University at Albany, State University of New York

Multidecadal Changes in Atmospheric Dryness Over East Asia Dominated by Internal Climate Variability

Abstract Summer near‐surface vapor pressure deficit (VPD), a key measure of atmospheric dryness, has increased markedly across East Asia since 1980, yet the relative roles of external forcing and internal variability (IV) in its multidecadal changes remain unclear. Here we show t...

Lifestyle-Associated Biomarkers of Cellular and Whole-Organism Aging: A Practical Roadmap for Human Geroscience Trials

Aging is a multidimensional biological process that is not adequately captured by chronological age alone. Geroscience—the study of biological mechanisms that drive age-related functional decline and disease susceptibility—therefore requires biomarker frameworks that can identify...

The Metric Slingshot: Navigational Reuse as Width-Optimal Structural Decoupling in Continual Learning

Abstract The mammalian brain, most extensively studied in rodents and bats, solves an enormous variety of nonspatial cognitive tasks using neural circuitry, including grid cells, place cells, and hippocampal indexing, that originally evolved for physical navigation. We formalize...

Critical Teacher Education: Unpacking Candidates’ Sociopolitical Identity Development in Inclusive Classrooms

Many teacher education programs inadequately prepare teacher candidates to develop the sociopolitical identity needed to disrupt and transform inequities in inclusive classrooms. Cultivating candidates’ dispositional knowledge, skills, and beliefs are necessary constructs to shif...

A Rotary DNA Mazzocchio Nanostructure

Abstract DNA nanotechnology offers architectures ranging from compact motifs to scaffolded origami, with trade-offs in structural complexity, addressability, and component economy. Here, we translate Leonardo da Vinci’s mazzocchio geometry into a programmable DNA assembly. Twenty...

Rapid and specific identification of emerging Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII using an in-house developed and validated real-time PCR assay

ABSTRACT Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII ( Tm VII) is an emerging dermatophyte, primarily associated with sexual transmission, that causes persistent, painful, and inflammatory skin lesions. Tm VII is part of the T. interdigitale/T. mentagrophytes species complex, which...

Stress-Induced Reprogramming of tRNA Epitranscriptome in the Industrially Important Yeast Komagataella phaffii

Abstract Transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications regulate codon-biased translation and enable rapid translational adaptation to environmental stresses in diverse organisms. While these mechanisms have been extensively characterized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, little is known about the...

AI as a partisan cue: the relational dynamics of AI-assisted campaign messaging in election integrity perceptions

This study examines how AI use in campaign messaging shapes voter perceptions of election integrity and how these perceptions vary by partisan identity. Using an online survey experiment with 3,055 US voters randomly assigned to four conditions (plain campaign letter, AI-assisted...

When AI Policy Becomes an Accessibility Barrier

General-purpose AI may function as assistive technology when a person with a disability uses it to increase, maintain, or improve a functional capability. The companion paper names that function Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA) and offers a three-prong functi...

Serum Polychlorinated Biphenyl Burden and Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in U.S. Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using Evidence from NHANES 1999–2002

Background: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) persist in the environment and have been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined whether routine cardiometabolic biomarkers statistically accounted for this association. Methods: This cross-sectional analysis used NHA...

Making ethnicity visible: State recognition, Hakka language policy, and cohort change in Taiwan

Using the Taiwanese Hakka as a case, this study examines the relationship between perceived institutional visibility and ethnic identity across birth cohorts. As a non-immigrant society, Taiwan’s cultural diversity stems primarily from intra-Han Chinese linguistic and cultural di...

Bully‐victim prevalence, over‐time stability, and risk and protective factors during elementary school

Background Children who both bully other children and are victims of bullies (BVs) are at greater risk for externalizing and internalizing problems, poor academic outcomes, and increased involvement in criminal behavior later in life. Yet the early emergence, over‐time stability,...

Obligation, Perfection, and Nature: Toward a Relational Environmental Ethics

Abstract It seems morally wrong to be cruel to animals, to wantonly destroy a redwood, or to pollute rivers. Such obligations are often perceived as counter-examples to relational approaches to ethics. Call this the Nature Objection. My aim in this paper is to tackle the Nature O...

Leveraging JEDI for atmospheric composition: a unified framework for evaluating observations and model forecasts

Accurate evaluation of both observations and forecasts is essential for advancing atmospheric composition research and improving operational prediction. Traditionally, this has relied on separate workflows with product-specific preprocessing, often limiting reproducibility and cr...

The Role of Stratosphere–Troposphere Vertical Shear of the Zonal Wind in the QBO-MJO Relationship

Vertical shear of the zonal wind across the equatorial tropopause over the Indian Ocean to the Maritime Continent is caused by a combination of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) of the stratosphere and the seasonal cycle and interannual variability of the upper troposphere. Th...

The Winner Takes It All? The Impact of Mathematics Olympiad Elimination on Kazakh High-Achieving Students’ Expectancy-Value Beliefs and Career Aspirations

Mathematics Olympiads play an important role in developing mathematically gifted students, yet little research has examined how participants interpret the experience of elimination from these highly selective competitions. This qualitative study investigates how mathematically hi...

Hyperbolic actions of Thompson’s group F and generalizations

We study the poset of hyperbolic structures on Thompson’s group F and its generalizations F n for n ≥ 2 . The global structure of this poset is as simple as one would expect, with the maximal non-elementary elements being two quasi-parabolic actions corresponding to well-known as...

Growth-dependent tRNA reprogramming and codon bias link translation to metabolic state in Enterococcus faecalis

ABSTRACT Enterococcus faecalis is a gram-positive commensal bacterium of the human gut microbiome and an opportunistic pathogen responsible for many hospital-acquired infections. Despite the clinical importance of E. faecalis , how gene and protein expression are coordinated with...

Cop Watching as Social Control: Extending Donald Black’s Theory of Self-Help to Race and Police Videotaping

Using survey-experimental data, we examine how race affects Americans’ willingness to videotape police detaining a teenage suspect. Donald Black’s theory of social control, with its focus on self-help, provides a theoretical context for expecting Black Americans to be more likely...

Why Poverty in the Present Matters for Intergenerational Concern and the Future of Humanity

Contrary to perceived tensions between addressing present and future societal needs, we find present-day poverty and inequality are deeply connected with attitudes toward far-future welfare at both societal and individual levels. Study 1 (144 countries) shows that poorer, more un...