Arts and Humanities Commons^™

Algorithms For Visual Maritime Surveillance With Rapidly Moving Camera, Sergiy Fefilatyev

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Visual surveillance in the maritime domain has been explored for more than a decade. Although it has produced a number of working systems and resulted in a mature technology, surveillance has been restricted to the port facilities or areas close to the coastline assuming a fixed-camera scenario. This dissertation presents several contributions in the domain of maritime surveillance. First, a novel algorithm for open-sea visual maritime surveillance is introduced. We explore a challenging situation with a camera mounted on a buoy or other floating platform. The developed algorithm detects, localizes, and tracks ships in the field of view of the …

The Grizzly, March 29, 2012, Nick Pane, Liz Kilmer, Samantha Mascia, Sara Hourwitz, Lisa Jobe, Melissa Rutkowski, Sophie Zander, Olivia Minick, Riley Pembroke, Sarah Bollert, Victoria Cameron, Jane Helmick, Keith Baker

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Airband Benefits Crime Victims Center • Blues Writer Sharon Bridgforth Reads Work • Gilmore Visits Berman Art Museum • UC Recyclemania Holds Green Day Carnival • Alabama Civil Rights Trip was Living History for Students • Rosati Embraces Opportunity at Frederick Living • Greek Week in Progress, Helps to Unite UC Sororities and Fraternities • Opinion: Trayvon Martin Case is a Wake-Up Call • Ursinus Celebrates St. Patrick's Weekend • Player Spotlight: Amanda Laurito, Track and Field • Rugby Continues Building Tradition • Senior Spotlight: Jeff Ocampo, Men's Lacrosse

Comparing Suffering Across Species, John Nolt

Between the Species

Moral life often presents us with trade-offs between the sufferings of some individuals and the sufferings of others. Researchers may need to consider, for example, whether the suffering imposed on animals by a certain line of medical experimentation justifies the relief that the resulting discoveries may bring to (human or non-human) others. Often in such cases, the suffering of some individuals is incomparable with—that is neither greater than nor less than nor equal to—the suffering of others. While this complicates moral decision-making across species, it does not undermine it.

2011-12 Series - Jen Bervin, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

Jen Bervin will focus on visual and verbal conjunctions in Dickinson’s manuscripts and look at how they intersect with earlier formal gestures in her herbarium, embroidery sampler, letters, and editions of books that she read, marked or altered. Bervin’s large-scale art works will be on exhibit at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, where she will read from her own poems on March 29 at 7 p.m.

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Guest Artist Gerald Lee, Piano, Gerald Lee

All Performances

No abstract provided.

March 28, 2012: Two Upcoming Wmu-Ncte Student Affiliate Events, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

The Dialectic Of American Humanism: The Lecture Script, H. Vernon Leighton

Library Faculty Works

This document is the script from a lecture given at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota on March 28, 2012. The lecture described the scholarly discovery process for the peer-reviewed article “The Dialectic of American Humanism,” which was published in the journal Renascence also in 2012.

Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, March 28, 2012 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Master Recital, Josh Williams, Mark Corbin, Nick Schmitt, Nick Tulli

Graduate Student Recitals

Program listing performers and works performed

Jazz Convocation, Jamal Howard, Eric Zellner, Austin Pooley, Nick Schmitt, Nick Veslany, Jesse Garcia, Keaton Martin, Andrew Silva, Min Hyuk Kyung, Chris Dunn, Bill Miller, Joe Klein, Lee Berry, Gyasi Greer, Steven Porter, Scott Mckell, Shawn Whitmer, Alex O'Brien, Gizmo Hall, Stephen Anongthep, Josh Miller

Jazz Ensembles

Program listing performers and works performed

2012 Ellen White Issues Symposium: "Can A Biblical Inspired Writer Use Literary Sources?", Angelika Kaiser

Memory, Meaning & Faith

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Philharmonia In Concert At Boca West, Lynn University Philharmonia, Jon Robertson, Chun Yu Tsai

Philharmonia

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Performance Forum - March 28, 2012, Joshua Luty, Jie Ren, Roman Yearian, Yiqing Song, Kelley Barnett, Aziza Musaeva, Walid Abo Shanab, Doniyor Zuparov, Victoria Hauk, Chia-Ni Lin, Andrew Angelin, Peter Pirotte, Brian Garcia, Daniel Leon, Robert Harrover, Joshua Devries, Darren Matias

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital: Kevin Ranney, Percussion; March 28, 2012, Kevin Ranner

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 28, 2012
Wednesday Evening
6:00 p.m.

Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity In The Contemporary American Novel, Josef D. Benson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

My study highlights a link of U.S. American hypermasculinity running through Cormac McCarthy's two novels Blood Meridian (1985) and All the Pretty Horses (1992), Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and James Baldwin's Another Country (1960). My literary interpretations of these texts suggest that U.S. American hypermasculine man originated in the American frontier and transformed into a definition of hegemonic masculinity embraced by many southern rural American men. These southern rural American men then concocted the myth of the black rapist in order to justify the mass murder of African American men after Reconstruction, inadvertently creating a figure more hypermasculine …

Electronic Peer Feedback In A Collaborative Classroom, Cassandra A. Branham

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the ways in which frequency and reflexivity affect student engagement with the peer feedback process. I study the peer e-feedback sessions conducted via My Reviewers in a pilot model of Composition 2 at a large research university in the southeast in order to determine if an increased focus on the peer feedback activity might enhance the effectiveness of the process. Through textual analysis and survey results, I determine that an increased focus on electronic peer feedback along with an increase in frequency and reflexivity helps to minimize some common criticisms of the peer feedback process. In this …

Choice, Management, & Modification: Situational Context In Risky Choice, Nathaniel K. Decker

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

We sought to examine the potential differences between different types of risky decisions. While some decisions are easily represented as choices between future alternatives, other decisions may be better represented as the management of a personally owned situation. Schneider (2003) created the risk management task, which manifested these situated improvement decisions, and identified a unique pattern of risk preferences when compared to the standard gambling paradigm. To determine what cognitive processes might be differentially activated for each type of decisions so as to yield these risk preference differences, we incrementally manipulated the gambling paradigm to parse potentially influential elements of …

Low Level Exposure To Air Pollution And Risk Of Adverse Birth Outcomes In Hillsborough County, Florida, Maria B. Mainolfi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this retrospective cohort from 2002 through 2007, 104,003 singleton live births in Hillsborough County, Florida were analyzed to elucidate the relationship between feto-infant morbidity outcomes and prenatal exposure to six criteria air pollutants. This study is based on three linked databases: The Florida Hospital Discharge database; The vital statistics records of singleton live births; Air Pollution meteorological data from the Environmental Protection Agency. There are six common air pollutants, particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), particulate matter 10 (PM10), ground-level ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen (NOx), and lead (Pb). These pollutants are harmful to human health and the environment. The …

March 27, 2012: Klekar & Nagle Speak At Asecs Conference, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 31, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• McKay, Michael. Fight Night in Process of Earning Approval – Sigma Chi
• Reinfelde, Monta. Bald is Beautiful – Omega Phi Alpha, St. Baldrick’s Day
• McKay, Michael. Lawyers React to WKU Social Media Policy Change
• Wells, Jordan. World Wrestling Entertainment Visits Diddle Arena – Entertainment
• Randolph, Christian. A Thousand Words – William Kirby
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association Elections Postponed
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Social Media Policy
• In the Trash – Social Media Policy
• Dodds, Cory. A Vote for Me is a Vote for Transparency, Accountability – Student Government …

Nathan Musch, Trombone, Nathan Musch

School of Music Graduate Recitals

• NATHAN MUSCH, Trombone
• Yu-Lien The, Piano
• assisted by Ross Wixon, Trumpet

Nathan Musch is a graduate student from Ann Arbor majoring in performance. He studies with Dr. Steve Wolfinbarger.

Travis Novak, Travis Novak

CGU MFA Theses

Flawed memory is a tool that allows an altered reality to exist in the disconnect between a past reality and a present fiction. My work starts with scenarios that evolve into things bigger than themselves, going beyond nostalgia to become celebrations, landmarks, or memorials. Exaggeration, embellishment, adornment, stylization, modification, and customization are methods I use to move through these scenarios and often arrive at a transformative shift...

This preservation process begins the moment a thing dies. Its optimum resides in the past allowing the function of the memory to operate as a preserver. This is the human longing for greater …

2011-2012 Ppc Recital - Claire Ting-Tzu Chiu (Piano), Claire Chiu

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

Rocky Hill [Kentucky] Station Architecture (Fa 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 75. “Rocky Hill Station Architecture,” vernacular architecture class project concerning Rocky Hill, Edmonson County, Kentucky (est. 1859). Includes information on architecture, social life, economic life and railroads.

2012 Ellen White Issues Symposium: "Ellen White And Me", Angelika Kaiser

Memory, Meaning & Faith

No abstract provided.

Graduate Recital: Kristin Beesley, Flute; March 27, 2012, Kristin Bessley

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 27, 2012
Tuesday Evening
8:30 p.m.

Doctoral Recital, Masha Pisarenko

Graduate Student Recitals

Program listing performers and works performed

Graduate Recital: Deborah Carpi, Percussion; March 27, 2012, Deborah Carpi

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 27, 2012
Tuesday Evening
7:00 p.m.

2012 Ellen White Issues Symposium: "D. M. Canright And Inspiration/ The Origin Of A Crisis", Angelika Kaiser

Memory, Meaning & Faith

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Microbial Consequences Of Remediation: Surrogate Microbial Screening And Native Metabolic Signatures In Tc(Vii) Contaminated Sediments, Kathryn Lafaye Bailey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The chemical and physical processes controlling contaminant fate and transport in the vadose zone limit the options for application of many remedial technologies. Foam delivery technology (FDT) has been developed as a potential solution to overcome these limitations for remediating subsurface and deep vadose zone environments using reactive amendments. Although there are many advantages to utilizing FDT for treatment in the deep vadose zone, little information is available on how the addition of these surfactants and remedial amendments affect the indigenous microbial communities in the deep vadose zone as well as the impact of biological transformations of surfactant-based foams on …