Here you will find a recent sampling of published articles and chapters by BCAS faculty. Publications are updated periodically. Entries are sorted alphabetically by faculty member within each department, current faculty are in bold.

2010      2011


Department of Anthropology and Classical Studies

Shott, M.J. (2011). Human colonization and late Pleistocene Lithic Industries of the Americas. Quaternary International, 230. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.034.

Department of Biology

Sensenig, A., Agnarsson, I., & Blackledge, T. A. (2011). Adult Spiders use tougher silk: ontogenetic changes in web architecture and silk biomechanics in the orb-weaver spider Neoscona arabesca. Journal of Zoology, 285(1), 28-38.

Sahni, V., Blackledge, T. A., & Dhinojwala, A. (2011). A review on spider silk adhesion. Journal of Adhesion, 87 (6), 595-614.

Sahni, V., Blackledge, T. A., & Dhinojwala, A. (2011). Changes in the adhesive properties of spider aggregate glue during the evolution of cobwebs. Scientific Reports (Nature), 1 , 41.

Kelly, S. P., Sensenig, A., Lorentz, K. A., & Blackledge, T. A. (2011). Damping capacity is evolutionarily conserved in the radial silk of orb-weaving spiders. Zoology, 114(4), 233-238.

Gregoric, M., Agnarsson, I., Blackledge, T. A., & Kuntner, M. (2011). Darwin's bark spider: biology of giant orb webs (Araneidae: Caerostris darwini). Journal of Arachnology, 39, 294-302.

Blackledge, T. A., Kuntner, M., & Agnarsson, I. (2011). The form and function of spider orb webs: evolution from silk ecosystems. Advances in Insect Physiology, 41, 175-262.

Harmer, A., Blackledge, T. A., Madin, J., & Herberstein, M. (2011). High-performance spider webs: integrating biomechanics, ecology and behaviour. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 8(57), 457-471.

Boutry, C., Rezac, M., & Blackledge, T. A. (2011). Plasticity in major ampullate silk production in relation to spider phylogeny. PLoS One, 6(7), e22467.

Blackledge, T. A. (2011). Prey capture in orb weaving spiders: Are we using the best metric? Journal of Arachnology, 39, 205-210.

Copeland, D., Duff, R., Liu, Q., Prokop, J., & Londraville, R. (2011). Leptin in teleost fishes: An argument for comparative study. Frontiers in Physiology, 2(26).

Toot, J., Reho, J., Novak, J., Dunphy, G., Ely, D., & Ramirez, R. (2011). Colony social stress differentially alters blood pressure and resistance-sized mesenteric artery reactivity in SHR/y and WKY male rats. Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 14(1), 33 - 41.

Prokop, J., Leeper, T., Duan, Z., & Milsted, A. (2011). Amino acid function and docking site prediction through combining disease variants, structure alignments, sequence alignments, and molecular dynamics: A study of the HMG domain. BMC Bioinformatics.

Reho, J., Peck, J., Novak, J., & Ramirez, R. (2011). Hypertension induced by episodic reductions in uteroplacental blood flow in gravid rat. Hypertension in Pregnancy: Official Journal Of The International Society For The Study Of Hypertension In Pregnancy, 30(2), 208 - 220.

Salisbury, R.L. (2011). Hydralazine reverses stress-induced elevations in blood pressure, angiotensin II, testosterone, and coronary pathology in a social colony model. ISRN Pathology 2011, Article ID 367280. doi: 10.5402/2011/367280.

Shawkey, M., Maia, R., & D'Alba, L. (2011). Proximate bases of silver color in anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) feathers. Journal of Morphology, 272(11), 1399-1407.

Weeks, S. C., Sanderson, T. F., Wallace, B. F., & Bagatto, B. (2011). Behavioral cost of reproduction in a freshwater crustacean (Eulimnadia texana). Ethology, 117(10), 880-886.

Department of Chemistry

Fields, K. B., Engle, J. T., Sripothongnak, S., Kim, C., Zhang, X. P., & Ziegler, C. J. (2011). Cobalt carbaporphyrin-catalyzed cyclopropanation. Chemical Communications, 47, 749-751.

Leeper, T., Zhang, S., Van Voorhis, W., Myler, P. J., & Varani, G. (2011). Comparative analysis of glutaredoxin domains from bacterial opportunistic pathogens. Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, F67, 1141-1147.

Prokop, J., Leeper, T., Duan, Z., & Milsted, A. (2011). Amino acid function and docking site prediction through combining disease variants, structure alignments, sequence alignments, and molecular dynamics: A study of the HMG domain. BMC Bioinformatics.

Xu, Y., Malkovskiy, A., & Pang, Y. (2011). A graphene binding-promoted fluorescence enhancement for BSA Recognition. Chem. Commun, 47(23), 6662-6664.

Pang, Y., Chen, W., & Xing, Y. (2011). A highly selective pyrophosphate sensor based on ESIPT turn-on in water. Org. Lett., 13(6), 1362-1365.

Ma, J., Du, Z., Xu, J., Chu, Q., & Pang, Y. (2011). Efficient aerobic oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5- Diformylfuran, and synthesis of a fluorescent material. ChemSusChem, 4(1), 51-54.

Zhang, T., Sun, S., Liu, F., Pang, Y., Fan, J., & Peng, X. (2011). Interaction of DNA and a series of aromatic donor- viologen acceptor molecules with and without the presence of CB[8]. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13(20), 9789-9795.

Xu, Y., Malkovskiy, A., Wang, Q., & Pang, Y. (2011). Molecular assembly of A Squaraine dye with cationic surfactant and nucleotides: Its impact on aggregation and fluorescence response. Org. & Biomol. Chem., 9(8), 2878- 2884.

Pang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2011). Zn2+-trigged excited-state intramolecular proton transfer: A sensitive probe with near- infrared emission from bis(benzoxazole) derivative. Dalton Transaction, 40(7), 1503-1509.

Xu, Y., Guo, M., Li, X., Wesdemiotis, C., & Pang, Y. (2011). Formation of linear supramolecular polymers that is based on host-guest assembly in water. Chem. Commun., 47(31), 8883-8885.

Li, X., Chan, Y.-T., Newkome, G.R., & Wesdemiotis, C. (2011). Gradient tandem mass spectrometry interfaced with ion mobility separation for the characterization of supramolecular architectures. Anal. Chem. doi: 10.1021/ac1022875.

Wang, J.-L., Li, X., Lu, X., Chan, Y.-T., Moorefield, C.N., & Wesdemiotis, C.; Newkome, G.R. (2011). Dendron functionalized bisterpyridine iron(II)- or cadmium(II)-metallomacrocycles: synthesis, traveling wave ion mobility mass spectrometry, and photophysical properties. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17, 4380-4388, doi:10.1002/chem.201003681.

Roshinee, C., & Ziegler C. J. (2011). Cyclohexylcyanine: a new aliphatic phthalocyanine analogue. Chemical Communications, 47(3), 982-984.

Roshinee, C., Schick, A. J., Paul, N. B., Durfee W. S., & Ziegler C. J. (2011). Hydroxybenziphthalocyanines: non- aromatic phthalocyanine analogues that exhibit strong UV-visible absorptions. New Journal of Chemistry, 35(4), 794- 799.

Roshinee, C., Geier, G. R. III, & Ziegler, C. J. (2011). Structure and spectroscopic characterization of free base and metal complexes of 5,5-dimethyl-10, 15-bis(pentafluorophenyl)isocorrale. Dalton Trans., 40(17), 4384-4386.

Department of Computer Science

< b>Chan, C.-C., & Tzery, G.-H. (2011). Bit-vector representation of dominance-based approximation space. In J. F. Peters et al. (Eds.) Transactions on Rough Sets, 13(LNCS Vol. 6499), 1-16.

Hammad, M., Collard, M. L., Maletic, J. I. (2011). Automatically identifying changes that impact code-to-design traceability during evolution. Software Quality Journal, 19(1), 35-64.

Shi, I., Shi, T., Sadraei, N. H., & Duan, Z. (2011). Aberrant signaling pathways in squamous cell lung carcinoma. Cancer Informatics, 10, 273-285. doi: 10.4137/CIN.S8283.

Prokop, J., Leeper, T., Duan, Z., & Milsted, A. (2011). Amino acid function and docking site prediction through combining disease variants, structure alignments, sequence alignments, and molecular dynamics: A study of the HMG domain. BMC Bioinformatics.

Dalman, M., Deeter, A., Nimishakavi, G., & Duan, Z. (2011). Statistical struggles in microarray analysis. BMC Bioinformatics.

Gupta, M.K., Duan, Z., Karnik, S., & Naga Prasad, S. V. (2011). MicroRNAs telltale effects on signaling networks in cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathies. InTech.

O'Neil, T. W., Khasawneh, S., Richter, M., & Pullaguntla, R. (2011). Transforming synchronous data-flow graphs to reduce execution time. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 18(2), 111-122.

Duan, Z., & Krasny, R. (2011). An ewald summation based multipole method. Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(9), 3492-3495.

Department of Economics

Myers, S. C. (2011). Assessment of the undergraduate economics major: A national survey. Journal of Economic Education, 42(2), 195-199.

Goel, R., & Nelson, M. (2011). Measures of corruption and determinants of US corruption. Economics of Governance, 12(2), 155-176.

Renna, F., Ali, M. & Amialchuck, A. (2011). Social network and weight misperception among adolescents. Southern Economic Journal, 77(4).

Rohlin, S. M. (2011). State minimum wage rates and business location: Evidence from a border approach. Journal of Urban Economics, 1(69), 103-117.

Hanson, A., & Rohlin, S. M. (2011). The effect of location based tax incentives on establishment location and employment: Is there a differential impact across industry sectors. Public Finance Review, 2(39), 195-225.

Department of English

Bean, J.P., & Elbow, P. (2011). Free speech and freewriting: A pragmatic perspective. In S. Parks, L. Adler-Kassner, B. Bailie, & C. Caton (Eds.), The best of the independent rhetoric and composition journals 2010. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

Biddinger, M. (2011). A Diorama. Minnesota Review, 2011(76), 15.

Chura, P. J. (2011). Emily Plater: 'Frontispiece' for Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Lituanus, 57(1), 5-14.

Chura, P. J. (2011). "Introduction" to The Harbor by Ernest Poole. Introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition of The Harbor, 2011: ix-xxviii.

Chura, P. J. (2011). Translations: "'To Be' Means to Resist the Absurd," an introduction to Thoreau's Walden by Rolandas Pavilionis. Translated from the Lithuanian language. Lituanus 57(4).

Nunn, H. M. (2011). 'Stepes Towards Heaven Wherein My Forefathers Have Walked': Spirituality, family history, and place in Elizabeth Isham's My Booke of Remembrance. American Notes and Queries, 23, 75-80.

Nunn, H. M. (2011). 'Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers': The domestic geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Remembrance. In J. Munroe & R. Laroche (Eds.), Dialogue with nature: Ecofeminist approaches to early modernity. New York: Palgrave.

Schuldiner, M. (2011). The second-generation Holocaust survivor: Third-degree metalepsis and creative block in Art Spiegelman's Maus. In D. P. Royal (Ed.), Unfinalized moments: Essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

Wasserman, E. (2011). Greatness strikes where it pleases: An interview with Frederick Reiken. Southeast Review, 29(2), 106-124.

Wasserman, E. (2011). The job. Confrontation: A Literary Magazine. Nov. 2011.

Zhang, W. (2011). The linguistic secret of Fanqie languages in Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 39(2).

Department of Geography and Planning

Moore, J. (2011). Economy and society; Geographic views on restructuring and social mediation. In J. Stoltman (Ed.), 21st century geography: A reference handbook (Vol 1) (pp: 387-398). Los Angeles: Sage.

Department of Geology and Environmental Science

Bistacchi, A., Griffith, W. A., Nielsen, S., Smith, S. A. F., Di Toro, G., & Jones, R. (2011). Surface roughness of ancient seismic faults: a combined LIDAR and high resolution photogrammetric analysis of fault trace profiles. Pure and Applied Geophysics. doi: 10.1007/s00024-011-0301-7.

Bertel, D., Peck, J. A., Quick, T., & Senko, J. (2011). Iron transformations induced by acid-tolerant Desulfosporosinus species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1128/AEM.06337-11.

Yoonessi, M., Peck, J. A., Bail, J., Rogers, R., Lerch, B., & Meador, M. (2011). Transparent large-strain thermoplastic polyurethane magnetoactive nanocomposites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 3(7), 2686-2693.

Zhang, G., Burgos, W., Senko, J., Bishop, M., Boyanov, M., & Kemner, K. (2011). Microbial reduction of chlorite and uranium followed by air oxidation. Chemical Geology, 283(3/4), 242-250.

Senko, J., Bertel, D., Quick, T., & Burgos, W. (2011). The influence of phototrophic biomass on Fe and S redox cycling in an acid mine drainage-impacted system. Mine Water & the Environment, 30(1), 38-46.

Kortz, K. M., Clark, S. K., Gray, K., Smay, J. J., Viveiros, B., & Steer, D. (2011). Counting tectonic plates: A mixed-methods study of college students' conceptions of plates and boundaries. Geological Society of American Special Papers, 474, 171-188.

Szabo, J. P., Angle, M., & Eddy, A. (2011). Pleistocene glaciations of Ohio, USA. In J. Ehlers, P. L. Gibbard & P. D. Hughes (Eds.), Quarternary glaciations - extent and chronology: A closer look (pp. 513-520). Oxford: Elsevier.

Fleeger, G., Grote, T., Straffin, S., & Szabo, J. P. (2011). Quarternary geology of northwestern Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America Field Guide, Volume 20. doi: 10.1130/9780813700205.

Department of History

Bouchard, C. (2011). Restructuring sanctity and refiguring saints in early medieval Gaul. In Robert Bell and Karl F. Morrison (Eds.), Experiements in empathy: The middle ages.Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Kern, K. F. (2011). Marion Motley. In S. A. Riess (Ed.), Sports in America from colonial times to the twenty-first century: An encyclopedia. New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Kern, K. F. (2011). Paul Brown. In S. A. Riess (Ed.), Sports in American from colonial times to the twenty-first century: An encyclopedia. New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Kern, K. F. (2011). The Great Train Robbery. In P. D. DiMare (Ed.), Movies in American history: An encyclopedia (pp. 226-227). New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Sheng, M. M. (2011). Mao and Chinese elite politics in the 1950s: The Gao Gang Affair revisited. Twentieth Century China, 36(10), 67-96.

Department of Mathematics

Cossey, J. (2011). A Bijection for the Alperin weight conjecture in Sn. Algebras and Representation Theory, 14(2), 391-402.

Cossey, J., & Lewis, M. (2011). Inductive pairs and lifts in solvable groups. Journal of Group Theory,14(2), 201 - 212.

Cossey, J., Lewis, M., & Navarro, G. (2011). The number of lifts of a Brauer character with a normal vertex. Journal of Algebra, 328(1), 484 - 487.

Forcey, S., Carr, M., Devadoss, S. (2011). Pseudograph associahedra. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 118(7), 2035-2055.

Almog, Y., Berlyand, L., Golovaty, D., & Shafrir, I. (2011). Radially symmetric minimizers for a p-Ginzberg Landau type energy in R^2. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. doi: 10.1007/s00526-011-0396-9.

Nguyen, H. (2011). Multiplicities of Conjugacy Class Sizes of Finite Groups. Journal of Algebra, 341(1), 250-255.

Hall, J., & Nguyen, H. (2011). On the permutation modules for orthogonal groups O_m(3) acting on nonsingular points of their standard modules. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. doi: 10.1016/j.jpaa.2011.07.011.

Hall, J., & Nguyen, H. (2011). The structure of rank 3 permutation modules for O_2n(2) and U_m(2) acting on nonsingular points. Journal of Algebra, 333(1), 295-317.

Quesada, A. R., Cooper, A., & Dunlap, L. (2011). The jagged boundary-edge problem. Puig Adam Math. Soc. 89, 14-33.

Quesada, A. R., & Dunlap, L. (2011). The preparation of secondary pre- and inservice mathematics teachers on the integration of technology in topics foundational to calculus. Electronic Journal of Mathematics & Technology, 5(1), 81 - 95.

Department of Modern Languages

Brougham, R. (2011). La realidad, el arte y la poesía. Confluencia, 26(2), 136 - 142.

Dejbord-Sawan, P.T. (2011). Imagen, deseo y palabra en El amor es una droga dura de Cristina Peri Rossi. Revista Iberoamericana, XXVIIvB(236-237), 979-991.

Wyszynski, M. (2011). Cupido atropellado': The dominance of friendship in Tirso's Cómo han de ser los amigos. Bulletin of the Comediantes, 61(1), 59-73.

Department of Physics

Paudel, N., Buldum, A., Ohashi, T., & Dai, L. (2011). Modeling and simulation of adhesion between carbon nanotubes and surfaces. Molecular Simulation, 35, 520-524.

Department of Political Science

Coffey, D. J., Miller, W., & Feuerstein, D. (2011). Classroom as reality: Demonstrating campaign effects through live simulation. Journal of Political Science Education, 7(1), 14-33.

Jefferis, E., Butcher, F., & Hanley, D. (2011). Measuring perceptions of police use-of-force. Police Practice & Research, 12(1), 81-96.

Department of Psychology

Allen, P. A., Kaut, K. P., Baena, E., Lien, M., & Ruthruff, E. (2011). Individual differences in positive affect moderate age-related declines in episodic long-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(6), 768-779.

Diefendorff, J. M., Erickson, R. J., Grandey, A. A.,& Dahling, J. (2011). Emotional display rules as work unit norms: A multilevel analysis of emotional labor among nurses. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 16(2), 170- 186.

Gabriel, A. S., Diefendorff, J. M., & Erickson, R. J. (2011). The relations of daily task accomplishment satisfaction with changes in affect: A multilevel study in nurses. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(5), 1095-1104.

Richard, E., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2011). Self-regulation during a single performance episode: Mood as information in the absence of formal feedback. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115(1), 99-110.

Woods, S., Hall, R., Campbell, J. & Angott, D. (2011). Physical health and post traumatic stress disorder symptoms in women experiencing intimate partner violence. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health 53(6), 538-546.

Woods, S., Wineman, N., Page, G., Hall, R., Alexander, T. & Campbell, J. (2011). Predicting immune status in women from PTSD and childhood and adult violence. ANS: Advances in Nursing Science, 28(4), 306-319.

Estok, P., Sedlak, C., Doheny, M., & Hall, R. (2011). Structural models for osteoporosis preventing behavior in postmenopausal women. Nursing Research, 56(3), 148-158.

Levant, R. F., Rankin, T., Hall, R. J., Smalley, K., David, K., & Williams, C., (2011). The measurement of nontraditional sexuality in women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. doi: 10.1007/s10508-011-9793-6.

Levant, R. F., Wimer, D. J., Williams, C. M., (2011). An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Health Behavior Inventory-20 (HBI-20) and its relationships to masculinity and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among college men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 11, 26-41.

Lord, R. G., Hall, R. J., & Halpin, S. M. (2011). Leadership skill development and divergence: A model for the early effects of gender and race on leadership development. In S. E. Murphy & R. Reichard (Eds.), Early development and leadership: Building the next generation of leaders. New York: Psychology Press/Routledge.

Munin, A., & Speight, S. L. (2011). Ally development of college students. Equity and Excellence in Education, 43(2), 249-262.

Yoder, J., Tobias, A., & Snell, A. (2011). When declaring "I am a feminist" matters: Labeling is linked to activism. Sex Roles, 64(1-2), 9.

Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies

Ortega, R., Plagens, G., Stephens, P., & Berry-James, R. (2011). Mexican American public sector professionals: Perceptions of affirmative action policies and workplace discrimination. Review of Public Personnel Administration. doi: 10.1177/0734371X11408705.

Brown, C., Sloboda, Z., Faggiano, F., Teasdale, B., Keller, F., Burkhart, G., Vina-Taglianti, F., Howe, G., Masyn, K., Wang, W., Stephens, P., Grey, S., & Perrino, T., (2011). Methods for synthesizing findings on moderation effects across multiple randomized trials. Prevention Science. doi: 10.1007/s11121-011-0207-8.

Department of Sociology

Asencio, E. K., & Burke, P. J. (2011). Does incarceration change the criminal identity? A synthesis of the labeling and identity theory perspectives on identity change. Sociological Perspectives, 54(2), 163-182.

Asencio, E. K. (2011). Familiarity, legitimation, and frequency: What matters more for the criminal self- view? Sociological Inquiry, 81(1), 34-52.

Callanan, V. J., & Davis, Mark S. (2011). Gender and suicide method: Do women avoid facial disfiguration? Sex Roles. doi 10.1007/s11199-011-0043.

Callanan, V. J., & Davis, Mark S. (2011). Gender differences in suicide methods. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi: 10.1007/s00127-011-0393-5.

Callanan, V. J., & Rosenberger, J. S. (2011). Media and public perceptions of the police: Examining the impact of race and personal experience. Policing and Society, 21(2), 167-189.

Elman, C. (2011). The midlife years: Human capital and job mobility. In Richard A. Settersten and Jacqueline Angel (Eds.), Handbook of sociology of aging (pp. 245-262). Austin, TX: Springer.

Diefendorff, J. M., Erickson, R. J., Grandey, A. A., & Dahling, J. (2011). Emotional display rules as work unit norms: A multilevel analysis of emotional labor among nurses. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 16(2), 170- 186.

Gabriel, A. S., Diefendorff, J. M., & Erickson, R. J. (2011). The relations of daily task accomplishment satisfaction with changes in affect: A multilevel study in nurses. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(5), 1095-1104.

Noh, M., Lee, M., & Feltey, K. (2011). Mad, bad, or reasonable? Newspaper portrayals of the battered woman who kills. Gender Issues, 27(3-4), 110-130.

Frech, A., & Tolbert Kimbro, R. (2011). Maternal mental health, neighborhood characteristics, and time investments in children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 73(3), 605-620.

Williams, K., Sassler, S., Frech, A., Addo, F., & Cooksey, E. (2011). Nonmarital childbearing, union history, and women's health at midlife. American Sociological Review, 76(3), 465-486.

Lee, M. T. (2011). Public discourse about immigration as a social problem: Implications from empirical studies of violent crime and the emerging immigration revitalization perspective. Social Problems Forum: The SSP Newsletter, 42, 1-5.

Nofziger, S. (2011). Entering deviance. In C. D. Bryant (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of deviant behavior (chp. 22). New York: Routledge.

Peralta, R. L., & Jauk, D. (2011). A brief feminist review and critique of the sociology of alcohol-use and substance- abuse treatment approaches. Sociology Compass, 5(10), 882-897.

Steele, J. L., Peralta, R. L., & Elman, C. The co-ingestion of nonmedical prescription drugs and alcohol: A partial tests of social learning theory. Journal of Drug Issues, 41(4).

Peralta, R. L., Callanan, V. J., Steele, J. L., & Chervenak, L. (2011). The effects of gender identity and heavy episodic drinking on alcohol-related violence. Gender Issues, 28(3), 111-133.

Poloma, M. M., & Lee, M. T. (2011). The flow from prayer activities to receptive prayer: Godly love and the knowledge that surpasses understanding. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 39(Summer 2011), 143:54.

Takyi, B. K. (2011). America's newest immigrant communities: On the Ghanian Diaspora. In Ronald H. Bayor (Ed.), Multicultural America: An encyclopedia of the newest Americans. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/Greenwood.

Xi, J., & Hwang, S.-S. (2011). Unmet expectations and symptoms of depression among the Three Gorges Project resettlers. Social Science Research, 40(1), 245-256.

Xi, J.M, & Hwang, S.-S. (2011). Relocation stress, coping, and sense of control among resettlers resulting from China's Three Gorges Dam Project. Social Indicators Research. doi: 10.1007/s11205-010-9758-5.

Hwang, S.-S., Cao, Y., & Xi, J. (2011). The short-term impact of involuntary migration in China's Three Gorges: A retrospective study. Social Indicators Research, 101(1), 73-92.

Department of Statistics

Meyer, M., & Habtzghi, D. (2011). Nonparametric estimation of density and hazard rate functions with shape restrictions. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 23(2), 455-470.