University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The Paradox of Managed Autonomy: Response to ‘Agentic Online Learning: How University Staff Make Their Work Matter’ (McDonald et al. 2026)

In their article on how higher education teachers experience online learning, McDonald et al. ( 2026 ) bring into view something the online education literature has too often set aside: the person behind the course. This attention to identity builds on a line of work developed by...

G protein signaling capabilities at the bradykinin 2 receptor

The bradykinin 2 receptor (B2R) is one of two members of the kinin receptor family and is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that regulates important physiological processes including pain, inflammation, and cardiovascular homeostasis. Functionally, B2R is activated by the kinin...

Evaluation of Human Stem Cell Conditioned Medium and Culture Conditions on Alleviating Elastase-Compromised Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cell Function

Abstract Cardiovascular health depends critically on the integrity of the vascular extracellular matrix (ECM) and the behavior of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), both of which can be adversely affected in vascular diseases. This study quantitatively evaluates the therapeuti...

STGen: A Lightweight Process-Based Testbed for Scalable IoT Protocol Evaluation with Physically Validated Synthetic Sensor and Anomaly Generation

This paper introduces the Sensor Traffic Generator (STGen), a lightweight, pure-software testbed for evaluating IoT application- and transport-layer protocols at scale. Relative to existing software-based IoT evaluation platforms, STGen combines three design decisions that, to th...