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Works from 2014

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Philosophy and Theology: Is Giving Birth More Dangerous than Aborting?, Christopher Kaczor

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Political Theory and Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration: Introduction to Part I, Andrew Dilts

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Postcards from Metaxas' Greece: The Uses of Classical Antiquity in Tourism Photography, Katerina Zacharia

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Predicting Intellectual Ability and Scholastic Outcomes with a Single Item: From Early Childhood to Adulthood, Curtis S. Dunkel and Nora Murphy

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Principles and Properties of Eukaryotic mRNPs, Sarah F. Mitchell

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Pvr expression regulators in equilibrium signal control and maintenance of Drosophila blood progenitors, Bama C.haran Mondal, Jiwon Shim, Cory J. Evans, and Utpal Banerjee

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Reading the Christian Old Testament in the Contemporary World, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Reconciling Family Roles With Political Ambition: The New Normal For Women In Twenty-First Century U.S. Politics, Richard L. Fox

ree Will and Voluntarism in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

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Relational Aggression, Positive Urgency and Negative Urgency: Predicting Alcohol Use and Consequences among College Students, Joseph W. LaBrie, Elizabeth Grimaldi, and Lucy Napper

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Reply to Bakkensen and Larson: Population may matter but does not alter conclusions, Madhu Viswanathan

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Reply to Christensen and Christensen and to Malter: Pitfalls of erroneous analyses of hurricanes names, Madhu Viswanathan

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Reply to Maley: Yes, appropriate modeling of fatality counts confirms female hurricanes are deadlier, Madhu Viswanathan

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Review of Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology, Timothy Shanahan

Review of Donald L. Fixico, Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality, Nicolas Rosenthal

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Review of Memory and Honor: Cultural and Generational Ministry with Korean American Communities, Brett C. Hoover

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Review of The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State: Institutions Locked in By Ideas, Gene Park

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Review of The Faith of Girls: Children’s Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood, Brett C. Hoover

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Robust noise attenuation under stochastic noises and worst-case unmodelled dynamics, Araz Hashemi, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Le Yi Wang, and George Yin

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Segregating California’s Future: Inequality and its Alternative 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Jongyeon Ee

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Ser chaparrita: Los textos testimoniales como desafío al mundo académico y las lecciones de Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Partnoy

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Shakespeare and Politics: What a Sixteenth-Century Playwright Can Tell Us About Twenty-First-Century Politics, Michael A. Genovese and Bruce E. Altschuler

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Simulation of the Sampling Distribution of the Mean Can Mislead, Ann E. Watkins, Anna E. Bargagliotti, and Christine Franklin

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Singing Lamentations and Reading the Blues, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Sleep Quality and Alcohol Risk in College Students: Examining the Moderating Effects of Drinking Motives, Shannon R. Kenney, Andrew P. Paves, Elizabeth M. Grimaldi, and Joseph W. LaBrie

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SOPHIA: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Sparrow, Crow, Chuck Rosenthal

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Stage-dependent plasticity of the anterior neural folds to form neural crest, Maxellende Ezin

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Stereotype threat among black and white women in health care settings, Adam W. Fingerhut

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Structure and dynamics of the HIV-1 frameshift element RNA, Kathryn Mouzakis

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Sub-Canopy Temperature Dynamics of a Native Tree Plantation from a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Costa Rica, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Traci-Lynn Hirai, Stacie Samuelson, Cherie Hale, and Elizabeth Braker

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Survey on securing data storage in the cloud, Lei Huang

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Symmetries of embedded complete bipartite graphs, Erica Flapan, Nicole Lehle, Blake Mellor, Matt Pittluck, and Xan Vongsathorn

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Taking Active Learning to the Next Level: Increasing Student Engagement by Blending Face-to-Face Instruction and Digital Learning Objects, Lindsey McLean and Elisa Acosta

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The fossil record of phenotypic integration and modularity: A deep-time perspective on developmental and evolutionary dynamics, Anjali Goswami, Wendy J. Binder, Julie Meachen, and F. Robin O'Keefe

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The Health Equity Promotion Model: Reconceptualization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health Disparities, Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen, Jane M. Simoni, Hyun-Jun Kim, Keren Lehavot, Karina L. Walters, Joyce Yang, Charles P. Hoy-Ellis, and Anna M. Muraco

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The Highs and Lows of Caregiving for Chronically Ill Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Elders, Anna M. Muraco and Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen

‘The Iconography of the West: Auto/Ethnographic Representations of the West(erns), Bryant Keith Alexander

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The Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Weight Loss Decisions: Consequences and Mitigating Factors, My Bui, Courtney M. Droms, and Georgiana Craciun

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The Importance of the Heart in Chicana Artistry: Aesthetic Struggle, Aisthesis, ‘Freedom’, Juan Mah y Busch

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The Maker/Leader: Leading From The Middle Through Innovation, John Jackson, Young Lee, and Cynthia Orozco

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The Motion of Intellect On the Neoplatonic Reading of Sophist 248e-249d, Eric D. Perl

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The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama, Michael A. Genovese, Todd L. Belt, and William W. Lammers

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Thermal and Mechanical Failure Analysis of a Two-stroke Motocross Engine Piston, Matthew Siniawski

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The Seven Big Myths about Marriage: What Science, Faith, and Philosophy Teach Us about Love and Happiness, Christopher Kaczor

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The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism, Brett C. Hoover

The Silver Wall, Chuck Rosenthal

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The Tax-Welfare Mix: Explaining Japan’s Weak Extractive Capacity, Gene Park

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The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics, Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

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The Woody Guthrie Centennial Bibliography, Jeffrey Gatten

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This is our Faith: An Introduction to Catholicism, Thomas P. Rausch

Thomas Berry on Yoga, Buddhism, and Carl Jung, Christopher Key Chapple

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Toward a Muslim Theology of Migration, Amir Hussain

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Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition, Richard L. Fox

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Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition, Richard L. Fox and Jennifer L. Lawless

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Utility of Anthropometric Measures in a Multiethnic Population: Their Association with Prevalent Diabetes, Hypertension and Other Chronic Disease Comorbidities, Heather P. Tarleton, Lisa V. Smith, Zuo-Feng Zhang, and Tony Kuo

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Vern Blosum’s Fifteen Minutes, Damon Willick

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What are other parents saying? Perceived parental communication norms and the relationship between alcohol-specific parental communication and college student drinking, Lucy Napper, Justin F. Hummer, Andrew Lac, and Joseph W. LaBrie

“Will: An Exercise in Comparative Theology.” “Guru-Centered Education: Gurāṇi Añjali”, Christopher Key Chapple

Woman Chained to Fire, Sarah Maclay

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Work That Matters: Tending to Chicana/Latina Studies as Home., Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

Writing/Righting Images of the West: A Brief Auto/Historiography of the Black Cowboy (Or “I want to be a (Black) Cowboy” . . . Still), Bryant Keith Alexander

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β-alanine supplementation improves tactical performance but not cognitive function in combat soldiers, William McCormack

Works from 2013

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3D Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse: Current Status and Future Possibilities, John David N. Dionisio, William G. Burns III, and Richard Gilbert

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Acquisitions driven by stock overvaluation: are they good deals?, Fangjian Fu, Leming Lin, and Micah S. Officer

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A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor

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A Good Person Speaking Well, Steven J. Mailloux

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A Humble, Bold Scholar, Thomas P. Rausch

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A Method Based on Total Variation for Network Modularity Optimization using the MBO Scheme, Huiyi Hu, Thomas Laurent, Mason A. Porter, and Andrea L. Bertozzi

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A mixed-method approach to examining brand-consumer interactions driven by social media, Andrew Rohm

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An Adaptive Total Variation Algorithm for Computing the Balanced Cut of a Graph, Xavier Bresson, Thomas Laurent, David Uminsky, and James H. von Brecht

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An Examination of Opuntia Littoralis Fruit Volume, Sugar Concentration, Number of Seeds and Average Seed Mass in Relation to Fitness, Victor D. Carmona, Kathleen Foster, and Carolyne Hoey

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Anthropogenic Impacts of Irrigation on the Arthropod Community Structure of a Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat in Los Angeles, Victor D. Carmona, Justin Aquino, and Mindi Catala

A Poetic and Performative Synthesis: The 2012 Performance Studies Conference, Bryant Keith Alexander

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A preliminary study of Ricinus communis survivorship at Ballona Wetlands and Temescal Canyon, Los Angeles, California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Daryle Hinton-Hardin, Jodi Kagihara, and Mary Rose Pascua

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A Presidential Nation : Causes, Consequences, and Cures, Michael A. Genovese

A Pride Poem for Queer Graduation Ceremonies, Bryant Keith Alexander

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Are they all the same? An exploratory, categorical analysis of drinking game types, Joseph W. LaBrie, Phillip J. Ehret, and Justin F. Hummer

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Asian Participation in Interreligious Dialogue, Tracy Tiemeier

Asian Religions in the United States, Christopher Key Chapple

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A small molecule inhibitor of redox-regulated protein translocation into mitochondria, Deepa V. Dabir

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Assessing the Impact of Invasive Species Management Strategies on the Population Dynamics of Castor Bean (Ricinus communis L., euphorbiaceae) at Two Southern California Coastal Habitats, Victor D. Carmona, Daryle Hinton-Hardin, Jodi Kagihara, and Mary Rose T. Pascua

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A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theology and Trinitarian Theology and Hainsworth and Public Theology for a Global Society: Essays in Honor of Max L. Stackhouse, Jonathan Rothchild

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Behavior and survival of Mytilus congeners following episodes of elevated body temperature in air and seawater, W. Wesley Dowd and George N. Somero

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Betrayal of Mission: Union Busting on Catholic Campuses, Anna Harrison

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Book Review of Franklin I. Gamwell, Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Book Review: Persuasion and Power: The Art of Strategic Communication, by James P. Farwell, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: The End of Power, by Moisés Naim, Michael A. Genovese

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Book Review: The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It, by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Michael A. Genovese

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Can you say no? Examining the relationship between drinking refusal self-efficacy and protective behavioral strategy use on alcohol outcomes, Phillip J. Ehret, Tehniat M. Ghaidarov, and Joseph W. LaBrie

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Changing Norms through Actions: The Evolution of Sovereignty, Jennifer M. Ramos

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Childhood Socialization and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Andrew Healy and Neil Malhotra

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Childhood without Life, Life without Childhood: Theological and Legal Critiques of Current Juvenile Justice Policies, Jonathan Rothchild

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Christian Hospitality and Muslims, Amir Hussain

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Close Encounters of the Digital Kind: Designing Effective Online Tutorials, Susan Archambault

C. MacKenzie Brown. Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma, and Design. In Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. Volume 26, 2013., Christopher Key Chapple

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Cohomology of Frobenius Algebras and the Yang-Baxter Equation, J. Scott Carter, Alissa S. Crans, Mohamed Elhamdadi, Enver Karadayi, and Masahico Saito

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Collaborative Marketing for Electronic Resources: A Project Report and Discussion of Implications, Marie R. Kennedy

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Concealing God: How Argentine Women Political Prisoners Performed a Collective Identity, Alicia Partnoy

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Conformal Gravity and the Alcubierre Warp Drive Metric, Gabriele U. Varieschi and Zily Burstein