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Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 50, March 10, 1987

Central Florida Future

Drinking age among reasons for change in spring break; AIDS may not scare students; News: Ohio State in uproar over Reagan; Texas collegians may share inmate quarters; News clips; Opinion: Justice wins battle in one court case but falls in another; The Kamikaze columnist: Car talk and a message for SG (by Don Wittenkind); Around the corner: A sorrowful partier examines life (by Jan Lowe); Sports.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 49, March 5, 1987

Central Florida Future

SG conference looks at rip-offs, cutbacks in aid; Police growth improves service; Foreign campuses protest admissions, funding reforms; News: Fraternities under fire for various violations; 'Safe sex' spurs condom use [National Condom Week]; Opinion: [SG] Presidential race will be awfully dull with only one ticket; The other side of nowhere: Break approaches, prez for hire (by Tim Ball); Behind the scenes: J .J. finally makes the headlines (by Victoria Sorzano); Sports: Men's Basketball the year in review; Confetti: The entertainment and feature supplement of the Central Florida Future.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 48, March 3, 1987

Central Florida Future

New withdraw policy allows for later drop; Visiting prof [Dr. Fay Zwicky] to recite poetic works; News: Reagan cuts spark little student debate; Fall tuition rise to be higher than inflation; Loan change causes fund raising; Slightly off campus; Opinion: some helpful tips on how to publish your information; The main event: Harvard who? We're on top now! (by Chris Richcreek); Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); Surf club rides to number one ranking (with photos); Sports.

The Ucf Report, Vol. 09 No. 17, February 25, 1987, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

UCF grows in service to Daytona; Young academics shine: UCF computer students defeat world-class university teams; Development post foes to Texas woman; If the legislature approves: Revised BOR funding would add $9 million in '87-'88.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 46, February 24, 1987

Central Florida Future

UCF programmers log impressive win; Lecture on Judaism's history (with photo of Dr. Barry Mesch); News: New Mexico's tuition plan: a surcharge on skills? Financial problems kill college assassin game; Slightly off campus; Opinion: Consequences make choices much easier; The Kamikaze columnist: Ethics? It's all Greek to this student (by Don Wittenkind); Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); Sports.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 45, February 19, 1987

Central Florida Future

Police a hard working bunch (with photos of UCF Officer Jay Padgett ); Violent crimes committed on the UCF Campus; News: Liquor flows a bit more freely on campuses; UCF cadets train for ROTC Challenge (with photo); Opinion: The computer apple of our eye: our new system has arrived; The other side of nowhere: Just who is this Phil guy, anyway?(by Tim Ball); Future world: Ode to the old computer system (by Chris Richcreek); Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); Sports: Increase in athletic fees provide hope; The [UCF] Athletic Department's Budget; Confetti: The entertainment …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 43, February 12, 1987

Central Florida Future

New rules for GSL aid change student eligibility; Conference centers on disaster aid; Newly crowned Miss UCF uses prize money for school (with photo of Miss UCF, Traci Wixon); News: "Laboratory" newspapers fight censors; Workshops help with new [financial] aid rules; News clips: Appointment [Dr. J. Edward Neighbor]; Miami U. student paper says ad by Playboy photographer is offensive; Athletic's budget spending to exceed $1.7 million; McDowell views debt as a mortgage; Opinion: Elevators, copiers and other problems that students face; The other side of nowhere: Look out, the animals are mad (by Tim Ball); Valentine hints for one and …

The Ucf Report, Vol. 09 No. 16, February 11, 1987, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Academic Affairs offers close harmony with Senate; Scientist to give German outlook on space policies; Dedication set for new building at UCF/Daytona; UCF computer team seeks glory in world competition; Growth headlines CU report.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 42, February 10, 1987

Central Florida Future

Knight merchandise still a dark subject; Foreign study program examines exotic culture; Army ROTC upgrades UCF program; News: Critic choose to chastise "Amerikan" propaganda; Tuition grows with computers; Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); Opinion: Police to spare, the photo was run 'cause it was cute; Future world: A trial experience in Orlando (by Chris Richcreek); Hoopla: Put blame on the boss (by Al McGuire); Sports.

The Ucf Report, Vol. 09 No. 15, January 28, 1987, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

House communities to visit campus; Regents to hear funding proposal to help upper, graduate programs; For greater student service: UCF and Valencia enter 'new era of cooperation'; Annual Credit Union luncheon on Feb. 25; Kennel club slates annual Knights benefit on Feb. 3.

The Ucf Report, Vol. 09 No. 14, January 14, 1987, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

College of Health to benefit: Health care facility slated for Research Park; UCF community invited to help visiting Chinese; Staff Council to get briefing on Research Park; Visiting Polish professor known worldwide for math; Faculty Senate.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 34, January 13, 1987

Central Florida Future

Cancel the Countdown to stop Trident II missile; Pro Tempore resigns others vie for slot; Campus Run positive step (with photo); News: Efficient appliances provide new comfort and savings (by Florida Solar Energy Center); ROTC elevated to host; New tax laws take effect many changes in 1987; Opinion: Ramblings from the desk of a broken editor; The other side of nowhere: He's not so progressive after all (by Tim Ball); Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); The Central Florida Future: Help Wanted!!! "We really need people bad," editor says.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 32, January 6, 1987

Central Florida Future

Algebra stumps UCF students; Cheerleading dangerous; Overrides mandatory for some ad-pr classes; News: Revamp in store for federal aid; Campuses start to protest new anti drug policies; Phi Delta Theta reorganizing; Careful use of appliances can save money (Florida Solar Energy Center); LUIS helps access university libraries; Opinion: '87 brings changes, improvements in UCF student paper; The other side of nowhere: How to speak geek and act like a Texan (by Tim Ball); Future World: North moves South, East-West stands still (by Chris Richcreek); Sports: The main event: Richcreek's bowl wrap-ups (by Chris Richcreek).

Patrick Air Force Base Branch Brevard Campus Catalogues, Rollins College

Text Materials of Central Florida

Rollins College catalogue with list of faculty and students and courses by department.

The Synthesis Of 2-Aryl-3-Fluoroalkoxy-1-Propenes And Some Potentially Useful Reaction Of These Systems, Joan E. Brown

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This report discusses research involving the fluoroalkoxylation of 2-arylprop-1-en-3-yltrimethylammonium iodides and the useful synthetic application of the adducts formed. The present work includes: 1) reactions of several 2-arylprop-1-en-3-yltrimethylammonium iodides with the sodium salt of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol; 2) reactions of several fluoroalkoxy alcohols with 2-(4-bromophenyl)prop-1-en-3-yltrimethylammonium iodide; and 3) the oxidation of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyoxy)-1-propene using the Lemieux/von Rudloff reagent. This report reveals the experimental conditions and procedures used as well as spectral and physical data of all new compounds synthesized. Explanation is offered for a possible mechanism for the formation of these compounds and recommendations for future research are given.

Effect Of Non-Ideal Sampling On The Discrete Fourier Transforms Of An Object Function, Karen Marie Macdougall

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms can be used to determine the frequency content of a continuous signal. This paper investigates the situation where a two dimensional object function is sampled by a detector array of a finite size. Continuous Fourier analysis is not applicable to sampled data, so the Discrete Fourier Transform is used. The similarities and differences between the discrete and continuous cases are discussed and consideration is made as to how the spectrum is altered when the normal assumptions of ideal sampling and recovery are not made.

The Implementation Of Quality Control Circle Concepts Into American Industry, John R. Hunt

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

In light of the growing worldwide competition among industrial manufacturers as developing nations become more technologically viable, it becomes imperative that we, as a nation, become more conscious than ever of quality and productivity.

Our most serious competitors, the Japanese, have developed a nationwide sense of quality consciousness and have evolved a management and manufacturing system to achieve their goals of superior quality that is currently unrivaled.

One important element of their productive system is the concept of Quality Control (QC) circles; generally described as a problem solving group of working people, who as members of a team, identify, solve, …

Computer Simulation Of Dynamic Systems, Charles G. Smith

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Computer simulation of a control system is a valuable tool in design or performance evaluation. This is especially true when non-linear elements cannot be ignored and must be included within the model. A general purpose block diagram oriented simulation program will be developed which can utilize continuous, discrete and non-linear building blocks. The software tool will be demonstrated by means of an example.

Influence Of Bromide Upon Trihalomethane Formation And Speciation, Thomas J. Christ

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This research investigated the influence of bromide-ion concentrations upon trihalomethane (THM) formation and speciation. There is some speculation that bromide will increase the amount of THMs on a mass and/or molar basis. Previous research had indicated that bromide will affect the speciation to form the more brominated forms of THMs, but the extent of this speciation has not been clearly defined. Speciation is important when evaluating THM removal processes. The brominated species may require activated carbon for removal as opposed to air stripping for removal of the volatile species (chloroform).

To investigate the role of bromide ion, a half-fractional, factorial …

The Creation Of An Expert System For Teaching Piano Lessons, Carol Chew

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Combining the arts with science and technology has had many beneficial results. Computers and music have been connected for many years. Computers have been used in music composition, electronic keyboards, music publishing and digital sound processing. Artificial intelligence has been used in creating expert systems for training people in various fields. An attempt will be made to tie together expert systems for training with current computerized music technology.

This research report proposes that an expert system be developed to teach piano lessons. The fields of music and artificial intelligence will be drawn upon in developing this expert system structure. While …

Use Of A Liquid Crystal Television For Spatial Frequency Analysis Of Incoherent Scenes, Michael A. Deschenes

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) was used as a programmable reticle in an optical system. The function of the SLM system was to perform a spatial frequency analysis on an incoherent input scene, by means of successive correlations over a set of spatial basis functions. Because of physical modulator characteristics, the basis function set available from the reticle was a set of DC-biased square waves, rather than the sinusoids used in a usual Fourier analysis. This led to the “even pulse train transform” being performed on the input images. Experimental examples of this frequency analysis are given for …

Edge Direction Confidence Estimation For Improvement Of Hough Accumulation, Eric J. Grajales

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The Hough transform silhouette identification method requires a consistency of edge direction in the identification of similar silhouettes. Many gradient operators used in Hough preprocessing require a thresholding and a non-maxima suppression routine to aid the localization process. These routines may delete edges or cause edge fragmentation. These anomalies degrade the Hough performance due to the lack of accurate silhouette extraction, and reduce the correct localization in the Hough accumulator. Noise or sampling errors can be removed by several enhancement routines presented. They are mean, median, symmetric nearest neighbor, hi pass, and low pass filters.

An edge detection process is …

Implementation Of Inversion Algorithms In Reconfigurable Systolic Arrays, Haritini E. Andre

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Reducing the computing time of the matrix inversion has been a concern of many authors. The use of Systolic architectures containing orthogonally connected processing elements capable of few instructions multiple data have allowed for new algorithms to be implemented. Two algorithms are examined that rely on the triangularization methods for matrix inversion. One can be applied to the general non-singular matrix and the other to the symmetric matrix. The throughput in both implementation is revolutionized. The speed improvement over Liu and Young’s implementation of the symmetric matrix inversion is by a factor of three.

The throughput in both implementation is …

Tessellation For Computer Image Generation, Michael J. Panzitta

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Of the vast number of algorithms used in modem computer image generation, most rely upon data bases comprised of polygons. This constraint on the image generation system becomes a severe impediment when curved objects must be modeled and displayed with an acceptable level of speed and accuracy. A technique is needed which provides a means of modeling curved surfaces, storing them in a data base, and displaying them using existing algorithms.

Tessellation is one method of achieving such goals. A curved object is represented by some characteristic geometry of the object's surface, such as points and tangent vectors. A set …

A New Relative Entropy Based Method For Probability Mass Function Estimation, William A. Marinelli

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Presented is a new algorithm for implementing the Relative Entropy method for estimating the probability density function of a process. The Relative Entropy principle can also be used to estimate the power spectrum of a random process as presented in Appendix A.

Chapter 2 presents the current method of pdf estimation using the Relative Entropy method. In this method a set of Lagrange multipliers are solved for simultaneously. The new algorithm, discussed in Chapter 3, presents a new, efficient method for solving for one Lagrange multiplier at a time, iteratively. The procedure presented allows one to estimate the probability density …

Speech Signal Representation Through Digital Signal Processing Techniques, Debbie A. Kravchuk

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This paper addresses several different signal processing methods for representing speech signals. Some of the techniques that are discussed include time domain coding which uses pulse-code, differential, or delta modulating methods. Also presented are frequency domain techniques such as sub-band coding and adaptive transform coding. In addition, this paper will discuss representing speech signals through source coding techniques via vocoders. A comparison of these different signal representation methods is included.

A Reconfigurable Orthogonal Systolic Array Implementation Of A Kalman Filter, Mark V. Bapst

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

An important part of optimal estimation technology, the Kalman filter is a computationally intensive application that has been limited either to non-real time realizations or to realizations that can afford vast amounts of mainframe hardware. The potential use of the Kalman filter theory could be greatly enhanced by a low cost, high performance machine capable of computing the recursive matrix equations in real time.

The use of pipelined parallel architectures allows the Kalman filter equations to be realized with much greater efficiency than previous implementations. A reconfigurable, few instruction, multiple data, orthogonal, pipelined, systolic array processor will be used to …

Electrical Testing Of Piezoelectric Transducers Applied To Accelerometer Design, Patrick L. Heron

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Piezoelectric transducers are, by nature, electromechanical devices. Methods historically used to characterize these transducers involve both electrical and mechanical measurements. The purpose of this paper is to propose a technique to characterize piezoids which will require electrical measurements only. Thus, characterization can be accomplished through the use of readily available calibrated electrical test equipment. This technique is based upon the assumption that some insight into the dynamic behavior of a piezoid can be implied by inspection of the transducer's static material properties. A necessary condition for the validity of the proposed technique is established. This test procedure is utilized in …

Spectral Shaping For The Hearing Impaired, Brian D. Mclean

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Presented is a method for shaping the audio spectrum in order to improve speech intelligibility for the hearing impaired. Audiological data is used to design a finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter using the frequency sampling method. Cubic spline interpolation is used to generate any number of frequency samples from the limited number available from audiological data. The computer aided design procedure presented allows the filter designer to specify hearing threshold levels and threshold of discomfort levels at audiogram frequencies. The algorithm uses cubic spline interpolation to generate a smooth curve of gain versus frequency. Next, root-mean-square (RMS) error is …

New Excitation Signal For High Quality Linear Predictive Coding Speech Synthesis, William Andrew Pearson

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to improve the quality of synthetic to attempt to speech by using the bes t excitation signal during Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) synthesis. This thesis examines the human speech system as a basis for our synthetic speech model. Then it closely examines LPC synthesis, including the mathematical details. One dominant factor in producing natural-sounding and intelligible speech is the excitation signal. For LPC synthesis the excitation signal must have a flat frequency spectrum. A train of impulses separated by the pitch period of the speech has been the standard excitation signal for voiced speech …