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INVESTIGATING THE STAR SCHEMA BENCHMARK AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE TPC-H DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)Decision Support System (DSS) are at the core of business intelligence systems. Implementation costs for enterprise level Database Management System (DBMS) and DSS average $10,461 for installation costs. This does not ... -
Investigating the Use of Virtual Reality Headsets for Postural Control Assessment: An Instrument Validation Study
(JMIR Publications, 2020-10-11)Accurately measuring postural sway is an important part of balance assessment and rehabilitation. Although force plates give accurate measurements, their costs and space requirements make their use impractical in many ... -
Is Digital Piracy a Crime?
(2022-04-19)Digital piracy is the unauthorized illegal copying and distribution of digital copyrighted content. Copyrighted content refers to Intellectual Property. Property that consist of intangible creations of the human intellect. ... -
Knowledge Discovery for Clinical Decision Support System in Patient Records
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)Knowledge discovery from the patient's health records is a challenging task for the medical specialists. The knowledge generated from the patient's records can assist specialists to make an effective decision and recommend ... -
Knowledge-Based Competencies Necessary for the Frontline Construction Supervisor : Improving Safety through Knowledge
(East Carolina University, 2012)Evaluating supervisor competency levels has been a management challenge since the beginning of supervisory roles in the construction process. Supervisors perform a critical role in the workplace with respect to workplace ... -
LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-21)Current methods of diagnosing and monitoring stress include: observing changes in the severity of existing symptoms, the development of new symptoms, hormone level tests, and stress self-assessment surveys. Self-assessment ... -
MACHINE LEARNING BASED MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-23)As many fields progress with the assistance of cognitive computing, the field of health care is also adapting, providing many benefits to all users. However, advancements in this area are hindered by several challenges ... -
MC/DC COVERAGE FOR REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)In the early 1990s, the Modi ed Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC) criterion was suggested as a structural white-box testing approach, but it can also be used for blackbox speci cation-based testing. Practical application ... -
MEASURING LEADERSHIP ROUNDING PERFORMANCE IN A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT USING REAL TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS
(East Carolina University, 2015)Among the major industries, healthcare accounts for over ten percent of jobs today and is continuing to grow per the surges of baby boomers requiring more care, rising costs in medicine and equipment, and current legislative ... -
Migrating Legacy Software Applications to Cloud Computing Environments : A Software Architect's Approach
(East Carolina University, 2011)Cloud computing has garnered a great deal of interest in the past few years. The availability of on-demand computational power is presumed to provide substantial IT infrastructure cost-savings, partially through the ... -
Migration of Legacy Web Application Using NoSQL Databases
(East Carolina University, 2013)The Migration of the legacy web application to Content Management Systems (CMS) is inevitable because of the overload of managing the content. Traditionally, Content Management Systems are built with RDBMSes and the migration ... -
miRCancer : a microRNA-Cancer Association Database and Toolkit Based on Text Mining
(East Carolina University, 2010)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of single-stranded small non-coding RNAs. Study of miRNAs has been a fast growing field since the first miRNA was discovered in 1993. Many findings indicate that miRNA plays an important role ... -
miRDiabetes : A microRNA-Diabetes Association Database Constructed With Data Mining on Literature
(East Carolina University, 2014)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a growing class of non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by translational repression. A role for miRNA in diabetes was first established in 2004 and research in miRNA-diabetes association has ... -
Mobile Device Management Policy
(2022-04-08)The use of mobile devices in the workplace has grown significantly over the years. Most adults do not leave home without their phones, laptops, tablets, or other portable media devices. With this expansion, there needed ... -
Modeling and Analysis of SQL Queries in PHP Systems
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-19)PHP is a common language used for creating dynamic websites. These websites often include the use of databases to store data, with embedded SQL queries constructed within the PHP code and executed through the use of database ... -
Modeling and Prediction of Cryptocurrency Prices Using Machine Learning Techniques
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)With the introduction of Bitcoin in the year 2008 as the first practical decentralized cryptocurrency, the interest in cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, Blockchain, has skyrocketed. Their promise of security, ... -
Modeling and Testing of Aspect-Oriented Systems
(East Carolina University, 2011)Aspect-Oriented programming modularizes crosscutting concerns into Aspects, which are automatically weaved to the specified points of a program. Although Aspect-Oriented programming improves program maintainability and the ... -
Modeling Salient Object-Object Interactions to Generate Textual Descriptions for Natural Images
(East Carolina University, 2012)In this thesis we consider the problem of automatically generating textual descriptions of images which is useful in many applications. For example, searching and retrieving visual data in overwhelming number of images and ...