Texas A&M University

Indigenous harvesters detect climate-sensitive emerging disease in barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) threatening food security

We report a filarioid nematode outbreak in barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus ) from the Canadian Arctic that was identified by Inuit harvesters through a community-based surveillance program. Harvesters reported discolouration of tissues and presence of yellowish fluid ac...

ASAS-NANP SYMPOSIUM: MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN ANIMAL NUTRITION: Modelling in the Agriculture 4.0 Era and Beyond: Merging Mechanistic Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence with Hybrid Modelling

Abstract With the arrival of the 4th Agricultural Revolution (Agriculture 4.0) and the influsion of animal production systems with sensors, automation, and advanced analytics, new opportunities have arisen to improve sustainability, efficiency, and the precision with which we fee...

PCN‐700: A Model Platform for Crystallographic Probing of Coordination Behavior in Metal–Organic Frameworks

ABSTRACT Coordination chemistry plays pivotal roles across a broad range of chemical, biological, and materials fields. Crystalline coordination materials provide unique opportunities for investigating coordination phenomena because their long‐range structural order enables atomi...

Fatigue life assessment of corrosion-damaged weathering steel bridge girders

Owing to its superior atmospheric corrosion resistance and low maintenance requirements, weathering steel is widely used in steel bridges and is often preferred by bridge owners over painted steel. However, recent studies have reported localized metal loss and perforation in weat...

Efficient Generation of Entangled Photons in the Telecommunications Range Using Nonlinear Metasurfaces Integrated With ScAlN/GaN Heterostructures

ABSTRACT Entangled photons provide non‐classical correlations that enable measurement sensitivities beyond classical limits, scalable fault‐tolerant quantum computation, and fundamentally secure quantum communication, making them a foundational necessity for next‐generation quant...

PCN‐700: A Model Platform for Crystallographic Probing of Coordination Behavior in Metal–Organic Frameworks

ABSTRACT Coordination chemistry plays pivotal roles across a broad range of chemical, biological, and materials fields. Crystalline coordination materials provide unique opportunities for investigating coordination phenomena because their long‐range structural order enables atomi...

Prenatal anxiety, tobacco use, and infant birth weight: a multilevel analysis of PRAMS data

Abstract Purpose Maternal anxiety is a clinically relevant mental health concern during pregnancy and may contribute to reduced fetal growth, particularly when co-occurring with prenatal tobacco use. To examine the individual and contextual associations of maternal anxiety and pr...

Merchantable Biomass and Carbon Estimation of Bottomland Hardwood Oaks in the Arkansas Delta Using Allometric and Random Forest Models

Abstract Bottomland hardwood forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) play a critical role in regional carbon dynamics and ecosystem service provision; however, studies to develop biomass estimation models for oak species in this unique ecosystem remain limited. Th...

‘It’s not fair!’ Fathers’ perceptions of injustice in the context of pediatric chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Recent research highlights the role of parental appraisals in pediatric pain, yet studies on injustice appraisals remain limited and largely focused on mothers. This qualitative study explores fathers' appraisals of injustice in the context of their child's chronic pain, examinin...

Molecular Details of RNA Interactions With FUS Condensates Altering Assembly, Dynamics, and Aggregation

ABSTRACT Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA‐binding protein that undergoes phase separation with RNA and other cellular components, forming ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules. While recent advances in the study of biomolecular phase separation have focused on protein–protein interact...

Simulated reductions in heterogeneous isoprene epoxydiol reactive uptake from aerosol morphology in the contiguous United States using the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQv5.3.2)

Aerosol particles contain complex mixtures of polar and non-polar species that can undergo organic-inorganic phase separation. In phase-separated aerosol particles, the phase state of the outer organic coating can modulate heterogeneous chemistry. Heterogeneous chemistry leading...

A low-noise high-gain broadband inductor-less inverter-based transimpedance amplifier in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS process

Abstract This paper presents the design and measurement results of a novel inductor-less transimpedance amplifier (TIA) with active feedback implemented in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS technology. The TIA with active feedback comprises an inverter-based, low-noise, narrow-band feedback TIA,...

Conceptus attachment coincides with initiation of an anti-inflammatory cytokine profile in the pig endometrium

Abstract Blastocyst implantation is associated with quasi-inflammatory reactions in the endometrium, which are resolved during the establishment of the definitive placenta. Quasi-inflammatory processes have also been documented in pregnant pigs, even though the blastocyst only at...

The Critical Role of Site Characterization in Geotechnical Evaluation: A Case Study of Slope Stability Reinforcement with Soil Nailing

This study presents the reassessment and stabilization design of a failed stepped slope located above a power plant structure in Murgul, Türkiye. Site characterization combined unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) surveying and point-cloud proce...

Central Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Occupational Personnel: Nonlinear Associations with Lipid Risk and Aerobic Capacity

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether DXA-derived android-to-gynoid fat ratio (A/G) relates to cardiometabolic risk and aerobic capacity in first responders beyond BMI-based phenotypes. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 170 first responders were categorized into four BMI-body fat p...

Agricultural liming is a carbon sink in the Mississippi River Basin

Application of carbonate minerals to arable lands, known as agricultural liming, is a long-standing practice for counteracting soil acidification1–3. Although liming boosts crop yields4, it is also considered a source of agricultural carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions5. Here we show,...

The Simons Observatory: Development of a Pipeline to Detect Rapid Transients in Time-Ordered Data

We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space, our pipeline directly processes the raw ti...

Convergence of Explicit Runge–Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations of the First-Order Form of Maxwell’s Equations with Low Regularity Solutions

Abstract. We establish a convergence result for the approximation of low-regularity solutions to time-dependent PDE systems that have an involution structure similar to Maxwell’s equations and the linear wave equations. The approximation is based on an explicit Runge–Kutta (ERK)...

Simultaneous Versus Interval Sleeve Gastrectomy on Patients Requiring Left Ventricular Assist Devices for End-stage Heart Failure: A Retrospective, Single-Center Cohort Study

Durable Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are commonly employed as therapy in end-stage heart failure (ESHF). However, individuals with class II obesity (Body Mass Index (BMI) > 35 kg/m²) are often ineligible for heart transplant and have limited options. Laparoscopic sleev...

Thermodynamic temperature without a heat engine

Typically thermodynamics courses do not discuss how to measure absolute thermodynamic temperature T, other than heat engines based on the Carnot cycle. We show that measuring small changes in pressure ΔP, volume ΔV, and heat ΔQ for a system initially in contact with a thermal res...