Browsing UB Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Hakini Arabi
(2017-05-12)Heritage languages are an integral part in the identity construct of children born to first and second generation immigrant parents. Many Lebanese immigrant families struggle to preserve the Arabic language within their ... -
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, ... -
Health care access and utilization among African-immigrants in the District of Columbia Metro area in the United States : a comparative analysis
(2015-06)The aim of this study was to investigate health status, health behaviors, and health care access and utilization of African immigrants in the District of Columbia Metro Area (DCMA). The review of the literature revealed a ... -
Homeworking: Domestic Space and Creativity
(2018-05)This project explored how domestic spaces, the places people have carved out in which to live and also work, along with the everyday experiences artists have in those places, influenced creative practice and artistic ... -
Honor, Courage, and Varying Forms of Commitment: A Quantitative Study into the Career Affiliation Decisions of United States Marine Corps Active Reserve Officers
(2020-06-15)The Active Reserve Program of the United States Marine Corps has three hundred unrestricted officers who manage the Marine Corps’ strategic reserve. These officers are responsible for the mastery of reserve policy and ... -
How can a Health and Fitness Mobile App lead you to a healthier life?
(2020-05)While obesity-related diseases are affecting people around the world, health and fitness mobile apps have been developed in the effort for individuals to lose weight and improve their overall health. Throughout the past ... -
How Does Government-Sponsored Participation Influence Public Policy? An Evaluation of the Remediation Efforts at Fort George G. Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground
(2017-11-03)This study examines how decision inputs obtained during government-sponsored public participation influence public policy. The study adopts an evaluative approach to a qualitative analysis to test the element of influence ... -
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 ... -
Impacts of Voter Turnout: Voting Restriction Laws, Voting Expansion Laws, and the Political Culture of States
(2020-05)The 2016 presidential election was the first to be conducted in over 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act (VRA.) This allowed states to enact election laws that impacted electoral procedures, ... -
Implementation of the National Incident Management System in New Jersey
(2010-03)The implementation of the National Incident Management poses some unique challenges to the emergency management community. This research project seeks to examine "What theories of implementation inform the assessment of ... -
iMuseo: see art differently
(2016)Leveraging the open access to high resolution images of artworks from museums and galleries, as well as the growth of the media streaming market, I created iMuseo as a platform for visual arts to be accessible from the ... -
iMuseo: See Art Differently (Proposal for a Visual Arts Streaming App)
(2016-12-02)Leveraging the open access to high resolution images of artworks from museums and galleries, as well as the growth of the media streaming market, iMuseo is a streaming platform for visual arts. By creating a platform that ... -
In Between Words: Communications in Response to Metaphysical Questions
(2018-05-19)When I began this project, I knew I wanted to address metaphysical questions, the big questions if you will. I didn’t know how I would address them or distribute my findings, but I knew I wanted to take the opportunity to ... -
Increasing online donations to charity websites through donation form design: a Catholic Relief Services case study
(2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether design changes to a charitable organization's online donation form can lead to an increase in online donations. Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a leading international ... -
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 ... -
Innovation and extension relevancy in the 21st century
(2016-03-07)Rogers (2003) cites the agricultural Extension Service as being the most successful organization in diffusion of research given the tremendous progress made in food production (165). However, he also acknowledges that ... -
Institutional biosafety committees and the public stewardship of bioscience research: an analysis of community membership
(2014-06)Scientists continue to find new applications for recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules, which are often used as biological tools that modify or construct living organisms. These molecules are used principally ... -
Instructors’ Perceptions of Prison Education Programs
(2020-05)In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced the introduction of the Second Chance Pell Experiment, which for the first time since 1994, would allow incarcerated individuals to receive federal Pell Grant funding ... -
Integrating Machine Learning into the UX Design Process
(2018-12)The following paper discusses how machine learning is becoming the new user experience tool for designers. Throughout the last decade, machine learning has vastly improved the user experience and human-machine interfacing ... -
Interaction Design and Activity Theory: designing for social code review
(2010-12)This thesis applies activity theory to interaction design of a code review tool. The purpose of this project was two-fold: To understand the practice of code review, and to gain insight into the value of activity theory ...