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An Investigation In Printing From A Remote Field Location Using Wireless Communications, Brenda Beden

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Computers have changed the way our society works. Everyday life is somehow effected by a computer. It has changed the way many industries do their business. The business world is now a global community. The Graphic Arts industry has been impacted by these changes. With computers, documents are now found in digital form. Instead of being hand prepared, they are compiled within the computer realm. By using modems, these documents can travel from one location and be printed at several different locations, even world wide. As the computer evolves, it is also becoming more portable so that our mobile society …

An Educational Exhibit Of Two Graphic Designers: William Golden / Will Burtin, Linda Blake

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The Retrospective Exhibit, a thesis project, documented the professional graphic design work of two pioneers in the industry. Will Burtin and William Golden. William Golden was Art Director of CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television and creator of the CBS 'eye'. Will Burtin was an exhibition designer, a graphic designer and a lecturer. The thesis project was an educational display that reflected the historical graphic design accomplishments of both men. Numerous trade ads from Golden's work at CBS highlighted his expansive corporate identification program. Golden created a multimedia promotion unlike any prior to its development. Television was a new medium that …

Principles Of Typography For The Screen, Tracy Glassman

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For the past 500 years humans have been developing means of communication through the development of technology for producing and presenting pages of printed text to the reader. The idea of communicating with letters by the composition of a page grew from traditional manuscript writing of the 15th century to today's electronic portable document for the World Wide Web. But unlike the properties of ink on paper, computers, monitors and electronic documents pose many new and different problems which don't apply to paper. One of the major problems with viewing text on a monitor is resolution. Most monitors today have …

Using Heart Variability To Measure The Effects Of Manual Medicine On Autonomic Activity, Michael Zullow

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A pilot study was performed to test the theory that manual medicine techniques known as the CV4 (compression of fourth cerebral ventricle) maneuver and a sacral hold/iliac bridge hold combination increase parasympathetic activity. Manual medicine techniques are widely practiced by Doctors of Osteopathy and Chiropractors to treat physical and mental health problems. Those who have received manual therapy have reported to experience less pain, better mobility, and a greater feeling of relaxation. To help us learn about the effects of manual therapy, autonomic activity was measured scientifically rather than subjectively in this study by monitoring respiration rate and heart rate, …

Microstrip Zero-Sum Antenna; Cad And Experimental Study, Tuan H. Lam

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A microstrip antenna array consisting of two elements combined with a stripline hybrid (rat-race) ring coupler is used to implement a zero-sum antenna. Numerical optimization of individual antenna elements in terms of feed location and patch size was achieved using IE3D (Zeland Software Inc., Fremont, CA), a fullwave 3-D planar electromagnetic simulation software. Further, design of a hybrid (rat-race) ring coupler in a stripline environment was carried out, yielding the sum and difference functions as 0.5 dB and 40 dB, respectively. A combination of a two-element antenna array and a hybrid (rat-race) ring coupler as a zero sum antenna has …

Interactive And Batch Creation Of Oodb Medical Vocabularies, Muhammad Arif

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Controlled vocabularies are becoming popular for knowledge representation and querying. They are particularly helpful in the medical field since they can unify disparate terminologies and provide information in a compact, comprehensible manner. In this thesis, we present a mechanism to create OODB controlled medical vocabularies from flat-file format. We also describe a tool by which a user can interactively create, edit and browse the vocabulary. For better understanding of the structure of the vocabulary we designed our interface as a graphical editor and browser. The user of this interface will typically be a medical expert who either wants to add …

The Socio-Economic Role Of Crude Oil In The United States And Finland, Judith Deak Kallo

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Running a company requires daily assessment of opportunities, risks and trends which involve socio-economic changes and scientific uncertainties. Technical-material resources play a major role in the uncertainty of corporate economics. Overproduction combined with increasing efficiencies have resulted in accelerated use and misuse of resources, accompanied by socio-ecological abuses related to wars and pollution. A significant current threat is global warming. As a result of this global challenge several companies have moved towards a more comprehensive environmental business management model. This is seen in corporate management initiating life cycle assessment and risk analysis of their products.

The socio-economic role of crude …

Multi-Lifecycle Assessment Of Cathode Ray Tubes, Devendra Jayant Badwe

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Over the past few years environmental issues and concerns have become more and more important, as they become a common part of most people's personal experience. In these regards, the electronics industry is facing substantial problems in terms of end-of-life management of its products, televisions and monitors in particular. The building blocks of this industry are usually viewed as relatively "clean". However, manufacturing by-products of the electronics industry and the disposition of electronics are becoming increasingly important technical, financial, and environmental issues.

Within the context of the above issues, environmentally responsible disposal of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT's), which is still …

Analysis Of The Protocol For The Handover In A Micro-Cell Packet Switched Mobile Network, Anna M. Thomas

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The overlay of microcells over macrocells offers new opportunities and is cost effective, which makes the handover in such a micro-cellular environment an important issue. The objective of this study is to analyze and prove the truthfulness of a new protocol proposed, which guarantees no packet loss during the handoff. The study here emphasizes on the data integrity issue, since it is the key factor affecting the throughput performance of the transport layer. It is shown that usage of the Internet Protocol leads to packet loss in the presence of handover. Simulation results reveal that the proposed new protocol preserves …

Dreamscapes, Ingrid Mesa

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The main purpose of this thesis is to experiment, investigate and incorporate different vehicles of visual communications, making them work together. The challenge is to work with the digital video medium, to create a video using the appropriate computer equipment and combining visual and sound effects which will complement and work to get her. The sound is going to be manipulated in such a way that will reflect and enhance the 2D visual imagery. This imagery will also be manipulated and animated using computer software in order to convey a message. Once the sound and the imagery are finalized, they …

A Comparison Of Developmental Gains For Preschool Children With Disabilities In Integrated And Self-Contained Classrooms, Annette Holahan

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The effects of classroom integration on the developmental and social growth of preschool children with disabilities was investigated on 15 pairs of children (n=30) matched for chronological age, sex, initial level of functioning, related services received, and attendance schedules. Progress was measured using the Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development. Results indicate that children functioning at a lower level of social and emotional functioning perform equally well in integrated and segregated settings while children functioning at a relatively higher level performed better in integrated settings than in segregated settings. No significant differences were found between the integrated and segregated groups …

Water As A Matter For Human Emotions, Ho-Jeong Jeong

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the plastic image of water as the metaphor for specific human emotions. Given its fluid nature, water itself does not have its own particular form of existence. However, influenced by the external environment, water creates various forms that suggest specific human emotion. These forms are created by forces of nature. I intend to create sculpture of the motion of water that evokes human emotion. The format for the idea is sculpture that consists of structural, repetitive and organized modules. I exploit the repetitive and sequential use of forms that provide an immediate …

Sticker Land: Interactive Educational Game, Ji-Yoon Kim

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A Directorial Approach: Victor Gialanella's Adaptation Of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Tina L. Groghan

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Characterization Of Feedback Sustained Pulsation For Wdm-Scm Networks, David Sackett

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Most continuous wave laser diodes display varying degrees of self-sustained pulsation (SSP). This pulsation is due to an inhomogeneous cavity. Most SSP investigations have focused on 780 ran laser diodes. In general, SSP is considered a source of high frequency noise. SSP has, however, been used as a subcarrier for multiplexing. This thesis examines SSP characteristics in 1300 nm laser diodes. A 1300 nm SSP laser diode can be used to create a Subcarrier Multiplexing (SCM) Network. The 1300 and 780 nm SCM networks can be fiber spliced to create a Wavelength Division Multiplexing SCM network (WDM-SCM). The SSP laser …

The Design And Modeling Of Input And Output Modules For An Atm Network Switch, Darin Murphy

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The purpose of this thesis is to design, model, and simulate both an input and an output module for an ATM network switch. These devices are used to interface an ATM switch with the physical protocol that is transporting data along the actual transmission medium. The I/O modules have been designed specifically to interface with the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) protocol. This thesis studies the ATM protocol and examines the issues involved with designing an ATM I/O module chipset. A model of the design was then implemented in both C++ and \TTDL. These models were simulated in order to verify …

Sensori-Neural Deafness And The Cochlear Implant, Margaret Pence

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The Effectiveness Of Parent Training Groups In Changing Parental Perceptions Of Children With Adhd And/Or Behavioral Disorders, Jennifer Harrington

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This study examines changes in parents' perceptions of their child's problem behaviors. These parents were enrolled in a parent training course to learn child management techniques. Their children had either ADHD and/or behavioral problems. There were 16 parents that participated in an 8 week training session based on C. Cunningham's (1989) Community Parent Education Program (COPE). Parents were asked to complete the Home Situations Questionnaire (HSQ) on the first and last days of the group. They were also asked to complete 3 informational surveys on the last day. Parents' perceptions of their children's problem behaviors decreased in total number of …

Desktop Publishing: An On-Line Distance Learning Course, Elizabeth Jurkowski

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Beyond Pad Thai, Somporn Kraiwatnussorn

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Developing Division: A Computer Animation Thesis Report, George M. Nadeau

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This paper offers a review of the production of my thesis animation Division. In it I will describe the challenges I faced and the approaches I used to resolve them. The process was organic and all the development decisions were repeatedly studied and questioned. Consequently, this paper does not attempt to be a chronological record. Rather, the sections are intended only to organize the process into six main areas of development. The first section will focus on the development of the story, including the definition of the mood and setting. The second section will focus on the development of the …

"Be Prepared." The Importance Of Crisis Planning In The Schools., Jill Elizabeth Pratt

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More often there are events occurring in society that leave children in a crisis state which affects them both emotionally and intellectually. School staff are prominent figures in the lives of children, and must be both prepared and knowledgeable in order to help during times of crisis. School Psychologists, in particular, are specifically trained in counseling and consultation necessary for effective crisis intervention. School Psychologists must be the leaders in creating and implementing crisis intervention plans in the schools. The following project contains a literature review of crisis intervention, and a detailed crisis intervention plan for a small, rural district …

The Art Of Facial Makeup In Chinese Opera, Hsueh-Fang Liu

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The Birth Sign Library, Chun-Hua Liu

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If Walls Could Talk..., Jessica Kleinerman

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The Caid Information System, In-Hwan Choi

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Personality In Furniture, Jennifer Borg

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Family Environment: Seen Through The Eyes Of Adolescents Labeled As Emotionally Disturbed, Jon Koeng

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Emotionally disturbed adolescent's perceptions of their family environments were assessed using the Family Environment Scale (FES)(Moos, 1994). The sample consisted of 27 students classified as emotionally disturbed according to the New York State Part 200 guidelines for special education, ranging in age from fourteen to eighteen, and falling into five family types: two-parent intact families, step families, extended families, single parent families, and other. Results indicate that subjects differ significantly from the FES normative sample on six often variables including Cohesion, Expression, Conflict, Achievement-Orientation, Intellectual-Cultural Orientation, and Moral-Religious Orientation. Findings suggest that family relationships and personal growth could be important …

Lateral Guidance Control Of A Low-Speed Vehicle, Haydar Sahin

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This thesis examines the lateral guidance control of a low-speed vehicle. Several topics are studied in detail: (1) vehicle error-state model for lateral guidance based on Ackerman steering and (2) lateral guidance control of a low-speed vehicle using fuzzy logic. Independently written research papers address each topic. The first paper presents a second order "error-state" kinematic model based on Ackerman steering appropriate for studying the lateral guidance control of low-speed vehicles traversing on roads of constant curvature. Lateral guidance control of vehicles is of great interest to the Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) Division of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) …

Type In Motion: Motion Of Typography And Its Effectiveness In Communication, Anne Tolly-Wamsley

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