The Library System, in conjunction with the Office of Research, supports Kennesaw State University faculty and staff authors with the cost of open access manuscript publication through the Faculty Open Access Publishing Fund.
Publishing assistance will be considered for publication or production costs (for example, Article Processing Charges) of peer-reviewed open access publications (like those indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals or the Directory of Open Access Books).
Review fund guidelines and apply to the Open Access Publishing Fund by Dec. 1 for up to $2,000 to cover open access publication fees. If you plan to submit to a journal in spring 2025, please apply now so we can set money aside for you!
This collection showcases the work of publishing fund awardees.
Submissions from 2024
Volunteerism During COVID-19: Sport Management Students’ Career Interests Against Public Health Risks, Kyu-soo Chung, Jennifer Willet, Chris Green, and Nari Shin
Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study on the Challenges and Awareness of Hispanic Parents Regarding Their Adolescents’ Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jihye Kim and Robin Scott
Submissions from 2023
Adaptive Social Distancing Strategies for Controlling Infection Inequality in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Asma Azizi, Caner Kazanci, and Sunmi Lee
Understanding the audience in framing research: empirical evidence from three studies examining HIV framing in China, Tianen Chen, Minhao Dai, and Nancy Grace Harrington
Sport Celebrities’ COVID-19 Prevention on Social Media: The Effect of Credibility, Social Distance, Identification, and Message’s Power Style on Health Behavioral Intentions, Kyu-soo Chung and Chad Goebert
Effects of plyometric- and cycle-based high-intensity interval training on body composition, aerobic capacity, and muscle function in young females: a field-based group fitness assessment, A. J. Holmes, M. T. Stratton, A. R. Bailly, J. S. Gottschall, Y. Feito, P. L. Ha, A. Lavigne, K. Persaud, H. L. Gagnon, A. Krueger, A. Modjeski, T. A. Esmat, L. N. Harper, T. A. VanDusseldorp, and Garrett Hester
Validation of machine vision and action sport cameras for 3D motion analysis model reconstruction, John David Johnson, Michael Hales, and Randy Emert
Korean Immigrants’ Perceptions of Library Services and Library Multicultural Programs for Asian Communities Before and During COVID-19, Yanghee Kim, Hyun Chu Leah Kim, and Jihye Kim
Critical computation: mixed-methods approaches to big language data analysis, Josephine Lukito and Meredith L. Pruden
Pacing Strategies Differ by Sex and Rank in 2020 CrossFit® Open Tests, Gerald Mangine, Elisabeth K. Zeitz, Joshua D. Dexheimer, Ashley Hines, Brandon Lively, and Brian Kliszczewicz
An In-Depth Analysis of Domain Adaptation in Computer and Robotic Vision, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer, Zainab Fatima, Shehnila Zardari, and David A. Guerra-Zubiaga
Agendamelding and COVID-19: the dance of horizontal and vertical media in a pandemic, J. Benjamin Taylor, Milad Minooie, and Chris J. Vargo
Submissions from 2022
DeepDeMod: BPSK Demodulation Using Deep Learning Over Software-Defined Radio, Arhum Ahmad, Satyam Agarwal, Sam Darshi, and Sumit Chakravarty
Maker Math: Exploring Mathematics through Digitally Fabricated Tools with K–12 In-Service Teachers, Jason R. Harron, Yi Jin, Amy F. Hillen, Lindsey Mason, and Lauren Siegel
Phytoextraction of lead (Pb) contaminated soil by switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L): Impact of BAP and NTA applications, Genna Hart, Austin Gilly, Marina Koether, Thomas McElroy, and Sigurdur Greipsson
Evaluation of Chelating Agents Used in Phytoextraction by Switchgrass of Lead Contaminated Soil, Genna Hart, Marina Koether, Thomas C. McElroy, and Sigurdur Greipsson
The Impact of the Interim Leadership Experience on Library Middle Managers, Ashley T. Hoffman and Amy E. G. Barker
The Effectiveness of Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in Localized Contexts, Brandon D. Lundy, Tyler L. Collette, and J. Taylor Downs
Roadway-associated culverts may serve as a transmission corridor for pseudogymnoascus destructans and white-nose syndrome in the coastal plains and coastal region of Georgia, USA, Kelly E. Lutsch, Ashley G. McDonald, Kyle T. Gabriel, and Christopher Cornelison
Quantifying CrossFit®: Potential solutions for monitoring multimodal workloads and identifying training targets, Gerald T. Mangine and Tucker R. Seay
Teaching, Learning, and Exploring the Geography of North America with Virtual Globes and Geovisual Narratives, Paul McDaniel
Predicting Suicide in Counties: Creating a Quantitative Measure of Suicide Risk, Kate Mobley and Gita Taasoobshirazi
MAP kinases differentially bind and phosphorylate NOS3 via two unique NOS3 sites, Xzaviar K. Solone, Amber L. Caldara, Brady Wells, Hao Qiao, Lydia R. Wade, John C. Salerno, Katy A. Helms, Katherine E. Smith, Jonathan L. McMurry, and Carol A. Chrestensen
Atherogenic potential of microgravity hemodynamics in the carotid bifurcation: a numerical investigation, Philippe Sucosky, Varun Vinayak Kalaiarasan, Graham B. Quasebarth, Patricia Strack, and Jason A. Shar
Soil chemistry and clay mineralogy of an alluvial chronosequence from the north Carolina Sandhills of the upper coastal plain, USA, Bradley E. Suther, David S. Leigh, and Larry T. West
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more, Sarah L. Young and James Tanner
Submissions from 2021
Racial differences in institutional trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and refusal, Anisah Bagasra, Sara Doan, and Christopher T. Allen
Effects of exogenous application of plant growth regulators (SNP and GA3) on phytoextraction by switchgrass (panicum virgatum L.) grown in lead (Pb) contaminated soil, Adrianne Beavers, Marina Koether, Thomas C. McElroy, and Sigurdur Greipsson
They Are Just Light Bulbs, Right? The Personality Antecedents of Household Energy-Saving Behavioral Intentions among Young Millennials and Gen Z, Minhao Dai and Tianen Chen
Modulation linearization technique for fm/cw sar image processing using range migration, Theodore Grosch and Cyril Okhio
Isometric versus isotonic contractions: Sex differences in the fatigability and recovery of isometric strength and high-velocity contractile parameters, Phuong L. Ha, Benjamin E. Dalton, Michaela G. Alesi, Tyler M. Smith, Trisha VanDusseldorp, Yuri Feito, and Garrett Hester
Microbiopsy Sampling for Examining Age-Related Differences in Skeletal Muscle Fiber Morphology and Composition, Garrett Hester, Trisha VanDusseldorp, Phuong L. Ha, Kaveh Kiani, Alex A. Olmos, Melody Jabbari, Shania Kalladanthyil, SooBin An, Alyssa R. Bailly, Benjamin E. Dalton, and Anton Bryantsev
No-cost learning material: Perspectives from industrial and systems engineering students, Lin Li, Robert S. Keyser, and Raven Pierson
Immediate Repeat of a Septic Shock Simulation: Nursing Students’ Lived Experience, Mary Beth Maguire and Anne White
Workout Pacing Predictors of Crossfit®Open Performance: A Pilot Study, Gerald T. Mangine, Yuri Feito, Joy E. Tankersley, Jacob M. McDougle, and Brian M. Kliszczewicz
Current Perspectives of Biocontrol Agents for Management of Fusarium verticillioides and Its Fumonisin in Cereals-A Review, Deepa Nagraj, Premila Achar, and Marikunte Y. Sreenivasa
Faculty perceptions of cleanliness and safety on a college campus during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mary E. Ogidigben, Ernesto R. Rivera, and Robert S. Keyser
Beyond the Kármán gait: knifefish swimming in periodic and irregular vortex streets, Victor M. Ortega-Jiménez and Christopher P. Sanford
Navigation of a Freely Walking Fruit Fly in Infinite Space Using a Transparent Omnidirectional Locomotion Compensator (TOLC), Pikam Pun, Jacobs Brown, Tyler Cobb, Robert J. Wessells, and Dal Hyung Kim
The Effects of Aerobic-Resistance Training and Broccoli Supplementation on Plasma Dectin-1 and Insulin Resistance in Males with Type 2 Diabetes, Ayoub Saeidi, Mohammad Soltani, Ali Daraei, Hanieh Nohbaradar, Marjan Mosalman Haghighi, Nikoo Khosravi, Kelly E. Johnson, Ismail Laher, Anthony C. Hackney, Trisha VanDusseldorp, and Hassane Zouhal
Bound states and energy eigenvalues of a radial screened coulomb potential, Eric Stachura and N. Hancock
Submissions from 2020
Walking kinematics in young children with limb loss using early versus traditional prosthetic knee prescription protocols, Mark Daniel Geil, Zahra Safaeepour, Brian Giavedoni, and Colleen Coulter
Optimization of soil to fly-ash mix ratio for enhanced engineering properties of clayey sand for subgrade use, M. A. Karim, Ahmed Sami Hassan, and Adam Kaplan
A sociological view on designing a sustainable online community for k–12 teachers: A systematic review, Dabae Lee, Jiyoon Jung, Suhkyung Shin, Anne Otternbreit-Leftwich, and Krista Glazewski
Physiological differences between advanced CrossFit athletes, recreational CrossFit participants, and physically-active adults, Gerald Mangine, Matthew Stratton, Christian G. Almeda, Michael D. Roberts, Tiffany A. Esmat, Trisha VanDusseldorp, and Yuri Feito
Early and late rapid torque characteristics and select physiological correlates in middle-aged and older males, Alex A. Olmos, Matthew T. Stratton, Phuong L. Ha, Benjamin E. Dalton, Trisha VanDusseldorp, Gerald Mangine, Yuri Feito, Micah J. Poisal, Joshua A. Jones, Tyler M. Smith, and Garrett Hester
Knifefish’s suction makes water boil, Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez and Christopher P.J. Sanford
Chai and Conversation: Crafting Field Identities and Archaeological Practice in South Asia, Teresa Raczek and Namita S. Sugandhi
Myositis Ossificans Traumatica with Associated Pseudarthroses in an Adult from Late Bronze Age Athens, Greece, Susan K. Smith and Maria A. Liston
Submissions from 2019
A Correlation Between Non-Mandatory Attendance and Course Grades in a Fourth-Year Hybrid Industrial Engineering Course, Robert S. Keyser