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Autobiographical Illusions, Joy Duskin

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An Investigation Into The Growing Popularity Of Script Typefaces And The Technical Means By Which They Are Created Today, Yacotzin Alva

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The examination of any current type specimen book invariably discloses a large number of faces designed to imitate some form of handwriting. Strictly speaking, such designs are known as script types. It is a matter of opinion which typefaces should be classified as scripts, especially since all early type designs were derived from written forms. Today, we typically label a typeface as a script if it retains the look of having been written with a pen or other writing implement. Type specimen catalogues of the nineteenth century list numerous examples of such written forms, though these are mostly restricted to …

Degree Of Quantization And Spatial Addressability Tradeoffs In Perceived Quality Of Color Images, Alexander Vaysman

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The objective of this thesis research was to investigate the tradeoffs between the number of quantization levels and spatial addressability of printed color images. Image quantization was done by employing the error-diffusion algorithm. The diffusion of error was performed in CMYK color space. The resulting images were printed on a color output device simulating different spatial addressabilities. To evaluate the perceived image quality, a psychophysical experiment was conducted followed by a statistical analysis of the experimental data. Based on the results of this analysis, the conclusions on the tradeoffs between the number of quantization levels and spatial addressability were drawn. …

Typography: Visual Connections To Art And Architecture Through The Ages, Andrea Haveman

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Study On The Parasites Of Falcons In The United Arab Emirates, Mohammad Ismail M. A Sultan Al-Ulama

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Sakers Falco cherrug, Gyrfalcons Falco rusticolus, Peregrines Falco peregrilllls, in addition to Hybrids (saker X gyrfalcon, or gyrfalcon X peregrine), were found to be the most popular species of falcons in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The importance of falcons and falconry in Arabia was highlighted with a brief history of falconry in Arabia.

The study focused on the prevalence of intestinal parasites (coccidia, helminthes and nematodes) and blood parasites (Haemoproteus sp. and Leucocytozoon sp.) as well as ecto-parasites (Ticks and Mites) of these falcons, with discussion on the possible sources of infection in view of the …

An Investigation And Evaluation Of Promela/Spin As A Validation Tool For Asynchronous Concurrent Systems, Mark Bezdany

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Historically, the consequences of implementing faulty designs of concurrent/ distributed systems have been well known. There have many documented occasions where the little-known and unaccounted-for situations have caused the loss of human life and limb. This problem can be generalized, nowadays, to systems termed as mission critical. This term has arisen because individuals, businesses, and governments have come to depend on their correct operation. Failures in these systems can have such an adverse impact, that they are simply unacceptable. Although, due to the inherent complexity of these systems, preventing such failures can prove to be a very difficult task. PROMELA/SPIN …

The Greener Grass Principle, Mary Hazlewood

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Discusses the making of the artist's animated film.

Java Based Location Independent Desktop Environment, Jeffrey Harman

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As the Internet grows and users become more mobile, users will need to be able to access from remote locations all of the same computing resources that they use in their offices. Some users accomplish this by taking everything with them, in the form of high-priced, high-powered laptop computers. This thesis investigates another possible solution to the problem of mobile users, that of a location independent user desktop. This thesis and its related project will produce a JAVA based User Name Service, Application Service and User Desktop Application that use a combination of local and remote servers to provide location …

A Java Based Internet File System Service, Keith Miller

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As the Internet grows and users become more mobile, they will need to be able to access from remote locations all of the same things that they use in their offices. Some users accomplish this by taking everything with them, in the form of high-priced, high-powered laptop computers. Another solution is to use Internet-based services to deliver all of these same things to the user. This thesis and its related project address a Java-based File System Service that uses a combination of local and remote servers, as well as LANs and WANs (including the Internet) to provide users with access …

Analysis Of Image Noise In Multispectral Color Acquisition, Peter Burns

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The design of a system for multispectral image capture will be influenced by the imaging application, such as image archiving, vision research, illuminant modification or improved (trichromatic) color reproduction. A key aspect of the system performance is the effect of noise, or error, when acquiring multiple color image records and processing of the data. This research provides an analysis that allows the prediction of the image-noise characteristics of systems for the capture of multispectral images. The effects of both detector noise and image processing quantization on the color information are considered, as is the correlation between the errors in the …

Women Typeface Designers, Laura Webber

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Nowhere is there a single, exclusive publication containing biographies, type specimens, and photographs of the many women typeface designers. From source to source, one will usually find the same names of male typeface designers repeated. However, one must refer to many sources to compile a list of women typeface designers. In an age of rapid access to all sorts of reference information, it seems silly that one must be forced to search many sources and possibly never find all they are looking for. This thesis project provides a single reference source of women typeface designers and samples of their typefaces …

Digital Color Press Technologies: Analysis Of The Printing Characteristics As Compared With Swop, Jennifer Kerrigan

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At the introduction of any new technology, there is a steep learning curve for ser vice providers and end users alike. With new digital printing technologies, service providers must learn how to evaluate and optimize the print characteristics of their presses, in order to provide a product of highest quality. For print buyers, designers and other end users of digital imaging, it is important to understand the level of quality that can be expected from the new imaging devices, in order to develop a market and customer base for the new technologies.

The Relationship Between Social Intelligence And Behavioral Functioning In Students With Learning Disabilities, James Vreeland

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Clinicians suggest that differences between the nonverbal Picture Arrangement (PA) and verbal Comprehension (C) WISC subtests reflect poor social perception, understanding, or action. In this study, data from 79 children with learning disabilities were subjected to repeated measures MANOVA to examine PA and C social sensitivity. Although PA and C scores correlated minimally with Teacher (TRF) and Parent (CBCL) reported behavior problems, those who scored significantly higher on PA than C (PA >C) displayed more TRF Internalizing, Withdrawal, Social, and Thought Problems than the C > PA group. The PA > C group had more TRF Withdrawal and Thought Problems than the …

Destination-Imagination: An Introduction To The Memorial Art Gallery, Daniela Jorge

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The purpose of this CD-ROM is to provide children with an introduction to the Memorial Art Gallery as well as teach them how to look at art. The project will consist of two parts: a tour of the gallery and a section where children will be taught how to understand art. The presentation may be used in a kiosk, in a classroom as a teaching aid, or in a media center. The target audience will be kindergarten through sixth-grade children. The final product may be distributed to local schools and can also be used as a template by other galleries …

Evolution Of Solutions To Real-Time Problems, Greg Semeraro

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This thesis develops the theory and tools necessary for the determination of a near optimal Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) scheduling policy for an arbitrary multitasking problem specification. The solution is determined using a Genetic Algorithm (GA). All real-time operating systems provide some means of 'tuning' the characteristics of the scheduling policy to accurately meet the application requirements. This thesis shows the applicability of using a GA to determine these parameters for an arbitrary application. In addition, the RTOS parameters considered are broad enough to allow the results to be used for specifying and/or choosing an RTOS for the actual implementation …

A Correlational Study Of Infertility And Marital Satisfaction, Charles H. Mccomb Jr.

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This study examined the correlation between infertility and marital satisfaction. Thirty-six subject participated in the study. The participants were recruited from a support group. Other recruits came from friends. The survey was sent, completed, and returned by mail as to retain anonymity. The subjects came from St. Louis, MO. Most of the individuals in the study were white, Non-Hispanic, middle class, and college graduates. Each individual completed a demographic questionnaire and the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale. The compiled results found that there is a significant relationship between gender and marital satisfaction in a group of individuals with fertility problems. Another …

An Advisor / Advisee Program In The Middle School: Its Effect On Student Gpa And Daily Attendance, Cindy Norton

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Fifty-three seventh grade students from a rural public school had their grade cards used as method of determining if an advisor/advisee program increases grade point averages and daily attendance. Students grade point averages (GPA) and daily attendance were compared using the t-test during the time they received an advisement period (1995-96) and the time he/she did not receive an advisement (\994-95).

Increasing Suicide Awareness Through Inservice Training, Sara Piscani

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Although practitioners recognize the alarming increase in suicidal behavior among students, few have formal training in identifying symptoms often associated with suicidal ideation and behavior. Twenty-seven educators in a metropolitan school district in the Northeast attended an informative inservice training on suicide and, using a pretest-posttest design, completed a questionnaire specifically designed to measure knowledge of suicidal ideation and gestures, personal comfort level with students exhibiting suicidal behavior, and level of personal depressive symptoms. Results suggested that participants increased their knowledge of suicidal ideation and gestures following the inservice training. These changes may affect the ability of school personnel to …

The Necessity Of Artifice, Timothy Cozzens

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Mechka, Somchit Amornvorarat

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A Colorimetric Investigation Of Soft Proofing, Karl Williamson

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The color proof has become one of the most important tools for quality control in the printing industry today3. Customers, publishers, separators, and printers depend upon its accuracy for indicating the quality of separations. The color proof is the most practical method for communicating how the color should appear and is easy to understand and use for comparison. The analog color proof is compared to the original to determine if the desired result has been achieved. The proof is sent to the customer to indicate how the image will appear when printed. If this proof is accepted, it is sent …

Technical Challenges In Multiple Master Font Design With Extreme Form Change, Thomas Phinney

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The hypothesis was that it is possible to create a unique PostScript Multiple Master font which makes a relatively smooth transition between serifed roman and italic letterforms. In the process of creating such a font, the author discovered new principles of Multiple Master font construction and new methodologies for ensuring smooth transitions. The methodology was to first construct a prototype, in order to explore the complications of such a project; the prototype metamorphosed between the roman and italic forms of the Adobe typeface Minion. For the actual project, roman and italic extremes were newly designed, loosely based on historical models …

Suggested Considerations For Creating A Coporate Style Manual, Melissa Gentile

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Visual communication is the key to maintaining any kind of corporate style. Companies rely on a variety of visual aids to communicate their image to the public. The desired image that each company has of themselves can be communicated to the public through a corporate signature, a logotype, symbols, typefaces and corporate col ors. All of these visual communicators help the public to identify the company, its sub sidiaries, its activities and its involvement with the public. Companies often have so many visual aids that they have to be outlined in a corporate style manual. A corporate style manual takes …

Conflict Within The Continuum, Sulyn Bennett

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Safety Guidelines For Occupational Hazards To The Reproductive System, Laverne Raquel Ogieste

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Most workers are unaware of the hazards to the reproductive system that surround them in the workplace, and therefore, few if any precautions are taken to avoid unnecessary exposures. In this research, safety guidelines were developed in order to eliminate such dangers from occurring or reoccurring.

These guidelines were developed by reviewing case studies of occupational hazards to the reproductive system, including federal laws and regulations related to safety within the workplace. The following forms were also developed in order to formulate suitable safety guidelines for occupational hazards to the reproductive system. They are: an occupational reproductive survey, a reproductive …

Performance Evaluation Of Cebus Power Line Communication In The Presence Of X-10 Module Signaling, Nashwa F. Kamel

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A power line of CEBus has great potential towards inexpensive home automation. Both PLBus and X-10 uses [sic] burst of 120KHz signals to transmit bits of information on the power line. However, these two systems are completely incompatible and can conflict with each other. This thesis presents the first performance evaluation of Power Line CEBus communication in the presence of X-10 module signaling. The evaluation included simulation experiments measuring packet delays, message delays, message throughput, channel throughput and the percentage of messages received in error verses [sic] different loads. Network performance has been confirmed to function well in terms of …

A Critical Analysis Of The New Urbanism, Metin Cihan Yildirim

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After suburbia, the new urbanism offers a fresh start to designing human settlements in North America. The movement returns to the traditional American models of human settlements to design the suburbs, to create new communities. The new urbanism seems to use the traditional town model without questioning any of its potentially negative aspects.

In this thesis, the author questions several aspects of the new urbanism movement. The criticism focuses on town location and town pattern. Some influential examples of automobile-age U.S. suburbs, which the movement ignores, are analyzed with new urbanist examples to point out that there may be better …

Design Of A Mode Of Delivery For Macrobead Transplantation, Jagdip Desai

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The macrobead is a form of a biohybrid artificial pancreas (BAP), which is being developed to treat type 1 diabetes. A hypothetical human transplant would require 125 rat equivalent macrobeads. For intraperitoneal transplantation a mode of delivery that allows the placement of several hundred macrobeads into a basket or pouch type device is required.

In this study, four commercially available materials were studied as possible candidates for creating a pouch. These materials are polyvinyl chloride acrylic copolymer (PVC), polyethersulfone (PES), polyvinylidenedifluoride (PVDF), and polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE). Tubular pouches of each material were designed. They then underwent in vivo biocompatibility and in-vitro …

Vibration Control Of Robotic Modules Using Input Shaping Algorithm, Murat Eren

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In this thesis, vibration control using input shaping algorithm is studied. Vibration Control of flexible structures is an important problem and has been an active research area. Different approaches have been developed for vibration control which can be divided roughly into feedback and feedforward methods. Feedback methods need measurements and on-line calculation of the controller outputs. Although feedback methods are generally more robust and have a number of well known performance advantages, proper use of feedforward control can also significantly improve the speed of response of the system.

Input shaping is one of these feedforward methods. It has been successfully …

Abstraction Of An Object-Oriented Vocabulary By Providing A Standardized Interface, Hemant Kothavade

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Controlled vocabularies are ubiquitous in varied application fields. 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 efficiently retrieve and update knowledge stored in a controlled vocabulary modeled as an Object-Oriented Database (OODB) system. We aim to provide a standardized interface to the vocabulary, such that the implementation details of the vocabulary are transparent to all users. The user of this standardized interface will typically be an application programmer who is trying to provide the vocabulary's knowledge-base to end …