Morgan State University

User Engagement with Clinician-Developed Guided Meditations on a Global Digital Platform: A Multi-Method Study

Abstract Digital meditation applications are increasingly used to support stress management, emotional balance, and everyday coping among individuals seeking accessible mental health and wellness resources. At the same time, less is known about how people engage with and experien...

Acceleration of the global methane growth rate over two decades: comparison with shared socioeconomic pathways and implications for future modeling

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are a set of harmonized greenhouse gas emission and concentration trajectories, representative of scenarios from the literature. The SSPs show a particularly large range of methane (CH 4 ) trajectories early in the first half of the centur...

Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report II: Past and present tropospheric ozone using satellite observations

Satellite observations enable global assessments of ozone in the free troposphere, yet uncertainties in earlier records limited the first Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report's (TOAR-I) confidence in regional distributions and, especially, decadal trends. Here, we leverage longer...

Community-Based Public–Private Partnerships as Mechanisms for Improved Efficiency in Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation

Abstract Municipalities traditionally deliver stormwater infrastructure through a design–bid–build (DBB) model, in which planning, engineering design, and construction are executed sequentially and contracted separately. However, given the substantial investment required and the...

Mentoring Undergraduates in Aging and Disparities Research: Hopkins USTAR

The Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Summer Training and Research Program (Hopkins USTAR) was a 2-year program funded by the National Institute on Aging R25 Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education. Hopkins USTAR was designed to provide undergraduate stude...

Humor and joy in the linguistic play of Black girls

Even in moments when it may seem counterintuitive to laugh, Black girls are able to access humor as a way to cope, heal, and experience joy. Black girls find ways to incorporate healing via humor into every facet of life, through multiple entry points. One of these is through the...

Back to Nature, Back to Self: Examining Ecotherapy as a Tool of Restorative Healing to Reduce the Impact of Environmental Injustice and Eco-Trauma

Environmental degradation disproportionally harms communities of historically marginalized groups, with Black communities facing compounded vulnerabilities shaped by colonialism and racialized ecotrauma. While environmental justice scholarship has focused on prioritizing infrastr...

Some Semi-decoupled Algorithms with Optimal Convergence for a Four-Field Linear Thermo-poroelastic Model

Abstract We propose a parallel semi-decoupled algorithm to efficiently solve a four-field thermo-poroelastic model. At the initial time step, all variables are computed simultaneously using a monolithic solver; thereafter, the system is split into a mixed linear elasticity (M) su...

Uncovering Disparities in Rideshare Drivers’ Earning and Work Patterns: A Case Study of Chicago

Ride-sharing services are reshaping urban mobility but raising concerns around fairness, safety, and driver working conditions. This mixed-methods study combines large-scale analysis of Chicago’s Trip Network Provider data (2018–2023) with qualitative interviews and reconstructed...

Crank-Nicolson-type iterative decoupled algorithms for Biot’s consolidation model using total pressure

Abstract In this work, we propose and analyze Crank-Nicolson-type iterative decoupled algorithms for a three-field formulation of Biot’s consolidation model using total pressure. These algorithms are derived from an equivalent, reformulated fully coupled system based on the Crank...

Leveraging JEDI for atmospheric composition: a unified framework for evaluating observations and model forecasts

Accurate evaluation of both observations and forecasts is essential for advancing atmospheric composition research and improving operational prediction. Traditionally, this has relied on separate workflows with product-specific preprocessing, often limiting reproducibility and cr...

Reentry and COVID-19: an examination of the vaccine beliefs and behaviors of Black adults in an urban community

Abstract Background Black individuals who are currently or formerly incarcerated have experienced disproportionate risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality. Yet, COVID-19 vaccine uptake within this population remains shaped by complex multilevel factors. Guided by the Health Beli...

Thymidine kinase 1 is elevated in prostate cancer and correlates with tumor aggressiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Non-invasive biomarkers can inform prostate cancer diagnosis, surgical decision-making, and treatment. However, early screening biomarkers, including prostate-specific antigen (PSA), lack specificity due to elevation in benign conditions. Thymidine kinase 1 (TK1), a DNA synthesis...

Mechanistic Insights into Vernonia calvoana-Induced Apoptosis in Ovarian Cancer Cells via the Intrinsic Pathway

Vernonia calvoana (VC), a commonly used medicinal plant in West Africa, has been shown by our research team to inhibit the proliferation of OVCAR-3 ovarian cancer cells through mechanisms involving oxidative stress, DNA damage, and S-phase cell cycle arrest. The objective of the...

Temporary Protections and the Rebound of Eviction Filings in Florida, 2019–2025

Housing insecurity is one of the most urgent social problems in the United States, with eviction filings reflecting an important dimension of housing instability. This paper analyzes 75 monthly Florida eviction-filing observations from January 2019 through March 2025 to examine w...

Environmental drivers and machine-learning analysis of grapevine sap flow on hilly slopes in Southwest China

Global climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of high-temperature droughts, threatening fruit production in the fragile hilly regions of Southwest China. Grapevine ( Vitis labrusca×vinifera ‘Shine Muscat’ ) is widely grown there, but its sap flow dynamics under...

A Survey-Weighted Analysis of Online Shopping and Home Delivery Use Among Adults with a Travel-Limiting Condition in the 2022 National Household Travel Survey

This study examines how often adults with a travel-limiting condition or disability use online shopping and home delivery. It uses the person file of the 2022 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), a household-based survey, restricted to community-dwelling adults aged 18 and ov...

Coastal North America In Situ Chlorophyll and Optical Dataset

Abstract. Chlorophyll is a crucial climate variable and remotely sensed satellite chlorophyll estimates are essential to understanding large-scale biological processes. Current ocean color chlorophyll algorithms, however, are less accurate in optically complex inland and coastal...