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.

Follow

Submissions from 2015

PDF

The Role of the Specialty Pharmacist in Optimizing the Quality of Care for Patients with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, Celia P. MacDonnell and MacDonnell

PDF

Rapid and Gradual Modes of Aerosol Trace Metal Dissolution in Seawater, Katherine R.M. Mackey, Chia-Te Chien, Anton F. Post, Mak A. Saito, and Adina Paytan

PDF

Estimates of micro-, nano-, and picoplankton contributions to particle export in the northeast Pacific, B. L. Mackinson, S. B. Moran, M. W. Lomas, G. M. Stewart, and R. P. Kelly

Link

The hydrolyzable gallotannin, penta-O-galloyl-β-d-glucopyranoside, inhibits the formation of advanced glycation endproducts by protecting protein structure, Hang Ma, Weixi Liu, Leslie Frost, Ling Wang, Liwen Kong, Joel A. Dain, and Navindra P. Seeram

PDF

Structure activity related, mechanistic, and modeling studies of gallotannins containing a glucitol-core and α-glucosidase, Hang Ma, Ling Wang, Daniel B. Niesen, Ang Cai, Bongsup P. Cho, Wen Tan, Qiong Gu, Jun Xu, and Navindra P. Seeram

Link

Evidence-based treatment of voice and speech disorders in Parkinson disease, Leslie A. Mahler, Lorraine O. Ramig, and Cynthia Fox

Link

Response of Coated Laminated Glass Panels Subjected to Combined Blast and Temperature Loadings, Emad A. Makki, Prathmesh Naik Parrikar, and Arun Shukla

Link

Radio Frequency-Activated Nanoliposomes for Controlled Combination Drug Delivery, Swapnil A. Malekar, Ashish L. Sarode, Alvin C. Bach, Arijit Bose, Geoffrey Bothun, and David R. Worthen

PDF

Do Lower Top Marginal Tax Rates Slow the Income Growth of Workers?, Liam C. Malloy

PDF

Loss Aversion, Education, and Intergenerational Mobility, Liam C. Malloy

Link

Implementing inclusive engineering challenges for elementary students, Elaine Silva Mangiante and Adam Moore

Link

Solution-Phase Synthesis of Dipeptides: A Capstone Project That Employs Key Techniques in an Organic Laboratory Course, Louis Marchetti and Brenton DeBoef

PDF

Regioselective gold-catalyzed oxidative C-N bond formation, Louis Marchetti, Abhishek Kantak, Riley Davis, and Brenton Deboef

Link

Hazardous waste compliance in health care settings, Rita M. Marcoux and Randy Vogenberg

Link

Professional roles evolve with changing landscape of legal risk, Rita M. Marcoux and Randy Vogenberg

Link

Exploring Placentophagy in Humans: Problems and Recommendations, Marisa E. Marraccini and Kathleen S. Gorman

PDF

College Students' Perceptions of Professor/Instructor Bullying: Questionnaire Development and Psychometric Properties, Marissa E. Marraccini, Lisa L. Weyandt, and Joseph S. Rossi

Link

Adolescent Substance Treatment Engagement Questionnaire for Incarcerated Teens, Rosemarie A. Martin, Lynda A.R. Stein, Mary Clair, Mary Kathryn Cancilliere, Warren Hurlbut, and Damaris J. Rohsenow

Link

Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Vary Between Phragmites Australis and Native Vegetation Zones in Coastal Wetlands Along a Salinity Gradient, Rose M. Martin and Serena Moseman-Valtierra

PDF

Assessment of Food Intake, Obesity, and Health Risk Among the Homeless in Rhode Island, Diane C. Martins, Kathleen S. Gorman, Robin J. Miller, Leah Murphy, Sekboppa Sor, Jonah C. Martins, and Maria L. Vecchiarelli

Link

Higher bird abundance and diversity where American woodcock sing: Fringe benefits of managing forests for woodcock, Roger Masse, Brian C. Tefft, and Scott R. McWilliams

Link

Reported Behaviors of Prescription-Drug Misuse and Medication Safety among Students Attending a Rhode Island University, Kelly L. Matson, E. Pawasauskas, and Fortunato Procopio

Link

Assessment of initial serum vancomycin trough concentrations and their association with initial empirical weight-based vancomycin dosing and development of nephrotoxicity in children: A multicenter retrospective study, Kelly L. Matson, L. Shaffer, Gary L. Beck, and Kari A. Simonsen

PDF

Organization and Access to the Chinese Books/CDs/DVDs Donated by Hanban to the Confucius Institutes in the United States, Yan Ma

PDF

Responses of Birds to Humans at a Coastal Barrier Beach: Napatree Point, Rhode Island, Thomas W. Mayo, Peter W. C. Paton, and Pete August

Link

Toward A Dramatistic Ethics, Kevin McClure and Julia Skwar

PDF

Food- and Health-Related Correlates of Self-Reported Body Mass Index Among Low-Income Mothers of Young Children, Karen McCurdy, Tiffani S. Kisler, Kathleen S. Gorman, and Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras

PDF

Interference Suppression in Congested Undersea Environments, James McGee, Josko Catipovic, Steven Schoenecker, and Peter F. Swaszek

PDF

Submarine Paleoseismology Along Populated Transform Boundaries: The Enriquillo-Plantain-Garden Fault, Canal du Sud, Haiti, and the North Anatolian Fault, Marmara Sea, Turkey, Cecilia M. G. McHugh, Leonardo Seeber, Marie-Helene Cormier, and Matthew Hornbach

Link

Combined Development and the Critique of International Political Economy, Richard McIntyre

PDF

A plasmid-based reporter system for live cell imaging of dengue infected cells, Carey L. Medin, Sierra Valois, Chinmay G. Patkar, and Alan Rothman

PDF

Use of passive samplers to detect Organochlorine Pesticides in air and water at Wetland Mountain region sites (S-SE Brazil), R. O. Meire, M. Khairy, A. C. Targino, P. M.A. Galvão, J. P.M. Torres, O. Malm, and Rainer Lohmann

Link

Comparison of three household water treatment technologies in San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala, Jonathan E. Mellor, Erin Kallman, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, and James A. Smith

Link

Increasing Trust in Elections via a Simple Receipt Algorithm, Suzanne Mello-Stark and Edmund A. Lamagna

PDF

Contextual and Cultural Influences on Parental Feeding Practices and Involvement in Child Care Centers among Hispanic Parents, Noereem Z. Mena, Kathleen S. Gorman, Katie Dickin, Geoffrey Greene, and Alison Tovar

Link

Big data on important issues: Assessing the needs of student and early career aquatic scientists, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Laura Bristow, Hideyuki Doi, Christopher Filstrup, Andrea Johnson, Kevin Rose, Xiao Xi, Amy Burgess, and Grace Wilkinson

Link

Bloom formation potential in the harmful dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea: Clues from movement behaviors and growth characteristics, Susanne Menden-Deuer and Amand L. Montalbano

PDF

Refugial isolation and range expansions drive the genetic structure of Oxyria sinensis (Polygonaceae) in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains, Lihua Meng, Gang Chen, Zhonghu Li, Yongping Yang, Zhengkun Wang, and Liuyang Wang

PDF

Placental Transfusion Improves Iron Stores at 6 Weeks of Age in Late Preterm Infants, Judith S. Mercer and Debra A. Erickson-Owens

Link

Editorial, Judith S. Mercer, Debra A. Erickson-Owens, Siddarth Ramji, Sunil Gomber, and Pooja Dewan

Link

Port adaptation for climate change: The roles of stakeholders and the planning process, Steven Messner, Austin Becker, and Adolf K.Y. Ng

PDF

High pH Microbial Ecosystems in a Newly Discovered, Ephemeral, Serpentinizing Fluid Seep at Yanartaş (Chimera), Turkey, D'Arcy R. Meyer-Dombard, Kristin M. Woycheese, Erin N. Yargıçoğlu, Dawn Cardace, Yasemin Güleçal-Pektas, and Mustafa Temel

PDF

A Capstone Project on Robust Dynamic Positioning and Data Acquisition Systems, James Meyers, Adam Hoburg, Tooran Emami, Peter F. Swaszek, Richard Hartnett, and Paul Crilly

Link

Estuarine subaqueous soil organic carbon accounting: Sequestration and storage, Christina M. Miilar, Adiza Ama Owusu Aduomih, Brett Still, and Mark H. Stolt

Link

The effects of pH on acoustic transmission loss in an estuary, James H. Miller, Laura N. Kloepper, Gopu R. Potty, Arthur J. Spivack, Steven L. D'Hondt, Cathleen Turner, and Andrea M. Simmons

PDF

The Secreted Proteins of Achlya hypogyna and Thraustotheca clavata Identify the Ancestral Oomycete Secretome and Reveal Gene Acquisitions by Horizontal Gene Transfer, Ian Misner, Nic Blouin, Guy Leonard, Thomas A. Richards, and Christopher E. Lane

PDF

T Cell Epitope Redundancy: Cross-conservation of the TCR face between Pathogens and Self and its Implications for Vaccines and Auto-immunity, Leonard Moise, Sarah Beseme, Ryan Tassone, Rui Liu, Farzana Kibria, Francis Terry, William Martin, and Anne S. De Groot

PDF

iVax: An integrated toolkit for the selection and optimization of antigens and the design of epitope-driven vaccines, Leonard Moise, Andres H. Gutierrez, Farzana Kibria, Rebecca Martin, Ryan Tassone, Rui Liu, Francis Terry, William Martin, and Anne S. De Groot

Link

Political Confucianism and the Politics of Confucian Studies, Eske J. Møllgaard

Zhuangzi’s notion of transcendental life, Eske Janus Møllgaard

PDF

The Green Eating Project: web-based intervention to promote environmentally conscious eating behaviours in US university students, Jessica T. Monroe, Ingrid E. Lofgren, Becky L. Sartini, and Geoffrey W. Greene

PDF

Islands of Difference: Design, Urbanism, and Sustainable Tourism in the Anthropocene Caribbean, Amelia Moore

Link

Challenges in Integrating the Climate and Social Sciences for Studies of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Frances C. Moor, Justin S. Mankin, and Austin Becker

Link

Bacteria transport in a soil-based wastewater treatment system under simulated operational and climate change conditions, Ivan Morales, José A. Amador, and Thomas Boving

Link

Impact of the presidential executive order on decreasing antimicrobial resistance, Jacob B. Morion and L. LaPlante

PDF

Early Spring Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Subpolar North Atlantic: The Influence of Protistan Herbivory, Françoise Morison and Susanne Menden-Deuer

PDF

Vancomycin Dosing Considerations in a Real-World Cohort of Obese and Extremely Obese Patients, Haley J. Morrill, R. Caffrey, Eunsun Noh, and Kerry L. LaPlante

PDF

Overconsumption of Antibiotics, Haley J. Morrill and L. LaPlante

PDF

Treatment Options for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infections, Haley J. Morrill, M. Pogue, Keith S. Kaye, and Kerry L. LaPlante

Link

Modeling the decline and potential recovery of a native butterfly following serial invasions by exotic species, Tegan A.L. Morton, Alexandra Thorn, J. Michael Reed, Roy G. Van Driesche, Richard A. Casagrande, and Frances S. Chew

Link

Substantial nitrous oxide emissions from intertidal sediments and groundwater in anthropogenically-impacted West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts, Serena Moseman-Valtierra, Kevin D. Kroeger, John Crusius, Sandra Baldwin, Adrian Green, T. Wallace Brooks, and Emily Pugh

Link

Static and Dynamic Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Ti2AlC MAX Phase and Fiber Reinforced Ti2AlC Composites, Prathmesh Naik Parrikar, Huili Gao, Miladin Radovic, and Arun Shukla

Link

Downscaling river discharge to assess the effects of climate change on cholera outbreaks in the Bengal Delta, Fariborz Nasr-Azadani, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Ali Akanda, Saiful Islam, Munir Alam, Anwar Huq, Antarpreet Jutla, and Rita Colwell

Link

Synthesis of a β-CCT-lanthanide conjugate for binding the dopamine transporter, Gregory R. Naumiec, Grace Lincourt, Jeremy P. Clever, Michael A. McGregor, Abraham Kovoor, and Brenton Deboef

PDF

Tsunami recurrence in the eastern Alaska-Aleutian arc: A Holocene stratigraphic record from Chirikof Island, Alaska, Alan R. Nelson, Richard W. Briggs, Tina Dura, Simon E. Engelhart, Guy Gelfenbaum, Lee-Ann Bradley, Steve L. Forman, Christopher H. Vane, and Katherine A. Kelley

Link

Climate change and adaptation planning for ports, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Austin Becker, Stephen Cahoon, Shu Ling Chen, Paul Earl, and Zaili Yang

Link

Preface, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Austin Becker, Stephen Cahoon, Shu Ling Chen, Paul Earl, and Zaili Yang

Link

Time to act: The criticality of ports in adapting to the impacts posed by climate change, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Austin Becker, Stephen Cahoon, Shu Ling Chen, Paul Earl, and Zaili Yang

PDF

Effect of Vinylene Carbonate and Fluoroethylene Carbonate on SEI Formation on Graphitic Anodes in Li-Ion Batteries, Mengyun Nie, Julien Demeaux, Benjamin T. Young, David R. Heskett, Yanjing Chen, Arijit Bose, Joseph C. Woicik, and Brett L. Lucht

Link

Erratum: Role of lithium salt on solid electrolyte interface (SEI) formation and structure in lithium ion batteries (Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2014) 161 (A1001)), Mengyun Nie and Brett L. Lucht

Link

Phenolic constituents of carex vulpinoidea seeds and their tyrosinase inhibitory activities, Daniel B. Niesen, Hang Ma, Tao Yuan, Alvin C. Bach, Geneive E. Henry, and Navindra P. Seeram

PDF

Sea-level change and subsidence in the Delaware Estuary during the last ∼2200 years, Daria Nikitina, Andrew C. Kemp, Simon E. Engelhart, Benjamin P. Horton, David F. Hill, and Robert E. Kopp

Link

On the Response of pH to Inorganic Nutrient Enrichment in Well-Mixed Coastal Marine Waters, Scott W. Nixon, Autumn J. Oczkowski, Michael E.Q. Pilson, Lindsey Fields, Candace A. Oviatt, and Christopher W. Hunt

Link

Experimental studies on indoor sign recognition and classification, Zhen Ni, Siyao Fu, Bo Tang, Haibo He, and Xinming Huang

Link

GrDHP: A general utility function representation for dual heuristic dynamic programming, Zhen Ni, Haibo He, Dongbin Zhao, Xin Xu, and Danil V. Prokhorov

Link

Model-Free Dual Heuristic Dynamic Programming, Zhen Ni, Haibo He, Xiangnan Zhong, and Danil V. Prokhorov

Link

Multi-machine power system control based on dual heuristic dynamic programming, Zhen Ni, Yufei Tang, Haibo He, and Jinyu Wen

Link

A boundedness theoretical analysis for GrADP design: A case study on maze navigation, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, and Haibo He

PDF

Preliminary Evidence for the Amplification of Global Warming in Shallow, Intertidal Estuarine Waters, Autumn Oczkowski, Richard McKinney, Suzanne Ayvazian, Alana Hanson, Cathleen Wigand, and Erin Markham

PDF

Testing sample stability using four storage methods and the macroalgae Ulva and Gracilaria, Autumn Oczkowski, Carol S. Thornber, Erin E. Markham, Ryann Rossi, Amanda Ziegler, and Shelby Rinehart

PDF

The shape of the oceanic nitracline, Melissa M. Omand and A. Mahadevan

Link

Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense, John L. Orrock, Andy Sih, Maud C.O. Ferrari, Richard Karban, Evan L. Preisser, Michael J. Sheriff, and Jennifer S. Thaler

PDF

Decadal Patterns of Westerly Winds, Temperatures, Ocean Gyre Circulations and Fish Abundance: A Review, Candace A. Oviatt, Leslie Smith, M. Conor McManus, and Kimberly Hyde

Link

Tuning the Wettability of Halloysite Clay Nanotubes by Surface Carbonization for Optimal Emulsion Stabilization, Olasehinde Owoseni, Yueheng Zhang, Yang Su, Jibao He, Gary L. McPherson, Arijit Bose, and Vijay T. John

Link

Insensitive TATP Training Aid by Microencapsulation, J. C. Oxley, J. L. Smith, and J. N. Canino

Link

Fuel-oxidizer mixtures: their stabilities and burn characteristics, Jimmie C. Oxley, James L. Smith, Maria Donnelly, and Matthew Porter

Link

The Effects of Changing Attribute Composition on Judgments About Multifunctional Products, Timucin Ozcan and Daniel A. Sheinin

PDF

Getting the Most out of Third Party Trust Seals: An Empirical Analysis, Koray Özpolat and Wolfgang Jank

PDF

Food Aid Procurement and Transportation Decision-making in Governmental Agencies: The United Nations/EU versus the United States Approach, Koray Özpolat, Dina Ribbink, Douglas N. Hales, and Robert J. Windle

PDF

Engaging Donors in Smart Compassion: USAID CIDI’s Greatest Good Donation Calculator, Koray Özpolat, Juanita Rilling, Nezih Altay, and Eric Chavez

Link

The unique N-terminal insert in the ribosomal protein, phosphoprotein P0, of Tetrahymena thermophila: Bioinformatic evidence for an interaction with 26S rRNA, Giovanni J. Pagano, S. King, Lenore M. Martin, and Linda A. Hufnagel

Link

The differential geometry of asymptotically efficient subspace estimation, Thomas A. Palka and Richard J. Vaccaro

Link

Marine science: Storms bring ocean nutrients to light, Jaime Palter

PDF

Insecticides Promote Viral Outbreaks by Altering Herbivore Competition, Huipeng Pan, Evan L. Preisser, Dong Chu, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, Yves Carrière, Xuguo Zhou, and Youjun Zhang

PDF

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rainfall in the Gandaki River Basin of Nepal Himalaya, Jeeban Panthi, Piyush Dahal, Mandan Lall Shrestha, Suman Aryal, Nir Y. Krakauer, Soni M. Pradhanang, Tarendra Lakhankar, Ajay K. Jha, Mohan Sharma, and Ramchandra Karki

Link

Sharing Climate Information in the Himalayas, J. Panthi, N. Y. Krakauer, and Soni M. Pradhanang

PDF

Design, Synthesis, Antiviral Activity, and Pre-Formulation Development of Poly-L-Arginine-Fatty Acyl Derivatives of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, Bhanu P. Pemmaraju, Swapnil Malekar, Hitesh K. Agarwal, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Donghoon Oh, Gustavo F. Doncel, David R. Worthen, and Keykavous Parang

PDF

Three-Year Improvements in Weight Status and Weight-Related Behaviors in Middle School Students: The Healthy Choices Study, Karen E. Peterson, Jennifer L. Spandano-Gasbarro, Mary L. Greaney, S. Bryn Austin, Solomon Mezgebu, Anne T. Hunt, Emily A. Blood, Chrissy Horan, Henry A. Feldman, Stavroula K. Osganian, Maria F. Bettencourt, and Tracy K. Richmond

PDF

Intercultural sensitivity scale: Proposal for a modified Serbian version, Danijela S. Petrović, Jelena Starčević, Guo-Ming Chen, and Darko Komnenić

Link

Dynamics of wind-driven estuarine-shelf exchange in the Narragansett Bay estuary, A. S. Pfeiffer-Herbert, C. R. Kincaid, D. L. Bergondo, and R. A. Pockalny