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"Pleasure in the confusion of boundaries": Mexican textiles and subversion of the imperial gaze
(2016)
Textiles are multifaceted objects that exist as art, clothing, currency, a means of communication, and even objects for consumption. For this reason, many people look outside the world of mass production to Mexico for ...
Who can save the firefighters? Influence of news stories on issue attitudes
(2016)
Guided by the narrative transportation theory, this study examines the impact of news story on issue attitudes. In an experiment, we asked participants to read a piece of news regarding the Tianjin port explosion presented ...
Ethical deaccessioning and the Albright-Knox case
(2016)
This thesis analyzes contemporary practices and professional ethical guidelines regarding museum deaccessioning and their impact on modern and contemporary art museums and their publics. The ethical guidelines set forth ...
Understanding Information Privacy in the Age of Social Media: Cultural Privacy Boundary Framework
(2016)
In many recent studies of information privacy in information systems (IS), the focus has been upon measuring an individual’s concern for privacy. In most cases, the utilitarian view of privacy calculus has been adopted ...
The Control Mechanism, From Foucault to HBO
(2016)
What is power? Where does it come from? What is its relation to knowledge, and how are these concepts used towards the purposes of control? This study investigates these questions, first in a critical essay and then in a ...
Parameterized Complexity of k-SPARSE problems
(2016)
Given an m-dimensional dictionary of size n and a number k, one might wish to represent an incoming datum using at most k non-zero weights. If k is given as a parameter, this problem is as known as the sparsity constraint ...
Parameterized Complexity of k-SPARSE problems
(2016)
Given an m-dimensional dictionary of size n and a number k, one might wish to represent an incoming datum using at most k non-zero weights. If k is given as a parameter, this problem is as known as the sparsity constraint ...
Cable-driven articulated rehabilitation system for gait training
(2016)
Assisted motor therapies play a critical role in enhancing functional musculoskeletal recovery and neurological rehabilitation. Our long term goal is to assist and automate the performance of repetitive motor-therapy of ...
Understanding Information Privacy in the Age of Social Media: Cultural Privacy Boundary Framework
(2016)
In many recent studies of information privacy in information systems (IS), the focus has been upon measuring an individual’s concern for privacy. In most cases, the utilitarian view of privacy calculus has been adopted ...
Auditory augmented space
(2016)
Seeking to question the over-reliance of designing space based on the arrangement of visual elements, this study intends to emphasize “sound” as the primary medium for spatial creation. While space is inherently mute without ...