Empirical Inquiry

Select Articles, Books, Proposals, and Presentations

Sole Authored

Varela, S. A. (2026). Pathways for AI in project-based learning: Assessing adult learner satisfaction with milestone, feedback, and resubmission systems in Germany. [Manuscript expected for publication].

Varela, S. A. (2019). Cultural intelligence: A proxy for wisdom in intercultural exchanges. Asian Journal of Business Research, 9(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.14707/ajbr.190053

Varela, S. A. (2018). The influence of cultural intelligence on intercultural business negotiation. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 9(3), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.30845/ijbss.v9n3p3

Varela, S. A. (2017, July). Advancing cross-border educational exchange: The case of Taiwan and the United States [Paper presentation]. Marketing Asia Group Scholar Conference, Kraków, Poland.

Varela, S. A. (2017, August). Integrating global curricula: Reflections on Taiwan. Fulbright Online Journal. http://journal.fulbright.org.tw/index.php/browse-topics/education-management-for-the-future/item/362-integrating-global-curricula-reflections-on-taiwan

Varela, S. A. (2015, June). The primacy of cultural metacognition in intercultural business negotiation [Paper presentation]. Marketing Asia Group Scholar Conference, Porto, Portugal.

Varela, S. A. (2014, April). Intercultural business negotiation. In V. Bhargava & A. Swaraj (Eds.), Proceedings of the Society of Business, Industry and Economics annual meetings 2014 [Conference paper]. Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Conference, Destin, FL.

Coauthored

Zagar, R. J., Busch, K., & Varela, S. A. (2026). 124 real life stories of high-risk persons: Finding high-risk with computer-tests & equation surveys: Saving money and lives. Skrzyniecka.

Zagar, R. J., Varela, S. A., Kovach, J., Busch, K. G., Rothenberg, H., & Stewart, M. (2025). Wider computer-test use to assess-risk-manage (ARM) cuts U.S. yearly 10,000 violence deaths and saves $322 billion–$1.2 trillion in violence costs by diverting high-risk persons. Review of European Studies, 17(2).

Zagar, R. J., Varela, S. A., Kovach, J., Tippins, S., Randmark, B., Richards, A., & Busch, K. G. (2023). Violent-offenders: Be leaders and take them to court to save lives and expense. Review of European Studies, 15(3), 34-48 https://doi.org/10.5539/res.v15n3p34

Zagar, R. J., Busch, K. G., & Varela, S. A. (2022, July). Finding the needle in the haystack: Predicting and preventing veteran suicide and violence using math and science [Mission Daybreak competition entry]. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Zagar, R. J., Varela, S. A., Busch, K. G., Garbarino, J., Zagar, A. K., Kovach, J. W., Tippins, S., Hughes, J. R., & Singh, I. (2019). Implications of machine-learning, internet-tests to save lives and money: “7-point violence profile”: Review of 212 studies, 320,051 persons, over 95 years, with a cross-validation among 136 homicidal, overdosing-substance-abusing, sex-offending, suicide-completers, and controls. Review of European Studies, 11(1), 106–[final page]. https://doi.org/10.5539/res.v11n1p106