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NICHES IN THE NETWORKED MEDIA ECOSYSTEM: FUNCTIONALITIES, GRATIFICATIONS, AND A TYPOLOGY OF ONLINE NEWS AND INFORMATIONAL MEDIA
(2016-05-13)
The digital technologies and the Internet have transformed the media ecosystem from mass into networked (Castells, 2009; Chaffee & Metzger, 2001; Lowrey & Gade, 2011). Before the rise of the Internet, a small number of ...
Laboratory and Field Assessment of Chemically-Stabilized Subgrade Moduli under Compressive and Flexural Loading
(2016-12-07)
The design and quality of the chemically-stabilized subgrade (CSS) layer have a vital role in the overall performance of the asphalt pavement. Uniform compaction of the CSS layer to the desired level can assure the amenability ...
Interpersonal and Intercultural Empathy in Military-Associated Overseas Students
(2016-05-13)
A powerful concept in global leadership development is intercultural empathy. Bennett (1986) portrays intercultural empathy as the” readiness to give up temporarily one’s own worldview in order to imaginatively participate ...
Essays in Financial Markets
(2016-08-16)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that analyze the impact of economic uncertainty on financial market activities and evaluate alternative quantitative models for economic uncertainty based on financial asset ...
Measuring the Impact of Microbial Communities and their Proliferation in Engineered Ecosystems
(2016-06)
The interactions between humans, the structures we build, and the microorganisms that inhabit these spaces are inescapable. Engineered ecosystems are classified broadly as any ecosystem built or managed by humans. Buildings ...
THE PREDICTION AND ASSIMILATION OF POLARIMETRIC RADAR DATA USING ENSEMBLE-BASED METHODS
(2016-05-13)
Accurately representing the microphysical state of precipitation using bulk microphysics schemes, including the hydrometeor particle size distributions (PSDs), is vital to improving convective-scale forecasts. In this ...
American Indian Persistence In STEM-Related Graduate Degree Programs
(2016-05-13)
Historically, American Indians (AI) continue to struggle to meet the same levels of educational success as their United States counterparts. Moreover, AIs are the least represented group earning a college degree in the ...
MIXED AXION-NEUTRALINO DARK MATTER IN THE SUPERSYMMETRIC DFSZ MODEL
(2016)
The lack of evidence for weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY) from LHC Run-I at √s = 8 TeV and Run-II with √s = 13 TeV results have caused a paradigm shift in expected phenomenology of SUSY models. The spectrum of sparticle ...
Two dimensional signal processing for storage channels
(2016)
Over the past decade, storage channels have undergone a steady increase in capacity.
With the prediction of achieving 10 Tb/in2 areal density for magnetic recording
channels in sight, the industry is pushing towards di ...
Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leaders’ impact on creative performance: Person-supervisor, supervisor-goal, and person-goal fit
(2016-05-13)
Research examining the compatibility between people and their work environment has been prevalent in the work behavior literature. Despite its rich history, questions remain as to the factors influencing, and the outcomes ...