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Title: A STUDY OF SOCIAL FACTORS IN ACTIVITY-BASED ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOM CORRELATED TO STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE
Author: Ravikumar, Ranjith Kumar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Social behaviors of students play a significant role in the classroom atmosphere and also the way it impacts students’ learning interests. In addition, socially acceptable behaviors are generally preferred by students in group-based classes. But o...

Title: A novel positional sensor for 3D vascular reconstruction
Author: Merritt, John
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Information technology
Description: Abstract Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a device that is surgically inserted into a femoral artery, or vein, to aid in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Correctly locating the IVUS tip facilitates accurate 3D vascular reconstruction. Re...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYEES' DECISIONS TO USE ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR NON-WORK PURPOSES
Author: Campbell, Stephen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Internet access in the workplace has become ubiquitous in many organizations. Often, employees need this access to perform their duties. However, many studies report a large percentage of employees use their work Internet access for non-work-relat...

Title: APPLICATION OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS IN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Author: SU, ZHEYUAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Simulation-based methods are becoming a promising research tool in financial markets. A general Complex Adaptive System can be tailored to different application scenarios. Based on the current research, we built two models that would benefit portf...

Title: Advances in Modern Botnet Understanding and the Accurate Enumeration of Infected Hosts
Author: Nunnery, Christopher
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: Botnets remain a potent threat due to evolving modern architectures, inadequate remediation methods, and inaccurate measurement techniques. In response, this research exposes the architectures and operations of two advanced botnets, techniques to ...

Title: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: Analysis of public health information from social media
Author: Thalambedu Kumaresan, Madhav Narayan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Social networking sites have become an integral part of daily life in the modern world. They can serve as an important, dynamic data source providing collective intelligence and awareness of health related issues. Analysis of huge volumes of unstr...

Title: Assistive technologies for individuals with alzheimer and investigating main challenges of adopting the technologies
Author: qu, yun
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: The number of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is rising dramatically in the United States. Assistive technologies serve to assist with the care recipients' independence. However, while many technological systems for individuals with AD h...

Title: Assured Information Sharing for Ad-hoc Collaboration
Author: Jin, Jing
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: Collaborative information sharing tends to be highly dynamic and often ad hoc among organizations. The dynamic natures and sharing patterns in ad-hoc collaboration impose a need for a comprehensive and flexible approach to reflecting and coping wi...

Title: Bioinformatics and biomolecular tools for biomarker discovery in peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author: Baciu, Cristina
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Sporadic Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a complex, invariably fatal, disease with a poorly understood cause, despite many studies. Diagnostic biomarkers that precede active symptoms would be an immense help to clinicians, for patient mana...

Title: CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS WITH CONTEXTUAL ACCESS CONTROL
Author: Besmer, Andrew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Users are burdened with the task of configuring access control policies on many different application platforms used by mobile devices and social network sites. Many of these platforms employ access control mechanisms to configure application perm...

Title: Clustering and Recommendation Techniques for Access Control Policy Management
Author: Marouf, Said
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Managing access control policies can be a daunting process, given the frequent policy decisions that need to be made, and the potentially large number of policy rules involved. Policy management includes, but is not limited to: policy optimization...

Title: DATA ANALYSIS WORKFLOW FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METABOLOMICS STUDIES
Author: Ni, Yan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Metabolomics has emerged as an integral part of systems biology research that attempts to comprehensively study low molecular weight organic and inorganic metabolites under certain conditions within a biological system. Technological advances in t...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: DIGITAL PIRACY: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER PIRACY RISK AND OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION STRATEGIES
Author: Jeong, Bong
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Digital piracy and the emergence of new distribution channels have changed the dynamics of supply chain coordination and created many interesting problems. There has been increased attention to understanding the phenomenon of consumer piracy behav...

Title: Data Mining the Serous Ovarian Tumor Transcriptome
Author: Tickle, Timothy
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Genetics
Description: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer in the United States. If caught in early stages, patient survival rate is 94%, late stage survival rates drop to 28%. It is because most cases are caught in late stages that high mortality is se...

Title: ELUCIDATING THE EFFECTS OF MUTATION AND EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE UPON PROTEIN STRUCTURE QUANTITATIVE STABILITY/FLEXIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS
Author: Verma, Deeptak
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The importance of flexibility and stability on protein function has been recognized for over five decades. A protein must be flexible enough to mediate a reaction pathway, yet rigid enough to achieve high fidelity in molecular recognition. To unde...

Title: ESSAYS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE: MEASUREMENT AND IMPACTS
Author: Zhang, Peiqin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of busine...

Title: ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS USING GEOMETRICAL SIMULATIONS AND SUBSPACE ANALYSIS
Author: David, Charles
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: Essential dynamics is the application of principal component analysis to a dynamic trajectory derived from a simulation protocol in order to extract biologically relevant information contained in the high dimensional data. In this work, we apply t...