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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: 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: Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Author: Tokmic, Farah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Information science
Description: Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Currently, the U.S. spends an estimated $201B on behavioral health disorders ever...

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: DISFLUENT SPEECH SEGMENTS DETECTION AND REMEDIATION
Author: Arbajian, Pierre
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information science, Linguistics
Description: Speech remediation by identifying those segments which compromise the quality of speech content can be performed by correctly identifying portions of a recording which can be deleted without diminishing from the overall quality of the speech, but ...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ICON CHARACTERISTICS ON ICON MENU SEARCH PERFORMANCE
Author: Smythwood, Kara
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Design, Information science, Aesthetics
Description: The use of icons is ubiquitous in the computing world of today with icon selection being a typical way to access documents and programs. Icons are used in a variety of ways: search, identification, and selection (mouse, touchpad, etc.). Users sear...

Title: Essays on Exploitation and Exploration in Software Development
Author: Temizkan, Orcun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business, Information science
Description: Software development includes two types of activities: software improvement activities by correcting faults and software enhancement activities by adding new features. Based on organizational theory, we propose that these activities can be classif...

Title: Goodness-of-Fit Tests Under Permutations
Author: Chen, Chen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics, Information science
Description: Several new goodness-of-fit tests are proposed on countable alphabets, where certain fundamental statistical concepts associated with random variables, such as cumulative distribution functions, characteristic functions and moments, may not exist....

Title: Improving Diversity in Conversational Recipe Recommender through Dynamic Critiquing
Author: Abbas, Fakhri
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Diet diversification has been shown both to improve nutritional health outcomes and to promote greater enjoyment in food consumption. Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) have a rich history in direct recommendation of recipes and meal plannin...

Title: Integrating Random Linear Code Based Encryption Scheme Rlce Algorithm Into Post-quantum Openssl
Author: Wagner, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: JONATHAN WAGNER. Integrating Random Linear Code Based Encryption Scheme Rlce Algorithm Into Post-quantum Openssl. (Under the direction of DR. YONGGE WANG)This thesis discusses how the post-quantum encryption algorithm Random LinearCode-based Encry...

Title: Interest-guided Exploration of Large Information Space
Author: Hu, Yueqi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: With the coming of the digital era, information has never been as massive and complicated as it is nowadays. New layout strategies, visual encoding methods, and exploration mantras have been developed in the visualization area to ``squeeze a billi...

Title: Nutritive Knowledge Based Discovery: Enhancing Precision Nutrition Hypothesis Generation
Author: Trautman, Aaron
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Nutrition, Information science
Description: Diet-related diseases like obesity and type-2 diabetes are on the rise. Precision nutrition, a way to tailor dietary requirements for each individual, is heralded as a solution to these problems. However, nutritional research is held within sparse...

Title: QUANTUM RESISTANT REED-MULLER CODES ON McELIECE CRYPTOSYSTEM
Author: Elder, Jasmine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Information science
Description: Recently, Dr. Wang presented a new post quantum encryption scheme, Random Linear Code-Based Encryption scheme, RLCE, which is a variant to the McEliece encryption scheme. It is already well-known that the McEliece Encryption scheme based upon Reed...

Title: THE ROLE OF COMPLEXITY WITHIN INTELLIGENT DECISION AIDS ON USER RELIANCE: AN EXTENSION OF THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY DOMINANCE
Author: Williams, Bradley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information science
Description: A decision aid only works if used within the decision-making process. As computational power and data storage become more accessible across industries, reliance on intelligent decision aids, those with embedded decision-making technologies, will b...

Title: Toward complete knowledge of healthcare datasets: extraction, modeling, and representation
Author: Shi, Jingyi
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: In the era of big data, identifying the right dataset for analysis has been a severe challenge in data science. Especially in health data science, datasets are frequently complex and have restricted access, thus requiring sufficient time, energy, ...

Title: UNDERSTANDING GENOME-WIDE GENE REGULATION IN PROKARYOTES USING OMICS DATA
Author: Seyedi Tabari, Seyed Ehsan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Information science, Biometry
Description: Gene annotation is a critical step for understanding functions of genomes and host organisms. However, accurately annotating thousands of sequenced genomes can be a challenging task. Further, although gene transcriptional regulation is crucial for...

Title: Understanding End-users' Privacy Perceptions, Concerns, Behaviors, and Needs in the Smart Home
Author: Tabassum, Madiha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Smart homes are more connected than ever before, with a variety of commercial internet of things devices available. The use of these devices introduces new security and privacy risks in the home and needs for helping users to understand and mitiga...