Research Publications: Recent submissions
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Perceptions of School Bullying, Social Support, and Stress Among Korean Adoptees in U.S. White Families: A Pilot Study
(2020-01-15)Although there are numerous research studies on post adoption services to improve wellbeing of adopted children and their adoptive families, there is scarce research on school adjustment of adopted children. To address ... -
Genetic diversity, population structure, and effective population size in two yellow bat species in south Texas
(2020-11-18)There are increasing concerns regarding bat mortality at wind energy facilities, especially as installed capacity continues to grow. In North America, wind energy development has recently expanded into the Lower Rio Grande ... -
Tailoring Supports to Youth in Schools: One Approach to Identifying Needs and Targeting Intervention
(2020-03-17)Youth experiences intersect along their race, gender, language and socioeconomic status, schools must consider the intersectionality in order to improve outcomes. The current study sought to understand if, and to what ... -
Initial Inoculum and the Severity of COVID-19: A Mathematical Modeling Study of the Dose-Response of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
(2020-10-21)SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) causes a variety of responses in those who contract the virus, ranging from asymptomatic infections to acute respiratory failure and death. While there are likely ... -
BODIPY Dyes as Probes and Sensors to Study Amyloid-ß-Related Processes
(2020-11-27)Amyloid formation plays a major role in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid-ß peptides (Aß) are one of the primary markers associated with this pathology. Aß aggregates exhibit a ... -
Support or Punishment Practices: What Works to Reduce School Violence
(2020-11-28)School culture and violence have garnered much public and scholarly attention in recent years. Research in the area has focused on the extent to which strict enforcement of school policies and the law results in safer ... -
Effects of Doxorubicin Delivery by Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots on Cancer Cell Growth: Experimental Study and Mathematical Modeling
(2021-01-08)With 18 million new cases diagnosed each year worldwide, cancer strongly impacts both science and society. Current models of cancer cell growth and therapeutic efficacy in vitro are time-dependent and often do not consider ... -
The Preliminary Effects of a Multi-Recess School Intervention: Using Accelerometers to Measure Physical Activity Patterns in Elementary Children
(2020-11-30)This pilot study used accelerometers to investigate the effectiveness of a multiple recess school intervention on physical activity patterns in younger elementary children using a post-test only with nonequivalent groups ... -
Fossil Fuel Substitution with Renewables for Electricity Generation--Effects on Sustainability Goals
(2019-12-07)The substitution of fossil fuel power plants with renewable units will lead to a profound reduction of CO2 emissions and will assist in evading the Global Climate Change. Using demand data from the electricity grid of ... -
The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs
(2020-09-10)As the world is undergoing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the fusing of physical, digital, and biological worlds with the new technologies, we experience a profound impact of this revolution on the labor markets ... -
Honors International Faculty Learning Online (HIFLO 2020): A model for honors online professional development
(2020-07-15)The Spring of 2020 brought many disruptions to our professional and personal lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced worldwide mid-semester campus closures; pivoting of traditional, face-to-face classes to remote ... -
Time-resolved and Temperature-dependent Broadband Emission of Plasmon-coupled Quantum Dots
(2020-11-15)The broadband photoluminescence (PL) emissions from CdSe QDs and plasmon-coupled QDs were characterized with time-resolved and temperature-dependent spectroscopy for the application of solid-state white light. The origin ... -
Divergent memories and visions of the future in conflicts over mining development
(2020-01-20)Conflicts over extractive development often center around predicting future profits and economic growth, and estimating industrial pollution. How these projections are understood and seen as legitimate and trustworthy ... -
Effects of Resilience Strength Training on Constructs Associated with Moral Injury among Veterans
(2020-12-14)Resilience Strength Training (RST) is a peer specialist program that incorporates a military squad model of group trust and bonding to address problems specific to moral injury (typically involving collapse of meaning or ... -
Policing Internet Sex Trafficking
(2020-11-17)Few studies have examined Internet sex trafficking through the lens of law enforcement working these cases. The purpose of this research is to explore the dynamic nature of policing sex trafficking in the online environment. ... -
Political ecologies of time and temporality in resource extraction
(2020-01-20)This article introduces a Special Section on time and temporality in natural resource extraction. The Special Section illuminates the importance of both resource temporalities and temporal strategies around resource ... -
Decline Curve Analysis of Shale Oil Production Using a Constrained Monte Carlo Technique
(2020-09-10)Shale oil production from the Bakken shale and the Eagle Ford shale was analyzed using decline curve analysis and a constrained Monte Carlo technique. The purpose of the paper is to provide a set of parameters that can be ... -
An Investigation of the Relationship between Prince Shotoku's Shomangyo-gisho and Two Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts: A Debate over Originality and Canonical Value
(2020-05-01)This article examines the relationship between Nai 93 and Tama 24--two manuscript fragments discovered at Dunhuang--and the Shomangyo-gisho, a Buddhist text written in classical Chinese that scholars traditionally attributed ... -
Blockchain System Defensive Overview for Double-Spend and Selfish Mining Attacks: A Systematic Approach
(2020-12-25)Blockchain is a technology that ensures data security by verifying database of records established in a decentralized and distributed network. Blockchain-based approaches have been applied to secure data in the fields of ...
