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 2018
Rebuilding Tertiary Education in Guinea-Bissau: Can it be done?, Brandon D. Lundy
Measuring Community Integration of Lusophone West African Immigrant Populations Through Needs Assessment, Human Security, and Realistic Conflict Theory, Brandon Lundy and Kezia Darkwah
The Impact of Foreign-owned Enterprises in Low-income Economies, Brandon Lundy, Mark Patterson, and Alex O'Neill
The accumulation of stereotype-based self-fulfilling prophecies, Stephanie Madon, Lee Jussim, Max Guyll, Heather Nofziger, Elizabeth R. Salib, Jennifer Willard, and Kyle C. Scherr
Normative Values for Self-Reported Benchmark Workout Scores in CrossFit® Practitioners, Gerald T. Mangine, Brant Cebulla, and Yuri Feito
Influence of Baseline Muscle Strength and Size Measures on Training Adaptations in Resistance-trained Men, Gerald T. Mangine, Adam M. Gonzalez, Jeremy R. Townsend, and Adam J. Wells
Resistance Training Does Not Induce Uniform Adaptations to Quadriceps, Gerald T. Mangine, Michael J. Redd, Adam M. Gonzalez, Jeremy R. Townsend, Adam J. Wells, Adam R. Jajtner, Kyle S. Beyer, Carleigh H. Boone, Michael B. La Monica, Jeffrey R. Stout, David H. Fukuda, Nicholas R. Ratamess, and Jay R. Hoffman
Testosterone and Cortisol Responses to FiveHigh-Intensity Functional Training CompetitionWorkouts in Recreationally Active Adults, Gerald T. Mangine, Trisha A. VanDusseldorp, Yuri Feito, Alyssa J. Holmes, Paul R. Serafini, Allyson G. Box, and Adam M. Gonzalez
Systematic assessment of food item preference and reinforcer effectiveness: Enhancements in training laboratory-housed rhesus macaques, Allison L. Martin, Andrea N. Franklin, Jaine E. Perlman, and Mollie A. Bloomsmith
Strategic and experimental analyses of conflict and terrorism, Timothy Mathews and Shane Sanders
Trauma-Informed Care and Posttraumatic Growth Among Bereaved Youth: A Pilot Study, Irene S. McClatchey
Validity of DXA Body Volume Equations in a Four-compartment Model for Adults with Varying Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference Classifications, Cherilyn N. McLester, Brett S. Nickerson, Brian M. Kliszczewicz, and Courtenay S. Hicks
Concealed Guns on College Campuses: Examining Support for Campus Carry Among Faculty, Staff, and Students, Jennifer McMahon-Howard, Heidi Scherer, and James T. McCafferty
Replication and extension of long-term implicit memory: Perceptual priming but conceptual cessation, David B. Mitchell, Corwin L. Kelly, and Alan S. Brown
Exploring Five Online Collaboration Tools to Facilitate a Professional Learning Community, Julie A. Moore
Reduction of interferences in the analysis of Children's Dimetapp using ultraviolet spectroscopy data and target factor analysis, Huggins Z. Msimanga, Truong Thach Ho Lam, Nathaniel Latinwo, and Mihyang Kristy Song
Corporate Governance in China: A Meta‐Analysis, Canan C. Mutlu, Marc Van Essen, Mike W. Peng, and Sabrina F. Saleh
Validity of BMI-Based Body Fat Equations in Men and Women: A 4-Compartment Model Comparison, Brett S. Nickerson, Michael R. Esco, Phillip A. Bishop, and Brian M. Kliszczewicz
Effect of cluster set warm-up configurations on sprint performance in collegiate male soccer players, Brett S. Nickerson, Gerald T. Mangine, Tyler D. Williams, and Ismael A. Martinez
The Sense of Presence Exploration in Virtual Reality Therapy, Max M. North and Sarah M. North
Analysis of Effectiveness of Optional Versus Mandatory Quizzes on Final Comprehensive Examinations Performance., Max M. North and Ronny Richardson
Five Decades of Research on Mitochondrial NADH-quinone Oxidoreductase (complex I), Tomoko Ohnishi, S. Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, and John C. Salerno
Motoneuron Function Does not Change Following Whole-Body Vibration in Individuals With Chronic Ankle Instability, Dana M. Otzel, Chris J. Hass, Erik A. Wikstrom, and Mark D. Tillman
Global Learning is Shared Learning: Interdisciplinary Intercultural Competence at a Comprehensive Regional University, Dan Paracka and Sabine Smith
A comparative study of American and Chinese college students’ motives for food choice, Sharon M. Pearcey and Ginny Q. Zhan
SUMO Targeting of a Stress-tolerant Ulp1 SUMO Protease, Jennifer Peek, Catherine Harvey, Dreux Gray, Danny Rosenberg, Likhitha Kolla, Reuben Levy-Myers, Rui Yin, Oliver Kerscher, and Jonathan L. McMurry
Assessment of the non-lactic acid bacteria microbiota in fresh cucumbers and commercially fermented cucumber pickles brined with 6% NaCl, Ilenys M. Pérez-Díaz, Janet S. Hayes, Eduardo Medina, and Zhongjing Lu
Can democratic states justify restricting the rights of persons with mental illness? Presumption of competence, voting, and gun rights, Heather Pincock
Manager Impacts on Worker Performance in American Football: Do Offensive Coordinators Impact Quarterback Performance in the National Football League?, Joshua D. Pitts and Brent Evans
Changes in Frontoparietotemporal Connectivity following Do-As-I-Do Imitation Training in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Sarah M. Pope, Jared P. Taglialatela, Sara A. Skiba, and William D. Hopkins
2018 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address: Open-Mindedness for ALL Available Research Data, Harry E. Price
The Validity of Online Patient Ratings of Physicians, Jennifer L. Priestley, Yiyun Zhou, and Robert McGrath
Becoming the change we wish to see: The unexpected benefits of conflict resolution work, Susan S. Raines
Beyond the Bridge: Transforming Conflict Research, Education, and Practice by Transcending Barriers—Honoring the Contributions of Tricia S. Jones, Susan S. Raines
Building a Knowledge-Based Foundation for Mediation Practice & Program Administration, Susan S. Raines
TCT-754 Predictors of Mortality and Clinical Outcomes of Acute Severe Cardiogenic Shock Treated With the Impella® Device, Charlene Rohm, Bogdan Gadidov, Jessica Rudd, and Herman Ray
Educational Attainment and Quitting Smoking: A Structural Equation Model Approach, Ann Goding Sauer, Stacey A. Fedewa, Jihye Kim, Ahmedin Jemal, and J. Lee Westmaas
Interpersonal Affect, Accountability and Experience in Auditor Fraud Risk Judgments and the Processing of Fraud Cues, Jennifer Schafer and Brad Schafer
Economic Feasibility of Ground Source Heat Pump System Deployed in Expressway Service Area, Youngguk Seo, Un-Jong Seo, and Jin-Hwan Kim
Self-reported Measures of Strength and Sport-Specific Skills Distinguish Ranking in an International Online Fitness Competition, Paul R. Serafini, Yuri Feito, and Gerald T. Mangine
Meditation on the Soles of the Feet Practice Provides Some Control of Aggression for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease, Nirbhay N. Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, Oleg N. Medvedev, and Rachel E. Myers
An Image-guided Endoscope System for the Ureter Detection, Enmin Song, Feng Yu, Yunlong Li, and Chih-Cheng Hung
Stigma and Discrimination: Threats to Living Positively with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Richard L. Sowell
Introduction: Still Provoking and Spurring the Understanding of World Politics, Anthony Petros Spanakos and Esther Skelley Jordan
Effect of pseudomonas lipase enzyme on the degradation of polycaprolactone/polycaprolactone-polyglycolide fiber blended nanocomposites, Shayla S. Spearman, Fahmida Irin, Srikanthan Ramesh, and Iris V. Rivero
Policing The Drunk Driving Problem: A Longitudinal Examination of DUI Enforcement and Alcohol Related Crashes in the U.S. (1985–2015), Richard J. Stringer
Mega-meander paleochannels of the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, Bradley E. Suther, David S. Leigh, George A. Brook, and LinHai Yang
Exotic Properties of a Voltage-gated Proton Channel from the Snail Helisoma trivolvis, Sarah Thomas, Vladimir V. Cherny, Deri Morgan, Liana R. Artinian, Vincent Rehder, Susan M. E. Smith, and Thomas E. DeCoursey
Effects of Probiotic (Bacillus subtilis) Supplementation During Offseason Resistance Training in Female Division I Athletes, Jeremy C. Toohey, Trisha A. VanDusseldorp, Yuri Feito, and Gerald Mangine
Internet Industry: A Perspective Review through Internet of Things and Internet of Everything, Kristin Tucker, Jake Bulim, Glenn Koch, and Max M. North
An Incentivized Early Remediation Program in Calculus I, Jennifer Vandenbussche, Lake Ritter, and Christina Scherrer
Effect of Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementationon Recovery Following Acute Eccentric Exercise, Trisha A. VanDusseldorp, Kurt A. Escobar, Kelly E. Johnson, Matthew T. Stratton, Terence Moriarty, Nathan Cole, James J. McCormick, Chad M. Kersick, Roger A. Vaughan, Karol Dokladny, Len Kravitz, and Christine M. Mermier
General Nicolae Rădescu: New Sources, New Perspectives, 1940s–1950s, Katya Vladimirov
Disorder Induced Power-law Gaps in an Insulator-metal Mott Transition, Zhenyu Wang, Yoshinori Okada, Jared O'Neal, Wenwen Zhou, Daniel Walkup, Chetan Dhital, Tom Hogan, Patrick Clancy, Young-June Kim, Y. F. Hu, Luiz H. Santos, Stephen D. Wilson, Nandini Trivedi, and Vidya Madhavan
Parity-time symmetry in optical microcavity systems, Jianming Wen, Xiaoshun Jiang, Liang Jiang, and Min Xiao
Developing Reliable Measures of the Passive Torque-angle Relationship for Shoulder Internal and External Rotation: Implications for Overhead Athletics, Jeff T. Wight, Guy B. Grover, John W. Chow, Paul A. Borsa, Erik A. Wikstrom, and Mark D. Tillman
Influence of Acute Consumption of Caffeine vs. Placebo over Bia-derived Measurements of Body Composition: A Randomized, Double-blind, Crossover Design, Cassie M. Williamson, Brett S. Nickerson, Emily E. Bechke, Cherilyn N. McLester, and Brian Kliszczewicz
Family Firm Goals and their Effects on Strategy, Family and Organization Behavior: A Review and Research Agenda, Ralph I. Williams Jr., Torsten M. Pieper, Franz W. Kellermans, and Joseph H. Astrachan
Librarians' Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Impact on the Profession, Barbara A. Wood and David Evans
A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party, Julie Wronski, Alexa Bankert, Karyn Amira, April A. Johnson, and Lindsey C. Levitan
Automatic brain tissue segmentation in MR images using hybrid atlas forest based on confidence‐weighted probability matrix, Lijun Xu, Hong Liu, Enmin Song, and Chih-Cheng Hung
Observation of excited Ω c charmed baryons in e + e − collisions, J. Yelton and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
An Augmented Reality Endoscope System for Ureter Position Detection, Feng Yu, Enmin Song, Hong Liu, and Chih-Cheng Hung
The Use and Domestication of Theobroma cacao during the Mid-Holocene in the Upper Amazon, Sonia Zarrillo, Nilesh Gaikwad, Claire Lanaud, Terry Powis, and Et al.
Submissions from 2017
Income Statement Reporting Discretion Allowed by FIN 48: Interest and Penalty Expense Classification, John Abernathy, Brooke Beyer, Andrew D. Gross, and Eric T. Rapley
Examination of the QM Process: Making A Case for Transformative Professional Development Model, Radwan Ali and James Wright
A Security and Privacy Framework for e-Learning, Radwan Ali and Humayun Zafar
Effects of Instructional Physical Activity Courses on Overall Physical Activity and Mood in University Students, James J. Annesi, Kandice J. Porter, Grant M. Hill, and Bernard Goldfine
Directionality in the Relationship of Self-regulation, Self-efficacy, and Mood Changes in Facilitating Improved Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors: Extending Behavioral Theory to Improve Weight-Loss Treatment Effects, James J. Annesi and Linda L. Vaughn
Effects of the Youth Fit 4 Life physical activity/nutrition protocol on body mass index, fitness and targeted social cognitive theory variables in 9- to 12-year-olds during after-school care, James J. Annesi, Stephanie M. Walsh, Brittney L. Greenwood, and Nicole Mareno
Psychosocial changes as correlates of weight regain vs. continued loss within 2-year trials of a self-regulation-focused community-based intervention, J. J. Annesi and N. Mareno
Digital Civil Society: How Nigerian NGOs Utilize Social Media Platforms, Crystal Armstrong and Charity Butcher
Stechkin's problem for functions of a self-adjoint operator in a Hilbert space, Taikov-type inequalities and their applications, Vladyslav Babenko, Yuliya Babenko, and Nadiia Kriachko
Epionage and the Optimal Standard of the Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Program in Maritime Security, Aniruddha Bagchi and Jomon A. Paul
A model to analyze the challenge of using cyber insurance, Tridib Bandyopadhyay and Vijay Mookerjee
Polyoxovanadate Fabricated Gold Nanoparticles: Application in SERS, Bharat Baruah and Toni-Ann Miller
From Model Checking to a Temporal Proof for Partial models: Preliminary Example, Anna Bernasconi, Claudio Menghi, Paola Spoletini, Lenore D. Zuck, and Carlo Ghezzi
A Corporate Tax Return Simulation: Utilizing Electronic Work Papers and Resolving Ambiguous Issues, Ellen E. Best and Jennifer Schafer
Ethnicity and confidence in government: the case of Turkish-minority relations, Tavishi Bhasin, Charity Butcher, and Deniz Gumustekin
The Effect of CEO Social Influence Pressure and CFO Accounting Experience on CFO Financial Reporting Decisions, Carol C. Bishop, F. Todd DeZoort, and Dana R. Hermanson
Stable solution to l 2,1-based robust inductive matrix completion and its application in linking long noncoding RNAs to human diseases, Ashis Kumer Biswas, Dongchul Kim, Mingon Kang, and Chris Ding
Performance Efficiency in NCAA Basketball, J. Brandon Bolen, Jon Rezek, and Joshua D. Pitts
Guest Editorial on the role of emotions in B2B marketing, Aberdeen Leila Borders and Elyria A. Kemp
Monitoring and Employee Shirking: Evidence from MLB Umpires, John Charles Bradbury
Monopsony and Competition: The Impact of Rival Leagues on Player Salaries during the Early Days of Baseball, John Charles Bradbury
Searching for Illicit Behavior through Changes in Productivity: The Case of Roger Clemens and Performance-enhancing Drugs, John Charles Bradbury
Full Cost of Attendance Scholarships and College Choice: Evidence from NCAA Football, John Charles Bradbury and Joshua D. Pitts
The impact of training, mentoring and coaching on personal learning in the sales environment., Shalonda K. Bradford, Brian N. Rutherford, and Scott B. Friend
Civil War and Terrorism: A Call for Further Theory Building, Charity Butcher
Diversionary Tactics and the Ethiopia-Eritrea War (1998-2000), Charity Butcher and Makda Maru
Europe’s united future after Brexit: Brexit has not killed the European Union, rather it has eliminated the largest obstacle to EU consolidation, Stephen D. Collins
Color-blind Index in Graphs of Very Low Degree, Jennifer Diemunsch, Nathan Graber, Lucas Kramer, Victor Larsen, Lauren M. Nelsen, Luke L. Nelsen, Devon Sigler, Derrick Stolee, and Charlie Suer
Precise determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcb| with B¯0 → D∗ + ` − ν¯` decays with hadronic tagging at Belle, A. Abdesselam et al., D. Joffe, and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
Search for B− → µ −ν¯µ Decays at the Belle Experiment, A. Sibidanov et al. and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
Search for Λ + c → ϕ p π 0 and branching fraction measurement of Λ + c → K − π + p π 0, B. Pal et al., D. Joffe, and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
Measurement of the decays B → η ℓ ν ℓ and B → η ′ ℓ ν ℓ in fully reconstructed events at Belle, C. Beleño et al., D. Joffe, and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
Measurement of branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry in charmless B+ → K+K−π + decays at Belle, C.-L. Hsu et al., D. Joffe, and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri
Study of η and dipion transitions in Υ(4 S) decays to lower bottomonia, E. Guido et al., D. Joffe, and Ratnappuli L. Kulasiri