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 2008
Relationship of VO2 Peak, Body Fat Percentage, and Power Output Measured During Repeated Bouts of a Wingate Protocol, John R. McLester, J. Matthew Green, P. Jason Wickwire, and Thad R. Crews
Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections, John McLester and Peter E. St. Pierre
Contributions of Advertising Assets and R&D Assets to the Market Value of the Firm, Tom W. Miller and Richard E. Mathisen
Group 13 Chelates in Nerve Gas Agent and Pesticide Dealkylation, Amitabha Mitra, David A. Atwood, Jeffrey Struss, Daniel J. Williams, Bradley J. McKinney, William R. Creasy, David McGarvy, H. Dupont Durst, and Roderick A. Fry
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority: A Smart Growth Machine?, Göktuğ Morçöl, Ulf Zimmermann, and Bethany Stitch
Perceived Effectiveness of Tobacco Countermarketing Advertisements among Young Adults, Rebecca Murphy-Hoefer, Andrew Hyland, and Cheryl Higbee
A Model for Using a Capstone Experience as One Method of Assessment of an Information Systems Degree Program, Meg C. Murray, Jorge Pérez, and Mario Guimaraes
A Decision Model For Contracting Helpdesk Services, Meg C. Murray and Joy Young
Animated Database Courseware: Using Animations to Extend Conceptual Understanding of Database Concepts, Meg Murray and Mario Guimaraes
Expanding the Database Curriculum, Meg Murray and Mario Guimaraes
Dance Specialists Around the World— A Living History, Margaret Musmon, Kariamu Welsh, Freddie-Lee Heath, Sandra Minton, Mary Ann Laverty, Naoko Maeshiba, Sandy Weeks, Martia K. Cardinal, Amy Howton, and Leyla Tavacioglu
Morphological and Physiological Responses of the Halophyte, Odyssea paucinervis (Staph) (Poaceae), to Salinity, Gonasageran Naidoo, Rita Somaru, and Premila Achar
Legislators and Constituents: Examining Demographics and Online Communication Tools, Amber J. Narro, Charles Mayo, and Alison F. Miller
Handbook of Distance Learning for Real-Time and Asynchronous Information Technology Education, Solomon Negash
Business Intelligence, Solomon Negash and Paul Gray
A Study to Develop a Disclosure to Children Intervention for HIV-Infected Women, Tommie P. Nelms and Vicki L. Zeigler
Radio Frequency Identification: A Panacea for Governments?, Barbara L. Neuby
What Do We Really Know about Municipal Finance?, Barbara L. Neuby
An Expanded Concept of Capital in Development Economics, Luc Noiset
Malory's Library: The Sources of the Morte Darthur, Ralph C. Norris
Neurotransmission, Sharon M. Pearcey
Romanian Adoptees and Pre-adoptive Care: A Strengths Perspective, Sue Pearlmutter, Scott D. Ryan, Lisa B. Johnson, and Victor Groza
Computing for the Masses: Extending the Computer Science Curriculum with Information Technology Literacy, Jorge Pérez and Meg C. Murray
Cooperative Strategies for Improving the Tourism Industry in Remote Geographic Regions: An Addition to Trust and Commitment Theory with One Key Mediating Construct, Ossi Pesämaa and Joseph F. Hair Jr.
To Protect and Attract: Firms Cooperating in Nature-Based Tourism Destinations, Ossi Pesämaa, Joseph F. Hair Jr., and Per Erik Eriksson
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, Jim Piecuch
The Impact of Goal Alignment on Board Existence and Top Management Team Composition: Evidence from Family-Influenced Businesses, Torsten M. Pieper, Sabine B. Klein, and Peter Jaskiewicz
Thai Police Officers' Attitudes Toward the Deportation Policy on Non-Documented Workers in Thailand, Wittaya Prayongphan, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, and Quang Truong
Comparison of General Fungal and Basidiomycete-specific ITS Primers for Identification of Wood Decay Fungi, M. Lynn Prewitt, Susan V. Diehl, Thomas C. McElroy, and Walter J. Diehl
July 24, 1952 - Premiere of High Noon, H. William Rice
Native Americans, H. William Rice
Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, H. William Rice
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, H. William Rice
The Art of Rhetoric as Self-Discipline: Interdisciplinarity, Inner Necessity, and the Construction of a Research Agenda, Anne Richards
Fields of Vision: A Background Study of References for Teachers, Anne Richards and David Carol
From Ethics to Palliative Care: A Community Hospital Experience, Lois R. Robley
Forgiveness of Interpersonal Offenses in Younger and Older Roman Catholic Women, Catherine Romero and David B. Mitchell
Determining the Lifetime of Detectable Amounts of Gunshot Residue on the Hands of a Shooter Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Matthew A. Rosenberg and Christopher Dockery
Preliminary Study of Impulse-Momentum Diagrams, David Rosengrant and Taha Mzoughi
Enzyme Inquiry, Gregory T. Rushton, Michael Dias, and Grant McDurmon
Alternative Conceptions of Organic Chemistry Topics among Fourth Year Chemistry Students, Gregory T. Rushton, Rebecca C. Hardy, Kevin P. Gwaltney, and Scott E. Lewis
Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase: Prototype for Pulsed Enzymology, John C. Salerno
Double-Edged Education, Michael Salvador
The Experiences of International Nursing Students in a Baccalaureate Nursing Program, Susan Sanner and Astrid Wilson
A Revelation Principle for Dominant Strategy Implementation, Jesse Schwartz and Quan Wen
Business Faculty Perceptions of Positive and Negative Student Behaviors, David C. Shepherd, Kathy Shepherd, and Sheb L. true
Detecting Clusters and Outliers for Multi-dimensional Data, Yong Shi
An Integrated Evaluation Method for Module-Based Undergraduate Information Retrieval Education, Yong Shi, Lei Zhu, Jane Wong, Bradley Sturz, and Chun Tang
Business Process Improvement: Empirical Assessment and Extensions, Samia M. Siha and Germaine H. Saad
Understanding The Portuguese Poet Joaquim Pessoa, 1942-2007: A Study In Iberian Cultural Hybridity, Robert Simon
HIV Infection Returning to Mexico With Migrant Workers: An Exploratory Study, Richard Sowell, Carol S. Holtz, and Gabriela Velasquez
Physical Self-Perception, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Smoking Behavior, Sean R. Stickney and David R. Black
Strategic Dependence on the IT Resource and Outsourcing: A Test of the Strategic Control Model, Detmar Straub, Peter Weill, and Kathy Stewart Schwaig
The Value of Human Capital Specificity Versus Transferability, Michael C. Sturman, Kate Walsh, and Robin A. Cheramie
Dark Genius: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and Fox News Founder Roger Ailes, Kerwin Swint
Mudslingers: The 25 Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time, Kerwin Swint
Student Voices, Global Echoes: Service-Learning and the Gifted, Alice W. Terry
Vision With Action: Developing Sensitivity to Societal Concerns in Gifted Youth, Alice W. Terry, Jann E. Bohnenberger, Joseph S. Renzulli, Bonnie Cramond, and Doroth Sisk
WebTOP: An X3D-Based, Web-Delivered, Interactive System for Optics Instruction, Brian J. Thomas, Jeremy E. Davis, Grant D. Patten, Paul A. Cleveland, Peter J. Gilbert, Matt T. Hogan, Shane P. Fry, John T. Foley, Taha Mzoughi, and David C. Banks
Migrants to Astana, the New Capital City of Kazakhstan, Bolat L. Tibekov, Kamal Fatehi, and Foad Derakhshan
Program Coordinators Disposition Toward Educational Leadership Best Practices: Practicum Experience in Georgia, J. Eric Tubbs
The Impact of School Climate on School Outcomes, J. Eric Tubbs and Mary Garner
Examining Spatially Varying Relationships Between Land Use and Water Quality Using Geographically Weighted Regression I: Model Design and Evaluation, Jun Tu and Zong-Guo Xia
Generational Differences in Psychological Traits and Their Impact on the Workplace, Jean M. Twenge and Stacy M. Campbell
Ecology and Physiology of Overwintering, Gordon R. Ultsch and Scott A. Reese
An Approach for Incorporating the Topic 'Ethics in Research' into an Introductory Statistics Course, Penny Verhoeven and Hope Baker
Dead Men Walking: Soviet Elite Cemeteries and Social Control, Katya Vladimirov
Entrepreneurship: Venture Initiation, Management, and Development, George S. Vozikis, Timothy Mescon, and Howard Feldman
Reading Mathematics in the Middle Grades, Faith H. Wallace
Teaching Mathematics through Reading: Methods and Materials for Grades 6-8, Faith H. Wallace and Jill Shivertaker
Kyozaikenkyu: A Critical Step for Conducting Effective Lesson Study and Beyond, Tad Watanabe, Akihiko Takahashi, and Makoto Yoshida
Interview with Joe F. Head, Kim West
Geocoaching: Treasure Hunting for Fitness, Susan Whitlock and John David Johnson
Teaching Information Security in a Hybrid Distance Learning Setting, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord
Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and Vpns, 2nd edition, Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord, Richard Austin, and Greg Holden
Optimal Control of Gypsy Moth Populations, Andrew Whittle, Suzanne Lenhart, and K.A.J. White
Validation of a Personal Fluid Loss Monitor, P. Jason Wickwire, Phillip A. Bishop, James M. Green, Mark T. Richardson, Richard G. Lomax, E. Jones, Catalina Casaru, and Matthew Curtner-Smith
Expatriate Or Local? Predicting Japanese, Subsidiary Expatriate Staffing Strategies, Scott Widmier, Launce Eliot Brouthers, and Paul W. Beamish
The Diminishing Effect of Cultural Distance on Subsidiary Control, Timothy J. Wilkinson, George Z. Peng, Lance Brouthers, and Paul W. Beamish
Delivering Online Asynchronous IT Courses to High School Students: Challenges and Lessons Learned, Amy B. Woszczynski
Examining Granular Computing from a Modeling Perspective, Ying Xie, Jayasimha R. Katukuri, and Vijay V. Raghavan
A Software Framework for Online Mobile Games, Chong-wei Xu
Estimates of Positive Solutions for Higher Order Right Focal Boundary Value Problem, Bo Yang
Positive Solutions of a Third-Order Three-Point Boundary-Value Problem, Bo Yang
The Honest Broker? Canada's Role in Haitian Development, Michele Zebich-Knos
On the Emotional Value of Owning a Firm, Thomas M. Zellweger and Joseph H. Astrachan
Cultural identity of Chinese professionals in the United States: Descriptive data from a recent survey, Ginny Q. Zhan
Spectral Radius and Infinity Norm of Matrices, Baodong Zheng and Liancheng Wang
Global Education, Guichun Zong, Angene H. Wilson, and A. Yao Quashiga
Submissions from 2007
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Experimental Evidence on Valuation Disparities, Lucy Ackert, Bryan K. Church, and Gerald P. Dwyer
Provision of Non-audit Services and Individuals’ Investment Decisions: Experimental Evidence, Lucy Ackert, Bryan K. Church, and Arnold Schneider
Auditor Reputation and Individuals’ Investment Decisions, Lucy F. Ackert, Bryan K. Church, and Arnold Schneider
Voting on Tax Policy Design: A Test of the Selfish versus Social Preferences Hypothesis, Lucy Ackert, Ann B. Gillette, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Mark Rider
Information Opacity, Credit Risk, and the Design of Loan Contracts for Private Firms, Lucy Ackert, Rongbing Huang, and Gabriel G. Ramirez
Social Preferences and Tax Policy Design: Some Experimental Evidence, Lucy Ackert, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Mark Rider
Exploring Neglected Terrain: Communication with Employees During Crises, Janet S. Adams and Deborah Britt Roebuck
Investigating Coastal Processes and Nitrate Levels in the Elkhorn Slough Using Real-Time Data, Lisa G. Adams and George I. Matsumoto