growth Kinetics and Temperature-Driven Phase Selectivity of Colloidal Two-Dimensional Cesium Bismuth Bromide Nanocrystals

Abstract The ability to selectively control phase formation in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals is critical for understanding and optimizing their optoelectronic properties. Two-dimensional (2D) vacancy-ordered Cs3Bi2Br9 (CBB) nanocrystals have attracted interest in this doma...

Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria as Sustainable Bioinoculants for Mitigating Climate-Induced Abiotic Stresses

Extreme temperatures, drought, and salinity are among the most detrimental abiotic stressors limiting global plant productivity, and their frequency has intensified under climate change. These escalating pressures underscore the need for sustainable biological strategies that enh...

Estimating the Congestion Benefits of Batteries When Network Connections Are Unobserved

I estimate the grid impacts of 126.3 MW of battery storage capacity operating in California during 2010 to 2017. I find that 1 MW of energy storage decreases evening peak prices by $1.11/MWh at the pricing node where the storage is installed while off-peak prices do not increase....

A Model for Cotton Emergence Based on Thirty Years of Seed Treatment Trials Conducted by the National Cotton Seed Treatment Committee

Over 30 years, the National Cotton Council’s National Cottonseed Treatment program has conducted coordinated seed treatment trials across the U.S., resulting in a comprehensive dataset of over 500 field trials. After data curation compiled from annual reports published in the Cot...

Identifying Research Priorities for the Development of High-Integrity Forest Carbon Credits

Abstract In the United States, voluntary carbon markets have gained significant traction in recent years. However, many offset standards, protocols, and credit ratings have come under scrutiny from the public and investors for failing to produce real or sustainable carbon offsets...