MA, Kent State University, 2011, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies

As the use of Facebook continues to grow, individuals aged 35 and older represent the fastest growing demographic. Parents and children now have the opportunity to connect with each other through the website. However, research investigating parent/child Facebook interaction remains scarce. This thesis utilizes Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to better understand young adults' decisions regarding parental Facebook friend requests. In addition, the relational characteristics of parental trust and relational quality are examined in relation to young adults' decisions. Results indicate young adults generally accept friend requests from their parents while making few, if any, changes to their privacy management practices. Parental trust and relational quality are related to young adults' decisions when faced with a mother's friend request, but not those received from a father. Explanations for the differences in results by parent are elucidated. This study adds to a growing body of research demonstrating that individuals use Facebook to connect with a multitude of face-to-face social ties and addresses implications for this phenomenon.

Committee: Jeffrey Child Ph.D. (Advisor); Mei-Chen Lin Ph.D. (Committee Member); Jung Hyun Kim Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Families and Family Life; Mass Media

MA, Kent State University, 2010, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies

With over 350 million users, Facebook is a popular social networking site individuals utilize to keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues, yet the study of Facebook use in the workplace is still in its infancy. By employing Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory as a theoretical framework to explore coworker Facebook friend request decisions and the antecedents that influence those very decisions. Participants most frequently accepted a coworker Facebook friend request; however, this study found that variations in coworker Facebook friend request decisions occurred due to a wide range of factors, including organizational privacy orientation, coworker communication satisfaction, intensity of Facebook use, and current Facebook privacy management practices. Both the need for impression management and impact of organizational socialization influence an individual's decisions when in receipt of a coworker Facebook friend request. The present study supports CPM theory, as results indicate the influence of privacy orientations and boundary management. This research indicates that as Facebook continues to allow the ability to blur the lines between our personal and professional lives, privacy issues and social media will continue to play a pivotal role in interactions.

Committee: Jeffrey T. Child Ph.D. (Advisor); Robyn E. Parker Ph.D. (Committee Member); Mei-Chen Lin Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Information Systems; Mass Media; Personal Relationships

Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 2022, Environment and Natural Resources

Western paradigms have long dominated natural resource management discourse. Since the advent of national parks in the United States (U.S.), the removal of Indigenous peoples from these spaces has led to a disregard of Indigenous Knowledge, lack of communication between Western and Indigenous stakeholders, and jurisdictional fragmentation of ecosystems. As other countries have welcomed and institutionalized the significance of Indigenous peoples and knowledge in natural resource management, it is unknown where the United States stands in attempts to reconcile Indigenous and Western ontologies. The purpose of this research, through boundary work theory and perspectives of collaborative management, is to examine the foundations of U.S. national parks' potential collaboration with Indigenous peoples using qualitative content analysis and multi value qualitative comparative analysis to code. Data originated from publicly available foundation documents, or general management plans published for the 2016 National Park Service Centennial. Though primarily informed by non-Indigenous perspectives, this research explores Western/Indigenous dichotomies, and, ultimately, how Indigenous interests can be better presented in U.S. natural resource management.

Committee: Alia Dietsch (Advisor); Matthew Hamilton (Committee Member); Jeremy Brooks (Committee Member) Subjects: Natural Resource Management

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME), Wright State University, 2021, Mechanical Engineering

Two sub-systems that present a significant challenge in the development of highperformance air vehicle exceeding speeds of Mach 5 are the power generation and thermal management sub-systems. The air friction experienced at high speeds, particularly around the engine, generates large thermal loads that need to be managed. In addition, traditional jet engines do not operate at speeds greater than Mach 3, therefore eliminating the possibility of a rotating power generator. A multi-mode water-based Rankine cycle is an innovative method to address both of these constraints of generating power and providing cooling. Implementing a Rankine cycle-based system allows for the waste heat from the vehicle to be used to meet the onboard power requirements. This application of a Rankine cycle differs from standard power plant applications because the transient system dynamics become important due to rapid changes in thermal loads and electrical power requirements. Both an experimental and computational investigation is presented. An experimental steady state energy balance was used to determine a 5.1% and 11.5% thermal and Second Law efficiency, respectively. Transient testing showed an increase in power generation of 283% in 30.5 seconds when starting from idle, with a steady state power generation of 230 W. In addition to the power generation, the experimental system removed 10.7 kW from the hot oil loop which emulates a typical aircraft cooling fluid. Experimental results were used in the development of dynamic computational models using OpenModelica, an opensource modeling tool. Deviation between model and experimental results was within 5% for component models and 3.5% when analyzing the system energy balance. Testing of the vehicle level model included steady state, transient, and simulated mission, which was used to characterize performance and develop the system controls. During transient testing, the system controls demonstrated the ability to meet b (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mitch Wolff Ph.D. (Advisor); Rory Roberts Ph.D. (Committee Member); José Camberos Ph.D. (Committee Member); Levi Elston M.S. (Other) Subjects: Mechanical Engineering

Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, 2019, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

In recent years the workforce has experienced many changes, mostly as a result of the proliferation of technology. With the ever changing work environment and the increased blurring of work and home boundaries, more research is imperative in helping organizations hire, retain, and keep the right employees satisfied. The present study aims to examine the interactions and moderating effects of motivation on boundary management preferences and behaviors. Respondents were asked to complete three questionnaires assessing their motivation towards their current work, preferred boundary management styles, and their enactment of boundary management techniques while present in the work and home domains. By using a sample of full- time employees, the present study examined the effects of motivation on boundary management preferences and enactment. Potential findings will help to better identify motivated individuals who are more likely to employ boundary management techniques that are conducive with responsibilities for demanding positions, which often requires work to take precedence over other life domains.

Committee: Horvath Michael Dr. (Advisor); Bowen Chieh-Chen Dr. (Committee Member); Slane Steve Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Psychology

PHD, Kent State University, 2018, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies

Approximately one in five adults in the United States have experienced a mental illness (National Institute of Mental Health, Mental Illness, 2017), however, only a fraction of those people receives any type of support. For family and friends to be able to offer support they must be told about the mental illness, therefore, they become confidants. In this paper, the role of the confidant was studied using communication privacy management theory (CPM). The variables studied include empathy, stigma, confidant types, boundary rule coordination, rule fidelity, and boundary turbulence. Findings from this study indicate that when confidants have high personal stigma, they are more likely to be an uncomfortable reluctant confidant and they are more likely to break the privacy rules. Another important finding from this study was that when the privacy rules were explicitly discussed, people are still likely to break them. Finally, when the rules are broken, disclosers and confidants will typically experience boundary turbulence. When selecting a confidant, disclosers need to find people who are highly empathic; disclosers need to avoid people with high personal stigma.

Committee: Nichole Egbert Ph.D. (Advisor); Jeffrey Child Ph.D. (Advisor) Subjects: Communication

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2016, Engineering and Applied Science: Environmental Engineering

Water is essential for life, and any lack of this important element in our life leads to problems, physiologically as well as politically and economically. The deficiencies in ground water sources, global climate change, and civil pollution has led to the emergence of a real water crisis in many regions of the world. Non-traditional sources of water represent the promised solution to the scarcity of natural water sources and will represent complementary sources of supply. The main objective of this research is to study the technical, financial, and managerial aspects for transboundary wastewater. The first part of this research concentrates on the situation analysis and on the perspectives of transboundary wastewater management along the Israel/Palestine borders. Results obtained revealed that the current bi-national agreement does not achieve environmental justice and protection. A regional cooperative framework with a clear coordination mechanism considering the international experience with transboundary wastewater management and engagement of NGOs and donor countries is needed. The second part of this research explores the financial challenges facing the Palestinians to manage the transboundary wastewater crossing the Palestinian territories (West Bank) into Israel by examining the main transboundary wastewater stream, Wadi Al-Zomer, in terms of its quantity, quality and comparing the cost and benefit of wastewater being treated in Israel versus being treated in West Bank. The total amount of discharged wastewater in the targeted stream is 11 MCM/year. Discharged wastewater that reaches to Israel is not classified as highly strength wastewater due to the natural treatment adopted in the West Bank. Treating and reusing of the wastewater from all transboundary streams will increase the volume of water available for agricultural in the West Bank by 12%. The third part of this research represents the simulation of transboundary wastewater resource management scenari (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: George Sorial Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Hafiz Salih Ph.D. (Committee Member); Margaret Kupferle Ph.D. P.E. (Committee Member); Makram Suidan Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Environmental Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2015, Management

Teams must constantly balance internally focused interactions through Adaptation and externally focused processes of spanning boundaries to facilitate change. This dynamic of team Adaptation has not been studied. In empirical studies on team Boundary Management or Adaptation, attention is given to laboratory based experiments and field studies of new product development teams in high-tech industries. This research focuses on continuous quality improvement (QI) teams which are comprised of a dynamic and shifting set of members otherwise attuned to their professional daily activities not directly related to the project. The teams of interest operate in highly institutionalized and regulated service industries of healthcare. The overarching research question in this study asks what factors influence team adaptation and how do teams effectively achieve internal and external balance in their QI projects, and to what extent does this contribute to project success. To answer this question, a developmental sequential mixed methods study is conducted that utilizes qualitative analytics through grounded theory based theme development and thematic analysis as well as quantitative analytics of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Structural Equation Modeling. The first study is a mixed methods design utilizing a grounded theory approach for theme development followed by QCA to articulate complex causal interactions among identified factors influencing Adaptation. The sample includes 23 physicians / physician leaders / and hospital administrators who provide 39 team project examples for evaluation. The second study is a Quantitative design utilizing factor analysis to discern factors identified in study one in order to assess internal and external factor effects on Adaptation. A survey resulted in 215 responses for analysis from an expanded sample of team members in institutionally structured organizations. The third study is a Qualitative design utilizing thematic analysi (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Kalle Lyytinen PhD (Committee Chair); Corinne Coen PhD (Committee Member); David Aron MD (Committee Member); J.B. Silvers PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Management

Master of Science (M.S.), University of Dayton, 2014, Mechanical Engineering

The utilization of fuel as a heat sink can allow the design of higher performance aircraft that may normally be limited by heat loads. An energy model for the cross section of a wing with an internal fuel tank in flight is developed for determining its potential use as a heat sink in the conceptual design phase. The computations are aimed at being based more on physical dependencies than empirical correlations. The conservation of energy equation is solved separately using prior calculated information from the conservation of mass and momentum equations. The energy analysis is conducted using a series of control volumes around the airfoil surface with an integral method which can utilize various temperature profiles to model the thermal boundary layer. An unheated starting length followed by an isothermal surface approximates the heated fuel tank as a surface boundary condition. The performance of explicit and implicit methods for solving the resulting set of energy equations is compared with the implicit method proving to function more desirably. The implemented method is verified through analyzing the effects of refining the discretization along the surface as well as normal to it. Also, a flat plate analysis is compared to NACA 0001 airfoil results to demonstrate that XFOIL is coupled correctly with the program to enable computing flow information over arbitrary airfoils. Results of the developed method are compared to empirical correlations for validation purposes involving turbulent flow test cases over NACA 0001, NACA 0007, and NACA 0015 airfoils. The calculations are first conducted for a completely isothermal surface and then for an unheated starting length to isothermal surface. Four temperature profiles are initially considered, but are narrowed down to two profiles for the majority of the results. When modeling a fuel tank as a heat source using an unheated starting length to isothermal surface boundary condition, the results show reasonable agreement wit (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Markus Rumpfkeil Ph.D. (Advisor); Aaron Altman Ph.D. (Committee Member); José Camberos Ph.D., P.E. (Committee Member) Subjects: Aerospace Engineering; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2002, Arts and Sciences : Psychology

Despite a dramatic increase in home-based work in the past decade, the research looking at the stress or strain associated with it has been sparse. Based on several existing gaps in the literature, the objectives for the current study were: to specify the relationship between stress and a potentially stress-reducing variable, boundary management; to investigate whether a boundary management intervention would reduce stress; and to clarify the role of psychological type. The population of interest was home-based working mothers, who have the highest prospects for stress while working at home and, therefore, the greatest potential for stress reduction.Home-based working mothers were recruited from Home-based Working Mothers (www.hbwm.com), Work-at-Home Moms (www.wahm.com), www.MOMS-HOME-WORK.com , and other sources. Instruments included a survey of demographic information, the Psychological Type Index (PTI: Grasha, 1997), the Home/Work Boundaries Inventory (HBI), and selected subscales from the Holistic Stress Test (HST: Grasha, 1996). Of the 94 mothers that participated, 76 completed the PTI and all pretest measures, and were randomly assigned to one of two conditions:(1) The Boundary Management- -Experimental condition (BME). After the pretest, BME subjects were asked to return to the website to participate in a boundary management intervention. BME subjects implemented the intervention in a self-directed manner over a six-week period.(2) The No Intervention Control (NIC) condition. After the pretest, the No-Intervention Control (NIC) subjects were told they would be contacted for follow-up in six weeks.Six weeks from pre-test, subjects in both conditions completed the HST scales and HBI a second time.Three out of eight hypotheses were significant: there was a negative relationship between boundary management and stress; Introverts did have higher boundary management scores than Extraverts; and Sensing types did have higher boundary management scores than Intuitives (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Dr. Anthony Grasha (Advisor) Subjects:

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2006, Leadership Studies

The purpose of this study was to identify the personal and organizational characteristics that facilitate and restrict boundary spanning (BS) of external leaders. The study was a two-phase sequential exploratory mixed-method study. The first phase examined the relationship between boundary spanning and emotional intelligence (EI) of external team leaders. Through interviews, the second phase explored individual and organizational characteristics that facilitate or restrict boundary spanning in external team leaders who scored differently on boundary spanning than predicted based on emotional intelligence scores. Bivariate regression and correlation showed that boundary spanning is strongly related to emotional intelligence. Three external leaders were selected for Phase II because they had nearly the same EI alignment scores but very different BS alignment scores. I wanted to know why, if EI and BS have such a strong relationship, the BS scores of these three leaders were so different. Qualitative data from 14 interviews revealed that leader distance and need are both facilitators and restrictors of boundary spanning. Boundary spanning is not just something that the leader does for the team. Boundary spanning is important based on an individual's need. If the need is low, the leader would offer less help and, therefore, the appraisal of the leader's boundary spanning would be lower. Also, the leader must understand when there is a need and how to react to the need by offering the appropriate help for the appropriate duration. The ability of the leader to understand the need of the team members requires relationship building. Relationship building is made easier when the leader distance (physical proximity, social distance, and perceived occurrence interval) is low. As emotional intelligence increases, so does the ability to recognize and utilize need and distance to span the boundary for the team. Boundary spanning is important on both individual and organizational (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mark A. Earley Patrick D. Pauken (Advisor) Subjects: