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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"online behavior"”.
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and a range of subsequent …
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Tools for Behavioral Phenotyping of C. elegans
Animal behavior is critical to survival and provides a window into how the brain makes decisions and integrates sensory information. A simple model organism that allows researchers to more precisely interrogate the relationships between behavior and the brain is the nematode C. elegans. However, …
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Potential Detrimental Effects of Social Media: Anxiety and Depression Among Adolescents
… screen time and monitoring their children's online behavior.
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Factors Affecting Online Shopping Behavior of Indian Consumers
<p>The number of people engaged in various online activities is increasing every day. While the number of online shoppers is increasing, it is not proportional to that of brick-and-mortar shoppers. Research has tried to explain the dismal performance of online shopping as compared to the physical …
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Evaluating the impact of online influencers on retail property rent : a case study in New York City
This study proposes a framework of analyzing online influencer behavior and evaluating its impact on retail rent using spatial econometric methods, in which we also examined the spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity in New York's retail rent market. We use social media data mining and network …
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Machine perception and learning of complex social systems
… interviews, ethnographic studies, or analysis of online behavior. Today, however, it is possible to use the unprecedented amount of information generated by pervasive mobile phones to provide insights into the dynamics of both individual and group behavior. Information such as continuous …
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Anthropomorphic visualization : depicting participants in online spaces using the human form
… to presenting information about participants in online spaces using the human form as the basis for the visualization. Various data about an individual's online behavior are mapped to different parts of a humanoid yet abstract form. I hypothesized that using a humanoid form to visualize data …
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Three Essays on Dynamics of Online Communities
Essay #1: Reconstructing Online Behavior through Effort Minimization Data from online interactions increasingly informs our understanding of fundamental patterns of human behavior as well as commercial and social enterprises. However, this data is often limited to traces of users' interactions with …
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The Masculine Mystique
… allows for a glimpse into the self-deprecating online behavior employed by some members of the gay community to obtain hegemonic masculinity.</p> <p>Hegemonic ideology is shown to influence communication processes, which indicates that culture and society effect how male gender roles should be …
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Online Behavioral Boundaries: An Investigation of How Engaged Couples Negotiate Agreements Regarding What is Considered Online Infidelity
… research has examined the various types of online infidelity, gender differences in online sexual behaviors, and relationship consequences of online affairs. Despite this attention, there remains a research gap regarding ways to prevent online infidelity. When couples seek therapy to address …
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DOES SCAFFOLDED BLOGGING PROMOTE PRESERVICE TEACHER REFLECTION? EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEARNING TOOL AND SCAFFOLDING IN A BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
… examined the effect of two variables, type of online tool and type of hard scaffolding, on the levels of reflection by preservice teachers. The online tools were a discussion forum and personal weblogs (blogs). The scaffolding types were minimal and enhanced. The participants were forty-eight …
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The Association of Social Anxiety and Parenting Factors with Adolescent Use of Facebook
… between the ages of 16 and 18 completed online questionnaires that measured social anxiety, Facebook use, and parenting factors (control, monitoring, and limit setting). In addition, 192 parents completed questionnaires concerning knowledge of their child's Facebook use as well as their …
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The Politics of Social Media in the Department of Defense; How DoD's Status Changed From Friend to Defriend to Friend Again
… sociotechnological inevitability, responsible online behavior and youth were particularly important to the military discourse on social media. The study concludes the risk is worth to benefit to service members who want to use social media. Service members accept the sociotechnological …
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Understanding students' technology appropriation and learning perceptions in online learning environments
… social and technological factors affecting online students' behavior of using technology, (2) to conceptualize a theoretical model to better represent the relationships among the salient factors, (3) to examine how the elements in the theoretical model influence students' learning …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… that location dominates a significant pattern in online behavior of social entities who interact together via internet. The core contributions of this thesis are in the areas of: 1. Extracting indicative sample from very large data sets, 2. Disambiguation of place names that people use in their …
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Stakeholder perspectives towards online safeguarding of children with special educational needs (SEN).
… perspectives in relation to children’s online behavior and safeguarding with a specific focus on children with a special educational need (SEN). The research aims to explore key stakeholder perspectives in relation to safeguarding SEN children online in order to inform and guide …
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It's not easy trying to be one of the guys: The effect of avatar attractiveness, avatar gender, and purported user gender on the success of help-seeking requests in an online game
… found that users' interactions with others in online environments are often guided by the same rules and stereotypes we apply in our everyday lives. However, fewer studies have used virtual worlds as an experimental setting for the systematic examination of how avatar appearance and offline …
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Evaluation and enhancement of the Walk with Ease program to support older adult physical activity
… evaluated the feasibility of supplementing the online (self-directed) version of Walk with Ease with personalized health coaching. The results documented that telephonic motivational interviewing was highly acceptable to older adults. Feedback revealed common trends of coaches assisting with …
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An Analysis of Interactions and Outcomes Associated with an Online Professional Development Course for Science Teachers
… and learning outcomes of science teachers in an online graduate-level course on evolutionary biology intended to improve their content knowledge and science lesson planning. Discussion posts made by the teachers in this seven-week course were analyzed for cognitive presence using the Community of …
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Modeling usage of an online research community
Although online communities have been thought of as a new way for collaboration across geographic boundaries in the scientific world, they have a problem attracting people to keep visiting. The main purpose of this study is to understand how people behave in such communities, and to build and …