Submissions from 2015
Birkhoff Normal Forms, KAM Theory and Symmetries for Certain Second Order Rational Difference Equation with Quadratic Term, Sabina Jašarević-Hrustić, Zehra Nurkanović, Mustafa Kulenovic, and Esmir Pilav
Between a rock and a hard place: Conflict minerals and professional integrity, Kate Jelinek
The auditing profession: Accounting for some things, Kate Jelinek
Binge Eating Among Racial Minority Groups in the United States: An Integrative Review, Karen M. Jennings, Susan Kelly-Weeder, and Barbara E. Wolfe
Mathematical Problems for Complex Systems, Haijun Jiang, Haibo He, Jianlong Qiu, Qiankun Song, and Jianquan Lu
8th vaccine renaissance: A creative nexus for vaccine developers, Heather Johnson, Lenny Moise, Austin Menge, Sarah Beseme, and Anne S. De Groot
Stratigraphic relations of Santorini’s intracaldera fill and implications for the rate of post-caldera volcanism, E. N. Johnston, R. S.J. Sparks, P. Nomikou, I. Livanos, S. Carey, J. C. Phillips, and H. Sigurdsson
The Art of Redundancy: Sublime Fiction and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, J. Jennifer Jones
Comparing Structures of Two Antimicrobial Peptides Using a Self-Organized Mapping Approach, Faramarz Joodaki, Preston Steele, Lenore M. Martin, and Michael L. Greenfield
Predictive Time Series Analysis Linking Bengal Cholera with Terrestrial Water Storage Measured from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Sensors, Antarpreet Jutla, Ali Akanda, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Anwar Huq, and Rita Colwell
Satellite Based Assessment of Hydroclimatic Conditions Related to Cholera in Zimbabwe, Antarpreet Jutla, Haidar Aldaach, Hannah Billian, Ali S. Akanda, Anwar Huq, and Rita Colwell
Postdischarge community pharmacist- provided home services for patients after hospitalization for heart failure, Tom Kalista, Lemay, and Lisa Cohen
A reconfigurable multiclass support vector machine architecture for real-time embedded systems classification, Jason Kane, Robert Hernandez, and Qing Yang
Reflex-tree: A biologically inspired parallel architecture for future smart cities, Jason Kane, Bo Tang, Zhen Chen, Jun Yan, Tao Wei, Haibo He, and Qing Yang
A neural machine interface architecture for real-time artificial lower limb control, Jason Kane, Qing Yang, Robert Hernandez, Willard Simoneau, and Matthew Seaton
Regioselective C–H bond amination by aminoiodanes, Abhishek A. Kantak, Louis Marchetti, and Brenton DeBoef
Sizes and shapes of simulated amorphous cis- and trans-1,4-polybutadiene, Suvrajyoti Kar and Michael L. Greenfield
Nervous System: Morphology and Physiology of Cnidarian Conducting Systems, Gabriele Kass-Simon and Linda A. Hufnagel
Oxidative Cross-Coupling of sp3- and sp2-Hybridized C–H Bonds: Vanadium-Catalyzed Aminomethylation of Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines, Pinku Kaswan, Ashley Porter, Kasiviswanadharaju Pericherla, Marissa Simone, Sean Peters, Anil Kumar, and Brenton DeBoef
Reproductive morphology and DNA sequences of the brown alga Platysiphon verticillatus support the new combination Platysiphon glacialis, Hiroshi Kawai, Takeaki Hanyuda, Takahiro Yamagishi, Atsushi Kai, Chris E. Lane, Dan Mcdevit, Frithjof C. Küpper, and Gary W. Saunders
A probabilistic interpretation of the exponential mixture, Steven Kay
Multimodal target detection via integrated GLRT, Steven Kay and Fuat Cogun
On the design and implementation of a highly accurate pulse predictor for exercise equipment, Steven Kay, Quan Ding, and Dongyang Li
Maximum discrimination approach for classification of nearly identical signatures, Steven Kay and Darren K. Emge
Cocatalyst Binding Effects in Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide, Oleg I. Kazakov and Matthew K. Kiesewetter
Switchable Release of Entrapped Nanoparticles from Alginate Hydrogels, Cathal J. Kearney, Hadas Skaat, Stephen M. Kennedy, Jennifer Hu, Max Darnell, Theresa M. Raimondo, and David J. Mooney
Assessment of a hybrid team-based learning (TBL) format in a required self-care course, Katherine Kelly Orr, M. Feret, Virginia A. Lemay, Lisa B. Cohen, Celia P. Mac Donnell, Navindra Seeram, and Anne L. Hume
Talking Argument from Multiple Perspectives Across the Curriculum, Diane Kern
The changing sources of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans in sediments and the ecological risk for nekton in the lower Passaic River and Newark Bay, New Jersey, USA, Mohammed Khairy, Kirk Barrett, and Rainer Lohmann
Spatial Distribution, Air-Water Fugacity Ratios and Source Apportionment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Lower Great Lakes Basin, Mohammed Khairy, Derek Muir, Camilla Teixeira, and Rainer Lohmann
Change in chirality of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes can overcome anionic surfactant stabilisation: a systematic study of aggregation kinetics, Iftheker A. Khan, Joseph R. V. Flora, A. R. M. Nabiul Afrooz, Nirupam Aich, P. Ariette Schierz, P. Lee Ferguson, Tara Sabo-Attwood, and Navid B. Saleh
Absence of neutralizing antibodies against influenza A/H5N1 virus among children in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand, Benjawan Khuntirat, Christopher S. Love, Darunee Buddhari, Gary L. Heil, Robert V. Gibbons, Alan L. Rothman, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Gregory C. Gray, and In-Kyu Yoon
Effects of CO2 on Growth Rate, C:N:P, and Fatty Acid Composition of Seven Marine Phytoplankton Species, Andrew L. King, Bethany D. Jenkins, Joselynn R. Wallace, Yuan Liu, Gary H. Wikfors, Lisa M. Milke, and Shannon L. Meseck
Evaluation of Cardiac Involvement in Children with Dengue by Serial Echocardiographic Studies, Tawatchai Kirawittaya, In-Kyu Yoon, Sineewanlaya Wichit, Sharone Green, Francis A. Ennis, Robert V. Gibbons, Stephen J. Thomas, Alan L. Rothman, Siripen Kalayanarooj, and Anon Srikiatkhachorn
Non-conventional methods of obtaining combustible liquid fuels, Harold N. Knickle, Oleg Kravchenko, Igor Baranov, and Iryna Suvorova
Connectivity of some Algebraically Defined Digraphs, Aleksandr Kodess and Felix Lazebnik
Effects of Hind-Limb Length and Perch Diameter on Clinging Performance in Anolis Lizards from the British Virgin Islands, Jason J. Kolbe
City slickers: poor performance does not deter Anolis lizards from using artificial substrates in human‐modified habitats, Jason J. Kolbe, Andrew C. Battles, and Kevin J. Avilés-Rodríguez
Probabilistic Precipitation Estimation with a Satellite Product, Nir Y. Krakauer, Soni M. Pradhanang, Jeeban Panthi, Tarendra Lakhankar, and Ajay K. Jha
Chewing gum increases energy expenditure before and after controlled breakfasts, Daniel L. Kresge and Kathleen Melanson
Trade Exposure and the Polarization of Government Spending in the American States, Brian S. Krueger and Ping Xu
A smartphone based activity analyzer for monitoring and encouraging exercise, Nouaying Kue, Kelsey Matthews, Nicholas Paiva, Eugene Chabot, Patricia Burbank, and Ying Sun
Global dynamics of a certain two-dimensional competitive system of rational difference equations with quadratic terms, M. R.S. Kulenović and M. Pilling
Pretest variables that improve the predictive value of exercise testing in women, L. S. Lamont, J. Bobb, B. Blissmer, and V. Desai
The impact of a student-run journal club on pharmacy students' self-assessment of critical appraisal skills, Macayla Landi, Springer, Erica Estus, and Kristina Ward
The Impact of a Student-Run Journal Club on Pharmacy Students’ Self-Assessment of Critical Appraisal Skills, Macayla Landi, Springer, Erica Estus, and Kristina E. Ward
The Dynamics of House Price Responsiveness and Locational Sorting: Evidence from Air Quality Changes, Corey Lang
Road effects on habitat quality for small animals, Tom A. Langen, Kimberly M. Andrews, Steven P. Brady, Nancy E. Karraker, and Daniel J. Smith
Misreporting in a randomized clinical trial for smoking cessation in adolescents, Ryan Lantini, Ashlee C. McGrath, L.A.R. Stein, Nancy P. Barnett, Peter M. Monti, and Suzanne M. Colby
Characteristics of smoking used cigarettes among an incarcerated population, Ryan Lantini, Jacob J. Van Den Berg, Mary B. Roberts, Beth C. Bock, L. A.R. Stein, Donna R. Parker, Peter D. Friedmann, and Jennifer G. Clarke
Assessing Shoreline Exposure and Oyster Habitat Suitability Maximizes Potential Success for Sustainable Shoreline Protection Using Restored Oyster Reefs, Megan K. La Peyre, Kayla Serra, T. Andrew Joyner, and Austin T. Humphries
Evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi infection in cats after exposure to wild-caught adult Ixodes scapularis, Michael R. Lappin, Ramaswamy Chandrashekar, Brett Stillman, Jiayou Liu, and Thomas N. Mather
Temperature-dependent acute toxicity of methomyl pesticide on larvae of 3 Asian amphibian species, Edward Tak Chuen Lau, Nancy Elizabeth Karraker, and Kenneth Mei Yee Leung
Development of a Tool for Assessing the Vulnerability of Rhode Island's Marinas to Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge, Wendy K. Laurent, Nicholas Brown, Bradford Carvalho, Frank Giles, Benjamin Lodge, Kelley McBride, Charles McGann, Darien McLaughin, Jason Peck, Dennis Tierney, Craig Swanson, Malcolm Spaulding, and Christopher D.P. Baxter
Beaver Ponds: Resurgent Nitrogen Sinks for Rural Watersheds in the Northeastern United States, Julia G. Lazar, Kelly Addy, Arthur J. Gold, Peter M. Groffman, Richard A. McKinney, and Dorothy Q. Kellogg
Carbonate Free Electrolyte for Lithium Ion Batteries Containing γ-Butyrolactone and Methyl Butyrate, Michael L. Lazar and Brett L. Lucht
Repeated, Long-Distance Migrations by a Philopatric Predator Targeting Highly Contrasting Ecosystems, James S.E. Lea, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nuno Queiroz, Neil Burnie, Choy Aming, Laura L. Sousa, Gonzalo R. Mucientes, Nicolas E. Humphries, Guy M. Harvey, David W. Sims, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Response of polyurea-coated flat composite plates to underwater explosive loading, James Leblanc and Arun Shukla
Underwater explosion response of curved composite plates, James LeBlanc and Arun Shukla
Awaken Your AgePotential, Exploring Chosen Paths of Thrivers, Skye N. Leedahl
Multi-sensory system for monitoring dyskinesia in movement disorders, Thomas Lennon, Trevor Bernier, Daniel Tamayo, Cody Goldberg, and Kunal Mankodiya
Addressing the STEM Gender Gap by Designing and Implementing an Educational Outreach Chemistry Camp for Middle School Girls, Mindy Levine, Nicole Serio, Bhasker Radaram, Sauradip Chaudhuri, and William Talbert
Comparative biogeochemistry–ecosystem–human interactions on dynamic continental margins, Lisa A. Levin, Kon-Kee Liu, Kay-Christian Emeis, Denise L. Breitburg, James Cloern, Curtis Deutsch, Michele Giani, Anne Goffart, Eileen E. Hofmann, Zouhair Lachkar, Karin Limburg, Su-Mei Liu, Enrique Montes, Wajih Naqvi, Olivier Ragueneau, Christopher Rabouille, Santosh Kumar Sarkar, Dennis P. Swaney, Paul Wassman, and Karen F. Wishner
The effect of primary versus secondary processes on the volatile content of MORB glasses: An example from the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge (5° N-3° S), Marion Le Voyer, Elizabeth Cottrell, Katherine A. Kelley, Maryjo Brounce, and Erik H. Hauri
Near-optimal tracking control of mobile robots via receding-horizon dual heuristic programming, Chuanqiang Lian, Xin Xu, Hong Chen, and Haibo He
Hardware accelerator for similarity based data dedupe, Dongyang Li, Qingbo Wang, Cyril Guyot, Ashwin Narasimha, Dejan Vucinic, Zvonimir Bandic, and Qing Yang
A parallel and pipelined architecture for accelerating fingerprint computation in high throughput data storages, Dongyang Li, Qing Yang, Qingbo Wang, Cyril Guyot, Ashwin Narasimha, Dejan Vucinic, and Zvonimir Bandic
Simulating large-scale pedestrian movement using CA and event driven model: Methodology and case study, Jun Li, Siyao Fu, Haibo He, Hongfei Jia, Yanzhong Li, and Yi Guo
Perspectives of WIC Staff Regarding Physical Activity Levels and Behaviors of Latino Preschool Children, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Mary L. Greaney, Judith A. Salkeld, and Jennifer Walsh
Latino Family Childcare Providers’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study, Ana C. Lindsay, Judith A. Salkeld, Mary L. Greaney, and Faith D. Sands
Interleukin-2 receptor antagonist therapy leads to increased tacrolimus levels after kidney transplantation, Sonia Lin, Alice K. Henning, Fatemeh Akhlaghi, Robin Reisfield, Andrea Vergara-Silva, and M. Roy First
Co-occurrence and coaction of stress management with other health risk behaviors, Jessica M. Lipschitz, Andrea L. Paiva, Colleen A. Redding, Susan Butterworth, and James O. Prochaska
Transtheoretical principles and processes for adopting physical activity: A longitudinal 24-month comparison of maintainers, relapsers, and nonchangers, Jessica M. Lipschitz, Miryam Yusufov, Andrea Paiva, Colleen A. Redding, Joseph S. Rossi, Sara Johnson, Bryan Blissmer, N. Simay Gokbayrak, Wayne F. Velicer, and James O. Prochaska
Maternal Plasma and Breastmilk Viral Loads are Associated with HIV-1-Specific Cellular Immune Responses Among HIV-1-Exposed, Uninfected Infants in Kenya, Amy Y. Liu, Barbara Lohman-Payne, Michael H. Chung, James Kiarie, John Kinuthia, Jennifer Slyker, Barbra Richardson, Dara Lehman, Carey Farquhar, and Grace John-Stewart
Comparison of peer mentor and peer mentee views on keys to pharmacy success for first year professional students, Catherine Liu and Nicole J. Asal
Impact of peer mentor involvement in professionalism day on first year professional pharmacy students, Catherine Liu and Nicole J. Asal
Stochastic modal analysis for a real offshore platform, Fushun Liu, Huajun Li, and Sau-Lon James Hu
H7N9 T-cell epitopes that mimic human sequences are less immunogenic and may induce Treg-mediated tolerance, Rui Liu, Leonard Moise, Ryan Tassone, Andres H. Gutierrez, Francis E. Terry, Kotou Sangare, Matthew T. Ardito, William D. Martin, and Anne S. De Groot
Particulate matter, gaseous and particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in an urban traffic tunnel of China: Emission from on-road vehicles and gas-particle partitioning, Ying Liu, Yi Gao, Na Yu, Chenkai Zhang, Siyao Wang, Limin Ma, Jianfu Zhao, and Rainer Lohmann
Source Apportionment of Gaseous and Particulate PAHs from Traffic Emission Using Tunnel Measurements in Shanghai, China, Ying Liu, Siyao Wang, Rainer Lohmann, Na Yu, Chenkai Zhang, Yi Gao, Jianfu Zhao, and Limin Ma
Gaseous and Freely-Dissolved PCBs in the Lower Great Lakes based on Passive Sampling: Spatial Trends and Air-water Exchange, Ying Liu, Siyao Wang, Carrie A. McDonough, Mohammed Khairy, Derek Muir, Paul Helm, and Rainer Lohmann
A survey of security and privacy challenges in cloud computing: Solutions and future directions, Yuhong Liu, Yan Sun, Jungwoo Ryoo, Syed Rizvi, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Direct dry-grinding synthesis of monodisperse lipophilic CuS nanoparticles, Yajuan Li, Julie Scott, Yi-Tzai Chen, Liangran Guo, Mingyang Zhao, Xiaodong Wang, and Wei Lu
Long-term athletic development- Part 1: A pathway for all youth, Rhodri S. Lloyd, Jon L. Oliver, Avery D. Faigenbaum, Rick Howard, Mark B.A. De Ste Croix, Craig A. Williams, Thomas M. Best, Brent A. Alvar, Lyle J. Micheli, D. Phillip Thomas, Disa L. Hatfield, John B. Cronin, and Gregory D. Myer
Long-term athletic development, Part 2: Barriers to success and potential solutions, Rhodri S. Lloyd, Jon L. Oliver, Avery D. Faigenbaum, Rick Howard, Mark B.A. De Ste Croix, Craig A. Williams, Thomas M. Best, Brent A. Alvar, Lyle J. Micheli, D. Phillip Thomas, Disa L. Hatfield, John B. Cronin, and Gregory D. Myer
Mindful Eating: An Emerging Approach for Healthy Weight Management, Ingrid Elizabeth Lofgren
Contribution of nitrogen from litter and soil mineralization to shade and sun coffee (Coffea arabica L.) agroecosystems, Glenny López-Rodríguez, David Sotomayor-Ramírez, José A. Amador, and Eduardo C. Schröder
Relevance to Psychology of Beliefs About Socialism: Some New Research Questions, Bernice Lott
The Gas Transfer through Polar Sea Ice Experiment: Insights into the Rates and Pathways that Determine Geochemical Fluxes, A. Lovely, Brice Loose, P. Schlosser, W. McGillis, C. Zappa, D. Perovich, S. Brown, T. Morell, D. Hsueh, and R. Friedrich
Electrochemical interfaces in electrochemical energy storage systems, Brett L. Lucht, Dominique Guyomar, Kristina Edström, and Robert Kostecki
Multiphase equilibrium flash with salt precipitation in systems with multiple salts, Angelo Lucia, Heath Henley, and Edward Thomas
A cascading failure simulation model considering frequency dynamics and power flow distribution, Chao Luo, Jun Yang, Yuanzhang Sun, Jun Yan, Haibo He, and Mingsong Liu
Ethanol and Isopropyl Alcohol Exposure Increases Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis, Megan K. Luther, Bilida, Leonard A. Mermel, and Kerry L. LaPlante
Observed antagonistic effect of linezolid on daptomycin or vancomycin activity against biofilm-forming methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model, Megan Luther and L. LaPlante
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was inversely associated with 3-year all-cause mortality among Chinese oldest old: Data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, Yue-Bin Lv, Zhao-Xue Yin, Choy-Lye Chei, Han-Zhu Qian, Virginia Byers Kraus, Juan Zhang, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Xiao-Ming Shi, David Bruce Matchar, and Yi Zeng
Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Central Tropical Pacific Surface Seawater Property Gradients, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Pratigya J. Polissar, Allison W. Jacobel, Steven A. Hovan, Robert A. Pockalny, Mitchell Lyle, Richard W. Murray, A. Christina Ravelo, Samantha C. Bova, Ann G. Dunlea, Heather L. Ford, Jennifer E. Hertzberg, Christina A. Wertman, Ashley E. Maloney, Julia K. Shackford, Katherine Wejnert, and Ruifang C. Xie
Continuous 1.3-Million-Year Record of East African Hydroclimate, and Implications for Patterns of Evolution and Biodiversity, Robert P. Lyons, Christopher A. Scholz, Andrew S. Cohen, John W. King, Erik T. Brown, Sarah J. Ivory, Thomas C. Johnson, Alan L. Deino, Peter N. Reinthal, Michael M. McGlue, and Margaret W. Blome
The Role of the Specialty Pharmacist in Optimizing the Quality of Care for Patients with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, Celia P. MacDonnell and MacDonnell