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Spatio-temporal landscape models for West Nile virus vector population abundance and distribution
(2007)
In response to the rapid spread of West Nile virus throughout North America there has been an increase in the number of mosquito vector surveillance and control programs. However, mosquito surveillance programs are costly ...
Three essays on e-public services and information assurance: Risks, beliefs, preferences, and user acceptance in the context of compliance and anti/counter-terrorism services
(2007)
This dissertation investigates various aspects of government-citizen interaction mediated by information and communication technologies, with an ultimate objective of assuring a high level of public acceptance and stable ...
The Kinzua Dam controversy
(2007)
The following thesis, The Kinzua Dam Controversy, studies the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation of Indians, Allegany Reservation. The United States Army Corps of Engineers built the Kinzua Dam in 1961 and the ...
Communal ontology for navigation support in urban region: Getting directions from familiar landmarks
(2007)
Due to the growing popularity of mobile information technology, more people, especially in the public, have access to computerized geospatial information systems for wayfinding tasks or urban navigation. One of the problems ...
The effect of SFAS No. 142 on the ability of goodwill predicting future cash flows
(2007)
This study investigates the effects of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No.142 (SFAS No.142) on the ability of goodwill to predict future cash flows. SFAS No. 142 allows substantial unverified managerial discretion ...
Ex ante severance agreements and their association with earnings management
(2007)
I examine whether the existence of severance agreements in an executive compensation package is consistent with providing insurance to the CEO for the reputation costs associated with termination, with the damage control ...
The spatially extended point: A model for defining the qualitative spatial behavior of a point and its scope of influence
(2007)
The goal of this dissertation is to provide a formal model for defining the qualitative spatial behavior of a point object. Beyond tracking or indexing the change of the location of a point object, the changes in the ...
Apocalyptic incarnations: The aesthetics of fear and catastrophe in the nineteenth-century literary imagination
(2007)
Whether it appears in the fire and brimstone rhetoric of Jonathan Edwards' sermons, the doomsday paranoia of the Nuclear Age, or the season-to-season calamities of television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the apocalypse has ...
Gender differences in educational attainment
(2007)
In the United States, education is always considered a major way to achieve upward status mobility, so adolescent educational attainment process, which is considered a key step in other processes of attainment, especially ...
Use of retail scanner data to gain strategic market insights: Two applications
(2007)
The general feeling in the industry has been that grocery supermarkets have been quite successful in stimulating loyalty card usage by their customers, but not much in leveraging the true benefits of loyalty card programs ...