When considering professionals sports leagues, the common topic of discussion is usually about individual players or favorite hometown teams. Sports enthusiasts are the first to rattle off a laundry list of statistics about teams and players, but do they realize they are openly discussing that player’s efficiency in terms of labor? Although it is a popular form of entertainment there is a marke...

Iztmo is a conceptual project of an electronic percussion instrument that works under a network environment to establish communication among multiple users. A new language is then created, based on rhythm, and enriched by each person’s cultural background with the main purpose of being in harmony. Iztmo emits up to five sounds, divided in different ways of interaction: the user can strike it, r...

This paper attempts to suggest some conceptual preliminaries to a definition of behavior. I begin by distinguishing some different senses of the notion, with emphasis upon that of behavior as the occurrence of an organism's action or reaction. Subsequently, I provide a brief survey of different types of definition, and try to pick out those among them that can in principle be suitable for the n...

Title of dissertation: Testing GUI-based Software with Undetermined Input Spaces Bao N. Nguyen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Atif M. Memon Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park Most software applications feature a Graphical User Interface (GUI) front-end as the main, and often the only, method for the user to interact with the soft...

Security is a key concern in the development of electronic health record (EHR) systems. This paper considers Neutralization Theory and the Fear Appeals Model in proposing a conceptual model for use in predicting breach behaviors within EHR systems. The goal of the model is to determine which factors influence security breach intent on the part of the offender. Specifically, perceived penalty, p...

in state-investor dispute, investor tends that umbrella clause transfers all contractual claims to treaty claims. by contracts, state follows narrow interpretation of this clause. up to ilc articles, establishing of responsibility of state for breach of contract requires tow preconditions. first state is merely responsible when state condoct has been of governmental nature and second is that br...

The aim of this conceptual paper is to propose pathways through which psychological contract breach, ethical leader behaviour, and supervisors’ fairness are related to employees’ attitudes, behaviours and wellbeing. The paper reviews extant literature and builds a logical framework depicting the interrelationships among psychological contract breach, ethical leader behaviours, and supervisors’ ...