Troy University

Hemp Hurd/ HDPE Thermoplastic Biocomposites: Effects of Oxidized Polyethylene and EPDM Elastomer on Material Performance

ABSTRACT The biocomposites examined in this study utilize hemp hurd as the lignocellulosic biomass and high‐density polyethylene (HDPE) as the thermoplastic matrix, with a 50 wt.% hurd content. Oxidized polyethylene (OPE) and ethylene–propylene–diene monomer (EPDM) rubber were in...

The Leisure of AI Agents on Moltbook?

Moltbook was launched as a platform made for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents to have a “place to relax, let loose, and make friends.” Although agents engage in leisure-like behavior in this space, we argue that these expressions represent orchestrated and programmed performan...

Trace characterizations and quantitative centrality via alternative mean inequalities

Abstract We study trace characterizations arising from comparisons between arithmetic, harmonic, and alternative means of positive definite matrices. For arithmetic mean comparisons, we prove that every alternative mean lying strictly below the arithmetic mean yields a characteri...