University of Connecticut

Career Outcomes, Experiences, and Transition Programs for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: A Review of the Literature from 2013 to 2025

As more students with disabilities access postsecondary education, it is important for the field to understand their post-graduation employment outcomes. A systematic literature review using preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines wa...

Axis-parallel square packing with an exact formula for optimal packing of seven squares

How large a square is needed to hold axis-parallel squares of prescribed side lengths? We give exact formulas for the optimal side through seven squares, with explicit constructions and geometric lower-bound proofs. For every $n \ge 6$, the optimum for $n$ squares is a sum of at...

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction architectures. Magic state cultivation offers an efficient alternative to resource-intensive distillation p...

Restitution and Unjust Enrichment: Promoting Justice in Business and Human Rights Litigation

Abstract Using Josiya v British American Tobacco (BAT) as a case study, this article explores the growing potential of unjust enrichment to become an additional route to redress in business and human rights (BHR) litigation. Josiya , in which over 7,000 Malawian tobacco farmers a...

Active nuclease inhibition over passive freezing secures the genomic archive of fish eye lenses

Abstract Fish eye lenses offer a chronological archive of individual life histories and preserve genomic DNA. However, integrating ecological and genetic data is hindered by post‐mortem nuclease degradation, and standardized DNA preservation protocols for this tissue remain undef...

An Integrated Processing–Performance Modeling Framework for Predicting the Effect of Curing on the Transverse Strength of Thermoset Composites

The mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites are strongly influenced by manufacturing processes. In particular, curing of thermoset polymer matrices introduces residual stresses that can significantly affect microscale damage initiation and the transver...

Process bigraphs and the architecture of compositional systems biology

Building multiscale biological models requires the integration of independently developed submodels, which means moving shared variables between them and coordinating when each submodel runs. Existing tools typically address isolated biological mechanisms with specific numerical...

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...

Genomic inbreeding and selection signatures analyses in the Doberman Pinscher breed

The Doberman Pinscher population has undergone strong artificial selection for morphology and behavior, which can reduce genomic diversity and increase autozygosity. Here, we characterized the genome structure and identified selection signatures in Doberman Pinschers using comple...

Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 2: A review of its role in the Earth system

Abstract. Antarctic sea-ice cover reached historically low levels in 2023, consistent with the simulated decrease in sea-ice extent in response to anthropogenic warming. Antarctic sea ice is closely linked to multiple components of the Earth system, thus its demise could precipit...

Investment or extraction? Reframing private equity in healthcare

Abstract Moral hazard is built into the structure of private equity investments, which incentivises debt-based extraction rather than value-adding investment. To craft effective regulation of private equity’s participation in healthcare, and to cut through the industry’s talking...

Mitigating urban tunneling risks: Detecting adverse geology with a tunnel-surface-borehole observation system using TBM drilling noise source

Accurately forecasting adverse geological conditions ahead of the tunnel face is a critical challenge for the safety and efficiency of mechanized urban tunneling. Unforeseen features such as faults and karst cavities often pose significant geohazards, including collapse, ground d...

All Together Now: Complementary Community Roles in Language Creation

The emergence of new languages offers a rare opportunity to observe how linguistic structure arises and evolves. We examine language creation through a developmental lens, focusing on how individuals at different life stages engage in complementary processes of invention, stabili...

Automated nonplanar slicing for robotic additive manufacturing via voxelized simulation and data-driven voting

Robotic arms enable curved-layer deposition beyond conventional gantry limitations, but selecting a suitable layer field remains challenging. Existing slicers often focus on surface conformity or require part-specific finite element constraints. This study selects layer fields fr...

Lake size is associated with the relationship between body mass and gut microbiota alpha diversity in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Lake size is associated with ecological conditions that can affect the microbiome of hosts, such as diet and habitat characteristics. However, whether host-microbe interactions are affected by lake size remains poorly understood. We characterized the gut microbiota of 191 wild th...

A Purely Sequential Selection and Its Acceleration for the Best Treatment Under a New Formulation of the Indifference Zone: Asymptotic Theory and Simulations

A traditional indifference zone (IZ) approach selects the best treatment, with a preset high probability of correct selection when the best one is much better than the second-best in line. Customarily, the effect size is the difference between the best (largest mean) and the seco...

Employee Activism, Then and Now

We review research on employee activism, with particular attention to developments over the past decade, and identify avenues for future research that reflect the evolving nature of the phenomenon. We first define employee activism and distinguish it from related forms of employe...

Generalized Nonlinear Bayesian Pulsar Timing with ENTERPRISE

Abstract We use the Bayesian methods in the ENTERPRISE package to examine the fully general parameterization of pulsar timing models in tandem with noise. We investigate four pulsars, PSRs J1600–3053, J2043+1711, J0740+6620, and J1640+2224, through the lens of Bayesian timing. We...

ConFL: Explainable Concurrent Fault Localization via Hierarchy-Guided LLM Reasoning

Localizing concurrent bugs from bug reports alone is challenging due to incomplete information, misleading program-entity mentions, and complex cross-thread interactions, causing existing LLM-based approaches to suffer from unstable reasoning and limited explainability. We propos...

Murmurations, Mestre–Nagao sums, and convolutional neural networks for elliptic curves

Abstract We apply one-dimensional convolutional neural networks to the Frobenius traces of elliptic curves over $$\mathbb {Q}$$ Q and evaluate and interpret their predictive capacity. In keeping with similar experiments by Kazalicki–Vlah, Bujanović–Kazalicki–Novak, and Pozdnyakov...