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Unspoken, Chloe Rizzo
Unspoken, Chloe Rizzo
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In this thesis, the author presents a series of clay sculpture pieces of the female body. Each piece investigates a different yet related emotional state in a tangible way.
Colorimetric Tolerances Of Various Digital Image Displays, Jason Gibson
Colorimetric Tolerances Of Various Digital Image Displays, Jason Gibson
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Visual experiments on four displays (two LCD, one CRT and hardcopy) were conducted to determine colorimetric tolerances of images systematically altered via three different transfer curves. The curves used were: Sigmoidal compression in L*, linear reduction in C*, and additive rotations in hab. More than 30 observers judged the detectability of these alterations on three pictorial images for each display. Standard probit analysis was then used to determine the detection thresholds for the alterations. It was found that the detection thresholds on LCD's were similar or lower than for the CRT's in this type of experiment. Summarizing pixel-by-pixel image differences …
Filtration Of Thought, Chad Holliday
Spectral Modeling Of A Six-Color Inkjet Printer, Lawrence Taplin
Spectral Modeling Of A Six-Color Inkjet Printer, Lawrence Taplin
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After customizing an Epson Stylus Photo 1200 by adding a continuous-feed ink system and a cyan, magenta, yellow, black, orange and green ink set, a series of research tasks were carried out to build a full spectral model of the printers output. First, various forward printer models were tested using the fifteen two color combinations of the printer. Yule- Nielsen-spectral-Neugebauer (YNSN) was selected as the forward model and its accuracy tested throughout the colorant space. It was found to be highly accurate, performing as well as a more complex local, cellular version. Next, the performance of nonlinear optimization-routine algorithms were …
Baby Booey's Gift, Darcie Lawson
Baby Booey's Gift, Darcie Lawson
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A descriptive narration about a project to create an interactive computer animated film, "Baby Booey's Gift." This narrative is set in a world of monsters and stars Baby Booey, a monster schoolgirl, who trades various disgusting items with other monsters with the aim of trading up to the perfect gift for her friend. It is constructed in the manner of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, where the viewer has options that affect the future outcome of the narrative. Includes the original thesis proposal, interactive flowchart, character sheets, script, original storyboard, and screen shots.
Requirements For Education Meterial In Color Reproduction For Photojournalists, Gregory Kimmich
Requirements For Education Meterial In Color Reproduction For Photojournalists, Gregory Kimmich
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This thesis project examines a skills gap involving new technologies within photographic departments of many newspaper organizations. Traditional film based photography is now used in conjunction with digital photography. After images are acquired, photojournalists create electronic color separations within color imaging software. Quite often these separations are created without an understanding of the rules and concepts that govern quality color reproduction in newsprint. As advancements continue in digital imaging and prepress environments, skills must be acquired to ensure optimum color reproduction. This thesis project examines the educational theories of Walter Dick, Lou Carey and Charles Layne as they relate to …
Intimate Ceremony: Ceramic Bath Accessories, Kelly Clark
Elements And Principles: Experiencing Design Principles Through Interactivity, Niramon Wongsirisup
Elements And Principles: Experiencing Design Principles Through Interactivity, Niramon Wongsirisup
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A designer is a practical person who confronts visual assignments with a process of visual creation. The creative process is used to solve practical problems that occur in any design assignment. However, before one is ready to solve any problem, one must understand the depth and range of their design language. If one's understanding of design is limited, then the range of possible solutions to a problem will be limited. My thesis aims to broaden and enrich a vocabulary of design through the study of its essential elements and principles. If we familiarize ourselves with a multitude of books, we …
Rm2072, Po-Chun Lin
Rm2072, Po-Chun Lin
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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Rm2072," set in an art museum. In this film, an old man walks into a room in a Chinese art department. The artworks have their own secret life, and they move whenever humans aren't watching. The old man catches some ancient Chinese figurines moving, and he chooses to keep their secret. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, and color stills.
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Cross Pollination, Shaun Foster
Cross Pollination, Shaun Foster
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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film about a "cross-pollination" that occurs between plants on a planet and nanites (nanoparticle robots) that arrive on a space ship. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, color stills, and technical notes.
An Interactive Journey: Creative Development For Young Children, Nattawan Wanglee
An Interactive Journey: Creative Development For Young Children, Nattawan Wanglee
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Creativity begins in infancy and can be developed when children grow up. Young children are at their peak of creative functioning, which declines with age. They are unique individuals and are highly imaginative. Creativity and imagination are strongly related. Even though all children are capable of creativity, the potential to create remains dormant without practice. Creativity requires practice to flourish. Therefore, creativity plays an important role as much as knowledge does. To educate children, creativity also needs to be paid attention too. Children should be encouraged to represent their world creatively by allowing them to choose what they want to …
Rhythm, Yi-Chia Huang
Study Of Tantalum Nitride Diffusion Barrier Films For Coppper Interconnect Technology, Deepa Gazula
Study Of Tantalum Nitride Diffusion Barrier Films For Coppper Interconnect Technology, Deepa Gazula
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As technology progressed to ultra - large scale integration leading to smaller and smaller devices, there are continuous challenges in the fields of materials, processes and circuit designs. Copper is the interconnect material of choice because of its low electrical resistivity and high electromigration resistance. However, copper is quite mobile in silicon at elevated temperatures. Therefore, to prevent the diffusion of copper into silicon, a diffusion barrier layer that has fewer grain boundaries, good adhesion to Si and Si02, high thermal and electrical stability with respect to Cu is necessary. Tantalum nitride compounds have been investigated as potential barrier materials. …
A Very Low Bit-Rate Speech Recognition System, Matthew Baecher
A Very Low Bit-Rate Speech Recognition System, Matthew Baecher
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When using extracted speech feature coefficients for speech synthesis, quantization is considered a lossy compression scheme. The data being compressed cannot be recovered or reconstructed exactly. However, in a speech recognition system for command and control purposes, a certain amount of quantization can be allowed, with comparable results. In some cases, quantization even serves to "close the gaps" between the coefficients of the incoming speech signal and those of the templates. Since the coefficients are not being used to reconstruct the signal, a very coarse quantization can be used, enabling a very low bit-rate transmission with very good recognition results. …
Experimental And Analytical Investigation Of A Passive Remote Electromechanical Dynamic Absorber, Todd Nichols
Experimental And Analytical Investigation Of A Passive Remote Electromechanical Dynamic Absorber, Todd Nichols
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For this thesis a new concept, the Passive Remote Electromechanical Dynamic Absorber (RDA) is investigated. The current design utilizes piezoelectric elements to convert the mechanical strain energy of a parent system into electrical energy, which is fed into the RDA. The RDA similarly uses piezoelectric elements to convert the applied electrical energy into mechanical self-excitation. A lumped-system model of the coupled system is developed, accounting for the stiffness and mass of both the parent and RDA systems, along with a coupling stiffness term. Additionally, a coupled-system finite element model, developed in Ansys/multiphysics to include a three dimensional representation of the …
Let's Cross Platforms, Miyoung Yoon
Let's Cross Platforms, Miyoung Yoon
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Different platforms and browsers render text and images differently. Therefore, web designers should know how to deal with these types of media. Many web designers use the Macintosh, and the majority of the users are on the PC. This thesis project examines the visual elements of web design consisting of fonts, colors, and graphics and how they change between the PC and Mac. The two major browsers used by people to surf the web are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and they also cause problems with consistency. Resolution differences cause font problems. Knowing the default system resolution to specify with …
Experimental Study Of Single And Two-Phase Heat Transfer In Mini-Channel, Shurong Tian
Experimental Study Of Single And Two-Phase Heat Transfer In Mini-Channel, Shurong Tian
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Flow boiling in mini-channels has been the most recent trend in high performance cooling techniques, in spite of an increased pressure drop. An experimental study of pressure and heat transfer characteristics of water in mini-channel evaporators was carried out in this study. The test section consisted of 6, U-shape, parallel, mini-channels. The mini-channels were formed by brazing an etched, flat, stainless steel plate. The hydraulic diameter of a single mini-channel was 0.725 mm. Distilled water, used as the fluid medium, flowed in the mini-channels; while the heating oil flowed on the outside of mini-channel. The inlet temperature of the water …
A Bridge's Link, Stephanie Lanphier Collins
Numerical Investigation Of Three Dimensional Viscous, Incompressible Flow About A Sphere And An Ellipsoid, Glenn-Mari Cosmiano
Numerical Investigation Of Three Dimensional Viscous, Incompressible Flow About A Sphere And An Ellipsoid, Glenn-Mari Cosmiano
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Three-dimensional incompressible viscous flow about a sphere and an ellipsoid has been numerically investigated.
Hardware Implementation Of Jpeg-Ls Codec, Michael Piorun
Hardware Implementation Of Jpeg-Ls Codec, Michael Piorun
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The primary goal of this thesis is to implement a hardware version of the JPEG-LS, or JPEGLossless, image compression algorithm in VHDL. The JPEG-LS algorithm is currently the designated standard for lossless compression of grayscale and color images by the JPEG committee. Although lossy image compression is widely used when dealing with grayscale images, there are some applications that require lossless image compression so that the original image may be recovered. This is often the case for historical and legal document image archives, medical and satellite imagery, and biometric images. The JPEG-LS algorithm is much less complex than other current …
Sculpture To Wear (Metaphorically); Sculpture To Wear As Jewelry; Sculpture That Wears Jewelry, Juan Caballero-Perez
Sculpture To Wear (Metaphorically); Sculpture To Wear As Jewelry; Sculpture That Wears Jewelry, Juan Caballero-Perez
Theses
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Effect Of Surface Roughness On Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow Characteristics At Low Reynolds Numbers In Small Diameter Tubes, Shailesh Joshi
Effect Of Surface Roughness On Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow Characteristics At Low Reynolds Numbers In Small Diameter Tubes, Shailesh Joshi
Theses
The effect surface roughness on pressure drop and heat transfer in circular tubes has been extensively studied in literature. The pioneering work of Nikuradse (1933) established the sand grain roughness as a major parameter in defining the friction factor during laminar and turbulent flows. Recent studies have indicated a transition to turbulent flows at Reynolds number values much below 2300 during single-phase flow in channels with small hydraulic diameters. In the present work, a detailed experimental study is undertaken to investigate the roughness effects in small diameter tubes. The roughness of the inside tube surface is changed by acid treatment. …
Dynamic Torsional Modeling And Analysis Of A Fluid Mixer, Joel Berg
Dynamic Torsional Modeling And Analysis Of A Fluid Mixer, Joel Berg
Theses
Mixers and agitators are used in a variety of processing industries. Each application has its own uniqueness requiring a high degree of customization in process design and mechanical design. Many of the processing and mechanical performance characteristics of mixers are derived from torque cell and tachometer measurements usually located between the motor and speed reducer. This thesis deals with the development of a dynamic modeling and analysis procedure to simulate the torsional response of mixers. This procedure will allow for the characterization of the torsional response at any point within the system, as well as relate the response as observed …
Heavy-Atom Quenching Of 9-Ethylcarbazole In Heterogeneous Matrices: Micelles And Latexes, Paul Conrow
Heavy-Atom Quenching Of 9-Ethylcarbazole In Heterogeneous Matrices: Micelles And Latexes, Paul Conrow
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The fluorescence quenching of 9-ethylcarbazole was studied in solution and heterogeneous dispersions. A heavy-atom quencher, 4-iodotoluene, was used to quench the fluorescence of 9-ethylcarbazole. Polymer analogs of 9-ethylcarbazole and 4-iodotoluene were incorporated into separate latex solutions, and quenching experiments were carried out with non-polymer and latex-bound analytes. Quenching in micellar solutions and latex dispersions was 20-1000 times more efficient than in homogeneous solutions. The diffusion of analytes into the dispersed phase of heterogeneous matrices created high local concentrations of the fluorescing species and quencher, while the global concentrations remained relatively low. The fluorescence quenching in latex solutions of poly[(methyl methacrylate)-co-vinylcarbazole] …
Two And Four Component Polyimides Based On Oxydiplithalic Anhydride, 1,3-Aminophenoxybenzene, Mellitic Acid Dianhydride, 3,4'-Oxydianiline, And Their Zirconium Pendent Polymers, Wei Cheng
Theses
The goals of this research are to synthesize novel two and four-component pendent polyimides by attaching the zirconium complex to the respective polymer backbones, and then to compare their characteristics, e.g. thermal properties, atomic oxygen resistance, and film properties, with those of previous students of Dr. Illingsworth, Derek Chow and Wei Wang. Our work focuses on increasing the atomic oxygen resistance of polyimides by increasing their pendent group concentrations. This result can best be achieved by increasing the flexibility of the polymer backbone, which also lowers glass transition temperature (Tg), improves polyamic acid solubility, and, thus, improves processibility. The novel …
Drudgery To Grace: A Philosophy Of Aesthetics, Daniel Jennings
By Now You Know, Mary Johnstone
Collection And Analysis Of Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Using A Clinical Imaging System, Thomas G. Servoss
Collection And Analysis Of Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Using A Clinical Imaging System, Thomas G. Servoss
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As most radiologists would attest, the accuracy of pathology diagnosis is greatly increased by acquiring more information about the tissue in question. An innovative data acquisition technique has been developed that will do just that - gather more information about the tissues being studied. As each tissue type is composed of a unique arrangement of chemical components, each tissue exhibits a characteristic nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) frequency spectrum. Unfortunately, current clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems integrate the characteristic spectra of the tissue within a voxel to create a single signal for the voxel, thus throwing away what could be …
Reductive Amination Of (Alpha) - Amino Acids: Solution - Phase Synthesis, Rohini D'Souza
Reductive Amination Of (Alpha) - Amino Acids: Solution - Phase Synthesis, Rohini D'Souza
Theses
Preparation of a small library of secondary amino acids was achieved by solution-phase organic synthesis using reductive amination reactions with selected cc-amino acids and aromatic aldehydes. Reductive amination employing sodium triacetoxyborohydride instead of sodium cyanoborohydride was found to give shorter reaction times and much safer byproducts. With less sterically hindered a-amino acids, direct reductive amination generally yielded the bisalkylated product. However, monoalkylation was achieved by adopting an indirect reductive amination route. Reaction mixtures were characterized by HPLC and LC-MS, resulting in the synthesis of a 21 compound library.