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Leveraging Campus-Scale Wi-Fi Data For Activity-Based Occupant Modeling In Urban Energy Applications, Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Clayton Miller, Matias Quintana, Adrian Chong, Rudi Stouffs Jan 2023

Leveraging Campus-Scale Wi-Fi Data For Activity-Based Occupant Modeling In Urban Energy Applications, Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Clayton Miller, Matias Quintana, Adrian Chong, Rudi Stouffs

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

The widespread availability of open datasets in urban areas is transforming how urban energy systems are planned, simulated, and visualized. Urban energy models, however, require an understanding of urban dwellers, as their activities create the demands for energy in buildings. In this paper, we explore using campus-scale Wi-Fi data to identify typical occupant activity patterns as an input to an agent-based model of building occupants at the district scale. The data is taken from a Singaporean university’s Wi-Fi network at high resolution. Each record comprises a timestamp, a device identifier, the location of the device within the campus, and the …


การศึกษาภาวะหมดไฟของนักบริหารการเปลี่ยนแปลงรุ่นใหม่, ธันย์ชนก เพชรอยู่ Jan 2023

การศึกษาภาวะหมดไฟของนักบริหารการเปลี่ยนแปลงรุ่นใหม่, ธันย์ชนก เพชรอยู่

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยแบบผสม เพื่อศึกษาและวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยส่วนบุคคล สภาวะเชิงลบของงาน สภาพแวดล้อมในงาน และความผูกพันในงานที่ส่งผลต่อภาวะหมดไฟ โดยใช้วิธีวิจัยเชิงปริมาณและเชิงคุณภาพ รวบรวมข้อมูลจากแบบสอบถามของนปร. 100 คน และสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกนปร.ที่ลาออกจากโครงการฯ 10 คน รวมถึงผู้บังคับบัญชาและผู้อำนวยการสถาบันฯ การวิเคราะห์ภาวะหมดไฟใช้ตัวชี้วัดจาก ระดับอาการเหนื่อยล้า การลดความสัมพันธ์กับงาน และภาวะสิ้นหวังต่อผลงาน โดยใช้การวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบความแปรปรวนและสถิติถดถอยเชิงซ้อน รวมถึงการวิเคราะห์พรรณนาเพื่อศึกษาแนวทางการจัดการภาวะหมดไฟในการทำงาน ผลการศึกษาพบว่า อายุมีผลต่อภาวะสิ้นหวังต่อผลงานอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ (p-value = 0.014) สภาวะเชิงลบของงาน (p-value = 0.001) และสภาพแวดล้อมในงาน (p-value = 0.034) มีผลต่อการเกิดภาวะหมดไฟโดยรวมอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ สำหรับการพิสูจน์ความสัมพันธ์ของปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการเกิดภาวะหมดไฟ ทำให้ทราบว่า นปร.ที่เป็นหญิงจะมีความเสี่ยงต่อการเกิดอาการเหนื่อยล้าที่สุด เมื่อมีอายุมากขึ้นจะมีระดับภาวะสิ้นหวังต่อผลงานที่สูงขึ้น การเผชิญสภาวะเชิงลบของงานและสภาพแวดล้อมงานที่ไม่เหมาะสมอย่างต่อเนื่องส่งผลให้เกิดอาการเหนื่อยล้าและภาวะสิ้นหวังมากขึ้น การขาดสภาพแวดล้อมที่สนับสนุนทำให้ความผูกพันในงานลดลงและลดความสัมพันธ์กับงาน เช่นเดียวกับสถานการณ์ที่ทำให้ต้องพบเจอกับสภาพแวดล้อมของงานที่ไม่เหมาะสมจะส่งผลให้เกิดระดับภาวะสิ้นหวังต่อผลงานที่สูงขึ้นเช่นกัน หากหน่วยงานไม่ได้สนับสนุนสภาพแวดล้อมของงานให้เหมาะสมและเพียงพอต่อการเผชิญกับสภาวะเชิงลบของงานจะทำให้ระดับความผูกพันในงานลดลง ซึ่งส่งผลถึงระดับการลดความสัมพันธ์กับงานนั้นสูงขึ้น แนวทางการจัดการภาวะหมดไฟที่เหมาะสมจึงเป็นการมอบงานที่ท้าทายและมีคุณค่า เสริมสร้าง Growth Mindset และการแลกเปลี่ยนวิธีการทำงานร่วมกัน ผู้บังคับบัญชาควรเฝ้าระวังและควบคุมปัจจัยเสี่ยง พร้อมทั้งสร้างความสุขที่ยั่งยืนในการทำงานเพื่อลดภาวะหมดไฟในอนาคต


Disruption And Emergence: How To Think About Human Rights Futures, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick Jan 2023

Disruption And Emergence: How To Think About Human Rights Futures, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

School of Peace Studies: Faculty Scholarship

This article suggests that humanity may be approaching a critical juncture, since a confluence of macro-historical changes might—individually or collectively—fundamentally transform the field of human rights, and usher in a second human rights era. In particular, it suggests that the confluence of tectonic geopolitical changes, system-wide shifts in climate and energy, and fundamentally new developments in science and technology might lead to a rupture of the same scale as the cluster of events that heralded the onset of the current rights regime. This argument builds on a number of literatures, especially those focused on norms cycles, rights generations, and what …


การศึกษาเครือข่ายนโยบายในการพัฒนาแนวทางการปกป้องโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศจากการก่อวินาศกรรมและการก่อการร้าย, นพฤกษ์ ศรีสุวรรณ Jan 2023

การศึกษาเครือข่ายนโยบายในการพัฒนาแนวทางการปกป้องโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศจากการก่อวินาศกรรมและการก่อการร้าย, นพฤกษ์ ศรีสุวรรณ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

โครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศ (Critical Infrastructure: CI) ถือเป็นปัจจัยสำคัญที่ส่งผลต่อการพัฒนาประเทศทั้งในด้านเศรษฐกิจ สังคม และความมั่นคง รวมถึงยังสามารถเพิ่มขีดความสามารถในการแข่งขันด้วยการดึงดูดการลงทุนและขับเคลื่อนระบบเศรษฐกิจของประเทศ หาก CI ไม่สามารถให้บริการได้อย่างปกติและต่อเนื่องย่อมก่อให้เกิดความไร้เสถียรภาพในการจัดบริการสาธารณะที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อทุกมิติเช่นกัน ด้วยเหตุนี้ CI ถือเป็นพื้นที่สำคัญซึ่งรัฐในฐานะตัวแสดงหลักของสังคมจำเป็นจะต้องปกป้องรักษา ภายใต้สภาวการณ์ที่ตัวแสดงอื่นซึ่งมุ่งหวังที่จะลดทอนคุณค่าของความเป็นรัฐคุกคามพื้นที่ CI ผ่านการก่อวินาศกรรมและการก่อการร้าย ซึ่งถือเป็นภัยคุกคามต่อความมั่นคงของชาติที่ทันสมัยจากการพัฒนากลยุทธ์ในการก่อเหตุที่สามารถสร้างผลกระทบต่อสังคมทั้งในเชิงกายภาพและในเชิงจิตวิทยา อย่างไรก็ดี ผลพวงจากแนวคิดการบริหารจัดการภาครัฐแนวใหม่ได้ผลักดันให้ประเทศต่าง ๆ มีการแปรรูปกิจการของรัฐไปสู่การดำเนินงานในรูปแบบเอกชนมากยิ่งขึ้น นำไปสู่การเพิ่มขึ้นของตัวแสดงที่มีบทบาทในการจัดบริการสาธารณะ ทั้งในฐานะผู้ครอบครองและผู้ขับเคลื่อนโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศที่ไม่ใช่รัฐ ซึ่งการดำเนินการในลักษณะเดียวกันนี้ก็เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทยเช่นกัน จึงนำมาสู่คำถามวิจัยของสารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ว่ารัฐดำเนินการหรือมีแนวทางการปกป้องโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศจากการก่อวินาศกรรมและการก่อการร้ายอย่างไร งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ระบุตัวแสดงที่มีบทบาทในกระบวนการกำหนดนโยบาย และวิเคราะห์ความสัมพันธ์ในลักษณะเครือข่ายของตัวแสดง โดยหวังว่าผลจากการศึกษาจะสามารถถูกนำไปใช้เป็นข้อมูลประกอบการจัดทำข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย และกระบวนการประสานความร่วมมือในการปกป้องโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสำคัญของประเทศต่อไป


Community Advocate Perspectives On Addressing Equity Gaps In Florida’S Gifted Programs, Ashley Phelps Jan 2023

Community Advocate Perspectives On Addressing Equity Gaps In Florida’S Gifted Programs, Ashley Phelps

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem for this study addressed the lack of community advocate perspectives related to efforts being made to improve bureaucratic representation for minority students who were underserved by gifted programs in Florida. The purpose of the study was to investigate the perceptions of community advocates about efforts to improve bureaucratic representation for students underserved by gifted programs in Florida. The study was conceptually framed around Kingsley’s theory of representative bureaucracy. The research questions focused on community advocates’ perceptions related to diversity in Florida’s public school gifted programs and their current efforts to improve representation of minority students in gifted education …


Juvenile Delinquency: The Effectiveness Of The Juvenile Direct File Law, Kimberlee Nicole Taggart Jan 2023

Juvenile Delinquency: The Effectiveness Of The Juvenile Direct File Law, Kimberlee Nicole Taggart

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The juvenile direct file law stands firm among Florida laws despite lacking research to show its effectiveness in the prevention of juvenile delinquency. In Florida, juvenile delinquency and the juvenile direct file law cause significant concern due to the uncertainty surrounding the law. The Florida juvenile justice system fosters a vital position in the lives of many children, young adults, and families. Florida’s direct file law has a negative impact on the health, mental health, education, and brain development of juveniles and their ability to separate from a criminal lifestyle. Identifying the direct file law’s effects on the future of …


Illegal Unreported And Unregulated Fishing And Overfishing Policymaking In A Caribbean Island Country, Anya J. Moses Jan 2023

Illegal Unreported And Unregulated Fishing And Overfishing Policymaking In A Caribbean Island Country, Anya J. Moses

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Small island developing states, especially those within the Caribbean community, are faced with the challenges of overfishing and illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing activities. Despite global legal reforms, enforcement continues to be ineffective. In the policymaking process, the perspectives of those critically impacted are rarely taken into consideration The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the issues leading to the lack of inclusion of fisherfolk knowledge in the policymaking process and policies that promote SDG 14. The goal was to explore the importance of fisherfolk involvement in the policymaking process. The research question focused on identifying the …


The Influence Of Associate Degree Attainment On Baccalaureate Degree Completion For Reverse Credit Transfer Students, Jonathan Taggart Reece Jan 2023

The Influence Of Associate Degree Attainment On Baccalaureate Degree Completion For Reverse Credit Transfer Students, Jonathan Taggart Reece

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Nationally, reverse credit transfer is a practice of transfer credit. The reverse transfer program at the study site was implemented in 2013, but no information had been analyzed about the experiences of participating students. This study explored students’ experiences of the reverse transfer program at the study site. The theory of student persistence framed the study to understand students’ early departures from a two-year institution and persistence at a four-year institution. The research question was designed to capture students’ experiences with and perceptions of the reverse transfer program. In this basic qualitative study, 12 reverse transfer program participants were interviewed. …


The Prison Reentry Experience Of Justice-Involved Veterans, Latta Roosevelt Thomas Jr. Jan 2023

The Prison Reentry Experience Of Justice-Involved Veterans, Latta Roosevelt Thomas Jr.

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Prison reentry programs attempt to equip justice-involved veterans with life skills necessary for their transition out of prison. This qualitative study addressed the scant understanding of the impact pre-released prison reentry programs have on justice-involved veterans’ transition and reintegration back to the community. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the perceptions of justice-involved veterans regarding prison reentry programs that have impacted their transition out of prison. The well-being development model and Castro’s military-to-civilian transition model provided the conceptual framework for this qualitative study, using semistructured questions to interview 11 justice-involved veterans regarding their participation in prison reentry …


A Case Study Of Joint Accountability Mechanism And Interorganizational Collaboration In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Jude J. Jean-Gilles Jan 2023

A Case Study Of Joint Accountability Mechanism And Interorganizational Collaboration In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Jude J. Jean-Gilles

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Abstract: The earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, caused massive destruction of its capital city Port-au-Prince and its suburbs and killed over a quarter of million people. The recovery period that followed required effectiveness to plan and mobilize resources. The magnitude of the destruction, lack of local recovery plans or previous disaster experience, and scarcity of local resources inspired the creation of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), a compilation of local and international stakeholders who agreed to collaboratively address the recovery challenges. Several studies have examined post-earthquake recovery initiatives under the leadership of local governments, but having …


Strategies To Reduce The Impact Of Disruptions In Manufacturing Transportation Supply Chains, John Enyabe Ndone Jan 2023

Strategies To Reduce The Impact Of Disruptions In Manufacturing Transportation Supply Chains, John Enyabe Ndone

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Abstract

Supply chain managers in the manufacturing transportation industry grapple with reducing the impact of disruptions in transportation supply chains since 50% of U.S. companies have experienced between six to 20 disruptions per year. Ineffective transportation disruption strategies negatively impact the performance and profitability of manufacturing organizations resulting in losses and business failure. Grounded in Goldratt’s philosophy and thinking process of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore successful strategies supply chain managers in the manufacturing transportation industry used to reduce the impact of disruptions in transportation supply chains. The participants …


Public Service Motivation: African American Senior Military Officers Transitioning To Civilian Service, Ansara Todd Burgess Jan 2023

Public Service Motivation: African American Senior Military Officers Transitioning To Civilian Service, Ansara Todd Burgess

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Motivation plays a crucial role in public organizations in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as well as moral obligation. While considerable efforts over the past several decades have led to vast improvements in federal workforce diversification, significant problems still exist involving diversity management and racial representation across all levels of federal government employment. The theoretical framework guiding this study was public service motivation. The purpose of this study was to explore the U.S. federal government’s inability to attract and retain senior executive service African Americans through lived experiences of retired African American military officers who currently work for the …


Critical Retention Issues Related To Social Skills In Ghanaian Universities, Samuel Essah-Hienwo Jan 2023

Critical Retention Issues Related To Social Skills In Ghanaian Universities, Samuel Essah-Hienwo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The specific problem addressed through this study is the need for more research examining the potential of poor social skills to influence low retention levels in Ghanaian universities. Reasons for low student retention in Ghanaian universities, including students with inadequate social skills to complete their degrees, were explored in this qualitative study. The first research question asked about the lived experiences of university students in Ghana as they relate to the extent of social development skills in higher education, and the second question asked about the lived experiences of university students in Ghana surrounding decisions to leave or stay in …


Resource Development Swot Analysis To Improve Organizational Sustainability For A Grassroots Nonprofit Organization, Felicia Rosetta Frances Wilson Jan 2023

Resource Development Swot Analysis To Improve Organizational Sustainability For A Grassroots Nonprofit Organization, Felicia Rosetta Frances Wilson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There are approximately 1.54 million nonprofit organizations in the United States. However, without a resource development plan in place, or unforeseen emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, some nonprofits struggle to meet annual fundraising goals. The purpose of study was to conduct a strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of an organization’s fundraising plans to assist in creating an annual resource development plan. This qualitative case study explored nonprofits within black and brown communities as to what they needed to generate and maintain funding greater than $500,000. Five interviews were conducted among organization leaders, managers, program coordinators, program directors, …


Transitioning Residents Out Of Public Housing, William Franklin Myles Jan 2023

Transitioning Residents Out Of Public Housing, William Franklin Myles

Full-Text Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation examined the transition low-income residents out of federally subsidized housing. Housing programs are important because they provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing to millions of individuals who are economically disadvantaged. In some research, it has been determined that people from public housing experience difficulties in gaining access to resources that would enable them to transition out of public housing successfully. This becomes an added hurdle faced by those who desires to transition out of public housing. Understanding their experiences, their feelings, and their belief system provides a level of education into why it becomes difficult for individuals to …


Policy Analysis: School Clustering Policy, Sajid Ali, Aisha Naz Ansari Jan 2023

Policy Analysis: School Clustering Policy, Sajid Ali, Aisha Naz Ansari

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

No abstract provided.


Anti-Queer Policy As It Translates To Violence Against The Lgbt Community, Kendall Bush Jan 2023

Anti-Queer Policy As It Translates To Violence Against The Lgbt Community, Kendall Bush

Honors Theses and Capstones

In recent years, the amount of anti-LGBT policy introduced is rapidly increasing (ACLU, 2023). Contemporary policy focuses mainly on queer youth and gender identity, attacking gender-affirming health care and limiting LGBT discussions in public schools. Although these policies are particularly insidious, they follow a trend of queer persecution in the United States. Within federal policy and across state legislation, the panopticon of anti-LGBT policy ensures that queer bodies are policed and monitored. This paper posits that the increase in anti-queer policy translates to an increase in experiences of external and indirect violence. Based on findings from the UCR and various …


Computational Decision Support For Socio-Technical Awareness Of Land-Use Planning Under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study, Andreas Tolk, Jennifer A. Richkus, F. Leron Shults, Wesley J. Wildman Jan 2023

Computational Decision Support For Socio-Technical Awareness Of Land-Use Planning Under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study, Andreas Tolk, Jennifer A. Richkus, F. Leron Shults, Wesley J. Wildman

VMASC Publications

Land-use planning for modern societies requires technical competence as well as social competence. We therefore propose an integrative solution enabling better land-use planning and management through better-informed decision-making. We adapt a method developed for cross-disciplinary team building to identify the stakeholders and their various objectives and value systems. We use these results to populate artificial societies embedded into a dynamic data analytics framework as a tool to identify, explore, and visualize the challenges resulting from the different objectives and value systems in land-use planning and management. To prove the feasibility of the proposed solution, we present two use cases from …


Building Belonging Into The System, Kristin Herman, Michelle Gill Jan 2023

Building Belonging Into The System, Kristin Herman, Michelle Gill

STEMPS Faculty Publications

This design case documents how a K-12 district took steps to systemically support virtual student wellness and belonging. Plans for course design to support social-emotional-academic learning (SEAL) competencies, increase perception of belonging, and create safe, predictable learning environments characteristic of a trauma-informed approach to teaching and learning are shared. The assumption virtual learners are not looking to experience belonging and cannot be successful unless they already have strong SEAL skills is challenged. Rather, the positioning of SEAL competencies as learning objectives rather than necessary prerequisites to access online learning proved to contribute to more equitable learning opportunities.


Experiences With Covid-19 Stress Among Hispanic/Latino Farmworkers, Brenda Berumen-Flucker, Hadiza Galadima, Sylvia Shangani, Michele Kekeh, Muge Akpinar-Elci Jan 2023

Experiences With Covid-19 Stress Among Hispanic/Latino Farmworkers, Brenda Berumen-Flucker, Hadiza Galadima, Sylvia Shangani, Michele Kekeh, Muge Akpinar-Elci

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Hispanics/Latinos, particularly those that identify as foreign-born, are overrepresented in the agricultural sector in the U.S. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, this subpopulation of farmworkers was recognized as an invaluable group of essential workers unable to implement COVID-19 protections.

METHODS: Previously validated COVID-19 stress scale measures were identified, adapted, and translated to collect COVID-19 stress data from Hispanic/Latino agricultural workers in two heavily agricultural counties in northeastern North Carolina. Participants were recruited using purposive convenience sampling. Data collection took place from June to November of 2021.

RESULTS: The majority of Hispanic/Latino agricultural workers surveyed reported experiencing worries …


Warehouses In The Inland Empire: Displacing Land And Life, Katherine Gelsey Jan 2023

Warehouses In The Inland Empire: Displacing Land And Life, Katherine Gelsey

Pomona Senior Theses

The Inland Empire in Southern California embodies unique spatial and social configurations as a consequence of how settler colonialism has manifested locally in the region since the Spanish Mission Period. This work uses GIS software to estimate patterns of land conversion for residential, agricultural, and warehouse land from 2012 to 2022. Preliminary analysis suggests that thousands of people have been displaced by warehouse expansion over the ten-year period. In the twenty-first century, the Southern California logistics industry continues processes of land dispossession and racialized labor exploitation through displacing agricultural and residential land, exposing disproportionately low-income Black and Latine communities living …


Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: An Exploration Of Wastewater Issues And Possible Solutions In And Out Of Montana, Keely I. Larson Jan 2023

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: An Exploration Of Wastewater Issues And Possible Solutions In And Out Of Montana, Keely I. Larson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Larson, Keely, M.A., Spring 2023

Major:Environmental and Natural Resources Journalism

Out of sight, out of mind: An exploration of wastewater issues and possible solutions in and out of Montana

Chairperson: Dennis Swibold

Co-Chairpersons: Nadia White, Sarah Halvorson

This is a master’s project, featuring three stories, linked in theme. The first starts with a nationally scoped story about septic systems in resort towns and what happens when too many people want to visit areas like Cape Cod, the Florida Keys or, more locally, Seeley Lake, and overwhelm waste disposal methods. Often in these areas that are more remote, septic systems …


Improving Safety Service Patrol Performance, Mecit Cetin, Hong Yang, Kun Xie, Sherif Ishak, Guocong Zhai, Junqing Wang, Giridhar Kattepogu Jan 2023

Improving Safety Service Patrol Performance, Mecit Cetin, Hong Yang, Kun Xie, Sherif Ishak, Guocong Zhai, Junqing Wang, Giridhar Kattepogu

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Safety Service Patrols (SSPs) provide motorists with assistance free of charge on most freeways and some key primary roads in Virginia. This research project is focused on developing a tool to help the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) optimize SSP routes and schedules (hereafter called SSP-OPT). The computational tool, SSP-OPT, takes readily available data (e.g., corridor and segment lengths, turnaround points, average annual daily traffic) and outputs potential SSP configurations that meet the desired criteria and produce the best possible performance metrics for a given corridor. At a high level, the main components of the developed tool include capabilities to: …


Preparing Students To Solve Challenges Related To A Changing Climate, Mujde Erten-Unal, Dalya Ismael, Carol L. Considine Jan 2023

Preparing Students To Solve Challenges Related To A Changing Climate, Mujde Erten-Unal, Dalya Ismael, Carol L. Considine

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The National Academy of Engineering has identified restoring and improving urban infrastructure as one of the grand challenges for engineering. Urban coastal communities are particularly at risk as their infrastructure is experiencing frequent inundation related to climate change impacts. Rising sea levels in coastal communities create backflow into stormwater systems and deplete capacity. In addition, the increase in rainfall intensity, duration, and frequency related to climate change create additional challenges for aging infrastructure systems. To prepare students to solve these challenges, the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Civil Engineering Technology (CET) programs at Old Dominion University (ODU) are introducing …


An Ioe Blockchain-Based Network Knowledge Management Model For Resilient Disaster Frameworks, Amir Javadpour, Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Weizhe Zhang, Forough Ja'far, Ashish Singh Jan 2023

An Ioe Blockchain-Based Network Knowledge Management Model For Resilient Disaster Frameworks, Amir Javadpour, Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Weizhe Zhang, Forough Ja'far, Ashish Singh

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The disaster area is a constantly changing environment, which can make it challenging to distribute supplies effectively. The lack of accurate information about the required goods and potential bottlenecks in the distribution process can be detrimental. The success of a response network is dependent on collaboration, coordination, sovereignty, and equal distribution of relief resources. To facilitate these interactions and improve knowledge of supply chain operations, a reliable and dynamic logistic system is essential. This study proposes the integration of blockchain technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Internet of Everything (IoE) into the disaster management structure. The proposed disaster …


Economic Freedom And One-Way Truck Rental Prices: An Empirical Note, Alexander Cardazzi, Robert A. Lawson Jan 2023

Economic Freedom And One-Way Truck Rental Prices: An Empirical Note, Alexander Cardazzi, Robert A. Lawson

Economics Faculty Publications

This study examines the one-way truck rental prices for 378 cities. There are large price differentials in one-way rental prices between city pairs. The pull of people toward higher economic freedom locales and push away from lower economic freedom locales is found to be an important determinant of the city-pair price differentials.


Historically Black Colleges And Universities Are Vital And Valuable To The United States, James V. Koch, Omari H. Swinton Jan 2023

Historically Black Colleges And Universities Are Vital And Valuable To The United States, James V. Koch, Omari H. Swinton

Economics Faculty Publications

Though Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are little recognized, both in the United States and internationally, rigorous empirical analysis reveals that given their circumstances, they typically perform at a high level. This is the first comprehensive empirical analysis that has examined the performance of HBCUs.


Blue Carbon Science, Management And Policy Across A Tropical Urban Landscape, Daniel A. Friess, Yasmine M. Gatt, Tze Kwan Fung, Jahson B. Alemu I, Natasha Bhatia, Rebecca Case, Siew Chin Chua, Danwei Huang, Valerie Kwan, Kiah Eng Lim, Yudhishthra Nathan, Yan Xiang Ow, Daniel Saavedra-Hortua, Taylor M. Sloey, Erik S. Yando, Hassan Ibrahim, Lian Pin Koh, Jun Yu Puah, Serena Lay-Ming Teo, Karenne Tun, Lynn Wei Wong, Siti Maryam Yaakub Jan 2023

Blue Carbon Science, Management And Policy Across A Tropical Urban Landscape, Daniel A. Friess, Yasmine M. Gatt, Tze Kwan Fung, Jahson B. Alemu I, Natasha Bhatia, Rebecca Case, Siew Chin Chua, Danwei Huang, Valerie Kwan, Kiah Eng Lim, Yudhishthra Nathan, Yan Xiang Ow, Daniel Saavedra-Hortua, Taylor M. Sloey, Erik S. Yando, Hassan Ibrahim, Lian Pin Koh, Jun Yu Puah, Serena Lay-Ming Teo, Karenne Tun, Lynn Wei Wong, Siti Maryam Yaakub

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The ability of vegetated coastal ecosystems to sequester high rates of “blue” carbon over millennial time scales has attracted the interest of national and international policy makers as a tool for climate change mitigation. Whereas focus on blue carbon conservation has been mostly on threatened rural seascapes, there is scope to consider blue carbon dynamics along highly fragmented and developed urban coastlines. The tropical city state of Singapore is used as a case study of urban blue carbon knowledge generation, how blue carbon changes over time with urban development, and how such knowledge can be integrated into urban planning alongside …


Evaluation Of Wic Online Ordering During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From An Oklahoma Grocery Store Chain, Qi Zhang, Junzhou Zhang, Kayoung Park, Chuanyi Tang Jan 2023

Evaluation Of Wic Online Ordering During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From An Oklahoma Grocery Store Chain, Qi Zhang, Junzhou Zhang, Kayoung Park, Chuanyi Tang

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening the disparities in food access in the United States. As consumers have been increasingly using grocery online ordering services to limit their exposure to the COVID-19 virus, participants of federal nutrition assistance programs lack the online benefit redemption option. With the support of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), retailers are pilot-testing online food benefit ordering in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). By combining the Oklahoma WIC administrative data, the online ordering data from a grocery store chain in Oklahoma, and the COVID-19 data in Oklahoma, this study examines …


Improving Tax Compliance In Indonesia Through The 2022 Voluntary Disclosure Program, Farid Al Firdaus Jan 2023

Improving Tax Compliance In Indonesia Through The 2022 Voluntary Disclosure Program, Farid Al Firdaus

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Developed or developing countries have conducted Voluntary Disclosure Programs (VDP) to increase tax revenues and taxpayers' compliance. Non-compliant taxpayers prefer this way to regular law enforcement to be more compliant. This study focuses on supporting Indonesia, the lowest tax-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio in Asia and the Pacific, in improving its taxpayers' long-term compliance through the 2022 VDP; this amnesty had fewer participants, shorter periods, and higher rates than the first one in 2016. Using descriptive analysis, it is concluded that the 2022 VDP could reveal taxpayers' wealth known and unknown by the tax authority, increase revenue as a fraction …