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First Steps Towards Minimizing Lead Exposure In An At-Risk Community In Mitrovica, Kosovo, Maxwell Scott May 2013

First Steps Towards Minimizing Lead Exposure In An At-Risk Community In Mitrovica, Kosovo, Maxwell Scott

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The city of Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo, has historically been a heavily contaminated city due to its lead mining industry. The long history of heavy metal mining and processing, combined with the violent break-up of Former Yugoslavia, has created a slew of human health, environmental, and social impacts. High levels of lead exposure in the minority communities (Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian) of Mitrovica has arisen as one of the greatest health issues in the area. There have been a number of studies conducted by governmental and non-governmental organizations, many international, to assess the severity of the issue. There have also been …

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Identifying Medical Resident Stress With Work Domain Representation, Daniel Nystrom May 2013

Identifying Medical Resident Stress With Work Domain Representation, Daniel Nystrom

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Resident physicians must endure substantial amounts of stress to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to become competent, certified physicians. Multiple factors that contribute to high levels of stress in different areas of the healthcare domain have been identified, but stress continues to be a major problem despite this knowledge and efforts to reduce it. This thesis describes a holistic approach to the problem of resident stress by employing methods of Cognitive Work Analysis to systematically review and organize relevant research literature, observations, interview responses, and survey information according to the area of the work domain where each stressor is …

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Coup D'Oeil, Stephanie Quarto May 2013

Coup D'Oeil, Stephanie Quarto

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coup d'oeil translates as "stroke of eye;" it also means a sudden blink or glimpse. It was used as a military term referring to a general's ability to assess with a single glance the advantages and disadvantages of a battlefield. I have titled this thesis coup d'oeil because it addresses the general lack of strategy and analysis by viewers of popular images. Images are omnipresent; they guide and influence humanity. They are not inherently adversarial, but when they assault both our conscious and unconscious minds, they can be extremely influential and destructive. The images in this thesis are similarly made …

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Tailored Type: Studying The Effects Of Typography In Clothing Brand Personalities, Rita Yu May 2013

Tailored Type: Studying The Effects Of Typography In Clothing Brand Personalities, Rita Yu

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Understanding how typography influences consumer perception and brand reception is important to successfully employ typographic strategies that positively influence consumers. Utilizing typography to effectively express the intended meaning through text and perception requires extensive thought and skill. The purpose of this thesis was to examine whether specific typefaces used for clothing brands deliver particular brand personality traits. An online survey investigating this relationship between typography and clothing brand personality was created and made available to voluntary participants. A total of 251 usable data sets were collected and statistically analyzed. The findings of this study provided an insight on the association …

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Towards A Characterization Of Wetland Invasive Vegetation Using A Combination Of Field And Remote Sensing Techniques, Nicole Dutcher May 2013

Towards A Characterization Of Wetland Invasive Vegetation Using A Combination Of Field And Remote Sensing Techniques, Nicole Dutcher

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Creation of compensatory wetlands has been required in the U.S. since the late 1980s in an attempt to offset the massive decline in freshwater wetlands. To meet permitting requirements, vegetation composition in mitigation wetlands must be monitored for a minimum of five years following creation. Unfortunately, mitigated wetlands often lack the functionality of natural wetlands and may form hotspots for invasive plant species. However, wetland assessment is a time-consuming process that may also disturb fragile nascent plant communities. Thus there is a need for approaches that minimize disturbance, but still enable the collection of data over large portions of the …

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Reliability Theory: Properties Of Probability Distributions For Lifetimes Of Systems Of Components, Rachel Santiago May 2013

Reliability Theory: Properties Of Probability Distributions For Lifetimes Of Systems Of Components, Rachel Santiago

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The purpose of this paper is to make the concepts of reliability theory manageable even for those without an extensive mathematics background. This paper will break down the types of systems, explore the aspects of probability distributions which are important in reliability theory, as well as examine some concepts regarding the differences between system lifetimes and lifetimes of components. The goal of this paper is to allow the reader to gain an understanding of some of the key concepts explored in this theory, to provide examples for the reader to try, and to include proofs that have been broken down …

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Eye Scream For Candy, Aaron Ramsier May 2013

Eye Scream For Candy, Aaron Ramsier

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Eye Scream for Candy is an animated graduate thesis film that chronicles a boy's unplanned evening adventure and the creatures and confusion that drive this outing. It was produced using industry standard 2D, 3D, and audio software. The following paper addresses the journey taken to produce this film, including, Original Concepts, Goals, Styles and Influences, Production Pipeline, Experience, and Screenings. Additional materials are included to further demonstrate both the paths taken, and not taken.

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An Investigation Of Electrochemomechanical Actuation Of Conductive Polyacrylonitrile (Pan) Nanofiber Composites, Mark Gonzalez May 2013

An Investigation Of Electrochemomechanical Actuation Of Conductive Polyacrylonitrile (Pan) Nanofiber Composites, Mark Gonzalez

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A polymer-based nanofiber composite actuator designed for linear actuation was fabricated by electrospinning, actuated by electrolysis, and characterized by electrical and mechanical testing to address performance limitations and understand the activation processing effects on actuation performance. Currently, Electroactive polymers (EAPs) have provided uses in sensory and actuation technology, but have either low force output or expand rather than contract, falling short in capturing the natural motion and function of muscle desperately needed to provide breakthroughs in the bio-medical and robotic fields. Previous research has shown activated Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers having biomimetic functionalities similar to the sarcomere contraction responsible for muscle …

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Based On A True Story, Wil Sideman May 2013

Based On A True Story, Wil Sideman

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My thesis exhibition will contain work that is derived from objects in my family history. Through this work, I will research concepts of family investigation and self-identity. With the use of glass as well as other materials, I will work from site visits, memories, and family stories to create individual sculptures. When combined, these separate pieces will function as a whole in a narrative installation. This work will pay tribute to the makers that came before me in my family, as well as further my knowledge and understanding of the importance of the objects in my life. Inspired directly by …

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Hyperspectral Monitoring Of Chemically Sensitive Plant Sensors, Danielle Simmons May 2013

Hyperspectral Monitoring Of Chemically Sensitive Plant Sensors, Danielle Simmons

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Current events clearly demonstrate that chemical and biological threats against the public are very real. Automated detection of chemical threats is a necessary component of a system that provides early warning of an attack. Plant biologists are currently developing genetically engineered plants that de-green in the presence of explosives (i.e. TNT) in their environment. The objectives of this thesis are to study the spectral reflectance phenomenology of the plant sensors and to propose requirements for an operational monitoring system using spectral imaging technology. Hyperspectral data were collected under laboratory conditions to determine the key spectral regions in the reflectance spectra …

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Cross Section, Joanna Poag May 2013

Cross Section, Joanna Poag

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I plan to make sculpture using modules to build monolithic structures. The sculptures will explore equilibrium as it relates to an interaction and balance between elements. Weight, both visual and physical, will be a key focus of each piece. The sculptures incorporate gravity and mass in a way that exaggerates or defies the weight of the pieces. The formal strategy of breaking symmetry is employed to develop sculptures that incorporate gravity and mass and express visual movement in opposition to predictable mathematical sequencing. Line is used as a sculptural means to explore form. It has been used in a way …

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Functional Carbon Nanotubes For Electrical Conductors, Christopher Schauerman May 2013

Functional Carbon Nanotubes For Electrical Conductors, Christopher Schauerman

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Carbon nanotube (CNT) conductors are an enabling technology for advancing the efficacy of sustainable energy systems. In parallel, proactive consideration for each of the phases in the material life cycle can enhance device performance while minimizing unwanted impacts. Increasing the yield of CNTs through advances in synthesis will help reduce the electricity, chemicals, and costs associated with their production. Modifications to the nanoscale morphology (alignment, bundling, density and lower contact resistances) are needed to improve the CNT material properties to meet or exceed those of conventional metallic conductors. Also, a robust evaluation of methods for contacting carbon-based wires is needed …

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Measuring Attention Using Microsoft Kinect, Darren Stanley May 2013

Measuring Attention Using Microsoft Kinect, Darren Stanley

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The transfer of knowledge between individuals has increasingly become achieved with the aid of interfaces or computerized training applications. However, computer based training currently lacks the ability to monitor human behavioral changes and respond to them accordingly. This study examines the ability to predict user attention using features of body posture and head pose. Predictive abilities are assessed by an analysis of the relationship between the measured posture features and common objective measures of attention, such as reaction time and reaction time variance. Subjects were asked to participate in a series of sustained attention tasks while aspects of body movement …

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Valuing A European Option With The Heston Model, Yuan Yang May 2013

Valuing A European Option With The Heston Model, Yuan Yang

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In spite of the Black-Scholes (BS) equation being widely used to price options, this method is based on a hypothesis that the volatility of the underlying is a constant. A number of scholars began to improve the formula, and they proposed to employ stochastic volatility models to predict the behavior of the volatility. One of the results of the improvement is stochastic volatility models, which replaces the fixed volatility by a stochastic volatility process. The purpose of this dissertation is to adopt one of the famous stochastic volatility models, Heston Model (1993), to price European call options. Put option values …

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Anti-Propaganda Propaganda Animation, Ruban Tamrakar May 2013

Anti-Propaganda Propaganda Animation, Ruban Tamrakar

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This motion graphics project tries to shed light on how a few media conglomerates controls most of the information we get as citizens. This is done to manipulate and control the public. For this project, I picked one of the theories relating to media-society relationship. This theory says that the media has a big influence on society. Here I present the current media-ownership scenario and their motive for information manipulation. Then, I talk about how these companies are able to control the public by controlling the media. At last, I urge the viewers to break the illusion, question every thing …

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Using Pcr To Target Misconceptions About Gene Expression, Leslie Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman May 2013

Using Pcr To Target Misconceptions About Gene Expression, Leslie Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman

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We present a PCR-based laboratory exercise that can be used with first- or second-year biology students to help overcome common misconceptions about gene expression. Biology students typically do not have a clear understanding of the difference between genes (DNA) and gene expression (mRNA/protein) and often believe that genes exist in an organism or cell only when they are expressed. This laboratory exercise allows students to carry out a PCR-based experiment designed to challenge their misunderstanding of the difference between genes and gene expression. Students first transform E. coli with an inducible GFP gene containing plasmid and observe induced and un-induced …

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Using Pcr To Target Misconceptions About Gene Expression, Leslie Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman May 2013

Using Pcr To Target Misconceptions About Gene Expression, Leslie Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman

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We present a PCR-based laboratory exercise that can be used with first- or second-year biology students to help overcome common misconceptions about gene expression. Biology students typically do not have a clear understanding of the difference between genes (DNA) and gene expression (mRNA/protein) and often believe that genes exist in an organism or cell only when they are expressed. This laboratory exercise allows students to carry out a PCR-based experiment designed to challenge their misunderstanding of the difference between genes and gene expression. Students first transform E. coli with an inducible GFP gene containing plasmid and observe induced and un-induced …

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Packaging Print Buyer Willingness To Trade Off Image Quality For Environmental Benefits, Rattana Mayteekriengkrai May 2013

Packaging Print Buyer Willingness To Trade Off Image Quality For Environmental Benefits, Rattana Mayteekriengkrai

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Consumers are increasingly concerned about environmental friendliness, in addition to product quality. However, widely used technologies are not yet capable of producing packaging that combines the highest level of image quality with the highest level of environmental friendliness. As a result, print buyers are forced to trade-off image quality for increased environmental friendliness. The amount of image quality that a print buyer is willing to trade-off for a given improvement in environmental friendliness is unknown. This is a problem for printers and print suppliers who are attempting to develop products without access to this potentially critical empirical design information. This …

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Something Other Than I Had Planned, Kristy Carpenter May 2013

Something Other Than I Had Planned, Kristy Carpenter

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Something Other Than I Had Planned is an extended portrait of my mother, exploring themes of representation, familial roles, the archive, and personal narrative. Curating existing images from our family archive as well as creating my own visual documentation, the series examines both the current life and past history of my mother in an attempt to understand her as an individual and our evolving relationship as mother and daughter. Rooted in research of historical representations and understandings of the mother figure, as well as photography's history as a tool for preserving and examining the past, I explore ideas around nostalgia, …

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Go!Polo-Discovering The "Sport Of Kings", Shelley Kornatz May 2013

Go!Polo-Discovering The "Sport Of Kings", Shelley Kornatz

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GO!Polo is an instructional application designed to help people interested in equestrian polo save time and money by allowing the user to review basic information about the sport on their own time before even getting on a horse. Thus, the user arrives to their first lesson with several lessons’ worth of foundational knowledge, allowing them to focus on things that cannot be taught without being in the saddle—horsemanship and riding. This structure allows users to begin playing much more quickly than those without prior exposure to the application. The Adobe Flash-based application strives to accomplish four main goals: (1) Provide …

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Reporter - May 4th 2013 (The Photo Issue), Rit Reporter Staff May 2013

Reporter - May 4th 2013 (The Photo Issue), Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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Reporter - May 4th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff May 2013

Reporter - May 4th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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Reliability-Aware Multi-Segmented Bus Architecture For Photonic Networks-On-Chip, Patrick Sieber May 2013

Reliability-Aware Multi-Segmented Bus Architecture For Photonic Networks-On-Chip, Patrick Sieber

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Network-on-chip (NoC) has emerged as an enabling platform for connecting hundreds of cores on a single chip, allowing for a structured, scalable system when compared to traditional on-chip buses. However, the multi-hop wireline paths in traditional NoCs result in high latency and energy dissipation causing an overall degradation in performance, especially for increasing system size. To alleviate this problem a few radically different interconnect technologies are envisioned. One such method of interconnecting different cores in NoCs is photonic interconnects. Photonic NoCs are on-chip communications networks in which information is transmitted in the form of optical signals. Photonic interconnection is one …

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The Electronic Medical Record: Designing With The Patient In Mind, Alyssa Costino May 2013

The Electronic Medical Record: Designing With The Patient In Mind, Alyssa Costino

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The transition from paper charts to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is intended to create a more efficient health care industry. The use of EMRs eliminates paper waste and allows doctors and other medical staff to communicate with others conveniently wherever they happen to be located. Currently, the focus is on working through functionality and design issues in the hospital EMRs and getting doctors acquainted with how the EMR works. The patient focus has not been addressed at this time in terms of how they use and interact with their personal medical history. Based on my own personal experiences suffering from …

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University Magazine Spring 2013, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations May 2013

University Magazine Spring 2013, 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.

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Signatures Magazine: Rit's Journal Of Art And Literature 2012-2013, Rit Students May 2013

Signatures Magazine: Rit's Journal Of Art And Literature 2012-2013, Rit Students

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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Secure Access Control For Health Information Sharing Systems, Suhair Alshehri, Rajendra K. Raj May 2013

Secure Access Control For Health Information Sharing Systems, Suhair Alshehri, Rajendra K. Raj

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The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) encourages healthcare providers to share information to improve healthcare quality at reduced cost. Such information sharing, however, raises security and privacy concerns that require appropriate access control mechanisms to ensure Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. Current approaches such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and its variants, and newer approaches such as Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) are inadequate. RBAC provides simple administration of access control and user permission review, but demands complex initial role engineering and makes access control inflexible. ABAC, on the other hand, simplifies …

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Reliable And Secure Body Fall Detection Algorithm In A Wireless Mesh Network, Sanjana Rakhecha May 2013

Reliable And Secure Body Fall Detection Algorithm In A Wireless Mesh Network, Sanjana Rakhecha

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Falls in elderly is one of the most serious causes of severe injury. Lack in immediate medical help makes these injuries life threatening. An automatic fall detection system, presented in this research, would help reduce the arrival time of medical attention, reduce mortality rate and promote independent living. Therefore, the algorithm finds its application in the medical field, specifically in nursing homes. The system designed and presented in this research is not only capable of detecting human falls but also distinguishing them from routine fall-like activities. Falls are detected with the help of a small wearable embedded device, i.e. Texas …

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Recreating East Asia Creatures That Exist In Mythology As Rpg Fantasy Characters, Woosang Kim May 2013

Recreating East Asia Creatures That Exist In Mythology As Rpg Fantasy Characters, Woosang Kim

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Today, MMORPG Games (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) are one of the most popular games in the PC online game genre because users can enjoy the game with other players. They can also choose their own characters and control the character`s avatar. Wide selection of characters available is one of the most important elements in the game. These characters have to be well-designed to draw the user`s attention. These characters, which appear in fantasy MMORPG (World of War craft), and their special features originate from Western myths and ancient stories. Likewise, East Asian has a long history with many myths …

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Anaerobic Codigestion Of Dairy Manure And Food Manufacturing Waste For Renewable Energy Generation In New York State, Matthew Rankin May 2013

Anaerobic Codigestion Of Dairy Manure And Food Manufacturing Waste For Renewable Energy Generation In New York State, Matthew Rankin

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Anaerobic digestion is a microbiological process that converts biodegradable organic material into biogas, consisting primarily of methane and carbon dioxide. Anaerobic digestion technologies have been integrated into wastewater treatment facilities nationwide for many decades to increase the economic viability of the treatment process by converting a waste stream into two valuable products: biogas and fertilizer. Thus, anaerobic digestion offers potential economic and environmental benefits of organic waste diversion and renewable energy generation. The use of biogas has many applications, including cogeneration, direct combustion, upgrading for conversion to feed a fuel cell, and compression for injection into the natural gas grid …

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