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Invisible Aircraft In U.S. Airspace: Regulatory Gaps And Mid-Air Collision Risk For Part 121 Operators, Philip Vandette

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

Scheduled air carrier aircraft operate at large and small commercial airports across the U.S. National Airspace System. These turbine-powered aircraft fly at high speeds during departure and approach, yet many commercial airports are not covered by regulations requiring general aviation aircraft to transmit their positions, and some remain exempt from existing requirements. This regulatory gap forces airline pilots to rely on see-and-avoid methods that are impractical at turbine aircraft speeds. This study conducts a quantitative exploratory analysis of three data sources, using a PRISMA-style flow diagram, to examine the frequency of near mid-air collisions involving airline and general aviation aircraft …

Transdiagnostic Alterations In White Matter Microstructure Associated With Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviours In The Enigma Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviours Consortium, Laura S Van Velzen, Lejla Colic, Zuriel Ceja, Maria R Dauvermann, Luca M Villa, Hannah S Savage, Yara J Toenders, Niousha Dehestani, Alyssa H Zhu, Adrian I Campos, Lauren E Salminen, Martin Alda, Ingrid Agartz, Nina Alexander, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola, Elizabeth D Ballard, Nerisa Banaj, Carlotta Barkhau, Zeynep Başgöze, Jochen Bauer, Francesco Benedetti, Klaus Berger, Bianca Besteher, Katharina Brosch, Manuel Canal-Rivero, Simon Cervenka, Romain Colle, Colm G Connolly, Emmanuelle Corruble, Philippe Courtet, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Kathryn R Cullen, Udo Dannlowski, Jeremy Deverdun, Ana M Diaz-Zuluaga, Lorielle M F Dietze, Jennifer W Evans, Negar Fani, Kira Flinkenflügel, Naomi P Friedman, Ian H Gotlib, Nynke A Groenewold, Dominik Grotegerd, Tomas Hajek, Alexander S Hatoum, Marco Hermesdorf, Ian B Hickie, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Tiffany C Ho, Yuki Ikemizu, Frank Iorfino, Jonathan C Ipser, Yuko Isobe, Andrea P Jackowski, Fabrice Jollant, Tilo Kircher, Melissa Klug, Sheri-Michelle Koopowitz, Anna Kraus, Axel Krug, Emmanuelle Le Bars, Elisabeth J Leehr, Meng Li, Elizabeth T C Lippard, Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, Ivan I Maximov, Andrew M Mcintosh, Katie A Mclaughlin, Sean R Mcwhinney, Susanne Meinert, Elisa Melloni, Philip B Mitchell, Benson Mwangi, Igor Nenadić, Stener Nerland, Emilie Olie, Victor Ortiz-García De La Foz, Pedro M Pan, Fabricio Pereira, Fabrizio Piras, Federica Piras, Sara Poletti, Andrew E Reineberg, Gloria Roberts, Rafael Romero-García, Matthew D Sacchet, Giovanni A Salum, Anca-Larisa Sandu, Carl M Sellgren, Eiji Shimizu, Harry R Smolker, Jair C Soares, J Douglas Steele, Frederike Stein, Dan J Stein, Benjamin Straube, Lea Teutenberg, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Paula Usemann, Romain Valabregue, Johanna Valencia-Echeverry, Gerd Wagner, Gordon Waiter, Martin Walter, Heather C Whalley, Mon-Ju Wu, Tony T Yang, Carlos A Zarate, Andre Zugman, Giovana B Zunta-Soares, Kees Van Heeringen, Sanne J H Van Rooij, Nic Van Der Wee, Steven Van Der Werff, Paul M Thompson, Hilary P Blumberg, Anne-Laura Van Harmelen, Miguel E Rentería, Neda Jahanshad, Enigma Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviours Consortium, Lianne Schmaal

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Previous studies have suggested that alterations in white matter (WM) microstructure are implicated in suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs). However, findings of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have been inconsistent. In this large-scale mega-analysis conducted by the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours (ENIGMA-STB) consortium, we examined WM alterations associated with STBs. Data processing was standardised across sites, and resulting WM microstructure measures (fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), mean diffusivity and radial diffusivity) for 24 WM tracts and one global measure were pooled across 40 cohorts. We compared these measures among individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis and lifetime history of …

The Prospector, October 24, 2025, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

No abstract provided.

Revised Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Unreclaimed Sites: Ur-08 (Anderson Shaft) Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

The Mosaic, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Parental And Staff Experiences Of Participation In The Report-Bpd Feasibility Study: Insights From An Embedded Qualitative Research, Wisam Muhsen, Ana Guillot-Lozano, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Highlights: What are the main findings? Parents exhibited a clear understanding of the study’s aims and procedures and expressed confidence in its safety, whereas healthcare professionals displayed inconsistent awareness. Both parents and staff valued participation, highlighted emotional and logistical challenges in the neonatal unit environment, and offered practical suggestions to improve future neonatal research engagement. What are the implications of the main findings? Sustained, multi-directional communication is essential to maintain staff engagement and ensure consistent understanding across all research stakeholders. Embedding family-centred, emotionally supportive strategies—such as structured reflective tools and timely feedback—can enhance ethical recruitment, retention, and data quality in …

Radiome: An Automated Home-Based Radio, Music Playlist, And Diary Reminder System: Report On Recruitment, Music Compilation, And Listening, And Preliminary Testing Of Heart Rate Activated Music, Alexander Street, Paul Fernie, Jorg Christfried Fachner, Patrizia Di Campli San Vito, Nicolas Farina, Ming Hung Hsu, Leonardo Muller, Stephen Brewster, Sube Banerjee, Alexis Kirke, Hari Shaji, Paulo Itaborai, Eduardo Reck Miranda

Peninsula Medical School

Background: One of the leading reasons for early admission to a care home in dementia is the escalation of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), and music listening can help regulate these symptoms.Aims: RadioMe was a project designed for people living at home with dementia to build a system to help them maintain the highest quality of life there for as long as possible, with three functional components: 1. Streaming radio; 2. Providing pre-recorded spoken diary reminders; 3. interrupting the radio with pre-compiled playlists when a wrist-worn heart rate (HR) monitor detects stress. This article reports on the first two stages of this …

Optimizing Tensor Train Decomposition In Dnns For Risc-V Architectures Using Design Space Exploration And Compiler Optimizations, Theologos Anthimopoulos, Milad Kokhazadeh, Vasilios Kelefouras, Benjamin Himpel, Georgios Keramidas

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become indispensable in many real-life applications like natural languageprocessing, and autonomous systems. However, deploying DNNs on resource-constrained devices, e.g., inRISC-V platforms, remains challenging due to the high computational and memory demands of fully connected(FC) layers, which dominate resource consumption. Low-rank factorization (LRF) offers an effective approachto compressing FC layers, but the vast design space of LRF solutions involves complex tradeoffs amongFLOPs, memory size, inference time, and accuracy, making the LRF process complex and time-consuming. Thisarticle introduces an end-to-end LRF design space exploration methodology and a specialized design tool foroptimizing FC layers on RISC-V processors. Using …

Beyond The Diagnosis: Creativity, Compassion, And Clinical Insight In Dental Education, Casper Jonker, Lambert Sofia, Sema Halis, Leah Harper, Wendy Smith

Peninsula Dental School

No abstract provided.

Lomatce: Local Model-Agnostic Time Series Classification Explanations, Ephrem Tibebe Mekonnen, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio

Conference papers

Deep learning models perform exceptionally well in time series classification, but their lack of interpretability remains a significant challenge. Although explainable AI (XAI) techniques are well established for image and tabular data, adapting these methods to time series is challenging due to temporal dependencies. Existing feature importance methods often treat each time step as an independent feature, ignoring temporal relationships or segmenting the series into fixed-size windows, which can lead to the omission of critical subsequences. This paper introduces a novel, local, model-agnostic interpretability method designed explicitly for time series data without segmentation. The technique generates neighbouring samples by randomly …

Observing System Needs For Understanding Carbon–Climate Feedbacks, Dustin Carroll, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael Keller, David S. Schimel, A. Anthony Bloom

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Carbon–climate (CC) feedbacks — arising from response of land and ocean carbon sinks to elevated CO2 and climate warming — are critical yet highly uncertain drivers of Earth’s climate trajectory. Processes such as permafrost thaw, tropical forest dieback, reduced ocean uptake, and intensifying climate extremes are already weakening natural carbon sinks, with potential to amplify warming and accelerate crossing of tipping points. Detecting and quantifying these dynamics requires sustained, high-resolution, spatially-comprehensive Earth Observations. Drawing on outcomes from a 2024 community workshop, we identify three core priorities for advancing CC feedback monitoring: (1) frequent, long-term measurements of carbon fluxes and stocks …

From Waste To Wall Finish: Developing And Characterizing Sustainable Concrete Finishes With High-Volume Fly Ash And Biochar For Interior Applications, Prajwal Dudhane

Theses

This study explores the creation of environmentally friendly interior concrete finishes by recycling agricultural and industrial waste. In a 1:3 cementitious-to-aggregate mortar mix, the study investigates high-volume (30%) cement replacement using fly ash (FA30), biochar (BC30), and a hybrid combination (FAB30). It illustrates the viability of converting waste streams into workable architectural finishes through meticulous material investigation, mechanical testing, and aesthetic evaluation. Different performance characteristics were found by the technical examination. FA30 outperformed the control mix with a 14-day compressive strength of 8.00 MPa thanks to pozzolanic activity and decreased water demand. On the other hand, BC30 (7.33 MPa) significantly …

Semi-Automated Extraction Of Active Fire Edges From Tactical Infrared Observations Of Wildfires, Christopher C. Giesige, Eric Goldbeck-Dimon, Andrew Klofas, Mario Miguel Valero

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Highlights: What are the main findings? This article presents an image processing method to semi-automatically track wildfire progression. The algorithm was successfully applied to aerial infrared imagery acquired during tactical fire management operations. What are the implications of the main finding? These results illustrate how tactical data can be used in fire behavior studies. The proposed method may facilitate real-time analysis of tactical information during wildfire emergencies. Remote sensing of wildland fires has become an integral part of fire science. Airborne sensors provide high spatial resolution and can provide high temporal resolution, enabling fire behavior monitoring at fine scales. Fire …

Additive Effects Of N-Acetylcysteine And [R4W4] Combination Treatment On Mycobacterium Avium, Kayvan Sasaninia, Iffat Hasnin Era, Nezam Newman, Jesse Melendez, Wajiha Akif, Eashan Sharma, Omid Nikjeh, Ira Glassman, Cristián Jiménez, Navya Sharma, Ama Xu, Maria Lambros, Miou Zhou, Rakesh Tiwari, Vishwanath Venketaraman

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Mycobacterium avium is an opportunistic pathogen and a leading contributor to nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in immunocompromised individuals. However, treatment duration, antibiotic toxicity, and resistance present challenges in the management of mycobacterium infections, prompting the need for novel treatment. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has demonstrated potent antimycobacterial activity, while antimicrobial peptides such as the cyclic [R₄W₄] have shown additive effects when combined with first-line antibiotics. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism and efficacy of NAC and [R₄W₄] combination therapy against M. avium. A membrane depolarization assay was used to evaluate the effects of …

Lorbin: Efficient Binning Of Long-Read Metagenomes By Multiscale Adaptive Clustering And Evaluation, Wei Xue, Zuo Liu, Yaozhong Zhang, Waseem Raza, Yarong Li, Li Jiang, Ye Tao, Jun Qian, Jousset Alexandre, Fang-Jie Zhao, Yangchun Xu, Fritz Sedlazeck, Qirong Shen, Gaofei Jiang, Zhong Wei

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Long-read sequencing has transformed metagenomics and improved the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). However, current binning methods struggle with identifying unknown species and managing imbalanced species distributions. Here, we present LorBin, an unsupervised binner specially designed to reconstruct MAGs in natural microbiomes. LorBin deploys a two-stage multiscale adaptive DBSCAN and BIRCH clustering with evaluation decision models using single-copy genes to maximize MAG recovery. LorBin outperforms six competing binners in both simulated and real microbiomes, including oral, gut, and marine samples. LorBin generated 15-189% more high-quality MAGs with high serendipity and identified 2.4-17 times more novel taxa than state-of-the-art binning methods. …

Compromised Pressure-Generating Capacity Of Diaphragmatic Muscle And Its Interaction With The Lower Rib Cage At High Lung Volume During Airway Occlusion, Aladin M Boriek, Noralis Rodriguez-Santiago, Sanghyun Kim, Aubri Ford, Shari Wynd, Rolf D Hubmayr

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The pressure generating capacity of the diaphragm is generally thought to be compromised at high lung volume either due to loss of curvature or loss of its membrane tension. At a state of hyperinflation during airway occlusion at total lung capacity, the diaphragmatic muscle is forced to contract from an initial shorter length, the zone of apposition narrows, insertional force on the chest wall is reduced and abdominal compliance falls. We hypothesize that these altered mechanical conditions at high lung volume lead to a loss of the pressure generating capacity that is mediated by excessive muscle shortening rather than loss …

Racial Disparities In Clonal Hematopoiesis And Their Impact On Hematologic Malignancies, Zijian Zhang, Chao Cheng

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is a known risk factor for hematologic malignancies (HM), but its distribution and clinical implications across diverse ancestries remain poorly characterized. In this study, we investigated CHIP and its progression to HM in a large, racially diverse cohort from the All of Us Research Program, comprising 245,388 participants. We identified 10,446 CHIP driver mutations in 9,476 individuals. Our analysis revealed clear racial disparities in CHIP prevalence and mutational profiles: African American (AA) individuals had higher odds of CHIP and exhibited distinct mutation patterns compared to White American (WA) individuals. Consistent with prior studies, CHIP …

The Realities Of Roadkill: Challenges And Opportunities For Wildlife Transportation Mitigation, Rachel Wheat

PSU Transportation Seminars

Transportation infrastructure is critical for our communities and economies, but the roadways we depend on for travel have significant negative impacts on wildlife populations. Roadkill is the most visible consequence, with tens of millions of animals injured or killed on Oregon’s roadways each year. Beyond direct mortality, transportation corridors fragment habitat and can alter wildlife behavior, creating barriers that disrupt wildlife movement and access to critical resources, contributing to population declines. Despite these challenges, opportunities exist for mitigation, including the use of wildlife crossing structures, autonomous animal detection systems, and smarter project siting. This talk will explore the multifaceted challenges …

Transgenerational Adaptation To Hypoxia, Kathleen Kim, Ariel Telger, Gautam Sarkar, Sharan Surya, M Hafiz Rothi, Michael P Meers, Simon Yuan Wang, Eric Lieberman Greer

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Epigenetic inheritance alerts naïve descendants to prepare for stresses that could still be present, whereas distant descendants return to a basal state after several generations without stress. However, organisms are frequently exposed to stresses successively across generations. We found that parental hypoxia exposure increased P0 longevity, caused intergenerational lipid reduction, and elicited transgenerational fertility reduction that was dependent on generationally transmitted small RNAs. Here, we find that

Transdiagnostic Alterations In White Matter Microstructure Associated With Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviours In The Enigma Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviours Consortium, Laura S. Van Velzen, Alexander S. Hatoum, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Post-Traumatic Stress And Genetic Interactions Affect Tobacco And Alcohol Use After Trauma: Findings From A Multi-Ancestry Cohort, Henri M. Garrison-Desany, Stacey L. House, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals Individual And Cohort Level Insights Into Chromosome 9p Syndromes., Yingxi Wang, Eleanor I Sams, Rachel Slaugh, Sandra Crocker, Emily Cordova Hurtado, Sophia Tracy, Ying-Chen Claire Hou, Christopher Markovic, Kostandin Valle, Victoria Tate, Khadija Belhassan, Elizabeth Appelbaum, Titilope Akinwe, Rodrigo T Starosta, Yang Cao, Amber Neilson, Yu Liu, Nathaniel Jensen, Reza Ghasemi, Tina Lindsay, Juana Manuel, Sophia Couteranis, Milinn Kremitzki, Jack Ustanik, Thomas Antonacci, Jeffrey K Ng, Andrew Emory, Laura Metz, Tracie Deluca, Katherine N Lyons, Toni Sinnwell, Brianne Thomeczek, Katherine A King, Christina A Gurnett, Susan K Dutcher, Catherine Gooch, Yang E Li, Amjad Horani, Michael Heinz, Richard Head, Robert Fulton, Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Xiaoxia Cui, Robi D Mitra, F Sessions Cole, Julie Neidich, Patricia I Dickson, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Tychele N Turner, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Previous genomic efforts on chromosome 9p deletion and duplication syndromes have utilized low-resolution strategies (i.e., karyotypes, chromosome microarrays). These studies have provided important initial insights into these syndromes. This current study is the first large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of 100 individuals from families with chromosome 9p syndromes.

METHODS: Through the newly formed 9P-ARCH (Advanced Research in Chromosomal Health: Genomic, Phenotypic, and Functional Aspects of 9p-Related syndromes) research network, we assembled a cohort of individuals from families with chromosome 9p syndromes. WGS was applied to 100 individuals, and other genomic technologies were applied to a subset of individuals. To …

Socioeconomic Disparities And Severity Of Gunshot Injuries In Israel: A Retrospective Review Of National Trauma Registry Data From Public Hospitals 2019-2022, Ahmad Awwad, Layalee Abo Naser, Arnona Ziv, Adi Givon, Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, Jason A Strelzow, Eli Farhat, Shai Luria, Israel Trauma Group

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status (SES) is correlated with gunshot violence. This study examined the associations between SES and the severity of gunshot injuries in Israel.

METHODS: The Israel National Trauma Registry was reviewed for all violence-related gunshot wound patients who were admitted to all public hospitals in Israel from 2019 to 2022. Self-inflicted injuries were excluded. This time frame preceded the regional military conflict that began in October 2023 and did not include any military-related activity. The registry records patient demographics including ethnicity. Severity was assessed on the Injury Severity Score (ISS), and SES was categorized into 10 clusters based on …

Three Generations Under One Roof?: A Study Of Interhousehold Transfers Among Sandwich Generation In Indonesia, Vianey Weda Rahesti, I Dewa Gede Karma Wisana

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

Empirical studies show some negative effects that arise in sandwich generation households. Even the negative impact of the sandwich generation raises the behavior that they want to leave the house. However, the empirical studies only measure sandwich generation if the parents live in the households, so it is necessary to recalculate sandwich generation households in Indonesia through an interhousehold transfer mechanism. This study examines interhousehold transfer differences among sandwich-generation households between parents, siblings, and others in Indonesia. Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2014, this study found that 4.539 or 28,6 percent of households are classified as the sandwich …

The Impact Of Corruption And Fiscal Policy On Economic Growth In Asean Countries, Rizki Apriani, Abdul Bashir, Muhammad Subardin

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

This study investigates the impact of government spending, the interaction between corruption and fiscal levels, government debt, and foreign direct investment on economic growth in seven ASEAN countries. Using the World Development Indicators database in the form of time series from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank for 2000-2021. The approach used is panel data regression using a fixed effect model. The findings show that government spending and foreign direct investment have positive and significant contributions to the economic growth of seven ASEAN countries. There is strong evidence that the interaction between fiscal levels and corruption can distort …

Money Demand Stability With Endogenous Structural Breaks And The Role Of Payment System Innovation In Indonesia, Wishnu Badrawani

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

This study examines the stability of the demand for money function in Indonesia using quarterly data from 2007 to 2021, employing Gregory-Hansen's (1996) cointegration test and Hendry's general-to-specific approaches. The cointegration and error correction models show a causal relationship between money demand and its conventional determinants and payment system innovation. Considering the central bank policy that part of economic reforms captured by the structural break in the cointegration test and the stability test results of the short-run analysis, we confirm the stable narrow money and currency demand and its dynamics in Indonesia. The Gregory and Hansen test found a cointegrating …

The Role Of Tourism Sector On Central Java Economy, Sotya Fevriera, Agatta Shelly Septya Agni

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of the tourism sector on the economy of Central Java province. The analysis method is a random effect model (REM), which is estimated using data from 35 regencies/cities in Central Java during some periods between 2001 and 2023. The result shows that the number of tourists, the number of tourism objects, the number of lodgings, the number of restaurants, and the number of workers on the tourist object, each have a positive and significant effect on the real GRDP. Moreover, this research also found that there is a random effect …

Bank Indonesia's Behavior In Response To The Fed’S Policy, Kiky Indah Sari, Telisa Aulia Falianty

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

Global economic instability is a challenge for the domestic economy, especially for emerging countries. A higher Federal Funds Rate for a longer period affects economic stability. Bank Indonesia plays a role in determining the BI rate to achieve economic goals. Indonesia, as an open economy, needs to consider external aspects in determining monetary policy. The Augmented Taylor Rule framework can facilitate this need to know about the determination of the BI rate. This study aims to identify the behavior of Bank Indonesia in response to the Fed's policy and the phenomenon of higher for longer. The research period was conducted …

Determinants Of Generation Z Working In The Formal And Informal Sectors In West Nusa Tenggara, Luluk Fadliyanti, Wan Roshidah Fadzim, Vici Handalusia, Muhammad Dzul Fadlli

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

This study aims to analyze the factors influencing Generation Z’s decision to work in either the formal or informal sectors in West Nusa Tenggara. A descriptive quantitative approach combined with binary logistic regression analysis was employed. The population consists of 968 Generation Z individuals aged 15–26 years who are currently employed and earning income. The study utilizes secondary data from the August 2023 National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS), obtained from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of West Nusa Tenggara Province, covering respondents across ten districts and cities. The results indicate that income and age have a negative and statistically significant …