All URI faculty publications that are in DigitalCommons@URI are listed here. Some articles include full-text PDFs, and some include links to the publications on journal sites. This list includes all articles that faculty members have chosen to deposit according to the URI Open Access Policy, as well as other articles. This is not a comprehensive list of scholarly publications by URI faculty members.

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Submissions from 2020

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An improved GPU-accelerated heuristic technique applied to the capacitated vehicle routing problem, Marwan F. Abdelatti and Manbir S. Sodhi

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Older persons’ experiences of Reflective STRENGTH‐Giving Dialogues – ‘It's a push to move forward’, Cecilia Åberg, Mia Berglund, Jenny Hallgren, and Catharina Gillsjö

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“It is like living in a diminishing world”: older persons’ experiences of living with long-term health problems – prior to the STRENGTH intervention, Cecilia Åberg, Catharina Gillsjö, Jenny Hallgren, and Mia Berglund

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A Network-Based Analysis of International Refugee Migration Patterns Using GERGMs, Katherine Abramski, Natallia Katenka, and Marc Hutchison

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Merging fNIRS-EEG Brain Monitoring and Body Motion Capture to Distinguish Parkinsons Disease, Mohammadreza Abtahi, Seyed Bahram Borgheai, Roohollah Jafari, Nicholas Constant, Rassoul Diouf, Yalda Shahriari, and Kunal Mankodiya

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Sea-ice production and air/ice/ocean/biogeochemistry interactions in the Ross Sea during the PIPERS 2017 autumn field campaign, S. F. Ackley, S. Stammerjohn, T. Maksym, M. Smith, J. Cassano, P. Guest, J.-L. Tison, B. Delille, Brice Loose, P. Sedwick, L. DePace, L. Roach, and J. Parno

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Muscle Oxidative Capacity Is Reduced in Both Upper and Lower Limbs in COPD, Alessandra Adami, Rogerio B. Corvino, Robert A. Calmelat, Janos Porszasz, Richard Casaburi, and Harry B. Rossiter

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The impact of maternal supplementation during pregnancy and the first 6 months postpartum on the growth status of the next child born after the intervention period: Follow‐up results from Bangladesh and Ghana, Katherine P. Adams, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Malay K. Mridha, Brietta M. Oaks, Susana L. Matias, Charles D. Arnold, Sika M. Kumordzie, Harriet Okronipa, Maku E. Ocansey, and Kathryn G. Dewey

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Healthy Sleep Leads to Improved Nutrition and Exercise in College Females, Sue K. Adams, Elizabeth Dimond, Matthew J. Delmonico, Emily Sylvester, Chelsea Accetta, Carley Domos, and Ingrid E. Lofgren

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Sleep in the Social World of College Students: Bridging Interpersonal Stress and Fear of Missing Out with Mental Health, Sue K. Adams, Karla K. Murdock, Meada Daly-Cano, and Meredith Rose

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Estimation of self-sustained activity produced by persistent inward currents using firing rate profiles of multiple motor units in humans, Babak Afsharipour, Nagib Manzur, Jennifer Duchcherer, Keith K. Fenrich, Christopher K. Thompson, Francesco Negro, Katharina A. Quinlan, David J. Bennett, and Monica A. Gorassini

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Let's talk sooner rather than later: The strategic communication decisions of activist blockholders, Adam L. Aiken and Choonsik Lee

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Haiti-Drill: An Amphibious Drilling Project Workshop, Chastity Aiken, Richard Wessels, Marie-Helene Cormier, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Anne Battani, Frédérique Rolandone, Walter Roest, Dominique Boisson, Kelly Guerrier, Roberte Momplaisir, and Nadine Ellouz-Zimmerman

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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17, Ali S. Akanda and et al

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Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17: Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, Ali S. Akanda and et al

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Prioritizing Water Security in the Management of Vector Borne Diseases: Lessons from Oaxaca Mexico, Ali S. Akanda, Kristin Johnson, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Janelle Couret

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A recommended “minimum data set” framework for SD-OCT retinal image acquisition and analysis from the Atlas of Retinal Imaging in Alzheimer’s Study (ARIAS), Jessica Alber, Edmund Arthur, Stuart Sinoff, Delia Cabrera DeBuc, Emily Y. Chew, Lori Douquette, Wendy V. Hatch, Chris Hudson, Amir Kashani, Cecelia S. Lee, Stephen Montaquila, Sima Mozdbar, Leonardo Provetti Cunha, Faryan Tayyari, Gregory Van Stavern, and Peter J. Snyder

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Developing retinal biomarkers for the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease: What we know, what we don't, and how to move forward, Jessica Alber, Danielle Goldfarb, Louisa I. Thompson, Edmund Arthur, Kimberly Hernandez, Derrick Cheng, Delia Cabrera DeBuc, Francesca Cordeiro, Leonardo Provetti-Cunha, Jurre den Haan, Gregory P. Van Stavern, Stephen P. Salloway, Stuart Sinoff, and Peter J. Snyder

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Disruption of cholinergic neurotransmission, within a cognitive challenge paradigm, is indicative of Aβ-related cognitive impairment in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease after a 27-month delay interval, Jessica Alber, Paul Maruff, Claudia Y. Santos, Brian R. Ott, Stephen P. Salloway, Don C. Yoo, Richard B. Noto, Louisa I. Thompson, Danielle Goldfarb, Edmund Arthur, Alex Song, and Peter J. Snyder

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Comparative Safety and Effectiveness of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin: a National Cohort Study of Nursing Home Residents, Matthew Alcusky, Tjia, David D. McManus, Anne L. Hume, Marc Fisher, and Kate L. Lapane

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Intraspecific and biogeographical variation in foliar fungal communities and pathogen damage of native and invasive Phragmites australis, Warwick J. Allen, Aaron E. DeVries, Nicholas J. Bologna, Wesley A. Bickford, Kurt P. Kowalski, Laura A. Meyerson, and James T. Cronin

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Characterization of impact pile driving signals during installation of offshore wind turbine foundations, Jennifer L. Amaral, James H. Miller, Gopu R. Potty, Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, Adam S. Frankel, Ying Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, Daniel R. Wilkes, and Alexander N. Gavrilov

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An Innovative, Prospective, Hybrid Cohort-Cluster Study Design to Characterize Dengue Virus Transmission in Multigenerational Households in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand, Kathryn B. Anderson, Darunee Buddhari, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Gregory D. Gromowski, Sopon Iamsirithaworn, Alden L. Weg, Damon W. Ellison, Louis Macareo, Derek A T Cummings, In-Kyu Yoon, Ananda Nisalak, Alongkot Ponlawat, Stephen J. Thomas, Stefan Fernandez, Richard G. Jarman, Alan L. Rothman, and Timothy P. Endy

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Challenges of Measuring Abyssal Temperature and Salinity at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory, Nathan D. Anderson, Kathleen A. Donohue, Makio C. Honda, Meghan F. Cronin, and Dongxiao Zhang

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Variability approaching the thermal limits can drive diatom community dynamics, Stephanie Anderson and Tatiana A. Rynearson

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The Gulf Stream's path and time-averaged velocity structure and transport at 68.5°W and 70.3°W, Magdalena Andres, Kathleen A. Donohue, and John M. Toole

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College Women's Experiences With Urinary Storage Symptoms, Kimberly J. Angelini, M. Katherine Hutchinson, Melissa A. Sutherland, Mary H. Palmer, and Diane K. Newman

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Stavudine exposure results in developmental abnormalities by causing DNA damage, inhibiting cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis in mouse embryos, Rui-Fang Ao, Yu-Xiang Liang, Xiao-Qing Liu, Kui Tan, Xiaoling Wang, Dan Liu, Ting Zhang, Gongqin Sun, and Jun Xie

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Frequency and Predictors of Suboptimal Prescribing Among a Cohort of Older Male Residents with Urinary Tract Infection, Haley J. Appaneal, aisling_caffrey@uri.edu Caffrey, Vrishali V. Lopes, David M. Dosa, Theresa I. Shireman, and Kerry L. LaPlante

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Prevalence and factors associated with disruptive behavior among Iranian students during 2015: a cross-sectional study, Marzieh Araban, Ali Montazeri, L.A.R. Stein, Mahmood Karimy, and Ali Ashgar Haeri Mehrizi

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Reckless Behaviors: A Network Analysis Approach, Cherie Armour, Talya Greene, Ateka A. Contractor, Nicole Weiss, Katherine Dixon-Gordon, and Jana Ross

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New restrictions on defective coloring with applications to steinberg-type graphs, Addie Armstrong and Nancy Eaton

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Evaluation of Dietetic Interns' Research Skills in an Online, Non-Thesis Master's Program, Jennifer Arts, Chelsea Paulin, Ingrid E. E. Lofgren, Barbara Woodland, and Catherine English

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A computer vision based rebar detection chain for automatic processing of concrete bridge deck GPR data, Pouria Asadi, Mayrai Gindy, Marco Alvarez, and Alireza Asadi

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A computer vision based rebar detection chain for automatic processing of concrete bridge deck GPR data, Pouria Asadi, Mayrai Gindy, Marco Alvarez, and Alireza Asadi

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Consumer territorial responses in service settings, Christy Ashley, Jonathan Ross Gilbert, and Hillary A. Leonard

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POLLEN73S: An image dataset for pollen grains classification, Gilberto Astolfi, Ariadne Barbosa Gonçalves, Geazy Vilharva Menezes, Felipe Silveira Brito Borges, Angelica Christina Melo Nunes Astolfi, Edson Takashi Matsubara, Marco Alvarez, and Hemerson Pistori

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Prediction of the Limiting Flux and Its Correlation with the Reynolds Number during the Microfiltration of Skim Milk Using an Improved Model, Carolina Astudillo-Castro, Andrés Cordova, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Carmen Soto-Maldonado, Pedro Valencia, Paola Henriquez, and Rafael Jimenez-Flores

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Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the "Underserved", Jeanie Austin and Melissa Villa-Nicholas

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Celebrity endorsement in social media contexts: understanding the role of parasocial interactions and the need to belong, Eugene Cheng Xi Aw and Lauren I. Labrecque

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Association between polypharmacy and health-related quality of life among cancer survivors in the United States, Zachary R. Babcock, J. Kogut, and Ami Vyas

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Sex-Segregated Range Use by Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Andrea L. Baden, Jelisa Oliveras, and Brian Gerber

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Unmet Healthcare Needs of Children in Vulnerable Families in South Korea: Finding from the Community Child Center Child Panel Survey, Suyon Baek, Eun-Hi Choi, and Jung Eun Lee

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Beyond nanopore sizing: Improving solid-state single-molecule sensing performance, lifetime, and analyte scope for omics by targeting surface chemistry during fabrication, Y. M. Nuwan D.Y. Bandara, Jugal Saharia, Buddini I. Karawdeniya, James T. Hagan, Jason R. Dwyer, and Min Jun Kim

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Do positive memory characteristics relate to reckless behaviours? an exploratory study in a treatment-seeking traumatised sample, Anne N. Banducci, Ateka A. Contractor, Nicole H. Weiss, and Paula Dranger

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Caring for patients with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic., Anne N. Banducci and Nicole H. Weiss

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Early-Stage Lithospheric Foundering Beneath the Eastern Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Full-Wave Pn Tomography, Xueyang Bao and Yang Shen

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Datana drexelii (Lepidoptera: Notododontidae) occurrence and larval survival on highbush blueberry cultivars, Alex K. Baranowski, Steven R. Alm, and Evan L. Preisser

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Habitat suitability and environmental niche comparison of cold-water coral species along the Brazilian continental margin, R. V. Barbosa, A. J. Davies, and P. Y.G. Sumida

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Fog computing architecture for scalable processing of geospatial big data, Rabindra K. Barik, Rojalina Priyadarshini, Rakesh K. Lenka, Harishchandra Dubey, and Kunal Mankodiya

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A mother-centered evaluation of breast pumps, Rachel L. Bartels, Diane DiTomasso, and Gretchen A. Macht

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A mother-centered evaluation of breast pumps, Rachel L. Bartels, Diane DiTomasso, and Gretchen A. Macht

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Ease of EVs: Exploring factors that influence battery consumption, Rachel L. Bartels, Daniel Kowalsky, Tim Jonas, and Gretchen A. Macht

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When farmers are pulled in too many directions: comparing institutional drivers of food safety and environmental sustainability in California agriculture, Patrick Baur

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Effects of a novel bites, steps and eating rate-focused weight loss randomised controlled trial intervention on body weight and eating behaviours, J. A. Beatty, G W. Greene, B. J. Blissmer, M. J. Delmonico, and K. J. Melanson

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Climate change impacts to ports and maritime supply chains, Austin Becker

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A Double-Thermostad Warm-Core Ring of the Gulf Stream, Igor Belkin, Annie Foppert, Thomas Rossby, Sandra Fontana, and Christopher R. Kincaid

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Analysis of Layout Impacts on Resource Allocation for Voting: A Los Angeles Vote Center, Nicholas D. Bernardo, Gretchen A. Macht, and Jennifer Lather

Global dynamics of generalized second-order Beverton–Holt equations of linear and quadratic type, E. Bertrand and M. R.S. Kulenović

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Squeezed by a Habitat Split: Warm Ocean Conditions and Old‐forest Loss Interact to Reduce Long‐term Occupancy of a Threatened Seabird, Matthew G. Betts, Joseph M. Northrup, Jennifer A. Bailey Guerrero, Lindsay J. Adrean, S. Kim Nelson, Jennifer L. Fisher, Brian D. Gerber, Marie‐Sophie Garcia‐Heras, Zhiqiang Yang, Daniel D. Roby, and James W. Rivers

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Chemical Attribution of the Homemade Explosive ETN - Part II: Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Analysis of ETN and Its Precursors, Karlijn Bezemer, Lindsay McLennan, Rosanne Hessels, Jorien Schoorl, Jos van den Elshout, Antoine van der Heijden, Annemieke Hulsbergen, Mattijs Koeberg, Taylor Busby, Alexander Yevdokimov, Eva de Rijke, Peter Schoenmakers, James L. Smith, Jimmie Oxley, and Arian van Asten

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Chemical attribution of the home-made explosive ETN – Part I: Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of partially nitrated erythritol impurities, Karlijn Bezemer, Lindsay McLennan, Lara van Duin, Chris Jan Kuijpers, Mattijs Koeberg, Jos van den Elshout, Antoine van der Heijden, Taylor Busby, Alexander Yevdokimov, and Peter Schoenmakers

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Cooling rate effects on the structure of 45S5 bioglass: Insights from experiments and simulations, Pratik Bhaskar, Rajesh Kumar, Yashasvi Maurya, R. Ravinder, Amarnath R. Allu, Sumanta Das, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Randall E. Youngman, Mikkel S. Bodker, Nerea Mascaraque, Morten M. Smedskjaer, Mathieu Bauchy, and N.M. Anoop Krishnan

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Bioturbation, sedimentation rates, and preservation of flood events in deltas, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Charles D. Howell, James A. MacEachern, and J. P. Walsh

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Optical States in a 1-D Superlattice with Multiple Photonic Crystal Interfaces, Nicholas J. Bianchi and Leonard M. Kahn

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Saudiarabicains A-E, bioactive 19-acetoxyingol diterpenoids from Euphorbia saudiarabica, Abdullatif Bin Muhsinah, Alfarius Eko Nugroho, Huifang Li, Sarah Lazzaro, Nicholas A. DaSilva, Dongli Li, Hang Ma, Abdulrhman Alsayari, Hiroshi Morita, Yongqiang Liu, and Navindra P. Seeram

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Genetics and General Husbandry of Tree Kangaroos in Zoos, Jacque Blessington, Judie Steenberg, and Thomas J. McGreevy

Building a culture of safety and quality: The paradox of measurement, Katherine Bliss, Megan Chambers, and Betty Rambur

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When misconceptions impede best practices: evidence supports biological control of invasive Phragmites, Bernd Blossey, Stacy B. Endriss, Richard A. Casagrande, Patrick Häfliger, Hariet Hinz, Andrea Dávalos, Carrie Brown-Lima, Lisa A. Tewksbury, and Robert S. Bourchier

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Editorial: Integrating Predation Risk Across Scales: from Neurons to Ecosystems and Milliseconds to Generations, Jacqueline J. Blundell and Evan L. Preisser

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Avian Bornaviral Ganglioneuritis: Current Debates and Unanswered Questions, Susan Boatright-Horowitz

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Thermal range and physiological tolerance mechanisms in two shark species from the northwest Atlantic, Abigail B. Bockus, Christopher J. Labreck, Jodi L. Camberg, Jeremy S. Collie, and Brad A. Seibel

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Small phytoplankton dominate western North Atlantic biomass, Luis M. Bolanos, Lee Karp-Boss, Chang Jae Choi, Alexandra Z. Worden, Jason R. Graff, Nils Haentjens, Alison P. Chase, Alice Della Penna, Peter Gaube, Francoise Morison, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Toby K. Westberry, Robert T. O'Malley, Emmanuel Boss, Michael J. Behrenfeld, and Stephen J. Giovannoni

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Bounds on the localization number, Anthony Bonato and William B. Kinnersley

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Group actions, divisors, and plane curves, Araceli Bonifant and John Milnor

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Attitudes of Rural Westerners on the Environment and Conservation, Robert Bonnie, Drew Bennett, Emily Pechar Diamond, and Elizabeth Rowe

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Understanding Rural Attitudes Toward the Environment and Conservation in America, Robert Bonnie, Emily Pechar Diamond, and Elizabeth Rowe

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The Coarse-Grained Plaque: A Divergent Aβ Plaque-Type in Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Baayla D. C. Boon, Marjolein Bulk, Allert J. Jonker, Tjado H. J. Morrema, Emma van den Berg, Marko Popovic, Jochen Walter, Sathish Kumar, Sven J. van der Lee, Henne Holstege, Xiaoyue Zhu, William E. Van Nostrand, Remco Natté, Louise van der Weerd, Femke H. Bouwman, Wilma D. J. van de Berg, Annemieke J. M. Rozemuller, and Jeroen J. M. Hoozemans

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Frontal Functional Network Disruption Associated with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An fNIRS-Based Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis, Seyyed Bahram Borgheai, John McLinden, Kunal Mankodiya, and Yalda Shahriari

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Enhancing Communication for People in Late-Stage ALS Using an fNIRS-Based BCI System, Seyyed Bahram Borgheai, John Mclinden, Alyssa Hillary Zisk, Sarah Ismail Hosni, Roohollah Jarfari Deligani, Mohammadreza Abtahi, Kunal Mankodiya, and Yalda Shahriari

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Variable Growth Across Species and Life Stages in Caribbean Reef Octocorals, Natascha Borgstein, Diana M. Beltrán, and Carlos Prada

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Clozapine and hematologic adverse reactions: Impact of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy program, Eric P. Borrelli, Y. Lee, and Aisling R. Caffrey

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Tsunami intensity scale based on wave amplitude and current applied to the French Riviera: the case study of local seismicity, Laurie Boschetti, Mansour Ioualalen, Fatemeh Nemati, Stéphan Grilli, Jean Xavier Dessa, and Christophe Larroque

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A method for regional estimation of climate change exposure of coastal infrastructure: Case of USVI and the influence of digital elevation models on assessments, Gerald Bove, Austin Becker, Benjamin Sweeney, Michalis Vousdoukas, and Scott Kulp

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Meeting people where they're at: A focus on pharmacist harm reduction roles in the opioid crisis, Jeffrey P. Bratberg and Kubicsko

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Pharmacists and the opioid crisis: A narrative review of pharmacists' practice roles, Jeffrey P. Bratberg, P.W. Smothers, Kathryn Collins, Brian Erstad, Jennifer Ruiz Veve, and Andrew J. Muzyk

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Allopatric and Sympatric Drivers of Speciation in Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails, Corinna Breusing, Shannon B. Johnson, Verena Tunnicliffe, David A. Clague, Robert C. Vrijenhoek, and Roxanne A. Beinart

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Physiological Dynamics of Chemosynthetic Symbionts in Hydrothermal Vent Snails, Corinna Breusing, Jessica Mitchell, Jennifer Delaney, Sean P. Sylva, Jeffrey S. Seewald, Peter R. Girguis, and Roxanne A. Beinart

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First insights into the vertical habitat use of the whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari revealed by pop‐up satellite archival tags, Lauran R. Brewster, Brianna V. Cahill, Miranda N. Burton, Cassady Dougan, Jeffrey S. Herr, Laura I. Norton, Samantha A. McGuire, Marisa Pico, Elizabeth Urban-Gedamke, Kim Bassos-Hull, John P. Tyminski, Robert E. Hueter, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood Shivji, Neil Burnie, and Matthew J. Ajemian

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Ex-vivo Imaging of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Using Novel pH Low Insertion Peptide (Variant 3), a Molecular Imaging Probe, Joseph Brito, Borivoj Golijanin, Ohad Kott, Anna Moshnikova, Catrina Mueller-Leonhard, Boris Gershman, Oleg A. Andreev, Yana K. Reshetnyak, Ali Amin, and Dragan Golijanin

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Colectomy averted: A successful case report of Fidaxomicin administration through a loop ileostomy for fulminant, Clostridioides difficile infection, Todd Brothers, M. Charpentier, Shivani Shah, and Richa Tandon

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Computer-assisted motivational interviewing for contraceptive use in women leaving prison: A randomized controlled trial, E. C. Brousseau, J. G. Clarke, D. Dumont, L. A.R. Stein, M. Roberts, and J. van den Berg

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Disseminated Effects in Agent Based Models: A Potential Outcomes Framework and Application to Inform Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Coverage Levels for HIV Prevention, Ashley L. Buchanan, Bessey, William C. Goedel, Maximilian King, Eleanor J. Murray, Samuel Friedman, M. Elizabeth Halloran, and Brandon D.L. Marshall

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Community Forestry: Sustainability and Equity Issues, Bill Buffum

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Research Brief: Loss of forest in large unfragmented blocks of forest in Rhode Island, Bill Buffum

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Pharmacist attitudes toward pharmacy-based naloxone: A cross-sectional survey study, Dina Burstein, Baird, Jeffrey Bratberg, Elizabeth Donovan, Ayorinde Soipe, Abigail Tapper, Patricia Case, Alexander Y. Walley, and Traci C. Green

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Lessons Learned: Recruiting Aging Adults for Research, David R. Buys, Sarah L. Francis, Melissa Ventura Marra, Julie L. Locher, and Ingrid E. Lofgren

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Limitations of cross- and multigenerational plasticity for marine invertebrates faced with global climate change, Maria Byrne, Shawna A. Foo, Pauline M. Ross, and Hollie M. Putnam

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Sulfite activation changes character of ferrate resultant particles, Bradley M. Bzdyra, Charles D. Spellman Jr., Irene Andreu, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Land commodification and hukou policy innovation in China: evidence from a survey experiment, Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu, and Hui Wang