Abstract Objective: This research investigates the effect of behavioral and environmental factors on college students’ academic performance, measured by GPA. This was to examine the linear relationships of six daily habits: study time, sleeping, involvement in social activities, participation in extracurricular activities, physical exercise, and stress level. The research seeks to determine which habits have […]

Abstract Network structure can alter how rapidly misinformation-like contagion spreads and which nodes are most valuable to protect. This study compared susceptible-infected-recovered-type diffusion on 1,000-node Erdős-Rényi (ER), Watts-Strogatz (WS), and Barabási-Albert (BA) networks. One hundred graph realizations per topology were analyzed without intervention, and eight structural-immunization strategies were tested at 1%, 5%, and 10% coverage: […]

Abstract Microplastics pollute aquatic ecosystems and increasing evidence suggests adverse effects on human health. While urban drinking water systems filter microplastics; microplastic removal from open aquatic waterways remains largely unaddressed. A passive filtration mechanism using biochar, to date has not been reported.Hypotheses: a) If biochar is integrated into a sponge and mesh filter, more microplastics […]

Abstract In the 1930s, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) residential security maps divided city neighborhoods into grades, from A (“best”) to D (“hazardous”); those lower-grade neighborhoods have been regarded as related to lasting social and environmental inequalities, although the maps were not the sole mechanism by which such inequalities arose. We examined whether historical HOLC […]