Missouri State University Research Articles

Using QR Codes for Enhanced Learning in Nursing Simulation.

By Moretta Burk, EdD, MSN, RN, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, [email protected]. The author declares no conflict of interest.

A Community Curated Collection in an Academic Library: Empowering Students Through Collection Development

In 2019, Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University implemented two initiatives to engage students in collection development. The What Would You Like to Read About? and Carrie Woodburn Johnson Endowment Grants for Student Groups programs enabled the creation of a community-curated collection through student empowerment and collaboration. During this presentation, Randyn A. Heisserer-Miller of Colorado State University shared details of the two student-led initiatives he implemented while Acquisitions Manager at Kent Library. Heisserer-Miller also engaged the audience in a critical discussion of student engagement in collection development and what voices are important to include when building relevant and vital collections that support student success.

New horizons for academic library collection development: Creating a community curated collection through student empowerment

As the role of the academic library in university life changes, libraries are seeking ways to better engage their communities – university students, faculty, and staff. Student success and engagement have come to the forefront of these efforts. In 2019, Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University implemented two programs to engage students in collection development. The first program enriched subject areas within Kent Library’s collection that were selected by the student body. The second program awarded grants to student groups for the purchase of library materials that supported their focus. This case study shares details of the two programs, their implementation, and the results, including the impact of student engagement in collections on student success and the creation of a community-curated library collection.

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Doe 7 v. Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University, No. 1:20‐CV‐00172 (E.D. Mo. 05/05/22).

Research Services and Spaces as Expressions of the Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behavior of University Faculty

A group of faculty and staff of the Missouri State University (MSU) Libraries, assisted by an anthropologist, conducted a survey and then an ethnographic study using direct observation and semi-structured interviews of a broad sample of MSU faculty members to explore faculty scholarly information seeking habits and behavior. Research questions explored where faculty researched, what they used, and whom they consulted for assistance. Building upon background and findings concerning content in an introductory article, this companion article will discuss findings related to services and spaces used or desired by faculty.

Research Content as an Expression of the Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behavior of University Faculty

A group of faculty and staff of the Missouri State University (MSU) Libraries, assisted by an anthropologist, conducted a survey and then an ethnographic study using direct observation and semi-structured interviews of a broad sample of MSU faculty members to explore faculty scholarly information seeking habits and behavior. Research questions explored where faculty researched, what they used, and whom they consulted for assistance. This article will discuss the methodologies of the study, as well as its findings on content used by faculty, to be followed by a companion article discussing findings on services and spaces.

“We Gave Them Thunder”: Marmaduke’s Raid and the Civil War in Missouri and Arkansas by William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford

Reviewed by: “We Gave Them Thunder”: Marmaduke’s Raid and the Civil War in Missouri and Arkansas by William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford Andrew Fialka “We Gave Them Thunder”: Marmaduke’s Raid and the Civil War in Missouri and Arkansas. By William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford. (Springfield: Ozarks Studies Institute of Missouri State University, 2021. Pp. xiv, 343. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-7346290-1-9; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 978-1-7321222-3-9.) “We Gave Them Thunder”: Marmaduke’s Raid and the Civil War in Missouri and Arkansas is a refreshing take on traditional military history. Grounded in up-to-date secondary literature and straightforward about slavery’s role in causing the Civil War, this monograph brings modern scholarship to its intended audience—“descendants” in Missouri and Arkansas to whom Marmaduke’s Raid still matters (p. 2). William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford note how simultaneous events in the western theater, such as the battle of Stones River, overshadowed the raid’s importance and how the larger and better-preserved site of the battle of Wilson’s Creek still dominates Civil War memory in southwest Missouri. The raid has not fared much better in academia—no other monograph-length treatment exists, and the raid receives scant coverage in applicable syntheses, including James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York, 1988), Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones’s How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (Urbana, 1983), and Jay Monaghan’s Civil War on the Western Border, 1854–1865 (Boston, 1955). In addition to bringing the raid’s larger story to light, Piston and Rutherford illustrate the logistical chess game played by Union and Confederate commanders attempting to control the St. Louis–Fort Smith corridor—a possible “back door” for Confederates to capture St. Louis and turn the tide in the trans-Mississippi theater—while constantly having their troops siphoned off to larger battlefields in the East (p. 22). Military matters take up the bulk of the book. Piston and Rutherford expertly summarize Missouri’s unique, and often confusing, position both on the American frontier and as a border state. Chapters 1–2 explain Missouri’s multiple governors—the ousted secessionist Claiborne Fox Jackson and provisional Unionist Hamilton Rowan Gamble. They also detail the state’s many fighting forces, including volunteer regiments, which focused on opening the Missouri River to the Union navy and controlling the aforementioned St. Louis–Fort Smith corridor; the Missouri State Militia, a homegrown state security and counterguerrilla force; and the Enrolled Missouri Militia, which called all able-bodied and loyal men into emergency service (without making a particularly good distinction between those who were loyal and disloyal). The narrative peaks in chapters 6 and 8, which offer blow-by-blow accounts of the battles of Springfield and Hartville, complete with corresponding battle maps. Union forces held off fierce attacks in Springfield thanks to hastily constructed fort defenses and a clever use of cavalry units to buy additional time for preparation. In Hartville, outnumbered Union forces again held off Confederate raiders, this time thanks to securing the high ground northwest of the town and utilizing brush to hide their lack of strength. The attention to detail in this book’s presentation makes it particularly enjoyable to read. The maps, created by Jim Coombs, a maps and GIS librarian at Missouri State University, are very helpful. The numerous color images [End Page 367] are vivid and will be appreciated by anyone enthusiastic about material culture. The lack of academic jargon in the prose makes even lengthy tactical passages easy to follow. This is accessible scholarship. “We Gave Them Thunder” has few shortcomings. I took issue with how Piston and Rutherford justify not including more stories of women and children, white or Black. The authors assert that “very few sources detail their experiences” (p. 2). Yet there are nearly three thousand records from Missouri’s Union Provost Marshal Papers for Greene, Webster, and Wright Counties alone (an area that includes Springfield, Hartville, and their connecting road). Civil War historians focused on Missouri have utilized the Provost Marshal Papers to uncover the histories...

Metabolic Calculations Cases

Barbara A. Bushman, Ph.D., FACSM, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-EP, ACSM-CPT, is faculty emeritus at Missouri State University. Dr. Bushman has authored articles related to menopause, factors influencing exercise participation, and deep water run training; she authored ACSM's Action Plan for Menopause (Human Kinetics, 2005), edited both the first and second editions of ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health (Human Kinetics, 2011 and 2017), and promotes health/fitness atwww.Facebook.com/FitnessID. Disclosure: The author declares no conflict of interest and does not have any financial disclosures.

French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy ed. by Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey and Peter J. Kastor

Reviewed by: French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy ed. by Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey and Peter J. Kastor Alice J. Strange Gitlin, Jay, Robert Michael Morrissey, and Peter J. kastor, eds. French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy. UP of Nebraska, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4962-0684-8. Pp. 319. This volume assembles ten essays from a 2014 symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis. The city grew from an eighteenth-century village in the mid-Mississippi Valley, inhabited by settlers and traders from New France. These French colonists and their descendants engaged in a wide network of activities, documented in archival sources and brought to light in this work. The colony was not officially approved by French authorities. Being located far from imperial control, the St. Louis French settlers could make local decisions more freely. Since they were vastly outnumbered by the Indigenous population, the French devised practices that served the interests of both parties. They maintained good relations with Native Americans by trading European goods for their furs and bestowing additional gifts on them to foster peace. In daily life, clothing styles and adornment conveyed social information, according to letters, wills, and estate inventories. Physical appearance functioned as an indication of status and identity among the French and their Indigenous neighbors. The beads, body coloring, and hairstyles worn by Native Americans told of their roles and achievements. The French elite class, consisting of the colony’s founding families, possessed elegant clothing and household goods from Europe. This group intermarried, controlled commercial interests, and maintained contacts with distant family members. Wealthy St. Louis residents visited relatives and sent children to be educated in New France by means of waterways from St. Louis to Montréal and Québec. The colonial era ended with the Louisiana Purchase, shortly after France sent its last prefect to Louisiana in 1804. The prefect accumulated a valuable trove of personal papers before carrying out his final duty, the ceremonial transfer of the Louisiana Territory to the United States. Although no structures survive from the French regime, a visualization of the 1804 village has been created by a National Park Service team using computer-generated technology. Dimensions and layout of the structures were taken from surveys, land records, and maps. This three-dimensional digital rendering may be seen in the museum beneath the Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis. Under American control, St. Louis continued to maintain a strong French identity. A French-language newspaper, La Revue de l’Ouest, established in 1854, contains notices for dozens of French shops and services. French-speaking free people of color, less well-known than their counterparts in Louisiana, had lived and prospered in St. Louis since the early days of the colony. They maintained their culture throughout the nineteenth century. By1860, St. Louis rivaled New Orleans in population and surpassed it in industrial activity. With a thriving manufacturing sector, St. Louis became a crossroads of commerce and profited greatly by supplying goods to [End Page 184] homesteaders heading west. To the present day, an array of organizations and events sustains the French heritage of St. Louis. This work is highly recommended for its innovative discussions of French St. Louis’s contributions to American life. It will appeal to all readers interested in the French history of the American Midwest. [End Page 185] Alice J. Strange Southeast Missouri State University, emerita Copyright © 2022 American Association of Teachers of French

Evidence-based library book shifting

The Missouri State University Libraries Access Services implemented an evidence-based process to move many books and shelves. That process included measuring the collection, performing quality control checks, creating a plan, and defining regular waypoints to keep the shift from deviating from the plan. This article describes the move, the ideas behind it, and the spreadsheet that provided evidence to make informed decisions.

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Doe 7 v. Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University, No. 1:20‐CV‐00172 (E.D. Mo. 05/05/22).

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Doe 7 v. Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University, No. 1:20‐CV‐00172 (E.D. Mo. 05/05/22).

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Doe 7 v. Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University, No. 1:20‐CV‐00172 (E.D. Mo. 05/05/22).

Judge rules in favor of university

Case name: Doe 7 v. Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University, No. 1:20‐CV‐00172 (E.D. Mo. 05/05/22).

Practical Applications of Importance of Costs in Target Date Fund Selection Using Three Morningstar Ratings

In <b><i>Importance of Costs in Target Date Fund Selection Using Three Morningstar Ratings</i></b>, from the Spring 2021 issue of <b><i>The Journal of Retirement</i></b>, authors <b>C. Edward Chang</b> (of <b>Missouri State University</b>), <b>Thomas M. Krueger</b> (of <b>Texas A&amp;M University-Kingsville</b>), and <b>H. Doug Witte</b> (of <b>Missouri State University</b>) studied the factors influencing the rating scales that people use to pick investments. Target-date funds (TDFs) are popular because they automatically diversify investments and reallocate to conservative assets as retirement approaches. Investors need tools to pick good TDFs from the thousands available. The study focused on Morningstar’s different rating systems: 1) star ratings, 2) Analyst Ratings (ARs), and 3) the new computer-generated Quantitative Ratings (QRs). It found that TDFs with low expense ratios receive higher ratings across the board. However, human analysts give higher ARs to larger and newer TDFs and do not penalize for poor past performance, while the computer does penalize for poor performance and does not favor funds by age. Therefore, ARs and QRs are not comparable, but TDFs with any higher ratings have lower costs and are positioned to outperform.

History &amp; Geography

History & Geography Christopher T. Begg, Thomas Hieke, Victor H. Matthews, and Brian J. Meldrum Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America Thomas Hieke Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Victor H. Matthews Missouri State University Brian J. Meldrum Catholic University of America 1271. [Susiana in the 4th Millennium b.c.] Abbas Alizadeh, "Susiana in the 4th Millennium bc: Who Was in Charge?" Uruk, 1-25 [see #1690]. In this article, I seek, contra the current scholarly consensus, to show that the societal order in Susiana, situated in today's southwestern Iran, in the late 4th millennium was neither dominated by southern Mesopotamia nor collaborated with it. On the contrary, the changes in the settlement system were the result of an indigenous process, which began at the start of the 5th millennium b.c. and continued down to the emergence of the historically well-known Elamite dynasties. This thesis cannot, however, be based only on data from the 4th millennium b.c. nor ought it be limited to deep levels, given that the developments in question were part of a lengthy inter-regional process, which I present in this essay. [Translated and adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] [End Page 463] Google Scholar 1272. [Elamite War Chariots and Military Equipment at Kabnak] Javier Álvarez-Mon and Yasmina Wicks, "Elamite War Chariots and Military Equipment at Ancient Kabnak (ca. 1400 bce)," JCS 73 (2021) 121-34. After having entered the 2nd millennium b.c.e. as a military superpower, Elam faded into historical obscurity upon its withdrawal from the broader ANE political scene in 1763 b.c.e. and only re-emerged much later as a major military player with a series of incursions into Mesopotamia in the 13th cent. culminating with the overthrow of the Kassites in 1155 b.c.e. During the intervening centuries between these periods of Elamite international activity, neither written nor archaeological sources offer clear indications that Elamite territory had come under the rule of any foreign power. Here we note that a reexamination of the evidence from the ancient settlement of Kabnak (modern Haft-Tepe), located some 17 km. southeast of the Elamite lowland capital of Susa, brought to light a mid-15 to mid-14th cent. b.c.e. state-controlled arsenal of war chariots and weaponry that may hold the key to understanding Elam's apparent continued resistance to outside forces during this period and its re-emergence as a military superpower in the 13th cent. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 1273. [Current State of Samaritan Studies] Silvio Barbaglia, "Lo stato attuale degli studi: tendenze metodologiche e nodi da sciogliere," RSB 33 (1, 2021) 11-46. My article seeks to summarize the essential features of current scholarship on the "Samaritanism" phenomenon in its genetic relationship to Judaism in the Second Temple period in particular. In addition, the article also examines two elements of relevance for the current discussion, i.e., terminological questions concerning designations for the Samaritans, both by themselves and by others, with special attention to the phrase "Sidoni of Shechem" and the dating of the defining moment at some point during the reign of John Hyrcanus I, of the process of "Judaization" in the former territory of the kingdom of Israel. See also ##1030, 1274, 1279, 1305, 1624, 1624, 1635. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 1274. [Material Culture and Sources concerning Samaria in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods] Francesco Bianchi, "Cultura materiale e fonte scritte nella Samaria achemendide ed ellenistica (539–110 a.C.)," RSB 33 (1, 2021) 47-89. This paper surveys the material culture of Samaria in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. The extant archaeological evidence for the former period gives evidence of an increase in population and the development of a more specialized agriculture involving the cultivation of olive trees and vineyards. The Aramaic Samaria papyri dating to the years 400–353 b.c. witness to an elaborate administrative network and a slave trade conducted in accordance with Neo-Babylonian law. The most interesting feature of this period is the existence of a large numismatic corpus with its echoes of the...

Examining the immune regulatory function of NLRP12 through novel protein interactions

Abstract NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are intracellular proteins that play an important role in the regulation of the innate immune response to pathogens. Since being identified, various functions for NLRP12 have been suggested. It has been shown to negatively regulate the inflammatory response by inhibition of the NF-kB signaling pathway and to exacerbate inflammation through the formation of a multi-protein complex called an inflammasome. Thus, the mechanisms by which this protein functions largely remain unclear. In this study, we examined the interaction between Cul3, a protein involved in protein ubiquitination, and NLRP12 to elucidate possible mechanisms by which it functions and/or is activated. Supported by a grant from the Missouri State University Graduate College

Corticosteroid Treatment Results in Enhanced susceptibility to Influenza-Associated Aspergillosis

Abstract Coinfections that occur during an influenza A virus (IAV) infection are often severe and life threatening. Since the 1918 influenza pandemic, researchers and clinicians have recognized that infection with IAV predisposes individuals to a more severe form of pneumonia resulting from secondary bacterial infections. However, coinfection following IAV infection can occur with other pathogens including other viruses and fungal pathogens. In fact, over the last two decades, numerous case reports demonstrate that influenza coinfections with Aspergillus fumigatus deserves more scrutiny as a potential source of severe respiratory disease. Here, we report that mice with Influenza-Associated Aspergillosis (IAA) develop a mild form of disease unless concomitantly treated with corticosteroids. Importantly, corticosteroid usage impairs immune function resulting in enhanced fungal growth associated with altered commensal growth in the respiratory tract. Our findings agree with case reports that suggest corticosteroids may be involved in the development of IAA. Supported by grants from Missouri State University Graduate College.

Body Composition: Measurement Techniques to Increase Accuracy

Barbara A. Bushman, Ph.D., FACSM, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-EP, ACSM-CPT,is a professor at Missouri State University. Dr. Bushman has authored papers related to menopause, factors influencing exercise participation, and deepwater run training; she authored ACSM’s Action Plan for Menopause (Human Kinetics, 2005), edited both the first and second editions of ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health (Human Kinetics, 2011 and 2017), and promotes health/fitness atwww.Facebook.com/FitnessID.

Archaeology, Epigraphy, Philology

Archaeology, Epigraphy, Philology Christopher T. Begg, William J. Urbrock, John R. Spencer, Thomas Hieke, Victor H. Matthews, and Fred W. Guyette Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America William J. Urbrock University of Wisconsin Oshkosh John R. Spencer John Carroll University Thomas Hieke Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Victor H. Matthews Missouri State University Fred W. Guyette Erskine College and Seminary 196. [The Chalk Vessel Assemblage from Shuʿafat] Yonatan Adler, "Ritual Purity in Daily Life after 70 CE: The Chalk Vessel Assemblage from Shuʿafat as a Test Case," JSJ 52 (2021) 39-62. Chalk vessels became common at Jewish sites throughout the Southern Levant beginning in the late 1st cent. b.c.e., apparently because Jews considered stone to be impervious to ritual impurity. It is commonly thought that a drastic decline in this phenomenon occurred after 70 c.e. as a direct result of the temple's destruction—on the assumption that the central motivation for Jews' observance of the purity regulations was to ensure that they could participate in the temple cult. This assumption is reconsidered here in light of an impressive assemblage of chalk vessels recently unearthed at Shuʿafat that was occupied during the brief 70–132 c.e. interwar period. The character of this assemblage, which I present here in a preliminary fashion, suggests that both the use and production of chalk vessels continued unabated for decades after 70 c.e., this contradicting the notion that the chalk vessel industry was reliant on a functioning temple and that observance of the purity laws was inexorably linked with the Jerusalem cult. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 197. [Stepped Pools; Chalk Vessels] Yonatan Adler, "Watertight and Rock Solid: Stepped Pools and Chalk Vessels as Expressions of Jewish Ritual Purity," BARev 41 (1, 2021) 44-51. Analyzing geographic distribution patterns that "manifest boldly along ethnic lines," A. defends against recent challenges the "rather broad scholarly consensus" that stepped pools and chalk vessels are best interpreted as reflections of Jewish adherence to pentateuchal ritual purity laws. Illustrated.—W.J.U. Google Scholar 198. [A BA Tomb at Tell Qsubi on the Middle Euphrates in Syria] Sawssan Alachkar and Yasser Showhan, "Découverte d'une tombe du Bronze ancien à Tell Qsubi (Moyen-Euphrate, Syrie)," Syria 96 (2017) 273-92. An EBA tomb was discovered in 2009 at Tell Qsubi on the right bank of the Euphrates, 59 km west of Deir ez-Zor. Dug into the bedrock on the edge of the tell, the tomb consists of an access shaft and a chamber divided into three parts, which contained a few [End Page 64] human bones and 204 ceramic vessels, but no other grave goods. This article focuses on the large, previously unpublished pottery assemblage from the tomb. A typological and stylistic study of the assemblage enabled us to divide the component pottery into various ceramic categories and morphological types. The predominant category, we determined, is Simple Ware, with only a few instances of Black Euphrates Ware and a single example of Combed Wash Ware. Our chronological analysis of the assemblage, based on comparisons with other sites in the region, indicates that the assemblage can be attributed to the EME 4-5 (2450–2100 b.c.) period. The tomb itself can be classified as a shaft grave, a type which is well documented for the Middle Euphrates region. Its discovery extended the distribution area of such tombs along the Euphrates valley further to the south. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 199. [Funerary Complex of Sarenput II] José M. Alba Gómez, "The Funerary Chambers of Sarenput II and the Destruction of His Outer Coffin," Middle Kingdom Palace Culture, 16-44 [see #789]. The funerary complex of Sarenput II is one of several rock-cut tombs built at Elephantine for the powerful local rulers who lived there during the Middle Kingdom Era. The tomb, now numbered QH31 has been the subject of several studies. Wallis Budge first published details of the funerary chambers in 1886, but the team undertaking the work did not completely excavate the complex. Budge himself did...