University of Wisconsin–Madison

Barriers and facilitators to participation for childhood cancer survivors: A scoping review

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Sabrina Kabakov, kabakov@wisc.edu

Edge effects on the pressure drop through triply periodic minimal surface heat exchangers

Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) geometries offer significant potential for compact, high-performance heat exchangers, but confinement-induced edge effects in small-scale test articles can distort the measured pressure drop and its extrapolation to full-scale performance. T...

Decision-making and planning for autonomous vehicles on foggy highway obstacle sections under visual perception

To enhance the safety and decision reliability of automated driving vehicles on foggy highway obstacle sections, this study addresses three key challenges: visual perception degradation, increased uncertainty in obstacle localization, and trajectory instability under high-speed c...

Dishing Out Public Goods: School Food Workers and the Struggle to (Re)value Reproductive Labor

Government-funded school food programs in the USA have recently expanded access to free meals and incorporated more scratch cooking with local ingredients, but school food workers (SFWs) have seen little-to-no improvement in their working conditions. Using focus group data from t...

Enhanced Lifespan Bounds for 1D Quasilinear Klein–Gordon Flows

Abstract In this article we consider one-dimensional scalar quasilinear Klein–Gordon equations with general nonlinearities, on both $${\mathbb {R}}$$ R and $${\mathbb {T}}$$ T . By employing a refined modified-energy framework of Ifrim and Tataru, we investigate long time lifespa...

Evaluating a Lightweight Neural Network for Aggregate Isotope Distribution Prediction

Abstract Isotope distribution prediction is an important part of mass spectrometry data analysis. A variety of strategies have been developed, including brute-force polynomial methods and Fourier-transform (FT) convolution methods. Here, we present a novel neural network (NN) app...

Gram-Positive Bacteria Responses to Antibiotics When Incubated in Fecal in Vitro Microcosms from Swine Supplemented with Chlorophyllin

Standardized antimicrobial susceptibility assays use defined culture media and may therefore not fully account for gastrointestinal constituents that influence bacterial responses to antibiotics. This study evaluated whether swine fecal extracts, including extracts associated wit...

National Summary of Pre-Employment Transition Services for Youth and Young Adults With Disabilities

Despite policy efforts to provide increased preparation and work experiences prior to school exit, individuals with disabilities continue to experience poor rates of workforce participation compared to their peers without disabilities. It has been over a decade since the passing...

AI versus human coding of NIH grant abstracts

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for qualitative analysis in substance use research, yet their performance relative to human coders remains underexplored. This study compares ChatGPT-4.0 with human coders in performing qualitative coding tasks using NIH grant ab...

Not all debt is equal: Debt type, burden, and life satisfaction among urban young adults in Seoul

Young adults in rapidly growing cities face mounting financial pressures from escalating housing costs and limited access to stable employment. This study examines how different debt types and perceived debt burden are associated with life satisfaction among young adults in Seoul...

Individualized Treatment Effects of Cefepime vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Adults Hospitalized with Acute Infection

Abstract Rationale Among adults hospitalized with acute infection, a recent randomized trial observed no significant average treatment effect of cefepime versus piperacillin-tazobactam on acute kidney injury or death, but fewer days-alive-and-free-of delirium and coma with cefepi...

Intratumoral Immunotherapy—The Future of Treating Merkel Cell Carcinoma?

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) represents a rare but highly aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer with limited systemic therapy options for patients who fail or are ineligible for immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Intratumoral (IT) immunotherapy has emerged as a promising strateg...

Secretory Phospholipase A2–Albumin–Membrane Interactions: A Proposed Mechanism of Internal Cell and Tissue Injury in Systemic Inflammation

Systemic inflammation in sepsis causes internal cell and tissue injury through mechanisms that remain incompletely understood. Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2-IIA; hereafter, sPLA2), a potent inflammatory mediator whose circulating levels rise dramatically during sepsis, hydrol...

Voices quiet, bodies still: embodied governance of refugee learners through social and emotional learning

This article examines social and emotional learning (SEL) in Education in Emergencies through critical embodiment theory. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic research, documentary materials, and six widely used EiE-SEL programmes, I trace recurring practices of bodily preparednes...

Exposure route, not dose, is the primary driver of infection patterns for a respiratory virus

Infectious disease severity, shedding, and within-host kinetics can vary substantially with exposure dose, inoculation route, and host factors. However, the relative contributions of these variables to infection heterogeneity remain poorly quantified because small sample sizes in...

Metrology, Standards, and Mission: Synopsis of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS)

The Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS) is an independent, non-profit council composed of experts from academia, government, and industry across all areas of ionizing radiation science and technology, providing leadership, focus, and coordinated actio...

Integrated optimization of collection point selection, UAV routing, and upload scheduling for UAV-aided data collection

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a flexible means of collecting data from spatially distributed sensor networks in intelligent transportation systems. This study investigates a UAV-assisted data collection problem that jointly optimizes collection point (CP) selection, UAV...

Association between air sampling for viral respiratory pathogens and acute respiratory tract infection cases in the emergency department

Abstract The emergency department (ED) is a common site for respiratory viral surveillance, but air sampling has not been thoroughly explored in this setting. In this study, we observed a significant association between COVID-19, influenza A, and RSV detection via air sampling in...

Relative height and vertical status in buildings

Abstract Motivated by research that associates higher positioning with well‐being, we expand the vertical price‐gradient literature by estimating the value of within‐ and between‐building “vertical status”: one's relative vertical position compared to others in the same building...

Anthropogenic aerosol reduction contributes to faster flash drought onset in a changing climate

Flash droughts have emerged as severe hazards, posing growing challenges to natural and socioeconomic systems, yet the influence of recent aerosol reductions on their onset remains unclear. Here, we investigate the impacts of aerosols and their underlying mechanisms using multi-s...