San Diego State University

Health Literacy and Other Factors Associated With Recent Dental Care Utilization Among Mexican-American Adults

Introduction and Aims Health literacy (HL) plays a role in determining whether patients can successfully navigate dental care systems and access needed care. This study examines the association between HL on recent dental care utilization among Mexican-American young adults durin...

Stacking‐Tuned Phonon Renormalization and Effective Heat Transport in Moiré Semiconductor Superlattices

ABSTRACT Optically driven moiré semiconductor bilayers involve coupled phonon anharmonicity, interlayer interactions, and local heat dissipation, but experimental benchmarks across supported homo‐ and heterobilayers remain limited. Here, we combine temperature‐dependent Raman spe...

Disparities in late-stage cancer diagnosis across a multi-site academic health system

Abstract Background Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis persist despite the availability of screening for several common cancers. We evaluated demographic, clinical, insurance, and neighborhood-level factors associated with late-stage diagnosis in a multisite academic health...

Machine Learning Identifies Community-Level Factors Associated with Lung Cancer Incidence

Abstract Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Individual-level risk factors such as tobacco use are well characterized, but the community-level environmental, social, and economic contributions to geographic variation in incid...

The Association Between Energy Balance and Body Composition Changes in Recruits During Marine Corps Basic Training

Background/Objectives: United States Marine Corps (USMC) recruit training (“boot camp”) is a physically demanding environment in which recruits often experience significant changes in body composition. Energy balance (EB) plays a critical role in shaping these outcomes, yet how E...

A Collective Case Study of the Resilience of Student Teachers in the Imperial Valley

Teacher resilience is a dynamic process shaped by personal resources, professional identities, and institutional contexts. Research largely focused on urban settings, leaving unclear how student teachers negotiate resilience in rural borderlands marked by transnational dynamics a...

A machine learning approach to predicting high-risk irritability trajectories across the transition to adolescence

Abstract Youth irritability, characterized as proneness to anger/frustration, is associated with negative mental health outcomes. This study identified irritability trajectories across the transition to early adolescence and applied machine learning to identify preadolescent pred...

epsilon-Propellant Optimality in Powered Descent Guidance with Continuous Thrust

It is well known that propellant-optimal powered descent solutions require bang-bang thrust magnitude profiles. Although theoretically optimal, such thrust profiles are often challenging and sometimes impossible to implement practically in planetary landing. This paper addresses...

Exploring Photovoice as a Pedagogical Tool for Fostering Critical Consciousness in Undergraduate Education

Photovoice is a participatory action research method that combines photography, critical reflection, and dialogue to promote social change. Although research points to its potential for fostering critical consciousness, few studies examine how undergraduates experience all three...

So similar, yet so different: comparing the US GAAP and IFRS experience at eliciting greater transparency on pension asset disclosures

Abstract We exploit two regulatory changes, one under US GAAP and the other under IFRS, that mandate improved disclosure of pension asset allocation. While the changes are otherwise similar, US GAAP retains the expected rate of return (“ERR”) on pension assets, which preparers ca...

S.I.D.E. Ways: horizontal peer mentorship for blackwomen doctoral students’ sustainment

Doctoral education often positions mentorship and intellectual community as foundational, while institutional structures make access inconsistent for Blackwomen. In response, three Blackwomen doctoral students employed Sista Circle Methodology grounded in Black Feminist Epistemol...

Writing From the Borderlands: A Community Testimonio Workshop for Teachers

This qualitative study explores the impact of a week-long, community-based writing workshop for English Language Arts and History teachers working along the US–Mexico border. Centered on testimonio—a narrative genre rooted in cultural identity and community solidarity and charact...

Metabolic modeling: the link between AI and multi-omics data to accelerate the discovery of antibiotic-resistant traits in ESKAPE pathogens

ABSTRACT The development of predictive understanding of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest challenges of modern medicine. Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are mathematical representations of the metabolic network of a given organism assembled from geno...

Bigger between-language than within-language Stroop effects in young and older deaf American Sign Language-English bilinguals

OBJECTIVE: The present study investigated Stroop interference effects in young adult and older deaf American Sign Language (ASL) and English bilinguals with ASL and English stimuli. METHOD: Deaf ASL-English bilinguals (n = 108; aged 21-88) signed their responses in two computeriz...

Alcohol use trajectories and liver enzyme changes in adolescents with MASLD: A longitudinal multicenter cohort.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and evaluate associations with liver enzyme changes in youth with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). METHODS: We analyzed 1172 children with biopsy-confirmed MASLD and longitudinal Alc...

Compositional legacies of fire suppression maintained after fire re-entry

Abstract Background Legacies of fire suppression include changes in forest composition and structure that tend to increase fire severity in historically frequent-fire forests. Despite the expectation that fire re-entry should favor fire-tolerant species, indirect effects of fire...

Application of deep learning to estimate blue and fin whale call density in the southern California Current Ecosystem

Abstract Blue ( Balaenoptera musculus ) and fin whales ( Balaenoptera physalus ) are dominant contributors to low-frequency ocean soundscapes, yet reliably extracting their calls from long-term passive acoustic recordings is methodologically challenging. Here, we train a multi-cl...

Climate Policy Progression: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Cities’ Climate Action Plans Over Time

Climate Action Plans (CAPs) are important tools for translating climate plans into actions. As many U.S. cities are developing their second round of CAPs, it is essential to consider how and why a city's CAP objectives may change over time, given local political contexts. To exam...

Promoting Health Equity Through Tax-Funded Zero-Fare Public Transit: A Survey of Voters From Kansas City, MO

Public transportation has positive impacts for both individual and community health, but funding and scalability are political challenges. Understanding civic processes, such as voting, is key to advancing health equity through large-scale policy change. The purpose of this study...

COVID-19 lockdown and coverage of maternal health and nutrition care in rural West Bengal, India: a single interrupted time-series analysis

Abstract While COVID-19 lockdowns globally disrupted healthcare, the extent of changes in India’s maternal health and nutrition services coverage in rural settings requires further empirical investigation. Utilizing data from 57,371 pregnancies recorded between January 2012 and D...