Submissions from 2016
Synthesis and Degradation of Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HMTD), Jimmie C. Oxley, James L. Smith, Matthew Porter, Lindsay McLennan, Kevin Colizza, Yehuda Zeiri, Ronnie Kosloff, and Faina Dubnikova
Homology modeling procedures for cytoskeletal proteins of tetrahymena and other ciliated protists, Giovanni J. Pagano, A. Hufnagel, and Roberta S. King
Asymptotically efficient estimators for multidimensional harmonic retrieval based on the geometry of the Stiefel manifold, Thomas A. Palka and Richard J. Vaccaro
Multithreaded Sensor Analysis for a Redundant Dynamic Positioning 2 Project, Stephen A. Palmieri, Adam D. Kline, Tooran Emami, Ali Reza, and Peter F. Swaszek
Variability of the directly observed, middepth subpolar North Atlantic circulation, Jaime B. Palter, Charles André Caron, Kara Lavender Law, Joshua K. Willis, David S. Trossman, Igor M. Yashayaev, and Denis Gilbert
Natal Host Plants Can Alter Herbivore Competition, Huipeng Pan, Evan L. Preisser, Qi Su, Xiaoguo Jiao, Wen Xie, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, and Youjun Zhang
Cycling performance and surface analysis of Lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide in propylene carbonate with graphite, Yue Pan, Guiling Wang, and Brett L. Lucht
Rational Expectations Voting in Agent-based Models: An Application to Tax Ceilings, Andreas D. Pape, Todd Guilfoos, Nathan B. Anderson, and Jeffrey Schmidt
A DUB-less step? Tighten up D-loop, Karissa L. Paquin, David A. Vierra, and Niall G. Howlett
Exploration of Incarcerated Men's and Women's Attitudes of Smoking in the Presence of Children and Pregnant Women: Is There a Disparity Between Smoking Attitudes and Smoking Behavior?, Donna R. Parker, Mary B. Roberts, Jacob J. van den Berg, Beth Bock, Lynda A.R. Stein, Rosemarie A. Martin, and Jennifer G. Clarke
Observation of diurnal variations in mesoscale eddy sea-surface currents using GOCI data, Ji-Eun Park, Kyung-Ae Park, David S. Ullman, Peter C. Cornillon, and Young-Je Park
Using multiple methods to gather spatial data on human uses of Rhode Island's coastal lagoons, Emily Patrolia, Robert Thompson, and Tracey Dalton
When Partisans and Minorities Interact: Interpersonal Contact, Partisanship and Public Opinion Preferences on Immigration Policy, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Alexandra Filindra, and Joshua J. Dyck
The Geographic Polarization of American Voters, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz and Corey Lang
Bandpass phase shifter and analytic signal generator, Vijay Kumar Peddinti and Ramdas Kumaresan
pH-sensitive pHLIP® Coated Niosomes, Mohan C. Pereira, Monica Pianella, Da Wei, Anna Moshnikova, Carlotta Marianecci, Maria Carafa, Oleg A. Andreev, and Yana Reshetnyak
Design, development and testing of a punting unmanned underwater vehicle, Matthew D. Perkins and Stephen C. Licht
Why Ukraine and Russia Need Each Other, Nicolai Petro
Exploring the “Sharkcano”: Biogeochemical observations of the Kavachi submarine volcano (Solomon Islands), Brennan T. Phillips, Matthew Dunbabin, Brad Henning, Corey Howell, Alex DeCiccio, Ashton Flinders, Katherine A. Kelley, Jarrod J. Scott, Simon Albert, Steven Carey, Rami Tsadok, and Alistair Grinham
First evidence of bioluminescence on a “black smoker” hydrothermal Chimney, Brennan T. Phillips, David F. Gruber, Ganesh Vasan, Vincent A. Pieribone, John S. Sparks, and Christopher N. Roman
Observations of in situ deep-sea marine bioluminescence with a high-speed, high-resolution sCMOS camera, Brennan T. Phillips, David F. Gruber, Ganesh Vasan, Christopher N. Roman, Vincent A. Pieribone, and John S. Sparks
Comparative Use of a Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem and Association with Fish Spawning Aggregations by Three Species of Shark, Alexandria E. Pickard, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Richard S. Nemeth, Jeremiah B. Blondeau, Elizabeth A. Kadison, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Air pressure effects on sea level changes during the twentieth century, Christopher G. Piecuch, Philip R. Thompson, and Kathleen A. Donohue
New Initiation of Long-Acting Opioids in Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents, Camilla B. Pimentel, H. Gurwitz, Jennifer Tjia, Anne L. Hume, and Kate L. Lapane
Differences in the hydrostatic implosion of metallic and composite tubes studied using digital image correlation, Michael Pinto, Sachin Gupta, and Arun Shukla
Experimental Investigation on Underwater Buckling of Thin-Walled Composite and Metallic Structures, Michael Pinto, Helio Matos, Sachin Gupta, and Arun Shukla
Mitigation of pressure pulses from implosion of hollow composite cylinders, Michael Pinto and Arun Shukla
Shock-Initiated Buckling of Carbon/Epoxy Composite Tubes at Sub-Critical Pressures, M. Pinto and A. Shukla
Estimating the sustainability of towed fishing-gear impacts on seabed habitats: a simple quantitative risk assessment method applicable to data-limited fisheries, C. Roland Pitcher, Nick Ellis, Simon Jennings, Jan G. Hiddink, Tessa Mazor, Michel J. Kaiser, Mervi I. Kangas, Robert A. McConnaughey, Ana M. Parma, Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp, Petri Suuronen, Jeremy S. Collie, Ricardo Amoroso, Kathryn M. Hughes, and Ray Hilborn
Frictional Behavior and Topography of Porous Polyurethane on Copper and Silicon Dioxide Articulating Contacts, David C. Ponte and D. M.L. Meyer
Novel self-adaptive particle swarm optimization methods, Choosak Pornsing, Manbir S. Sodhi, and Bernard F. Lamond
Financial Literacy Overconfidence and Financial Advice Seeking, Nilton Porto and Jing Jian Xiao
Preliminary Evaluation of Seaweed Application Effects on Soil Quality and Yield of Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.), Angela R. Possinger and José A. Amador
Ploidy Distribution of the Harmful Bloom Forming Macroalgae Ulva spp. in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA, Using Flow Cytometry Methods, Elaine E. Potter, Carol S. Thornber, John-David Swanson, and Malcolm McFarland
Empirical mode decomposition based techniques for the estimation of experimental scholte wave dispersion, Gopu R. Potty and James H. Miller
Experimental design for sediment characterization in the southern New England Continental Shelf, Gopu R. Potty and James H. Miller
Interface Wave Sediment Profiler: A measurement system for shear wave speed, Gopu R. Potty, James H. Miller, John Baker, Donald Peters, Megan M. Carroll, and Alex Butler
Comparative studies of power grid security with network connectivity and power flow information using unsupervised learning, Shiva Poudel, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, and Haibo He
Atmosphere‐ocean linkages in the eastern equatorial Pacific over the early Pleistocene, Patricia Povea, Isabel Cacho, Ana Moreno, Leopoldo D. Pena, Melisa Menéndez, Eva Calvo, Miquel Canals, Rebecca S. Robinson, Fernando J. Méndez, and Jose-Abel Flores
Time-frequency diagnosis, condition monitoring, and fault detection, E. J. Powers, Y. J. Shin, W. Mack Grady, J. F. Böhme, S. Carstens-Behrens, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, F. Hlawatsch, G. F. Boudreaux-Bartels, A. Beghdadi, R. Iordache, Boualem Boashash, A. Djebbari, S. Ouelha, and D. M. Onchis
Performance of selectively-bred lines of eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, across eastern US estuaries, Dina A. Proestou, Bryan T. Vinyard, Ryan J. Corbett, Jessica Piesz, Standish K. Allen, Jessica M. Small, Cui Li, Ming Liu, Gregory DeBrosse, Ximing Guo, Paul Rawson, and Marta Gómez-Chiarri
Semi-periodically intermittent control for synchronization of switched complex networks: a mode-dependent average dwell time approach, Jianlong Qiu, Liyan Cheng, Xiangyong Chen, Jianquan Lu, and Haibo He
Relationships of Sleep Duration With Weight-Related Behaviors of U.S. College Students, Virginia Quick, Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Suzanne Shoff, Adrienne A. White, Barbara Lohse, Tanya Horacek, Sarah Colby, Onikia Brown, Tandalayo Kidd, and Geoffrey Greene
A streamlined, enhanced self-report physical activity measure for young adults, Virginia Quick, Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Suzanne Shoff, Adrienne A. White, Barbara Lohse, Tanya Horacek, Kendra Kattelmann, Beatrice Phillips, Sharon Hoerr, and Geoffrey Greene
Is Baby a Blessing? Wantedness, Age at First Birth, and Later-Life Depression, Heather M. Rackin and Melanie Sereny Brasher
CpG Improves Influenza Vaccine Efficacy in Young Adult but Not Aged Mice, Alejandro Ramirez, Mary Co, and Anuja Matthew
Copyright and Sharing Your Research, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, and Amanda Izenstark
Impact of Sea-State-Dependent Langmuir Turbulence on the Ocean Response to a Tropical Cyclone, Brandon G. Reichl, Isaac Ginis, Tetsu Hara, Biju Thomas, Tobias Kukulka, and Dong Wang
Langmuir Turbulence Parameterization in Tropical Cyclone Conditions, Brandon G. Reichl, Dong Wang, Tetsu Hara, Isaac Ginis, and Tobias Kukulka
Computing acoustic transmission loss using 3D Gaussian ray bundles in geodetic coordinates, Sean M. Reilly, Gopu R. Potty, and Michael Goodrich
Investigation of horizontal refraction on Florida Straits continental shelf using a three-dimensional Gaussian ray bundling model, Sean M. Reilly, Gopu R. Potty, and David Thibaudeau
Identification and Salinity Tolerance of the Western Hemisphere Mussel Mytella charruana (D'Orbigny, 1842) in the Philippines, Michael A. Rice, Paul D. Rawson, Ashley D. Salinas, and Westly R. Rosario
Death in medieval europe: Death scripted and death choreographed, Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Death of clergymen: Popes and cardinals' death rituals, Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Introduction, Joëlle Rollo-Koster
The politics of transition: Pillaging and the 1527 sack of Rome, Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Missing the tide? Workplace cultural differences as a barrier to seafarer mobility in the U.S. workboat and sail training sectors, Eric Romelczyk and Austin Becker
Three-Dimensional Model-Observation Comparison in the Loop Current Region, Kellen C. Rosburg, Kathleen A. Donohue, and Eric P. Chassignet
Visualizing and Quantifying Oceanic Motion, T. Rossby
Fish species associated with shipwreck and natural hard-bottom habitats from the middle to outer continental shelf of the Middle Atlantic Bight near Norfolk Canyon, Steve W. Ross, Mike Rhode, Stephen T. Viada, and Ian Roderick Mather
Dengue vaccine: the need, the challenges and progress, Alan L. Rothman and Francis A. Ennis
Historical context and the roots of Jenner's discovery, Andrea A. Rusnock
The Towuti Drilling Project: Paleoenvironments, biological evolution, and geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake, James M. Russell, Satria Bijaksana, Hendrik Vogel, Martin Melles, Jens Kallmeyer, Daniel Ariztegui, Sean Crowe, Silvia Fajar, Abdul Hafidz, Doug Haffner, Ascelina Hasberg, Sarah Ivory, Christopher Kelly, John King, Kartika Kirana, Marina Morlock, Anders Noren, Ryan O'Grady, Luis Ordonez, Janelle Stevenson, Thomas von Rintelen, Aurele Vuillemin, Ian Watkinson, Nigel Wattrus, Satrio Wicaksono, Thomas Wonik, Kohen Bauer, Alan Deino, André Friese, Cynthia Henny, Imran, Ristiyanti Marwoto, La Ode Ngkoimani, Sulung Nomosatryo, La Ode Safiuddin, and Rachel Simister
From passive degassing to violent strombolian eruption: The case of the 2008 eruption of Llaima volcano, Chile, Dawn C.S. Ruth, Elizabeth Cottrell, Joaqúin A. Cortés, Katherine A. Kelley, and Eliza S. Calder
Drivers that structure biodiversity in the Plankton, Tatiana A. Rynearson and Susanne Menden-Deuer
Facile synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity of nanoporous supports loaded with monometallic and bimetallic nanoparticles, Amitesh Saha, Vijay T. John, and Arijit Bose
Phragmites australis: from genes to ecosystems, Kristin Saltonstall and Laura A. Meyerson
Geoacoustic inversion in shallow tropical waters for a silty and sandy seabed, M. C. Sanjana, G. Latha, and G. R. Potty
The Interplay Between Submesoscale Instabilities and Turbulence in the Surface Layer of the Bay of Bengal, Sutanu Sarkar, Hieu T. Pham, Sanjiv Ramachandran, Jonathan D. Nash, Amit Tandon, Jared Buckley, Aneesh A. Lotliker, and Melissa M. Omand
Effects of freshwater stratification on nutrients, dissolved oxygen, and phytoplankton in the Bay of Bengal, V. V.S.S. Sarma, G. D. Rao, R. Viswanadham, C. K. Sherin, Joseph Salisbury, Melissa M. Omand, Amala Mahadevan, V. S.N. Murty, Emily L. Shroyer, Mark Baumgartner, and Kathleen M. Stafford
Bacteria Removal from Stormwater Runoff Using Tree Filters: A Comparison of a Conventional and an Innovative System, Laura A. Schifman, Varun K. Kasaraneni, Ryan K. Sullivan, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, and Thomas B. Boving
Evaluation of Thermosalinograph and VIIRS Data for the Characterization of Near-Surface Temperature Fields, Fabian Schloesser, Peter C. Cornillon, Kathleen A. Donohue, Brahim Boussidi, and Emily Iskin
Changes to nitrate isotopic composition of wastewater treatment effluent and rivers after upgrades to tertiary treatment in the Narragansett Bay watershed, RI, Courtney E. Schmidt, Rebecca S. Robinson, Lindsey Fields, and Scott W. Nixon
Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 15. Dichotomaria huismanii (Galaxauraceae, Rhodophyta), a new species in the D. marginata complex from the western Atlantic, Craig W. Schneider, Thea R. Popolizio, Dylan S. Spagnuolo, and Christopher E. Lane
Calibrating CPT relative density and strength correlations for a laboratory fine sand, J. A. Schneider, J. R. Giampa, A. S. Bradshaw, and J. T. Newgard
Cloud computing and its impact on economic and environmental performance: A transaction cost economics perspective, Dara G. Schniederjans and Douglas N. Hales
Humanitarian supply chain use of cloud computing, Dara G. Schniederjans, Koray Ozpolat, and Yuwen Chen
Immunomodulatory effects of tick saliva on dermal cells exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, Dorothy C. Scholl, Monica E. Embers, John R. Caskey, Deepak Kaushal, Thomas N. Mather, Wayne R. Buck, Lisa A. Morici, and Mario T. Philipp
Detection of artificial water flows by the lateral line system of a benthic feeding cichlid fish, Margot A. B. Schwalbe, Benjamin J. Sevey, and Jacqueline F. Webb
Native bee diversity and pollen foraging specificity in cultivated highbush blueberry (Ericaceae: Vaccinium corymbosum) in Rhode Island, Zachary Scott, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Steven R. Alm
Message from the general chair, Resit Sendag
CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change, Timothy M. Shanahan, Konrad A. Hughen, Nicholas P. McKay, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Christopher A. Scholz, William D. Gosling, Charlotte S. Miller, John S. Peck, John W. King, and Clifford W. Heil
Dietary behaviors of adults born prematurely may explain future risk for cardiovascular disease, Mastaneh Sharafi, Valerie B. Duffy, Robin J. Miller, Suzy B. Winchester, Tania B. Huedo-Medina, and Mary C. Sullivan
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river and ground/drinking water of the Ganges River basin: Emissions and implications for human exposure, Brij Mohan Sharma, Girija K. Bharat, Shresth Tayal, Thorjørn Larssen, Jitka Bečanová, Pavlína Karásková, Paul G. Whitehead, Martyn N. Futter, Dan Butterfield, and Luca Nizzetto
Effect of Coastal Erosion on Storm Surge: A Case Study in the Southern Coast of Rhode Island, Alex Shaw, Mohammad Hashemi, Malcolm Spaulding, Bryan Oakley, and Christopher Baxter
Tsunami hazard assessment in the Hudson River Estuary based on dynamic tsunami–tide simulations, Michael Shelby, Stéphan T. Grilli, and Annette R. Grilli
A reproducible accelerated in vitro release testing method for PLGA microspheres, Jie Shen, Kyulim Lee, Stephanie Choi, Wen Qu, Yan Wang, and Diane J. Burgess
Supplementary damping control of VSC-HVDC transmission system using a novel heuristic dynamic programming, Yu Shen, Weibiao Chen, Wei Yao, Shiwu Liao, Jinyu Wen, and Haibo He
In situ stress evolution in Li1+xMn2O4 thin films during electrochemical cycling in Li-ion cells, Jay Sheth, Naba K. Karan, Daniel P. Abraham, Cao Cuong Nguyen, Brett L. Lucht, Brian W. Sheldon, and Pradeep R. Guduru
The status and associated factors of successful aging among older adults residing in longevity areas in China, Wen Hui Shi, Hong Yan Zhang, Juan Zhang, Yue Bin Lyu, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Zhao Xue Yin, Jie Si Luo, Dong Sheng Hu, Lei Fen, and Xiao Ming Shi
Composite Materials Subjected to Extreme Conditions, A. Shukla, Y. D.S. Rajapakse, and J. LeBlanc
A Re-assessment of Narragansett Bay Benthic Habitat Quality Between 1988 and 2008, Emily J. Shumchenia, Marisa L. Guarinello, and John W. King
Analysis of Human Trafficking Cases in Rhode Island, 2009-2013, Faith Skodmin, Rachel Dunham, and Donna M. Hughes
Oxidative balance in birds: An atoms-to-organisms-to-ecology primer for ornithologists, Megan M. Skrip and Scott R. McWilliams
Dietary antioxidants and flight exercise in female birds affect allocation of nutrients to eggs: how carry-over effects work, Megan M. Skrip, Navindra P. Seeram, Tao Yuan, Hang Ma, and Scott R. McWilliams
Assessment of Damage and Adaptation Strategies for Structures and Infrastructure from Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise for a Coastal Community in Rhode Island, United States, Christopher Small, Tyler Blanpied, Alicia Kauffman, Conor O’Neil, Nicholas Proulx, Mathew Rajacich, Hailey Simpson, Jeffrey White, Malcolm Spaulding, Christopher Baxter, and J. Craig Swanson
Bat activity during autumn relates to atmospheric conditions: Implications for coastal wind energy development, Adam D. Smith and Scott R. McWilliams
Remix as Professional Learning: Educators' Iterative Literacy Practice in CLMOOC, Anna Smith, Stephanie West-Puckett, Christina Cantrill, and Mia Zamora
Bivariate Autoregressive State-Space Modeling of Psychophysiological Time Series Data, Daniel M. Smith, Mohammadreza Abtahi, Amir Mohammad Amiri, and Kunal Mankodiya
Multiple Time Scale Models in Sport and Exercise Science, Daniel M. Smith and Theodore A. Walls