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Gender Issues In Art Education And Art Production, Lliana M. Sandoval Jan 2007

Gender Issues In Art Education And Art Production, Lliana M. Sandoval

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This inquiry will address some of the inequities that exist regarding women in the visual arts and art history, and how that impacts art education practice. The influence of popular visual culture on the construction of gender identity, and differences between the sexes in areas of learning and creativity, will be considered. Teaching strategies developed by educators, which lead towards greater gender equality in art education, will also be discussed. Finally. because my experiences as an art teacher and my current artwork have lead to this gender related research. this discussion will include a brief autobiographical section, a thorough description …

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Head Lines Of The Extra Ordinary: Collisions And Miracles, Kathrine Leone Wright Jan 2007

Head Lines Of The Extra Ordinary: Collisions And Miracles, Kathrine Leone Wright

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

"Head Lines of the Extra Ordinary: Collisions and Miracles" is a language-driven 15-story fiction collection that experiments with intertwining the traditions of oral and written storytelling. Within these stories, ordinary people step up to the extraordinary because of an unusual occurrence that requires a moment of change. Several of the stories within the collection take their premise from actual news headlines. To lend cohesion to the collection, multiple stories contain one or more reappearing characters.

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Improving Cooperation In P2p Networks: A Social Network Approach, Victor Ponce Jan 2007

Improving Cooperation In P2p Networks: A Social Network Approach, Victor Ponce

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Due to the dynamic nature of P2P systems, it is impossible to keep an accurate history of the transactions that take place while avoiding security attacks such as whitewashing and collusion, and abuse such as freeriding . This is why it is important to develop a mechanism that rewards cooperative peers and punishes misbehaving peers. Modeling P2P networks as social structures can allow incentive mechanisms to be used that prevent the negative behaviors mentioned. In this thesis, we extend a social network algorithm to include credit transfer between peers in order to reduce the path length of queries. We also …

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High-Speed High-Frequency Acoustic Communications In Ports And Shallow Water, Patrick Michael Blue Jan 2007

High-Speed High-Frequency Acoustic Communications In Ports And Shallow Water, Patrick Michael Blue

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A detailed study of a novel method for high-speed acoustic communications in ports and shallow water is presented. A series of field experiments, coupled with simulated results using an acoustic channel model have been conducted to outline the optimal modulation schemes for use in the highly reverberant and Doppler dominated shallow water acoustic channel. Field experiments were conducted in the vicinity of the SeaTech marina and the Port Everglades turning basin in water depths of 2 to 15 meters and ranges of between 25 and 75 meters. An automated FAU acoustic modem transmitted BPSK and QPSK modulated messages centered at …

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Innovative Expansion Of Landfill Capacity Using Geogrid Reinforcements, R. Hayes Templeton Jan 2007

Innovative Expansion Of Landfill Capacity Using Geogrid Reinforcements, R. Hayes Templeton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

An analytical investigation was conducted to evaluate the geotechnical safety and stability of MSW landfills constructed with significantly steepened slopes achieved through geosynthetic reinforcement. The primary motivation for this endeavor was to propose a new design/construction methodology for innovative expansion of landfill capacity. A 2-D plane strain linear elastic analysis was performed with ANSYS finite element software on full-scale MSW landfill structures (with and without geogrids), having slopes of 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3. Both local and global factors of safety were determined employing the Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria, and compared with traditional solutions using the Bishop's Modified Method. It was found …

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How Perceptions Of Justice, Children's Lifestyle Satisfaction, And Several Turnover Outcomes Relate To Repatriate And Spouse/Partner Compensation And Lifestyle Satisfaction, Stephanie J. Thomason Jan 2007

How Perceptions Of Justice, Children's Lifestyle Satisfaction, And Several Turnover Outcomes Relate To Repatriate And Spouse/Partner Compensation And Lifestyle Satisfaction, Stephanie J. Thomason

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation analyzes how the reactions of repatriates and spouses/partners about their new lifestyle and compensation package upon repatriation relate to several repatriate turnover outcomes. U.S.-based multinational organizations often provide global assignees with an extensive benefit package, including such items as housing allowances, foreign-service premiums, tuition for international schools, and club memberships. Once the assignment is over, these additional benefits are necessarily terminated. Results of a qualitative analysis of 14 semi-structured interviews and a quantitative analysis of 37 U.S. repatriated executives and 34 spouses/partners of repatriated executives suggest that repatriate perceptions of distributive justice positively relate to all facets of …

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Knowledge Discovery Through Drive Test Data Visualization, Shalini Saxena Jan 2007

Knowledge Discovery Through Drive Test Data Visualization, Shalini Saxena

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

With the increasing number of cellular phone service subscribers, the telecommunications service providers have placed immense emphasis on improving audio quality and ensure fewer dropped calls. Handoff behavior of all handsets is an important factor in quality of service of a mobile phone service. This thesis focuses on the analysis of large volumes of diagnostic data collected from mobile phones in the real world and the identification of aberrant behavior of a mobile handset under test by means of drive test data visualization. Our target was to identify poor mobility decisions that are made by the handsets in calls. Premature, …

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Ivest A: Interactive Data Visualization And Analysis For Drive Test Data Evaluation, Yongsuk Lee Jan 2007

Ivest A: Interactive Data Visualization And Analysis For Drive Test Data Evaluation, Yongsuk Lee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In this thesis, a practical solution for drive test data evaluation and a real application are studied. We propose a system framework to project high dimensional Drive Test Data (DTD) to well-organized web pages, such that users can visually review phone performance with respect to different factors. The proposed application, iVESTA (interactive Visualization and Evaluation System for driven Test dAta), employs a web-based architecture which enables users to upload DTD and immediately visualize the test results and observe phone and network performances with respect to different factors such as dropped call rate, signal quality, vehicle speed, handover and network delays. …

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A Biometrics Based Secure Communication Scheme For Bluetooth Environment, Puneet Soni Jan 2007

A Biometrics Based Secure Communication Scheme For Bluetooth Environment, Puneet Soni

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A novel personnel authentication and verification system for devices communicating through Bluetooth protocol has been proposed in this thesis. Unlike existing verification systems which provide password or a PIN as a key, the system uses biometrics features as a key. In the implementation of the scheme, ridges and bifurcation based parameters are derived to generate a 128 bit Bluetooth pairing PIN. In this thesis a unique translational and rotational invariant feature set has been developed. These extracted feature data, unlike traditional systems which include the extracted data into payload, is used for device connection by generating the 128 bit PIN. …

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A Comparative Analysis Of Science-Technology-Society Standards In Elementary, Middle, And High School Science Curriculum Frameworks, Karen Marie Tobias Jan 2007

A Comparative Analysis Of Science-Technology-Society Standards In Elementary, Middle, And High School Science Curriculum Frameworks, Karen Marie Tobias

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

An analysis of curriculum frameworks from the fifty states to ascertain the compliance with the National Science Education Standards for integrating ScienceTechnology- Society (STS) themes is reported within this dissertation. Science standards for all fifty states were analyzed to determine if the STS criteria were integrated at the elementary, middle, and high school levels of education. The analysis determined the compliance level for each state, then compared each educational level to see if the compliance was similar across the levels. Compliance is important because research s)lows that using STS themes in the science classroom increases the student's understanding of the …

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A Comparison Of Model Checking Tools For Service Oriented Architectures, Raghava Venkat Jan 2007

A Comparison Of Model Checking Tools For Service Oriented Architectures, Raghava Venkat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Recently most of the research pertaining to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is based on web services and how secure they are in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. This requires validation, verification, and evaluation of web services. Verification and validation should be collaborative when web services from different vendors are integrated together to carry out a coherent task. For this purpose, novel model checking technologies have been devised and applied to web services. "Model Checking" is a promising technique for verification and validation of software systems. WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) is an emerging standard language to describe web …

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A Modeling Methodology For An Rtos, Sifat Islam Jan 2007

A Modeling Methodology For An Rtos, Sifat Islam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Enhanced system design productivity is key to satisfying time-to-market demands. One will have to exploit design reuse methodology to meet project schedule requirements. Integration of components often fails due to various concurrency violations. Concurrency issues arise when components executing in parallel share resources and interact with each other. Such a system may have intermittent, yet catastrophic failures, if these concurrency issues are not addressed properly. In this thesis, we propose a methodology for developing concurrency compliant components from a requirement document. We have applied this methodology for developing process management and memory management aspects of a Real Time Operating System …

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A Study Of School Improvement Plans, School Decisionmaking And Advocacy, And Their Correlation To Student Academic Achievement, Maribel Marcos Curry Jan 2007

A Study Of School Improvement Plans, School Decisionmaking And Advocacy, And Their Correlation To Student Academic Achievement, Maribel Marcos Curry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Parent involvement literature reveals that parents play an important role in student academic achievement. The School Advisory Councils are the major outlet for parents to engage in decision-making and advocacy skills in Broward County. The School Improvement Plans are the major output of the School Advisory Councils and this document contains many strategies that schools should follow in order to increase achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if School Improvement Plans and school decision-making and advocacy had any correlation to academic achievement. The researcher investigated this utilizing two research methods: a survey to investigate if school decision-making …

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A Phased Approach To Evaluate The Performance Of Handoff By Mobile Handsets, Arjumand Fatima Siddiqui Jan 2007

A Phased Approach To Evaluate The Performance Of Handoff By Mobile Handsets, Arjumand Fatima Siddiqui

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The ever increasing demand for capacity in wireless cellular networks is resolved by decreasing the size of the cells. The smaller cells created inside large cells are called microcells and they cover smaller and dense areas. As a result of this, the mobile device ends up changing the base stations or performing handover at a much higher rate. To maintain the reliability and quality of the call, it is obligatory to ascertain that the handover is performed at a proper location. If the handover is delayed or the mobile handset drags its base station, it is more probable that either …

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A Study On Random Sum Statistics: Application To Wireless Network Performance Analysis, Suwat Pattaramalai Jan 2007

A Study On Random Sum Statistics: Application To Wireless Network Performance Analysis, Suwat Pattaramalai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The statistics of random sum is studied and used to evaluate performance metrics in wireless networks. Pertinent wireless network performance measures such as call completion/dropping probabilities and the average number of handovers usually require the probability distributions of the cell dwell time and call holding time; and are therefore not easy to evaluate. The proposed performance evaluation technique requires the moments of the cell dwell time and is given in terms of the Laplace transform function of the call holding time. Multimedia services that have Weibull and generalized gamma distributed call holding times are investigated. The proposed approximation method uses …

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A Study Of The Underwater Acoustic Propagation In A Turning Basin Modeled As A Three-Dimensional Duct Closed At One End Using The Method Of Images, Matthew D. Staska Jan 2007

A Study Of The Underwater Acoustic Propagation In A Turning Basin Modeled As A Three-Dimensional Duct Closed At One End Using The Method Of Images, Matthew D. Staska

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A computer-efficient model of the underwater acoustic propagation m a shallow, three-dimensional duct closed at one end has been developed using the method of images. Presented in this research is the development of this three-dimensional method of images analysis for a rectangular duct. Using this analysis, a model of the impulse response of the acoustic channel is constructed. Also presented in this work is the actual impulse response collected during field experimentation in the south turning basin of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The results demonstrate that the impulse response is modeled with a relative echo magnitude error of …

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“We Are On The Circumference Of The Union, But The Union Suffers Nothing From Coldness In The Extremities” The Civil War In California, Cathleen Compton Wineinger Jan 2007

“We Are On The Circumference Of The Union, But The Union Suffers Nothing From Coldness In The Extremities” The Civil War In California, Cathleen Compton Wineinger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

When the Civil War began in 1861, the California Legislature pledged the state’s loyalty to the Union cause, and that allegiance never wavered. Location insulated the state from the major conflicts, and for most people, life remained relatively unchanged. Location also determined that California fought a different Civil War, faced a different enemy, and confronted challenges unique to its geography and position in the nation. California mines financed the Union war effort, and California Volunteers kept the peace throughout the West. The loyal population and the military monitored the activities of the large pro-southern minority, prevented any linkup with rebel …

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An Analysis Of Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuits: How Overvalued Equity And Related Factors Affect The Likelihood Of Dismissals And The Magnitude Of Settlements, Robert Houmes Jan 2007

An Analysis Of Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuits: How Overvalued Equity And Related Factors Affect The Likelihood Of Dismissals And The Magnitude Of Settlements, Robert Houmes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Under Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, investors are provided a cause of action for losses resulting from management's intentionally deceptive disclosure or non-disclosure of information. Since lawsuits are costly, managers should be motivated to avoid a securities fraud class action. Prior research argues that managers attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of class actions by preempting negative eamings surprises (Skinner 1994 ). However, this study argues that when a firm is overvalued, managers have incentives to avoid value reducing disclosure, which may lead to the violation of securities fraud laws. I investigate this assertion by testing …

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Adult Learner Success In Accelerated Associate Degree Programs At A Regionally Accredited Multi-Campus Proprietary Institution, David J. Kreitner Jan 2007

Adult Learner Success In Accelerated Associate Degree Programs At A Regionally Accredited Multi-Campus Proprietary Institution, David J. Kreitner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The advent of the global knowledge economy and changing demographics have pressured the American postsecondary system to develop flexible alternative educational opportunities for adult learners. One of the most widespread institutional responses has been the development of accelerated courses and degree programs. Accelerated degree programs offer educational opportunities in time frames of less duration than the traditional semester or quarter formats. Concerns for maintaining educational quality make it imperative to develop best practices for the effective design of time-intensive curricula. The study found a strong correlation between student experiences rated in terms of Donaldson's and Graham's principles and perceptions of …

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acculturation And Fifth Grade Hispanic Student Reading Achievement, Diane S. Pressman Jan 2007

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acculturation And Fifth Grade Hispanic Student Reading Achievement, Diane S. Pressman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In the United States there is an increasing population ofHispanic people. With this increase comes an increase of Hispanic students in the schools. In 2004, 39.8% of all dropouts in the United States were Hispanic students. Increasing population and a high dropout rate could be problematic for Hispanic people, American schools, and ultimately society. The first part of the research examined relationships between acculturation and Hispanic student reading achievement. A Spearman's Rho correlation was performed using the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanic Youth scores and Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test reading scores. In the second part, the research used a multiple …

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Association Patterns Of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, Stenellafrontalis, In The Bahamas, Lillian S. Welsh Jan 2007

Association Patterns Of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, Stenellafrontalis, In The Bahamas, Lillian S. Welsh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study examined the coefficients of association (COAs) of Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenellafrontalis, in the Bahamas that have been part of a long-term underwater observational study since 1985. First, three social units were designated based on analysis of association indices. The units appeared to coincide with clusters of individuals with similar ranges; however, there were insufficient ranging data to determine whether the social units were separate geographical units. The associations within and between these social units were analyzed to determine whether the units comprised separate communities. Results indicated that separate communities did not exist. Analysis of association indices of the …

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An Investigation Into The Acoustic Variability And The Attenuation Of An Acoustic Signal Within A Port Environment Focusing On Port Everglades, Florida, Daniel Sheahan Jan 2007

An Investigation Into The Acoustic Variability And The Attenuation Of An Acoustic Signal Within A Port Environment Focusing On Port Everglades, Florida, Daniel Sheahan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A methodology for characterizing the acoustical properties of a port environment, namely Port Everglades, has been proposed and carried out. This approach includes both a port-wide analysis of how the basic oceanographic features within the port impact the acoustic properties, and also a more focused sampling methodology within a small region of Port Everglades, allowing for the acoustic characteristics, including ambient noise, and an approximate signal absorption to be computed. The results documented through the duration of this research indicate that the temperature variation throughout the port is the principal contributor to the characteristics of the sound velocity profile. Ambient …

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Articulation, Narrative, Integrity, And The Practice Of Self-Formation In The Work Of Charles Taylor, Alasdair Macintyre, And David L. Norton, David Glen Miller Jan 2007

Articulation, Narrative, Integrity, And The Practice Of Self-Formation In The Work Of Charles Taylor, Alasdair Macintyre, And David L. Norton, David Glen Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation addresses the following questions and concerns related to the formation of the moral self: (1) The relationship between certain moral choices and a person's sense of personal or moral identity: specifically, how is it that certain choices, actions, character traits, or goods come to be interpreted as either constituting, or as being inseparable from, one's conscience, one's moral identity, or one's moral self? (2) The relationship between the conception of the good with which one identifies and the conception of the good of one's community of origin: how does one develop a conception of the good, how does …

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Arabic Dialectology And The Influence Of Coptic On Egyptian Arabic, Mary Soliman Jan 2007

Arabic Dialectology And The Influence Of Coptic On Egyptian Arabic, Mary Soliman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Arabic language includes many dialects that differ considerably from one another. In fact, they differ in almost every linguistic category : syntax, morphology, phonology, style and the lexicon. Written and spoken varieties also differ greatly , which is why Arabic is a prime example of diglossia within a single language. The dialects of Arabic were influenced by languages spoken previously in those regions. In addition, written Arabic has remained syntactically, morphologically and phonologically essentially unchanged for over a millennium. The spoken varieties, however, have evolved freely. This thesis will describe some of the differences that exist between these dialects …

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Belongingness And Integrative Motivation In Second Language Acquisition, Robb. Kvasnak Jan 2007

Belongingness And Integrative Motivation In Second Language Acquisition, Robb. Kvasnak

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study investigates the perceptions that second language students have of those who speak the language that these students are trying to acquire and examines how these perceptions relate to students' progress in acquiring the target language. The study is based on the psychological theory of the need to belong, i.e. belongingness as well as on the concept of integrative motivation. This study is a qualitative investigation that uses the Repertory Grid Technique and Personal Construct Theory in order to elicit subject perceptions and their constructs. Membership checking was carried out with nine of the originally interviewed 22 subjects in …

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Atmospheric Corrosion Study Of Weathering Steel Using Sensor Technology, Yann Hereng Jan 2007

Atmospheric Corrosion Study Of Weathering Steel Using Sensor Technology, Yann Hereng

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This research tests the corrosion resistance of weathering steel against carbon steel exposed to dry and humid cycles during laboratory experiments. Various environments are tested and include the following parameters: chloride concentration, pH and wetting time. Corrosion values from weight loss analysis are given and studied for the same environments. X-ray diffraction characterized the formation of different oxides as a function of the environment and gave a better understanding on the formation of the protective patina on the weathering steel, and validated that chamber experiments reproduce field conditions. The study is supported by the design, test and validation of an …

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Maximizing Single Opposition Observations Of Asteroids, Steven J. Higley Jan 2007

Maximizing Single Opposition Observations Of Asteroids, Steven J. Higley

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Reasons For Dieting And The Relation To Body Image And The Media, Naomi Hovendick Jan 2007

Reasons For Dieting And The Relation To Body Image And The Media, Naomi Hovendick

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Performance Testing Of Mercury Oxidation Via Catalytic Barrier Filters, Jason A. Hrdlicka Jan 2007

Performance Testing Of Mercury Oxidation Via Catalytic Barrier Filters, Jason A. Hrdlicka

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The Textual Condition Of Hemingway's African Book, Joseph Arnold Holt Jan 2007

The Textual Condition Of Hemingway's African Book, Joseph Arnold Holt

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