Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Mitigating Loneliness in People Aging with Long-Term Physical Disabilities (PAwLTPD): The Importance of Social Activity, Depression, and Fatigue

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Szu-Wei Chen, szuwei.chen@siu.edu

One-year cancer incidence following acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective propensity-matched multi-center cohort study

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and cancer share overlapping pathophysiologic mechanisms, and stroke survivors may face an elevated short-term risk of incident malignancy, but population-level estimates remain limited. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the TriNetX US Co...

Soil storage changes enzyme activity magnitudes but preserves activity sensitivity to long-term crop rotations and tillage practices

Abstract Soil samples are often stored prior to enzyme activity assays, but storage-induced changes could compromise the ability to differentiate activities among management practices. We used two field experiments in north-central USA – 27 y crop rotation × tillage on an Endoaqu...

Host tissue stoichiometry links nutrient availability to parasite abundance in a piscivorous fish

Abstract Understanding how ecosystem nutrient availability influences parasites is challenging, especially for trophically transmitted parasites in hosts occupying higher trophic levels. Host tissue nutrient stoichiometry may elucidate these effects by indicating nutrient availab...

Beyond Transparency: Reframing Ethical Explainability in Human–AI Teams

Purpose: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is increasingly promoted as a mechanism for improving transparency, trust, and accountability in AI-assisted decision-making. However, its ethical value remains uncertain when AI systems are embedded within human teams and organi...

Meta-QTL Analysis Reveals Consensus Genomic Regions and Candidate Genes for Resistance to Sudden Death Syndrome in Soybean

Sudden death syndrome (SDS), caused by Fusarium virguliforme, is one of the most economically important diseases limiting soybean production worldwide. Although numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with SDS resistance have been reported, inconsistencies among mapping...

Economic competitiveness of separated dairy manure solids as a phosphorus fertilizer substitute

Manure solid-liquid separation offers a potential pathway for redistributing nutrients from livestock-intensive, nutrient-surplus regions to cropland with fertilizer demand, but the competitiveness of separated manure products with synthetic phosphorus fertilizer depends on manur...

Convolution transformation for sufficient dimension reduction in time series

Abstract While univariate time series analysis is well established, capturing nonlinear dynamics and high-dimensional lag structure remains a significant challenge. Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) provides a useful and powerful framework to address the curse of dimensionalit...