A Comparative Analysis Of Student Job Placement In Management Information Systems: An Exploratory Study

Due to the recent economic recession and the significant reduction in Information Technology (IT) expenditures of corporate America, job opportunities have become very scarce for college graduates, especially in the field of Management Information Systems (MIS).  Both MIS students and faculty have to start finding ways to improve the full time job opportunities for students by helping students do better in their studies and GPAs, adding internship experience, obtaining more majors, taking extra technical courses, etc. in addition to their regular course work.  However, little research has been conducted to investigate the relationships between these factors and a full time job opportunity in this field.  The current study intends to explore those important issues by conducting a survey among more than 200 MIS seniors in three big universities in USA. The implication of the survey findings is discussed in the final section of the paper

Omission of quality software development practices : a systematic literature review

Software deficiencies are minimized by utilizing recommended software development and quality assurance practices. However, these recommended practices (i.e., quality practices) become ineffective if software professionals purposefully ignore them. Conducting a systematic literature review (n = 4,838), we discovered that only a small number of previous studies, within software engineering and information systems literature, have investigated the omission of quality practices. These studies explain the omission of quality practices mainly as a result of organizational decisions and trade-offs made under resource constraints or market pressure. However, our study indicates that different aspects of this phenomenon deserve further research. In particular, future research must investigate the conditions triggering the omission of quality practices and the processes through which this phenomenon occurs. Especially, since software development is a human-centric phenomenon, the psychological and behavioral aspects of this process deserve in-depth empirical investigation. In addition, futures research must clarify the social, organizational, and economical consequences of ignoring quality practices. Gaining in-depth theoretically sound and empirically grounded understandings about different aspects of this phenomenon enables research and practice to suggest interventions to overcome this issue.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Compact binary astrophysics

This thesis brings together several projects in compact binary astrophysics that intersect at two main loci. The first being calculations of the science that is possible with future gravitational-wave detectors. On this front, chapter 2 provides localization estimates for a variety of future gravitational-wave network configurations, to inform the science case and observing strategies for future gravitational and electromagnetic detectors. In chapter 3 we predict the constraints that future observations will make on the inclination of the orbital plane of compact binaries. Finally, chapter 7 explores the observability and parameter estimation of seed black holes with future gravitational-wave networks. The second focus of this thesis is determining what is measurable in a gravitational-wave signal emitted in a binary coalescence. In chapter 3, we describe in detail degeneracies in the amplitude of the dominant emission of the two gravitational-wave polarizations, which limits our ability to measure their luminosity distance. Chapter 4 describes how higher harmonics in the waveform can break these degeneracies and introduces a simple criterion for their observation. Using this criterion, and a related one for precession, in chapters 5 and 6 we explore the evidence for higher harmonics and precessions in the signals detected in the first half of LIGO-Virgo's third observing run