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Business-Government Relationship and Foreign Market Entry in Transition Economies
(2017-07-19)
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 Characterization of Ionospheric Convection Reversal Boundaries in the High-Latitude Region Using DMSP Data
(2017-08)
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 ...
Detection of Claims and Supporting Evidence in Wikipedia Articles on Controversial Topics
(2017-05)
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 Full Waveform Modeling & Imaging in Attenuating Media
(2017-08)
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 ...
Calibration Techniques for High Speed Time-Interleaved SAR ADC
(2017-08)
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 ...
Detecting Functional Connectivity Changes in Neuroimages of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Type 2 Diabetes Using Machine Learning
(2017-05)
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 ...
Cyberattack Detection & Mitigation: A Goal-Oriented and Pattern-Based Approach
(2017-05)
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 ...
The Disruptive Impact of Game Design, Mobile Technology, Social Networks and Emerging Media on Theme Parks
(2017-08)
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 ...
Analyses on Strategic Consumers' Forward Looking Behavior
(2017-08)
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 ...
Shareholder Value Implications of the Internal Audit Function
(2017-08)
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 ...