Submissions from 2015
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, Sydney Springer, Erica Estus, and Kristina E. Ward
The Impact of a Student-Run Journal Club on Pharmacy Students’ Self-Assessment of Critical Appraisal Skills, Macayla Landi, Sydney 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
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
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
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
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
Evidence-based treatment of voice and speech disorders in Parkinson disease, Leslie A. Mahler, Lorraine O. Ramig, and Cynthia Fox
Response of Coated Laminated Glass Panels Subjected to Combined Blast and Temperature Loadings, Emad A. Makki, Prathmesh Naik Parrikar, and Arun Shukla
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
Do Lower Top Marginal Tax Rates Slow the Income Growth of Workers?, Liam C. Malloy
Loss Aversion, Education, and Intergenerational Mobility, Liam C. Malloy
Implementing inclusive engineering challenges for elementary students, Elaine Silva Mangiante and Adam Moore
Solution-Phase Synthesis of Dipeptides: A Capstone Project That Employs Key Techniques in an Organic Laboratory Course, Louis Marchetti and Brenton DeBoef
Regioselective gold-catalyzed oxidative C-N bond formation, Louis Marchetti, Abhishek Kantak, Riley Davis, and Brenton Deboef
Hazardous waste compliance in health care settings, Rita M. Marcoux and Randy Vogenberg
Professional roles evolve with changing landscape of legal risk, Rita M. Marcoux and Randy Vogenberg
Exploring Placentophagy in Humans: Problems and Recommendations, Marisa E. Marraccini and Kathleen S. Gorman
College Students' Perceptions of Professor/Instructor Bullying: Questionnaire Development and Psychometric Properties, Marissa E. Marraccini, Lisa L. Weyandt, and Joseph S. Rossi
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
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