University of Central Florida

Mental Health Factors in Cardiothoracic Surgery Risk Prediction Models: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders are associated with substantial morbidity and death in cardiovascular disease, yet their role in perioperative risk stratification remains unclear in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. We evaluated how mental health disorders are curre...

The Prognostic Role of HPV Status Based on the Analysis of Outcomes of Combined Treatment of Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancers

Background and Objectives: The aim of the paper is to assess the impact of HPV DNA on the survival and cure rates of patients with newly diagnosed head and neck cancers. Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 51 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavit...

Predictors of Sexual Aggression Intentions Among Sexual Minority Men: Exploring the Utility of Vignette Methodologies

Sexual violence (SV) is prevalent yet understudied among sexual minority men (SMM), leaving gaps in understanding perpetration risk. Experimental analogues are commonly used to examine SV perpetration among heterosexual samples, yet little to no research has examined whether thes...

Differential Take-Up of Supplemental Security Income in Florida for Very Low Birth Weight Infants

OBJECTIVE: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility is automatically granted for the subset of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants born below 1200 g. We estimated the effects of automatic eligibility on SSI take-up among VLBW infants near the cutoff, both overall and for k...

Charting the rise of artificial intelligence in medical education: a global bibliometric and network analysis, 2000–2026

Artificial intelligence has moved from a peripheral curiosity to a core feature of modern medical education through adaptive learning, simulation-based training, automated assessment, and large language models such as ChatGPT. Publication activity has accelerated rapidly, but the...

Contemporary Use of Click Chemistry and Energetic Functional Groups: Practical Considerations and Competency Assessment in a Senior Undergraduate Lab

Abstract Students need to learn about the value of energetic functional groups in order to gain competency in an advanced laboratory setting. By introducing a two-part senior undergraduate laboratory experiment focused around energetic functional groups, students garnered respect...

Indication-Specific Adverse Events and Temporal Trends of Lumen-Apposing Metal Stents: A National Postmarketing Surveillance Analysis (2020–2025)

Background and Aims: The AXIOS stent is a lumen-apposing metal stent widely used for EUS-guided drainage of pancreatic fluid collections, biliary drainage, and gastroenterostomy. We analyzed device problems and patient adverse events reported to the FDA MAUDE database (2020–2025)...

Barry I. Schneider (1940–2024): Memories by His Colleagues

A collection of short stories about Barry Irwin Schneider (1940–2024), to whom this Special Issue of Atoms is dedicated.

Fixed or flexible: How product formats affect consumer redemption behavior for live-streamed food and beverage (F&B) products

With the rapid growth of live-streaming e-commerce in the food and beverage industry, low redemption rates despite high sales volumes have become a critical challenge for merchants. This research investigates how product formats and familiarity affect consumer redemption behavior...

Forward Collision Warning Effects Across Driver Attention State Clusters Under Comparable-Risk Naturalistic Driving Conditions

Using Naturalistic Driving Study data, this study examined how the association between Forward Collision Warning (FCW) activation and perception-reaction time (PRT) varied across driver attention states during car-following. Head-orientation, gaze-direction, and upper-body postur...

First-Year Chemistry Connections: Social Bonds and Disciplinary Belonging

Abstract First-year chemistry courses play a pivotal role in shaping student success within science programs, yet they are often characterized by high stakes, large enrollments, and considerable academic challenges. This study explores first-year science students’ sense of belong...

School-to-work transitions into hospitality and tourism for people with intellectual disabilities: a sustainable career perspective

Purpose This exploratory study examines the employment of people with intellectual disabilities (PwIDs) in the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry through a sustainable career lens incorporating multiple-stakeholder perspectives. It explores convergent and divergent views of ed...

Blurred borders: Kurds, empires, and identity in the Caucasus

This article examines Kurdish populations in the Caucasus borderlands within the context of Ottoman–Russian imperial rivalry from the nineteenth century through the aftermath of the First World War. It argues that Kurdish political behavior in this frontier zone is best understoo...

Understanding Cancer Information Burden and Quality Concerns: The Roles of Medical Statistics Literacy, Online Health Information Confidence, and Social Media

Understanding factors shaping perceptions of cancer-related information is important for public health communication. This study examined associations of three information-related predictors, understanding medical statistics, confidence in online health information, and difficult...

The Pulse Nightclub: Memorializing a Way Forward, Resisting the Way Back

In this study, we examine memorialization as resistance among minoritized communities following mass violence, focusing on public responses to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. We analyze 21 handwritten scrolls collected and digitally preserved by Hands On Or...

Diagnostic challenges posed by the wide morphological and immunophenotypic spectrum of plasma cell neoplasms

Plasma cell neoplasms (PCNs) are a group of malignant neoplasms originating from the monoclonal expansion of immunoglobulin-secreting, terminally differentiated B cells, i.e., plasma cells (PCs). PCNs include monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), plasmacytoma...

Selective Ultrafast Excitation and Dephasing of Gap Plasmons into Hot Carriers in Structural Color Generation

Abstract Plasmon-induced hot-carriers generated through Landau damping underpin applications in plasmonic optoelectronics, energy conversion, and photocatalysis. However, it remains unclear whether these carriers retain the spatial localization of their parent plasmon modes or ra...

Viscosity and Minimax Solutions for Path-Dependent Hamilton–Jacobi Equations in Infinite Dimensions and Related Differential Games

Abstract We establish new results for path-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equations with nonlinear monotone, and coercive operators on Hilbert space, which were initially studied in Bayraktar and Keller [2]. Under more general assumptions than in the cited paper (and more general than...

On Behavioral Alignment of Model-Code and Human-Code Understandability via Behavioral Proxies

Code understandability is a critical aspect of software quality. Prior research has largely focused on this attribute from a human-centric or code-centric perspective, while it should be viewed as a relational property arising from the interaction between a reader and the code. W...

AdaptAgent: A Multi-agent, Domain-Guided Reasoning Framework for Code Adaptation

Developers often need to adapt into their projects the code generated from LLMs or code snippets from online forums. However, integrating them into an existing repository remains challenging in a manual process. A successful integration typically requires more than copying code a...