This collection contains scholarly articles, reports and other publications authored by faculty and staff members from various departments and units at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Submissions from 2017

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Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Faint Galaxies at z 3.3 in the CANDELS/GOODS-North, EGS, and COSMOS Fields with LBC, A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, D. Paris, K. Boutsia, M. Dickinson, P. Santini, R. Windhorst, R. Jansen, S. Cohen, T. Ashcraft, C. Scarlata, Michael J. Rutkowski, E. Vanzella, F. Cusano, S. Cristiani, M. Giavalisco, H. Ferguson, A. Koekemoer, N. Grogin, M. Castellano, F. Fiore, A. Fontana, F. Marchi, F. Pedichini, L. Pentericci, R. Amorin, G. Barro, A. Bonchi, A. Bongiorno, S. Faber, M. Fumana, A. Galametz, L. Guaita, D. Kocevski, E. Merlin, M. Nonino, R. O'Connell, S. Pilo, R. Ryan, E. Sani, R. Speziali, V. Testa, B. Weiner, and H. Yan

Engineering Grand Challenges and the Attributes of the Global Engineer: A Literature Review, Aida Guerra, Ron Ulseth, and Bart Johnson

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PBL in Engineering Education: International Perspectives on Curriculum Change, Aida Guerra, Ron Ulseth, and Anette Kolmos

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Mixed Emotions: A Qualitative Exploration of Northern Illinois Whitetail Deer-Related Decision Making, Jonathan R. Hicks

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Work or Play: An Exploration of the Relationships between People and their Service Dogs in Leisure Activities, Jonathan R. Hicks and Courtney J. Weisman

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Podium Girls: Time to End the Tradition, Emily J. Houghton

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Women in the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership, and Media Coverage, Emily J. Houghton, Lindsay Pieper, and Maureen Smith

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Invisibility, Illegibility, and Stigma: The Citizenship Experiences of Divorced Gays and Lesbians, Aaron Hoy

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Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London

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Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Marriages, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London

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Enlightenment and History: Theory and Praxis in Contemporary Buddhism, Hyun-Eung, Chang-Seong Hong, and Sun Kyeong Yu

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A Preliminary Investigation of Empirically Based and Spiritually Based Marital Enrichment Programs, Laura Jacobi

Are We Winning?! A Team Challenge to Engage Students in the Large Lecture Introductory Communication Course, Laura Jacobi

Are You Mindful or is Your Mind Full? An Exploration of Nonverbal Communication, Laura Jacobi

Connecting across Two Disciplines: Weaving Literature into the Communication Curriculum, Laura Jacobi

Create Excellence in Academic Advising: Best Practices for Communication Faculty Advisors, Laura Jacobi

Extending Training for GTAs: The Development of Online Training Modules, Laura Jacobi

Furthering Our Legacy and Our Relevance Through Student Success and Retention: Best Practices for Enhancing Undergraduate Academic Advising, Laura Jacobi

State of Minnesota Showcase: How Can We Best Prepare Future Teachers of Communication?, Laura Jacobi

Teaching and Coaching through Collaboration, Laura Jacobi

The Acculturation Process for New Speech Coaches and Competitors: Easing the Stress, Laura Jacobi

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The Structure of Discussions in an Online Communication Course: What Do Students Find Most Effective?, Laura Jacobi

Weeding and Harvesting the Most Appropriate Journal for Your Work: Successful Strategies from Novice and Experiences Academic Writers, Laura Jacobi

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10 Basic Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Andrew P. Johnson

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10 Essential Elements for Reading Instruction, Andrew P. Johnson

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Approaches to Phonics Instruction, Andrew P. Johnson

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National Reading Panel: The Big 5 + 5 Pillars of Reading Instruction, Andrew P. Johnson

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Six Lesson Plan Formats, Andrew P. Johnson

Teaching Strategies for All Teachers: Enhancing the Most Significant Variable, Andrew P. Johnson

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Teaching Strategies for All Teachers: Enhancing the Most Significant Variable, Andrew P. Johnson

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Three Deficit Areas for Struggling Readers, Andrew P. Johnson

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Whole Language vs. Phonics?: Meaning-First and Code-First Approaches to Reading Instruction, Andrew P. Johnson

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Student Experience for the Development of Professional Competencies in a Project Based Learning Curriculum, Bart Johnson and Ron Ulseth

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The Iron Range Engineering Model, Bart Johnson and Ron Ulseth

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Supporting Faculty in Learning, Adopting, and Embracing OERs, Kimberly Johnson, Carrie Lewis Miller, and Karen Pikula

Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High-Performance Edge, Cindra Kamphoff

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Building Your Team of Change Champions, Jennifer Karlin, Rebecca Bates, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Dan Ewert, and Ron Ulseth

Building Your Team of Change Champions, Jennifer Karlin, Rebecca Bates, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Dan Ewert, and Ron Ulseth

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Managing Transformation to Crack Open Engineering Education, Jennifer Karlin, Rebecca Bates, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Dan Ewert, and Ron Ulseth

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The Meditative School Administrator, Jason A. Kaufman

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At the Intersection of Technology and Nature: The Potential for a Bright Green Future, Jason A. Kaufman and G. David McNay

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Building Technology Competency: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Student Technology Skills, Hunter King, Carrie Lewis Miller, and John Bayerl

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Best Practices in Utilizing the Changing Criterion Design, Liesa A. Klein, Daniel Houlihan, James Vincent, and Carlos J. Panahon

Preparing All Educators to Meaningfully Include Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs, Kellie Krick-Oborn and Aaron R. Deris

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Leading a Campus Team to Navigate Through the Comprehensive Evaluation, Andrea L. Lassiter, Lynn D. Akey, and Joan Roca

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Same-Sex Sexuality and the Risk of Divorce: Results from Two National Studies, Andrew S. London and Aaron Hoy

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Behavioral Health Human Resource Crisis: Rural Responses, Paul Force-Emery Mackie

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Profesional Ethics in Rural Social Work Practice, Paul Force-Emery Mackie

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Relations Between Instructional Practices and On-Task Behavior in Classrooms Serving American Indian Students, Jennifer J. McComas, Ida Downwind, David A. Klingbeil, Shawna Petersen-Brown, Katherine M. Davidson, and David C. Parker

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Making it Real: Using Field-Based and Practice-Based Experiences in Personnel Preparation, Elizabeth McLaren, Sallee Beneke, Kathleen Artman Meeker, and Aaron R. Deris

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A Method to the Madness: The Challenges & Successes of Training Faculty to use Brightspace, Carrie Miller and Jeffrey Henline

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Providing a Context for Learning Using Problem-Based Learning and Assignment Scaffolding, Carrie Lewis Miller

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Aftermath of an Officer Involved Shooting: Formal Education, Continuing Education, and Responsibility, Pat Nelson, Thor Dahle, Colleen Clarke, Tamara Wilkins, Susan Burum, and Bruce Biggs

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Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and His Contemporaries on Vietnam-Era Unrest in Mankato and Its Relevance Today, James F. Nickerson

Upgrading Bridge Rails on Low-Volume Roads in Iowa, Emmanuel Nketah, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Zachary Hans, and Nicole Fox

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The Role of Supervision in Youth Work: Perceptions of Students Preparing to be Youth Workers, Heather M. Olsen and Brooke N. Burk

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Protective Vests in Law Enforcement: A Pilot Survey of Public Perceptions, John O'Neill, Steven A. Swenson, Emily Stark, Dawn A. O'Neill, and William J. Lewinski

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Effectiveness of Incremental Rehersal When Implemented by a Paraprofessional, Shawna Petersen-Brown, Carlos J. Panahon, and Cassandra Schreiber

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Spanish in Contact with Islander Creole, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos

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Subject Pronoun Expression in Second Language Learners: The Case of First-Person Subject Pronoun, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos

Body Turn to Rain: New & Selected Poems, Richard Robbins

Working With Kids Who bully: New Perspectives on Prevention and Intervention, Walter B. Roberts

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Performance Studies, Justin Rudnick and Devika Chawla

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Hindsight, Justin J. Rudnick

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Showing and Telling: A Technique for Teaching Delivery Skills, Justin J. Rudnick

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The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Emission Line-selected z ∼ 2.5 Galaxies Is Less Than 15%, Michael Rutkowski, Claudia Scarlata, Alaina Henry, Matthew Hayes, Vihang Mehta, Nimish Hathi, Seth Cohen, Rogier Windhorst, Anton Koekemoer, Harry Teplitz, Francesco Haardt, and Brian Siana

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The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism, Steven Rybin

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Masters of the Game: Motivation of Recreational Golfers, Daniel Sachau, Luke Simmering, Amy Harris, Max Alder, and Warren Ryan

Creating an Innovative Model of Care: A Nurse-Managed School Based Clinic that Promotes Health in Children and Families Within Their Community, N. Schmitz, Patricia Beierwaltes, Sandra Eggenberger, S. Bell, R. Corrnell, S. Ali, and T. Sims

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Hush...The Dangers of Silence in the Academic Library, Jessica Schomberg and Kirsti Cole

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Minnesota State University, Mankato 1868 - 2018: From Normal School to University: Celebrating 150 Years, Daardi Sizemore Mixon, Heidi Southworth, Anne Stenzel, and Mee Xiong

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SelectedWorks: Library Services' New Researcher Profile Tool, Heidi J. Southworth

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The Role of Rational and Experiential Processing in Influencing the Framing Effect, Emily Stark, Austin S. Baldwin, Andrew W. Hertel, and Alexander J. Rothman

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Understanding the Framing Effect: Do Affective Responses to Decision Options Mediate the Influence of Frame on Choice?, Emily Stark, Austin S. Baldwin, Andrew W. Hertel, and Alexander J. Rothman

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Act Now for a Limited Time...One Easy Session of #Bookface, Videos and More!, Anne Stenzel and Jamie Dalbey

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Seclusion and Restraint Policy and Practice: Are Students Safe in School?, Laura L. Strunk and Daniel Houlihan

Prairie Flora Guide to Blue Earth County, Addeline R. Theis and Matthew A. Kaproth

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Inclusivity Through Documentation: Using Gestalt Principles and Plain Language to Create Effective Documents, Jennifer M. Turner and Jessica Schomberg

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Self-Directed Learning Development in PBL Engineering Students, Ron Ulseth and Bart Johnson

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Comparing Brief Experimental Analysis and Teacher Judgement for Selecting Early Reading Interventions, Dana Wagner, Melissa Coolong-Chaffin, and Aaron R. Deris

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Review of the Book: The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on Our Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health, Giovanna E. Walters

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Numerical Study of Contact Stresses Under Foundations Resting on Cohesionless Soil: Effects of Foundation Rigidity and Applied Stress Level, Mohammad M. Yamin, Ahmed Ashteyat, Izzaldin Al-Mohd, and Enad Mahmoud

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Solutions for Soil-Pile-Soil Forces in Pile Stabilized Slopes, Mohammad M. Yamin, Mousa Attom, and Robert Liang

Instrumentation and Monitoring of JEF-152 Landslide in Ohio, Mohammad M. Yamin, Aaron Budge, and Robert Liang

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Raldh1 Promotes Adiposity During Adolescence Independently of Retinal Signaling, Di Yang, Charles Krois, Priscilla Huang, Jinshan Wang, Jin Min, Hong Yoo, Yinghua Deng, Joseph Napoli, and Michael Schubert

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Networking with a Purpose: Men and Women's Perceptions of Career Networking in Sport NCBs, Jennifer Zdroik and Kathy Babiak

Submissions from 2016

Dusty's Adventures: The Beginning, T.J. Akers

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Public Speaking Anxiety Scale: Preliminary Psychometric Data and Scale Validation, Emily Marie Bartholomay and Daniel Houlihan

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Public Speaking Anxiety Scale, Emily M. Bartholomay and Daniel Houlihan

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On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Identity, Culture, and Community, Rebecca Bates, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Ron Ulseth, and Bart Johnson

Presentation on the Skin Breakdown Project, Patricia Beierwaltes

Transition, Piece by Piece, Patricia Beierwaltes

Overview of Bowel Management & Peristeen Anal Irrigation, Patricia Beierwaltes and Tiffany Gordon

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Pavement Marking Retroreflectivity and Crash Frequency: Segmentation, Line Type, and Imputation Effects, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Konstantina Gkritza, and Omar Smadi

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Survey of Classification and Organization of Videorecordings, Barbara J. Bergman, Jessica Schomberg, and Dorie Kurtz

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Review of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) by Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg, and Tal Peretz; SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism, and Media (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) by Kaitlynn Mendes; and The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (New York: New York University Press, 2014) by Sameena Mulla., Maria Bevacqua

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Normalizing Microbiota-Induced Retinoic Acid Deficiency Stimulates Protective CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Immunity in Colorectal Cancer, Nupur Bhattacharya, Robert Yuan, Tyler Prestwood, Hweixian Penny, Michael DiMaio, Nathan Reticker-Flynn, Charles Krois, Justin Kenkel, Tho Pham, Yaron Carmi, Lorna Tolentino, Okmi Choi, Reyna Hulett, Jinshan Wang, Daniel Winer, Joseph Napoli, and Edgar Engleman

Whereabouts, Candace Black

Switching Sides, Marilyn Janice Bos

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Toward Audience Involvement: Extending Audiences of Written Physician Notes in a Hospital Setting, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Abigail Bakke, Kimberly Thomas-Pollei, Elizabeth Mackey, and Craig Weinert