Pennsylvania State University

Organizing in the Digital Age: Understanding Community, Challenges, and Consequences in Digitally-facilitated Labor Organizing

The contemporary American labor force is highly dispersed, necessitating the use of digital communication tools to bridge spatial and temporal gaps in union organizing. This study provides an in-depth analysis of how workers within various labor unions utilize digital, text-based...

A design approach for bitopic kinase inhibitors

Abstract Traditional kinase inhibitors face a trade-off between potency and selectivity because their affinity depends on limited molecular interactions in a single highly conserved binding site. Bitopic inhibitors overcome this limitation by engaging multiple sites on the same t...

Geroscience: A call for nursing engagement

BACKGROUND: To date, most work in the emerging field of geroscience has been conducted by basic scientists and geriatricians, rather than nurses. However, many of the fundamental mechanisms targeted by geroscience are influenced by a range of nursing-relevant factors. With a few...

Dynamic Photochromic Molecular Design for Regulating the Structure–Property–Function Relationship of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

Abstract The ability to simultaneously regulate optical response, mechanical properties, and macroscopic actuation remains a central challenge in the molecular design of photoresponsive liquid crystalline polymer networks. While photochromic molecules have been widely explored as...

Silence and Noise: Self-censorship and Opinion Expression on Social Media

Unlike the more observable phenomenon of group opinion reinforcement, self-censorship online has received comparatively less attention. Our goal in this work is to dissect the phenomena of self-censorship and to examine the implications of restrained expression for participation...

An edge-adaptive vision-language framework for real-time open-set violence recognition in surveillance videos

Abstract Low-latency violent event detection is essential for intelligent edge surveillance. Current violent recognition models suffer three critical deployment drawbacks: prohibitive computational overhead from full fine‑tuning, inadequate temporal modeling for continuous video...

An Investigation of Sleep Macro‐ and Microarchitecture by APOE Genotype

Objectives Apolipoprotein E ε4 ( APOE ε4 ), a robust genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with functional connectivity deficits and amyloid pathology in brain regions involved in sleep regulation. Thus, alterations in sleep architecture may be one pathwa...

The yeast two-hybrid method as a learning vehicle for undergraduate independent research

ABSTRACT While numerous materials focus on the formal training of biology undergraduate students in laboratory courses, such as in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), relatively few protocols are available to guide principal investigators and research mentors...

Ultrafast Laser-Induced Photothermoelectric Currents in Graphene Junctions in the Mid-Infrared

Abstract We investigate the carrier dynamics in graphene junctions under mid-infrared excitation using ultrafast pump–probe photocurrent spectroscopy. We utilize dual split gate devices to demonstrate that the photothermoelectric effect can dominate the photocurrent response of g...

An integrated augmented reality (AR) and embedded electronics-based toolkit for improved visualization and understanding of network graphs

Network graphs are all-pervasive, and an in-depth understanding of networks is important for students and researchers across a variety of disciplines that involve analysis of multi-modal data. Networks can be challenging to conceptualize due to their complexity, and immersive tec...

An early shift from wetland-adjacent to upland farming in the Maya lowlands

Maize is a seed grain of global social and economic importance. It has a mutualistic relationship with humans that evolved in parallel with the decisions of farmers who intensified its production. This occurred in the context of climate change, human selection for improved variet...

Seismic and Aseismic Slip Compete to Regulate Permeability Evolution During Fault Reactivation

Abstract Crustal permeability can be created through microearthquakes as observed at field and laboratory scales. The respective roles of seismic and aseismic slip in governing permeability evolution remain ill‐constrained. Here, we present observations of controlled pore pressur...

Rapid data quality investigations of gravitational-wave events with the Data Quality Report Builder toolkit

Abstract We present the Data Quality Report Builder toolkit, DQRbuild, a suite of data quality tools that have been developed to vet gravitational-wave events in preparation for the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. We explain the main functionality and the many scientific t...

Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Root volatiles mediate diverse belowground interactions among plants, microbes, and invertebrates, but biological and environmental conditions strongly influence their production, movement, perception, and ecological effects. This review synthesizes current knowledge through an i...

Keystone community partnerships: Advancing the land grant mission through collective impact

Keystone Community Partnerships (KCP) is a community capacity building program inspired by the Collective Impact model (CI) – a project and partnership approach to achieve systems-level change by advancing equity, collaborative learning, goal alignment, and action integration. KC...

Into the multiverse: Applications to neuropsychology.

OBJECTIVE: In neuropsychology, the heterogeneity of clinical syndromes combined with extensive methodological options creates a complex decision tree of pathways that result in a range of possible findings. A multiverse approach is a framework for navigating this uncertainty, all...

Avoiding erroneous decisions: evidence, population impact and acceptability of universal mental health interventions in schools – a commentary on Andrews et al.

Foulkes and colleagues argue many ‘universal’ interventions to prevent mental health problems are harmful (‘inflating prevalence’ because they raise awareness of mental health problems, encouraging those without such problems to misinterpret everyday concerns as symptoms of menta...

In support of collective teacher efficacy: tapping into sources of efficacy in a practitioner inquiry community

Recent research has indicated the significance of collective teacher efficacy (CTE), with publications highlighting CTE’s positive association with teachers’ good job- and health-related outcomes. Although teacher professional learning is recognised as a key contributor to the de...

Seismic performance and design of embedded steel plate-concrete composite coupled shear walls

Embedded steel plate-concrete composite shear walls (ECSW) and cold-formed U-shaped steel-concrete composite beams (WUSCB) have recently been developed for high-efficiency steel plate-concrete (SC) composite construction. In this study, an embedded steel plate-concrete composite...

Closeness and Well-Being in Older Adulthood: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study

Relationships are central to well-being. Relationship closeness, which measures interdependence, remains underexplored in older adult couples managing chronic health conditions. In a sample of 146 distinguishable dyads consisting of individuals with chronic back pain (ICBPs) and...