USU 2024 Faculty Author Circular

CONTENTS TABLE OF

5G and Beyond Wireless Communication Networks *

Rose Qingyang Hu

5G Wireless Network Security and Privacy *

Rose Qingyang Hu

Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers *

Alyson L. Lavigne

Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity: Concepts and Applications *

Alexander I. Boldyrev

Call Up the Waters: Stories

Amber Caron The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch

Frances B. Titchener

Central Numic (Uto-Aztecan) Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary

John E. McLaughlin Chemical Process Industries: Environmental and Health Risk Calculations *

R. Ryan Dupont Common Bees of Western North America *

Joseph S. Wilson Cybersecurity in Intelligent Networking Systems *

Rose Qingyang Hu Deep Learning for Crack-Like Object Detection *

Heng-Da Cheng Discoverability in Digital Repositories: Systems, Perspectives, and User Studies *

Liz Woolcott Djeha, the North African Trickster Christa C. Jones

Jason Olsen 14

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming

Steven R. Simms Foundations of Aural Skills *

Timothy Chenette Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics *

Ryan B. Berke

Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success

Julia M. Gossard & Chris Babits

A History of Maternity Wear: Design, Patterns, and Construction

Lydia Semler

Intersecting Genre: A Skills-based Approach to Creative Writing

Learning and Behavior, Ninth Edition

Amy L. Odum

Negotiation: Creating Agreements in Business and Life *

Brad Winn The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy *

Michael P. Twohig & Michael E. Levin

Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation *

David K. Dahlgren

Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873-1911

Robert S. McPherson The Termite Queen *

Charles M. Waugh Tetrel Bonds

Steve Scheiner

Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Therapist Guide, Second Edition *

Michael P. Twohig Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Workbook, Second Edition *

Michael P. Twohig Voices from the Steppe: A Thematic Sourcebook of the Kazakh Steppe and the South Urals *

Danielle Ross Women and the First World War, Second Edition

Susan R. Grayzel

The Faculty Author Circular recognizes USU faculty who published a book in the previous year. USU Libraries and the Office of Research would like to acknowledge this impressive accomplishment that 28 members of our faculty achieved in 2023.

Congratulations to our faculty on their accomplishments!

Publication has multiple contributors. This booklet is intended to recognize USU researchers.

5G and Beyond Wireless Communication Networks

Rose Qingyang Hu Electrical & Computer Engineering

In 5G and Beyond Wireless Communication Networks, a team of distinguished researchers deliver an expert treatment of the technical details of modern 5G wireless networks and the performance gains they make possible. The book examines the recent progress in research and development in the area, covering related topics on fundamental 5G requirements and its enabling technologies.

The authors survey 5G service architecture and summarize enabling technologies, including highly dense small cell and heterogeneous networks, device-to-device communications underlaying cellular networks, fundamentals of non-orthogonal multiple access in 5G new radio and its applications.

5G Wireless Network Security and Privacy

Rose Qingyang Hu

Electrical & Computer Engineering

In 5G Wireless Network Security and Privacy, a team of veteran engineers delivers a robust and accessible discussion of 5G security solutions, including physical layer security, authentication, and mobility management. In the book, the authors expertly cover the requirements of 5G wireless network security and privacy, with explorations of existing solutions and vulnerabilities from security architecture and mechanism perspectives.

Readers will learn how to enhance the security and network performance of 5G wireless networks in contexts like vehicle‐to‐vehicle and vehicle‐to‐infrastructure communications, industrial automation, health services, smart cities, and smart homes. They will develop a comprehensive understanding of 5G wireless network security as they move through the book’s 11 insightful chapters, developing in‐depth knowledge on the current state of 5G security and coming developments in the field.

Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers

Alyson L. Lavigne

School of Teacher Education & Leadership

Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers provides practical applications for those who conduct teacher classroom observations and provide feedback for growth. Leaders will learn strategies to support content and program area teachers with effective feedback practices. The book supplements effective instructional practices and includes strategies for useful modifications of mandated uniform observation instruments. The collection of thirteen chapters in this edited text includes:

• Supervisory theories

• Developmental and differentiated feedback

• Applying human resource orientation to supervision

• Using classroom video for supervision

• Feedback for equitable change

• Feedback for culturally responsive instruction

• Teacher supervision in: STEM, literacy, early childhood education, gifted education, career and technical education, and virtual schools

Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity: Concepts and Applications

Alexander I. Boldyrev Chemistry & Biochemistry

In Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity: Concepts and Applications, a team of accomplished chemists delivers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution and critical aspects of aromaticity. The book examines the new global criteria used to evaluate aromaticity, including the Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift (NICS) index and the electronic indices based on electronic properties.

Additional discussions of inorganic aromatic compounds developed in this century, which give rise to new concepts like multifold aromaticity, are included. Three-dimensional aromaticity found in fullerenes and nanotubes, M bius aromaticity present in some annulenes, and excited state aromaticity are explored as well. This volume explores the geometrical, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic characteristics of aromatic and antiaromatic compounds and their reactivity properties.

Call Up the Waters: Stories

Amber Caron English

In Call Up the Waters, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an occasional antagonist.

In the title story, a devastating drought leads a mother of two deep into the Colorado Rockies in search of water.

In “The Handler,” a woman leaves her boyfriend for the New Hampshire woods and fifty-seven sled dogs.

A distress call from a boat in Massachusetts Bay compels a mother, in “Sea Women,” to plumb her daughter’s secrets.

A girl torn between truth and expectation shows her courage in a funereal performance in “Barn Burning.”

And in “Bending the Map,” a woman turns the tables on her obsessive, would-be lover after a powerful storm ravages her canyon home.

The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch

Frances B. Titchener History

Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering everything from marriage to the Delphic Oracle, are crucial evidence for ancient philosophy and cultural history.

This volume provides an engaging introduction to all aspects of his work, including his method and purpose in writing the Lives, his attitudes toward daily life and intimate relations, his thoughts on citizenship and government, his relationship to Plato and the second Sophistic, and his conception of foreign or ‘other’. Attention is also paid to his style and rhetoric.

Plutarch’s works have also been important in subsequent periods, and an introduction to their reception history in Byzantium, Italy, England, Spain, and France is provided. A distinguished team of contributors together helps the reader begin to navigate this most varied and fascinating of writers.

Central Numic (Uto-Aztecan) Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary

John E. McLaughlin

English

The Central Numic branch of the Numic language family of the Uto-Aztecan stock comprises three closely-related languages— Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche. Timbisha and Comanche are spoken by less than a handful of L1 speakers each in eastern California and southwestern Oklahoma. Shoshoni is spoken by fewer than a dozen L1 speakers scattered across Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. All three languages are still spoken in parts of the regions where they lived at the time of contact.

A very rough estimate of the time depth of Proto-Central Numic is about a millennium. Timbisha and Shoshoni have an underlying obstruent system which consists of voiceless stops /p, t, k, kw/, two voiceless fricatives /s, h/, and a voiceless affricate /ts/, but a surface phonetic system that includes voiced and voiceless stops, fricatives, and affricates in all the places of articulation of the underlying stops and affricates. This system of underlying and surface obstruents has been partially restructured in Comanche.

Chemical Process Industries: Environmental and Health Risk Calculations

R. Ryan Dupont Civil & Environmental Engineering

The rapid growth and expansion of the chemical process industry during the past century have been accompanied by a simultaneous rise in human health problems as well as material and property losses because of fires, explosions, hazardous and toxic spills, equipment failures, other accidents, and business interruptions.

Concern over the potential consequences of emissions of harmful chemicals (along with catastrophic accidents) has sparked interest at both the industrial and regulatory levels in obtaining a better understanding of the potential for environmental health risks in chemical and related industries. This practical book presents and examines the environmental and health risk assessment calculations as they apply to various chemical process industries.

Common Bees of Western North America

Joseph S. Wilson Biology

Bees play a vitally important role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops around the globe. These stunningly beautiful insects come in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and colors. There are more than 3,000 species in western North America, and identifying them is a challenging task even for taxonomists.

Common Bees of Western North America is the first species-level photographic field guide to the most commonly seen bees in the western United States and Canada, focusing on those that are found in urban environments, specialize on unique plants, or are especially distinctive in appearance. This book walks you through the process of bee identification using breathtaking high-resolution color photos that highlight the key characteristics of each species, making identification easier. Full of essential facts about the natural history of these magnificent creatures, this is a must-have field guide for naturalists and backyard gardeners alike.

Cybersecurity in Intelligent Networking Systems

Rose Qingyang Hu Electrical & Computer Engineering

Cybersecurity in Intelligent Networking Systems provides a background introduction to data-driven cybersecurity, privacy preservation, and adversarial machine learning. It offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring technologies, applications, and issues in data-driven cyber infrastructure. It describes a proposed novel, data-driven network intelligence system that helps provide robust and trustworthy safeguards with edge-enabled cyber infrastructure, edge-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) engines, and threat intelligence.

Focusing on encryption-based security protocol, this book also highlights the capability of a network intelligence system in helping target and identify unauthorized access, malicious interactions, and the destruction of critical information and communication technology.

Deep Learning for Crack-Like Object Detection

Heng-Da Cheng Computer Science

Computer vision-based crack-like object detection has many useful applications, such as inspecting/monitoring pavement surface, underground pipeline, bridge cracks, railway tracks etc. However, in most contexts, cracks appear as thin, irregular long-narrow objects, and often are buried in complex, textured background with high diversity which make the crack detection very challenging. During the past a few years, deep learning technique has achieved great success and has been utilized for solving a variety of object detection problems.

Discoverability in Digital Repositories: Systems, Perspectives, and User Studies

Liz Woolcott University

Libraries

While most discoverability evaluation studies in the Library and Information Science field discuss the intersection of discovery layers and library systems, this book looks specifically at digital repositories, examining discoverability from the lenses of system structure, user searches, and external discovery avenues.

Discoverability, the ease with which information can be found by a user, is the cornerstone of all successful digital information platforms. Yet, most digital repository practitioners and researchers lack a holistic and comprehensive understanding of how and where discoverability happens. This book brings together current understandings of user needs and behaviors and poses them alongside a deeper examination of digital repositories around the theme of discoverability.

Djeha, the North African Trickster

Christa C. Jones

World Languages & Cultures

Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior.

Orientalists Auguste Mouliéras (1855-1931) and René Basset (18551924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and translate popular Berber folktales. Today, trickster folktales from Algeria’s mountainous Kabylia region are not well known in the Anglophone world, even though they continue to be highly popular in France and in North Africa.

Djeha, the North African Trickster is an annotated, critical translation of Auguste Mouliéras’s folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh’a, first published in French in 1892.

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming

Steven R. Simms

Anthropology

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology. De-emphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place.

It challenges the “Pristine Myth,” the cultural bias that Indigenous peoples were timeless, changeless, primitive, and the landscapes they lived in sparsely populated and perpetually pristine. First Peoples and their descendants modified the forests and understory vegetation, shaped wildlife populations, and adapted to long-term climate change. Native Americans of Great Salt Lake were very much part of their world, and the story here is one of long continuity through dramatic cultural change.

Foundations of Aural Skills

Timothy Chenette

Music

Foundations of Aural Skills is a research-based, accessible textbook for teaching introductory aural skills. The first seven chapters provide thorough instruction in aural fundamentals, allowing students to build their foundations from a variety of starting points. The following chapters address the traditional tasks of sightreading and dictation, but also improvisation, mimicking music you hear (“playback”), transcription, and ensemble skills. The final two chapters add some basic form- and chord-listening skills.

Every section includes creative activities that learners can try out on their own or do in class. Embedded playlists for practicing listening skills include a diverse range of music that will connect with students’ preferences and allow them to experience music they haven’t worked with before. While the text is primarily designed for a first semester or year of instruction, it also includes some instruction on modulation, chromaticism, and mixed meter, and future additions/development will make these advanced applications more robust.

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage

Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Ryan B. Berke

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3 brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:

• Novel Experimental Methods

• Extreme Environments

• Interfacial Fracture

• Integration of Models & Experiments

• Mechanics of Energy & Energetic Materials

• In Situ Techniques for Fatigue & Fracture

• Microscale & Microstructural Effects on Mechanical Behavior.

Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success

Julia M. Gossard Chris Babits History Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Although content knowledge remains at the heart of college teaching and learning, instructors have started to recognize that we must also provide twenty-first-century college students with transferable skills to prepare them for their futures.

In order to “grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedent change,” students should learn important skills and strategies throughout their educational careers. Utah State University instructors are particularly adept at providing these competencies and skills in introductory, mid, advanced, and even career-preparation courses.

Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success brings together transformative Utah State University instructors to highlight their experiences in developing “Habits of Mind” assignments and frameworks in their courses, ensuring student success along the way.

A History of Maternity Wear: Design, Patterns, and Construction

Lydia Semler Theatre

A History of Maternity Wear: Design, Patterns, and Construction explores pregnancy clothing worn throughout the decades, providing historical information, images, and patterns.

Filled with photos showing extant attire, with intricate details and sample patterns that can be recreated to scale, this book examines how maternity clothes were constructed, provides historical context, and aids readers in designing their own maternity garments.

Each chapter includes examples of commonly worn maternity styles from a number of regions of the English-speaking world, with information from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Canada. The book concludes with a chapter on historically accurate underpinnings from the 17th century to the present day.

Intersecting Genre: A Skills-based Approach to Creative Writing

Jason Olsen English

Creative writing takes on many genres, or forms: fiction, poetry, nonfiction and dramatic writing. Whilst all have their own principles and ‘rules’, all modes of writing overlap and borrow from each other, and so what you learn in one form can influence, inform and inspire your practice in others.

Intersecting Genre holds this idea at its heart, embracing the dissolution of disciplinary and genre boundaries to discuss the ways each genre supports the others. Whilst traditional approaches typically discuss one genre independent of others, this book explores genre relationships with each chapter focusing on the intersection between 2 modes and what you can learn and the skills you can transfer by combining the wisdom gained from the study of, for example, fiction and poetry together.

Learning and Behavior, Ninth Edition

Amy L. Odum Psychology

Learning and Behavior reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed because of learning. It describes the most important principles, theories, controversies, and experiments that pertain to learning and behavior that are applicable to diverse species and different learning situations.

Both classic studies and recent trends and developments are explored, providing a comprehensive survey of the field. Although the behavioral approach is emphasized, many cognitive theories are covered as well, along with a chapter on comparative cognition.

Real-world examples and analogies make the concepts and theories more concrete and relevant to students. In addition, most chapters provide examples of how the principles covered have been employed in applied and clinical behavior analysis.

Negotiation: Creating Agreements in Business and Life

Brad Winn Marketing & Strategy

Negotiation explores the theory and practice of negotiation while unpacking how to develop the head, heart, hand, and stomach of a successful negotiator. Authors Brad Winn and Marc Sokol frame negotiation as a creative process that can produce lasting positive results for all parties involved.

The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Michael P. Twohig Michael E. Levin Psychology Psychology

This handbook brings together contributions from the world’s leading scholars to create a comprehensive volume on established areas of ACT. The Handbook presents a scholarly review of the treatment as it has developed over the past two to three decades. Featuring 33 chapters on key aspects of the treatment, the contributors offer analysis on ACT’s conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, applications to specific populations and problems, methods of implementation, and other special topics. They further cover theory, empirical support, and scholarly descriptions of treatment application. directions for future research and practice.

Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

David K. Dahlgren Wildland Resources

This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex interrelationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat.

More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. The rangelands of North America provide a vast array of goods and services, including significant economic benefit to local communities, while providing critical habitat for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife.

Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873-1911

Robert S. McPherson History

With more than twenty books published about the Navajo people, Robert S. McPherson is one of the most prolific contemporary writers concerning their history and culture. Scouting for the Bluecoats addresses a little-known and, until now, undocumented story of an estimated five hundred Navajos employed by the United States Army, primarily in the campaigns against the Apaches between 1873 and 1886. The author takes us with these scouts as they guide U.S. soldiers into the deserts, canyons, and mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, and Northern Mexico; he also provides a solid context about the origin of the Navajos and Apaches, their intertribal conflicts, and their elements of shared culture. Once again McPherson demonstrates his skill as a master historian, his understanding of these people, and a meaningful context for this long-neglected story of warrior-soldiers whose fieldcraft and dedication proved critical in shaping relations between the military and two Indian tribes in the Southwest.

The Termite Queen

Charles M. Waugh

English

The Termite Queen delves into the seamy underground of corrupt development practices and environmental degradation in Vietnam. Burrowing deep inside the tension-filled relationship between contemporary Vietnam’s hyper-capitalist society and its communist government, Ta Duy Anh’s The Termite Queen tells the Kafkaesque story of a young man who must expose the corruption of a vast network of murky figures profiting from their connections to power.

Banned in Vietnam, this allegorical story is told by Viet, a nativeborn Vietnamese who takes over his deceased father’s powerful land development corporation. The funeral hasn’t even concluded before Viet suspects foul play, as one clue after another leads him to question everything he thought he knew about his father, their family business, and its incredible ability to get approval for projects with dubious societal and environmental returns. With The Termite Queen, Ta Duy Anh cements his reputation as one of contemporary Vietnam’s greatest fabulists, having filled this tale with criticisms that can only come from a deep and abiding love for his country.

Tetrel Bonds

Steve Scheiner

Chemistry & Biochemistry

The replacement of the bridging H atom in H-bonds by a multitude of other, more electronegative, atoms has led to the rapidly growing study of related noncovalent bonds generally known as halogen, chalcogen, and pnicogen bonds. It has recently been recognized that elements of the tetrel family (C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) also engage in such bonds, wherein the tetrel atom serves as an electron acceptor to an incoming Lewis base, and that these bonds can be quite strong.

This type of bond has the potential to be of importance comparable even to that of the well-researched H-bond, as it may be far more prevalent than has been realized, perhaps a common feature of chemical and biological systems too numerous to mention. The articles included in this volume delve into the many facets of tetrel bonds: the factors determining their strength, their geometrical requirements, various phenomena in which they play an outsized role, and the means by which they can be detected and measured.

Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Therapist Guide, Second Edition

Michael P. Twohig Psychology

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat as few effective therapeutic options exist. Behavior therapy has the greatest empirical support, but the number of mental health providers familiar with TTM and its treatment is quite small. This manual was written as a tool for therapists to become familiar with an effective treatment for TTM.

The treatment approach described in this guide blends traditional behavior therapy elements of habit reversal training and stimulus control techniques with the more contemporary behavioral elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Workbook, Second Edition

Michael P. Twohig Psychology

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat, and few effective therapeutic options exist. This client workbook helps the client through the 10-session, therapistguided, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Trichotillomania (AEBT-T). AEBT-T is designed to help people with trichotillomania reduce their pulling, think differently about the internal experiences that trigger their pulling, and learn to live a more valued life. The approach blends traditional behavior therapy approaches of habit reversal training and stimulus control techniques with a more contemporary ACT-based approach. Since its original publication in 2008, the intervention has been shown to be highly effective, and can also be successfully applied to older children and adolescents, which is covered in this new edition.

Voices from the Steppe: A Thematic Sourcebook of the Kazakh Steppe and the South Urals

Danielle

Ross

History

Voices from the Steppe presents 101 sources on the history of the Kazakh Steppe and Russia’s South Urals region from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It offers a range of texts—local histories, songs, poems, letters, memoirs, religious-legal writings, and official documents—that shed light on politics, culture, spirituality, economic activities, gender, and daily life in one of the world’s great grasslands.

The volume foregrounds the voices and experiences of ethnic nonRussians in living in what eventually became part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The texts have been translated from published and unpublished materials in Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir, and Russian, and are appearing in English for the first time.

Women and the First World War, Second Edition

Susan R. Grayzel History

The First World War was the first modern, total war, one requiring the mobilisation of both civilians and combatants. Particularly in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women.

Women and the First World War provides an introduction to the experiences and contributions of women during this important turning point in history. In addition to exploring women’s relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book also looks at the wide-ranging effects of the war on women in Africa Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.