• Natural philanthropy: A new evolutionary framework explaining diverse experimental results and informing fundraising practice 

  James, Russell; 0000-0002-1887-8183 (Palgrave Communications, 2017-06-20)

  Philanthropic decision-making is important both for its potential to provide insight into human behaviour and for its economic significance. In recent years, investigations of charitable-giving behaviour have expanded ...

• Development of a Low-cost Phasor Measurement Unit 

  Huffmaster, Travis (2018-04-23)

  ABSTRACT The electric power grid is a very large and complex system that is a necessity in todays society. Traditional grid monitoring systems such as SCADA are being replaced by the Phasor Measurements Units due to their ...

• Assessing college students' nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and health behaviors: Applying the health belief model to a university foodservice setting 

  Kim, Hak-Seon (2010-05)

  The trend of increasing consumption of less nutritious foods makes the college years a critical period to enlighten young adults regarding healthy living, nutrition knowledge and physical activity. For college students, ...

• Soundwriting Pedagogies 

  Danforth, Courtney S.; Stedman, Kyle D.; Faris, Michael J. (Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2018)

  The availability of digital tools has made it easier than ever to record and edit sound, and teachers of composition have noticed. We’re entering an age of soundwriting, where the affordances of sound intersect the pedagogies ...

• Contextualizing Students’ Media Ideologies and Practices: An Empirical Study of Social Media Use in a Writing Class 

  Faris, Michael J. (The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017)

• Changing the Landscape: Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, Five Years Later 

  Mastrangelo, Lisa; Gold, David; Khoury, Nicole; Faris, Michael J.; Dingo, Rebecca; Riedner, Rachel; Wingard, Jennifer; Kirsch, Gesa; Royster, Jacqueline Jones (Peitho, 2018)

• An Annotated Bibliography of LGBTQ Rhetorics 

  Cox, Matthew B; Faris, Michael J. (Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 2015)

• How To Be Gay with Locative Media: The Rhetorical Work of Grindr as a Platform 

  Faris, Michael J. (Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 2018)

• E-Book Issues in Composition: A Partial Assessment and Perspective for Teachers 

  Faris, Michael J.; Selber, Stuart A. (Composition Forum, 2011)

  E-book devices (and devices that support e-books) are increasingly being integrated into the working lives of students and teachers. We discuss our pedagogical and institutional experiences with the Sony Reader in composition ...

• Building Rhetoric One Bit at a Time: A Case of Maker Rhetoric with littleBits 

  Faris, Michael J.; Blick, Andrew M.; Labriola, Jack T.; Hankey, Leslie; May, Jamie; Mangum, Richard T. (Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2018)

  In this webtext, we share our experiences in a new media graduate course in which students played and experimented with littleBits (modular circuitry designed for easy invention). Students created three-dimensional objects ...

• A Multisensory Literacy Approach to Biomedical Healthcare Technologies: Aural, Tactile, and Visual Layered Health Literacies 

  Bivens, Kristin M; Arduser, Lora; Welhausen, Candice A; Faris, Michael J. (Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2018)

  In this webtext we borrow Kelli Cargile Cook's (2002) concept of layered literacies in technical communication to argue that health literacy is an embodied, multisensory experience that is invariably mediated by healthcare ...

• Remediating the CCCC Chair’s Address for Video 

  Faris, Michael, J.; Austin, Sarah, E.; Stone, Erica; Carter, Joyce, L. (Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2017)

  This webtext shares our inventional processes of remediating Joyce Locke Carter's 2016 College on Composition and Communication (CCCC) Chair's Address as a video to be posted on YouTube. We first historicize remediations ...

• Building an Athlete Community Service Motivation Model: Investigating the Relationship Between Athletic Identity, Student Involvement, and Community Service 

  Huml, Matt, R.; Hancock, Meg, G.; Weight, Erianne, A.; Hums, Mary, A. (The College Sport Research Institute, 2018-08-02)

  A recent study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) found that approximately 90% of college athletes participate in community service and nearly 60% of college coaches require community service as a team ...

• “Real Objects of Pity”: American Revolutionary Veterans in Early National Memory, 1776-1832 

  Knox, Duncan McCain; 0000-0002-9216-3952 (2018-07-13)

  ’Real Objects of Pity’: American Revolutionary Veterans in Early National Memory, 1776-1832,” explores how the process of using military experience from the Revolutionary War to further political goals developed from the ...

• Four-Year College Degree Completion and Texas Public School District Factors: A Geospatial Quantitative Analysis of Texas Data Using ArcGIS, GeoDa, and R Programming Language 

  Almekdash, Hasan; 0000-0002-8360-4656 (2018-08-03)

  Even though there are significant improvements in college access and enrollment rates in the U.S., underrepresented students are still experiencing difficulties in terms of college degree completion. Student college readiness ...

• Formal Modeling of Adaptive Security Requirements in Dynamic Systems with Uncertainty 

  Sartoli, Sara (2018-08-06)

  Modern software systems often operate in highly dynamic environments and are subject to various forms of changes, including: changes in the structure of their operating environments and changes in security requirements. ...

• Exploration of Materials under Compression of Non-hydrostaticity and Shear 

  Gao, Yang (2018-08-13)

  Non-hydrostatic compression is in general a circumstance that material is subject to in the nature. Understanding the behaviors of materials under such a condition makes it possible to gain insights into the physics and ...

• Finitude and Community: Posthumanism in Contemporary Fiction 

  Sugiyama, Kazutaka; 0000-0001-5599-4688 (2018-07-20)

  Albeit its topical diversity, the recent development of posthumanism as an intellectual discourse can be articulated as a critical reflection of modern humanism to overcome anthropocentrism and the dialectic logic of ...

• Smoothing Splines on Ball Domains with Application to Optometry and Ophthalmology 

  Nasrin, Farzana; 0000-0002-0143-6688 (2018-07-30)

  The identification of objective criteria to correctly diagnose ectatic diseases of the cornea or to detect early stages of corneal ectasia is of great interest in ophthalmology and optometry. A precise understanding of ...

• Alcohol and Substance Use in Young Population: A Developmental Approach 

  Chawla, Manju (2018-07-27)

  To expand the research on alcohol and substance use in young populations, the studies included in the dissertation will look at the problem from various perspectives. The first study used an exploratory qualitative approach ...

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