Institution
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Recent research
- Health & Medicine
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical effectiveness of a newly developed trunk-lower limb rehabilitation robot in patients with chronic stroke. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial conducted at a rehabilitation center. Forty patients with chronic stroke (mean age 59.48±7.63 years...
- Climate & Environment
Exhumation of Grand Canyon’s basement along the Great Escarpment of Laurentia
The Grand Canyon encompasses two billion years of Earth history, but more than half this record is absent across a regionally extensive erosional surface known as the Great Unconformity. This enigmatic surface has been linked to multi-phase regional tectonics accompanying superco...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Electrochemical separations have emerged as cost-effective and sustainable pathways for battery recycling. To address the challenge of cobalt–nickel separation from lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) cathodes in spent batteries, we present a synergistic strategy...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
A generalization of director tensors for odd matter in classical continuum mechanics
Abstract A general tensorial framework for odd and hyperelastic contributions in linear elasticity is developed within classical continuum mechanics. The formulation is based on complementary decompositions of the second-order identity tensor and an off-diagonal selector tensor,...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering with magnetic circular dichroism (RIXS-MCD) provide unparalleled insights into the electronic and magnetic dynamics of complex materials. However, interpreting their spectra in mixed-valence systems...
- BiologyOpen access
Human interaction with viscoelastic matter
Research on human perception of materials that are either strictly liquid or solid in nature is abundant. However, most real materials with which we interact are viscoelastic, meaning their behavior while probing depends on probing force and time itself, giving a complex, multi-d...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
A Survey of Distributed Asynchronous Many-Task Models and Their Applications
Asynchronous many-task (AMT) runtime systems have become an important paradigm for expressing fine-grained parallelism and managing asynchrony in high-performance computing (HPC). Originating from early dataflow concepts, AMTs have evolved to enable dynamic task generation, expli...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Abstract Lidar observations above McMurdo, Antarctica from 2011 to 2024 are used to characterize gravity wave (GWs) potential energies () in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). Alongside characterizations in the middle atmosphere (30–70 km), the GW baselines show dissipa...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
2D hydrodynamical simulations of Be star decretion disc formation through boundary layer effects
Abstract Be stars are massive main-sequence stars rotating close to their breakup rate. They possess a decretion disc of material built up due to mass loss from the star, however, there is not a consensus to the mechanism responsible for the formation of the disc because of their...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict users’ next interactions by modeling contextual patterns in their historical behavior sequences. Recent advancements in SR introduce multi-interest models that use multiple vectors to represent users’ diverse interests. However, exis...
- Engineering & Technology
Geosynthetics are widely used in pavement systems in multiple applications, including base and subgrade stabilization, reduction of layer intermixing and moisture, and mitigation of shrink/swell-related distresses. However, the current geosynthetic classification system and guide...
- Health & Medicine
Abstract Alterations in peripheral immunity may contribute to fatal prostate cancer and the excessive disease burden among African American (AA) men. Thus, we investigated peripheral immunity in prostate cancer patients in association with disease outcome and AA descent. We perfo...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Effects of insoluble surfactants on breaking waves: regular and spilling regimes
We investigate the influence of insoluble surfactants on the spatio-temporal evolution of breaking waves, focusing on both regular and spilling regimes. Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations are conducted using an interface-tracking/level-set method that incorporates sur...
- BiologyOpen access
This study evaluated molasses-based liquid feeds containing conventional urea or a commercial fat-coated urea product marketed as slow-release urea (SRU). The effects on in vitro gas-production kinetics, rumen fermentation, and substrate degradability were examined. Treatments fo...
- Health & Medicine
Higher education research on STEM lab supervision has often addressed the dynamics of doctoral agency through three parallel strands of scholarship: the restriction of research judgment, the redefinition of scholarly self-understanding, and the redirection of agency toward produc...
- Society & Economics
Systemic disparities in mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL) resources disproportionately affect children in low-income, racially marginalized communities, contributing to lower SEL outcomes. Although yoga and meditation strengthen coping and regulation, these practi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
How Healthy Are Community Health Workers: Findings from a Chicago-Area Survey
Community health workers (CHWs) are a growing and essential component of the U.S. healthcare workforce, yet little is known about their own health and well-being. The CHWs Our Work + Our Health Pilot Study administered a cross-sectional survey to a convenience sample of CHWs livi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Pseudomonas aeruginosa frequently infects chronically diseased lungs and exacerbates airway mucus hypersecretion and failure in clearance. P. aeruginosa is metabolically versatile and secretes multiple volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have been scrutinized as potential bi...
- Biology
Unconventional BiocatalyticStrategies Orchestratethe Synthesis of the Nucleoside Analog Sinefungin
Abstract Sinefungin is a potent nucleoside antimetabolite of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM). Since its discovery in the 1970s, sinefungin has generated significant scientific interest owing to its role as a bioisostere of SAM and its broad range of biological activities. Despite cons...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Economic Incentives for Agrivoltaics Systems with Commodity Crops in the Midwestern United States
Abstract Declining costs of photovoltaic (PV) technology and rising market and policy incentives are leading to the growing deployment of PV on cropland in the US Midwest, leading to concerns about the displacement of food and feed crop production. Agrivoltaic (AV) technology ena...