Discovering all drug and vaccine side effects during the development process is impos-sible. This dissertation aims to propose a framework in exploring spatiotemporal adverse event surveillance models by identifying adverse ...

While the world’s total urban population continues to grow, not all cities are witnessing such growth, some are actually shrinking. This shrinkage causes several problems to emerge including population loss, economic ...

Political trust has declined drastically over decades; however, it is critical to disaster management efforts by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its partners. Previous studies examined the impact ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and motivational factors that influenced educational and career decisions of United States military veterans who transitioned out of the military and into an information ...

This thesis provides a framework with associated implementation support, based on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), to address security, efficiency, and scalability challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is ...

Search and optimization problems are widespread throughout business and engineering, but these computational problems are often complex enough that they must be approached with heuristic algorithms. Evolutionary algorithms ...

In this dissertation, we explored the usage of computational interaction design methods in the construction of human-centered tools. Computational design interaction methods involve applying learning and optimization to ...

Time perception is critical for cognitive and behavioral functions ranging from speech to motor control. Learning to time durations can cause errors; therefore, recognizing and correcting the temporal errors is essential ...

Among the many difficulties that military families face are the experience of a parent deploying to a warzone and the subsequent risk of that parent returning with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms ...

The current study examined how families navigated the rules and admissionsrequirements of Washington, DC’s common enrollment lottery for public preschool. Informed by ethnography and case study methods, multiple in-depth ...