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The Preservation Of Performance Art, Alicia Rodriguez

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The Making Of The Dahesh Museum Of Art: An Account Of Its Founding, Ten-Year History, Its Academic Art Collection, And Exhibitions, Alia Nour-Elsayed

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A Comparative Study Of Performance Appraisals And The Implication For Management Practices, Sekou D. Bangura

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The Perceptions Of Barriers To Establishing Mentor Relationships Relative To Gender, Jennifer L. Stoessel

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The Role Of The Dorsolateral Striatum In The Maintenance Of Stimulus-Response Of Learning With Sucrose And Sucrose-Ethanol Reinforcement, David H. Root

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The Transatlantic Relationship Vis-A-Vis China: A Comparative Analysis Of The Foreign Policy Approaches Towards China By The Eu And The U.S., Andrea Schierbaum

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Unseen Obstacles To Democratic Consolidation The Case Of Romania, Andrea Florescu

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U.S. Based Reality Television On The College Campus: An Analysis Of Viewing Patterns Based On Gender, Helena M. Brady

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Use Of Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Technology To Create Recombinant Human Cytomegalovirus To Study Their Major Immediate Early Gene Expression And Viral Replication, Yamileth Rios

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Watsuji Tetsuro's Ontological Ethics As A Conceptual Framework For Environmental Philosophy, Albert E. Pike

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"Just Say No," Or, "Just Do It?" What Impact Have Major, National, Anti-Drug Campaigns, Conducted Between The Years 1987-1991, Had On The Decisions Of America's Young Adults?, Jill E. Surdyka

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The Impact Of Inequalities In Economic Performance On Their Health-Care Services Between Urban And Rural Areas In China, Lei Zhang

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The Impact Of Discrepancies Between Employer-Provided Information And Expectations On The Job Satisfaction Of Graduate Assistants, Sirena N. Scott

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Writing, Illustrating And Designing A Printed And An Interactive Book For Children, Sara Ponce-Rivera

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The thesis, Writing, Illustrating and Designing a Printed and an Interactive Book for Children, as the title states, consists of creating a book for children and then developing it as an interactive educational application. The book as well as the interactive book, target children between the ages of seven to ten years old.

The title of the book is. The Island of My Childhood Dreams. The content is about my reflection of growing up in Puerto Rico, and its illustrations are used in the interactive book as the framework to further explore the cultural aspects of the island.

The interactive …

The Satisfaction Of Unexpected Discoveries, Kirsten Bassion

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On Chromatic Polynomial And Ordinomial, Amir Barghi

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Design Reuse And Product Innovation, Osman T. Tasci

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Along with many other measures, companies are looking at reusing existing designs (i.e., hardware and software) to cut costs. Design reuse saves resources by contributing to shorter time-to-market and less engineering, procurement, service, training and documentation costs. The aim of the present study is to analyze the relationship between design reuse and product innovation; specifically whether design reuse fosters product innovation as a primary hypothesis. Moreover, the moderating effects between design reuse and product innovation, which were identified as focused innovation, better system integration and creative reuse were explored. A survey was conducted and data on 43 companies was analyzed …

Walking The Loop, Cory Card

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Repetition/Series, Anthony Trinchera

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Efficient Job Scheduling For A Cellular Manufacturing Environment, Joshua Dennie

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An important aspect of any manufacturing environment is efficient job scheduling. With an increase in manufacturing facilities focused on producing goods with a cellular manufacturing approach, the need arises to schedule jobs optimally into cells at a specific time. A mathematical model has been developed to represent a standard cellular manufacturing job scheduling problem. The model incorporates important parameters of the jobs and the cells along with other system constraints. With each job and each cell having its own distinguishing parameters, the task of scheduling jobs via integer linear programming quickly becomes very difficult and time-consuming. In fact, such a …

A Study Of The Effect Of Weight And Size On The Frequency And Height Of Drop Hazards In The Dhl Small Parcel Ground Environment, David Batz

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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of weight and size (volume) on the way in which a package is handled in the DHL small parcel ground environment. This was done by recording with Saver units the number of drops, as well as the height of drops, that occurred using 9 different package configurations, in a DHL ground shipping environment. The data that was collected showed that the heavier the packaged product, the less frequently it is dropped. The weight of the package had no effect on the drop heights, and the size of the package had …

The Rising Preference To Real-Time Broadcasting Effects Upon Traditional Multi-Media Broadcasting Solutions, Noaman Najeeb

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Originally the Internet was a research-based arena but today the applications available are greatly diversified and extremely advanced. Media broadcasting on a real time basis is that which characterizes many providers business base in service, applications, soft and hardware needs. Today's engineers are driven toward making provisions of new and superior applications to make the Internet stronger and more serviceable. Along with the new dimension of today's Internet come new challenges. Videoconferencing and video broadcasting are mainstream entrant applications. These applications specifically those of videoconferencing and broadcasting place previously unheard of demands on the response-load of the network effecting data …

Assisted Gps Solution In Cellular Networks, Gidon Lissai

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The ‘Wireless Enhanced 911’ rules, which were issued in 1996, state that the position of a mobile device should be sent to Public Safety Answering Point (‘PSAP’) once a 9-1-1 call takes place from it. The rules imposed the cellular carriers to integrate a technology into their networks so that the mobile device location can be transferred once a 9-1-1 call is made. One of the chosen technologies was the Global Positioning System (GPS). The solution suggests integrating a GPS receiver into every cellular device. But the GPS receiver, as a stand alone solution, has some major performance limitations in …

Blooming Numbers: Interactive Visualization In Cultural Contexts Based On Numbers, Yuri Lee

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The Blooming Numbers is an application based on the web for the purpose of visualizing the relationships between cultural contexts and the preference of numbers in interactive and dynamic ways. People from different cultural background have varying opinions about numbers. My basic idea was to explore effective visualization based on this interesting observation. My thesis project provides an interactive application to convey a huge amount of information about numbers, as well as a fun experience with an art work generated with diverse data provided by the users.

Creating A High Level Incident Response/Forensics Policy By Complying With State And Federal Regulations, Jennie Delucia

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With the increasing number of threats involving organization's today, i.e., identity theft, fraud, and embezzlement, it's imperative that companies have an incident response/forensic policy in place in order to successfully retain and preserve potential evidence. Organizations need to not only combat current problems, but to prevent them from reoccurring. Organizations should not feel alone in this battle. The federal government along with state governments have passed legislation that mandates an incident response/forensic policy be implemented in order to comply with the newly passed regulations, such has Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Gramm-Leach Bliley (GLBA). Also …

Absence & Presence, Tim Clark

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I came to graduate school with a passion for producing ceramic sculpture, a love of the materiality of clay, and an interest in learning more about contemporary art. Upon arrival at the School for American Crafts, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, my work was primarily concerned with formal issues pertaining to objects, such as mass, visual weight, form, volume, and line. My journey throughout the two-year graduate program involved exploration of the ceramic processes, experimentation with methodologies of fabrication, and investigation into form and content. Academic classes, including Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics, Graduate Seminar, Forms of Inquiry, an …

Cooperative Learning Incorporating Computer-Mediated Communication: Participation, Perceptions, And Learning Outcomes In A Deaf Education Classroom, Michelle Pandian

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Many researchers have documented deaf students' struggles with reading, writing, and communication in the classroom over the last twenty years Fang & Beil, 2005; Antia, et al., 2005; Mallory & Long, 2002; Mallory et al., 2006, Johnson & Johnson, 1986; Karchmer & Mitchell, 2003). With the advent of email and text pagers, students today need to be exposed to the communication technologies of the future (Marschark et al., 2002; Bruce & Levin, 2003); especially deaf students, who will more typically rely on technology in the workplace for communication than hearing people (Wood, 2002). This exploratory research study with deaf undergraduate …

Solvent Targeting, Avoidance And Recovery Trials (Start), Kealan Allen

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Solvent is the largest-volume raw material used at Janssen Pharmaceutical (Ire) Ltd. Over 2.2 million m³ were used in 2004. The top 13 solvents make up 99% of this amount. There are two main uses for solvent on site, processing and cleaning. Processing uses 55% of the total solvent used on site, cleaning uses the remainder.

Waste solvent forms the majority of the hazardous waste produced at Janssen. Three treatment options exist at present for this waste: incineration, recovery for reuse and energy recovery. All of the hazardous waste produced on site must be exported for these treatment options, …

Writing With Faith, Charles M. Mclean

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Faith is the belief in something larger than oneself. It is not provable; it is not necessarily logical. It is a feeling, an intuition. Faith can be a belief in a god or a set of ideals, but the important part is the believing. If a person is without faith, that person is lost and remains so until such time a belief is born again.

TI1is culminating project strives to look at faith through essay and short fiction. A preface essay speaks to what I think faith is and why every human being requires it. The introduction has three purposes. …

Development Of A Service-Oriented Communication Platform For Heterogeneous Voice Over Ip Networks., Aisling O'Driscoll

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As broadband services have become more widespread in recent years due to a variety of government initiatives and the establishment of Wireless Internet Service Providers, user requirements have evolved and the market has become more competitive. Whilst this is beneficial for consumers it means that Internet Service Providers must offer a more diverse range of services coupled with standard broadband packages to distinguish themselves from their competitors, generate new revenue and strengthen their competitive advantage. Therefore many providers are looking to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) to provide communication platforms, enabling services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) along with other …