Objectives: Search Workbench is designed to facilitate the process of developing complex PubMed searches by allowing the user to examine, edit and visualize searches from[...]

Background : Those who develop search hedges and systematic review strategies often use a process where they measure how effective a given search is at retrieving items f[...]

In recent decades, Chinese piano music has been enjoying ever growing presence in international concert hall. Yet, scholarly literature in English illuminating this music[...]

This dissertation analyzes the production of racialized inequality in New York City and the emergence of equitable neoliberalism and economic democracy as two divergent p[...]

The Purpose of my thesis is to bring about the awareness of the importance of Privacy in our lives. Privacy is an essential element of a free society without which indivi[...]

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Conflict is ubiquitous in all relationships. The study of the causes and effects of interpersonal conflict has been extensive and notable. However, in recent decades the[...]

Powerful search capabilities are fundamentally important for popular micro-blog platforms such as Twitter. While recently there has been some work aimed at enhancing the [...]

Information search behavior (and decision making) is the focus of this dissertation. To this end, our goal is two-fold: a) explore the various antecedent variables to inf[...]

In this thesis, I have developed keyword search capabilities for the GlycomicsPortal, where a user can simply type keywords to access information. The search includes par[...]

Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certainti[...]

The Road to Nowhere is a novel about David Kingman, a math teacher from the fictional town of Midfield, Ohio. The plot itself is straightforward: one Friday in October, D[...]

Investment decisions are decisions about future consumption as well as the purchase of intangible goods, which involve both high uncertainty and high perceived risk. Base[...]

This study examined the impact of participation in outplacement services on 3 reemployment outcomes: speed of reemployment, new job satisfaction, compensation replacement[...]

Genome projects continue to produce large quantities of sequence data. Annotation of this sequence data to indicate the location of genes, start and stop codons, inverte[...]

Inspired by the recent growth of interest in the United States for Asian American drama and dramatists, this dissertation investigates nine contemporary Korean American t[...]

This dissertation was undertaken to address three research objectives: (1) investigating bivariate relationships between search determinants and the amount of information[...]

Todays semantic web has a growing wealth of machine understandable metadata represented using markup languages like RDF, XML or OWL. There exists a plethora of query lang[...]

Because of the current vulnerable state of literary studies, there is a pressing need to open up the discussion of the role of literature in education. The present study [...]

High residential mobility is a distinguishing characteristic of American society. The majority of people move from one location to another at least once in their lives, a[...]

This work addresses the current state of star formation within the high-latitude molecular cloud MBM 12. We use new Spitzer Space Telescope observations at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8[...]