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Submissions from 2020

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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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The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn, James K.A. Smith

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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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Webinar: Why Vices Glitter in Stressful Times, Christopher A. Hall, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, and Carolyn Arends

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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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Moral Education in the Classroom: A Lived Experiment, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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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

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Review of Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, and Jurgen De Wispelaere, eds., "The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children", Kevin Timpe

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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The Art of Hope: Imagining Another World in a World that Breaks our Hearts, James K.A. Smith

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

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The Church, Belonging, and Shalom, Kevin Timpe

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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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Agency and Neuroscience: A Conversation Between Philosophy and Psychology, Kevin Timpe and James Van Slyke

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Diminished Agency: Psychological Science and the Role of Choice in Goals and Actions, James Van Slyke and Kevin Timpe

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Researching digital life together, David I. Smith

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Researching digital life together, David I. Smith

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Identification and evaluation of a core microsatellite panel for use in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), William L. Miller, Jessie Edson, Peter Pietrandrea, and Cassandra Miller-Butterworth

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Fascist affect in 300, Carl Plantinga

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Broader Vision: Fully Embracing People with Disabilities in Christian Higher Education, Perspectives, Kevin Timpe

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The damned neighbors problem Rousseau’s civil religion revisited, Micah Watson

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Automated peak detection method for behavioral event identification Detecting Balaenoptera musculus and Grampus griseus feeding attempts, David A. Sweeney, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Ye Joo McNamara-Oh, and Tiago A. Marques

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Revisiting Volumes of Lipid Components in Bilayers, John F. Nagle, Richard M. Venable, Ezekiel Maroclo-Kemmerling, and Stephanie Tristram-Nagle

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Northern bottlenose whales in a pristine environment respond strongly to close and distant navy sonar signals, Paul J. Wensveen, Saana Isojunno, Rune R. Hansen, Alexander M. von Benda-Beckmann, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Diving behavior and fine-scale kinematics of free-ranging Risso's dolphins foraging in shallow and deep-water habitats, Patricia Arranz and Kelly J. Benoit-Bird

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Visualizing classic synchronization, Joel C. Adams, Elizabeth R. Koning, and Christiaan D. Hazlett

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Exploring nutraceuticals to enhance scientific literacy Aligning with vision and change, Nathaniel Buteyn, Ye In Oh, Jonathan Knott, and Paige Bokach

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A (Not So) Secular Saint, James K.A. Smith

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A response to critics, James K.A. Smith

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Forging Relationships between Faith-based and Secular Organizations to Address the Global Water Crisis A case study from Liberia, Kristin R. Alford and Jamison L. Koeman

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A constructive approach to higher homotopy operations, David Blanc, Mark W. Johnson, and James M. Turner

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Sport. Faith. Life. (podcast), Brian R. Bolt and Chad Carlson

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A family of Cantorvals, John Ferdinands and Timothy Ferdinands

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Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016, E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin, and J. L. Ortiz

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Refugia: a podcast about renewal, Debra Rienstra

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Faith in Teaching podcast, David I. Smith

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Behavioral responses of individual blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) to mid-frequency military sonar, Brandon L. Southall, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Ari Friedlaender, and Alison K. Stimpert

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Variations in sensitivity to chlorine in Ecuador and US consumers Implications for community water systems, Jacob Stout, Donald J. Tellinghuisen, David B. Wunder, and Chad D. Tatko

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Moral Ecology, Disabilities, and Human Agency, Kevin Timpe

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C. S. Lewis and Satan: A Preface to Paradise Lost and Its Respondents, 1942-1952, David V. Urban

Submissions from 2018

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‘Upright, whole, and free’ Eschatological union with god, Kevin Timpe

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Vitamin e Promotes the Inverse Hexagonal Phase via a Novel Mechanism Implications for Antioxidant Role, Paul Harper

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Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome, Yi Hu, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, Catherine L. D'Amelio, and Mark P. Schotanus

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Author Correction: Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome (Nature Communications (2018), Yi Hu, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, Catherine L. D'Amelio, Mark P. Schotanus, and John T. Wertz

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Israel Redux: The Image of Christ in the Gospel According to John, Geert Heetebrij

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Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung - Deadly Sins and Their Remedies, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

You're so Vain: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung on Vainglory and Glittering Vices, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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Lymphatic endothelial cells promote productive and latent HIV infection in resting CD4+ T cells 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1107 Immunology, Meghan Schilthuis, Seth Verkaik, Mackenzie Walhof, and Andrew Philipose

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A physical supply-use table framework for energy analysis on the energy conversion chain (2), Matthew K. Heun, Anne Owen, and Paul E. Brockway

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The correlation between energy cost share, human, and economic development Using time series data from Australasia, Europe, North America, and the BRICS nations, Ryan Roberts, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Alan Colin Brent, and Matthew K. Heun

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Quercetin inhibits glucose transport by binding to an exofacial site on GLUT1, Kathryn E. Hamilton, Janelle F. Rekman, Leesha K. Gunnink, and Brianna M. Busscher

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Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors Efficiency or offshoring, Lukas Hardt, Anne Owen, Paul E. Brockway, and Matthew K. Heun

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Universities shaken by earthquakes A comparison of faculty and student experiences in Nepal and New Zealand, Rajendra Joshi, Jooyoung Kong, Heidi Nykamp, and Herb Fynewever

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Effects of age and gender during three lingual tasks on peak lingual pressures in healthy adults, Elizabeth Oommen and Youngsun Kim

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Impairment of retinal function in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) by Diplostomum baeri metacercariae, John L. Ubels, Randall J. DeJong, Brittany Hoolsema, and Amy Wurzberger

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Review of "Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil" by Guillaume Bignon, Kevin Timpe

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Genomic and physiological characterization of the Verrucomicrobia isolate Geminisphaera colitermitum gen, John T. Wertz, Eunji Kim, John A. Breznak, and Thomas M. Schmidt

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Bodies on the Margins: A Multitude of Voices, Kevin Timpe

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Group B streptococcus exploits vaginal epithelial exfoliation for ascending infection, Jay Vornhagen, Blair Armistead, Verónica Santana-Ufret, Claire Gendrin, and Erica Boldenow

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Multiple-photon excitation of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, Peng Ji, Ryan Balili, Jonathan Beaumariage, and Silpa Mukherjee

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Consensus and clustering in opinion formation on networks, Julia Bujalski, Grace Dwyer, Todd Kapitula, and Quang Nhat Le

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The Influence of Cognitive Reserve on Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury, Jacobus Donders and Jacob Stout

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Group B streptococcus activates transcriptomic pathways related to premature birth in human extraplacental membranes in vitro, Hae Ryung Park, Sean M. Harris, Erica Boldenow, and Richard C. Mceachin

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Schools, ideals, gardens, David I. Smith

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How to Find God (on YouTube), James K.A. Smith

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Review of Noell Birondo and Stewart Braun, eds., "Virtues Reasons", Kevin Timpe and Kaitlyn Eekhoff

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Sloth: Laziness About Love, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Roi Alonso, Alex Ammerman, and David Armstrong

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Sport. Faith. Life. (blog), Brian R. Bolt and Chad Carlson

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An overview of salient factors, relationships and values to support integrated energy-economic system dynamics modelling, Martin de Wit, Matthew K. Heun, and Douglas Crookes

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LRRK2 deficiency impairs trans-Golgi to lysosome trafficking and endocytic cargo degradation in human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells, Nathan J. Lanning, Calvin Vanopstall, Megan L. Goodall, and Jeffrey P. Mackeigan

Submissions from 2017

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Individual, ecological, and anthropogenic influences on activity budgets of long-finned pilot whales, Saana Isojunno, D. Sadykova, Stacy L. DeRuiter, and C. Cure

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Poster abstract: COD - A dataset of commercial building occupancy traces, Kin Sum Liu, Jonathan Francis, Elvin Vindel Pinto, and Charles Shelton

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Teaching across Cultures: Student-Led Modules in a Human Rights Course, Rebecca McBride

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Diving behaviour of cuvier’s beaked whales exposed to two types of military sonar, Erin A. Falcone, Gregory S. Schorr, Stephanie L. Watwood, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Avoidance responses of minke whales to 1–4 kHz naval sonar, Petter H. Kvadsheim, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Lise D. Sivle, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen