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This search engine will let you explore the over 1800 theses written in Honors at The University of Maine since the Program’s inception in 1935. You may search our thesis archives based on any of the fields listed above. If the thesis is available at the Reynolds Library (Thomson Honors Center) or Fogler Library (Special Collections), the information will appear below the bibliographic data. At last count, we had about 1800 theses in the Reynolds Library.
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A CONCEPTUAL VALUE FUNCTION TO EXPLAIN THE BENEFITS DERIVED FROM USERS OF FREE-TO-PLAY VIDEO GAMES
Author:
Connor
M.
Smart
Major: Accounting & Finance Graduation Year: 2016 Thesis Advisor: Matthew Skaves
Description of Publication:
Customers of free-to-play video games are becoming one of the largest and most lucrative consumers of entertainment products in America, and yet relatively little formal literature has been written about these users. Because this customer group is significant and influential within the video game industry, and because video games are becoming a popular and mainstream medium, understanding these consumers is important to understanding our economy, our culture, and for making better gaming products. This thesis will define a conceptual and qualitative value function that could help one better comprehend F2P consumers’ desires and needs in regards to free-to-play video games, and thus help one better understand this consumer group. To improve readability and to support this value function, the thesis will also provide a brief review of the video game industry, as well as details regarding game design and the market for video games. In theory, this model could be used to help a free-to-play developing firm understand their consumer base better and adapt their product to provide those benefits most appreciated by the primary users. Support and evidence for the model comes from both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources include a demographics survey administered through the University of Maine community in which 264 respondents participated, and email correspondence between the author and a video game developer. Secondary sources include data and information gathered from professionally published articles and journals, news reports, demographic reports, sales and market trends, and insight from industry professionals.
Location of Publication: fogler reynolds
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/313
Major: Accounting & Finance Graduation Year: 2016 Thesis Advisor: Matthew Skaves
Description of Publication:
Customers of free-to-play video games are becoming one of the largest and most lucrative consumers of entertainment products in America, and yet relatively little formal literature has been written about these users. Because this customer group is significant and influential within the video game industry, and because video games are becoming a popular and mainstream medium, understanding these consumers is important to understanding our economy, our culture, and for making better gaming products. This thesis will define a conceptual and qualitative value function that could help one better comprehend F2P consumers’ desires and needs in regards to free-to-play video games, and thus help one better understand this consumer group. To improve readability and to support this value function, the thesis will also provide a brief review of the video game industry, as well as details regarding game design and the market for video games. In theory, this model could be used to help a free-to-play developing firm understand their consumer base better and adapt their product to provide those benefits most appreciated by the primary users. Support and evidence for the model comes from both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources include a demographics survey administered through the University of Maine community in which 264 respondents participated, and email correspondence between the author and a video game developer. Secondary sources include data and information gathered from professionally published articles and journals, news reports, demographic reports, sales and market trends, and insight from industry professionals.
Location of Publication: fogler reynolds
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/313
A Content Analysis of Addition and Subtraction from the Math Teacher’s Manuals for Orono, Maine and Santiago, Chile
Author:
Jordan
Houdeshell
Major: Elementary Education & Spanish Graduation Year: 2018 Thesis Advisor: Julie Dellamattera
Description of Publication:
The purpose of this study is to do a comparative content analysis of two second grade math teachers’ manuals; one from Santiago, Chile and the other from Orono, Maine. I will be looking at and comparing one unit of study in both math teacher’s manuals: a unit on addition and subtraction. This thesis will explore how the words and language used in the math teacher’s manuals may affect the way teachers teach addition and subtraction content and what is expected from the second-grade learners. For the comparative content analysis I will focus on, sort, and count the verbs that appear in the math teacher’s manual in one addition and subtraction unit of study. I will sort the verbs collected using the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. After organizing this data, I will compare the two math teacher’s manuals based on the percentages and number of different verbs for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/558/
Major: Elementary Education & Spanish Graduation Year: 2018 Thesis Advisor: Julie Dellamattera
Description of Publication:
The purpose of this study is to do a comparative content analysis of two second grade math teachers’ manuals; one from Santiago, Chile and the other from Orono, Maine. I will be looking at and comparing one unit of study in both math teacher’s manuals: a unit on addition and subtraction. This thesis will explore how the words and language used in the math teacher’s manuals may affect the way teachers teach addition and subtraction content and what is expected from the second-grade learners. For the comparative content analysis I will focus on, sort, and count the verbs that appear in the math teacher’s manual in one addition and subtraction unit of study. I will sort the verbs collected using the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. After organizing this data, I will compare the two math teacher’s manuals based on the percentages and number of different verbs for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/558/
A Content Analysis Study of Bias in the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News during 1982 Mitchell-Emery U. S. Senate Election
A Craft With Soul: Wooden Boat Building in Brooklin
A CREATIVE THESIS: THE ME YOU DON’T KNOW
Author:
Hoang
Anh
Le
Major: Accounting Graduation Year: 2016 Thesis Advisor: Katie Lattari
Description of Publication:
Anna Smith loves her high-profile husband Ryan so immensely that she doesn’t realize that she has been losing herself gradually to a dysfunctional marriage… Even after discovering that she isn’t the love of her life’s one and only, Anna still struggles to walk away; but will love alone be enough to power her through a marriage that has been falling apart for years? At the height of her marital turmoil, another tragedy strikes – Anna is seriously injured in a busy New York City crosswalk, and when she wakes, she finds that she has traveled back in time by fifteen years. Disoriented and afraid, she realizes that she is Anna Leahan once more, not Anna Smith, and that her whole future – including any possible future with her now-ex-husband – is yet to be set. With all memories retained, the twenty-one-year-old Anna may have the ability to undo her mistakes. But with the ruthless games of fate and her swirls of emotions, where is Anna headed this time?
Location of Publication: fogler reynolds
URL to Thesis:
Major: Accounting Graduation Year: 2016 Thesis Advisor: Katie Lattari
Description of Publication:
Anna Smith loves her high-profile husband Ryan so immensely that she doesn’t realize that she has been losing herself gradually to a dysfunctional marriage… Even after discovering that she isn’t the love of her life’s one and only, Anna still struggles to walk away; but will love alone be enough to power her through a marriage that has been falling apart for years? At the height of her marital turmoil, another tragedy strikes – Anna is seriously injured in a busy New York City crosswalk, and when she wakes, she finds that she has traveled back in time by fifteen years. Disoriented and afraid, she realizes that she is Anna Leahan once more, not Anna Smith, and that her whole future – including any possible future with her now-ex-husband – is yet to be set. With all memories retained, the twenty-one-year-old Anna may have the ability to undo her mistakes. But with the ruthless games of fate and her swirls of emotions, where is Anna headed this time?
Location of Publication: fogler reynolds
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