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 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Sharpest Spatial View of a Black Hole Accretion Flow from the Changra X-ray Visionary Project Observation of the NGC 3115 Bondi Region, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-Wah Wong, Roman V. Shcherbakov, Mihoko Yukita, and William G. Mathews
Educational Psychology: Theories of Learning and Human Development, Andrew P. Johnson
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
Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 3115: Properties of Point Sources, Dacheng Lin, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-Wah Wong, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jay Strader, and Gregory R. Sivakoff
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
Spatial Analysis of the Hot Gas Distribution in a Complete Chandra Survey of Early-Type Galaxies, W. Peter Maksym, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-Wah Wong, Mihoko Yukita, Yuanyuan Su, Dacheng Lin, and Evan T. Million
Refreshing Information Literacy: Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models, Justine Martin
A Deep XMM-Newton Look at the Most Powerful Radio Halo Merging Galaxy Cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745, Evan T. Million, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-Wah Wong, and Mihoko Yukita
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
Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Reactions, Martin F. Price
'She had suffered so many humiliations for want of money’: The Quest for Financial Independence in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book, Melissa Purdue
Elicited Imitation Performance at 20 Months Predicts Memory Abilities in School Age Children, Tracy Riggins, Carol L. Cheatham, Emily Stark, and Patricia J. Bauer
Goal Orientation of Recreational Golfers, Daniel Sachau, Luke Simmering, Warren Ryan, and Max Adler
Kindergarten in Russia's Far East: The Effect of Climate, Elizabeth J. Sandell and Olga Victorovna Klypa
Moderate‐Level Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Enhances Acoustic Startle Magnitude and Disrupts Prepulse Inhibition in Adult Rhesus Monkeys, Mary L. Schneider, Julie A. Larson, Craig W. Rypstat, Leslie M. Resch, Andrew D. Roberts, and Colleen F. Moore
Feeding and Small-scale Feedback in Low-Luminosity AGNs, Roman V. Shcherbakov, Frederick K. Baganoff, Ka-Wah Wong, and Jimmy A. Irwin
Modeling the Accretion Flow Onset in the Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus of NGC3115, Roman V. Shcherbakov, Ka-Wah Wong, Jimmy A. Irwin, and Christopher S. Reynolds
Relationship Difficulties as a Conduit from Hyperactivity to Depressive Symptoms, Sarah K. Sifers and Srinivas Rao Mallela
What Members of Alcoholics Anonymous Really Believe, Sarah K. Sifers and Kristina M. Peltz
Evaluations of Girls on the Run/Girls on Track to Enhance Self-Esteem and Well-Being, Sarah K. Sifers and Dana N. Shea
Testing Misconceptions and Building Excitement in a Psychology and the Law Course, Emily Stark
A Brief Examination of Predictors of E-Learning Success for Novice and Expert Learners, Emily Stark, Andrea L. Lassiter, and Ashley Kuemper
A Philosophy of Global Pluralism: Multicultural Approaches to Political Theory, Jacqueline Marie Vieceli
The Performative Body: Dramaturgy, the Body, and Enbodiment, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Parental Behavior Control as a Moderator Between Close Friend Support and Conduct Problems, Gabriel C. Watson, Sarah K. Sifers, and Daniel Houlihan
Tell My Sons, Mark M. Weber and David Murray
Follow the Blackbirds, Gwen Nell Westerman
Metallicity Distributions of the Innermost 100 kpc of Galaxy Clusters, Ka-Wah Wong, Mihoko Yukita, Evan T. Million, and Jimmy A. Irwin
Pre-Service Teacher Knowledge of Behavior Function: Implications within the Classroom, Rachel Youngblom and Kevin J. Filter
Spatially-resolved Spectral Analysis of the Hot Gaseous Emission in the M31 Bulge, Mihoko Yukita, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-Wah Wong, and Evan T. Million
Submissions from 2012
It Takes A Team: Using Analytics to Improve Student Success, Lynn D. Akey
Strategic Pathways for Success: The Influence of Outside Community on Academic Engagement, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Denise Wilson, Rebecca Bates, Joy Crawford, Diane Jones, Tamara Floyd-Smith, Melani Plett, Elaine P. Scott, and Nanette Veilleux
A Critical Analysis of the EPAS Competencies and Practice Behaviors, William A. Anderson and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
The Public Library's Role in the Transition Towns Movement, Monika Antonelli
Greening Libraries, Monika Antonelli and Mark McCullough
Pride Diaries: Sex, Brain Size and Sociality in the African Lion (Panthera leo) and Cougar (Puma concolor), Bradley M. Arsznov and Sharleen T. Sakai
Our Chapters: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS of Leadership, Scholarship, Service and Friendship, Portra Ashley and John Bulcock
Epistemological Shift in Empowering Teachers’ Action: Three Action Research Case Studies, Luz Carime Bersh
Action Research for Improving At-Risk Students' Literacy Skills: Supporting the Professional Development of Three Teachers Throught Their Journys Integrating Multiculturalism, Poetry and Technology for Literacy Intervention, Luz Carime Bersh, Pam Benton, Anita Lewis, and Magda Mackenzie-Parrales
Transfer Student Study, Angie Bomier, Ramon Pinero, and Kellian Clink
Cataloging Emerging Technologies, Robert L. Bothmann
Hitting a Moving Target: Cataloging in an Age of Emerging Technologies, Robert L. Bothmann
Hitting a Moving Target: Cataloging in the Age of Emerging Technologies, Robert L. Bothmann
Review of Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings, Vanda Broughton, Robert L. Bothmann
Review of The Library Catalogue as Social Space: Promoting Patron Driven Collections, Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers’ Services, Laurel Tarulli, Robert L. Bothmann
What a Queer Idea: LGBT Resources for Your Library, Robert L. Bothmann, Rachel Wexelbaum, Heather Tompkins, Jennifer Hootman, Danya Leebaw, and Karen P. Hogan
Trends in Methodological Rigor in Intervention Research Published in School Psychology Journals, Matthew K. Burns, David A. Klingbeil, James E. Ysseldyke, and Shawna Petersen-Brown
