Thomas O'Connell

Dec 23, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Thomas O'Connell

It was a normal, busy day at Young’s Nail Spa in Temecula, California, when the nail salon was abruptly hit with a $1.2 million fine by the California Labor Commissioner after an investigation found that 36 workers were misclassified and improperly paid. In New York City, a nail salon chain with 25 locations was ordered to pay $300,000 to more than 100 current and former employees due to misclassification issues.

Jun 17, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Yuansheng Zhou |Thomas O'Connell |Majid Ghaninia |Brian Smith

AbstractOdors provide an important communication channel between plants and animals. Fruits, vital nutrient sources for animals, emit a complex array of monomolecular volatiles. Animals can use the structure of these mixtures to assess properties of fruit predictive of their nutritive and reproductive value. We analyzed the statistics of fruit odor mixtures sampled across stages of ripening and fermentation to find that they fall on a low-dimensional hyperbolic map.