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This collection contains UNLV faculty research across the university. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title.

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Submissions from 2020

What Happens in Vegas … Why Consent Matters in ‘Sin City’ and Other Sex Tourism Cities, Paul J. Maginn, Aleta Baldwin, Barb Brents, and Crystal A. Jackson

Sulfur‐ and Nitrogen‐Rich Porous π‐Conjugated COFs as Stable Electrode Materials for Electro‐Ionic Soft Actuators, Manmatha Mahato, Rassoul Tabassian, Van Hiep Nguyen, Saewoong Oh, Sanghee Nam, Kwang Jin Kim, and Il-Kwon Oh

Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Metastatic Lung Disease; A Rare and Fatal Manifestation of Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancy, H. Mahboob, N. E. Kirsch, J. P. Kilburn, and R. Dy

Influence of Special Education, ADHD, Autism, and Learning Disorders on ImPACT Validity Scores in High School Athletes, Julia E. Maietta, Kimberly A. Barchard, Hana C. Kuwabara, Bradley D. Donohue, Staci R. Ross, Thomas F. Kinsora, and Daniel N. Allen

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Preoperative Maximization to Reduce Complications in Spinal Surgery, Sukanta Maitra, Christopher Mikhail, Samuel K. Cho, and Michael D. Daubs

Incidence of Peptic Ulcer Disease in Patients Undergoing ERCP for Pancreato-Biliary Disorders: A Retrospective Study at a Tertiary Care Medical Center, Ranjit Makar MD; Mohamad Mubder MD; Hamza Aziz MD; Muthena Maklad MD; Muhammad Farooqui MD; Daisy Lankarani MD; Yousif Elmofti MD; Chad L. Cross PhD; Shahid Wahid MD; Bipin Saud MD; Mahendran Jayaraj MD; and Gordon V. Ohning MD, PhD

Economies of Diversification in Microfinance: Evidence from Quantile Estimation on Panel Data, Emir Malikov, Valentina Hartarska, and Roy Mersland

Distributional and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture, Emir Malikov, Ruiqing Miao, and Jingfang Zhang

Estimation of Firm‐Level Productivity in the Presence of Exports: Evidence From China's Manufacturing, Emir Malikov, Shunan Zhao, and Subal C. Kumbhakar

Demographic Context, Mass Deportation, and Latino Linked Fate, Elizabeth Maltby, Rene R. Rocha, Bradford Jones, and David L. Vannette

Critical Literature Review on the Diversity and Inclusion of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Construction and Civil Engineering Industry and Education, Saba Nikkhah Manesh, Jin Ouk Choi, and Pramen Shrestha

Spatial Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Occupations in the United States, Saba Nkkihah Manesh, Jin Ouk Choi, Binit Kumar Shrestha, Jaewon Lim, and Pramen P. Shrestha

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Knowledge, Awareness and Acceptance Among Dental Students And Post-Graduate Dental Residents, Steve Kent Mann and Karl Kingsley

Caregiver Depression and Child Behaviour Problems: A Longitudinal Mixed Effects Approach, Katherine Marçal

Demographic and Socioeconomic Predictors of Behavioral Trajectories from Age 3 to 15: A Longitudinal Mixed Effects Approach, Katherine E. Marcal

Understanding Mechanisms Driving Family Homeless Shelter Use and Child Mental Health, Katherine E. Marçal, Patrick J. Fowler, Peter S. Hovmand, and Jessica Cohen

Complex Systems Approaches to Educational Research: Introduction to the Special Issue, Gwen C. Marchand and Jonathan C. Hilpert

Complex Systems Approaches to Educational Research: Introduction to the Special Issue, Gwen C. Marchand and Jonathan C. Hilpert

125 Years of Time-Varying Effects of Fiscal Policy on Financial Markets, Hardik A. Marfatia, Rangan Gupta, and Stephen Miller

Nevada Educator Performance Framework: Impact and Validity Report, Bradley Marianno, Tiberio Garza, Jonathan Hilpert, and Adam Kho

2020 Blood Lead Testing and Response Plan, Erika Marquez, Erick B. López, Amber Osterholt, Natascha Kotte, Josh Huebner, and Eddy Virgen

Queering Family Difference to Dispel the Myth of the “Normal” Creating Classroom and School Communities that Affirm All Students and their Families, Norma A. Marrun, Christine Clark, and Omi McCadney

My Mom Seems to have a Dicho for Everything!”: Family Engagement in the College Success of Latina/o Students, Norma Angelica Marrun

How I Teach: Navigating the COVID Classroom, Ariela Marshall MD, Navneet Majhail MD, and Marc J. Kahn

COVID-19: What Do We Know?, Steve Marshall, Michael Duryea, Greg Huang, Onur Kadioglu, James Mah, Juan Martin Palomo, Emile Rossouw, Dina Stappert, Kelton Stewart, and Eser Tufekci

Handheld ED-XRF Analysis of Obsidian from the Classic Maya City of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, Lisa M. Johnson, Jordan Kobylt, and Cheyenne Laux

Gendered Violence in Small-Scale Societies in the Past, Debra Martin and Ryan P. Harrod

The Climate Change-Witch Execution Connection: Living with Environmental Uncertainty on the Colorado Plateau, Debra Martin and Ryan P. Harrod

The Unfolding of Latinx Political Power in Nevada: Doubling Down on Urban Education Policy, Magdalena Martinez

"You Can't Be a Teacher and Not Follow Polotics!": Teacher-Legislators and Their Pathway to the State Capital, Magdalena Martinez

Who Influences Urban Students’ College Aspirations? Evidence From the Fifth Largest School District in the United States, Magdalena Martinez, Katheryn Brekken, and E. Lee Bernick

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The Bacillus Subtilis K-State Promotes Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis via Oxidative Damage, Holly A. Martin, Amanda A. Kidman, Jillian Socea, Carmen Vallin, Mario Pedraza-Reyes, and Eduardo A. Robleto

Exploring the Effects of Magnetar Bursts in Pulsar Wind Nebulae, J. Martin, D. F. Torres, and Bing Zhang

A Future We Must Dare to Imagine, Kate Martin

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Radiological Identification of Near‐Surface Mineralogical Deposits Using Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Peter G. Martin, Dean T. Connor, Natalia Estrada, Adel El-Turke, David Megson-Smith, Chris P. Jones, David K. Kreamer, and Thomas B. Scott

Evolution of α Centauri B’s Protoplanetary Disc, Rebecca G. Martin, Jack J. Lissauer, and Billy Quarles

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Asteroid Belt Survival through Stellar Evolution: Dependence on the Stellar Mass, Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio, Jeremy L. Smallwood, and Cheng Chen

A Fast-growing Tilt Instability of Detached Circumplanetary Disks, Rebecca G. Martin, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Philip J. Armitage

Sustainable Use of Biochar for Resource Recovery and Pharmaceutical Removal from Human Urine: A Critical Review, Sayeda Ummeh Masrura, Pavani Dissanayake, Yuqing Sun, Yong Sik Ok, Daniel C. W. Tsang, and Eakalak Khan

Prediction of Flow Maldistribution in Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger, Ting Ma, Pan Zhang, Haoning Shi, Yi-tung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang

Paraburkholderia youngii sp. nov. and ‘Paraburkholderia atlantica’ – Brazilian and Mexican Mimosa-Associated Rhizobia That Were Previously Known as Paraburkholderia tuberum sv. mimosae, Lazarus Mavima, Chrizelle W. Beukes, Marike Palmer, Sofie E. De Meyer, Euan K. James, Marta Maluk, Eduardo Gross, Fabio Bueno dos Reis Junior, Juanita R. Avontuur, Wai Y. Chan, Stephanus N. Venter, and Emma T. Steenkamp

Student Perceptions of the Library during Times of Terror: Exploratory Research Surveying Students Affected by the October 1 Shooting and Their Impressions of Safety in the Academic Library Community, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan

Closed-Form Analytical Solutions for Options on Agricultural Futures With Seasonality and Stochastic Convenience Yield, Zonggang Ma, Chaoqun Ma, and Zhijian Wu

Marijuana for Medical Use: Implications for Health Care Providers, Elizabeth L. Mazzarisi, Kay Swartzwelder, and Paul Thomas Clements

Semantic Consciousness and Inhabiting a Languacultural Community: A Sociocultural Approach, Steven G. McCafferty

Wildfire and Infant Health: A Geospatial Approach to Estimating the Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure, Shawn J. McCoy

Can Computers Teach Social Skills to Children? Examining the Efficacy of “The Social Express” in an African-American Sample, Michael McCreery, S. Kathleen Krach, Kanessa Miller Doss, and Dasha M. Highsmith

Time to Acclimate: Examining the Influence of Cognitive Ability on Situating to a Video Game, Michael P. Mccreery, Danielle Head, Joseph P. Fiorentini, Sam Leif, S. Kathleen Krach, Le Quanda L. Cole, Catherine A. Bacos, and Jeffrey Laferriere

Time to Exercise: Circadian Regulation of Cardiac Preconditioning, Graham R. McGinnis and John C. Quindry

Mapping Juvenile Children's Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Responses During Athletic and Non-Athletic Competition, Timothy S. McHale, Wai-Chi Chee, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Peter B. Gray

Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Respond Differently to High- And Low-Psychologically Stressful Soccer Competitions, Timothy S. McHale, Wai-Chi Chee, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Peter B. Gray

Juvenile Children’s Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Decrease during Informal Math and Table-Tennis Competitions, Timothy S. McHale, Peter B. Gray, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Wai-Chi Chee

Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults, Peter McIlveen, P. Nancey Hoare, Harsha N. Perera, Chris Kossen, Louisa Mason, Shannon Munday, Carolyn Alchin, Allison Creed, and Nicole McDonald

The Antiactivator of Type III Secretion, OspD1, Is Transcriptionally Regulated by VirB and H-NS from Remote Sequences in Shigella flexneri, Joy A. McKenna and Helen J. Wing

Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914, Cian T. McMahon

Providing Support to Friends Experiencing a Sexual Health Uncertainty, Tara G. McManus

Cervical Spine Injury is Rare in Self-Inflicted Craniofacial Gunshot Wounds: An Institutional Review and Comparison to the US National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB), Allison Mcnickle, Paul J. Chestovich, and Douglas Fraser

An Enhanced Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Two Dimensional Maxwell's Equations, Timothy Meagher, Bin Jiang, and Peng Jiang

Where is Sex Therapy Going?, Marta Meana, Kathryn S.K. Hall, and Yitzchak M. Binik

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A High-Fat/High-Protein, Atkins-Type Diet Exacerbates Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection in Mice, whereas a High-Carbohydrate Diet Protects, Chrisabelle C. Mefferd, Shrikant S. Bhute, Jacqueline R. Phan, Jacob V. Villarama, Dung M. Do, Stephanie Alarcia, Ernesto Abel-Santos, and Brian P. Hedlund

Mis/Alignment Between High School and Community College Standards, Tatiana Melguizo and Federick Ngo

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Banned Books Buffet, Amanda Melilli and Rosan Mitola

"Dragons", Silver A. Mendoza-Matute and Jarret Keene

Identification of the Mechanical Characteristics of 3D Printed Ninjaflex, Patrick Messimer, Brendan O’Toole, and Mohamed Trabia

Reporting the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Nevada, Peter Michel

Body Functions of Individuals with Poly-trauma and Chronic Pain, Armando S. Miciano Jr., MD and Chad L. Cross PhD, MFT, PStat(R), C-MDI

Contribution of Kinesiophobia in Individuals with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Chronic Pain, Armando S. Miciano Jr., MD and Chad L. Cross PhD, MFT, PStat(R), C-MDI

Physical Function and Fatigue in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with High Fall Risk, Armando S. Miciano Jr., MD and Chad L. Cross PhD, MFT, PStat(R), C-MDI

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Disease Salience Effects on Desire for Affiliation With In-Group and Out-Group Members: Cognitive and Affective Mediators, Murray Millar, Andrea Fink-Armold, and Aileen Lovitt

Students’ Multidimensional Profiles of Math Engagement: Predictors and Outcomes From a Self‐System Motivational Perspective, Chyna J. Miller, Harsha Perera, and Alireza Maghsoudlou

Salivary Biomarkers for Discriminating Periodontitis in the Presence of Diabetes, Craig S. Miller, Xiuhua Ding, Dolph R. Dawson III, and Jeffrey L. Ebersole

An Obscured, Seyfert 2–like State of the Stellar-mass Black Hole GRS 1915+105 Caused by Failed Disk Winds, J. M. Miller, A. Zoghbi, J. Raymond, M. Balakrishnan, L. Brenneman, E. Cackett, P. Draghis, A. C. Fabian, E. Gallo, J. Kaastra, T. Kallman, E. Kammoun, S. E. Motta, and Daniel Proga

Critical Counter-Narrative as Transformative Methodology for Educational Equity, Richard Miller, Katrina Liu, and Arnetha F. Ball

Causality Between Output and Income Inequality Across US States: Evidence from a Heterogeneous Mixed Panel Approach, Stephen Miller

A Content Analysis of Identity Expressions from Female Cast Members on the Reality Television Series WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends of Sports Stars): A Case Study, Kaitlyn M. Millican and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer

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The Tourism Sector and U.S. Regional Macroeconomic Stability: A Network Approach, Jihye Min, Jerome Agrusa, Joseph Lema, and Harold Lee

Promoting Community Engagement and Action Research, Antoinette H. Miranda and Samuel Y. Song

Unique White Matter Structural Connectivity in Early-Stage Drug-Naive Parkinson Disease, Virendra R. Mishra, Karthik R. Sreenivasan, Zhengshi Yang, Xiaowei Zhuang, Dietmar Cordes, Zoltan Mari, Irene Litvan, Hubert H. Fernandez, David Eidelberg, Aaron Ritter, Jeffrey L. Cummings, and Ryan R. Walsh

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Integrating Student Assistants into Digital Repository Workflows: Challenges and Best Practices, Christina M. Miskey, Kelsey Lupo Mazmanyan, Cory K. Lampert, and Andrea Wirth

Making Sense of Dark Tourism: Typologies, Motivations, and Future Development of Theory, Victoria Mitchell, Tony L. Henthorne, and Babu George

Integrating Family Content in Teacher Preparation Programs Using Intentional Reflection and Planning, Maryssa Kucskar Mitsch, Jessica M. Branch, and Jenna M. Weglarz-Ward

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Beneficial Endophytic Bacterial Populations Associated With Medicinal Plant Thymus vulgaris Alleviate Salt Stress and Confer Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum, Osama Aballa Abdelshafy Mohamad, Jin-Bao Ma, Yong-Hong Liu, Daoyuan Zhang, Shao Hua, Shirkant Bhute, Brian P. Hedlund, Wen-Jun Li, and Li Li

Outcomes of Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty; How Does It Compare to Laparocopic Sleeve Gastrectomy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Babu P. Mohan, Ravishankar Asokkumar, Shahab R. Khan, Gurusravanan Kutti Sridharan, Saurabh Chandan, Naveen PG. Ravikumar, Suresh Ponnada, Mahendran Jayaraj, and Douglas G. Adler

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage, Transpapillary Drainage, or Percutaneous Drainage in High Risk Acute Cholecystitis Patients: A Systematic Review and Comparative Meta-Analysis, Babu P. Mohan, Shahab R. Khan, Sushruth Trakroo, Suresh Ponnada, Mahendran Jayaraj, Ravishankar Asokkumar, and Douglas G. Adler

Comparison of Franseen and Fork-Tip Needles for EUS-Guided Fine-Needle Biopsy of Solid Mass Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Babu P. Mohan, Mohammed Shakhatreh, Rajat Garg, Ravishankar Asokkumar, Mahendran Jayaraj, Suresh Ponnada Udayakumar, Navaneethan Florida Hospital, and Douglas G. Adler

Determination of the Optimal Location for Constructing Solar Photovoltaic Farms Based on Multi-Criteria Decision System and Dempster–Shafer Theory, Marzieh Mokarram, Mohammad J. Mokarram, Mohammad R. Khosravi, Ali Saber, and Akbar Rahideh

Determination of Artificial Recharge Location Using Analytic Hierarchy Process and Dempster–Shafer Theory, Marzieh Mokarram, Ali Saber, Parisa Mohammadizadeh, and Ali Abdolali

A Gender Framework for Understanding Health Lifestyles, Stefanie Mollborn, Elizabeth M. Lawrence, and Robert A. Hummer

Intentional Learning: A Student-Centered Pedagogy, Sarah Mollman and Mary D. Bondmass

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Step Count Reliability and Validity of Five Wearable Technology Devices While Walking and Jogging in both a Free Motion Setting and on a Treadmill, Jeffrey Montes, Richard Tandy, John Young, Szu-Ping Lee, and James W. Navalta

Three Hundred Years of Snowpack Variability in Southwestern British Columbia Reconstructed From Tree‐Rings, Bryan J. Mood, Bethany Coulthard, and Dan J. Smith

Urinary Symptoms and Infections Among Female Garment Factory Workers in Bangladesh, Jacxelyn Moran, Taylor Jennelle Fitch, Gabriela Villanueva, Mohammad Morshedul Quadir, Lung-Chang Chien, and Hasnat Alamgir

Promoting Change Within Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs: A Collision of Needs, Cori M. More and Wendy J. Rodgers

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Integrating Blended Learning in Middle School ELA Classrooms to Support Diverse Learners: Lessons Learned, Joseph John Morgan and Tacy G. Spies

Stereodynamics of Ultracold Rotationally Inelastic Collisions, Masato Morita and Naduvalath Balakrishnan

Stereodynamics of Rotationally Inelastic Scattering in Cold He + HD Collisions, Masato Morita and Balakrishnan Naduvalath

Stereodynamic Control of Overlapping Resonances in Cold Molecular Collisions, Masato Morita, Qian Yao, Changjian Xie, Hua Gao, and Naduvalath Balakrishnan

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Readability and Suitability Assessment of Educational Materials in Promoting the Quality of Life for Postmenopausal Women, Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Nooshin Yoshany, Manoj Sharma, Narjes Bahri, and Sara Jambarsang

Housing Supply Elasticity, Gasoline Prices, and Residential Property Values, Adele C. Morris, Helen R. Neill, and N. Edward Coulson

How Do Student Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering as a Career Relate to Their Self-Efficacy, Career Expectations, and Grittiness?, Melissa Lynn Morris, Joseph Dygert, and Robin A. Hensel