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Psychological Well-Being And Level Of Outness In Male -To -Female Transsexuals, Jeffrey D. Strain Jan 2006

Psychological Well-Being And Level Of Outness In Male -To -Female Transsexuals, Jeffrey D. Strain

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This study examined the relationship between psychological well-being (i.e., depression, anxiety, self-esteem, gender role congruence) and level of outness in male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals. Hans (1998) stated that a transsexual is someone who, after experiencing intense long-term discomfort resulting from incongruence between their preferred gender and their biological sex, adapts his or her body and behavior to appropriately reflect his or her true gender identity. Participants were 105 MTF transsexual attendees at an annual transgender conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. Participants completed eight questionnaires, including: the Demographics Questionnaire, the Outness Demographics Questionnaire, the Outness Attitude Scale, the Openness Scale, the Beck …

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Stressors Among First-Generation College Students: A Retrospective Inquiry, Maryann Therese Latus Jan 2006

Stressors Among First-Generation College Students: A Retrospective Inquiry, Maryann Therese Latus

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A multiple-case-study qualitative approach was used to examine the stressors among first-generation college students. The students were in their senior year at a medium-sized Midwestern public university. The researcher conducted two focus groups and a total of 10 in-depth interviews with first-generation college students. Several themes emerged from the data that was collected. The overarching themes that served as the primary framework for this study were stressors related to family, friends, and the university. One of the major themes, how the participants coped with their particular stressors, is discussed in detail. The differences that were found between this group of …

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The Effects Of Existential Attribution And Religiousness/Spirituality On Well -Being In Hiv Patients, Amy N. Huggins-Rieke Jan 2006

The Effects Of Existential Attribution And Religiousness/Spirituality On Well -Being In Hiv Patients, Amy N. Huggins-Rieke

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HIV is a serious illness that has received considerable attention in research literature addressing the implications of spirituality/religiousness on coping with this illness. Past research indicates that an individual's level of guilt over having contracted HIV is associated with feelings of stigmatization and suffering, which can influence his or her wellbeing in coping with the illness. The current study seeks to investigate the relationship between feelings of responsibility for illness (attributions) and engagement with religiousness/spiritual meaning as a coping resource. It is hypothesized that the use of existential attribution will moderate the relationship between an individual's religiousness/spirituality and his or …

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The Cycle Of Violence, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2006

The Cycle Of Violence, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Curious Case Of Care And Restorative Justice In The U.S. Context, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2006

The Curious Case Of Care And Restorative Justice In The U.S. Context, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Threatened Egotism, Narcissism, And Identification With Criminal Others As Predictors Of Recidivism, Jeffrey M. Morris Jan 2006

Threatened Egotism, Narcissism, And Identification With Criminal Others As Predictors Of Recidivism, Jeffrey M. Morris

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Recent research has challenged the assertion that low self-esteem leads to violence. Narcissists, who typically have elevated self-esteem, may have strong emotional responses to ego threats resulting in increased aggression. This relationship may be important to understand in relation to criminal behavior. Recidivism rates appear to be affected by an interaction of level of self-esteem and identification with criminal others. This study will examine the relationship between self-esteem, narcissism, identification with criminal others, and recidivism. This study included 56 male offenders recruited from a parole office and assessed with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Fleming and Courtney's 1984 Self-Rating Scale, and …

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Usefulness Of Parent -Child Observation In Assessment For Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children, Jeffrey M. Huttinger Jan 2006

Usefulness Of Parent -Child Observation In Assessment For Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children, Jeffrey M. Huttinger

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Research indicates that the most effective means to assess for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children is a multi-method, multi-rater system. Classroom observations and behavior rating scales are routinely used in the assessment for ADHD. Research has demonstrated frequent discrepancies between parent and teacher ratings of a child's behavior. It is unclear if these differences are due to rater bias and/or situational differences. School observations can be used as a source of information on child behavior in the classroom and compared to teacher ratings. However, standard ADHD assessment batteries generally do not include a second source of information to …

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Differential Cryptanalysis Of Substitution Permutation Networks And Rijndael-Like Ciphers, Gnanasekaran Sakthivel Jan 2006

Differential Cryptanalysis Of Substitution Permutation Networks And Rijndael-Like Ciphers, Gnanasekaran Sakthivel

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A block cipher, in general, consist of several repetitions of a round transformation. A round transformation is a weak block cipher which consists of a nonlinear substitution transformation, a linear diffusion transformation and a key mixing. Differential cryptanalysis is a well known chosen plaintext attack on block ciphers. In this project, differential cryptanalysis is performed on two kinds of block ciphers: Substitution Permutation Networks(SPN) and Rijndael-like Ciphers. In order to strengthen a block cipher against differential attack, care should be taken in the design of both substitution and diffusion components and in the choice of number of rounds. In this …

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Jini Distributed Key Exchange And File Transfer Service With Digital Signatures, Kevin Ligozio Jan 2006

Jini Distributed Key Exchange And File Transfer Service With Digital Signatures, Kevin Ligozio

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This thesis compares security algorithms for the Jini Networking Technology. The first method is to add security at the infrastructure level, and is the method chosen by the Jini Community in Jini version 2.0. The second method is the original research portion of this thesis, and explores adding security in the application layer. In order to explore the application layer security, the thesis includes four components. First, we investigate and implement some cryptographic algorithms. Specifically, we use a Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Provider containing the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement algorithm and the RSA Digital Signature Algorithm. Second, we perform a novel …

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Security In An Ad Hoc Network Using Many-To-Many Invocation, Jefferson Tuttle Jan 2006

Security In An Ad Hoc Network Using Many-To-Many Invocation, Jefferson Tuttle

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There is an increasing need to secure electronic communication. This need is being met on workstations and servers, which have large amounts of memory, and a dedicated network connection. Securing communication in mobile devices is a relatively new research area, and has different requirements than workstations and servers. This project attempts to address these new requirements by incorporating security into the Many-to-Many Invocation (M2MI) library developed at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Specifically, this project addresses adding encryption and decryption of M2MI method invocations using session keys. It also addresses the methods of establishing and maintaining session keys based …

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An Application To Create Problem-Specific Document Object Models For Xml, Liangxiao Zhu Jan 2006

An Application To Create Problem-Specific Document Object Models For Xml, Liangxiao Zhu

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XML is widely used today. How to parse XML documents and manipulate XML data are very important tasks and popular topics in the software industry. There are several ways of handling XML data today. One of them is to turn an XML document into a tree structure of data. The most popular API of this model is W3C Document Object Model (DOM). But what DOM provides is a generic data model rather than a problem-specific model, which makes it complicated and inefficient. And in many cases, programmers don't use the generic data model. More often, they need an object model …

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Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms, Task Visualization, Kevin Churnetski Jan 2006

Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms, Task Visualization, Kevin Churnetski

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Real-time systems are computer systems that require responses to events within specified time limits or constraints. Many real-time systems are digital control systems comprised entirely of binary logic or a microprocessor dedicated to one software application that is its own operating system. In recent years, the reliability of general-purpose real-time operating systems (RTOS) consisting of a scheduler and system resource management have improved. In this project, I write a real-time simulator, a workload generator, analysis tools, several test cases, and run and interpret results. My experiments focus on providing evidence to support the claim that for the Rate Monotonic scheduling …

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A Comparison Of Web Development Technologies: Webobjects Vs. Asp.Net, Adnan Al-Ghourabi Jan 2006

A Comparison Of Web Development Technologies: Webobjects Vs. Asp.Net, Adnan Al-Ghourabi

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There are at least two competing technologies for Web applications development: ASP.NET by Microsoft and WebObjects by Apple. The IBuySpy application, a web portal that has been developed by the ASP.NET team at Microsoft using the .NET framework, illustrates the best practices for developing ASP.NET applications, in terms of modular design, caching, user authentication and authorization, and state management. In this project, a similar application was developed in WebObjects so that both technologies can be compared in terms of system architecture, frameworks, reusability, development environment and tools, security, and implementation.

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Tuple Board: A New Distributed Computing Paradigm For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Chaithanya Bondada Jan 2006

Tuple Board: A New Distributed Computing Paradigm For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Chaithanya Bondada

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In this project, we introduce a new distributed computing paradigm called "tuple board" which is based on the tuple space abstraction originated by Gelernter and the blackboard architecture popular in distributed artificial intelligence. Most prominent implementations of tuple space systems including JavaSpaces and T-Spaces follow a centralized architecture where the space itself resides on a server, akin to a database server. Recently, researchers have attempted to develop decentralized architectures for tuple space systems. Some work includes LIME and PeerSpaces. In our opinion, the traditional implementation of tuple spaces is not well suited for ad hoc networks where devices frequently lose …

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Distributed Objects In C#, Xiaoyun Xie Jan 2006

Distributed Objects In C#, Xiaoyun Xie

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Today more and more programs run over a collection of autonomous computers linked by a network and are designed to produce an integrated computing facility. Java Distributed Objects (JDO) proposed by Dr. Axel T. Schreiner builds an infrastructure which allows distributed program components to communicate over a network in a transparent, reliable, efficient, and generic way. JDO was originally intended as a teaching device to assess design parameters for distributed objects. This project focuses on porting JDO, which is implemented in Java on Sun's JDK, to C# on Microsoft's .NET. On one hand, it builds an infrastructure in C# that …

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Group Data Communication With M2mi, Kay Cheng Jan 2006

Group Data Communication With M2mi, Kay Cheng

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The Anhinga Project is developing an infrastructure that supports board range of collaborative systems running on small proximal wireless devices in ad-hoc networks. The core of Anhinga Infrastructure is a new method invocation technology called the Many-to-Many Invocation (M2MI). In this technology, every method invocation is broadcasted through the network and all the objects that implement the same method execute it. M2MI is layered on a new network protocol, Many-to-Many Protocol (M2MP), which is designed for broadcasting messages within small wireless devices in Ad hoc network. In this project, I will provide three different design patterns of M2MI-based collaborative systems, …

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Master's Project Website: A Comparison Of Several Server-Side Technologies, Prabhakaran Nagarajan Jan 2006

Master's Project Website: A Comparison Of Several Server-Side Technologies, Prabhakaran Nagarajan

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Any Graduate student in the Computer Science department at RIT has to complete either a Thesis or Project as part of their degree requirements. A common repository that allows students to browse project / thesis work already undertaken by RIT alumni will help students looking for project ideas or faculty interests. There currently exists a Masters project web site, designed and implemented by Dr. Schreiner using Java servlets. This project aims to select two technologies that are either extensively used, and/or are defining technologies of the future, and re-implement the Masters project website, with the aim of comparing the implementations. …

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Genetic Music, Ryan Becker Jan 2006

Genetic Music, Ryan Becker

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Algorithmic music composition has long been an active area of research in computer science, but the need for a human element only recently began to be more widely acknowledged. Interactive Evolutionary Computing (IEC), made popular by Karl Sims, effectively solves many high dimension problems, like music composition, involving creative and subjective elements. This work applies several Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Genetic Programming (GP) approaches, inspired by Karl Sims, to algorithmic music composition. The implementation of these IEC algorithms is described and their effectiveness compared.

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Web-Based 3-D Theatre Seating Charts And Ticket Reservation Application, Patrick Henstebeck Jan 2006

Web-Based 3-D Theatre Seating Charts And Ticket Reservation Application, Patrick Henstebeck

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Seating charts for theatres and stadia have always been an important part of buying tickets to a staged event, despite offering little information about the view from any particular seat. While the internet has increased the potential to provide this information, most official arena websites and online ticket brokers still only provide the standard two-dimensional diagram whose detail is limited to the approximate location of each section and which offers no guidance as to the height or slope of the section, nor any warning of any obstructing objects that would depreciate a seat s true value. The few three-dimensional models …

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Group Key Agreement Protocols With Implicit Key Authentication, Jisoo Kim Jan 2006

Group Key Agreement Protocols With Implicit Key Authentication, Jisoo Kim

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There have been numerous studies performed on secure group communication over unsecured channels such as the Internet and ad-hoc network. Most of the results are focused on cryptographic methods to share secret keys within the group. In the real world, however, we cannot establish an application for group communication without considering authentication of each peer (group member) since the adversary could digitally disguise itself and intrude into the key sharing process without valid membership. Therefore, authentication is an inevitable component for any secure communication protocols as well as peer group communication. In the classical design of group key protocols, each …

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Electronic Voting System For Rit Student Government Elections, Sungho Maeung Jan 2006

Electronic Voting System For Rit Student Government Elections, Sungho Maeung

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Recent studies argue that traditional voting systems do not encourage increased voter participation due to constraints in time, location, accuracy, and, accessibility. To ensure the rights of a democratic society and to enhance and secure the voting rights of citizens by surpassing all the limitations of the traditional voting system, the development of an electronic voting system is an attractive solution. Research on secure electronic voting systems has been conducted for at least the past two decades. We propose to develop an electronic voting system, called the Rochester Institute of Technology Student Government Election System (SGEES) based on Damgard et …

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Myth- An Extension To C, Greg Rowe Jan 2006

Myth- An Extension To C, Greg Rowe

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Myth is a programming language that is an extension of C. Myth adds modules, interfaces, tuple returns, and bit sets. These features are very helpful in nearly any programming environment. The Myth language as a whole is a good choice for embedded systems where resources are limited. Modules help organize code into logical groupings. Interfaces provide an automated mechanism to write reusable code. Tuple returns provide a simple mechanism for returning multiple values from a function. Bitsets make it easy to define logical groups of bit flags. Bisets are particularly useful in code that interfaces with hardware. The advantage of …

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Ad Hoc Collaborative Photo Sharing With A Tuple Board, Yutao Cheng Jan 2006

Ad Hoc Collaborative Photo Sharing With A Tuple Board, Yutao Cheng

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The tuple board is a new distributed computing paradigm based on the tuple space concept invented by Gelernter in 1985. Designed for ad hoc mobile wireless networks, tuple board is a serverless architecture that differs from the original client-server paradigm proposed in tuple space. In this project, Tuple Board, a tuple board implementation has been developed based on the M2MP protocol. Comparing to the previous implementation in Bondada's work, the following improvements have been made: (1) M2MP, instead of M2MI, is used as the underlying network protocol for data communication, (2) notification is available in the tuple board implementation for …

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Efficient Encryption On Limited Devices, Roderic Campbell Jan 2006

Efficient Encryption On Limited Devices, Roderic Campbell

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Encryption algorithms have been used since the dawn of time to ensure secure communication over insecure communication channels. Once a secret encryption key is established and as long as the key remains secret, two parties can communicate freely over open channels. The question of how to obtain such a secret key is a large dilemma. Many methods of obtaining such keys have been tried from the most basic form of a one-on-one encounter to more advanced techniques like Diffie-Hellman. This paper compares three versions of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol -- using arithmetic in the field of integers modulo a …

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Study Of Visualizations For N-Body Stellar Models, Christian Gray Jan 2006

Study Of Visualizations For N-Body Stellar Models, Christian Gray

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The visualization of large datasets is invaluable to the advancement of scientific knowledge. N-Body problems produced large dataset that present several challenges to visualization. These challenges include over-plotting and self-obscuring data. Using the general visualization framework, Spiegel, five different visualization techniques are explored to solve these problems: slicing, projection, 3D projection, 3D density shells, and direct volume rendering. Each visualization looks to solve the problem in a slightly different manner while all have kernel density estimation as their starting point. While none of the visualization is ground breaking or perfectly solves the problems they do provide new insight allowing for …

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Routing In Anhinga, Aakash Chauhan Jan 2006

Routing In Anhinga, Aakash Chauhan

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Anhinga project with Many-to-Many Protocol (M2MP) takes fundamentally different approach to resolve dynamic network topology in ad hoc networks. Instead of trying host-address based networking and routing to make work in ad hoc network environment, M2MP removes device address and groups. All messages goes to all devices within proximal area and each device decides whether and how to process the message based on message s content. [1] This project expands on this infrastructure by delivering these messages beyond sender device s broadcast range. The project implements Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol based controlled flooding techniques. It also provides functionality for …

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Web Based Monitoring System In Wireless Sensor Networks, Kanishk Panwar Jan 2006

Web Based Monitoring System In Wireless Sensor Networks, Kanishk Panwar

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Goal of the project is to develop a scalable web application to monitor a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor network, an upcoming technology, is comprised of multiple data sensors that send back packets of information back to the base station. The sensor network runs on a real time operating system called TinyOS and the application is implemented using Moteiv Telos Revision B wireless sensors. The web application collects the reading from the base station and generates graphical representation of the readings for the front end and creates PDF reports when readings are not within defined thresholds. This application incorporates various …

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Adjusting The Margins: Building Bridges Between Deaf And Hearing Cultures Through Performance Arts, Luane Davis Haggerty Jan 2006

Adjusting The Margins: Building Bridges Between Deaf And Hearing Cultures Through Performance Arts, Luane Davis Haggerty

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This study addresses a gap in scholarship on leadership styles in the Deaf community. There is an invisible style of leadership differing from the mainstream culture that has not been previously addressed in the literature at any depth. My study was composed of three interlocking parts in a sequence that constitutes the practice of anthropology: fieldwork, analysis, and presentation. The foundation for my fieldwork was an “archeology of the structure of the perceived world” (Merleau-Ponty), using the holding environment of the rehearsal process and the structural process of an acting technique called Del-Sign. Del- Sign is a fusion acting style …

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Policing Performance Management Systems: Identifying Key Design Elements Within A `New' Public Management Context, John Gillespie Jan 2006

Policing Performance Management Systems: Identifying Key Design Elements Within A `New' Public Management Context, John Gillespie

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The new public management (NPM) philosophy and move towards a governance approach places emphasis on the accountability of individuals, supervisors and managers relative to practice, processes and designated outcome - conformance and performance. A dichotomy is highlighted working within the NPM environment where managers need to practice creative and innovative freedoms, and at the same time to exercise constraint and compliance within a regulated and permission seeking framework. This situation can create inertia in respect to performance reforms within the public service. Police Services in Australia, and in particular the Western Australia Police (WAPOL) have made some inroads into providing …

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Where Are The Active Citizens Of Tomorrow? We Need Them Now..., Margaret E. Piasecka Jan 2006

Where Are The Active Citizens Of Tomorrow? We Need Them Now..., Margaret E. Piasecka

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

In 1997, Hindess labelled the gap between governments and citizens the democratic deficit. This gap, or deficit, has arisen over a long time period as a result of public scandals, perceptions of poor performance and poor economies. Local governments around the world are now attempting to regain community respect and support - the unstated mandate for governance - and seeking to implement government policies relating to concepts variously described as community engagement, capacity building, active citizenship or public/citizen participation. This thesis has identified a methodology for finding people who are motivated to act in the public interest in one local …

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