Browsing Towson University Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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A comparative analysis of community sustainable development indicators with application to Baltimore County, Maryland
(2015-02-23)The concept of sustainability has some commonly understood definitions, but no single precise definition is used by all interested parties. Regardless, the three core components or pillars of sustainability include the ... -
A comparative analysis regarding the role of internalized homophobia and community involvement in the identity development of non-heterosexually identified men
(2013-03-14)[From Chapter One: Introduction] [...]In order to better understand the development of same-sex sexual identities, this paper will first review different theoretical perspectives on the formation of gay and bisexual ... -
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 comparison of dissociative patients to simulators on the trauma symptom inventory-2
(2014-09-23)Dissociative identity disorder (DID) patients report experiencing chronic trauma in childhood which contributes to severe symptomatology in adulthood. These traumatic reactions are associated with validity and clinical ... -
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 mixed-methods study on employment within a feminist non-profit organization
(2014-02-12)This thesis explores the mechanisms that drive individuals employed in non-profit feminist organizations to be proponents of social change. The means to recruit additional support for women's rights is clarified by examining ... -
A normative study on the click vestibular evoked myogenic potential
(2013-01-18)Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) were recorded at various intensities to click stimuli in 16 subjects with a negative self-reported history of vestibular pathology. At most, recordings were obtained to a total ... -
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 singularity theory: unifying pedagogical differences between "abled" and learning "disabled" writers
(2015-08-03)Universal Design in Learning (UDL) was designed to provide support for students with learning disabilities (LD). It gives flexibility to both teaching and learning: how to present information (teaching), how to receive and ... -
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 Spanish-language modified rhyme test for word recongition testing
(2011-10-19)A Spanish-Language Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) for word recognition testing was developed using the original MRT structure by House et al. (1965) with modifications as specified by Aguilar (1991). The greatest modification ... -
A spatial analysis of the impacts of climate change on coastal archeological sites in Maryland
(2014-01-31)Maryland is currently losing valuable archeological resources at an alarming rate. Members of the archeology community, both local and national, need to be aware of the immediate need for action against the already-active ... -
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 study of nature play space sustainability in the Piedmont Region of Maryland
(2015-07-09)Most of the United States population lives in urban areas, where heightened anthropogenic activity acts as a source of the majority of greenhouse gases (Hoornweg, 2011). Adaptive ways to deal with regional land management ... -
A study of the state of personal health record research
(2015-06-22)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gather and analyze Personal Health Records (PHR) literature to provide a review of the current state of PHR, its deployments and to explore future trends that might influence the ... -
A survey of audiologists' clinical practices and their formal education and training in the assessment and management of adults with vestibular pathologies
(2013-01-15)A survey of audiologists' clinical practices and their formal education and training in vestibular topic areas was sent to 900 practicing audiologists. A total of 334 surveys were returned, both in print and online. The ... -
A survey of first year speech-language pathology and audiology graduate students on the graduate school application process
(2015-07-06)Limited information is available on how students interested in pursuing a career in the Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) field feel about the graduate school application process. A shortage of professionals within ... -
A system for collection and analysis of opinions in microblog data: a text mining approach
(2013-02-27)Microblogging has become a very popular communication platform among Internet users. Its applications are rich sources of data for text mining, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Its services are also becoming a platform ...