Recent works of scholarship and creativity, primarily published articles, from members of the Kennesaw State University faculty.
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Share Your Published ResearchSubmissions from 2010
Development of the PRO-SDLS: A Measure of Self-Direction in Learning Based on the Personal Responsibility Orientation Model, Susan L. Stockdale and Ralph G. Brockett
The Undergraduate Psychology Major: An Examination of Structure and Sequence, Michael Stoloff, Maureen McCarthy, Lizbeth Keller, Veronika Varfolomeeva, Joanna Lynch, Kara Makara, Samantha Simmons, and Whitney Smiley
What You Need to Know, Dev Strischek and Dana R. Hermanson
The Ghost of Milagro Creek, Melanie Sumner
Students Make Sure the Cherokees are Not Removed... Again: A Study of Service-learning and Artful Learning in Teaching History, Alice W. Terry and Thomas Panter
Developing Mathematical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary School Mathematics, Eva Thanheiser, Christine A. Browning, Meg Moss, Tad Watanabe, and Gina Garza-Kling
Race, Gender, and Status: A Content Analysis of Print Advertisements in Four Popular Magazines, Melvin E. Thomas and Linda A. Treiber
Labor Migration Challenges in Economic Planning: A Case Study of Astana, Bolat L. Tibekov, Kamal Fatehi, Foad Derakhshan, and Jim Herbert
Somali Piracy: Jurisdictional Issues, Enforcement Problems and Potential Solutions, Christopher Totten and Matthew Bernal
Devastatingly Human: An Analysis of Registered Nurses’ Medication Error Accounts, Linda A. Treiber and Jackie H. Jones
Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing, Jean M. Twenge, Stacy M. Campbell, Brian J. Hoffman, and Charles E. Lance
"What Was Really Accomplished Today?" Mathematics Content Specialists Observe a Class for Prospective K-8 Teachers, Andrew M. Tyminski, Sarah D. Ledford, and Dennis Hembree
Phenology of Five Tree Species of a Tropical Dry Forest in Yucatán, Mexico: Effects of Environmental and Physiological Factors, Mirna Valdez-Hernández, Paula C. Jackson, Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra, and José Luis Andrade
Teaching Language Arts To English Language Learners, Anete Vásquez, Angela L. Hansen, and Philip C. Smith
How Emerging Market Firms Compete in Global Markets, Rajaram Veliyath and Lance Brouthers
Patient Safety Chiller: Unplanned Perioperative Hypothermia, V. Doreen Wagner
'Doc, There's Something I Have To Tell You': Patient Disclosure to Their Psychotherapist of Unprosecuted Murder and Other Violence, Steven Walfish, Jeffrey E. Barnett, Krista Marlyere, and Robert Zielke
Strategies for Filling a Performance Gap Between Practice and High-Level Competition, Jin Wang
The SOR-k Method for Linear Systems with P-Cyclic Matrices, Liancheng Wang, Jiehua Zhu, and Xiezhang Li
Sustainable Conflict Transformation: An Analytical Model for Assessing the Contribution of Development Activities to Peacebuilding, Andrea Warnecke and Volker C. Franke
Let's Practice What We Preach, Tad Watanabe
Coping With Racism: What Works and Doesn't Work for Black Women?, Lindsey M. West, Roxanne Donovan, and Lizabeth Roemer
A Mentor-Protégé Program for New Faculty, Part I: Stories of Protégés, Anne White, Jane Brannan, and Carol Wilson
How the Peace was Lost: Ignoring the Presidential Oath in 1964 and 2002-2003, Kenneth M. White
Mama's Boy; Preacher's Son: A Memoir, Reta Ugena Whitlock
Hands-On Information Security Lab Manual, 3rd Edition, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord
Management of Information Security, 3rd Edition, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord
Management of Information Security, 3rd Edition, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord
Readings and Cases in Information Security: Law & Ethics, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord
Running on Full: The Story of Ruth and Ruby Crawford, Neil Wilkinson
The Preparation, Characterization, X-ray Structural Analysis, and Thermogravimetric Analysis of Tetrakis[1,3-Dimethyl-2(3H)-Imidazolethione]Zinc(II) Nitrate and Tetrafluoroborate, Daniel J. Williams, Kimberly Arrowood, Lindsey M. Bloodworth, Angela L. Carmack, Daniel Gulla, Michael W. Gray, Igal Maasen, Fareeha Rizvi, Sarah L. Rosenbaum, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Donald VanDerveer
Further Studies into the Feasibility of Using Aqueous Alum Solutions in the Destruction of VX, Daniel J. Williams, William R. Creasy, Roderick A. Fry, Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua, and H. Dupont Durst
A Longitudinal Study Of Cultural Competence Among Health Science Faculty, Astrid H. Wilson, Susan Sanner, and Lydia E. McAllister
An Evaluation Study of a Mentoring Program to Increase the Diversity of the Nursing Workforce, Astrid H. Wilson, Susan Sanner, and Lydia E. McAllister
A Mentor-Protégé Program for New Faculty, Part II: Stories of Mentors, Carol Wilson, Jane Brannan, and Anne White
Optical Biosensing, Jo Leanna Wilson, Israel M. Scott, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Optical Biosensing: Kinetics of Protein A-IGG Binding Using Biolayer Interferometry, Jo Leanna Wilson, Israel M. Scott, and Jonathan L. McMurry
A Call to IS Educators to Respond to the Voices of Women in Information Security, Amy B. Woszczynski and Sherri Shade
Hopf Bifurcation of a Class of Two Coupled Relaxation Oscillators of the van der Pol Type with Delay, Xiaoqin Wu and Liancheng Wang
Multi-Parameter Bifurcations of the Kaldor–Kalecki Model of Business Cycles with Delay, Xiaoqin Wu and Liancheng Wang
Biomedical Relationship Extraction from Literature Based on Bio-Semantic Token Subsequences, Ying Xie, Jayasimha R. Katukuri, and Vijay V. Raghavan
A Survey on Decentralized Flocking Schemes for a Set of Autonomous Mobile Robots, Naixue Xiong, Jing (Selena) He, Yan Yang, and Yanxiang He
Networked Games Based on Web Services, Chong-wei Xu, Hongwei Lei, and Daniel Xu
The North American Consortium for Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned and Best Practices on Hosting International Students, Stella Sixing Xu, Gary B. Roberts, Dorothy Brawley, Bob Desman, and Kamal Fatehi
Positive Solutions of the (n-1, 1) Conjugate Boundary Value Problem, Bo Yang
Modeling Road Traffic Demand of Container Consolidation in a Chinese Port Terminal, Zhongzhen Yang, Gang Chen, and Douglas R. Moodie
SOX Section 404 Material Weaknesses and Shareholder Dissatisfaction with Directors, Zhongxia Shelly Ye, Dana R. Hermanson, and Jagan Krishnan
Cubans, ¡Si!; Haitians, ¡No!: U.S. Immigration Policy, Cultural Politics, and Immigrant Eligibility, Michele Zebich-Knos
Education for a Global Era: Reflections of an Asian Teacher Education Faculty, Guichun Zong
Submissions from 2009
Microscopic Studies on the Aspergillus Flavus Infected Kernels of Commercial Peanuts in Georgia, Premila Achar, Karen Hermetz, Sharath Rao, Robert P. Apkarian, and Jeannette V. Taylor
Behavioral Finance: Psychology, Decision-Making, and Markets, Lucy Ackert and Richard Deaves
Probability Judgment Error and Speculation in Laboratory Asset Market Bubbles, Lucy F. Ackert, Narat Charupat, Richard Deaves, and Brian D. Kluger
Home Bias: Taking Comfort in What You Know?, Lucy F. Ackert and Bryan K. Church
Enhancing Ocean Literacy Using Real-Time Data, Lisa G. Adams and George Matsumoto
Globalization and Transnational Migrations: Africa and Africans in the Contemporary Global System, Akanmu Adebayo and Olutayo C. Adesina
Activation by C5a of Endothelial Cell Caspase 8 and cFLIP, Eric A. Albrecht, Aruna V. Sarma, and Peter A. Ward
The Impact of Face-to-Face Orientation on Online Retention: A Pilot Study, Radwan Ali and Elke M. Leeds
Making History in the Bedroom: Americo-Liberians and Indigenous Liberians Sexual Unions, 1880s- c. 1950s, William E. Allen
Spirituality Then and Now: Our Journey Through Higher Education as Women of Faith, Audrey Wilson Allison and Patreece Boone Broadus
Understanding Consumers' Acceptance of Online Purchasing, D. Amoroso and S. Hunsinger
Analysis of the Factors that Influence Online Purchasing, Donald Amoroso and D. Scott Hunsinger
Measuring the Acceptance of Internet Technology by Consumers, Donald L. Amoroso and Scott Hunsinger
Auditor Failure and Market Reactions: Evidence from China, Sharad C. Asthana, Heibatollah Sami, and Zhongxia Shelly Ye
Using and Abusing Family Business Research, Joseph H. Astrachan
Why IT Managers Don't Go for Cyber-Insurance Products, Tridib Bandyopadhyay, Vijay S. Mookerjee, and Ram C. Rao
Staging the Numinous, Jane Barnette
Learning Styles: Effective Tool for Deploying Finance Personnel in Changing Times, J. Barrow, S. Smalt, S. Brock, and K. S. S. Barrow
The Audit Committee Oversight Process, Mark S. Beasley, Joseph V. Carcello, Dana R. Hermanson, and Terry L. Neal
Restoring the Culture of Peace in Islamic East and Northeast Africa, Jesse Benjamin
Submonthly Polar Vortex Variability and Stratosphere–Troposphere Coupling in the Arctic, Robert X. Black and Brent A. McDaniel
Intergenerational Memories of Life in a Cult: A Life Course Analysis, Miriam W. Boeri and Natascia R. Boeri
Cold Cook Methods: An Ethnographic Exploration on the Myths of Methamphetamine Production and Policy Implications, Miriam W. Boeri, David Gibson, and Liam Harbry
A Qualitative Exploration of Trajectories Among Suburban Users of Methamphetamine, Miriam W. Boeri, Liam Harbry, and David Gibson
eCRM Marketing Intelligence in a Manufacturing Environment, Aberdeen Leila Borders, Wesley J. Johnston, and Johnathan Yehuda Morpurgo
Summary Brief: Students' Use of Tangible and Intangible Attributes to Sell Themselves, Aberdeen Leila Borders, Maria Kalamas, and Shane D. Smith
Summary Brief: Macro Influences on the Adoption of Sales Force Automation (SFA) Technology, Aberdeen Leila Borders, Scott Widmier, and Joe Hair
Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity, Keith M. Botelho
Peak Athletic Performance and Ageing: Evidence from Baseball, John C. Bradbury
Spatially Targeted Government Spending and Heterogeneous Constituent Cost Shares, John Charles Bradbury and E. Frank Stephenson
The Celluloid Teacher, Rick A. Breault
Equity and Empowerment in PDS Work: A Review of Literature (1999 to 2006), Rick A. Breault and Brian Lack
Key Factors for Successful Export Performance for Small Firms, Lance Eliot Brouthers, George Nakos, John Hadjimarcou, and Keith D. Brouthers
International Market Selection and Subsidiary Performance: A Neural Network Approach, Lance Brouthers, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Timothy J. Wilkinson, and Keith D. Brouthers
Shark Teeth Classification, Tom Brown, Sally Creel, and Velda Lee
Memory Systems, Processes, and Tasks: Taxonomic Clarification via Factor Analysis, Peter J. Bruss and David B. Mitchell
The Effect of Resistive Exercise Rest Interval on Hormonal Response, Strength, and Hypertrophy With Training, Robert Buresh, Kris Berg, and Jeffrey French
Academic-Centered Peer Interactions and Retention in Undergraduate Mathematics Programs, Kadian M. Callahan
On the Self-regulatory Dynamics Created by the Peculiar Benefits and Costs of Narcissism: A Contextual Reinforcement Model and Examination of Leadership, W. Keith Campbell and Stacy M. Campbell
Responses of the American Accounting Association's Tracking Team to the Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession, Joseph V. Carcello, Jean C. Bedard, and Dana R. Hermanson
Improving Distribution Operations: Implementation of Material Handling Systems, Satya S. Chakravorty
Process Improvement: Using Toyota's A3 Reports, Satya S. Chakravorty
Six Sigma Programs: An Implementation Model, Satya S. Chakravorty
The Implementation of Design for Six Sigma: A Development Experience, Satya S. Chakravorty and Richard M. Franza
Do Portable Classrooms Impact Teaching and Learning?, Tak Cheung Chan
Meeting the Demand for Accountability: Case Study of a Teacher Education Program in China, Tak Cheung Chan
Fourth and Fifth Grade Departmentalization: A Transition to Middle School, Tak C. Chan, Daniel Terry, and Harriet J. Bessette
A Palatable Introduction to and Demonstration of Statistical Main Effects and Interactions, Andrew N. Christopher and Pam Marek
Rape Reporting: "Classic Rape" and the Behavior of Law, Jody Clay-Warner and Jennifer McMahon-Howard
Taxation of Gains and Losses on Sales of New York Subsidiary Stock, Bruce Clements