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The Determination Of Metameric Mismatch Limits Of Industrial Colorant Sets, Michael Beering

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The metameric mismatch limits for two industrial colorant sets, a set for Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene polymers and a set for an acrylic enamel paint system, were determined for a reference illuminant, D65 and test illuminants of FS42, FN40, and Illuminant A. An overlap in color gamuts was found in all cases of similar test conditions between the two sets. Trends in the size, shape, and location of the gamuts were illustrated in 1976 CIE u'v' color space. The results show vastly dissimilar gamuts for all three of the test illuminants.

Attitudes And Evolution; A Profile Of My Work, Amy Ellen Anthony

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The Measurement Of Scatter And Absorption Using Three Spectrophotometric Techniques, Christopher Pearson

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Three methods for scattering and absorption measurements were compared for correlation; Kubelka-Munk, 4pi and an in transmission compartment scattering measurement method. The results indicated highest correlation between the 4pi and Kubelka-Munk absorption measurements. The 4pi and Kubelka-Munk scattering measurements had the highest correlation for scattering, and almost no correlation was found between Kubelka-Munk and in transmission compartment scattering measurements.

The Effects Of Partial Coherence On The Imaging Of Lines On Photoresist, Robert Douglas Watso

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A series of images of a AMI/RIT resolution mask was imaged at the following partial coherence values: 0.7, 0.65, 0.6, 0.55, 0.5, 0.45, 0.4, and 0.35. The line-width and slope of the 10 micron lines imaged at each particular partial coherence value was analyzed and evaluated. The slope of the developed photoresist sidewall improved significantly with a decrease in partial coherent illumination, except for the 0.7 to 0.65, range while the line-width decreased.

Spectrophotometric Color Formulation Based On Two-Constant Kubelka-Munk Theory, Eric Walowit

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A new approach to computer color formulation based on non-linear least-squares techniques has been developed to characterize colorants and predict their behavior in mixtures. This approach allows the optimization of absorption and scattering calculations to characterize these colorants. This same method has been used to directly match the spectral reflectance of a standard with a mixture of colorants that yields nearly the same spectral reflectance as the standard being matched. Several advantages have been gained over more traditional methods: Kubelka-Munk K and S has been determined without primary binary blends, the spectral reflectance of the standard and proposed formulation exhibit …

A Method For Comparison Of Anti-Reflection Coatings For Photoresist Via A Simple Computer Algorithm, Neil Levine

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A method was achieved to allow a quantitative and rapid comparison of different anti-reflection coatings (ARC) used under the photoresist layer in semiconductor-device fabrication. The computer algorithm utilizes the spectral irradiance of the source, reflectance of the substrate, absorption of the photoresist and ARC, and the spectral sensitivity of the photoresist to provide a quantitative value of the total system response to reflectance. The algorithm was tested by correlating the resultant value with photoresist resolution on aluminum, polysilicon, and 2nd-oxide process layers, and found to be linear with an R-squared value of 0.99S5 within the region investigated. Subsequent statistical analysis …

Simulation Of A Data Flow Computer, Carol Torsone

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A data flow computer is a highly concurrent and asynchronous multiprocessor due to its fundamentally new architecture. It has no program counter and is not sequential. Instructions execute whenever their operands are available to them. Because of this data-activated instruction execution, multiple instructions can execute concurrently. The project for this thesis was the simulation of a data flow computer. A graph language and machine language were defined; then a simulator was written which reads and executes a machine language program in the asynchronous and concurrent manner of a data flow computer.

Case Study Of Installing A Research Project Cost Accounting System, Marjorie Rolfsmeyer

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The thesis, Case Study of Installing a Research Project Cost Accounting System by Marjorie Rolfsmeyer, explores the development and implementation of a computerized cost accounting system for research and development (R&D) projects within the Health Care Division of a major corporation. The author identifies the unique challenges of research cost accounting, which differs from traditional manufacturing cost systems due to its unpredictable nature and project-specific expenditures.

The study outlines the purpose of a project cost accounting system, emphasizing its role in budgeting, financial tracking, and managerial decision-making. It discusses how cost control mechanisms, including detailed expense reporting, job numbering, and …

A Survey On Censorship In Missouri Secondary Schools, Janie Hutchinson Walker

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The purpose of this study was to determine by a general survey the extent of censorship in Missouri secondary schools. This survey was intended to obtain information regarding districts selection policies, policies pertaining to censorship procedures, actual incidence of censorship cases, titles found objectionable, and reasons for objections. It was also intended to elicit individual librarians' opinions regarding censorship cases in their school district and on contributing to a statewide newsletter on issues pertinent to censorship.

In this study, surveys were sent to a random sampling of 106 of the 546 school districts listed in the 1983-84 Missouri School Directory. …

A Curriculum For Mainstreaming The Gifted Third Grader In Reading Through Children's Literature, Suzanne Horn

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Mainstreaming the gifted third- grader in reading should be accomplished through the implementation of a modified curriculum that meets the child's unique educational and specialized needs. This curriculum should be process and product oriented . Process modifications should include the use of higher levels of thinking, inductive reasoning, reasoning strategies, freedom of choice, and open-endedness . It should include appropriate changes of pacing and a variety of teaching models . The curriculum should result in a product that is based on instruction. This curriculum should be enriched with literature that exhibits fluent, flexible, original, and elaborative writing.

With these criteria …

The Artist In Society, Ann Demarle-Pollak

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A Study To Eliminate Moire Patterns Produced In Color Separations When Scanning Polachrome Cs Transparency Film On The Hell Dc-300 B/L Laser Scanner, Edwin Parker Price

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The Polaroid Corporation, in May of 1983, introduced Polachrome CS color transparency film and a new process called the Autoprocess system. This system offers the convenience of obtaining instant color transparencies in about three minutes. The film has excellent projection and viewing characteristics. The product was designed to have its largest market with professional photographers. Polachrome's construction creates problems for the printer in that moire patterns occur during the separation process. This study gives a short background for both additive color screen films and dye layer films, and a comparison is made to help the reader understand the problems with …

The Fabrication And Testing Of A Lead Iodide Photovoltaic Cell, Keith Greenberg

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A new type of photovoltaic cell using lead iodide as the photosensitive element and aluminum and silver as electrodes was constructed and then tested for open circuit voltage, monochromatic quantum yield of short circuit current, and fill factor. A similar cell was also fabricated using the familiar merocyanine dye M-8 as the photosensitive element for use in a control experiment. Minimal open circuit voltages of not more than 26 mV were obtained for lead iodide while much larger photovoltaic parameters were obtained for M-8. The poor and impermanent performance of lead iodide relative to the organic control suggests that lead …

Keeping Up With Technological Change, Karlis V. Kopans

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Advances in technology over the past fifty (50) years have changed virtually everything that touches our lives today to some degree. However, in the last five years or so, these innovations have been combined into products and systems which have visibly begun to change society as we have known it in the past.

Only in recent years, have the affects of technological change or innovation on society begun to be examined. While a fair amount of literature has been published to date on specific areas of technological change, few publications have been produced which provide a general overview of the …

A Cogeneration Industrial Park In An Urban Environment In The Year 2000, Raymond T. Scott

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An investigation into the feasibilty of placing an industrial park in an urban environment in the year 2000 was made. A selected cogeneration facility located within the park would supply electricity and process steam to the industries with minimal transmission costs and environmental effects. A projection was made on the industries that would exhibit growth to the end of this century, and yet be environmentally benign in nature. These industries would be placed within the industrial park. The selection of the cogeneration facility was based upon projections of fuel availability, environmental factors and available technologies. Socio-economic factors and the effects …

Simulation Of The Manufacturing System : A General Discussion, Di-Cheing Chien

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This thesis treats the problem of multi-variable sensitivity analysis in a production system which may be used in investigating a variety of characteristics of a flow production system which involve idle time, cost, production rate, ect. are the subjects of the analysis.

The analysis procedure follows the rule of INPUT/OUTPUT through a production process. A simple system model using elements such as : raw material, transfer tool, labor, machine and energy/ or electrical power, is used to lead into the construction of dependent-variable system. A utilization is made of industrial robots as well as humans in loading and unloading machines …

Decoding Daily Life, Howard Granowitz

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A Discussion Of My Work, Lynne Hull

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Reflection Upon The Intangible Process Of Professional Development In A Graduate Program In Counseling Psychology, Judy Iris Fletcher, Mary Randa Kapp

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The following narrative is a personal account of the experiences, observations, and awarenesses of two students completing their Masters degrees in counseling psychology. It represents an effort to document what we view as an identifiable and stress-producing process of growth occurring within an academic framework. We feel that this duality of personal growth and professional development is inadequately addressed in graduate programs. Yet, we have found this unstated, underlying, and inevitable threat of uncertainty, risk, and change to be as predictable a reality as the theoretical coursework required.

This paper is written not so much to prove a point as …

Parents As Tutors: A Home Remediation Program, Carla Harding Pund

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether parent tutoring of developmentally delayed children would significantly improve student achievement. This study focused on a parent-participation program, systematically controlled, which was designed to educate parents in methods of productive teaching so that these parents could participate in a remediation program for their child.

The subjects for this study were those students, assigned to a self contained kindergarten classroom, who scored below the 40th percentile in a combined score of the mathematics and language subject areas of the Test of Basic Experiences (TOBE). Of the 43 students who were administered the …

Missouri Challenges, Patsy J. Lilienkamp

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This work was written to present selected portions of Missouri history, using the approach of anecdotal records interspersed with factual material. It focuses on the lives of the common people rather than the usual heroes concentrates on their of daily history books. It lives, their feelings, their beliefs, and their questions and fears.

The information was magazines, newspapers, and Some of the information is gathered personal factual; from books, conversations. some is a collection of happenings and customs which undoubtedly have been altered and amended a s they were handed down through generations.

It is the author's hope that a …

Work Groups As An Aid To Management, John W. Porter

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The work group is an important part of every organization. These groups are important in that they have a definite impact on both the organization and the employees. Every employee is a member of a work group. The employee that is a part of a supervisory unit or an employee in a department is a member of the formal work group. Those employees that share their time on the job with those individuals that they care to be with for reasons other than the organization's design, are members of the informal work group, or clique as it is sometimes called. …

Violence In Southern Literature, Lucy Katherine Tejero

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This thesis explores the recurring theme of violence in the works of key Southern writers—William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Robert Penn Warren. It argues that violence in Southern literature is not merely sensational or gratuitous, but deeply tied to the region’s historical, social, and cultural realities, particularly the legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and entrenched racial hierarchies. By situating each author within this context, the study demonstrates how acts of violence in their fiction serve as a lens through which to examine moral conflict, social change, and human frailty.

Faulkner’s depictions of brutality are shown …

Contrasts In Management And Productivity Between The Japanese And American Systems; (What Can And What Is Being Done), Jim Venables

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This paper, "Contrasts in Management and Productivity Between the Japanese and American Systems; (What Can and What Is Being Done)" by Jim Venables, provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of Japanese and American management styles, highlighting their impact on productivity, corporate culture, and organizational effectiveness. Beginning with Japan’s post-World War II industrial ascent, the study attributes much of the nation's economic success to superior managerial practices rather than external factors such as labor costs or resources. The paper juxtaposes two corporate giants—Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) and International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT)—as representative models of their respective systems.

The Japanese model, exemplified by …

Transpersonal Psychology And Psychotherapy: A Relational Inquiry, Robert Allen Geller

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This study attempts to determine , through research of the literature of transpersonal psychology, if a specific paradigm for psychotherapy is present in that literature.

The research is viewed from a theme analysis perspective which attempts to isolate the major characteristics of the description s circumscribing transpersonal psychotherapy that emerged consistently . Certain consistent patterns did, in fact, emerge.

The articles are considered against a background that includes the historical appearance of the trans personal movement, the influence of Eastern traditions, a transpersonal model of the person, and various conceptualizations of therapy, transformation, and ultimate liberation.

An appendix is included …

Success: A Reading And Writing Program Compared To A Basal Reader Program, Helen Jansen

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The Wentzville R-IV School District initiated a pilot program using the SUCCESS in Reading a nd Writing approach to teaching reading in the Fall of 1984. This study was conducted to compare the effects of the SUCCESS approach on the vocabulary , comprehension , attitudes , and behavior of the students participating in the pilot program to those who were taught in the Houghton-Mifflin basal reading program . It was predicted that students who experienced instruction i n the SUCCESS app roach would achieve significantly greater gains in vocabulary and comprehension . It was also predicted that the SUCCESS students …

Children's Reactions To The Residential Treatment Setting, Barbara Jane Uhl

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This study explores the emotional and psychological reactions of children to residential treatment centers, focusing on themes of separation anxiety, punishment, and the role of early attachment disruptions. Barbara Jane Uhl investigates how emotionally disturbed children perceive their institutional environments compared to children from public schools. Drawing from object relations theory and existing research on institutionalization, the study hypothesizes that children in residential treatment settings often internalize feelings of guilt and punishment as a result of separation from their families and the impersonal nature of institutional structures.

Using a mixed-methods approach, the study administered projective drawing tests and written assessments—including …

Assessing For The Risk Factors Of Cardiovascular Disease, Brenda L. Weihl

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The purpose of this study was to develop and test the Wholistic Lifestyle Assessment as a tool to predict the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Experiment 1 was conducted as a pilot study at Hope Presbyterian Church. Experiment 2 was conducted at the Spring Fitness Festival at the Bridgeton Community Center. There were 52 volunteers at the Fitness Festival who completed the questionnaire. The Wholistic Lifestyle Assessment included questions on demographic information, family history, and both direct and indirect questions related to the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Mean scores and standard deviations were calculated for all variables . Pearson …

A Critical Analysis And Adaptation Of The Woolgatherer, Dennis A. Wood

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This thesis by Dennis A. Wood presents a critical analysis and creative adaptation of The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone, examining how a contemporary play can be reshaped using classical dramatic principles. The study explores the transformation of Mastrosimone’s script through the lens of Aristotelian poetics and other historic and modern theories of drama and play direction. Wood interrogates themes such as obscenity, nature, audience engagement, and moral content, advocating for the use of “masked obscenity” and “unmasked nature” as tools to elevate the play to a more universal and potentially classical form.

The thesis divides its analysis into theoretical and …

At&T Technologies' Marketing Philosophy: The Impact Divestiture Had Upon It, Cynthia Gerard

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The marketing mindset at AT&T Technologies , Inc.-does one exist? This thesis is prepared by a Lindenwood College student and employee of AT&T Technologies, Inc. inspired by t he academic excellence challenge as well as established professional career objectives. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the marketing efforts instituted at this Company.

The literature utilized in conjunction with this research was derived from published material. This was done to preserve the integrity and proprietary needs of such a business . Any recommendations, analysis, and conclusions are made from the basis of this author acting in a consulting capacity. …