The publications archived in this Georgia Southern Commons collection are authored by the STEM Affiliate faculty of Georgia Southern University.
The collection represents the original Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education (2012-2019).
The original STEM Institute was founded in 2012 with the guidance of College of Education’s Robert Mayes, Ph.D., professor of STEM education. Together, Mayes, COE Associate Dean for Administration and Faculty Affairs Tracy Linderholm, Ph.D., and Karin Scarpinato, a former associate dean of the College of Science and Mathematics (COSM), proposed a University-wide program to promote STEM education across campus with support from former COE Dean Thomas Koballa, Ph.D., and upper administration. All colleges at the University participated in the development and implementation of i2STEMe.
For additional information about STEM at Georgia Southern, visit the Center for STEM Education (i2STEMed)
.Submissions from 2017
Racial Disparities in Emotional Distress among Cancer Survivors: Insights from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), Bettye A. Apenteng, Andrew R. Hansen, Samuel T. Opoku, and William A. Mase
Salud es Vida: A Cervical Cancer Screening Intervention for Rural Latina Immigrant Women, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, Moya L. Alfonso, Norma Suazo, Laura Rebing, and Daron Ferris
More Efficient Logistic Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, and Arpita Chatterjee
On Stratified Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling with Optimal Allocation for Naïve and Ratio Estimators, Lili Yu, Hani M. Samawi, Daniel Linder, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang, and Robert L. Vogel
Submissions from 2016
Serum Folate Levels and Fatality among Diabetic Adults: A 15-Y Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Emeka Ifebi, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, Brittany Kyte, Sambridhi Shrestha, and Jian Zhang
Latinos’ Views of Chronic Disease and Minor Depression, Moya L. Alfonso, Jaime Corvin, Claudia Aguado Loi, Isabella Chan, Linda M. Callejas, Dina Martinez Tyson, Maria Serrano, Phyllis Panzano, and Junius Gonzales
Trends in the Use of Volunteers in US Hospices: 2000 to 2010, Bettye A. Apenteng, Daniel F. Linder, Samuel T. Opoku, Raymona H. Lawrence, and Linda A. Upchurch
Elementary School Students' Quantitative Reasoning: Processing Whole Numbers and Proportions, Ty W. Boyer and Natalie Branch
Control of the Public Health IT Physical Infrastructure: Findings From the 2015 Informatics Capacity and Needs Assessment Survey, Kelley Chester, Barbara L. Massoudi, and Gulzar H. Shah
Assessing Skills and Capacity for Informatics: Activities Most Commonly Performed by or for Local Health Departments, Kate Drezner, Lisa McKeown, and Gulzar H. Shah
Isolated Processing of Geometric Shapes and Their Corresponding Shape Words: Evidence from a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task, Joshua E. Edwards, Ty W. Boyer, Z. Kade Bell, and Bradley R. Sturz
Urgent Challenges for Local Public Health Informatics, Joseph P. Gibson, Gulzar H. Shah, Laura C. Streichert, and Linda Verchick
Socio-Scientific Argumentation as a Driver for Science Learning, Kania Greer and Amanda L. Glaze
Spatial Attention to Social Cues is not a Monolithic Process, Samuel M. Harding, Ty W. Boyer, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Coping with an Advanced Stage Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Patient, Caregiver, and Provider Perspectives on the Role of the Health Care System, K. Monirul Islam, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Ann Fetrick, June Ryan, M. Copur, Addison Tolentino, Irfan Vaziri, and Apar K. Ganti
Motives for Physical Activity and Physiological Variables as Predictors of Exercise Intentions Following a High Intensity Interval Training Protocol in College-Age Females, Jody L. Langdon, Sarah Joseph, Kristina L. Kendall, Brandonn Harris, and Jim McMillan
Challenges and Innovations in Surveying the Governmental Public Health Workforce, Jonathon P. Leider, Gulzar H. Shah, Nikki Rider, Angela J. Beck, Brian C. Castrucci, Jenine K. Harris, Katie Sellers, Danielle Varda, Jiali Ye, Paul C. Erwin, and Ross C. Brownson
An Iterative, Low-Cost Strategy to Building Information Systems Allows a Small Jurisdiction Local Health Department to Increase Efficiencies and Expand Services, Kay Lovelace and Gulzar H. Shah
Informatics as a Strategic Priority and Collaborative Processes to Build a Smarter, Forward-Looking Health Department, Kay Lovelace and Gulzar H. Shah
Using Information Systems to Improve a Mid-Sized Local Health Department’s Effectiveness in a Time of Rapid Change, Kay Lovelace and Gulzar H. Shah
Factors Driving Local Health Departments' Partnerships With Other Organizations in Maternal and Child Health, Communicable Disease Prevention, and Chronic Disease Control, Huabin Luo, Nancy L. Winterbauer, Gulzar H. Shah, Ashley Tucker, and Lei Xu
Public Health Staff Development Needs in Informatics: Findings From a National Survey of Local Health Departments, Barbara L. Massoudi, Kelley Chester, and Gulzar H. Shah
Communication Within Hospice Interdisciplinary Teams: A Narrative Review, Angela R. Moore, Randi Ginger Bastian, and Bettye A. Apenteng
Responding to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak: The Value of Effective Interprofessional Communication During Emergency Response, Bobbie J. Newell, Jessica C. Pittman, Hilda P. Pagano, John S. Barron, and Bettye A. Apenteng
Reliability-Based Design Optimization by Adaptive-Sparse Polynomial Dimensional Decomposition, Xuchun Ren, Vaibhav Yadav, and Sharif Rahman
A Test of Symmetry Based on the Kernel Kullback-Leibler Information with Application to Base Deficit Data, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
The Methods Behind 2015 Informatics Capacity and Needs Assessment Study, Gulzar H. Shah
Cross-Jurisdictional Resource Sharing in Changing Public Health Landscape: Contributory Factors and Theoretical Explanations, Gulzar H. Shah, Adrian Badana, Claire Robb, and William C. Livingood
Characteristics of Local Health Departments Associated with Implementation of Electronic Health Records and Other Informatics Systems, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Brian C. Castrucci, Karmen S. Williams, and Huabin Luo
Interoperability of Information Systems Managed and Used by the Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Huabin Luo, and Ravneet Kaur
Addressing Psychological, Mental Health and Other Behavioral Health Care Needs of the Underserved Populations in the U.S.: Role of Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Huabin Luo, Nancy L. Winterbauer, and Kusuma Madamala
Health Departments’ Engagement in Emergency Preparedness Activities: The Influence of Health Informatics Capacity, Gulzar H. Shah, Bobbie J. Newell, and Ruth E. Whitworth
Local Health Departments’ Activities to Address Health Disparities and Inequities: Are We Moving in the Right Direction?, Gulzar H. Shah and John P. Sheahan
Local Health Departments' Partners and Challenges in Electronic Exchange of Health Information, Gulzar H. Shah, Joshua Vest, Kay Lovelace, and J. Mac McCullough
Local Health Departments' Approaches to Deal With Recession: What Strategies Are Used to Minimize the Negative Impact on Public Health Services to Community?, Gulzar H. Shah, Jiali Ye, Carolyn J. Leep, and Jonathon P. Leider
"When Everything Changes:" Parent Perspectives on the Challenges of Accessing care for a Child with a Disability, Ashley D. Walker, Moya L. Alfonso, Gavin T. Colquitt, Kimberly Weeks, and Joseph Telfair
Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use in Local Health Departments: Updates From the 2015 NACCHO Informatics Assessment Survey, Karmen S. Williams and Gulzar H. Shah
Rank-Based Kernel Estimation of the Area Under the ROC Curve, Jingjing Yin, Yi Hao, Hani M. Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
Submissions from 2015
Investigation of Synthesis and Processing of Cellulose, Cellulose Acetate and Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Nanofibers Incorporating Anti-Cancer/Tumor Drug Cis-Diammineplatinum (II) Dichloride Using Electrospinning Techniques, Saheem Absar, Mujibur R. Khan, Kyle Edwards, and Jeffrey Neumann
Solution Spinning of Hybrid Nanocomposite Fibers, Saheem Absar, Mujibur R. Khan, Hassan Mahfuz, and Quazi Nahida Sultana
Assessment of the Wear Effects of Low- and High- Speed Jet Impingement of Alumina Nanofluids on Heat-Exchanger Materials, Fnu Aktaruzzaman, Gustavo J. Molina, Valentin Soloiu, and Mosfequr Rahman
On Adhesion Mechanisms and Erosions Effects of Nanoparticle-Suspensions (Nanofluids) on Cooling System Materials, Fnu Aktaruzzaman, Gustavo J. Molina, Valentin Soloiu, and Mosfequr Rahman
Childhood Obesity Perceptions Among African American Caregivers in a Rural Georgia Community: A Mixed Methods Approach, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, and Andrew R. Hansen
The Willow Hill Community Health Assessment: Assessing the Needs of Children in a Former Slave Community, Moya L. Alfonso, Gayle Jackson, Alvin Jackson, DeShannon Hardy, and Akrati Gupta
“It All Goes Back to the Services”: A Rural/Urban Comparison of Service Providers’ Perceptions of Challenges and Facilitators to Disability Services, Moya L. Alfonso, Ashley D. Walker, Akrati Gupta, Joseph Telfair, and Gavin T. Colquitt
Assessing Seasonality of Travel Distance to Harm Reduction Service Providers among Person Who Inject Drugs, Sean T. Allen, Monica S. Ruiz, Amira Roess, and Jeffery A. Jones
Supply Uncertainty and Firm Performance in Developing Economy Environments: Examining the Role of Buyer- Supplier Relationships, Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah, Kwabena G. Boakye, Samuel Famiyeh, and Ebenezer Adaku
Organizational and Environmental Correlates of the Adoption of a Focus Strategy in US Hospices, Bettye A. Apenteng, Preethy Nayar, Fang Yu, John Adams, and Samuel T. Opoku
Enhancing Service Delivery for National Development, Kwaku Appiah-Adu, Charles Blankson, and Kwabena G. Boakye
Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks for Wind Turbine Monitoring Systems, Chandra Bajracharya, R. Grodi, and Danda B. Rawat
The Influence of Race on End-of-Life Choices Following a Counselor-Based Palliative Consultation, Kathleen Benton, James H. Stephens, Robert L. Vogel, Gerald R. Ledlow, Richard Ackermann, Carol Babcock, and Georgia McCook
Factors Influencing Mobile Data Service (MDS) Continuance Intention: An Empirical Study, Kwabena G. Boakye
An Integrated Model of Quality for Mass Services in the Context of Ghanaian Retailing Banking Sector, Kwabena G. Boakye, Victor R. Prybutok, and Charles Blankson
Prompting Children to Reason Proportionally: Processing Discrete Units as Continuous Amounts, Ty W. Boyer and Susan C. Levine
A Constant of Change, Katie Brkich and T. Lamb
Analysis of the Persistence of Enteric Markers in Sewage Polluted Water on a Solid Matrix and in Liquid Suspension, Yolanda Brooks, Asli Aslan, Sushil Tamrakar, Bharathi Murali, Jade Mitchell, and Joan Rose
Relief and Emergency Communication Network Based on an Autonomous Decentralized UAV Clustering Network, Paul Bupe, Rami J. Haddad, and Fernando Rios-Gutierrez
Exploring Cyber Harassment among Women Who Use Social Media, Sloane Burke Winkelman, Jody Oomen-Early, Ashley D. Walker, Lawrence Chu, and Alice Yick-Flanagan
Flow Behavior at Bifurcations in Branching Channel Networks, David M. Calamas and Mosfequr Rahman
Unthinkable Selves: Identity Boundary Work in a Summer Field Ecology Enrichment Program for Diverse Youth, Heidi B. Carlone, Lacey D. Huffling, Terry Tomasek, Tess A. Hegedus, Catherine E. Matthews, Melony Allen, and Mary C. Ash
Grandparent Caregiving Among Rural African Americans in a Community in the American South: Challenges to Health and Wellbeing, Emmanuel Clottey, Alison Scott, and Moya L. Alfonso
Sizing Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the State of Georgia, Adel El-Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, Bikiran Guha, and Youakim Kalaani
Lead Acid Battery Modeling for PV Applications, Adel El Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Smart Grids Technology Fundamentals – A New Course Model, Adel El Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
An Artificial Neural Network Model for Wind Energy Estimation, Adel El-Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Optimum ANN Empirical Model of Capacitive Deionization Desalination Unit, Adel El-Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Smart Grids Technology Fundamentals - New Course, Adel El-Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Wind Energy Estimation Functions for Future Homes, Adel El-Shahat, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Descriptive Epidemiology: Person, Place, Time, Steven T. Fleming and Jeffery A. Jones
Assessing the Education and Training Needs of Nebraska's Public Health Workforce, Brandon L. Grimm, Patrik Johansson, Preethy Nayar, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, and Anh Nguyen
A Novel Passive Islanding Detection Technique for Converter- Based Distributed Generation Systems, Bikiran Guha, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Anti-Islanding Techniques for Distributed Generation Systems – A Survey, Bikiran Guha, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
A Passive Islanding Detection Approach for Inverter-based Distributed Generation Systems Using Rate of Change of Frequency Analysis, Bikiran Guha, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Performance Impact Analysis of Solar Cell Retrofitted Electric Golf Cart, Bikiran Guha, Rami J. Haddad, and Youakim Kalaani
Lead Acid Battery Modeling for PV Applications, Rami J. Haddad, Adel El-Shahat, and Youakim Kalaani
A Novel Peer-assisted Hybrid Flipped Classroom Model Using Online Discussion, Rami J. Haddad and Youakim Kalaani
Can Computational Thinking Predict Academic Performance?, Rami J. Haddad and Youakim Kalaani
Cross Disciplinary Perceptions of the Computational Thinking among Freshmen Engineering Students, Rami J. Haddad and Youakim Kalaani
Flipping Homework: An Effective Homework Model, Rami J. Haddad and Youakim Kalaani
Undergraduate Research Scholar: The First Step towards a Hybrid Lecture- Based and Inquiry/Research-Based Engineering Program, Rami J. Haddad and Youakim Kalaani
Preschool Children's Self-Reports of Fruit and Vegetable Knowledge, Preference, and Messages Encouraging Consumption, Andrew Hansen, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
A Case Study on Tuning Artificial Neural Networks to Recognize Signal Patterns of Hand Motions, Stephen D. Hickman, Arash S. Mirzakhani, J. Pabon, and Rocio Alba-Flores
Coaxial Electrospinning of Polycaprolactone Core-shell Nanofibers Encapsulating Cancer Dug 5-Fluorouracil for Active Targeted Drug Delivery, S. Iqbal, Mujibur R. Khan, Saheem Absar, A. Diamanduros, S. Chamber, and K. Scarpinato
Profile of the Public Health Workforce: Registered TRAIN Learners in the United States, Jeffery A. Jones, Lois Banks, Ilya Plotkin, Sunny Chanthavongsa, and Nathan Walker
A Hybrid Simulation and Hands-On Experimentation for Electric Machines Laboratory, Youakim Kalaani, Rami J. Haddad, and Bikiran Guha
Experimental Study of Thermopower of SWCNTs and SiC Nanoparticles with B-P (Born-Phosphorus) Sol-Gel Diffusion, Mujibur R. Khan, Saheem Absar, Kyle Edwards, Onasis Garcia, and Rafael L. Quirino
Morphological Characteristics of UHMWPE+Nylon- 6+SWCNT Solution-Spun Hybrid Nanocomposite Fibers Compatibilized with PE-g-MAH’, Mujibur R. Khan, Saheem Absar, Hassan Mahfuz, and Kyle Edwards
The Proof's in the Partnerships: Are Affordable Care Act and Local Health Department Accreditation Practices Influencing Collaborative Partnerships in Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning?, Barbara Laymon, Gulzar H. Shah, Carolyn J. Leep, Julia Joh Elligers, and Vibha Kumar
On Stratified Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling for Regression Estimators, Daniel F. Linder, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang, and Robert L. Vogel
Comparison of Practice Based Research Network Based Quality Improvement Technical Assistance and Evaluation to Other Ongoing Quality Improvement Efforts for Changes in Agency Culture, William Livingood, Angela Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Nandi A. Marshall, Ketty M. Gonzales, Russell B. Toal, Dayna Alexander, Alesha Wright, and Lynn D. Woodhouse
Addressing Obesity and Associated Medical Conditions in Latino Immigrant Communities in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Moya L. Alfonso, Yelena N. Tarasenko, and Lisa C. Watson
Cultural Beliefs and Understandings of Cervical Cancer Among Mexican Immigrant Women in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Jonathan N. Maupin, Moya L. Alfonso, Lisa C. Watson, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, and Daron Ferris
Cultural Beliefs and Understandings of Cervical Cancer among Mexican Immigrant Women in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Jonathan N. Maupin, Moya L. Alfonso, Lisa C. Watson, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, and Daron G. Ferris
Quantitative Reasoning in Environmental Science: Rasch Measurement to Support QR Assessment, Robert Mayes, Kent Rittschof, Jennifer Forrester, Jennifer Schuttlefield Christus, Lisa Watson, and Franziska Peterson
Disfluent Fonts Don't Help People Solve Math Problems, Andrew Meyer, Shane Frederick, Terence C. Burnham, Juan D. Guevara Pinto, Ty W. Boyer, Linden J. Ball, Gordon Pennycook, Rakefet Ackerman, Valerie A. Thompson, and Jonathon P. Schuldt
The Influence of Masculinity on Coping in Undergraduate Black Men, Krista Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John Luque
A Comparison of the J‐1 Visa Waiver and Loan Repayment Programs in the Recruitment and Retention of Physicians in Rural Nebraska, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Ge Lin, Li-Wu Chen, David Palm, and Thomas Rauner
The State of Accreditation Readiness in Georgia: A Case Study, Angela Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Russell B. Toal, Dayna S. Alexander, Alesha Wright, Ashton Anderson, Nandi A. Marshall, Scott Uhlich, and Jeffery A. Jones
A Technical and Economical Study of Implementing a Micro- grid System at an Educational Institution, Matthew S. Purser, Youakim Kalaani, and Rami J. Haddad
Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine in Search for an Efficient Design, Mosfequr Rahman, Mohammad M. Bashar, Gustavo Molina, Valentin Soloiu, and Travis E. Salyers
