This collection showcases scholarly and creative work by faculty members of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University.
Submissions from 2013
Review of "Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological, Social and Historical Perspectives", Robert Thomas Kuhlken
The Post-World War II Origin and Evolution of Mountain Snowshoes and Mountain Snowshoeing in North America, Karl Lillquist
The Post-World War II Origin and Evolution of Mountain Snowshoes and Mountain Snowshoeing in North America, Karl Lillquist
Seismic Detection of an Active Subglacial Magmatic Complex in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, Amanda C. Lough, Douglas A. Wiens, C. Grace Barcheck, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Richard C. Aster, Donald D. Blankenship, Audrey D. Huerta, Andrew Nyblade, Duncan A. Young, and Terry J. Wilson
What is adequate evidence for mass procurement of ungulates in zooarchaeology?, Patrick M. Lubinski
Coastal Impacts of the March 11th Tohoku, Japan Tsunami in the Galapagos Islands, Patrick Lynett, Robert Weiss, Willington Renteria, Sangyoung Son, Maria Elizabeth Martin Arcos, Breanyn MacInnes, and Giorgio La Torre Morales
Comparison of Earthquake Source Models for the 2011 Tohoku Event Using Tsunami Simulations and Near‐Field Observations, Breanyn T. MacInnes, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Randall J. LeVeque, and Yuichiro Tanioka
Do Political Reporters Need to Be Political Scientists?, Mathew Manweller and Ken Harvey
Conformity to Masculine Norms and Intellectual Engagement, Heath Marrs
Glacier slip and seismicity induced by surface melt, Peter L. Moore, J. Paul Winberry, Neal R. Iverson, Knut A. Christianson, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Miriam Jackson, Mark E. Mathison, and Denis Cohen
Methods for the sampling and analysis of marine aerosols: results from the 2008 GEOTRACES aerosol intercalibration experiment, Peter L. Mortori, William M. Landing, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Angela Milne, Ana M. Aguilar-Islas, Alex R. Baker, Andrew R. Bowie, Clifton S. Buck, Yuan Gao, Susan Gichuki, Meredith G. Hastings, Mariko Hatta, Anne M. Johansen, Rémi Losno, Chris Mead, Matthew D. Patey, Gretchen Swarr, Amanda Vandermark, and Lauren M. Zamora
The relationship between Mexican drug trafficking organizations and corruption in the Mexican criminal justice and political systems: a review essay, Rodrigo Murataya, Saul Chacón, and Zerafin Gonzalez
Effects of Weather on Crime, Rodrigo Murataya and Daniel R. Gutiérrez
Population Stability of the Northern Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola) during the Pleistocene, Edward A. Myers, Robert E. Weaver, and Hugo Alamillo
Pliocene Sinistral Slip across the Adobe Hills, Eastern California-Western Nevada: Kinematics of Fault Slip Transfer across the Mina Deflection, Sarah Nagorsen-Rinke, Jeffrey Lee, and Andrew Calvert
Vitamin D and the Athlete: Risks, Recommendations, and Benefits, Dana Ogan and Kelly Pritchett
The Effects of Acute Post Exercise Consumption of Two Cocoa-Based Beverages with Varying Flavanol Content on Indices of Muscle Recovery Following Downhill Treadmill Running, Katelyn Peschek, Robert Pritchett, Ethan Bergman, and Kelly Pritchett
A Nexus of Plate Interaction: Vertical Deformation of Holocene Wave-built Terraces on the Kamchatsky Peninsula (Kamchatka, Russia), Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Ekaterina A. Kravchunovskaya, Alexander V. Lander, Maria Elizabeth Martin Arcos, Kevin Pedoja, and Breanyn MacInnes
Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500, Mitchell J. Power, F. E. Mayle, P. J. Bartlein, J. R. Marlon, R. S. Anderson, H. Behling, K. J. Brown, C. Carcaillet, D. Colombaroli, D. G. Gavin, D. J. Hallett, S. P. Horn, L. M. Kennedy, C. S. Lane, C. J. Long, P. I. Moreno, C. Paitre, G. Robinson, Z. Taylor, and Megan K. Walsh
Are Brady Lists (aka Liar’s Lists) the Scarlet Letter for Law Enforcement Officers? A Need for Expansion and Uniformity, Mary Ellen Reimund
Effect of BMI on Knee Joint Torques in Ergometer Rowing, Karen Roemer, Tibor Hortobagyi, Chris Richter, Yolanda Munoz-Maldonado, and Stephanie Hamilton
Why Do We Need Proof?, Janet M. Shiver
Genetic diversity of North American captive-born gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), Noah D. Simmons, Ronald S. Wagner, and Joseph G. Lorenz
Synchronous Oligocene-Miocene Metamorphism of the Pamir and North Himalaya Driven by Plate-scale Dynamics, Michael A. Stearns, Bradley A. Hacker, Lothar Ratschbacher, Jeffrey Lee, John M. Cottle, and Andrew Kylander-Clark
Proterozoic evolution of the Mojave crustal province as preserved in the Ivanpah Mountains, southeastern California, Ariel Strickland, Joseph L. Wooden, Chris G. Mattinson, Takayuki Ushikubo, David M. Miller, and John W. Valley
Proterozoic Evolution of the Mojave Crustal Province as Preserved in the Ivanpah Mountains, Southeastern California, Ariel Strickland, Joseph L. Wooden, Chris G. Mattinson, Takayuki Ushikubo, David M. Miller, and John W. Valley
Alluvial sediment or playas: What is the dominant source of sand and silt in desert soil vesicular A horizons, southwest USA, Mark R. Sweeney, Eric V. McDonald, and Christohper E. Markley
2012 Haida Gwaii Quake: Insight Into Cascadia's Subduction Extent, Walter Szeliga
Measurement of host-to-activator transfer efficiency in nano-crystalline Y2O3:Eu3+ under VUV excitation, Christopher Waite, Rusty Mann, and Anthony L. Diaz
Improving Classification Accuracy Assessments with Statistical Bootstrap Resampling Techniques, Keith T. Weber and Jackie Langille
The TIPNIS Conflict: Sovereignty, Development, and Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia, Stefanie Wickstrom
Nucleation and seismic tremor associated with the glacial earthquakes of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, J. Paul Winberry, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Douglas A. Wiens, and Richard B. Alley
Grooming reciprocity in male Tibetan macaques, Dong-Po Xia, Jin-Hua Li, Paul A. Garber, Megan D. Matheson, Bing-Hua Sun, and Yong Zhu
Geochemistry, Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Lu-Hf Isotopic Composition of Eclogites and Their Host Gneisses in the Dulan Area, North Qaidam UHP terrane: New Evidence for Deep Continental Subduction, Shengyao Yu, Jian-Xin Zhang, Huaikun Li, Kejun Hou, Chris G. Mattinson, and Jianghua Gong
Submissions from 2012
Genetic comparison of water molds from embryos of amphibians Rana cascadae, Bufo boreas and Pseudacris regilla, Kori K. Ault, James E. Johnson, Holly C. Pinkart, and R. Steven Wagner
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones, Mark J. Auslander
How Families Work Love, Labor and Mediated Oppositions in American Domestic Ritual, Mark J. Auslander
Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of "The Accidental Slaveowner", Mark J. Auslander
KRYPTOS: A Pacific Northwest Cryptanalysis Contest for Undergraduates, Cheryl Beaver and Stuart Boersma
A Compact Embedding for Sequence Spaces, James Bisgard
A spatial analysis of FedEx and UPS: hubs, spokes, and network structure, John T. Bowen Jr.
US rural economic competitiveness by the numbers: Data mining, analysis, and web-mapping, John T. Bowen Jr.
Measuring change in place values using public participation GIS (PPGIS), Gregory Brown and Delene Weber
Evaluation of an online (opt-in) panel for public participation geographic information systems surveys, Greg Brown, Delene Weber, Dino Zanon, and Kelly de Bie
Proportion of cyclic matrices in maximal reducible matrix algebras, Scott Brown, Michael Giudici, Stephen P. Glasby, and Cheryl E. Praeger
Interseismic Deformation and Earthquake Hazard along the Southernmost Longitudinal Valley Fault, Eastern Taiwan, Ray Y. Chuang, M. Meghan Miller, Yue-Gau Chen, Horng-Yue Chen, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Shui-Beih Yu, Charles M. Rubin, Kerry Sieh, and Ling-Ho Chung
Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes, A.-L. Daniau and Megan Walsh
Auditory-cognitive interactions underlying interaural asymmetry in an adult listener: A case study, Tara Davis, Jeffrey Martin, James Jerger, Ralf Greenwald, and Jyutika Mehta
Bulk rock composition and geochemistry of olivine-hosted melt inclusions in the Grey Porri Tuff and selected lavas of the Monte dei Porri volcano, Salina, Aeolian Islands, southern Italy., Angela L. Doherty, Robert J. Bodnar, Benedetto De Vivo, Wendy A. Bohrson, Harvey E. Belkin, Antonia Messina, and Robert J. Tracy
Engaging Students in Earthquakes via Real-Time Data and Decisions, Anne E. Egger
Magmatic Rifting and Active Volcanism Conference, Afar Rift Consortium, Anne E. Egger, Tyrone Rooney, and Donna Shillington
A Zeta Function for Juggling Sequences, Carsten Elsner, Dominic Klyve, and Erik R. Tou
Owyhee River intracanyon lava flows: Does the river give a dam?, Lisa L. Ely, Cooper C. Brossy, P. Kyle House, Elizabeth B. Safran, Jim E. O'Connor, Duane E. Champion, Cassandra R. Fenton, Ninad R. Bondre, Caitlin A. Orem, Gordon E. Grant, Christopher D. Henry, and Brent D. Turrin
Humanitarian Affairs: David Forsythe's Contribution to the Study of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Humanitarian Politics, Barbara Ann Flanagan
Attitudes on Animal Research Predict Acceptance of Genetic Modification Technologies by University Undergraduates, Kara I. Gabriel, Brook H. Rutledge, and Cynthia L. Barkley
Pierce Brosnan: Licensed to Sell, Tracey Haggerty-Lester and Toby Miller
Global estimates of mineral dust aerosol iron and aluminum solubility that account for particle size using diffusion-controlled and surface-area-controlled approximations, Qin Han, Charles S. Zender, J. Keith Moore, Clifton S. Buck, Ying Chen, Anne Johansen, and Christopher I. Measures
Comparison of Glucose Monitoring Methods during Steady-State Exercise in Women, Stefanie J. Herrington, David L. Gee, Shireen D. Dow, Keith A. Monosky, Erika Davis, and Kelly Pritchett
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Brittany Holmes, Janaki Swansen, Kathleen Buck, and Dion Rivera
Wilson Cycles, Tectonic Inheritance, and Rifting of the North American Gulf of Mexico Continental Margin, Audrey D. Huerta and Dennis L. Harry
Student interpreters show encoding and recall differences for information in English and American Sign Language, Jesse R. James and Kara I. Gabriel
A Land of Diversity: Genetic Insights into Ancestral Origins, John R. Johnson, Brian M. Kemp, Cara Monroe, and Joseph G. Lorenz
From the Laboratory to the Field and Back Again: Morningside Academy's 32 Years of Improving Students' Academic Performance, Kent Johnson and Elizabeth M. Street
Small Sample Stochastic Tail Modeling: Tackling Sampling Errors and Sampling Bias by Pivot-Distance Sampling and Parametric Curve Fitting Techniques, Paul H. Johnson Jr., Chinmei Y. Chueh, and Yongxue Qi
Modeling spatial uncertainties in geospatial data fusion and mining, Boris Kovalerchuk, Leonid Perlovsky, and Michael Kovalerchuk
Size and Exhumation Rate of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes Linked to Orogenic Stage, Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark, Bradley R. Hacker, and Chris G. Mattinson
Therapeutic Potential of Quercetin to Decrease Blood Pressure: Review of Efficacy and Mechanisms, Abigail J. Larson, J. David Symons, and Thunder Jalili
Metabolism and cold tolerance of overwintering adult mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae): Evidence of facultative diapause?, Jack D. Lester and Jason T. Irwin
Evidence for Local Fish Catch In Zooarchaeology, Patrick M. Lubinski and Megan A. Partlow
Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA, Jennifer R. Marlon, Patrick J. Bartlein, Daniel G. Gavin, Colin J. Long, R. Scott Anderson, Christy E. Briles, Kendrick J. Brown, Daniele Colombaroli, Douglas J. Hallett, Mitchell J. Power, Elizabeth A. Scharf, and Megan K. Walsh
Male Academic Performance in College: The Possible Role of Study Strategies, Heath Marrs and Ellen A. Sigler
Gender, Masculinity, Femininity and Help Seeking in College, Heath Marrs, Ellen A. Sigler, and Robyn D. Brammer
Timing of Eclogite-Facies Metamorphism of the Chuacús Complex, Central Guatemala: Record of Late Cretaceous Continental Subduction of North America's Sialic Basement, Uwe C. Martens, Hannes K. Brueckner, Chris G. Mattinson, Juhn G. Liou, and Joseph L. Wooden
E-W Extension at 19 Ma in the Kung Co Area, S. Tibet: Evidence for Contemporaneous E–W and N–S Extension in the Himalayan Orogen, Mayumi Mitsuishi, Simon R. Wallis, Mutsuki Aoya, Jeffrey Lee, and Yu Wang
Looking for Fibonacci Base-2 Pseudoprimes, Daniel J. Monfre and Dominic Klyve
Radiologists' Expectations of Changes in Radiology Fellowship Training Programs, Hyojeong Mulcahy, Felix S. Chew, and Michael J. Mulcahy
The Radiology Fellowship Application and Selection Process in the United States: Experiences and Perceptions from Both Sides, Hyojeong Mulcahy, Felix S. Chew, and Michael J. Mulcahy
Previous exposure to a low infectious dose of Leishmania major exacerbates infection with Leishmania infantum in the susceptible BALB/c mouse, Catherine S. Nation, Blaise Dondji, and Gabrielle A. Stryker
Clinical features and epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis and Leishmania major/HIV co-infection in Cameroon: results of a large cross-sectional study, Omer Bébé Ngouateu, Pierre Kollo, Christophe Ravel, Jacques Dereure, Pierre Kamtchouing, Albert Same-Ekobo, Esther von Stebut, Marcus Maurer, and Blaise Dondji
The last acceptable prejudice: an overview of LGBT social and criminal injustice issues within the USA, Krystal E. Noga-Styron, Charles E. Reasons, and Derrick Peacock
Smoke and Political Mirrors: Policing Marijuana in Washington State, J. Michael Olivero
Atmospheric circulation change in the central Himalayas indicated by a high-resolution ice core deuterium excess record, Hongxi Pang, Shugui Hou, Susan Kaspari, Paul Mayewski, Douglas Introne, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jean Jouzel, Zhenchao Li, Yuanqing He, Sungmin Hong, and Dahe Qin
Resonance frequencies of a spherical aluminum shell subject to static internal pressure, Andrew A. Piacsek, Sami Abdul-Wahid, and Robert Taylor
Fabrication inflation increases as source monitoring ability decreases, Danielle C. Polage
Making up History: False Memories of Fake News Stories, Danielle C. Polage
Chocolate Milk: A Post-Exercise Recovery Beverage for Endurance Sports, Kelly Pritchett and Robert Pritchett
Function Approximation with ARTMAP Architectures, Lucian M. Sasu and Răzvan Andonie
Noninvasive Saliva Collection for DNA Analyses From Free‐Ranging Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana), N. D. Simons, Joseph G. Lorenz, Lori K. Sheeran, Jin-Hua Li, D. P. Xia, and R. Steven Wagner
Terrestrial habitat requirements of nesting freshwater turtles, D. A. Steen, J. P. Gibbs, K. A. Buhlman, J. L. Carr, B. W. Compton, J. D. Congdon, J. S. Doody, J. C. Godwin, Kerry L. Holcomb, D. R. Jackson, F. J. Janzen, G. Johnson, M. T. Jones, J. T. Lamer, T. A. Langen, M. V. Plummer, J. W. Rowe, R. A. Saumure, J. K. Tucker, and D. S. Wilson
Interseismic strain accumulation along the western boundary of the Indian subcontinent, Walter Szeliga, Roger Bilham, Din Mohammad Kakar, and Sarosh H. Lodi
Sports Nutrition Knowledge Among Collegiate Athletes, Coaches, Athletic Trainers, and Strength and Conditioning Specialists, Toni M. Torres-McGehee, Kelly Pritchett, Deborah Zippel, Dawn M. Minton, Adam Cellamare, and Mike Sibilia
Prey Chemical Discrimination by the Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea): A Comparison of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Prey, Robert E. Weaver, William H. Clark, and Daniel C. McEwen
A proposed mechanism for nitrogen acquisition by grass seedlings through oxidation of symbiotic bacteria, James F. White Jr., Holly Crawford, Mónica S. Torres, Robert Mattera, Ivelisse Irizarry, and Marshall Bergen
Grooming Reciprocity in Female Tibetan Macaques Macaca Thibetana, Dongpo Xia, Jinhua Li, Paul A. Garber, Lixing Sun, Yong Zhu, and Binghua Sun
Glycogen, not dehydration or lipids, limits winter survival of side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana), Peter A. Zani, Jason T. Irwin, Mary E. Rollyson, Jessica L. Counihan, Sara D. Healas, Emily K. Lloyd, Lee C. Kojanis, Bernard Fried, and Joseph Sherma
Provenance of Eclogitic Metasediments in the North Qilian HP/LT Metamorphic Terrane, Western China: Geodynamic Implications for Early Paleozoic Subduction-Erosion, Jian-Xin Zhang, Jin-Ping Li, Shengyao Yu, Fan-Cong Meng, Chris G. Mattinson, Huai-Jen Yang, and C. M. Ker
Submissions from 2011
Electrophilic chemistry of propargylic alcohols in imidazolium ionic liquids: Propargylation of arenes and synthesis of propargylic ethers catalyzed by metallic triflates [Bi(OTf)3, Sc(OTf)3, Yb(OTf)3], TfOH, or B(C6F5)3, Gopalakrishnan Aridoss, Viorel D. Sarca, James F. Ponder Jr., Jessica Crowe, and Kenneth K. Laali
Diversity of extremophilic purple phototrophic bacteria in Soap Lake, a Central Washington (USA) Soda Lake, Marie Asao, Holly C. Pinkart, and Michael T. Madigan
On the Sum of Reciprocals of Amicable Numbers, Jonathan Bayless and Dominic Klyve
Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks, Jake J. Beaulieu and Clay P. Arango