This collection showcases scholarly and creative work by faculty members of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University.
Submissions from 2010
Institutional Policy Changes Aimed at Addressing Obesity Among Mental Health Clients, Linda L. Knol, Kelly Pritchett, and Jeri Dunkin
Interpretable Fuzzy Systems: Analysis of T-norm interpretability, Boris Kovalerchuk
Agent-based Uncertainty Logic Network, Boris Kovalerchuk and Germano Resconi
Looking back on the Pacific, Robert Thomas Kuhlken
Ecology of the Pygmy Short-Horned Lizard [Phrynosoma (tapaja) douglasii] in Washington, Megan E. Lahti, Daniel D. Beck, and Tom R. Cottrell
Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in Southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome, Jackie Langille, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, and Gareth Seward
Farming the Desert: Agriculture in the World War II-era, Japanese-American Relocation Centers, Karl Lillquist
Flank gland-secreted putative chemosignals pertaining to photoperiod, endocrine states, and sociosexual behavior in golden hamsters, Ying-Juan Liu, Da-Wei Wang, Lixing Sun, Jin-Hua Zhang, and Jian-Xu Zhang
Experimental Zooarchaeology: Research Directions and Methods, Patrick M. Lubinski and Brian S. Shaffer
Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records, Breanyn MacInnes, Robert Weiss, Joanne Bourgeois, and Tatiana K. Pinegina
Application of fuzzy measures and interval computation to financial portfolio selection, Tanja Magoč, Xiaojing Wang, and François Modave
Using Group Work Strategies to Continue the National Discussion on Race, Justice, and Peace, Krista M. Malott, Scott Schaefle, William Conwill, Jennifer Cates, Judy A. Daniels, and Michael D'Andrea
Understanding Early Bronze Age social structure through mortuary remains: A pilot aDNA study from Titris Hoyuk, southeastern Turkey, T. Matney, G. Algaze, M. C. Dulik, Ö. D. Erdal, Y. S. Erdal, O. Gokcumen, Joseph G. Lorenz, and H. Mergen
Constraints to Water Transfers in Unadjudicated Basins:The Middle Rio Grande as a Case Study, Michael Pease
Evaluation of artificial sweat in athletes with spinal cord injuries, Robert C. Prtichett, P. A. Bishop, Z. Yang, Kelly L. Pritchett, J. M. Green, C. P. Katica, and A. T. Del Pozzi
Investigation of the Effect of Gd3+ on Host-to-Europium Transfer Efficiency in (Y,Gd)BO3:Eu3+ Under VUV Excitation, Rosa L. Rabinovitz, Katie J. Johnston, and Anthony L. Diaz
The Ideology of Homicide Detectives: A Cross-National Study, Charles E. Reasons, Teresa Francis Divine, and David Kim
Pushing the Pharaoh to Protect Human Rights: U.S. Democracy Promotion under the Obama Administration, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Yugoslavism in the Early Twentieth Century: The politics of the Yugoslav Committee, Connie Robinson
Tourist Behavior and Decibel Levels Correlate with Threat Frequency in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China, Lucy A. Ruesto, Lori K. Sheeran, Megan D. Matheson, Jin-Hua Li, and R. Steven Wagner
The Relationship Between ADHD Symptomology and Decision Making, Stephen Schepman, Lisa Weyandt, Sarah Diane Schlect, and Anthony Swentosky
A model for Chagas disease with controlled spraying, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Meir Shillor, and Gabrielle A. Stryker
Particle representations of superprocesses with dependent motions, Kathryn E. Temple
Probabilistic Dynamic Logic of Phenomena and Cognition, Evgenii Vityaev, Boris Kovalerchuk, Leonid Perlovsky, and Stanislav Smerdov
Kinematics and Vorticity in Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Testing Midcrustal Channel-flow Models for the Himalaya, Tom Wagner, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley R. Hacker, and Gareth Seward
1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis, Megan K. Walsh, Cathy Whitlock, and Patrick J. Bartlein
EBDMSS: A Web-Based Decision Making Support System for Strategic E-Business Management, Fen Wang, Natalie Lupton, David Rawlinson, and Xingguo Zhang
The John Wayne Pioneer Trail in Washington State: Rails-to-trails to ... Rails and Trails?, John Ward and Nancy Hultquist
Activty Patterns of the Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea), Robert E. Weaver
Diet and Reproductive Ecology of the Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea) in Central Washington State, Robert E. Weaver
Diet and Foraging Behavior of the Terrestrial Gartersnake (Thamnophis Elegans) Along a Stream Within the Shrub-Steppe of Central Washington State, Robert E. Weaver, Blake A. Bauer, Kendra S. Weaver, Daniel C. McEwen, and William H. Clark
Seasonal Variation and Synchronization of Sexual Behaviors in Free-Ranging Male Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Huangshan, China, Dong-Po Xia, Jin-Hua Li, Yong Zhu, Bing-Hua Sun, and Lori K. Sheeran
U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of Coesite-bearing Eclogites from the Southern Dulan Area of the North Qaidam UHP Terrane, Northwestern China: Spatially and Temporally Extensive UHP Metamorphism during Continental Subduction, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Shengyao Yu, Jin-Ping Li, and Fan-Cong Meng
Foxn1 Gene Knockout Suppresses Sexual Attractiveness and Pheromonal Components of Male Urine in Inbred Mice, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, and Yao-Hua Zhang
Submissions from 2009
Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS, Ana C. Aguiar, Timothy I. Melbourne, and Craig W. Scrivner
A Novel Fuzzy ARTMAP Architecture with Adaptive FeatureWeights based on Onicescu’s Informational Energy, Răzvan Andonie, Angel Caţaron, and Lucian Mircea Sasu
Herbivory by an invasive snail increases nitrogen fixation in a nitrogen-limited stream, Clay Porter Arango, Leslie Anne Riley, Jennifer Leah Tank, and Robert Ogden Hall Jr.
Potential Impact of ADHD With Stimulant Medication Label on Teacher Expectations, Christina S. Batzle, Lisa L. Weyandt, Grace M. Janusis, and Terry L. DeVietti
An Approximation of the Kinetic Energy of a Superfluid Film on a Riemann Surface, Chris Petersen Black
Spirituality, AIDS, and Sexuality, Robert Brammer
Public Participation GIS: A New Method for Use in National Forest Planning, Gregory G. Brown and Pat Reed
Feminist Psychotherapies: Theory, Research, and Practice, Cynthia Bruns
The Process of Science, Anthony Carpi and Anne Egger
Infusing Multicultural Training into Practicum, Jennifer T. Cates and Scott E. Schaefle
Towards an efficientMeat-axealgorithm usingf-cyclicmatrices: The density of uncyclic matrices in M(n,q), Stephen P. Glasby and Cheryl E. Praeger
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health, Lawrence W. Green, Judith M. Ottoson, César García, and Robert A. Hiatt
Atmospheric Soluble Dust Records From a Tibetan Ice Core: Possible Climate Proxies and Teleconnection with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, B. Grigholm, P. A. Mayewski, S. Kang, Y. Zhang, Susan Kaspari, S. B. Sneed, and Q. Zhang
Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of a phylogenetic analysis of the Campanulaceae based on three chloroplast genes, Rosemarie C. Haberle, Ashley Dang, Tammy Lee, Cynthia Peñaflor, Helen Cortes-Burns, Andrea Oestreich, Linda Raubeson, Nicoletta Cellinese, Erika J. Edwards, Sang-Tae Kim, William M.M. Eddie, and Robert K. Jansen
Choosing Work and Family: Poor and Low-Income Mothers' Work-Family Commitments, Judith Hennessy
A Survey of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Selectively Logged Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic, Thurston C. Hicks, Roger S. Fouts, and Deborah H. Fouts
Mantle Transition Zone Structure beneath Kenya and Tanzania: More Evidence for a Deep-Seated Thermal Upwelling in the Mantle, Audrey D. Huerta, Andrew A. Nyblade, and Angela M. Reusch
Frequencies and Wavelengths From a New Far-Infrared Lasing Gas: 13CHD2OH, Michael Jackson, Travis Petersen, and Lyndon R. Zink
The rotational spectrum of the FeD radical in its X4Δ state, measured by far-infrared laser magnetic resonance, Michael Jackson, Lyndon R. Zink, Jonathan P. Towle, Neil Riley, and John M. Brown
The effect of land use on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen uptake in streams, Laura T. Johnson, Jennifer L. Tank, and Clay P. Arango
Using Taoist principle of the unity of opposites to explain conflict and peace, Sun Key
Fusion and Mining Spatial Data in Cyber-Physical Space with Dynamic Logic of Phenomena, Boris Kovalerchuk and Leonid Perlovsky
Review of "The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives", Robert Thomas Kuhlken
Quaternary Faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for Kinematics of Fault-slip Transfer in the Eastern California Shear Zone–Walker Lane Belt, Jeffrey Lee, Jason Garwood, Daniel F. Stockli, and John Gosse
Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the Timing of Extension along the Western Boundary of the Basin and Range Province and Distribution of Dextral Fault Slip Rates across the Eastern California Shear Zone, Jeffrey Lee, Daniel F. Stockli, Lewis A. Owen, Robert C. Finkel, and Roman Kislitsyn
Tsunami Geomorphology: Erosion and Deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island Tsunami, Breanyn MacInnes, Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Field Survey and Geological Effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands, Breanyn MacInnes, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Nadezhda G. Razhigaeva, Victor M. Kaistrenko, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Atmospheric Iron Deposition: Global Distribution, Variability, and Human Perturbations, Natalie M. Mahowald, Sebastian Engelstaedter, Chao Luo, Andrea Sealy, Paulo Artaxo, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Sophie Bonnet, Ying Chen, Patrick Y. Chuang, David D. Cohen, Francois Dulac, Barak Herut, Anne Johansen, Nilgun Kubilay, Remi Losno, Willy Maenhaut, Adina Paytan, Joseph M. Prospero, Lindsey M. Shank, and Ronald L. Siefert
Controlling the "Commanding Heights" of Political Science Education: A Survey of Political Economy Courses from an Author-Based Perspective, Mathew Manweller
Paragneiss Zircon Geochronology and Trace Element Geochemistry, North Qaidam HP/UHP Terrane, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph L. Wooden, Jian-Xin Zhang, and D. K. Bird
What determines the success or failure of intracellular cutaneous parasites? Lessons learned from leishmaniasis, Marcus Maurer, Blaise Dondji, and Esther von Stebut
Sequences of Tibetan Macaque (Macaca thibetana) and Tourist Behaviors at Mt. Huangshan, China, Maureen S. McCarthy, Megan D. Matheson, Jack D. Lester, Lori K. Sheeran, and Jin-Hua Li
Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali Fault, Alaska, A.-S. Mériaux, K. Sieh, R. C. Finkel, Charles M. Rubin, M. H. Taylor, A. J. Meltzner, and F. J. Ryerson
The top-two primary in Washington State, Krystal E. Noga-Styron
Applying geodesy and modeling to test the role of climate controlled erosion in shaping Himalayan morphology and evolution, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Bishal Nath Upreti, Timothy Melbourne, Andrew Miner, Emily Parker, Santa Man Rai, and Tara Nidhi Bhattarai
Acute effects of chocolate milk and a commercial recovery beverage on postexercise recovery indices and endurance cycling performance, Kelly Pritchett, Philip Bishop, Robert Pritchett, Matt Green, and Charlie Katica
Peer-Led Team Learning: A Prospective Method for Increasing Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Science Courses, Ian J. Quitadamo, C. Jayne Brahler, and Gregory J. Crouch
Poplars in the Pacific Northwest: Old Legacies and New Forests, Craig S. Revels
The Janus Nature of Human Rights in Iran: Understanding Progress and Setbacks on Human Rights Protections since the Revolution, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Islamic Realpolitik: Two-level Iranian Foreign Policy, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Is Neutral Humanitarianism Dead? Red Cross Neutrality: Walking the Tightrope of Neutral Humanitarianism, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Effects of the pathogenic water mold Saprolegnia ferax on survival of amphibian larvae, John M. Romansic, Kristin A. Diez, Elise M. Higashi, James E. Johnson, and Andrew R. Blaustein
Paleomagnetic behavior of volcanic rocks from Isla Socorro, Mexico, Elise Sbarbori, Lisa Tauxe, Avto Goguitchaichvili, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, and Wendy A. Bohrson
The LaryngoscopeVC2009 The American Laryngological,Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc.Anti-Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Antibody’s Effect on Noise Damage, Michael D. Seidman, Wenxue Tang, Najeeb Shirwany, Uma Bai, Cory J. Rubin, Joseph P. Henig, and Wayne S. Quirk
Glide avalanche response to an extreme rain-on-snow event, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA, John Stimberis and Charles M. Rubin
Hydroxyl radical is produced via the Fenton reaction in submitochondrial particles under oxidative stress: implications for diseases associated with iron accumulation, Carin Thomas, Melissa M. Mackey, Amy A. Diaz, and David P. Cox
Molecular Phylogeny and Genetic Identification of Populations of Two Species of Feirana Frogs (Amphibia: Anura, Ranidae, Dicroglossinae, Paini) Endemic to China, Bin Wang, Jianping Jiang, Feng Xie, Xiaohong Chen, Alain Dubois, Gang Liang, and R. Steven Wagner
Investigating the Function of Gd3+ in (Y,Gd)BOZ3: Eu3+ through Measurements of Host‐To‐Activator Transfer Efficiency, Katie J. Warren, Rosa L. Rabinovitz, and Anthony L. Diaz
Assessment of teacher and school psychologist knowledge of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Lisa L. Weyandt, Katherine M. Fulton, Stephen B. Schepman, Genevieve R. Verdi, and Kimberly G. Wilson
Seismic observations of transient subglacial water-flow beneath MacAyeal Ice Stream, West Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Richard B. Alley
Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Richard B. Alley, Robert A. Bindschadler, and Matt A. King
U-Pb Geochronology of Paragneisses and Metabasite in the Xitieshan Area, North Qaidam Mountains, Western China: Constraints on the Exhumation of HP/UHP Metamorphic Rocks, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Fan-Cong Meng, Huai-Jen Yang, and Yu-Sheng Wan
Coesite in Eclogite from the North Qaidam Mountains and Its Implications, Jian-Xin Zhang, Fan-Cong Meng, Jin-Ping Li, and Chris G. Mattinson
Uropygial gland volatiles may code for olfactory information about sex, individual, and species in Bengalese finches Lonchura striata, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, and Ming-Xue Zuo
Submissions from 2008
Anomalous cosmogenic 3He production and elevation scaling in the high Himalaya, William H. Amidon, Kenneth A. Farley, Douglas W. Burbank, and Beth Pratt-Sitaula
Land use influences the spatiotemporal controls on nitrification and denitrification in headwater streams, Clay P. Arango and J. L. Tank
Assimilatory uptake rather than nitrification and denitrification determines nitrogen removal patterns in streams of varying land use, Clay P. Arango, J. L. Tank, L. T. Johnson, and S. K. Hamilton
Investigation of host-to-activator energy transfer and surface losses in SrY2O4:Eu3+ under VUV excitation, Ryan Atkins and Anthony L. Diaz
Investigation of host-to-activator energy transfer and surface losses in SrY2O4:Eu3+ under VUV excitation, Ryan Atkins and Anthony L. Diaz
Going by the Trees: Death and Regeneration in Georgia's Haunted Landscapes, Mark J. Auslander
Critiquing the “Good Enough” Mother: A Perspective Based on the Murik of Papua New Guinea, Kathleen Barlow
Tracking natal origins of salmon using isotopes, otoliths, and landscape geology, Rachel Barnett-Johnson, Thomas E. Pearson, Frank C. Ramos, Churchill B. Grimes, and R. Bruce MacFarlane
The Columbia Basin Project: Seventy-Five Years Later, Gina Bloodworth and James White
A Theory of Urban Park Geography, Gregory Brown
High-School Private Security Programs: The Wave of the Future?, Sue Carter Collins, Sarah Britto, and Marwin Britto