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Protective Adaptations, Melissa Zegarelli

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Consists of five pieces of sculpture which explore organic forms and the contrasting characteristics between protective exteriors versus vulnerable interiors.

Increasing Awareness Of Recycling Programs For Elementary Aged Children Through Interactive Multimedia, Ik-Dong Yu

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The purpose of this thesis is to create an effective interactive multimedia training method for elementary aged children, on recycling awareness. The age group chosen for this project is children 8 to 11. This report will focus on the goals and objectives of the project, the areas being researched and the procedure, along with the outcome of the project. In children's psychology, understanding of different stages of intellectual development of a child is critical. According to Piaget, "concrete operational thought is made up of operations-mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they had done physically before. Concrete operations …

An Investigation Of Non-Verbal Auditory Cues Within Graphical User Interfaces, Christopher Hahn

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As we approach the end of the century and enter into a digital era there is a need to concentrate on new methods of communication. The expansion of personal computers into the industrial sector and more recently into the home, has brought the ability to transmit various forms of data to the average user. This new ability is accompanied with a responsibility to communicate effectively and clearly. This study focuses on the ability of user interfaces to effectively communicate combinations of visual and auditory cues to produce a more comprehensive user experience. This work proposed that the addition of auditory …

Hieroglyphs For The Information Age: Images As A Replacement For Characters For Languages Not Written In The Latin-1 Alphabet, Akira Hasegawa

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One of the biggest existing problems for international users and international companies is the difficulty of displaying web pages written in multiple languages. This thesis project demonstrates a solution in which the problems of text encoding are eliminated by representing all of the text on a page as a series of image files. The Japanese text on several Japanese web pages was converted into glyphs, which were defined as image files containing images of text. The glyphs were arranged on new web pages, so that the same Japanese text can be read by any web surfer, regardless of the operating …

A Study Of Factors Related To Children's Interest In Television Violence, Stacy Melinda Renfrow

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Since television is so pervasive in our lives , many researchers have come to study the connection of television on children's development. Research to date strongly indicates associations between aggressive behavior and viewing violent material on television . The present study looked, from the parent's perspective , at the relationship of television on their child' s behavior at home. The study examined the amount of television programming children are watching, the kinds of programming children are watching , how they react to what they see , whether forbidding certain violent programming had an effect on children' s interest in a …

The Goddess Sells: The Impact Of Archetypes In Visual Communications, Martha M. Torres Donovan

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Graphic design is the process of connecting with an audience by creating visual communication that appeals to a audience's intellect and aesthetic sensibility. the use of archetypes as a form of connection is a familiar process. This thesis explores the use of the goddess archetype in visual communications, specifically in advertising.

Sun & Moon, Clifford Charrod Collier, Shabaka Mu Ausar

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Discusses the production of the artist's film.

Management Of Emissions At Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company, Abdul Aziz R Al Nuaimi

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Gas industries in the United Arab Emirates are vastly growing in order to mainly cope with the increasing demand for energy productions as well as for the wise utilization of gas associate with the crude oil. Environmental problems coupled with gas employment necessitates the development of a management techniques that can lead to better control of emissions from gas processing companies since some of these emissions are unavoidable for safety reasons.

This study suggests a framework to be used to control emissions from Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (ADGAS) in Das Island, which represents a typical major gas processing company …

Dance As Medicine, Eileen D'Esterno

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The purpose of this thesis project has been to express in a sculptural dimension the joy and healing qualities of movement. Movement is our primal language. The very first thing we do upon leaving the womb is to move, to reach for our mother. Movement allows us to express our feelings regardless of the ability to make sound. Infants and toddlers explore the three dimensional world as they reach out to touch, to feel, to experience textures and shapes. They gain confidence as physical beings through ever increasing skills and mobility of the body.

Typeface Design For A Thai Context: An English Typface With Thai Stylistic Considerations, Napawan Sawasdichai

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This thesis involves the design of a new English typeface which reflects the aesthetic values of Thai culture. It incorporates Thai stylistic considerations, including the unique appearances and forms of Thai artifacts, into the design of English letterforms. A primary purpose of this new typeface would be for use as a display typeface in printed or digital applications regarding Thai subjects, which are distributed inside and outside Thailand.

Paramaterized Beams As Effective Human Lip Models, Ron Dufort

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There are numerous mathematical equations used by animators and modelers to describe the curves of the human face and, specifically, the human lip. Physically-based polynomial models, b-splines, and other arbitrarily parameterized equations are used to describe facial and lip contours, though with varied degrees of complexity and resolution. This study examined the constraints and conditions necessary to utilize a standard Euler-Bernoulli beam as an effective model for the human lip. Through this analysis it was determined that general beam theories are flexible enough to create models that can generate curves comparable to actual lip shapes, though no single model studied …

Outdone, Daniel Pejril

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Discusses all the elements needed to create the film "Outdone," from pre-production to post-production. The film is a "warped version of the Three Little Pigs meets Red Hot Riding Hood."

A Trip To The Building, Zachary Margolis

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La Pipistrello, Maria Rosini

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3D animation movie. Steps included creating and animating images, adding a soundtrack, and integrating both into the finished movie.

Up The Tree, Glenn Ehlers

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Discusses the production of the artist's computer animated movie. "Up the tree" is a four and a half minute animated movie about courage, self-empowerment, the exaggeration of fears, making dreams reality, and the hero within.

Philosophy Made Visual, Kirk Gustafson

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Focuses on how graphic design can be implemented as an educational tool to help visually-oriented college-aged students learn a particular philosophical concept. Plato's Divided Line and Allegory of the Cave were chosen as the content for the thesis study

Typography On The Web: Direct Movement As An Element Of Information Structuring, Yueh-Fang Wu

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Lost Eyes, Chris O'Connell

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This paper explains the production of my thesis "Lost Eyes" which is a 3D computer generated short animation. I will explain the process I went through in completing my thesis. There were many challenges and obstacles to overcome, however it is complete and I am very satisfied with the final product. To make things organized I broke the paper down into six topics, story development, character development and design, environment development and design, development and design of animation, development and design of sound and review of thesis completion.

A Cruel Nature, Dylan Gottlieb

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Discusses the artist's animated film.

Lupita Looks Up, Wan Chiu

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None provided.

Vespers, Alec Knox

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Discusses the production of the artist's computer animated movie.

Reassembly, George Stankevich

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Discusses the artist's animated film.

Fine Arts Printmaking Using Modern Technology, Priscilla Clay

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None provided.

Pov: The Development Of A Vision, John Yung

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System Simulation And Modeling Of Electronics Demanufacturing Facilities, Ketan Giridhar Limaye

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Over the last decade, pressure on the electronic industry has been increasing as concerns for product take-back, product stewardship and global warming have continued to grow. Various end-of-life management options are being expanded including recycling to recapture values from basic materials through reengineering and recovery of subassemblies and individual components for remanufacturing. While progress has been reported on life cycle assessment (LCA), disassembly planning, design for disassembly, and design for environment (DFE), very little research has been focused on demanufacturing from a systems perspective.

The objective of this thesis is to build an interface between the user who knows the …

Preliminary Ecological Risk Assessment To Assess The Implications Of Replacing Chromium Plating With Tantalum Coating, Erik Jonathan Weiss

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An ecological risk assessment process requires a modeling tool that can adapt to changing environmental conditions. Computer simulation tools are a useful means to develop an ecological risk assessment, because if properly used they can provide an organized framework to evaluate multiple data sources, complex problems and hypotheses. An evaluation was completed of the University of Tennessee CHEMS-1 model that ranks and scores contaminant toxicity and exposure potential. Tantalum posed less of a hazard than hexavalent chromium to the terrestrial and aquatic animals. Although, results indicated that the vanadium compounds, in particular vanadium pentoxide, presented the greatest hazard, with hexavalent …

Rhetorical Analysis Of Sunoco, Inc. Chairman And Chief Executive Officer Address To The World Fuels Conference : Requirements For Economic And Environmental Competitiveness In The 21st Century, Arleny C. Barrios

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The present thesis examines the rhetorical dimensions of the speech presented by Sunoco, inc. Chairman and Executive Officer before the World Fuels Conference held in Washington DC, October 23, 1997. The focus of the thesis is to examine the effectiveness of the speech. Principles of rhetoric were explained and applied to evaluate the effectiveness of the speech as a means of persuasion. The rhetorical analysis of the speech illustrates how language can be used as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation from individuals.

A Field Study Coupling Soil Fractionation And Sonic Energy For Enhancing The In Situ Removal Of Volatile Organic Compounds In The Vadose Zone, Hassan Kaleem

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Remediation of sites contaminated with hazardous wastes could be an expensive endeavor. There is, therefore, the need to explore techniques, which can reduce the remediation time and achieve regulatory specifications, thus reducing the cost involved in a site remediation exercise.

In this work, we investigated the use of sonic energy to enhance the in situ removal rate of trichloroethylene and dichloroethylene from a site in Hillsborough Township. New Jersey. The experiments were performed with and without sonic energy and each time the concentration of the trichloroethylene swept out from the site and the flowrate of the effluent gas were measured. …

Researching Potential Partners For An Equestrian Learning Center In Frankenmuth, Mi, Tracy Weber

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Researchers believe that 90% of emotional communication is non-verbal (Gibbs, 1995). Monty Roberts (1997), and many others in the equestrian industry, recognize the power of using horses as a communication tool for humans. The North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) is an organization whose mission is to promote and support equine-facilitated activities, including communication, self-awareness and self-esteem. A learning organization incorporates the elements of a shared vision, personal mastery, systems thinking, mental models, and team learning. This study found that there are NARHA members that possess a learning organization philosophy and therefore could possibly be interested in creating …

High Frequency Ultrasonic Characterization Of Carrot Cell Texture, Christopher Vick

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Ultrasound offers a versatile imaging modality. It has a long history of medical use, but system and signal processing limitations have limited its full range of capabilities. By examining other uses of ultrasound, such as materials testing, the effectiveness of medical ultrasound tissue identification could likely be improved. To a limited degree, low frequency ultrasound has been used examine the texture of carrots tissue. These studies focused on the velocity and attenuation of low frequency ultrasound through a carrot sample; these results yielded a degree of ambiguity when attempting to identify a carrot texture. In our research, we attempted to …