The EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship series houses works from Eastern Kentucky University faculty and staff members, including article pre-prints, presentations, posters, and other types of scholarship. In cases where the full text cannot be posted due to copyright, the citation will be included with a link to the full text when possible. Books written or edited by Eastern Kentucky University faculty and staff are highlighted in our Faculty and Staff Books Gallery.
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Submissions from 2021
Telomere roles in fungal genome evolution and adaptive evolution, Pat Calie, Mostafa Rahnama, Baohua Wang, Jane Dostart, Olga Novikova, Daniel Yackzan, Andrew Yackzan, Haley Bruss, Maray Baker, Haven Jacob, Xiaofei Zhang, April Lamb, Alex Stewart, Melanie Heist, Joey Hoover, Li Chen, Jinze Lu, and Mark Farman
The Bluegrass Corpus: Audio-visual Stimuli to Investigate Foreign Accents, Bailey McGuffin, Sara Incera, and Homer S. White
The Effect of Straight-Line Long-Toss Versus Ultra-Long-Toss Throwing on Passive Glenohumeral Range of Motion Recovery After Pitching, T. David Luo, Aaron D. Sciascia, and Michael T. Freehill
The Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Financial Security in Adulthood, John R.F. Harter and Cynthia Harter
The Many Faces of Stress: Three Factors that Predict Physical Illness in Young Adults, Rebecca Barron and Jonathan S. Gore
Trondhjemite Leucosomes Generated by Partial Melting of a Hornblende-gabbro (Alvand plutonic complex, Hamedan, NW Iran), Adel Saki, Federico Lucci, Mirmohammad Miri, and John C. White
Volcanological Evolution of Pantelleria Island (Strait of Sicily) Peralkaline Volcano: A Review, Silvio G. Rotolo, Stéphane Scaillet, Fabio Speranza, John C. White, Rebecca Williams, and Nina J. Jordan
WMS Connect: IPEDS and ACRL Reporting, Kelly Smith
Submissions from 2020
Alien Babies and Angelina Jolie: Evaluating Sources Using Tabloids with a Taste of News Literacy, Ashley Cole and Heather K. Beirne
An Assessment of Disinfection-Related Water Chemistry at Public Pools and Spas in Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas Gerding, Tim Wilder, and Jason W. Marion
Anatomy of the Magmatic Plumbing System of Los Humeros Caldera (Mexico): Implications for Geothermal Systems., Federico Lucci, Gerardo Carrasco-Nuñez, Federico Rossetti, Thomas Theye, John C. White, Stefano Urbani, Hossein Azzizi, Yosihiro Asahara, and Guido Giordano
Awareness and application of minimum impact practices among rock climbers in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky, Brian G. Clark, James N. Maples, and Ryan L. Sharp
Clinician Telehealth Attitudes in a Rural Community Mental Health Center Setting., Michael J. McClellan, Dan Florell, Jerry Palmer, and Chris Kidder
Experimental and Thermodynamic Constraints on Mineral Equilibrium in Pantelleritic Magmas., Pierangelo Romano, Bruno Scaillet, John C. White, Joan Andujar, Ida Di Carlo, and Silvio G. Rotolo
Exploring Early Childhood Trauma and its Effects on Parents, Shirley P. O'Brien, Myra B. Bundy, and M. Wittman
Fear of Physical Activity Limits Women Treated for Breast Cancer's Perceived Function, Mary Insana Fisher, Anne Fleischer, Taylor Bergin, and Christine Delong
Fieldwork Educators’ Expectations of Level II Occupational Therapy Students’ Professional and Technical Skills, Jessica Mason, Cindy Hayden, and Renee Causey-Upton
Geochemical Constraints on Mantle Sources and Basalt Petrogenesis in the Strait of Sicily Rift Zone (Italy): Insights into the Importance of Short Lengthscale Mantle Heterogeneity., John C. White, David A. Neave, Silvio G. Rotolo, and Don F. Parker
Grammatical Aspect and Mental Activation of Implied Instruments: A Mouse‑Tracking Study in Persian, Ramin Golshaie and Sara Incera
Green Criminology for Social Sciences: Introduction to the Special Issue, Bill McClanahan and Avi Brisman
Is the college farm sustainable? A reflective essay from Davidson College, Amanda S. Green, David Martin, and Gracie Ghartey-Tagoe
Librarians Leading Open Textbook Efforts, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, and Kelly Smith
Locating Evidence to Improve Outcomes, Anne Fleischer
Orthopaedic Nurses' Perceptions of Preoperative Education for Total Knee Replacement, Renee Causey-Upton, Dana M. Howell, Patrick H. Kitzman, Melba G. Custer, and Emily V. Dressler
Pain Catastrophizing in College Athletes, Aaron D. Sciascia, Jacob Waldecker, and Cale Jacobs
Perceptions of Preoperative Education for Total Knee Replacement, Renee Causey-Upton, Dana M. Howell, Patrick H. Kitzman, Melba G. Custer, and Emily V. Dressler
Preoperative Education for Total Knee Replacement: A National Survey of Orthopaedic Nurses, Renee Causey-Upton, Dana M. Howell, Patrick H. Kitzman, Melba G. Custer, and Emily V. Dressler
Rapid Assessment of Wetland Condition Reflects Amphibian Community Composition, Kari Dupler, Michelle Guidugli-Cook, David R. Brown, and Stephen C. Richter
Student Recruitment and Engagement in the COVID-19 Era, Jamie D. Hisel and Clint Pinion Jr.
The Theory of Planned Behavior and the USDA Summer Food Service Program, M. Rachel Harrington, Melinda Ickes, Kelly Bradley, and Melody Noland
Tools That Can Be Used Now! Person-Centered Care Within Cancer Rehabilitation. Symposium at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Anne B. Fleischer, Jan Struhar, and Sarah Mullan
Upper Dimension and Bases of Zero-divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings, Shariefuddin Pirzada, Mir Aijaz, and Shane. P. Redmond
Virtual Breast Cancer Education and Support Group for Self-care Management and Function: A Study Protocol Applying Person-centered Principles, Anne Fleischer Ph.D, Ann M. Callahan, Karina Christopher, Ashley Cummings, and Claire C. Davies
Submissions from 2019
Between Kudzu and Killer Apps: Finding Human Ground between the Monoculture of MOOCs and Online Mechanisms for Learning, Ralph Turner and Carol Gassaway
Brooding and Provisioning of Nestlings by Male and Female White-eyed Vireos (Vireo griseus), Gary Ritchison, Jeffrey Hawkins, and Brianna C. Ritchison
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Predicts Health Perception in Prison Inmates, Zyad T. Saleh, Alison Connell, Terry A. Lennie, Alison L. Bailey, Rami A. Elshatarat, Khalil Yousef, and Debra K. Moser
Conflict, Environment and Transition: Colombia, Ecology and Tourism after Demobilisation, Bill McClanahan, Tatiana Sanchez Parra, and Avi Brisman
Development and Validation of the Awareness of Privilege and Oppression Scale–2, Michael J. McClellan, Lori Particia Montross-Thomas, and Addison D. Monroe
Down and Out in Middletown and Jackson: Drugs, Dependency, and Decline in J.D. Vance's Capitalist Realism, Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley
Endogenous Firm Location with a Decreasing Density of Consumers, John R.F. Harter
Enduring Dispositions: Examining Punitive Logics in the Context of Disciplinary Reform, John J. Brent
Evaluation and Management of Scapular Dyskinesis in Overhead Athletes, W. Ben Kibler and Aaron D. Sciascia
Factors Influencing Discharge Readiness after Total Knee Replacement, Renee Causey-Upton, Dana Howell, Patrick H. Kitzman, Melba G. Custer, and Emily V. Dressler
Gender Composition and Share of Management: Tipping Points in US Workplaces, 1980–2005, Tiffany Taylor, Alison Buck, Katrina R. Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon
Getting Faculty Buy-In for Open Educational Resources, Kelly Smith
Guardianship and Predatory Crimes among Incapacitated Persons in Kentucky, Karen E. Martin and James Maples
Influences of Facultative Paedomorphosis on Kin Selection in a Larval Salamander, Ambystoma Talpoideum, Cy L. Mott, Haris Dzaferbegovic, Shelby R. Timm, and Howard H. Whiteman
Management Support for Safety: Disrupting the Paradigm, Scotty Dunlap
Mentoring: What Is Your Role?, C. Pinion, Jr. and Jamie D. Hisel
Pearls of Practice: Evaluating for Scapular Dyskinesis, Aaron D. Sciascia
Restructuring Heinrich: An Application for Modern Safety Management, Scott E. Dunlap, Bryan Basford, and Michelle Smith
Reviews and Price on Online Platforms: Evidence from Sentiment Analysis of Airbnb Reviews in Boston, Abdelaziz Lawani, Michael R. Reed, Tyler Mark, and Yuqing Zheng
Rudolf Otto as Platonist, Todd Gooch
Spatial Variation in U.S. Labor Markets and Workplace Gender Segregation: 1980–2005*, Tiffany Taylor Taylor, Brianna Turgeon, Alison Buck, Katrina Bloch, and Jacob Church
Spectroscopic Differentiation and Chromatographic Separation of Regioisomeric Indole Aldehydes: Synthetic Cannabinoids Precursors, Younis Abiedalla, Lewis W. Smith, Karim M. Abdel-Hay, Logan Neel, Tarek S. Belal, Amber Thaxton-Weissenfluh, Forrest Smith, Jack DeRuiter, and C. Randall Clark
Student Veterans' Assimilation in Higher Education: The Role of Identity Complexity, Eric B. Meiners
Teacher Candidate Tensions with the edTPA: A Neoliberal Policy Analysis, Alexis Jones, Stacey J. Korson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, Meghan A. Kessler, Dorian Harrison, Stephanie Cronenberg, Michael Lauren Parrish, and Marilyn Johnston Parsons
Test/Re-Test reliability of the readiness for interprofessional education learning scale and interdisciplinary education perception scale in health science students, Aaron D. Sciascia, Karina Christopher, Casey Humphrey, Leah Simpkins, Christen Guffey Page, and Lisa G. Jones
The Fable of The Three Little Pigs: Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology, Avi Brisman
The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: Insights into the Evolution of Peralkaline Silicic Magmas., Ray Macdonald, Boguslaw Baginski, Harvey E. Belkin, John C. White, and Don C. Noble
The Impact of Religious Affiliation on College Students’ 12-step Model Preferences, Sydney Alexandra Camargo, Michael J. McClellan, Craig Brandon Creech, Richard Osbaldiston, Colbey Adair, and Anna Rose Stanton
The Leyva Canyon Volcano, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio Co., Texas., John C. White, Kevin M. Urbanczyk, and Kelly Watson
Upper Dimension and Bases of Zero-Divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings, S. Pirzada, M. Aijaza, and Shane Redmond
Using Mouse Tracking to Investigate Auditory Taboo Effects in First and Second Language Speakers of American English, Sara Incera, Samantha E. Tuft, Rachel B. Fernandes, and Conor T. McLennan
Varietal Terwilliger Algebras Arising from Wreath Products of Rank Two Association Schemes, Bangteng Xu
Volatiles and Trace Element Contents in Melt Inclusions from the Zoned Green Tuff Ignimbrite (Pantelleria, Sicily): Petrological Inferences., Pierangelo Romano, John C. White, Alessandro Ciulla, Ida Di Carlo, Claudia D'Oriano, Patrizia Landi, and Silvio G. Rotolo
Submissions from 2018
152 Effects of Group Housing on Sow Production and Behavior, M. A. Martino, D. L. Peery, Z. T. Poynter, Courtney Sanders, Charles Powers, and Andrea Sexten
A Collaborative, Trilateral Approach to Bridging the Information Literacy Gap in Student Writing, Trenia Napier, Jill M. Parrott, Erin Presley, and Leslie A. Valley
A Country in Crisis: Will Greece Survive?, Lana Carnes
A Mixed Methods Comparison of Teachers' Lunar Modeling Lesson Implementation and Student Learning Outcomes, Mary F. Lamar, Dr. Jennifer Anne Wilhelm, and Merryn Cole
A Mixed Methods Comparison of Teachers' Lunar Modeling Lesson Implementation and Student Learning Outcomes, Mary F. Lamar, Jennifer Anne Wilhelm, and Merryn Cole
A Model to Increase Rehabilitation Adherence to Home Exercise Programmes in Patients with Varying Levels of Self-efficacy, Kelsey J. Picha and Dana Howell
A Novel FTA™ Elute Card Collection Method that Improves Direct DNA Amplification from Bloodstained Concrete, Stephen G. Lipic, Lucille M. Giordullo, and Jamie Fredericks
Antibiotic Residues in Milk from Three Popular Kenyan Milk Vending Machines, Amos Kosgey, Anakalo Shitandi, and Jason W. Marion
A Retrospective Cohort Study of QuickDASH Scores for Three Hand Therapy Acute Upper Limb Conditions, V. Smith-Forbes, Dana Howell, Jason Willoughby, Donald G. Pitts, and Tim L. Uhl
Assessment of Temperature and Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on Sunburn at an Inland U.S. Beach: A Cohort Study, Jason W. Marion, Jiyoung Lee, James Rosenblum, and Timothy J. Buckley
A Storied Tale: Melding Digital Storytelling, Service-Learning, and Digital and Information Literacy Skills for Pre-Service Teachers, Heather K. Beirne
Authority Control in Digital Commons: Why Bother?, Laura Edwards
Building Spiritual Sensitivity Through an Online Spirituality Course, Ann M. Callahan and Kalea Benner
Business Students' Personal Branding: An Empirical Investigation, Lee Allison, Philip J. Boutin, and Kevin J. Cumiskey
Characterization of Groundwater and Surface Water Geochemistry in an Agricultural Setting at EKU Meadowbrook Farm, Madison County, Kentucky, Reid E. Buskirk, Walter S. Borowski, and Jonathan M. Malzone
Comparison of Green's functions for a family of boundary value problems for fractional difference equations, Paul W. Eloe, Catherine M. Kublik, and Jeffrey T. Neugebauer
Compositional and Thermodynamic Variability in a Stratified Magma Chamber: Evidence from the Green Tuff Ignimbrite (Pantelleria, Italy)., Katarzyna M. Liszewska, John C. White, Ray Macdonald, and Bogusław Bagiński
Consent and Consumption of Spectacle Power and Violence, Dawn Rothe and Victoria E. Collins
Conveying the Importance of Personal Brands to Students, Lana Carnes and Faridah Awang
Critical Reading in Higher Education Academic Goals and Social Engagement, Leslie J. Hardman
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Visual Criminology and the "Black Sites" of the Rural, Bill McClanahan and Travis Linnemann
Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills for Acute Care with Simulated Clients, Renee Causey-Upton and Dana Howell
Effect of Multimodal Information Delivery for Diabetes Care on Colorectal Cancer Screening Uptake Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes, Young-Rock Hong, Kalyani B. Sonawane, Derek B. Holcomb, and Ashish A. Deshmukh
Effect of Variation in Nestling Hunger Levels on the Begging Behaviour of Nestlings and the Provisioning Behaviour of Adult American Kestrels, Katheryn A. Watson and Gary Ritchison
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years, Catherine Howey Stearn
Environmental Gradients in Old‐Growth Appalachian Forest Predict Fine‐Scale Distribution, Co‐occurrence, and Density of Woodland Salamanders, J. Alex Baecher and Stephen C. Richter
Environmental Health Makes a Strong Entry Into the Global One Health Framework in Jamaica, Jason W. Marion, Henroy Scarlett, and Priscilla Oliver
Evaluation of Relative Technological Innovation Capability: Model and Case Study for Chinas Coal Mine, Wensheng Wang and Chengyi Zhang
Experiences of Postpartum Women in One Residential Treatment Facility for Substance Use Disorders, Rebecca Jo Williams and Christine Privott
Exploring Parents’ Experiences of Raising a Child with Sensorimotor Impairments and Expectations for Leisure Participation, Emily A. Eicher, Camille Skubik-Peplaski PhD, Shirley P. O'Brien, and Anne Fleischer
Exploring the Correlates of Perceived Job Dangerousness Among Correctional Staff at a Maximum Security Prison, Eric G. Lambert, Kevin I. Minor, Jill Gordon, James Wells, and Nancy L. Hogan
Facilitate Active Learning: The Role of Perceived Benefits of Using Technology, Weiling Zhuang and Qian Xiao
Green Criminology and Environmental Crimes and Harms, Avi Brisman and Nigel South
How Ethics Can Inform Spiritually Sensitive Social Work, Ann M. Callahan
