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CEO Characteristics, Industry 4.0 Capability Disclosure, and Firm Performance

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) garnered significant attention from academics and practitioners in the last decade. However, there is a lack of a measure in the extant literature that evaluates I4.0 and digital transformation capability disclosure of companies. The purpose of this study is t...

Population genomics reveals multi-scale mechanisms sustaining schistosomiasis re-emergence in a near-elimination setting

Abstract In China, sustained snail control, environmental management, and mass drug administration with praziquantel reduced schistosomiasis to near-elimination levels, yet re-emergence in Sichuan Province during the early 2000s exposed vulnerabilities in late-stage control. We c...

Radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT-100 experiment

A bstract The NEXT-100 detector at the LSC aims at the first competitive search for the 0 νββ decay using a high-pressure 136 Xe electroluminescent time projection chamber. The first low-background run of NEXT-100 at 3.95 bar has been devoted to the measurement of the radon-induc...

Providing End-of-Life Care to Older Adults: A Qualitative Interpretative Meta-Synthesis of Clinicians’ Experiences

Clinicians are integral to end-of-life (EOL) care decision-making and play a critical role in shaping the experiences of older adults and their families during the final days of life. This qualitative interpretative meta-synthesis (QIMS) examined the existing published qualitativ...

Workforce development experiences among older youth and young adults with foster care experience: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis

Approximately 19,000 young people age out of foster care annually without achieving permanency in the United States. Young people with foster care experience face disproportionately high rates of unemployment and underemployment, creating barriers to achieving self-sufficiency. U...

Uncorrelated Semi-paired Subspace Learning

Multi-view datasets are increasingly collected in many real-world applica tions, and existing multi-view learning methods byleveraging therelation information across multiple views have gained great successes comparing to conventional single view learning methods. However, most o...

How do Unincorporated Communities get Groceries? Results from Interviews and Oral Histories in a Low-income Community in Dallas-Fort Worth

Via interviews and oral histories, we examine food access in a low-income, unincorporated community in Dallas County, Texas. We find that car owners and non-owners patronized similar types of stores (primarily big-box stores) for groceries. While owners drove themselves more ofte...

AdmixLD: Fast genome-scale inference of ancestry disequilibrium in hybrid zones

SUMMARY: Hybrid zones represent powerful natural systems for studying reproductive isolation and speciation. One key genomic signature of genetic incompatibilities and epistatic interactions is linkage disequilibrium (LD) - non-random associations between loci from different line...

Building for Everyone: Kindergarten Children’s Emerging Understanding of Taxation Through Storybook Reading and Construction Play

Young children are often viewed as too young to understand abstract civic and economic concepts such as taxation. Yet early childhood research suggests that complex ideas can become meaningful when they are grounded in story, play, dialogue, and children’s everyday experiences. T...

Analytical Decision Framework for Modeling and Assessing Marine Meiofaunal Biodiversity Change

Abstract Marine meiofauna are small but ecologically important organisms that support sediment processes, nutrient cycling, benthic food webs, and environmental assessment. Their short generation times, high abundance, close association with sediment conditions, and sensitivity t...

Estimating lower bound functions in surrogate optimization

Abstract Lower bounds play a vital role in optimization by guiding search, improving solution quality, and quantifying optimality gaps. In expensive black-box settings, however, the quality of Lipschitz-based estimated lower bounds can deteriorate when function behavior varies ac...

Probabilistic Extreme Rainfall Projections under Climate Change: Extending Regional Extreme Value Analysis with a Climate Model–Informed Bayesian Approach

Abstract Climate change challenges traditional civil engineering design approaches that rely on stationarity and use historical data and parametric distributions to quantify uncertainty, e.g., the generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions for extreme rainfall. Key barriers in...

Comparative Analysis of Ion and Electron Contributions to Ionospheric Ionization at Auroral and Subauroral Latitudes

Abstract Electron and proton precipitation into the nightside ionosphere is a key process in magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling. Although auroral electron precipitation at –10 keV is traditionally considered the main driver of auroral emissions, recent studies show that keV electr...

Photoacoustic Tomography with Time-Dependent Damping: Theoretical and a Convolutional Neural Network-Guided Numerical Inversion Procedure

Abstract. In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a hybrid imaging modality that is based on the acoustic detection of optical absorption from biological tissue exposed to a pulsed laser, a short pulse laser generates an initial pressure proportional to the absorbed optical energy, wh...

Estimating genetic correlation jointly using individual-level and summary-level GWAS data

Abstract With the increasing accessibility of individual-level data from genome wide association studies, it is now common for researchers to have individual-level data of some traits in one specific population. For some traits, we can only access public released summary-level da...

Fibrinogen as aMolecular Bridge Linking SARS-CoV-2Immune Evasion and Endothelial Access?

Abstract SARS-CoV-2 exploits multiple cellular entry routes. Beyond ACE2-mediated entry, we propose that the spike protein binds fibrinogen not only to facilitate immune evasion but also to position the receptor-binding domain for integrin-mediated uptake. This molecular bridge m...

Relative Effects of Fabry‐Perot, Mie, and Guided‐Mode Resonance in Periodic Photonic Lattice Physics

ABSTRACT We investigate the physical origins of resonance effects in one‐dimensional periodic photonic lattices (PhL), focusing on the relative roles of Fabry–Perot (FP), Mie, and guided‐mode resonance (GMR) mechanisms. Using rigorous numerical simulations and modal analysis, we...

Dipyridamole-Coated 3D-Printed β-Tricalcium Phosphate Scaffolds: Spectrophotometric Characterization, Drug Release Kinetics, and In Vitro Evaluation to Guide Critical-Sized Bone Defect Repair Studies

Critical-sized bone defects remain a significant clinical challenge, and dipyridamole (DIPY)-coated 3D-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) scaffolds have shown promising osteogenic efficacy in preclinical models. However, the literature on the systematic physicochemical characterization...

Evaluation of in process heating for extrusion printing of tall thin-walled structures

Compared to other additive manufacturing processes, extrusion printing offers a cost-effective solution in prototyping thin-walled structures across diverse applications. However, transitioning these prototypes into fully functional parts remains difficult due to weak interlayer...

Desire for Help Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at Risk for Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face disproportionate hardships from systemic inequality and are overrepresented among youth at risk for commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), yet little is known about the help they desire as sexual risk escalates. Using data from a nationa...