KnowledgeWorks@UB: Recent submissions
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Design Studio Exploratory IRB Digital Signature Implementation Project
(2014-08)With a specific project in mind, we explored the implementation of an electronic Institutional Review Board (IRB) application for research involving human subjects, that would also require a user to provide a “digital ... -
Price Adjustment Lags and Their Asymmetries in Vietnam
(The Anh Pham, 2017-10-19)The paper aims to investigate factors that influence the speed of price adjustment in response to shocks by Vietnamese firms using a multivariate ordered probit model with survey data. The results first indicate that whether ... -
A Forensic Economics Approach to Reparations
(The Baltimore Sun, 2018-01-06)"House of Representatives Bill 40, introduced three years ago as of Wednesday — back when Freddie Gray was still alive in Baltimore and a Donald Trump presidency seemed implausible — suggests that reparations should be ... -
Use of Assistive Technology for Cognition Mobile Applications by Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy
(2018-12)Difficulty thinking, remembering, and concentrating are common complaints among breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy; however, tools and support for coping with these impairments remain limited. A previously ... -
Toward a Framework for Detecting Empathy in Public Sector Organizations
(2018-04-30)Public organizations fulfill critical needs in communities across the United States, such as housing, environmental protection, public education, and more. In this important role, healthy public organizations should be ... -
A Case Study of the Implementation of Staff Training Aimed at Reducing Rearrest (STARR)
(United States Courts, 2016-06)Research on evidence-based correctional practices notes the critical importance of program implementation in assessing program effectiveness. In this article, the authors describe the implementation of a training program ... -
The RVAAM Alumni Academy Forum: Quarterly Newsletter
(Roper Victim Assistance Academy of Maryland, 2013-10)The fall season is upon us, and with that comes the hectic time of year for those of you with school-aged children. Every day we grapple with a balancing act between the demands of work and home, both of which take up our ... -
The RVAAM Alumni Academy Forum: Quarterly Newsletter
(Roper Victim Assistance Academy of Maryland, 2014-01)Greetings Alumni! It has been one crazy winter so far, and I for one can only hope Spring shows up soon.I have some pretty exciting news to share - the VSPN is revamping and getting back into the momentum, so please watch ... -
The RVAAM Alumni Academy Forum: Quarterly Newsletter
(Roper Victim Assistance Academy of Maryland, 2014-04)Happy Spring Alumni!! After the long winter we have all endured this year, I’m sure you all are just as excited as I am to see the trees beginning to bloom, the flowers beginning to poke up through the earth, and to feel ... -
An updated assessment of personal protective order statutes in the United States: Have statutes become more progressive in the past decade?
(Violence Against Women, 2017-08-21)The Personal Protection Order (PPO) is one civil intervention all states provide to victims of domestic violence; however, each state varies widely in who can access PPOs, what protections are included in ... -
The Impact of Varying Leader Culture Types on Organizational Change Initiatives
(2018-05-05)The nature of homeostatic organizations makes change difficult, yet organizations promote change to meet new visions, new goals and to address organizational deficiencies. Commonly used change management tools, known in ... -
The Moderating Effects of Healthy Value Congruence on the Role Stressor-Strain Relationship
(2018-08)This study examines the moderating effects of healthy value congruence on the relationship between role stressors (i.e., role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload) and outcome variables (i.e., burnout and turnover ... -
Productivity Strategies for Non-traditional Students
(2018-07-18)Becoming an adult involves taking on additional roles and responsibilities, and with these come the inevitable challenge of facing competing commitments. One extreme and common case of this is the returning student, and ... -
Low‐Literacy Search Behavior: Designing to Increase Information Retrieval and Successful Task Completion on Government Means‐Based Program Websites
(2018-07-17)The purpose of this observational study is to support existing research on low-literacy user interactions and behaviors, and to observe how low-literacy users interact with and perceive means-based government program ... -
Infotecture: Gauging Where Physical Architecture and Information Architecture Merge and Divide
(2018-07-18)This thesis examined the problem of a lack of universal information architecture (IA) design standard in the realm of information technology (IT), resulting in over-diversity, bad IA, best practices disarray, and substantialized ... -
Public Administrators’ Attitudes toward Citizen Participation: Case Evidence from the Water Resources Agency in Taiwan
(2018-07-09)The study aims to profoundly examine how the public administrators’ attitudes towards citizen participation (CP) could affect their decision on the implementation of a meaningful CP that would reciprocally impact on the ... -
Listening in the City: Designing Better Portable Listening Devices for Changing Environments
(2018)The focus of this thesis is how the design of portable listening devices (PLDs) can improve the interaction between urban users and their environment. First, in a literature review, topics such as the sociology of PLD use, ... -
Participatory Design and Learning Outcomes: Designing a Citizen Science Portal with Elementary School Students
(2018-06)This paper explores research in Participatory Design when working with student populations. It combines existing design frameworks and integrates them with the Montessori Method and 21st Century Skills to produce learning ... -
Accessible Web Typography for the Visually Impaired
(2018-05)Background: Visual impairments affect millions of people worldwide. Accessible web typography is important in ensuring online legibility for this diverse group of users to help them maintain their independence. However, ... -
But Just Listen
(2018-03-16)“But Just Listen” is a website that explores the way stories of young voices can be told through conversations with an adult: particularly showcasing the student-teacher relationship. I created “But Just Listen” as a way ...