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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 …

A Subpixel Target Detection Algorithm For Hyperspectral Imagery, Kyungsuk Lee

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The goal of this research is to develop a new algorithm for the detection of subpixel scale target materials on the hyperspectral imagery. The signal decision theory is typically to decide the existence of a target signal embedded in the random noise. This implies that the detection problem can be mathematically formalized by signal decision theory based on the statistical hypothesis test. In particular, since any target signature provided by airborne/spaceborne sensors is embedded in a structured noise such as background or clutter signatures as well as broad band unstructured noise, the problem becomes more complicated, and particularly much more …

Power Supply Noise Coupling In A Standard Voltage Reference Circuit, Murat Ozbas

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Power supply noise coupling represents a challenge in the design of current and future analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems. In this thesis, power supply noise coupling is analyzed at the circuit level. As a representative study, power supply noise coupling in a voltage reference is studied. The precision of a voltage reference circuit is critical to the performance of other analog and RF circuits. Therefore, there is much value in developing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms through which power supply noise coupling occurs in this fundamental analog and RF system building block. A model representing the amount of …

Designing For Content: Women Pioneers In Design: A New Learning Resource For Students Of Graphic Design History, Aaris Sherin

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Media Processor Implementations Of Image Rendering Algorithms, Josephine Smith

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Demands for fast execution of image processing are a driving force for today's computing market. Many image processing applications require intense numeric calculations to be done on large sets of data with minimal overhead time. To meet this challenge, several approaches have been used. Custom-designed hardware devices are very fast implementations used in many systems today. However, these devices are very expensive and inflexible. General purpose computers with enhanced multimedia instructions offer much greater flexibility but process data at a much slower rate than the custom-hardware devices. Digital signal processors (DSP's) and media processors, such as the MAP-CA created by …

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 …

Will Standards-Based Instruction Improve Student Achievement In The Areas Of Mathematics?, Robert E. Cowell

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The author conducted this longitudinal study to gain an objective view of the instructional practices on student achievement. The author, an elementary principal, facilitated a change in philosophy and practice, especially in the area of mathematics.

This study confirmed that there is a statistically significant impact on student achievement when a standards-based instructional program is implemented. The data in the study also indicated that a significant number of students improved their achievement score based on CTB-McGraw Hill Terra Nova Assessments.

This study also indicated a significant demographic factor that will need to be further researched. Fifty percent of the students …

Putting Francis Howell On The Map, Christopner Matthews Greiner

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One of the main responsibilities of a school system is to train citizens to be productive members of society. To that end, educators are charged with the responsibility of helping students learn knowledge and skills that will be beneficial to their existence beyond high school. In recent years, growing criticism has emerged from business leaders and parents that schools are not doing a good enough job preparing students for life after high school. As a result, educators have worked to implement accountability systems that would raise the stakes for its students. As a result, the development and implementation of exit …

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 …

Investigations On Compatibilized And Uncompatibilized Blends Of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) And Poly(Ethylene Oxide), Pranita Kulkarni

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This thesis describes the investigation of compatibilized and uncompatibilized blends of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). Poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) was used a compatibilizer for the system. Modeling of crystallization exotherms, high -temperature phase behavior and partitioning of the components in the above blend systems are considered in detail. Only blends having PVDF as the continuous phase are studied. The crystallization behavior as observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of PVDF seemed unchanged upon blending with PEO for both compatibilized and uncompatibilized systems. However, PEO showed a significant depression in its crystallization temperature when blended with PVDF. As the …

A Hybrid Mosaic And Vice Versa, Jinhwan Choi

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Configurations, Yelitza Serrano

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Pattern In Painting, Barbara Elsenheimer

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Using Intellectual Property Strategy To Assess And Develop Product Architecture, Stephen Smith

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Construction Of M - Band Bandlimited Wavelets For Orthogonal Decomposition, Bryce Tennant

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While bandlimited wavelets and associated IIR filters have shown serious potential in areas of pattern recognition and communications, the dyadic Meyer wavelet is the only known approach to construct bandlimited orthogonal decomposition. The sine scaling function and wavelet are a special case of the Meyer. Previous works have proposed a M - Band extension of the Meyer wavelet without solving the problem. One key contribution of this thesis is the derivation of the correct bandlimits for the scaling function and wavelets to guarantee an orthogonal basis. In addition, the actual construction of the wavelets based upon these bandlimits is developed. …

Equivalent Circuit Models For Package Level Discontinuities And Chip-Package Intersonnects, Maulin Bhagat

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Equivalent circuit models with closed form expressions, in conjunction with a segmentation technique, have been derived to study three different aspects related to chip-package co-design issues. This technique has been successfully applied to package level discontinuities, chip-package interconnects, and the modeling of transients that affect the performance of an integrated microstrip antenna placed at the RF front end. In each case, circuit models have been developed to include coupling by the use of coupling capacitance and mutual inductance. All circuit elements are defined by closed form expressions. To analyze package level discontinuities various microstrip transmission lines placed in close proximity …

The Interaction Of Human Form With Functional Jewelry, Chih-Wen Chiu

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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, …

Still Life, Robert Szatmari

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Measuring Images: Differences, Quality And Appearance, Garrett M. Johnson

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In order to predict the overall perception of image quality it is necessary to first understand and quantify the appearance of images. Just as color appearance modeling evolved from traditional colorimetry and color difference calculations, image appearance modeling evolves from color image difference calculations. A modular framework for the creation of a color image difference metric has been developed and tested using several psychophysical datasets. This framework is based upon traditional CIE color difference equations, and the S-CIELAB spatial extension to the CIELAB color space. The color image difference predictions have been shown to correlate well with experimental data. The …

Design For Sensitive Topics: Empowering The Teen, Alison Fichter

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A Mississippi Moan, Julie Mccaughey

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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 …

Eastern Spirit In Western Form, Ming-Ru Tsai

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Solution-Phase Combinatorial Synthesis; Peptide Derivatives Of Ethyl P-Aminobenzoate, Andrea Scuderi

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The need to find more efficient and cost-effective methods of drug development has led pharmaceutical companies to examine combinatorial means of synthesis. The ability to carry out parallel synthesis by the hundreds of compounds is rapidly advancing synthetic, analytical, and biological research. In this thesis project, peptide derivatives of ethyl paminobenzoate were synthesized via solution phase combinatorial techniques. A total of 27 tri-peptide analogs were produced, using a polymer-supported carbodiimide resin as the coupling agent. The structures of all products and intermediates were confirmed by LC-MS. Two methods were used for sequential deprotection of these analogs. The traditional method using …

Vector Garden, Lichun Hsieh

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Vector Garden demonstrates the vital role of vector graphics in web designing. Its purpose is to create a complex, dynamic, multidimensional and interactive virtual fairyland where viewers can escape into a creative world of imagination, hope and fantasy. Put together with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Illustrator, Vector Garden is a non- commercial online experimental design in the vector graphic style website design. By combining a variety of elements of both visual and audio designing, including typographies, colors, layouts, graphics, sounds and ActionScripts, it presents an underlying concept of Vector graphics, their applications in and relationships to the world of designing.

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

Stranded, Kurt Nellis

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One, Carina Maggio

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