Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
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Forecasting the success of megaprojects is a very difficult and important task because of the complexity of such projects, as well as the large capital investment that is required for the completion of these projects. One could argue that forecasting is not needed in this contex…
Responding to developments within the field of British nuclear culture, this thesis uses the concept of the sociotechnical imaginary (STIM) to trace the social and cultural history of the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria between 1945 and 1990. Drawing upon oral histories of…
Background: HIV/AIDS has remained one of Nigeria's biggest health and social issues for decades. People aged between 10 and 24 are the most affected. Research into why this population subset is affected is very pertinent. We therefore conducted a systematic review of the Knowled…
In 2005, more than 25 million adults and children worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS and more than 75% of these were in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies indicate that the incidence of HIV infection and the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among young populations continue to rise in…
By 2030, sub-Saharan Africa is projected to be the epicenter of the tobacco epidemic. In Ethiopia there is an opportunity to avert an increase in tobacco-induced diseases; however, local data is needed to inform proactive contextualized tobacco control interventions. This cross-…
Throughout the world, Indonesia is one of the countries most affected by the outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1. The outbreak has killed 160 out of 192 human cases during 2005 to 2012, the fatality rate being especially high in children and you…
Background. Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world. Studies suggest that many maternal deaths may be prevented via skilled health care interventions. Although maternal health service availability has improved since 2001, utilization of skilled …
Objective: To assess the knowledge on prevention of MTCT of HIV among women of child bearing age in rural and urban areas Nigeria. In addition, determine if there are any urban-rural differences in MTCT knowledge. Methods: Data from the Nigerian National HIV/AIDS and Reproductiv…
Since the mid-2000's, involvement in social media spaces has seemingly become a requirement in the e-learning area. Initially sparked by exponential growth among teens of high school and college age, regularly visiting websites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Gestalt is…
By revealing Kuwaiti students' attitudes, knowledge, and behavior toward water conservation, strategies can be established to provide for effective preparation and content for water education. The purpose of this study is to identify levels of water conservation attitudes, knowl…
Formal models of agents are essential for their design, specification, analysis, and for predicting their future behavior. Formal notions of mental state provide powerful building blocks for a class of qualitative models that represent agents, their information, their behavior, …
This work examines the combined epistemological and psychological theory of Peter Auriol (ca. 1280–1322), a French scholastic philosopher and theologian. Though not himself a skeptic, Auriol's concerns with sensory illusions force him to maintain a distinction between the real b…
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Jordanian high school students' knowledge of computers and their attitudes toward them vary with regard to their educational level and gender, as well as to investigate the difference between Jordanian high school students' kn…
In Indonesia, women are dying from pregnancy-related complications and childbirth at a relatively high rate, up to 470 per 100,000 live births. The majority of women give birth in their homes, under less-than-sterile conditions, and without the assistance of a skilled healthcare…
This Dissertation is an analysis of Michael Polanyi's (1891-1976) epistemology of 'personal knowledge.' His theory of tacit knowing is conceived of as three consecutive 'models' which explain the main strands constituting tacit knowing. The Gestalt Model is based on the analogy …
Using the case of Jordan, this dissertation considers why public administrators, planners, and policy makers are overwhelmingly utilizing information technology (IT) for administrative and transactional processing activities, but not decision-making. This dissertation also compa…
There is no question that technology skills will be essential in ever-increasing portions of the labor market of the twenty-first century. Consequently, colleges and universities would be doing a major disservice to their students if they failed to provide appropriate opportunit…
Background: In Oman, 33.3% of women attended late for publicly funded antenatal care in 2015 and 24% did not attend for the recommended 4-6 visits during their pregnancy. This low attendance suggests a need to explore attendance for antenatal care for low-risk pregnant women in …