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Women's Self-Identified Sources of Student Support in a Master's-Level Health Informatics Database Course
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Feinberg, Daniel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the supports that female students sought out and found of value in an online database design course in a health informatics master's program. A target outcome was to help inform the practice of faculty and administrators in similar programs. Health informatics is a growing field that has faced shortages of qualified workers who…
Descriptors: Females, Student Attitudes, Databases, Information Systems
Arkose: A Prototype Mechanism and Tool for Collaborative Information Generation and Distillation
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Nam, Kevin Kyung – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The goals of this thesis have been to gain a better understanding of collaborative knowledge sharing and distilling and to build a prototype collaborative system that supports flexible knowledge generation and distillation. To reach these goals, I have conducted two user studies and built two systems. The first system, Arkose 1.0, is a…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Sharing Behavior, Use Studies, Information Systems
Identification and Access Management: An Action Research Approach to Develop a Training Strategy for Higher Education
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San Nicolas-Rocca, Tonia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Identification and access management has been among the top security issues facing institutions of higher education. Most institutions of higher education require end users to provide usernames and passwords to gain access to personally identifiable information (PII). This leaves universities vulnerable to unauthorized access and unauthorized…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Observation, Identification
Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems
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Jian, Lian – ProQuest LLC, 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to "identify" the strategic behavior of individuals in information systems, and "analyze" how non-monetary…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Internet, Motivation Techniques, Incentives
An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Information Quality in Citizens' Trust in E-Government Systems
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Lee, Ally – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Over the past decade, there has been a change in the citizen-government relationship. Citizens have moved from a traditional face-to-face communication with their government, to an electronic interaction through the use of e-government systems. Emerging technology has enabled citizens to communicate with their government remotely. However, trust…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Information Systems, Predictor Variables, Focus Groups
An Automatic Method for Classifying Medical Researchers into Domain Specific Subgroups
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Cecchetti, Alfred A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Objective: This dissertation developed an automatic classification procedure, as an example of a novel tool for an informationist, which extracts information from published abstracts, classifies abstracts into their "fields of study," and then determines the researcher's "field of study" and "level of activity." …
Descriptors: Medical Research, Medical Schools, Medicine, Classification