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Here is a list of papers, dissertations, and book manuscripts that I've helped writers produce or publish. My electronic files for 86 papers disappeared when Hurricane Katrina drowned my Mac G3 in 2005. Over 100 papers are not on this list due to author preferences. 
 
 

Accounting	English Literature	Microbiology/Medicine	Virology
Art History	Fisheries	Nursing	Zoology
Bioinformatics	Game Studies	Physical Anthropology
Business and Economics	Genomics/Proteomics	Political Science
Chemistry	Geography	Psychology/Psychopharmacology
Computer Science	History	Simulation Science
Economics	Hydrological_Science	Sociology and Anthropology
Education	Language Studies/Linguistics	Speech and Hearing Sciences
Engineering	Legal Studies	Statistics/Psychometrics

Accounting

Determinants and Agency Costs of Employee Stock Bonus Incentive Policies

Fraudulent Financial Reporting Characteristics of the Computer Industry in a Strategic Systems Lens  

The Usefulness of Fair Value Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities to the Foreign Exchange Exposure Assessments of Commercial Banks

Evaluating Financial Reporting Fraud Probability: An Artificial Neural Network Approach

International Accounting Standards Harmonization: Business Combinations

Value Relevance of Employee Bonuses Paid in Shares

Art History

Retrieving the Past, Inventing the Memorial: Huang Yi's Visit to the Song-Luo Monuments

Blurring: The "Local Colour" Discourse in Taiwanese Landscape Painting, 1910-1950 (dissertation)

An Examination of the Chinese Principle of Jingjie and the Western Idea of the Picturesque as Parallel Influences on Site-Specificity in Land Art (dissertation)

Bioinformatics

An Algorithm for Generating Representative Functional Annotations Based on Gene Ontology (conference paper)

Mining Bridge and Brick Motifs from Complex Biological Networks for Functionally and Statistically Significant Discovery

Constructing Quantitative Models from Qualitative Mutant Phenotypes: Preferences in Selecting Sensory Organ Precursors

Combining Motifs and Small-World Properties to Explore Complex Networks in Local and Global Views   

Using Bridge and Brick Motif Analysis to Explore Dynamic Behaviors, Design Principles, and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Complex Networks 

Bridge and Brick Motifs in Complex Networks (conference paper)

MOIA: Multi-Objective Immune Algorithm

Business and Economics

Multinational Top Management Teams: Firm Performance and Executive Compensation

Partnership Development in Postwar Japan: Industrial Reorganization, Regional Restructuring and State Intervention

Government Policy and Corporate Strategies for Global Talent Searches in Taiwan

Determinants and Moderators of Training Outsourcing Effectiveness

The Ideal Economic and Political Institutions of C. Yan

Dutch Financial Services Firms in Taiwan Since the 1980s

Dutch Multinational Banking in Taiwan

Embedded Entrepreneurship: Network Contingencies in Taiwanese Business Groups

Managing Online Customer Complaints

Agent Employment Horizons and Contracting Demand for Forward-Looking Performance Measures

Linking Employee Assessments to Succession Planning
 

Chemistry

Removal of 2,4-dichlorophenol by Free and Immobilized Laccase in Water and Soil

Environmental Dissipation of Triphenyltin Acetate and Its Potential as a Groundwater Contaminant

Analytical Characterization and High Performance Liquid Determination of Ethylene Bisdithiocarbamate Fungicide

Distribution of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Upper and Lower Layers of Er-Jen River Sediment in Southern Taiwan

Chromatographic and Thermodynamic Data Relationships in Reductive Chlorobenzene and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Dechlorination

Computer Science

Using a Coevolution Mechanism with a Dyna Architecture for Parameter Adaptation in XCS Classifier Systems (conference paper)

Computer-Supported Grouping Systems Based on AI Technologies: Design and Evaluation (dissertation)

Evaluating Two Computer-supported Heterogeneous Grouping Systems

Knowledge Repository Middleware for STEM Digital Libraries

Robots in Educational MUDs: Instructional Roles and Functions

Interactive Functions: A Technical Framework for Designers of Web-based Learning Systems

Education

DIANA: A Computer-Supported Heterogeneous Grouping System for Teachers to Conduct Successful Small Learning Groups

Children's Musical Culture: Creativity in Intercultural Interactions

The Gimquat Finds Her Song: Benefits of a Young People's Concert and Workshop

Lyric Reader: Creating Intrinsically Motivating and Culturally Responsive Reading Environments

CORAL-VIEW: A Network-based Design Program for Collaborative Learning

Knowledge-Enabled Personalization Tool (KEPT): Information Searches for Life-long Learners

Examining Gender and Technology: A Formative Study of Students' Computer Interests, Self-Image and Software Preferences

Teacher Talk: Interactional Adjustments by a Native and Non-native English-Speaking Teacher

Comparable and Complementary Teams in Network-based Collaborative Design

Educational MUDs: Typology and Pedagogy

Art Education Methods Courses for Prospective Art Teachers

Making the Influence of Culture on Design Visible

Gender Equity in Taiwan Students' Images of Science and Scientists

Elementary and Middle School Students' Images of Science and Scientists Related to Current Science Textbooks

A Taiwan Middle School Biology Teacher's Beliefs, Practices, and Gender-based Classroom Interactions

Can Girls and Boys Participate Equally in Socratic Learning Environments? Gender Differences in Student-teacher Interactions in Two Taiwanese Middle School Biology Classrooms

Small Group Knowledge Construction among Taiwanese Middle School Biology Laboratory Students

Working as a Foreign English Teacher in Rural Japan: JET Instructors in Shimane Prefecture
 

Engineering

A Generic Software Framework for the Software System Architecture Design and Implementation of Handset Devices (conference paper)

Ant Colony Optimization for Tuning PID Controllers (conference paper)

Study of Electrodeposition of Bismuth Telluride by Voltammetric Methods and In-situ Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance Method 

English Literature

Criticism's Function in the Postmodern Age: The Literary Theory of Fredric Jameson

Conditions of Literary Translation in Korea

English Literature in North Korea: A Historical Survey
 

Fisheries

Effects of Dorsal Aortic Cannulation on Grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus) Hematology

Analysis of Antibacterial Activity in the Plasma of Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and Freshwater Prawn (Macrobranchium rosenbergii)

Uniform GFP Expression in F0-Generation Transgenic Medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Treatment with Myf-5 Morpholino Results in Somite Patterning and Brain Formation Defects in Zebrafish

Expression, Purification, and DNA-binding Activity of Tilapia Muscle-specific Transcription Factor MyoD Produced by Escherichia coli

Intrahemocytic Lysozyme Activity in Penaeus monodon and Macrobranchium rosenbergii

Immunochemical Identification of Three Major Hemocyte Types in Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon)

Germ-line Transmission Analysis of Upstream cis-Acting Elements in the Zebrafish Myf-5 Gene

Change in the Hepatopancreatic Bacteria of Beta Glucan-treated Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon)

Promoter Analysis of the Zebrafish Cardiac Myosin Light Chain 2 Gene and Germ-line Transmission of Heart-Specific Fluorescence in Transgenic Zebrafish

Phenoloxidase Activity in Hemocytes Derived from Penaeus monodon and Macrobranchium rosenbergii

Immunostimulation of Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Hemocytes for the Generation of Microbicidal Substances: An Analysis of a Reactive Oxygen Species

Multiple Functions of the Muscle Regulatory Factor Myf-5 During Early Zebrafish Embryonic Development

Gram-Negative Bacterial Flora in the Hepatopancreas of Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobranchium rosenbergii): An Assay of Antibiotic Sensitivities and Extracellular Products

Phagocytosis in Prawn (Macrobranchium rosenbergii) Hemocytes Maintained In Vitro
 

Game Studies

“White-eyed” Player Culture: Grief Play and the Construction of Deviance in MMORPGs

Research on the Dynamics of Guild-Based Online Gaming Networks Via User Interface

Embedded Power Structures in a Virtual Society

Problems in Simulating Reality: Observations on a MUD Construction

Game Tips as Gifts: Social Interactions and Rational Calculations in Computer Gaming

Boundary Crossing and Redrawing in Online Gaming Communities: Motivations, Mechanisms, and Social Implications 

Body, Space and Gendered Gaming Experiences: A Cultural Geography of Homes, Cybercafés and Dormitories (book chapter, in press as of 10/07)

Genomics/Proteomics

High Throughput Quantitative Analysis of Serum Proteins Using Glycopeptide Capture and Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

Geography

Geographical Values and the Cholera Epidemic in Modern Japan: Fukushima Prefecture in 1882 and 1895

Analyzing the Spatial-temporal Structure of Cholera Diffusion in Late 19th Century Japan

History

'No Gods. No Masters.' Margaret Sanger, Propaganda and the Birth Control Movement  (conference paper)

Chicago Area Draft Resisters (CADRE)

The Politics of Time and Eternity: Quaker Pacifists and Their Activism During the Vietnam War Era (dissertation)
 

Hydrological Science

Alluvial Sedimentation and Channel Adjustment in an Urbanizing Maryland Watershed

Language Studies/Linguistics

Acculturation and Language Learning: Filipina Wives in a Rural Japanese Village (dissertation)

Social Constraints and Japanese Adult Second Language Learners in the US

Legal Studies

Disabled Bar Exam Applicants and the Americans With Disabilities Act

The Suspended Driver: New Strategies Addressing the Impact of Driver's License Suspensions
 

Microbiology/Medicine

Haplotypes, Loss of Heterozygosity, and Expression Levels of Glycine N-Methyltransferase in Prostate Cancer

Characterization of Glycine N-methyltransferase in the Aflatoxin B1 Metabolic Pathway

Epidemiological and Genetic Correlates of SARS Coronavirus Infection in a Hospital with the Highest Nosocomial Infection Rate in 2003

Glycine N-methyltransferase, a Novel Cytosolic Receptor for Aflatoxin B1, can Prevent DNA Adduct Formation 

CYP19 TCT Tri-Nucleotide Del/Del Genotype Is a Susceptibility Marker for Prostate Cancer in a Taiwanese Population

MRI and SPECT Changes in Hypoglycemia-induced Chorea

Mosaic or Chimera? Revisiting an Old Hypothesis on the Cause of the 46,XX/46,XY Hermaphrodite

Preferentially Deleted Chromosome Region 9p21 in Large Hepatocellular Carcinomas

Chromosome 22q11 Microdeletion in Conotruncal Heart Defects: Clinical Presentation, Parental Origin, and de novo Mutations

Arginine-Modulated Receptor-Activated Calcium Influx Through the NO/cGMP Pathway of Human Neuroblastoma SK-N-SH Cells

Regulation of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in MCF-7 Human Mammary Cancer Cells via Treatment with Dietary Phytoestrogen

Interaction between Estrogen Receptor and Pit-1 Protein is Estrogen-dependent

Serum Lipid Levels and Suicidal Tendencies

Dietary Phytoestrogen Regulates Estrogen Receptor Gene Expression in Human Mammary Carcinoma Cells

Computerized Medication Dispensing Systems: Perceptions of Nurse and Pharmacist End-Users

Effects of Amphetamine on Nicotinic Receptors in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells

Butyl Benzyl Phthalate Blocks Ca2+ Signaling and Catecholamine Secretion Coupled with Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells

Amphetamine Enhances Ca²⁺ Entry and Exocytosis via Nicotinic Receptor Activation in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells

Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Suppresses P2X Purinoceptor-coupled Responses in PC12 Cells

Progesterone Receptor Gene Expression in Pre-implanted Pig Embryos

Transient Hyperintense MR Images in a Case of Hyperglycemia-induced Occipital Seizures

d-amphetamine Blocks Nicotinic Responses in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells

Potential Involvement of Tumor Suppressor Gene Expression in the Formation of Estrogen-induced Pituitary Tumors in Rats

Co-expression and Sequencing of Multiple Estrogen Receptor Variant Messenger RNA in Swine Uteri

Specific Microbial Activity in the Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners

Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Inoculated Microorganisms in Soil

Microbial Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Sewage Sludge

Occurrence and Microbial Degradation of Phthalate Esters in Taiwan River Sediments

Influence of Alternative Electron Donors, Acceptors and Inhibitors on PCP Dechlorination in Soil

Dechlorination of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol and Pentachlorophenol via the Addition of Dichlorophenol-adapted Consortium in Soil

Microbial Dechlorination of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol in Anaerobic Sewage Sludge

Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls by an Anaerobic Mixed Culture

Biodegradation of Nonylphenol in River Sediment

Reductive Dechlorination of Hexachlorobenzene by an Anaerobic Mixed Culture

Effects of an Anaerobic Mixed Culture on the Dechlorination of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol

Dechlorination of 2,4,6-TCP by DCP-Adapted Anaerobic Microbial Communities

Anaerobic Biodegradation of Three Nitrophenols in River Sediment

Anaerobic Degradation of Phenanthrene in River Sediment Under Nitrate-Reducing Conditions

Anaerobic Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil

Effects of Alternative Electron Donors, Acceptors, and Inhibitors on 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Dechlorination in Soil

Dechlorination of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid in Soil

Hexachlorobenzene Dechlorination under Three Reducing Conditions

Biodegradation of Phenanthrene in Soil

Phenanthrene Biodegradation in River Sediment

Mixed Culture Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Microbial Dechlorination of Three PCB Congeners in River Sediment

Anaerobic Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sludge
 

Nursing

Student Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Self-efficacy of Children’s Pain Management: Evaluation of an Education Program in Taiwan

Qualitative Cross-cultural Research in Health Care: Pathways for Japanese Mothers with Postnatal Depression

Promoting Asthma Teaching Knowledge and Efficacy among Primary Care Nurses in Taiwan

Job Stress and Work Attitudes between Temporary and Permanently Employed Nurses    

Physical Anthropology

Preliminary Survey of Mongoloid Population Migration in China
 

Political Science

Canada, Free Trade, and 'Deep Integration in North America: Context, Problems and Challenges (introduction chapter to an edited book)

It’s Not Just Afghanistan or Darfur: Canada’s Peace Building Efforts in Haiti (chapter in edited collection)

Japan's Role in Indochina: Independent Actor or American Vassal?

International Norms and Civil Society: New Influences on Japanese Security Policy

Rethinking the Principle of Abstention: The North Pacific and Beyond (fisheries management colloquium paper)
 

Psychology/Psychopharmacology

At the Prison-Community Boundary: The Women's Prison Association of New York

Using Aripiprazole to Resolve Antipsychotic-induced Symptomatic Hyperprolactinemia

Atrocity Touring and Psychoanalysis: A Case Study in Traumatic Enactment

"I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts": Criminal Problem Definition

Undergoing Psychoanalysis in a Palliative Care Culture

Chinese Neurobehavioral Evaluation System-II (CNES-II): An Effective Tool for Detecting the Neuropsychological Status of Epileptic Patients

Developing a Collaborative and Consultative Approach Toward Understanding and Change in an Immigrant Catholic Parish

The "Superblind" in Psychoanalytic Treatment: A Supervisory Case Study

Bridging Psychoanalysis and Community Psychology: A Community Intervention Model

Art Divas: A Case Study Exploring Enactments of Personal/Interpersonal/Organizational Dynamics

Observations from a World Trade Center Disaster Intervention

Using Interpersonal Psychoanalysis to Inform Community Action Research

Simluation Science

A Novel Small-World Model: Using Social Mirror Identities for Epidemic Simulations

Influence of Local Information on Social Simulations in Small-World Network Models

What Should We Do Before Running Simulations? The Importance of Model Analysis

Teaching through Simulation: Epidemic Dynamics and Public Health Policies

Small-World Epidemiological Modeling and Public Health Policy Assessment: Using Social Mirror Identity Concept and Local Information for Network-based Epidemic Simulations (dissertation)

Using the CAMIM Small-World Epidemic Model to Analyze Public Health Policies (conference paper)

Implementing CASMIM for Epidemic Simulations (conference paper)

Influences of Individual Economic Resource Limitations and Transmission Costs on Epidemic Dynamics and Critical Thresholds in Scale-Free Networks

Sociology and Anthropology

Western Professional Migrants in Taiwan: Getting Ahead via Language and Cultural Skills  (conference paper)

Recovery through Reconnection: A Cultural Design for Family Bereavement

Meaning and Order in Taiwan's Night Markets (dissertation)

Marital Relationships among Infertile Women in Northern Taiwan (dissertation)

An Ethnographic Study of Widows in Taiwan (dissertation)

Barriers to Services for Battered Arab Immigrant Women in a Detroit Suburb

From Being to Becoming: Nüshu and "The Miserable" in a Rural Chinese County

Nüshu, Nüge, and Peasant Women's Concepts of Widowhood in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China

Locating an Underrepresented Female Identity: Female-specific Wedding Literature in Southern China

Economic Globalization, Global Diasporas, and Ethnic Identification

Adaptation as Meaning Construction: Spousal Death in Taiwan

Upstairs, Downstairs: Ethnic Hierarchies among Multi-ethnic Transplants

The Effect of Occupational Commitment on Contract Breach-Job Stress Relations (conference paper)

Transforming Loss: Taiwanese Women's Adaptation to Stillbirth

Stillbirth Interpretations among Taiwanese Women

No More the Same: The Lives of Fatherless Adolescents in Taiwan

Coping Strategies of Taiwanese Widows Adapting to Loss

A Husband's Death: Beliefs and Meanings for Taiwanese Widows

Female Expatriates in Western Multinational Corporations in Taiwan

Female Expatriates in Multinational Corporations: Gender and Career/Family Conflicts

Impacts of Privatization on Taiwanese Women's Employment

Chinese Social Orientation: An Integrative Analysis

Ultimate Chinese Concern, Self, and Achievement Motivation

The Self and Life Goals of Traditional Chinese: A Historical and Cultural Analysis

Reverse Brain Drain: Cross-Border Talent Searches in Taiwan

The State and Foreign Workers: Policies in Taiwan

From 'Us' to 'Them': Diasporic Linkages and Identity Politics

Between Remoteness and Nearness: Core Chinese Employees and Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in China

Leisure Activities and Life Satisfaction among European Elderly

Ethnic Networks in Trans-National Businesses: Taiwan-based Firms in Silicon Valley
 

Speech and Hearing Sciences

fMRI Comparison of Cross-Modality Temporal Processing Deficits in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Developmental Phonological Dyslexia
 

Statistics/Psychometrics

Investigation of the Structure and Dimensionality of ILPS Test Items

Empirical Review of Unidimensional Measures for the Normal Ogive Model

Virology

Effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transframe Protein p6* Mutations on Viral Protease-Mediated Gag Processing

Mutations in Capsid Major Homology Region Affect Assembly and Membrane Affinity of HIV-1 Gag

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Protein Confers Ability to Efficiently Produce Virus-like Particles and Package Human APOBEC3G when Substituted for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleocapsid Domain

Epidemiology, Harm Reduction, Care and Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Taiwan

Identifying Epitopes Responsible for Neutralizing Antibody and DC-SIGN Binding on the Spike Glycoprotein of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Incorporation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Reverse Transcriptase into Virus-like Particles

HIV-1 CRF07_BC Infections, Injecting Drug Users, Taiwan

Zoology

Taxonomic Status of Acrossochelius formosanus and A. labiatus (Cyprinidae: Barbinae) from Taiwan Based on Isozyme Electrophoresis

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