Restored grasslands are increasingly implemented to mitigate habitat loss and support biodiversity in the southeastern US, yet relatively little is known about how mammalian predators and their prey use these habitats in these areas. We evaluated patterns of site use, co-occurrence, and temporal activity of 2 mesopredators, Canis latrans (Coyote) Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer), across restored grasslands in Tennessee. Using camera traps deployed across multiple sites, we quantified how predator and prey site use, co-occurrence, and temporal overlap are related to habitat features. Bobcat site use increased with greater grassland proportion in the surrounding landscape, while Eastern Cottontail site use and Bobcat-Eastern Cottontail co-occurrence were best supported by edge-related metrics, particularly forest edge density. Support for landscape effects on Coyote and White-talied Deer site use and co-occurrence was weaker. Patterns of co-occurrence suggest that predators and prey use the same grasslands sites, with some evidence of partial temporal separation between species, although limited detections of predators preclude strong inference about avoidance. Our findings highlight how structural and compositional features of restored southeastern grasslands, including edge density and proportion of grassland, may influence species' use within broader landscapes. We acknowledge several limitations, including the small size of restored sites relative to predator home ranges, staggered camera deployments, and potential repeated detection of the same individuals. Despite these constraints, restored grasslands appear to provide habitat for both predators and prey in the southeastern US, demonstrating their potential to support mammalian communities and informing future restoration and management strategies in human-altered landscapes.
This article offers multiple strategies for instructors who are implementing intercultural communication (IC) projects in their classrooms for the first time. The strategies-referred to as UNITE-are based on five main stages that collaborative projects can follow: understanding and learning about IC collaborations, navigating the project prior to the classroom collaboration, introducing the project to students, tending the project throughout its duration, and ending the project. Using their years of experience in participating in the Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Project (TAPP), the authors provide examples and explanations of moves and activities that have worked in facilitating successful IC collaboration projects for students in their technical and professional communication courses.
Political observers proposed that gender was on the ballot in the 2024 US presidential election, in ways beyond just the candidates themselves. Ambivalent Sexism research (AS; Glick Fiske, 2001) spans many domains but there is limited research examining its link to voting behavior in elections. This study aimed to contribute to the paucity of research on this topic by evaluating how ambivalent attitudes toward women and men, and the belief that men experience more discrimination today compared to women, predicted voting behavior in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. We collected 500 responses from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults one day after the US. presidential election. The results revealed that men and women’s endorsement of some prejudicial gender attitudes, but not others, predicted voting for Trump/Vance or Harris/Walz. This work implies that gender may have been on the ballot in this election.
We introduce a quantum-electrodynamical time-dependent density functional theory with a tensor-product representation (QED-TDDFT-TP) to model molecules strongly coupled to quantized cavity fields. By combining real-space electronic wave functions with truncated Fock-space photon states, the method captures light-matter correlations at a computational cost close to standard DFT. Benchmark calculations show good agreement with QED-FCI and QED-CASCI for ground-state energies and polaritonic spectra. Applications to weakly bound dimers─including (H2)2, Ar2, (H2O)2, and HF─demonstrate that cavity confinement can significantly alter binding energies and geometries in a polarization-dependent manner. The framework provides an accurate and scalable tool for studying cavity-modified molecular structure and interactions.
We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering 4031 deg(2) and used in the DES Y6 3 x 2 pt cosmological analysis. We use the Maglim++ lens sample, containing similar to 9 million galaxies divided into six redshift bins, and the Metadetection source catalog, including similar to 140 million galaxies divided into four redshift bins. The mean tangential shear signal achieves a total signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 173, corresponding to a 17% improvement over DES Y3. After applying the scale cuts used in the cosmological analysis, with R-min = 6 Mpc/h (4 Mpc/h) for the linear (nonlinear) galaxy-bias model, the S/N is reduced to 75 (90). A comprehensive suite of validation tests demonstrates that the measurement is robust against observational and astrophysical systematics at the statistical precision required for the DES Y6 analysis. Although not used in the main cosmological analysis, we extract high signal-to-noise geometric shear-ratio measurements from the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal on small angular scales. These measurements provide an internal consistency check on the photometric redshift distributions and shear calibration used in the 3 x 2 pt analysis.
