Research works

Cost and Data Quality Impact of Fraud Mitigation in Online Research: Framework Application and Evaluation Study

BACKGROUND Fully remote online health research is vulnerable to fraudulent participation that can threaten data validity and divert study resources. Although fraud mitigation is increasingly necessary in online research, mitigation efforts are rarely described systematically or e...

Biased active particles in a three-dimensional tube: Theory, simulations, and validity criterion

We investigate the biased transport of active Brownian particles (ABPs) confined in a three-dimensional (3D) corrugated tube under a constant external bias. Within a sufficiently low-activity regime, we derive a generalized Fick–Jacobs (FJ) equation that reduces the 3D Fokker–Pla...

Reaffirming the validity of unobtrusive personality measures: A comment on Harms et al. (2025) and guidance for the field

Abstract As unobtrusive measures of CEO personality have become more common in organizational research, questions about their validity have grown. Harms et al., Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (2025) 98, e70052 recently formalized some of these concerns in...

Elevated Blood Pressure Is Causally Associated With Larger Subcortical Gray Matter Structure Through Perivascular Clearance Routes

ABSTRACT Background This study aimed to investigate the association between elevated blood pressure (BP) and subcortical gray matter structures, and to elucidate the causality and underlying mechanisms. Methods This study enrolled 1012 participants from a multicenter, population‐...

Ungrievable lives: State and non-state authoritarianism in the making of Uyghur foreign fighters

While there is a broad literature on the policies of authoritarian regimes toward their populations abroad, we know far less about the inclusionary and exclusionary policies of authoritarian host states toward displaced populations residing within their own territories. This arti...

Multiprofessional and interprofessional simulation training for advance care planning: a systematic review

Abstract Background Recent international guidelines describe advance care planning (ACP) as evolving from isolated communication tasks toward an iterative, collaborative process integrating goals-of-care (GOC) discussions, documentation, clinical and ethical reasoning. Simulation...

Tiny Pores, Big Stories: Perforating MXenes for Through-Sheet Transport in Energy and Environmental Applications

Conspectus Transport remains a central bottleneck limiting the practical performance of MXene electrodes and membranes. Although MXenes possess metallic conductivity, hydrophilicity, and rich surface chemistry, their two-dimensional (2D) layered architecture imposes barriers to i...

Explicit sign changes in comparative prime number theory: computer-assisted proofs with checkable certificates

This research report gives rigorous, computer-assisted proofs of several explicit results on oscillations of arithmeticsums, each with a checkable certificate and a verification path that does not depend on the author's software. Main results: (i) an explicit region where the err...

Technology-Mediated Scaffolding to Support Critical Thinking in Pre-Service Teachers’ Academic Writing

Developing critical thinking skills (CTS) is a central goal of higher education, yet pre-service teachers often receive little explicit guidance on how to apply them in academic or professional writing. This study reports the design, implementation, and initial examination of IDE...

Recreational screen use and internalizing problems from preadolescence to young adulthood in a longitudinal twin cohort with co-twin comparison

Abstract The mental health impact of increasing recreational screen use among youth has raised substantial concerns, yet questions about causality remain unresolved. Here, leveraging a co-twin control design, we examined associations between screen use and internalizing problems...

Smart oxygen delivery using IoT-based physiological monitoring and adaptive oxygen flow control

Abstract This study presents the design and development of a portable oxygen concentrator prototype with IoT-enabled monitoring and automated oxygen-flow regulation based on measured physiological parameters. An ESP32 microcontroller processes data and handles wireless communicat...

Stochastic simulation of breakeven cost distributions for mortality-reducing interventions in feedlot cattle

Abstract Mortality is one of the most impactful and costly outcomes in feedlot cattle production, yet quantification of the economic value of interventions to reduce it across differing cattle populations and market conditions has been limited. The primary research objective was...

Characteristics of Gravity Flow Deposits in the Benin Basin (Benin) and Implications for Oil and Gas Exploration

ABSTRACT In recent years, the transform passive continental margin basins in the equatorial segment of the South Atlantic have frequently yielded significant hydrocarbon discoveries, attracting widespread attention. The depositional models of gravity flows and future exploration...

Plastic Pellets on Riverbanks: Combining Smartphone Imaging and SWIR Hyperspectral Unmixing

Plastic pellets (2-5 mm industrial feedstock granules) are an increasingly important component of plastic pollution in aquatic environments. Their small size, variable weathering state, and similarity to natural substrates such as sand and gravel make their detection and characte...

Automatic Generation of Inorganic Solid‐State Electrolytes via Unified Multi‐Modal Network

ABSTRACT Accurate prediction of ion transport properties remains a key bottleneck in computational discovery of solid‐state electrolytes, particularly because experimentally measured ionic conductivities are sparse and strongly dependent on crystal structure. Here we introduce US...

Disease‐Specific Optimal Blood Glucose Control Strategies in Critically Ill Patients: Retrospective Cohort Study and Network Meta‐analysis

ABSTRACT Background Optimal glucose targets for critically ill patients are likely to vary by underlying condition, yet a ‘one‐size‐fits‐all’ approach persists. Aim Determining disease‐specific glucose thresholds may help achieve the lowest mortality rates. Study Design This stud...

The Source of ν ≈ 1: Why ν ≈ 1 Now?(ν ≈ 1 の源流:なぜ今、ν ≈ 1 なのか)

This paper asks why the present universe gives ν ≈ 1 for the collapse-threshold ratio in the exchange model of Lotum Field Theory, and what the preceding paper left open. It does not derive ν₀ (fitted to be about 0.97). Within a fixed model the value is precise, but it moves when...

Nonionic Pyrene-Based Amphiphiles Forming Wormlike Micelles: Synthesis and Characterization

Abstract Wormlike micelles are elongated, flexible supramolecular assemblies whose dynamic structure and anisotropic morphology have attracted considerable interest as functional soft materials. The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into anisotropic supramolecular nanostruct...

Architecture and Identity: Resolving the Construction History of the LeRay Mansion

MA thesis involving LeRay Mansion using DOD funding for dendrochrology done at the mansion

Subcutaneous adipocyte glucocorticoid-responsive transcripts after modest weight gain in South Asian and White European men: an exploratory longitudinal study

Abstract Aims/hypothesis Adipocyte glucocorticoid (GC)-responsive transcripts are linked to lipid storage and insulin sensitivity, and South Asians develop insulin resistance at lower BMI than White Europeans. We tested whether modest short-term weight gain was associated with ad...