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Design Of A Two-Sensor Camera For Near-Finfrared Aeiral Remote Sensing, Sergio O. Guevara

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The objective of this thesis was to design a color-infrared camera to be used for aerial remote sensing. The design process included obtaining requirements, modeling and analyzing the developed systems for mechanical and thermal stability, and optimization of the system for size and cost. Detailed analysis was required because of the harsh physical environment that airborne cameras are subject to. The solution involved constructing a housing within the limitations of the optical design and a set of chosen off-the-shelf components. These constraints significantly increased the difficulty of achieving the design goals. In the end the original optical design was altered, …

Making A Case Study For The Real Business Value Of Iso 14001 Implementation In The Automotive Industry, Chemical Industry And Small Business, Heather L. Butler

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This graduate thesis, Making a Case Studyfor the Real Business Value ofISO 14001 Implementation in the Automotive Industry, the Chemical Industry, and Small Business, demonstrates how companies within the automotive industry, the chemical industry, and small business are experiencing business value post ISO 14001 Environmental Management System implementation. This paper analyzes the benefits and pitfalls of ISO 14001 post implementation as well as customer and supplier requirements and the business value the companies studied are experiencing. The ISO 14001 standard was published in 1996. The program was more widely adopted in Europe and Asia, but in North America, it was …

The Design Of Interface And Function Of Cellular Phones For Old People, Yusuke Oda

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A cellular phone is hard to handle for older people in terms of interface and function. In this thesis, the word "interface" stands for hardware and software interface and the word "older people" refers to Japanese people who are over 60 years old. Fundamentally, the interface must be easy to handle and convenient. In addition, it must be easy to access all of the functions that the user needs. However, it is questionable whether the interface and function of the present cellular phones are taking older people into consideration. Thus, the purpose of this thesis is to consider new interface …

Internal Organizational Communication During Crisis Situations: The Effect Of Supportive Messages On Employee Stress Levels, Carin L. Kosmoski

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This study investigates the effects of supportive messages from immediate supervisors or CEO's on employees during crisis situations. Supportive messages are hypothesized to decrease the stress levels of employees. The extent to which supportive messages from managers or executives during crisis situations affect employee perceptions of support from their organization, their CEO, and their immediate supervisor is also explored. During the research process, 78 volunteer participants received one of three messages from a hypothetical organization following a hypothetical crisis situation. Spearman's ranked correlations comparing reported support with reported stress levels indicate that, for the group studied, there is a negative …

Domestic Chair, Wei-Mien Hsu

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Film Vs. Digital - A Simulation Of Diagnostic Imaging Systems In Healthcare, Tamar S. Sinclair

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Today, healthcare providers are faced with the decision of how to perform diagnostic imaging services with respect to continuing with traditional film-based imaging techniques or converting to digital imaging technology. This research focuses on the multifactor operational aspects of the diagnostic imaging system, and evaluates the effect that film or digital based imaging have on operational performance, productivity, and quality of patient care. That is, the time the patient spends in the system, the number of diagnostic imaging procedures performed per week and machine utilization. The goal of this research is to provide a quantitative analysis of film-based versus digital …

Swimming With The Fishes: Fish As A Transformational Symbol, Deale A. Hutton

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International Students' Travel Decision Making Process, Tung-Wei Lee

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration In Graphic Design, Jill M. Kepler

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Service Beyond The Campus: An Evaluation Of The Customer Service Of Unibe Alumni Office, Rochelli Subero

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The Universidad Iberoamericana - UNIBE- has been using strategies to attract and maintain graduates' involvement within the university. Furthermore, UNIBE has invested financial and marketing efforts to continue being part of their lives. After attracting alumni, the association's intention is to maintain their interest and focus on enhancing customer satisfaction and customer value. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the customer service delivered by the alumni office to 2,371 Dominican graduates so far reached. Since the foundation of the office, the university hasn't evaluated the perception and attitudes of graduates towards the service offered by alumni office. …

Faulty Femininity, Kristin Gleason

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Transport Of Pesticides Through Soil Columns From Al-Ain Area, United Arab Emirates, Huda Ateeq Al Hassani

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Proper management of pesticides application in the UAE is greatly lacking, causing waste of resources and environmental concerns due to the excessive use of these chemicals. It has been reported that the rate of pesticides use in UAE reaches about 10 kg/hectare/yr, posing a potential threat to the quality of water in underlying aquifers. Little, however, is known about the mobility of applied pesticides in the UAE subsurface environment and the impact of these pesticides on soil and groundwater quality.

The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the fate and mobility of pesticides in the UAE …

Insect Control Using Chitinolytic Soil Actinomycetes As Biocontrol Agents, Fatma Khamis Al-Kaabi

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Assessment Of Organic And Inorganic Pollutants In The Offshore Sediments, Dubai, Uae., Haifa Darwish Ahmad Al Darwish

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The investigated area covers the maximum fragments of Dubai offshore in the Arabian Gulf. The sediment samples were collected from fifteen stations starting by Al-Mamzar mouth and ending by Ras Ghantoot in order to assess the organic and inorganic pollutants affecting the coastal region in Dubai.

The textural class was determined through grain-size analysis and the mineral composition was identified by X-Ray diffraction. The organic pollutants were characterized through the determination of Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN), Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and individual polychlorinated biphenyls. On the other hand the …

Laboratory Investigation Of Transport And Treatment Of Chromium In Groundwater At Liwa District, Abu Dhabi, Wali-Ur-Rahman Din Badshah

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Groundwater quality is a critical aspect affecting utilization of this source for certain purposes. In the UAE, utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes is well practiced. While the quality of groundwater at some locations does not permit direct utilization of this source, groundwater, in many cases, is mixed with desalinated water at certain proportion before being disinfected and then distributed to customers.

Groundwater of Liwa aquifer contains high level of Cr(VI) which is believed to originate from natural sources. However, little has been done to investigate the fate of this contaminant. Spreading of chromium to nearby aquifers may render the …

Conversation With My Art On Self-Expression, Yeo-Jung Chung

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Resource For Social Cause Design, Hang Lian

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The goal of this project is to compile a working resource to help graphic designers develop effective solutions for social cause design problems. The intent is to provide a starting place for designers rather than to create a comprehensive resource that covers every aspect of social cause design.

Improving Existing Wayfinding Theory For Hospital Environments, Youngjoo Park

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A hospital is an institution that provides medical, surgical or psychiatric care and treatment of the sick or the injured. With those specialized purposes, a hospital has a unique environment and hospital users have special needs and a wide range of personal characteristics. People visiting or admitted to a hospital are often anxious. Losing their way or becoming disoriented in a complex hospital facility increases anxiety and stress. Stress levels can adversely affect the results of medical treatment. Poor wayfinding design can elevate stress levels, which can adversely affect medical treatment, and decrease patients' satisfaction with the quality of medical …

The Persuasive Image, George D. Grove

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The unfortunate suburban migration continues. These newly arrived suburbanites exchange their multidimensional urban city views for those of a carefully constructed and intensely controlled pastoral view. This view from their windows is one that symbolizes their ownership of the land and their freedom from dense urban living conditions. The open space and grass function as powerful reminders of why they live in suburbia. But what would occur if the suburbanites were to exchange their view of plastic Eden with images from the city? What if the view of their altered yards and obsessively manicured gardens were intentionally replaced with views …

Design Literacy For Children, John L. O'Neill

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The goals of this thesis are to propose specific graphic design methods that can be used as a supplement to enhance the 8th grade English Language Arts Learning Standards of the New York State Department of Education. The thesis includes a guidebook for educators.

Effects Of Riparian Forest Buffers On Water Quality In The Canandaigua Lake Watershed, Trish Rider

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As watershed landscapes have been transformed to accommodate agriculture and urbanization, non-point source pollution has emerged as an important environmental issue, and riparian forest buffers (RFB) are recommended to control the flow of pollution into stream ecosystems. The Natural Resources Conservation Service recommends that RFBs have a width of at least 30 meters to protect water quality from surface runoff and non-point source pollution. The water quality, RFBs, and land uses within two tributaries of the Canandaigua Lake Watershed were investigated to determine if a positive correlation exists between water quality and RFB width as well as to determine if …

Collapsible Furniture For The Contemporary Work Environment, Yoko Taniguchi

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Differences In Privacy Policies Among Commercial, Educational And Governmental Web Sites: A Cross-Sectional Content Analysis, Rashad Bayramov

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The present study investigates the differences in the way commercial, educational and governmental Web sites communicate their informational privacy practices through the privacy policies posted on the Web. Specifically, the research identifies differences in the coverage of the Fair Information Practice principles within the analyzed privacy policies. The study suggests that the sharpest dissimilarity exists in the coverage of the principles of Access (allowing Web users to review and update the data collected about them) and Security (protecting users' personal information during transmission and subsequent storage), where commercial sites greatly outnumber educational and governmental sites. However, governmental and educational sites …

Students' Self-Reported Preferences For Print And Online Newspapers, Kristin Williams

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The present study investigated the self-reported print and online newspaper reading habits of students at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). . A survey was distributed to a convenience sampling of 87 students in August 2003. Respondents were asked to self-report their ideas, attitudes and opinions about and towards online and printed news. . The results support previous research, including a 1999 study at RIT as well as those conducted at Pennsylvania State University and by the Pew Research Center, which revealed that college students were not reading newspapers with any regularity, but still thought that keeping up with news was …

Twixt, Karen Schlesinger

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This thesis discusses photographs exhibited at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Gallery at Rochester Institute of Technology from April 28 - May 10, 2003. In these photographs of desecrated landscapes at liminal times of day, the eerie light and vibrant colors of dusk and dawn enable me to create views of my personal world, a foreign and perilous place for some audiences, an intoxicating and disquieting environment for others. As the light gives way to darkness, the deepening shadows of the vegetation come alive as monstrous figures. Fears lurk in the darkness and become threatening creatures of the …

Biomorphic Abstractions: Exploring The Relationship Between Two Dimensional And Three Dimensional Art Forms, Paula Crawford

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A Manufacturing Execution System Using Siemens' Pc Based Automation Technology, Prakash Gandhi

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The focus of any manufacturing operation is to establish better yields, reduced cycle times, increase quality, and handle dynamic demand/resource fluctuations. Over the past few years many manufacturing companies have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and they have proved themselves to be successful in achieving these goals. However, real-time data is required in order to portray an accurate account of the day-to-day and/or hourly product manufacturing operations. Retrieval of this real-lime data is a challenging task. A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a real-time information system that improves the performance of the shop floor operations by linking business planning, …

The Influence Of Exercise On Oxygen Uptake In Mild Hypertension, Matthew Joseph Herban

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The amount of oxygen used by muscle cells increase with exercise. The two body systems that influence the amount of oxygen delivered are the cardiovascular system and the pulmonary system. Two groups of patients were studied, those that were mildly hypertensive (but are not taking prescription medication for hypertension) and the control or normal group. The two groups exercised on a bicycle ergometer. Work rate was increased in steps (multiples of thirty watts) until anaerobic threshold (as measured by an ear oximeter) was reached. Heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production were measured during exercise. Their data …

A Content Analysis Of The Portrayal Of Men In Advertising: Gentlemen's Quarterly 1985-2000, Maryrose Mason

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This thesis examines images of men and the products they promote in Gentleman 's Quarterly (GQ) magazine using the symbolic interaction theory of gender display developed by Erving Goffman in his monograph Gender Advertisements (1979). The study examines advertising images for evidence of sexual objectification of men, and reports on the extent different product types use gender displays to attract a male target market. 332 advertising images appearing in GQ from 1985 to 2000 were coded in ten categories of ritual display: setting, image position, image dominance, skin exposure, body portrayal, self-touch, gaze, and product type. The study concludes that …

Design And Analysis Of Meal Assembly And Delivery Methods In Hospital Foodservice Systems, Emily Olney

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Foodservice systems are a necessary and integral part of virtually every hospital. Although hospital foodservice is not the primary function hospitals perform, the foodservice system is a significant part of a hospital's operating budget and floor space, and as a result, should be operated in an optimal way. The main objective of this thesis is to determine the best foodservice system for alternative hospital configurations focusing on the tray assembly and ordering/delivery methods used in providing meals to patients. Four main factors are evaluated at two different levels for each factor using a full factorial experiment. These four factors are …