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An Examination Of Gender And Aa Status Effects On The Relapse Potential Of Alcoholics Anonymous Participants, Reginald A. Johnson

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This study explored the differences in short term (two years or less) and long term (three or more years) Alcoholics Anonymous participation and gender differences on the potential for relapse . Previous studies on the relationship between AA participation and treatment outcome have had mixed results. There has been limited research into alcoholism and its impact on women . Sixty AA participants were selected, thirty who had two or less years with AA, and thirty who had three or more years with AA . There were fifteen females and males in both the newcomers and old- timers groups . These …

The Co-Occurrence Of Substance Abuse And Domestic Abuse And Domestic Violence Victimization In Incarcerated Females, Beverly J. Cornejo

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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant co-occurrence of domestic violence victimization among chemically dependent incarcerated females. Additional intents of this study were to examine the presence of domestic violence within the family of origin for this population. Further explorations of childhood trauma, such as physical abuse from parents or sexual abuse, were conducted. The study was conducted using 207 female inmates from a drug and alcohol treatment center located within a Mid-west penitentiary. Domestic violence was operationalized using selected subscale items from the Conflict Tactics Scale which measures type and frequency of violence …

Co-Parenting Influences: A Positive Report For The Millenium, Andrea Chrismer-Still

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In this correlalional study of later adolescents who experience parental divorce, six co-parenting influences were assessed in an effort to identify predictors and factors that contribute to overall satisfaction with life. Subjects completed a survey comprised of demographic information which included an adaptation of a survey (Silitsky, 1996), a Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) (Diener, E. Simmons, R. Larsen, R. & Griffin, S., 1985), and a Perceived Social Support Family Scale (Pss-Fa) (Procidano, M & Heller, K., 1983). The adapted scale and the PSS-Fa measured perceptions by the later adolescent of their family of origin and their levels of()) parental …

Trace-Level Determination Of Fluorescently Labeled Phenoxy Acid Herbicides And The Study Of Their Crop Uptake And Soil Accumulation, Noura Saeed Al Nuaimi

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A challenging problem facing the determination of phenoxy acid herbicides in samples is their low UV absorptivity and the interference associated with the matrix in which these analytes exist. This thesis is concerned with improving the detection limits of this group of herbicid as well as reduce or eliminate interference associated with the sample matrix.

Native phenoxy acid herbicides could be analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with ultraviolet detection. Phenoxy herbicides were analyzed by HPLC employing a gradient conditions that allowed baseline resolution of all analytes used in this study in approximately 20 min. However, the average detection …

Reverie And The Image Making Process, Yea-Ryung Yoo

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This thesis examines the creative process involved in the creation of a work of art; in this case, a painting. First, the artist creates a visual language, which becomes his instrument of communication. Then in the studio, the practical process activates visual representation of the language, communicated in brushstrokes. The visual image created through this process stimulates the artist emotionally, while imparting a sense of satisfaction to the viewer who understands that he has been brought into the aesthetic world created by the artist.

Mackenzie Heritage Printery: A Printing Museum, Shauna Bream

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Museums, in their broadest sense, are institutions which hold their possessions in trust for human kind and for the future welfare of the human race. They are a valuable asset to society in that they render the emotional and intellectual life of people. In simpler terms, it is an institution devoted to the procurement, care, and display of objects of lasting interest and value. This thesis project answers the major questions of what role does the Mackenzie Heritage Printery Museum in Queenston, Ontario Canada fit into the scheme of scholarly pursuits and the awareness of raising people's consciousness with regard …

An Investigation Into The Application Of Digital Camera Created Images And Their Preparation For Newspaper Lithographic Reproduction Without A Reference Analog Reflection Or Transmission Original, Victoria Arocho

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Looking at the shoes that digital photography has a role in filling we can quickly see performance issues that will undoubtedly affect our final printed reproduction. The resolution provided by a digital image is directly correlated to the CCD size, quality and any associated post-imaging processes provided by cam era manufacturers but is only one of quality-limiting factors involved in digital photography. "Silicon-based CCD's are monochrome in nature."' Having the inability to decipher the varying degrees of red, green and blue light presented to the pixels it is necessary to account for RGB light by introducing a color-filtering method. The …

Quantitation Of Yohimbine Utilizing Capillary Electrophoresis. Method Development Through Statistical Design., Jonathan Cooper

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In an effort to combat the rising cost of health care in the United States by encouraging preventative and self-care, the federal government passed the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994. This act essentially deregulated the natural product market allowing herbs, including yohimbine, to be sold over the counter without undergoing the same strict evaluation as a traditional synthetic drug candidate. As the full potential of these natural products is realized, including possible harmful side effects, a need arises for the identification and quantitation of the active components from commercial preparations. Commercial samples were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for …

Fabrication Of Phase Masks And Microlenses Using Binary Optics, Joseph Summa

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A process for the fabrication of binary optics at the Rochester Institute of Technology was established and tested. A sacrificial aluminum layer was used to provide both a conductive substrate for electron beam exposure, and a clean highly resistant etch stop for reactive ion etching. This enabled the use of a low pressure CF4 RE process that minimized the rates of polymerization during etch and provided stable etch rates necessary to achieve 100 angstrom etch depth control. Alignment errors of up to 1 micron were attributed to stage drifts on the electron beam exposure system. No systematic errors were found …

A La Conquista, Carlos Ruiz-Valarino

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This thesis paper is an integral and complementary part of my thesis exhibition "A la conquista . . .” Its purpose is to enhance my audience's understanding of the interests and vicissitudes that have motivated me to undertake such a challenging task. This project has its origin in an earlier autobiographical photographic project. Through it I developed an interest in visually questioning aspects related to my past and present: How did I become the individual I am? And what aspects of my experience define my identity? My parents are of different nationalities, I was born in Puerto Rico, and then …

Preparation And Characterization Of A Site-Directed Mutant Of Escherichia Coli L-Threonine Dehydrogenase, Qian Zhou

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Threonine dehydrogenase from E.coli is a member of the medium-chain, Zn2+-containing alcohol dehydrogenase family. A site-directed mutant of theronine dehydrogenase was prepared at position 88 by replacing the native glutamate with cysteine using polymerase chain reaction. The mutated enzyme, designated TDH E88C, was expressed and purified to homogeneity in a three-step chromatographic procedure. The activity of the mutant after each step of purification was determined by a specific assay. Both the total activity and the specific activity of TDH E99C were significantly decreased compared to the wild-type TDH. The mutant enzyme was not sufficiently stable to obtain reliable Vmax or …

Expression Of Relationship In Life, Hoyeon Chung

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This paper discusses a series of five sculptures that were made during my two years of graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology. During that period, I realized and contemplated my existence. I spent much of my first year thinking about my emotions. The inspirations around me were getting more broad starting from different the interactions in all elements of my life. This idea also might be universal. Even though all lives are different, there are similar characteristics that most people possess. People are living within boundaries. The boundaries can consist of several elements, such as family, friends, environment and …

Altered, Pamela Bentzien

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This thesis explores, through photography, the question: What will the landscape of next generations look like? What are we leaving behind for future generations? The author created images which impart a ponderous mood which reflects on how individual lifestyles affect our natural environment. Are we leaving behind any natural resources for our future generations?

Deconstructing Pandora, Katherine Mervine

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This thesis recounts the development of a computer animation film project which retells the ancient Greek myth of "Pandora's Box" where the author gives Pandora back her power and her choice. Includes detailed descriptions of film production and execution.

The Layered Patination Of Copper, Ronald Vanostrand

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This thesis was a pragmatic exploration into die patination process of copper. Two particular process elements were researched; patina layering and manipulation of the environment in which patination occurs. The success of the process will be determined by the permanence, consistency, durability and aesthetic worth of the resulting patina. The primary process element, that of patina layering, was comprised of a hot immersion process followed by compatibility tests with a subsequent exposure to fumed, sprayed, and saturated suspension processes. Initial and subsequent surface preparations were required. Additionally the process element of environment and its effects, both visually and texturally on …

Computer Multimedia In The Development Of Interactive Courseware: The Cornell University Soil And Water Management Learning Module, Charissa Sullivan

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The thesis project consists of an interactive multimedia computer software program, designed to help teach a course title, college-level semester course in soil and water management (Soil and Water Management, offered at Cornell University, Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences course number 321, 4 credithours). The software was authored in Macromedia Director 6.5. Original artwork includes computer graphics some of which are sequenced to create animations that illustrate key concepts of the subject material. Text and photographs and/or illustrations also support the subject material.

Consequence Of Human Greed, Bok Won

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The Effects Of Flow Rate And Sodium Laurel Sulfate Surfactant Concentration On Single- And Two-Phase Heat Transfer Characteristics In A Microchannel, Michael June

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The processing speed of modern microchips and the density of components at the card level has been increasing at a steady rate. With these increases, come an increase in heat generation and a need to dissipate very high heat fluxes. Heat sinks that employ very narrow channels, on the order of 58 - 600um wide have been shown to dissipate heat fluxes as high as 10,000 kW/m2 (Tuckerman, 1984) while maintaining chip temperatures below 130 C. The current study investigates the heat transfer characteristics of single and two-phase flows in a 200 Jim wide channel. Water was used as a …

A Study Of The Stability Of A Hydraulic Actuator System, Paul Stoelting

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One of the least desirable schemes for a linear electro-hydraulic motion control actuator is having a low backup structure stiffness coupled with a high flow gain of the spool valve. It has been demonstrated that this condition causes instability in the form of high frequency oscillations. This thesis examines how actuator parameters can be varied to add stability when a low backup structure stiffness and high flow gain are mandatory design criteria. The stability of the system is examined by developing the system characteristic equation and analyzing its poles in the complex frequency domain. In the complex frequency domain, the …

A Paradigm For Color Gamut Mapping Of Pictorial Images, Gustav J. Braun

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In this thesis, a paradigm was generated for color gamut mapping of pictorial images. This involved the development and testing of: 1.) a hue-corrected version of the CIELAB color space, 2.) an image-dependent sigmoidal-lightness-rescaling process, 3.) an image-gamut- based chromatic-compression process, and 4.) a gamut-expansion process. This gamut-mapping paradigm was tested against some gamut-mapping strategies published in the literature. Reproductions generated by gamut mapping in a hue-corrected CIELAB color space more accurately preserved the perceived hue of the original scenes compared to reproductions generated using the CIELAB color space. The results of three gamut-mapping experiments showed that the contrast-preserving nature …

Phoebe, Julie Jurgens

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An Investigation Into The Development Of A Software Tool For Design Of Book Pages, David Bennett

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A method of designing a readable book that does not require the user to have expert knowledge of book layout is studied and implemented by designing a computer software program. Traditional book design techniques are researched and the findings are used to plan the software's workflow and functionality. The concept is based on the use of pre-defined typographic options that the user can choose from to meet the particular needs of an individual book project. Other features guide the user through the book design process using a step-by-step approach. A working demonstration version of the soft ware concept is developed …

The Use Of Silica And Alumina To Catalyze The Addition Of Hydrogen Chloride To Alkenes, Ying Liu

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The use of pre-heated silica gel and alumina along with a chlorinating agent, generates HC1 in situ, which has been found to add to norbornadiene ( IX ). Treated in this fashion, norbornadiene readily results in the formation of two isomers, exo-5- chloronorbornene ( XI ) and 3-chloronotricyclene ( XII ) at room temperature in methylene chloride, with ejco-5-chloronorbornene being the predominant product ( 70% 1% ). In promoting the hydrohalogenation reaction, silica gel was found to be less efficient compared to alumina, but undesired diadducts appeared to be less prominent when silica gel rather than alumina was used. Deuterated …

An Analysis On The Effects Of Social Context In The Display Of Anger In Children, Angie Vanmeter

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The purpose of t his research is to determine if social context influences a child's decision to regulate their anger. The subjects used in this study were 20 first, third and sixth grade students totaling sixty children. The categories of social context are as follows: parent, peer and alone. The subjects completed a demographic survey, as well as an aggression questionnaire, designed by the researcher. The results confirmed previous research with regard to the influence social acceptance has over children's actions. This research indicates peers, as being the most influential category in determining a child's response to anger.

Guaranteed Bandwidth Implementation Of Message Passing Interface On Workstation Clusters, Ali Atalay

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Due to their wide availability, networks of workstations (NOW) are an attractive platform for parallel processing. Parallel programming environments such as Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and Message Passing Interface (MPI) offer the user a convenient way to express parallel computing and communication for a network of workstations. Currently, a number of MPI implementations are available that offer low (average ) latency and high bandwidth environments to users by utilizing an efficient MPI library specification and high speed networks. In addition to high bandwidth and low average latency requirements, mission critical distributed applications, audio/video communications require a completely different type of …

Measurement Of Residual Stress In Electrodeposited Nickel Films, Gary Richardson

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For nearly as long as people have had the ability to create deposits by electrodeposition it has been known that the deposits are made in a state of internal stress. Throughout the past one hundred years several simple techniques used to measure these stresses have been developed. Unfortunately these methods have several shortcomings in both their formulation and interpretation, and seldom have the results from any of these tests been verified by another method. As electroplating becomes utilized to a greater extent in the high-tech applications of aerospace, optics, and electronics it is becoming ever more crucial to gain the …

Judged, Lawrence Neuberger

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Judged is a film about the subconscious battle between good and evil. The way I see it, every person has a good side and a bad side. No matter how good a person is, there is always an evil side lurking in the back of their mind. Not every person acts upon this evil side. For some people, this evil side just takes over. For some others it is brought out by some other act. In this instance, a normal man is recruited to go to war. A gun is put in his hands and he is forced to kill. …

Spectral-Based Color Separation Algorithm Development For Multiple-Ink Color Reproduction, Di-Yuan Tzeng

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Conventional four-color printing systems are limited by an insufficient number of degrees of freedom for tuning the visible region of the spectrum; as a consequence, they are often limited to metameric color reproductions. That is, color matches defined for a single observer and illuminant (usually CIE illuminant D50 and the 1931 standard observer) are often unstable when viewed under other illuminants or by other observers. For critical color-matching applications, such as catalog sales and artwork reproductions, the results are usually disappointing due to typical uncontrolled lighting and viewing. Furthermore, the existing multiple-ink printing systems, which all focus on expanding color …

I Am (The Life Of A Girl), Nancy Ghertner

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Computer Automated Experimentation For The Control And Assessment Of The Classically Conditioned Eyeblink Response, Michael Terrence Bergen

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The use of the classically conditioned eyeblink response, a form of associative learning, is a growing method of experimentation in modem science. This type of associative learning, has many features that make it useful for applications in the study of specific neurological functions. The goal of this project was to design and implement a software system for the automated control and on-line evaluation of a classical conditioning experiment for use with human subjects. A program was developed in the LabVIEW programming environment by National Instruments. Basic hardware components produce acoustic signals, deliver airpuffs, and sense and condition physiological responses. Safety …