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Submissions from 2024

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Goal Attainment and Quality of Life through Inclusive College, Kate Strater, Mia Kurkechian, and Kassandra Weber

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Easy, Bright, Fluorescence Demonstration of Buffer Action, Mariana Dykstra, Yejin Chung, and Mark Muyskens

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Directed Self-Placement for Multilingual, Multicultural International Students, Kristine Johnson and Sara Vander Bie

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María de San José Salazar’s Mount Carmel: Global Identity through the Natural World in Libro de las recreaciones, Alisa Tigchelaar, Antónia Conde, Fábio Mário, Luísa Vilela, and José Eduardo Franco

Submissions from 2023

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The Advent Art of Waiting, Noah Toly

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A Tectonic Shift in Technology: The Pandemic Greatly Accelerated the Adoption of and Reliance on Technology Among Churches, Tyler Greenway

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From Incarceration to Integration: A Critical Analysis of Reentry Care in Prison Education Programs in West Michigan, Emily Steen and Mark Mulder

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The Practice of Virtue Driven GIScience, Jason VanHorn

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On Miller 2011: twenty-five ASA fellows and editors tell of PSCF articles that changed their lives, Ryan Bebej

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With Whom Should One Worship? A Fresh Perspective on John Calvin’s Liturgical Theology of Physical Proximity and Spiritual Epidemic, Sam Ha

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Le role d'une universite confessionnelle dans le systeme educatif, Jolene Vos-Camy

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How Did the Landscape of Student Belonging Shift During COVID-19?, Shruti Misra, Neha Kardam, Jennifer VanAntwerp, and Denise Wilson

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The role of religion and faith in the psychological and spiritual lives of LGBTQ+ persons, Emily J. Helder and Ellen Jones

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Towards a Christian Understanding of Intersex and Transgender Identities: Key Questions, Linda Naranjo-Huebl

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Disability as Part of God's Intended Creation, Kevin Timpe

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Not a result of the Fall: entropy, earthquakes, malaria, mutations, and…?, Loren Haarsma

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Ecuadorian Gravel Pack Spring Water Intakes, Derek Ten Pas, Julie Wildschut, Robert Hoeksema, Bruce Rydbeck, and Chris Visscher

Submissions from 2022

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Rhetoric and Affect in Undergraduate Research: A Diary Study, Kristine Johnson and J. Michael Rifenburg

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Evaluating Filter Functionality and User Competence after a Hollow Fiber Membrane Filter Intervention in Liberia, Kristen R. Alford, Katherine D. Rosendale, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Randall J. Pruim, Jason E/ VanHorn, Abdul Hafiz Koroma, Matthew Bone, Adam DenHaan, Jamison Koeman, Sadie Kornoelje, Blerta Lika, Lydia Walls, Nathan Wang, and Jared Deighton

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The trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation transcriptomic pathways and cytokine secretion in a macrophage cell model, Sean M. Harris, Kelly M. Bakulski, John Dou, Ethan Houskamp, Eleanor Scheeres, Emily Schellenboom, Olivia Harlow, Rita Loch-Caruso, and Erica Boldenow

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Jennifer Holberg talks with Makoto Fujimura, Jennifer Holberg and Makoto Fujimura

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Advancing the Necessary Foundations for Empirical Energy Rebound Estimates: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis Framework, Matthew K. Heun, Gregor Semieniuk, and Paul E. Brockway

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Developing a Multi-Regional Physical Supply Use Table framework to improve the accuracy and reliability of energy analysis., Matthew K. Heun, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul E. Brockway, and Peter G. Taylor

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Which moral exemplars inspire prosociality, Hyemin Han, Clifford I. Workman, Joshua May, and Payton Scholtens

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The Development and Validation of the Practicing Faith Survey, David I. Smith, Albert Cheng, and Beth Green

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Cognitive Disabilities, Forms of Exclusion, and the Ethics of Social Interactions, Kevin Timpe

Submissions from 2021

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Catholics and the 2020 Presidential Election, Corwin E. Smidt

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Kristen Du Mez Tells Me How Evangelicals Fell in Love with John Wayne, Kristin Du Mez

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Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants, Christophe Duplais, Vincent Sarou-Kanian, Dominique Massiot, Alia Hassan, and John T. Wertz

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Comparison of sample types from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for DNA extraction and analyses, Jessie Edson, Justin Brown, William L. Miller, and David Walter

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An outbreak of canine schistosomiasis in Utah Acquisition of a new snail host (Galba humilis) by Heterobilharzia americana, a pathogenic parasite on the move, Eric S. Loker, Scott Z. Dolginow, Suzanne Pape, Colin D. Topper, and Randall J. DeJong

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Kristin Du Mez: Love Thy Neighbor is for Wimps, Kristin Du Mez

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The Mindful Christian with Irene Kraegel, Irene Kraegel

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Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) acoustic foraging behavior and applications for long term monitoring, Manuel Castellote, Aran Mooney, Russel Andrews, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Irene Kraegel on Christian Mindfulness, Irene Kraegel

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For the birds Absence and vision in teaching texts, David I. Smith

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Technology, Values, and Faith with Computer Scientist Derek Schuurman, Derek Schuurman

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Loren Haarsma - When Did Sin Begin?, Loren Haarsma

Creating with Purpose with Artist Elaine Tolsma Harlow, Elaine Tolsma Harlow

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The Problem of Heaven with Dr. Kevin Timpe, Kevin Timpe

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High-Density Blood Transcriptomics Reveals Precision Immune Signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hospitalized Individuals, Jeremy W. Prokop, Nicholas L. Hartog, Dave Chesla, and William Faber

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Geological and hydrogeological assessment of the Brito Formation Municipio de Tola, Nicaragua, James K. Adamson, Thomas LaVanchy, Brandon Stone, James A. Clark, and Stuart J. Dykstra

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Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak, Madeline Van Winkle, Colin Ophus, and Karen C. Bustillo

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Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition, Meelyn Mayank Pandit, James Eapen, Gabriela Pineda-Sabillon, and Margaret E. Caulfield

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A qualitative analysis of translanguaging by colombian migrants in North Carolina, Scott Lamanna

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Diffusive search and trajectories on tubular networks a propagator approach, Zubenelgenubi C. Scott, Aidan I. Brown, Saurabh S. Mogre, and Laura M. Westrate

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Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects A review of the evidence and its implications, Paul E. Brockway, Steve Sorrell, Gregor Semieniuk, and Matthew K. Heun

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Crystal structure of tris, Colin T. Hartgerink, Richard J. Staples, and Carolyn E. Anderson

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A Careful Reassessment of Globular Cluster Multiple Population Radial Distributions with Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Johnson-Cousins Broadband Photometry, Willem B. Hoogendam and Jason P. Smolinski

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The Reality of Our Rebellion with Dr. Rebecca DeYoung, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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concordance of 2-knots, Nathan Sunukjian

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Disputing Dijkstra, and birthdays in base 2, Mark Guzdial and Joel C. Adams

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Traversing a tightrope between ecumenism and exclusivism, Retief Müller

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Political differences in free will belief are associated with differences in moralization, Jim A. C. Everett, Cory J. Clark, Peter Meindl, and Jamie B. Luguri

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Moving from final to useful stage in energy-economy analysis A critical assessment, Matthew K. Heun

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Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings for LEED-certified U.S. Office Buildings, John H. Scofield, Susannah Brodnitz, Jakob Cornell, Tian Liang, and Thomas Scofield

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Higher homotopy invariants for spaces and maps, David Blanc and Mark W. Johnson

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Objective physiological measures of lingual and jaw function in healthy individuals and individuals with dysphagia due to neurodegenerative diseases, Megan E. Cuellar and Elizabeth Oommen

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Investigating the relationships among leisure, coping, and personal growth among people with physical disabilities, Junhyoung Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Chungsup Lee, and Namyun Kil

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Aspirations, Human Capital Investment, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Indonesia, Sung Soo Lim and Jongwook Lee

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Multi-scale virtual field experience, Madeline S. Marshall and Melinda C. Higley

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The other’s humanity with or without the other’s religiosity, Retief Müller

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Biogeographic-stratigraphic-and-environmental-distribution-of-basilosaurus-mammalia-cetacea-in-north-america-with-a-review-of-the-late-eocene-shoreline-in-the-southeastern-coastal-plain, Kathlyn M. Smith, Alexander K. Hastings, Ryan M. Bebej, and Mark D. Uhen

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Heller (2008) and the Language of the Second Amendment: Grammar, Meaning, and Canonical Conventions, James Vanden Bosch

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Left Out A Review of Women’s Struggle to Develop a Sense of Belonging in Engineering, Denise Wilson and Jennifer VanAntwerp

Submissions from 2020

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Enhancing Research in Natural Hazards Engineering Through the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure, Ellen M. Rathje, Clint Dawson, Jamie E. Padgett, Jean Paul Pinelli, and Frederick L. Haan

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Impact of global structure on diffusive exploration of organelle networks, Aidan I. Brown, Laura M. Westrate, and Elena F. Koslover

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Disaster Risk Management Through the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure, Jean Paul Pinelli, Maria Esteva, Ellen M. Rathje, David Roueche, and Frederick L. Haan

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Message from the Workshop Chairs, Sushil K. Prasad, Trilce Estrada, Joel C. Adams, and David Bunde

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Re-examining the Radial Distributions of M13 Multiple Populations, Jason P. Smolinski, Willem B. Hoogendam, Alex J. Van Kooten, and Peyton Benac

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The energy and exergy of light with application to societal exergy analysis.pdf, Matthew K. Heun, Zeke Marshall, Emmanuel Aramendia, and Paul E. Brockway

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A reformulated krein matrix for star-even polynomial operators with applications, Todd Kapitula, Ross Parker, and Bjorn Sandstede

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) structural and evolutionary dynamicome Insights into functional evolution and human genomics, Ruchir Gupta, Jacob Charron, Cynthia L. Stenger, and Jared Painter

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Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies, Samantha Joel, Paul W. Eastwick, Colleen J. Allison, Ximena B. Arriaga, and Laura B. Luchies

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Electroactive anion receptor with high affinity for arsenate, Samuel I. Etkind, Douglas A. Vander Griend, and Timothy M. Swager

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Adoption Roundtable, Emily J. Helder and Elisha Marr

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Nora’s ironic longing for christlike love Self‐ sacrifice, self‐love, and the “religion of torvald” in ibsen’s a doll house, David V. Urban

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Vesicular and uncoated Rab1-dependent cargo carriers facilitate ER to Golgi transport, Laura M. Westrate, Melissa J. Hoyer, Michael J. Nash, and Gia K. Voeltz

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Quantifying the environmental impacts of cookstove transitions A societal exergy analysis based model of energy consumption and forest stocks in Honduras, Noah Ver Beek, Elvin Vindel, Matthew K. Heun, and Paul E. Brockway

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What Motivates Young African Leaders for Public Engagement? Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, Richard Asante, Megan Hershey, Phoebe Kajubi, Tracy Kuperus, Colman Msoka, and Amy Patterson

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The moment of study in learning that resists neoliberalism Body gesture, time, and play, Clarence W. Joldersma

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Toxicant Disruption of Immune Defenses Potential Implications for Fetal Membranes and Pregnancy, Sean M. Harris, Erica Boldenow, Steven E. Domino, and Rita Loch-Caruso

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Thinking like a chemist or beekeeper, Paul E. Harper, Andres T. Cavazos, Jacob J. Kinnun, and Horia I. Petrache

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Mary Hulst - 3 Challenges for Young Disciples Today, Mary Hulst

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Subversive Christian Allegory in In the Heat of the Night (1967), Geert Heetebrij

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The tragic irony of a patriotic mission, Li Ma and Jin Li

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Tornado-Induced and Straight-Line Wind Loads on a Low-Rise Building With Consideration of Internal Pressure, David B. Roueche, David O. Prevatt, and Frederick L. Haan

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Examining and developing fourth grade children’s area estimation performance, Cheryl L. Eames, Jeffrey E. Barrett, Craig J. Cullen, George Rutherford, and David Klanderman

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Christian History as World History A Review Essay, Joel A. Carpenter

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Noise, avian abundance, and productivity at banding stations across the continental United States, Amber M.B. Ng, Michael L. Pontius, Stacy L. DeRuiter, and Darren S. Proppe

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Short-term exposure to unmanned aerial vehicles does not alter stress responses in breeding tree swallows, Bradley D. Scholten, Abigail R. Beard, Hyeryeong Choi, and Dena M. Baker

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Null-homologous exotic surfaces in 4–manifolds, Nathan Sunukjian and Neil R. Hoffman

Submissions from 2019

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Introduction to “religions in shakespeare’s writings, David V. Urban

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Properly handling negative values in the calculation of binding constants by physicochemical modeling of spectroscopic titration data, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak and Douglas A. Vander Griend

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Meeting 2030 primary energy and economic growth goals Mission impossible, Matthew K. Heun and Paul E. Brockway

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Fossils - A Window to God's Creation, Ryan Bebej and Ralph Stearley

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Dispersal and survival of red-shouldered hawks banded in suburban southern ohio, 1996-2018, Cheryl R. Dykstra, Jeffrey L. Hays, Melinda M. Simon, Ann R. Wegman, and Laura R. Dykstra

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Prospero, the divine shepherd, and providence, David V. Urban

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An Arduino-Based RFID Platform for Animal Research, Eli S. Bridge, Jay Wilhelm, Darren S. Proppe, and Charles Holwerda

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Researching digital life together, David I. Smith