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 Open Access Publishing Fund. This collection showcases the work of publishing fund awardees.

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).

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Submissions from 2025

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The impacts of media richness, blurriness, and beautification of online dating profile visual elements on dating outcomes, Minhao Dai and Shilin Xia

Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science, Sig/Sara Giordano

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Do People Judge Sexual Harassment Differently Based on the Type of Job a Victim Has?, Carolyne Georgiana Halfon, Destiny McCray, and Danica Kulibert

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Within-Day Diversity Change, Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Fear of Crime, Chris Hess, Youngmin Yi, Gregory Sharp, and Matt Hall

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Assessing the feasibility of using salivary microRNAs as biomarkers to distinguish between chronic stress and childhood trauma in African American young women in an exploratory pilot study, Erica Holliday, Anisah Bagasra, Omar Bagasra, and Pratima Pandey

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Pre-K–12 Teachers’ Views on ASD+ADHD: Prevalence Estimates and Teaching Preparedness, Sidni Justus, Emily M. Pogue, and Victoria Simanovich

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“Because That’s What Scientists Do…. They Like to Make Their Own Stuff”: Exploring Perceptions of Self as Science-Doers Using the Black Love Framework, Rasheda Likely and Ti’Era Worsley

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Acute effect of a multi-ingredient pre-workout supplement on pacing and kinetic expression during shorter and longer bouts of high intensity functional training, Gerald Mangine, Christopher Staples, James W. Henley, Ashley Hines, Kristyn C. McGeehan, Wysmark Chaves, Wil King, Tiffany A. Esmat, John R. McLester, and Jacob L. Grazer

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Unpacking digital transformation – Constructing a framework based on industry use cases, Khawaja Asjad Saeed, Andrew William Green, and Alison Brooke Hedrick

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Synergistic Impact of Entrained Air and Fly Ash on Chloride Ingress in Concrete Pavement: An Electrical Resistivity Model Approach, Youngguk Seo and Jin Hwan Kim

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Tropical fruit-derived Lactiplantibacillus as potential probiotic and antifungal agents against Fusarium oxysporum, R. Vasundaradevi, M. Sarvajith, S. Divyashree, N. Deepa, M. Y. Sreenivasa, and Premila Achar

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Using mathematical modeling to study the dynamics of Legionnaires’ disease and consider management options, Mark Z. Wang, Christina J. Edholm, and Lihong Zhao

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Relationship between fluid intake, hydration status and cortisol dynamics in healthy, young adult males, Mitchell E. Zaplatosch, Laurie Wideman, Jessica McNeil, Jesse Sims, and William M. Adams

Submissions from 2024

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ScreenSafeFuture: A parent-empathetic and pragmatic mhealth application for toddlers' brain development addressing screen-addiction challenges, Nafisa Anjum, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Syeda Umme Salma, Liang Zhao, Maria Valero, and Nazmus Sakib

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Investigating the Effect of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Across a Large Banking Network in Sub-Saharan Africa, Samson Debela Ayana, Getachew H. Mengesha, Philip F. Musa, and Solomon Negash

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Virtual Reality and Higher Education Sporting Events: Social Anxiety Perception as an Outcome of VR Simulation, Kyu-soo Chung, Chad Goebert, and John David Johnson

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Volunteerism During COVID-19: Sport Management Students’ Career Interests Against Public Health Risks, Kyu-soo Chung, Jennifer Willet, Chris Green, and Nari Shin

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University Students Speak Out: Suggestions to Improve the Move to Emergency Remote Education, Pauline Howes and Justine E. Pettigrew

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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

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Three-Dimensional Outdoor Object Detection in Quadrupedal Robots for Surveillance Navigations, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer, Zainab Fatima, Hira Mariam, Tanazzah Rehman, and Razvan Cristian Voicu

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COVID for One: Identifying Obstacles to Self-Management of COVID-19 for Single Adults, Linda A. Treiber, Christie Emerson, and Jenna Shackleford

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It's Not Just What You Say: The Impact of Message Tone on Intra-Party Endorsements, Tom Vizcarrondo and Milad Minooie

Submissions from 2023

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Adaptive Social Distancing Strategies for Controlling Infection Inequality in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Asma Azizi, Caner Kazanci, and Sunmi Lee

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Understanding the audience in framing research: empirical evidence from three studies examining HIV framing in China, Tianen Chen, Minhao Dai, and Nancy Grace Harrington

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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

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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

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Validation of machine vision and action sport cameras for 3D motion analysis model reconstruction, John David Johnson, Michael Hales, and Randy Emert

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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

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Critical computation: mixed-methods approaches to big language data analysis, Josephine Lukito and Meredith L. Pruden

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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

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An In-Depth Analysis of Domain Adaptation in Computer and Robotic Vision, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer, Zainab Fatima, Shehnila Zardari, and David A. Guerra-Zubiaga

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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

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DeepDeMod: BPSK Demodulation Using Deep Learning Over Software-Defined Radio, Arhum Ahmad, Satyam Agarwal, Sam Darshi, and Sumit Chakravarty

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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

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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

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Evaluation of Chelating Agents Used in Phytoextraction by Switchgrass of Lead Contaminated Soil, Genna Hart, Marina Koether, Thomas C. McElroy, and Sigurdur Greipsson

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The Impact of the Interim Leadership Experience on Library Middle Managers, Ashley T. Hoffman and Amy E. G. Barker

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The Effectiveness of Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in Localized Contexts, Brandon D. Lundy, Tyler L. Collette, and J. Taylor Downs

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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

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Quantifying CrossFit®: Potential solutions for monitoring multimodal workloads and identifying training targets, Gerald T. Mangine and Tucker R. Seay

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Teaching, Learning, and Exploring the Geography of North America with Virtual Globes and Geovisual Narratives, Paul McDaniel

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Predicting Suicide in Counties: Creating a Quantitative Measure of Suicide Risk, Kate Mobley and Gita Taasoobshirazi

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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

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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

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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

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Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more, Sarah L. Young and James Tanner

Submissions from 2021

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Racial differences in institutional trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and refusal, Anisah Bagasra, Sara Doan, and Christopher T. Allen

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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

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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

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Modulation linearization technique for fm/cw sar image processing using range migration, Theodore Grosch and Cyril Okhio

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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

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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

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No-cost learning material: Perspectives from industrial and systems engineering students, Lin Li, Robert S. Keyser, and Raven Pierson

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Immediate Repeat of a Septic Shock Simulation: Nursing Students’ Lived Experience, Mary Beth Maguire and Anne White

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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

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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

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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

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Beyond the Kármán gait: knifefish swimming in periodic and irregular vortex streets, Victor M. Ortega-Jiménez and Christopher P. Sanford

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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

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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

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Bound states and energy eigenvalues of a radial screened coulomb potential, Eric Stachura and N. Hancock

Submissions from 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Knifefish’s suction makes water boil, Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez and Christopher P.J. Sanford

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Chai and Conversation: Crafting Field Identities and Archaeological Practice in South Asia, Teresa Raczek and Namita S. Sugandhi

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Myositis Ossificans Traumatica with Associated Pseudarthroses in an Adult from Late Bronze Age Athens, Greece, Susan K. Smith and Maria A. Liston