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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 …

Navigating The Roadblocks To Spectral Color Reproduction: Data-Efficient Multi-Channel Imaging And Spectral Color Management, Mitchell Rosen

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Commercialization of spectral imaging for color reproduction will require the identification and traversal of roadblocks to its success. Among the drawbacks associated with spectral reproduction is a tremendous increase in data capture bandwidth and processing throughput. Methods are proposed for attenuating these increases with data-efficient methods based on adaptive multi-channel visible-spectrum capture and with low-dimensional approaches to spectral color management. First, concepts of adaptive spectral capture are explored. Current spectral imaging approaches require tens of camera channels although previous research has shown that five to nine channels can be sufficient for scenes limited to pre-characterized spectra. New camera systems are …

Wearable Walking Aid For Elderly People, Yungshiun Lin

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Pipedreams, Matt Trebelhorn

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Out, Out..., Charles Bandla

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Employee Perceptions Of Task And Work Posture Frequency In An Office Environment: The Accuracy Of Self Report, Kevin Ii Meredith

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The growth and expansion of the computers in the workplace have changed the way that people do work. In effort to minimize the number of work related musculoskeletal disorders, employee exposure to ergonomic risk factors has been number of assessment methods exist for collecting information regarding exposure to ergonomic risk factors in occupational settings. Establishing the validity of such methods is key to developing a greater understanding of the dose response relationship associated with ergonomic risk factors in the workplace. This research utilized work sampling techniques to determine the accuracy with which workers estimated task and work posture duration in …

Talismans Of Task, Karen Pollitt

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The creation of sculptures using different wood species, sheet steel, Lexan and other materials.

Music, Higher Brain Function And Spatial Temporal Reasoning: Is There Proof Enough?, Michaekl Schmerold

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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between music and spatial-temporal reasoning. Beginning with the background of brain development and spatial reasoning, the study specifically looks at the possible relationship between music and mathematics. Additionally, it examines the effects of listening to music while engaging in mathematical activities.

The study introduces the reader to "S.T.A.R.", Spatial Temporal Animation Reasoning software, which is integrated into the school curriculum of music and technology at the second grade level. The study concludes with a review of the positive impact of music on reasoning abilities.

The Rationale For Preserving Neighborhood Open Space In Newark, New Jersey's North Ward, Stephen M. Wiessner

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A study was conducted to determine the shifts in open space availability between 1950 and 2003 in four neighborhoods in the North Ward of Newark, New Jersey. Total open space in square feet and open spaces ten thousand square feet and less were quantified to determine the extent of usable open space for the creation of community gardens or vest pocket parks.

The study identified large reductions of open space recently in the two least affluent study areas. The two more affluent study areas have also lost open space recently, but not at the magnitude of the poorer study areas. …

The Illusion Of Science : Images Of Science On Stage, Preethi Ganapathy

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Science has long been regarded as a process of thinking, of pursuing the truth. This quest traditionally has been reserved for an elite group of thinkers, since at least the time of Aristotle, who was considered as the undisputed authority on philosophical truth, including that which we call science. The Scientific Revolution challenged Aristotle's authority and paved the way for the new method of evaluating scientific truths developed by Bacon, Descartes, and Galileo. Science became, over time, a process of inquiry open to all social and economic classes and accessible to all. In the twentieth century, the role of science …

Implementation Of Cyclic Exercise Protocol On Two Study Groups - Aids And Insomnia, Ujwala G. Kalambur

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Traditional exercise regimens are based on maintaining a prolonged increase in heart rate, followed by a single recovery period. The Cyclic Exercise Protocol is a novel protocol that is designed to create a series of parabolic waves of exercise and recovery. This study involves the implementation of this exercise protocol on two study groups namely AIDS and Insomnia. This exercise protocol involves short bursts of exercise lasting for 60 seconds or less followed by a period of complete aerobic recovery. The underlying principle of this exercise protocol is that rest, recovery and the body's natural rhythm are important to fitness …

Special Olympics Participation In School Age Children With Mental Retardation And Its Effects On Self-Esteem, Megan Lococo

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A comprehensive review of the literature and interviews with local experts has found a paucity of research on the self-esteem of school-age children with mental retardation. Long (1995), Zic & Igric (2001) and Siperstein & Leffert (1997) found lower self-esteem in self-report measures completed by mentally retarded children and adults. However, the psychometric properties of selfesteem self-report measures have been questioned repeatedly, finding insufficient reliability and validity when applied to mentally retarded populations (Finlay & Lyons, 2001; Widaman et al., 1992). The purpose of this study is twofold; the first goal is to determine the average self-esteem for mentally retarded …

Environmental Graphic Design Program For The 220th Anniversary Of Rochester, New York, Nataya Brahmacupta

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Identifying Characteristics Of Deaf Poor Readers, Susan Post

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This study is a spelling recall task. Stimulus words will be presented in three conditions - fingerspelling, sign and print. All subjects will encounter all three lists, presented serially, with brief pauses in between. Each list will comprise 18 words. In order to control for the familiarity effect, no word will be included in more than one list. Students will be instructed to write down the word they see. Data will be analyzed to determine whether or not "poor" readers evidence a different spelling error "profile" than "good readers." Spelling performance will also be correlated with Digit Span (OS) and …

Stuttering Awareness, Joshua Bodman

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This thesis project will provide information about stuttering and attempt to eliminate some of the stigmas attached to the disorder. By increasing awareness, more light will be cast on stuttering, eliminating some of the burden of disfluency. The disorder will no longer be a mystery if people understand that stuttering is composed of concrete thoughts, feelings and actions. A publicized campaign will dispel some of the negative views of this disorder and reduce the pressures that are created in different speaking situations. These stuttering awareness goals will be disseminated through a collection of design applications. The awareness campaign as presented …

The Inclusion Of Students With An Emotional And Behavioral Disturbance (Ebd) In Regular Education Classrooms: A Survey Of School Psychologists In The United States, Kathryn Crane, Larry Scott

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Current literature suggests that among students with disabilities, students with emotional and behavioral (EBD) disturbances are the most challenging to include. This study surveyed the perceptions of school psychologists and other professionals nationwide regarding this issue. Respondents indicated that students with EBD are still spending a large amount of their day outside of the regular education classroom. Rural districts reported a significantly higher amount of students with EBD being included in regular education, compared to urban districts. Individual student needs and "district vision, beliefs, and philosophy" ranked as the most important factors influencing attempts to educate students with EBD in …

Professional Development: A Study Of Teacher Empowerment In A School Using Whole-Faculty Study Groups, Nicole L. Whitesell

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The purpose of this study is to examine and describe teacher empowerment at McCluer High School where whole-faculty study groups are being used for sustained professional development. Whole-faculty study groups were introduced to the McCluer faculty as a means for ongoing professional development within the structure of early release days. Teachers were asked to submit topics of interest to study during each school year. Group size ranged from 4 to 12 members. Groups were composed of members within the same academic discipline or from different academic disciplines. Teacher empowerment was measured by the School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES), which considers …

A Hybrid Mosaic And Vice Versa, Jinhwan Choi

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Utilization Of Statistical Tools To Identify Assignable Causes Of Variability And Model Performance Of A Wet Electrostatic Precipitator, Jennifer Wuotinen

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The King's Landing Wastewater Treatment Plant treats industrial sewer wastewater from nearly 200 manufacturing buildings for Eastman Kodak Company located at Kodak Park in Rochester, NY. The average throughput for the facility is 28 million gallons of wastewater per day (MGD) and discharges the resulting effluent into the Genesee River. Through a series of physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes, materials are removed from the wastewater and sludge is produced. The sludge is conveyed through a belt press for dewatering prior to incineration. The dewatered sludge is sent to a multiple hearth incinerator with a secondary combustion chamber/afterburner for thermal …

Corporate Branding And Design In The Internet Environment, Cory Tan

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Environmental Information Design; The Traveler's Wayfinding Experience, Lyndsay Beauchamp

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"This thesis is a demonstration project about environmental information design and wayfinding, focusing specifically on Toronto, Canada's subway system"--p.1

Eastern Spirit In Western Form, Ming-Ru Tsai

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Configurations, Yelitza Serrano

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Still Life, Robert Szatmari

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Design For Sensitive Topics: Empowering The Teen, Alison Fichter

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Simulated Selves, Erika Gentry

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In an increasingly virtual world, new identities that exist only in cyberspace are being created. Historically rooted, role-playing has been popular long before Shakespeare, and starting in the early 1990s, has moved into the computer. Now more than ever, it serves as a form of entertainment, escape and self-exploration to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In interactive, text-based computer games that are designed to represent fantasy worlds, players become authors not only of text but of themselves, constructing new selves through social interaction. On a MUD (Multi User Domain) game, places and selves are completely constructed through text. Thus, …

Arts: An Interactive Medium Throughout Utilizing Abstraction, Simplicity And Harmony, Hye-Jeong Ko

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The Colorfood System, Mary Monkowski

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Reconsidering Restoration, Brian Hoffner

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What does the process of ecological restoration actually produce? For some restoring nature is a point of no contention. By replacing ecosystems that have been damaged by human interference, humans are taking proper responsibility for their actions. However, the environmental ethics community is all but in agreement over humans' obligations to damaged ecosystems. Some in the field claim that it is human's responsibility to perform "wild gardening", through restorations, to "our" environments. While other philosophers insist that these acts produce "faked nature".

This thesis offers a compromise vision of the meaning of restoration. The author uses the concept of Autonomous …

Staff Perspectives On The Experience Of A Problem-Based Learning Staff Development Module: Impact On Their Pedagogical Stance, Una Coleman

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The current shift towards problem-based learning (PBL) internationally within higher education, and the transfer of some programmes within higher education in Ireland into PBL programmes, suggests that staff development needs to be a key component in any PBL implementation strategy. PBL radically transforms the roles and functions of both staff and student and challenges teachers’ beliefs and accompanying perceptions about the teaching and learning process. This study documents the impact of a PBL staff development programme on the participants and assesses the impact on their pedagogical stance.

The approach to this study was guided by my belief in the socially …