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Prototype Software For Colorant Formulation Using Gamblin Conservation Colors, Marissa Haddock Sep 2011

Prototype Software For Colorant Formulation Using Gamblin Conservation Colors, Marissa Haddock

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When selecting pigments from a large set for restorative inpainting, it can often be challenging to create a mixture that will provide an exact match to the original artwork under a range of viewing and illumination conditions. In this research, a prototype computer program was developed that will aid the user by providing a color match and paint recipe that exhibits minimal metamerism when compared to the original artwork. The Gamblin Conservation Colors, a set of 43 colorants specially formulated for inpainting, were characterized in terms of their optical properties, absorption and scattering, according to Kubelka-Munk turbid media theory. Formulations …

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Kikimasu (Listen), Andrew Frueh Sep 2011

Kikimasu (Listen), Andrew Frueh

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Why do we create art? It is a profound question, and not one I ever intended to explore in the creation of my thesis film. However, coming to a better understanding of what the answer is for me was perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned from the entire project. Kikimasu was not a film that followed a linear progression from start to finish. In many ways, its conception was every bit as amorphous as the shifting void in the film. It began as a vastly larger project in scope, with primarily commercial goals in mind. But it ended as …

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Reporter - September 9th 2011, Rit Reporter Staff Sep 2011

Reporter - September 9th 2011, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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Reporter - September 2nd 2011, Rit Reporter Staff Sep 2011

Reporter - September 2nd 2011, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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University Magazine Fall 2011, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations Sep 2011

University Magazine Fall 2011, 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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A Dynamic Inventory Optimization Method Applied To Printer Fleet Management, Surya Saripalli Sep 2011

A Dynamic Inventory Optimization Method Applied To Printer Fleet Management, Surya Saripalli

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Current optimization methods for inventory management of toner cartridges for printer fleets typically focus on aggregate cartridge demand. However, with the development of printer technology, toner consumption algorithms are being developed which can accurately quantify the amount of toner that has been consumed over time, based on print job characteristics. This research introduces a dynamic inventory optimization approach for a fleet of printers over a rolling time horizon. Given, the consumption algorithm for the printer system, the cumulative toner consumed per cartridge per printer can be tracked. A forecasting method is developed which utilizes this toner consumption data for individual …

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Towards Flexible Hardware/Software Encoding Using H.264, Mark Hogan Sep 2011

Towards Flexible Hardware/Software Encoding Using H.264, Mark Hogan

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As the electronics world continues to expand, bringing smaller and more portable devices to consumers, demands for media access continue to rise. Consumers are seeking the ability to view the wealth of information available on the Internet from devices such as smart phones, tablets, and music players. In addition to Internet browsing, smart phones and tablets in particular look to reinvent phone communication by adding video chat through services such as Skype and FaceTime. Bringing video to mobile platforms requires trade-offs between size, channel capacity, hardware cost, quality, loading times and power consumption. H.264, the current standard for video encoding …

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Kansei Engineering And Cultural Differences In Mobile Phone Design, Loni Watson Sep 2011

Kansei Engineering And Cultural Differences In Mobile Phone Design, Loni Watson

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Kansei Engineering, a Japanese design method used to translate feelings into product parameters, was used to look at the mobile phone design features of the Motorola Charm, Samsung t249, and HTC HD7 in the United States. Preferences of four design features (shape, material, LCD screen size, and navigation tools) were explored in a sample population of twenty-five university students in a private Northeastern university. Six kanseis/feelings elicited by phones were determined to be important to this group: (1) Attractive, (2) Cool, (3) Durable, (4) Ergonomic, (5) Modern, and (6) User-friendly. A (generic) phone with a rectangular shape, comprised mostly of …

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New Amusement Rides: Platforms For Parents And Children To Share Fun, Ming Chiang Sep 2011

New Amusement Rides: Platforms For Parents And Children To Share Fun, Ming Chiang

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Since Bakken, the world's first amusement park, opened in 1583 at Klampenborg, Denmark, amusement parks have become a fun place for people to spend quality time with family. Early versions of American amusement parks in the United States entertained patrons by providing picnic groves, concert halls and events like fireworks. However, with the rapid evolution of technology, the primary characteristic of many of today's parks are rides which are, first and foremost, breathtaking. In other words, amusement parks tend to gratify a desire for thrills rather than provide a space for parents and children to enjoy spending time and playing …

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Fleeting, Alysia Grummert Sep 2011

Fleeting, Alysia Grummert

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Fleeting, is a wall installation composed of individual slabs of porcelain inspired by the forms of the foliage that grew on the farm where I was raised. The seemingly wind-blown elements of this work are lightly textured and blushed with muted tints of color. This work celebrates a quiet, fragile beauty through the use of delicate, rhythmic forms. Some of the forms appear to take flight as they emerge from the wall. The mood of this piece expresses a season moving on. The arrangement of this wall piece captures a sense of migration as the eye is directed to follow …

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Ereview, Print Industry Center Sep 2011

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

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Promoting Financial And Human Resource Management In Kosovo's Nongovernmental Organizations : [Presentation Given On September 6, 2011], Visar Sutaj Aug 2011

Promoting Financial And Human Resource Management In Kosovo's Nongovernmental Organizations : [Presentation Given On September 6, 2011], Visar Sutaj

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This capstone project was designed to develop and provide knowledge and identify skills for local inactive NGOs [Nongovernmental Organizations] only on how to improve on finance management and HR. The project does not intend to teach local NGOs fundraising and voluntarism. The action plan to implement the mission statement demands a more concrete step towards opening a new NGO, named the Center for NGO Development (CND). This organization, if executed properly, will be a resource and full-service training center to help other local NGOs strengthen internal finance and HR capacities. It is anticipated that CND will succeed and enlarge its …

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Proximal Point Methods For Inverse Problems, Marc Paulhamus Aug 2011

Proximal Point Methods For Inverse Problems, Marc Paulhamus

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Numerous mathematical models in applied mathematics can be expressed as a partial differential equation involving certain coefficients. These coefficients are known and they describe some physical properties of the model. The direct problem in this context is to solve the partial differential equation. By contrast, an inverse problem asks for the identification of the variable coefficients when a certain measurement of a solution of the partial differential equation is available. One of the most commonly used approaches for solving this inverse problem is by posing a constrained minimization problem which can be written as a variational inequality. This paper investigates …

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Optimizations And Applications In Head-Mounted Video-Based Eye Tracking, Feng Li Aug 2011

Optimizations And Applications In Head-Mounted Video-Based Eye Tracking, Feng Li

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Video-based eye tracking techniques have become increasingly attractive in many research fields, such as visual perception and human-computer interface design. The technique primarily relies on the positional difference between the center of the eye's pupil and the first-surface reflection at the cornea, the corneal reflection (CR). This difference vector is mapped to determine an observer's point of regard (POR). In current head-mounted video-based eye trackers, the systems are limited in several aspects, such as inadequate measurement range and misdetection of eye features (pupil and CR). This research first proposes a new `structured illumination' configuration, using multiple IREDs to illuminate the …

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‘En Pathos’, John Remo Aug 2011

‘En Pathos’, John Remo

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`en pathos ` A Greek term that translates to ` in passion ` . The human figure is a timeless and classic subject that has always bestirred feelings of passion in the hearts of both artist and viewer. It can easily take a lifetime's artistic endeavors to master just a tiny aspect of the figure's potential. More important than the literal realm of the figure, there also lies a subjective realm, a place where my work is created and lives.....a place `between'. In trying to capture the essence of the human figure, each artistic medium offers its own unique visual …

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Modeling Pressure Drop Of Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow In Pem Fuel Cell Channels, Grimm Michael Aug 2011

Modeling Pressure Drop Of Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow In Pem Fuel Cell Channels, Grimm Michael

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Modern energy concerns have resulted in the necessity to create and understand alternative energy sources and develop systems to effectively utilize them. One such source is hydrogen, which can be utilized in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC). This fuel cell has moved to the forefront for adaptability to the automotive industry. With this increased prominence the understanding of two-phase flow phenomena within the anode and cathode channels is needed. Much research has been performed in the area of two-phase flow within macro, mini, and micro-channels of both circular and rectangular cross-sections. However previous research has been performed with …

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Cyclical, Edna Madera Aug 2011

Cyclical, Edna Madera

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The works presented here are portraits of my Mother meditating for motherhood between religious faith and will power, the creation of which, became a personal means of coping with her death. Catholic rosaries and knitted baby booties are depicted as I explore feminine identity within the context of fertility and the social views that condition it. Material explorations include, rusted steel, body fluid, and animal tissue.

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Modeling Pressure Drop Of Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow In Pem Fuel Cell Channels, Michael Grimm Aug 2011

Modeling Pressure Drop Of Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow In Pem Fuel Cell Channels, Michael Grimm

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Modern energy concerns have resulted in the necessity to create and understand alternative energy sources and develop systems to effectively utilize them. One such source is hydrogen, which can be utilized in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC). This fuel cell has moved to the forefront for adaptability to the automotive industry. With this increased prominence the understanding of two-phase flow phenomena within the anode and cathode channels is needed. Much research has been performed in the area of two-phase flow within macro, mini, and micro-channels of both circular and rectangular cross-sections. However previous research has been performed with …

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Opening Doors Or Creating Barriers?: The Influence Of Interpreters On Levels Of Communication Apprehension Among Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students, Jenna Williams Aug 2011

Opening Doors Or Creating Barriers?: The Influence Of Interpreters On Levels Of Communication Apprehension Among Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students, Jenna Williams

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Classroom communication apprehension (CA) affects roughly 70% of undergraduate college students (Bowers, 1986, p. 373). After a discussion of CA as a theory, a survey tool is presented to measure if there is a difference in the amount and type of CA experienced by deaf and hard-of-hearing college students when compared to their hearing peers. The survey includes McCroskey's PRCA-24 tool for measuring CA and several additional questions on how the presence of a sign language interpreter influences levels of classroom CA. The survey's 155 respondents report a statistically significant difference in the amount and type of CA experienced. Limitations …

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Culturally Sensitive Document Design For An Eastern Asia Audience: Comprehension And Preference, Merridith Smith Aug 2011

Culturally Sensitive Document Design For An Eastern Asia Audience: Comprehension And Preference, Merridith Smith

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An investigation into Eastern Asia audiences in China, Japan, and Korea determined how intercultural communication affects non-native readers' comprehension and perception of a document design. The study, an after-only experiment, used a small-sized sample from people who were In-Country Reviewers (ICRs) and knew of medical products in Eastern Asia and had knowledge in the area's local language. The subjects read an indigenously or non-indigenously designed document, and self-reported their comprehension and preferences for formatting style. Although the statistics showed no significant difference between the groups, on any variable tested (language, comprehension, and format), the qualitative data that were gathered can …

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A Method For Detection And Quantification Of Building Damage Using Post-Disaster Lidar Data, Richard Labiak Aug 2011

A Method For Detection And Quantification Of Building Damage Using Post-Disaster Lidar Data, Richard Labiak

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There is a growing need for rapid and accurate damage assessment following natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other crisis situations. The use of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data to detect and quantify building damage following a natural disaster was investigated in this research. Using LiDAR data collected by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) just days after the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake, a set of processes was developed for extracting buildings in urban environments and assessing structural damage. Building points were separated from the rest of the point cloud using a combination of point classification techniques involving height, …

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A Study Of Phylogenetic Trees Versus Networks To Objectively Identify Haplogroups In Mitochondrial Dna, Melissa Ruda Aug 2011

A Study Of Phylogenetic Trees Versus Networks To Objectively Identify Haplogroups In Mitochondrial Dna, Melissa Ruda

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Mitochondrial DNA is important in the studies of population, medicine, migration, and forensics, as well as a few other disciplines. Further insight on grouping mtDNA sequences could give insight on identifying genetic variation that causes susceptibility to disease, more personalized medicines, or more effective forensic analysis. Mitochondrial DNA is currently grouped into haplogroups determined from phylogenetic tree analysis. Phylogenetic tree analysis may not be the optimal solution for mtDNA because they work better for data above the species level, to show population relationships, not sequences that only differ by a few nucleotides. To compare both analysis, sample data was obtained …

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Personalized Print In Europe, Jeanette Bredsten Aug 2011

Personalized Print In Europe, Jeanette Bredsten

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This study focuses on the amount of personalized print produced by printing companies in Europe, the challenges these printers are facing when producing personalized jobs, and how the market for personalized printing in Europe differs from that in the US. Personalization is a marketing tactic in which various media channels are used to send a personalized message to a consumer or client based on their interests. Personalization is not a new tactic. The use of personalization has been slowly increasing over the past few decades to become one of the key tactics used capture a customer's attention. Personalized print--one media …

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Reproducing Wooden And Marble Patterns Using Multi-Channel Icc Profile, Saurabh Chaturvedi Aug 2011

Reproducing Wooden And Marble Patterns Using Multi-Channel Icc Profile, Saurabh Chaturvedi

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Gravure can reproduce a high quality images because of its capacity to lay down ink films of variable thickness, especially for long runs and high color saturation; this aspect provides a very high shadow detail just like photograph. Many organizations have tried to standardize printing like Fogra, ISO, and more. Larger gamut are being built to cover more out-of-gamut colors, but designs, graphics and colorfulness of the products, are limited due to the involvement of several process variables. In publication printing, only four colors of ink are used: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black. CMYK primaries are generally used because the …

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Investigating Data Throughput And Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration In A Commodity Fpga Cluster Framework, Nicholas Palladino Aug 2011

Investigating Data Throughput And Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration In A Commodity Fpga Cluster Framework, Nicholas Palladino

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There are many computational kernels where parallelism can be exploited in applica- tion specific hardware, yielding significant speedup over a general purpose processor based solution. Commodity cluster computing technologies have been combined with FPGA co- processors, resulting in even greater performance capability through the exploitation of multiple levels of parallelism. One particularly economic solution both in terms of cost and power consumption is to cluster hybrid FPGAs with commodity network intercon- nects. Hybrid FPGAs combine embedded microprocessors with reconfigurable hardware resources on a single chip offering lower power consumption and cost compared to a tra- ditional I/O bus FPGA coprocessor …

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Distance Metric Learning For Medical Image Registration, Zois Boukouvalas Aug 2011

Distance Metric Learning For Medical Image Registration, Zois Boukouvalas

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Medical image registration has received considerable attention in medical imaging and computer vision, because of the large variety of ways in which it can impact patient care. Over the years, many algorithms have been proposed for medical image registration. Medical image registration uses techniques to create images of parts of the human body for clinical purposes. This thesis focuses on one small subset of registration algorithms: using machine learning techniques to train the similarity measure for use in medical image registration. This thesis is organized in the following manner. In Chapter 1 we introduce the idea of image registration, describe …

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Routing Protocol Evaluation And Development Of A Fully Functional Simulation Environment For Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Matthew Prokop Aug 2011

Routing Protocol Evaluation And Development Of A Fully Functional Simulation Environment For Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Matthew Prokop

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A Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) is an area of wireless technologies that are attracting a great deal of interest. There are still several areas of VANETS, such as medium access control, security and routing protocols, that lack large amounts of research. There is also a lack of freely available simulators that can quickly and accurately simulate VANETs. One of the two main goals of this thesis was to develop a freely available VANET simulator and to evaluate popular mobile ad-hoc network routing protocols in several VANET scenarios. The VANET simulator consisted of a network simulator, a traffic (mobility simulator) and …

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Tunable Micro-Electro Mechanical Fabry Perot Etalon, Annette Rivas Aug 2011

Tunable Micro-Electro Mechanical Fabry Perot Etalon, Annette Rivas

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Many different devices capable of spectral wavelength collection exist. The device we propose is an array of individually tunable MEMS Fabry Perot etalons capable of scanning from 400nm to 750nm as commanded. Typically when Fabry Perot devices are used additional etalons are placed in series to reject extra modes that would otherwise be passed by a single etalon. The device that is examined rejects the extra modes without the need for an extensive filtering scheme because the optical path length is held to ½ wavelength. The device proposed is thermally actuated. It has been modeled in COMSOL and shows even …

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Computing Hilbert Functions Using The Syzygy And Lcm-Lattice Methods, Maria Barouti Aug 2011

Computing Hilbert Functions Using The Syzygy And Lcm-Lattice Methods, Maria Barouti

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The Hilbert function for any graded module over a field k is defined by the dimension of all of the summands M_b, where b indicates the graded component being considered. One standard approach to computing the Hilbert function is to come up with a free-resolution for the graded module M and another is via a Hilbert power series which serves as a generating function. Using combinatorics and homological algebra we develop three alternative ways to generate the values of a Hilbert function when the graded module is a quotient ring over a field. Two of these approaches (which we've called …

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Design And Development Of A Sustainability Toolkit For Simulation Modeling And Analysis, Xi Zhou Aug 2011

Design And Development Of A Sustainability Toolkit For Simulation Modeling And Analysis, Xi Zhou

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A simulation-based sustainability toolkit is developed in this research, in order to efficiently provide the capability of modeling and evaluating the sustainability related performance measures in systems of interest. As sustainability related issues, such as energy consumption, emissions, and waste generation are becoming a more integrated part of operational and long-term planning decisions, simulation modeling is needed to analyze the system performance not only from the traditional system performance measures such as productivity and efficiency, but also taking into account the environmental impacts within the studied system in order to aid in decision-making. This research introduces the concept and general …

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