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This project has presented a web site (splinteronline.net) as a digital forum to explore stories in all its forms.Stories are at the core of human communication. We use stories to educate, enlighten, and entertain and we actively seek out stories from others. This dynamic narrative exchange takes many forms — conversation, journalism, film, television, radio, literature, Internet — and will continue to expand and endure as new ways of presenting stories emerge.My creative project actively participates in this exchange by offering a forum for users to engage and share their stories with others. Like a barrel catching rainwater, the site serves as a kind of digital downspout that funnels stories into various themes like Grace, Anger, Home, Mother, Solitude, Regret, Jazz, Courage, Justice, Work, and Greed. Each theme is then identified by genre — humor, fact, memoir, fiction, editorial, poetry — to allow users to search for their favorites. / Department of Telecommunications

To demonstrate the dissemination of the Active Living Every Day (ALED) physical activity (PA) intervention program through a healthcare provider recruitment format. A total of 15 subjects were recruited from Delaware Co., IN and attended 6 mandatory visits over a 16-week period. After completion of baseline PA and risk factor profiles, patients were given the 12-week ALED program. PA was monitored using Omron HJ720-ITC pedometers. Reassessment of all PA and risk factor profiles were performed post intervention. No significant changes were observed for mean PA or percentage of time spent performing sedentary activities. Preliminary results suggest a healthcare provider delivery format is not an effective means for the recruitment of sedentary adults. Further subject recruitment is needed to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of the ALED program to increase PA and affect corresponding risk factor profiles. / School of Physical Education, Sport, and Exercise Science

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. / vi, 47 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Consumers of news and music have embraced the Internet and its application very quickly; whereas companies in news and music have been rather more reluctant to integrate the Internet into their processes and their products and services. Only step by step- in a gradual adoption process- are they taking advantage of the new technology, generally in terms of products and services, or process and cost optimisation. / One of the main contributions of my thesis is how companies in the content sector can react to a constantly changing technological and competitive environment. Content providers in news and music do modify their business model in response to the Internet innovation and the consequences it (and the more recent mobile technologies) has for important market forces. The ‘Six forces model for Internet business models’ I developed shows how constant changes in market and company-based forces like Internet (and mobile) technology, end device development, financial constraints, customer behaviour, business structures, the competitive environment and institutional conditions constrain content providers to respond to new innovation through modification of their business model. The outcome of the business model modification itself, such as new products and services, new revenue sources, new structures for the company’s organisation and new cooperation, in turn has an impact on the market and company-based forces. To support companies’ strategic decision making I developed the ‘C+ model for content providers’ which describes a flexible, adaptable business model- not only designed for online and mobile distribution of content, but equally applicable to any business model in an increasingly competitive market environment. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 98-99)

Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Computer Science and Engineering. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-126). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR19694