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Only Screen Deep? Evaluating Aesthetics, Usability, And Satisfaction In Informational Websites, Carrie Avery Jan 2005

Only Screen Deep? Evaluating Aesthetics, Usability, And Satisfaction In Informational Websites, Carrie Avery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the role aesthetics plays in informational websites. In commercial interfaces, aesthetics (the perceived visual appeal and appropriateness of an object) has shown to correlate positively with many aspects of usability and emotional satisfaction. This thesis examines whether aesthetics has similar positive correlations in informational websites. Heuristics or guidelines for evaluating informational websites are developed based on empirical research and practitioner expertise. Categories for heuristic evaluation include usability, credibility, visual clarity, visual richness, and emotional satisfaction. A class of graduate students browsed three academic websites, evaluated them, and critiqued the heuristics. Results indicate that aesthetics does correlate with …

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Negotiating Place: Multiscapes And Negotiation In Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Kevin Gladding Jan 2005

Negotiating Place: Multiscapes And Negotiation In Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Kevin Gladding

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Murakami's Norwegian Wood, romance and coming-of-age confront the growing trend of postmodernity that leads to a discontinuity of life becoming more and more common in post-war Japan. As the narrator struggles through a monotonous daily existence, the text gives the reader access to the narrator's struggle for self- and societal identity. In the end, he finds his means of self-acceptance through escape, and his escape is a product of his attempts at negotiating the multiple settings or "scapes" in which he finds himself. The thesis follows the narrator through his navigation of these scapes and seeks to examine the …

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A Cultural Study Of The Bad Pass Trail In The Pryor Mountains Montana And Wyoming, Ashley Wisehart Jan 2005

A Cultural Study Of The Bad Pass Trail In The Pryor Mountains Montana And Wyoming, Ashley Wisehart

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Detection Of Surrogate Markers After Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (Ghb) Exposure, Scott James Larson Jan 2005

Detection Of Surrogate Markers After Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (Ghb) Exposure, Scott James Larson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Investigations Into The Occurrence And Causes Of Diel Changes In The Chemistry Of Streams, Stephen R. Parker Jan 2005

Investigations Into The Occurrence And Causes Of Diel Changes In The Chemistry Of Streams, Stephen R. Parker

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Ethnographic Survey Of Contemporary Concepts Of Health And Illness Among Individual Chippewas And Crees, Eli S. Suzukovich Jan 2005

Ethnographic Survey Of Contemporary Concepts Of Health And Illness Among Individual Chippewas And Crees, Eli S. Suzukovich

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Faith Communities And End-Of-Life Care : Members' Perceptions Of Current Care Practices And Desires For Care, Lindsay A. Iudicello Jan 2005

Faith Communities And End-Of-Life Care : Members' Perceptions Of Current Care Practices And Desires For Care, Lindsay A. Iudicello

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Perceived Experience Of Abuse And Shelter Stay : Battered Women And Their Children, Delia C. Campfield Jan 2005

Perceived Experience Of Abuse And Shelter Stay : Battered Women And Their Children, Delia C. Campfield

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Differentiating Sources Of Recharge And Investigating The Fate Of Arsenic In The Shallow Groundwater System Adjacent To A Losing River Western Montana, Robyn C. Cook Jan 2005

Differentiating Sources Of Recharge And Investigating The Fate Of Arsenic In The Shallow Groundwater System Adjacent To A Losing River Western Montana, Robyn C. Cook

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Numerical Experiments In Geostrophic Turbulence Using The Finite Element Method, Jeremy Allen Sauer Jan 2005

Numerical Experiments In Geostrophic Turbulence Using The Finite Element Method, Jeremy Allen Sauer

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Grizzly Bear Reintroduction To The Bitterroot Ecosystem : Perceptions Of Individuals With Land-Base Occupations, Carlos L. Velado Jan 2005

Grizzly Bear Reintroduction To The Bitterroot Ecosystem : Perceptions Of Individuals With Land-Base Occupations, Carlos L. Velado

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Evaluating The Fiscal-Inflation Interaction As An Argument For Fiscal Rules In The European Economic And Monetary Union, Joseph P. Broach Jan 2005

Evaluating The Fiscal-Inflation Interaction As An Argument For Fiscal Rules In The European Economic And Monetary Union, Joseph P. Broach

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Relationship Of Business School Performance To Deans' Self -Perceived Leadership Styles In Taiwan, Kai Li Liu Jan 2005

The Relationship Of Business School Performance To Deans' Self -Perceived Leadership Styles In Taiwan, Kai Li Liu

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Physiological Ecology Of Male And Female Trees Of Austrocedrus Chilensis Along A Moisture Gradient In Patagonia Argentina, Cecilia IneìS Nunìƒez Jan 2005

Physiological Ecology Of Male And Female Trees Of Austrocedrus Chilensis Along A Moisture Gradient In Patagonia Argentina, Cecilia IneìS Nunìƒez

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Investigations Of A Chip-Firing Game, David Perkins Jan 2005

Investigations Of A Chip-Firing Game, David Perkins

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Nitrogen Cycling And Spatial Heterogeneity Following Fire And Restoration Treatments In The Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-Fir Ecosystem, Michael J. Gundale Jan 2005

Nitrogen Cycling And Spatial Heterogeneity Following Fire And Restoration Treatments In The Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-Fir Ecosystem, Michael J. Gundale

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Negotiator Perceptions: An Analysis Of United States Teachers' Strikes In 1999, Kristine A. Miller Jan 2005

Negotiator Perceptions: An Analysis Of United States Teachers' Strikes In 1999, Kristine A. Miller

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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From Theory To Practice: A Multiple Case Study On Novice Administrators, David T. Hobbs Jan 2005

From Theory To Practice: A Multiple Case Study On Novice Administrators, David T. Hobbs

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Ribosome Builder: A Software Project To Simulate The Ribosome, William A. Knight Jan 2005

The Ribosome Builder: A Software Project To Simulate The Ribosome, William A. Knight

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Gallium And Arsenic/Selenium Recoveries From Aqueous Systems Using Silica Based Chelating Composites, Paul J. Miranda Jan 2005

Gallium And Arsenic/Selenium Recoveries From Aqueous Systems Using Silica Based Chelating Composites, Paul J. Miranda

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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It Wasn't Little Rock, Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

It Wasn't Little Rock, Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) . Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decision. "This softcover edition of 150 books was printed on an Indigo Digital Press"--Colophon. Author describes her family's experience with racism and school integration. As a high school student, the author was named lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et al. v. County School Board of Arlington County (June 1956), a school desegregation class action suit filed in U.S. District Court. Metal spiral binding. Signed by the author on the title-page. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections …

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Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 folded sheets : color illustrations. Title from box. In oval shaped cloth wrap box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with metal clasp. Photographs and text printed with archival ink on Moab paper. Limited edition of 8 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 1977. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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The Public Policy Implications Of Audit Regulation: Three Studies Related To The Passage Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002, Steven Thornburg Jan 2005

The Public Policy Implications Of Audit Regulation: Three Studies Related To The Passage Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002, Steven Thornburg

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation documents and evaluates certain financial and non-financial strategies used by the public accounting profession to influence audit regulation during the policy formation period of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The dissertation is comprised of three separate, but related studies. Each study uses prior research in accounting and related disciplines to investigate significant aspects the profession's strategies. The first study evaluates the rationality and effectiveness of political action committee (PAC) contributions paid by the accounting profession to members of Congress. The study finds that the accounting profession rationally allocated more PAC contributions to top congressional leaders and to …

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Accounting Disclosure At The Organization-Society Interface: A Meta-Theory And Empirical Evidence, Jennifer Ching-Kuan Chen Jan 2005

Accounting Disclosure At The Organization-Society Interface: A Meta-Theory And Empirical Evidence, Jennifer Ching-Kuan Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three studies related to accounting disclosure at the interface of the organization and society. The first study investigates the overlapping perspectives of legitimacy theory, institutional theory, resource dependence theory, and stakeholder theory and integrates these theories into a more cohesive meta-theory of the organization-society interface. The second study examines whether a corporation's charitable contributions represent a corporate social performance strategy or a legitimation strategy. More specifically, study two investigates, from two competing perspectives, how corporate executives rationalize their philanthropic actions. The third study analyzes the relationship between the current tax laws and the fulfillment of corporate …

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Adaptive Self-Regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession, Sharon Howell Jan 2005

Adaptive Self-Regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession, Sharon Howell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether or not perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between accountants' personality and interpersonal traits and their perceptions of a superior's leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her superior's abilities is more likely to be committed to a given project, resulting in a better project outcome. This benefits the client and ultimately society as a whole. This study contributes to the accounting and psychology literatures because extant research views perceptions of leadership ability and performance from the perspective of the individual …

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Measurement Of Lipid Peroxidation In Biology Models Using Gas-Chromatography-Aass Spectrometry, Madhavi Lokireddy Jan 2005

Measurement Of Lipid Peroxidation In Biology Models Using Gas-Chromatography-Aass Spectrometry, Madhavi Lokireddy

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

C2C12 mouse myoblast cells, grown in glass vials, were connected to a cryofocusing unit to trap volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The VOCs were eluted from the trap by capacitive discharge into a gas chromatograph with time-of-flight mass spectral capabilities (GC-TOFMS) and were found to include the lipid peroxidation product hexanal. The pro-oxidant cumene hydroperoxide elevated the levels of these lipid peroxidation products, whereas the anti-oxidant butylated hydroxy toluene (BHT) impaired their production. Derivatization of the aldehyde products of lipid peroxidation in the same myoblast cells with pentafluorobenzyl hydroxylamine hydrochloride (PFB) provided evidence for formation of non-volatile products of lipid peroxidation …

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Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

cloth covered box exterior; accordion, dos a dos, housed in a clamshell box; cloth covered box interior; page spread; "Returning again, past and present converge"; page spread; "Days steeped..."; page spread; inside front cover. number 34 in an edition of 65, a collaborative work signed by both artists

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Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

drum leaf binding with hidden built up compartment holding BB's. Enclosed in a collaged and painted wrapping envelope, held with woven ribbon. Book closed with wrapper; book closed with wrapper open; interior spreads; back cover; cover. Visions of a primitive ritual dance performed around a fire are evoked through these images of tribal masks. Rhythmic sounds can be made by shaking the book like a maraca.

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"Descendants" And "The Village On The Heath"| Translating The Relationship Between Man And Nature In Adalbert Stifter's Prose, James Mclellan Jan 2005

"Descendants" And "The Village On The Heath"| Translating The Relationship Between Man And Nature In Adalbert Stifter's Prose, James Mclellan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Adopting A Holistic Approach To Health In Athletic Training By Supplementing Athletic Training Certification With Aaasp Certification, Amy E. Shirk Jan 2005

Adopting A Holistic Approach To Health In Athletic Training By Supplementing Athletic Training Certification With Aaasp Certification, Amy E. Shirk

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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