This collection showcases scholarly and creative work by faculty members of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University.
Submissions from 2014
Five centuries of tsunamis and land-level changes in the overlapping rupture area of the 1960 and 2010 Chilean earthquakes, Lisa L. Ely, Marco Cisternas, Robert L. Wesson, and Tina Dura
Towards Developing a Quantitative Literacy/Reasoning Assessment Instrument, Eric C. Gaze, Aaron Montgomery, Semra Kilic-Bahi, Deann Leoni, Linda Misener, and Corrine Taylor
Using a Spreadsheet To Solve the Schrödinger Equations for the Energies of the Ground Electronic State and the Two Lowest Excited States of H2, Yingbin Ge, Robert C. Rittenhouse, Jacob C. Buchanan, and Benjamin Livingston
Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization and integration, Lawrence W. Green, Judith M. Ottoson, César García, Robert A. Hiatt, and Maria L. Roditis
A Mind of Their Own: Using Inquiry-based Teaching to Build Critical Thinking Skills and Intellectual Engagement in an Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Course, Ralf R. Greenwald and Ian J. Quitadamo
Temporal Trends in the Detection of Right-Sided Colon Polyps: Summary Data of Large GI Practices, Nalini M. Guda, Neil Gupta, Dominic Klyve, John I. Allen, Thomas M. Deas, Lin Huang, Scott R. Ketover, Kyle P. Etzkorn, Kumar G. Gutta, Steven Morris, Prateek Sharma, and Lyndon V. Hernandez
A Methodology for Near-Field Tsunami Inundation Forecasting: Application to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Yuichiro Tanioka, Breanyn MacInnes, and Hiroaki Tsushima
Kings, Knights, and Pawns: Black Coal Miners and Racial Conflict in Washington Territory, Raymond A. Hall
Imaging the Antarctic Mantle Using Adaptively Parameterized P-wave Tomography: Evidence for Heterogeneous Structure beneath West Antarctica, Samantha E. Hansen, Jordon H. Graw, Lindsey M. Kenyon, Andrew A. Nyblade, Douglas A. Wiens, Richard C. Aster, Audrey D. Huerta, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Terry Wilson
Longitudinal Assessment of Colonoscopy Quality Indicators: A Report From the Gastroenterology Practice Management Group (GPMG), Lyndon V. Hernandez, Thomas M. Deas, Marc F. Catalano, Naina M. Guda, Lin Huang, Scott R. Ketover, Kyle P. Etzkorn, Kumar G. Gutta, Steve J. Morris, Michael J. Schmalz, Dominic Klyve, and John I. Allen
A Pilot Study of Endoluminal US for Stool Liquefaction, Lyndon V. Hernandez, George Triadafilopoulos, Joseph Kost, Robert A. Ganz, Shane Fleshman, Dominic Klyve, Martin Ton, and George Lewis
Advances in Large-Scale Mudflat Surveying: The Roebuck Bay and Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia Examples, Robert Hickey, Grant B. Pearson, and Theunis Piersma
Himalayan Gneiss Dome Formation in the Middle Crust and Exhumation by Normal Faulting: New Geochronology of Gianbul Dome, Northwestern India, Forrest Horton, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, Meilani Bowman-Kamaha’o, and Michael Cosca
Grizzly bear monitoring by the Heiltsuk people as a crucible for First Nation conservation practice, William G. Housty, Anna Noson, Gerald W. Scoville, John Boulanger, Richard M. Jeo, Chris T. Darimont, and Christopher E. Filardi
Sustainable Mountain Tourism: An Analysis of Bosnia- Herzegovina’s Wine Tourism and its Future, John Hudelson
Rise and Fall of Late Pleistocene Pluvial Lakes in Response to Reduced Evaporation and Precipitation: Evidence from Lake Surprise, California, Daniel E. Ibarra, Anne E. Egger, Karrie L. Weaver, Caroline R. Harris, and Kate Maher
Investigating the Eolian Context of the Last Glacial Maximum Occupation at Kawanishi‐C, Hokkaido, Japan, Masami Izuho, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Yuichi Nakazawa, Tsutomu Soda, Noriyoshi Oda, Toshiro Yamahara, Minoru Kitazawa, and Ian Buvit
New cw Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Laser Emissions Generated with a Transverse or ‘Zig-Zag’ Pumping Geometry, Michael Jackson, H. Alves, R. Holman, R. Minton, and L. R. Zink
Seasonal and elevational variations of black carbon and dust in snow and ice in the Solu-Khumbu, Nepal and estimated radiative forcings, Susan Kaspari, T. H. Painter, M. Gysel, S. M. Skiles, and M. Schwikowski
Euler and Gravity, Dominic Klyve
Visualization of multidimensional data with collocated paired coordinates and general line coordinates, Boris Kovalerchuk
Iron sources and dissolved-particulate interactions in the seawater of the Western Equatorial Pacific, iron isotope perspectives, M. Labatut, F. Lacan, C. Pradoux, J. Chmeleff, A. Radic, J. W. Murray, F. Poitrasson, Anne M. Johansen, and F. Thil
Motion tracking and analysis systems, Roland Leser and Karen Roemer
Lasting Legacies: Conservation and Communities at Huascaran National Park, Peru, Jennifer K. Lipton
Using the Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Compositions of Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) to Examine Questions in Ethnoprimatology, James E. Loudon, J. Paul Grobler, Matt Sponheimer, Kimberly Moyer, Joseph G. Lorenz, and Trudy R. Turner
An evaluation of multiple exemplar instruction to teach perspective-taking skills to adolescents with Asperger Syndrome, Sadie Lovett and Ruth Anne Rehfeldt
Single-Grain Luminescence Dating of Sediment Surrounding a Possible Late Pleistocene Artifact from the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site, Pacific Northwest, USA, Patrick M. Lubinski, James Feathers, and Karl Lillquist
Comparative methods for distinguishing flakes from geofacts: a case study from the Wenas Creek Mammoth site, Patrick M. Lubinski, Karisa Terry, and Patrick T. McCutcheon
Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands, Breanyn MacInnes, Ben Fitzhugh, and Darryl Holman
Perceptions of School Psychologists Regarding Barriers to Response to Intervention (RTI) Implementation, Heath Marrs and Suzanne Little
New Far-Infrared Laser Emissions from Optically Pumped CH2DOH, CHD2OH, and (CH3OH)-O-18, Mark McKnight, Patrick Penoyar, Matthew Pruett, Nathan Palmquist, Sumaya Ifland, and Michael Jackson
Discovery of Optically Pumped Far-infrared Laser Emissions from Formic Acid and its Isotopologues, Kerry Olivier, Brad DeShano, B. Cain, L. R. Zink, and Michael Jackson
Selection on Crop-Derived Traits and QTL in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) Crop-Wild Hybrids under Water Stress, Birkin R. Owart, Jonathan Corbi, John M. Burke, and Jennifer M. Dechaine
Influence of regional precipitation patterns on stable isotopes in ice cores from the central Himalayas, H. Pang, S. Hou, Susan Kaspari, and P. A. Mayewski
Historical Species Distribution Models Predict Species Limits in Western Plethodon Salamanders, Tara A. Pelletier, Charlie Crisafulli, Steve Wagner, Amanda J. Zellmer, and Brian C. Carstens
Using Intergenerational Service Learning to Promote Positive Perceptions about Older Adults and Community Service in College Students, Jeffrey M. Penick, Marte Fallshore, and Adrian M. Spencer
Effects of urban stream burial on nitrogen uptake and ecosystem metabolism: implications for watershed nitrogen and carbon fluxes, Michael J. Pennino, Sujay S. Kaushal, Jake J. Beaulieu, Paul M. Mayer, and Clay P. Arango
Seismic and geodetic evidence for grounding-line control of Whillans Ice Stream stick-slip events, Martin J. Pratt, J. Paul Winberry, Douglas A. Wiens, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Richard B. Alley
Behaviors that Predict Personality Components in Adult free-Ranging Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana), Alexander J. Pritchard, Lori K. Sheeran, Kara I. Gabriel, Jin-Hua Li, and Ronald S. Wagner
Placing Managua: a landscape narrative in post-earthquake Nicaragua, Craig S. Revels
Democratic Dreams Neglected in the Land of the Pharaohs: US Democracy Assistance in Egypt, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Tibetan garnet records early Eocene initiation of thickening in the Himalaya, Matthijs A. Smit, Bradley R. Hacker, and Jeffrey Lee
Tibetan Garnet Records Early Eocene Tectonics in the Himalaya, Matthijs A. Smit, Bradley R. Hacker, and Jeffrey Lee
The global precipitation of magnetospheric electrons into Titan’s upper atmosphere, Darci Snowden and R. V. Yelle
On Formal Graph-Theoretic Definitions of the Ihara Zeta Function, Christopher Storm and Dominic Klyve
The Sciences of Learning, Instruction, and Assessment as Underpinnings of the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction, Elizabeth M. Street and Kent Johnson
A geochemical study of the impact of irrigation and aquifer lithology on groundwater in the Upper Yakima River Basin, Washington, USA, Sarah A. Taylor and Carey A. Gazis
Park rangers' behaviors and their effects on tourists and Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China, Rie Usui, Lori K. Sheeran, Jin-hua Li, Lixing Sun, Xi Wang, Alexander J. Pritchard, Alexander S. DuVall-Lash, and R. Steven Wagner
Measurement of Laser Frequencies from CD3OH and CD3OD up to 8.6 THz, E. C. C. Vasconcellos, K. M. Evenson, H. Hockel, M. Lauters, L. R. Zink, and Michael Jackson
Clockwise rotation of the Brahmaputra Valley relative to India: Tectonic convergence in the eastern Himalaya, Naga Hills, and Shillong Plateau, Philippe Vernant, R. Bilham, Walter Szeliga, D. Drupka, S. Kalita, A. K. Bhattacharyya, and V. K. Gaur
Investigation of e-h Trapping Efficiency in Eu3+ Doped YPO4 Using VUV Spectroscopy, Maxwell K. Wallace and Anthony L. Diaz
Teaching Geographic Field Methods Using Paleoecology, Megan K. Walsh
A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to regional climate variability and cultural change at the Maya polity of Uxbenká, Megan K. Walsh, Keith M. Prufer, Brendan J. Culleton, and Douglas J. Kennett
Optimized method for black carbon analysis in ice and snow using the Single Particle Soot Photometer, I. A. Wendl, James A. Menking, R. Färber, M. Gysel, Susan D. Kaspari, M. J. G. Laborde, and M. Schwikowski
Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance in the Modern World: The Case of Athabascan Oil Sands Development, Stefanie Wickstrom
Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power, Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young
Tidal pacing, skipped slips and the slowdown of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Richard B. Alley, Douglas A. Wiens, and Martin J. Pratt
Paleozoic HP Granulite-facies Metamorphism and Anatexis in the Dulan Area of the North Qaidam UHP Terrane, Western China: Constraints from Petrology, Zircon U–Pb and Amphibole Ar-Ar Geochronology, Shengyao Yu, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Pablo García del Real, Yunshuai Li, and Jianghua Gong
Combined Rutile–zircon Thermometry and U-Pb Geochronology: New Constraints on Early Paleozoic HP/UHT Granulite in the South Altyn Tagh, North Tibet, China, Jian-Xin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Shengyao Yu, and Yunshuai Li
Submissions from 2013
BN isosteres of indole, Eric R. Abbey and Shih-Yuan Liu
A conservation and rigidity based method for detecting critical protein residues, Bahar Akbal-Delibas, Filip Jagodzinski, and Nurit Haspel
Relationships between tree stand density and burn severity as measured by the Composite Burn Index following a ponderosa pine forest wildfire in the American Southwest, Victoria J.W. Amato, David Lightfoot, Cody Stropki, and Michael Pease
For the Sake of our Children: Hispanic Immigrant and Migrant Families’ Use of Folk Healing and Biomedicine, Tracy J. Andrews, Vivkie Ybarra, and L. LaVern Matthews
An Amalgamated Meter-thick Sedimentary Package Enabled by the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami in El Garrapatero, Galapagos Islands, Maria Elizabeth Martin Arcos, Breanyn MacInnes, Patricia Arreaga, Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Robert Weiss, and Patrick Lynett
Touching the Past: Materializing Time in Traumatic “Living History” Reenactments, Mark J. Auslander
Trappers' Brides: Intercultural Marriages in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, Kathleen Barlow
Reciprocal Sums as a Knowledge Metric: Theory, Computation, and Perfect Numbers, Jonathan Bayless and Dominic Klyve
New Bounds and Computations on Prime-Indexed Primes, Jonathan Bayless, Dominic Klyve, and Tomas Oliveira e Silva
Continuous monitoring reveals multiple controls on ecosystem metabolism in a suburban stream, Jake J. Beaulieu, Clay P. Arango, David A. Balz, and William D. Shuster
Fungal ABC Transporter-Associated Activity of Isoflavonoids from the Root Extract of Dalea formosa, Gil Belofsky, Marcin Kolaczkowski, Earle Adams, John Schreiber, Victoria Eisenberg, Christina M. Coleman, Yike Zou, and Daneel Ferreira
On Mountain Pass Type Algorithms, James Bisgard
Transportation infrastructure, river confinement, and impacts on floodplain and channel habitat, Yakima and Chehalis rivers, Washington, U.S.A., Paul Blanton and W. Andrew Marcus
Measuring Habits of Mind: Toward a Prompt-less Instrument for Assessing Quantitative Literacy, Stuart Boersma and Dominic Klyve
Using a Media-Article Approach to Quantitative Reasoning as an Honors Course: An Exploratory Study, Stuart Boersma and Dominic Klyve
Continents Shifting, Clouds Gathering: The Trajectory of Global Aviation Expansion, John Bowen
Compressing Nature: The Development of the Export Hay Industry in the Western United States, John T. Bowen Jr. and Nancy B. Hultquist
‘Diffuse anxiety’: the role of economic insecurity in predicting fear of crime, Sarah Britto
Making space for restorative justice in criminal justice and criminology curricula and courses, Sarah Britto and Mary Ellen Reimund
Asymptotically Unbiased Estimator of the Informational Energy with kNN, Angel Caţaron, Răzvan Andonie, and Chinmei Y. Chueh
The Crustal Thickness of West Antarctica, Julien A. Chaput, Richard C. Aster, Audrey D. Huerta, X. Sun, Andrew Lloyd, Douglas A. Wiens, Andrew Nyblade, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, J. Paul Winberry, and Terry Wilson
Sleeping Site Selection by Agile Gibbons: The Influence of Tree Stability, Fruit Availability and Predation Risk, Susan M. Cheyne, Andrea Höing, John Rinear, and Lori K. Sheeran
College Student Home Computer Security Adoption, Chet L. Claar, Robert C. Shields, David Rawlinson, and Robert Lupton
Variation in Scrotal Color Among Widely Distributed Vervet Monkey Populations (Chlorocebus Aethiops Pygerythrus and Chlorocebus Aethiops Sabaeus), Jennifer Danzy Cramer, Tegan Gaetano, Joseph P. Gray, Paul Grobler, Joseph G. Lorenz, Nelson B. Freimer, Christopher A. Schmitt, and Trudy R. Turner
On the Difference Between an Integer and the Sum of its Proper Divisors, Nicole Davis, Dominic Klyve, and Nicole Kraght
Quantitative trait loci × environment interactions for plant morphology vary over ontogeny in Brassica rapa, Jennifer M. Dechaine, Marcus T. Brock, Federico L. Iniguez-Luy, and Cynthia Weinig
Ultrahigh-Viscosity Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose Blunts Postprandial Glucose after a Breakfast Meal in Women, Shireen Dow, Kelly Pritchett, Susan Hawk, Stefanie J. Herrington, and David L. Gee
Revealing Data in Science: Using and Teaching About Data-Based Graphics for Analysis and Display, Anne E. Egger and Anthony Carpi
The multiplexity of political conspiracy: illegal networks and the collapse of Watergate, Robert R. Faulkner and Eric R. Cheney
Distant Parents in Complete Binary Trees, Stephen P. Glasby
Correlation of Geothermal Springs with Sub-Surface Fault Terminations Revealed by High- Resolution, UAV-Acquired Magnetic Data, Jonathan M.G. Glen, Anne E. Egger, Corey Ippolito, and Noah D. Athens
Crossvalidation of Two 20-M Shuttle-Run Tests for Predicting V̇O2max in Female Collegiate Soccer Players, Michael S. Green, Michael R. Esco, Tyler D. Martin, Robert C. Pritchett, Aindrea N. McHugh, and Henry N. Williford
Ramanujan, Quadratic Forms, and the Sum of Three Cubes, James D. Harper
A Longitudinal Assessment of Colonoscopy Quality Indicators: A Report From the Gastroenterology Practice Management Group (GPMG), Lyndon V. Hernandez, John I. Allen, Thomas M. Deas, Nalini M. Guda, Michael J. Schmalz, Dominic Klyve, and Marc F. Catalano
Malpractice Claims for Endoscopy, Lyndon V. Hernandez, Dominic Klyve, and Scott E. Regenbogen
Further Examining the Buffering Effect of Self-Esteem and Mastery on Emotions, Michael M. Herrod
Rigidity analysis of protein biological assemblies and periodic crystal structures, Filip Jagodzinski, Pamela Clark, Jessica Grant, Tiffany Liu, Samantha Monastra, and Ileana Streinu
Darwin, Malthus, Süssmilch, and Euler: The ultimate origin of the motivation for the theory of natural selection, Dominic Klyve
In defense of Bertrand: The non-restrictiveness of reasoning by example, Dominic Klyve
New Gems in Old Letters: The Pomerance-Erdős Correspondence, Dominic Klyve