Submissions from 2026
The Effect of Density Functionals and Basis Sets on QM-Cluster Models of Chorismate Mutase, Donatus A. Agbaglo, Christopher T. Barksdale, Thomas J. Summers, Sarah Pak, Kaustubh S. Koya, and Nathan J. DeYonker
Correction: The influence of model building schemes and molecular dynamics sampling on QM-cluster models: the chorismate mutase case study, Donatus A. Agbaglo, Thomas J. Summers, Qianyi Cheng, and Nathan J. DeYonker
Exposure to General Health Information on Social Media and Belief About the Role of Alternative Tobacco Products in Smoking Cessation Among U.S. Adult Social Media Users, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Mahima Gulabani, Asos Mahmood, and Satish K. Kedia
Dental Visits, Dentist–Patient Communication, and Its Association with Oral Cancer Examination Behavior Among Tobacco/Nicotine Product Users in Western India: A Cross-Sectional Study, Nirmal Ahuja, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Dimple Bajaj, Mahima Gulabani, Hitesh Navaparia, Eugene Lengerich, and Satish K. Kedia
Energetic Interactions, William A. Alexander
Preface, William A. Alexander
Puzzle Solutions, William A. Alexander
Spotted Uranium Killer, William A. Alexander
The Chemistry of Uranium, William A. Alexander
Uranium Hexafluoride Interactions, William A. Alexander
Intermolecular Binding Potentials and Lewis Acid/Base Interactions of Uranium Hexafluoride - Organic Molecule Complexes, William A. Alexander and Katherine A. Charbonnet
Chemistry of Organic Surface Reactions with Uranium Hexafluoride, Kristin K. Anderson, Cari A. Launiere, and William A. Alexander
Navigating Sexual Health and Gender Identity in Homeschooling Contexts: A Qualitative Study of Lived Experiences, Hannah G. Badley, Jonah Stewart, Latrice C. Pichon, and Aeryn Longuevan
Editorial: Advancing antibiotic candidates for eradication of persistent bacterial infections, Laurent A. Bekale, Jessica Amber Jennings, and Xilin Zhao
Between Fidelity and Feeling: A Qualitative Synthesis of Teacher Emotional Labor and Identity in Scripted Classrooms, Jo Anna Boudreaux
A Third-Grade Intervention Model for Struggling Readers in Rural, Low-Income Mississippi Delta Schools, Claire Brindley, Rachel Arthur, Jonathan Bennett, Mehdi Hajilo, Wesley James, and Karen Matthews
Evaluation of a Porcine-Derived Placental Powder Treatment for Skin Wound Healing in an In Vivo Rat Skin Defect Model, Alex Bryan, Matthew Atwill, Andrew Blass Watson, Samantha Hall, Ali Sadeghianmaryan, and Joel D. Bumgardner
An Introduction to Uranium Use, Waste Management, and Advanced Reactors, Elina Charatsidou, Pär Olsson, and William A. Alexander
A Study on Rephrasing Large Earthquakes via the Least Action Principle and Evolving Machine Learning, In Ho Cho and Eunseo Choi
Race and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) behind bars: Examining their combined effect on prison misconduct, Minhae Cho, Doyun Koo, and Bernadette Ombayo
Legal Cynicism as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Risk to Young Adult Arrest, Miriam Clark, Tim McCuddy, Stephen Watts, and Emily Carlson
The influence of infrapatellar fat pad resection on knee joint friction and damping: An in vitro study in New Zealand white rabbits, Will J. Clayton, Davis R. Ballard, Amelia J. Strozier, Maryam F. Afzali, Kelly S. Santangelo, and John L. Williams
Quantifying the impact of the Tamm–Dancoff approximation on the computed spectra of transition-metal systems, Muhammed A. Dada, Sarah Pak, Matthew N. Ward, Megan Simons, and Daniel R. Nascimento
A Streamlined Method for Placement of Diverging-Wave Virtual Sources for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging, Kashta Dozier-Muhammad and Carl D. Herickhoff
Computational Investigation of GNMT-Catalyzed Methyl Transfer Reaction: Integrating MD, QM, and ML Approaches, Jonathan Epih, Anjali Arya, Saghar Gomrok, and Qianyi Cheng
Evaluating bone density with ultrasonic backscatter: Leveraging time-frequency analyses and convolutional neural networks, Hugh E. Ferguson, Carl D. Herickhoff, Ann M. Viano, and Brent K. Hoffmeister
HIV Self-Test Program Preferences Among Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Southern United States: A Discrete Choice Experiment, John Guigayoma, Jason J. Ong, Mariano Kanamori, De Marc Hickson, Lori Ward, Sara J. Becker, Katie Biello, and Tyler Wray
Spatial polarization and persistent crime cores in U.S. counties: a 15-year multi-crime analysis, Mehdi Hajilo and Wesley James
Religion in Shaping Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across US Counties, Mehdi Hajilo, Simranjit Steel, and Wesley James
Mitochondrial transplantation as an immunomodulatory strategy: Modulating polymorphonuclear leukocytes for functional tissue regeneration, Samantha C. Hall, Evan N. Main, and Gary L. Bowlin
Using a Syringe Service Program-Based Community Advisory Board to Expand HIV Testing, Overdose Prevention, and PrEP Linkage in a Southern Black Neighborhood, Mary A. Hatch, Tanja C. Laschober, B. Jack Wyatt, Kai Orozco, Latrice C. Pichon, Robin Lennon-Dearing, Lala Dupree, David Closs, and Chloe Lancaster
A Qualitative Study on Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Collaboration Between Local Health Departments and Hospitals, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, Satish K. Kedia, Michael Schmidt, Coree Entwistle, Erik L. Carlton, and Patrick J. Dillon
2025 International Consensus Meeting on Musculoskeletal Infection: Summary From Biofilm Workgroup on Treatment of Biofilm-Related Infection and Preclinical Models, Jessica Amber Jennings, Hesham Abdelbary, Fatima S. Abdulla, Orfan Arafah, Tarek Benzouak, Hyonmin Choe, Tom Coenye, Débora C. Coraça-Huber, Lorenzo Drago, R. Gustavo Garcia, Graham S. Goh, John Hamilton, Rami Hamoudeh, Noreen J. Hickok, Louise Kruse Jensen, Hernando Gaitan Lee, Bingyun Li, Mojieb Manzary, Adrienn Markovics, Katya McDonald, T. Fintan Moriarty, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Kohei Nishitani, Nicholas J. Norton, Ebru Oral, Javad Parvizi, Jose Del Pozo, and Lauren B. Priddy
A Global Assessment of Uranium Concentrations in Water for Sustainability, Manoj Kumar Jindal, Kiran Patni, Ashutosh Pratap Pande, Garima Punetha, Chitra Pande, Santosh Kumar Sar, William A. Alexander, and Priyanka Tiwari
Leading public health innovation in high schools across local and global settings, Ashish Joshi, Niharika Jha, Kami Geron, Michelle Jeu, Laura Granack, Stephen Shular, Manoj Kumar, Tejinder Kaur, Praveen Guleria, Sanjeev Kumar, Neville Calleja, Lori Ward, Ashraf Elmetwally, Noof Alwatban, Megha Bhatnagar, and Rafaela Rosário
Public Health Hackathon: empowering high school students as tomorrow’s leaders and innovators in public health, Ashish Joshi, Niharika Jha, Michelle Jeu, Kami Geron, and Lori Ward
Mindfulness-based interventions for opioid misuse: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials, Satish K. Kedia, Shreya Sirohi, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Coree Entwistle, Patrick J. Dillon, Asos Mahmood, Hongmei Zhang, Shengqiang Chen, and Michael Schmidt
Comparing Zero-Shot Large Language Model Prompting with Human Coding of Theory Concepts in Student Essays, Shelley Keith, Kristen L. Stives, Philip I. Pavlik, and Laura Jean Kerr
Methamphetamine Use for Weight Control: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Online Narratives, Cheri Kilmurray, Satish K. Kedia, Patrick J. Dillon, Farah Faizah, Coree Entwistle, and Anna Langston
Differences in Spatial Localization of Acoustic Emissions During Stick–Slip and Stable Sliding on Laboratory Fault Gouge, Roshan Koirala, Navin Thapa, and Thomas Goebel
Examining Characteristics of Sexual Ofenses Across Asia, Doyun Koo
Educational attainment and sentencing: An analysis across offense type, sex, and race/ethnicity in Federal Sentencing Outcomes, Doyun Koo, Bryan Holmes, and Ben Feldmeyer
Upper Mantle Heterogeneity and Weak Subduction Boundaries Control Crustal Stress in the Korean Peninsula, Sungho Lee, Chang Soo Cho, Young Hee Kim, Youngsang Kwon, and Eunseo Choi
Transforming academia for equity: implementation at the University of Memphis, Marian Levy, Debra Bartelli, Fawaz Mzayek, Xinhua Yu, Stephen Zanskas, Demetria Frank, Clarion Harris, Andrea Jacobo, Kimberly Harris, and Sandra Silva
Prevalence and factors associated with waterpipe tobacco smoking in South Africa: a scoping review, Tony Lugemwa, Satish Kedia, Coree Entwistle, Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Shafi Bhuiyan, Kenneth Daniel Ward, and Shreya Sirohi
Telehealth services utilization among middle-aged and older informal caregivers: evidence from national-level data in the United States, Asos Mahmood, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Coree Entwistle, Satish Kedia, Courtney Sievers, and Cyril F. Chang
Manuka honey and its component, methyl syringate, shift neutrophil release profiles from pro-inflammatory while preserving pro-regenerative growth factor release in vitro, Evan N. Main, Samantha C. Hall, and Gary L. Bowlin
Utilizing High-Throughput Screening of dHL-60 Inflammatory Behaviors to Evaluate Honey-Derived Molecules’ Potential as Immunomodulatory Biomaterial Additives, Evan N. Main, James C. Huang, and Gary L. Bowlin
Factors Impacting Prosecutorial Discretion among Backlogged Sexual Assault Kits, James C. McCutcheon, Madeline Stewart, Karli Province, and Cameron Dunaway
Counting Mass Murder: Supplementing Current Mass Murder Tracking Systems Using NIBRS (A Short Report), Juan Mei, James McCutcheon, Amaia Iratzoqui, and Aaron Poole
Counting Mass Murder: Supplementing Current Mass Murder Tracking Systems Using NIBRS (A Short Report), Juan Mei, James McCutcheon, Amaia Iratzoqui, and Aaron Poole
2025 International Consensus Meeting on Musculoskeletal Infection: Summary From the Biofilm Workgroup on Biofilm Formation, Persistence, and Host-Environment Interactions, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Débora C. Coraça-Huber, Gerald J. Atkins, Ahmad Abbaszadeh, Armita A. Abedi, Ezzuddin Abuhussein, Joshua S. Bingham, Kyle H. Cichos, Tom Coenye, Lorenzo Drago, John Hamilton, Noreen J. Hickok, Ferdinando Iannotti, Jessica Amber Jennings, Louise Kruse Jensen, Bingyun Li, Mojieb Manzary, T. Fintan Moriarty, Katya McDonald, Kohei Nishitani, Nicholas Norton, Ebru Oral, Javad M. Parvizi, Dina Raafat, Kordo Saeed, Imre Sallai, Edward M. Schwarz, and Claudia Siverino
Polyurethane in bone tissue engineering: 3D-Bioprinting Vs. electrospinning, Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Nasrollah, Mobina Bazari, Nivad Ahmadian, Hamed Alizadeh Sardroud, Emad Naseri, Joel D. Bumgardner, and Ali Sadeghianmaryan
The 2025 International Consensus Meeting on Musculoskeletal Infection: Research Priorities and Future Directions, Ebru Oral, Emanuele Chisari, Hyonmin Choe, Kyle H. Cichos, Tom Coenye, Débora C. Coraça-Huber, Lorenzo Drago, John L. Hamilton, Louise Kruse Jensen, Jessica Amber Jennings, Fintan Moriarty, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Kohei Nishitani, Nicholas Norton, Jay Parvizi, Lauren Priddy, Kordo Saeed, Edward M. Schwarz, Claudia Siverino, Amita Sekar, Margarita Trobos, and Britt Wildemann
Rethinking the Role of Religiosity, Churches, and Faith on the Health and Quality of Life of Black Same Gender-Loving Men, L. C. Pichon, C. J. Chandler, E. D. Wiley, D. E. Thompson, C. London, and A. W. Stubbs
Detailed P- and S-Wave Velocity Models and Fault Structure for the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Christine A. Powell, Charles A. Langston, Mitchell M. Withers, and Holly Withers
Effectiveness of Digital Interventions in Reducing Chemsex-Related Health Risks Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Systematic Review, Frans Judea Samosir, Satish Kedia, Coree Entwistle, Rameshwari Prasad, and Patrick J. Dillon
Engineering Vascular Grafts: The Intersection of Manufacturing Techniques and Immune Response Modulation, Jada K. Sandridge, Samantha C. Hall, and Gary L. Bowlin
Resistivity Structure of the Alabama-Oklahoma Lineament and Mississippi Embayment: Insights Into Crustal Weakness, Heat Flow, and Seismicity of the Region, Kaushik Sarker and Chris Cramer
Theoretical Electronic Spectroscopy of Gas Phase Transition Metal Acetylide Cations (MCCH+, M = Sc···Zn), Haritha K. Sasi, Rebekah A. Lassiter, Devin A. Matthews, and Nathan J. DeYonker
Perspectives on Perpetrators’ Substance Use Among Black and Hispanic Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Michael Schmidt, Satish K. Kedia, Patrick J. Dillon, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, Hassan Arshad, and Kathryn H. Howell
Resolving Local and Global Conformational Heterogeneity of the Human Intrinsically Disordered Proteome, Hossain Shadman, Jesse Dylan Ziebarth, Qianyi Cheng, Mohamed Laradji, and Yongmei Wang
An intersectional analysis of foreign-born status, race, and youth peer victimization: Comparing school and cyber contexts across bullying operationalizations, Faraneh Shamserad, Timothy McCuddy, Doyun Koo, and Ellen Agyei
“What Do I Do with All of These Data?”: A New Pragmatist Framework for Coding and Analysis, Forrest Stuart and Krystal Laryea
RINRUS: A Toolkit for the Construction of Reproducible and Reliable QM-Cluster Models of Enzyme Active Sites, Dominique A. Wappett, Qianyi Cheng, Thomas J. Summers, Taylor J. Santaloci, Donatus A. Agbaglo, Tejaskumar A. Suhagia, Manuel Palma Banos, and Nathan J. DeYonker
Submissions from 2025
A REVIEW OF RESILIENCE RESEARCH OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES IN GLOBAL NORTH COUNTRIES, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi and Stephen Kofi Diko
FRAMING THE RESILIENCE RESEARCH AGENDA OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES IN GLOBAL SOUTH COUNTRIES: A Review, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi and Stephen Kofi Diko
Applying the information–motivation–behavioral model to explore the factors affecting oral cancer screening behavior among tobacco users in western India, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Nirmal A. Ahuja, Vishal Midya, Dimple Bajaj, Mahima Gulabani, Satish K. Kedia, Hitesh Navaparia, and Eugene Lengerich
Factors Influencing US Adolescents’ Exposure and Engagement with E-Cigarette-Related Content on Social Media, Nikhil A. Ahuja, Asos Mahmood, Satish K. Kedia, Mahima Gulabani, Nirmal A. Ahuja, and Joseph Robare
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro, Susan Andreatta and Keri Vacanti Brondo
Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Ti3C2Tx MXene for Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage, Nafiza Anjum, Abdullah Al Noman, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Debashis Sen, Robert A. Lazenby, and Okenwa I. Okoli
High-Yield MILD Synthesis of Ti3C2Tx MXene: Characterization and Application in Developing Energy Storage Device, Nafiza Anjum, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Amr Elattar, Ayomide Sijuade, Egwu E. Kalu, and Okenwa I. Okoli
Acceptance-Based Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Intervention (ACTPrEP) to Engage Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Southern United States: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, Trisha Arnold, Kayla K. Giorlando, Andrew P. Barnett, Brandon A. Gaudiano, Cara M. Antonaccio, A. Rani Elwy, Precious Patrick Edet, Lori M. Ward, Laura Whiteley, Sarah Bailey, Brooke G. Rogers, Avery Leigland, Jack C. Rusley, and Larry K. Brown
Exploring the Spatial Correlation of Blight and Litter: A Case Analysis of Memphis, Tennessee Neighborhoods, Reza Banai and Navid Enayati Shabkolaei
Tablet-Based Hearing Test among Child Clinical Populations: Performance and Preference, Johnnie K. Bass, Sarah E. Warren, Sydney G. Dillard, Anna Lawrence Peeples, Kendrick Li, Skye Jones, Chia Ho Hua, Lu Xie, Siyao Liu, Kirsten K. Ness, Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Celine Richard, and Kevin R. Krull
Nested control co-design of a spar buoy horizontal-axis floating offshore wind turbine, Saeid Bayat, Yong Hoon Lee, and James T. Allison
Democratizing Quantitative Data Analysis and Evaluation in Community-Based Research Through a New Automated Tool, Jonathan Bennett, Mehdi Hajilo, Anna Paula Della Rosa, Rachel Arthur, Wesley James, and Karen Matthews
A Reflective Case Study on Course Creation: “AI, Power, and the Social Construction of Knowledge”, Jo Anna Boudreaux
Identifying Access Barriers to PrEP Among Cisgender Black/African American Women in the United States: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Jo Anna Boudreaux, Cristobal Mario Valdebenito, and Latrice C. Pichon
Reflections on a critically-applied anthropology of conservation and tourism field school in Honduras’ Bay Islands, Keri Vacanti Brondo
Pre-implementation Stage Research to Guide Trauma-Informed Care for Youth With HIV in the Southern US: A Multimethod Study, Leslie Lauren Brown, Megan Leigh Wilkins, Latrice Crystal Pichon, Jamie Linn Stewart, Robert Kenneth Douglas McLean, Jessica Mc Dermott Sales, Carolyn Marie Audet, Samantha Veronica Hill, and April Christine Pettit
Exploring Co-production as an Implementation Strategy for Trauma-Informed Care in a Youth-Focused HIV Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee: Mixed Methods Research, Leslie Lauren Brown, Megan L. Wilkins, Robert Kenneth Douglas McLean, Jamie Lynn Stewart, Nehali D. Patel, Almariana Jessica Acuña, Carolyn Marie Audet, Jessica M. Sales, April C. Pettit, and Latrice C. Pichon
Demystifying Traumatic Experiences and Complex Effects in People with HIV and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Tennessee, L. Lauren Brown, Almariana J. Acuña, Amna Osman, Lloyda B. Williamson, Carolyn M. Audet, Megan L. Wilkins, Jessica M. Sales, Samantha V. Hill, Jill Foster, April C. Pettit, and Latrice C. Pichon
Cardiovascular Manifestations and Interventions in Children Living in a Histoplasmosis Endemic Region, Cassandra Campbell, Sandra Arnold, Mario Briceno-Medina, Michael Perez, and Shyam Sathanandam
Multi-Objective Geometry Optimization of Additive-Manufactured Hexagonal Honeycomb Sandwich Beams Under Quasi-Static Three-Point Bending Loading, Andres Cecchini, Marco Menegozzo, and Emerson Roman
PrEP Navigator Perceptions of the Implementation of Injectable PrEP on HIV Prevention in Tennessee, Cristian J. Chandler, David G. Schlundt, Chloe Dagostino, Kemberlee R. Bonnet, Ashley J. Sellers, Latrice C. Pichon, and Leah R. Alexander
Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Care for HIV Prevention, Philip A. Chan, William C. Goedel, Yu Li, Leandro Mena, Rupa R. Patel, Brandon D.L. Marshall, Malyuta Yelena, Lori Ward, Ashley Underwood, Catrell J. Johnson, Courtney E. Gomillia, Alexi Almonte, Jun Tao, Kate Curoe, Jesus Villalobos, and Amy S. Nunn
Patterns of Early Risk Factors for Juvenile Justice Outcomes in Youth with High-Incidence Disabilities, Minhae Cho, Doyun Koo, Rachael Marie Rief, and Dennis Makau
Behavioral and Cortical Activation Changes in Children Following Auditory Training for Dichotic Deficits, Guillaume Courbon, Laurie Lugnier, Johnnie K. Bass, Thomas E. Merchant, Thierry Morlet, and Celine Richard
Predictors of HPV vaccination coverage among adolescents in Tennessee during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study, J. Cunningham-Erves, M. Sanderson, S. W. Jin, J. Davis, and H. M. Brandt
MAINSTREAMING HEAT RESILIENCE IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED URBANIZING JURISDICTIONS: A Focus on Semi-Arid Ghana, Stephen Kofi Diko, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi, Seth Asare Okyere, Seth Opoku Mensah, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Simon Donkoh
A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID-19 response in informal settlements in Freetown, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Matthew Abunyewah, and Gordon Amankwaa
Conclusion: Toward Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities— Planning Implications for Africa and Beyond, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Louis Kusi Frimpong
Introduction: From Large to Small and Medium-Sized Cities— Shifting the Analytical and Policy Gaze on Urban Resilience in Ghana, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Louis Kusi Frimpong
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Louis Kusi Frimpong
Conceptualizing Small and Medium-Sized Cities and Resilience Planning Nexus for Africa’s Urban Futures, Simon Donkoh, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi, Seth Asare Okyere, and Stephen Kofi Diko
Contested landscape transitions: Ruins? Repair? Re-membering? In late-industrial southern Italy, Lorenzo D’Orsi and Katherine Lambert-Pennington
Multiaxial fatigue modeling of continuous fiber-reinforced polymers using a critical plane approach, Szymon Duda, Michał Smolnicki, Grzegorz Lesiuk, and Ali Fatemi
A 15-Year Review of 260 Children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: I. Demographic and Diagnostic Characteristics, Kathleen Durant, Mary Oddo, Leigh Harrell-Williams, and Linda Jarmulowicz
PolyCrit: An Online Collaborative Platform for Polymer Characterization, Brinton King Eldridge, Dillon T.A. Baker, and Yongmei Wang
