Syracuse University

What Will My Gift Buy? How Effectiveness Signals Shape the Perceived Price of Giving and Donations

ABSTRACT Perceptions of a nonprofit's effectiveness shape charitable giving, but less is understood about the route by which an effectiveness signal becomes a gift. This study asks whether one specific belief, the perceived price of giving, helps account for that relationship. Pe...

The effect of judges’ institutional interests on a free press

Abstract Free press protections are fundamental to constitutional democracy, yet their enforcement varies when judges themselves face media scrutiny. Drawing on 658 decisions from eight democratic countries and the European Court of Human Rights, we show that judges are significa...

In‐Vivo Frame Dynamicity of Self‐Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valves

BACKGROUND: Due to nitinol stent properties, self-expanding transcatheter heart valves (THVs) have the potential to adapt their frames to native annular dimension excursions during the cardiac cycle and therefore to maintain the physiological relevance of this behaviour. AIMS: To...

Romantic Attachment and Symptoms of Depression and PTSD Among Incarcerated Men: A Longitudinal Study

Abstract With the rise in incarceration and negative mental health symptomology, the need to identify protective factors that can buffer psychological distress within carceral settings has become increasingly clear. In response to this, there has been growing interest in examinin...

Network models of cytoskeletal and extracellular matrix mechanics

Network models offer a powerful framework for linking filament-scale properties to cell and tissue mechanobiology. Lattice-based, off-lattice, and active network approaches explain emergent phenomena including nonlinear elasticity, rigidity transitions, and force transmission in...

Systematic Error in Approximate Models of the GRB Early Afterglow

Abstract Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are thought to arise when relativistic ejecta launched by a compact central engine drive a blast wave into the surrounding circumburst medium, producing broadband synchrotron emission. We present a rigorous assessment, based on high-resol...

Epithelial convergent extension as a tuning process

Self-tuning—the ability of disordered systems to develop desired collective behaviors by tuning internal couplings in response to feedback—has recently emerged as a powerful framework for understanding adaptation in amorphous solids, mechanical metamaterials, and electrical netwo...

Maximum likelihood reconstruction of particle trajectories in turbulent flows via sparse optimization

Extracting Lagrangian particle dynamics is essential for characterizing turbulent flows, but inferring particle acceleration from inherently noisy position data remains a significant challenge. Fluid particles in turbulence experience extreme, intermittent accelerations, resultin...

The Truthmaking Account of Ontological Dependence

Abstract This paper explores a new account of ontological dependence based on exact truthmaker semantics, which I call the truthmaking account. The account holds that states verifying existential propositions and the parthood relation between states can characterize the relation...

Does Race Influence Velopharyngeal Structure Size and Velar Stretch During Sustained Phoneme Production in Children?

Purpose: Differences in the size of velopharyngeal structures across racial groups at rest have been described in the literature, with race influencing adenoid thickness, pharyngeal depth, effective velar length, and velar length. The purpose of this study was to examine differen...

Addressing Common Problems in Autism Research: Cohort Development and Sample Description for a Participatory, Real-World, Longitudinal Study of Outcomes in Autistic Adults

Adult autism services research is plagued by methodological challenges, including difficulty obtaining representative or heterogeneous samples and a frequent mismatch between experimental methodologies and real-world settings. The Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research...

Echoes across the divide: incivility and the fragmentation of issue publics in immigration discourse

As immigration remains one of the most polarizing issues in U.S. politics, public discourse around it has become increasingly uncivil, especially on social media. This longitudinal study examines how incivility spreads and escalates across ideologically opposed issue publics on X...

Delivering building demand flexibility for grid-interactive operation: from perception and cognition to decision, execution, and verification

As both buildings and power systems undergo rapid decarbonization, demand flexibility (DF) in buildings has emerged as a key enabler for renewable energy integration, grid reliability, energy resilience, and efficient and low carbon operation. By dynamically adjusting building en...

Comparing Traditional Motor Speech Practice to Contextualized Speech Practice in Preschoolers With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare retention of real-word targets across practice conditions (contextualized vs. motor-only) within a modified integral stimulation treatment for preschoolers with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Method: A single-subject experimental...

Lipid-Shell PARCH:A Physically Motivated Scale forTransmembrane Residue Hydropathy

Abstract Understanding how amino acid residues partition from water into lipid bilayers is fundamental to membrane protein folding, stability, and function. Existing hydrophobicity scales derive from isolated protein systems, organic solvent approximations, or computationally exp...

Going Green online: how higher education institutions use Instagram to communicate sustainability

As institutions of higher education increasingly seek to differentiate themselves through sustainability initiatives, social media platforms such as Instagram offer a powerful channel to reinforce these commitments. This study explores the differences in sustainability-related me...

Beyond restoration: Tipping points, leverage points and the reimagination of global health architecture

The United States' withdrawal from the World Health Organisation and the defunding of multilateral health programs represent more than a political disruption. Complexity science identifies them as a phase transition in a system that had been losing resilience for decades. This ar...

Dopant-DirectedSurface Energy Modulation for ControlledGrowth and Color-Tunable Photoluminescence in Cu+-DopedTwo-Dimensional CdSe Nanoplatelets

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs) are promising building blocks for optoelectronic applications due to their strong 1D quantum confinement and large lateral dimensions. While the growth mechanisms of pristine CdSe NPLs have been extensively studied,...

Mating strategies in Caenorhabditis elegans populations are determined by male developmental history.

Mating strategies, whether sexual or asexual, confer unique costs and benefits to populations and species that facilitate evolutionary processes. In wild isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans, mating strategies are dependent on developmental history. Outcrossing significantly increa...

long covid and subjective wellbeing among U.S. working-age adults

Long COVID symptoms can persist for months or years, impeding daily functioning, employment, and social relationships. While prior research links long COVID to adverse clinical mental health outcomes, less attention has been paid to broader subjective wellbeing—including life sat...