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 2010
Patterns of Heavy Metal Concentration in Core Sediments, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Clint McMaine and Walter S. Borowski
Right Focal Boundary Value Problems for Difference Equations, Johnny Henderson, Xueyan Liu, Jeffrey W. Lyons, and Jeffrey T. Neugebauer
Roles of 3-nitrotyrosine- and 4-hydroxynonenal-modified brain proteins in the progression and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, D. Allan Butterfield, Tanea T. Reed, and Rukhsana Sultana
Social Work Students' Images of God, Catherine A. Faver, Mary Ellen Cox, and Ann M. Callahan
Submissions from 2009
Assessing the effectiveness of financial fitness for life in eastern Kentucky, John R.F. Harter and Cynthia Harter
Genetic Consequences of Population Reduction and Geographic Isolation in the Critically Endangered Frog, Rana sevosa, Stephen C. Richter, Brian I. Crother, and Richard E. Broughton
Growing through organizational change, Ann M. Callahan
Nutrient and Fecal Microbe Sources for a Eutrophic Lake and Recommended Remediation Steps, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski, Theresa A. Aguiar, Jill Hunter, Erin C. Jolly, and Richard D. Stockwell
One interpreter education program, two sites: A comparison of factors and outcomes, Kimberly J. Hale and Karen Petronio
Proteomic identification of HNE-bound proteins in early Alzheimer disease: Insights into the role of lipid peroxidation in the progression of AD, Tanea T. Reed, William M. Pierce, William R. Markesbery, and D. Allan Butterfield
Proteomic identification of nitrated brain proteins in early Alzheimer's disease inferior parietal lobule, Tanea T. Reed, William M. Pierce, Delano M. Turner, William R. Markesbery, and D. Allan Butterfield
Survey of Water and Soil Core Samples for Heavy Metal Contamination from Madison County, KY, Jilliann Timmons, Walter S. Borowski, and Lori Wilson
Submissions from 2008
An Assessment of the Role of Biofuels in the 21st Century, Erin C. Jolly and Walter S. Borowski
Large-scale Alkalic Magmatism Associated with the Buckhorn Caldera, Trans-Pecos Texas, USA: Comparison with Pantelleria, Italy., Don Parker and John C. White
Molecular analysis of Solidaster cv. Lemore, a hybrid goldenrod (Asteraceae), Edward E. Schilling, Pat Calie, J. B. Beck, and R. L. Small
Proteomic identification of nitrated brain proteins in traumatic brain-injured rats treated postinjury with gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester: insights into the role of elevation of glutathione as a potential therapeutic strategy for traumatic brain injury, Tanea T. Reed, William M. Pierce, Andrea Sebastian, Patrick G. Sullivan, and D. Allan Butterfield
Qualitative properties of nonlinear Volterra integral equations, Muhammad Islam and Jeffrey T. Neugebauer
Seasonal Changes in a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Richard D. Stockwell and Walter S. Borowski
Seasonal Changes in a Eutrophic Lake (Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky) from Summer Stratification through Fall Turnover, Richard D. Stockwell and Walter S. Borowski
Seasonal Changes in Stratification and Oxygen Content of a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Jill Hunter and Walter S. Borowski
Seasonal Changes in Stratification and Oxygen Content of a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Jill Hunter and Walter S. Borowski
Seasonal Changes in Stratification and Oxygen Content of a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Jill Hunter and Walter S. Borowski
Tracing Nutrient Inputs into a Eutrophic Lake using Nitrogen Isotopes, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski and Theresa A. Aguiar
Using E. Coli and Bacteroides Distribution and Abundance in a Eutrophic Lake as a Tracer for Nutrient Inputs, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Theresa A. Aguiar, Walter S. Borowski, Alice C. Layton, and Larry McKay
Using Microbial Distribution and Abundance in a Eutrophic Lake as a Tracer for Nutrient Inputs, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky., Theresa A. Aguiar, Walter S. Borowski, Alice C. Layton, and Larry McKay
Using Nitrogen Isotopes to Trace Nutrient Inputs to a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski and Theresa A. Aguiar
Submissions from 2007
Dynamics of a Eutrophic Lake (Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky): A First Step in Cleansing a Lake System Impaired by Nutrient Loading, Erin C. Jolly and Walter S. Borowski
Dynamics of a Eutrophic Lake (Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky): A First Step in Cleansing a Lake System Impaired by Nutrient Loading, Erin C. Jolly, Jill Hunter, David Deigert, Walter S. Borowski, Alice Jones, and Danita LaSage
Elevated levels of 3-nitrotyrosine in brain from subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: Implications for the role of nitration in the progression of Alzheimer's disease, D. Allan Butterfield, Tanea T. Reed, Marzia Perluigi, Carlo De Marco, Raffaella Coccia, Jeffrey N. Keller, William R. Markesbery, and Rukhsana Sultana
Fecal Microbe Distribution and Abundance used as a Possible Proxy for Nutrient Source Identification in Eutrophic Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Theresa A. Aguiar and Walter S. Borowski
Preliminary Physical and Chemical Characteristic of a Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Erin C. Jolly and Walter S. Borowski
Preliminary Results of a Fecal Microbe Survey in an Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski and Michael S. Albright
Proteomic identification of nitrated brain proteins in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A regional study, Rukhsana Sultana, Tanea T. Reed, Marzia Perluigi, Rafaella Coccia, William M. Pierce, and D. Allan Butterfield
Roles of amyloid β-peptide-associated oxidative stress and brain protein modifications in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment, D. Allan Butterfield, Tanea T. Reed, Shelley F. Newman, and Rukhsana Sultana
Second thoughts from the front lines, Ann M. Callahan
Sulfur Geochemistry and Diagenesis in a Gas Hydrate Terrane, Cascadia Margin, Offshore Oregon: Role of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation, David Deigert and Walter S. Borowski
The bioinformatic enhancement of exercises in Drosophila genetics, Pat Calie, Sharon Lee, and Emily Jean Hicks
Submissions from 2006
A Geologic Record of Competing Sulfate-depletion Processes Within Continental-rise Sediments Overlying Methane Gas Hydrates of the Blake Ridge Region (Continental Rise, Offshore Southeastern United States), Walter S. Borowski, Kathryn G. Takacs, and Matthew K. Thompson
Application of the QUIlF Thermobarometer to the Peralkaline Trachytes and Pantellerites of the Eburru Volcanic Complex, East African Rift, Kenya., Minghua Ren, Peter Omenda, Elizabeth Y. Anthony, John C. White, Ray Macdonald, and D K. Bailey
A Preliminary Comparison of the Sulfur Geochemistry between Two Gas Hydrate Terranes, Michael D. Spicer and Walter S. Borowski
A Preliminary Study of Sulfide Mineral Formation in Methane-rich, Marine Sediments Associated with Anaerobic Methane Oxidation, Cascadia Continental Margin, Offshore Oregon, David Deigert and Walter S. Borowski
Elevated Protein-bound Levels of the Lipid Peroxidation Product, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal, in Brain from Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment, D. Allan Butterfield, Tanea T. Reed, Marzia Perluigi, Carlo De Marco, Raffaella Coccia, Chiara Cini, and Rukhsana Sultana
High levels of seed inviability among seven populations of the endangered Short’s goldenrod (Solidago shortii – Asteraceae), Pat Calie, Robert F.C. Naczi, Christina Shackleford, and Jessica Caicedo
Histamine-releasing and Antimicrobial Peptides from the Skin Secretions of the Dusky Gopher Frog, Rana sevosa, Ciaren Graham, Stephen C. Richter, Stephen McClean, Edmund O'Kane, Peter R. Flatt, and Chris Shaw
Petrogenesis and Tectonic Setting of the Peralkaline Pine Canyon Caldera, Trans-Pecos Texas, USA., John C. White, Christian S. Benker, Minghua Ren, Kevin M. Urbanczyk, and Don W. Corrick
Preliminary Results of a Nutrient Source Study in Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski and Erin C. Jolly
Proteomics analysis provides insight into caloric restriction mediated oxidation and expression of brain proteins associated with age-related impaired cellular processes: Mitochondrial dysfunction, glutamate dysregulation and impaired protein synthesis, H. Fai Poon, Holly M. Shepherd, Tanea T. Reed, Vittorio Calabrese, Anna-Maria Giuffrida Stella, Giovanni Pennisi, Jian Cai, William M. Pierce, Jon B. Klein, and D. Allan Butterfield
Redox Proteomics in Some Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disorders or Models Thereof, D. Allan Butterfield, Hafiz Mohmmad Abdul, Shelley Newman, and Tanea T. Reed
Student Poster Presentations as a Venue for Personal and Professional Growth, Walter S. Borowski
Student Publications and Presentations in Science – Writing the Abstract as a Model in Teaching Scientific Writing, Walter S. Borowski
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Pelargonium x hortorum: Organization and evolution of the largest and most highly rearranged chloroplast genome of land plants, Timothy W. Chumley, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Jeffrey P. Mower, H. Matthew Fourcade, Pat Calie, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Robert K. Jansen
Using Well Water to Increase Hydroperiod as a Management Option for Pond-breeding Amphibians, Richard A. Seigel, Abigail Dinsmore, and Stephen C. Richter
Submissions from 2005
A Geologic Record of Methane Consumption Associated with Methane Gas Hydrates at Blake Ridge Region (Continental Rise, Offshore Southeastern United States), Walter S. Borowski, Kathryn G. Takacs, and Matthew K. Thompson
A mutant hunt using the C-Fern (Ceratopteris richardii), Pat Calie
An examination of costs at four-year public colleges and universities between 1989 and 1998, John R.F. Harter, John A. Wade, and Thomas G. Watkins
A Preliminary Comparison of the Sulfur Geochemistry between Two Gas Hydrate Terranes, Michael D. Spicer and Walter S. Borowski
Development and Characterization of Polymorphic Microsatellite DNA loci for the Endangered Dusky Gopher Frog, Rana sevosa, and Two Closely Related Species, Rana capito and Rana areolata, Stephen C. Richter and Richard E. Broughton
Peptide Tyrosine Arginine, a Potent Immunomodulatory Peptide Isolated and Structurally Characterized from the Skin Secretions of the Dusky Gopher Frog, Rana sevosa, Ciaren Graham, Alexandra E. Irvine, Stephen McClean, Stephen C. Richter, Peter R. Flatt, and Chris Shaw
Relative Concentration of Solid-phase Sulfide Species in Marine Sediments Overlying Gas Hydrate Deposits: Recognition of the Role of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in Authigenic Sulfide Formation, Matthew K. Thompson, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Sulfide Mineralization in Deep-water Marine Sediments Related to Methane Transport, Methane Consumption, and Methane Gas Hydrates, Matthew K. Thompson, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Sulfide Mineralization within Modern, Deep-sea Marine Sediments and Oxygenation of the Early Earth, Matthew K. Thompson and Walter S. Borowski
Variations in Mineralogy, Temperature, and Oxygen Fugacity in a Suite of Strongly Peralkaline Lavas and Tuffs, Pantelleria, Italy., John C. White, Minghua Ren, and Don Parker
Submissions from 2004
A Review of Methane and Gas Hydrates in the Dynamic, Stratified System of the Blake Ridge Region, Offshore Southeastern North America, Walter S. Borowski
Changes in Sulfur Concentration and Sulfur Isotopic Composition Within Authigenic Sulfide Minerals from Sediments of Miocene Age to the Present, ODP Site 995, Blake Ridge, Offshore Southeastern United States, Kathryn G. Takacs and Walter S. Borowski
Effects of Forest Management on Amphibians and Reptiles in Missouri Ozark Forests, Rochelle B. Renken, Wendy K. Gram, Debra K. Fantz, Stephen C. Richter, Timothy J. Miller, Kevin B. Ricke, Bradley Russell, and Xiaoyin Wang
High resolution GIS mapping and current status of the ten viable populations of Short’s goldenrod (Solidago shortii – Asteraceae) in Kentucky, Brent D. Smith, James B. Beck, Andrew T. Denham, and Pat Calie
How brand loyalty affects product differentiation, John R.F. Harter
Isotopic Concentration of Sulfide Sulfur and Delta-34S from Methane Seeps on the Blake Ridge Diapir and Monterey Canyon, V. Lynn Means and Walter S. Borowski
Is subtribe Solidagininae (Asteraceae) monophyletic?, James B. Beck, Guy L. Nesom, Pat Calie, Gary I. Baird, Randall Small, and Edward L. E. Schilling
Role of Phenylalanine 20 in Alzheimer's Amyloid β-peptide (1-42)-induced Oxidative Stress and Neurotoxicity, Debra Boyd-Kimball, Hafiz Mohmmad Abdul, Tanea T. Reed, Rukhsana Sultana, and D. Allan Butterfield
Stressing Concepts and Teaching in the Classroom: A Low-technology Approach Using Concept Tests and Classroom Polls, Walter S. Borowski
Sulfide Mineralization in Deep-water Marine Sediments Related to Methane Transport, Methane Consumption, and Methane Gas Hydrates, Matthew K. Thompson, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Sulfide Sulfur Concentration and Sulfur Isotopic Composition of Methane Seep Sediments, V. Lynn Means and Walter S. Borowski
Teaching with technology: does access to computer technology increase student achievement?, John R.F. Harter and Cynthia Harter
Submissions from 2003
Authigenic Sulfide Mineralization Induced by Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in Methane-rich, Gas-hydrate-associated Sediments: Stratigraphic Patterns of Sulfide Sulfur Concentration and Sulfide-sulfur Isotopic Composition, Kathryn G. Takacs and Walter S. Borowski
Effects of Experimental Forest Management on Density and Nesting Success of Bird Species in Missouri Ozark Forests, Wendy K. Gram, Paul A. Porneluzi, Richard L. Clawson, John Faaborg, and Stephen C. Richter
Enrichments of 34S in Sulfide Minerals of Deep-water Marine Sediments of the Blake Ridge, Offshore Southeastern United States, Kathryn G. Takacs and Walter S. Borowski
Profit Maximization: A Classroom Experiment, John R.F. Harter and Thomas G. Watkins
Stochastic Variation in Reproductive Success of a Rare Frog, Rana sevosa: Implications for Conservation and for Monitoring Amphibian Populations, Stephen C. Richter, Jeanne E. Young, Glen N. Johnson, and Richard A. Seigel
Sulfide Mineralization in Deep-water Marine Sediments Related to Methane Transport, Methane Consumption, and Methane Gas Hydrates, Matthew K. Thompson, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Submissions from 2002
Annual Variation in the Population Ecology of the Endangered Gopher Frog, Rana sevosa Goin and Netting, Stephen C. Richter and Richard A. Seigel
The Meeting of Two Microbial Worlds: Geochemistry of the Sulfate-methane Interface, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Submissions from 2001
Data Report: Carbon Isotopic Composition of Dissolved CO2, CO2 Gas, and Methane, Blake-Bahama Ridge and Northeast Bermuda Rise, ODP Leg 172, Walter S. Borowski, Namik Cagatay, Y Tournois, and Charles K. Paull
Insights into the species delineation and population structure of Solidago shortii (Asteraceae) through morphometric analysis, James B. Beck, Robert R.F. Naczi, and Pat Calie
Many parallel losses of infA from chloroplast DNA during angiosperm evolution with multiple independent transfers to the nucleus, Ronny S. Millen, Richard G. Olmstead, Keith L. Adams, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Nga T. Lao, Laura Heggie, Tony A. Kavanagh, Julian M. Hibberd, John C. Gray, Clifford W. Morden, Pat Calie, Lars S. Jermiin, and Kenneth H. Wolfe
The Effects Of a Patent System on Product Varieties in Hotelling's Competition, John R.F. Harter
Submissions from 2000
Geologic Implications of Sulfide Mineralization at the Sulfate-methane Interface in Marine Sediments, Walter S. Borowski, C. K. Paull, and Bill Ussler
Isotopic Composition of Authigenic Sulfide Minerals at the Base of the Sulfate-reduction Zone: Implications for Diagenesis at the Sulfate-methane Interface, Walter S. Borowski, C. K. Paull, and Bill Ussler
Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Pore Water Ammonium, Blake Ridge, Site 997, ODP Leg 164, Walter S. Borowski and Charles K. Paull
Significance of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in Methane-rich Sediments Overlying the Blake Ridge Gas Hydrates, Walter S. Borowski, Tori M. Hoehler, Mark J. Alperin, Namcy M. Rodriguez, and Charles K. Paull
Submissions from 1999
Global and Local Variations of Interstitial Sulfate Gradients in Deep-water, Continental Margin Sediments: Sensitivity to Underlying Methane and Gas Hydrates, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Lectotypification of Solidago shortii (Asteraceae) with considerations of the historical and intellectual circumstances surrounding the original species description, James B. Beck, Robert R.F. Naczi, and Pat Calie
Submissions from 1998
A model of the quaternary structure of enolases, based on structural and evolutionary analysis of the octomeric enolase from Bacillus subtilis, C. Kent Brown, Peter L. Kuhlman, Susan Mattingly, Kevin Slates, Pat Calie, and William W. Farrar
New Technique Detects Gas Hydrates, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Submissions from 1997
Carbon Cycling Within the Upper Methanogenic Zone of Continental-rise Sediments: An Example from the Methane-rich Sediments Overlying the Blake Ridge Gas Hydrate Deposits, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Geochemical Clues to Gas Hydrate Distribution: Sulfate Gradients as Sensors of Underlying Methane Inventory, Walter S. Borowski, C. K. Paull, and Bill Ussler
Hotelling's competition with demand location uncertainty, John R.F. Harter
Recognition of Shallow-subbottom Gas Hazards in Deep-water Operation Areas: The Gas Hydrate Detection Problem, Walter S. Borowski, Charles K. Paull, and William Ussler III
Submissions from 1996
Carbon Cycling at the Base of the Sulfate Reduction Zone, Walter S. Borowski, C. K. Paull, and Bill Ussler
