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Leadership experiences of child welfare supervisors in the State of Maryland Department of Human Resources
(2010-03)The leadership experiences of public child welfare supervisors are explored to determine if and to what extent these experiences have on major decisions including the intent to stay. -
Life & Deaf: Humor, Stories, and Experiences
(2017)American Sign Language (ASL) Storytelling is a traditional form of folklore passed down through generations of Deaf individuals, historically face-to-face. It includes jokes, sign play, and various forms of storytelling. ... -
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, ... -
Local police protection options for Pennsylvania municipalities: a quantitative analysis of determinants
(2012-12-31)Pennsylvania is divided into 2,562 separate municipalities which provide local services to their residents. With the exception of the 56 cities within the State, municipalities have the option to either provide police ... -
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 ... -
Managing multiple sources of information in an independent K-12 private school: a case study in a student information systems evaluation
(2010-05)Information is everywhere and finding the best method to manage it is a problem that all types of organizations have to deal with. Schools use Student Information Systems (SIS) to manage Student Data, Financial Information, ... -
Millennial Students' Mental Models of Information Retrieval
(2009-10)This qualitative study examines first-year college students’ online search habits in order to identify patterns in millennials’ mental models of information retrieval. The study employed a combination of modified contextual ... -
Mobile app development: The effect of smartphones, mobile applications and geolocation services on the tourist experience.
(2018-01-18)Currently in Bermuda, there is limited access to information about scuba diving sites and shops. Research shows that smartphones and mobile applications are a popular tool used by tourists during travel to look up information ... -
A mobile platform for teaching nonverbal social communication skills to high-functioning autistic children using discrete trial training
(2015-05)The purpose of this project is to provide a mobile platform for teaching nonverbal social communication skills to high-functioning autistic children. The application uses the established method of Discrete Trial Training ... -
Mobile Technology for Nonprofits: Harnessing the Power of Crowdsourcing
(2011-12)A mobile app is one of the easiest ways a nonprofit can increase awareness, raise funds, and promote events. The portability and popularity of smartphones can strengthen the connection between users and the nonprofit they ... -
Mobile search engines for senior citizens: design challenges and opportunities
(2015-01)Although the Internet has the potential to enrich the lives of many individuals, senior citizens report having a difficult and frustrating time using the Internet to obtain information they need--particularly when trying ... -
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 ... -
Narcissistic Behaviors and Social Media Usage
(2017-05-17)This study examined the relationship between narcissism and selfie posting and other self-promoting behaviors on social networking sites (SNS). Participants were asked questions on SNS usage such as: amount of time users ... -
Next Generation Catalog Design for an International Law Firm
(2019-12)This paper addresses the historical and current trends of library catalogs with a focus on law firm libraries. It attempts to provide some guidance for law librarians looking to choose their next library catalog by delving ... -
Nonlinearity between Financial Development and Productivity Growth in Emerging Markets
(2017-12-14)ABSTRACT Although the finance-growth nexus has been extensively investigated in empirical literature, there is scare empirical evidence on the question of how financial development influences productivity growth in emerging ... -
A normative analysis of police drug abuse testing policy: police perceptions and policy reform strategies
(2010-11)The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of police officers of the fairness of drug abuse testing and to derive meaning of these perceptions for the management of ethics in a large law enforcement agency. ... -
Nritta Indian Dance
(2012)Nritta Indian Dance is an engaging platform where Indian dancers can connect with each other, promote themselves, and network with one another throughout the United States. Nritta aims to share the art form of Indian dance ... -
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 ... -
Personal adventures: the shift from player to author
(2010-05)The formative years of computer gaming saw the birth of a genre dedicated to storytelling as a primary experience. These games, adventure games, briefly rose to dominance within the industry in the nineties but faded fast. ... -
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996: access and utilization of health care services among children of Black foreign-born mothers
(2012-03)Objectives: This comparative retrospective study examined the health care access, health care status, and health service utilization of children from birth to seventeen years whose mothers self identified as native-born ...