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The Poetic Streetscape, Joan Wegman Profeta

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Suburbia continues to consume more and more of the rural countryside, replacing the vistas of open fields and farmsteads with prolific road patterns and individualized residential structures. As the new growth continues, the local character disappears. In addition, the new development, with the exception of some individualized works, offers little in aesthetic replacement value. In response, the following work develops a Country Theory for aesthetic building in rural areas. As suburban growth revolves around streets, the theory is built around streetscape. What is streetscape, and in particular, what should it be when building streetscape in the country?

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Interactive Magazine Design, Raymond V. Carlson

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Presentationmaker Graphic Design Archive Module 3.2, Jane Settergren

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A Journey To Happiness, Laura Bauer

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This thesis represents a coming to terms with my feelings of being a victim of rape. The body of paintings that I completed communicates an active involvement on my part to use art as a healing process. By using abstract floral forms I have worked towards achieving a feeling of inner peace. I have realized that by expressing myself through my work I was able to confront my feelings of vulnerability but have also begun to develop and assert my feelings of stregnth. This paper reflects my ability to speak of the crime, and by looking at some of the …

Jazzberry's Corporate Identity, Hyekyung Yoon

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Ocular Motility And Associated Eye Disorders, Mabel Eng

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The purpose of my thesis is to create a multimedia interactive animation computer program about the movements of the eye. The intended audience will be medical students and first year residents in ophthalmology.

Sam, Frances Grau

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Muse As Artist: Selected Women Artists Past And Present, Jennifer R. Mantooth

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The purpose of this thesis was to create an electronic book on the subject of women in the visual arts. The search for a paradigm in the design of such a "book" is currently being explored within the multimedia community of computer graphic designers. As new technology appears at an ever increasing rate, the need to disseminate information rapidly also increases. It is therefore imperative that graphic designers interject themselves into the process because it is through the designer that commmunication will flow to the prospective user. The quality of the design work will determine the quality of the communication.

Monster Spells, Amy Fossaceca

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Design Theory And Methodology, Carla Tedeschi

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Communications Sourcebook, Karin Vantine

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In yesteryear a "Renaissance Man" represented the pinnacle of learning. He was a person who knew something about everything. Society had great respect for his diversity. Today, in our society, the "Renaissance Man" has been replaced by the specialist. It is almost impossible to be proficient in a multiple of differing fields due to the massive amounts of in-depth information, yet it is possible to be a well-rounded individual by simply taking complete advantage of the American educational system. Unfortunately, society is constantly stressing a specialization within one's own profession with a disregard for all other branches of learning. This …

Design Planner: An Interactive Guide For Design Planning, Roy J. Prochaska

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Anterior Medial Orbitotomy Utilizing The Carbon Dioxide Laser, Scott Edward Williams

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Red And Green Make Yellow: An Interactive Multimedia Tutorial Designed To Teach The Basic Concepts Of Additive And Subtractive Color, Suzanne Grinnan

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The division between designers and printers is becoming increasingly blurred as the capabilities of the desktop environment improve. Electronic imaging is one area where this disintegration is rapidly occurring. Abilities that were formerly the domain of the color separator, image assembler, and printer, such as scanning, color correction, and film separation, are available through many popular software programs. Unfortunately, the education required to allow the proper application of these software options is not as accessible as the tools themselves. Both printers and graphic designers will have to educate themselves about the emerging and changing technologies of the other. Eventually a …

Proposed Arabic Grouping System And Cross-Map With The International Standard Organization Iso 9541 Grouping System, Mohamad Tawil

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This project, will attempt to identify as many Arabic fonts as possible and develop a grouping system similar to the basic system used in ISO 9541-1 (International Standard Organization). Fonts will be classified according to their visual design in a three-level hierarchical structure. The highest level of this hierarchy is the class the most general level. Each class is divided into subclasses the second level of this grouping system. Subclasses are divided into groups the third level and the most specific level. The purpose is to cover as many design variations as possible within the same class. I will compare …

A Guide To Computer-Based Training For The Graphic Arts Industry, David E. Pease

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Industry in the United States is facing one of the greatest hurdles of all time, that of retraining its work force. The printing industry, in particular, faces a continuing lack of experienced and knowledgeable people. It has begun cooperative efforts to retrain workers in the basic skills needed to run a printing operation. Subjects like basic math, accounting, writing, and sciences round out the curriculum. Also on the scene are entrepreneurial training firms. Off-site training typically goes for $250-350 per person per day; the on-site instruction goes for $400 and up. And then there are options like computer-based tutorials. A …

Spectral Analysis Of Heart Rate Variability: Acquisitionalysis Software Development, David James Delong

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This work develops an acquisitionalysis software application to investigate the spectral content of the heart rate variability signal derived from an electrocardiographic (EKG) waveform. The location and strength of the frequency content reveals general information concerning sympathetic and parasympathetic activity within the autonomic nervous system of the study subject. Current investigations into pediatric head trauma patients have revealed specific correlations between spectral content of the heart rate variability and overall patient recovery. The levels of serum catecholamines, specifically epinephrine and norepinephrine, are also investigated for a possible correlation with both trauma severity and spectral power of the heart rate variability …

The Multiple Dimensions Of Graphic Design, Jongruja Mai Viseshsin

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This thesis project is concerned with experiments in multiple-dimensional graphic design and has been addressed to a wide audience of graphic design professionals who are interested in working with paper shape and form. Its purpose is to explain how to apply two and three dimensional design to Gestalt perceptual principles. A combination between Gestalt perceptual principles and multiple-dimensional graphic design is revolutionary for how dimension can change within the Gestalt perceptual content.

An Analysis Of How Altering Exposure Effects Color Differences In Critical Color Areas On Electrophotographic Off-Press Proofs, Jill Houghton Mudge

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The purpose of this paper was to quantitatively analyze off-press color proofing methods for advertising material appearing in halftone publication gravure printing. This type of proofing has been an area of debate for the publications industry, especially in reference to the print quality of advertising material. The correlation between dot gain characteristics and the resulting color differences of off-press color proofing methods has been the center of greatest controversy. This paper has tested to determine if a correlation exists between dot gain characteristics and the resulting colorimetric-matching ability for color proofing methods used in halftone publication gravure. The variable dot-gain …

A Study Of Color Image Data Compression, Vassilis Koutsogiannis

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The space which black and white or color images require to be stored introduces one of the biggest problems in the field of Graphic Arts. A solution to this problem is offered through the use of software programs that compress the data of a scanned image. Compressing images without any consideration can create other problems. These problems arise because each image has a different structure . It is possible to classify images into three main categories using as a criterion the frequencies the images contain. The first category includes images that contain high frequencies -a lot of detail and very …

Shadow Puppets, Chuck Gamble

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Graphic Design And The Unconscious Codes, Michelle A. Stacy

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Classicism: Seen Through Contemporary Furniture, Mark Joseph Spadafora

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The purpose of my thesis is to develop a body of furniture that explores the relationship between architecture and furniture. This exploration focuses on issues such as form, space, proportion, color and texture. Within the exploration process, the visual aspects of classicism in architecture are investigated. The ideas behind the works of selected contemporary architects are examined and used as a reference to generate ideas for my thesis work. At the start of my thesis, I realized that there was confusion as to "what is classicism?". Whether I was talking to a faculty member or a student, I encountered an …

A Question Of Borders, Mary L. Boutote

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The purpose of this Thesis is to explore the use of borders. On one level, borders between countries and continents, both natural and man made, will be looked at. On another level, the actual physical borders of the paint and the paintings will be addressed. This exploration involves two main areas; inspiration and development, and process and techniques. Both of these areas contain unique issues which are equally important to the development of the Thesis. Within these main areas there are several specific categories of inquiry which I have addressed throughout my two years of study. Each category has contributed …

Everywhere And Nowhere At Once, George Holbrook Haupt

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A Study Investigating The Impact Women Have On The Bindery, Melanie Lee

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The evolution of women from working mainly in the household to the work place began out of an economic need on the United States' part. With the westward expansion of the country and the Civil War during the nineteenth century, there was a shortage of male labor and women were hired as unskilled workers, at first, to keep the economic growth pace of the country in line with its physical expansion. Women became the predominant labor force in industries such as tobacco, textiles and bookbinding. As book manufacturing grew to provide books for the mass population, women were the manual …

The Design And Construction Of A Hang Glider Flight Simulator, Kim L. Sherman

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Hang gliding is probably the closest a person can come to experiencing bird-like flight. Unfortunately, the precise skills needed to fly a hang glider are difficult to teach through demonstration or verbal instruction. Consequently, many people's first few flights are awkward and sometimes dangerous. A hang gliding student's first flight is a solo flight, so control errors are understandable. However, every effort must be made to minimize these errors.

The Rit Ieee-488 Buffer Design, John Connor

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This document describes the design of an NMOS ASIC used to control an RIT IEEE-488 Buffer previously designed by the author. Past designs used discrete components to implement an asynchronous controller and a synchronous, one-hot controller. The present design utilizes a multiple controller architecture incorporated within the ASIC. The ASIC is used to control bus protocol, bus transceivers, and memory. At power-up, the buffer configures itself as an active listener on the bus and waits for a talker to initiate communication. The buffer accepts a data file (a plot file for example) from the talker, then takes control of the …

Series Compensation Investigation On The Hydro-Quebec And Nypa 765 Kv Transmission System : Modeling And Stability Analysis, Hans J. Candia

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This thesis presents a mathematical approach for raising the power steady state stability limit by adding series capacitive compensation to a transmission line. The effect of series capacitive compensation and degree of compensation were investigated in detail. The power system studied includes an automatically controlled power system, IEEE Type I.

The results of the actual and theoretical steady state stability limits for a given series capacitance location and degree of compensation were obtained by applying the frequency domain technique. The natural frequencies of each compensated power network were examined.

The best location for series capacitive compensation is proposed which is …

Real-Tv : Rtp/L3'S Visual Monitor, Richard Czop

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Today many real-world activities are being monitored and controlled by some type of micro-processor based system. Emphasis is placed on manufacturing and controlling through the use of computers. The inherent nature of these real-world applications makes them difficult to control and monitor. They must be built meeting strict timing constraints and must be predictable. We need to develop simplistic, reliable, and cost effective methods for building, evaluating, monitoring and controlling these complex systems. These tools should provide the user with system insight. At the New Jersey Institute of Technology Real-Time Computing Laboratory, we are building a system that will provide …