Winter 2021 UW Tacoma Publications

The library is excited to share the scholarly work of our community with campus through Digital Commons, author profiles, and the Library blog. The list below includes all known books, book chapters, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed articles that were first published (including online) between January 1 – March 31, 2021, as well as a list of sponsored research from the Office of Research.

An unlocked symbol appears beside all works that are available Open Access (OA), which means that it “is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Peter Suber). We call attention to OA work because it enables the wider community to engage with it, and reflects the university’s central value of access. To be available OA, the work must be either published in an OA journal; shared via a disciplinary OA repository; or deposited in UW Tacoma Digital Commons. If you have questions about how to openly share your work, please contact us.

Articles

Uba Backonja (NHL) with co-authors: ‘“There’s a problem, now what’s the solution?”: suggestions for technologies to support the menopausal transition from individuals experiencing menopause and healthcare practitioners’ in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, DOI:  10.1093/jamia/ocaa178

Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (SET) with co-author: “Isogeny-based key compression without pairings (No. 272)”

Connie J. Beck (SIAS/SBHS) “Are the adults alright? Reviewing outcomes for adult offspring of parental divorce” in Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development, DOI: 10.1080/26904586.2021.1875952

Anindita Bhattacharya (SWCJ): “Book Review: Women’s activism, feminism, and social justice (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)” in Affilia, DOI: 0886109920985117 

Vahid Dargahi (SET) with co-authors: “Simple Active Capacitor Voltage Balancing Method Without Cost Function Optimization for Seven-Level Full-Bridge Flying-Capacitor-Multicell Inverters” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2021.3052155

Debasis Dawn (SET) with co-author: “Fully integrated CMOS tunable power amplifier using reconfigurable input/interstage/output matching networks” in Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1007/s10470-020-01777-9

Martine De Cock (SET) with co-authors: “Privacy-Preserving Feature Selection with Secure Multiparty Computation”

Martine De Cock (SET) with co-authors: “Privacy-Preserving Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks”

Martine De Cock (SET) with co-authors: “Private Emotion Recognition with Secure Multiparty Computation”

Rachel Endo (Education): “Diversity, equity, and inclusion for some but not all: LGBQ Asian American youth experiences at an urban public high school” in Multicultural Education Review DOI: 10.1080/2005615X.2021.1890311

Rachel Endo (Education): “The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University by Rick Bonus (review)” in Journal of Asian American Studies, DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2021.0016

Ander Erickson (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “When what routinely happens conflicts with what ought to be done: a scenario-based assessment of secondary mathematics teachers’ decisions” in Research in Mathematics Education, DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2020.1855600

Laura L. Feuerborn (Education) with co-author: “Ten Common Misses in PBIS Implementation” in Beyond Behavior, DOI: 10.1177/1074295621996874

Tessa B. Francis (PSI) with co-authors: “Historical reconstruction of the Puget Sound (USA) groundfish community” in Marine Ecology Progress Series, DOI: 10.3354/meps13547

Tessa B. Francis (PSI) with co-authors: “Management implications of long transients in ecological systems” in Nature Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01365-0

Durga P. Gautam (SIAS/PPPA): “Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?” in European Journal of Political Economy DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102007

James E. Gawel (SIAS/SAM) and Erin Hull with co-authors: “Human health risk from consumption of aquatic species in arsenic-contaminated shallow urban lakes” in Science of The Total Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145318

Marian S. Harris (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference: The Interaction Effect of Racial Matching and Child Race” in The British Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab027

Shalini Jain (Milgard) and Arindam Tripathy (Milgard) with co-authors: “Closing the gender gap in top management teams: An examination of diversity and compensation parity in family and non-family firms” in Journal of Family Business Strategy, DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2020.100388

Turan Kayaoglu (SIAS/PPPA): “National human rights institutions: A reason for hope in the Middle East and North Africa”

JaeRan Kim (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Systematic Review of Factors Affecting Foster Parent Retention” in Families in Society, DOI: 10.1177/1044389420970034

Edward P. Kolodziej (SIAS/SAM) and Haoqi Nina Zhao (Urban Waters) with co-authors: “Toxicity Testing of Effluent-Dominated Stream Using Predictive Molecular-Level Toxicity Signatures Based on High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry: A Case Study of the Lubbock Canyon Lake System” in Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: abs/10.1021/acs.est.0c05546

Tomas Koontz (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation” in Ecology and Society, DOI: 10.5751/ES-12080-260122

Umit S. Kucuk (Milgard): “Developing a theory of brand hate: Where are we now?” in Strategic Change, DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2385

Eric Madfis (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Moral Panic, Fear of Crime, and School Shootings: Does Location Matter?” in Sociological Inquiry, DOI: 10.1111/soin.12407

Marc Mangel (PSI) with co-authors: “Density-independent mortality at early life stages increases the probability of overlooking an underlying stock–recruitment relationship” in ICES Journal of Marine Science, DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa246

Lisa Mighetto (SIAS): “A Tale of Toxic Terror” in Environmental History, DOI: 10.1093/envhis/emab015

Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (Education) and Michelle Montgomery (Education) with co-author: “Reclaiming Emotions: Re-Unlearning and Re-Learning Discourses of Healing in a Tribally Placed Doctoral Cohort” in Genealogy, DOI: 10.3390/genealogy5010024

Anderson C. A. Nascimento (SET) with co-authors: “Fast Privacy-Preserving Text Classification based on Secure Multiparty Computation”

Gim S. Seow (Milgard) with co-authors: “Corporate environmental performance, legal origin, and investor protection” in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, DOI: 10.1504/IER.2020.112597

Anne Taufen (Urban Studies) with co-author: “Transitions in Urban Waterfronts: Imagining, Contesting, and Sustaining the Aquatic/Terrestrial Interface” in Sustainability DOI: 10.3390/su13010366

Ankur Teredesai (SET) with co-authors: “Assessing Fairness in Classification Parity of Machine Learning Models in Healthcare”

Ankur Teredesai (SET) with co-authors: “Emergency Department Optimization and Load Prediction in Hospitals”

Erik Tou (SIAS/SAM) with co-author: “A New Look at Euler and his Contemporaries” in Euleriana

Erik R. Tou (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “Collecting Works: A History of the Euler Archive” in Euleriana

Erik R. Tou (SIAS/SAM): “Euler in Wartime: Publishing in the Seven Years’ War” in Euleriana

Arindam Tripathy (Milgard) with co-authors: “Productivity spillovers in supply chain networks” in International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, DOI: 10.1504/IJAAPE.2020.112713

Anaid Yerena (Urban Studies) with co-authors: ‘Feeling Like an “Odd Duck”’ in Journal of the American Planning Association DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2020.1858936

Book Chapters

Vanessa de Veritch Woodside (SIAS/CAC) with co-author: “Developing Deeper Connections: Tandem and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) in the Teaching of Languages” in New Horizons in Language Learning and Teaching (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Winter 2021 Sponsored Research

Congratulations to the following externally sponsored research award recipients at UW Tacoma who received new funding between January-March 2021

John Finke, Sciences and Mathematics Division – SIAS
A portable biosensor for measurement of Covid-19 antibodies in community testing
M J Murdock Charitable Trust

This is a collaborative effort to develop a portable biosensor for measurement of Covid-19 antibodies in community testing.  Murdock partner and high school teacher, Sarah Kaperick, will assist in critical stages of biosensor development enabling rapid quantitative point-of-care measurement of Covid-19 antibodies. This biosensor uses our “calibration free” microfluidic technology to improve sensitivity, specificity, and quantitative capability versus the numerous rapid tests on the market. The biosensor sensitivity and quantitative capability will be confirmed using a control antibody that targets the Covid-19 spike protein. The biosensor specificity will be assessed using a range of antibody preparations collected prior to the emergence of Covid-19. In collaboration with local biotech RAIN Incubator and Multicare, the optimized biosensor will be tested with set of confirmed positive and negative COVID-19 serum samples.

Ka Yee Yeung-Rhee, SET
A Precision Health Trial to Reduce Illness & Promote Resilience in Hospital Staff
The Geneva Foundation/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The goal of the proposed research is to provide evidence-based health and wellness guidelines to military treatment facility (MTF) healthcare staff to mitigate the risk of respiratory infections. Staff adoption of these educational guidelines will include assessment of biological/health risk parameters as well as measures of lifestyle behaviors, such as sleep, diet/nutrition and physical activities. Multiple datasets will be collected in this study, including gene expression data, clinical parameters and data from wearable fitness devices

Matthew Tolentino, SET
Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Without the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Namatad/US Department of Defense (DOD)

The use of GPS has become ubiquitous for position identification and navigation. However, in many areas, such as within buildings, dense urban areas, complex terrain, or hostile environments, access to satellite-transmitted positioning signals may be limited, unavailable, or intentionally denied, limiting the spatial awareness and navigation capabilities of personnel in transit. To ensure continuity in navigation capabilities, alternative localization techniques are required to avoid personnel and assets from becoming lost or disoriented while traversing unknown areas.
In this proposal, the project team will implement and evaluate the changes identified during Phase I for adapting the Namatad FIREFLY localization platform for operational use by warfighters in GPS-denied areas. Project work focuses on realizing implementations of the optimizations and changes recommended during our feasibility analysis during Phase I. These include L2 network adaptations, modifications for large-scale deployments, transceiver optimizations and ranging adaptations for urban environments, and integration of jamming resilience techniques. The outcome of this project will be a ready-to-deploy, defense-focused version of the FIREFLY system for USSOCOM.

Katie Haerling, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership
Responding to a critical and urgent need: Informing evidence-based regulation of simulation in pre-licensure registered nursing education
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing

To protect the public, state boards of nursing (BONs) aim to develop and enforce evidence-based regulations (Spector et al., 2020). In recent years, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, BONs have closely examined regulations related to the use of simulation in nursing education. Limited numbers of traditional clinical placement sites and restrictions around what student nurses can do during traditional clinical experiences often create less-than-ideal learning opportunities for undergraduate registered nursing students. At the same time, advances in technology and evidence supporting the use of simulation in undergraduate registered nursing education have led nurse educators to question how much traditional clinical experience can be replaced with simulation without impacting educational outcomes, what types of simulation are most effective, and what ratio is most appropriate for “counting” these hours. This project systematically addresses these questions by examining the use of mannequin-based simulation, virtual simulation, and traditional clinical in undergraduate registered nursing education. Findings from this study will provide critical insights to inform regulatory decisions about how to most appropriately calculate required clinical experience hours, including time spent in traditional clinical, mannequin-based simulation, and virtual simulation experiences.

Alison Gardell, Sciences and Mathematics Division – SIAS
Alaska Undergraduate Research Experience: Partnering for Alaska Students by Growing Recruitment and Retention through Undergraduate Research
University of Alaska, Anchorage/National Science Foundation (NSF)

The main goal of AK UNiTE (Alaska UNdergraduaTe research Experience) is to connect Alaskan students to local research opportunities in biological sciences to increase retention and better prepare students to enter research endemic to Alaska. This project will bring the Alaskan research community together to develop community partnerships with local research projects (e.g. local tribal councils, non-profits, state and federal agencies across Alaska) and create pathways for future undergraduate research opportunities.  This project will identify community partnerships with local research projects, provide workshops on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) development and place-based education for collaborators, develop a network informational hub within the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) website, and evaluate the network.

Heather Dillon, SET
Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) Concept Map Toolbox for Course and Program Evaluation
Rowan University/Kern Family Foundation

The goal of this project is to create a toolkit for faculty members to allow them to use a “master EM” concept map as a means for scoring student generated EM concept maps and assessing student progression over different time periods. Concept maps are considered to be a direct assessment tool as they can provide a snapshot of students’ conceptual understanding of EM at a specific time point. Concept maps have been used extensively as teaching and assessment tools for other engineering education
outcomes. Both quantitative and qualitative scoring approaches have been tested and validated in other areas but need more work for EM assessment.

Ed Kolodziej, Sciences and Mathematics Division – SIAS and Center for Urban Waters
Coho Toxicant Characterization
Washington State Department of Ecology/Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Over several years of effort together, UW and WSU research groups have recently discovered a new chemical in roadway runoff that is apparently responsible for the acute mortality observed in coho salmon in stormwater-impacted watersheds throughout the Puget Sound basin. The chemical is toxic to juvenile coho salmon at concentrations near or below 1 μg/L. They expect to detect this toxic chemical in all receiving waters downstream of busy roadways (hereafter referred to as the “toxicant”). Notably, this chemical is a transformation product; it is derived from the reaction of an antioxidant ‘parent’ chemical that the literature implies is added to all vehicle tires (hereafter referred to as the “parent compound”). While this new chemical and its suspected provenance have been identified, considerable research is needed to characterize its environmental transport and fate, and the toxicity that it induces in coho salmon and other species relevant to Washington State waters. Ongoing research efforts are expected to result in the quantification of this toxic chemical by a Washington Department of Ecology accredited method and a basic understanding of its occurrence and fate in select stormwater treatment systems. However, there still exists a considerable lack of insight into the effect of solution conditions (pH, ionic strength, turbidity, dissolved organic matter) and hydrology on the stability, transport, and toxicity of this chemical. The objective of this research project is to continue to research the characteristics and potential impacts of these compounds on the Puget Sound ecosystem.

Maria-Tania Bandes-Becerra Weingarden, Culture, Arts, and Communications (CAC)-SIAS
Book of Andy
City of Tacoma

The artistic merit of the production of The Book of Andy is three-fold. First, the arts in Tacoma, like the rest of the country, have taken a brutal hit. Artists in general are out of work and further, theatre artists have lost the ability to have their work produced in the traditional sense. This production brings together two organizations, with the support of a third, to create a virtual space to perform, while providing a number of artists in the community the ability to earn while practicing their craft. Cast will be made up of community members and students.

Second, both UWT and Dukesbay are committed to produce work from underrepresented groups and embrace diverse casting as their practice. The Book of Andy depicts a Latinx queer young man as its protagonist and explores issues unequivocally relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. Both the Latinx community and the LGBTQ+ communities have been historically underrepresented on the Tacoma stage, a contrast to recent statistical data demonstrating the growth of the Latinx community, up to 12%, and the steady growth of the LGBTQ+ community in Tacoma, an area often described as Washington’s “gayest” city. Visibility is important.

Last, this production is positioned as the only production UWT will produce this academic year, providing a much-needed training ground for future theatre artists that will eventually come from UWT, and more importantly, future theatre goers that will be eager for the live theatre experience in Tacoma in the future, when the pandemic allows us to once again enjoy entertainment face to face.