Northern Arizona University

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...