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A Market Study On The Viability Of Small Launch Firms, Allen George Dyer

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As the United States only launch vehicle program NASA'~ Space Shuttle forced the shutdown of conventional launch vehicle operations . A system whose profitability depended on frequent use, but which, instead , incurred numerous launch delays, the Shuttle soon could not cover the cost of itself much less turn an profit. The French Ariane, albeit a simpler launch vehicle, soon successfully competed with the Shuttle for payloads.

The Reagan Administration, by various supportive measures, encouraged the market entrance of commercial launch firms . The Shuttle and Ariane, however, subsidized by their respective governments , set prices so artificially low that …

Voices Production, Elsa Burroughs Fritts

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Tradition And Transformation In Arab Education: The Challenge For Saudi Arabia, Maha Muhammad Lufti Adeeb Al-Najami

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This thesis focuses on the developments in education in the Arab world .. It begins with a broad historical survey of traditional education in the Middle East. Traditional educational institutions are viewed in the context of the Islamic religious heritage and the various Islamic dynasties which developed throughout the Middle East. Then, the consequences of the Western influence on Arab education are explored. A brief history of Western colonial interests in the Middle East is given focusing on the effects of these colonial interests on the traditional educational programs. The Western impact began the process of modernization in the Arab …

Home-Tutoring Programs With Special Education Students: Four Descriptive Studies, Susan M. Broom

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The purpose of this study was to determine the positive and negative effects of home-tutoring on four handicapped students and their families, and to ascertain if a home-tutoring program would be positively accepted by the students and their families. The descriptive studies were conducted using students of different handicaps and age levels.

During an interview prior to the involvement program, parents were asked about the amount of time presently spent studying with the child, the family members involved with studying, the familiarity of the parents with the IEP goals, and their feelings about involvement. At the post-treatment interview, the same …

Emerson E & S Division's Management Technique: An Exploratory Survey Into The Benefits Of An Integrated Business Environment, Timothy Fitzsimmons Carr

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Over the past few years, integrated business environments have become popular in the defense industry . An integrated business environment is a method used to unify all management and engineering activities required for a company to perform on a contract. The follow i ng research provides an introduction to the concepts of managing technological business through streamlining the efforts of all human and non-human resources involved, and secondarily , an exploratory survey into some of the important benefits and open issues that are being explored and debated among users, developers and maintainers of test program sets.

How A Woman Is Perceived By The Clothes She Wears, Sheila Kaye Reed

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The thesis, "How a Woman is Perceived by the Clothes She Wears," by Sheila Kaye Reed, explores the correlation between a woman’s clothing and how it influences perceptions of success, authority, and professionalism. The study tests the hypothesis that "well-dressed women are perceived as more successful" through a survey of 201 individuals who evaluated seven outfits worn by models. Participants, both men and women, assessed the perceived characteristics of the models, such as professionalism, dependability, and authority, based on their attire.

The findings reveal that a skirted suit consistently projects an image of success, professionalism, and authority, while outfits like …

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap) And Small Business, Christine Slaughter

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Christine Slaughter’s 1986 thesis explores the challenges small and medium-sized businesses face when adhering to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The study emphasizes how certain accounting standards, while designed for broad applicability, often impose unnecessary burdens on smaller enterprises due to their complexity and cost. Slaughter examines the efforts of key organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), to address this issue. Her literature review highlights the concept of “accounting standards overload,” where traditional GAAP requirements may not be cost-effective or relevant for smaller entities. The thesis analyzes debates surrounding …

Creative Movement For Everyone, Robbie Scoggins

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Robbie Scoggins’ thesis explores the transformative potential of creative movement and inclusive dance education. Centered on her culminating project, Bodies in Motion, the work documents the process of conceptualizing, choreographing, rehearsing, and staging four unique dance compositions performed by beginning students. These pieces—ranging from rhythmic rounds to satirical mimes and collaborative visual works—served not only as performance but as a pedagogical tool. Scoggins reflects on her evolving philosophy that dance should be a democratic art form, open to all regardless of technical training or physical ideal. Drawing from historical precedents like Isadora Duncan and educators like Barbara Mettler, she …

A Suggested Personal And Family Care Curriculum For The Vocational Skills Centers Of The Special School District Of St. Louis County, Ruth Elaine Hellweg

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A Suggested Personal and Family Care Curriculum for the Vocational Skills Centers of the Special School District of St. Louis County is designed to provide an open entrance-open exit approach to developing skills for coping with specific activities of daily living. It is intended for use with handicapped students of all categories including BD, LD, MR, SH, and orthopedically handicapped and could be used with slow learners in any area. It is a task analyzed curriculum, written with measurable behavioral objectives to facilitate IEP formulation. Areas covered are grooming and hygiene, nutrition, food preparation, first aid, home health, safety, substance …

Marketing Customer Service Within The Information Movement And Management Industry, Mark Jones

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The goal of this project is to determine what characteristics of the service firms are considered critical to success of vendors within the information movement and management industry.

The first task undertaken was to determine a definition for the information movement and management industry and which firms were major competitors within the industry . The size of the industry in terms of employees and revenues was then estimated. Some of the characteristics of the major competitors were then expanded.

The next activity involved the determination of what factors the information movement and management market members used to select a vendor …

A Curriculum For The Teaching Of Writing At The Fifth Grade Level Using Cerebral Symmetry, Karen Sue Roth

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Children's writing doesn't just happen. The transferring of private thoughts onto paper is a fragile and complicated press. To make the best use of instructional time and assure the quality of children's writing experiences, this author upon reviewing the current research felt a writing program based on integrating the right and left modes of thinking in a non-threatening environment was necessary. This is a curriculum designed to involve both modes of perceiving. It allows for the right hemisphere modes by encouraging clustering, body movement, color, image making, and metaphoric thinking. It enhances the left hemisphere modes by providing exercises for …

One Actor/Director Among Millions, Jannell L. Robinson

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Jannell L. Robinson’s thesis explores the vital role of communication in theatre, both in acting and directing. The study highlights how directors must effectively convey their artistic vision to actors, designers, and stage managers to ensure a cohesive production. Through her experiences as an actress in Harold Pinter’s The Lover and Mark Medoff’s Healure, Robinson analyzes character development using the Stanislavski method, emphasizing emotional depth and psychological realism. She details her challenges and discoveries in portraying complex female roles, including the necessity of improvisation, physical commitment, and character backstory creation.

Robinson also examines her directorial process in staging A …

The Effect Of Corporate Advertising On Stock Prices, Teresa M. Burke

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Dib On The Xerox Workstation, Chien-Kuo Chuang

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DIB - A Distributed Implementation of Backtracking is a general-purpose package which allows applications that use tree-traversal algorithms such as backtrack and branch-and-bound to be easily implemented on a multicomputer. The application program needs to specify only the root of the recursion tree, the computation to be performed at each node, and how to generate children at each node. In addition, the application program may optionally specify how to synthesize values of tree nodes from their children's values and how to disseminate information in the tree. DIB uses a distributed algorithm, transparent to the application programmer, that can divide the …

A Method Of Storage And Display Of Chinese Characters As Graphic Symbols, Lo-Yi Chung

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An Assessment Of The Suitability Of Nebula As A Target For C, John Dinovo

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A Learning Program For The Game Of 'Go-Moku', Dong-Ming Wang

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The Invisible People: An Installation Of Documentary Photographs, Videotapes And Text, Suzanne Frew

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Storage Of Information On Color Photographic Materials With Applications To Optical Memory Disks, Andrew Juenger

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An experiment was performed to investigate the information capacity of Ilford Cibachrome Micrographic Film type CMM.F7, Kodak Aerial Color Film type SO-242, and Kodak Vericolor Print Film type 4111. The results indicated that the filmSj-had binary single layer information capacities of 9.51 x 10 , 3.27 x 10 , and 0.87 x 10 bits per square centimeter respectively. It was estimated that the CMM.F7 material was capable of resolving three density levels for c trilayer multilevel capacity of 45.2 x 10 bits per square centimeter, followed by SQ-242 and 4111 with five and six levels yielding 22.8 x 10 and …

A Modular Approach To Communication Using Prediction, James Wilson

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An Extended Relational Data Base Management System For Engineering Design, Charles Fung

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At present, the use of the relational model in the engineering design support domain is restricted due to the following: lack of ability to handle complex objects, no support for Abstract Data Types, inappropriate concurrency control for long transactions, no support for versioning and update propagation, poor efficiency, and insufficient design rule checking and consistency contraints enforcement. A simple relational database management system is designed and implemented under the UNIX operating system to incorporate two major extensions: support of user-defined Abstract Data Types and operators, and built-in Design Data Versioning. The design, implementation, and possible extensions to these new facilities …

Macro Assembler For Mc68000 Series, Grace Horng Chung

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The objective of this thesis is to use UNIX's utility Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) as a language developing tool to design and implement a MC68000 macro assembler. The assembler can support four MC68000 machine languages MC68000, MC68008, MC68010, and MC68020.

Assembly Cell Design For The Canister Control Valve, Alfred A. Gates

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This thesis involved the design and testing of a robotic assembly cell for a canister control valve. The valve regulates the air flow to a carburetor of an automobile and is presently hand assembled at Rochester Products Division of General Motors. It consists of a body, a spring, a diaphragm and a cap. Each part required special handling by the robot.

A simulated canister control valve assembly cell has been built in a laboratory using an Adept One robot. This report covers the design process of the cell along with the test of the cell. The report also includes pertinent …

Persistence Of Vision, J Catherine Bebout

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Felted Constructions, Hollie Heller

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The work dealt with in this thesis paper represents the culmination of my artistic growth over the past three years, embodying the ideas and influences I have absorbed. It consists of four wall pieces that will be discussed separately and in detail in this paper. The paper is divided into the following four sections: Progress of Work, a brief survey of the experiences that have contributed to the development of the esthetic underlying the work presented here and that have led me to this stage in my academic and artistic career; Influences, dealing with the work of other artists that …

Vector Quantization Of True-Color Images, Stephen H. Kristy

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Vector quantization (VQ) has recently emerged as a powerful and efficient technique for digital speech and image coding. The goal of such a process is data compression: to minimize communication channel capacity or digital storage memory requirements while maintaining an acceptable fidelity level of the data. A review of various VQ algorithms and their respective design considerations as applied to color images is given. Fidelity measurements and signal-to-noise ratio calculations are discussed. A modified mean-residual vector quantizer using the LBG design algorithm with color signal preprocessing is described. The algorithm is developed to yield a bit rate of 0.709 bits …

An Implementation Of The Chor-Rivest Knapsack Type Public Key Cryptosystem, Robert Jr T. Salamone

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The Chor-Rivest cryptosystem is a public key cryptosystem first proposed by MIT cryptographers Ben Zion Chor and Ronald Rivest [Chor84]. More recently Chor has imple mented the cryptosystem as part of his doctoral thesis [Chor85]. Derived from the knapsack problem, this cryptosystem differs from earlier knapsack public key systems in that computa tions to create the knapsack are done over finite algebraic fields. An interesting result of Bose and Chowla supplies a method of constructing higher densities than previously attain able [Bose62]. Not only does an increased information rate arise, but the new system so far is immune to the …

Brighton Beach -- An Interaction, Dory E. Thanhauser

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Rose-Marie Hicks (Drac): A Photographic Documentation, Susan Myers

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Packaging Requirements For A Sampling Mechanism For Self-Selection Liquid Foundation Makeup, Osnat Lustig

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The cosmetics industry and retailers of cosmetic products face a problem of sampling of packaged merchandise by inconsiderate shoppers in self-service retail outlets. The problem is particularly serious in facial products such as liquid foundation makeup. The consumer desires hands-on feel of the product in order to make an unaided purchase decision of the product, and will continue to sample packaged products as long as there are no other alternatives. However, cost and operation considerations of the cosmetics marketing system often precludes the availability of such alternatives. This study attempts to provide an evaluation tool which will focus on the …