Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a leading cause of dizziness and imbalance that is responsible for one-third of fall incidents. Diagnosis, however, is ridden with uncertainties and errors. This thesis explores various techniques for BPPV predictive diagnosis from …
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It is of global knowledge and concern that voter turnout in elections among young people is on the decline, hence the richness of literature around the topic. This study considers the opposite by asking why young people vote in elections? Secondly, rather than focusing on urban …
Retention of engineering students to graduation and career is important business for both United States (U.S.) industries and engineering education institutions alike. Industries need competent engineers dedicated to working in the field of engineering beyond graduation in order…
The curation crisis is an ongoing problem with the lack of space and resources to properly curate collections throughout the country. There are many papers and research studies about the curation crisis: how to solve it and how to keep more from piling up. I will review these an…
To navigate the social world, humans have developed the adaptive capacity to rapidly form attitudes and beliefs about the many people and social groups that make up their environments. Many of these attitudes and beliefs are implicit, arising automatically in mind upon encounter…
Do investors correctly price extreme events that they have never seen occur? To shed light on this question, I examine market responses to the risk of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I find evidence that investors indeed priced firms’ exposures to nuclear destructio…
Economic development is well-recognized as being fundamental to facilitating an overall improved quality of life for communities and their residents. Throughout West Virginia’s history, the state has experienced economic hardships caused by boom and bust cycles associated with r…
Background: Transgender individuals in the United States experience significant health disparities as a result of minority stress processes. In particular, structural stigma, often a function of state policy environments, can discourage or encourage discrimination and cultural s…
Why do party systems in some new democracies feature starker divides regarding questions of national and religious identity than those of economic policy? Why do parties in these countries sometimes appear to offer such small or unclear differences regarding economic policy? Wha…
How do Western immigrants make lives for themselves in Japan—where many do not feel they can ever fully belong? And how do they navigate that society to create the lives that they want while being so obviously, unavoidably, and permanently marked as outsiders? Through an explora…
A massive transition of land ownership is currently underway in the U.S. as an increasing proportion of farmers near retirement age with no successor in place. The question of who will replace them has come to the fore as policy makers and food justice activists alike contemplat…
This thesis discusses the main factors that affect construction cost in Saudi Arabia. A survey of 52 contractors, 19 consultants and 13 owners from the Eastern Province was performed. The survey included 42 different factors affecting construction cost and their degree of import…
This thesis discusses the issue of liability allocation among the parties to fixed-price construction contacts in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on the Public and Semi-public sectors. A survey was conducted using the principles of quota sampling where 52 questionnaires were distribute…
The accelerating pace of the information technology and the growing size and power of both computer systems and software make the use of computers in many industries essential. This study investigates the use of computers by large, medium, and small sized contractors in Saudi Ar…
Introduction. This study comprises two individual analyses of the same data set, that is the 1994 National Survey on Pregnant Women (NSPW). The data set used all pregnant women reported in the 1994 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) which involved ever-married women…
In this study seventy statements measuring fifteen quality management areas (QMA) were surveyed among the local A/E consulting organizations. The areas measured are organizational quality policy, designer qualification, employee training and education, design planning, design in…
This study was to evaluate the development level of Clinical Engineering Departments (CEDs) in hospitals in developing countries. The method of data collection was a survey done by structured questionnaire sent by Email and Listserv. In total, 61 responses (9% response rate) wer…
The historical records of White Glacier (WG), a polythermal valley glacier found in northern Nunavut, Canada, are used alongside modern structural models and orthomosaics produced from Structure from Motion photogrammetry to assess change in the terminus region. Recognizing the …
This dissertation is about the analysis of household survey data from Indonesia. The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) is mainly used to test theories about household behaviors. In particular, I focus on these issues with respect to savings and risk-sharing behaviors and their…