Northeastern University

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'...

Rates of Evolution Differ Between Cell Types Identified by Single‐Cell RNAseq in Threespine Stickleback

ABSTRACT Rates of evolutionary change vary by gene. While some broad gene categories are highly conserved with little divergence over time, others undergo continuous selection pressure and are highly divergent among populations or species. But such comparative evolutionary studie...

Molecular Bridge Engineering at the Anode/Electrolyte Interface: Synergistic MPS/ZnO Hybrid Corrosion Inhibition for High-Utilization Alkaline Al-H2O Batteries

Abstract Aluminum-water (Al-H2O) batteries, enabling on-demand high-purity hydrogen production and simultaneous power output, hold great promise for hydrogen energy and electrochemical energy storage applications. However, severe self-corrosion of aluminum anode and parasitic hyd...

Synthetic Studies toward Anguidine: Assembly of the Tricyclic Ether Scaffold

Anguidine, a type A trichothecene (TCN) isolated from Fusarium graminearum, features a highly functionalized 6/6/5 tricyclic scaffold incorporating a central six-membered ether ring and a C12–C13 epoxide. Its pronounced bioactivity and structural complexity render it a challengin...

Using Formal and Computational Modelling to Develop an Initial Within-Person System Dynamics Model of Relapse in Smoking Cessation: A Participatory, Iterative, Multi-Method Approach

Popular relapse prevention theories are represented using natural language descriptions and lack temporal information about how phenomena of interest (i.e., ‘relapse’, ‘prolapse’, ‘abstinence’) are dynamically caused over time and within individuals. We drew on the Theory Constru...

Exploring young adult cancer survivors’ perspectives on generative AI chatbots for symptom support

BACKGROUND: Young adult cancer survivors (ages 18-39) often experience persistent treatment-related symptoms that negatively affect daily functioning, psychosocial well-being, and quality of life, yet report unmet educational needs for symptom management. Generative artificial in...

Venturi-effect-inspired design of TPMS structures and their convective heat transfer characteristics

Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattice structures show great potential for compact heat exchangers and high-heat-flux electronic cooling owing to their high specific surface area, interconnected channels, and high geometric design flexibility. However, a single TPMS topol...

Modulating innate immune responses to curli fibers through protein engineering

ABSTRACT Curli fibers produced by Escherichia coli are functional amyloids that activate Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), initiating innate immune responses at mucosal surfaces. While microbiome-derived curli contribute to host-microbe interactions, their intrinsic immunostimulatory...

Real-time measurement error mitigation for one-way quantum computation

Abstract We propose a quantum error mitigation scheme for single-qubit measurement errors, particularly suited for one-way quantum computation. Contrary to well established error mitigation methods for circuit-based quantum computation that require the circuits to be run several...

Extreme Risk Protection Order Policies and Suicide Risk Among Handgun Owners

Importance Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are state laws intended to prevent gun violence by preemptively and temporarily removing firearms from gun owners judged to be at risk of self-harm or violence against others. Evidence of their population-level impact on suicide r...

Emerging trends: Too many submissions and too few qualified reviewers

Abstract There have been a number of disturbing posts on social media about large conferences. The good news is that we are past denial. There is agreement that reviewing is broken. Many posts mention toxicity. As a founder of EMNLP, it hurts to admit that there is so much toxici...

WE PLAY for Parents: Community-Engaged Adaptation of an Online Physical Activity Intervention for Parents of Young Children with Autism

Physical activity plays a vital role in children’s healthy development, and parents are the first and most influential figures in encouraging young children’s physical activity. Children with autism require specialized support to facilitate physical activity, yet there are scant...

Mitochondria-Associated Transcription Precedes Oxidative Phosphorylation in Human Embryos

Abstract Mitochondria undergo significant structural and functional changes during human pre-implantation embryogenesis, yet the transcriptional activity of both nuclear-encoded mitochondria-associated genes and mitochondrially transcribed genes across this developmental window r...

Multimodal Physiological Assessment of Attentional States and Driving Styles in Simulated Driving

Mind wandering during driving is one of the major sources of road safety risk, but its expression across drivers of different styles remains unclear. Few studies have examined attentional state and driving style concurrently in a 1 h multimodal simulated driving protocol. We coll...

An Integrated Multiphoton Imaging Workflow for Quantitative Analysis of Aortic Tissue Microstructure

Abstract Quantitative characterization of aortic microstructure is essential for advancing vascular biomechanics and mechanobiology. To address this need, we present an image-analysis workflow that extracts microstructural descriptors from multiphoton microscopy of the murine des...

Hierarchical MOF Nanocomposite Enables Fluorescence Imaging and Valence Discrimination of Cu+/Cu2+ in Copper Homeostasis

Abstract Copper homeostasis refers to the cellular balance of copper ions, which is disrupted by copper excess or deficiency. The simultaneous detection of intracellular Cu+ and Cu2+ reveals changes in copper valence states during disruption of copper homeostasis. Therefore, a hi...

LLM-Generated Visual Summaries of Cochrane Plain-Language Summaries: A Pilot Expert-Rated Study and Implications for Research Communication

Background: Plain-language summaries (PLSs) improve accessibility of medical research for patients but remain predominantly text-based. Large language models (LLMs) can now generate images from text. We carried out the present exploratory study to evaluate whether LLMs can genera...

How to Care for Your AI Companion

Most scholars who argue that users cannot have genuine friendships with their AI companions attempt to show this by arguing that no current AI can be a friend back to its user. Lott and Hasselberger ( 2025 ) argue, instead, that the reason such friendships are not possible is tha...

Beyond semantics: Prosody can shape and modulate listeners’ emotional experience of poetry — A cross-linguistic investigation

Expressive prosody plays an important role in conveying emotion during oral poetry performance. This study investigated whether emotional prosody can serve as a perceptually robust cue for emotion judgment when semantic comprehension is unavailable. Experiment 1 confirmed systema...

Research on multimodal dense small object detection algorithms guided by cross-modal information

To address the challenges of modality heterogeneity, scale inconsistency, and background interference in dense small object detection under multimodal conditions, this paper proposes a novel detection framework based on cross-modality guidance and hierarchical scale refinement. B...