My dissertation encompasses of three essays: 1) Political Market Competition in Transition Economies, 2) How Does Home Country Bribery Change Firms’ Foreign Market Focus? 3) Divergent Learning Effects from Alliance ...

The characteristics of the convection reversal boundary (CRB) in the high latitude ionosphere are investigated by using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) ion drift and particle precipitation measurements from ...

This thesis presents the task of argument mining, finding arguments within natural language texts, and reports on experiments combining techniques previously applied in disparate but related domains to the tasks of detecting ...

Seismic attenuation strongly affects seismic waveforms by amplitude loss and velocity dispersion. Without proper inclusion of Q parameters, errors can be introduced for seismic full waveform modeling and imaging. Three ...

The emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), self-driven car and artificial intelligence (AI) trigger rapid increase in bandwidth demand in data centers and telecommunication infrastructure. The data traffic ...

The purpose of this thesis is to detect the changes in functional connectivity that are detectable in neuroimaging data obtained for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and type 2 diabetes using machine learning as a tool to ...

Concerns for computer-related security seem real and are increasingly becoming important just about everywhere. In particular, cyberattack — not necessarily attack through a physical means — has been drawing serious attention ...

This descriptive study conducts basic research to create an original analysis of the possible disruptive impact of game design, mobile devices, social networking and emerging media technologies on location-based entertainment ...

This dissertation includes three essays. The first two essays focus on analyzing consumers’ strategic waiting behavior, and the third essay addresses the differences in consumers’ risk preferences while making decisions for ...

In 2013, NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (NASDAQ) issued a proposal to mandate the internal audit function (IAF) for all listed companies but later withdrew the proposal. In this study, I investigate whether a mandatory IAF adds ...