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Full-Text Articles in Computer Sciences
The Socialization Of Social Media: Examining The Impact Of Social Media Use On Interpersonal Skills During Face-To-Face Interaction, Tenille Thomas
The Socialization Of Social Media: Examining The Impact Of Social Media Use On Interpersonal Skills During Face-To-Face Interaction, Tenille Thomas
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Research has well established that the use of social networking sites (SNS) has increased accessibility and connectivity to people with limitless boundaries. SNS have progressively become the preferred source of communication. However, often overlooked is the impact SNS use has on face-to-face interactions, specifically on interpersonal skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between SNS use and face-to-face interaction. Specifically, this study examines the participant’s ability to recognize and interpret nonverbal cues with increased SNS use. This was a correlational study utilizing a quantitative design of self-reported questionnaires. A total of 178 participants, ranging in age …
Simulating The Machine Translation Of Low-Resource Languages By Designing A Translator Between English And An Artificially Constructed Language, Michaela Snyder
Simulating The Machine Translation Of Low-Resource Languages By Designing A Translator Between English And An Artificially Constructed Language, Michaela Snyder
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Natural language processing (NLP), or the use of computers to analyze natural language, is a field that relies heavily on syntax. It would seem intuitive that computers would thrive in this area due to their strict syntax requirements, but the syntax of natural languages leaves them unable to properly parse and generate sentences that seem normal to the average speaker. A subfield of NLP, machine translation, works mainly to computerize translation between different languages. Unfortunately, such translation is not without its weaknesses; language documentation is not created equal, and many low-resource languages—languages with relatively few kinds of documentation, most often …
Building Coleus Academy, Janessa Unseld
Building Coleus Academy, Janessa Unseld
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Coleus Academy, a nonprofit e-learning platform, has been created to address the deficits left by the de-emphasis and, at times, outright omission of practical skill-centric education in American curriculums. There exists a gap between the degree of knowledge necessary to engage with adult life and the extent of that knowledge that is actually possessed by emerging adults. Prominent legislations are among the numerous efforts to address this issue. However, there is a deeply fractured market where resources are proving too expensive, too sparse, or hyper-specific to the point of limited usability. Compounded with disparities in when, where, and to whom …
A Description Of A Humans Knowledge Using Artificial Intelligence, Dj Price
A Description Of A Humans Knowledge Using Artificial Intelligence, Dj Price
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
There currently does not exist a way to easily view the relationships between a collection of written items (e.g. sports articles, diary entries, research papers). In recent years, novel machine learning methods have been developed which are very good at extracting semantic relationships from large numbers of documents. One of them is the (unsupervised) machine learning model Doc2Vec which constructs vectors for documents. The research project detailed in this paper uses this and other already existing algorithms to analyze the relationship between pieces of text. We set forth a broader ambition for this project before discussing the use and need …
An Analysis Of The Success Of Farmers Markets In Kentucky Using Logistic Regression And Support Vector Machines, Jeron Russell
An Analysis Of The Success Of Farmers Markets In Kentucky Using Logistic Regression And Support Vector Machines, Jeron Russell
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The purpose of this research is to look at the relationship that market-specific, economic, and demographic variables have with the success of farmers markets in Kentucky. It additionally seeks to build a tool for predicting farmers market success that could be used by policy makers to aid in decision-making processes concerning farmers markets. Logistic regression and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are used on data acquired from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the American Community Survey in order to analyze the data in a traditional statistical approach as well as a machine learning approach. The results included an SVM model …
Communication Goals Of American Universities: A Social Media Content Analysis, Travis Ryan
Communication Goals Of American Universities: A Social Media Content Analysis, Travis Ryan
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Social media is a key communication tool for American universities. This research project is an exploratory look at how universities communicate with stakeholders via social media. In particular, the primary purpose is to explore potential emphasis on academic programs relative to the promotion of athletics as a marketing tool to bolster identity and recruit students. 3000 tweets were collected from 130 NCAA Division 1 American universities. In total, roughly 500,000 tweets have been scraped and classified using an automated script to assess tweet content. Particular emphasis was given to the concept of university rebranding as a broader marketing strategy for …
Ua66/15/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Mathematics & Computer Science Publications, Wku Archives
Ua66/15/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Mathematics & Computer Science Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about Mathematics & Computer Science.
Alcts Crs Holdings Information Forum, 3-4 P.M. January 31, 2015, Connie Foster
Alcts Crs Holdings Information Forum, 3-4 P.M. January 31, 2015, Connie Foster
Connie Foster
Cecilia Genereux (data management & access/metadata & intellectual access, University of Minnesota Libraries) introduced the session by confessing to a pun intended for her presentation: Alma: To Have and to Hold. The levity quickly shifted into some very detailed analysis of the way the Ex Libris Alma system handled specific types of serials during a migration from Aleph. The University of Minnesota started with Aleph (Ex Libris) in 2002 and moved to Alma on December 26, 2013. Frances McNamara (director, Integrated Library Systems and Administrative and Desktop Systems at University of Chicago), discussed migrating serials data from Horizon to Kulai …
Using Statistical Methods To Determine Geolocation Via Twitter, Christopher M. Wright
Using Statistical Methods To Determine Geolocation Via Twitter, Christopher M. Wright
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
With the ever expanding usage of social media websites such as Twitter, it is possible to use statistical inquires to form a geographic location of a person using solely the content of their tweets. According to a study done in 2010, Zhiyuan Cheng, was able to detect a location of a Twitter user within 100 miles of their actual location 51% of the time. While this may seem like an already significant find, this study was done while Twitter was still finding its ground to stand on. In 2010, Twitter had 75 million unique users registered, as of March 2013, …
Has Safeer Improved Sacm's Work And Helped Saudi Students In The Usa Resolve Their Needs Quickly, Faisal M. Alzomily
Has Safeer Improved Sacm's Work And Helped Saudi Students In The Usa Resolve Their Needs Quickly, Faisal M. Alzomily
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study examined efficiency of the Safeer by gathering and analyzing the perception of 131 Saudi students from Bowling Green, KY. The purpose of the study was to ensure that the system is able to perform its function as the bridge between different institutions and Saudi students studying in the US who require assistance in processing their academic requirements. A self-administered survey using five scale points was employed. Results were summarized using descriptive statistics at 95% confidence level. The result confirmed the hypothesis that the use of the Safeer program provides quality service delivery within SACM, which in turn benefits …
Experimental Studies Of Android App Development For Smart Chess Board System, Srujan Gopu
Experimental Studies Of Android App Development For Smart Chess Board System, Srujan Gopu
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Playing chess on a smart phone has gained popularity in the last few years, offering the convenience of correspondence play, automatic recording of a game, etc. Although a good number of players love playing chess on a tablet/smart phone, it doesn't come close to the experience of playing over the traditional board. The feel and pleasure are more real when playing face down with the opponent sitting across each other rather than playing in mobile devices. This is especially true during chess tournaments. It would be ideal to enhance the experience of playing chess on board with the features of …
Your Brain On Video Games: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Jordan D. Dobbs
Your Brain On Video Games: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Jordan D. Dobbs
Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
A Normal Truncated Skewed-Laplace Model In Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Junyi Wang
A Normal Truncated Skewed-Laplace Model In Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Junyi Wang
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Stochastic frontier analysis is an exciting method of economic production modeling that is relevant to hospitals, stock markets, manufacturing factories, and services. In this paper, we create a new model using the normal distribution and truncated skew-Laplace distribution, namely the normal-truncated skew-Laplace model. This is a generalized model of the normal-exponential case. Furthermore, we compute the true technical efficiency and estimated technical efficiency of the normal-truncated skewed-Laplace model. Also, we compare the technical efficiencies of normal-truncated skewed-Laplace model and normal-exponential model.
User Expectations Of Library Genealogy Databases V. What They Actually Get, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
User Expectations Of Library Genealogy Databases V. What They Actually Get, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
DLPS Faculty Publications
An analysis and comparison of two genealogical databases: Ancestry.com and Heritagequest.com.
Empirical Methods For Predicting Student Retention- A Summary From The Literature, Matt Bogard
Empirical Methods For Predicting Student Retention- A Summary From The Literature, Matt Bogard
Economics Faculty Publications
The vast majority of the literature related to the empirical estimation of retention models includes a discussion of the theoretical retention framework established by Bean, Braxton, Tinto, Pascarella, Terenzini and others (see Bean, 1980; Bean, 2000; Braxton, 2000; Braxton et al, 2004; Chapman and Pascarella, 1983; Pascarell and Ternzini, 1978; St. John and Cabrera, 2000; Tinto, 1975) This body of research provides a starting point for the consideration of which explanatory variables to include in any model specification, as well as identifying possible data sources. The literature separates itself into two major camps including research related to the hypothesis testing …
Ua3/9/2 I.T. Division Annual Report + Tactical Plan, Wku Information Technology
Ua3/9/2 I.T. Division Annual Report + Tactical Plan, Wku Information Technology
WKU Archives Records
Annual report of WKU Information Technology Division submitted to WKU President Gary Ransdell. Report is housed in UA3/9/2 Subject Files.
Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Wku Information Technology, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Wku Information Technology, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Records
Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU Information Technology.
Ua66 2007 Student Awards Ceremony, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Engineering
Ua66 2007 Student Awards Ceremony, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Engineering
WKU Archives Records
Program recognizing Ogden College students with brief list of activities for each student.
Ua1b2/1/5 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Charles Anderson
Ua1b2/1/5 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Charles Anderson
WKU Archives Records
Interview conducted by Paula Trafton with Charles Anderson, retired Vice President for Information Technology.
Ua8 Ssn Protection Committee Recommendations, Wku Information Technology
Ua8 Ssn Protection Committee Recommendations, Wku Information Technology
WKU Archives Records
Recommendations of the Social Security Number Protection Committee.
Ua1b3 Technology Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, Western Kentucky University
Ua1b3 Technology Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, Western Kentucky University
WKU Archives Records
Meeting regarding the Technical Advisory Committee composition, survey results and improvements to educational technology.
Ua1bc Final Report Of 2002-2003 Wku Technology Advisory Council Meetings, Western Kentucky University
Ua1bc Final Report Of 2002-2003 Wku Technology Advisory Council Meetings, Western Kentucky University
WKU Archives Records
The WKU Technology Advisory Council was established on November 8, 2002. It is comprised of faculty, deans, department heads, directors and students. This report contains summaries of meeting minutes and list of committee members.
A Theoretical Study Of The Interactive Communication Process In Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach, Nevsal Tiryakioglu
A Theoretical Study Of The Interactive Communication Process In Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach, Nevsal Tiryakioglu
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Video games have become the most popular leisure activity among children and adolescents. The increasing popularity of video games has urged researchers to determine the effects of video game playing on youngsters. Given the fact that most popular video games are violent in nature, much of the research has primarily focused on the correlation between playing video games with violent content and aggressive behavior in children. Most researchers have relied on previous media violence research, assuming similarities between television viewing and video game playing. However, video games are interactive media allowing the player to participate in the game scenario, which …
Student Survey Of Information Technology, Wku Information Technology, Richard Kirchmeyer
Student Survey Of Information Technology, Wku Information Technology, Richard Kirchmeyer
Board of Regents Documents
Survey of 400 WKU students about information technology used in strategic operations planning for Information Technology. The survey attempted to determine the depth and breadth of student computer use and knowledge of a variety of hardware and software. The report was presented to the WKU Board of Regents at the August 17, 2001 meeting.
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 10, Wku Computer Science
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 10, Wku Computer Science
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by WKU Computer Science for alumni of the program.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Regular features include:
- Just a Second
- Campus Line
- For the Record / Crime Reports
- People Poll
- Sports
- Diversions
- Movie Reviews
- Classifieds
Articles in this issue:
- Brewer, Jerry. NAACP: Blacks Have Obligation to Vote
- VanWinkle, Cara. Houses Hub of Activities – Fraternities & Sororities
- Brown, Karen. Gordon Parks’ Struggle to Success Provides Encouragement
- Stamper, John. Police Continue Hunt for Gunman
- Government Shouldn’t Regulate Morality
- Harbaugh, Jack. School Spirit Strong
- Wilson, Randy. Military Still Needed
- Craig, Ryan. Love is More Than Tight Jeans
- Flanagan, Beth. Greed: The Downfall of America
- Krenzin, …
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Regular features include:
- Just a Second
- Campus Line
- For the Record / Crime Reports
- People Poll
- Sports
- Diversions
- Movie Reviews
- Classifieds
Articles in this issue:
- Lucas, Fred. Parties Seeking Identity – U.S. Presidential Campaign
- Stamper, John. Tobacco Road – A Journey to the Harvest
- Leonard, Kim. Kristen Miller Makes Plan to Drive Party-Goers Home
- Leonard, Kim. Student Government Association Gives More Money to Campus Clubs
- Night Owls Can Now Flock to the Library
- Bradley, Ryan. Commentary Didn’t Have Facts Straight
- Esposito, Mike. Voters Offered Two Major Differences
- Howard, Jake. …
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. Ii, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. Ii, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:
- Vickrey, Eric & Charbonee LaBelle. Survey Aimed at Dropout Rate
- Good, Epha. NASA Grant Targets Minorities, Research
- Becker, Lori. Empty-Handed: Western Loses Out on $200,000 Gift in Will – Kathleen Carter
- LaBelle, Charbonee. Students Not Safe from Tow Trucks – Parking
- Weaver, Ron. Editorial Cartoon re: Pay Raise
- Slicing Pay-Raise Pie for Faculty, Staff
- Gentile, Mark. Non-Discrimination Policy Should Include Gays
- Gagliardi, Melissa. When in France, Know the Language
- Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon. Shannon Faulkner Quits Citadel
- Brown, Karen. Take Care of Business, Black Students …
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 8, Wku Computer Science
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 8, Wku Computer Science
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by WKU Computer Science for alumni of the program. This issue includes list of faculty research and scholarly activity and results of alumni survey.
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 7, Wku Computer Science
Ua66/3/2 Computer Science Alumni Newsletter, Vol. 7, Wku Computer Science
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by WKU Computer Science for alumni of the program. This issue includes course offerings, computer lab diagram and an alumni survey.