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Examining And Exposing The Darknet, Ton H. Don

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis consists of two studies; the first study is “Diving into the Darknet” and the second is “Exposing the Darknet on Mobile Devices”. The Darknet is a network of hidden sites and services which are built based on anonymity. In “Diving into the Darknet”, we applied different data science methods to establish the relationships between the data in the data set. This data set has information related to seller, drug types, and transactions. Additionally, we used Tableau to visualize the data set. For the second study, we took a digital forensics perspective of the Darknet. Orfox and Orbot, a …

An Exploration Of Cava Wineries: A Resource-Based Approach, Alonso Duarte

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Purpose:

The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify the most important resources, and emerging issues among Spain’s Cava wineries, including opportunities and challenges, from predominantly winery operators, and through the lens of the resource-based view of the firm (RBVF).

Design/methodology/approach:

Unstructured, face-to-face, in-depth interviews were conducted with the representatives of five Cava firms, and with the manager of the local Institute of Cava in Sant Sadurnà d’Anoia, Spain. In addition, owners/managers of seven other Cava wineries provided responses and comments via email. Findings: The attributes pertaining to the RBVF, such as valuable, rare, imperfect imitable resources, and (non)substitutability …

A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach For Assessing The Quality Of Business Process Models, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanêne Ben Abdallah, Zakaria Maamar

All Works

Copyright © 2017 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. Similar to software products, the quality of a Business Process model is vital to the success of all the phases of its lifecycle. Indeed, a high quality BP model paves the way to the successful implementation, execution and performance of the business process. In the literature, the quality of a BP model has been assessed through either the application of formal verification, or most often the evaluation of quality metrics calculated in the static and/or simulated model. Each of these assessment means addresses different quality characteristics …

Leveraging Knowledge At Startups, Amruta Anil Ranade

Masters Theses

"Startups contribute to the economy and job creation in the United States. One of the primary assets of startups is tacit knowledge of the employees of the startup. Technical communicators can help startups capture, share, and leverage the tacit knowledge at startups. Technical communicators could benefit from learning how knowledge management initiatives at startups work. The current study is an ethnographic case-study that was conducted at a fast-growing startup in California.

The data for the study was collected through observations, informal and semi-structured formal interviews with participants, and feedback from customers of the startup. The collected data was analyzed based …

Impact Of Framing And Priming On Users' Behavior In Cybersecurity, Kavya Sharma

Masters Theses

"This research examines the impact of framing and priming on users' behavior (i.e., action) in a cybersecurity setting. It also examines perceptual outcomes (i.e., confidence, perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, trust, and fear) associated with the users' cybersecurity action. The research draws on prospect theory in the behavioral economics literature and instance-based learning theory in the education literature to generate the hypotheses for the research. A between-subject experimental design (N=129) was used. The results suggest that priming users to cybersecurity risks reduces their risk-taking behavior associated with cybersecurity whereas negative framing of messages associated with cybersecurity has no significant effect on …

Extending Time Series Forecasting Methods Using Functional Principal Components Analysis, Isaac Michael Wagner-Muns

Masters Theses

"Traffic volume forecasts are used by many transportation analysis and management systems to better characterize and react to fluctuating traffic patterns. Most current forecasting methods do not take advantage of the underlying functional characteristics of the time series to make predictions. This paper presents a methodology that uses Functional Principal Components Analysis (FPCA) to create smooth and differentiable daily traffic forecasts. The methodology is validated with a data set of 1,813 days of 15 minute aggregated traffic volume time series. Both the FPCA based forecasts and the associated prediction intervals outperform traditional Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) based methods"--Abstract, …

The Consequences Of Audit-Related Earnings Revisions, Jacob Z. Haislip, Linda A. Myers, Susan Scholz, Timothy Seidel

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we investigate the consequences that auditors and their clients face when earnings announced in an unaudited earnings release are subsequently revised, presumably as a result of year-end audit procedures, so that earnings as reported in the 10-K differ from earnings as previously announced. Specifically, we examine whether the likelihood of an auditor ‘losing the client’ is greater following such revisions, and whether the likelihood of dismissal is influenced by revisions that more negatively impact earnings, that cause the client to miss important earnings benchmarks, by greater local auditor competition, or by auditor characteristics. We also examine audit …

The Internet As An Information Intermediary, Michael S. Drake, Jacob Thornock, Brady J. Twedt

Faculty Publications

The internet is an enormous and growing source of information for investors about the opinions of others. Virtually any individual with internet access can express opinions about firms and editorialize about company news. However, to date we know very little about the impact these nontraditional internet intermediaries have on markets. We develop a framework wherein internet information intermediaries fall along a spectrum of professionalism and document a nuanced relationship between coverage by these intermediaries and capital market effects. Using a novel dataset that tracks coverage of companies by individuals posting on thousands of websites, we find that coverage by professional …

Connected Health: An Open Innovation Perspective., Anushree Priyadarshini, Maria Quinlan, Gerardine Doyle

Articles

The concept of connected health has gained traction in recent years as a new technology enabled and networked model of health care delivery. It is often used as an umbrella term for eHealth, digital health, health informatics, telemedicine, mHealth and involves the establishment and management of a network of stakeholders with the aim of improving health care quality and out- comes. Yet a lack of open interactions and knowledge networks and the missing integration of the larger constituency of interdisciplinary experts are limiting the execution of the model and restricting its potential to devise services and interventions around patient’s needs …

Market Dimensions Of Industrial Juice Production, Anushree Priyadarshini

Articles

The juice sector is currently demonstrating positive and dynamic growth mainly due to a change in lifestyle, the tendency of consumers to prefer healthy products, and an increase in purchasing power. Fruit juices form part of what are termed the “new age beverages.” In sync with growing consumer inclination toward healthier choices, manufacturers are moving over to healthier ingredients in their juices. Numerous new and innovative products are being launched globally by manufacturers to stimulate sales through innovations in flavor blends, calorie and sweetness levels, and functional benefits, very much shaped by the major lifestyle trends. This chapter aims to …

Managing Energy Price Risk Using Futures Contracts: A Comparative Analysis, Jim Hanly

Articles

This paper carries out a comparative analysis of managing energy risk through futures hedging, for energy market participants across a broad dataset that encompasses the largest and most actively traded energy products. Uniquely, we carry out a hedge comparison using a variety of risk measures including Variance, Value at risk (VaR), and Expected Shortfall as well as a utility based performance metric for two different investor horizons; weekly and monthly. We find that hedging is effective across the spectrum of risk measures we employ. We also find significant differences in both the hedging strategies and the hedging effectiveness of different …

How Can Higher Education Institutions (Heis) Support The Development Of Entrepreneurial Mindsets In Local Communities?, Emma O'Brien, Thomas M. Cooney

Conference papers

Promoting an entrepreneurial culture through the development of entrepreneurial mindsets has become an important mission on the education and enterprise policy agenda of many governments and supranational organisations. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have responded to this call by developing entrepreneurship / enterprise education pedagogies that now place a greater focus on engendering entrepreneurial competencies within individuals rather than on the creation of new ventures. Such competences are relevant for all aspects of an individual’s life and may assist them in navigating the ever changing, chaotic, global world in which they live. However, some commentators have argued that this development is …

Applications Of Optimisation In Serious Games Design: An Integrated Framework, Ayman Tobail, Amr Arisha

Conference papers

It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the need to get out of the traditional learning methods especially in complex fields such as operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM). Simulation-based serious games have been identified as a promising learning tool to leverage the learning ability for the current generation known as virtual era generation. Literature lacks for formal guidelines to design and implement a simulation-based serious game to achieve learning, entertaining, keeping an active instructor role, and collecting real-time learning efficiency indicators. This study proposes a comprehensive framework and implementation for simulation-based serious game AUSUM (AUtomobile SUpply chain …

Chez Hans A La Carte Dessert Menu 2017, Chez Hans

Menus of the 21st Century

Fine dining restaurant in a converted Victorian Gothic church, with a daily changing European menu.

Chez Hans A La Carte Menu 2017, Chez Hans

Menus of the 21st Century

Fine dining restaurant in a converted Victorian Gothic church, with a daily changing European menu.

Crawford Gallery Cafe Breakfast Menu 2017, Crawford Gallery Cafe

Menus of the 21st Century

Situated at the entrance to one of Cork City's cultural and historical landmarks, The Crawford Gallery Cafe is a veritable oasis of calm, existing between the bustle of a vibrant city centre plaza and the cocoon of the city's art gallery.

The ambience of the cafe is both informal and understated, yet redolent of an elegant urban bistro. Muted tones; a light-filled, airy space; and regularly changing works of art convey the atmosphere of the gallery through to the cafe. Large pots of scented sweet geranium and lemon balm sit comfortably in the deep-set windows, and an eclectic mix of …

Crawford Gallery Cafe Tea Coffee And Cake Menu 2017, Crawford Gallery Cafe

Menus of the 21st Century

Situated at the entrance to one of Cork City's cultural and historical landmarks, The Crawford Gallery Cafe is a veritable oasis of calm, existing between the bustle of a vibrant city centre plaza and the cocoon of the city's art gallery.

The ambience of the cafe is both informal and understated, yet redolent of an elegant urban bistro. Muted tones; a light-filled, airy space; and regularly changing works of art convey the atmosphere of the gallery through to the cafe. Large pots of scented sweet geranium and lemon balm sit comfortably in the deep-set windows, and an eclectic mix of …

Daroka Restaurant Ballybunion Menu 2017, Daroka Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Daroka is our first restaurant, the concept has been with us now for quite a while – real food, real simple.

Real food in the sense that we want to be truly conscious of where our ingredients come from and how they were produced. We also go a little further in that all the honey here at Daroka is from our own bees, most of the fruit used is grown specifically for us, as well as a lot of the vegetables. We are extremely lucky to have a poly-tunnel and fruit garden quite local and we also want to add …

Deanes Eipic Forty Pounds Menu 2017, Deanes Eipic

Menus of the 21st Century

Chef Danni Barry is one of an elite group of female Michelin starred chefs in the UK & only the second female chef ever in Ireland to gain a star.

Danni hails from the Mourne country in Northern Ireland. Her cooking career began in 2003 in the then Michelin starred Deanes in Howard Street with chef Michael Deane. Four years later Danni went on her travels to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and mainland Europe, garnering knowledge from the high end restaurants in which she worked along the way. Danni is driven by her passion for only the freshest and …

Dunne And Crescenzi Dessert Menu 2017, Dunne And Crescenzi

Menus of the 21st Century

There are 2 owners of the Dunne and Crescenzi collection - husband and wife duo Stefano and Eileen, whose dream was to bring traditional, quality Italian cuisine to Ireland in order to dispel the burgeoning stereotypes brought about by cheap convenience foods, mass produced for the home market with little resemblance to their original counterparts; they are aided by David Izzo, who joined them to help spread the word about the quality and tastes available from his mother country.

Dunne And Crescenzi A La Carte Menu 2017, Dunne And Crescenzi

Menus of the 21st Century

There are 2 owners of the Dunne and Crescenzi collection - husband and wife duo Stefano and Eileen, whose dream was to bring traditional, quality Italian cuisine to Ireland in order to dispel the burgeoning stereotypes brought about by cheap convenience foods, mass produced for the home market with little resemblance to their original counterparts; they are aided by David Izzo, who joined them to help spread the word about the quality and tastes available from his mother country.

Ely Wine Bars Menu 2017, Ely Wine Bar

Menus of the 21st Century

16 years ago, ely wine bar at 22 Ely Place, is where it all began. Erik and Michelle Robson opened ely wine bar and in the process changed the way in which wine was sold in Ireland. Passionate about wine, always respectful of its traditions and culture but always with an eye on what's great now. Today ely lists over 500 wines by bottle and 80 wines by the glass.

ely has always focused on the importance of provenance and the community of our artisan producers and suppliers, who enhance the quality of our food experience. There's never been a …

Farmgate Restaurant & Country Store Dinner Menu 2017, Farmgate Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

n 1983 Mar�g O'Brien established Farmgate in Midleton, Co. Cork as a small food shop specialising in local, seasonal, fresh produce. In 1988 it expanded to a larger premises to develop, along with its shop, the now renowned Farmgate Restaurant and Bakery. A generation later Mar�g is now joined by her daughter, Sally O'Brien to further continue this well loved concept. Farmgate is supported and loved, particularly by local patrons, and has now become a national and international landmark. The concept is based on Regional food, supporting in particular local producers. Cheeses are local; duck is free-range; lamb and beef …

Farmgate Restaurant & Country Store Lunch Menu 2017, Farmgate Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

n 1983 Mar�g O'Brien established Farmgate in Midleton, Co. Cork as a small food shop specialising in local, seasonal, fresh produce. In 1988 it expanded to a larger premises to develop, along with its shop, the now renowned Farmgate Restaurant and Bakery. A generation later Mar�g is now joined by her daughter, Sally O'Brien to further continue this well loved concept. Farmgate is supported and loved, particularly by local patrons, and has now become a national and international landmark. The concept is based on Regional food, supporting in particular local producers. Cheeses are local; duck is free-range; lamb and beef …

Fishy Fishy Restaurant Kinsale Menu 2017, Fishy Fishy Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Fishy Fishy Restaurant Kinsale, is an award-winning restaurant run by husband and wife team Martin & Marie Shanahan who are totally passionate about what they do.

Chef Martin Shanahan knows a thing or two about fish. His passion for seafood saw them open their original Kinsale Gourmet Store in 1990. A fish shop and deli in one, it regularly had queues of diners vying to be seated. This roaring success led them to expand the business and finally culminated in the opening of their Fishy Fishy Restaurant.

Martin's background as a fishmonger ensures that the restaurant is supplied with only …

Global Village Restaurant Dingle Sample Menus 2017, Global Village Dingle

Menus of the 21st Century

Modern methods, touched by tradition, bring the purest local ingredients to life in a harmony of taste and tone.

The kitchen is the centre of our creation, bringing together the classic and the modern to craft the tastes of today.

Our restaurant is warm, relaxed and welcoming.

Greenes Restaurant Cork Tasting Menu 2017, Greenes Restaurant Cork

Menus of the 21st Century

The food at Greenes is innovative, modern and devoted to place. Bryan McCarthy heads up the kitchen team at Greenes and recognises the uniqueness and quality of the outstanding ingredients that are available in Cork. His talented team works in tandem with the best of Cork’s food producers and in other parts of Ireland to create a menu that’s devoted to local, seasonal, foraged and organic ingredients.

Expect signature dishes of a seasonal nature, refined food with a simple food philosophy - local, fresh and staying true to each ingredient’s essence.

Traditional food practices, such as pickling and fermenting, together …

Greenes Restaurant Cork Pre Theatre Menu 2017, Greenes Restaurant Cork

Menus of the 21st Century

The food at Greenes is innovative, modern and devoted to place. Bryan McCarthy heads up the kitchen team at Greenes and recognises the uniqueness and quality of the outstanding ingredients that are available in Cork. His talented team works in tandem with the best of Cork’s food producers and in other parts of Ireland to create a menu that’s devoted to local, seasonal, foraged and organic ingredients.

Expect signature dishes of a seasonal nature, refined food with a simple food philosophy - local, fresh and staying true to each ingredient’s essence.

Traditional food practices, such as pickling and fermenting, together …

Greenes Restaurant Cork Lunch Menu, Greenes Restaurant Cork

Menus of the 21st Century

The food at Greenes is innovative, modern and devoted to place. Bryan McCarthy heads up the kitchen team at Greenes and recognises the uniqueness and quality of the outstanding ingredients that are available in Cork. His talented team works in tandem with the best of Cork’s food producers and in other parts of Ireland to create a menu that’s devoted to local, seasonal, foraged and organic ingredients.

Expect signature dishes of a seasonal nature, refined food with a simple food philosophy - local, fresh and staying true to each ingredient’s essence.

Traditional food practices, such as pickling and fermenting, together …