Submissions from 2026
Pulmonary Obstruction and Age, Not Activity, Associate With Muscle Oxidative Impairment in Smokers With and Without COPD, Alessandra Adami, Fenghai Duan, Robert A. Calmelat, Zeyu Chen, Richard Casaburi, and Harry B. Rossiter
Reply to the letter-to-editor: “on the preserved muscle oxidative capacity in COPD patients with hypoxemia treated by long term O2 therapy”, Alessandra Adami, Mara Paneroni, Michele Vitacca, Richard Casaburi, and Harry B. Rossiter
Presence of Legacy and Emerging PFAS in Human Liver Specimens Banked in the United States from 2000 to 2024, Juliana Agudelo Areiza, Jitka Becanova, Simon Vojta, Johanna Ganglbauer, Udayan Apte, Luigi Brunetti, Sean Kumer, Faiz Haque, Euna Kim, Elsie M. Sunderland, Rainer Lohmann, Fabian C. Fischer, and Angela L. Slitt
Altered Mental Status Due to Amantadine Withdrawal: A Case Report, Nicole J. Asal, Elisa Piraino, Cristina Hamacher, and Husam Abu Nejm
Coastal hazards preparedness through wargaming, modeling, and simulation: application of a military installation resilience review to inform stakeholder-engaged planning for a maritime community, Austin Becker, Hank J. Brightman, Pam Rubinoff, Isaac Ginis, Peter Stempel, Rosemarie Fusco, and Deborah Crowley
Preliminary Cruise Report: TN452 Eastern Lau Spreading Center and Northeastern Lau Basin, Kingdom of Tonga, April 19, 2026 – May 18, 2026, Roxanne A. Beinart and Shawn Arellano
Building a Strong Math Foundation: Supporting Early Math Precursors for Babies and Toddlers, Kathleen Campana and Jacqueline Kociubuk
From Germination to Transformation: Policy Studies in China Over the Past Half-Century (1970s–2020s), Shuai Cao, Ping Xu, Hongtao Yi, and Ling Zhu
The state of knowledge for engineering with nature: Vegetation as wave buffer, Xifen Chen, Zhan Hu, Tori Tomiczek, Che-Wei Chang, Dan Cox, Maria Maza, Nobuhito Mori, Siddharth Narayan, Sungwon Shin, and Tomohiro Suzuki
Trauma symptoms predict student course experiences: Undergraduate PTSS and learning about trauma-related content, Jessica Cless, Carol A. Johnston, Brian S. Nelson Goff, and Olivia K. Edwards
People Who Use Opioids’ Encounters With Criminal Justice Personnel: A Qualitative Analysis, Barbara J. Costello
Estimation of Sea State Parameters from Measured Ship Motions with a Neural Network Trained on Experimentally Validated Model Simulations, Jason M. Dahl, Annette R. Grilli, Stephanie C. Steele, and Stephan T. Grilli
PFAS Toxicity: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Really Matters, Jamie C. DeWitt, Ian T. Cousins, Gretta Goldenman, Dorte Herzke, Rainer Lohmann, Mark Miller, Carla A. Ng, Martin Scheringer, Xenia Trier, and Zhanyun Wang
A Call to Action: Engaging with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution, Miriam L. Diamond, Gabriel Sigmund, Marlene Ågerstrand, Michael G. Bertram, Alex T. Ford, Rainer Lohmann, Andreas Schäffer, Maria Clara V.M. Starling, Anna Soehl, Noriyuki Suzuki, Penny Vlahos, Marta Venier, and Martin Scheringer
Cross-Study Validation of PFAS Sampling Rates in Microporous Polyethylene Tube Samplers, Johanna Ganglbauer, Matthew Dunn, Jarod Snook, Jitka Becanova, and Rainer Lohmann
Lab-on-a-Chip Systems for Microplastic and Nanoplastic Sampling, Detection, Characterization and Bioassessment, Liyuan Gong, Erfan Eskandari, Iftakhar Khan, and Yang Lin
Organic Pollutants and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Yousif M. Hydoub, Ricardo Loor-Torres, Abdul Qadeer, Kinaan Farhan, Thaer K. Swaid, Hanieh S.T. Yeganeh, Joelle N. Friesen, Shangwe Kiliaki, Iman Fawad, Danielle J. Gerberi, Thirumurugan Prakasam, Rainer Lohmann, H. Hassan Murad, and Sagar B. Dugani
Consumer digital financial literacy and purposive credit card behavior, Guohai Jiang, Fuzhong Chen, and Jing Jian Xiao
Predicting the long-term evolution of a barrier spit in a changing climate: A case study in Rhode Island, Napatree Point, Alexa Leone, Annette Grilli, Bryan Oakley, Bas Huisman, Ap Van Dongeren, Johan Reyns, and Dano Roelvink
Location, Location, Reaction: How Mandatory IP Disclosure Silences Critics and Sparks Backlash, Sirui Li, Ping Xu, and Yue Guo
Advances and prospects of phase space reconstruction-based high-dimensional signal processing for fault diagnosis: A systematic review, Yong Lv, Hengyu Liu, Rui Yuan, Xun Dong, Yifei Wang, Hao Wu, and David Chelidze
The Gendered Path of Least Resistance: First Entry and Exit Behaviors of Public and Nonprofit Employees, Tiana Marrese, Ying Liu, and Femida Handy
Substitutive and Augmentative Delegation in GenAI-Assisted Shopping: Perceived Benefits, Constraints, and Consumer Tension, Kexin Meng, Monsumi Singha Mahapatra, and Jing Jian Xiao
Public coastal access at risk: integrating social and environmental data to assess vulnerability to sea level rise, Nathaniel Merrill, Nathan Vinhateiro, Emi Uchida, Jesse Reiblich, Elin Torell, Sarah Schechter, Leah Feldman, Claudia Weitman, and Drew Powell
Correction to “Global Inventory of Fluoropolymer Production Plants and Their Associated PFAS Environmental Contamination”, Anna J. Miller, Kevin Kleemann, Juliane Glüge, Rainer Lohmann, Ian T. Cousins, Dorte Herzke, Mark F. Miller, Amanda Rensmo, Xenia Trier, Zhanyun Wang, and Martin Scheringer
Global Inventory of Fluoropolymer Production Plants and Their Associated PFAS Environmental Contamination, Anna J. Miller, Kevin Kleemann, Juliane Glüge, Rainer Lohmann, Ian T. Cousins, Dorte Herzke, Mark F. Miller, Amanda Rensmo, Xenia Trier, Zhanyun Wang, and Martin Scheringer
Allowing Unlimited PFAS Manufacturing Contradicts the Core Intention of the European Union’s PFAS Restriction Proposal, Anna J. Miller, Amanda Rensmo, Ian Cousins, Rainer Lohmann, Gretta Goldenman, Dorte Herzke, Xenia Trier, Zhanyun Wang, and Martin Scheringer
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): a global review of sources, contamination, risks, analytical challenges, and remediation strategies Open Access, Ravi Naidu, Alvin Lal, Chuks Kenneth Odoh, Yanju Liu, Paul Nathanail, Roger Brewer, Christian Zwiener, Rainer Lohmann, Katie Richardson, Jen Martin, and Ramona Iery
A History of University of Rhode Island Partnerships in the Philippines with Marine Resources and Fisheries Management as Primary Drivers, Michael A. Rice, Donald D. Robadue, and Brian Crawford
Experiences with Discrimination and Microaggressions among Sexual and Gender Minority and Intersectional College Students, Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely, Susan D. Mueller, and Melissa A. Sutherland
Determinants of six-minute step test performance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a retrospective cross-sectional study, Aldair Darlan Santos-de-Araújo, Daniela Bassi-Dibai, Izadora Moraes Dourado, Nelson Francisco Serrão Júnior, Renan Shida Marinho, Paula Angélica Ricci, Cássia de Luz Goulart, Renata Gonçalves Mendes, Alessandra Adami, and Audrey Borghi-Silva
History of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, 1896-1987, Robert K. Sexton and James A. Yoder
Aligning Horizon Scanning Approaches with Differing Needs and Topics at the Science–Policy Interface on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution, Gabriel Sigmund, Ricardo O. Barra, Michael G. Bertram, Miriam L. Diamond, Alex T. Ford, İpek İmamoğlu, Jinhui Li, Rainer Lohmann, Andreas Schäffer, Martin Scheringer, Kateřina Šebková, Maria Clara V. M. Starling, Noriyuki Suzuki, Penny Vlahos, Roland Weber, and Bryan W. Brooks
Rethinking temporalities through being with children: A dialogic reflection, Markéta Supa, Rebekah Willett, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Harini Rajagopal, Jenny Byman, Layla Coleman, Jacqueline Kociubuk, Jenny Renlund, Chin Chin Wong, and Melanie Wong
Investigation of Wave Attenuation by Rhizophora apiculata Mangroves: Coupled Laboratory Experiments and Boussinesq Modeling, Yu‐Lin Tsai, Che‐Wei Chang, and Nobuhito Mori
PFAS Mixture Composition and Internal Exposure Profiles Shape Biological Responses under Field-Realistic Exposure, Alan M. Vajda, Jill A. Jenkins, David W. Bertolatus, Denis R. LeBlanc, Christopher J. Martyniuk, Zachary R. Hopkins, Andrea K. Tokranov, Abigail R. Dethloff, Joseph C. Tucker, Rainer Lohmann, and Larry B. Barber
Parents’ discursive constructions of digital play during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rebekah Willett and Jacqueline Kociubuk
Contribution of Indoor Air and Dust to Children’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Exposure in the Faroe Islands, Melissa Woodward, Jitka Becanova, Simon Vojta, Pál Weihe, Philippe Grandjean, and Rainer Lohmann
Financial Literacy Education to College Students in the U.S., Jing Jian Xiao
The Vulnerable on Campus: Financial Independence of College Students, Jing Jian Xiao, Nilton Porto, Luiz Cruz, and Ting An
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Economic Hardship: The Role of Financial Capability, Rui Yao and Jing Jian Xiao
Submissions from 2025
A frequency-domain beamforming procedure for extracting Rayleigh wave attenuation coefficients and small-strain damping ratio from 2D ambient noise array measurements, Aser Abbas, Mauro Aimar, Brady R. Cox, and Sebastiano Foti
Uncertainty-Guided Prediction Limits of Phase-Resolved OceanWave Forecasting under Data Sparsity: Experimental andNumerical Evaluation, Yukel Alkarem, Kimberly Huguenard, Richard Kimball, and Stephan Grilli
Uncertainty-Guided Prediction Horizon of Phase-Resolved Ocean Wave Forecasting Under Data Sparsity: Experimental and Numerical Evaluation, Yuksel Rudy Alkarem, Kimberly Huguenard, Richard W. Kimball, and Stephan T. Grilli
Evaluation of an Active Control, Constant Normal Stiffness Apparatus for Improved Evaluation of Shaft Friction in Micropiles in the Offshore Environment, A. Babaee, C. D.P. Baxter, and A. S. Bradshaw
Relationship between shear band dilation and stress-corrected relative density under constant normal stiffness (CNS) conditions, Amir Babaee, Aaron S. Bradshaw, and Christopher D.P. Baxter
Spatial and Temporal Trends of Dissolved Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Non-BDE Flame Retardants in the Aquatic Environment across Countries, Lian-Jun Bao, Branislav Vrana, Rainer Lohmann, Jaromír Sobotka, Foppe Smedes, Derek Muir, Ian J. Allan, Peleg Astrahan, Terry Bidleman, Denis Crowley, Evgen Dykyi, Nicolas Estoppey, Gilberto Fillmann, Liisa Jantunen, Sarit Kaserzon, Keith A. Maruya, Brendan McHugh, Brent Newman, Raimon M. Prats, Manolis Tsapakis, Rebecca Sutton, Mats Tysklind, Barend L. van Drooge, Charles S. Wong, and Eddy Y. Zeng
Final Cruise Report: TN401, Roxanne A. Beinart, Shawn Arellano, and Craig Young
Convolutional Neural Networks for Direction of Arrival Estimation Compared to Classical Estimators and Bounds, Christopher J. Bell, Kaushallya Adhikari, and Andrew Brown
Achieving Exceptionally Enhanced Thermal Conductivity and Bulk Modulus in Polar Insulators Via Modification of Chemical Bonding, Niraj Bhatt, Sandip Thakur, Pravin Karna, and Ashutosh Giri
Achievements and Challenges with Equilibrium and Kinetic Passive Sampling of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Organic Compounds in Surface Waters, Kees Booij, Rachel Mackie, Branislav Vrana, Rainer Lohmann, and Sarit L. Kaserzon
Documenting the Effects of Laboratory Sorting in Zooarchaeology: Lessons Learned from the Čḯxwicən Project, Kristine Bovy, Virginia L. Butler, Michael A. Etnier, and Sarah K. Campbell
Transient Thermal Mapping Utilizing the Sintering of Glass-Ceramics, Noah A. Burke and Otto J. Gregory
EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures, Siyuan Chai, Jiyuan Zhang, Jongyul Kim, Alan Wang, Fan Chung, Jovan Stojkovic, Weiwei Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Josep Torrellas, and Tianyin Xu
Multidisciplinary collaborative guidance on the assessment and treatment of patients with Long COVID: A compendium statement, Abby L. Cheng, Eric Herman, Benjamin Abramoff, Jordan R. Anderson, Alba Azola, John M. Baratta, Matthew N. Bartels, Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka, Svetlana Blitshteyn, Jeffrey S. Fine, Talya K. Fleming, Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Joseph E. Herrera, Rasika Karnik, Monica Kurylo, Michele T. Longo, Mark D. McCauley, Esther Melamed, Mitchell G. Miglis, Jacqueline D. Neal, Christina V. Oleson, David Putrino, Leslie Rydberg, Julie K. Silver, Carmen M. Terzic, Jonathan H. Whiteson, and William N. Niehaus
A System for Robotic Extraction of Fasteners, Austin Clark and Musa K. Jouaneh
Applying Neuroscience to a Brief In-Class Activity: A Trauma-Informed Quick Fix to Support Students Through Sensitive Content, Jessica Cless
Childhood Adversity, Stress Management, and Reactions to Sensitive Content: A Latent Profile Analysis of Undergraduates, Jessica D. Cless, Carol A. Johnston, Briana S. Nelson Goff, and Olivia K. Edwards
Comparing field-based microplastic observations with ocean circulation model outputs in estuarine surface waters along a human population gradient, Sarah M. Davis, Thomas Lawrence, Irene Andreu, Andrew J. Davies, Rory Maynard-Dean, Christopher Kincaid, Kelton W. McMahon, Brian Preziosi, and Coleen C. Suckling
Conducting Salts Govern Thermal Boundary Conductance across Solid Electrode/Organic Liquid Electrolyte Interfaces in Lithium-Ion Batteries, C Jaymes Dionne, Patrick E. Hopkins, Arijit Bose, and Ashutosh Giri
Perfluorinated Carbon Chain Length Drives Uptake of Diverse Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Field-Deployed Passive Samplers, Matthew Dunn, Jitka Becanova, Simon Vojta, Heidi Pickard, and Rainer Lohmann
Indirect Electrochemical Regeneration of Manganese Oxide (MnOx) – Coated Media, Carrie Ellis and Joseph E. Goodwill
Older adults’ digital technology experiences: a qualitative study, Lina Emmesjö, Jenny Hallgren, and Catharina Gillsjö
Corporate ‘Capture Strategies’ Impacting Human and Ecosystem Health, Alex T. Ford, Marlene Ågerstrand, Michael G. Bertram, Miriam L. Diamond, Rainer Lohmann, Andreas Schäffer, Martin Scheringer, Gabriel Sigmund, Anna Soehl, Maria Clara V.M. Starling, Noriyuki Suzuki, Marta Venier, and Penny Vlahos
Enhanced macrophage uptake of spray-dried phosphatidylserine-loaded microparticles for pulmonary drug delivery applications, Matthew T. Freeman, Arianne Parvaresh-Rizi, and Samantha A. Meenach
A Novel Seamless Magnetic-Based Actuating Mechanism for End-Effector-Based Robotic Rehabilitation Platforms, Sima Ghafoori, Ali Rabiee, Maryam Norouzi, Musa K. Jouaneh, and Reza Abiri
Machine learning-driven optical microfiltration device for improved nanoplastic sampling and detection in water systems, Liyuan Gong, Bryan Varela, Erfan Eskandari, Juan Zubieta Lombana, Payel Biswas, Luyao Ma, Irene Andreu, and Yang Lin
Design, Optimization, and Control of Floating Offshore Wind Farms for Optimal Energy Production (Final report), Stephan Grilli, Jason Dahl, Annette Grilli, Reza Hashemi, Stephanie Steele, Richard Kimball, kimberly Huguenard, and Babak Hejrati
PFAS in drinking water, wastewater and surface water in Reykjavik, Iceland, María J. Gunnarsdóttir, Hrund Ó. Andradóttir, Kristín Ólafsdóttir, Ásta Ósk Hlödversdóttir, Roland Kallenborn, Erik Magnus Ræder, Jan Ludvig Lyche, Jitka Becanova, and Rainer Lohmann
Optimizing Task Scheduling in Cloud VMs with Accurate vCPU Abstraction, Edward Guo, Weiwei Jia, Xiaoning Ding, and Jianchen Shan
Environmental Aging of Polymers to Evaluate Their Potential for Remediating Natural Gas Pipelines, Mohammadjavad Haji Rezaei, Aiden Ferreira, Maile Campbell, Deepro Ghosh, Keven Alkhoury, Zakhar Lyakhovych, Edith Mathiowitz, Vikas Srivastava, and Ryan Poling-Skutvik
Past and Future Storm-Driven Changes to a Dynamic Sandy Barrier System: Outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Daniel J. Harrington, John P. Walsh, Annette R. Grilli, Isaac Ginis, Deborah Crowley, Stephan T. Grilli, Christopher Damon, Roland Duhaime, Peter Stempel, and Pam Rubinoff
Ruddlesden-Popper chalcogenides push the limit of mechanical stiffness and glass-like thermal conductivity in single crystals, Md Shafkat Hoque, Eric R. Hoglund, Boyang Zhao, De-Liang Bao, Hao Zhou, Sandip Thakur, Eric Osei-Agyemang, Khalid Hattar, Ethan A. Scott, Mythili Surendran, John A. Tomko, John T. Gaskins, Kiumars Aryana, Sara Makarem, Adie Alwen, Andrea M. Hodge, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Ashutosh Giri, Tianli Feng, Jordan A. Hachtel, Jayakanth Ravichandran, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Patrick E. Hopkins
Impact of apixaban, edoxaban, and rivaroxaban on international normalized ratio, David Hwang and Nicole J. Asal
From Bullets to Balance Sheets: How Military Involvement in the Economy Shapes Leader Survival, Roya Izadi
Bread, butter, barricade: Economic grievance, military industry and mutinies, Roya Izadi and Lindsey Pruett
Rural vs. Urban: How Urbanicity Shapes Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior in Rhode Island, Tim Jonas, Oluwatosin Okele, and Gretchen A. Macht
Sylvan Rhetoric in the Planes of Plato’s Phaedrus, Madison Jones
Multicore SPION Clustering within Poly(amino acid) Corrals for Enhanced MRI Contrast and Drug Release, Mohamed F. Kabil, Adekunle Titus Akinmola, Animesh Pan, Muzahidul I. Anik, Robert Mills, Carmen Scholz, Edward G. Walsh, and Geoffrey D. Bothun
Multicore SPION Clustering within Poly(amino acid) Corrals for Enhanced MRI Contrast and Drug Release, Mohamed F. Kabil, Adekunle Titus Akinmola, Animesh Pan, Muzahidul I. Anik, Robert Mills, Carmen Scholz, Edward G. Walsh, and Geoffrey D. Bothun
Deep site characterization with full-waveform inversion of SH- and Love-waves induced by large mobile shaker, Aidin Kahbasi, Khiem T. Tran, Brady R. Cox, and Aser Abbas
Changes in Pyrogenic Tracers Over the Last 15,000 Years in the Congo River Catchment Through Multi-Method Analysis, Samuel D. Katz, Helena Osterholz, Riley Barton, Ellen R.M. Druffel, Xiaodong Gao, Caroline A. Masiello, Cristina Santin, Tassiana S.G. Serafim, Sasha Wagner, Matthias Zabel, and Rainer Lohmann
Toxicokinetics and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid-Induced Liver Protein Expression Are Markedly Altered in Mice Lacking Albumin, Emily M. Kaye, Jitka Becanova, Simon Vojta, Rainer Lohmann, Fabian Fischer, and Angela Slitt
Introducing Information Metrics for Statistical Signal Processing [Lecture Notes], Steven Kay, Kaushallya Adhikari, and R. Guido
A Nonparametric Data-Driven Classifier Based on the Cumulant Generating Function, Steven Kay, Kaushallya Adhikari, and Bo Tang
Universal Relationship between Linear Viscoelasticity and Nonlinear Yielding in Soft Materials, Daniel P. Keane, Elnaz Nikoumanesh, Krutarth M. Kamani, Simon A. Rogers, and Ryan Poling-Skutvik
Rush to Charge, Dead to Drive: Application of Deadline Rush Model to Electric Vehicle User’s Charging Behavior, Mehrsa Khaleghikarahrodi and Gretchen A. Macht
Machine Learning (ML)-Based Fault Detection Strategy for Power Switches in Electric Mobility, Youngkeun Kim, Han Shin Youn, and Yeonho Jeong
Self-Assembled Cysteamine Reporter Ligands for SERS Nitrate Detection in Continuous Flow, Timo Küster and Geoffrey D. Bothun
Self-Assembled Cysteamine Reporter Ligands for SERS Nitrate Detection in Continuous Flow, Timo Küster and Geoffrey D. Bothun
A High Power Density Active-Clamp Forward-Flyback Converter with Three Planar Transformer for xEV Low Voltage DC-DC Converter, Gyeonghyun Kwon, Dongin Lee, Seongwook Jeong, Yeonho Jeong, and Hanshin Youn
Individual voter determinants of school bond approval: evidence from exit polls, Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon
Voting with their (left and right) feet: Are homebuyers’ values of neighborhood environmental amenities consistent with their politics?, Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon
Attentive Listening and Confirmation Key Aspects in Health Promotion Encounters With Patients in Telephone Counselling, Margaretha Larsson, Catharina Gillsjö, Anna Sundberg, Maria Zakrisson, and Irene Eriksson
The Venue Shopping Strategies of Atlantic Northeast Environmental Groups: Regulating the Cooling Water Intake of Coal-Fired Power Plants, Aaron J. Ley and Bryce B. DuBois
Characteristic value decomposition: A unifying paradigm for data-driven modal analysis, He-Wen-Xuan Li, Dalton L. Stein, and David Chelidze
Jammed disks of two sizes in a channel: Segregation driven by steric forces, Dan Liu, Michael Karbach, and Gerhard Müller
Ordering According to Size of Disks in a Narrow Channel, Dan Liu, Michael Karbach, and Gerhard Müller
Heightened menopausal symptoms mediate the associations between stress and depressive symptoms among midlife women, Nicole Logan, Janis Gaudreau, Bridget Owens, Brietta M. Oaks, Christie L. Ward-Ritacco, and Natalie J. Sabik
Predicting random packing and thermophysical properties of powders using Monte Carlo simulation, Angelo Lucia, Christopher Miller, and Otto J. Gregory