New Mexico State University

Exploratory In Silico Evaluation of Microencapsulation Matrices for Indomethacin

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as indomethacin (ID), may produce gastrointestinal adverse effects associated with cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) inhibition, motivating the investigation of microencapsulation strategies for modulating drug release. However, protein-...

Formation of Calcium Carbonate under Permanent Magnetic Fields: Insights from X-Ray Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Abstract Electromagnetic treatment has been used in water desalination to control mineral scale formation and maximize membrane performance. However, the mechanism(s) by which external fields influence mineral scale formation remain poorly understood. This study used X-ray scatte...

AI as Market Infrastructure: How Misinformation and Automation Inequality Shape Democratic Performance and Economic Wellbeing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the market-organizing infrastructures that coordinate exchange, reshaping consumer information environments and the allocation of economic value. Drawing on marketing systems theory and consumer emancipation scholarship, we theorize pe...

Leaders’ empathy in crisis: untangling the value of emotional empathy and perspective-taking

Purpose This study examines the distinct influence of CEOs’ cognitive and emotional empathy responses to an environmental crisis. Grounded in König et al.’s (2020) theory of empathetic leadership, our research aims to untangle how different dimensions of empathy impact leaders' d...

From Additive Use to Produced Water Signatures: A Screening and Prioritization Framework

This repository contains the study-specific processed and derived materials used to reproduce the basin-comparative hydraulic-fracturing additive screening and prioritization framework applied to the Permian and San Juan basins. Materials include processed data summaries, standar...

Spatially Validated Machine Learning Flood Susceptibility Assessment in the Volta River Basin Using Extreme Rainfall and Multi-Source Geospatial Data

Flood susceptibility mapping in large transboundary basins is often constrained by sparse observations, heterogeneous environmental conditions, and validation strategies that overstate model skill when spatial dependence is ignored. This study develops a machine learning framewor...

Integration of Oral Health Into Primary Care and Public Health Systems: A Systematic Review of Strategies, Outcomes, and Sustainability Determinants

ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of integrated oral health services within primary care and other health system settings. Methods A systematic review of electronic databases was conducted. Studies evaluating the integration of oral health servi...

A neural operator for predicting vibration frequency response curves from limited data

In the design of engineered components, rigorous vibration testing is essential for performance validation and identification of resonant frequencies and amplitudes encountered during operation. Performing this evaluation numerically via machine learning has great potential to ac...

Understanding soil moisture dynamics and key drivers for single and mixed cover cropping systems using machine learning

Soil moisture plays a vital role in crop productivity, water resource management, and long-term agricultural sustainability. Cover crops are promoted to improve soil health and agricultural sustainability, but their effects on water use and availability in the semi-arid western U...

Enhancing spring green‐up of warm‐season turfgrasses through late‐winter scalping

Abstract Rapid spring green‐up of warm‐season turfgrasses in the transition zone is often desired to improve early‐season turfgrass quality, thereby increasing the acceptance of these species in arid and semi‐arid climates. This study evaluated the effects of late winter scalping...

“The Rio Grande Was Originally Known as Rio Bravo”: Multiliteracies in a 4th‐Grade ELA and Social Studies Project

ABSTRACT Despite the natural interdisciplinary nature of English language arts (ELA) and social studies, these two subject areas are sometimes isolated from one another in schools, including upper elementary classrooms. In this research‐in‐action article, we—two university resear...

Equal or Fair: Impacts of Export on Relative Wage Distortion in China

ABSTRACT This paper studies the relative wage distortion and income inequality between high and low‐skilled workers, comparing exporters and non‐exporters in China. We develop a model featuring heterogeneity in firm productivity, worker skills, and firms' export decisions. By est...

Dynamic adaptive capacity of coupled agriculture-water systems under Climate Change: Evidence from the Western United States

Climate change is intensifying water scarcity and increasing production risk in irrigated agriculture across arid and semi-arid areas. Understanding how coupled agriculture-water systems adapt over time is essential for effective water management and climate adaptation. Despite i...

Host-Dependent Cytopathological Responses to Beet Curly Top Virus Infection in Four Plant Species

Beet curly top viruses (BCTVs) are highly devastating viral pathogens affecting a wide range of plant species worldwide and are transmitted only by leafhoppers in the genus Circulifer. During viral infection, host plant cells undergo morphological changes known as cytopathic effe...

Two C3/C4 vegetative boundaries and an expanding/contracting Chihuahuan Desert during the past 4000 yr at the Cañada Alamosa Archaeological Project Area, New Mexico

Carbon isotopic measurement (δ13C) as an indicator of C3 or C4 vegetation preserved in soil organic matter and pedogenic carbonate is an important tool for reconstructing paleoclimate. However, while δ13C values of C4 plants (−14‰) generally indicate warm-season grass, δ13C value...

Characterizing the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls within Biota Found in New Mexico

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of industrial chemicals that were widely used in the United States before being banned by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976. Concerns regarding PCBs arose in the 1960s due to their toxicity, classification as a carcinogenic comp...

Evidence for Turbulent Concentration in Particle-laden Midplane Layers of Planet-forming Disks

Abstract We investigate the axisymmetric, weakly turbulent state of settled particle layers in a model of a globally laminar protoplanetary disk. We focus on conditions in which the large-scale axisymmetric filaments associated with the streaming instability (SI) either cannot fo...

AI as Institutional Grammar: How National Contexts Shape the Legitimation of Machine Intelligence

On 27 January 2025, Nvidia lost $589 billion in market capitalization in a single trading session—the largest single-day value destruction in stock market history—triggered by the question of whether a Chinese AI laboratory had replicated frontier intelligence at a fraction of th...

Predictive models of the genetic bases underlying budding yeast fitness in multiple environments.

population. Models revealed that the predictive ability of genetic variants varied across environments, with copy number variants explaining the majority of fitness variation in most cases. Model interpretation showed that different variant types identified distinct gene sets ass...

Effects of optimized wheat conditioning on extraction efficiency and milling performance under industrial conditions

Abstract This study aimed to optimize key operational parameters in a commercial flour milling process using U.S. soft white wheat to improve flour yield, moisture, and ash index. A factorial design was employed to evaluate the effects of wheat humidification, conditioning time,...