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Works from 2014

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A Postcolonial Reading of Apocalyptic Literature: On Mixing Monsters, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Asian Systems of Knowledge, Christopher Key Chapple

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Astrophysical Tests of Kinematical Conformal Cosmology in Fourth-Order Conformal Weyl Gravity, Gabriele U. Varieschi

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“At the Crossing,” “Room of Sleep,” and “Becoming Animal”, Sarah Maclay

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A Unifying Framework for Teaching Nonparametric Statistical Tests, Anna E. Bargagliotti

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Best Practices for Multicultural Communities: Great Parishes Shared by Several Ethnicities Discover Ways to Give Each Group What It Needs While Also Forging Unity, Brett C. Hoover

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Best Practices for Shared Parishes, Brett C. Hoover

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Best practices in supporting students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning, Emily Fisher

Bioethics in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

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Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America, Brett C. Hoover

Bodies Yearning on the Borders of Becoming: A Performative Reflection on Three Embodied Axes of Social Difference, Bryant Keith Alexander

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Book Review: Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert M. Gates, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: Eleventh Hour: The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions, by David M. Shafie, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?, Andrew Dilts

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Book Review: Nation of Devils, by Stein Ringen, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review of Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China, Gene Park

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Book Review: The End of Authority: How a Loss of Legitimacy and Broken Trust are Endangering Our Future, by Douglas E. Schoen, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rehetoric of American Power, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in Modern Politics, Michael A. Genovese

Bootlegging Tyler Perry/Tyler Perry as Bootlegger of Black Performance, Bryant Keith Alexander

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Brown at 60: Great Progress, a Long Retreat and an Uncertain Future, Jongyeon Ee

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Building Tomorrow's Leaders Today: On Becoming a Polymath Leader, Michael A. Genovese

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Characterization of Sugar Diversity in Floral and Extra-Floral Nectar from the Coastal Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra Thunb.) in Southern California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Kenny Morales, Renee Maser, Julius Doyle, and Mera Gobrial

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Charting Your Course: Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy, Susan Archambault

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Classification of Topological Symmetry Groups of Kn, Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi, and Michael Yoshizawa

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Coercion and Consent, James Konow

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Complete bipartite graphs whose topological symmetry groups are polyhedral, Blake Mellor

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Confucianism, Catholic Social Teachings, and Human Rights, James L. Fredericks

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Cranial morphometrics of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, at Rancho La Brea: temporal variability and its links to nutrient stress and climate, F. Robin O'Keefe, Wendy J. Binder, Stephen R. Frost, Rudyard W. Sadlier, and Blaire Van Valkenburgh

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Creating Learning Through Service Opportunities for Engineering Students: Lessons Learned from a Primarily Undergraduate Liberal Arts University, Matthew Siniawski, Jose A. Saez, Jeremy Pal, and Sandra Luca

Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity, Bryant Keith Alexander

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Crossed modules of racks, Alissa S. Crans and Friedrich Wagemann

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Current Issues, Amir Hussain and Roy C. Amore

Daphne at the Moment of Transformation, Sarah Maclay

Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us (Forum on Intercultural Communication), Bryant Keith Alexander

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Development and Validation of the Hookup Motives Questionnaire (HMQ), Shannon R. Kenney, Andrew Lac, Justin F. Hummer, and Joseph W. LaBrie

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Differential Resource allocation of black mustard plants (Brassica nigra L.) with proximity to black walnut trees (Jug/ans californica L.) in a Southern California Riparian ecosystem, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Matt Cronrod, and Kellyanne Gold

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Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Networks Using the Stability Region, Gustavo Vejarano, Dexiang Wang, Ritwik Dubey, and Janise McNair

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Disturbing inequities: Exploring the relationship between racial disparities in special education identification and discipline, Jongyeon Ee

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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, Thomas P. Rausch

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Drag Racing the Neoliberal Circuit: Latina/o Camp and the Contingencies of Resistance, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

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Editor's Commentary: Our Bodies of Work, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

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Editor’s Note: "God bless Elijah / With the feather in his hand", Amir Hussain

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Effect of Training Mode on Post-Exercise Heart Rate Recovery of Trained Cyclists, Kelia G. McDonald, Silvie Grote, and Todd C. Shoepe

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Effects of sediment depth on algal turf height are mediated by interactions with fish herbivory on a fringing reef, Sarah Joy Bittick

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Employer preferences: Do Bilingual Applicants and Employees Experience an Advantage? In The Bilingual Advantage Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market, Jongyeon Ee

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Enhancing Librarians’ Research Skills: A Professional Development Program, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy, Lili Luo, Gregory Guest, and Michael Stephens

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Examining the Efficacy of a Brief Group Protective Behavioral Strategies Skills Training Alcohol Intervention With College Women, Shannon R. Kenney, Lucy Napper, Joseph W. LaBrie, and Matthew P. Martens

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Exploration of climate influences on the abundance of galls on red willow (Salix /aevigata) across two riparian communities in Southern California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Rachael Sears, Tauras P. Vilgalys, Emily Hand, and Sara Morledge-Hampton

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Exploring Bilingualism, Literacy, Employability and Income Levels among Latinos in the United States, in The Bilingual Advantage Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market, Jongyeon Ee

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Faculty Power: A Renewable Energy Source for Teaching Information Literacy, Elisa Acosta and Susan Archambault

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Faith from Nowhere: Feminist Ecclesiological Reflections on the ‘Liquid Catholicism’ of New Media, Brett C. Hoover

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Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes, Madhu Viswanathan

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Finding My Voice, Debra B. Linesch

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Francis's Interreligious Friendships: Soccer and Lunch, Followed by Dialogue, James L. Fredericks

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Genetic Variation At 8Q24, Family History Of Cancer, And Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers In A Chinese Population, Heather P. Tarleton, Shen-Chih Chang, Sungshim Lani Park, Lin Cai, Baoguo Ding, Na He, Shehnaz K. Hussain, Qingwu Jiang, Li-Na Mu, Jianyu Rao, Hua Wang, Nai-Chieh Y. You, Shun-Zhang Yu, Jin-Kou Zhao, and Zuo-Feng Zhang

Hinduism: Many Paths, Many Births, Christopher Key Chapple

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Hom Quandles, Alissa S. Crans and Sam Nelson

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Hooking Up in the College Context: The Event-Level Effects of Alcohol Use and Partner Familiarity on Hookup Behaviors and Contentment, Joseph W. LaBrie, Justin F. Hummer, Tehniat M. Ghaidarov, Andrew Lac, and Shannon R. Kenney

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Identification and characterization of functionally critical, conserved motifs in the internal repeats and n-terminal domain of yeast translation initiation factor 4B (yeIF4B), Sarah F. Mitchell

Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today’s World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments (Forum on Intercultural Communication), Bryant Keith Alexander

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“I Felt Like a Superhero”: The Experience of Responding to Drug Overdose Among Individuals Trained in Overdose Prevention, Karla D. Wagner, Peter J. Davidson, Ellen Iverson, Rachel Washburn, Emily Burke, Alex H. Kral, Miles McNeeley, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, and Stephen E. Lankenau

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Impulsivity and Alcohol-Related Risk among College Students: Examining Urgency, Sensation Seeking and the Moderating Influence of Beliefs about Alcohol's Role in the College Experience, Joseph W. LaBrie, Shannon R. Kenney, Lucy E. Napper, and Kevin Miller

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Information Literacy in the New Core Curriculum, Elisa Acosta

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In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013), Matthew R. Petrusek

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Insect visitation of peduncular and petiolar extrafloral nectar glands on castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) plants in Southern California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Taylor Waters, and David Chirikian

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Interhemispheric collaboration during digit and dot number-matching in younger and older adults, Urvi J. Patel, Brandon K. Barakat, Ruben Romero, Daniel Apodaca, Joseph Hellige, and Barbara J. Cherry

Introducing the Discussion and One Another (Forum on Intercultural Communication), Bryant Keith Alexander

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Introduction, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

Jainism: The Good Life and the Transcendence of Death, Christopher Key Chapple

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Kerr Metric, Geodesic Motion, and Flyby Anomaly in Fourth-Order Conformal Gravity, Gabriele U. Varieschi

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La formazione degli insegnanti: una necessità non più rinviabile, Anna E. Bargagliotti

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Law, Andrew Dilts

Life All Around: Soul in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

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Los Angeles: The Perfect Non-Campaign: The Election of a Hipster Mayor., Fernando Guerra and Brianne Gilbert

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Lost and Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, the New Evangelization, and Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover

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Measuring the research readiness of academic and research librarians : A project report of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL), Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy, and Christine Chavez

Night Text, Sarah Maclay

Nonhuman Animals and the Question of Rights from an Asian Perspective, Christopher Key Chapple

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Normative Feedback for Parents of College Students: Piloting a Parent Based Intervention to Correct Misperceptions of Students’ Alcohol Use and Other Parents’ Approval of Drinking, Joseph W. LaBrie, Lucy E. Napper, and Justin F. Hummer

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Norms for an Isometric Muscle Endurance Test, Sarah L. Strand, John Hjelm, Todd C. Shoepe, and Marie A. Fajardo

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Notes on Prayerful Rhetoric with Divinities, Steven J. Mailloux

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Not Just Fun and Games: A Review of College Drinking Games Research From 2004 to 2013, Byron L. Zamboanga, Shannon R. Kenney, Kathryne Van Tyne, Janine V. Olthuis, Christopher J. Correia, Lindsay S. Ham, and Brian Borsari

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Object Pleasures and Job Segregation: Barbers, Hairstylists, and the Material (Be)longings of Work, Craig Rich

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Oh Past Self, Come Here and Let Me Kick You in the Shins, Marie R. Kennedy, Anna Creecth, and Kristina Deshazo

“Oil on Panel” and “Woman Chained to Fire”, Sarah Maclay

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On axiomatic definitions of non-discrete affine buildings, Curtis D. Bennett, Petra N. Schwer, and Koen Struyve

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One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist, Teresa L. Heiland

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On Maximizing Annualized Option Returns, Charles J. Higgins

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Open Sourcing Ideas: Sharing and Recreating a Library Instruction Program, John Jackson and Alice Whiteside

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Optimal perimeter patrol via max-plus probability, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Kristin Holmbeck-Cannell, Matthew Laffin, and Yun Wang

Our Role as Intercultural Scholars, Practitioners, Activists, and Teachers in Addressing These Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges (Forum on Intercultural Communication), Bryant Keith Alexander

Pankaj Jain. Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability. In International Journal of Dharma Studies. 2014. 2:3,, Christopher Key Chapple

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Passive sampling methods for contaminated sediments: scientific rationale supporting use of freely dissolved concentrations, Philipp Mayer, Thomas F. Parkerton, Rachel G. Adams, John G. Cargill, Jay Gan, Todd Gouin, Philip M. Gschwend, Steven B. Hawthorne, Paul Helm, Gesine Witt, Jing You, and Beate I. Escher

Performing Passing and Passing as Performance: On Nancy Cheryl Davis-­‐Bellamy's, ‘Passing Solo,’ based on Nella Larsen’s novel, Passing, Bryant Keith Alexander

Phantoms, Amputations and Mournings of Black Dreadlocks: (or Reentering the Barbershop), Bryant Keith Alexander

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Philosophy and Blade Runner, Timothy Shanahan

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Philosophy and Theology: Duties to Children, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: End of Life Questions, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Insurance Coverage for Elective Abortion, Christopher Kaczor