Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 4 of 4

Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Factors That Affect Fast Food Consumption: A Review Of The Literature, Yuchu Song Jul 2016

Factors That Affect Fast Food Consumption: A Review Of The Literature, Yuchu Song

MBA Student Scholarship

American rates of overweight and obesity are high, and the prevalence of obesity has continued to rise over the past few decades. Excessive consumption of fast food has been one of the multiple contributing factors driving the overweight and obese epidemic. This literature review summarizes the disadvantages of fast food on people's health, reveals common people's average fast food consumption. Based on this background, the paper is to explore factors why some people choose not to consume fast food, as well as factors why some people choose to consume fast food, and to summarize some recommendations that can help reduce …


Preventing Suicide In Discharged Service Members: A Proposed Research Study, Kyri Barilone Apr 2016

Preventing Suicide In Discharged Service Members: A Proposed Research Study, Kyri Barilone

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

We have designed this study in order to explore the growing problem of veteran suicide. Recently, suicide has become one of the most common causes of death among service members; however, little is known about how to reduce this growing epidemic. As a result, we have chosen to look into possible ways to reduce depression and suicidal ideation in discharged service members.


A Research Proposal: Analysis Of Intercultural Groups Using Virtual Communication Tools, Mirza R. Berganza Jan 2016

A Research Proposal: Analysis Of Intercultural Groups Using Virtual Communication Tools, Mirza R. Berganza

MBA Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Smart Environments & The Convergence Of The Veillances: Privacy Violations To Consider, Christine Perakslis, Katina Michael, M.G. Michael Jan 2016

Smart Environments & The Convergence Of The Veillances: Privacy Violations To Consider, Christine Perakslis, Katina Michael, M.G. Michael

MBA Faculty Conference Papers & Journal Articles

As a vast array of embedded smart devices will connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), society is rapidly moving into the unchartered territory of Pervasive Technology. Networks of devices will be unobtrusive; thereby freeing humans from the effort of human-to-machine (H2M) interactions, as well as elements of everyday decision-making. Technology will be far more intelligent and ubiquitous, thinking and acting for us behind the lines of visibility. The purpose of this paper is to probe the attributes of pervasive technologies (e.g. smart environments) within the context of the rapidly converging four veillances (i.e. surveillance, dataveillance, sousveillance, and uberveillance), so …