This series contains all of the faculty publications for every year the repository was active.
Submissions from 2023
Spatiotemporal Variability in Total Dissolved Solids and Total Suspended Solids along the Colorado River, Godson Ebenezer Adjovu, Haroon Stephen, and Sajjad Ahmad
Food Insecurity and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among College Students During The COVID-19 Pandemic, Bertille Assoumou, Jennifer Pharr, and Courtney Coughenour
Comparative Nutritional Assessment and Metabolomics of a WRKY Rice Mutant with Enhanced Germination Rates, Santiago Bataller, Anne J. Villacastin, Qingxi J. Shen, and Christine Bergman
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Diabetes from 1990 to 2021, With Projections of Prevalence to 2050: a Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, Kavita Batra and Numerous Authors, See List Below
Pandemic upon Pandemic: Middle-Aged and Older Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV Coping and Thriving during the Peak of COVID-19, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, John M. Waldron, Lianne Barnes, Nadia Sheik-Yosef, Esmeralda Villalobos, Janelle Wackens, and Renato M. Liboro
The Registration Continuum in Personality Disorder Studies: Theory, Rationale, And Template, Stephen D. Benning and Edward A. Smith
The Data Error Criteria (DEC) for Retrospective Studies: Development and Preliminary Application, Lindsay Buczek, Fadi Azar, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, Caleb Murphy, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj
Inclusive Or Harmful? A Critical Content Analysis of Tutorial Offerings from R1 Academic Libraries, Carrieann Cahall, Rosan Mitola, Chelsea Heinbach, and Amber Sewell
Evaluating The Potential of Geopolymer Concrete as A Sustainable Alternative for Thin White-Topping Pavement, Sathvik S. Chandra, Pshtiwan Shakor, Sarwar Mohmmad, Bankole O. Awuzie, Atul K. Singh, Abishek Rauniyar, and M Karakouzian
Do Arguments for Global Warming Commit a Fallacy of Composition?, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Fernando Leal and Hubert Marraud: How Philosophers Argue: An Adversarial Collaboration on the Russell−Copleston Debate, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Synecological Response of Spring Benthic Prokaryotes and Macroinvertebrates to Paleozoic Roof Pendant-Derived Calcium, Ariel D. Friel, Khaled Pordel, Zachary Meyers, Cale O. Seymour, Nicole J. Thomas, Fred M. Philips, Jeffrey R. Knott, Donald W. Sada, Laura Rademacher, Marty Frisbee, and Brian P. Hedlund
Payments Transaction Data from Online Casino Players and Online Sports Bettors, Kasra Ghaharian, Piyush Puranik, Brett Abarbanel, Kazem Taghva, Shane W. Kraus, Ashok Singh, Alan Feldman, and Bo Bernhard
A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Cannabis Use Consequences, Timothy J. Grigsby, Andrea Lopez, Larisa Albers, Christopher J. Rogers, and Myriam Forster
Nevada Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Study 2023, Becky Harris and Andrea Dassopoulos
Adaptation In the Sensory Cortex Drives Bistable Switching During Auditory Stream Segregation, Nathan C. Higgins, Alexandra N. Scurry, Fang Jiang, David F. Little, Mounya Elhilali, and Joel S. Snyder
How Observed Customer Mistreatment of Supervisors Affects Employees’ Service Sabotage: A Cross-Cultural Examination from The Deontic Justice Theory, Wen Jiang, Cass Shum, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, and Ye Ding
Biomechanically-Consistent Skin Stretch as an Intuitive Mechanism for Sensory Feedback: A Preliminary Investigation in the Lower Limb, Jenny A. Kent
What’s inside the Mind of a CEO? The Effects of Discretionary Slack Resources on R&D Investment, Seunghye Lee, Won-Yong Oh, and Young K. Chang
Comparison of Clinical and Biomechanical Characteristics Between Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation With and Without Lower Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Szu-Ping Lee, Shawn Farrokhi, Jenny A. Kent, Jason Ciccotelli, Lung-Chan Chien, and Jo Armour Smith
Reimaging the Library of the Future. From Social Condenser and Community Hub to Regenerative Design, Steffen Lehmann
Research Methods in Urban Design: A Framework for Researching the Performance and Resilience of Places, Steffen Lehmann
Filling the Knowledge Gaps in Mass Timber Construction: Where are the Missing Pieces, What are the Research Needs?, Steffen Lehmann and Paul D. Kremer
The High Pressure Dependence of X-Ray Induced Decomposition of Cadmium Oxalate, Adrian F. Lua Sanchez, Petrika Cifligu, Marc Graff, Michael Pravica, Pradip K. Bhowmik, Changyong Park, and Egor Evlyukhin
Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review, Jessica M. Phelan, Richard R. Rosenkranz, Connor J. Phelan, and Sara K. Rosenkranz
Sport And Mental Health Performance Optimization in An Adolescent Gymnast: A Case Evaluation, Davy Phrathep, Brad C. Donohue, Brenna N. Renn, John Mercer Dr., and Daniel N. Allen
Socio-Demographic, Maternal, And Infant Characteristics Associated with Pacifier Use Among Six-Months Old Infants in Clark County, Nevada, Kaelia Lynn Saniatan, Smriti Neupane, Chad L. Cross, and Gabriela S. Buccini
Using the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change to Explain the Seeking of Stool-Based Tests for Colorectal Cancer Screening, Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Kavita Batra, Chia-Liang Dai, Ravi Batra, Traci Hayes, and Aditi Singh
The Forgotten Language Skill: Finding a Prominent Place for Listening in Meaningful Programming for Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities, Tracy Griffin Spies
Submissions from 2022
Assessing COVID-19 Booster Hesitancy and Its Correlates: An Early Evidence from India, Geetanjali C. Achrekar, Kavita Batra, Yashashri Urankar, Ravi Batra, Naved Iqbal, Sabiha A. Choudhury, Deepti Hooda, Roohi Khan, Suraj Arora, Aditi Singh, Francesco Chirico, and Manoj Sharma
Adverse childhood experiences and sleep difficulties among young adult college students, Larisa D. Albers, Timothy J. Grigsby, Stephanie M. Benjamin, Christopher J. Rogers, Jennifer B. Unger, and Myriam Forster
Trends in Scientific Output on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature, David An and Kavita Batra
Evaluation of Continuous Power-Down Schemes, James Andro-Vasko and Wolfgang Bein
Literature Review of Omicron: A Grim Reality Amidst COVID-19, Suraj Arora, Vishakha Grover, Priyanka Saluja, Youssef Abdullah Algarni, Shahabe Abullais Saquib, Shaik Mohammed Asif, Kavita Batra, Mohammed Y. Alshahrani, Gotam Das, Rajni Jain, and Anchal Ohri
Xlogit: An Open-Source Python Package for Gpu-Accelerated Estimation of Mixed Logit Models, Cristian Arteaga, Jee Woong Park, Prithvi Bhat Beeramoole, and Alexander Paz
Management of Change Orders in Infrastructure Transportation Projects, Rayan H. Assaad, Muaz O. Ahmed, Islam H. El-Adaway, and Pramen P. Shrestha
Bradyrhizobium Altum SP. Nov., Bradyrhizobium Oropedii SP. Nov. And Bradyrhizobium Acaciae SP. Nov. From South Africa Show Locally Restricted and Pantropical Noda Phylogeographic Patterns, Juanita R. Avontuur, Marike Palmer, Chrizelle W. Beukes, Wai Y. Chan, Taponeswa Tasiya, Elritha van Zyl, Martin P.A. Coetzee, Tomasz Stepkowski, Stephanus N. Venter, and Emma T. Steenkamp
Off the Chain 1 & 2 Trailer, Vikki Baltimore-Dale and Calista Robbins
Beyond Functional Diversity: The Importance of Trophic Position to Understanding Functional Processes in Community Evolution, Roxanne M. W. Banker, Ashley A. Dineen, Melanie G. Sorman, Carrie L. Tyler, and Peter D. Roopnarine
“‘Old Age’s Lambent Peaks’: On Organic and Dialectical Paradigms of Lateness”, Anthony Barone
Flow Characteristics through Granular Soil Influenced by Saline Water Intrusion: A Laboratory Investigation, Sudip Basack, Ghritartha Goswami, Hadi Khabbaz, and M Karakouzian
Field Installation Effects of Stone Columns on Load Settlement Characteristics of Reinforced Soft Ground, Sudip Basack, Sanjay Nimbalkar, Moses Karakouzian, Sameer Bharadwaj, Zhenkun Xie, and Nathan Krause
Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures of the Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome in Nevada: A Cross-sectional Analysis (2016 - 2018), Kavita Batra, Patricia Cruz, Chad L. Cross, Neeraj Bhandari, Farooq Abdulla, Jennifer R. Pharr, and Mark P. Buttner
Assessing Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among Parents of Children Returning to K-12 Schools: A U.S. Based Cross-Sectional Survey, Kavita Batra, Jennifer R. Pharr, Emylia Terry, and Brian Labus
COVID-19 Booster Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Multi-Theory-Model (MTM) Based National Assessment, Kavita Batra, Manoj Sharma, Chia-Liang Dai, and Jagdish Khubchandani
Boiling Frogs: Reconsidering the Impact of Deviance Targets, Severity, and Frequency in Teams, John E. Baur, Bret H. Bradley, and Robert L. Bonner
Chapter 2: An examination of female exceptionalism in early leisure placemaking activities, Amanda M. Belarmino
An Efficient Discretization for a Family of Time Relaxation Models, Jeffrey Belding, Monika Neda, and Rihui Lan
Social Determinants of Disease: HIV and COVID-19 Experiences, Raiza M. Beltran, Ian W. Holloway, Chenglin Hong, Ayako Miyashita, Luisita Cordero, Elizabeth Wu, Katherine Burris, and Paula M. Frew
Xrcc4 and mre11 Roles and Transcriptional Response to Repair of Talen-Induced Double-Strand Dna Breaks, Ronald Benjamin, Atoshi Banerjee, Xiaogang Wu, Corey Geurink, Lindsay Buczek, Danielle Eames, Sara G. Trimidal, Janice M. Pluth, and Martin R. Schiller
Exploratory Content Analysis of Direct-To-Consumer Pet Genomics: What Is Being Marketed and What Are Consumers Saying?, Nikki E. Bennett, Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres, and Peter B. Gray
The State of the Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They?, Hal Berghel and Hal Berghel
Bis(4-alkoxyphenyl) Viologen Bis(triflimide) Salts: Synthesis, Thermotropic Liquid-crystalline and Light-emitting Properties, Pradip K. Bhowmik Professor, Mohammed Kareem M. Al-Karawi, Shane T. Killarney, Erenz J. Dizon, Anthony Chang, Jongin Kim, Si Chen, Ronald Carlo G. Principe, Andy Ho, Haesook Han, Hari D. Mandal, Raymond G. Cortez, Bryan Gutierrez, Klarissa Mendez, Lewis Sharpnack, Deña M. Agra-Kooijman, Michael R. Fisch, and Satyendra Kumar
Dicationic Ionic Liquids Based on Bis(4-Oligoethyleneoxyphenyl) Viologen Bistriflimide Salts Exhibiting High Ionic Conductivities, Pradip K. Bhowmik Professor, Si Chen, Haesook Han, Khairul A. Ishakb, Thamil Selvi Velayutham, and Umama Bendaoud
Poly (Pyridinium Salt)s Based on 2,7-diamino-9,9'-Dioctylfluorene Moieties: Synthesis, Lyotropic Liquid-crystalline and Light-emitting Properties, Pradip K. Bhowmik, Tae S. Jo, Jung J. Koh, Bidyut Biswas, Ronald Carlo G. Principe, Haesook Han, András F. Wacha, and Matti Knaapila
Synthesis, Optical Spectroscopy and Laser Potential of 2,4,6-Triphenylpyrylium Chloride, Pradip K. Bhowmik, Ronald Carlo G. Principe, Si L. Chen, David King, Haesook Han, Ahamed Jubair, Vladimir Kartazaev, and Swapan Kumar Gayen
The Effect of Exercise Modality on Age-related Changes Observed During Running, Brianne Borgia, Janet S. Dufek, Kara N. Radzak, and Julia Freedman Silvernail
Advances in systems engineering : proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Systems Engineering, Leszek Borzemski, Henry Selvaraj, and Jerzy Świątek
Librarians as Faculty Developers: Competencies and Recommendations, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Karen Sobel
State Transportation Agencies’ Current Practices in Providing Design Information for Design-Build Projects During Procurement, Elizabeth Brogan, Bandana Shrestha, Caroline M. Clevenger, and Pramen P. Shrestha
Restoring Wholeness to Psychiatry: Models of Understanding, Gregory Brown, Lisa Durette, Timothy Ebright, and Katie Cho
Therapists’ Observations in Reduction of Unpleasant Emotions Following Advanced Integrative Therapy Interventions, Gregory P. Brown, Kavita Batra, Suzie S. Hong, Robert Sottile, Raveena Bakhru, and Emily Dorin
Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes of a High School-Based Impaired and Distracted Driving Prevention Program, Lindsay Buczek, Laura K. Gryder, Samantha Slinkard-Barnum, Kavita Batra, Cassandra Trummel, Allison G. McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Paul J. Chestovich
The Interactive Effects of Education and Social Support on Blood Pressure in African Americans, DeAnnah R. Byrd, Yanping Jiang, Samuele Zilioli, Roland J. Thorpe, Peter A. Lichtenberg, and Keith E. Whitfield
The Behaviour of Real Interest Rates: New Evidence From a ‘Suprasecular’ Perspective, Giorgio Canarella, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta, and Stephen M. Miller
Globalization, Long Memory, and Real Interest Rate Convergence: A Historical Perspective, Giorgio Canarella, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta, and Stephen M. Miller
Firm Size, Corporate Debt, R&D Activity, and Agency Costs: Exploring Dynamic and Non-Linear Effects, Giorgio Canarella and Stephen Miller
On the Effect of Lowering Population’s Movement to Control the Spread of an Infectious Disease, Keoni Castellano and Rachidi B. Salako
Profit or Purpose: What Increases Medical Doctors’ Job Satisfaction?, Young Kyun Chang, Won-Yong Oh, and Sanghee Han
Pioglitazone Reduces the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Genetics to Population-Based Validation, Feixiong Cheng, Jiansong Fang, Pengyue Zhang, Andrew A. Pieper, and Jeffrey L. Cummings
High Resistant Starch Rice: Variation in Starch Related SNPs, and Functional, and Sensory Properties, Ming Hsuan Chen, Karen Bett-Garber, Jeanne Lea, Anna McClung, and Christine Bergman
Lessons Learned during the Early Phases of a Modular Project: A Case Study of UNLV's Solar Decathlon 2020 Project, Jin Ouk Choi, Seungtaek Lee, and Eric Weber
Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering-Construction Industry, Jin Ouk Choi, Jennifer S. Shane, and Ying Yi Chih
Phytoplankton Community Interactions and Cyanotoxin Mixtures in Three Recurring Surface Blooms Within One Lake, Victoria G. Christensen, Hayley T. Olds, Jack Norland, and Eakalak Khan
A Design Framework of Exploration, Segmentation, Navigation, and Instruction (ESNI) for the Lifecycle of Intelligent Mobile Agents as a Method for Mapping an Unknown Built Environment, Junchi Chu, Xueyun Tang, and Xiwei Shen
Disparities in Functional Recovery After Dysvascular Lower Limb Amputation are Associated with Employment Status and Self-Efficacy, Sheila M. Clemens, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Cody L. McDonald, Benjamin J. Darter, Zoran Bursac, Stephanie J. Garcia, Mark D. Rossi, and Szu-Ping Lee
Man Versus Machine: Complex Estimates and Auditor Reliance on Artificial Intelligence, Benjamin P. Commerford, Sean A. Dennis, Jennifer R. Joe, and Jenny W. Ulla
Multiplicity Results for Semilinear Heterogeneous Problems in Exterior Domains of R < Sup > 2 < /Sup > Involving Subcritical or Critical Nonlinearities à la Trudinger-Moser, David Costa and Hossein Tehrani
Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Syndrome among Italian Psychologists following the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study, Pietro Crescenzo, Francesco Chirico, Giuseppe Ferrari, Lukasz Szarpak, Gabriella Nucera, Raffaella Marciano, Livio Tarchi, Diego Denicolo, Assunta Maiorino, Kavita Batra, and Manoj Sharma
Race and Ethnic Group Dependent Space Radiation Cancer Risk Predictions, Francis A. Cucinotta and Premkumar B. Saganti
Disease Modification Is Not All — We Need Symptomatic Therapies for Alzheimer Disease, Jeffrey L. Cummings
Brief assessment of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) abundance in forest and non-forested habitats across an altitude gradient on Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i, Keena Curbelo, Donald K. Price, and Jonathan B. Koch
On the Use of Stereodynamical Effects to Control Cold Chemical Reactions: The H + D < Inf > 2 < /Inf > ↔ D + Hd Case Study, Humberto Da Silva, B. K. Kendrick, and Balakrishnan Naduvalath
Hotel Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: High-Touch Versus High-Tech, Dori Davari, Saeed Vayghan, Soo Cheong (Shawn) Jang, and Mehmet Erdem
Inclusive and Anti-Racist Collecting at UNLV: Draft Report and Recommendations, Annette Day, Sarah R. Jones, Amy Tureen, Susan B. Wainscott, Amanda Melilli, Thomas Padilla, and Aidy Weeks
Working for God: Religion and Occupational Crime and Deviance, Scott A. Desmond, Melissa Rorie, and Tracy Sohoni
Integrating Earth–Life Systems: A Geogenomic Approach, Greer A. Dolby, Scott E.K. Bennett, Rebecca J. Dorsey, Maya F. Stokes, Brett R. Riddle, Andrés Lira-Noriega, Adrian Munguia-Vega, and Benjamin T. Wilder
Co-Occurring Wyoming Pinus Species Exhibit Differing Climate-Growth Relationships, Laura A. Dye, Jessie K. Pearl, Laura Smith, Bethany L. Coulthard, Cori Butkiewicz, Zane Cooper, James Degrand, Jared Friedman, Inga K. Homfeld, Hilary Howard, Leroy Ironcloud, and Shannon Wray
Common Features in Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Substance Use Disorders, Personality, Temperament and Attachment—a Narrative Review, Yaniv Efrati, Shane W. Kraus, and Gal Kaplan
Text Classification Using Neural Network Language Model (NNLM) and BERT: An Empirical Comparison, Armin Esmaeilzadeh and Kazem Taghva
Artificial Intelligence Framework Identifies Candidate Targets for Drug Repurposing in Alzheimer’s Disease, Jiansong Fang, Pengyue Zhang, Quan Wang, Chien Wei Chiang, Yadi Zhou, Yuan Hou, Jielin Xu, Rui Chen, Bin Zhang, Stephen J. Lewis, James B. Leverenz, Andrew A. Pieper, Bingshan Li, Lang Li, Jeffrey Cummings, and Feixiong Cheng
Does Covid-19 Increase the Risk of Developing Cystic Lung Disease?, Christina Fanous, Max Nguyen, Omar Sanyurah, Wilbur Ji, Kavita Batra, and Rajany V. Dy
Does Debt Management Matter for REIT Returns?, Zhilan Feng, Stephen M. Miller, and Dogan Tirtiroglu
Caveats to Governing With Empathy, Vanessa M. Fenley
Copernic et Galilée en tant que lecteurs de Platon, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
The Cultural Legacy of Galileo and The Problematic Concept of Myth, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Recommendations for Advancing Research With Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults, Jason D. Flatt, Ethan C. Cicero, Krystal R. Kittle, and Mark Brennan-Ing
Perceived Discrimination, Coping Styles, and Internalizing Symptoms Among a Community Sample of Hispanic and Somali Adolescents, Myriam Forster, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Rogers, Jennifer Unger, Stephanie Alvarado, Bethany Rainisch, and Eunice Areba
Letter to NLM about MeSH, Violet Fox, Katie Lobner, Kelleen Maluski, Christian Minter, Chelsea Misquith, Stephanie Roth, Aidy Weeks, and Jamia Williams