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Structure Of Visual Storytelling And Graphic Design, Didon Danisworo

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The Marsh, Joshua Gramse

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a short 2-D/3-D computer animated film, "The Marsh." The film is a non-character-based narrative progression showing a marsh during three phases of human history. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, color stills, and the original poem that inspired the film.

Experiencing Discovery: Designing For Visual Delight, Sandy Knight

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Dynamic Surface: An Extrapolation Of Biodesign, Aniket Vardhan

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Intelligent Life, Jeff Spoonhower

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Food Chain, Eunsoo Kim

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Food Chain," about a greedy man who lives on an island. He enslaves a bird to catch fish for him, but he catches more than he bargained for. Includes original proposal and revised story, original and revised storyboards, and color stills.

Rescue Of Embryonic Dysmorphogenesis In Diabetic Rats By Using The Antioxidant Α- Lipoic Acid, Muhaira Hamad Majed Al Ghafli

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Background:

The risk of congenital anomalies in children of diabetic mothers is three to four times that in offspring of non-diabetic mothers. The exact mechanisms of these birth defects are not known. Of the several factors suggested to contribute to embryonic maldevelopment in diabetic pregnancy, the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and subsequent disturbances to cellar defenses appears to be a plausible hypothesis. Antioxidants have been reported to rescue the embryos from being malformed in animal experiments. This study was aimed to determine if the ideal antioxidant lipoic acid would ameliorate the embryos from maternal diabetes-induced anomalies.

Methods:

Female …

Let Sleeping Turtles Lie, Jason Jarvis

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A descriptive narration of a project to create an animation movie: Let Sleeping Turtles Lie. Includes original thesis proposal, script, original storyboard, and screen shots.

Three Stories Toward Creation, Rodrigo Gomez Claros

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a computer animated film in both 2-D and 3-D, "Three Stories toward Creation," which depicts three stages of Latin American civilization. The film consists of three episodes: Bachué, a creation myth of the Chibcha people; Broken Pot, which depicts the coming of the Conquistadors, whom many of the native peoples mistook for gods; and Cross of Gold, a symbolic sequence which represents the blending of the Spanish and native cultures. Includes original thesis proposal, storyboards, and still images from the film.

Effect Of Feeding Date Pits On Repartitioning Of Nutrients And Fertility In Rats., Ayesha Salem Al - Dhaheri

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Five isonitrogenous (23% CP) and isocaloric (2.8 Mcal/kg) diets were prepared and used in this study; two control diets (diet 1, no date pits; diet 2, no date pits + 300 mg/kg vitamin E) and three diets containing date pits (diet 3, 12.5% date pits (DP); diet 4, 12.5% DP + 300 mg/kg vitamin E; and diet 5, 25% DP). Ninety mature Wistar rats (45 females and 45 males) were used in this experiment. All animals were provided with feed and water on an ad libitum basis for 29 consecutive days. Water and feed intake were measured daily Body weights …

Effect Of Environmental Heat Stress On Embryonic Bone Development, Noura Musaed Al-Menhali

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Birth defects are anatomical abnormalities present at birth. The causes of birth defects are genetic, environmental and multifactorial inheritance factors. The main objective of the thesis is to determine the effects of maternal heat stress during rat pregnancy on fetal axial skeletal development and to explore some of the possible maternal and placental responses to heat stress.

Experiment one: A group of 40 Wistar pregnant rats were randomly assigned to two treatment groups, a control group (non-stressed, n = 10) heat at 21°C and a heat-stressed group kept at 41 °C (n = 30) for one hour on day 9 …

The Improvement Of Some Natural Organic Fertilizers Using Beneficial Microorganisms, Mariam Naseeb Al Hameeri

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The random uses of inorganic fertilizers in the UAE farms generate a serious threat about polluting the soil, and the environment. This motivates some researchers to find suitable alternatives, which can give a better crop yield, and at the same time become friendly to the environment.

The present study was performed to find environmentally friendly biological fertilizers to substitute or reduce the application of inorganic fertilizers. Actinomycetes, which are known to produce plant growth regulators (PGRs) were isolated from UAE soils. A total of fifty-seven actinomycetes were isolated from a cucumber rhizosphere soil at a farm in AI-Ain city. Out …

Reaching The Millennial Generation, Scott Doty

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In this thesis, author explores the relationship between emerging aesthetic and technology, and comes to a conclusion: the new technology can lead to new forms of expression and design.

Day In, Day Out; What Makes A Man A Man?, Justin Mcmillen

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Consists of 20 slides of the M.F.A. thesis exhibition "Day in, day out what makes a man a man? ". The thesis is intended to question how society and the family has been trained or influenced into believing what makes a man a man through a series of narrative photographs.

Adipocyte Specific Release Of Tumor Necrosis Factor In Response To Medicinal Plants And Synthetic Nucleosides In Vitro, Afra Sultan Saeed Al Shamsi

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Adipocytes play an important role in insulin resistance through its endocrine functions such as production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α). Adipocyte specific TNF-α inhibits insulin receptor protein tyrosin kinase activity causing the development of type2 diabetes (NIDDM). Nucleosides trigger a variety of regulatory effects in biological systems, such as inhibiting or stimulating protein synthesis. The present study was carried to screen seven synthetic nucleosides, for their effect on TNF-α release from adipocytes in vitro. Subcutaneous adipose tissue was dissected under sterile condition and plated in 24-well dishes in a humidified CO₂-incubator in the presence or absence of …

Dancing For The Actor: A Proposal For Actor Training, Anne Marie Gay-Baradic

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Many college and universities across the United States offer programs in theater and dance. Training often exists to facilitate the actor or the dancer in becoming separate participants in a similar art. For the college actor, movement training typically incorporates traditional approaches as developed by Matthias Alexander, Tadashi Suzuki, or Sanford Meisener. Although these lessons in movement training hold merit, alternative strategies exist. The development of the Dancing/or the Actor program utilizes the principles of dance as the primary tools in actor movement training. By experiencing the components, theories, and techniques of dance, the college actor will focus on physical …

Imaging The Garden, Mark Leibert

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The goal of this thesis is to create a multi-media dance theater production. In addition to the theater performance, material is recontextualized in the Bevier Gallery as an installation. Documentation of the performance plays on a screen. Fragments of information supplied by the set design, video, animation, choreography and musical composition encourage layers of interpretations.

The Tension Of Gesture, Edward Atwater

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Inspiration, Yu-Chen Hsieh

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Inspiration," about a painter who is disappointed with the dull still-lifes he is producing, until a grasshopper alights on his painting and gives him inspiration. Includes original proposal, original storyboard, color images from the film, and composer credit.

True Nature, Thawatpong Tangsajjapoj

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 2-D computer animated film, "True nature," featuring an architect who discovers his true nature as an artist when he receives a pencil as a gift. The artistic style changes throughout the film. The first part is Cubist-inspired and depicts a village drawn in geometric shapes and straight lines; the second part is Fauvist-inspired and features the main character's journey of imagination after a girl hands him a pencil. The third part combines natural shapes with some geometric ones and features the artist returning to his village and redrawing it in more …

Danny, George Zimmet

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Danny," about a character loosely based on the artist's own younger brother as a child. Like the artist's brother, Danny is cute but destructive. The Danny of the film assembles a robot from household objects. The robot obeys his commands, but when Danny orders the robot to "attack" his toy soldiers, the robot goes berserk, destroying much of Danny's room. It is only when his mother walks in that the robot falls apart. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, color prints of stills from the film, and …

Clarias, Jeonglok Lee

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Consists of 20 slides of the M.F.A. thesis exhibition "Clarias". The thesis explored combining vanished reality with real time images, establishing an ironically spontaneous fantastic analogy through the conflict and the confusion of reality and illusion.

A Real Time Frequency Analysis Of The Electroencephalogram Using Labview, Rupal Patel

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The use of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) for diagnosis of brain related diseases is becoming a popular technique in the clinical and research environment. To achieve accurate reading of EEG, signal representation and classification becomes extremely important. The goal of this project was to develop a basic software program for acquiring and online processing of the electrical activity recorded from the brain. A program was developed using the LabVIEW programming software by National Instruments. Basic hardware components recorded the EEG signal and a software component divided the data into delta, theta, alpha and beta bands in the frequency domain. Emphasis was …

A Review And Assessment Of Novice Learning Tools For Problem Solving And Program Development, Christopher John Bladek

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There is a great demand for the development of novice learning tools to supplement classroom instruction in the areas of problem solving and program development. Research in the area of pedagogy, the psychology of programming, human-computer interaction, and cognition have provided valuable input to the development of new methodologies, paradigms, programming languages, and novice learning tools to answer this demand.

Based on the cognitive needs of novices, it is possible to postulate a set of characteristics that should comprise the components an effective novice-learning tool. This thesis will discover these characteristics and provide recommendations for the development of new learning …

Attack Visualization For Intrusion Detection System, Mohammad A. Rabie

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Attacks detection and visualization is the process of attempting to identify instances of network misuse by comparing current activity against the expected actions of an intruder. Most current approaches to attack detection involve the use of rule-based expert systems to identify indications of known attacks. However, these techniques are less successful in identifying attacks, which vary from expected patterns. Artificial neural networks provide the potential to identify and classify network activity based on limited, incomplete, and nonlinear data sources. Presenting an approach to the process of Attack visualization that utilizes the analytical strengths of neural networks, and providing the results …

Furniture Design From Geometrical Shapes, Eun Baik

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None provided.

A Child's 1st Interactive Travel Guide: To Exploring The Culture Of Western Europe, Julie Popken

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Implementation Of A Modern Colorimetry System Into An Optical Thin Film Coating Facility, Jason Barrett

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Thin films are typically designed to transmit or reflect light based upon spectral performance. The films can be designed with very specific wavelength targets. For Applied Coatings’ customers, the wavelengths in question are typically in or around the visible range. Accurate measurements are required for customer satisfaction. An in-process quality check utilizing a scanning monochromator system has been used successfully for several years. The ability to receive support into the new millennium on the generic system that has been in place has driven a new project. The project, called the Scanning Monochromator Measurement System (SaMMS), is key to Applied Coatings, …

Development Of A Genomic Approach For The Study Of A Coryneform Bacterial Collection., Carole Feurer

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In the last few years, genomics has profoundly changed research in the biological sciences and in particular in microbiology. Recent studies have demonstrated that comparative genomics is a powerful approach contributing to a deeper understanding of the evolution of microorganisms. Bacterial collections are important resources of microorganisms, however, the potential that genomics has to offer remains to be realised as it is still virtually absent in any study involving strain collections. This feature thus framed the experimental objectives for this study, whose aim was to define the most comprehensive way to apply genomic based methods (high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics) …

Relationship Between Insomnia And Job Satisfaction, Stacy Lynn Taylor

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The disorder of insomnia is seriously effecting every aspect of people's lives including job satisfaction. This study examines the relationship between insomnia and job satisfaction. Subjects for this study included 30 previously diagnosed insomniacs and 30 non-insomniac graduate students. The subjects were asked to complete the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire- short form and demographic sheet. Pearson Chi-square tests were performed to explore possible relationships. There were no statistically significant relationships found between insomnia and the dependent variables of job satisfaction and job stress.