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Reflection, Stephen Brucker Feb 2012

Reflection, Stephen Brucker

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Reflection is a Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Master of Fine Arts. Reflection by Stephen Brucker is a formal documentation of artwork, conceptual thought process, and technical skills used to facilitate the creation of MFA thesis work and its successive gallery art exhibit. Additionally it offers insight into the artists personal background as well as the artists that influenced and informed the final body of work. Depicted in Reflection is the personal exploration by the artist of three relationships involving water. The relationship between society and …

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An Integrated Physics-Based Approach To Demonstrate The Potential Of The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (Ldcm) For Monitoring Coastal/Inland Waters, Nima Pahlevan Feb 2012

An Integrated Physics-Based Approach To Demonstrate The Potential Of The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (Ldcm) For Monitoring Coastal/Inland Waters, Nima Pahlevan

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Monitoring coastal or inland waters, recognized as case II waters, using the existing Landsat technology is somewhat restricted because of its low Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) as well as its relatively poor radiometric resolution. As a primary task, we introduce a novel technique, which integrates the Landsat-7 data as a surrogate for LDCM with a 3D hydrodynamic model to monitor the dynamics of coastal waters near river discharges as well as in a small lake environment. The proposed approach leverages both the thermal and the reflective Landsat-7 imagery to calibrate the model and to retrieve the concentrations of optically active components …

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Reporter - February 10th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Feb 2012

Reporter - February 10th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

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Otter Spotter: The Creation And Evaluation Of An Educational Resource For The Association Of Zoos And Aquariums, Rochester Institute Of Technology, And The Seneca Park Zoo, Emily Coon-Frisch Feb 2012

Otter Spotter: The Creation And Evaluation Of An Educational Resource For The Association Of Zoos And Aquariums, Rochester Institute Of Technology, And The Seneca Park Zoo, Emily Coon-Frisch

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Otter Spotter is an educational website providing information about otters found in Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (AZA) facilities. Though the site includes five species of otter it focuses primarily on the North American river otter. It was designed to meet the needs of AZA's Otter Species Survival Plan (SSP) committee, Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Otter Research group, and the Seneca Park Zoo. This site helps fulfill the mission of modern zoos to become centers for conservation and education. Otter Spotter contains species information, photos, video clips, research summaries, teacher resources, and a blog with the latest news related …

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Reporter - February 3rd 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Feb 2012

Reporter - February 3rd 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

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Improving Security And Usability Of Mobile Device Authentication Mechanisms, Michael Pinch Feb 2012

Improving Security And Usability Of Mobile Device Authentication Mechanisms, Michael Pinch

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Mobile devices, in the form of smartphones and tablet computers, are going through an amazing growth cycle. The devices are powerful and robust enough to house an incredible amount of sensitive data about our personal and business lives. These devices, however, have relatively weak authentication systems, generally consisting of a pin number or pattern matching challenge. In addition to the weak authentication systems, the input mechanism of using a finger on a touchscreen leaves a residue trail that can be easily recovered, allowing an attacker to recover some or all of the authentication code. This thesis examines the strengths and …

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Low Power Context Adaptive Variable Length Encoder In H.264, Soumya Lingupanda Feb 2012

Low Power Context Adaptive Variable Length Encoder In H.264, Soumya Lingupanda

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The adoption of digital TV, DVD video and Internet streaming led to the development of Video compression. H.264/AVC is the industry standard delivering highly efficient and reliable video compression. In this Video compression standard, H.264/AVC one of the technical developments adopted is the Context adaptive entropy coding schemes. This thesis developed a complete VHDL behavioral model of a variable length encoder. A synthesizable hardware description is then developed for components of the variable length encoder using Synopsys tools. Many implementations were focused on density and speed to reduce the hardware cost and improve quality but with higher power consumption. Low …

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Design, Fabrication, And Characterization Of Solar Cells For High Temperature And High Radiation Space Applications, Zachary Bittner Feb 2012

Design, Fabrication, And Characterization Of Solar Cells For High Temperature And High Radiation Space Applications, Zachary Bittner

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In this work, novel III-V photovoltaic (PV) materials and device structures are investi- gated for space applications, specifically for tolerance to thermal effects and ionizing radia- tion effects. The first focus is on high temperature performance of GaP solar cells and on performance enhancement through the incorporation of InGaP/GaP quantum well structures. Temperature dependent performance of GaP solar cells is modeled and compared to a modeled temperature dependence of GaAs. The temperature model showed that a GaP cell should have a normalized efficiency temperature coefficient of -1.31 *10⁻³°C⁻¹, while a standard GaAs cell should have a normalized temperature coefficient of …

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Cognition And Material Exploration Of A Fox, Justin Chick Feb 2012

Cognition And Material Exploration Of A Fox, Justin Chick

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In art, there is potential to turn the passive into an active. Task: Take the compass. Use it and draw a circle on graph paper. Fold the graph paper in half. Unfold. In this action, symmetry establishes a drawn circle. In the circle there is a center. To acknowledge the center a drawn periphery of this determined circle, acts as the container for a located center. The larger a diameter is scored, the more dissolved a center will be represented. To concentrate in articulation for the current sculptural research, a determined idea roots in communication. Through acknowledgement of a centralized …

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Togo Truck Information Service: Based On Mobile Tracking System, Kyunghee Lee Feb 2012

Togo Truck Information Service: Based On Mobile Tracking System, Kyunghee Lee

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In our current economic state, instant gratification from the satisfaction by the real time products and services and experiences are in demand for consumers. As a result, there are several if not many of these real-time base services that have arisen from what the consumers' desire. During the research, I have witnessed the phenomenon that would fit the criteria. The perfect example would be the popularity of meals on wheels in the United States. Setting a new trend in the fast food market, the food truck industry has reached the numbers well over the thousands and still counting with their …

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Lost And Found, Che Chiang Feb 2012

Lost And Found, Che Chiang

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Teenage boy Victor and his crush Emily; a bouquet of roses and a missing hair pin; an unrequited love with frustration and a bunch of glowing golden butterflies to cheer up; "Lost and Found" is a thesis film created with the intention of evoking the audience with the innocence and puppy love that he or she may once have had. With this idea the story surrounds a boy named Victor and his determination to impress his classmate, Emily, as he tries his best to win Emily's heart. The aftermath of an unsuccessful courtship brings about a surreal life experience of …

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In Vitro Complex, Anna Druzcz Feb 2012

In Vitro Complex, Anna Druzcz

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Contemporary technological developments allow for greater manipulation of the natural world than ever before. While the increasing variety of synthetic materials, techniques, and equipment employed in horticulture and urban development are reshaping the land, sophisticated digital imaging tools, ranging from computer-generated graphics to 3D modeling and rendering software, are changing the way we design and represent landscapes. Through technology, we are continually imitating, reconstructing, and perfecting the natural environment. As a result, the physical and conceptual borders between the organic and synthetic elements, the "born" and the "made," in our physical environments are becoming progressively obscured, as are the lines …

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A Feasibility Assessment Of A New Navigation System For Unmanned Underwater Vehicles With Adaptive Gain Sliding Mode Differentiation, Steven Szklany Feb 2012

A Feasibility Assessment Of A New Navigation System For Unmanned Underwater Vehicles With Adaptive Gain Sliding Mode Differentiation, Steven Szklany

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In this work, a highly accurate navigation device is proposed for unmanned underwater vehicle navigation. A six degree of freedom, open loop underwater vehicle model is generated and is used as the motion platform in this study. The new navigation system, previously developed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, requires real-time body angular acceleration terms as inputs to the algorithm. To address this requirement, real-time signal differentiation techniques were investigated. The differentiation of real-world, noisy signals is a difficult task due to the inherent numerical differentiation and subsequent noise amplification. A sliding mode differentiation scheme is proposed with a fuzzy …

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Schedulability-Driven Scratchpad Memory Swapping For Resource-Constrained Real-Time Embedded Systems, Michael De Francis Feb 2012

Schedulability-Driven Scratchpad Memory Swapping For Resource-Constrained Real-Time Embedded Systems, Michael De Francis

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In resource-constrained real-time embedded systems, scratchpad memory (SPM) is utilized in place of cache to increase performance and enforce consistent behavior of both hard and soft real-time tasks via software-controlled SPM management techniques (SPMMTs). Real-time systems depend on time critical (hard) tasks to complete execution before their deadline times. Many real-time systems also depend on the execution of soft tasks that do not have to complete by hard deadlines. This thesis evaluates a new SPMMT that increases both worst-case task slack time (TST) and soft task processing capabilities, by combining two existing SPMMTs. The schedulability-driven ACETRB / WCETRB swapping (SDAWS) …

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The Development Of Resistance To Antibiotics From Bacteria Exposed To Triclosan And Triclocarban In Lake Ontario, Daniel Boone Feb 2012

The Development Of Resistance To Antibiotics From Bacteria Exposed To Triclosan And Triclocarban In Lake Ontario, Daniel Boone

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Triclocarban (3,4,4'-trichlorocarbanilide) (TCC) and Triclosan ( 2,4,4'-trichloro-2'-hydroxydiphenyl ether) (TCS) are antimicrobials used extensively in soaps and detergents. They're known to bypass wastewater treatment plants and bioaccumulate in aquatic sediments. Their accumulation leads to an increase in bacterial exposure, which may lead to both antiseptic and antibiotic resistance, known as cross-resistance. This study investigates the occurrence of cross-resistance with bacteria exposed to TCS and TCC in Lake Ontario sediments. Sediment samples were chosen at various sites with a high probability of TCS and TCC exposure. The bacteria were enriched with 5mg/L TCS (equivalent to environmental concentrations) and the top biodegraders were …

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Create Your Own Car: A Motion Graphic Demo Of A New Game, Peng Peng Feb 2012

Create Your Own Car: A Motion Graphic Demo Of A New Game, Peng Peng

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The project Create Your Own Car explores a realistic style of motion graphics through the car- assembling process using both 2D and 3D visual effects to popularize a new racing game to attract more people. The motion graphics illustrate the game features in an interactive game with personalized cars. This project includes two parts: one is the design of personalized vehicles, and the other is the animation stage, which presents the final motion graphics piece. The first stage explores two classic types of vehicles: the muscle car and the sports car. The main focus is on both the different interior …

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Color Charm: Interactive Color Theory & Color Reflection, Chia-Huei Yen Feb 2012

Color Charm: Interactive Color Theory & Color Reflection, Chia-Huei Yen

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"Choosing colors should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colors have meaning and function." ~Verner Panton For those of us who have been blessed with the gift of sight, we are able to see various kinds of colors all around us. We are very fortunate to have this gift. However, how many people are able to recognize the value of a given color? What is the attribute that constitutes a color's hue or its saturation? All of us who have this gift can say that we enjoy the ability to see all of these colors, but …

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Terra Cotta Warrior, Bin Li Feb 2012

Terra Cotta Warrior, Bin Li

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I am kind of worried when I set about writing this paper, since there are too much things to select in this process to talk about and share with you. Filmmaking process is amazing and exciting like magic, and everything needs to be created from nothing like a dove suddenly appears on illusionist's hand. However behind this glaring magic, so many people work deliberately and so many wonderful stories are going on, which are even more dramatic than our film itself. So I even have more enthusiasm to share our story than the story in the film. I want to …

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Dream: A Short 3d Surrealistic Animation, Liwei Xia Feb 2012

Dream: A Short 3d Surrealistic Animation, Liwei Xia

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"Dream"is a graduate thesis 3D animation, telling a surrealistic story about a man who tries to escape from a sand ocean and pursue his dream oasis. In this 3 minute 47 second story, the main character shows people, the way to pursue his dream, how to control his desires, resist temptation, conquer himself, drift with the tide, and finally persist in his dream to get away from the ocean. Because the story is surrealistic, I would like to try to approach many new fields in this animation. First, I conceived it as a combination of experimental and traditional 3D animation, …

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Multi-Mission Radar Waveform Design Via A Distributed Spea2 Genetic Algorithm, Josefiak Brent Jan 2012

Multi-Mission Radar Waveform Design Via A Distributed Spea2 Genetic Algorithm, Josefiak Brent

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This thesis furthers the development of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and their application to the design of multi-mission radar waveforms. An application was developed with the goal of developing a waveform suite that finds the Pareto optimal solutions to a multi-objective optimization radar problem. Utilizing the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2) a series of radar parameters are optimized along the fitness metrics of interest. This implementation builds upon previous work to develop an application that is capable of analyzing longer more realistic scenarios by using a distributed grid computer to spread the computational load across multiple CPUs. It also advances …

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Multi-Mission Radar Waveform Design Via A Distributed Spea2 Genetic Algorithm, Brent Josefiak Jan 2012

Multi-Mission Radar Waveform Design Via A Distributed Spea2 Genetic Algorithm, Brent Josefiak

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This thesis furthers the development of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and their application to the design of multi-mission radar waveforms. An application was developed with the goal of developing a waveform suite that finds the Pareto optimal solutions to a multi-objective optimization radar problem. Utilizing the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2) a series of radar parameters are optimized along the fitness metrics of interest. This implementation builds upon previous work to develop an application that is capable of analyzing longer more realistic scenarios by using a distributed grid computer to spread the computational load across multiple CPUs. It also advances …

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New Face, Old Myth, Ping-Chun Hsien Jan 2012

New Face, Old Myth, Ping-Chun Hsien

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We live in a digital age where information on foreign cultures is no longer hard to come by. Designers can easily access any foreign religious symbols and mythical stories by simply searching the internet and then interpret in their own way without consideration as to their original meanings. With this convenience, however, information from the internet is sometimes misconstrued after several interpretations, or it simply may not be correct. As a result foreign cultural elements may seem misplaced or ridiculous to audiences who are familiar with the culture. As a 3D designer from Asian culture, I often sense these misappropriations …

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Reporter - January 27th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Jan 2012

Reporter - January 27th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

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Reporter - January 20th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Jan 2012

Reporter - January 20th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

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Techniques For Automatic Large Scale Change Analysis Of Temporal Multispectral Imagery, Ryan Mercovich Jan 2012

Techniques For Automatic Large Scale Change Analysis Of Temporal Multispectral Imagery, Ryan Mercovich

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Change detection in remotely sensed imagery is a multi-faceted problem with a wide variety of desired solutions. Automatic change detection and analysis to assist in the coverage of large areas at high resolution is a popular area of research in the remote sensing community. Beyond basic change detection, the analysis of change is essential to provide results that positively impact an image analyst's job when examining potentially changed areas. Present change detection algorithms are geared toward low resolution imagery, and require analyst input to provide anything more than a simple pixel level map of the magnitude of change that has …

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Reporter - January 13th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Jan 2012

Reporter - January 13th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

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Life Cycle Assessment In The Print Industry: A Critical Review, Justin Bousquin, Eni Gambeta, Marcos Esterman Jan 2012

Life Cycle Assessment In The Print Industry: A Critical Review, Justin Bousquin, Eni Gambeta, Marcos Esterman

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This article compares life cycle assessment studies performed on imaging equipment for the consumer market in order to identify common practices, limitations, areas for improvement, and opportunities for standardization. The analysis suggests that comparisons across studies are significantly hampered by variability in scope, transparency, data sources, and assumptions; it identifies sources of discrepancy and variability. Of particular concern to printing devices was the definition of a functional unit, which can vary significantly depending on the capabilities and use patterns of a printer. Standardization of the functional unit and related assumptions has a high potential to increase quantitative comparability across studies. …

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Why We Ignore Social Networking Advertising, Zeljka Hadija, Susan Barnes, Neil Hair Jan 2012

Why We Ignore Social Networking Advertising, Zeljka Hadija, Susan Barnes, Neil Hair

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to focus on college students, users of online social networks, as main sources of information that helps advertisers understand the ways in which advertisements are perceived online. Design/methodology/approach Results were reached through qualitative research. Personal in-depth interviews, utilizing Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), were conducted among 20 college students. Interviews consisted of using screenshots of advertisements in online social networks to uncover respondents' reactions. Findings - It was generally concluded that the users of online social networks do not dislike Advertisements, but they simply do not notice them. Other content found in …

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Consumer Perception Of Inkjet Printed Textiles, Arianna Valentini Jan 2012

Consumer Perception Of Inkjet Printed Textiles, Arianna Valentini

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Digital inkjet printing for textile printing represents a key development in clothing production. The application of inkjet printing for textiles follows the trends within both the printing and textile industries in regards to the demand for personalization in order to gain consumer interest and buying power. There has been much research done in the hopes of getting inkjet printed textiles to the public on a mass scale. However, very little is known regarding the consumer on their preferences when it comes to the image quality, look, and feel of digitally printed textiles. This study attempted to address this problem by …

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Sla-Based Risk Analysis In Cloud Computing Environments, Mohammed Almathami Jan 2012

Sla-Based Risk Analysis In Cloud Computing Environments, Mohammed Almathami

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The cloud computing has been evolved in recent years which led many customers to utilize the cloud computing technologies. The research work in this area has spread due to many issues that have coincided with the vast growth of the cloud computing technologies. On the other hand, the cloud security concern has become one of the important issues that cloud computing introduces. One of the main components of cloud services is the service level agreement (SLA) that works as a contractual document between the cloud providers and their customers and states some metrics and parameters that must be enforced by …

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