CAS Publications
Articles, reports, and other short publications produced by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Articles
Phylogenomics of Perityleae (Compositae) provides new insights into morphological and chromosomal evolution of the rock daisies, Isaac H. Lichter-Marck, William A. Freyman, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, Jennifer R. Mandel, Arturo Castro-Castro, Gabriel Johnson, and Bruce G. Baldwin
An integrative framework reveals widespread gene flow during the early radiation of oaks and relatives in Quercoideae (Fagaceae), Shui-Yin Liu, Ying-Ying Yang, Qin Tian, Zhi-Yun Yang, Shu-Feng Li, Paul J. Valdes, Alex Farnsworth, Heather R. Kates, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, Robert P. Guralnick, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Gregory W. Stull, Ryan A. Folk, and Ting-Shuang Yi
Extremely low nucleotide diversity among thirty-six new chloroplast genome sequences from Aldama (Heliantheae, Asteraceae) and comparative chloroplast genomics analyses with closely related genera, Benoit Loeuille, Verônica Thode, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, Sonia Andrade, Magdalena Rossi, and José Rubens Pirani
Are Black Robots Like Black People? Examining How Negative Stigmas about Race Are Applied to Colored Robots, Jeannice Louine, David C. May, Daniel W. Carruth, Cindy L. Bethel, Lesley Strawderman, and John M. Usher
School Violence Is More Than Physical: The Association Between Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of School Climate, Michayla D. Mack, Sanna King, and David C. May
Going to Jail Sucks (And It Really Doesn't Matter Who You Ask), David C. May, Brandon K. Applegate, Rick Ruddell, and Peter B. Wood
Do School Resource Officers Contribute to Net Widening? Evidence from a Southern State, David C. May, Raymond Barranco, Rick Ruddell, and Angela Robertson
Do School Resource Officers Really Refer Juveniles to the Juvenile Justice System for Less Serious Offenses?, David C. May, Raymond Barranco, Ethan Stokes, Angela A. Robertson, and Stacy H. Haynes
Survey of Factors for the Prediction of Human Comfort with a Non-anthropomorphic Robot in Public Spaces, David C. May, Kristie J. Holler, Cindy L. Bethel, Lesley Strawderman, Daniel W. Carruth, and John M. Usher
Predicting Adolescent Fear of Crime Through the Lens of General Strain Theory, David C. May, Shelley Keith, Nicole E. Rader, and R. Gregory Dunaway
Stress among Correctional Officers: an Organizational Justice Approach, David C. May, Eric G. Lambert, Matthew C. Leone, Linda D. Keena, and Stacy H. Haynes
To Be Involved or Not to Be Involved: Testing Prison Staff Job Involvement Using the Job Demands–Job Resources Model, David C. May, Eric G. Lambert, Monica Solinas-Saunders, Linda D. Keena, Matthew Leone, and Stacy H. Haynes
Do White-Collar Offenders Find Prison More Punitive than Property Offenders: Club Fed or Club Dread?, David C. May and Brian K. Payne
A Gendered Assessment of the "Threat of Victimization": Examining Gender Differences in Fear of Crime, Perceived Risk, Avoidance, and Defensive Behaviors, David C. May, Nicole E. Rader, and Sarah Goodrum
Does Military Service Make the Experience of Prison Less Painful? Voices From Incarcerated Veterans, David C. May, Kristen L. Stives, Makeela J. Wells, and Peter B. Wood
Exploring Alternatives to Out-of-School Suspension in Kentucky: A Quasi-Experimental Study Examining the Effectiveness of Community Service Work, David C. May, Ethan Stokes, Ashlee Oliver, and Timothy McClure
The Impact of Trusted Adults and Friends on Fear and Avoidance Behaviors at School, David C. May, Makeela J. Wells, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Tawny N. Evans-McCleon, and H. Colleen Sinclair
What Influences Offenders' Willingness to Serve Alternative Sanctions?, David C. May and Peter B. Wood
Predicting Offender-Generated Exchange Rates: Implications for a Theory of Sentence Severity, David C. May, Peter B. Wood, Jennifer L. Mooney, and Kevin I. Minor
Why Don’t the Police Make Me Feel Safe? Using Black’s Theory of Law to Potentially Extend Current Findings on Crime Victims’ Fear, Shelly A. McGrath, Rachel Whaley, Jessica Abbott, and David C. May
The Business of Recovery: A Novel Pilot Study Psychosocial Intervention to Build Self-Efficacy and Reduce Relapse Risk in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment, Ian T. McKay and Danielle K. Nadorff
Military Service in Lieu of Imprisonment: Voices from the Inside, Travis Milburn, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood
Construction of Gold Micro-Bead Ultramicroelectrodes, Deon T. Miles, Andrew Knedlik, and David O. Wipf
Offenders, Judges, and Officers Rate the Relative Severity of Alternative Sanctions Compared to Prison, Nathan T. Moore, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood
Examining the Effect of Work–Family Conflict on Job Stress Among Community Corrections Staff, Weston J. Morrow, Eric G. Lambert, Samuel G. Vickovic, Matthew C. Leone, Monica Solinas-Saunders, David C. May, and Stacy H. Haynes
A 'Better Life'? The Universal Deception of Immigrants in the Narratives of Driss Chraïbi and J. M. G. le Clézio, Keith Moser
A Derridean Interpretation of the Biosemiosic Dance of Life in Yamen Manai’s L’Amas Ardent (2017), Keith Moser
A Tribute to the Immortal Sailor-Philosopher Who Opened the Northwest Passage, Keith Moser
Breaking the Silence or Using It to Speak? An Exploration of Silence as a Literary Device in Four Harki Narratives, Keith Moser
Christian Signol’s Les vrais bonheurs and Michel Serres’s Biogée: Two Books of Joy for the Modern W`orld, Keith Moser
Derrida's "Chimerical Experimental Exercise": An Ecolinguistic Dream of a More Biocentric Language, Keith Moser
Echoes of Laughter in a Decaying Republic: Amusing Ourselves to Autocracy in a Post-Truth Age of "Alternative Facts", Keith Moser
Franco-Maghrebi Rap and Benyoucef's Le Nom du père, Keith Moser
Is There an Exit Door?: The Baudrillardian Crisis of Simulation in The Truman Show, Keith Moser
J. M. G. Le Clézio and Gérard Gouesbet’s Cosmic, Ecocentric Framework for Understanding the Nature of Human Violence, Keith Moser
J. M. G. Le Clézio's Urban Phantoms and the Paradox of Invisibility, Keith Moser
Launching a Transdisciplinary Call for Semioethical Virtue Ethics in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene, Keith Moser
Le Clézio’s La Guerre and Les Géants: Counter-Hegemonic, Situationist, User Manuals for the Post-Modern Subject?, Keith Moser
Le Clézio’s "Martin" and His Religion of Ecstasy, Keith Moser
Le Clézio's "Monster Island:" The Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable", Keith Moser
Manufacturing a Suburban Hyper-Reality in the Film The Joneses: A Baudrillardian Reflection, Keith Moser
Michel Onfray’s Decentered, Ecocentric, Atheistic Philosophy: A User’s Guide for the Anthropocene Epoch?, Keith Moser
Michel Serres's Encyclopedic Philosophical Vision of an Ever-Changing Human Landscape, Keith Moser
Protecting the Fragile Splendor of the Universe: A Serresian Reading of Jean Giono’s L’Homme qui plantait des arbres, Keith Moser
(Re-)Awakening the Senses in Le Clézio's L'Inconnu sur la terre and Serres's Les Cinq sens, Keith Moser
Rending Moments of Material Ecstasy in the Meditative Essays of Two Nobel Laureates: Le Clezio and Camus, Keith Moser
The "Big, Beautiful Bill:" the Ultimate Simulacrum or Post-Truth Exercise in Orwellian Doublespeak—Newspeak, Keith Moser
The Derridean Gaze of the “Wholly Other” in Stephen King’s “Rat”, Keith Moser
The Eco-Philosophy of Michel Serres and J. M. G. Le Clézio: Launching a Battle Cry to Save the Imperiled Earth, Keith Moser
The Fiction of Michel Serres: Writing the Beauty, Fragility, and Complexity of the Universe, Keith Moser
The Sensorial, Biocentric Philosophy of Michel Serres and Michel Onfray: Rehabilitating the Human Body, Keith Moser
The Submerged, Post-Truth "Island of Happiness" in Michel Houellebecq's Extension du domaine de la lutte, Keith Moser
The Symbolic Representation of Subversion as a Mental Illness: A Foucauldian Reading of Le Clézio's Le Procès-Verbal, Keith Moser
Quantifying Interdisciplinarity: Subject Librarians as Research Collaborators, David S. Nolen, Sheeji Kathuria, and Evan Peacock
Monitoring and Prediction of Land Use and Land Cover Using Remote Sensing and CA-ANN, Frank Juma Ong'ondo, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Philista Adhiambo Malaki, Hafez Ahmad, Qingmin Meng, Domnic Kiprono Chesire, Kuria Anthony, and Yahia Said
Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Technique to Classify Land Cover Types and Predict Grassland Bird Abundance and Distribution in Nairobi National Park, Kenya, Frank Juma Ong'ondo, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Philista Adhiambo Malaki, Peter Njoroge, and Hafez Ahmad
Towards Integrated Frameworks for Assessing Bird Species Richness Using Citizen Science and Geospatial Data, Frank Juma Ong'ondo, Qingmin Meng, Domnic Kiprono Chesire, Peter Njoroge, Tariq Aqil, Hafez Ahmad, Serge Leugoue Kameni, and Philista Adhiambo Malaki
Predicting the Distribution and Abundance of Bustards, Storks, and Harriers in Kenya Using Citizen Science Data, Frank Juma Ong’ondo, Rosie Trevelyan, Anthony Kuria, Peter Njoroge, Samuel Guchu, and Colin Jackson
Asteraceae as a model system for evolutionary studies: from fossils to genomes, Luis Palazzesi, Jaume Pellicer, Viviana D. Barreda, Benoît Loeuville, Jennifer R. Mandel, Lisa Pokorny, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, M. Cristina Tellería, Ilia J. Leitch, and Oriane Hidalgo
Continental sampling reveals core bacterial and environmentally driven fungal leaf endophytes in Heuchera, Dexcem J. Pantinople, Reagan Conner, Stephanie Sutton-Dauber, Kelli Broussard, Carolina Moriani Siniscalchi, Nicholas J. Engle-Wrye, Heather R. Jordan, and Ryan A. Folk
Multi-allelic major effect genes interact with minor effect QTLs to control adaptive color pattern variation in Heliconius erato., Riccardo Papa, Durrell D. Kapan, Brian A. Counterman, Karla Maldonado, Daniel P. Lindstrom, Robert D. Reed, H. Frederik Nijhout, Tomas Hrbek, and W. Owen McMillan
The 'Pains' of Electronic Monitoring: A Slap on the Wrist or Just as Bad as Prison?, Brian K. Payne, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood
Cybersecurity Students’ Interest in Government Careers: Impact of Demographic Characteristics and Job Dynamics, Brian K. Payne, Ida Oesteraas, and David C. May
America’s Most Wanted Criminals: Comparing Cybercriminals and Traditional Criminals, Brian Payne, David C. May, and Lora Hadzhidimova
The Promise and Peril of Using Attention Economy Data for Public Research, Mike Potter, Emma Biddles, David May, and Barton Moffatt
Fictionality And Infrastructure, Daniel Punday
Space Across Narrative Media: Towards An Archaeology Of Narratology, Daniel Punday
The site specific demethylation in the 5'-regulatory area of NMDA receptor 2B subunit gene associated with CIE-induced up-regulation of transcription., Mei Qiang, Ashley Denny, Jiguo Chen, Maharaj K. Ticku, Bo Yan, and George Henderson
Impact of Mining Activities on Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Using Geospatial Techniques in the Obuasi Municipality, Jonathan Arthur Quaye-Ballard, Samira Naa Yemoley Nsiah, Jephthah Marfo Nimoh, Titus Tienaah, Tina Dzigbordi Wemegah, and Precious Adwoa Okyere
Avoidance, Protective, and Weapons Behaviors: An Examination of Constrained Behaviors and their Impact on Concerns about Crime, Nicole E. Rader and Stacy H. Haynes
Gendered Fear of Crime Socialization: An Extension of Akers’s Social Learning Theory, Nicole E. Rader and Stacy H. Haynes
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment, Nicole E. Rader, Courtney Heath, David C. May, Caitlyn Gaddy, Christopher Hudson, and Daniel Carruth
An Empirical Assessment of the "Threat of Victimization:" Considering Fear of Crime, Perceived Risk, Avoidance, and Defensive Behaviors, Nicole E. Rader, David C. May, and Sarah Goodrum
Safety Perceptions and Experiences with Violence among College Students, Caroline Reid, Jennifer R. Wies, David C. May, and Brianna Wright
CCWORK Protocol: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian Correctional Workers' Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Elizabeth Andres, Meghan M. Mitchell, Bastien Quirion, Diane Groll, Michael Adorjan, Marcella Siqueira Cassiano, James Shewmake, Martine Herzog-Evans, Dominique Moran, Dale C. Spencer, Christine Genest, Stephen Czarnuch, James Gacek, Cramm Heidi, Katharina Maier, Jo Phoenix, Michael Weinrath, Joy MacDermid, Margaret McKinnon, Stacy Haynes, Helen Arnold, Jennifer Turner, Anna Eriksson, Alexandra Heber, Gregory Anderson, Renee MacPhee, and Nicholas Carleton
Mental Health, Stigma, Gender, and Seeking Treatment: Interpretations and Experiences of Prison Employees, Rosemary (Rose) Ricciardelli, Stacy H. Haynes, Amy Burdette, Linda Keena, D. R. McCreary, R. Nicholas Carleton, Eric G. Lambert, and Dianne Groll
Mental health first aid training for Extension agents in rural communities, Mary Nelson Robertson, Hilary L. DeShong, Je'Kylynn S. Steen, David R. Buys, and Michael R. Nadorff
Rural Adults' Perceived Role of Family Members in Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention: Implications for Family-Based Approaches, Mary Nelson Robertson, Laura H. Downey, Holli H. Seitz, Alisha M. Hardman, and David R. Buys
Agricultural Producers' Perceptions of Stressors: A Study on Controllability and Persistency, Mary Nelson Robertson, Devon Mills, Brice A. Fortinberry, Mary Marshall Waller, Hunter H. Thompson, Marina Denny, and David R. Buys
The PROMISE Initiative: Who Should Give Patients Information on Opioids?, Mary Nelson Robertson, Daniel Williams, Holli Seitz, Laura Downey, Alisha Hardman, and David R. Buys
Crime Victims' Perceptions of Restitution: The Importance of Payment and Understanding, R. Barry Ruback, Alison C. Cares, and Stacy N. Hoskins
Prevalence of Clinically Relevant Nightmares and Their Differences by Sex and Diagnosis in Psychiatric Inpatients, Katrina A. Rufino, Michelle A. Patriquin, Courtney B. Worley, and Michael R. Nadorff
The Perceptual Origin of Added Glottals in Spanish Loans in Modern Nahuan, Hugo Salgado and Justin Pinta
Physical Health and Crime among Low-Income Urban Women: An Application of General Strain Theory, Ryan D. Schroeder, Terrence D. Hill, Stacy Hoskins Haynes, and Christopher Bradley
Development and Pretesting of Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention Messages: Results and Implications for Practice, Holli H. Seitz, Mary Nelson Robertson, Je'Kylynn Steen, Sarah G. Dulaney, and David R. Buys
Using a Bacterial Protein to Selectively Target Bacterial Biofilms: Treatment of S. epidermidis Biofilms with Targeted Photothermal Gold Nanoparticle, Tanveer Shaikh, Dhanush L. Amarasekara, Radha P. Somarathne, Kenneth Hulugalla, Veeresh B. Toragall, Gabriel J. Alcantara, Madison A. Hejny, Elizabeth R. McCaffrey, Thomas Werfel, and Nicholas C. Fitzkee
Helmet Prototype Response Time Assessment using NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Football Athletes, Zachary Shelly, Ethan Stewart, Tate Fonville, Reuben F. Burch V, Harish Chander, Lesley Strawderman, David C. May, JohnEric Smith, Daniel Carruth, and Cory Bichey
