Northeastern University

Feasibility of a Modified Exertional Bike Test to Threshold Supervised Virtual Aerobic Exercise in Community-Dwelling Individuals with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often creates a sequela of symptoms that complicate safely participating in aerobic exercise. Although exertional assessments have been used to evaluate exercise tolerance, data on the feasibility of using test-derived metrics to guide the inten...

Increases in foraging performance of humpback whales in multi-predator feeding aggregations with California sea lions

Abstract Marine predators frequently form ephemeral multi-predator feeding aggregations around dense prey patches, yet the mechanisms and outcomes of these dynamic events remain poorly resolved. We quantified how California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) presence influenced hu...

Single-Molecule Studies Reveal That Water Starts to Protect Proteins Even at the ppm Level

Abstract A consensus established by extensive thermodynamic and structural studies of proteins and DNA is that water acts as an indispensable structural cofactor rather than a passive solvent for biomolecules. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether trace water still exerts a st...

Enhancement of Endocannabinoid Signaling by Dual MAGL/ABHD6 Inhibition Reduces Neurodegeneration and Neuro-Inflammation Following AMPA-Mediated Excitotoxicity

Excitotoxicity mediated by the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4 isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) is a major contributor to neuronal degeneration and inflammation in various neurological disorders. The endocannabinoid system (ECS), specifically through the endocannabinoid 2-ar...

Examining the offending population targeted by a local fugitive unit

Purpose This study seeks to understand what type of offender is targeted when the police make concerted efforts to bring fugitives to justice. Design/methodology/approach In this study, we consider the offending population targeted by a standalone fugitive unit in a local police...

Quantifying the Spin–Optical Properties of Bent π-Carbene Molecular Qubits

Abstract Through spin-selective intersystem crossings (ISCs) among photoexcited electronic states, organic π-diradicals can be spin-polarized by optical excitation, positioning them as long-lived, tunable, and scalable qubits. Recent advancements have utilized triplet π-carbenes...

Atmosphere-Induced Preferentially Oriented Growth: Crystalline Evolution and a Tunable Optical Band Gap in Bismuth-Derived β-Bi2O3 Films

Abstract The controllable synthesis of β-Bi2O3 thin films with specific crystallographic orientations is essential for optoelectronic device applications. However, achieving precise orientation control by modulating the growth conditions remains a significant challenge. In this w...

Chiral Solid-State Nanopores Amplify Secondary Interactions for Ionic-Current Discrimination of Neurotransmitter Enantiomers

Abstract Single-molecule ionic-current sensing provides a powerful electroanalytical route for resolving small-molecule enantiomers, yet reliable discrimination remains difficult when stereochemical differences generate only weak and transient interfacial interactions. Here, we e...

Terminal Compatibility and Admissibility of a Meridional Caputo Flow Rule in Transformed-Stress Clay Plasticity

A clay flow rule governs contraction or dilation during plastic shearing. We audit a terminal-directed scalar Caputo integral on a teardrop meridian under specified elasticity and hardening. Its zero coincides with the non-associated base-model terminal only if Ω = Ψ. Normally co...

Future in- and out-of-state air pollutant emissions under decarbonization pathways for Massachusetts

Many U.S. states have adopted the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in the coming decades. Pathways for achieving these targets would likely yield a reduction of air pollutant emissions as well. We assess several state-level decarbonization pathways for Massachusetts, including...

The choice of product strategy and marketing strategy for serial crowdfunders

Purpose Serial crowdfunding is a common phenomenon, and serial crowdfunders face multiple decisions. Most crowdfunding platforms implement one-time payments, while some platforms implement deferred payments. This paper explores the product and marketing strategies of serial crowd...

The role of retinal flow in walking

Both visual direction and optic flow have been implicated in walking toward a goal in experiments that use prisms to alter visual direction. However, prisms bias retinal flow patterns in ways that might affect the path chosen. We used a prism manipulation in virtual reality for g...

Considerable Anisotropy Magnetoresistance by Oxygen-Mediated Spin State Manipulation in a Highly Textured Multilayer for Ultrasensitive Sensor Application

Spin state manipulation in anisotropy magnetoresistance (AMR) materials is key to improving their transport property for constructing highly sensitive and direction-resolvable magnetic sensors. Currently, the mainstream strategy of tuning the transport property focuses on the mod...

Multilevel Meta-analyses of Emotional Processing Deficits Associated with Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits: Do They Differ by Age and Sex?

Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) traits, defined by deficient empathy and remorse, characterize a distinct subgroup of antisocial individuals with more severe behavioral problems and unique affective profiles. Two processes implicated in the development of CU traits are hyporeac...

GlycoMAC: A Multiscale Metabolic‐Glycosylation Framework for Predicting Glycosylation Across Conditions in Mammalian Cell Cultures

Antibody productivity and glycosylation quality in CHO cell cultures emerge from a dynamically evolving metabolic environment, yet existing models often work in isolation or at a single scale. Here, we present a multiscale mechanistic framework linking molecular, cellular, and ma...

Murmurations, Mestre–Nagao sums, and convolutional neural networks for elliptic curves

Abstract We apply one-dimensional convolutional neural networks to the Frobenius traces of elliptic curves over $$\mathbb {Q}$$ Q and evaluate and interpret their predictive capacity. In keeping with similar experiments by Kazalicki–Vlah, Bujanović–Kazalicki–Novak, and Pozdnyakov...

Awe as a Transformative Emotion: An Integrative Review, Metamorphosis Model, and Research Agenda

Awe has attracted substantial scholarly attention but its implications for management remains fragmented across different accounts of what awe is and why it matters. In this review, we first show that the literature has developed around three dominant perspectives—collective self...

Balanced Notation for τ-Rigid Pairs

We introduce a new notation for τ-rigid pairs called “balanced pairs”. The notation AB allows for simplification of some formulas, for example, the Jasso category and its dual. One of the most compelling formulas is that in the hereditary case, the bricks that label the “covering...

DAIMON: Designing AI-Augmented Research Dashboards to Enable Novel Human-AI Collaborative Workflows in Longitudinal Sensing Studies

Researchers conduct longitudinal passive sensing studies in in-the-wild settings, often spanning months or years, to uncover naturalistic behavioral patterns. These studies are not “set-and-forget” deployments; they require continuous monitoring as technical failures and declinin...

Feasibility of Using a Multi-Agent LLM System to Correct Annotations and Support Low-Effort Activity Labeling

Accurate measurement of behaviors is critical for research in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and personal health informatics, because it underpins many health tracking and intervention systems. Most data collection studies, however, still rely on participants'...