Texas State University

Water Collection Performance of Additively Manufactured TPMS Condensation Structures in Peltier-Driven Atmospheric Water Generation: Effects of Geometry and Surface Treatment

The performance of Peltier-driven atmospheric water generation (AWG) systems depends strongly on the surface geometry and wetting behavior of the condensation structure. Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) provide high surface area-to-volume ratio and geometric tunability, bu...

Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality

Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustne...

Ready, Set, Learn! Energizing Workplace Training With Active Learning Principles

Active learning is not simply about learning by doing. It incorporates diverse components to effectively cultivate and enhance trainees’ skills. However, existing research remains limited and sometimes contradictory regarding how adult learners prefer and apply these methods in w...

Exploring Perceived Utility of Living vs. Dying in Relation to Suicidal Ideation Over Time

ABSTRACT Introduction Using the concept of games against nature from decision theory, this study explored whether the perceived utility of living and the perceived utility of dying were related to an individual's desire to live, desire to die, and suicidal ideation. Methods One h...

Resilient but Unreliable: Cross-Generational Restructuring of the Tribolium castaneum Gut Microbiome Under Contrasting Nutritional Regimes

Microbial communities are frequently exposed to environmental disturbances, yet recovery does not always lead to a single, predictable outcome. Distinguishing resilience, the capacity to recover following perturbation, from reliability, the predictability of that recovery, is ess...

Addendum to “on the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters and the length of solvable groups”

We improve previous bounds for the sizes of defect groups of blocks of solvable groups.

“What Was College Made For?” Exploring College Students’ Civic Engagement Outcomes by College Major

Abstract In light of political discourse around return-on-investment (ROI) of obtaining postsecondary degrees, one often overlooked outcome of a college education is students’ development of their civic engagement. We were concerned about whether specific degree programs targeted...