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Leveraging Digital Twins for Bridge Maintenance Prioritization following Coastal Flood Events

Abstract Bridges are critical to the US transportation network and are essential components of our infrastructure systems. Coastal floods can disrupt these structures, isolating communities and highlighting the urgent need for effective maintenance and prioritization strategies....

Magnetic Nanoparticle Transducers for Magnetogenetics: Materials Design, Biointerfaces, and Transduction Mechanisms

Abstract Over the years, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have evolved from passive imaging and delivery agents into active transducers that convert externally applied magnetic fields into localized biological stimuli. This transition has created opportunities for magnetogenetics, i...

Client Satisfaction as a Mediator of Recovery Capital in Collegiate Recovery Communities

Collegiate Recovery Communities (CRCs) are university sponsored programs that help students maintain recovery from substance use issues. This study examined the role of CRC organizational factors on client satisfaction with CRC services (CS) and recovery capital (RC) in a sample...

Mental Health in Regularly Collected Nationally Representative U.S. Surveys: What’s Measured and What’s Missing?

Abstract To document the availability and quality of mental health measures in regularly collected national surveys in the United States. We conducted a review of the mental health measures included in eight publicly available health-focused recurring surveys capable of producing...

Fronto-temporal transcranial direct current stimulation reduces symptoms in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a randomized sham-controlled trial

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) remains a major clinical challenge, with limited response to pharmacotherapy. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has emerged as a potential adjunctive treatment, although evidence regarding its efficacy remains inconsistent. To...

Compassionate Communication During Early Pregnancy Loss: Using Forum Theatre to Train Emergency Medicine Residents

ABSTRACT Background Compassionate communication is a critical skill when caring for patients experiencing early pregnancy loss (EPL) in the emergency department; however, medical learners often have limited opportunities to practice this skill in a psychologically safe, low‐stake...

Do good neighbours compensate for bad climate? The case of sessile oak Quercus petraea in phylogenetically distant neighbourhoods

Stressful climates threaten the performance of individuals and the survival of species, but individual performance also depends on biotic interactions with neighbours, so that ‘good' neighbours might in theory compensate for ‘bad' climates. However, what makes a good neighbour, a...

Developing a Technology Abuse Clinic through Interdisciplinary University Collaborations: A Brief Report

Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is common among victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), creating safety, access, and service-delivery barriers. This brief report describes the development of a Technology Abuse Clinic (TAC) through an interdisciplinary university partnershi...

Distortion-Constrained Minimax Data Sanitization with Multiple Adversaries

We study a privacy-preserving data-sharing setting where a privatizer transforms private data into a sanitized release observed by an authorized reconstructor and two unauthorized adversaries, each with access to side information correlated with the private data. An adversary is...

The Asymmetry of Prioritization: Comparing Expert-Informed and Data-Driven Weighting for a Bike Equity Index in the San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.

The distribution of cycling infrastructure across a region depends not only on planning priorities but also on how equity is measured. Composite bike equity indices are increasingly used to guide infrastructure investment, yet the weighting schemes embedded in these indices can s...

Accelerating Computational Damage Analysis of Composites with a Hybrid Implicit–Explicit Approach

Composite materials and structures are widely used in the aerospace industry. Computational progressive damage and failure analysis (PDFA) is critical to composite structural safety certification but remains computationally heavy, often requiring hours to weeks to yield valid dam...

Effect Decomposition of Functional-Output Computer Experiments via Orthogonal Additive Gaussian Processes

Functional ANOVA (FANOVA) is a widely used variance-based sensitivity analysis tool. However, studies on functional-output FANOVA remain relatively scarce, especially for black-box computer experiments, which often involve complex and nonlinear functional-output relationships wit...

SepIVA has a function in activating the mycobacterial divisome, which is inhibited during DNA damage

ABSTRACT Bacterial cell division is a tightly regulated process that is carried out by a complex of proteins called the divisome. These proteins are assembled in a defined sequential order. Upon assembly, the complex is allosterically activated, which stimulates septal peptidogly...

Organizational determinants of burnout among hospital‐based nurse practitioners: A structural equation modeling analysis

Abstract Background The nurse practitioner (NP) workforce is rapidly expanding in hospital settings, yet limited evidence exists on how organizational practice environments influence NP burnout. Identifying modifiable workplace factors is critical to improving NP well‐being and r...

Trends in missing responses to suicide-related indicators among U.S. adolescents by race/ethnicity and sex, 2001-2021

OBJECTIVES: Missingness to suicide-related survey items may bias adolescent suicide surveillance and limit subgroup comparisons. Prevalence and trends of missingness to suicide-related indicators were examined among U.S. adolescents from 2001 to 2021. STUDY DESIGN: Trend analysis...

Morphology and Thermal Tuning of α-CuV2O6 Photoanodes for Optimized Photoelectrochemical Performance

Abstract Microstructural engineering provides an effective strategy to enhance semiconductor photoelectrodes without modifying the intrinsic electronic structure. Here, phase-pure α-CuV2O6 photoanodes were mechanically and thermally tuned to control particle size, film morphology...

A Fokker-Planck framework for control of epidemics

Abstract We present a control framework for stochastic compartmental models in epidemiology. In this framework, rather than directly controlling the stochastic system, we perform optimal control of an associated Fokker-Planck equation, with the goal of steering the distribution o...

More Than Hurt Feelings: Associations Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health, Substance Use, and Victimization Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents

Abstract Background Although prior research has linked perceived racial discrimination (PRD) to adverse outcomes among adolescents, fewer studies have comprehensively examined its associations with mental health, substance use, and victimization outcomes within a single nationall...

Laminae Control on Pore Space Heterogeneity in Lacustrine Lucaogou Formation: Insights from SANS Studies

Abstract Laminated shales in the Lucaogou Formation exhibit strong pore heterogeneity, and the quantitative relationship between lamina types and pore structure remains poorly constrained. This study investigates how different laminae control pore distribution, connectivity, and...

Mathematical methods of soil gamma spectra analysis for carbon content determination

Conventional methods for measuring soil carbon are often time-consuming, labor intensive, and require laboratory analysis. Neutron-gamma analysis (NGA) offers an alternative for rapid (practically in-situ) and non-destructive measurement of carbon soil. This paper describes the d...