Publications, Presentations & Acknowledgements

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Effects of SADC on Malawi’s Trade Flows and the Role of Exchange Rate Volatility”, submitted; Special Issue in the African Journal of African Business, Under Editorial Review

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “The Impact of TTIP on US Agricultural Exports: A State-level Analysis, submitted: Journal of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Under Editorial Review 

Mustafa, M, Whitesides, L. and Selassie, H, Impact of Capital Investment, Export, and Education on Gross State Product Growth: ARDL  Bound testing, Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and GMM Approach* Journal of Federation of Business Disciplines.  Under Peer Review

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “Assessing Trade Benefits of Regional Free Trade Agreements on Global Fish Trade: A Static and Dynamic Gravity Model Approach, Under Peer Review

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “A State-level Analysis of the Impact of a TTIP Harmonization of Food Safety Standards on US Agricultural Exports, to be presented at the Trial annual conference of Agricultural Economics Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 28-August 2 2018.

Mustafa, M., Selassie, H. Whitesides, L. “Impact of Capital Investment, Export, and Education on Growth of Gross State Product: ARDL Bound Testing, Dynamic OLS and GMM Approach,” Journal of Academy Business and Economics (JABE) Volume 17, Number 3, 2017, pp 51-57.

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of a US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International ABEAI Accepted for presentation, Hawaii, November 15-18, 2017(not presented due to a schedule conflict). 

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “The Impacts of potential TTIP harmonized food safety standards on US State Agricultural Exports: A static and dynamic gravity model analysis. Was accepted for presentation at the 2017 Food Distribution Research Society meeting October 20 - October 24, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. (not presented due conference logistics conflict)

Mustafa, M., Selassie, H and Whitesides, L. “Impact of Capital Investment, Export, and Education on Gross State Product: ARDL Bound Testing, Dynamic OLS and GMM Approach”, will be presented at International Academy of Business and Economics in New York., October 12-14, 2017. 

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides “The Impacts of Regional Free Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Volatility on World Vegetables and Fruit Trade flows”, International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics, ISSN 2147-8988, E-ISSN: 2149-3766, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2017 

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides “Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of The US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”, The Open Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol.1 2017. 

Mustafa, M. and Whitsides, L., “Dynamic Linkage among Capital Investment Outlays and Business Climate and Economic Growth  of  South Carolina: Panel Co-integration  Investigation” Southwestern Society of Economics, Oklahoma City, March 9-12, 2016.

Nasrollah Hamidi “Kinetics and Thermal Degradation of Powder-Free Laboratory Examination Gloves by Thermogravimetric Analysis at 333°C and 422°C” American Chemical Science Journal (in press) 2015.

Zeenat Ara Lila, Louis D. Whitesides, Chukudi Weze and Yazmine Thomas “Glycoxidative Modification of Adenosine in Relation to Diabetes and Obesity: Detection of Carboxymethyl – Adenosine (CMAd) in Biological Sample.’ American Laboratory, (August) 2015.

David Karemera, Won Koo, Gerald Smalls & Louis Whitesides “Trade creation and Diversion Effects and Exchange Rate Volatility in the Global Meat Trade”, Journal of Economic Integration, 30(2) : 240 – 268 (2015)

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of Selected Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Volatility in the Global Meat Trade”, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol.30 No.2, June 2015, pp 276~304. 

Nasrollah Hamidi “Kinetics and Thermal Degradation of Powder-Free Laboratory Examination Gloves by Thermogravimetric Analysis at 308°C and 408°C” Journal of Applied Physical Science International, 3(2): 39-51, 2015.

Nasrollah Hamidi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Charles T Laursen, and Mashid Ghalili, “Thermogravimetric and Kinetic of thermal degradation of Powdered Laboratory Examination Gloves: 2. Analysis of isotherm and thermal scan Traces from 307-450°C.” British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 6(4): 316-334, (2015).

“Communicating Program Impacts.” Presentation at 2015 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). San Diego, California, April 2015.

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Sihon Chang, Mashid Ghalili, and Louis Whitesides “Thermogravimetric Study of Powdered Laboratory Safety Examination Gloves” 2nd World Congress on Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering October 27-29, 2014, Las Vegas, USA

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova , Sihon Chang, and Louis Whitesides (2014) “Thermogravimetric and Kinetics of Thermal Degradation of Powdered Laboratory Examination Gloves: 1. Analysis of Thermal Scan Traces from 310-455°C”, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 4(34): 4731-4750 (2014).

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Lycinda Lalmansingh, Travis Pascoe, Comfort Oriakhi, and Louis Whitesides “Waste Plastics: Pyrolysis of Powdered and Powder-Free Laboratory Examination Waste Gloves” British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 4 (6) 967-1019 (2014)

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Sihan Chang, Mashid Ghalili, and Louis Whitesides “Thermogravimetric Study of Powdered Laboratory Safety Examination Gloves” 2nd World Congress on Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering October 27-29, 2014, Las Vegas, USA

Nasrollah Hamidi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Sihon Chang, Louis Whitesides and Ruhullah Massoudi “Analysis of pyrolysis products of latex gloves by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS)” Division of Energy and Fuels, Session: Challenges and Opportunities in Petroleum Oil Production, Refining and Utilization 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 10-14, 2014

Nasrollah Hamidi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Sihon Chang, Louis Whitesides and Ruhullah Massoudi “Analysis of pyrolysis products of latex gloves by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS)” Sci-Mix Posters, Division of Energy and Fuels, 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 10-14, 2014

“Communicating Program Success.” Presentation at 2014 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2014.

“Succession Planning in the 1890’s.” Presentation at 2014 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2014.

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Lycinda Lalmansingh, Travis Pascoe, Comfort Oriakhi, and Louis Whitesides “Pyrolysis products of powdered and powder-free laboratory examination waste gloves” Division: Poly: Division of Polymer Chemistry, Session: Polymers for Oil and Gas Energy Operations, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, Texas March 16-20, 2014

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Lycinda Lalmansingh, Travis Pascoe1, Comfort Oriakhi & Louis Whitesides (2014): “Waste Plastics: Pyrolysis of Powdered and Powder-free Laboratory Examination Waste Gloves”, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 4(6): 967-1019

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Lycinda Lalmansingh, Travis Pascoe, Comfort Oriakhi, and Louis Whitesides “Thermal stability and pyrolysis of powdered and powder-free laboratory examination waste gloves” 

Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta, GA. November 13 – 16, 2013 

Bobby Davis, David Karemera & Louis Whitesides “The intertemporal stability of the US money demand function: new evidence from switching regressions”, Applied Economics Letters, 20:6, 581-586 (2013)

David Karemera, Won Koo & Louis Whitesides (2013): “Trade, the Environment, and Impacts on State Agricultural Exports”, Journal of Management Policy and Practice. 13(4): 11 - 20

Nasrollah Hamidi, Fariba Tebyanian, Ruhullah Massoudi &Louis Whitesides (2013): “Pyrolysis of Household Plastic Wastes”, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 3(3): 417-439

“Partnering Through Teams.” Presentation at 2013 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2013.

“Trade creation and Diversion Effects of Selected Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Volatility in the Global Meat Trade.” Paper presented at the 2012 Emerging Issues in Global Animal Production Trade Conference. Washington, DC, September 2012.

“1890 Morrill Act’s Legacy Thrives at South Carolina State University.” Paper Presented at the 2012 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE). State College, Pennsylvania, July 2012.

David Karemera and Louis Whitesides, “Trade, the Environment, and Impacts on State Agricultural Exports” Journal of Management Policy and Practice, vo. 13 (4) January 2012 

“Acquiring Sustaining and Managing 1890 State Matching Funds.” Presentation at 2012 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). Morgantown, West Virginia, May 2012.

“Acquiring Sustaining and Managing 1890 State Matching Funds.” Presentation at 2011 National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s National Extension and Research Administrative Officers’ Conference (NERAOC). Anchorage, Alaska. May 2011.