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University of Florida
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- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
While fragmentation is known to affect species diversity, the degree to which functional structure is retained relative to primary forests and the factors driving this retention remain poorly understood. Here, we applied the concept of ecological resilience to forest fragmentatio...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract The classical paradigm of the sphingolipid rheostat—balancing pro-apoptotic ceramide against pro-survival sphingosine-1-phosphate—has evolved into a complex signaling landscape where N-acyl chain length serves as the fundamental determinant of biological outcomes. This p...
- Biology
Abstract Objective Brine shrimp Artemia spp. nauplii are a widely used first feed in ornamental aquaculture due to their digestibility, adequate nutritional profile, and ability to elicit feeding behavior from larval fish. Issues with variable cost and nutritional consistency, ho...
- Society & Economics
From Sensegiving to Sensemaking: TikTok Discourse Surrounding the House Settlement
In June 2025, the House v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) settlement was reached, transforming college athletics and athletes’ compensatory rights and opportunities. Utilizing the theoretical coupling of sensegiving and sensemaking, this study explores how the ca...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Resource subsidies mediated by non-native species: a review
Non-native species are recognized as one of the major drivers of biodiversity change globally, with profound impacts on ecosystem functions and services. Despite the high number of studies on non-native species published, mainly in the last two decades, an often-overlooked aspect...
- Health & Medicine
Midventral skin glands secrete odors that mediate social contexts and are commonly found in rodents in the Cricetidae family rather than those in the Muridae family. African spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) are rodents in the family Muridae known for their remarkable regenerative ab...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Benchmarking of fast and interpretable UF machine learning potentials
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have emerged as a powerful alternative to density functional theory (DFT) for molecular dynamics simulations, offering near-DFT accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost. However, many state-of-the-art MLIPs remain computatio...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Ecological succession is shaped by multiple processes that operate simultaneously across spatial and temporal scales. While classical succession theory generally focuses on a single trophic level within a single location, often in plants or other macroscopic organisms, recent eff...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Juvenile Spontaneous Mediastinal Hemorrhage with Suspect Trauma
A 6-month-old intact female American Pitbull (Canis lupus familiaris) underwent forensic evaluation for suspected blunt force trauma. Postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) identified pleural hyperattenuating soft tissue attenuating material, consistent with clotted blood, pleural...
- BiologyOpen access
Effect of odour on prey pattern aversion in jumping spiders
Abstract Many animals defend themselves with toxic chemicals and use multimodal warning displays involving odours and bright colours to advertise their toxicity. Yet, how coloration and odour interact and why they so often evolve together is not well understood. Recent work in ju...
- BiologyOpen access
Apicomplexan parasites of insects represent a largely unexplored branch of the tree of life. Their small size and lack of informative phenotypic traits can obscure their diversity and many lineage-specific adaptations to different host species. To better understand how these para...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a genetic arrhythmic syndrome caused by mutations in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium (Ca 2+ ) release channel RyR2 or its accessory proteins, including calsequestrin‐2 (CASQ2). RyR2 dysfunction or le...
- BiologyOpen access
ABSTRACT Recent advancements in single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) have greatly enhanced our ability to dissect cellular heterogeneity. However, unsupervised clustering often struggles to identify transitional or developmental boundary cells, as existing methods rely on highl...
- Health & Medicine
BackgroundTraumatic diaphragmatic hernias (TDHs) and traumatic abdominal wall hernias (TAWHs) are uncommon sequelae of blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) and may be missed during the initial evaluation. Delayed presentation can occur months to years later, resulting in incarceration, o...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This article analyzes the contemporary debate on the resurgence of antisemitism in Europe and the way it is tethered to discourses about European identity, migration and the viability of the liberal project. The debate on antisemitism has become explosive, with commentators sharp...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Adoption of the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events risk model in the 2025 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline may substantially alter the number and characteri...
- BiologyOpen access
Parents and primary carers often shape whether Autistic people access, trial, continue, or avoid virtual reality (VR), yet parent-focused evidence on family-level VR adoption remains limited. This exploratory, cross-sectional survey examined parent and primary carer perspectives...
- BiologyOpen access
Do Flower-Rich Windbreak Margins Enhance Predator Communities in Citrus Orchards?
Conservation biological control is central to sustainable pest management; however, its effectiveness depends on providing natural enemies with adequate floral resources and habitat structure. In Florida citrus, living windbreaks offer potential for improvement through floral res...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Abstract Quantum spin Hall insulators, also known as 2D topological insulators, are crucial 2D systems hosting topologically protected edge states. The working temperature of this topological quantum phase is dictated by the inverted bandgap. However, the previously identified la...
- BiologyOpen access
ABSTRACT Spartina alterniflora , the dominant plant species in salt marshes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines of the Americas, is affected by disease and sudden vegetation dieback. Despite the foundational role of S. alterniflora in low-elevation salt marshes, the...