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Multimedia Animation Outsourcing : Capstone Proposal ..., Emily L. Garnero

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Outsourcing in multimedia animation is a three phase research project in order to create a comparative analysis to obtain a hypothesis in three categories: 1. What are the comparative pros and cons of multimedia animation outsourcing? 2. What the benefits/disadvantages of multimedia animation outsourcing are in terms of costs, quality and time effectiveness? 3. What are the historical, current and future trends in multimedia animation? This research was conducted by literature investigation, qualitative interviews of several small to medium to large business in the beginning to advance states of this industry. Topics in history, industry trends, budget, saving time and …

Identifying High-Volume Printing Processes, Malcolm G. Keif, Tom Goglio

Graphic Communication

Printing professionals frequently examine printing to see how pieces were produced. They break out loupes and look at the dots. Is it offset or gravure? How about flexo? It is important to be able to distinguish among printing processes through examination in order to determine the key variables to control for quality printing. Further, expertise is established and confidence built when a professional can determine how something is printed.

Review Of Mary E. Hocks And Michelle R. Kendrick, Eloquent Images: Word And Image In The Age Of New Media, Laura J. Gurak, Amy Propen

English

No abstract provided.

Creative, Imaginative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Using Storytelling And Drama, Man-Lin Rau

Theses Digitization Project

With a view to improve English teaching, this project provides creative teaching methods for English teachers of elementary schools in Taiwan. Storytelling, creative writing, and creative drama are interesting and lively activities that are used to motivate students to learn English.

Lawrence University Course Catalog, 2005-2006, Lawrence University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2005-2006, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Danger! Danger! Danger!, Or When Animals Might Attack: The Adventure Activist Genre, Mark L. Berrettini

School of Film Faculty Publications and Presentations

An analysis of the current state of the adventure activist genre in film, centering on The Crocodile Hunter and Project Grizzly.

Implementing Lexical And Creative Intentionality In Synthetic Personality, Erik Vick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Creating engaging, interactive, and immersive synthetic characters is a difficult task and evaluating the success of a synthetic character is often even more difficult. The later problem is solved by extending Turing's Imitation Game thusly: computational construct should be evaluated based on the criteria of how well the character can mimic a human. In order to accomplish a successful evaluation of the proposed metric, synthetic characters must be consistently believable and capable of role-appropriate emotional expression. The author believes traditional synthetic characters must be improved to meet this goal. For a synthetic character to be believable, human users must be …

Why Protect Political Art As Political Speech, David Greene

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

Politics and art make for a volatile combination both socially and jurisprudentially. Although the capacity of artistic expression to relay political ideas was one of the driving forces behind the recognition of strong First Amendment rights for artistic expression, governmental officials tend toward the censorious when art communicates too much and "offends" or causes "controversy." Indeed, when art is "public," that is funded or exhibited by a governmental entity, public officials would often prefer that it contain no message at all. This article reviews the evolution of First Amendment protection for artistic expression, discusses why artistic expression is protected by …

Field Evidence And Isolation Of An Amphibian Male-Male Sexual Repellent, Jason R. Rohr, Daesik Park, Aaron M. Sullivan, Malachy Mckenna, Catherine R. Propper, Dale M. Madison

Faculty Publications - Department of Biological & Molecular Science

Operational sex ratio (OSR) has been traditionally thought of as a force imposing competition for mates rather than also a cue used to regulate the intrasexual competition individuals encounter. To assess whether eastern red-spotted newts, Notophthalmus viridescens, could appropriately compare OSRs, we quantified field responses to traps containing four males, a sexually receptive female, four males plus a female, or nothing as a control. Early in the breeding season, males from two populations chose competitive mating opportunities over no mating opportunity at all, but generally preferred less competitive mating prospects. Later in the breeding season, as the OSR of …

Um Presentation / Ooi Li Ching, Li Ching Ooi

Student Works (2000-2009)

All undergraduates of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya are required to do the thesis. Thesis is a compulsory subject for all of the final year students in this faculty which has divided into two phases. Each phase is supposed to complete inn each semester of final year. Thesis phase 1 (WXES3182) in the second semester. To fulfill the requirement of faculty, UM presentation has been chosen to become the title of my thesis. To success this thesis, I have implement all the knowledge and skills that I have gained throughout my 3 years study …

An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The National Head Start Bureau Early Literacy Mentor -Coach Initiative On Teacher Literacy Practices And Children's Literacy Learning Outcomes, Grace Onchwari

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In a one year period starting June of 2002 through 2003, the Head Start Bureau developed a national staff development initiative. The national staff development initiative was provided as mentor-coach initiative aimed at supporting teacher instructional practices. The goal of the initiative was to improve the quality of teachers serving each and every Head Start classroom. Since this was a federally sponsored initiative that involved substantial finances and resources, the goal of this study was to investigate the extent to which this initiative was effective in impacting teacher literacy practices and children's literacy outcomes. Three major research questions were investigated …

Wild Bactrian Camel Conservation, Richard P. Reading, Evan S. Blumer, Henry Mix, Jadamsuren Adiya

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The wild Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus ferus) is critically endangered throughout its range in China and Mongolia. Yet, wild camels remain poorly understood, with knowledge derived primarily from a few short studies and anecdotal information. We initiated a wild camel conservation project to determine the reasons for camel decline and to develop a program to address those problems.

We are employing satellite telemetry to gather data on wild camel movement patterns, home ranges, habitat use, and sources of mortality. We are also collecting feces from camels and wolves to determine important forage plants and to begin to assess …

Title And Contents- Winter 2005

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 25 / Number 1 / Winter 2005

Contents

Some Thoughts on The 25th Anniversary Of The Great Plains Quarterly

Deep Mapping the Biome: The Biology Of Place In Don Gayton's The Wheatgrass Mechanism And John Janovy Jr.' S Dunwoody Pond

Child Labor in The Early Sugar Beet Industry In The Great Plains, 1890-1920

A Tribute to Sue Rosowski

Book Reviews

Notes And News

Pixel-Based Skin Color Detection Technique, I. Zaqout, R. Zainuddin, S. Baba

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

In this paper we have used a simple and efficient color-based approach to segment human skin pixels from complex background, using a 2-D histogram-based approach. For skin segmentation, a total of 446,007 skin samples from the training set is manually cropped from the RGB color images, to calculate three lookup tables based on the relationship between each pair of the triple components R, G, B. Derivation of skin classifier rules from the lookup tables are based on how often each attribute value (interval) occurs, and their associated certainty values. One of the simplest features used for the human face detection …

Bringing Her Fist Down On That Wholeness: Rewriting Gendered Narratives In Zoeìˆ Wicomb's Fiction, Rachel Heicher

Masters Theses

This thesis situates South African writer Zoë Wicomb's fictional work within a critical context of current feminist theory, exploring Wicomb's response to a central problem for poststructuralist feminism-how can we deconstruct femininity while simultaneously conserving a platform for feminist political activism; how can we assert. on the one hand, that there are no "women", and then, on the other, continue to campaign on behalf of "women's" rights? Wicomb's two novels to date, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and David's Story (2000) serve as test studies for a model of gender that fluctuates and purposefully and constructively embodies …

Components, Volume 1 (2005), Lsu Center For Computation & Technology

Components

No abstract provided.

2005-2006 Lynn University Academic Catalog, Lynn University

Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Un/Becoming Digital: The Ontology Of Technological Determinism And Its Implications For Art Education, Alison Colman

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Artists have been experimenting with analog and digital technologies since the 1960's; early examples include Billy Khiver's Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) and Nam June Paik (1966). While countless artists have since made highly innovative use of new media such as the computer, artificial intelligence (AD, biotech, the Internet and the World Wide Web, LED, motion capture, gesture tracking, CPS, open source, and robotics, artist/ theorists such as Penny (1995), Lovejoy (1997), Weibel (1996; 2001) and Wilson (2002) have cautioned against appropriating deterministic engineering models underlying such technologies.(l)These models, predominant in commercial industry, government and the military, embrace efficiency, …

In The Realm Of The “Real”: Outsider Art And Its Paradoxes For Art Educators, Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

In this essay I want to argue that un (becoming) is a word much like Freud's (1919) discussion of the word unheimlich (uncanny), which reveals a secretive and clandestine aspect of art that art educators must and should concern themselves with, since it identifies a "realm of the Real" whose abjection legitimates our very practice at its expense. It marks a return of the repressed. Un (becoming), like Freud's uncanny is visual art's non-reflected double as I attempt to show. This is the issue I wish to raise when it comes to the question of so-called "Outsider art," sometimes referred …

Parent-Teacher Collaboration For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Role Of Teacher Training, Amber Hays '05

Honors Projects

Over twenty years of research has demonstrated that collaborative relationships between parents and teachers are invaluable in enhancing the educational success of all students and are especially meaningful when students have ASD (e.g., Ruble & Dalrymple, 2002). However, collaborative relationships are often difficult to develop because many educators remain uninformed about ASD (Helps, Newsom-Davis, & Callias, 1999) and untrained in working with parents (Lazar & Slostad, 1999). The present study evaluated the ability of an intervention to (a) encourage more positive attitudes toward parent-teacher collaboration, (b) increase general knowledge about ASD, and (c) boost comfort, competence, and confidence levels with …

Selling Influence: Using Advertising To Prejudice The Jury Pool, Robert Trager, Sandra Moriarty, Tom Duncan

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction . . . . . 686

II. Advertising’s Effects on Jurors . . . . . 692

A. How Advertising May Influence Jurors . . . . . 692

1. Association . . . . . 694

2. Networks of Associations . . . . . 695

3. Framing and Schemas . . . . . 696

4. The Cueing Process . . . . . 697

5. Priming and Closure . . . . . 697

6. Elaboration . . . . . 698

7. Emotion and Memory . . . . . 699

8. The Relevance …

The Conceptual Development And Production Of Our Town, 2005, Wendy Pottorff Hansen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Graduate And Undergraduate Catalog, 2005-2006, Eastern Washington University, Washington State Library. Electronic State Publications

Course Catalogs

Eastern Washington University's course catalog for the 2005-2006 academic year.

The Demand For Industrial Technology And Technology Education Faculty Professors At United States Universities, Cleo Hicks Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To guide this study, the following goals were developed: 1. Identify the positions available at the university level for professors of Technology Education and Industrial Technology; 2. Determine the demand of Industrial Technology faculty professor positions during the past five years; 3. Deter the demand of Technology Education faculty professor positions during the past five years; 4. Identify the different types of skills and requirements sought in these professions; 5. Determine the technical areas where the greatest need for faculty exists.

Performance Support And Usability:An Experimental Study Ofelectronic Performance Support Interfaces, Charles Rawls

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study evaluated the usability of two types of performance-support interfaces that were designed using informational and experiential approaches. The experiment sought to determine whether there is a relationship between usability and the informational and experiential approaches. The general population under study was undergraduate education major students from the University of Central Florida. From the general population of three educational technology instructor-led classes, 83 students were solicited to participate in the study by completing a class activity. From the general population, a total of 63 students participated in the study. By participating in the study, the students completed a task …

Robust Video Transmission Based On Multiple Description Scalable Coding With Erec, Haifeng Zheng, Lun Yu, Chang Wen Chen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper presents a multiple description scalable video coding scheme based on overcomplete motion compensated temporal filtering, named MD-OMCTF, for robust video transmission over wireless and packet loss networks. The intrinsic nature of the structure of OMCTF and embedded coding with modified SPIHT algorithm enable us to provide fully scalable properties for the proposed scheme. We show that multiple description coding is very effective in combating with channel failures in both Internet and wireless video. The integration of MD with OMCTF allows us to achieve both loss resilience and complete scalability. In order to further improve error-resilience to channel bit …

The Historical Geography Of Good Thunder, Minnesota, 1870-2005, Robert L. Bothmann

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Good Thunder is a small village in south central Minnesota on the Maple River. Founded in 1870, it is named for two prominent Indian leaders, one a Winnebago chief who lived at the site, and the other a Dakota who was active in the conflict of 1862. It began as an agricultural commerce center when the railroad arrived in Minnesota. The purpose of the study is to consider the transformation of the village, focusing upon the origins and significance of its physical and cultural features in the context of historical geography. The changing historical events and geographical features of the …

Bgsu Graduate College 2005-2006 Catalog, Bowling Green State University

Course Catalogs

Bowling Green State University graduate catalog for 2005-2006.

Experiencing Music, Michael Alan Gray

Theses and Dissertations

I am exploring the way music alters or enhances the perception of our environment. This creative project allows me to explore and visualize several issues that intrigue me: music (sound), emotion, and visual imagery (film). My goal in developing this topic is to allow others to have an experience related to sound and image, where image is altered and enhanced by the use of music.