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 2014
Community Organizing in Rural Areas: Yes, It's Different, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Preliminary Report: An Application of the Good Behavior Game in the Developing Nation of Belize, Julene Douty Nolan, Kevin J. Filter, and Daniel Houlihan
The Good Behavior Game: A Classroom-Behavior Intervention Effective Across Cultures, Julene Douty Nolan, Daniel Houlihan, Megan Wanzek, and William R. Jenson
Using Reflection to Assess Students' Ability to Learn and Develop Leadership Skills, Heather M. Olsen and Brooke N. Burk
Pursuing a Purpose: The Role of Career Exploration Courses and Service-Learning Internships in Recognizing and Developing Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities, Jamie J. Peterson, Clair Wardwell, Kelsey Will, and Kristie L. Campana
Providing the Fuel Needed to Blast Teacher Candidates into Employment, Lori Piowlski and Peggy Ballard
Ethical Reasoning Development in Project-based Learning, Elizabeth Pluskwik and Puteri S. Megat Hamari
'That's what children are-nought but leg-ropes': Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs. Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) for ESL Instruction and Curriculum, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
So, You Want to Be a Library Director?, Joan Roca
Early-Type Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift Observed with Hubble Space Telescope WFC3: Perspectives on Recent Star Formation, Michael Rutkowski, Hyunjin Jeong, Seth Cohen, Sugata Kaviraj, Rogier Windhorst, Russell Ryan, Anton Koekemoer, Sukyoung Yi, Nimish Hathi, and Michael Dopita
Differences between Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders: Rural Social Work Implications for Prevention, Assessment and Treatment, Susan M. Ryan, George S. Leibowitz, Jeanne M. Nauheimer, and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Service-Learning in Developing Nations, Daniel Sachau, Carol Lynn Courtney, Richard Olson, Julene Nolan, and Scott T. Fee
Sandbagging: Faking Incompetence on the Golf Course, Daniel Sachau, Luke Simmering, Max Adler, and Warren Ryan
Synthesis, Crystal Structure Refinement, and Electrical Conductivity of Pb(8−x)Na2Smx(VO4)6O(x/2), Tatiana M. Savankova, Lev G. Akselrud, Lyudmyla I. Ardanova, Alexey V. Ignatov, Eugeni I. Get’man, Roman E. Gladyshevskii, and Stanislav N. Loboda
Production and Extraction of [10C]-CO2 from Proton Bombardment of Molten 10B2O3, M. J. Schueller, Robert J. Nickles, Andrew D. Roberts, and M. Jensen
Transnational Asia: Dis/orienting Identity in the Globalized World, Sachi Sekimoto
Digital Projects Made Easy: It’s All about Partnerships, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, and Heidi J. Southworth
Recommended Laboratory Test for Predicting the Initial Retroreflectivity of Pavement Marking from Glass Bead Quality, Omar Smadi, Neal Hawkins, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Paul Carlson, Adam Pike, and Chris Davies
100% PBL Curriculum: Startup Phase Complete, Ron Ulseth and Bart Johnson
De la muerte y otros amores = Death and the beloved, Sara B. Vanégas Coveña and Kimberly E. Contag
On Assessment, Imagination, and Agency: Using Rubrics to Inform and Negotiate the Honors Experience, Giovanna E. Walters
Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age, Dennis D. Waskul
The Link Between Cocurricular Activities and Academic Engagement in Engineering Education, Denise Wilson, Diane Jones, Mee Joo Kim, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Rebecca Bates, Joy Crawford, Tamara Floyd-Smith, Melani Plett, and Nanette Veilleux
An Assessment of Resiliency and Life Satisfaction in High School-Aged Students in Belize, Rachel Youngblom, Daniel Houlihan, and Julene Douty Nolan
Philosophy of Biology, Sun Kyeong Yu
So, I Can't Just Do Homework?: Training and Using Student Workers to the Fullest, Jessi Zimmerman, Joni D. Myers, and Anne Stenzel
Submissions from 2013
Unexpected Results from a Change in Token Type, Andrew Jonathan Ahrendt, Daniel Houlihan, and Jeffrey Buchanan
A Strategic Funding Process: Emphasizing Shared Governance and Transparency, Lynn D. Akey
Implementing the Strategic Framework Performance Metrics, Lynn D. Akey
It's Easy Being Green: Benefits of Technology-Enabled Work, Lance Andrews, Stephanie R. Klein, Jacob Forsman, and Daniel Sachau
The Procyonid Social Club: Comparison of Brain Volumes in the Coatimundi (Nasua nasua, N. narica), Kinkajou (Potos flavus), and Racoon (Procyon lotor), Bradley M. Arsznov and Sharleen T. Sakai
Written Communication in the Classroom: Resources for Teaching Methods (2013), Abigail Bakke and Kira Dreher
HST/WFC3 Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 from the WISP Survey: Stellar Population Properties, A. G, Bedregal; C. Scarlata; A. L. Henry; H. Atek; M. Rafelski; H. I. Teplitz; A. Dominguez; Brian Siana; J. W. Colbert; M. Malkan; N. R. Ross; C. L. Martin; A. Dressler; C. Bridge; N. P. Hathi; D. Masters; P. J. McCarthy; and Michael J. Rutkowski
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Undergraduate Social Work Programs: How are Programs in Rural Areas Faring?, David L. Beimers, Brian Warner, and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Weibull-Based Bridge Deterioration Models for Iowa Bridges, Başak Aldemir Bektaş and Dimitrios Bilionis
Using Classification Trees for Predicting National Bridge Inventory Condition Ratings, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Alicia Carriquiry, and Omar Smadi
American Dream? Snapshots of the Middle-Class, Luz Carime Bersh
The Curricular Value of Teaching about Immigration through Picture Book Thematic Text Sets, Luz Carime Bersh
Review of Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success (New York University Press, 2013) by Rose Corrigan, Maria Bevacqua
Sisyphus Rolls On: Reframing Women's Ways of "Making It" in Rhetoric and Composition, Kristin Marie Bivens, Martha McKay Canter, Kirsti Cole, Violet A. Dutcher, Morgan Gresham, Luisa Rodriguez-Connal, and Eileen E. Schell
Sol-Gel Synthesis, X-Ray Diffraction Studies and Electric Conductivity of Sodium Europium Silicate, Ekaterina V. Borisova, Alexey V. Ignatov, Eugeni I. Get’man, Stanislav N. Loboda, Lyudmyla I. Ardanova, Lyudmila V. Pasechnik, and Vitaly S. Ponurovsky
Team Effectiveness Theory from Industrial and Organizational Psychology Applied to Engineering Student Project Teams: A Research Review, Maura Borrego, Jennifer Karlin, Lisa D. McNair, and Kacey Beddoes
The Stray Pitch, Marilyn Janice Bos
Review of Demystifying FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data, Qiang Jin, Robert L. Bothmann
Review of Demystifying Serials Cataloging: A Book of Examples, Fang Huang Gao, Heather Tennison, and Janet A. Weber, Robert L. Bothmann
Review of Design, Development, and Management of Resources for Digital Library Services. Tariq Ashraf and Puja Anad Gultai, editors, Robert L. Bothmann
What a MESS! Implementing Licensed and Free Mobile Applications for Electronic Library Resources, Robert L. Bothmann, Casey Duevel, and Nat Gustafson-Sundell
We are Family: Queer Collections and Library Relationships, Robert L. Bothmann, Kim Edson, Karen Hogan, Toni Jensen, and Rachel Wexelbaum
3D Library Displays: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Online Patrons and Resources, Robert L. Bothmann and Jennifer M. Turner
Factors that Impact African American Girls' Participation in Health-Promoting Leisure Activities, Brooke N. Burk and Kimberly Shinew
Learn to Interview More Effectively, Kristie L. Campana
What's Legal in an Interview?, Kristie L. Campana
Do Bosses Give Extra Credit? Using the Classroom to Model Real-World Work Experiences, Kristie L. Campana and Jamie J. Peterson
Moderating Factors in the Path from Physical Abuse to Attempted Suicide in Adolescents: Application of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide, Ian Cero and Sarah K. Sifers
Parenting Behavior and the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide: A Mediated Moderation Analysis with Adolescents, Ian Cero and Sarah K. Sifers
High School Textbooks and the Changing Narratives of Woman Suffrage, Kellian Clink
Report on Advising for Distance Students for Becky Copper Glenz, Dean of the College of Extended Learning, Kellian Clink
Up the Ante: Teaching Spanish for the 21st Century Workplace, Kimberly E. Contag
[17F] Fluoromethane PET Imaging of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Rhesus During Amphetamine Challenge, Alexander Converse, Jeff Moirano, Leo Flores, Kacey Kronenfeld, Todd Barnhart, Terrence Oakes, Andrew D. Roberts, James Holden, Robert Nickles, and Richard Davidson
'The Customer is Always White’: Food, Race, and Contested Eating Space in the South, Angela Jill Cooley
From Mentoring to Collaborating: Fostering Undergraduate Research in History, Christopher R. Corley
Les conflits provinciaux, l’expansion de l’État et la puissance paternelle dans la Bourgogne moderne, Christopher R. Corley
Building Student Capacity for High Performance Teamwork, Denny C. Davis and Ron Ulseth
Collaborative Research: Photodegradation in Deserts: Litter Optical and Structural Considerations, Thomas A. Day, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, and Christopher T. Ruhland
Using Q-Sort Process to Assess the Needs of Parents of Children with Disabilities, Aaron R. Deris
Back to Basics: Working with Young Children with Autism in Inclusive Classrooms, Aaron R. Deris and Cynthia DiCarlo
The BackPack Food Program's Effects on U.S. Elementary Students' Hunger and On-task Behavior, Meghan E. Ecker and Sarah K. Sifers
School Psychology Crossroads in America: Discrepancies between Actual and Preferred Discrete Practices and Barriers to Preferred Practice, Kevin J. Filter, Sara Ann Ebsen, and Rebecca Dibos
A Report on the Well-Being of Children and Youth in Mankato/North Mankato. Fulfilling the Five Promises: Caring Adultys, Safe Places, Healthy Start, and Healthy Development, Effective Education, and Opportunities to Help Others, Nancy M. Fitzsimons and Laura Aldrich
Student Research with 400keV Beams: 13N Radioisotope Production Target Development, L. Che Fru, J. Clymer, N. Compton, J. Cotter, H. Dam, Z. Lesko, J. Pautzke, C. Prokop, L. Swanson, and Andrew D. Roberts
The Relationship Between Asset Condition and Safety on Primary Roads in Iowa, Jian Gao, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Konstantina Gkritza, Omar Smadi, and Neal Hawkins
Review: African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Book Review), Carol L. Glasser
We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter, Rachel Hanel
Measuring Salt Retention, Neal Hawkins, Omar Smadi, and Başak Aldemir Bektaş
I'm with Stupid, Geoff Herbach
Blurring the Boundaries: Creative Collaborative Space for Excellence and Innovation, Patricia Hoffman and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Assessing the "Goodness of Fit" Between Scholarly Assertions and Audience Interpretations of Media Images of Black Male Athletes, Emily J. Houghton
Harlem Globetrotters, Emily J. Houghton
Micro-aggressions/micro-inequalities, Emily J. Houghton
Negro Baseball Leagues, Emily J. Houghton
Creation of a Selection Program for Indigenous Students at an Eco-Tourism Focused High School in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region, Sean Houlihan, Lisa Perez, Daniel Houlihan, and Alicia Kruger
Marion de Lorme, Victor Hugo and John J. Janc
Educational Psychology: Theories of Learning and Human Development, Andrew P. Johnson
Defining Bridge Preservation by Action Type, Michael B. Johnson and Başak Aldemir Bektaş
Promoting Undergraduate Research in Minnesota: A Luoma Leadership Academy Project, Jason A. Kaufman, Marilyn Swan, Mark Johnson, Michelle Malott, and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
It's Not Armageddon: A Practical Guide to Using the New Cataloging Code, Mary Konkel, Adam Schiff, and Robert L. Bothmann
Survival in Soviet Gulags: A Secondary Analysis, Kimberly M. Maas, Paul Prew, and Elizabeth J. Sandell
Hiring Social Work Faculty: An Analysis of Employment Announcements with Special Focus on Rural and Urban Differences and 2008 EPAS Implications, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Teaching Community Organizing? A Postmodernist Comparison Between Alinsky's Conflict and Eichler's Consensus Models, Paul Force-Emery Mackie and George S. Leibowitz
Refreshing Information Literacy: Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models, Justine Martin
A Formative Evaluation of the Balance of Power Game and Curriculum, Carrie Lewis Miller, Jason Lancaster, Wilhelmina Savenye, and Nancy Haas
To Know I Can Might Be Enough: Women's Self-Efficacy and their Identified Leadership Values, Kyle M. Momsen and Julie A. Carlson
Academic Budget Prioritization in a Shared Governance University, Scott R. Olson, James A. (Jim) Grabowska, Rick Straka, and Lynn D. Akey
Q-Gases in an Unusual IDP: A Noble Gas Link to Carriers in Stardust Track 41, Russel L. Palma, Robert O. Pepin, D. J. Schlutter, J. Stodolna, A. Westphal, and Z. Gainsforth
A Light Noble Gas Inventory of Stardust Cell C2044, Russel L. Palma, Robert O. Pepin, A. Westphal, D. J. Schlutter, and Z. Gainsforth
A Comparison of Noncontingent Plus Contingent Reinforcement to Contingent Reinforcement Along on Students' Academic Performance, Carlos J. Panahon and Brian K. Martens
Online Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, Shawna Petersen-Brown
