KnowledgeWorks@UBalt: Recent submissions
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Using Co-Designing as a Method to Develop COVID-19 Vaccination Information for Low-Literacy Hispanic Individuals
(2022-05)This study aims to co-design health educational material that could aid in the understanding of COVID-19 vaccination rates among the Spanish-speaking population, by focusing on improving the engagement of low-literacy ... -
Escaping Flat Landscapes: Landscape Visualization and Land Conservation Communication
(2022-05)Land trusts are organizations that protect land from development through the acquisition of ownership or conservation easements on important privately owned property. As of 2020, they are responsible for the protection of ... -
Designing an Effective and Usable Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) App
(2022-05)Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) mobile apps have risen in popularity; however, most are either hard-to-use or not clinically valid. To address this issue, researchers have published CBT app reviews, case studies, and ... -
A Case of Two Cities: Residential Housing Patterns in Baltimore City: "A Case Study"
(2022-04-01)ABSTRACT A CASE OF TWO CITIES: RESIDENTIAL HOUSING PATTERNS IN BALTIMORE CITY: “A CASE STUDY” Charles N. Wilson It is well documented that there exists a historical pattern of public policy at all levels of ... -
Embedding A "Reflexive Mindset: Lessons From Reconfiguring The Internal Auditing Practice
(Academy of Management, 2022)The education and training of internal auditors is an example of management learning which has received limited attention in management education journals. This paper presents the lessons from an action research inquiry ... -
Public Value in Privatization: The Military Housing Privatization Initiative of 1996
(2021-12)This case study examines the public value created by the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) of 1996. It applies Moore’s (2005) theoretical proposition that public managers should create public value to one ... -
Human-Centered Performance Management for Designers
(2022-02)The performance evaluation is ubiquitous in industry, but is sometimes regarded as an outdated tool. In particular, performance evaluations often fail to collect a true picture of a designer’s value, fail to support the ... -
Conditioning Factors of Anti-Money Laundering Implementation in Brazil
(2022-01)This is a case study on the factors that influence the implementation in Brazil of a transnational legal order against money laundering (AML TLO). The research uses qualitative and quantitative evidence, guided by a process ... -
Online Collaborative Designing with Kids
(2021-12)Collaborative designing with kids is an evolving field and will only continue to grow. Exploring online approaches to collaborative designing has the potential to make this opportunity available to a broader demographic ... -
The Impact of Organizational Structure on Design Practices and Outcomes: A Case Study
(2022-02-10)The way we use something impacts 1) what we are able to get out of it, 2) our feelings about it, and 3) our willingness to continue using it. This qualitative exploratory case study investigated the impact of an astronomy ... -
Disengagement by a thousand cuts: The impact of microaggressions on employee engagement
(2021)Employee engagement has been explored in many fields and is recognized as an important factor in organizational success (Prasad, 2013). However, less is known about how microaggressions impact employee engagement. This ... -
Technology and Pregnant women: exploring pregnant women’s perception of mobile app design, utility, and information credibility
(2022-01-21)This study contributes to the research on pregnant women and their preferred use of mobile technology by exploring the perceptions of pregnant women of mobile app design, utility, and information technology. Explanatory ... -
Increasing Verbal Working Memory in Young-Old Adults by a Subtract-2 Span Task on Mobile Application
(2021-11-15)Working memory is the ability to retain and manipulate information for several seconds up to a minute while maintaining other information. Verbal working memory is the verbal component of this ability and declines with ... -
An Augmented Reality Guidance and Operations System to Support the Artemis Program and Future EVAs
(2021-07-21)In preparation for the challenges of modern and future Lunar missions, NASA has decided to leverage augmented reality technology to aid astronauts to accomplish their lunar assignments and field work. This manuscript ... -
Readiness for Change: Assessing Employee Commitment to Peer Worker Integration in Drug Court Settings
(2021-11-10)The purpose of this study was to assess Maryland Drug Court employees’ readiness and perceived commitment to peer worker integration, as measured by the Readiness for Organizational Change Scale and the Commitment to ... -
The Social Determinants of Public Housing Performance
(2021-08)For the past twenty years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) to measure the performance of local public housing agencies in their implementation of ... -
Transnational Cooperation to Combat Boko Haram: The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)
(2021-05)Transnational cooperation, particularly in the security sector, has become a platform through which contiguous countries or nations within a subregion collaborate to tackle common security threats or challenges. Against ... -
From slavery to "Indian schools" to internment camps, family separation is nothing new in America
(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-06-22)Trump had to sweep his ugly twist on an old story under the carpet. It was a reminder of America at its worst -
Lessons from Sterling Brown's arrest: Bodycams don't deter racist cops
(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-06-05)We have the technology to monitor problem cops in real time. Why aren't we using it? -
"No Ashes in the Fire" author Darnell Morre on what it means to be "Black and Free in America"
(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-07-12)Salon talks to Darnell Moore about his new memoir, existential freedom and the power of "radical black love"