Organized Research Committee
Faculty Publications | Links

Every year the Organized Research Committee (ORC) of the University of Houston-Downtown offers small grants to support the research activities of tenured/tenure track faculty. The committee solicits grant applications during the fall semester.

You can download a copy of an application here. Faculty members are asked to submit proposals to their faculty chairs with sufficient time to allow review by the departmental review committee, the chair, and the dean to meet this deadline. We leave it to the discretion of the departments to determine how much time they will need to review proposals submitted by their faculty.

The ORC also keeps an active though partial list of some recent faculty publications here on our web site, and we maintain a list of links to external funding sources that may be of interest to UH-Downtown faculty.

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College of Business

Marketing, Management, Business Administration

Efraty, David "A New Measure of Quality of Work Life Based on Need Satisfaction and Spillover Theories" Social Indicators Research 55, 241-302.

Serrett, Randy "Tax Filing Status - Are Joint Returns Always Best?" National Public Accountant (December 2002/January 2003): 24-27.

Serrett, Randy "The Effects of Internet Commerce on the Revenue Base of State and Local Governments" Journal of Internet Commerce 1, Number 1 (2002): 33-45.

Serrett, Randy "Joint Tax Returns Offer Distinct Advantages - Generally" Practical Tax Strategies (March 2002): 158-166.

Finance, Accounting, Computer Information Systems

Duangploy, Orapin "Business Combinations Accounting and Reporting under SFAS 141 and SFAS 142: Basic Concepts" Tennessee CPA Journal February/March 2002: 6-8.

Duangploy, Orapin and Askar Nazemzadeh "Cooperative Learning in Advanced Accounting: An Empirical Investigation" Academy of Educational Leadership Journal 5, Number 1, 2001: 1-15.

Duangploy, Orapin and S. Penkar "The Variability of the Different Levels of Income Reporting." Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal 4, Number 1 (2000): 88-97.

Duangploy, Orapin and Margaret Shelton "Using A Systems Approach to Develop Life-Long Learning Skills in Accounting for Business Combinations." Journal of Education for Business November/December 2000: 81-86.

Duangploy, Orapin and Dahli Gray "Foreign Currency Hedge Accounting: Multicurrency versus Functional Currency Accounting" Managerial Auditing Journal 15, Number 5 (2000): 232-246.

Duangploy, Orapin and Sam Penkar "Comprehensive Income and Security Valuation" American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Seventh Annual Conference Proceedings Las Vegas, Nevada, February 17 - 21, 2000.

McMahon, Richard and Glen Bicking MCSE Exam Prep Windows 2000 Security Design. Scottsdale, AZ: The Coriolis Group, 2001.

McMahon, Richard and Sean Chase MCSE Exam Cram SQL 2000 Server Design. Scottsdale, AZ: The Coriolis Group, 2001.

McMahon, Richard and Pamela Toliver Select Getting Started With Windows XP. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.

McMahon, Richard Learn Windows XP Brief. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Exploring Windows XP Brief. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Select Windows XP Volume I. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Windows 2000 Security Design. St. Paul, MN: EMC Paradigm, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Essentials Windows XP Brief. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Learn Windows XP Volume I. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

McMahon, Richard Introduction to Networking Berkeley, CA: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Arts and Humanities

Chiquillo, Raquel "El juego intertextual como vía crítica: El caso de Luis García Montero" Hispanic Poetry Review 3, 5 (2001): 51-69.

Chiquillo, Raquel "El reto de Roque: La metáfora, los símbolos, el humor y la personificación en dos poemas 'comprometidos'" Antípodas Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies XIII/XIV, (2001-2002): 223-238.

Hagen, L. Kirk "French Follies: A 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Turns Out To Be An Appalling Deception" Skeptic 9, 4 (2002): 8-14.

Hagen, L. Kirk "Pseudoscience at 30,000 Feet: Suggestology, Suggestopedia, and Accelerated Language Learning" Skeptic 9, 3 (2002): 28-35.

Criminal Justice

Wang, Hsiao-Ming and Leanne Alarid "Judicial Sentencing Decisions in Taiwanese Economic Crimes: Consequences of Swift Justice" Law & Society Review 35, 3 (2001): 607-632.

Alarid, Leanne and Hsiao-Ming Wang "Mercy and Punishment: Buddhism and the Death Penalty" Social Justice 28, 1 (2001): 231-247.

English

Jennings, Ann "Creating an Interactive Science Murder Mystery Game: The Optimal Experience of Flow," IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication 45, no. 4 (December 2002), 297-301.

Jennings, Ann "Teaching a Workshop on Sentence Diagramming," Intercom 49, no. 5 (May 2002), 36-38.

Jennings, Ann "Robin Williams Design Workshop" by Robin Williams and John Tollett, book review in Technical Communication 49, no.1 (February 2002), 100-102.

Jennings, Ann "Murder, Mystery, Game: A Novel Approach to Science Writing," IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Proceedings: Communication Dimensions IPCC 2001, Oct. 24-26, 2001: 285-291.

Jennings, Ann "Ethics in Technical Communication" by Paul Dombrowski, book review in Technical Communication 48, no. 1 (February 2001): 86-87.

Laity, K. A. Pelzmantel. Niceville, FL: Spilled Candy Books, 2003.

Laity, K. A. "Construction of a 'Female Hero': Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec" International Journal of Comic Art 4, 1 (2002): 163-169.

Moosally, Michelle, and L. Kirk Hagen "A Union Function for Agreement in Complex Coordinate Structures" Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2002) 428-441.

Social Sciences

Christian, Garna L. "The Making of George Sessions Perry" East Texas Historical Journal XXXIX, no. 2 (Fall, 2001), 23-31.

Christian, Garna L. "A Brief Peace: The Postwar Years of George Sessions Perry" Southwestern Historical Quarterly CVI, no. 1 (July, 2002), 57-74.

McCaffrey, James Only a Private: A Texan Remembers the Civil War. Houston: Halcyon Press, 2003.

McCaffrey, James "Texans in the Spanish-American War" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 106, no. 2 (October 2002): 254-279.

McCaffrey, James "Texas Trapdoors and Krags in the Spanish-American War" Military Collector and Historian 54, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 138-139.

College of Science and Technology

Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Deeba, Elias and Plamen Simeonov "Characterization of polynomials using divided differences" Math. Magazine No.1 (2003) 61-66.

Deeba, Elias and Jeong-Mi Yoon "A decomposition method for solving nonlinear oscillating equations" Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 266 (2002), 227-236,

Deeba, Elias, S. Khuri and S. Xie "Numerical techniques for solving a biharmonic equation in a sectorial region" Advances in Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics K. Vajravelu (ed.) Kluwer Publishing, New York, 2001, 89-100.

Deeba, Elias and S. Xie "The asymptotic expansion and numerical verification of Van der Pol's equation" Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications 3, No. 2 (2001), 165- 171.

Deeba, Elias, S. Khuri and S. Xie "An algorithm for solving a nonlinear integro-differential equation" Applied Mathematics and Computation 115, Issue 2-3 (2000), 123-131.

Deeba, Elias, and André deKorvin "Genetic Algebras" The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics 8, No.2 (2000), 401-409.

Deeba, Elias, S. Khuri, and S. Xie "An algorithm for solving boundary value problems" Journal of Computational Physics 159 (2000), 125-138.

DeKorvin, André, Laurie Webster, and Jen Gwo Chen "Validation of Authentic Reasoning Expert Systems" Rutgers Series in Accounting Information Systems (2001) 227-251.

DeKorvin, André, M. Beheshti, A. Berrached and R. Alo "Design of an Unmanned Vehicle Controller" Conf. Proceedings ICON IT' 2001. Bangkok, Thailand (May 2001) 22-30.

DeKorvin, André, and R. Kleyle "A Fuzzy Set Approach to Resource Procurement for Multiphase Projects Subject to Flexible Budgetary Constraints" J. Of Intelligent And Fuzzy Systems 9 (2001) 225-233.

DeKorvin, André, and M. Shipley "Sample Size: Achieving Quality and Reducing Financial Loss" Internt. J. of Quality and Reliability Management 18 No. 6 and 7 (2001) 678-601.

DeKorvin, André, and O. Sirigaengtaksin "Determination of Membership Functions with Uncertainty" World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetic and Information 9, Information Systems Technology. Internt. Institute of Infornation and Systematics (July 2001) 361-364.

DeKorvin, André, A. Berrached and M. Beheshti "Applying Fuzzy Relation Equatios to Threat Analysis" World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetic and Information 9, Information Systems Technology. Internt. Institute of Infornation and Systematics (July 2001) 356-360.

DeKorvin, André, E. Deeba, S. Hashemi and C. Hu "Finding the Dominant Rule when the Antecedants and the Consequents are Fuzzy Sets of Type II and the Inputs are Crisp or Fuzzy" Non Linear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace (2000) 219-225.

DeKorvin, André, M. Shipley and K. Omer "A Fuzzy Logic Based Model to Satisfy Goals for Successful Product/Service Introduction" European J. of Operational Research 135, No 1, (November 2001) 209-219.

Dekorvin, André, P. Chen and C. Hu "Association Analysis With Interval Valued Fuzzy Sets and Body Of Evidence" Proceedings of the 2002 Intern. Conf. On Fuzzy Systems (2001) 518-523.

DeKorvin, André, and E. Deeba "A New Approach For Studying Fuzzy Functional Equations" Intern. Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (2001) 518-523.

DeKorvin, André, F. Modavi and R. Alo "Fuzzy Functions To Select An Optimal Action In Decision Theory" Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (2002) 348-353.

DeKorvin, André, and O. Sirisaengtaksin "Body of Evidence with Fuzzy Consequences" Proceedings of Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations (2002) 145-150.

DeKorvin, André, and J. Yoon " A Decision Making Model For An Optimal Medicine Using Analytical Hierarchical Processes" Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2001) 135-145.

DeKorvin, André, M. Shipley and R. Keyle "Utilizing Fuzzy Compatibility of Skill Sets For Team Selection In Multi-Phase Projects" Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 19 (2002) 307-319.

Natural Sciences

Chamblee, G. E. and Scott W. Slough "Implementing Technology in Secondary Science and Mathematics Classrooms: A Perspective on Change." Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Teaching 21(1) (2002): 3-15.

Coffield, J.E., Urdiales, M., Lindstrom, M.M., Merrill, G.K., Mittlefeldt, D.W., Lee, M., Robertson, J.D., Higgins, B.J., and Kyger, J.R. "Investigation of possible causes for the presence of high iridium concentrations in sedimentary rock samples from the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary" 33rd Lunar and Planetary Conference (2002): 2.

Farnsworth, G.L., K.H. Pollock, J.D. Nichols, T.R. Simons, J.E. Hines, and J.R. Sauer "A removal model for estimating detection probabilities from point count surveys" Auk 119 (2002): 414-425.

Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R.Simons "How many Baskets? Clutch sizes that maximize annual fecundity of multiple-brooded birds" Auk 118 (2001): 973-982.

Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R.Simons Observations of Wood Thrush nest predators in a large contiguous forest" Wilson Bulletin 12 (2000): 82-87.

Farnsworth, G.L., K.C. Weeks, and T.R. Simons Validating the assumptions of the Mayfield method" Journal of Field Ornithology 71 (2000): 658-664.

Farnsworth, G.L., K.C. Weeks, and T.R. Simons "Factors affecting nesting success of Wood Thrushes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park" Auk 116 (1999): 1075-1082.

Simons, T.R., G.L. Farnsworth, and S.A. Shriner "Evaluating Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a population source for the Wood Thrush" Conservation Biology 14 (2000): 1133-1144.

Pollock, K.H., J.D. Nichols, T.R. Simons, G.L. Farnsworth, L.L. Bailey, and J.R. Sauer "The design of large scale wildlife monitoring studies" Envirometrics 13 (2002): 105-119.

Merrill, G.K. "How many "Vanport/Obryan" units really exist?" Geological Society of America Abstracts 34 (2002): 27.

Merrill, G.K. "Ramiform retention in time and ecospace." Strata 12,1 (2002): 45.

Meza-Montes, Lilia and Peter Hoffmann-Pinther. "A Note on 'A Thermodynamic Analysis to Explain the Boiling-Point Isotope Effect for Molecular Hydrogen'" J. Chem. Ed. 47, 3 (2001): 416-17.

Rexroad, C.B., Wade, J.A., Merrill, G.K., Brown, L.M., and Padgett, P. "Conodont biostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Mecca Quarry Shale Member and the Velpen Limestone Member of the Linton Formation (Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian) in the eastern part of the Illinois Basin, U.S.A." Indiana Geological Survey Special Report, 2001.

Slough, Scott W. and Chamblee, G. E. "G. E. Science and Mathematics Teachers Perceptions' of Graphing Calculators and Change." Technology and Teacher Education Annual ( Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2002) 2139 - 2143.

Slough, Scott W. and Chamblee, G. E. "Graphing Calculators and Algebra I, Algebra II, IPC, and Chemistry Teachers' Perceptions of Change" Technology and Teacher Education Annual (Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2002) 1066 - 1070.

Slough, Scott W., Chamblee, G. E. & Aull, J. I. "Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Goals: An Interdisciplinary Approach" in J. Price, D. Willis, N. Davis, and J. Willis (Eds.) Technology and Teacher Education Annual (Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2001) 2541 - 2546.

Slough, Scott W. and Chamblee, G. E. "Implementing Technology in Secondary Science and Mathematics Classrooms: A Perspective on Change." in D. A. Willis, J. D. Willis, and J. Willis (Eds.) Technology and Teacher Education Annual (Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2000) 1021 - 1026.

Slough, Scott W. and G. E. Chamblee "Grades 4 and 5 Teachers' Perceptions of Technology Implementation in Mathematics Instruction" in Robson (Ed.) Mathematics/Science Education and Technology Annual (Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2000) 363-368.

Urdiales, M., Coffield, J.E., Merrill, G.K., and Lindstrom, M.M. "Investigations of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in central Texas" Astrobiology Science Conference (2002): 152.

von Bitter, P.H. and Merrill, G.K. "New apparatuses of the Pennsylvanian conodont genus Neognathodus from the Oak Grove Member, Carbondale Formation (Desmoinesian), northwestern Illinois, U.S.A." Geological Society of America Abstracts (2001): A-21.

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