Inpatient falls are a serious cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries among patients of all ages leading to disability and stillness. The post-fall treatment comes with rising medical costs and a stressful recovery phase. The present assessment tools align with analyzing causes of…
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Risk management in banking operations is a popular topic among researchers in the fields of management and banking. Due to developments in technology, research on financial technology has also become a hot topic. Banks and financial technology companies (fintechs) need to learn …
Network Proxies and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are tools that are used every day to facilitate various business functions. However, they have gained popularity amongst unintended userbases as tools that can be used to hide mask identities while using websites and web-service…
Literature of participatory democracy in STS has reached a point where most works are either speculation from specific academic theory traditions or they focus on one small technology or policy that is isolated from the larger context. This work aims to move beyond this, by prov…
The goal of this dissertation is to present a thorough analysis of the current relation between television and politics in Italy, with a special emphasis on the circulation of political communication through entertainment genres. Specifically talk shows, parody news and reality …
Applying data mining techniques on medical databases which contain un-structured and semi-structured data is a challenging task. It is not only due to the complexity of such databases but also due to the characteristics of the medical domain. This thesis describes how multiple l…
Ridesharing is a shared vehicle service with the potential to meet the growing travel demand due to population increase, economic growth, and shortage in transportation infrastructure capacity. Compared to the current system of predominantly using personal vehicles, ridesharing …
The advances in information and communication technology (ICT), particularly in the last few years, have influenced teaching and learning activities across educational institutions. There has also been an increase in research studies that explore how students and teachers intera…
Döviz kuru oynaklığının uluslararası ticaretle olan ilişkisi 1973 yılında Bretton Woods Sisteminin çökmesinden beri ekonomistler için önemli bir soru olmuştur. Bu konuda yapılmış olan birçok çalışma olmasına rağmen, döviz kuru oynaklığının ihracat veya ithalata olan etkisi üzeri…
İş gücü verimliliği, üretim aşamasında gözlemlenen ya da ölçülen sermaye, iş gücü gibi belirli faktörlerin, üretime direkt ya da dolaylı yoldan etki eden katkılardır. Bu tanım, bir içinin ürettiği reel katma değer olarak da açıklanabilmektedir. Globalde, üretim aşaması ile istih…
The volume of information generated by healthcare providers is growing at a relatively high speed. This tremendous growth has created a gap between knowledge and clinical practice that experts say could be narrowed with the proper use of healthcare data to guide clinical decisio…
Across postsecondary education in the United States, women continue to be underrepresented in executive-level leadership roles, in contrast to the fact that women earn the majority of degrees at all levels. This underrepresentation is notable in the context of Christian higher e…
Sports analytics applies mathematical and statistical concepts to making relevant and efficient choices for proper club management in finances and performance in the field. This study models a technique to evaluate player performance based on games they have been involved with p…
The city of Birmingham and its schools have experienced a tumultuous history – from a school system born out of deep-rooted segregation and racist policy, to one disrupted and transformed by the relentless and heroic efforts of Civil Rights leaders. Ensuing decades within the sc…
Refracturing of existing horizontal multistage wells has increased over the past decade in the oil industry. This work aims to investigate all the refracturing operations in the most active shale plays in the united states (Bakken, Niobrara, Marcellus, Permian, Eagle Ford, Barne…
Since the topic of improving data quality has not been addressed for the U.S. defense cost estimating discipline beyond changes in public policy, the goal of the study was to close this gap and provide empirical evidence that supports expanding options to improve software cost e…
The highly redshifted, sky-averaged spectrum from neutral hydrogen’s 21-cm line is a promising probe of the history of the Universe after the release of the cosmic microwave background and prior to the reionization of the Universe by the first generations of compact sources. It …
Background: Referred odontogenic pain (RP) is a phenomenon that is seen regularly in dentistry and it is not extensively understood. It can make formulating a proper diagnosis difficult and its presence can lead to inappropriate treatment.
History provides context for the present. In the same way, past user interactions provide context for present explorations. This thesis investigates ways to reify user interaction history to address emerging challenges in the design and programming of human-data interfaces.