University of Georgia

From landscapes to lesions: Pathology's role in wildlife mortality investigations and conservation health

Abstract To effectively recognize and manage wildlife mortality events, we need to understand who, what, why and how – who are the individual animals and species involved; what are the surrounding circumstances in time and space in which they are found; what are the causes and co...

Brain Structure and Differential Response to Family-Centered Prevention: Evidence for Anterior Cingulate Cortex Moderation in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract Family-centered prevention programs improve youth self-regulation, yet intervention effects are heterogeneous, and the mechanisms underlying differential response remain poorly understood. Identifying neural metrics that shape responsiveness to prevention may advance the...

Homogeneity-Pursuit Calibration of Item Response Theory Models with Limited Samples and Sparse Response Data

Calibrating item response theory models is challenging when item banks are large relative to available sample sizes and response data are sparsely observed, as commonly occurs in classroom assessment, low-stakes testing, and early-stage item bank development. These challenges are...

Envisioning a desired future: using students’ experiences to understand how communities work together to adapt to a changing climate

Purpose This paper aims to examine a pedagogical approach to teaching climate change at the fifth-grade level, centered on storytelling, futures thinking and collective action. The climate change unit is designed with place-based framing to help students envision desired futures...

Navigating access and participation in grappling sports among adults with visual impairments: a qualitative study

Adults with visual impairment (VI) are typically less active than their sighted peers, partly because many physical activity options are difficult to access and sustain. Grappling sports, which involve near-constant contact and reduce reliance on visual tracking, are often consid...

Moral Courage vs. Moral Deference: Ethical Leadership and Employee Outcomes During AI-Assisted Internal Crises

This study examines how leadership stance and AI disclosure shape employee responses to CEO communication during an internal, value-based crisis. It further examines the mediating roles of perceived message sincerity and negative moral emotions and the moderating role of employee...

Occurrence of Norovirus and Hepatitis A Virus RNA in Agricultural Soil from Produce Farms in Ohio and Georgia

Although foodborne viruses are considered ubiquitous in the environment, studies on their presence in soil are largely lacking. In this field study, 168 agricultural soil samples were collected from farms in Georgia and Ohio over seven and eight months, respectively. A total RNA...

Helminth parasite body size scaling with host species size

Host and parasite body size frequently scale positively (often referred to as Harrison's rule), potentially as a result of fundamental constraints on large parasite species simply being morphologically incapable of infecting small host species, or through a variety of alternative...

Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting of Precipitation and Soil Moisture in CFSv2 Near Gulf Coast Tropical Cyclone Landfall Locations

Abstract Landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) produce intense winds, heavy precipitation, and damaging storm surges along the Gulf and East coast of the U.S. There is growing evidence that high antecedent soil moisture (SM) conditions preceding landfall can maintain or even intens...

Energy-saving hydrogen production coupled with PET-derived ethylene glycol oxidation: Reaction mechanisms, catalyst design, and reactor engineering

Abstract The growing accumulation of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) waste and the increasing demand for clean hydrogen call for integrated electrochemical strategies. Ethylene glycol oxidation reaction (EGOR), derived from PET hydrolysis, offers a thermodynamically favorable...

Inhibitory Activity on Dog Bladder Cancer Organoids by Lanostane-type Triterpenes from Inonotus obliquus and Reinvestigation of Their NMR Assignments

Abstract Dog bladder cancer organoids (DBCO) serve as a model of human muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), for which suitable human organoid models remain limited. Inonotus obliquus (Chaga) extract reportedly reduces DBCO growth, but its active constituents were unidentified....

Global Perspectives on Crisis and Disaster Journalism: Implications for Journalism Education in an Era of Cascading Crises

Global disasters driven by climate change, geopolitical conflict, forced displacement, and public health crises have fundamentally altered journalism operations. Journalists are increasingly interpreting complex, cascading crises amid eroding public trust. Drawing on the 2025 Wor...

Enhanced biomass production by engineering gibberellin signaling in Populus

Tao Yao, Sanskriti Dwivedi, Lindsay P Brown, Rohit Kousika, Natalie G Aldrich, Margot S S Chen, María A Ortega, William P Bewg, Brent Lieb, McKenna Coile,

Sources, Transmission, and Control of Salmonella in Vertically Integrated Broiler Chicken Production: Farm, Hatchery, and Processing Plant

ABSTRACT Salmonella remains one of the most important foodborne pathogens associated with poultry products, despite substantial progress in processing hygiene and antimicrobial interventions. This review critically examines the sources, transmission routes, and control strategies...

The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Psychology Graduate Students in the United States

Background Although developed only recently, generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications for everyday use (e.g., ChatGPT) have become part of university life. The academy must navigate AI use in graduate education within several domains (coursework, teaching, research, c...

Dating the expansion of the Late Mississippian chiefdom of Joara; preliminary Bayesian modeling of AMS radiocarbon data from Western North Carolina

Abstract Recent applications of Bayesian chronological modeling on AMS radiocarbon data in North America have been expanding chronological interpretations of periods with calibration plateaus and reversals, such as the period from the 15th through 16th centuries, CE. This period...

Tobacco use moderates associations between cannabis use, psychiatric symptoms, and cognitive performance in psychosis spectrum disorders

Tobacco and cannabis use are highly prevalent among individuals with psychotic disorders. Tobacco use has been consistently linked to poorer clinical and cognitive outcomes, whereas findings regarding cannabis use remain mixed. The present study was a secondary analysis of cross-...

Test–Retest Reliability of Core Lexicon Analysis

Purpose: We examined the test-retest reliability of core lexicon analysis for healthy control participants (HCP) and individuals with aphasia (IWA) to facilitate research and clinical implementation of discourse analysis.Methods: Transcripts from 50 HCP and 61 IWA [from the Aphas...

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...

A New Family of Electron-Bifurcating Enzymes Represented by Ferredoxin- and NAD-Dependent Glycerol-3-Phosphate Oxidoreductase

Abstract Glycerol is abundant in natural environments and is utilized by many microbes. In aerobes, it is typically converted, via glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P), to dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) by a quinone-linked dehydrogenase thereby coupling glycolysis and respiration. Under...