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Reporter - April 5th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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Reporter - April 1st 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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A Case Study Of Value Streams And Lean Implementation For A Small Print Shop, Alexis Austin

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The growing use of portable Internet devices (smart phones, iPads, laptops, etc.) has caused a huge shift toward digital distribution of content over traditional print processes. Poor economic conditions have contributed to increased customer price sensitivity and higher costs of goods involved in printing. These factors have changed demand for traditional printed products. Many printers have been unable to adapt to the new market environment, leading to dwindling profit margins and thousands of shop closures. Many strategies have been touted as the "best" way to stay profitable in the new market environment, including value-added services, new machinery, and software packages. …

Fusing Art And Science, Steven Tippin

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In this thesis, I will demonstrate how I incorporate scientific theory to produce varying aesthetics in my artwork. By discussing the foundations on which I have built this notion, in addition to my childhood interests, I will assert that my artwork is firmly grounded and entrenched in my interests in both science and art.

Fancy Nancy Blues, Xuemei Song

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"Fancy Nancy Blues" is an animated graduate thesis film that is three minutes and thirty seconds long, based on sound cues that lead into images. It tells the story of a woman that plays the piano. She finds herself dreaming of romance, until other sounds interrupt her. This continues until her normal-looking husband returns home. He is a normal working man -- not the one she dreams of -- but she accepts her reality and meets him with a kiss. This film is a hand-drawn animation that was produced in TV Paint Animation, Photoshop, and traditional watercolor. The film was …

736940, May Alkharafi

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736,940 is the number of females in Kuwait between the ages of 15 and 64 as of July 2012, the general age range that I address in my work. 736,940 is a visual exploration of the social status of Kuwaiti women in relation to tradition, religion, authority, and their physical and emotional negotiation of Kuwaiti society. The work explores the role of Kuwaiti traditions that create and maintain a lower status for Kuwaiti women. Through visualizing women's anonymity and representations of cultural authority I deconstruct the power struggle in a disconnected and unequal society. I employ various media to define, …

Design For Long Distance Relationships, Chen An

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Does holding on to the mantra "distance makes the heart grow fonder" begin to give you some doubts? If you are troubled by your long distance relationship, you are not alone. According to Ezinearticles.com, "an estimated 2.9% of US marriages were considered long distance, with 1 in 10 marriages reported to have included a period at long distance within the first 3 years. Between 25-40% of all romantic relationships among students attending colleges across the US are Long Distances. " Every day on the planet, millions of people have no choice but to deal with being miles apart from their …

Development Of Nanowire Structures On 2d And 3d Substrates For Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement, Zhonghua Yao

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Boiling is a common mechanism for liquid-vapor phase transition and is widely exploited in power generation, refrigeration and many other systems. The efficacy of boiling heat transfer is characterized by two parameters: (a) heat transfer coefficient (HTC) or the thermal conductance; (b) the critical heat flux (CHF). Increasing the CHF and the HTC has significant impacts on system-level energy efficiency, safety and cost. As the surface modification at nano-scale has proven to be an effective approach to improve pool boiling heat transfer, the enhancement due to combination of nanomaterials with micro-scale structures on boiling heat transfer is an area of …

Toward Privacy-Preserving Emergency Access In Ehr Systems With Data Auditing, Muhannad Darnasser

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Widespread adoption of health information sharing is claimed to improve healthcare quality at reduced cost due to the ability for providers to share healthcare information rapidly, reliably, and securely. During emergency access, however, such sharing may affect patient privacy adversely and steps must be taken to ensure privacy is preserved. Australia and the US have taken different approaches toward health information sharing. The Australian approach broadly uses a "push" model where a summary record is extracted from local health records, and pushed into a centralized system accessed by providers. Under the US approach, providers during emergency access generally "pull" health …

Satori, Fahan Mcdonagh

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Walking as a meditative practice strengthens a state of attention to the present moment and connects me to nature. In a moment of presence, nature discloses the interconnection of all things. These connections embody a feeling of oneness and provide a context to the world around me. Through acute observation and intuitive response, I record and contemplate specific information about my experience and translate it into space. By investigating form and space relationships created by light, I observe a bit of magic; emptiness with purpose, a portal for communal transcendence, the essence of beauty within and around form. Stimulated by …

Assessing The Performance Of Digital Micromirror Devices For Use In Space-Based Multi-Object Spectrometers, Kenneth Fourspring

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A current need in space-based instrumentation is a reconfigurable slit mask. Several techniques for slit masks have been employed for ground-based astronomical spectrographs. These ground-based instruments have used large discrete components, which are impractical for remote operation in space-based deployment. The Texas Instruments' Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) was originally conceived purely for display purposes, but is a viable candidate to be use as a slit mask in a space-based multi-object spectrograph (MOS). The Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing industry has enabled the robust integration of both silicon transistors and Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) optical components into a very reliable monolithic chip …

Reporter - March 22nd 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Transcriptional Analysis Of B-Cells Post Flu Vaccination Using Rna Sequencing, Manimozhi Manivannan

Theses

RNA-Seq (Nagalakshmi, et al., 2008; Mortazavi, et al., 2008), also known as Whole transcriptome sequencing investigates the RNA content from a sample through high throughput sequencing of cDNA. This exciting technology has important applications such as the improvement of existing genome annotations, discovery of novel genes and transcripts (Roberts, et al., 2011), revealing alternative splicing events and measuring the differential expression of genes across samples. This study examines the transcriptional responses of B-cells to the influenza vaccine using RNA-Seq. Five subjects received the flu vaccine. RNA was extracted at 11 different time points and sequenced using RNA-Seq. The RNA-Seq data …

Transcriptional Analysis Of B-Cells Post Flu Vaccination Using Rna Sequencing, Manimozhi Manivannan

Theses

RNA-Seq (Nagalakshmi, et al., 2008; Mortazavi, et al., 2008), also known as Whole transcriptome sequencing investigates the RNA content from a sample through high throughput sequencing of cDNA. This exciting technology has important applications such as the improvement of existing genome annotations, discovery of novel genes and transcripts (Roberts, et al., 2011), revealing alternative splicing events and measuring the differential expression of genes across samples. This study examines the transcriptional responses of B-cells to the influenza vaccine using RNA-Seq. Five subjects received the flu vaccine. RNA was extracted at 11 different time points and sequenced using RNA-Seq. The RNA-Seq data …

Evaluation Of The 2011 Kosovo Population Census [Presentation Given May 15, 2013], Shpend Thaqi

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Registration as a statistical operation, reveals the real situation of the population in a certain time and serves as a base to conduct further demographic assessments by using the data on natural increment and migration balance. A Census is real picture of the territory of a country expressing the real situation over everything that deals with numbers and statistics of a country. In 2011, from the date 1-30th of April, Kosovo realized its first census, family economies and dwellings after 20 years. After the independence of Republic of Kosovo in 2008, the census was considered to have been the most …

Creatures And Environments, Daniel Stevens

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I am interested in how things are formed or made both by natural events and by man. The history and story of the environment we inhabit greatly influences my work. I reorganize materials in ways that twist how they may actually develop left to nature. Nature does some very strange and difficult to explain things and I am looking to make the viewer question the boundaries between nature and manmade. My jewelry is similar to a collected specimen, seemingly distant from where it originated but still bearing the evidence of its origin. In this body of work I hope to …

A Qualitative Examination Of Recent Public Participation Activities In Association With Ecosystem Management In The Great Lakes, Erin Muench

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Government approaches to the management of the North American Great Lakes have evolved following the introduction of ecosystem management principles in the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. This approach was adopted as a way to address the complexities associated with the interconnections between the air, land, and water in the Great Lakes basin and its more than 30 million inhabitants. Although there is no universally accepted definition of ecosystem management, a key element is stakeholder participation in policy formulation and implementation to validate decisions within the public sphere. In this thesis I assess …

Already Gone, Manuel Fermin Hernandez Marquez

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Already Gone is a project that explores the relationship of the photographic medium to the concepts of time and history, and the several temporal and historical layers contained within any photographic image. It is heavily influenced by photo-conceptualist practices that were introduced in the 1960s that often employed a de-skilled aesthetic, and questioned photography's intrinsic characteristics, possibilities, and limitations. Already Gone is inspired by the ideas of artistic agency in a time where the end of history and the beginning of post-history is proposed, and in the effects the demise of analog photography might have in the indexical nature of …

Impartial Validity, Salah Ahmed

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Impartial Validity probes the relationship between self-representation and self-validation. This probing arises from an unsatisfied attempt to validate my own trauma associated with combat and selfhood. I find myself drawn to photograph banal objects that seem to reflect me, using representation to authenticate the experience of trauma. I feel a connection with these objects before I photograph them. Yet, once I have rendered them as images, I discover that the tenuous connections between the objects and myself were wholly created by the potential of the camera in my original encounter. These connections have little or no reality outside of the …

Caroline, Margaret Cogsdill

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Caroline explores the notion of loss as an overarching theme by examining a mother's illness and its profound impact on her daughter. My work is inspired by a desire to understand my relationship with my mother, Caroline. Throughout my life I have struggled to accept her illness and its impact on me. Through photography, performance, and imaginative play I am able to initiate a new relationship with her and to explore intimacy, connection, nostalgia, and loss. Through this body of work, my mother and I enter into a world of our imagination where we collaborate as artist and mother. We …

Reporter - March 15th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Constrained Independent Component Analysis For Non-Obtrusive Pulse Rate Measurements Using A Webcam, Survi Kyal

Theses

Assessment of cardiac function of a patient is very important for understanding a patient's physiological state. Remote measurements of the cardiac pulse can provide comfortable physiological assessment by minimizing the amount of wires and cables and allowing for near continuous measurements. It has been found that state-of-the-art algorithms based on independent component analysis (ICA) suffer from a sorting problem which hinders their performance. This effect is demonstrated in this work. The automated pulse detection techniques are applied to RGB color video recordings of the facial region of a person being monitored for cardiac function in a remote sensing environment. Automated …

Design For The High School Experience, Richard L. Beckman

Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to allow teachers in high schools to have a resource for creative thinking to help aid their classrooms in design based education for their students.

I started this journey with two questions:

`How can I help educate others about the world of design?'

`How can I show other educators outside of the design field that design education is needed now more than ever?'

The first question was answered in part by me enrolling at RIT's Industrial Design Program. At the end of my first year at RIT I was given the opportunity from the …

A Cart, A Box, A Gps: A Luggage Cart And A Clip Style Information Device Design From The View Of Universal Design, Sunyoung Stephanie Kim

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The existing design of the airport luggage cart, which is intended to help travelers carry multiples pieces of luggage, has some issues. Also, the travelers sometimes are challenged to get information or to communicate with the workers at the airports especially when people travel outside of their mother country. These issues show that the airport needs a new luggage cart that is designed under the aspect of Universal Design. Therefore, this study proposed a new luggage cart design and the possibility of it to provide better service for all.

Reporter - March 8th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Actors & Athletes On Trial: A Textual Analysis Of Two Scandals In The 1920s, Melissa Lopes

Theses

Using textual analysis, this thesis studied newspaper coverage of the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle murder trial and the 1919 World Series fix. It examined differences in how hometown papers (Chicago Daily Tribune and Los Angeles Times)and a national paper (New York Times)covered the scandals. It answered questions about coverage of a scandal within the entertainment industry versus one within the sports arena, and also explored how reports revealed standards of morality in the 1920s. Results showed subtle differences in hometown and national newspaper coverage, but vast differences in reports about the entertainment scandal versus the sports scandal. The research also found …

Perception Based Heterogeneous Subsurface Scattering For Film, Laura Wieme

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Many real world materials exhibit complex subsurface scattering of light. This internal light interaction creates the perception of translucency for the human visual system. Translucent materials and simulation of the subsurface scattering of light has become an expected necessity for generating warmth and realism in computer generated imagery. The light transport within heterogenous materials, such as marble, has proved challenging to model and render. The current material models available to digital artists have been limited to homogeneous subsurface scattering despite a few publications documenting success at simulating heterogeneous light transport. While the publications successfully simulate this complex phenomenon, the material …

Sinographs: Studying Chinese Characters Through Adobe Flash On Apple Iphone, Paul Guo

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Sinographs are Chinese characters used in the Chinese and Japanese languages. People who are learning Chinese and sinographs challenging to memorize. My objective is to teach 50 of the most-used simplified sinographs to Chinese learners and to help them determine how to form basic characters through an interactive application developed in Flash Professional for utilization on the iPhone and as on a demo webpage. Interactive applications appear to becoming increasingly more popular, especially in web design and for other devices, so I utilized my experience in Flash Professional (and ActionScript 3) and graphic user interface (GUI) to create this application. …

Thin-Film Transistors Fabricated Using Sputter Deposition Of Zno, Nan Xiao

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Development of thin film transistors (TFTs) with conventional channel layer materials, such as amorphous silicon (a-Si) and polysilicon (poly-Si), has been extensively investigated. A-Si TFT currently serves the large flat panel industry; however advanced display products are demanding better TFT performance because of the associated low electron mobility of a-Si. This has motivated interest in semiconducting metal oxides, such as Zinc Oxide (ZnO), for TFT backplanes. This work involves the fabrication and characterization of TFTs using ZnO deposited by sputtering. An overview of the process details and results from recently fabricated TFTs following a full-factorial designed experiment will be presented. …

Integrating Site-Specific Environmental Graphic Design Within An Urban Context, Sanjyot Wagle

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There are opportunities for environmental graphic design solutions that can enable urban residents to grasp information faster, reach destinations sooner and foster memorable experiences. In the daily negotiation of city living there may also be opportunities for educating residents about meaningful community-related topics. Graphic design can play a key role in addressing these goals. Environmental graphic design and wayfinding can help make urban experiences easier and more interesting. Incorporating the strategies of layering and sequencing within environmental graphic design solutions can strengthen the overall design and the particular messages being conveyed. One socially important topic city residents need to be …