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Suffolk University Graduate Academic Catalog, College Of Arts And Sciences And Sawyer Business School, 2014-2015, Suffolk University

College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School Academic Catalogs

This catalog contains information for the graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School. The catalog is a pdf version of the Suffolk website, so many pages have repeated information and links in the document will not work.

The catalog is keyword searchable by clicking ctrl+f. A-Z course descriptions are also included here as separate pdf files with lists of CAS and SBS courses. Please contact the Archives if you need assistance navigating this catalog or finding information on degree requirements or course descriptions.

Artz 108a.02: Visual Language - 3-D Foundations, Crista Ann Ames

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Artz 108a.01: Visual Language - 3-D Foundations, Crista Ann Ames

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Nurse Practitioners’ Attitudes And Knowledge About Influenza Immunization, Kim Curry, Christina Humphreys

Florida Public Health Review

Influenza remains a leading cause of death nationally and internationally. Annual influenza immunization for healthcare workers has been recommended since 1984. Despite this, many healthcare workers do not receive the immunization. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are key primary care providers in the U.S. healthcare system. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and personal beliefs of NPs as a step toward understanding the reasons for the participation or non-participation in the influenza vaccine of this professional group. A quantitative cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitudes, NP demographics, and patient factors was carried out. Most of the 174 participants had …

A New Edge-Preserving Algorithm Based On The Cie- Lu'v' Color Space For Color Contrast Enhancement, Mohammad Zolfaghari, Mehran Yazdi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Image segmentation and edge detection are the most important presteps in machine vision, and their successfulness can affect the success of the next steps. In this paper, the performance of the Trahanias edge detector in different color spaces, such as RGB, YCbCr, HSI, and CIE Lu'v', is compared in order to find the best color space for image segmentation and edge detection. We then offer an efficient edge-preserving algorithm for color contrast enhancement in the CIE Lu'v' space. The proposed algorithm can increase the color contrast, which causes a remarkable improvement in image segmentation and edge detection in the CIE …

Commgram: A New Visual Analytics Tool For Large Communication Trace Data, Jieting Wu, Jianping Zeng, Hongfeng Yu

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

The performance of massively parallel program is often impacted by the cost of communication across computing nodes. Analysis of communication patterns is critical for understanding and optimizing massively parallel programs. Visualization can help identify potential communication bottlenecks by displaying message trace data. However, the visual clutter and temporal incoherence problems are typically incurred in existing visualization tools for a considerable number of processors. In this paper, we present a new tool, named CommGram, which supports visual analysis of communication patterns for massive parallel MPI programs. With the benefit of MPI trace library DUMPI of SST, our framework builds hierarchical …

Optimized Image Compressed Sensing And Transmission Through Wireless Channels, Saheed Olanigan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the robust behavior of quantized compressed sensing measurements during transmission through an additive white gaussian noise wireless channel. The poor rate-distortion performance that accompanies compressed sensing after applying quantization has led to several works in quantized compressed sensing. However, most of these works have less consideration of the effect of transmission channel on the resulting bit stream of the quantized compressed sensing measurements. For an additive white gaussian noise wireless channel model, the quantizer and bit energy signal-to-noise ratio determines the degree of the channel effect. This thesis explores the effect of quantization and channel noise during …

Gridlocked: The Fight To Give Hope To The Hopeless, Erin Letherby

Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

17th Annual Ewu Student Research And Creative Works Symposium Program, Eastern Washington University

2014 Symposium

No abstract provided.

17th Annual Ewu Student Research And Creative Works Symposium Event Recap, Eastern Washington University

2014 Symposium

No abstract provided.

Artz 105a.01: Visual Language - Drawing, Mary Ann Bonjourni

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Graduate And Undergraduate Catalog, 2014-2015, Eastern Washington University, Washington State Library. Electronic State Publications

Course Catalogs

Eastern Washington University's course catalog for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Eastern, Winter 2014, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles about: It's a Great "Time" to be an Eagle, EWU is moving onward and upward, and Funny Man, Comedian and EWU graduate Brad Upton brings laughter to audiences around the globe, and Building Success One City at a Time, Katy Allen's legacy of public service, and Lifelong Bonds, the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha stay connected

Cohonina Social Organization And The Role Of Forts In Integration And Interaction: A View From The Pittsberg Community., Travis Brent Cureton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the role of "forts" in the sociopolitical organization of a prehistoric people known as the Cohonina through the application of settlement systems analysis and functional studies. The primary objective of this thesis is to test ideas of Cohonina sociopolitical organization through an examination of the functional characteristics of forts and their positions on the landscape using a combination of theory derived from settlement and landscape archaeology, deployed in a geographic information system work environment. A Cohonina fort site known as the Pittsberg Fort Complex, was placed in its community context through broad scale survey. Artifact, architectural, and …

Synthetic Generators For Simulating Social Networks, Awrad Mohammed Ali

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An application area of increasing importance is creating agent-based simulations to model human societies. One component of developing these simulations is the ability to generate realistic human social networks. Online social networking websites, such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, have increased in popularity in the last decade. Despite the increase in online social networking tools and the importance of studying human behavior in these networks, collecting data directly from these networks is not always feasible due to privacy concerns. Previous work in this area has primarily been limited to 1) network generators that aim to duplicate a small subset of …

Undergraduate Catalog, 2014-2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, August 22, 2014, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 21, 2014, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

Examining The Identity Of The Art Therapist: The Voice Of Practice And Relational Care, Denise Malis

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of personal art making on the identity and practice of the professional art therapist. This qualitative study explored the subjective experience of six female professional art therapists. Interviews were conducted and participants were asked about their personal art-making, art therapy practice, and the meaning of their professional identity. A narrative methodology, the Listening Guide, was applied to the interview data and emphasized each participant’s voice and use of expressive language. Data from this study established a three-fold identity for the professional art therapist: counselor, artist, and art therapist. Confidence in …

Web Development For The Home Builders Associoation Serving Portage And Summit Counties, Gail Lewis White

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Gail Lewis White

Major: Business and Organizational Communication

Project Sponsor: Dr. Sylvia White

Number of Project Credits: 3

Abstract

This Honors project redesigned the website of the Home Builders Association serving greater Portage and Summit counties (HBA). The goal of the new website was to enhance the social media image and internet presence of the HBA. The project included a competitive analysis of competing websites throughout the construction industry and a thorough analysis of the HBA’s internal and external communications. Under the supervision of Vice President of Operations Carmine Torio, this project has met and surpassed the goals set by …

A Comparative Review Of Five Music Fundamentals Textbooks, Carla R. Colletti

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

Prof. Colletti's detailed overview of the state of music theory fundamentals compares five recent publications in that crucial area.

The Troublesome Document, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Theses and Dissertations

An essay concerning the development of documentary photography, its relationship to political norms, conventions of realism in visual culture, and the form of the photographic book.

Intertextuality In Avatar : The Last Airbender / Tan Renjie, Renjie Tan

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the intertextual references drawn from cultures and practices in our world that are incorporated into the formation of the fictional world of the Nickelodeon animation Avatar: The Last Airbender. This animation that was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon has enjoyed and garnered much success worldwide. This qualitative research uses the conceptual framework of intertextuality to code the data gathered from the animation into a manner that best illustrates the animation’s intertextual references that are drawn from the cultures in our world. The research design was …

Mediated Discourse Analysis : Negotiating Metrosexuality Within L’Oréal Men Expert’S Packaging Discourse / Cheong Huey Fen, Huey Fen Cheong

Student Works (2010-2019)

Gender, the social rules and standards of behaviours imposed on male and female, has been a popular social debate. The modern pursuit of body beautiful and fashion among metrosexuals that trespasses feminine space causes uncertain social acceptance. Hence, the study aims to explore the marketing strategies in the grooming industry to overcome this uncertainty. Choosing the giant beauty producer, L’Oréal, the case study investigates its success story in cross-gender brand extension to L’Oréal Men Expert (LME), while continues to thrive in both female and male markets. Using Scollon's (2001, 2004) Mediated Discourse Analysis, the qualitative research aims to analyze how …

A Genre-Based Study Of Moves Analysis And Layout In Car Print Advertisements / Nurulain Abdullah, Abdullah Nurulain

Student Works (2010-2019)

The increasing number of car sales in automotive industry has caused advertisers or companies to focus on more than just selling a car. The car companies or the advertisers need to differentiate themselves and create different strategies from other advertisers to promote/sell their cars. Therefore, it is interesting to examine how advertisers communicate or persuade the readers to buy a car. This study examines the move structure of car advertisements in a local newspaper which is The Star. This purpose of this study is to analyze the rhetorical structure and communicative purposes of car advertisements. This study adopted Kathpalia’s (1993) …

The Use Of Human And Conspecific Gestures By Capuchin Monkeys To Solve An Object-Choice Task, Lindsay Paige Schwartz

Honors Theses

Most primates live in highly complex social systems, and therefore have evolved similarly complex methods of communicating with each other. One type of communication is the use of manual gestures, which are only found in primates. No substantial evidence exists indicating that monkeys use communicative gestures in the wild. However, monkeys may demonstrate the ability to learn and/or use gestures in certain experimental paradigms since they¿ve been shown to use other visual cues such as gaze. The purpose of this study was to investigate if ten brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) were able to use gestural cues from monkeys and …

Illustrated Tales Of Little Sister Fox: Stories About A Clever Fox From Russian Fairytales, Rachel W. Smoot

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis examines the interaction of pictures and words in children’s storybooks. The illustrations placed alongside the text of the book are just as important to understanding the story as are the words. “Illustrated Tales of Little Sister Fox” combines elements of several traditional Russian folktales into a single story. Illustrations are hand sketched and digitally painted.

2014-2015 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Poetry And Making Books In The Library, Reneé C. Lyons, Deborah Parrott, Edward J. Dwyer

ETSU Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Photography As A Clinical Tool In Social Work : A Theoretical Exploration Using Winnicottian And Jungian Lenses, André N. Zandoná

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

In this theoretical study, the photographic process was examined as having the potential to be used as a psychodynamic clinical tool in social work. Psychodynamic theoretical concepts by Carl Jung and Donald W. Winnicott were examined as guiding principles that will allow clinicians to understand how photography can be useful as a means to understand one's internal experience as well as external relationship with the world. This body of work presented current and potential uses of the camera as an instrument in interpreting the world according to one's subjectivity. In addition to theoretical examination, this research study also presented real …