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MIRAGE: Patient-Specific Mixed Reality Coaching for MRI via Depth-Only Markerless Registration and Immersive VR Open

Daniel Brooks, Emily A. Carter, Hu Guo, Rajesh Nair · 2025

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an indispensable diagnostic tool, yet the confined bore and acoustic noise can evoke considerable anxiety and claustrophobic reactions. High anxiety leads to motion artifacts, incomplete scans and relian…

Trauma-informed system-level policies in healthcare settings: A scoping review Open

Stephanie Quon, Sarah Thompson, Emily A. Carter, Michael Lee · 2025

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is widely recognised as essential for improving health outcomes and reducing retraumatisation. While most studies have focussed on clinical implementation, embedding TIC principles at the system and policy levels…

A Review of Financial Data Analysis Techniques for Unstructured Data in the Deep Learning Era: Methods, Challenges, and Applications Open

Jackson Duane, Angela Morgan, Emily A. Carter · 2025

Financial institutions are increasingly leveraging---such as text, audio, and images---to gain insights and competitive advantage. Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for analyzing these complex data types, transforming t…

The Eclipse of Sacred Order: Philip Rieff's Critique of Community in the Therapeutic Age Open

Emily A. Carter, P. Thompson, Laura Müller · 2025

This article explores Philip Rieff’s critical analysis of modern society’s shift from traditional sacred orders to the dominance of therapeutic culture. Rieff argues that the erosion of communal sacred frameworks has led to the rise of ind…

Integrating engineering into medical education: A scoping review Open

Stephanie Quon, Sarah Thompson, Daniel Nguyen, Emily A. Carter, Michael Lee · 2025

Background: As healthcare systems grow increasingly complex and technology-driven, there is a pressing need to equip future physicians with problem-solving skills, systems thinking and design principles that define engineering disciplines.…

Efficient Optical Character Recognition through Radial Basis Function Open

Emily A. Carter, Liam A. Wilson, Sophie Thompson‐Lee · 2025

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a crucial technology for converting images of text into editable and searchable data. The increasing demand for efficient OCR systems in various fields, such as document digitization and text mining, …

First-Principles Insights into the Thermocatalytic Cracking of Ammonia-Hydrogen Blends on Fe(110). 2. Kinetics Open

John Mark P. Martirez, Sophia Kurdziel, Emily A. Carter · 2025

Ammonia (NH₃) is an energy-rich molecule that is routinely synthesized from nitrogen (N₂) and hydrogen (H₂). NH₃’s more favorable physical properties compared to H₂ suggests it may off…

Methanol adsorption and dissociation on GaP(110) studied by ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy Open

Denis V. Potapenko, Zhu Chen, Shenzhen Xu, Xiaofang Yang, Iradwikanari Waluyo , et al. · 2025

Multi-Objective Design of Heat Sink Fins for Thermal Efficiency and Manufacturability Open

James Robertson, Emily A. Carter, Michael Thompson, Sharon White · 2025

As power densities in modern electronics increase, efficient thermal management is essential. Conventional heat sink designs often fail to balance heat dissipation, airflow resistance, and manufacturability. This study proposes an AI-drive…

Machine-Learned Force Field for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nonequilibrium Ammonia Synthesis on Iron Catalysts Open

Aditya Lele, Zhiyu Shi, Sushil K. Khetan, Emily A. Carter, John Mark P. Martirez , et al. · 2025

Ammonia (NH₃) is one of the most important industrial chemicals. The conventional NH₃ synthesis method-the Haber–Bosch process-converts atmospheric nitrogen (N₂) into NH₃ using H₂ with…

Energy Consumption Prediction using Support Vector Regression Open

Emily A. Carter, Samuel Liu, I.R.M. Thompson · 2025

Energy consumption prediction is a crucial area of research due to its significant impact on energy efficiency and sustainability. Current research on this topic faces challenges in accurately forecasting energy usage patterns, limiting th…

Methanol Adsorption and Dissociation on Gap(110) Studied by Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Open

Denis V. Potapenko, Zhu Chen, Shenzhen Xu, Xiaofang Yang, Iradwikanari Waluyo , et al. · 2025

Breakthroughs in Renewable Energy: The Future of Sustainable Power Open

Emily A. Carter · 2025

The global energy sector is undergoing a significant transformation with the adoption of renewable energy technologies. Advancements in solar, wind, hydro, and bioenergy are shaping the future of sustainable power, reducing dependency on f…

Post-Truth Politics and Legal Epistemology: The Erosion of Legal Facts in Polarized Democracies Open

Jennifer Lee, Bálint Tóth, Emily A. Carter · 2025

This article explores how post-truth politics undermines legal epistemology and erodes the role of legal facts in polarized democratic societies. Using a scientific narrative review and descriptive analysis method, this study synthesizes i…

Elucidating and contrasting the mechanisms for Mg and Ca sulfate ion-pair formation with multi-level embedded quantum mechanics/molecular dynamics simulations Open

Jan-Niklas Boyn, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Solutions and minerals containing sulfate (SO42−), and Ca2+ and Mg2+ cations, are ubiquitous throughout the lithosphere and are significant components of seawater, thus presenting a prototypical system for the study of strong electrolytes …

2SpamH: A Two-Stage Pre-Processing Algorithm for Passively Sensed mHealth Data Open

Hongzhe Zhang, José Luis Gahete Díaz, Soohyun Kim, Zilong Yu, Yiyuan Wu , et al. · 2024

Recent advancements in mobile health (mHealth) technology and the ubiquity of wearable devices and smartphones have expanded a market for digital health and have emerged as innovative tools for data collection on individualized behavior. H…

Our Role in Solving Global Challenges: An Opinion Open

Emily A. Carter · 2024

Here, this essay aims to suggest research areas to which chemists and others in related fields can contribute, to help preserve and sustain the world for future generations by addressing problems of global importance.

Hippocampal network connectivity and episodic memory in individuals aging with traumatic brain injury Open

Catherine M Carpenter, Hollie A. Mullin, Andrew Cwiek, Emily A. Carter, Samantha Vervoordt , et al. · 2024

Aging is associated with marked declines in episodic memory corresponding with decreased volume and activation in the hippocampus. Furthermore, recent research has demonstrated that reductions in resting state network connectivity are rela…

Strategies to Obtain Reliable Energy Landscapes from Embedded Multireference Correlated Wavefunction Methods for Surface Reactions Open

Xuelan Wen, Jan-Niklas Boyn, John Mark P. Martirez, Qing Zhao, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Embedded correlated wavefunction (ECW) theory is a powerful tool for studying ground- and excited-state reaction mechanisms and associated energetics in heterogeneous catalysis. Several factors are important to obtaining reliable ECW energ…

Modeling bicarbonate formation in an alkaline solution with multi-level quantum mechanics/molecular dynamics simulations Open

Ben Bobell, Jan-Niklas Boyn, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Understanding carbonate speciation and how it may be modulated is essential for the advancement of carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture and storage technologies, which often rely on the transformation of CO₂ into carbonate, e…

An Autonomous Implantable Device for the Prevention of Death from Opioid Overdose Open

Joanna L. Ciatti, Abraham Vázquez‐Guardado, Victoria E. Brings, Jihun Park, Brian C. Ruyle , et al. · 2024

Opioid overdose accounts for nearly 75,000 deaths per year in the United States, representing a leading cause of mortality amongst the prime working age population (25-54 years). At overdose levels, opioid-induced respiratory depression be…

Reproducibility of resting-state functional connectivity in consecutive scans: a mini-multiverse analysis Open

Hollie A. Mullin, Catherine M Carpenter, Andrew Cwiek, Gloria Lan, Spencer O. Chase , et al. · 2024

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) is one of the most widely applied tools in the network neurosciences, but the reliability of the metrics derived from its signal remains unclear. We use back-to-back resting-stat…

Plasmon-Driven Ammonia Decomposition on Pd(111): Hole Transfer’s Role in Changing Rate-Limiting Steps Open

Xuelan Wen, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Here, ammonia (NH₃) has the potential to be a hydrogen carrier because it can be transported and stored with ease, but only if it also can be decomposed easily when needed. Understanding how to control the frequently rate-limiti…

First-Principles Insights into the Thermodynamics of Variable-Temperature Ammonia Synthesis on Transition-Metal-Doped Cu (100) and (111) Open

Ziyang Wei, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Ammonia (NH₃) is one of the most produced chemicals worldwide. NH₃ synthesis predominantly utilizes the Haber–Bosch (HB) process, requiring high temperatures and pressures. Despite significant process advances, ample …

Strongly facet-dependent activity of iron-doped β-nickel oxyhydroxide for the oxygen evolution reaction Open

Ananth Govind Rajan, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter · 2024

Hybrid DFT predicts that Fe-doping of NiOOH changes the OER activity from insensitive to highly sensitive to crystal facet.

Effect of thickness and surface composition on the stability of polarization in ferroelectric thin films Open

Adrian Acosta, John Mark P. Martirez, Norleakvisoth Lim, Jane P. Chang, Emily A. Carter · 2023

Using density functional theory, we find that tailoring the surface composition provides a route to stabilize the polar phases of the promising ferroelectric material, Hf_xZr_1-xO₂. First, we show that for pu…

Adapting to Tomorrow: Exploring the Role of Robotics Process Automation in the Modern Workplace Open

Emily A. Carter, Michael Reynolds · 2023

Adapting to Tomorrow: Exploring the Role of Robotics Process Automation in the Modern Workplace

Introducing the embedded random phase approximation: H2 dissociative adsorption on Cu(111) as an exemplar Open

Ziyang Wei, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter · 2023

The random phase approximation (RPA) as a means of treating electron correlation recently has been shown to outperform standard density functional theory (DFT) approximations in a variety of cases. However, the computational cost of the RP…

Minimizing the impacts of the ammonia economy on the nitrogen cycle and climate Open

Matteo B. Bertagni, Robert H. Socolow, John Mark P. Martirez, Emily A. Carter, Chris Greig , et al. · 2023

Ammonia (NH 3 ) is an attractive low-carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier. However, losses and inefficiencies across the value chain could result in reactive nitrogen emissions (NH 3 , NO x , and N 2 O), negatively impacting air quality, the e…

O-07 ‘Real and lasting change’: becoming an anti-racist hospice Open

Emily A. Carter · 2023

Background Race inequality is a problem in both society and healthcare, affecting patients and staff in our hospice. In 2020 we committed to actively tackling racism. In 2022, multiple focused staff 1:1s and group conversations found racis…

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