Research works

Role of Goldstone mode in nonequilibrium insulator under DC electric field

Measurements of resistive breakdown in electronic systems under a DC electric field have shown that the threshold fields for the insulator-to-metal transition are significantly lower than predicted by single-electron excitation scenarios, such as the Landau-Zener theory. In this...

Lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) impacts whole-organism oxygen consumption in non-target fishes

The application of the lampricide TFM (3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol) to streams infested with larval sea lamprey constitutes the backbone of the Sea Lamprey Control Program in the Laurentian Great Lakes, but native species have greatly varying sensitivities to TFM. Earlier wor...

Autonomous Biogenesis of Early and Late Assembly Intermediates of a Large Ribosomal Subunit in a Minimal System

Abstract Cell-free autonomous biogenesis of ribosomes is important for the bottom-up assembly of an artificial cell and for engineering of functional ribosomes with novel activities. The challenge lies in establishing conditions for a single-step multicomponent synthesis and asse...

Understanding spatial and temporal evolution of progressive excavation damage zone in granitic rocks – development of a novel mine-by and laboratory experimental framework at the BedrettoLab

Abstract. The brittle damage around tunnels in the form of spalling is common in massive crystalline rocks subjected to high in-situ stresses. Understanding the short-term development and long-term evolution of the Excavation Damage Zone (EDZ) is particularly important for deep g...

Estimating amplitude of matter density fluctuations in solar and supernova models using neutrino flavor evolution

Neutrinos can undergo substantial flavor evolution between their production in astrophysical sources-such as the Sun and core-collapse supernovae-and their subsequent detection in terrestrial detectors. This flavor evolution is strongly influenced by the environment that the neut...

Association of Nutrition Services and Length of Stay/Life Expectancy in Long-term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review Protocol

Introduction. According to Statistics Canada, by 2050, 24.9% of Canadians will be aged 65 and above. This continuous aging of the population causes challenges related to older adult population’s good fit nutrition. This is particularly true for those residing in a long-term care...

Vaccination and Economic Recovery

ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic severely hampered human mobility and disrupted a series of economic activities. In this study, I examine the impacts of vaccine coverage on mobility and several other economic indicators in the US. I construct a novel shift‐share instrument that lev...

Beyond compliance: lived experiences of procedural justice for people in custody

Procedural justice theory states that people are more likely to comply with authority when they perceive decision making to be fair. While research within prison settings has frequently examined procedural justice in relation to institutional legitimacy and compliance, less atten...

Dynamic pathways of maternal well-being: A longitudinal latent class analysis of risk and adaptive trajectories in low-income families

Maternal well-being is shaped by a dynamic interplay of structural, relational, and psychological factors, yet most research has examined risk processes across broad economic ranges rather than within families experiencing persistent disadvantage. Grounded in ecological systems,...

Entropy dynamics in gravitational collapse: From Minkowski breaking to de Sitter thermodynamics

The origin of black hole entropy remains one of the deepest mysteries in modern physics. Two recent developments offer complementary perspectives on this puzzle: the entropy release from regular Schwarzschild black holes with a de Sitter core (the OCK construction), and the local...

Recommended Second Virial Coefficients for Nitrogen and Oxygen

We provide recommended values for the second virial coefficient, B(T), and its uncertainty, for molecular nitrogen and oxygen. The temperature range covered is 20–3000 K for nitrogen and 20–2000 K for oxygen. The recommendations are based on tuning previously published state-of-t...

Human-in-the-loop large language model framework for identification of cutaneous immune-related adverse events

This study evaluated a retrieval-augmented, multi-agent large language model (LLM)–driven, human-in-the-loop framework for detecting cutaneous immune-related adverse events (cirAEs) from clinical notes. Compared with the unassisted manual-review group, the LLM-assisted group demo...

A physics-assisted deep neural network-based closure framework for velocity gradient dynamics in compressible flows with vibrational non-equilibrium

In this study, we propose a dynamical model for the evolution of velocity gradients in compressible turbulent flows with vibrational non-equilibrium effects, using physics-assisted deep neural networks. Such models provide a powerful framework for understanding the nonlinear phys...

Transforming Solid Waste Management: Business Model Innovation for A Circular Steel Industry

The steel industry must transition from the linear “take-make-dispose” model to a circular economy, where solid waste management serves as a critical enabler. Although CE has been widely studied, the role of Solid Waste Management (SWM) remains underexplored. This study employs I...

Systematic assessment of sequencing depth requirements for Hi-C-derived metrics

Abstract Background Hi-C experiments produce genome-wide chromatin contact maps from which structural features can be quantified across multiple genomic scales, ranging from megabase-scale compartments to kilobase-scale boundaries and chromatin loops. Although high-resolution ana...

Dendritic computation for abstract rule-based flexible decision-making

Intelligent behavior involves flexible integration of sensory input and abstract rule knowledge. Dendritic computation has been shown to contribute to top-down modulation of sensory processing; however, whether and how it is involved in flexible cognitive processing remains to be...

Short-term indoor fine particulate matter exposure impedes cognitive performance and autonomic nervous system in adults

Evidence suggests short-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution can impact health, yet its wider cognitive effects and underlying mechanisms are unknown. In this randomized single-blind crossover lab-based study, 90 working-age adults were exposed to two st...

Spontaneous Nanopatterning and Strain Relaxation in SiGe Layers Grown by Oxidative Solid‐Phase Epitaxy

ABSTRACT The wafer‐scale monolithic integration of III‐V materials on Si would lead to revolutionary optoelectronic hardware for data, computing, and other applications. However, heteroepitaxy of III‐Vs on Si requires overcoming the large lattice and thermal mismatches between th...

Cost-Preserving Distributed Approximate Pattern Mining for Scalable RDF Graph Summarization

RDF graph summarization methods based on approximate pattern mining have been shown to produce high-quality summaries. They produce compact summaries while providing explicit control over the trade-off between compression and reconstruction quality. However, existing cost-based a...

Geometric mode steering of the quantum Mpemba effect

The slowest Liouvillian mode often bottlenecks the relaxation of an open quantum system to its steady state. Standard strategies circumvent this bottleneck by selecting special initial states or engineering the dissipator. Here we show that neither is necessary. We introduce a pr...