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This portion of the White Library site is dedicated to documenting the scholarly output of our faculty. This is by no means an all-inclusive list and there are many citations yet to be added. Clicking the title will either take you to the item’s location in the library catalog or database, or to an outside link where you can purchase it. If would like to suggest a faculty publication to be included, please send link to the source and a Chicago Style citation to facultypublications@arbor.edu.

Mary Darling

By on November 1, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Campolo, Tony, and Mary Albert Darling. The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice. San Franciso: Jossey-Bass, 2007.

The Stem Cell EpistlesThe God of Intimacy and Action reveals how contemplative spiritual practices can lead to greater intimacy with God and fuel passion for reaching out to others, through spreading the Good News and fostering justice for the poor and oppressed. The authors show why this combination is not only crucial but historical: it is vividly demonstrated in the lives of saints such as St Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola and Catherine of Siena.

Campolo and Darling explain mystical spirituality and its practices, and integrate them with evangelism and justice to illuminate what they call ‘holistic Christianity’. They suggest specific ways to nurture and energize one’s spirituality and show how to go beyond living a Christian life that merely emphasizes right beliefs and right behaviours.

Robert Woods

By on September 29, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Ebersole, Samuel, and Robert Woods. “Motivations for viewing reality television: a uses and gratification analysis.” Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 23, no. 1 (September 2007): 23-42.

Abstract: This survey research examines motives for viewing Reality TV programs. Employing a uses and gratifications approach, this study found five factors that explain program choice preference: personal identification with real characters, entertainment, mood change, pass time, and vicarious participation. The relationships of the aforementioned factors to viewers’ level of TV viewing, affinity for viewing, perceived realism, and parasocial interaction were examined. The study found that Reality TV viewers expand previous notions of ritualized or instrumental viewing categories identified by earlier TV viewer research, and that the interactive nature of Reality TV programming may contribute to the strong sense of personal identification that many viewers experience.

Michael Buratovich

By on May 7, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Amin, Amr, and Michael Buratovich. “The Anti-Cancer Charm of Flavonoids: A Cup-of-Tea Will Do!.” Recent Patents On Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery 2, no. 2 (June 2007): 109-117. doi: 10.2174/157489207780832414

Abstract: Hormone-dependent cancers of the breast, prostate and colon have, in the past decade, become the leading causes of morbidityand mortality. Billions of dollars have been, and still are being spent to study cancers like these, and, in the past three decades, thanks towork by thousands of dedicated scientists, tremendous advancements in the understanding and treatment of cancer have been made. Nevertheless, as there is no sure-fire cure for a variety of cancers to date, natural protection against cancer has been receiving a great deal of attention lately not only from cancer patients but, surprisingly, from physicians as well. Phytoestrogens, plant-derived secondary metabolites, are diphenolic substances with structural similarity to naturally-occurring human steroid hormones. Phytoestrogens are normally divided into three main classes: flavonoids, coumestans and lignans. Flavonoids are found in almost all plant families in the leaves, stems, roots, flowers and seeds of plants and are among the most popular anti-cancer candidates. Flavonoidic derivatives have a wide range of biological actions such as antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antiallergic activities. Some of these benefits are explained by the potent antioxidant effects of flavonoids, which include metal chelation and free-radical scavenging activities. Patent applications regarding flavonoids range from protocols for extraction and purification from natural resources and the establishment of various biological activities for these extracts to novel methods for the production and isolation of flavonoids with known biological activities. This review will bring the reader up to date on the current knowledge and research available in the field of flavonoids and hormone-dependent cancers, and many of the submitted patents that exploit flavonoids.

David Johnson

By on May 7, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Labban, Abdul, Roger Berg, Jian Zhou, David A. Johnson, and Edgar F. Westrum. “Heat capacities and derived thermodynamic properties of lithium, sodium, and potassium disilicates from T =(5 to 350)K in both vitreous and crystalline states.” Journal Of Chemical Thermodynamics 39, no. 7 (July 2007): 991-1000. doi: 10.1016/j.jct.2007.01.001

Abstract: Abstract: Cryogenic heat capacities determined by equilibrium adiabatic calorimetry from T =(6 to 350)K on Li, Na, and K disilicates in both crystalline and vitreous phases are adjusted to end member composition and the vitreous/crystal difference ascertained. The thermophysical properties of these and related phases are estimated, compared, and updated. The values at T =298.15K of {S ∘(T)− S ∘(0)}/R for stoichiometric compositions of alkali disilicate (M2O·2SiO2): vitreous, crystal: Li, 16.30, 14.65; Na, 20.67, 19.47; and K, 23.26, 23.00. Entropy differences confirm greater disorder in the vitreous compounds compared with the crystalline compounds. The entropy data also show that disorder increases with decreasing atomic mass of the alkali ion.

Robert Eells

By on February 16, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Eells, Robert J. “Where did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy.” Fides Et Historia 39, no. 1 (Winter, 2007): 149-152.

Abstract: “To use a biblical analogy,” according to the author, “one could say that the Democratic Party exchanged its birthright for a mess of pottage” (271). The birthright was true, principled Jeffersonian liberalism-incarnate in the third president and later embodied in Andrew Jackson, Martin VanBuren, and especially in William Jennings Bryan’s evangelical populism. Pottage, on the other hand, was the disastrous direction first taken by Woodrow Wilson, then quickly followed by the Hamiltonian statism of FDR, LBJ, and the author’s particular nemesis, Hubert H. Humphrey.

Robert Woods and Brian Walrath

By on January 13, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Woods, Robert, and Brian Walrath. The Message in the Music: Studying Contemporary Praise and Worship. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007.

The Making of an Ordinary Saint The definitive guide to the meaning of today’s most popular praise and worship songs. Few things influence Christians’ understanding of the faith more than the songs they sing in worship. The explosion of praise and worship music in the last fifteen years has profoundly affected our experience of God. So what are those songs telling us about who God is? In what ways have they made us more faithful disciples of Jesus Christ? In what ways have they failed to embody the full message of the gospel?

Working with the lists of the most frequently sung praise and worship songs from recent years, the authors of this book offer an objective but supportive assessment of the meaning and contribution of the Christian music that has been so important in the lives of contemporary believers.

Martin Covey

By on January 13, 2007 in Faculty Publications

Covey, Martin. “Introduction: Work and Families.” Michigan Family Review 12 (2007): 1-6.

Abstract: This issue of Michigan Family Review explores the interface of families and the world of work. Articles include work related topics such as the challenges of long distance commuting and how families have adapted to this form of work. Other articles explore the role of occupational status on leisure activities, and the challenges and adaptive strategies of the work poor in rural areas.

Shasha Wu

By on September 24, 2006 in Faculty Publications

Revesz, Peter, and Shasha Wu. “Spatiotemporal reasoning about epidemiological data.” Artificial Intelligence In Medicine no. 2 (2006): 157.

Abstract: In this article, we propose new methods to visualize and reason about spatiotemporal epidemiological data. Efficient computerized reasoning about epidemics is important to public health and national security, but it is a difficult task because epidemiological data are usually spatiotemporal, recursive, and fast changing hence hard to handle in traditional relational databases and geographic information systems. We describe the general methods of how to (1) store epidemiological data in constraint databases, (2) handle recursive epidemiological definitions, and (3) efficiently reason about epidemiological data based on recursive and non-recursive Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. We implement a particular epidemiological system called West Nile Virus Information System (WeNiVIS) that enables the visual tracking of and reasoning about the spread of the West Nile Virus (WNV) epidemic in Pennsylvania. In the system, users can do many interesting reasonings based on the spatiotemporal dataset and the recursively defined risk evaluation function through the SQL query interfaces. In this article, the WeNiVIS system is used to visualize and reason about the spread of West Nile Virus in Pennsylvania as a sample application. Beside this particular case, the general methodology used in the implementation of the system is also appropriate for many other applications. Our general solution for reasoning about epidemics and related spatiotemporal phenomena enables one to solve many problems similar to WNV without much modification.

Karen Klein Villa

By on May 3, 2006 in Faculty Publications

Klein Villa, Karen. “Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Convergences in Nonconscious Lexical Processing: Response to Orsucci.”Neuro-Psychoanalysis 8, no. 2 (2006): 155-157.

Abstract: Responds to a comment by Franco Orsucci (see record 2007-00094-005) on the original article by Karen Klein Villa et al (see record 2007-00094-002). The authors are grateful to the commentators for their scholarly and thought-provoking response to our target article and for the interesting theoretical and technical questions their response has generated. The Shevrin group has engaged in a long tradition of subliminal perception studies addressing a number of phenomena regarding primary- and secondary-process mentation, including physiological markers of unconscious conflict, affect, defense, and the attributional vs. relational nature of these two modes of processing. The current study focuses on the nature of language processing in the unconscious, where we hypothesized that words would be treated as perceptual stimuli and processed in a bidirectional manner. We sought to determine if the structural aspect of a lexical item was processed separately from its referent or semantic associate. This type of lexical modularity was postulated early on by Freud and has been outlined in contemporary models of language architecture. As stated previously, our palindrome finding did not emerge as a main effect; however, once the moderating variables of stimulus detectability and anxiety were taken into account, the perceptual treatment of words in the subliminal condition did emerge. In particular, high anxiety activated semantic associations and low anxiety inhibited semantic associations to the palindrome prime. We propose, therefore, that novel and creative sequencing of linguistic units (i.e., the word is treated as a perceptual object) predominates in unconscious cognitive processing and that this novel sequencing potentially contributes to ambiguity exploitation and resolution for such processes as condensation and displacement.