University of Central Florida

Heterogeneous Cost Patterns of Episodic Recurrent Vestibular Vertigo in the Medicare Population: A Case-Control Economic Evaluation

Objective To evaluate Medicare costs and healthcare usage with total annual payments comprising hospital, outpatient and prescription costs, neuroimaging, and vestibular and audiometric testing for benign paroxysmal vertigo (BPPV), Ménière’s Disease (MD), and Vestibular Migraine...

Toward a Black Feminist Framework of Perinatal Mental Health

Perinatal mental health is a vital yet understudied dimension of maternal health disparities, particularly for Black women who experience disproportionate rates of depression, anxiety, and distress during pregnancy and following pregnancy loss. Traditional biomedical frameworks,...

Visual Scan Consistency and Performance in Simulated Air Traffic Control Tower Operations

Air traffic control tower operations require continuous visual attention allocation across dynamic airfield environments, yet limited research has examined how visual scanning consistency influences tower performance. This study investigated whether cross-scenario consistency in...

Examining the Relationship Between Teachers’ Decision to Leave or Transfer within a School District and Their Perceptions of Domains of School Leadership Practice

The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of school leaders’ domains of practice and their decision to transfer to another school within one school district or leave the school district. A second purpose was to investigate whether...

Identification of Highly Cytotoxic Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeting Essential Genes in Human Ovarian and Lung Cancer Cells

Therapeutic nucleic acid (TNA)‐based gene silencing strategies, such as antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), have been explored for cancer treatment. However, no ASO‐based anticancer drugs are currently available, largely because of limited therapeutic efficacy. Conventional ASO‐ba...

Predicting stress–strain behaviors of additively manufactured materials via loss-based and activation-based physics-informed machine learning architectures

Predicting the stress–strain behaviors of additively manufactured materials is crucial for part qualification in additive manufacturing (AM). Conventional physics-based constitutive models of materials have limitations, such as oversimplification of material properties and narrow...

Suppressing Catalyst Reconstruction via Electric-Field-Enhanced Cu–Sn Alloying for Stable CO2 Electroreduction

Abstract The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR) on copper (Cu) catalysts holds great promise for the sustainable production of value-added carbonaceous chemicals and fuels. However, these Cu nanostructures suffer from severe surface reconstruction due to Cu’s oxi...

The Role of Telomerase in Cellular Stress Response—Therapeutic Potential of Telomerase Inhibitors

Cancer remains one of the most complex diseases and a major global problem. Current therapeutic strategies often fail because of severe side effects and insufficient selectivity. Thus, there is a need to identify novel, specific targets and personalized therapeutic approaches. Te...

Spatial Stratification of Urban Commercial Land: A Convergence and Diagnostic Framework for Seoul’s Commercial Districts

Commercial districts constitute an intensively used form of urban land, yet little is known about how commercial vitality is distributed across an entire urban land system, whether spatial disadvantage persists over time, and how such evidence can inform differentiated land gover...

Safety and Complications of Open Trigger Finger Release in Patients Over 90 Years Old: A Retrospective Analysis

Background Although open trigger finger release is widely regarded as a safe and effective procedure, existing literature primarily focuses on younger populations, with limited evidence addressing outcomes in nonagenarian patients. This study aimed to evaluate safety, patient-rep...

Controlling the Ratio of Rhombohedral to Cubic Phases of In2O3 by Cobalt Doping and Its Effect on Sensor Response to Hydrogen

The effect of cobalt doping in the concentration range 0.01 to 0.25 at.% on the structural and sensory properties of nanocomposites based on two-phase indium oxide synthesized by the hydrothermal method is investigated. The phase ratio is shown to change depending on the concentr...

Comparative genomics of Sympodiorosea identifies genome evolution mediated through selective pressure on the metabolic gene repertoire

Abstract Biological interactions involving host-associated fungi are driven by chemistry shaped over evolutionary time. For antagonistic fungi, specialization often involves acquiring genes for novel secretions—including proteins and specialized metabolites—that mediate nutrient...

Galectin-1 therapy recalibrates lipid remodeling in skeletal muscle and enhances muscle function in a model of LGMD2B/R2

Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2B/R2 (LGMD2B/R2) is a progressive myopathy caused by mutations in the DYSF gene, leading to dysferlin deficiency, impaired membrane repair, chronic inflammation, and lipid accumulation. No approved treatments currently exist. Galectin-1, a red...

AC/DC: Automated Compilation for Dynamic Circuits

Dynamic quantum circuits incorporate mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) and feed-forward operations are crucial for manipulating quantum information. They have been broadly used in quantum error correction and quantum teleportation. Recently, they are utilized to prepare certain sta...

Frequent Use of Restricted Oral Intake During Hospitalization for IBD Flares Was Not Associated with Improved Clinical Outcomes: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

There are limited indications for bowel rest in hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares, particularly in patients with only inflammatory disease (i.e., no obstruction, abscess, or fistula). We aimed to assess the frequency of restricted oral intake and...

Valuation of short-term rentals as income-producing residential assets: a hybrid-hedonic framework

Purpose This study examines whether financial performance mediates the relationship between conventional hedonic property attributes and short-term rental value, and whether short-term rentals should therefore be underwritten as hybrid income-producing residential assets rather t...

Influence of Stress Path and Particle Quantity on Granular Soil Critical State and Fabric: Insights from DEM Simulations

Abstract Critical-state soil mechanics provides a fundamental framework for describing the shearing behavior of granular materials. This study employs the discrete-element method (DEM) to investigate the critical-state behavior of granular materials under direct shear, direct sim...

Unmasking the making of a hero: analyzing Aamir Khan’s fandom in China

This study investigates Aamir Khan’s popularity in China as a distinctive case of transcultural stardom. It argues that his reception is shaped not only by the circulation of Bollywood cinema but also by the ways his films align with Chinese aesthetic preferences and social value...

Media Use, Viewing Women as Sexual Objects, and Rape Myth Acceptance Among U.S. College Women

Heavier media exposure is associated with greater rape myth acceptance; one explanatory mechanism proposed is the sexual objectification of women. Sexually objectifying content is prevalent in mainstream media, and embracing this perspective of women is linked to dehumanization a...

An Examination of the Influences of Mathematics Anxiety in Middle School Algebra 1 Students

With an increase in the number of students enrolled in Algebra 1 during their middle school years, this explanatory sequential mixed-method study examined how mathematics anxiety influences middle-school Algebra 1 students’ cognitive and metacognitive processes as they complete c...