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‘Evaluation of Hydroclimatic Biases in the Community Earth System Model’
“The Mississippi River is a critical waterway in the United States, and hydrologic variability along its course represents a perennial consideration for trade, agriculture, industry, ecosystems, the economy, and communities. Simulations of past, historic, and projected river discharge have been widely used to assess the dynamics and causes of changes in the hydrology of the Mississippi River basin over long time scales and to put changes of climate in context. … Here, we compare observations and reanalysis datasets of key hydrologic variables to CESM1 output within the Mississippi River basin to evaluate model performance and bias.” Find the paper and…
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‘Machine Learning-Guided Field Site Selection for River Classification’
“Sufficient abundance and variety of field site sampling are crucial for obtaining an accurate reach-scale river classification of a regional stream network in support of scientific research and river management. However, many studies still randomly select field sites or only visit accessible streams. … This study developed a general and practical field site selection framework by incorporating machine learning in a human-in-the-loop manner.” Find the paper and full list of authors in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
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‘Facing Distortion: Impact of Spatial Distortions on Upright and Inverted Face Identification’
“Face identification is a critical activity of daily living that may be impaired by blur or distortions caused by vision loss or prosopometamorphopsia. In this study, we examine the face inversion effect as a benchmark for understanding how distortions impact the identification of upright and inverted faces. Bandpass-filtered noise (Fpeak@1–32 cycles/face) was used to generate pixel shifts to distort calm and neutral faces from a standardized face database. … These results suggest that upright face recognition is most impacted by distortions at mid frequencies, whereas inverted face recognition declines more linearly as spatial frequency increases.” Find the paper and full…
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‘A Quantitative Survey of Cogradient and Countergradient Variation in Nature’
“Gradient variation evolves when environmental and genotypic effects on a phenotype covary positively (cogradient variation) or negatively (countergradient variation) across locations, whereas gene-by-environment interactions (G × E) reflect nonadditive genetic and environmental influences on phenotypes. Spatial covariance in environmental and genotypic effects (CovGE) shapes variation in quantitative traits, facilitates local adaptation, and provides insights into eco-evolutionary dynamics.” Find the paper and full list of authors at The American Naturalist.
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‘Phenazines Contribute to Microbiome Dynamics by Targeting Topoisomerase IV’
“Phenazines are highly prevalent, natural bioactive substances secreted by microbes. However, their mode of action and potential involvement in shaping microbiomes remain elusive. Here we performed a comprehensive analysis of over 1.35 million bacterial genomes to identify phenazine-producing bacteria distributed across 193 species in 34 families.” Find the paper and full list of authors at Nature Microbiology.
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Aerial robotic wings — a patent
“Associate professor Alireza Ramezani received a patent for ‘Armwing Structures for Aerial Robots.'”
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Cassella and students win IEEE Outstanding Paper Award
“Assistant professor Cristian Cassella and his electrical engineering students, Onurcan Kaya, PhD’25, and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’24, had their paper ‘Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterial Filters’ selected for the 2024 UFFC Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.”
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‘Thresholds for ‘Byzantinism’ in Architecture Newman University Church, Dublin, and Early English Architectural Histories’
“John Henry Newman was installed as rector of the first Catholic university in the British Isles in 1854. The university church that he built in Dublin (1855–6) physically embodied the concept behind the unprecedented university – the provision of an learned Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony – through a style-based analogy to the Early Church. … I argue here for the importance of features such as the convex leaf-cut capital, the stilted arch, polychrome stone cladding and ‘mosaic’ in our understanding of nineteenth-century Byzantine revival architecture.
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Improving communications with A
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for ‘System for Frequency Sharing in Open Radio Access Networks Using Artificial Intelligence.'”
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Ultra-efficient AI for wearables and IoT
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for ‘Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.'”
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‘Answering Three Talent Questions: A Strategic Playbook For Winning Through People’
“In today’s fast-moving business world, companies feel pressure to stay ahead, innovate and achieve results through people. As CEOs see talent as vital, HR questions become more focused and strategic. Still, many HR leaders struggle to give clear, business-oriented answers. The disconnect isn’t due to talent not being a priority, but because HR efforts seem fragmented. Initiatives are launched quickly, each valuable alone, but together they overwhelm leaders and misalign with business goals. This causes frustration, diluted impact and loss of trust in HR. To bridge this gap, HR must answer Marc Effron’s ‘The CEO’s Three Questions About Talent.'”
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‘Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity’
“This paper aims to design meta-lamina for desired properties including overall auxeticity via tuning local anisotropy of each discretized meta-patch. As an example, material system, meta-lamina with square patches is explored. By tuning the local anisotropy in each patch, desired overall elastic material constants, including the effective stiffnesses and effective Poisson’s ratios can be achieved. Interestingly, a large design pool for negative in-plane Poisson’s ratio are discovered and identified via systematic Finite Element (FE) simulations.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Materials and Design.
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‘On-Demand Delivery of Fibulin-1 Protects the Basement Membrane During Cyclic Stretching in C. elegans’
“Basement membrane (BM) extracellular matrices enwrap and structurally support tissues. Whether BMs are uniquely constructed for tissues to undergo repetitive stretching and recoil events is unknown. During C. elegans ovulation, the spermathecal BM stretches ∼1.7-fold and then recoils to its original shape every 20 min to passage hundreds of oocytes. … Together, our study identifies an on-demand FBL-1 delivery system that protects the BM network when it is stretched, thereby allowing repeated rounds of tissue expansion and recovery.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Developmental Cell.
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“In this paper, we demonstrate that wormholes must be entangled regardless of asymptotic boundary conditions. By assuming black hole complementarity, we argue that traversable wormholes instantiate entanglement-assisted quantum channels and that this entanglement must be present between the stretched horizons as an initial condition prior to traversability. This result demonstrates the forward direction of the ER/EPR conjectures.” Find the paper and full list of authors in the International Journal of Modern Physics D.
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‘Why ‘Soft Skills’ Will Be The Most Valuable Investment Your Company Can Make’
“As industries automate more routine tasks, the demand for distinctly human skills is rising. Here’s how to equip your team to rise to the challenge.”
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Prometheus initiative aims for cleaner combustion technology
“Chemical engineering professor Richard West, in collaboration with Kyle Niemeyer from Oregon State University, was awarded a $599,925 NSF grant for ‘Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR Model and Data Cyberinfrastructure for Predictive Combustion Science.’ By helping to transition the combustion research community from its traditionally closed nature to an Open Science and collaborative paradigm, this grant aims to demonstrate that the open, distributed and zero-barrier model of data sharing can serve as a model for other fields.”
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‘How Emerging Market Multinationals Reshape Global Value Chains’
“Most studies on global value chains focus on advanced economy multinationals that develop products in-house and retain high-value added activities, while outsourcing low-value tasks, like component manufacturing and assembly, to emerging market suppliers. However, this dynamic is shifting as increasing numbers of emerging market suppliers are becoming multinationals and exerting control over more value chain activities. Initially positioned as suppliers for western brands, these companies have leveraged their roles in global value chains to learn, acquire advanced capabilities, and strategically expand through acquisitions.”
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‘Toward an Updated Corporate Governance Framework: Fundamentals, Disruptions and Future Research’
“This essay explores the evolving landscape of corporate governance amid global disruptions and changing stakeholder demands. We argue that traditional governance models are unable to effectively address contemporary challenges such as technological advancements, sustainability pressures, and geopolitical conflicts. While corporate governance has traditionally prioritized financial metrics and majority shareholders, there is a growing shift toward incorporating broader societal and environmental considerations. As a result, we highlight the need for a new corporate governance framework that supports the evolving nature of organizations and their corporate governance practices.”
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‘Accurate Density Determination of Various Natural Stones Employing Archimedes’ Principle and a New Non-Destructive Liquid Pycnometer for Solids’
“In this study we examine the accuracy of the level method, the overflow method and the mass-based suspension method in determining the density of natural stones. We find that the density of polycrystalline materials, which is challenging to be determined by conventional crystallographic techniques (X-Ray diffraction, neutron diffraction), … can instead be assessed accurately using a mass-based method and inexpensive instruments. In addition, the methods we explore are non-destructive which preserve the natural stones. The density is determined with a mass rather than a volume determination method.” Find the paper and full list of authors at PrePrints.org.
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‘What Business Owners Can Learn From World War II Strategic Bombing’
“What can small business owners, family firms, and startups possibly learn from strategic bombing campaigns during World War II? More than you might expect. Under the pressure of high stakes, constrained resources, and uncertain outcomes, wartime leaders faced challenges strikingly similar to those confronting today’s business leaders. The lessons they learned—about focus, adaptability, logistics, morale, and ethical leadership—are as relevant in today’s marketplace as they were in wartime Europe and the Pacific. This article distills those insights into six powerful takeaways for entrepreneurs navigating complexity and growth.”
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‘The Impact of Ownership on Global Strategy:Owner Diversity and Non-Financial Objectives’
“In this special issue introduc-tion, we analyze how a firm’s international ownershipaffects its global strategy. We reinterpret the literatureby grouping dominant owners into four categories:(1) individuals (entrepreneurs and families), (2) labor(managers and employees), (3) state (national and sub-national governments), and (4) institutions (pensionfunds, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity, ven-ture capital, and impact investors). We argue thatalthough all seek financial returns from their invest-ments, they differ markedly in their non-financialobjectives, resulting in differences in strategies forexpanding abroad.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Global Strategy Journal.
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‘Dynamics of Disordered Intermediates During the Two-Electron Alkaline MnO2 Conversion Reaction for Grid-Scale Batteries’
“Widespread energy storage for the grid will require batteries with low cost and high safety. Intercalation cathodes are typically limited to the transfer of only one electron per transition metal atom or less, negatively impacting cost and energy density. In this work, we report on the rechargeable alkaline MnO2 cathode, which cycles reversibly from the Mn(IV) to Mn(II) state, providing two electrons of capacity per Mn atom.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Joule.
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Heat-resistant ceramic patent for wireless devices
“Electrical and computer engineering University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith professor Vincent Harris was awarded a patent for developing a ‘Ceramic Frequency Selective Surface.'”
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NSF grant awarded for adaptive clothing
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/mechanical and industrial engineering assistant professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for ‘Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.'”
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Restuccia and Jornet receive NSF grant for AI-incorporated hardware
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering professor and associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University, Florida International University, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, were awarded a $200,000 NSF grant for ‘DHARMA.AI Digital Hardware + Analog-RF for Multifunctional Apertures with AI.'”
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Patent for automated of drone swarm networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Software Defined Drone Network Control System.'”