Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Title
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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 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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The Relationship Between Categorical Expenditures and Graduation Rates at North Carolina Community Colleges
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)The public perception of higher education, the culture of that institution, and its value to American citizens is changing. Taxpayer demands to downsize costly government expenditures, including government subsidizing of ... -
Thesis - generating knowledgebase of common behavior and workflow patterns for secure systems
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)Knowledge discovery from large data for system security management and threat detection have been a complex task due to large number of users and the dynamic nature of distributed systems. Healthcare organizations as a ... -
Towards Big Data Infrastructure for Historic Handwritten Document Transcription
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Historical archival documents are vast and contain many thousands of pages of unstructured data, often not easily searchable. The current state of the art is searchable meta-tags of documents which help a reader to land ... -
Treasure Island Security framework : A Generic Security Framework for public clouds
(East Carolina University, 2014)In this thesis we introduce a generic security framework for public clouds called Treasure Island Security framework that is designed to address the issues related to cloud computing security and specifically key-management ... -
UInterestManager : A Generic Framework to Model User Interests
(East Carolina University, 2013)With the proliferation of documents on the Internet, it has become increasingly difficult for users to search and retrieve the information they want: information that is relevant and interesting. To address this problem, ... -
Uncertainty In Qualitative Risk Analysis And Rating Systems : Modeling Decision Making Determinants
(East Carolina University, 2015)As workplace risk assessment is pivotal to ensure the safety and health of workers, adopting a reliable technique in performing this assessment cannot be overemphasized. The qualitative risk analysis is considered the most ... -
Understanding the Risk Perception of Commercial Fishermen
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)Commercial fishing is indisputably one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States and the world. Due to the hazardous work conditions such as bad weather, the commercial fishing industry is plagued with high ... -
User Behavior Analysis using Smartphones
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-26)Users' activities produce an enormous amount of data when using popular devices such as smartphones. These data can be used to develop behavioral models in several areas including fraud detection, finance, recommendation ...