New York City College of Technology

Star Wars at Fifty

This symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Wars (1977) with nineteen short essays from scholars who discuss its meaning, impact, and legacy. The essays examine the migrations and manifestations of the Star Wars universe across media, including animation, video games,...

mSphere of Influence: Autoantibodies during malaria—a historical observation taking the modern spotlight

ABSTRACT Juan Rivera-Correa works in the field of immunology of tropical infectious diseases, focusing on the role of autoimmune responses in malaria. In this mSphere of Influence article, he discusses the papers by Rosenberg and Daniel-Ribeiro, which were two of the first papers...

An eco-inspired emulsion membrane harnessed with waste vegetable oil for effective separation of ibuprofen: Insights into stability, performance, and kinetics

Emulsion liquid membranes (ELMs) have emerged as excellent alternatives for the separation and recovery of biologically active drugs (BADs) from industrial waste at trace concentrations. Conventional ELMs generally utilize toxic petroleum-based solvents (PBS) that pose environmen...

Understanding genomic landscapes of differentiation in round-tailed horned lizards ( Phrynosoma modestum )

Population divergence is promoted by divergent selection and inhibited by gene flow, but the mechanisms of and relationship between these two processes remain poorly understood. Developing a well-informed hypothesis of the selective pressures underlying divergence in a natural po...

SPARK AND THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORAL ARCHITECTURE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Autonomous robotics has traditionally been concerned with the ability of a machine to perceive its environment, make decisions, and act without continuous human intervention. Classical autonomous systems may react to changing circumstances, select among alternative actions, navig...

SPARK AND THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORAL ARCHITECTURE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Autonomous robotics has traditionally been concerned with the ability of a machine to perceive its environment, make decisions, and act without continuous human intervention. Classical autonomous systems may react to changing circumstances, select among alternative actions, navig...

THE ALGORITHM PROCUREMENT PROBLEM IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence systems can often solve the same task using substantially different computational methods. Depending on the problem, these may include rule-based and elimination procedures, lookup methods, direct algebraic solutions, pseudoinverse and regularized methods,...

THE ALGORITHM PROCUREMENT PROBLEM IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence systems can often solve the same task using substantially different computational methods. Depending on the problem, these may include rule-based and elimination procedures, lookup methods, direct algebraic solutions, pseudoinverse and regularized methods,...