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 2010
Reconstructing the Text of the New Testament, Michael W. Holmes
Chemistry as a function of the fine-structure constant and the electron-proton mass ratio, Rollin A. King, Ali Siddiqi, Wesley D. Allen, and Henry F. Schaefer
In standard computations in theoretical quantum chemistry the accepted values of the fundamental physical constants are assumed. Alternatively, the tools of computational quantum chemistry can be used to investigate hypothetical chemistry t...
A coupled cluster benchmark study of the electronic spectrum of the allyl radical, Taylor J. Mach, Rollin A. King, and T. Daniel Crawford
We have investigated 15 excited states of the allyl radical, including the lowest three valence states (two doublets and one quartet) and the n = 3 Ry series, using coupled cluster methods that approximate the correlation effects of connect...
A university and health care organization partnership to prepare nurses for evidence-based practice, Bernita Missal, Beth Kaiser Schafer, Margo A. Halm, and Marjorie A. Schaffer
This article describes a partnership model between a university and health care organizations for teaching graduate nursing research from a framework of evidence-based practice. Nurses from health care organizations identified topics for gr...
Critical Review of Health-Related Quality of Life Studies of Patients With Aortic Stenosis, Laura Beth Nugteren and Kristin E. Sandau
While studies of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are increasing among cardiovascular patients, very few have examined HRQOL in persons with aortic stenosis (AS). A critical review of studies (1997-2008) of HRQOL in persons with AS wa...
Modeling leptin receptor insensitivity by comparing how leptin or leptin receptor mutations in mice affect body weight, basal metabolism, body temperature and feeding behaviors, Jessica Patton and Teresa F. DeGolier
Leptin, a protein hormone produced principally in adipose tissue, plays a major role in the regulation of food intake, hunger, satiety and metabolism. Most obesity is likely the result of the body's resistance to leptin. The purpose of this...
A Study on the Principal’s Role in the Development of Professional Learning Communities in Elementary Schools that “Beat the Odds” in Reading, Tracy Lynn Reimer
Current federal legislation, such as No Child Left Behind and The Race to the Top, have elicited high levels of accountability for increasing student reading achievement. Professional organizations and researchers encourage educators to org...
Preceptor-based orientation programs: Effective for nurses and organizations?, Kristin E. Sandau and Margo A. Halm
National survey of cardiologists' standard of practice for continuous ST-segment monitoring, Kristin E. Sandau, Sue Sendelbach, Joel Frederickson, and Karen Doran
Background Continuous ST-segment monitoring can be used to detect early and transient cardiac ischemia. The American Heart Association and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recommend its use among specific patients, but such moni...
Key Terms in Philosophy of Religion, Raymond J. VanArragon
Key Terms in Philosophy of Religion offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a central topic in philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this k...
Submissions from 2009
The Historical Jesus: Five Views, James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
Discrete mathematics with proof second edition, Eric Gossett
Discrete mathematics has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its growing applications in the field of computer science. Discrete Mathematics with Proof, Second Edition continues to facilitate an up-to-date understanding of th...
Recovering a “Lost” author: Marcion of Smyrna, Michael W. Holmes
The Martyrdom of Polycarp, traditionally treated as an anonymous document, is not: it was composed by Marcion of Smyrna. A writer of no small ability, he argues for a particular view of martyrdom on the basis of a sophisticated interpretati...
The Biblical Canon, Michael W. Holmes
Christianity has, for much of its history, worked with a closed canon of scripture, 'canon' in the sense of a clearly defined and authoritative list of writings considered to be scripture. In such circumstances, every document that is viewe...
On the accuracy of spin-component-scaled perturbation theory (SCS-MP2) for the potential energy surface of the ethylene dimer, Rollin A. King
The bimolecular interaction potentials for various configurations of the ethylene dimer computed with coupled-cluster and spin-component-scaled second-order Mller-Plesset perturbation theory (SCS-MP2) are reported. With a triple- basis set ...
Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal, Jim Lewis
Christianity and Human Rights in Vietnam: The Case of Ethnic Minorities, 1975-2007, Jim Lewis
"Those who protest injustice are people of true merit."-Ho Chi Minh 1
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and has constitutional articles regarding freedom of religion. Since...
Continuous ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies in progressive care, Kristin E. Sandau and Maureen Smith
Continuous ST-segment monitoring: Protocol for practice, Kristin E. Sandau and Maureen Smith
International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil
This is a unique compilation of cross-cultural and international attitudes towards adoption research and outcomes. Whilst informal adoption of children has probably always existed across all human societies, this work is timely in that in...
Submissions from 2008
Externalism, Skepticism, and Knowledge: An Argument Against Internalism, James K. Beilby
Debate between internalists and externalists hinge not only on different construals of justification and warrant, but also on different construals of the nature of the skeptical challenge, different intuitions regarding what constitutes an ...
Pharmacological Effects of the Aqueous Extract of Caulophyllum thalictroides (Blue Cohosh) on Isolated Mus musculus Uteri, Jennifer Berger and Teresa F. DeGolier
The roots and rhizomes of Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohos), traditionally used as an aid for childbirth, contain several active alkaloids and saponins, which act directly on uterine smooth muscle resulting in an oxytocic response. Th...
Neurotensin and cholecystokinin depress motility in isolated Lumbricus terrestris crop-gizzard preparations, Sara Gibbs and Teresa F. DeGolier
The effects of neurotensin (NT) and cholecystokinin (CCK) were studied on isolated crop-gizzard preparations of Lumbricus terrestris suspended in a smooth muscle organ bath. Changes in the amplitude and frequency of contractions associated ...
The apocalypse in codex alexandrinus: Its singular readings and scribal habits, Juan Hernández Jr
On the accuracy of computed excited-state dipole moments, Rollin A. King
The dipole moments of furan and pyrrole in many electronically excited singlet states have been determined using coupled cluster theory including large one-electron basis sets. The inclusion of connected triple excitations is shown to unifo...
Health-related quality of life and subjective neurocognitive function three months after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, Kristin E. Sandau, Ruth A. Lindquist, Diane Treat-Jacobson, and Kay Savik
Purpose: We compared health-related quality of life (HRQL), including patient-perceived neurocognitive function at preoperative baseline and 3 months after coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery. Design: The design was prospective and compar...
An efficient method for quickly surveying pheasant nesting site preferences, Shawn P. Schottler, Jeff Port, and Teresa DeGolier
Influence of floristic diversity on songbird nesting preferences in a suite of adjacent reconstructed grasslands (Wisconsin), Shawn P. Schottler, Jeff Port, and Teresa DeGolier
The Logic and Mill's Infamous Proof in Utilitarianism, Dan Yim
In a footnote to the final chapter of Book VI of "A System of Logic", Mill connects the distinction in the "Logic" to the non-standard proof of the principle of unity in "Utilitarianism". The distinction between science and art is a key to ...
Submissions from 2007
Plantinga's Model of Warranted Christian Belief, James K. Beilby
Warranted Christian Belief is undoubtedly Plantinga's magnum opus, not only because of its size – 508 pages with routine interludes of fine print – but also because it constitutes the culmination of a research project in which Plantinga has...
Software news and update PSI3: An open-source Ab Initio electronic structure package, T. Daniel Crawford, C. David Sherrill, Edward F. Valeev, Justin T. Fermann, Rollin A. King, Matthew L. Leininger, Shawn T. Brown, Curtis L. Janssen, Edward T. Seidl, Joseph P. Kenny, and Wesley D. Allen
PS13 is a program system and development platform for ab initia molecular electronic structure computations. The package includes mature programming interfaces for parsing user input, accessing commonly used data such as basis-set informati...
Many faces of openness in adoption: Perspectives of adopted adolescents and their parents, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Lynn Von Korff, Brooke Skinner, Jane Newell, Sarah Friese, and Ruth McRoy
Parents and adolescents (mean age, 15.7 years) from 177 adoptive families participating in the second wave of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project were interviewed about their post-adoption contact arrangements. The sample included...
Photo-rearrangement of N-substituted pyridinium and meta-alkoxypyridinium ions, Kerri Grove, Rollin A. King, and Ulrich Burger
A computational study of the minimum-energy structures and transition states relevant to the photo-initiated rearrangement of N-substituted pyridinium and meta-alkoxypyridinium ions is reported. Density Functional Theory in the form of 6-31...
Lung specific developmental expression of the Xenopus laevis surfactant protein C and B genes, Brian A. Hyatt, Ernesto R. Resnick, Natalie S. Johnson, Jamie L. Lohr, and David N. Cornfield
Efforts to characterize the mechanisms underlying early lung development have been confounded by the absence of a model that permits study of lung development prior to the onset of endodermal differentiation. Since Xenopus laevis developmen...
Low-lying singlet excited states of isocyanogen, Ashley L. Ringer, C. David Sherrill, Rollin A. King, and T. Daniel Crawford
Recent photofragment fluorescence excitation (PHOFEX) spectroscopy experiments have observed the à 1A″ singlet excited state of isocyanogen (CNCN) for the first time. The observed spectrum is not completely assigned and significant question...
Submissions from 2006
The Implications of Postmodernism for Theology: On Meta-narratives, Foundationalism, and Realism, James K. Beilby
It takes an uncommon measure of courage to argue that an organization to which one belongs must change. Because it is very rare that there is universal agreement on what (and how much) needs to change, even the least conservative members of...
The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
Adolescents' feelings about openness in adoption: Implications for adoption agencies, Jerica M. Berge, Tai J. Mendenhall, Gretchen M. Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Adoption research commonly uses parents' reports of satisfaction when examining openness in adoption arrangements. This qualitative study aimed to fill a gap in the adoption research by using adolescents' voices to gain a better understandi...
Just a busybody? A look at the Greco-Roman topos of meddling for defining αcombining comma aboveλλοτριεπίσ κοπος in 1 Peter 4:15, Jeannine K. Brown
The lowest A′2 excited state of the water-hydroxyl complex, T. Daniel Crawford, Micah L. Abrams, Rollin A. King, Joseph R. Lane, Daniel P. Schofield, and Henrik G. Kjaergaard
Vertical and adiabatic excitation energies of the lowest A′2 excited state in the water-hydroxyl complex have been determined using coupled cluster, multireference configuration interaction, multireference perturbation theory, and density-f...
Scribal Habits and Theological Influences in the Apocalypse : the Singular Readings of Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi, Juan Hernández Jr.
Modelled on the respective studies of Ernest C. Colwell and James R. Royse, Juan Hernández Jr. offers a fresh and comprehensive discussion of the Apocalypse's singular readings in Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi. Moreover, the singul...
Polycarp of Smyrna, Letter to the Philippians, Michael Holmes
The Letter to the Philippians penned by Polycarp of Smyrna is sometimes dismissed as an example of a proof-texting moralism, indicative of the post-apostolic church's fall from the heights of Pauline Christianity. Read on its own terms, thi...
Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek : Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar, Gary A. Long
Tips for Learning Biblical Greek -- Part I. Foundations -- Linguistic Hierarchies -- Sound Production -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Syllable -- English -- Biblical Greek -- Translation -- Translations -- Translating Homework in First-Year Bibl...
Books from 2005
Epistemology as Theology : An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology, James K. Beilby
Alvin Plantinga is arguably one of the most influential philosophers of our time. Much of his career has been devoted to explaining and defending the intellectual acceptability of Christian belief. Recently he has developed a comprehensive,...
Direct engagement of the reader in Matthew's discourses: Rhetorical techniques and scholarly consensus, Jeannine K. Brown
Matthew's five great discourses move from addressing the story's audience to direct engagement with the reader. The first section of the paper demonstrates that this rhetorical function of the discourses has found widespread agreement among...
Application of equation-of-motion coupled-cluster methods to low-lying singlet and triplet electronic states of HBO and BOH, Nathan J. Deyonker, Se Li, Yukio Yamaguchi, Henry F. Schaefer, T. Daniel Crawford, Rollin A. King, and Kirk A. Peterson
The equilibrium structures and physical properties of the X̃ ∑+1 linear electronic states, linear excited singlet and triplet electronic states of hydroboron monoxide (HBO) (Ã ∑-1, B̃ Δ1, ã ∑+3, and b̃ Δ3) and boron hydroxide (BOH) (Ã ∑+1, ...
Jesus Is Enough: Love, Hope, and Comfort in the Storms of Life, Claudia May
When stormy trials hit us, our recollection of Jesus' faithfulness can fade as worry, anger, jealousy, fear, sickness, stress, and unforgiveness threaten to rob us of the love and hope that can be found in Jesus. And yet we can experience c...
CYBER Classrooms: Building Christian Community, Kimberly R. Meyer and Joann P. Wessman
With electronic learning and distance education on the rise, nurse educators and students face unique challenges in the learning environment. What happens to the interactive, energetic community of learners when you lose the visual, verbal ...
Submissions from 2004
Divine Aseity, Divine Freedom : A Conceptual Problem for Edwardsian-Calvinism, James K. Beilby
The purpose of this paper is to consider whether the Calvinist's typical understanding of why God created the world is consistent with the assertion of God's independence and self-sufficiency—an attribute theologians have labeled "aseity." ...
A computational study of the structure and synthesis of formazans, Rollin A. King and Benjamin Murrin
We report the results of a density functional theory (DFT) study of the structure and synthesis of a formazan molecule, 1,3,5-triphenylformazan. Three conformational minima of this formazan are identified, with the global minimum having an ...
Global Religions: An Introduction, Jim Lewis
Ten essays contextualize Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, African Religion and Local Religious Societies within the category globalism. The “bookends” are a prefatorial introduction followed by three concluding chapters on ...
Adolescents' satisfaction with contact in adoption, Tai J. Mendenhall, Jerica M. Berge, Gretchen M. Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
The current investigation drew from the second wave of data collected from the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP). Adolescents involved in adoptive arrangements in which there is contact with birth parents were compared to ad...
Moving Forward, Gretchen Miller Wrobel
Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
The decision to search for birthparents is one that all adopted persons consider. The focus of this study is to describe, for a group of adopted adolescents, who chooses to search and who does not and to explore how search behavior is relat...
The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model: Identifying Pathways of Adoption-Related Communication, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Julie K. Kohler, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Presented is a theoretical model explaining how family communication about adoption evolves over time. Based on data from a national longitudinal study of the effects of openness in adoption (Grotevant & McRoy, 1998), the Family Adoption Co...
Submissions from 2003
Dictionary of Contemporary Religion in the Western World: Exploring Living Faiths in Postmodern Contexts (Review), James F. Lewis
When Samuel Clemens heard that a journalist had reported his passing, he quipped: “Rumors of my death, have been greatly exaggerated.” In a similar vein, the Dictionary serves to lay to rest the antiquated but oft-believed claim of secular ...
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, Jim Lewis and Micah A, Thompson
Reminiscent of E. Stanley Jones's technique of utilizing a roundtable for religious dialogue, Timothy C. Tennent's Christianity st the Religious Roundtable seeks to engage Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim ideas on issues he regards as central to...
The Educational Imperative of Creation Care, Kenneth L. Petersen
This article argues that our educational systems generally have failed to help students understand their vital connections to and responsibility for the non-human creation. But environmental education, as it matures, can put us on the right...
Contact in Adoption: The Experience of Adoptive Families in the USA, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, Jerica Berge, Tai Mendenhall, and Ruth McRoy
Contact in adoption is a complex issue that adoption professionals frequently negotiate. Today most adoption placements include an initial plan for contact that in many instances changes over time. By understanding contact as an issue that ...
Books from 2002
The Disciples in Narrative Perspective : The Portrayal and Function of the Matthean Disciples, Jeannine K. Brown
Do the disciples in Matthew really understand Jesus, his mission and his message? Although redaction approaches have typically answered this question affirmatively, a narrative reading of Matthew highlights the ways the disciples frequently...
Locally correlated equation-of-motion coupled cluster theory for the excited states of large molecules, T. Daniel Crawford and Rollin A. King
We report an extension of the local correlation concept to electronically excited states via the equation-of-motion coupled cluster singles and doubles (EOM-CCSD) method. We apply the same orbital domain structure used successfully for grou...
Cold war: Flora's undercover agents - A campus winter field trip to illustrate that plants do indeed thermoregulate, Teresa F. DeGolier
Using a guided-inquiry approach for investigating metabolic rate in mice, Teresa F. DeGolier
Does God Hear Muslims' Prayers?, Jim Lewis
Islam affirms that Allah’s nature is one (tauhid) in the sense of his utter simplicity and uncompoundedness. But the unfolding truth about God throughout biblical revelation is that God exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Ho...
The Evangelical Religious Movement Among the Hmông of Northern Vietnam and the Government Response To It: 1989-2000, Jim Lewis
Since 1989 the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) has seen a case of widespread religious change to Evangelical Christianity among the highland minority Hmông population of 558,000 in five of its Northern provinces. Where earlier there wer...
Submissions from 2001
Divine Foreknowledge : Four Views, James K. Beilby, Paul R. Eddy, and Gregory A. Boyd
Contents: The open-theism view / Gregory A. Boyd -- Responses -- The simple-foreknowledge view / David Hunt -- Responses -- The middle-knowledge view / William Lane Craig -- Responses -- The Augustinian-Calvinist view / Paul Helm....
The emergence of psychosocial engagement in adopted adolescents: The family as context over time, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Manfred H. Van Dulmen, and Ruth G. McRoy
Psychosocial engagement of adopted adolescents was examined as a function of longitudinal patterns of stability and change in parents'perceptions of the compatibility of the child within the family. Psychosocial engagement involves the adol...
India's Jains in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Jim Lewis
Jains are an ancient religious tradition of South Asia surviving and even thriving through the 19th and 20th centuries. Though a minority in modern times they have played an outsize influence on India’s cultural and religious heritage. Moha...
Submissions from 2000
Neurotensin elevates hepatic bile acid secretion in chickens by a mechanism requiring an intact enterohepatic circulation, Xianyong Gui, Teresa F. Degolier, Gary E. Duke, and Robert E. Carraway
Neurotensin (NT), given intravenously at 10-50 pmol/kg per min to anesthetized female chickens equipped with a bile duct fistula, dose- dependently elevated hepatic bile flow and bile acid output but only when the enterohepatic circulation ...
Submissions from 1999
Relationships of Avian Cecal lengths to food habits, taxonomic position, and intestinal lengths, Teresa F. DeGolier, Sheila A. Mahoney, and Gary E. Duke
Body mass, intestinal lengths, and the occurrence and relative size of ceca from 154 species of birds representing 21 orders and a diversity of food habits were compared. Well-developed ceca occur in the Anseriformes, Galliformes, Gruiforme...
Effect of galanin on isolated strips of smooth muscle from the gastrointestinal tract of chickens, Teresa F. DeGolier, Jeff N. Nordell, Melody H. Pust, and Gary E. Duke
The contractile effects of galanin on isolated longitudinal smooth muscle strips of pre-crop esophagus, proventriculus, duodenum, colon, and cecum of chickens were investigated. Application of galanin (5.0-100.0 nM) evoked strong contractio...
Neurotensin modulates the composition of pancreatic exocrine secretions in chickens, Teresa F. DeGolier, Allen R. Place, Gary E. Duke, and Robert E. Carraway
The effects of neurotensin on pancreatic exocrine secretion were examined in fasted, conscious White Leghorn hens. A cannula was surgically implanted in the central duct serving the ventral lobe of the pancreas in order to collect pure panc...
Submissions from 1998
Factors related to patterns of information exchange between adoptive parents and children in mediated adoptions, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Julie K. Kohler, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Communication between adoptive parents and their adopted children was examined in a sample of 60 families involved in mediated adoptive relationships. Subjects for this study participated in the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Project, a nationwid...
Submissions from 1997
Neurotensin Decreases Pepsin Output and Gastrointestinal Motility in Chickens, Teresa F. DeGolier, Gary E. Duke, and Robert E. Carraway
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of neurotensin on gastric secretion and gastrointestinal motility in conscious chickens. Chickens were surgically fitted with a cannula to collect secretions from the proventriculus and...
A Note on the Text of Polycarp Philipplans 11.3, Michael W. Holmes
Christianity and the Religions in the History of the Church, Jim Lewis
The history of Christian religious other interaction is more than the history of how thinkers, churches and communities have viewed the discrete religions. It is also a history of how Christians have come to understand religion as a human p...
Submissions from 1996
Openness in Adoption and the Level of Child Participation, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Susan Ayers-Lopez, Harold D. Grotevant, Ruth G. McRoy, and Meredith Friedrick
There is great controversy regarding the impact of openness in adoption, especially the impact of such an arrangement on adopted children. Three indicators of the level of child participation in the openness arrangement were examined: (a) l...
Books from 1991
Religious Traditions of the World, James F. Lewis and William G. Travis
Religious Traditions of the World surveys the religious traditions of the world with a theological evaluation of selected main ideas from each tradition. The emphasis is on contemporary descriptive study of the history, development, scriptu...
Submissions from 1986
The Text of Matthew 5.11, Michael W. Holmes