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Smart Kids Application to Develop the Potential Interests for Children
(2018-04-23)
Children today are growing up in a rapidly developing world filled with quickly evolving technologies, such as the Internet, smartphones, and smart mobile devices, etc. As a result, more applications designed with children ...
Smart Materials for Advanced Applications: Self-Decontaminating Polymers, Photofunctional Composites, and Electroconductive Fibers
(2010-12-17)
Materials capable of providing multifunctional properties controllable by some external stimulus (pH, light, temperature, etc) are highly desirable and obtainable given recent advancements in material science. Development ...
Smart Sensing and Context-Cognitive Networking In and Beyond mmWave Band: Efficiency, Reliability, and Security
(2024-04-12)
The demand for mobile data rates has grown tremendously in recent years, but the current low-frequency spectrum is insufficient to support the rapidly growing demand for data rates. Therefore, the upcoming 5G and future ...
Smartphone Detection of Abnormal Equine Behavior
(2018-11-20)
This research was motivated by two key facts: There are over 9.2 million horses in the United States and over 64% of adults own a smartphone. Blending these two ideas led to the genesis of this research by asking the ...
Smartphone Sensor Fusion For Indoor Localization: A Deep LSTM Approach
(2018-11-05)
With the fast increasing demands of location-based service and the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices, accurate indoor localization has attracted great interest. In this thesis, we present DeepML, a deep ...
SME Differences and Their Importance on the Content Validity of Job Analysis Ratings
(2013-05-13)
Subject matter expert ratings differences in job analyses were studied to see how these differences may impact the content validity of selection processes. Due to the increased use of content validation strategies in ...
SMT Line Improvements for High Mix, Low Volume Electronics Manufacturing
(2011-06-03)
This work covers two major projects aimed at increasing quality and efficiency on a high mix, low volume surface mount electronics production line. Specifically the installation of a ten zone reflow oven and an enhanced ...
Social and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Economic Implications of EU Regulations on Agricultural Products
(2016-12-10)
This dissertation comprises of three chapters exploring topics focussing on social and economic development, and on economic implications of EU regulations on products. Chapter One explores the contribution of value-added ...
Social and Linguistic Conditioning of the Sociolinguistic Variable (ai) among Textile Mill Workers of Columbus, Georgia, and Southeast Alabama
(2010-04-08)
The purpose of this study is to examine the the social and linguistic conditioning as well as the frequency of the sociolinguistic variable (ai) among a group of European-American textile mill workers born in Columbus, ...
Social Anxiety in Sexual Minority Individuals: The Role of Hypervigilance
(2024-05-01)
The current study aimed to investigate the associations between hypervigilance and social anxiety disorder (SA) in sexual minority (SM) individuals, as well as the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or other non-heterosexual ...
Social Aspects of Religiosity & Discrimination in the Latinx Community: A Qualitative Study in the Deep South
(2023-09-20)
The purpose of this study was to explore how Latinx individuals use social aspects of religiosity and how they may or may not be used to buffer negative effects of discrimination. Research supports that discrimination has ...
Social Avoidance in Volatile Environments: An Empirical Evaluation of Behavioral Flexibility and Relapse Following Social Exclusion
(2024-04-26)
Resurgence is a relapse phenomenon comprised of the return of a previously reinforced target response (e.g., social avoidance) when conditions worsen for a more recently reinforced alternative response (e.g., approaching ...
Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt
(2007-05-15)
In a changing economy, rural communities must seek new economic strategies to remain viable. This is especially true in Alabama’s Black Belt, a region of persistent poverty, rural isolation, and racial segregation. This ...
Social Capital, School Desegregation and Education in West Alabama's Black Belt
(2005-12-15)
The 12 counties constituting Alabama's Black Belt region are characterized, generally, by persistent poverty, poorly funded education systems, and racial stratification. Fifty-one years after Brown v. Board of Education, ...
Social Comparison and Help Seeking Attitudes: Evaluation of the Impact of Subjective and Objective Social Comparison Data on Help Seeking Attitudes
(2012-05-03)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Festinger's (1954) theory of social comparison. Specifically, this study focused on the impact of subjective and objective data on help seeking ...
Social Desirability, Formation of the Therapeutic Alliance, and Dyadic Adjustment in Couples Therapy
(2012-04-18)
Social desirability has been shown to have both positive and negative associations in the formation of intimate and professional relationships. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship that social ...
The Social Engineer: Women Engineering Students' Identity Construction as Modern Engineers
(2019-04-18)
Research has shown that students’ identity development is important for students’ retention in engineering (Madsen, & Holmegaard, 2010), but for women the cultural representations of the field can create a disconnect that ...
Social Justice Counseling: Establishing Psychometric Properties for the Advocacy Competencies Self-Assessment Survey©
(2012-10-23)
The current study conducted reliability and validity analyses on the Advocacy Competencies Self-Assessment (ACSA) Survey©. Self-report measures were used to collect data from mental health professionals who were not ...
Social Media and Impacts of Frames on User Engagement in the Fashion Industry
(2018-07-23)
The purpose of this study was to understand how fashion brands use social media to engage social media users. In doing so, this study aimed to address the academic gap in understanding how major fashion brands use social ...
Social Media Information Search Behavior in Consumption Decisions: Consumer Segmentation and Discriminant Factors
(2020-05-14)
Upon recognition of the theoretical and empirical literature gap of research integrating the diverse roles of consumer information search on social media (Choi & Park, 2006), this study proposes the modified consumer ...