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Consumer Behavior Modeling in System Design for Ease-of-repair and Ease-of-return
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Capturing uncertainties in consumer behavior can lead to better handling of sustainable design, manufacturing, and logistics operations throughout the entire life cycle of products. The sustainability decision-making ...
Three Essays in Asset Pricing and Investment
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
The first essay documents that when Treasury securities go “off the run,” search frictions heighten and matching trades becomes more difficult. This event allows us to isolate the effects of search frictions on market ...
THE CURRENT STATE OF SECONDARY SOCIAL STUDIES IN WESTERN NEW YORK
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This study explored the current state of secondary social studies in Western New York (WNY) through the lens of social studies orientations, specifically the traditional, disciplinary, and progressive strands (Fallace, ...
Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of Cofacial Porphyrin Prisms as Oxygen Reduction Catalysts
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This thesis encompasses a suite of coordination-driven self-assembled porphyrin prisms differing in the molecular clips linking two porphyrin faces in a cofacial arrangement. The goal of this work was to apply the facile ...
Masculinity Achievement and Risky Health Behaviors Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Research shows young men engage in more risky health behaviors such as physical altercations, drug use, or binge drinking, compared to their female peers. Scholars tend to argue these risky health behaviors are enactments ...
Aristocratic Capital: Democratic Ideology and Capitalist Practice from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Recent scholarship in both United States history and American literary studies has attempted to chart a fundamental shift in American politics and economics related to the ascendance of capitalism and its permeation of ...
MULTI-SOURCED INFORMATION TRUSTWORTHINESS ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS AND THEORY
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
In the era of Big Data, data entries, even describing the same objects or events, can come from a variety of sources. There are some sources that typically provide accurate information, but due to various reasons such as ...
Wave Motion in 1-D Viscoelastic Phononic Crystals: A Comprehensive Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Study
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Phononic crystals are engineered materials which exhibit unique wave motion properties due to periodic arrangement of multiple homogeneous constituents. Over the last decade, metallic phononic crystals have been thoroughly ...
A Retrospective Study of the Last Year of Life for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Community Residences
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Death is inevitable for all; however, the nature of that death varies significantly across subsets of the American population with the opportunity to die well often reserved for the privileged and abled. In the last ten ...
A NOVEL CROWD SENSING FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Driven by the proliferation of sensor-rich mobile devices, crowd sensing has emerged as a new paradigm of gathering information about the physical world. In crowd sensing applications, humans work as the sensor carriers ...