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Submissions from 2023

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Exploring Social Media Network Connections to Assist During Public Health Emergency Response: A Retrospective Case-Study of Hurricane Matthew and Twitter Users in Georgia, USA, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Jingjing Yin, Hai Liang, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung

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Total Outward Leakage of Half-mask Respirators and Surgical Masks Used for Source Control, Warren R. Myers, Weihua Yang, Kenneth Ryan, Michael Bergman, Edward Fisher, Jhy-Charm Soo, and Ziqing Zhuang

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Parental Knowledge and Perceptions on Prevention of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Infant Care, Dziyana Nazaruk, Ana M. Palacios, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Nandi A. Marshall

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An Integrated Evidence-based Approach to Provide a Practicum-based Learning Experience to Students, Dziyana Nazaruk, Joseph Telfair, Jamie S. Cromley, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Ana M. Palacios

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Impact of designed task-based interventions on K-8 preservice teachers’ knowledge and ability to solve measurement unit conversion problems, Ha Nguyen, Tuyin An, and Eryn Maher

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K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Statistical Thinking When Determining Best Measure of Center, Ha Nguyen, Eryn M. Stehr Maher, Gregory Chamblee, and Sharon Taylor

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The Influence of E-cigarette Warning Labels on Youths’ Use Intentions – A Mediation Analysis of Role of Perceived Harm, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, and Amanda C. Barefield

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A Refreshing Change: Safeguarding Mothers and Children from PFAS Exposure, Emmanuela Nwaonumah, Alisha Riggins, Emmanuel Azu, Oluwatoyin Ayo-Farai, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Logan Cowan, and Atin Adhikari

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An AI-enhanced Pattern Recognition Approach to Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Children's Embodied Interactions, Ceren Ocak, Theodore J. Kopacha, and Raunak Dey

JavaScript Frameworks -A Comparative Study, Qozeem Odeniran and Hayden Wimmer

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Age-Stratified Model to Assess Health Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies, Ghana, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Gerardo Chowell, Benjamin Cowling, and Isaac Fung

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Impact of Public Health Policy and Mobility Change on Transmission Potential of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Rhode Island, March 2020 – November 2021, Chigozie Alexandra Ogwara, Jennifer W. Ronberg, Sierra Cox, Briana M. Wagner, Jacqueline W. Scotts, Gerardo Chowell, Anne C. Spaulding, and Isaac Fung

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Big Data Approach For IoT Botnet Traffic Detection Using Apache Spark Technology, Arokodare Oluwatomisin, Hayden Wimmer, and Jie Du

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Effectiveness of Lactation Cookies on Human Milk Production Rates: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Ana M. Palacios, Michelle I. Cardel, Erik Parker, Stephanie Dickinson, Valerie R. Houin, Bridget Young, and David B. Allison

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P24-096-23 Hens Hatching Hope: A Community-Based Egg Project Aiming To Improve Nutritional and Health Status of Young Children in Rural Honduras, Ana M. Palacios, Mario Keko, Gisela Ramos, Laura Manship, Dziyana Nazaruk, Haresh Rochani, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Joseph Telfair, and Asli Aslan

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Perceived Exertion and Comfort When Introducing Prophylactic Ankle Bracing Before a Treadmill Run, Benjamin L. Paquette, Samuel Wilson, Cameron Powden, Robert Reyburn, Diego Castro-Diaz, Barry Munkasy, and Jessica Mutchler

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Cup Running Low? It May Be Time for a Refill, Jennifer Perry

Providing College and Career Counseling to Students in Rural Settings, Jennifer Perry

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Undergraduate Students’ Perception of Leadership Development Programs and Leadership Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Phillips, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Brandon Hunt, Antonio Gutierrez de Blume, and Katherine Fallon

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Chapter 23: Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Pathogens: Role of Tick Vectors and Host Animal Community Composition in Their Circulation and Source of Infections, Rupika S. Rajakaruna and Marina E. Eremeeva

Centralized Corporate Power and Artificial Intelligence, Wilhelmina Randtke

Current and Ongoing US Government Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Privacy, and Transparency: How to Participate, Wilhelmina Randtke

Google Analytics: Change from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4, Wilhelmina Randtke

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Launching a 3D Printing Program for Students: Recommendations and Best Practices for Libraries, Wilhelmina Randtke and Nathaniel Lee Bareford

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An Industry Survey of Analytics Spreadsheet Tools Adoption: Microsoft Excel vs Google Sheets, Carl Rebman, Queen Booker, Hayden Wimmer, Steven Levkoff, Mark McMurtrey, and Loreen Marie Powell

An Exploratory Study Comparing Zoom and Google Technology As A Group Decision Support System, Carl M. Rebman Jr and Hayden Wimmer

Faculty Opinions on Student Preparation, Performance, And Evaluations Post Covid, Carl M. Rebman Jr, Hayden Wimmer, Queen Booker, J. Breese, P. Rogers, Mark McMurtrey, and Steven Levkoff

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Problematizing Niceness: A Teacher Educators' Learning Community on Culturally Responsive Teaching, Michelle Reidel, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Courtney Toledo, Kathleen M. Crawford, Leslie Roberts, Heather M. Huling, and Delores D. Liston

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A Breakthrough in Accessibility: Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives, Alisha Riggins, Emmanuela Nwaonumah, Tobi Oloyede, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Logan Cowan, and Elizabeth Olayinka

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Habituation Attenuates the Sex-specific Associations Between Ischemic Pain, Blood Pressure, and Arterial Stiffness, Andrew Roberts, Zoe R. Lincoln, Wesley Blumenburg, Brett Cross, Joseph Vondrasek, Joseph Watso, Andrew Flatt, Braxton Linder, Austin Robinson, and Gregory Grosicki

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Net Benefit of Diagnostic Tests for Multistate Diseases: an Indicator Variables Approach, Hani Samawi, Ferdous Ahmeda, Gene Pennello, and Jingjing Yin

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Post-test Diagnostic Accuracy Measures Under Tree Ordering of Disease Classes, Hani Samawi, Marwan Alsharmana, Mario Keko, and Jing Kersey

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On Cox Proportional Hazards Model Performance Under Different Sampling Schemes, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, and Jingjing Yin

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Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Method for a Weibull Accelerated Failure Time Model, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, and Hani Samawi

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COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in Autoimmune Disease Patients: Policy Action and Ethical Considerations, Nardeen Shafik, Jennifer E. Akpo, Kristie C. Waterfield, and William Mase

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COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Behavioral Health Issues Facing Children, Gulzar H. Shah

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Editorial: Assessing and Addressing Health Inequities and Disparities: The Role of Health Informatics, Gulzar H. Shah, Anjum Khurshid, and Joanne Chopak-Foss

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A Nationwide Study of the “July Effect” Concerning Postpartum Hemorrhage and Its Risk Factors at Teaching Hospitals across the United States, Zahra Shahin, Gulzar H. Shah, Bettye Apenteng, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Hani M. Samawi

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Web Service Credibility Evaluation Methods in Different Application Domains, Atef Shalan, Jaciel E. Reyes, Hayden Wimmer, Sarika Jain, and Mohamed Hefny

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Determinants of Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight: Evidence from 2017 to 2018 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, Maryam Siddiqa, Gulzar H. Shah, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Amber Zubair

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Are Recruitment Strategies Biased During Bilateral Eccentric Hamstring Exercises? - A Repeated Measures Design, Nick J. Siekirk, Jacob Smith, Kylee West, Jacob Blumberg, Jordan Brown, Brienna L. Simons, Austen Arnold, and Derick Anglin

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Essay 10.6 Motivation in the Wild: Capturing the Complex Social Ecologies of Academic Motivation, Ellen Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Justin W. Vollet, and Nicolette P. Rickert

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: HIV/AIDS Myths and Misinformation in the Rural United States, Stacy Smallwood and Fayth M. Parks

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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Combustion and Emissions Characteristics in a Drone Jet Engine Fueled with Jet-A, Valentin Soloiu, John William McAfee, Marcel Ilie, Cesar Carapia, Amanda Weave, and Austin Brant

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148 Development of a test Method to Determine Inhalation Exposure of Microplastic Particles when Reusable Disposable Masks in Place, Jhy-Charm Soo, Rocio Perez, Atin Adhikari, and Yu-Cheng Chen

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Assessment of Inhalation Exposure to Microplastic Particles When Disposable Masks Are Repeatedly Used, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chun-Hsuan Wei, Jen-Kun Chen, Guo-Chung Dong, Zhen-Shu Liu, Hsiu-Chuan Chou, Atin Adhikari, and Yu-Cheng Chen

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Supporting Spatial Reasoning: Identifying Aspects of Length, Area, and Volume in Textbook Definitions, Eryn M. Stehr Maher and Jia He

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Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields, Drew A. Swanson

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An Examination of Faculty and Staff Collaboration and Relationships In Higher Education, Jennifer Syno, Juliann S. McBrayer, Daniel W. Calhoun, Cordelia D. Zinskie, and Katherine Fallon

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Comparisons of Joint Moments Estimated by Markerless and Marker-based Motion Capture Systems During Treadmill Running, Hui Tang, Jiahao Pan, Barry Munkasy, and Li Li

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DNA Methylation and Counterdirectional Pigmentation Change following Immune Challenge in a Small Ectotherm, David Tevs, Justin A. Mukhalian, Emma Simpson, Christian L. Cox, Aaron Schrey, and Lance D. McBrayer

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Diverging Epigenetic Responses to Wildfire History in Two Sympatric Lizards, David Tevs, Emma Simpson, M. Ellesse Lauer, Daniella Ray, Lance D. McBrayer, Kyle G. Ashton, Earl D. McCoy, Henry R. Mushinsky, and Aaron Schrey

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Characteristics and Source-specific Health Risks of Ambient PM2.5-bound PAHs in an Urban City of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, and Yu-Cheng Chen

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Role Play: Actualizing the IEP Meeting for Pre-Service Teachers, Courtney A. Toledo

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Inquiry as Practice: The Pathway to Redesigning an Educational Leadership Doctoral Research Seminar Series, Steve Tolman, Daniel W. Calhoun, Juliann S. McBrayer, Nikheal Patel, and Elise J. Cain

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A Pharmacoepidemiological Study of Myocarditis and Pericarditis Following the First Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Europe, Joana Tome, Logan Cowan, and Isaac Fung

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Bananas and Men: Carmen Lyra and the Aprista and Mariateguista Influence, Ana Torres

Hacia una deconstrucción de la novel Hostal Amor, Ana Torres

Anomaly Detection in Intrusion Detection System using Amazon SageMaker, Ian A. Trawinski, Hayden Wimmer, and Jongyeop Kim

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Incident Edentulism and Number of Comorbidities Among Middle-aged and Older Americans, Ho-Jui Tung and Randall Ford

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Use of Advance Directives in US Veterans and Non-Veterans: Findings from the Decedents of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2014, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh

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Implications for Home Health Care: Perceived HPV Vaccination Barriers and Recommended Sources among Hispanic/Latino College Students, Wei-Chen Tung, Itzel Corral Gonzalez, Denise Dawkins, and Ho-Jui Tung

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Letter to the Editor: An incorrect cutoff was used, leading to null results, Felix Twum, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, and Jian Zhang

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The Diverging Trend in Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Among US Children, Felix Twum, Joana Tome, Erica Ledel, Victoria Roy, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Diana L. Aguirre, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang

Evaluating the Performance of Containerized Webservers against web servers on Virtual Machines using Bombardment and Siege, Daniel Ukene, Hayden Wimmer, and Jongyeop Kim

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Design of Flipped Lessons in the Classroom and Opinions of Teachers with Different Degrees of Experience, Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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“In Honorable Remembrance to All Generations”: Commemoration and the Making of Mormon Battalion Memory, 1921–2021, Michael S. Van Wagenen

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Stop, Then Go! Rapid Acceleration Offsets the Costs of Intermittent Locomotion When Turning in Florida Scrub Lizards, Cheyenne A. Walker and Lance D. McBrayer

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Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Diabetes Management: A Retrospective Study in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area (UMUPA), Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey, and Hani M. Samawi

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Clinical and Demographic Attributes of Patients with Diabetes Associated with the Utilization of Telemedicine in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area, Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie C. Waterfield

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Acute Effects of Trunk Stretching on Aortic Arterial Stiffness in Middle-aged to Older Adults, Kylee West, Gregory J. Grosicki, Kaelyn Spears, Barry A. Joyner, Collin Smith, and Nick J. Siekirk

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Text Prediction Using Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Two Text Prediction Systems, Hayden Wimmer, Jie Due, and Peter Heri

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Milling Around in Scriven**, M. Jared Wood

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The Trend in Density of Skilled Health Personnel in BRICS Countries: Implication for China and India, Fei Yan, Hongxia Li, Wei Wang, and Jian Zhang

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Evaluation of Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-based Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for Diabetes Risk Reduction in Chinese Americans in New York City, Ming-Chin Yeh, Wincy Lau, Claire Anselmo Keady, Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky, Ho-Jui Tung, Lu Hu, Grace X. Ma, and Judith Wylie-Rosett

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The Relationships Between Internal Program Measures and a High-Stakes Teacher Licensing Measure in Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Program Design Considerations, Jeremy Zelkowski, Tye Campbell, and Alesia M. Moldavan

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Integrating Engineering Standards into Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum, Yue Zhang, Haijun Gong, and Lianjun Wu

Submissions from 2022

Review of the EPA’s Draft Fifth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL5), Craig Adams, Asli Aslan, Otakuye Conroy-Ben, James Englehardt, Selene Hernandez-Ruiz, Mark W. LeChevallier, Angela M. Leung, Rainer Lohmann, Sarah Page, Rebecca Sutton, and Felicia Wu

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Assessing the Effectiveness of an Egg Intervention in the Nutritional and Food Security Status of Infants and Toddlers from Rural Honduras, Aishat Adewoye, Mario Keko, Luke Roberson, Dziyana Nazaruk, Gisela Ramos, Laura Manship, Haresh Rochani, Asli Aslan, and Ana M. Palacios

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Association between Serum Lycopene and Lung Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Padmini Shankar, Gulzar H. Shah, Alicia A. Brown, Shannon Cearley, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, Nathaniel Abrams, and Jian Zhang

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Art Integration and Identity: Empowering Bi/Multilingual High School Learners, Sahar Aghasafari, Kelli Bivins, E. Anthony Muhammad, and Brendan Nordgren

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Using Twitter to Form Professional Learning Communities: An Analysis of Georgia K-12 School Personnel Discussing Educational Technology on Twitter, Mete Akcaoglu Ph.D., Charles B. Hodges, and Lucas J. Jensen

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Expanding implementation of cultural competence in health communication to reduce stigma, Alexandria Alford, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Katie M. Mercer

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Research Outlines Promising Practices for Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees via Managed Care, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Maura Dugan

Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant, 2019-2024 Year Three Report, Bettye Apenteng, Kwabena G. Boakye, Linda Kimsey, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Angela Peden

2021 Georgia Critical Access Hospital Employee Engagement Assessment Reports, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase

Evans Memorial Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Aishat Adewoye, Blerta Shehaj, and T. Bratton

Effingham Health System Community Needs Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, Karabi Barai, and Aishat Adewoye

Bacon County Hospital and Health System Community Needs Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, Karabi Barai, and Blerta Shehaj

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Physical Activity Levels among American Long-Term Care Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Aaron J. Aslakson, Bridget F. Melton, Helen W. Bland, and Duke D. Biber

A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan

A Feasibility Study for Adopting Rapid Molecular Methods to Monitor Enterococci at Georgia Beaches, Asli Aslan and R. Cohen

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Local Health Department Engagement in Access to Mental Health Services and Mental Health Policy or Advocacy Activities, Abraham Ater, Sushma Kurella, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie C. Waterfield

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Characterization and Stratification of Resting Blood Pressure in Male Career Firefighters, Robert Bailey, Thomas Nagel, Bridget F. Melton, Wesley Blumenburg, Brett Cross, and Gregory J. Grosicki

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My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside the Personal Library of a Librarian, Nathaniel Lee Bareford

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Critical friendship as vital to the development of RPCK, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Taylor A. Norman

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Understanding Nonprofit Leaders' Perceptions of Organizational Efficiency, Jessica L. Berrett and Jayce Sudweeks

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Physical Assessment Skills (PAS) in Nursing Courses: Are we Teaching the Right Things?, Mary E. Bester

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What Makes a Study Strategy Intervention Impactful? An Interview-Based Study, Anna C. Brady, Lauren C. Hensley, David M. Sovic, Amy E. Kulesza, Christopher A. Wolters, and Caroline A. Breitenberger

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Learning in the Face of Digital Distractions: Empowering Instructors to Support Self-regulated Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom, Anna C. Brady, Yeo-eun Kim, and Jacqueline von Spiegel