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Exile, Escape, And Reprieve: Poetry Of Displacement From The Russian Revolution Through World War Ii, Michael Sarnowski

From Russia with Love Symposium

No abstract provided.

The New Woman Is A Fertile One: Public Awareness Advertising And Russia’S ‘Boost The Birthrate’ Campaign, Elena Sommers

From Russia with Love Symposium

No abstract provided.

The Moment, Ho Moon

Theses

This study explores subtle relationships between people captured together in a photo frame and examines feelings of alienation of modern people as seen in my art. My paintings from 2012 to 2013 are the subjects of this study. The photo images that I took while traveling were used as subject matter for my paintings. The divisions of color areas were made by using pixels, so as to show a variety of color changes on the oil canvas. This study aims to explain the motive for choosing people as a subject for my artworks and my process of painting, and an …

Investigating The Interaction Between Positions And Signals Of Height-Channel Loudspeakers In Reproducing Immersive 3d Sound, Antonios Karampourniotis

Theses

Since transmission capacities have significantly increased over the past few years, researchers are now able to transmit a larger amount of data, namely multichannel audio content, in the consumer applications. What has not been investigated in a systematic way yet is how to deliver the multichannel content. Specifically, researchers' attention is focused on the quest of a standardized immersive reproduction format that incorporates height loudspeakers coupled with the new high-resolution and three-dimensional (3D) media content for a comprehensive 3D experience. To better understand and utilize the immersive audio reproduction, this research focused on the (1) interaction between the positioning of …

This Is Bouyon: An Exploration Of Dominica’S Own Genre Of Music, Garford Alexander

Theses

Bouyon music is a mixture of rhythms, melodies, and musical styles from

genres, such as Soca, Zouk, and traditional genres native to Dominica, a

small island nation located in the Caribbean Sea. The music is one of the

most popular musical genres in Dominica, and one of the Caribbean's

best-kept secrets. As Dominica is one of the lesser-known islands, this

genre of music is unknown to much of the world outside of the West Indies.

My project aims to document the history, and create awareness for Bouyon

music. Using firsthand interviews with the creators of the genre, footage of

performances, …

To Build A Home, Gina Zetta

Theses

It is in our nature as humans to want for a home, a point of origin to start from and safe place to return at journey's end. When that place is lost, we risk becoming lost too. This body of work is an exploration of how the spaces we occupy shape us. It's location is focused on the American landscape in an attempt to explore the ideals that have developed within the psyche of the American culture, and what happens to those dreams when expectations do not mirror reality. I am particularly interested in socially and geographically vulnerable locations. Places …

Intimate Sensibility, Aya Oki

Theses

In my thesis body of work, I propose to create glass sculpture and express the nature of glass using the sensuality that comes from my personal process and interaction with the medium. I am stimulated by my five senses, they create a sensorial experience that brings out the lifelike qualities I see in glass. These senses and experiences reveal the glass qualities: puffy, stretchy and squishy. These characteristics of glass are the focus of my thesis exploration and revealed through an intuitive approach.

For me, the sensuality of glass is revealed through an intuitive approach which is stimulated by my …

Mapping Of Memories, Yoonjee Kwak

Theses

In this thesis body of work, I will explore the relationship between the medium of clay and myself. I will use clay to represent and record the traces of my memories. Clay allows me to tell the story of my memories that are left behind from diverse and unpredictable relationships between myself and others. In my work there is a direct relationship between the forms I construct and the inspirations behind the work. For example, I clearly remember when my father was in hospital toward his final stages of illness. I had always remembered him as being physically, a very …

Anatomically Realistic Structural Modeling Of The Cardiac Purkinje Network: A Basis For Studying Contributions Of The Conduction System To Ventricular Arrhythmias, Benjamin Liu

Theses

A cardiac arrhythmia is a potentially-lethal event in which the normally orderly electrical activity in the heart is disrupted -- it becomes disorganized and compromises effective contraction. To better understand arrhythmia dynamics to develop potential therapies and treatments, experimental, computational, and mathematical tools are required. Simulations of cardiac tissue provide valuable insight into the dynamics of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, and though much work has been done in this area, the role of the Purkinje network during ventricular arrhythmias has largely been ignored. The function of the Purkinje network is crucial to normal heart rhythm, so its inclusion into cardiac structural …

Digital Chaos: Exploring Relationships Between Technological Advancement And Visual Experience, Kevin Giaquinto

Theses

More so than any other time in history, humans are being exposed to an enormity of digital images every day. The internet, combined with accompanying technological advancements in cellular communication has created an exceptionally chaotic visual experience within the daily lives of millions of people. Through the use of digital photomontage, my artwork attempts to quantify and evaluate the impact that thousands of digital images may have on the emotional and psychological state of human beings. Concurrently, I am in interested exploring the mental repercussions of visual overload, specifically, how chaotic digital experiences may impact the quality of the human …

Signatures Magazine: Rit's Journal Of Art And Literature 2013-2014, Rit Students

University Publications

No abstract provided.

University Magazine Spring 2014, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

This is the official magazine for RIT Alumni. Issued thrice a year in spring, fall and winter. Printing began in 1999.

Impact Of Advertising Personalization In Tablet Versions Of Magazines, Junpeng Chang

Theses

In today's digital publishing industry, personalization represents a trend, which has enabled the generation of one-to-one marketing communication via various media environments. Previous studies have shown how personalization works on different media types, such as web, email, and print. However, with the rapid development of tablets, the effectiveness of advertising personalization embedded in tablet magazines is unknown.

Using an experimental design, this study investigated the impact of advertising personalization on advertising recall and recognition, as well as the effectiveness among three different levels of advertising personalization: (1) Name and Product personalization (2) Product Only personalization (3) Name Only personalization. A …

A Conjoint Analysis Of The Value Of Book Covers In E-Book Buying Decisions, Holly Rollins

Theses

The objective of this Thesis was to determine the relative value of the cover design, price, and customer rating (e-book attributes) to consumers of science fiction or fantasy e-books. The motivation for this research was that the way we shop for digital books is different from the way we shop for print books. This led authorities to take positions as different as "[Book covers are] dead because the way we touch digital books is different than the way we touch physical books," (Mod, 2012), and "[Typographic covers] are one way to go," (Bridle, 2010).

A conjoint analysis was designed to …

A Conjoint Analysis Of Reader Preference For The Layout Of Tablet Editions Of Magazines, Stephanie Fallon

Theses

The tablet is an emerging channel for content delivery. One industry that is tapping into the potential of tablet content is the magazine industry. Little research has been conducted regarding what readers favor in digital magazines, especially with regards to layout. This thesis aimed to investigate reader preference for the layout of digital editions of magazines in the women's lifestyle genre, designed for the Apple iPad, with a focus on the attributes of image to white space ratio, grid, body typeface, and body text point size.

This study took a quantitative approach in addressing the proposed research question while incorporating …

Predicting The Adoption Of Digital Printing In The Label Printing Industry: A Reasoned Action Study, Trevor S. Schroeder

Theses

The package printing industry is a vibrant and growing industry and digital printing technology is improving quickly--yet the adoption of digital printing has not fully penetrated the label printing market, a subset of packaging, and digital printing has seen slower adoption in its decade-long history in labels than expected. This research attempts to explain why this may be the case by understanding the factors affecting the intention to adopt digital printing. This study utilizes Fishbein and Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in a cross-sectional survey of individuals in a decision-making role in label printing companies. The study was intended …

My Spot. A New Kind Of Workspace., Bridget Dee Sheehan

Theses

Designed with the creative industry in mind, my spot is a work space that accommodates today's rapidly changing technology and the shifting workforce. The user can create a work space that works best for his or her unique tools and technologies, whether digital or analog. It offers multiple work surfaces, allowing the worker to utilize their space in different ways throughout the day. This modular system is minimal and functional, but it also allows the worker to maintain his or her identity within the office environment. My spot attempts to break down the traditional cubicle wall and encourage collaboration with …

Performance Analysis Of Tracking On Mobile Devices Using Local Binary Descriptors, Mohammad Faiz Quraishi

Theses

With the growing ubiquity of mobile devices, users are turning to their smartphones and tablets to perform more complex tasks than ever before. Performing computer vision tasks on mobile devices must be done despite the constraints on CPU performance, memory, and power consumption. One such task for mobile devices involves object tracking, an important area of computer vision. The computational complexity of tracking algorithms makes them ideal candidates for optimization on mobile platforms.

This thesis presents a mobile implementation for real time object tracking. Currently few tracking approaches take into consideration the resource constraints on mobile devices. Optimizing performance for …

Spatiotemporal Variability: Process-Independent Analysis Of Printing Uniformity, Saleh A. Abdel Motaal

Theses

This work explores printing uniformity from a quality standpoint. The study proposes a conceptual framework, quantitative models and a testing method for the measurement and analysis of printing uniformity independent from the printing process and press design.

The proposed framework encompasses construct and indicators concerning the printing accuracy and printing precision dimensions of uniformity. The proposed models are derived for each of the indicators in the framework comprising a cohesive set of device- and process-independent image quality metrics (IQMs) for benchmarking and evaluating the spatial-temporal uniformity of printing systems relative to standard industry tolerances. The proposed test method builds on …

Warp & Weft, Maggie Pinke

Theses

There are two distinct directional strands used in weaving, the warp and the weft. Weaving functions as a rich metaphor for language and story telling, stretching across time and cultures. Like both photography and spoken language, it contains an assumption of memory and the ephemeral. Cloth wears thin with use, while images on paper, though temporarily captured, fade with time, and voices disappear once spoken. Building a body of work that examines created and recovered experience through text and image has allowed me to take the necessary steps backward and discover links between events and places previously unexplored.

Raine Azure, Lucas Gonzalez

Theses

Raine Azure is an animated graduate thesis film, with a runtime of 6:27. This animation follows the story of March and Autumn, a brother and sister (respectively) tasked to protect a crystal altar that serves as the world's rain dynamo. They set off to save the world from a beast which has stolen the power of the altar and upset the world's balance. Along the way, March discovers that a balance exists between self-reliance and dependence on others.

The primary goals during the production of this film were to explore and develop my

skills in animation, character design, and music …

How To Teach A Complex Discipline In A Changing Learning Environment: The Example Of Sustainability, Sándor Kerekes, Konrad Wetzker

Journal of Environmental Sustainability

In the “electronic age” our teaching profession is faced with new challenges. Normally, educators tend to spend a significant amount of time updating the content of what they teach. They spend less time changing their methods of teaching. Today, this no longer works. A lot of content is delivered through Google and similar partners and what is now critical is that we make the necessary changes in our teaching methods to reflect this and to have some impact on our audiences. Based on more than forty years of teaching experience we feel qualified to underline the importance of the form …

Enhancement Of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Using A Combination Of Open Microchannels And Microporous Surfaces, Chinmay Patil

Theses

The continuous development of high performance chips and growing miniaturization trend in the electronics and microelectronics industry requires efficient systems removing large amount of heat over a small footprint. It has been experimentally proven that pool boiling has the ability to remove large heat fluxes by maintaining a small value of wall superheat. This heat transfer performance can be further augmented with the use of enhanced surfaces. The present research is focused on developing microporous surface coatings on the plain and microchannel surfaces to further enhance pool boiling heat transfer.

In this work, a two-step electrodeposition technique involving application of …

Infinite Reflections Of Transition, Ellina Chetverikova

Theses

Coming from an international background, I often reflect on my transitional era coming to the United States from the Ukraine and finding a way to adapt. Creating the series of work In Between, I came up with the realization that I did not belong completely to either of the cultures. Instead, I was a child of the world. Change in life educates us by letting us to adapt to new situations and people. By changing the place where we live, the bigger picture opens up for us and we are able to see the world from many perspectives at the …

From The Co-Editors

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

No abstract provided.

From The Co-Editors

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

No abstract provided.

From The Co-Editors

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

No abstract provided.

Increasing The Accessibility Of Science For All Students, Samantha Langley - Turnbaugh, Glenn Wilson, Lynn Lovewell

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

This paper evaluates the accessibility of selected field and laboratory high school science activities, and provides suggestions for increasing accessibility for students with disabilities. We focused on GLOBE (Global Learning Observations to Benefit the Environment) protocols, specifically the new Seasons and Biomes investigation currently being developed as part of the GLOBE program. Five university students with disabilities majoring in science or technology were recruited to test the GLOBE protocols, and 10 protocols were evaluated for accessibility. Based on our results, we make several suggestions with regards to instructions, equipment, safety, outcomes and activity significance that will increase the accessibility of …

From The Co-Editors

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

No abstract provided.

Travelmacedonia: A Solution For The Discovery Of Macedonia As A Place Of Travel, Violeta Mangovski

Theses

TravelMacedonia is a thesis, which explores the relationship between interactive design and marketing. Both are studied in respect to create an improved marketing system for Macedonia's tourism, as it is under discovered. A website and app prototype are created in order to meet the goal of increasing awareness of Macedonia and desire to travel there. This topic is relevant to the field of design because of its importance in making the retrieval of information not only accessible, but also to provide this information in an easily accessible and readable way.

The website is designed to surprise users of how interesting …