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30 Days on Route 30: A Search for Nostalgia on America's Main Street
(2016)The road trip continues to be a central idea in the American collective psyche, conjuring emotions like "freedom" and "joyous abandon." Multiple scholars have argued that the road trip’s appeal is in its blend of a number ... -
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, ... -
Advertising Design and Perceived Credibility of Online News
(2023-05)Many newspaper and other informational websites continue to use interstitial, or pop-up, advertising even though this form of advertising often annoys users and is known in other contexts to drive away users. However, there ... -
Agency Assessment of Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Neuroscience and Technology Research and Its Relationship to the Presidential BRAIN Initiative
(2017-11)In this study, I examined the societal views for neuroscience and technology research (neuro S&T), as reflected through interviews conducted with agency personnel and researchers. Thus, the aim of the study was to address ... -
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 ... -
Agents or stewards?: exploring how perception influences the relationship and performance between the government and research contractors at DOE federal laboratories
(2016-05)Public managers face the challenge of the continued need to outsource public services to contractors while managing the contractors in a manner that ensures achievement of the contract goals and objectives and the ... -
The Allocation of Visual Attention in Multimedia Search Interfaces
(2017-05)Multimedia analysts are challenged by the massive numbers of unconstrained video clips generated daily. Such clips can include any possible scene and events, and generally have limited quality control. Analysts who must ... -
Amerah’s Garden: An Ecocentric Approach to Animated Storytelling Using Six Elements of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro as a Model
(2020-11-16)Science and environmental journalist Andrew Revkin frames the climate crisis as a grand challenge. International and federal reports on climate change released in 2018 from the US Global Change Research Program, the ... -
An Analysis of the Effect of Internal Communication Satisfaction on Organizational Commitment in the Turkish National Police (TNP)
(2012-01-12)The main purpose of this study, which used two different survey questionnaires for data collection, was to examine the relationship between organizational- communication satisfaction, as measured by the Communication ... -
An analysis of the effects of family responsibility and teleworking volume on satisfaction with teleworking in the United States federal government
(2015-04)This dissertation primarily aims to provide a better understanding of the factors that influence teleworkers’ satisfaction with teleworking in United States federal agencies. Specifically, this study empirically tests ... -
Analysis of the key reasons behind the pirated software usage of Turkish Internet users: application of routine activities theory
(2010-08)The basic reason for protection of intellectual property rights is the necessity to encourage and support innovation and to promote the creation of knowledge. Intellectual property has a functional effect on the creation, ... -
An Analysis of the Use of Outpatient Generalist and Specialist Physician Services for Persons Reporting Diabetes in the United States
(2023-03-27)Abstract There is a growing concern about the role that demographics and insurance coverage play in disparities in health access among people with diabetes in the United States. This study uses Andersen's framework to ... -
As we may build: the design & function of online virtual space
(2010-11)"There is no understanding of virtual space, only a loose collection of articles related to realism in rendering or behavior" - Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. Manovich's statement echoes a largely unspoken ... -
An assessment of law enforcement officers' attitudes toward Compstat model of police management
(2012-05)Over the last three decades, many innovations have been undertaken in American policing to improve organizational performance and accountability structures, and effectively and efficiently fulfill police missions and meet ... -
Assistive Technology for Non-Institutional Alzheimer’s Care Settings
(2021-06)With a considerable number of individuals with Alzheimer’s non-institutionalized in the United States, there is an opportunity to innovate an assistive technology to support those care recipients, their caregivers, and ... -
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. ... -
Baltimore City Nonprofit Leadership: an analysis of the dynamics of nonprofit leadership and issues of diversity
(2012-03)Nonprofit organizations 501(c) (3)'s serve as valuable assets in their communities. They utilize various revenue and resource streams to accomplish their missions. Many have board members, executives, managers, staff (paid ... -
Bridging the Gap: How Voice User Interface Technology Breaks Down Learnability Barriers of Human Computer Interaction for Older Adult Users
(2018-01)This paper will focus on how voice user interface technology has the potential to break down the barrier of usability between older adult users and technology by supporting verbal communication. To explore and support this ... -
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 ... -
Caddy Grips
(2016-12)With the rise and fall of Tiger Woods, the sport of golf has been in a critical juncture where it needs to find innovate ways to not only maintain interest but increase participation in the game. This paper is a brief ...