Browsing ScholarWorks@Towson by Type "dissertations"
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A comparison of audio comments and written comments: student and instructor preferences and instructor feedback patterns
(2013-09-13)Providing feedback to students on their writing represents one of the most important features of an online writing course. Two methods of providing feedback to student writing-written commentary and audio commentary-have ... -
A fuzzy computational intelligence approach to monitoring information technology project scope
(2013-06-18)Monitoring and understanding scope status is essential to the management of information technology (IT) projects. Many IT project failures have been due to mismanagement of scope, a subjective constraint. The result has ... -
A hybrid intelligence/multi-agent system for mining information assurance data
(2015-09-02)Organizations across all domains and of all sizes wrestle with the problem of "coping with information overload," or CwIO. They ingest more and more data, in new and varied formats every day, and struggle increasingly ... -
A mixed method study of mood disorders in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and mothers of typically-developing children
(2015-11-06)This mixed method study examined mood disorders in mothers who were rearing a child with ASD.. The objective of the quantitative section of the study was to examine the occurrence of maternal depression and bipolar disorders ... -
A phenomenological examination of the caregiving experience of elderly spousal caregivers
(2013-01-15)Problem: Older adults with chronic illness often require extensive informal care. Informal care generally is provided by family members, and increasingly, elderly spouses. Providing care to a loved one has the potential ... -
A SIP server and user agent with SRTP for VoIP on a bare PC
(2013-01-02)Bare PC applications run on ordinary desktops and laptops without the support of an operating system (OS) or kernel. They provide immunity against attacks targeting an underlying OS, and have been shown to perform better ... -
A study of a learner-centered technology professional development series with classroom teachers
(2013-06-10)Using learner-centered teaching practices can change the state of technology integration in Elementary Schools (ES). A quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest survey was used to identify changes in the use of technology by ... -
A usability study of elder adults utilizing social networking sites
(2015-03-24)In order to find out how well current social networking sites serve the elderly especially for the ones with little to no computer experience, a preliminary study involving an accessibility investigation of 19 popular ... -
Accessible collaborative writing for persons who are blind
(2014-02-28)In order to establish the current state of the accessibility and the usability of collaborative technologies, a literature review, several focus group studies and field studies were conducted. The collaborative technologies ... -
Activity patterns and well-being in commuters: an occupational perspective
(2018-03-16)This study explored the predictors of commuter well-being in college students using an occupational framework. While past studies focused more on the physical impact of commuting on health, there was a gap in the scholarly ... -
American Jewry and the Oslo years
(2013-06-11)By the early 1990s the themes binding American Jewish life were experiencing irrevocable change. Formal emigration and religious barriers for Jews in the former Soviet Union had ended. The task of commemorating the Holocaust ... -
An analysis of susceptibility in securing multifaceted Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
(2016-10-24)The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is an inter-domain routing protocol, does not validate the origin and path information that are used to form BGP networks, resulting in many BGP-routing accidents. The Resource ... -
Bare Machine Computing on ARM devices
(2013-06-18)This thesis extends on-going Bare Machine Computing (BMC) research at Towson University. BMC applications run on a bare machine without any operating system, kernel, or other centralized support. Many complex applications ... -
Beyond the racial achievement gap: creating conditions for African American student success
(2013-06-03)Moving beyond the racial achievement gap to determine conditions that promote African American student success requires exploring the history of African American education and what works for successful African American ... -
Bioinformatics tools and analysis to identify candidate lethal genes in Root-knot nematode (RKN) and its comparison with soybean cyst nematode (SCN) infection in soybean
(2013-09-16)Root-Knot nematode (RKN; Meloidogyne spp.) is one of the most devastating obligate parasites that infect the roots of thousands of plant species. In the United States, the cost of the losses that these parasites cause ... -
Collaboration framework for a context-aware environment with multi-device enabled applications
(2013-02-18)With the proliferation of smart computing equipment, the range of intelligent application services is widely expanding with continuous attempts to make the best use of the contextual information from individual data sources. ... -
Comparing changes in content knowledge between online Problem Based Learning and traditional instruction in undergraduate health professional students
(2013-06-17)Problem Based Learning (PBL), a student centered instructional strategy, has been implemented in the education of health care professionals to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application. PBL has ... -
Data collection in a social network with weighted seed selection and data analysis based on rule-based methods
(2013-08-06)In recent years, with the increasing popularity of diverse online social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, YouTube, LinkedIn, and MySpace, a massive amount of data has become available. Analyzing sets of ... -
A Delphi study to develop an inventory of competencies needed to facilitate instruction in student-centered, one-to-one learning environments
(2018-05-30)Today's one-to-one, student-centered learning environments have unique qualities when compared to the traditional learning spaces of the previous decades and their characteristics hold important implications for both teacher ... -
Distributed system for domestic robot operation using computer vision
(2016-10-28)Anticipated for a long time in science-fiction literature, domestic robotics are timidly starting to appear. While the first applications, like vacuum-cleaners or toys, do not share much of the versatility of the robotic ...