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Submissions from 2025
The Sustainability Stones: Culturally Embedded Conservation Strategies and Their Vulnerability in Maupiti, French Polynesia, Russell Fielding and Fiona Gimenez
Physical and biological effects on moths’ navigation performance, Yiftach Golov, Roi Gurka, Alexander Liberzon, and Ally Harari
Beyond the Battle: Historical, Religio-Philosophical, and Literary Depths of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, Ronald S. Green
Insect wing flexibility improves the aerodynamic performance of small revolving wings, Gal Ribak, Ori Stearns, Kiruthika Sundararajan, Duvall Dickerson-Evans, Dana Melamed, Maya Rabinovich, and Roi Gurka
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity, Cara-Lynn Scheuer, Catherine Loughlin, Danielle Prowse, Corinne McNally, Kara A. Arnold, and Shasanka Chalise
Activists on board: Shareholder activists and their influence on firm strategic change, Eugene See
Submissions from 2024
From Parkland to Nashville: an analysis of knowledge and framing activities in Reddit discussions surrounding news coverage of guns in the United States, Corinne Dalelio, Dahlia Boyles, Kyle J. Holody, and Wendy Weinhold
Between Religion and Politics: The Case of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud
Writing in Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice, Sarah K. Donovan and Renée Smith
Relationship between driving while impaired and riding with an impaired driver among adolescents in the United States, Michael S. Dunn
Characterizing Range-Dependent Variations of the Evaporation Duct: A Meteorological Perspective, Daniel P. Greenway, Alexis E. Vaughan, Andrew J. Kammerer, and Erin E. Hackett
Bat Cutaneous Microbial Assemblage Functional Redundancy Across a Host-Mediated Disturbance, Matthew Grisnik and Donald M. Walker
Firm-Level Political Risk and the Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash, Hui Liang James, Hongxia Wang, and Nilakshi Borah
Use of space by urban Loggerhead Shrikes (Lanius ludovicianus) as a window into habitat suitability, Katie A. Maddox and Christopher E. Hill
Considering the Impact of AI on the Professional Status of Teaching, Benjamin D. Parker
Relative Influence of Sea State and Mean, Turbulent, and Heterogenous Refractivity on X-Band Propagation, Douglas M. Pastore and Erin E. Hackett
Likert Scale Variables in Personal Finance Research: The Neutral Category Problem, Blain Pearson, Donald Lacombe, and Nasima Khatun
Loss of Courtship Suppression Memory in a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Eric Robles, Johannes Berlandi, Chris Ellis, Tianyi Wu, Astrid Jeibmann, and Fang-Ju Lin
POLYGLOT, Eric Schultz, Han Chen, and Clare Monfredo
Land-use change as a major driver for mid-20th-century flood intensity reduction in the Southeastern US, Zhixiong Shen, Nicholas Conway, Shaowu Bao, Samuel Muñoz, and Andreas Lang
Differences in perceived energy and macronutrient requirements across divisions in NCAA athletes, K. Michelle Singleton, Andrew R. Jagim, Jamie McAllister-Deitrick, Marcos Daou, and Chad M. Kerksick
Evaluating the Impact of a Virtual Health Coaching Lifestyle Program on Weight Loss after Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Prospective Study, Kristina Strauss, Rachel Sauls, Michelle K. Alencar, and Kelly E. Johnson
Near-Surface Thermodynamic Influences on Evaporation Duct Shape, Sarah E. Wessinger, Daniel P. Greenway, Tracy Haack, and Erin E. Hackett
Submissions from 2023
Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal, Deepak Basyal and Brigitte Stenhouse
Genome Sequence and Annotation of the B3 Mycobacteriophage Phayeta, Emily Bishop, Warren Earley, Alexandra Greco, Emma Hofseth, Emma Kinerson, Brandon Lafayette, Nestor Llanot-Arocho, Brittney Mazen, Megan Cevasco, and Daniel C. Williams
Broodmother: What the Lack of Bathroom Breaks Reveals About Dehumanizing Teachers, Jonathan Michael Coker
Suicide Ideation and Behavior and ATOD Use Among Bisexual High School Students, Michael S. Dunn and John F. Yannessa
The Impact of More Able Managers on Corporate Trade Credit, Hui Liang James, Thanh Ngo, and Hongxia Wang
A Segmentation Study of Digital Pirates and Understanding the Effectiveness of Targeted Anti-Piracy Communication, Bong-Keun Jeong, Sarah S. Khan, and Bomi Kang
Loggerhead Shrike Occurrence Along Urban Gradients in South Carolina’s Coastal Plain, Michelle A. Krauser and Christopher E. Hill
How to Attract Low Prosocial Funders in Crowdfunding? Matching Among Funders, Project Descriptions, and Platform Types, Yuanqing Li, Frank Cabano, and Pingshu Li
My Brother’s Keeper: Two Black Men Navigating the Tenure-Track Experience, Danny E. Malone Jr. and Jesse R. Ford
Numerical Study of Owls' Leading-edge Serrations, Asif Shahriar Nafi, Nikolaos Beratlis, Elias Balaras, and Roi Gurka
The role of leading-edge serrations in controlling the flow over owls’ wing, Tanner Saussaman, Asif Nafi, David Charland, Hadar Ben-Gida, and Roi Gurka
Is competence without humility wasted in building the trust necessary for knowledge transfer in younger/older worker dyads?, Cara-Lynn Scheuer, Catherine Loughlin, Dianne Ford, and Dennis Edwards
Submissions from 2022
Mathematics Textbook: Motivation, Experiences, and Didactical Aspect from Authors’ Perspectives, Deepak Basyal and Bhesh Raj Mainali
Submissions from 2021
The Power of Words in Crowdfunding, Yuanqing Li and Sibin Wu