Publications

Author: Jie Zhu

Authors: Shadi Maleki and Milad Mohammadalizadehkorde

Big data provided by social media has been increasingly used in various fields of research, including disaster studies and emergency management. Effective data visualization plays a central role in generating meaningful insight from big data. However, big data visualization has been a challenge due to the high complexity and high dimensionality of it. The purpose of this study is to examine how the number and spatial distribution of tweets changed on the day Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Houston, Texas. For this purpose, this study analyzed the change in tweeting activity between the Friday of Hurricane Harvey and a typical Friday before the event.
 

Authors: Shetay Ashford-Hanserd, Eric Sarmiento, Colleen C. Myles, Steven W. Rayburn, Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Mary-Patricia Hayton, Edward Ybarra, Sarai Benitez, Theresa M. Clifford, Christopher Pierce, Chad D. Williams, and Shadi Maleki

Authors: Melinda Villagran and Joshua Daspit

Authors: Elizabeth Ekren, Rachel E. Hall, Eryn Pierdolla, Valerie Barnes, Alison Jarzombek-Torralva, Douglas Morrish, Kathy Martinez-Prather 

Career and technical education (CTE) facilities on school campuses present unique security challenges due to their distinct layouts, structures, and equipment, which require tailored security considerations given expanding CTE student populations and increasing concerns of school violence. Drawing on principles of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) with Texas as a case application, this study developed a novel survey instrument to evaluate the influence of CTE facility design features and security activities on principals’ perceptions of facility security.

Auhtors: Jie Zhu, Peng-Cheng Xun, Marissa Kolencik, Ke-Feng Yang, Alyce D. Fly, Ka Kahe

Authors: Samira Islas-Valdez and Nicole Wagner

Authors: Matthew J. McAllister , Drew E. Gonzalez, Megan Leonard, M. Hunter Martaindale, Richard J. Bloomer, Jacquelyn Pence, and Steven E. Martin

Authors: Jie Zhu, Cheng Chen, Liping Lu, James M. Shikany, Mary E. D’Alton, and Ka Kahe

Author: Shadi Maleki

Authors: Elizabeth Ekren, Shadi Maleki, Cristian Curran, Cassidy Watkins, & Melinda M. Villagran

Place matters for health. In Texas, growing rural populations face a variety of structural, social, and economic disparities that position them for potentially worse health outcomes. The current study contributes to understanding rural health disparities in a state-specific context.

Authors: Jessica Schneider and Joshua Daspit

Authors: Shadi Maleki, Emily Warren, Ronald R. Hagelman III, Aspen Navarro, and Miranda Wait

Authors: Philip Ervin, Li Feng, Daniel Payan, and Jelena Tešić

Authors: Elizabeth K. Eger, Rex Long, and Anca Tonciu

Authors: Jessica Schneider, Rex Long, Britney Trevino, and Emily C. Repasky

Authors: Elizabeth K. Eger, Rex Long, Anca Tonciu, Melinda Villagran, Jessica Schneider, and Britney Treviño

Author: Ty Schepis

Authors: Shadi Maleki, Nathaniel Dede-Bamfo, Elizabeth Ekren, Milad Mohammadalizadehkorde, and Melinda Villagran

Authors: Elizabeth Ekren, Shadi Malkei, Lauren Lee, Melinda Villagran

This study examines how social vulnerability and resilience shape mental health outcomes in medically underserved rural Texas communities, highlighting the need for both community support systems and structural interventions to improve rural mental health equity.

Authors: Shadi Maleki, Ronald R. Hagelman III, and Brendan L. Lavy

Authors: Elizabeth K. Eger, Rex Long, and Anca Tonciu

Authors: Jason A. Ford, Sean Esteban McCabe, and Ty Schepis

Authors: Elizabeth Ekren, Saksham Adhikari, Shadi Maleki, Jessica K. Sexton, Christina Aubert, Maria Tomasso, Russell Hopkins, and Melinda M. Villagran

This study examines how financial, social, and geographic challenges affect healthcare access for women in rural Texas. Findings show that overlapping barriers can reduce the likelihood of receiving needed care, highlighting the need for more targeted rural health support strategies.

Author: Eduardo Perez

Authors: Elizabeth Ekren, Maria E. Tomasso, and Melinda M. Villagran

Resilience has become a focal point of academic research investigating the impact of adverse disruption to the well-being of people, systems, the built environment, ecosystems, and climate. However, the proliferation of this work has not been accompanied by increasing clarity about the core meaning of resilience as a singular construct, threatening its relevance and complicating its use in practice. To improve the application of resilience in cross-disciplinary and convergence approaches to sustainability and well-being research, this work synthesized resilience conceptualizations across disciplines with novel artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented approaches.

Authors: Matthew J. McAllister, Drew E. Gonzalez, Megan Leonard, M. Hunter Martaindale, Richard J. Bloomer, Jacquelyn Pence, and Steven E. Martin

Authors: Billy Fields and Eliot Mettenbrink

Authors: Shadi Maleki, Jason P. Julian, Russel C. Weaver, Christina Lopez, and Mike Kraft

Authors: Billy Fields and Eliot Mettenbrink

Author: Billy Fields

Authors: Allison Diane Ihle, FAAN, PhD; Breann Wicks, BSN; Vangelis Metsis, PhD; Autumn Starfall, BS, BA; Fleur Clapham, BS; Aleksei Gorbachev, PhD (equivalent); Sean Shanley, BS; Christina Strauser, LPN; Jacqueline M. McGrath, FAAN, PhD