Research Publications: Recent submissions
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Play Smarter Not Harder: Developing Your Scholarly Meta
(2019-07-02)Publication medium is a choice that is always made and often forgotten. This game makes its arguments through interactivity and play, stressing that no medium is neutral and that medium choice shapes knowledge production. ... -
Risk, Stigma, Trustworthiness, and Citizen Participation--A Multifaceted Analysis of Media Coverage of Dioxin Contamination in Midland, Michigan
(2019-10-29)In the United States, more than 200 communities are designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as areas of concern for dioxins. Informing the public about potential risks associated with dioxins and delivering ... -
Modeling Housing Rent in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area Using Textual Information and Deep Learning
(2019-08-02)The rental housing market plays a critical role in the United States real estate market. In addition, rent changes are also indicators of urban transformation and social phenomena. However, traditional data sources for ... -
Silicon Nanotubes as Potential Therapeutic Platforms
(2019-11-01)Silicon nanotubes (SiNTs) with unique well-defined structural morphologies have been successfully fabricated and recognized as a novel architecture in the nanoscale Si family. While the typical dendritic microstructure of ... -
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Decoding Skills--Implications for Music and Reading
(2019-11-19)Music education is associated with increased speech perception abilities and anecdotal evidence suggests musical training is also beneficial for performance in a variety of academic areas. In spite of this positive ... -
Galleria mellonella as an Infection Model for Bacillus anthracis Sterne
(2019-10-18)Understanding bacterial virulence provides insight into the molecular basis behind infection and could identify new drug targets. However, assessing potential virulence determinants relies on testing in an animal model. ... -
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Assisted Antibiotic Delivery and Imaging in S. epidermidis Strains Addressing Antibiotic Resistance
(2019-11-25)Although conventional antibiotics have evolved as a staple of modern medicine, increasing antibiotic resistance and the lack of antibiotic efficacy against new bacterial threats is becoming a major medical threat. In this ... -
Consumer Characteristics and Shopping for Fashion in the Omni-channel Retail Environment
(2019-10-30)Purpose: Omni-channel retailing is a new retail phenomenon. Consumers in the omni-channel environment do not rely on one channel but integrate different channels from the same retailers freely during a particular shopping ... -
Self-reported antiretroviral therapy adherence and viral load in criminal justice-involved populations
(2019-10-29)Background: Self-reported antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence measures that are associated with plasma viral load (VL) are valuable to clinicians and researchers, but are rarely examined among groups vulnerable to ... -
Does Seeking e-Cigarette Information Lead to Vaping? Evidence from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and Young Adults
(2017-12-13)Youth and young adults (YYAs) are vulnerable populations for e-cigarette use or vaping. This study examined the effect of YYAs' health information seeking behavior (HISB) around e-cigarette use and vaping on their subsequent ... -
Using a Monte Carlo Simulation Exercise to Teach Principles of Distribution: An Enhanced Version of the Classic Transportation Problem
(2019-02-25)This paper explains a Monte Carlo simulation workshop applied to an extended version of the classic transportation problem. It is designed to be conducted in a classroom or laboratory where students have access to a Monte ... -
A 7-day high-PUFA diet reduces angiopoietin-like protein 3 and 8 responses and postprandial triglyceride levels in healthy females but not males: a randomized control trial
(2019-01-06)Background: Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have beneficial effects on hypertriglyceridemia although their effect on angiopoietin-like proteins (ANGPTLs), specifically ANGPTL3, ANGPTL4 and ANGPTL8 is unknown. Objective: ... -
The consequences of (not) seeing eye-to-eye about the past: The role of supervisor-team fit in past temporal focus for supervisors' leadership behavior
(2020-03-01)This study seeks to advance our understanding of the leadership consequences that may ensue when supervisors and their teams have similar versus differing orientations toward the past. Integrating a leader-team fit perspective ... -
The climate change double whammy: Flood damage and the determinants of flood insurance coverage, the case of post-Katrina New Orleans
(2020-01-01)This paper advances scholarly debate on the contradictions of environmental risk management measures by analyzing the determinants of flood insurance coverage among a sample of 403 residents in New Orleans, a city undergoing ... -
The Yin and Yang of entrepreneurship: Gender differences in the importance of communal and agentic characteristics for entrepreneurs' subjective well-being and performance
(2019-07-01)This research examines gender differences in the relationships of entrepreneurs' agentic and communal personality characteristics with measures of subjective well-being and new venture performance. Results from a stratified ... -
Nonlocal Disadvantage: An Examination of Social Media Sentiment
(2017-07-31)Twitter posts covering 1,082 firms from November 2008 to June 2011 reveal that sentiment in nonlocal Twitter posts is negatively related to future returns, and this negative relation is due to nonlocal posts favoring ... -
Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior
(2019-06-11)Precise neural sequences are associated with the production of well-learned skilled behaviors. Yet, how neural sequences arise in the brain remains unclear. In songbirds, premotor projection neurons in the cortical song ... -
The Things of Caesar: Mark-ing the Plural (Mk 12:13-17)
(2014-09-02)This article observes the rarely-discussed phenomenon that the Marcan paying-the-tax scene refers to tax in the singular, whilst the concluding saying uses the plural 'the things of Caesar and of God'. The article accounts ...
