Faculty and academic staff scholarship and creative work across the University is included in this collection and comes from collections from each of the major schools of the University:
Submissions from 2019
Looking beyond the face area: Lesion network mapping of prosopagnosia, Alexander L. Cohen, Louis Soussand, Sherryse L. Corrow, Olivier Martinaud, Jason J.S. Barton, and Michael D. Fox
Damage to the right fusiform face area can disrupt the ability to recognize faces, a classic example of how damage to a specialized brain region can disrupt a specialized brain function. However, similar symptoms can arise from damage to ot...
Search for face identity or expression: Set size effects in developmental prosopagnosia, Sara Djouab, Andrea Albonico, Shanna C. Yeung, Manuela Malaspina, Anna Mogard, Rachel Wahlberg, Sherryse L. Corrow, and Jason J.S. Barton
The set size effect during visual search indexes the effects of processing load and thus the efficiency of perceptual mechanisms. Our goal was to investigate whether individuals with developmental prosopagnosia show increased set size effec...
Concepts of Chemical Dependency, (10th ed.), Harold E. Doweiko and Amelia L. Evans
CONCEPTS OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, 10th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage and the latest information on a spectrum of substance use disorders and the compounds commonly misused. Author Harold Doweiko also covers topics not usually disc...
Creating Dynamic Undergraduate Learning Laboratories through Collaboration Between Archives, Libraries, and Digital Humanities, Kent Gerber, Charlie Goldberg, and Diana L. Magnuson
In an environment of rapid change in higher education in which institutions strive to lure prospective students with unique curricula, there is a growing need to provide innovative pedagogical experiences for students through collaborations...
The Public Health Intervention Wheel in Norway, Kari Glavin, Marjorie A. Schaffer, and Lisbeth G. Kvarme
Objective: This study explored experiences Norwegian public health nurses (PHNs) have with using interventions from the Public Health Intervention Wheel (PHIW). Design and Sample: The researchers used both quantitative and qualitative measu...
Trajectories of birth family contact in domestic adoptions, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Lisa Fiorenzo, Albert Y.H. Lo, and Ruth G. McRoy
Emotional distance regulation theory (Broderick, 1993; Grotevant, 2009) guided this examination of the changes in family structure and process in adoptive kinship networks experiencing different arrangements of contact between birth and ado...
Preparing Equitable and Culturally Responsive School Leaders, Kimberly Hartung and Tracy Lynn Reimer
Equitable school leadership is intentional; it requires learning, listening, action, and reflection. This study explored how two school administrator preparation programs, focused on culturally responsive instructional leadership and critic...
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits Second Edition Luke and John Part 5 of 5 Morning Bible Hour Okoboji Bible Conference, Juan Hernandez Jr
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits will explore the distinct historical, literary and theological contributions of each of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to the question of the identity and mission of Jesus for ...
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits Second Edition Mark and Matthew Part 3 of 5 Morning Bible Hour Okoboji Bible Conference, Juan Hernandez Jr
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits will explore the distinct historical, literary and theological contributions of each of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to the question of the identity and mission of Jesus for ...
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits Second Edition Matthew and Luke Part 4 of 5 Morning Bible Hour Okoboji Bible Conference, Juan Hernandez Jr
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits will explore the distinct historical, literary and theological contributions of each of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to the question of the identity and mission of Jesus for ...
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits Second Edition Part 1 of 5 Introduction Morning Bible Hour Okoboji Bible Conference, Juan Hernandez Jr
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits will explore the distinct historical, literary and theological contributions of each of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to the question of the identity and mission of Jesus for ...
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits Second Edition Part 2 of 5 Mark Morning Bible Hour Okoboji Bible Conference, Juan Hernandez Jr
Christ Through Four Gospel Portraits will explore the distinct historical, literary and theological contributions of each of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to the question of the identity and mission of Jesus for ...
Faculty Development for Online Teaching, Karen R. Johnson, Gertrude I. Hewapathirana, and Mauvalyn M. Bowen
Despite dramatic increase in online education and the benefits associated with this instructional pedagogy, many challenges exist with the design and delivery of online learning. Faculty play a critical role in the process of quality online...
“Well, You Can’t Force Them”: Altercasting in the Home Health Care Context, Peggy S. Kendall, Muriel Scott, and Krista Jolivette
Home health aides are often low-paid, low-status workers, performing their job in an isolated and interpersonally complex environment. This study, made up of semistructured interviews with 36 home health aides, explores compliance-gaining c...
The scanpaths of subjects with developmental prosopagnosia during a face memory task, Dong Ho Lee, Sherryse L. Corrow, Raika Pancaroglu, and Jason J.S. Barton
The scanpaths of healthy subjects show biases towards the upper face, the eyes and the center of the face, which suggests that their fixations are guided by a feature hierarchy towards the regions most informative for face identification. H...
Evangelical Faith and Culture in the Lives of Vietnam’s Upland Hmong - 1987-2017, Jim Lewis
This paper centers on the contemporary conversion movement to Christianity among the Hmong of the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR). Taking place within the brief scope of only 30 years, religious change among the 1.2 million highland Hmong...
High-speed imaging of surface-enhanced Raman scattering fluctuations from individual nanoparticles, Nathan C. Lindquist, Carlos Diego L. de Albuquerque, Regivaldo G. Sobral-Filho, Irina Paci, and Alexandre G. Brolo
The concept of plasmonic hotspots is central to the interpretation of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect. Although plasmonic hotspots are generally portrayed as static features, single-molecule SERS (SM-SERS) is marked by c...
Frequency shifts due to Stark effects on a rubidium two-photon transition, Kyle W. Martin, Benjamin Stuhl, Jon Eugenio, Marianna S. Safronova, Gretchen Phelps, John H. Burke, and Nathan D. Lemke
The 5S1/2→5D5/2 two-photon transition in Rb is of interest for the development of a compact optical atomic clock. Here we present a rigorous calculation of the 778.1-nm ac Stark shift [2.30(4)×10-13(mW/mm2)-1] that is in good agreement with...
Stay Curious : How Questions and Doubts Can Save Your Faith, Stephanie Williams O'Brien
Most of us are going through the motions when it comes to faith, either believing we've found all the relevant answers to life's questions or believing none can be found. We shy away from our deepest questions about God because we fear the ...
The Son of God and Trinitarian Identity Statements, Matthew Owen and John Anthony Dunne
Classical Trinitarians claim that Jesus—the Son of God—is truly God and that there is only one God and the Father is God, the Spirit is God, and the Father, Son, and Spirit are distinct. However, if the identity statement that ‘the Son is G...
Building Bridges Across Faith Lines: Responsible Christian Education in a Post-Christian Society, Amy Poppinga, Marion Larson, and Sara Shady
The demographic composition of students and employees at many Christian colleges and universities in the United States does not reflect the growing religious diversity of the twenty-first century. While Christian higher education provides a...
Use of Four Grassland Types by Small Mammal Species in Southern Minnesota, Jeff Port, Christine Crawford, Bethany Campbell, Rose Larson, Patty Lin-Celeste, and Melody Walton
Small mammal populations in a series of grassland plantings were studied over a five-year period spanning 2008–2014. A central aim of this study was to establish the role of specific grassland compositions in promoting the restoration of sm...
Characterizing the Optical Trapping of Rare Isotopes by Monte Carlo Simulation, D S. Potterveld, S A. Fromm, K G. Bailey, M Bishof, D W. Booth, and Nathan D. Lemke
Optical trapping techniques are an efficient way to probe limited quantities of rare isotopes. In order to achieve the highest possible measurement precision, it is critical to optimize the optical trapping efficiency. This work presents th...
Puzzles in K-homology of Grassmannians, Pavlo Pylyavskyy and Jed Yang
Knutson, Tao, and Woodward formulated a Littlewood–Richardson rule for the cohomology ring of Grassmannians in terms of puzzles. Vakil and Wheeler–Zinn-Justin have found additional triangular puzzle pieces that allow one to express structur...
Bible Study as Luminous Converting Encounter: Swiss Pietist Initiatives in 19th-Century French Canada, Glen G. Scorgie
This article examines the understanding and use of Scripture in the evangelistic endeavors of “awakened” pietistic francophone Swiss Protestant missionaries in 19th-century French Canada (after 1867, Quebec). It begins by sketching the root...
Real-Time Sensing with Patterned Plasmonic Substrates and a Compact Imager Chip, Spencer T. Seiler, Isabel S. Rich, and Nathan C. Lindquist
Optical sensing is an important research field due to its proven ability to be extremely sensitive, nondestructive, and applicable to sensing a wide range of chemical, thermal, electric, or magnetic phenomena. Beyond traditional optical sen...
Implementing practice standards for inpatient electrocardiographic monitoring, Sue Sendelbach, Kristin E. Sandau, Lisa Smith, Robert Kreiger, Steven Hanovich, and Marjorie Funk
Background Although electrocardiographic monitoring is common in hospitalized patients, many patients receive unnecessary monitoring, contributing to patients' inconvenience, clinicians' alarm fatigue, and delayed admissions. Objective To e...
iCURE (Iterative Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience): A Case-Study, Angela K. Stoeckman, Yingqi Cai, and Kent D. Chapman
Several models suggest ways to expose undergraduates at minority serving institutions or institutions with limited research infrastructures to the iterative process of research. Apprentice-based research experiences allow students to work o...
Working memory load improves diagnostic performance of smooth pursuit eye movement in mild traumatic brain injury patients with protracted recovery, Jacob L. Stubbs, Sherryse L. Corrow, Benjamin R. Kiang, Jeffrey C. Corrow, Hadley L. Pearce, Alex Y. Cheng, Jason J.S. Barton, and William J. Panenka
Smooth pursuit eye movements have been investigated as a diagnostic tool for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). However, the degree to which smooth pursuit differentiates mTBI patients from healthy controls (i.e. its diagnostic performance...
Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 technology into undergraduate courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop for undergraduate faculty, June 2018, Michael J. Wolyniak, Shane Austin, Lucian F. Bloodworth, Dawn Carter, Scott H. Harrison, Tiffany Hoage, Lisa Hollis-Brown, Felicia Jefferson, Alison Krufka, Farida Safadi-Chamberlin, Maria S. Santisteban, Paula A.G. Soneral, Beth Van Winkle, and Anil K. Challa
As CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas9 technology becomes more mainstream in life science research, it becomes critical for undergraduate instructors to devise engaging ways to bring the technology into t...
Minding the (Information) Gap: What Do Emerging Adult Adoptees Want to Know About Their Birth Parents?, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Harold D. Grotevant
The formation of an adoption information gap was examined for a group of 169 emerging adults (M = 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants. Participants completed interviews and questionnaires at adolescence and emerging adulthood (late teen...
Submissions from 2018
Public Health Interventions: School Nurse Practice Stories, Linda J.W. Anderson, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Cynthia Hiltz, Stacie A. O’Leary, Ruth Ellen Luehr, and Erika L. Yoney
This study describes and analyzes school nurses’ (SN) experiences with understanding and using public health interventions from the Public Health Intervention Wheel. The Wheel offers a model for naming interventions provided by SNs from a p...
Quillaja saponins are a potent contractor of uterine smooth muscle tissue in vitro, Brian Bristol and Teresa F. DeGolier
Caulophyllum thalictroides, commonly known as blue cohosh, is a plant indigenous to the northeastern region of North America. The roots and rhizomes have been used in herbal medicine for centuries as they are thought to stimulate uterine co...
Matthew, Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts
Including an original translation of the text along with section-by-section commentary, this volume features chapters on “thinking theologically with Matthew” about such themes as kingdom, Christology, the Holy Spirit, and discipleship. Bro...
Filled with the Spirit: Wine and worship in levitical light (Ephesians 5.18-21), John Anthony Dunne
This essay argues that the background of the temple, and particular priestly and levitical activities, explain the logic of Eph. 5.18-21. After setting this text in context and addressing various proposed backgrounds, the proposal of this e...
Skin impact of alcohol-based hand rubs vs handwashing, Margo Halm and Kristin Sandau
Holographic plasmonic tweezing for dynamic trapping and manipulation, Preston R. Huft, Joshua D. Kolbow, Jonathan T. Thweatt, John J. McCauley, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We demonstrate dynamic trapping and computer-controlled manipulation of nanoparticles with plasmonic holograms. Research into plasmonic trapping has been motivated by its potential for enhanced optical forces. However, while holographic opt...
Getting Ahead and Getting By: Exploring Outcomes of Youth Livelihoods Programs, Elisabeth E. Lefebvre, Acacia Nikoi, Richard Bamattre, Amina Jaafar, Emily Morris, David Chapman, and Joan DeJaeghere
This report is a collaboration between the Mastercard Foundation and University of Minnesota that examines the livelihoods of youth aged 16–25 who participated in two Learn, Earn and Save programs in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It document...
Decreasing Phosphatidylcholine on the Surface of the Lipid Droplet Correlates with Altered Protein Binding and Steatosis, Laura Listenberger, Elizabeth Townsend, Cassandra Rickertsen, Anastasia Hains, Elizabeth Brown, Emily G. Inwards, and Angela K. Stoeckman
Alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lipid droplets (LDs) in the liver. Here, we explore the composition of hepatic LDs in a rat model of AFLD. Five to seven weeks of alcohol consumption led t...
Digital plasmonic holography, Joseph W. Nelson, Greta R. Knefelkamp, Alexandre G. Brolo, and Nathan C. Lindquist
Direct two-dimensional imaging with surface plasmons suffers from the lack of simple two-dimensional lenses. Here we show that digital holographic microscopy techniques can be used for lens-less in-plane surface imaging with propagating pla...
Digital plasmonic holography, Joseph W. Nelson, Greta R. Knefelkamp, Alexandre G. Brolo, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We demonstrate digital plasmonic holography for direct in-plane imaging with propagating surface-plasmon waves. Imaging with surface plasmons suffers from the lack of simple in-plane lenses and mirrors. Lens-less digital holography techniqu...
Developmental perceptual impairments: Cases when tone-deafness and prosopagnosia co-occur, Sébastien Paquette, Hui C. Li, Sherryse L. Corrow, Stephanie S. Buss, Jason J.S. Barton, and Gottfried Schlaug
Studies have shown subtle gray and white matter abnormalities in subjects with several developmental disorders including prosopagnosia, tone-deafness, and dyslexia. Correlational evidence suggests that tone-deafness and dyslexia tend to co-...
Relational integration of psychology and Christian theology: Theory, research, and practice, Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown
Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary relational framework that integrates theology, psychology, and clinical and other applications. Building on existing models and debates about ...
Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse : The Ancient Stems, Josef Schmid, Juan Hernández Jr., Garrick V. Allen, and Darius Müller
Josef Schmid’s landmark publication, Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Apokalypse-Textes, has been the standard work for understanding Revelation’s Greek manuscript tradition and textual history for more than sixty years. Despite the ...
Psi4NumPy : An Interactive Quantum Chemistry Programming Environment for Reference Implementations and Rapid Development, Daniel G.A. Smith, Lori A. Burns, Dominic A. Sirianni, Daniel R. Nascimento, Ashutosh Kumar, Andrew M. James, Jeffrey B. Schriber, Tianyuan Zhang, Boyi Zhang, Adam S. Abbott, and Rollin A. King
Psi4NumPy demonstrates the use of efficient computational kernels from the open-source Psi4 program through the popular NumPy library for linear algebra in Python to facilitate the rapid development of clear, understandable Python computer ...
Creative Practices for Visual Artists: Time, Space, Process, Kenneth Steinbach
Based on interviews with a culturally, geographically, and aesthetically diverse group of 75 mid-career artists, Creative Practices For Visual Artists is a reassessment of the methods and approaches used by highly successful artists in thei...
Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Students – Second Edition, Lystra Stephens-James, Mauvalyn M. Bowen, Cuthbert C. Joseph, Franklyn Gittens, Paul Pounder, K’adamawe K’nife, Denis Mitchell, and Keith McDonald
Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Students – Second Edition enables students to master all subject areas in the latest syllabus, including growth of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in the Caribbean, social entrepreneurship, e-commerce and b...
Web-Based Interactive Video Activities for Undergraduate Advanced Laboratories, Robert B. Teese, Keith R. Stein, Chad W. Hoyt, Nathan C. Lindquist, and Sara A. Wyse
Web-based resources have been developed that provide a window into real advanced laboratory experiments. These resources facilitate user interactions with video from upper-level, undergraduate physics laboratory experiments and are designed...
3D Printable Optomechanical Cage System with Enclosure, Brandon Winters and David Shepler
The advent of the computer-age in the mid to late 20th century brought the development of sophisticated scientific equipment for myriad chemical analyses. The field of spectroscopy alone has seen significant advances in data collection, pro...
“Is this class hard?" Defining and analyzing academic rigor from a learner’s perspective, Sara A. Wyse and Paula A.G. Soneral
Despite its value in higher education, academic rigor is a challenging construct to define for instructor and students alike. How do students perceive academic rigor in their biology course work? Using qualitative surveys, we asked students...
Submissions from 2017
A Call to Develop Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) for Nonmajors Courses, Cissy J. Ballen, Jessamina E. Blum, Sara Brownell, Sadie Hebert, James Hewlett, Joanna R. Klein, Erik A. McDonald, Denise L. Monti, Stephen C. Nold, Krista E. Slemmons, Paula A.G. Soneral, and Sehoya Cotner
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) for non–science majors (nonmajors) are potentially distinct from CUREs for developing scientists in their goals, learning objectives, and assessment strategies. While national calls to...
Construction With Scaffolds: Helping Community College Students Build Explanations, Steven Bennett and Amelia Wenk Gotwals
Science education reform documents call for students to learn science by engaging in inquiry and using science practices. One such science practice is constructing evidence-based explanations. Few students enter community college science cl...
The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity, Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III
In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie, a pastor in the Pietist tradition, show how Pietism holds great promise for the church—and the world—today. Modeled after Philipp Spener's 1675 classic, Pia ...
Conversation as a model to build the relationship among libraries, digital humanities, and campus leadership, Kent Gerber
By committing to two conversation-based concepts, David Lankes's Mission for New Librarians and the “Scholarship as Conversation” Information Literacy Frame, Bethel University's Library has established a leadership role in advocating and im...
Holographic Plasmonic Nanotweezers for Dynamic Trapping and Manipulation, Preston R. Huft, Joshua D. Kolbow, Jonathan T. Thweatt, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We demonstrate dynamic trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles with plasmonic holograms. By tailoring the illumination pattern of an incident light beam with a computer-controlled spatial light modulator, constructive and destructive int...
Using Modules in Teaching Complex Analysis, William M. Kinney
Educational modules can play an important part in revitalizing the teaching and learning of complex analysis. At the Westmont College workshop on the subject in June 2014, time was spent generating ideas and creating structures for module p...
Comparative Religion, Jim Lewis
This entry in the Dictionary of Evangelical Theology published by Baker Academic explains the concept of Comparative Religion in the context of evangelical theology....
Chemically imaging bacteria with super-resolution SERS on ultra-thin silver substrates, Aeli P. Olson, Kelsey B. Spies, Anna C. Browning, Paula A.G. Soneral, and Nathan C. Lindquist
Plasmonic hotspots generate a blinking Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) effect that can be processed using Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) algorithms for super-resolved imaging. Furthermore, by imaging through...
Chemically imaging bacteria with super-resolution SERS on ultra-thin silver substrates, Aeli P. Olson, Kelsey B. Spies, Anna C. Browning, Paula A.G. Soneral, and Nathan C. Lindquist
Plasmonic hotspots generate a blinking Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) effect that can be processed using Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) algorithms for super-resolved imaging. Furthermore, by imaging through...
Psi4 1.1: An Open-Source Electronic Structure Program Emphasizing Automation, Advanced Libraries, and Interoperability, Robert M. Parrish, Lori A. Burns, Daniel G.A. Smith, Andrew C. Simmonett, A. Eugene DePrince, Edward G. Hohenstein, Ugur Bozkaya, Alexander Yu Sokolov, Roberto Di Remigio, Ryan M. Richard, and Rollin A. King
Psi4 is an ab initio electronic structure program providing methods such as Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, configuration interaction, and coupled-cluster theory. The 1.1 release represents a major update meant to automate complex ...
The Effect of Floristic Composition on Bird Communities in a Set of Four Grassland Reconstruction Types, Jeff Port and Shawn P. Schottler
With most native prairie now lost, focus has turned to reconstructing grasslands with the aim of replicating ecosystem function for grassland fauna and flora. We report the results of a seven-year study (2008–2014) on the use of four floris...
Speaking Out: When to Lead, When to Learn, Tracy Lynn Reimer
The premise that great schools have great leaders can lead to a vision of the principal as a heroic leader working alone to save the day. Yet, the notion of a principal leading in isolation is outdated, and the need for effective leaders ha...
Demystifying Nursing Theory: A Christian Nursing Perspective, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Kristin Sandau, and Bernita Missal
How does nursing theory apply to nursing practice? Nursing theory can explain the why and how of nursing practice, guide nursing interventions, and provide a framework for measuring outcomes. This article briefly explains nursing theory, pr...
Demystifying Nursing Theory: A Christian Nursing Perspective, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Kristin Sandau, and Bernita Missal
How does nursing theory apply to nursing practice? Nursing theory can explain the why and how of nursing practice, guide nursing interventions, and provide a framework for measuring outcomes. This article briefly explains nursing theory, pr...
Creating and sustaining an academic-practice Partnership Engagement Model, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Patricia M. Schoon, and Bonnie L. Brueshoff
Public health clinical educators and practicing public health nurses (PHNs) are experiencing challenges in creating meaningful clinical learning experiences for nursing students due to an increase in nursing programs and greater workload re...
A SCALE-UP mock-up: Comparison of student learning gains in high- and low-tech active-learning environments, Paula A.G. Soneral and Sara A. Wyse
Student-centered learning environments with upside-down pedagogies (SCALE-UP) are widely implemented at institutions across the country, and learning gains from these classrooms have been well documented. This study investigates the specifi...
High-Impact Educational Practices and the Development of College Students' Pluralistic Outcomes, Krista M. Soria and Matthew Johnson
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between college students' participation in high-impact educational practices and their self-reported development of leadership skills and multicultural competence. Analyses of data ...
Employability Skills with Purpose: Service Learning in Graduate Business Education, Molly J. Wickam
Problem: This non-experimental, mixed-methods, comparative, descriptive studyexamined outcomes of students’ development of employability skills through service learning participation in capstones embedded in MBA programs and assessed whethe...
Male and female parental care in the golden-rumped euphonia (Euphonia cyanocephala), Zachary Wright, Jeff Port, and Harold F. Greeney
A single nest of the Golden-rumped Euphonia (Euphonia cyanocephala) was filmed for 72 hours near the Yanayacu Biological Station in Ecuador located in tropical montane forest. Recording was between 15-21 February 2014. We report the first o...
Kwame Nkrumah, 1909–1972: A Controversial Visionary ed. by Bea Lundt, and Christoph Marx (review), Samuel Zalanga
Submissions from 2016
Getting Involved With the Digital Humanities in Theology, Biblical Studies, and Religious Studies, Kent Gerber
Digital humanities are growing and thriving in higher education, and, in the spirit of the pioneering work of Father Busa, it is important for theological and religious studies libraries and librarians to consider our roles and involvement ...
"Remember that During Your Life You Had Good Things..." For Philando Castille, Juan Hernandez Jr
This is the text and audio of an address given to Bethel University's College of Arts and Sciences community during the first Convocation Chapel of the Year by Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, Juan Hernandez. Hernandez explain...
From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World, Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady
Summary: In a world of deep religious strife and increasing pluralism it can seem safer to remain inside the "bubble" of our faith community. Many Christians worry that engaging in interfaith dialogue will require watering down their faith ...
The Quantum Chemical Search for Novel Materials and the Issue of Data Processing: The InfoMol Project, Hans P. Lüthi, Stefan Heinen, Gisbert Schneider, Andreas Glöss, Martin P. Brändle, Rollin A. King, Edward Pyzer-Knapp, Fahhad H. Alharbi, and Sabre Kais
In the search for novel materials, quantum chemical modeling and simulation has taken an important role. Molecular properties are computed on the basis of first-principles methods and screened against pre-defined criteria. Alternatively, th...
The quantum chemical search for novel materials and the issue of data processing: The InfoMol project, Hans P. Lüthi, Stefan Heinen, Gisbert Schneider, Andreas Glöss, Martin P. Brändle, Rollin A. King, Edward Pyzer-Knapp, Fahhad H. Alharbi, and Sabre Kais
In the search for novel materials, quantum chemical modeling and simulation has taken an important role. Molecular properties are computed on the basis of first-principles methods and screened against pre-defined criteria. Alternatively, th...
Super-Resolution Chemical Imaging with Plasmonic Substrates, Aeli P. Olson, Christopher T. Ertsgaard, Sarah N. Elliott, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We demonstrate super-resolution chemical imaging with plasmonic nanoholes via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Due to large field enhancements, blinking behavior of SERS hot spots was observed and processed using a stochastic opt...
Super-resolution snapshot chemical imaging with plasmonic nanoholes, Aeli P. Olson and Nathan C. Lindquist
We show super-resolution chemical imaging with plasmonic nanoholes, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy. Spectral and spatial content are obtained simultaneously by imaging through filters or...
Super-resolution snapshot chemical imaging with plasmonic nanoholes, Aeli P. Olson and Nathan C. Lindquist
We show super-resolution chemical imaging with plasmonic nanoholes, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy. Spectral and spatial content are obtained simultaneously by imaging through filters or...
Pathways to Positive Parenting: Helping Parents Nurture Healthy Development in the Earliest Months, Jolene Pearson
This . . .handbook serves as a parent educator's guide to coaching and supporting new parents. Describes innovative teaching techniques, along with practical and effective strategies that are field-tested, science-based, and can be applied ...
Aqueous extracts of castor seed (Ricinus communis) increase the contractile activities of mouse uterine tissues in vivo, Nick Quam, Katrina Wu, and Teresa F. DeGolier
Administration of castor oil from seeds of Ricinus communis is a commonly cited herbal preparation used to induce labor. The ricinoleic acid found in castor oil is more polar than most fats and activates uterine EP3 prostanoid receptors. Th...
Public Health Interventions for School Nursing Practice, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Linda J.W. Anderson, and Shannon Rising
School nurses (SNs) use public health nursing knowledge and skills to provide nursing services to school populations. The Public Health Intervention Wheel is a practice framework that can be used to explain and guide public health nursing i...
Second Life® Virtual Learning in Public Health Nursing, Marjorie A. Schaffer, Jone M. Tiffany, Kelly Kantack, and Linda J.W. Anderson
Background: With limited available public health nursing clinical placements, nurse educators are challenged to create alternative learning experiences that engage students. Method: Nursing faculty developed three Second Life® virtual learn...
Direct spectral imaging of plasmonic nanohole arrays for real-time sensing, Spencer T. Seiler, Isabel S. Rich, and Nathan C. Lindquist
Plasmon-enhanced optical transmission through arrays of nano-structured holes has led to the development of a new generation of optical sensors. In this paper, to dramatically simplify the standard optical setups of these sensors, we positi...
The Power of Encouragement: The Role of Christian Academic Librarians in Supporting the Whole Student, Earleen J. Warner
Christian librarians are exhorted to consider the role of providing encouragement, care, and emotional and spiritual support to college students. Caring for the whole student can have a positive impact on college student success and retenti...
Books from 2015
Matthew, Jeannine K. Brown
With large sections devoted to extended teachings and memorable sayings of Jesus, Matthew's Gospel has been a favorite of Christians throughout the centuries. New Testament scholar Jeannine Brown helps readers understand this Gospel as theo...
Relational integration, part II: Relational integration as developmental and intercultural, Jeannine K. Brown and Steven J. Sandage
In Part II of this two-part manuscript, we continue to outline the contours of a relational integration approach to the relationship between psychology and theology. Part I focused on relational integration as embodied and hermeneutical; he...
Free-radical Copolymerisation of Acrylamides, Acrylates, and α-olefins, Rebecca K. Carlson, Rachel A. Lee, Jed H. Assam, Rollin A. King, and Megan L. Nagel
We report the results of a joint theoretical and experimental investigation into the copolymerisation of acrylamides and acrylates with α-olefins in free-radical processes. The transition-state structures of models for free-radical homo- an...
Competition between π-π And C-H/π Interactions: A Comparison of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Alkoxy-Substituted 1,8-Bis((propyloxyphenyl)ethynyl)naphthalenes, Bradley E. Carson, Trent M. Parker, Edward G. Hohenstein, Glen L. Brizius, Whitney Komorner, Rollin A. King, David M. Collard, and C. David Sherrill
The structural and electronic consequences of π-π and C-H/π interactions in two alkoxy-substituted 1,8-bis- ((propyloxyphenyl)ethynyl)naphthalenes are explored by using X-ray crystallography and electronic structure computations. The crysta...
Competition Between π-π And C-H/π Interactions: A Comparison of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Alkoxy-Substituted 1,8-Bis((propyloxyphenyl)ethynyl)naphthalenes, Bradley E. Carson, Trent M. Parker, Edward G. Hohenstein, Glen L. Brizius, Whitney Komorner, Rollin A. King, David M. Collard, and C. David Sherrill
The structural and electronic consequences of π-π and C-H/π interactions in two alkoxy-substituted 1,8-bis- ((propyloxyphenyl)ethynyl)naphthalenes are explored by using X-ray crystallography and electronic structure computations. The crysta...
Small Mammal Habitat Preferences in a Patchwork of Adjacent Reconstructed Grasslands Subject to Semiannual Burns, Teresa F. DeGolier, Jeff Port, and Shawn P. Schottler
This study used small mammal capture-recapture methods within a mosaic of side-by-side prairie reconstructions to evaluate the relationship between floristic diversity, the effect of prescribed burns, and habitat use. This unique 10.4 ha st...
Suffering and Covenantal Hope in Galatians: A Critique of the ‘Apocalyptic Reading’ and Its Proponents, John Anthony Dunne
This article addresses the so-called 'apocalyptic reading of Paul', taking the representative work of J. Louis Martyn and Martinus C. de Boer as its primary focus. The chief contention is that the 'apocalyptic reading' does not resemble the...
Parental Care of Nestlings in the Slaty-Backed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus Fuscater) in Eastern Ecuador, Andrzej Dyrcz, Jeff Port, Romuald Mikusek, and Harold F. Greeney
The Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus fuscater) (Fig. 1) is an uncommon to locally fairly common Andean thrush (family Turdidae). It is found in dense, mossy, humid montane forest, in foothills and lower temperate highlands at 600–3...
Library as Place: Fostering the Christian Traditions of Scholarship, Silence, and Hospitality, Lyndi Fabbrini
Academic libraries have changed and evolved, yet they remain a staple of academic life, supporting students by providing them with the space and materials they need to succeed in their courses. Beyond housing physical collections, library s...
Introductory Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry 2nd Edition, Michael P. Garoutte and Ashley B. Mahoney
The ChemActivities found in Introductory Chemistry:A Guided Inquiry use the classroom guided inquiry approach and provide an excellent accompaniment to any one semester Introductory text. Designed to support Process Oriented Guided Inquiry ...
Priests and Politicians: rex sacrorum and flamen Dialis in the Middle Republic, Charles Goldberg
As Cicero states in DE DOMO SUA, the politicians and chief priests in the Roman republic were essentially the same men, and politics and religion were fused at a fundamental level. In fact, the major priesthoods, the pontifices, augures, an...
Flipping the Classroom and Mathematica-Based Modules in Complex Analysis, MAA Session on Revitalizing Complex Analysis at the Undergraduate Level, II., William M. Kinney
Super-resolution chemical imaging with dynamic placement of plasmonic hotspots, Aeli P. Olson, Christopher T. Ertsgaard, Rachel M. McKoskey, Isabel S. Rich, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We demonstrate dynamic placement of plasmonic "hotspots" for super-resolution chemical imaging via Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). A silver nanohole array surface was coated with biological samples and illuminated with a laser. ...
Polarization interferometry for real-time spectroscopic plasmonic sensing, Lauren M. Otto, Daniel A. Mohr, Timothy W. Johnson, Sang Hyun Oh, and Nathan C. Lindquist
We present quantitative, spectroscopic polarization interferometry phase measurements on plasmonic surfaces for sensing applications. By adding a liquid crystal variable wave plate in our beam path, we are able to measure phase shifts due t...
Perfect Extinction of Terahertz Waves in Monolayer Graphene over 2-nm-Wide Metallic Apertures, Hyeong Ryeol Park, Seon Namgung, Xiaoshu Chen, Nathan C. Lindquist, Vincenzo Giannini, Yan Francescato, Stefan A. Maier, and Sang Hyun Oh
High carrier mobility and tunability in graphene enable fundamental studies for plasmonics and various applications. Despite its versatility, however, single-layer graphene (SLG) suffers from poor coupling efficiency to electromagnetic wave...
The Spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens): male and female parental effort during the nestling period, Jeff Port and Harold F. Greeney
We document male and female roles in nestling care of Spotted Barbtails (Premnoplex brunnescens) including feeding rates and temporal patterns of provisioning by each sex. Using 128.5 hrs of video from color marked and molecularly sexed ind...