Submissions from 2015
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
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
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
Reported Behaviors of Prescription-Drug Misuse and Medication Safety among Students Attending a Rhode Island University, Kelly L. Matson, E. Pawasauskas, and Fortunato Procopio
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
Responses of Birds to Humans at a Coastal Barrier Beach: Napatree Point, Rhode Island, Thomas W. Mayo, Peter W. C. Paton, and Pete August
Toward A Dramatistic Ethics, Kevin McClure and Julia Skwar
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
Interference Suppression in Congested Undersea Environments, James McGee, Josko Catipovic, Steven Schoenecker, and Peter F. Swaszek
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
Combined Development and the Critique of International Political Economy, Richard McIntyre
A plasmid-based reporter system for live cell imaging of dengue infected cells, Carey L. Medin, Sierra Valois, Chinmay G. Patkar, and Alan Rothman
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
Comparison of three household water treatment technologies in San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala, Jonathan E. Mellor, Erin Kallman, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, and James A. Smith
Increasing Trust in Elections via a Simple Receipt Algorithm, Suzanne Mello-Stark and Edmund A. Lamagna
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
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
Bloom formation potential in the harmful dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea: Clues from movement behaviors and growth characteristics, Susanne Menden-Deuer and Amand L. Montalbano
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
Placental Transfusion Improves Iron Stores at 6 Weeks of Age in Late Preterm Infants, Judith S. Mercer and Debra A. Erickson-Owens
Editorial, Judith S. Mercer, Debra A. Erickson-Owens, Siddarth Ramji, Sunil Gomber, and Pooja Dewan
Port adaptation for climate change: The roles of stakeholders and the planning process, Steven Messner, Austin Becker, and Adolf K.Y. Ng
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
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
Estuarine subaqueous soil organic carbon accounting: Sequestration and storage, Christina M. Miilar, Adiza Ama Owusu Aduomih, Brett Still, and Mark H. Stolt
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
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
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
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
Political Confucianism and the Politics of Confucian Studies, Eske J. Møllgaard
Zhuangzi’s notion of transcendental life, Eske Janus Møllgaard
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
Islands of Difference: Design, Urbanism, and Sustainable Tourism in the Anthropocene Caribbean, Amelia Moore
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
Bacteria transport in a soil-based wastewater treatment system under simulated operational and climate change conditions, Ivan Morales, José A. Amador, and Thomas Boving
Impact of the presidential executive order on decreasing antimicrobial resistance, Jacob B. Morion and L. LaPlante
Early Spring Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Subpolar North Atlantic: The Influence of Protistan Herbivory, Françoise Morison and Susanne Menden-Deuer
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
Overconsumption of Antibiotics, Haley J. Morrill and L. LaPlante
Treatment Options for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infections, Haley J. Morrill, M. Pogue, Keith S. Kaye, and Kerry L. LaPlante
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
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
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
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
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
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
Climate change and adaptation planning for ports, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Austin Becker, Stephen Cahoon, Shu Ling Chen, Paul Earl, and Zaili Yang
Preface, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Austin Becker, Stephen Cahoon, Shu Ling Chen, Paul Earl, and Zaili Yang
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
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
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
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
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
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
Experimental studies on indoor sign recognition and classification, Zhen Ni, Siyao Fu, Bo Tang, Haibo He, and Xinming Huang
GrDHP: A general utility function representation for dual heuristic dynamic programming, Zhen Ni, Haibo He, Dongbin Zhao, Xin Xu, and Danil V. Prokhorov
Model-Free Dual Heuristic Dynamic Programming, Zhen Ni, Haibo He, Xiangnan Zhong, and Danil V. Prokhorov
Multi-machine power system control based on dual heuristic dynamic programming, Zhen Ni, Yufei Tang, Haibo He, and Jinyu Wen
A boundedness theoretical analysis for GrADP design: A case study on maze navigation, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, and Haibo He
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
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
The shape of the oceanic nitracline, Melissa M. Omand and A. Mahadevan
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
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
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
Insensitive TATP Training Aid by Microencapsulation, J. C. Oxley, J. L. Smith, and J. N. Canino
Fuel-oxidizer mixtures: their stabilities and burn characteristics, Jimmie C. Oxley, James L. Smith, Maria Donnelly, and Matthew Porter
The Effects of Changing Attribute Composition on Judgments About Multifunctional Products, Timucin Ozcan and Daniel A. Sheinin
Getting the Most out of Third Party Trust Seals: An Empirical Analysis, Koray Özpolat and Wolfgang Jank
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
Engaging Donors in Smart Compassion: USAID CIDI’s Greatest Good Donation Calculator, Koray Özpolat, Juanita Rilling, Nezih Altay, and Eric Chavez
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
The differential geometry of asymptotically efficient subspace estimation, Thomas A. Palka and Richard J. Vaccaro
Marine science: Storms bring ocean nutrients to light, Jaime Palter
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
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
Sharing Climate Information in the Himalayas, J. Panthi, N. Y. Krakauer, and Soni M. Pradhanang
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
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
Intercultural sensitivity scale: Proposal for a modified Serbian version, Danijela S. Petrović, Jelena Starčević, Guo-Ming Chen, and Darko Komnenić
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
Effects of three conservation tillage strategies on yields and soil health in a mixed vegetable production system, Jeffrey R. Pieper, Rebecca Nelson Brown, and José A. Amador
Hydrostatic implosion of GFRP composite tubes studied by digital image correlation, Michael Pinto, Sachin Gupta, and Arun Shukla
Study of implosion of carbon/epoxy composite hollow cylinders using 3-D Digital Image Correlation, Michael Pinto, Sachin Gupta, and Arun Shukla
Dynamic collapse mode evolution in carbon composite tubes, Michael Pinto and Arun Shukla
Experimental investigation of free-field implosion of filament wound composite tubes, M. Pinto and A. Shukla
A compilation of cold cases using scanning electron microscopy at the University of Rhode Island, Michael L. Platek and Otto J. Gregory
Systematic Approach to Using Isentropic Stress Reverberation Techniques in Approximating Equation of State, Gifford Plume and Carl-Ernst Rousseau
Aspects of Fishery Management, Job Satisfaction, and Well-Being among Commercial Fishermen in the Northeast Region of the United States, Richard B. Pollnac, Tarsila Seara, and Lisa L. Colburn
Taxonomy of USA east coast fishing communities in terms of social vulnerability and resilience, Richard B. Pollnac, Tarsila Seara, Lisa L. Colburn, and Michael Jepson
Energy Dissipation and Constitutive Modeling for a Mechanistic Description of Pad Scratching in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization, David Ponte and D.M.L. Meyer
A molecular evaluation of the Liagoraceae sensu lato (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) in Bermuda including Liagora nesophila sp. nov. and Yamadaella grassyi sp. nov., Thea R. Popolizio, Craig W. Schneider, and Christopher E. Lane
Revisiting integrated coastal zone management: Is it past its prime?, Michelle E. Portman, Tracey M. Dalton, and Jack Wiggin
Inversion of sediment parameters in the Biot parameter space, Gopu R. Potty and James H. Miller
National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities, Upendra B. Pradhanang, Soni M. Pradhanang, Arhan Sthapit, Nir Y. Krakauer, Ajay Jha, and Tarendra Lakhankar
Effective soil density for small-strain shear waves in saturated granular materials, Tong Qiu, Yanbo Huang, Yaurel Guadalupe-Torres, Christopher D.P. Baxter, and Patrick J. Fox
Concordance of Self-Report and Measured Height and Weight of College Students, Virginia Quick, Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Suzanne Shoff, Adrienne A. White, Barbara Lohse, Tanya Horacek, Kendra Kattelmann, Beatrice Phillips, Sharon L. Hoerr, and Geoffrey Greene
Relationships of eating competence, sleep behaviors and quality, and overweight status among college students, Virginia Quick, Suzanne Shoff, Barbara Lohse, Adrienne White, Tanya Horacek, and Geoffrey Greene
Long-term follow-up of placental transfusion in full-term infants, Heike Rabe, Debra A. Erickson-Owens, and Judith S. Mercer