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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 ...
Synaesthesia
(2007)
This thesis explores the predominance of vision in architectural representation and the need to move beyond the visual realm, towards a multi-sensory understanding of space. Visual paradigms are undergoing transformations ...
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 ...
Public service through architecture
(2007)
Thesis question. Is it possible for a designer to make a successful living performing public service within the architectural profession? This thesis explores the viability of alternative career paths in public service ...
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 ...
Automatic medical image classification for content-based image retrieval systems
(2007)
In hospitals today, medical images are normally processed and saved digitally in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) along with some text descriptions within Digital Communication (DICOM) standards. Additional ...
Sound-House
(2007)
Sound-House is a twenty minute composition for contrabassoon, alto saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, harp, accordion, violin, cello and contrabass. It was composed from September 2006 to March 2007 with ...
The sustaining element: The ideal of home in twentieth-century Puerto Rican architecture
(2007)
Among the changes that occurred after the Usonian occupation of Puerto Rico (1898) there were several shifts implied in the new notions of progress and industrial modernity. As in many manifestations, these changes are ...
Hanging systems and the re-use of forsaken architecture
(2007)
This thesis explores a method of structural design whereby major elements are implemented to hang from above. The benefit of this structure is an open plan unrestricted by the space normally allocated to support or load ...
A social and semantic network analysis of the United States Senate: Focusing on the issue and hyperlink structure
(2007)
Although there are numerous studies about congressional decision-making such as roll call votes and their prediction, the communication flows behind such decision-making processes have been overlooked. This dissertation ...