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Submissions from 2024
The Inspired and the Discouraged: School Board Service and Differential Effects on Political Ambition, Kelly Bergstrand, Beth Anne Shelton, and Rebecca E. Deen
Exploring relationships between dating app use and sexual activity among young adult college students, Jaquetta M. Reeves, Stacey B. Griner, Kaeli C. Johnson, Erick C. Jones Jr., and Sylvia Shangani
A bird’s eye view of crime: assessing the effectiveness of mobile watchtowers on vehicle-related thefts, James D. Kelsay, Ian A. Silver, Jaya B. Davis, and Brook Rollins
Evaluating the Texas Risk Assessment System (TRAS) Predictors of Revocation and Early Release in Adult Felony Probation, Sarah A. El Sayed, Carley R. Shelton, and Michael F. TenEyck
On the Effects of Personalizing Vibrotactile Feedback to Facilitate User Interaction With a Robotic System, Sudip Hazra and Panos S. Shiakolas
A biobehavioral observational study to understand the multilevel determinants of cardiovascular health in Black women: the BLOOM Study protocol, Yue Liao, R. Matthew Brothers, Kyrah K. Brown, and Rebecca E. Lee
Alternative statistical interpretation for the apparent plateaus in the duration distributions of gamma-ray bursts, Joshua Alexander Osborne, Christopher Michael Bryant, Fatemeh Bagheri, and Amir Shahmoradi
Enhancing Urban Parking Efficiency Through Machine Learning Model Integration, Sai Sneha Channamallu, Sharareh Kermanshachi, Jay Michael Rosenberger, and Apurva Pamidimukkala
Design, Prototyping, and Characterization of a Micro-Force Sensor Intended for Tissue Assessment in Confined Spaces, Shashank S. Kumat and Panos S. Shiakolas
Higher Education Policy Narratives during COVID-19: How are Budget Requests Justified to State Legislatures?, Meredith S. Billings, Paul G. Rubin, Denisa Gándara, and Lindsey Hammond
Utilizing waste rocks from phosphate mining in Jordan as concrete aggregates, Tamer Eljufout and Fadi Alhomaidat
“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact, Irene Salvo Agoglia, Catherine A. LaBrenz, and Marian Bilbao
A Review on Construction Safety: Hazards, Mitigation Strategies, and Impacted Sectors, Deema Almaskati, Sharareh Kermanshachi, Apurva Pamidimukkala, Karthikeyan Loganathan, and Zhe Yin
Submissions from 2023
Impacts of On-demand Ride Services on the Number of Traffic Crashes – A Case Study of RideAustin in Austin, TX, Muhammad Arif Khan, Roya Etminani-Ghasrodashti, Apurva Pamidimukkala, Sharareh Kermanshachi, and Jay Michael Rosenberger
Beauty is only skin deep: An examination of physical attractiveness, attractive personality, and personal grooming on criminal justice outcomes, Krystal N. Knox and Michael F. TenEyck
Competing Targets in English Sibilant Imitation, Ivy Hauser, Emily Graham, and Xinwen Zhang
Chewing and Swallowing Abilities of Persons Living With Dementia: A Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties of Instruments, Sohyun Kim, Kyuri Lee, and Wen Liu
Factors that determine a university community’s satisfaction levels with public transit services, Muhammad Arif Khan, Ronik Ketankumar Patel, Apurva Pamidimukkala, Sharareh Kermanshachi, Jay Michael Rosenberger, Greg Hladik, and Ann Foss
Editorial: The health informatics series: Evolving with a new discipline, Marion J. Ball, Kathryn J. Hannah, Nhora Cortes-Comerer, and Judith V. Douglas
Submissions from 2020
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard, Daniel Levine