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An enhanced travel demand forecasting framework to evaluate smart growth strategies
(2011)
In recent years, there is an increasing trend to promote smart growth strategies that aim to revitalize land-use and transportation patterns to avoid "sprawl" and to replace it by safe, livable, healthy, environmentally-sound ...
An Empirical Investigation of Cost Efficiencies in the Health Care Industry
(2011)
This dissertation work is motivated by the need of hospitals to address efficiency issues confronting health care reforms in the present environment. The main objective is to investigate the cost efficiency of hospitals ...
Critical analysis and effectiveness of key parameters in residential property valuations
(2011)
All municipalities are required to re-assess their real estate periodically which they do manually spending large sums. This research has developed statistical and AI models for such mass appraisals. Three statistical and ...
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 ...
An Integrative Framework for Optimal Tower Life and Cost
(2016)
Wind energy has experienced significant growth over the past ten years. The reliance on wind energy is expected to grow even more as research and development efforts expand the technology for offshore use. Still, wind ...
Impinging Jets in a Confined Environment: Application for Soil Erosion
(2016)
Impinging jets cause soil erosion in many natural and engineering processes such as landscape craters, headcuts, and plunge pools. Impinging jets also have been employed for assessment of soil erodibility, including ...
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 ...
Quantity time
(2016)
This research and practice compendium works to question the ways in which relationships with digital objects and digital selves are being naturalized, and more specifically, what is to be done with the dead-digital-data-body ...
Quantity time
(2016)
This research and practice compendium works to question the ways in which relationships with digital objects and digital selves are being naturalized, and more specifically, what is to be done with the dead-digital-data-body ...
Hurricane Evacuation Planning using Public Transportation
(2016)
Just before a hurricane is predicted to strike an urban area, millions of people evacuate from impact zones to safer regions. This paper provides a comprehensive mass-evacuation strategy using public transportation before ...