KnowledgeWorks@UB: Recent submissions
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CEO-Employee Pay Ratio and Bond Yield Spreads
(Social Science Research Network, 2018-01-25)This study explores the effect of CEO-employee pay ratio on bond yield spreads. We find that there exists a positive relation between CEO-employee pay ratio and bond yield spreads. Since bond yield spread has been used ... -
The holdings markup behavior of mutual funds: evidence from an emerging market.
(Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, 2018-02)This paper uncovers a seasonal mutual fund holdings markup pattern in Taiwan's market. Specifically, we find that fund's equity holdings jump up significantly at the quarter ends and year-end while drop back immediately ... -
Natural Disasters and Corporate Climate Change Policies
(Review of Financial Studies, 2019-10-29)Using county-level data on severe meteorological events in the United States, I show that, controlling for county fixed effects, the annual number of extreme weather events (EWEs) sustained at a county significantly improves ... -
The Most Important Dress in the Country”: The Rhetoric of Glamour in the Smithsonian’s “The First Ladies
(Women's Studies in Communication, 2017)This article examines the exhibit “The First Ladies” in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The exhibit, composed primarily of inauguration gowns and china settings from state dinners, has existed since ... -
The Systemic Impacts of Integrated Mobile Healthcare in a State-Wide Emergency Medical Services System
(2019-04)Integrated Mobile HealthCare (IMHC) relatively new aspect of pre-hospital care that has the potential for positive fiscal and operational impacts on emergency medical services. This study evaluates the state of Maine's ... -
Effect of Low Literacy on Password Formation Strategy as Impediment to Participation in Modern Life: Evaluation and Intervention Tutorial
(2019)Despite widespread acknowledgement that they are an imperfect compromise, text passwords remain the most common method of authenticating user access to digital resources. Responsible stewardship of those resources, both ... -
Remote Collaborative Presentations; A Tool to Bridge the Gap
(2019-07-15)With the rise of online education and remote professional work, it is important that tools be developed that facilitate efficient team collaboration among remote team members. In this research, the researcher designed a ... -
GirlsTeam: What if Kim Kardashian was a STEM role model?
(2019-06-22)The purpose of this paper is to examine the lack of interest young women have in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) degrees and careers. The numbers of available STEM jobs are increasing, but there is a lack ... -
Agency Theory: An Examination of the Intra-Organizational Relationships within the Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Embedded Chief Financial Officers in the Context of the Chief Financial Act of 1990
(2019-04)This research study seeks to explain the intra-organizational relationship phenomenon of goal conflict that may exist between the Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG), Department of Defense Chief Financial ... -
Examining field usability testing outcomes conducted on virtual and physical mobile devices using wearable eye tracking
(2019-06-17)There is a growing need to conduct usability testing with smartphones and tablets as adoption of these devices continues to increase. Virtual device testing is a popular approach due to the diversity of devices and operating ... -
Harnessing the Internet to Meet their Needs: Can Adapting to the Digital Age Help Close the Literacy Gap?
(2019-05)Research was conducted with 10 low literate and 10 medium to high literate students at the University of Baltimore to understand how traditional literacy impacts search habits for new college freshman. Five low literate, ... -
The Augmented Shopping Experience with Intuitive Intelligence and Machine Learning
(2019-05-30)Computer algorithms are increasingly being used to predict people's preferences and make recommendations. Data is being collected like never before, through advancing technologies and enhanced data scraping techniques. ... -
Choice Overload and the Senior Population; Guidelines for a Designer.
(2019-05)Much research has been conducted and published regarding choice behavior and the concept that less is more. Too many choices can cause cognitive overload for users, lead to choice paralysis, and negative emotions. Past ... -
A UNITED STATE: Moderation. Diversity. Reciprocity. Equality. Designing mobile technology to support productive online political discourse.
(2019-05)I have endeavored upon this thesis work in an attempt to find design solutions to the pressing societal problems of ever-increasing political polarization coupled with widespread dissatisfaction with social media’s effect ... -
Nurturing the Field of Management Learning and Education Research
(Research in Management Learning & Education, 2017)Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE) has experienced considerable growth over the past decade and its legitimacy has been extensively explored (e.g., Arbaugh, 2008;; Armstrong & Fukami, 2009; Beatty & Leigh, ... -
"From Laurels to Learners: Leadership with Virtue"
(Journal of Management Development **Found at The University of Liverpool Repository**, 2019-01-09)The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to leadership development founded on the principle of the Leader-as-Learner: a reflective human who pursues the 4C – virtues of courage, commitment, confidence and ... -
The Relationship Between Public Transportation and HSPD-5: Are Public Transportation Agencies the Forgotten Element in NIMS
(2018-11-12)ABSTRACT The tragic events that transpired on September 11, 2001 (9/11), resulted in a myriad of changes within the United States that reshaped government agencies and created the Department of Homeland Security (Russell, ... -
A Conceptual Application of Bakhtin’s Dialogic Discourse to Information and Interaction Design of Social Media
(2018-12)Background and Purpose: This research explores how humanities – Bakhtin’s dialogical discourse – offer new insights into information and interaction design providing interdisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical ... -
Crowdsourced Alternative Healthcare: Mobile Applications for User-Generated Natural Remedies
(2018-12)Smartphone applications have the ability to improve population health, mostly because of their widespread use; their rapid technological advancements and updates; and their use of features such as geolocation, video and ... -
Ensuring data integrity and user retention within BANDIT
(2018)Data collection is a vital service completed by the government to help ensure accuracy on a range of issues. Currently the Bird Banding Lab (BBL) is tasked with the collection of bird migratory data across North America. ...