Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Title
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Simulating and Optimizing a Zero-Waste Wave-To-Water Desalination System
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-28)Current methods of producing clean water are not capable of meeting growing demands. One method of producing clean water is through a process called desalination, which is the process of removing salt and other minerals ... -
Small Business Information Security
(East Carolina University, 2012)Small businesses account for over fifty percent of the Gross National Product of the U.S. economy; and the security of their information systems is critical for them to operate, compete, and remain profitable. While many ... -
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AS A SOCIAL PROCESS: A STUDY OF RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Powered by increased capabilities of online collaboration tools, open source software development has become a critical component of the development landscape for both individual developers and for organizations. However, ... -
Software Engineering for Real-Time NoSQL Systems-centric Big Data Analytics
(East Carolina University, 2020-12-02)Recent advances in Big Data Analytics (BDA) have stimulated widespread interest to integrate BDA capabilities into all aspects of a business. Before these advances, companies have spent time optimizing the software ... -
Software Technology Maturation and Software Security
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-05)Software technology maturation, also referred to as technology transfer, is as difficult as it is rare, mostly because of the time scale involved. Software maturation is defined as the process of taking a piece of technology ... -
Storm Event Nitrogen Dynamics in Waterfowl Impoundments
(2019-03)This dataset contains water quality, rainfall, and water level data collected from two waterfowl impoundments in eastern North Carolina during storm events. Each waterfowl impoundment has a separate file. The Ag file was ... -
Students Perception of Safety in Campus VIS A VIS Crime and Violence- A Case Study of ECU
(East Carolina University, 2017-04-28)The issue of student's perception of safety on their college campus has been a recurring problem. Students have been concerned about their safety on campuses because of the crime and violence that have been occurring on ... -
Studies on Gopala-Hemachandra Codes and their Applications
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-16)Gopala-Hemachandra codes are a variation of the Fibonacci universal code and have applications in data compression and cryptography. We study a specific parameterization of Gopala-Hemachandra codes and present several ... -
A Survey of Retailer's Satisfaction
(East Carolina University, 2013)The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the overall satisfaction of retailers' from manufacturers in a supply-chain system, based on selected "Lean" related factors, such as quality, delivery, cost, and pricing. ... -
SURVEY OF SOCIAL ENGINEERS AND THE VALIDITY OF DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUES
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-12)In the context of information technology, social engineering is a nexus of computers and humans. Defenders need to know how hackers and other deviant actors attempt to interact with users. Social engineers are sometimes ... -
A Sustainability Literacy Assessment of Students at East Carolina University
(2014)Sustainability is achieved when social, environmental, and economic functions are operating in unity at maximum efficiency. This study takes a closer look at the sustainable knowledge of students at East Carolina University. ... -
Synchronizing Automata and the Černý Conjecture
(East Carolina University, 2012)We provide a survey of research surrounding the Černý conjecture. This conjecture concerns finite-state automata that have the property of being "synchronizing." A synchronizing automaton is one for which there exists ... -
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE USING TWITTER AS A TOOL
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)Twitter has over 330 million active monthly users producing roughly 500 million Tweets per day, or 200 billion Tweets a year. Making this one of the largest human-generated opinion data collections. In addition to this ... -
Tactile Demographics: Predicting Demographic Information Using Touch Data from Mobile Devices
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)The research conducted in this thesis was to serve as a baseline on which human demographics are most likely to be able to be predicted through touch screen interactions. In addition, it served as a way of finding which ... -
Teaching Ethics for Construction Management Majored Students: Standalone or Micro-insert? – Globalization and Sustainability Considerations
(2016-06)Ethical decision-making is central to the practice of construction management. This is no more evident than in the twenty-first century, when the construction industry must function in very diverse organizational contexts. ... -
Technology Attributes, Organizational Learning Attributes, Service Attributes, and Electronic Health Record Implementation Success
(2020-07)Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a technology innovation which has the potential to offer valuable benefits to the healthcare industry such as improved quality of patient care and safety, optimization of healthcare workflow ... -
TEXT EXTRACTION FROM IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS
(East Carolina University, 2019-09-16)Most western languages have witnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in one other form. Primary fact for this achievement is due to the efforts of several researchers contributing to the field of computational ... -
The facial inversion effect throughout healthy adult aging : an event-related brain potential study
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)Age-associated cognitive decline (AACD) is a natural part of life. The difference between malignant and benign AACD can be difficult to determine in the early stages of dementia. Many factors affect an individual's brain ...