Northern Arizona University

What Needs Attention? Prioritizing Drivers of Developers’ Trust and Adoption of Generative AI

Generative AI (genAI) tools promise productivity gains, yet developers still struggle to determine when to trust and effectively integrate these tools into their everyday work. Moreover, genAI can be exclusionary, failing to adequately support developers across individual differe...

Evidence charts the future of freshwater biodiversity conservation

Evidence is essential for promoting freshwater conservation and selecting appropriate conservation actions. This article examines the importance of evidence for freshwater conservation, available sources, how evidence is used, geographical coverage, and the challenges in obtainin...

Provider-Identified strategies to address homelessness in Arizona: a summary of strategies, evidence, and impact

Few sources have reviewed the state of the evidence on commonly implemented and emerging strategies to prevent and respond to homelessness in the United States. We conducted focus groups with 58 homeless service providers and administrators across Arizona about strategies used to...

Wavelength Requirements for Life Detection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets

Searching for signs of life is a primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). However, merely detecting oxygen, methane, or other widely discussed biosignatures is insufficient evidence for a biosphere. In parallel with biosignature detection, exoplanet life detection...

Passages

Richard P. Gabriel's Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community is the kind of book that Passages, as a column, aspires to bring back to the attention of the software community. I am fairly sure this book, from 1996, is largely forgotten, but I think it deserves a wi...

The Development of Intercultural Competence in Japanese Supplementary Schools: Parental Perspectives on Children’s Learning Experiences in Austria

This study investigated how Japanese supplementary education abroad fosters intercultural competence, focusing on parents’ perspectives from a supplementary school in Austria. Previous research has shown that Japanese children living overseas navigate dual educational settings th...

Range-Wide Geographic Variation of Major Gene Resistance ( Cr 3) to White Pine Blister Rust in Pinus strobiformis (Southwestern White Pine)

Southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) is native to the U.S. and Mexico and is susceptible to the pathogen Cronartium ribicola, which causes the disease white pine blister rust. A major gene, Cr3, confers resistance to the disease. While Cr3 has been observed at low frequen...

Plant hormone manipulation impacts salt spray tolerance, which preempts herbivory as a driver of local adaptation in the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus.

A major challenge in evolutionary biology is identifying the selective agents and phenotypes underlying local adaptation. Local adaptation along environmental gradients may be driven by trade-offs in allocation to reproduction, growth, and herbivore resistance. To identify enviro...

A heterogeneous multimodal ensemble framework for multi-omics breast cancer prognosis

Abstract Purpose Accurate breast cancer prognosis remains a major challenge in precision oncology due to tumor heterogeneity and the complexity of integrating high-dimensional multi-omics data. Although multimodal learning approaches have improved predictive performance by combin...

Phylogenomics of Manticorini tiger beetles supports ancient Gondwanan vicariance and recent American amphitropical disjunction

Abstract Disjunct distributions have long fascinated biologists, particularly those found in the Southern Hemisphere. Gondwanan vicariance has been invoked to explain these patterns, with relatively limited studies having phylogenetically tested this hypothesis. Another intriguin...

Increasing Respiration Weakens the Carbon Sink Over Two Decades in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

ABSTRACT Temperate deciduous forests have been major carbon sinks over the past century, largely due to regrowth following historical land use. However, the persistence of this sink is uncertain as forests age under global change. Using two decades (2004–2023) of eddy covariance...