• How Gender Affects Motor Vehicle Crashes: A Case Study from San Antonio, Texas 

  Billah, Khondoker; Sharif, Hatim O.; Dessouky, Samer (2022-06-08)

  Traffic crashes are among the leading causes of injuries and fatalities worldwide. The main assumption of this study is that traffic crash rates, injury severity, and driving behaviors differ by the driver’s gender. ...

• Hydrodynamic and Polyelectrolyte Properties of Actin Filaments: Theory and Experiments 

  Alva, Ernesto; George, Annitta; Brancaleon, Lorenzo; Marucho, Marcelo (2022-06-16)

  Actin filament’s polyelectrolyte and hydrodynamic properties, their interactions with the biological environment, and external force fields play an essential role in their biological activities in eukaryotic cellular ...

• Switching to a Standard Chow Diet at Weaning Improves the Effects of Maternal and Postnatal High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diet on Cardiometabolic Health in Adult Male Mouse Offspring 

  Chiñas Merlin, Andrea; Gonzalez, Kassandra; Mockler, Sarah; Perez, Yessenia; Jia, U-Ter Aondo; Chicco, Adam J.; Ullevig, Sarah L.; Chung, Eunhee (2022-06-18)

  Cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to obesity-associated heart disease. Maternal and postnatal diet plays an important role in cardiac function, yet the impacts of a mismatch between prenatal and postweaning ...

• Predictors of Variations in Residential Water Consumption in Central Texas 

  Potter, Lloyd B.; Tremaine, Darrel M.; Banner, Jay L. (2022-06-03)

  Background: The 100th Meridian in Texas aligns with a corridor of large and rapidly growing urban areas with a growing water demand and limited supply. Understanding the variations in residential water consumption may ...

• Theory of Weakly Polydisperse Cytoskeleton Filaments 

  Warshavsky, Vadim; Marucho, Marcelo (2022-05-17)

  Cytoskeleton filaments have the extraordinary ability to change conformations dynamically in response to alterations of the number density of actins/tubulin, the number density and type of binding agents, and the electrolyte ...

• Simulation and Modeling of Optical Properties of U, Th, Pb, and Co Nanoparticles of Interest to Nuclear Security Using Finite Element Analysis 

  Gharibshahi, Elham; Alamaniotis, Miltos (2022-05-17)

  In this work, the optical characteristics of uranium (U), lead (Pb), cobalt (Co), and thorium (Th) nanoparticles are fashioned and simulated employing the finite element analysis (FEA) approach concerning multiple particle ...

• Analysis and Development of a Small-Scale Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Brayton Cycle 

  Patel, Raj C.; Bass, Diego C.; Dukuze, Ganza Prince; Andrade, Angelina; Combs, Christopher S. (2022-05-13)

  Carbon dioxide’s (CO₂) ability to reach the supercritical phase (7.39 MPa and 304.15 K) with low thermal energy input is an advantageous feature in power generation design, allowing for the use of various ...

• Minding Mental Health: Clinicians’ Engagement with Youth Suicide Prevention 

  Klee, Katherine; Bartkowski, John P. (2022-05-11)

  Suicidal ideation and deaths among children and adolescents have seen an unprecedented rise over the last ten years, recently further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explores mental health professionals’ ...

• Religion and Help-Seeking: Theological Conservatism and Preferences for Mental Health Assistance 

  Moreno, Ashley N.; Bartkowski, John P.; Xu, Xiaohe (2022-05-05)

  Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness to seek mental health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence ...

• Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Estimate the Compressive Strength of Geopolymers 

  Zou, Yong; Zheng, Chao; Alzahrani, Abdullah Mossa; Ahmad, Waqas; Ahmad, Ayaz; Mohamed, Abdeliazim Mustafa; Khallaf, Rana; Elattar, Samia (2022-04-26)

  The depletion of natural resources and greenhouse gas emissions related to the manufacture and use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) pose serious concerns to the environment and human life. The present research focuses on ...

• Reevaluating the Language of Learning Advantage in Bilingual Arithmetic: An ERP Study on Spoken Multiplication Verification 

  Cerda, Vanessa R.; Montufar Soria, Paola; Wicha, Nicole Y. (2022-04-21)

  Many studies of bilingual arithmetic report better performance when verifying arithmetic facts in the language of learning (LA+) over the other language (LA−). This could be due to language-specific memory representations, ...

• Advances in Technological Research for Online and In Situ Water Quality Monitoring—A Review 

  Silva, Gabriel Marinho e; Campos, Daiane Ferreira; Brasil, José Artur Teixeira; Tremblay, Marcel; Mendiondo, Eduardo Mario; Ghiglieno, Filippo (2022-04-22)

  Monitoring water quality is an essential tool for the control of pollutants and pathogens that can cause damage to the environment and human health. However, water quality analysis is usually performed in laboratory ...

• Classical and Bayesian Inference of a Progressive-Stress Model for the Nadarajah–Haghighi Distribution with Type II Progressive Censoring and Different Loss Functions 

  Alotaibi, Refah; Alamri, Faten S.; Almetwally, Ehab M.; Wang, Min; Rezk, Hoda (2022-05-08)

  Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a time-saving technology used in a variety of fields to obtain failure time data for test units in a fraction of the time required to test them under normal operating conditions. This study ...

• A Scientometric Analysis of Predicting Methods for Identifying the Environmental Risks Caused by Landslides 

  Zou, Yong; Zheng, Chao (2022-04-25)

  The effects of a landslide can represent a very big problem, including the death of people, damage to the land, environmental pollution and the loss of natural resources. Landslides are the most important medium for ...

• Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence Regarding the Intrusiveness of Recording Devices in Naturalistic Research 

  LeBlanc, Paul (Journal of Social Sciences ResearchVolume 1, 2016)

  Critics of naturalistic social science research charge that participant awareness of the existence of a recording device alters the behavior of the research participants, known as the “Hawthorne effect.” This study compares ...

• Evil is not evidence 

  Almeida, Mike (Religious Studies;, 2022-03-24)

  The article aims to show that, if S5 is the logic of metaphysical necessity, then no state of affairs in any possible world constitutes any non-trivial evidence for or against the existence of the traditional God. There ...

• Machine learning algorithms for predicting undernutrition among under-five children in Ethiopia 

  Bitew, Fikrewold H.; Sparks, Corey S.; Nyarko, Samuel H. (Public Health Nutrition;Volume 25, Issue 2, 2021-10-08)

  Objective: Child undernutrition is a global public health problem with serious implications. In this study, we estimate predictive algorithms for the determinants of childhood stunting by using various machine learning ...

• Physics of unsteady cylinder-induced shock-wave/transitional boundary-layer interactions 

  Murphree, Zachary R.; Combs, Christopher S.; Yu, Wesley M.; Dolling, David S.; Clemens, Noel T. (Journal of Fluid Mechanics;Volume 918, 2021-05-14)

  Given the current lack of experimental data for shock waves interacting with incoming transitional boundary layers, the goal of this study was to characterize the dynamics of such an interaction to better understand the ...

• In vitro effects of nutraceutical treatment on human osteoarthritic chondrocytes of females of different age and weight groups 

  Amr, Mahmoud; Mallah, Alia; Abusharkh, Haneen; Van Wie, Bernard; Gozen, Arda; Mendenhall, Juana; Idone, Vincent; Tingstad, Edwin; Abu-Lail, Nehal I. (Journal of Nutritional Science;Volume 10, 2021-09-24)

  The in vitro effects of four nutraceuticals, catechin hydrate, gallic acid, α-tocopherol and ascorbic acid, on the ability of human osteoarthritic chondrocytes of two female obese groups to form articular cartilage (AC) ...

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–1820 

  Felipe-Gonzalez, Jorge (The Journal of African History;Volume 62, Issue 3, 2021-11-02)

  In the early nineteenth century a centralized political entity, the Galinhas kingdom, emerged in southernmost Sierra Leone. Based on sources from Cuban, British, American, Spanish, and Sierra Leonean archives, this article ...

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