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Image Analyzing Instrumentation System For The Activity Measurement Of Rats, Yun-Kang Li

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A microcomputer based instrumentation system has been developed to measure the activity of rats in 12 metabolic chambers. The instrumentation system monitors the rats' behaviors and estimates their activity continuously in an automatic manner. The activity information of the rats are expressed by a quantitative index which describes the intensity of the activity level.

An Apple II microcomputer system is used to manage the activity measurement which consists of an image recording operation and an image analyzing operation. During the measurement, the microcomputer controls Optic RAM digital cameras to record the rats' image. The camera can take a digital picture …

Robotic Simulation Package For Personal Computers, Amitava Jana

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A software package for three dimensional wire frame modeling of an educational robot is developed for personal computers. This package can be used by students as well as robot technicians to study basic principles of robot kinematics. The interactive simulation software supports both the joint-level and world-level motion control, enabling user to understand teach-pendant programming as well as robot level off-line programming. The desired orientation and position of the robot hand can also be specified through a homogeneous transformation matrix, allowing an advanced student to learn the concept of world modeling in the design of robot work cells. To help …

Groundwater Contamination Studies At A Sanitary Landfill In New Jersey, Yau-Chorng Chien

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Edgeboro Landfill, a site used for the disposal of municipal and industrial refuse, is one of the largest landfills in New Jersey. The landfill has been in operation since 1954, serving the solid waste disposal needs of local townships and a major portion of Middlessex and the surrounding counties. The landfill was not equipped with a liner and a leachate collection system at the time of start up. The leachate collection line around the landfill, on-site leachate treatment by three stabilization ponds and subsurface cut-off wall were provided to minimize the discharge of leachate into adjacent waters in 1979. Groundwater …

Frame Design, Bonnie House

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A Series Of Fourteen Posters, Ok-Hee Nam

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The Computer As A Tool In The Ethical Development Of Primary School Children, Nancy B. Landau

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When I first thought about my thesis topic at the end of last year, I had a very different concept from what eventually developed into this project. My original intention, that of using the computer as an educational tool in the ethical and social development of primary school children, has remained the same. The changes occurred in my methods of achieving this intention. My rationale for promoting the computer as an educational resource is manifold. For example, the world that these children will be entering as adults will be entirely computerized and automated. This next generation must have more than …

Computer Imagery And Creative Energy, Linda K. Saxton

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During the creative process energy becomes manifest through some form, be it nature, people, thought, or object. Individuals can expreience and absorb this energy directly through awareness of the subtle energy body and by developing its inner technology or system of energy centers and channels for the purpose of revitalizing body and mind and for transforming consciousness. It was my intent in this thesis to develop a videotape that would extend knowledge about, provide an experience of, and be an expression of creativity as the flow and manifestation of higher creative energy, higher referring to levels of refinement, the highest …

Test Target Display, An M.F.A. Photography Portfolio As Applied To Optical Laser Disc, Ronald Joseph Gregory

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By way of introduction, it seems appropriate to reflect upon my artistic endeavors prior to graduate study and how my interest in the use of high technology in art eventually led me to the production of "Test Target Display," a laser videodisk. After completing my BFA degree in studio art, I searched for employment in a related filed. As an undergraduate, I had developed a serious interest in photography and was very fortunate to be hired as a biomedical photographer at a teaching hospital. This position provided me with access to excellent darkroom facilities, as well as many scientific instruments …

Ornamental Fans, Marie Annette Gniazdowski

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A Performance Comparison Between A Wide-Hinged Endpaper Construction And The Library Binding Institute Standard Endpaper Construction, Claudia Chaback

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For the last fifty years , library binders have employed a standard endpaper construction for all of its bindings. Now, because of new binding techniques and the deterioration of paper some preservationists have placed a demand on library binders to develop an alternate endpaper construction. The purpose of this study was to determine the hinge strength and openability performance of the two most conmon library binding techniques, oversewing and Singer side sewing, which were flat backed and rounded/backed in relation to the currently used the LBI Standard endpaper as compared to the wide-hinged endpaper construction. It was questioned if there …

Biotechnology & Plant Agriculture: "Steps In Developing A New Product", Kevin G. Mallon

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The Family Album: An Extended Portrait, Michael Phillips

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Surface Design, Marie Emmanuel

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Mosaic In Paper, Caroline M. Howell

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"Mosaic In Paper" is a synthesis of lithographs, photo etchings, and woodcuts designed on the Macintosh Plus computer then transferred to these processes through Xerox copies or laser print-offs. The concept of the piece stems from the Byzantine mosaics and Gothic rose windows I saw in Europe while living and studying in Italy four years ago, as well as a brief study of Oriental rugs while designing the work. The piece is intended to show harmony between the technology of today and the tradition of these ancient art mediums.

A Study Of The Brain's Transfer Function For Edge Perception, Charles G. Fink

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A concept was developed and a computer program was designed and implemented to model the eye, the brain, and the perception system. These models were used to study edge transformation through the human visual system. The eye model was developed using optical spread and neural sampling data along with different inhibition distributions. The effects of lateral inhibition on retinal edge response were studied and hypothetical brain transfer functions were calculated. The results of this study indicate that no single mechanism or linear model can explain both the sinewave response and edge perception for the human visual system. The eye and …

The Joker Is Wild, Jay Noiman

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Microcomputer-Based Automated Feeding And Monitoring System For Eating Behavior Studies On Rats, Tseng-Huang Shih

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An instrumentation system has been designed to monitor feeding behavioral experiments on rats. This instrumentation system is capable of performing these experiments in an automated manner without any human intervention. It is capable of monitoring these experiments concurrently in six cages. It exhibits several features that make it more versatile than previous feeding & monitoring systems. It is also capable of storing the data generated on to a floppy disk and later printing out the data for analysis.

Another feature that makes it more versatile is the flexibility of the system. Construction of a parameter file before doing the experiment …

A New Period Of Art In My Life, John R. Junger

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Chekhov And Friends: The Director's Role In A Work-In-Progress, Matthew S. Schliesman

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This MFA thesis by Matthew S. Schliesman, titled “Chekhov and Friends: The Director’s Role in a Work-in-Progress,” documents a creative reinterpretation of Anton Chekhov’s one-act plays The Bear and The Proposal through the lens of 20th-century television variety entertainment. Inspired by The Carol Burnett Show, Schliesman constructs a fictional Russian vaudeville performer—Karoltina Burnetskaya—whose variety show provides a narrative framework for the two Chekhov plays and additional material, including a musical number and an improvised short story adaptation. Set in 1906 Russia during a time of political unrest, the show blends period elements with modern theatrical conventions and humor, aiming …

The Impact Of Gender Differences On The Ethical Conduct Of Corporate Middle Management, Daniel W. Kemper

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This thesis will focus on the study of business ethics and the impact gender has upon the ethical decisions of corporate middle management .

Research has attributed the lack of ethics in businessmen to a decline in moral standards . Because this condition seems to be the rule rather than the exception, it becomes necessary to focus more clearly on the corporate system and the moral development of the individuals who make up this system.

Over the years moral development has been the subject of controversy as many theorists have developed their own ideas as to why people behave morally. …

A Newsletter For Megasource, Robin Courtright

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Application Of The Dram Software For The Dynamic Analysis Of A Linkage Mechanism, Deepak Namdeo Rode

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The study provides the application of the DRAM software for the dynamic analysis of a linkage mechanism and presents a simplified version of the DRAM user manual. This user manual appears in appendix C. The linkage which is used for the dynamic analysis consists of three rigid couplers. Crank 2 of this mechanism is responsible for transferring motion to the other links. Kinematic and kinetic results by DRAM are compared with analytical results. Good agreement was observed. Since the DRAM user guide is not easy to understand, it was necessary to write a user-friendly guide. Several types of kinematic and …

Characterization Of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Digoxin, Susan K. Alexandrovich

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Five antibodies directed against digoxin were grown and characterized. Two separation techniques were tested to find the better method of separating bound the free fractions of ligand after competitive reactions with the antibodies. Charcoal separation was chosen. The antibodies were analyzed for affinity constant by the Scatchard Analysis. Cross reactivity data for two of the antibodies were collected. Four of the antibodies have satisfactory affinity constants for use in a digoxin assay. Cross reactivity studies showed varying amounts of cross reactivity with digoxin metabolites, but none with the steroids and lipid tested.

Implementing Intersection Calculations Of The Ray Tracing Algorithm With Systolic Arrays, Andrea Stankus

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Ray tracing is one technique that has been used to synthesize realistic images with a computer. Unfortunately, this technique, when implemented in software, is slow and expensive. The trend in computer graphics has been toward the use of special purpose hardware, to speed up the calculations, and, hence, the generation of the synthesized image. This paper describes the design and the operation of a systolic based architecture, tailored to speed up the intersection calculations, that must be performed as a part of the ray tracing algorithm.

Display Of Molecular Models With Interactive Computer Graphics, Steve Wuter Yang

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Computer graphics devices offer a way to present images of three-dimensional objects with enough detail to aid human understanding of the structure of molecules. In this thesis, the Computer Aided Molecular Design system (CAMD system) will illustrate this idea. The CAMD system is an educational package designed for students in high school. The user of the CAMD system can create different molecules and store these molecules into a relational data base for future display. A Relational Data Base Management system was implicitly implemented for the CAMD system.

Uguru: A Natural Language Unix Consultant, John Hanson

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UGURU is a natural language conversation program, implemented in Prolog, which can manage a wide knowledge base of facts about Unix. The range and wording of questions that it understands are based on surveys taken of students, mostly Unix beginners. UGURU is also designed to accept statements in English that can be added as facts to the knowledge base. Each fact is represented as a "binding set:" a verb-oriented semantic net with the characteristics of directed acyclic graphs. The main actions taken by UGURU are divided between two primary modules, a parser and a retriever. To produce a binding set …

Pygraph: A Graphic Front-End For The Paisley Executable Specification Language, Richard Willison

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This project is an application software system providing a graphical interface to PAISLey. PAlSLey (Process Oriented. Applicative. Interpretable Specification Language) is an executable specification language developed at AT&T Bell Labs to model real-time systems. The interface provides the user with a tool to graphically depict a real-time system. The graphics package, called PyGraph, has been implemented on a Sun 3 in a multi-window environment. While developing a graphic, PyGraph generates a PAISLey specification template for the graphic image. The template is filled out by the user with assistance provided by PyGraph.

Animator: An Object-Oriented Approach, Stephen Kurtz

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Object-oriented programming is presented as a paradigm for developing interactive systems for computer animation. Object types, evolved conceptually from graphics turtles, are implemented to provide the animator with familiar metaphors for the specification of motion in three-dimensional space. The intention is to create objects that can represent actors, cameras, and decor that the user can direct and animate in a relatively intuitive manner. Vector and turtle objects support the actors, which respond to messages to orient, accelerate and draw themselves on the screen. The MacApp object libraries are used to implement the standard Macintosh user interface and a unit is …

Culture In Vivid Color: The Villa Montezuma Windows, Marit Velma Zinko

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For a full century the cultural significance of the large stained glass windows at the Villa Montezuma has been misunderstood. Now, with all the expense, effort, and energy expended to restore this beautiful historical house, it is both appropriate and timely to take a closer look at this legacy so that it can be fully appreciated and enjoyed by future generations. To properly understand these windows it is necessary to first take a brief but close look at Jesse Shepard, to understand what kind of man he was in 1887 when he came to San Diego; next to take a …

High Temperature Reactions Of 1,2-Dichloroethane With Water Vapor In A Tubular Reactor, Charles E. Anderson

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This study examines the reaction of l,2-dichloroethane with water vapor. The linear-flow method is utilized, assuming plug flow without axial diffusion. Normal operation is at atmospheric pressure and the reactor is a quartz tube in a thermal region 45 cm in length. Two reactor diameters of 0.4 cm and l.05 cm are used. Water and l,2-dichloroethane enter the system in liquid phase via syringe pumps. After vaporizing in heated tubing, they are combined with argon, the reactor carrier gas. The molar ratio of water to l,2-dichloroethane is 55:l and varied residence times are achieved by changing the argon flowrate. Reactor …