As the first to attend college in their families, immigrant-origin First Generation College Students (FGCS) face a distinctive weight of responsibility to trailblaze a path …
Vaporwave is a form of electronic music that samples 80’s elevator music, muzak, disco, and R&B, drenching them in reverberation and distorting them in the …
All vertebrates have six extraocular (EO) muscles that insert into the outer layer of the eye that facilitate eye motion with high speed and precision. …
Many software developers rely on error-prone manual scripts to handle privacy requests. Pelton, a new kind of database developed by researchers at Brown, provides correct …
This research studies the intersection of COVID-19 and the eviction crisis in Rhode Island. In our work, we centers tenant, advocate, and organizer narratives in …
A longstanding goal in robotics research is having competent robot assistants that understand natural language (NL) commands for everyday tasks. In existing work, robots convert …
Natural language (NL) is an intuitive way for humans to collaborate with robots, in environments like the home or workplace. Existing models translating NL commands …
The pulse oximeter was developed as a non-invasive alternative to the arterial blood gas analysis, a medical monitoring method that measures arterial blood oxygen saturation …
Recalling past sensory information is critical in generating and navigating cognitive maps of the external world. The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) likely acts as a …
Using our stochastic MATLAB simulation of evolution of drug resistance evolution in malaria, we observe patterns in this evolution given different temporal drug regimens. The …
Last year, the World Health Organization classified antimicrobial resistance as a "serious, worldwide threat to public health." Newly developed antibiotics must therefore circumvent the known …
The identification of volatile organic compounds in extraterrestrial materials, like asteroids and meteorites, provides information towards how and where these compounds originate, along with evidence …
Exposure to stress during early childhood increases risk for negative mental health outcomes such as depression and substance use disorder, with dopamine-related psychopathology suggesting critical …
Agent Orange, a synthetic dioxin-containing toxin used as an herbicide during the Vietnam War, is principally composed of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T). …
We analyze the feasibility of using light to fragment a peptide into its constituent amino acids before identifying them by mass spectrometry for the purpose …
This pilot research project examines the political ecology of manufacturing waste in Rhode Island during the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. Many of the preexisting manufacturing and …
Here, we use mouse genetics and quantitative immunohistochemistry of embryo tissue sections to evaluate methods for manipulating cell-type specific TAG-1 levels. While we have established …
Ethylene is a gaseous hormone that plays an important role in many cellular processes in plants, including the promotion of fruit ripening and the inhibition …
There is no approved treatment for dual alcohol/nicotine dependencies. A preliminary double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical study with 30 alcoholic smokers taking ү-Aminobutyric Acid (GABAB) receptor …
