University of Utah

Impacts of Fermi Level Pinning at Hole‐Selective Contacts in CdSeTe/CdTe Solar Cells

ABSTRACT P‐type doped CdTe free surfaces, Schottky contacts, and even interfaces with isostructural p‐ZnTe frequently exhibit downward band bending and moderate to high recombination velocities. Fermi level pinning by donor‐like states can explain these band diagram features, as...

Misalignment Between Perceived and Actual Ability on a Balance Beam Walking Task

Effective balance control is necessary for stability, but it is an individual's self-perceived balance ability that determines movement selection. Accurate self-estimations of balance are therefore essential to ensure that movement choices align with capability. This study examin...

Functional memory of drought affects leaf chemical defenses and microbial interactions in aspen

Abstract Drought is an increasingly important driver of tree mortality, but its long-term impacts on trait expression remain poorly understood. Leaves are a key interface at which trees respond to abiotic stress, and foliar traits such as chemical defenses and microbial communiti...

Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching: A Continuous Viewpoint

Abstract. Flow matching-based generative models have been integrated into the plug-and-play image restoration framework, and the resulting plug-and-play flow matching (PnP-Flow) model has achieved some remarkable empirical success for image restoration. However, the theoretical u...

Prepregnancy Diet Quality Index and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

This cohort study of US births examines the association of preconception diet quality with adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Performance of the iBox Prognostication System in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients

Background: The iBox is a validated prognostication system that predicts long-term death-censored graft loss in kidney transplant recipients, but its performance in the specific population of African American recipients has not been fully studied. Methods: We conducted a multicen...

Prescription Patterns of Cardiovascular Medications in the Adolescent and Adult Population With Fontan Circulation—A Report From the Multicenter Single Ventricle Outcomes Network

BACKGROUND: There are limited data on prescription patterns in adolescents and adults with Fontan circulation. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients 13 years of age and older enrolled between 2022 and 2024 in the Fontan Outcomes Network (now SV-ONE [Single Ve...

Identifying Research Priorities for the Development of High-Integrity Forest Carbon Credits

Abstract In the United States, voluntary carbon markets have gained significant traction in recent years. However, many offset standards, protocols, and credit ratings have come under scrutiny from the public and investors for failing to produce real or sustainable carbon offsets...

Long-Term Follow-Up to Study of Timing of Rehabilitation After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Jae W Lee, PhD, Kody R Campbell, PhD, Prokopios Antonellis, PhD, Jennifer L Wilhelm, PT, DPT, Kathleen T Scanlan, PT, DPT, Siting Chen, MPH, Robert J Peter

Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments

Abstract The apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) isoform directly alters cholesterol and immune biology and is associated with an increased risk of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease in industrialized settings; nevertheless, APOE ε4—which is ancestral in humans—has persisted o...

2026 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Boundary Ignores Archaeological Resources

The PDF is a poster illustrating the archaeological potential of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) located in Southern Utah. In 2017, Executive Proclamation 9682 reduced the size of the GSENM. Consideringt that only 10% of the original GSENM has been invento...

Layer Potential Methods for Doubly Periodic Harmonic Functions

Abstract. We develop and analyze layer potential methods to represent harmonic functions on finitely connected tori (i.e., doubly periodic harmonic functions). The layer potentials are expressed in terms of a doubly periodic and nonharmonic Green’s function that can be explicitly...

Radiology considerations for the PREMIUM study: a multicenter randomized controlled trial of abbreviated MRI versus ultrasound for liver cancer screening in cirrhosis

Abstract This paper describes the rationale and radiology considerations in the implementation of the Preventing Liver Cancer Mortality through Imaging with Ultrasound versus MRI (PREMIUM) study. PREMIUM is a multicenter, randomized controlled trial sponsored by the Department of...

Efficacy of student developed and led high value care education in preclinical medical students

The Institute of Medicine estimates that, on average, about one third of all healthcare waste is attributed to unnecessary services. High value care (HVC) is a proposed solution to this problem but is currently underrepresented in preclinical undergraduate medical education (UME)...

Intermolecular Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation by a Chorismate-Converting Enzyme

Abstract Chorismate is an important precursor of many primary and secondary metabolites. Enzymes that can transform chorismate are therefore useful biocatalysts for constructing bioactive molecules, yet the scope of known chorismate biochemistry is limited. Here, we identify TunB...

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

ABSTRACT Fungal spores must withstand varying environmental stressors during dispersal and dormancy, yet the impact of these stressors on the mechanical, structural, and surface properties of the spore wall remains largely uncharacterized, particularly in basidiomycete species. T...

Structured experience shapes strategy learning and neural dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex

Animals can solve new, complex tasks by reusing and adapting what they've learned before. This kind of flexibility depends not just on having prior experience, but on how that experience was structured in the first place. The design of early training curriculum is especially impo...

Cardiolipin deficiency disrupts electron transport chain and drives steatohepatitis

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a progressive disorder marked by lipid accumulation, leading to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). A key feature of the transition to MASH involves oxidative stress resulting from defects in...

Dietary Fat Intake and Mortality Among Patients With Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer

Importance There are 3.5 million prostate cancer survivors in the US, with a need for evidence-based lifestyle recommendations that improve survivorship. Objective To assess whether consumption of specific dietary fats after diagnosis is associated with long-term survival among p...

Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality

Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustne...