• Examining the experiences of student veterans on campus : a phenomenological qualitative study 

  Legreid, Jansen S. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2020-05-11)

  Student veterans represent a rising proportion of university students due to the increased utilization of state and federal education benefits. However, few studies have examined the daily experiences of these individuals ...

• Defining the expatreneur : starting up abroad and understanding foreign incentives: an abductive analysis 

  Barnard, Arthur D. (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2019-11)

  Over the past few decades, there has been a growth in entrepreneurs moving to other countries to start up new businesses. Sixty percent of the workers moving to other countries (the globally mobile workforce) is currently ...

• Certified public accountants' attitudes towards the public interest and the factors that impact those attitudes 

  Remo, Amanda (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  A core professional value of the accounting profession is the dedication to the public interest. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that impact attitudes towards the core professional value of public interest ...

• Evaluation of inverse reinforcement learning 

  Schmitt, Anthony (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is a technique that is concerned with learning the intrinsic reward function of an expert by observing them perform a task. Many different methods exist from linear programming to deep ...

• Sub-linear algorithms for shortest unique substring and maximal unique matches 

  Senanayaka, Sanjeewa Bandara (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  Living in an era where we produce quintillions of data on a daily basis means that there are many intriguing (possibly unrevealed) facts behind them. Some of the data that exists in large quantities is encountered in ...

• Applications of the principle of least effort in data transformation 

  Veenhuis, Luke (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  I am interested in applying the Principle of Least Effort to data transformation in an effort to solve three important challenges in using video games as a testbed for the study of inverse reinforcement learning. These ...

• Practicability of blockchain technology and scalable blockchain network : sharding 

  Yigo, Abdoul-Nourou (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  Currently, some research has been done in the Blockchain domain on how to improve the efficiency of transmissions in Blockchain ecosystem. The effectiveness of the transmissions within a Blockchain network depends on the ...

• Religious adherence and unemployment 

  Francis, Luke E. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  This paper looks at the relationship between unemployment and religious adherence, as a proxy for religiosity. Using data from the Year 2000 US Census and data from the Associate of Religions Data Archives of the same year ...

• An investigation of the effects of peer feedback on cognitive understanding during game play situations in a 7th grade volleyball unit 

  Grycowski, Alexander J. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-11)

  The purpose of this study was to determine if peer feedback during game situations affected the cognitive understanding of concepts during a volleyball unit in Physical Education. Physical Education can be an incredibly ...

• The right balance: a search for the best fit between business and ethical factors in software that aids strategic decision making 

  Kabil, Ahmad M. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  With the expansion of using decision support systems (DSS) in making strategic business decisions and the wide spectrum of stakeholders affected by such usage, the need for considering ethical issues in these systems arises. ...

• Developing a telemedicine value co-creation framework : patient perceptions of the telemedicine model of care delivery 

  Swan, Eric (UW-Whitewater, 2019-05)

  Technology is reshaping the patient–provider relationship. Digital health tools such as electronic medical records, patient portals, and telemedicine provide patients the opportunity to engage with healthcare systems ...

• A framework of organization learning, entrepreneurial orientation, and external relational networks: a study of minority ethnic business performance 

  Clarke, Camelia L. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-08)

  This study proposed an empirical model to investigate the impact of organizational learning (OL) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on the external relational network's (ERN) engagement with and firm performance of ...

• Governance factors affecting nonprofit organizations' financial health: the impact of board composition, policies, religiosity, and social captial 

  Dell, Scott (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  Nonprofits have a significant impact on the world around us. They provide services for the common good and are having an increasing influence on the economy over time (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014; McKeever & Gatty, ...

• Regime-switching advantage in statistical arbitrage strategies conditioned on time series momentum and volatility in leveraged exchange traded funds : theory and evidence 

  Saini, Nisheeth (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-09)

  The phenomena of volatility decay (also known as time decay) and path dependence in leveraged exchange traded funds (ETF) markets have been documented in the literature. This dissertation examined whether it is possible ...

• The influence of entrepreneurial orientation on firms' corporate social responsibility ratings and idiosyncratic risk 

  Kihm, Steven (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2019-12)

  This research discusses empirical testing of 20 separate hypotheses regarding relationships between entrepreneurial orientation factors and two key business characteristics. The first essay examines the degree to which the ...

• Environmental health and safety: Wisconsin playground heavy metal soil survey 

  Harriman, William (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-12-18)

  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (WDPI) administers environmental education programs supervised by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR). These programs are meant to increase public awareness ...

• Assessing death anxiety in employees in a hospice setting: a correlational study 

  Jonasen, Aaron (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-07-23)

  To measure hospice employees’ perceptions of their own death, I implemented the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS) with a sample of 128 hospice employees. Participants were asked to include other information including age, ...

• Information-processing, support and coping: breast cancer patients and their experiences with a mentor and CHESS 

  Farrell, Brittany (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-08-06)

  After a positive cancer diagnosis, the methods used to seek information, support, cope, and process one’s illness can heavily impact one’s outlook on the treatment/recovery process. Improving the quality of doctor-patient ...

• The fat is in the fire: an inquiry into fatness, the third person effect, and empathy 

  Wessely, Shauna (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2012-08-25)

  This quantitative study was conducted in a Midwestern high school to explore the perceptions of fat people in the media. Research participants in the experimental group were shown an episode of the hit television show, ...

• Inked and in public: tattoos and disclosure 

  Wessely, Michael D. (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, 2013-08-01)

  This qualitative study will examine the phenomenon that tattooing has become. More individuals of all ages and groups are obtaining tattoos (Kosut, 2006). The current study will explore the motivations that individuals ...

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