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An Online Strategy For Wavelet Based Analysis Of Multiscale Sensor Data, Alok K. Buch

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Complex industrial processes are represented by data that are well known to be multiscaled due to the variety of events that occur in a process at different time and frequency localizations. Wavelet based multiscale analysis approaches provide an excellent means to examine these events. However, the scope of the existing wavelet based methods in the fields of statistical applications, such as process monitoring and defect identification are still limited. Recent literature contains several wavelet decomposition based multiscale process monitoring approaches including many real life process monitoring applications, such as tool-life monitoring, bearing defect monitoring, and monitoring of ultra-precision processes such …

Evening Of Duos And Trios, March 30, 2004, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday Evening
March 30, 2004
8:00 p.m.

A Comparison Of Exhaled Breath Nitric Oxide Between Old And Young Individuals, Robert L. Gordon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

BACKGROUND: Older individuals suffer from higher rates of pulmonary infections than younger individuals. In addition, older individuals have increased morbidity and mortality due to pulmonary infections when compared to younger individuals. The physiological and immunological reasons for these aforementioned differences are not clear. Recently, non-invasive markers of the lung's physiologic and immunologic status have been recognized. This study employs one of these non-invasive markers, exhaled nitric oxide, in an attempt to determine how the airways may change with age, predisposing older individuals to pulmonary diseases and poorer outcomes as compared to younger individuals.

METHODS: Exhaled nitric oxide measurements were obtained …

An Analysis Of Print Media Reporting Of Established Religions And New Religious Movements, Lonnie F. Griffin Iii

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports findings from a content analysis of 720 newspaper articles and 3,052 newspaper article cases focused on the issue of print media bias. Sunday editions of three major newspapers were drawn from the six-year period 1998-2003 for analysis. Prior research has uncovered print media bias in reporting of religious groups, and this thesis examines the substance of those claims pertaining to both established religions and new religious movements. Research findings show that established religions and their members are typically described in favorable or neutral terms, while new religious movements and their members are consistently described with pejorative terms. …

Apalachicola’S Gold: Archaeology And History Of Tupelo Honey Production In Northwest Florida, Kelly S. Hockersmith

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Several archaeological sites in the lower Apalachicola River Valley have evidence of beekeeping in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. At least two of these are also prehistoric sites (Depot Creek, 8Gu56 and Clark Creek, 8Gu60), which are Rangia (clam) shell mounds. Both sites are deep in the river swamp, which has the largest stand of tupelo trees in the world. The valley has a long tradition of beekeeping. Apiarists (beekeepers) would bring their bees by boat to remote locations in the swamps during the short tupelo flowering season to take advantage of the extensive forest. Tupelo honey has …

An Analysis Of Characteristics Of Long And Short Commuters In The United States, Srikanth Vaddepalli

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An in-depth-analysis was carried out on short, medium and long commuters using the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) of 2001 and American Community Survey (ACS) of 2000 to determine the role of individual,household, trip and area related characteristics on commute length. The individuals with commute time less than or equal to 15 min were considered as short commuters and individuals with commute time greater than 15 min but less than 60 min were considered as medium commuters and the individuals with commute time 60 min or more were considered as long commuters. The commute time is considered as a link …

Multimedia And Interactive Components In Converged Media, Amanda L. Welch

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A content analysis of news Web sites reveals how many multimedia and interactive components both converged and non-converged media organizations include on their Web presence. The sample included four news Web sites considered to be highly converged with their print and broadcast counterparts (TBO.com, chicagotribune.com, DallasNews.com, and Azcentral.com), one newspaper Web site not affiliated with a broadcast media organization (buffalonews.com), and one broadcast news Web site not affiliated with a print news organization (kfmb.com). A multimedia and interactivity score was given to each Web site based on the quantity of these components each site used. Both kfmb.com (a non-converged organization) …

Identification And Measurement Of Two Factors Affecting The Long-Term Outcomes Of Public Relations Programs: Public Image And Public Trust, Kimberly B. Amendola

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the most current theories surrounding organization-public relationship measurement, which is one approach used to verify the effectiveness of public relations programs. The study attempted to define and test two new factors that may affect organization-public relationships, which are identified as public image and public trust. Existing factors used to test such relationships, such as trust, satisfaction, commitment, and control mutuality, focus on testing the perceptions stakeholders have about an organization based upon their interpersonal relationship with that organization. However, in organizations where the dominant coalition still does not view public relations as …

Gregory Cheley

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Significance Of The European Investment Bank, Maria L. Pisaneschi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Since the implementation of the Treaty of Rome in 1958, the Common Market of six European states has grown to the European Union of twenty-five states as of May 2004. From the outset, the integration of these states into a single economic system has made more apparent the differences in levels of economic development among and within the member states. The original members of the Common Market were aware of these regional differences in 1958 and created the European Investment Bank as part of the Treaty of Rome to provide investment funds to reduce the development gap among the member …

2003-2004 Senior Recital - Lee Berger (Oboe), Lee Berger, Lisa Leonard

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 028, Number 32, March 29, 2004, Grand Valley State University

2003-2004, Volume 28

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Jennifer Colgan, Piano, Music Department

Senior and Graduate Recitals

This senior recital from March 29, 2004 features Jennifer Colgan (piano).

Letter From The Providence College Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film To The Dominican Sisters, The Providence College Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Letter from The Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film to the Dominican Sisters inviting them to a production of The Blackfriars Dance Concert.

March 29, 2004

Broad-Band Space Conservative On Wafer Network Analyzer Calibrations With More Complex Solt Definitions, Sathya Padmanabhan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An improved Short-Open-Load-Thru (SOLT) on-wafer vector network calibration method for broad-band accuracy is proposed. Accurate measurement of on-wafer devices over a wide range of frequency, from DC to high frequencies with a minimum number of space conservative standards has always been desirable. Therefore, the work is aimed at improving the existing calibration methods and suggesting a best "practice" strategy that could be adopted to obtain greater accuracy with a simplified procedure and calibration set.

Quantitative and qualitative comparisons are made to the existing calibration techniques. The advantages and drawbacks of each calibration are analyzed. Prior work done at the University …

High Level Synthesis Of An Image Processing Algorithm For Cancer Detection, Anuleka Bilhanan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There is a crucial need for real time detection and diagnosis in digital mammography. To date, most computer aided analysis applications are software driven and normally require long processing times. Digital filtering is often the initial stage in processing mammograms for both automated detection and tissue characterization, which relies on Fourier analysis. In this research the main objective is to lay the groundwork for converting software driven mammography applications to hardware implementations by using Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The long-term goal is to increase processing speed. This research focuses on achieving the main objective by using one specific mammographic image …

Core Issues In Graph Based Perceptual Organization: Spectral Cut Measures, Learning, Padmanabhan Soundararajan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Grouping is a vital precursor to object recognition. The complexity of the object recognition process can be reduced to a large extent by using a frontend grouping process. In this dissertation, a grouping framework based on spectral methods for graphs is used. The objects are segmented from the background by means of an associated learning process that decides on the relative importance of the basic salient relationships such as proximity, parallelism, continuity, junctions and common region. While much of the previous research has been focussed on using simple relationships like similarity, proximity, continuity and junctions, this work differenciates itself by …

Adaptive Digital Predistortion Linearizer For Power Amplifiers In Military Uhf Satellite, Jayanti Patel

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The existing UHF Satellite Communications (SATCOM) transponders used for military applications use efficient, saturated power amplifiers, which provide one earth-coverage antenna beam. The amplifier is dedicated to small frequency band and only handles a few carriers simultaneously.

The communications capacity needed to support future military forces on the move will require satellite payload power amplifiers to support hundreds of channels simultaneously, with the channels spread over the entire military UHF SATCOM band. To meet the capacity requirements and simultaneously meet the out-of-band emission, power amplifiers will have to be highly linear. The high-efficiency, ultra-linear power amplifier architecture proposed to support …

High Level Vhdl Modeling Of A Low-Power Asic For A Tour Guide, Umadevi Kailasam

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

We present the high level (VHDL) modeling and high level synthesis of an ASIC (TOUR NAVIGATOR) for a portable hand held device - a tour guide. The tour guide is based on location-aware mobile computing, which gives the information of the current location to the user. The TOUR NAVIGATOR designed in this work is interfaced with off-the-shelf components to realise the tour guide system. The current location is given by an on-board GPS receiver chip. The TOUR NAVIGATOR is a search and play module which interfaces with the flash memory, GPS receiver and the audio codec.

The functionality of the …

Senior Recital: Jennifer Kluchenek, Violin; March 29, 2004, Jennifer Kluchenek

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
Monday Evening
March 29, 2004
6:00 p.m.

Benefit Of Staged Cooling In Shrink Fitted Composite Cylinders, Nathaniel Oren Collier

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

To assemble the fulcrum of bascule bridges, a trunnion is immersed into liquid nitrogen so that it can be shrunk fit into the hub. This is followed by immersing the resulting trunnion-hub assembly into liquid nitrogen so that it can be then shrunk fit into the girder. On one occasion in Florida, when the trunnion-hub assembly was put into liquid nitrogen, development of cracks on the hub was observed. Experimental and numerical studies conducted since 1998 at University of South Florida show that the cracking took place due to combination of high interference stresses in the trunnion-hub assembly, low fracture …

Level Of Demoralization As A Predictor Of Stage Of Change In Patients With Gastrointestinal And Colorectal Cancer, Cheryl Anne Cockram

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Demoralization is a concept that evolved out of the study of individuals under stress. It is defined as the combination of distress and subjective incompetence in the presence of inadequate social bonds. When patients with alcohol abuse problems are diagnosed with cancer they may become demoralized and be unable to summons adequate resources to address issues associated with changing their addictive behavior. The Stage of Change Model (SOC), one of the primary approaches in addiction therapy, is used to guide individuals through the process of behavioral change.

This two phase study examined the relationship between demoralization and stage of change. …

Ammonia Flux At The Air/Water Interface Of Tampa Bay, Constance Anne Mizak

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An ammonia emissions inventory discovered that 90% of the ammonia emitted from Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Polk counties, originated from the latter two counties. This finding is significant and suggests that a substantial portion of the ammonia deposited to Tampa Bay is transported with easterly air masses.

Ammonia and ammonium concentrations at the coastal Gandy Bridge site were seasonally and diurnally consistent, but the rural Sydney site showed greater variability. It was determined that wind direction was the most influential parameter affecting the Gandy Bridge site, which supports the hypothesis that an advection of ammonia from the east is a major …

Detection And Quantification Of Karenia Brevis Blooms On The West Florida Shelf From Remotely Sensed Ocean Color Imagery, Jennifer P. Cannizzaro

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Karenia brevis, a toxic dinoflagellate species that blooms regularly in the Gulf of Mexico, frequently causes widespread ecological and economic damage and can pose a serious threat to human health. Satellite-based ocean color imagery may provide a means for detecting and monitoring blooms, providing early alerts to coastal communities. However, a technique for discriminating K. brevis from other chlorophyll-containing algae is required. Between 1999 and 2001, a large bio-optical data set consisting of spectral measurements of remote-sensing reflectance (Rrs(lambda)), absorption (a(lambda)), and backscattering (bb(lambda)) along with chlorophyll a concentrations was collected on the central west Florida shelf (WFS) as …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, March 28, 2004

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

2003-2004 Tres Vidas, Tahirah Whittington, Hugh Hinton, Michael Parola

Guest Recitals

No abstract provided.

14th Annual Mid-American Guitar Ensemble Festival: Closing Concert, March 28, 2004, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
March 28, 2004
1:00 p.m.

Encore! Acafellaz, March 28, 2004, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday Evening
March 28, 2004
7:00 p.m.

Judith Ofcarcik, Flute, Music Department

Junior Recitals

This student recital from March 27, 2004 features Junior Judith Ofcarcik (flute) with Daniel Cather (piano), Thomas Dickey (bassoon), Adam Dorrance (flute), J. B. Faires (bass), Tyrone Garner (drums), Michael Jones (trumpet), Richard Rossi (harpsichord), and Jason Yarcho (piano).

Senior Recital: Jamilah Mclaren, Flute, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.