University of North Carolina Wilmington

Star Wars at Fifty

This symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Wars (1977) with nineteen short essays from scholars who discuss its meaning, impact, and legacy. The essays examine the migrations and manifestations of the Star Wars universe across media, including animation, video games,...

Uncovering the role of biogeography, resources, food web composition and time during microbial primary succession

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...

Cool and warm conditions disrupt development through divergent mechanisms in larvae of the reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata

Developing animals are sensitive to stressful abiotic environmental conditions, which can induce negative effects including disrupted developmental progression and mortality. Plasticity in physiology and gene expression can protect developing organisms from stressors, yet how thi...

DevMemory: A Structured Memory Management Architecture for Persistent Knowledge in AI Coding Agents

AI coding agents operate without persistent memory; useful outputs produced in one session are unavailable in the next, and information from one project never transfers to another. We present DevMemory, a structured memory management architecture that brings trust-scored, cross-s...

DevMemory: A Structured Memory Management Architecture for Persistent Knowledge in AI Coding Agents

AI coding agents operate without persistent memory; useful outputs produced in one session are unavailable in the next, and information from one project never transfers to another. We present DevMemory, a structured memory management architecture that brings trust-scored, cross-s...

School Nurses' Perceptions of Mental Health Responsibilities Within School Nursing Practice: A Q Methodology Study

BACKGROUND: School nurses frequently encounter student mental health concerns, but little is known about how they prioritize mental health responsibilities relative to other nursing duties and local team structures. METHODS: This Q methodology study examined shared viewpoints abo...

Complementary Orthogonal Approaches for Metabolite Profiling of Chamaelirium luteum (False Unicorn) Root Preparations and Commercial Products

Abstract Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray (Melanthiaceae), commonly known as false unicorn, is a North American medicinal herb traditionally used for women’s reproductive health. Its major bioactive constituents are open-chain steroidal saponins, a structurally distinctive compou...

The Dream Garden Game: Integrating Gamification and Playful Design to Support Public Participation in Urban Greening Policymaking

As greening initiatives are increasingly implemented by public agencies to enhance climate resilience in urban environments, meaningful engagement with communities to support public participation becomes critical. While it has been well-documented that effective community engagem...

Alert to Hurt: Threat Appraisal Mediates the Association Between Attachment Anxiety and Perceptions of Pain Burden Among Healthy Young Adults

The experience of pain can vary considerably from one person to the next. Consequently, research has begun to explore the factors that may predict this inter-individual variability, including individual differences in attachment anxiety. Attachment anxiety has been linked convinc...

The Technology Dependence Index (TDI): Development and Validation in Neonatal and Pediatric Populations

The survival of infants and children with complex medical conditions continues to increase, underscoring the need to quantify technology dependence more effectively. Existing measures emphasize mortality risk and fail to capture the burden of ongoing technological support. To add...

How has Shanghai built a sustainable municipal solid waste management system through 30 years of socio-ecological practice?

Municipal waste management, widely recognized as a complex problem involving environmental, social, economic, and governance issues, has long received extensive attention from governments, academia, and the public. Since the late twentieth century, Shanghai has undergone a three-...

Global spatiotemporal variability of chlorophyll a and environmental drivers revealed by empirical orthogonal function analysis

Abstract Chlorophyll a (Chl a ) is a key indicator of phytoplankton biomass and marine primary productivity, linking ocean ecosystem change to biogeochemical cycling and climate. Understanding the environmental controls on long‐term Chl a variability is therefore essential. Here,...