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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: Designing better exergames: application of flow concepts and the FITT principle to full body exertion video games and flexible challenge systems
Author: Nickel, Andrea
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Exercise video games have a recognized potential for widespread use as tools for effective exercise. Current exergames do not consistently strike a successful balance between the "fun gameplay" and "effective exercise" aspects of the ideal exergam...

Title: EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATION OF GRAPHS BASED ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Author: Liu, Yujie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Communities, also called clusters or modules, are groups of nodes which probably share common properties and/or play similar roles within a graph. They widely exist in real networks such as biological, social, and information networks. Allowing us...

Title: Evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulation in bacteria
Author: Li, Shan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
Description: Although transcription is one of the most important biological functions of cells, our understanding of its regulation is still limited. In this dissertation, we have studied the transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes in three aspects. First, w...

Title: Exploring the Visualization of Student Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments
Author: Johnson, Matthew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: My research combines Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Information Visualization (Info-Vis) to inform analysts, educators and researchers about user behavior in software, specifically in CBEs, which include...

Title: MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DISEASE PHENOTYPES
Author: McCafferty, Jonathan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The unseen world of microbes has a profound affect on everyday life. Complex microbial communities play a role in everything from climate regulation to human health and disease pathogenesis. Advancements in the field of Metagenomics are providing ...

Title: MODELING, SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE REACTION FIELD FOR ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
Author: SONG, WEI
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: How to deal with the long-range electrostatic interactions theoretically and computationally has been well studied due to their importance in biological processes and time consuming summations in computer simulations. The main focus of our researc...

Title: OBJECT-DRIVEN AND TEMPORAL ACTION RULES MINING
Author: Hajja, Ayman
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Public health, Information technology
Description: In this thesis, I present my complete research work in the field of action rules, more precisely object-driven and temporal action rules.The drive behind the introduction of object-driven and temporally based action rules is to bring forth an adap...

Title: PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
Author: Parker, Neal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...

Title: Quantifying the personal creative experience: Evaluation of digital creativity support tools using self-report and physiological responses
Author: Carroll, Erin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology, Information science
Description: Creativity is understood intuitively, but it is not easily defined and therefore difficult to measure. This makes it challenging to evaluate the ability of a digital tool to support the creative process. When evaluating creativity support tools (C...

Title: SECURING THE DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Author: Owens, Rodney
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Organizations increasingly utilize cloud computing architectures to reduce costs and energy consumption both in the data warehouse and on mobile devices by better utilizing the computing resources available. However, the security and privacy issue...

Title: SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF RICH NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Author: Wu, Leting
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research
Description: Social networks have received much attention these days. Researchers have de- veloped different methods to study the structure and characteristics of the network topology. Our focus is on spectral analysis of the adjacency matrix of the underlying...

Title: STEREOSCOPIC BIMANUAL INTERACTION FOR 3D VISUALIZATION
Author: Cho, Isaac
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Virtual Environments (VE) are being widely used in various research fields for several decades such as 3D visualization, education, training and games. VEs have the potential to enhance the visualization and act as a general medium for human-compu...

Title: STUDIES ON CORRELATED MUTATIONS ALGORITHMS OF PROTEINS PROVIDING STRUCTURAL, SPATIAL, AND ALLOSTERY INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS
Author: Kreth, Kyle
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Proteins provide innumerable cellular functions and benefits for all kingdoms in the domains of life. Advancements in the high throughput collection and analysis of proteins have led to ever-deeper understanding of biological pathways, evolution, ...

Title: Social and Location Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Author: Zhu, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
Description: Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a special type of wireless mobile networks, which may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is very challenging, as it must handle network partitions, long delays, and dynamic topology in such net...

Title: Spectrum-based and Collaborative Network Topology Analysis and Visualization
Author: Hu, Xianlin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Networks are of significant importance in many application domains, such as World WideWeb and social networks, which often embed rich topological information. Since network topology captures the organization of network nodes and links, studying ne...

Title: Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
Author: Shen, Yi
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To leverage large-scale collaboratively-tagged (loosely-tagged) images for training a large number of classifiers to support large-scale image classification, we need to develop new frameworks to deal with the following issues: (1) spam tags, i.e....

Title: Support effective discovery management in visual analytics
Author: CHEN, YANG
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Visual analytics promises to supply analysts with the means necessary to analyze complex datasets and make effective decisions in a timely manner. Although significant progress has been made towards effective data exploration in existing visual an...

Title: The effect of structure in short regions of DNA on measurements on short-oligonucleotide microarray and Ion Torrent PGM sequencing platforms
Author: Khoshnevis, Saeed
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Single-stranded DNA in solution has been studied by biophysicists for many years, as complex structures, both stable and dynamic, form under normal experimental conditions. Stable intra-strand formations affect enzymatic technical processes such a...

Title: The role of emotion in visualization
Author: Harrison, Lane
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The popular notion that emotion and reason are incompatible is no longer defensible. Recent research in psychology and cognitive science has established emotion as a key element in numerous aspects of perception and cognition, including attention,...