This collection showcases scholarly and creative work by faculty members of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University.
Submissions from 2008
High-School Private Security Programs: The Wave of the Future?, Sue Carter Collins, Sarah Britto, and Marwin Britto
Seed Invasion Filters and Forest Fire Severity, Tom R. Cottrell, Paul F. Hessburg, and Jonathan A. Betz
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Microbial Diversity of a Meromictic Soda Lake in Washington State, Pedro A. Dimitriu, Holly C. Pinkart, Brent M. Peyton, and Melanie R. Mormile
Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Teaching with Preschool Students with Developmental Disabilities, Andrew Downs, Robyn Conley Downs, Michelle Fossum, and Kathryn Rao
Effects of training and feedback on Discrete Trial Teaching skills and student performance, Andrew Downs, Robyn Conley Downs, and Kathryn Rau
Parents Teaching Parents: A Career and College Knowledge Program for Latino Families, Andrew Downs, Jesus Martin, Michelle Fossum, Sybil Martinez, Maria Solorio, and Hipolito Martinez
Effectiveness of Emotion Recognition Training for Young Children with Developmental Delays, Andrew Downs and Paul Strand
A genetic algorithm optimized fuzzy neural network analysis of the affinity of inhibitors for HIV-1 protease, Levente Fabry-Asztalos, Răzvan Andonie, Catharine J. Collar, Sarah Abdul-Wahid, and Nicholas Salim
Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal, Emmanuel J. Gabet, Douglas W. Burbank, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Jaakko Putkonen, and Bodo Bookhagen
Implementation Issues of an Incremental and Decremental SVM, Honorius Gâlmeanu and Răzvan Andonie
Worms by number, C. J. Glasby, Stephen P. Glasby, and F. Pleijel
Writing representations over proper division subrings, Stephen P. Glasby
The far-infrared and microwave spectra of the CH radical in the v = 1 level of the X2Π state, Michael Jackson, Lyndon R. Zink, Michael C. McCarthy, Luis Perez, and John M. Brown
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) responses to caregiver use of chimpanzee behaviors, Mary Lee Abshire Jensvold
DNA Barcoding as a Means to Identify Organisms associated with Amphibian Eggs, James E. Johnson, Susan F. Belmont, and R. Steven Wagner
Symbolic methodology for numeric data mining, Boris Kovalerchuk and Engenii Vityaev
Ecology and Ontogenetic Variation of Diet in the Pigmy Short-Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma Douglasii), Megan E. Lahti and Daniel D. Beck
Manifestations of the Tsunami on November 15, 2006, on the Central Kuril Islands and Results of the Runup Heights Modeling, B. W. Levin, Victor M. Kaistrenko, A. V. Rybin, M. A. Nosov, Tatiana K. Pinegina, N. G. Razzhigaeva, E. V. Sasorova, K. S. Ganzei, T. N. Ivel’skaya, Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya, S. V. Kolesov, Yu. V. Evdokimov, Joanne Bourgeois, Breanyn MacInnes, and B. Titzhugh
Male panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) urine contains kinship information, DingZhen Liu, RongPing Wei, GuiQuan Zhang, Hong Yuan, ZhiPeng Wang, Lixing Sun, JianXu Zhang, and HeMin Zhang
The complete plastid genome sequence of Welwitschia mirabilis: an unusually compact plastome with accelerated divergence rates, Skip R. McCoy, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Linda A. Raubeson
Fear of crime in two post-socialist capital cities - Ljubljana, Slovenia and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gorazd Meško, Marte Fallshore, Elmedin Muratbegović, and Charles Fields
Are the lapdogs starting to bark? Japanese newspaper coverage of the SDF mission to Iraq, Cameron Otopalik and Todd Schaefer
The effect of the hypohydration on the lactate threshold in a hot and humid environment, Charilaos (Harry) Papadopoulos, J. Doyle, J. Rupp, L. Brandon, D. Benardot, and W. Thompson
New GPS station network and elastic half-space modeling of Nepalese Himalayan tectonics and earthquake hazard, Beth Pratt-Sitaula and Bishal Nath Upreti
Community-based Inquiry Improves Critical Thinking in General Education Biology, Ian J. Quitadamo, Celia L. Faiola, James E. Johnson, and Martha J. Kurtz
The Parallel Worm Tracker: A Platform for Measuring Average Speed and Drug-Induced Paralysis in Nematodes, Daniel Ramot, Brandon E. Johnson, Tommie L. Berry Jr., Lucinda Carnell, and Miriam B. Goodman
Multiple Plagioclase Crystal Populations Identified by Crystal Size Distribution and in situ Chemical Data: Implications for Timescales of Magma Chamber Processes Associated with the 1915 Eruption of Lassen Peak, CA, Morgan J. Salisbury, Wendy A. Bohrson, Michael A. Clynne, Frank C. Ramos, and Paul Hoskin
Geomorphology of the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Kerry Sieh, Yue-Gau Chen, Ray Y. Chuang, Yu Wang, and Ling-Ho Chung
Fe(III), Cr(VI), and Fe(III) mediated Cr(VI) reduction in alkaline media using a Halomonas isolate from Soap Lake, Washington, Michael R. VanEngelen, Brant M. Peyton, Melanie R. Mormile, and Holly C. Pinkart
Women's Status and Risk of Homicide Victimization: An Analysis With Data Disaggregated by Victim-Offender Relationship, Lynne M. Vieraitis, Tomislav V. Kovandzic, and Sarah Britto
Relational methodology for data mining and knowledge discovery, Engenii Vityaev and Boris Kovalerchuk
Mapping Migratory Wading Bird Feeding Habitats using Satellite Imagery and Field Data, Eighty-Mile Beach, Western Australia, Suzanne Wade and Robert Hickey
Cultural Politics and the Essence of Life: Who Controls the Water?, Stefanie Wickstrom
Columbia River flood basalts from a centralized crustal magmatic system, J. A. Wolff, Frank C. Ramos, G. L. hart, J. D. Patterson, and A. D. Brandon
Polyphase Tectonothermal History Recorded in Granulitized Gneisses from the North Qaidam HP/UHP Metamorphic Terrane, Western China: Evidence from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Fan-Cong Meng, Yu-Sheng Wan, and Kuoan Tung
Potential Chemosignals in the Anogenital Gland Secretion of Giant Pandas, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, Associated with Sex and Individual Identity, Jian-Xu Zhang, Dingzhen Liu, Lixing Sun, Rongping Wei, Guiquan Zhang, Honglin Wu, Hemin Zhang, and Chenghua Zhao
Dual Role of Preputial Gland Secretion and its Major Components in Sex Recognition of Mice, Jian-Xu Zhang, Ying-Juan Liu, Jin-Hua Zhang, and Lixing Sun
Cohabitation impaired physiology, fitness and sex-related chemosignals in golden hamsters, Jian-Xu Zhang, Xiao-Ping Rao, Lixing Sun, Da-Wei Wang, Dingzhen Liu, and Chenghua Zhao
Sex- and gonad-affecting scent compounds and 3 male pheromones in the rat, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, Jin-Hua Zhang, and Zhi-Yong Feng
Sex- and Gonad-Affecting Scent Compounds and 3 Male Pheromones in the Rat, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, Jin-Hua Zhang, and Zhi-Yong Feng
Frequencies of cw FIR laser lines for use in laser magnetic resonance spectroscopy, L. R. Zink, A. Willcutt, M. Murphy, and Michael Jackson
Submissions from 2007
Crossing the Rubicon: A Generic Intelligent Advisor, Rӑzvan Andonie, J. Edward Russo, and Rishi Dean
Potlatch and Powwow: Dynamics of Culture through Lives Lived Dancing, Tracy J. Andrews and Jon Olney
See The Light! A Nice Application of Calculus to Chemistry, Stuart Boersma and Garrett McGowan
Insight into subvolcanic magma plumbing systems, Wendy A. Bohrson
Energy-Constrained Recharge, Assimilation, and Fractional Crystallization (EC-RAxFC): A Visual Basic computer code for calculating trace element and isotope variations of opensystem magmatic systems, Wendy A. Bohrson and Frank J. Spera
Tsunami Runup in the Middle Kuril Islands from the Great Earthquake of 15 Nov 2006 (abstract), Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, N. Razhegaeva, Victor M. Kaistrenko, B. W. Levin, Breanyn MacInnes, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Does “Special” Mean Young, White and Female? Deconstructing the Meaning of “Special” in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sarah Britto, Tycy Hughes, Kurt Saltzmann, and Colin Stroh
Paleoseismic evidence for coseismic growth-fold in the 1999 Chichi earthquake and earlier earthquakes, central Taiwan, Wen-Shan Chen, Kun-Jie Lee, Long-Sheng Lee, Ashley R. Streig, Charles M. Rubin, Yue-Gau Chen, Hsiao-Chin Yang, Hui-Cheng Chang, and Chii-Wen Lin
Late Holocene paleoearthquake activity in the middle part of the Longitudinal Valley fault, eastern Taiwan, Wen-Shan Chen, I-Chin Yen, Keegan P. Fengler, Charles M. Rubin, Chi-Cheng Yang, Hsiao-Chin Yang, Hui-Cheng Chang, Chii-Wen Lin, Wei-Hsiung Lin, Yen-Chiu Liu, and Yen-Hui Lin
Episodic Tremor and Slip in the Pacific Northwest, Kenneth C. Creager and Timothy I. Melbourne
Using Discrete Trial Teaching Within a Public Preschool Program to Facilitate Skill Development in Students with Developmental Disabilities, Andrew Downs, Robyn Conley Downs, Michael Johansen, and Michelle Fossum
Emotion Understanding in English- and Spanish-speaking Preschoolers Enrolled in Head Start, Andrew Downs, Paul Strand, and Sandra Cerna
Heads or tails? Sexual dimorphism in helodermatid lizards, C. M. Gienger and Daniel D. Beck
The shape of solvable groups with odd order, Stephen P. Glasby
Prehistoric earthquakes along the Shanchiao fault, Taipei Basin, northern Taiwan, Shao-Yi Huang, Charles M. Rubin, Yue-Gau Chen, and Huan-Chi Liu
Analysis of 81 genes from 64 plastid genomes resolves relationships in angiosperms and identifies genome-scale evolutionary patterns, Robert K. Jansen, Zhengqiu Cai, Linda A. Raubeson, Henry Daniell, Claude W. dePamphilis, James Leebens-Mack, Kai F. Müller, Mary Guisinger-Bellian, Rosemarie C. Haberle, Anne K. Hansen, Timothy W. Chumley, Seung-Bum Lee, Rhiannon Peery, Joel R. McNeal, Jennifer V. Kuehl, and Jeffrey L. Boore
Contact metamorphism in the Malashan dome, North Himalayan gneiss domes, southern Tibet: An example of shallow extensional tectonics in the Tethys Himalaya, Tetsuo Kawakami, Mutsuki Aoya, Simon Wallis, Jeffrey Lee, Kentaro Terada, Yu Wang, and Matt Heizler
Photochemistry of Iron in Simulated Crustal Aerosols with Dimethyl Sulfide Oxidation Products, Jennifer M. Key, Nicole Paulk, and Anne Johansen
Onset of mid-crustal extensional flow in southern Tibet: Evidence from U/Pb zircon ages, Jeffrey Lee and Martin J. Whitehouse
Onset of mid-crustal extensional flow in southern Tibet: Evidence from U/Pb zircon ages, Jeffrey Lee and Martin J. Whitehouse
Postglacial range expansion from northern refugia by the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, Julie A. Lee-Yaw, Jason T. Irwin, and David M. Green
Late quaternary slip rates along the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone, California: Slip partitioning across the western margin of the Eastern California Shear Zone-Basin and Range Province, Kimberly Le, Jeffrey Lee, Lewis A. Owen, and Robert Finkel
Late Quaternary slip rates along the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone, California: Slip partitioning across the western margin of the Eastern California Shear Zone–Basin and Range Province, Kimberly Le, Jeffrey Lee, Lewis A. Owen, and Robert Finkel
Tsunami Erosion: Geomorphology Before and After the 15 Nov 2006 Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands, Russia (abstract), Breanyn MacInnes, Joanne Bourgeois, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Maria Elizabeth Martin, and Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya
Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Metamorphism and Magmatism in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, California, Chris G. Mattinson, Joseph P. Colgan, James R. Metcalf, Elizabeth L. Miller, and Joseph L. Wooden
High- and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism in the North Qaidam and South Altyn Terranes, Western China, Chris G. Mattinson, C. A. Menold, Jian-Xin Zhang, and D. K. Bird
Land-use forecasting and hydrologic model integration for improved land-use decision support, Chris McColl and Graeme Aggett
Police and fear of crime, Gorazd Meško, Marte Fallshore, and Aleksander Jevšek
Ceramics from the Firehole Basin Site and Firehole Phase in the Wyoming Basin, Jessica L. Middleton, Patrick M. Lubinski, and Michael D. Metcalf
Responding to Decentralisation in the Aftermath of the Bali Bombing, Lene Pedersen
Review of The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier, Lene Pedersen
Paleotsunamis in the Middle Kuril Islands -- Implications for a Seismic Gap (and in View of Recent Events) (abstract), Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Breanyn MacInnes, Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya, Maria Elizabeth Martin, and N. Razhegaeva
Bedload-to-suspended load ratio and rapid bedrock incision from Himalayan landslide-dam lake record, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Michelle Garde, Douglas W. Burbank, Michael Oskin, Arjun Heimsath, and Emmanuel Gabet
Learning to Improve: Using Writing to Increase Critical Thinking Performance in General Education Biology, Ian J. Quitadamo and Martha J. Kurtz
Comparative chloroplast genomics: analyses including new sequences from the angiosperms Nuphar advena and Ranunculus macranthus, Linda A. Raubeson, Rhiannon Peery, Timothy W. Chumley, Chris Dziubek, H. Matthew Fourcade, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Robert K. Jansen
In situ transmission Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy investigations of the surface chemistry of gettering common gases in vacuum systems with a common commercial flashed getter alloy as a function of temperature, Dion Rivera, J. R. Brown, S. M. Thornberg, and M. K. Alam
Development of a Continental Volcanic Field: Petrogenesis of Pre-caldera Intermediate and Silicic Rocks and Origin of the Bandelier Magmas, Jemez Mountains (New Mexico, USA), M. C. Rowe, J. A. Wolff, J. N. Gardner, Frank C. Ramos, R. Teasdale, and C E. Heikoop
Determining eruption ages and erosion rates of Quaternary basaltic volcanism from combined U-series disequilibria and cosmogenic exposure ages, Kenneth W.W. Sims, Robert P. Ackert Jr., Frank C. Ramos, Robert A. Sohn, Michael T. Murrell, and Donald J. DePaolo
Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria in Soap Lake (Washington State), a Meromictic, Haloalkaline Lake with an Unprecedented High Sulfide Content, Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Mirjam Foti, Holly C. Pinkart, and Gerard Muyzer
Partitioning of trace elements among coexisting crystals, melt, and supercritical fluid during isobaric crystallization and melting, Frank J. Spera, Wendy A. Bohrson, Christy B. Till, and Mark S. Ghiorso
Shyness and emotion‐processing skills in preschoolers: a 6‐month longitudinal study, Paul S. Strand, Sandra Cerna, and Andrew Downs
Evidence for prehistoric coseismic folding along the Tsaotun segment of the Chelungpu fault near Nan-Tou, Taiwan, Ashley R. Streig, Charles M. Rubin, Wen-Shan Chen, Long-Shen Lee, Stephen C. Thompson, Chris Madden, and Shih-Ting Lu
The Impact of Women’s Status and Gender Inequality on Female Homicide Victimization Rates: Evidence From U.S. Counties, Lynne M. Vieraitis, Sarah Britto, and Tomislav V. Kovandzic
Octonary Conception in Central Eurasia: Its Ethnonymic Connection and Numerical Reinterpretation, Penglin Wang
Integrating Service Learning Into the Study Abroad Program: U.S. Sociology Students in Mexico, Nancy Wessel
Chronic Exposure of Cat Odor Enhances Aggression, Urinary Attractiveness and Sex Pheromones of Mice, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, Kevin E. Bruce, and Milos V. Novotny
Mice Respond Differently to Urine and Its Major Volatile Constituents from Male and Female Ferrets, Jian-Xu Zhang, Lixing Sun, and Milos Novotny
Submissions from 2006
The Malashan Gneiss Dome in South Tibet: Comparative Study with the Kangmar Dome with Special Reference to Kinematics of Deformation and Origin of Associated Granites, Mutsuki Aoya, Simon Wallis, Tetsuo Kawakami, Jeffrey Lee, Yu Wang, and H. Maeda
Review of Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century, Kathleen Barlow
Using Feminist Methods and Restorative Justice to Interview Capital Offenders’ Family Members, Elizabeth Beck and Sarah Britto
Homoclinics for a Hamiltonian with wells at different levels, James Bisgard
Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on leaf morphology of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. (Brassicaceae), Maria Regina Torres Boeger and Mary E. Poulson
Petrogenesis of the Campanian Ignimbrite: implications for crystal-melt separation and open-system processes from major and trace elements and Th isotopic data, Wendy A. Bohrson, Frank J. Spera, Sarah J. Fowler, Harvey E. Belkin, Benedetto De Vivo, and Giuseppe Rolandi
Late Pleistocene outburst flooding from pluvial Lake Alvord into the Owyhee River, Oregon, Deron T. Carter; Lisa L. Ely; Jim E. O.Connor; and Cassandra R, Fenton
On the structure of compact subsets of Cp, A. D. Raza Choudary, Angel Popescu, and Nicolae Popescu
Do Anogenital Gland Secretions of Giant Panda Code for Their Sexual Ability?, Liu Dingzhen, Yuan Hong, Tian Hong, Wei Rongping, Zhang Guiquan, Lixing Sun, Wang Liwen, and Sun Ruyong
Using Assessment to Improve the Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education, Andrew Downs and Paul S. Strand
School‐based Intervention for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effects on academic, social, and behavioural functioning, George J. DuPaul and Lisa L. Weyandt
School-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Enhancing Academic and Behavioral Outcomes, George J. DuPaul and Lisa L. Weyandt