The purpose of this research and development study was to design, develop, evaluate and revise reusable online learning resources based on the principles of learning objects that would support instructional design students' learning and performance in the context of ATC in Saudi…
The execution of hydrodynamic models typically requires the management of large amounts of data and also utilizes considerable computational resources. Powerful and robust servers with extensive storage capabilities are therefore desirable for rapid execution of numerical simula…
The Social Web or ‘Web 2.0’ is focused on the interaction and collaboration between web sites users. It is credited for the existence of tagging systems, amongst other things such as blogs and Wikis. Tagging systems like YouTube and Flickr offer their users the simplicity and fr…
The Web has come a long way. It started as a distributed document repository and quickly became the spring board for a new type of application. Propped on top of the original HTML+HTTP architecture, this new application platform shifted the way the architecture was used so that …
Organisations make use of a variety of knowledge management systems (KMS) in order to facilitate the creation, storage, transfer and reuse of organisational knowledge. Metadata is used to describe knowledge by its attributes and to provide the context, quality, condition or othe…
In response to the rapid development of digital libraries over the past decade, researchers have focused on the use of metadata as an effective means to support resource discovery within online repositories. With the increasing involvement of libraries in digitization projects a…
Due to the inception of the big data applications, it is becoming increasingly important to manage and analyze large volumes of data. However, it is not always possible to efficiently analyze very big chunks of detailed data. Thus, data aggregation techniques emerged as an effic…
Snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements are critical for creating flood and drought outlooks in the spring. These data are abundantly collected throughout the winter and spring months and reported to organizations like the National Weather Service to use in their products. Orga…
Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban spr…
Sea surface temperature (SST) is a crucial quantity for interpreting past climate variations, yet reconstructing historical SSTs from ship-based measurements is challenging because of varying biases that are on the order 0.1°C to 1°C. Whereas SST biases are complicated and can a…
Art is a regenerative kind of healing magic. In the studio, my body works with my mind to make paintings, drawings, collages, ceramic objects, hand-written words, and multi- media instillations. Through this work, I examine how my menstruating, gender-fluid white/pink body/mind …
A surge of recent research suggests that current and future shifts in marine species' distributions are ultimately driven by physiological responses to environmental variation. These observations and predictions are important because changes in species' distributions cause ecolo…
My installations are collaborations with time, material, and chaos. I want to show the beauty and sadness which lies in the process of entropy. Entropy (the second law of thermodynamics) is a term used in physics to measure the cooling and gradual loss of energy in all things; f…
Behaviors and designs are closely related in all areas and mediums. Every design detail can serve people with a better quality of life. As a designer, I always take my personal experience as the primary source of design. Coming from China, a country with more than five thousand …
Background: Globally, injection drug use (IDU) is common among cisgender women who participate in sex work (CWSW), placing them at heightened risk of HCV acquisition and transmission. However, the epidemiology of HCV among CWSW in the United States is not well understood. In thi…
I make ceramic and mixed media objects that embody interaction with material. Translated from the simple utterance of the hand the material articulates the labor. As in any relationship there are miscommunications and disagreements; Desperation, struggle, and honest interaction …
As an artist, I explore my family's complicated history of lost Jewish identity and the contrary involvement. I engage in this history by reflecting on the current political climate using an archive developed by my ancestors. I use components of these varying objects, photograph…
This research project evaluates the way in which culture, localism, and globalism (also referred to in this thesis as (g)localism) performatively converge in surfing communities. Localism, in accordance with the sport of surfing, include various communicative forms of aggressive…
This thesis will focus on the relationship between different shapes of furniture and space and the furniture design and manufacturing process. In the minimalist interior design, the structure and geometry of the indoor space depend on the furniture. I am interested in how stylis…