Texas A&M University

Platforming the womb: GarbhSanskar Guru, archaic modernity, and the reproductive politics of an Ayurveda app

GarbhSanskar Guru, a contemporary pregnancy and pregnancy-planning app, turns garbh sanskar into a daily interface of maternal instruction. It promises support – diet and lifestyle advice, baby bonding, trackers, live expertise and personalized activities – while organizing pregn...

Compound drought–heat wave hazards are concentrated in US regions with multiple social vulnerabilities and agricultural dependence

Compound drought and heat wave (CDHW) events are becoming more frequent and intense across the contiguous United States, increasing risks to human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and energy production systems. However, their distribution across socioeconomically vulnerable commu...

Protein Thioether Crosslinks Installed by a SPASM-Containing Radical SAM Enzyme from Methanogenic Archaea

Abstract Cysteine is a vital amino acid with wide biological utility, serving functions in catalysis, ligand binding, and maintenance of protein structures. In a subset of natural products, termed ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs), multipl...

Chloramphenicol-mobilized Bacillus subtilis transiently expresses resistance to multiple antibiotics, including the glycopeptides phleomycin and bleomycin

ABSTRACT Antibiotic resistance presents an urgent global crisis, exacerbated by antibiotic overuse. Understanding the regulation of resistance genes within bacterial populations can inform strategies to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance, and reveal how antibiotics shape...

Nitrous oxide emission from croplands: biogeochemical drivers, nitrification inhibitors, policy implications, and future directions

Abstract Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from croplands are a distinct environmental challenge because N 2 O is both a potent greenhouse gas and a major contributor to stratospheric ozone depletion. Emissions arise largely from agricultural nitrogen (N) inputs and microbially med...

Perceptions of CRISPR and the role of risk information seeking and processing: An analysis of North Carolina consumers

Genetic engineering technologies, like CRISPR, have ignited public acceptance issues due to perceived risks and previous rejection of genetically modified organisms. Thus, there is a need for evidence-based strategies to inform effective science communication and outreach. The cu...

Last-Mile Humanitarian Logistics Planning with Isolated Communities

Problem Definition: This paper addresses the critical challenge of delivering humanitarian aid to points of distribution (PoDs) after a disaster under uncertainty, particularly when some PoDs become isolated due to road/bridge damages. Motivated by the Eta and Iota hurricanes in...

Oral Health Indicators as Important Predictors of Frailty in Korean Adults Aged 50 Years and Older: A Sex-Stratified Explainable Machine Learning Approach

Background Frailty is a major public health concern, yet oral health indicators are rarely incorporated into prediction models. Objective To develop sex-stratified explainable machine-learning models for frailty prediction. Methods Cross-sectional data from 12,302 adults aged ≥50...

New Constraints on the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation From Combined Radiogenic Hafnium and Neodymium Isotopes

Abstract The drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 likely triggered Antarctic glaciation during the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition (34 Ma). Accurately constraining this shift from “greenhouse” to an “icehouse” climate is essential for understanding global carbon cycle dynamics. However, conv...

Cultural Stress, Psychopathology, and Well-Being Among Latinos: A Two Continua Model Approach

Abstract Latinos in the USA experience myriad cultural stressors that increase their risk for experiencing psychopathology. Whereas most Latino-focused research has conceptualized psychopathology and well-being as existing on opposite ends of the same continuum, the Two Continua...

Radiomic evaluation of mandibular condyles in skeletal Class I, II, and III individuals using CBCT

To compare cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)-derived radiomic features of the mandibular condyle among adults with Class I, Class II, and Class III sagittal skeletal classes in a Turkish subpopulation of dental patients. This retrospective study included 96 adults, with 32 ind...

5-Fluorouracil-based chemotherapy disrupts autophagy flux and protein synthesis in cultured myotubes: a role for mTORC1 signaling

5-Fluorouracil-based chemotherapies, such as FOLFOX (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin), are used to treat colon cancer but also induce skeletal muscle toxicities. While FOLFOX can disrupt muscle autophagy signaling in vivo, the upstream mechanisms underlying this effect, a...

Measuring structural value alignment in sixteen models: LLMs have human-like moral spaces

Abstract Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) reason about morality in human-like ways requires more than measuring whether they produce the right outputs in isolated cases. Existing approaches – including scalar agreement, distributional analysis, rationale classifica...

Exogenous sucrose and invertase application enhanced reproductive heat stress tolerance in tomato

Heat stress inhibits invertase activity and reduces sucrose transport to reproductive organs in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.), resulting in insufficient carbon supply for optimal flower and fruit development. This study evaluated the effects of sucrose and invertase applicati...

Frequency-aware multi-tier machine learning framework for item-level highway construction cost estimation: an improvement on uniform models

Accurate pre-bid cost estimation remains a persistent challenge for state highway agencies, where conventional machine learning approaches apply a single model uniformly across all bid items regardless of their historical data support. This study introduces a three-tier machine l...

Dynamic adaptive capacity of coupled agriculture-water systems under Climate Change: Evidence from the Western United States

Climate change is intensifying water scarcity and increasing production risk in irrigated agriculture across arid and semi-arid areas. Understanding how coupled agriculture-water systems adapt over time is essential for effective water management and climate adaptation. Despite i...

The Python simulations of chemistry framework: 10 years of an open-source quantum chemistry project

Over the past decade, the Python-based Simulations of Chemistry Framework (PySCF) has developed into a widely used open-source platform for electronic-structure theory and quantum chemical method development. This article reviews the major advances since the previous overview in...

An updated estimate of the proportion of neurocysticercosis among people with epileptic seizures: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is an infection of the central nervous system caused by the larval stage of Taenia solium. This systematic review (PROSPERO identifier: CRD42021266596) aimed to estimate the pooled proportion of NCC among people with epileptic seizures (PWES)...

QuantumCanvas: a multimodal benchmark for learning two-body quantum interactions

Abstract Most molecular and materials machine-learning models fit correlations across whole molecules or crystals rather than learning the quantum interactions between atomic pairs. Yet bonding, charge redistribution, orbital hybridization, and electronic coupling all emerge from...

A Model for Cotton Emergence Based on Thirty Years of Seed Treatment Trials Conducted by the National Cotton Seed Treatment Committee

Over 30 years, the National Cotton Council’s National Cottonseed Treatment program has conducted coordinated seed treatment trials across the U.S., resulting in a comprehensive dataset of over 500 field trials. After data curation compiled from annual reports published in the Cot...