ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Toward patient-centered personal health records systems to promote evidence-based decision-making and information sharing
(2018-03-16)We started out by exploring the barriers in adopting PHRs and proposed a few approaches that can promote the adoption of PHRS by the general public so it is possible to implement continuity of care in community settings, ... -
Preparing industry-ready analysts in classroom: a module injection based approach
(2018-03-16)An analyst plays one of the most influential and important roles in an Information System Development (ISD) project, especially in the Requirements Elicitation (RE) phase of Requirement Engineering. Soft skills of an analyst ... -
Predicting the impacts of anthropogenic stress on aquatic populations: a case study in resource-consumer-toxicant dynamics
(2018-03-14)The overarching theme of this research was bridging the gap between individual- and population-level effects of anthropogenic stressors under the current paradigm of ecological risk assessment. There is a general dissonance ... -
A lab-based study of temperate forest termite impacts on plant and wood-rot fungal growth
(2018-02-26)The ecological role of temperate subterranean termites, such as Reticulitermes flavipes is largely unknown because of their cryptic foraging activities. This is also due to the fact that termites are primarily perceived ... -
"No place on Earth does Carnival like Rio!": a feminist critique of racial democracy through the analysis of transnational tourism
(2018-02-22)Embedded with strong nationalist values, the Brazilian State perpetuated the idea of being a racial democracy. Considering the many ethnic groups that had been living in the country before the Portuguese colonization and ... -
Assessing the ramifications of climate change for the purpose of modeling streamflow within the Upper Merced basin in California: 1984-2099
(2018-02-09)Hydrological responses within the Upper Merced Basin of California to future climate variations were assessed over a continuous 60-yr period. Using a calibrated SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) basin model, future ... -
Rhetorics in translation: a translingual re-reading of Lu Xun and Lin Yutang
(2018-02-08)This thesis calls for a translingual re-reading of composition and Chinese studies’ approach to discursive canons by re-reading Lu Xun's canonical “Diary of a Madman” (1918) alongside Lin Yutang's My Country and My People ... -
Mating system in a captive population of a dasyatid ray, the southern stingray (Hypanus americanus Hildebrand and Schroeder 1928), at the National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland
(2018-01-29)The southern stingray, Hypanus americanus, is a common coastal ray, ranging from New Jersey to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. It is an important resource for ecotourism in the Bahamas and Cayman ... -
Situation awareness in military and assistive healthcare
(2018-01-22)Today Situation Awareness (SA) has become an attractive research topic which is widely used in various and complex systems. The concept of SA is rooted in the history of military theory and has been extended to commercial ... -
The poetic mode of resistance: advancing social awareness through Gibson's spoken-word poetry
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk analyzing Andrea Gibson's poetry, given during the "Resisting Psychologies" panel of the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
7 dwarfs in the snow
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk on the topic of 7 dwarfs in the snow, given during the "Resisting Psychologies" panel of the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
The good, the bad, and the media: distinguishing Islam from Islamic terrorism and the role media plays in spreading Islamophobia
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk on the topic of educating against Islamophobia, given during the "Advocacy and Resistance in Education" panel of the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
Love is the strongest form of resistance
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk on the topic of self-love in African American communities as a form of resistance, given during the "Resisting Psychologies" panel of the the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
Transitioning youth policy: marginalizing adolescents with intellectual disabilities
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk on the topic of the marginalization of youth with intellectual disabilities, given during the "Advocacy and Resistance in Education panel of the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
Baltimore City schools and issues of equity
(2017-05-12)The text of a talk on the topic of Baltimore City schools and the issues of equity, given during the "Advocacy and Resistance in Education" panel of the 2017 Shadows Symposium. -
Ernest Bloch's "exotic" shofar: Jewish identity in Proclamation for trumpet and orchestra
(2018-01-19)Richard Wagner argued in his notoriously anti-Semitic 1850 essay, Das Judentum in der Musik (Judaism in Music), that composers must descend to their racial roots in order to achieve universality in art. This idea was ... -
Multi-core implementation for Bare Machine Computing
(2018-01-17)This dissertation extends on-going Bare Machine Computing (BMC) research at Towson University. BMC applications run on a bare machine without any commercial operating system, kernel, or any other centralized support. This ... -
Social network variance and organizational outcomes: a comparison across individuals exhibiting varying degrees of autism-related traits
(2018-01-16)There is limited research on the social networks of working individuals who possess characteristics associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to identify differences in ego-networks based ... -
Locomotor and physiological performances of striped bass relevant to Darwinian fitness under natural levels of hypoxia
(2018-01-09)Due to climate change and anthropogenic influences, aquatic hypoxia is occurring more frequently, is more severe and it persist for longer periods of time. Juvenile striped bass being obligate aerobes and occupying an ...