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Frisk, Mattias. "En Studie i Rött : Hur beskrivs, uppfattas och kopplas färg samman med innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta målningar?" Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16609.
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Undersökning av färgen i förhållande till innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta verk. Studien innefattar en undersökning i hur man skriver om färg i anslutning till Rothkos abstrakta målningars innehåll och huruvida färg kan avgöra betydelser.
A study about color in relationship to content in Mark Rothko’s abstract paintings. It includes a research in how people write about color when discussing Mark Rothko´s paintings and how that is related to content. It also looks at color in relationship to meaning.
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Cheyne, Jack Mackenzie. "Colour superconductivity and steps beyond the mean field approximation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412939.
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Kleeman, R. "Generalized quantization and colour algebras /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk635.pdf.
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Harker, Genevra E. L. "A comparison between optical properties measured in the field and the laboratory, and the development of an optical model." Thesis, Bangor University, 1997. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-comparison-between-optical-properties-measured-in-the-field-and-the-laboratory-and-the-development-of-an-optical-model(73ac3679-0a9e-4fed-af24-560041daca25).html.
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Phillips, Michael James. "A random matrix model for two-colour QCD at non-zero quark density." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5084.
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We solve a random matrix ensemble called the chiral Ginibre orthogonal ensemble, or chGinOE. This non-Hermitian ensemble has applications to modelling particular low-energy limits of two-colour quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD). In particular, the matrices model the Dirac operator for quarks in the presence of a gluon gauge field of fixed topology, with an arbitrary number of flavours of virtual quarks and a non-zero quark chemical potential. We derive the joint probability density function (JPDF) of eigenvalues for this ensemble for finite matrix size N, which we then write in a factorised form. We then present two different methods for determining the correlation functions, resulting in compact expressions involving Pfaffians containing the associated kernel. We determine the microscopic large-N limits at strong and weak non-Hermiticity (required for physical applications) for both the real and complex eigenvalue densities. Various other properties of the ensemble are also investigated, including the skew-orthogonal polynomials and the fraction of eigenvalues that are real. A number of the techniques that we develop have more general applicability within random matrix theory, some of which we also explore in this thesis.
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Antonsson, Sandra. "A different Africa : Spatial information design for a safer refugee settlement." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24176.
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The aim of this thesis was to explore the spatiality’s affect on refugee’s sense of safety in the Osire refugee settlement in Namibia. The gathered empirics together with previous research and theories should lead to a design for a spatial information system. The system should contribute to peoples’ understanding of their environments’ whole structure as well as showing the way to the health centre and the police station, thus increasing their sense of psychological and physical safety. A wish was also to breathe life into the point of intersection of spatial information design and human science. The methods used to enable this were first and foremost a field study in the settlement to experience and acquire first-hand information. In addition observation, introspection and several interviews were conducted. As a result I established safety to be an issue that could be solved with spatial design. Refugees expressed that not knowing your environment or finding your way leaves you scared, uncomfortable and confused. With the use of a spatial information system safety can literally be created, as demonstrated in the design proposal. The conclusion is that much could be done to spatially solve complex issues as long as it’s addressed from that perspective.
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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.
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This thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.
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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.
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Master of PhilosophyThis thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.
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Noordhuis-Fairfax, Sarina. "Field | Guide: John Berger and the diagrammatic exploration of place." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154278.
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Positioned between writing and drawing, the diagram is proposed by John Berger as an alternative strategy for articulating encounters with landscape. A diagrammatic approach offers a schematic vocabulary that can compress time and offer a spatial reading of information. Situated within the contemporary field of direct data visualisation, my practice-led research interprets Berger’s ‘Field’ essay as a guide to producing four field | studies within a suburban park in Canberra. My seasonal investigations demonstrate how applying the conventions of the pictorial list, dot-distribution map, routing diagram and colour-wheel reveals subtle ecological and biographical narratives.
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Buchriegler, Josef [Verfasser], Jürgen [Gutachter] Faßbender, and Matjaz [Gutachter] Kavcic. "Full-field PIXE imaging using a Colour X-ray Camera : Advantages and drawbacks in elemental mapping of large areas with a poly-capillary optics / Josef Buchriegler ; Gutachter: Jürgen Faßbender, Matjaz Kavcic." Dresden : Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1235346390/34.
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Ramnath, Andrecia. "Exclusive J/Ψ Vector-Meson production in high-energy nuclear collisions: a cross-section determinaton in the Colour Glass Condensate effective field theory and a feasibility study using the STARlight Monte Carlo event generator." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9214.
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Includes bibliographical references.The cross-section calculation for exclusive J /Ψ vector-meson production in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions is approached in two ways. First, the setup for a theoretical calculation is done in the context of the Colour Glass Condensate effective field theory. Rapidity-averaged n-point correlators are used to describe the strong interaction part of this process. The JIMWLK equation can be used to predict the energy evolution of a correlator. In order to facilitate practical calculations, an approximation scheme must be employed. The Gaussian Truncation is one such method, which approximates correlators in terms of new 2-point functions. This work takes the first step beyond this truncation scheme by considering higher-order n-point functions in the approximation. An expression for the cross-section is written, which takes parametrised 2- and 4-point correlators as input. This expression can be used as the basis for a full cross-section calculation. The second part of the thesis is a feasibility study using Monte Carlo simulations done by the STARlight event generator. A prediction is made for how many exclusive J /Ψ vector-mesons are expected to be detected by ATLAS in a data set corresponding to 160 μb−1 total integrated luminosity. It is found that the muon reconstruction efficiencies for low pT muons is too poor in ATLAS to do this analysis effectively. On the order of 150 candidate events are expected from all the Pb-Pb collision data collected in 2011. The feasibility study acts as a preliminary investigation for a full cross-section measurement using ATLAS collision data. Once this is completed, it can be compared with the theoretical prediction for the cross-section.
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Åkerlund, Josefine. "Experiences of Social Inequalities Related to Skin Colour Enhaced by Fashion Magazines in South Africa : A case study on how women in South Africa identify themselves in relation to the representation of race in South African fashion magazines." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19485.
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This study was carried out during the spring of 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa with a Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarship funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). South Africa is a country with a complex society due to the still recent history of Apartheid. South Africa faces great challenges with the gap between rich and poor, high unemployment and deep expertise gaps between the white minority and the historically disadvantaged coloureds and black majority. As a result the contemporary situation is extensive segregation and difficulties for the multicultural population to conduct a common cultural identity. The aim of this study was to find out how four South African issues of international fashion magazines deals with the representation of black, white and coloured people. Furthermore, to find out how South African women from socially diverse areas experience and perceive this representation. Quantitative content analysis, connotative and denotative picture analysis and the conduction of interviews was made in order to reach a result. Consequently, it turned out that the investigated magazines do not present a fair and equal representation of the South African society, hence highly over representing the white minority in each magazine. Additionally, South African women do not describe the fashion magazines as presenting an equal representation of race, neither that a reality based ideal is being conveyed.
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HERAT, ATHULA RAVINDRA. "CURVATURE DEPENDENCE OF CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS EXTENDED TO HIGHER DIMENSIONS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1060257141.
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Jakariya, Md. "Arsenic in tubewell water of Bangladesh and approaches for sustainable mitigation." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, : Byggvetenskap, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4372.
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Cheng, Hui-Chuan. "Vertical Field Switching Blue Phase Liquid Crystals for Field Sequential Color Displays." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5161.
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Low power consumption is a critical requirement for all liquid crystal display (LCD) devices. A field sequential color (FSC) LCD was proposed by using red (R), green (G) and blue (B) LEDs and removing the lossy component of color filters which only transmits ~30% of the incoming white light. Without color filters, FSC LCDs exhibit a ~3X higher optical efficiency and 3X higher resolution density as compared to the conventional color filters-based LCDs. However, color breakup (CBU) is a most disturbing defect that degrades the image quality in FSC displays. CBU can be observed in stationary or moving images. It manifests in FSC LCDs when there is a relative speed between the images and observers* eyes, and the observer will see the color splitting patterns or rainbow effect at the boundary between two different colors. In Chapter 2, we introduce a five-primary display by adding additional yellow(Y) and cyan(C) colors. From the analysis and simulations, five primaries can provide wide color gamut and meanwhile the white brightness is increased, as compared to the three-primary. Based on the five-primary theorem, we propose a method to reduce CBU of FSC LCDs by using RGBYC LEDs instead of RGB LEDs in the second section. Without increasing the sub-frame rate as three-primary LCDs, we can reduce the CBU by utilizing proper color sequence and weighting ratios. In addition, the color gamut achieves 140% NTSC and the white brightness increases by more than 13%, as compared to the three-primary FSC LCDs. Another strategy to suppress CBU is using higher field frequency, such as 540 Hz or even up to 1000 Hz. However, this approach needs liquid crystals with a very fast response time (<1 ms). Recently, the polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal (PS-BPLC) draws great attentions because of improved temperature range which enables the applications for photonic devices and displays. PS-BPLC is a good candidate for FSC LCDs because of its submillisecond gray-to-gray response time, no need for alignment layer, and isotropic dark state. So far, almost all the BPLC devices utilize planar or protruded in-plane switching (IPS) electrode configuration. The structure of planar IPS is relatively simple, but the operating voltage is too high for thin-film transistor (TFT) addressing. Moreover, high voltage causes deformation of polymer network and induces a noticeable hysteresis. Protruded IPS is helpful for lowering the operating voltage, but the manufacturing process becomes more sophisticated. In Chapter 3, we propose a vertical field switching (VFS) mode for blue phase LCDs. The simple structure of VFS cell generates uniform vertical fields on the BPLC materials. From our experimental results, the operation voltage can be reduced to ~10Vrms while eliminating the hysteresis. We also defined a critical field below which hysteresis does not occur. Above critical field, lattice distortion and other irreversible phase transition processes would occur. As a result, the associated response time would be slower. Therefore, VFS mode also shows faster response time than IPS mode. The operating voltage can be further reduced by choosing an optimized cell gap and a larger oblique incident angle in VFS blue phase LCDs. In Chapter 4, we propose several compensation mechanisms to improve the viewing angle of VFS blue-phase LCDs. The compensation principles are analyzed and simulation results evaluated. Because VFS blue-phase LCD processes several advantages over IPS blue-phase LCD and conventional LCDs, it could become a strong contender for next-generation display technology.Ph.D.
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Optics and Photonics
Optics and Photonics
Optics
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Worley, Gary M. "The Effects of Highlight Color on Immediate Recall in Subjects of Different Cognitive Styles." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26406.
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Much of the research investigating color as an image characteristic for enhancing recognition memory has focused on comparisons between black-and-white images and full color images. These comparisons have only recently been extended to differentiate how color impacts learners of different cognitive style and in particular how color influences field dependency. Learners predisposed to field-dependence continually demonstrate a lower capacity than field-independent learners in terms of performance tasks where organizing or restructuring visual information is required. By using color as a mechanism to highlight objects within a visual field, we potentially increase figure-ground separation, which may help facilitate learning for field-dependents in instances where visual information is present. Thus this study undertook to examine the effects highlight color offers as a means of addressing individual learner differences. Undergraduate students were identified on the field-dependence-independence continuum using the Group Embedded Figures Test. Each student then received an instructional lesson on the anatomy of the heart where images were presented in one of four color variations; black-and-white, full realistic color, realistic highlight color, or contrived highlight color. All participants were given two tests following the instructional lesson, one for identification and the other for terminology. Test scores for the two tests indicated no differences for any variation of the color variable. Field-independents were observed to outperform field-dependents in all instances for both tests.Ph. D.
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Rudolph, T. "Dressing an atom in a field of many colours." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0028/NQ33548.pdf.
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Urban, Katherine. "COLOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PAINTING IN THE SATELLITE-EXPANDED FIELD." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2720.
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My work deals with the subconscious pairing of colors from an instinctively chosen color palette into molded forms. My emotions drive these pairings. As I visualize these different emotions, I ask the viewer to formulate their own perceptions and connections (both physical and emotional) in relation to my own. This allows the viewer to explore the emotional twists and turns of my imagination by their own unique associations in correspondence. Painting allows me to visualize the inner depth of my imagination. My work becomes concrete through the subconscious pairing of colors and shapes and evolves with viewer interaction.M.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
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Pham, Linh My. "Magnetic Field Sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10993.
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In recent years, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center has emerged as a promising magnetic sensor capable of measuring magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution under ambient conditions. This combination of characteristics allows NV magnetometers to probe magnetic structures and systems that were previously inaccessible with alternative magnetic sensing technologies. This dissertation presents and discusses a number of the initial efforts to demonstrate and improve NV magnetometry. In particular, a wide-field CCD based NV magnetic field imager capable of micron-scale spatial resolution is demonstrated; and magnetic field alignment, preferential NV orientation, and multipulse dynamical decoupling techniques are explored for enhancing magnetic sensitivity. The further application of dynamical decoupling control sequences as a spectral probe to extract information about the dynamics of the NV spin environment is also discussed; such information may be useful for determining optimal diamond sample parameters for different applications. Finally, several proposed and recently demonstrated applications which take advantage of NV magnetometers' sensitivity and spatial resolution at room temperature are presented, with particular focus on bio-magnetic field imaging.Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Highnote, Susan M. "Color discrimination of small targets /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3089477.
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Patil, Sreenivas. "Reconfigurable hardware for color space conversion /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7756.
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Kitazawa, Masakiyo. "Fluctuations of diquark-pair field and precursory phenomena in color superconductivity." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/145077.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(理学)
甲第11309号
理博第2867号
新制||理||1429(附属図書館)
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UT51-2005-D60
京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学･宇宙物理学専攻
(主査)教授 國廣 悌二, 教授 中村 卓史, 教授 堀内 昶
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Cantale, Nicolas, Pascale Jablonka, Frédéric Courbin, Gregory Rudnick, Dennis Zaritsky, Georges Meylan, Vandana Desai, et al. "Disc colours in field and cluster spiral galaxies at 0.5 ≲ z ≲ 0.8." EDP SCIENCES S A, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614983.
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We present a detailed study of the colours of late-type galaxy discs for ten of the EDisCS galaxy clusters with 0.5 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.8. Our cluster sample contains 172 spiral galaxies, and our control sample is composed of 96 field disc galaxies. We deconvolved their ground-based V and I images obtained with FORS2 at the VLT with initial spatial resolutions between 0.4 and 0.8 arcsec to achieve a final resolution of 0.1 arcsec with 0.05 arcsec pixels, which is close to the resolution of the ACS at the HST. After removing the central region of each galaxy to avoid pollution by the bulges, we measured the V - I colours of the discs. We find that 50% of cluster spiral galaxies have disc V - I colours redder by more than 1 sigma of the mean colours of their field counterparts. This is well above the 16% expected for a normal distribution centred on the field disc properties. The prominence of galaxies with red discs depends neither on the mass of their parent cluster nor on the distance of the galaxies to the cluster cores. Passive spiral galaxies constitute 20% of our sample. These systems are not abnormally dusty. They are are made of old stars and are located on the cluster red sequences. Another 24% of our sample is composed of galaxies that are still active and star forming, but less so than galaxies with similar morphologies in the field. These galaxies are naturally located in the blue sequence of their parent cluster colour-magnitude diagrams. The reddest of the discs in clusters must have stopped forming stars more than similar to 5 Gyr ago. Some of them are found among infalling galaxies, suggesting preprocessing. Our results confirm that galaxies are able to continue forming stars for some significant period of time after being accreted into clusters, and suggest that star formation can decline on seemingly long (1 to 5 Gyr) timescales.
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Islam, Mofakharul University of Ballarat. "Unsupervised Color Image Segmentation Using Markov Random Fields Model." University of Ballarat, 2008. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12827.
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We propose a novel approach to investigate and implement unsupervised segmentation of color images particularly natural color images. The aim is to devise a robust unsu- pervised segmentation approach that can segment a color textured image accurately. Here, the color and texture information of each individual pixel along with the pixel's spatial relationship within its neighborhood have been considered for producing precise segmentation of color images. Precise segmentation of images has tremendous potential in various application domains like bioinformatics, forensics, security and surveillance, the mining and material industry and medical imaging where subtle information related to color and texture is required to analyze an image accurately. We intend to implement a robust unsupervised segmentation approach for color im- ages using a newly developed multidimensional spatially variant ¯nite mixture model (MSVFMM) using a Markov Random Fields (MRF) model for improving the over- all accuracy in segmentation and Haar wavelet transform for increasing the texture sensitivity of the proposed approach. [...]Master of Computing
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Islam, Mofakharul. "Unsupervised color image segmentation using Markov Random Fields Model." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2008. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/53709.
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We propose a novel approach to investigate and implement unsupervised segmentation of color images particularly natural color images. The aim is to devise a robust unsu- pervised segmentation approach that can segment a color textured image accurately. Here, the color and texture information of each individual pixel along with the pixel's spatial relationship within its neighborhood have been considered for producing precise segmentation of color images. Precise segmentation of images has tremendous potential in various application domains like bioinformatics, forensics, security and surveillance, the mining and material industry and medical imaging where subtle information related to color and texture is required to analyze an image accurately. We intend to implement a robust unsupervised segmentation approach for color im- ages using a newly developed multidimensional spatially variant ¯nite mixture model (MSVFMM) using a Markov Random Fields (MRF) model for improving the over- all accuracy in segmentation and Haar wavelet transform for increasing the texture sensitivity of the proposed approach. [...]Master of Computing
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Islam, Mofakharul. "Unsupervised color image segmentation using Markov Random Fields Model." University of Ballarat, 2008. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/15694.
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We propose a novel approach to investigate and implement unsupervised segmentation of color images particularly natural color images. The aim is to devise a robust unsu- pervised segmentation approach that can segment a color textured image accurately. Here, the color and texture information of each individual pixel along with the pixel's spatial relationship within its neighborhood have been considered for producing precise segmentation of color images. Precise segmentation of images has tremendous potential in various application domains like bioinformatics, forensics, security and surveillance, the mining and material industry and medical imaging where subtle information related to color and texture is required to analyze an image accurately. We intend to implement a robust unsupervised segmentation approach for color im- ages using a newly developed multidimensional spatially variant ¯nite mixture model (MSVFMM) using a Markov Random Fields (MRF) model for improving the over- all accuracy in segmentation and Haar wavelet transform for increasing the texture sensitivity of the proposed approach. [...]Master of Computing
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Zhang, Fu-Li. "An experimental and theoretical study of new phosphors for full color field emission displays." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31003.
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Modigh, Nicole. "True colours of Nepal : A minor field study on the Nepalease dyeing industry." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-41974.
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This research was a minor field study that took place during eight weeks in Kathmandu, Nepal, with a research focus on the country’s dyeing industry. Methods like qualitative interviews, observation, and analyses through the connections to the UN’s sustainable development goals was used to meet the research aim and objectives. The objectives of the research were to clarify what areas that are slowing down and what areas are creating opportunities for sustainable development within the industry. To identify these areas could be one part of knowing how and where change has to be made to achieve a more sustainable dyeing industry in Nepal. There are mainly three different ways to work with dyeing in Nepal; AZO dyeing, AZO free dyeing, and natural dyeing. Each technique comes with different issues and benefits connected to them, some on a more socio-economic level and some health-related. The established industry is more or less a lawless industry, with an absence of knowledge about the connected environmental and health effects. Due to a rough history of poverty and natural disasters, the industry is until today neglected and the issues connected has not been prioritised. Today the industry is driven by the market and at the same time anchored by governmental corruption and outdated methods, which makes it hard for the industry to build its value and to develop sustainably. This sector is connected to the UN’s sustainable development goals 4,6,9 & 12 and their targets. However, today the industry awareness about the goals are low, and the lack of defined action in the government's plan for implementing the sustainable development goals states that they will not be a driving force towards a more sustainable dyeing industry. Awareness and customer demand is what is expected to move the industry towards a more sustainable future, according to the interviews. Nepal's dying industry does not have the bad reputation that other countries nearby have, which opens up for opportunities. But for the industry to be able to handle this opportunity, more accurate and a more in-depth research has to be made, to more clearly appreciate what the industry looks like today, since it is missing data. It would also mean that the government has to acknowledge the situation and clean up its act to make it easier for businesses to grow in a sustainable way.2018-06-08
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Li, Hui. "Study on molecular photoionization in femtosecond laser field." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15913.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Physics
Matthias Kling
This thesis consists of two major parts. The first part concerns studies of the orientation dependence of the ionization of diatomic molecules in intense, femtosecond two-color laser fields. The second part is about studies on the ionization mechanisms of the C[subscript]6[subscript]0 molecule in femtosecond near-infrared and ultraviolet laser fields. In the first part, experimental and theoretical results on the asymmetric ion emission of the heteronuclear molecules CO and NO in two-color laser fields are discussed. The two-color fields, which can be tailored by a relative phase, are used to ionize and dissociate CO and NO molecules, both of which are molecules with small polarizabilities. The resulting C[superscript]+, C[superscript]2[superscript]+, N[superscript]+ and O[superscript]+ ions are detected by a velocity map imaging (VMI) setup. The photoelectrons from above-threshold ionization (ATI) of Xe are studied under such a two-color field to assign the phase. For both CO and NO we find that enhanced ionization occurs when the molecule is oriented with the electric field pointing from the C or N atom toward the O atom. This is in agreement with the molecular orbital Ammosov-Delone-Krainov (MO-ADK) theory and the Stark-corrected strong-field-approximation (SFA) calculations. The second part is devoted to the investigation of the ionization mechanism of neutral C[subscript]6[subscript]0 molecules with 30 fs laser pulses at about 800 nm and with 50 fs pulses at about 400 nm. The angular distributions of photoelectrons are measured utilizing VMI. Measurements under different intensities are carried out for the two wavelengths. In our work, thermal electron emission is highly suppressed by the use of short pulses. For near-infrared excitation, photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) that contain six lobes are observed for low energy electrons. This behavior is different from studies for longer pulses of about 120 fs [1]. Further analysis indicates that the PADs might originate from single photon ionization of a super atomic molecular orbital (SAMO), however, a detailed assignment requires further theoretical work. The PADs for the ultraviolet excitation show very similar structures to earlier results [1]. For the near-infrared excitation, we have carried out studies as a function of the chirp of the pulses and find effects on photoelectron spectra and on PADs, which are tentatively explained by sequential multiphoton ionization via “doorway” states.
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Werner, Felix. "Vision-based topological mapping and localisation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31815/1/Felix_Werner_Thesis.pdf.
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Competent navigation in an environment is a major requirement for an autonomous mobile robot to accomplish its mission. Nowadays, many successful systems for navigating a mobile robot use an internal map which represents the environment in a detailed geometric manner. However, building, maintaining and using such environment maps for navigation is difficult because of perceptual aliasing and measurement noise. Moreover, geometric maps require the processing of huge amounts of data which is computationally expensive. This thesis addresses the problem of vision-based topological mapping and localisation for mobile robot navigation. Topological maps are concise and graphical representations of environments that are scalable and amenable to symbolic manipulation. Thus, they are well-suited for basic robot navigation applications, and also provide a representational basis for the procedural and semantic information needed for higher-level robotic tasks. In order to make vision-based topological navigation suitable for inexpensive mobile robots for the mass market we propose to characterise key places of the environment based on their visual appearance through colour histograms. The approach for representing places using visual appearance is based on the fact that colour histograms change slowly as the field of vision sweeps the scene when a robot moves through an environment. Hence, a place represents a region of the environment rather than a single position. We demonstrate in experiments using an indoor data set, that a topological map in which places are characterised using visual appearance augmented with metric clues provides sufficient information to perform continuous metric localisation which is robust to the kidnapped robot problem. Many topological mapping methods build a topological map by clustering visual observations to places. However, due to perceptual aliasing observations from different places may be mapped to the same place representative in the topological map. A main contribution of this thesis is a novel approach for dealing with the perceptual aliasing problem in topological mapping. We propose to incorporate neighbourhood relations for disambiguating places which otherwise are indistinguishable. We present a constraint based stochastic local search method which integrates the approach for place disambiguation in order to induce a topological map. Experiments show that the proposed method is capable of mapping environments with a high degree of perceptual aliasing, and that a small map is found quickly. Moreover, the method of using neighbourhood information for place disambiguation is integrated into a framework for topological off-line simultaneous localisation and mapping which does not require an initial categorisation of visual observations. Experiments on an indoor data set demonstrate the suitability of our method to reliably localise the robot while building a topological map.
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von, Mackensen Jana. "Thinking Friction : Uncover the true colours of Berlin." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-100151.
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Brown, Samuel David James. "Molecular systematics and colour variation of Carpophilus species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of the South Pacific." Diss., Lincoln University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1430.
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The sap beetle genus Carpophilus Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is a large genus consisting of over 200 species and are found worldwide. Several species are important pests of crops and stored products, and are frequently intercepted as part of biosecurity operations. The genus is poorly known taxonomically, and there are several species groups that are challenging to identify by morphological methods. In particular, two species found across the Pacific, C. maculatus Murray and C. oculatus Murray are frequently confused with each other. These two species are similar in size and colour, but differ primarily by the shape of the colour pattern on their elytra. However, this colour pattern is highly variable within both species, leading to ambiguity in the indentification of these species. Within C. oculatus, three subspecies have been described based on differences in the male genitalia and pronotal punctation: C. o. oculatus and C. o. gilloglyi Dobson are distributed widely across the Pacific, while C. o. cheesmani Dobson is known only from Vanuatu. A search of literature records and specimen collections revealed 32 species of Carpophilus recorded from the Pacific region. In addition there remain several unidentified specimens representing at least four species, two of which will be described subsequent to this research. A number of species recorded in the literature may have been misidentified, and these require further field collections and inspection of museum specimens to confirm their presence in the Pacific. To test the validity of the subspecies of C. oculatus, and its distinctiveness from C. maculatus, a phylogeny of available specimens of Carpophilus was inferred from one mitochondrial gene (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI)), and two nuclear genes (28S ribsomal RNA (28S) and the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2)). These data show large genetic distances between the three subspecies of C. oculatus of 7-12%. Given these distances are similar to those between other species in the genus, this indicates these subspecies may be elevated to full species. The data also consistently support a monophyletic relationship between C. o. oculatus and C. o. gilloglyi. Nuclear genes also support C. o. cheesmani as part of a clade with the other subspecies, but these relationships are unresolved in COI. Carpophilus maculatus was not supported as being the sister taxon of the C. o. oculatus and C. o. gilloglyi clade. Other relationships within Carpophilus were unresolved, possibly due to a combination of incomplete taxon sampling, and saturation of substitutions within the COI gene. Phylogeographic analysis of specimens collected from several localities within the range of C. oculatus showed that, with only one exception, there were no shared haplotypes between archipelagoes. This result suggests it may be possible to determine the provenence of intercepted specimens, providing further information regarding potential invasion pathways. A degree of geographic structuring was also present within C. o. gilloglyi, being separated into a western clade found in Fiji and Rotuma and an eastern clade distributed from the Kermadec Islands and Tonga to French Polynesia. This separation was most profound in COI data, with a mean pairwise distance between the clades of 7%. ITS2 data also demonstrates a degree of differentiation between the two clades, based on differences in the insertions and deletions between the clades. The variability in the shape and colour of the elytral pattern of C. oculatus was also investigated. Colour was quantified using a method based on Red-Green-Blue (RGB) colour values derived from digital photographs, while an outline analysis of the elytral pattern was conducted using elliptic Fourier analysis (EFA). Principal Components Analysis of the RGB values and EFA coefficients showed no clear separation between subspecies, nor were any trends correlated with host fruit or collection localities. Variation at all levels and all measures studied in this thesis show that this geographic region and this genus of beetles offer intruiging insights into speciation, biogeography and biological invasions. There is much scope for further research on the causes and consequences of this variation and the lives of these interesting insects.
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Bromberger, Bianca. "The experiential Sublime perception, conception, and emotion in Mark Rothko's classic color-field paintings /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1437.
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Li, Meng. "On study of lip segmentation in color space." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/42.
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This thesis mainly addresses two issues: 1) to investigate how to perform the lip segmentation without knowing the true number of segments in advance, and 2) to investigate how to select the local optimal observation scale for each structure from the viewpoint of lip segmentation e.ectively. Regarding the .rst issue, two number of prede.ned segments independent lip segmentation methods are proposed. In the .rst one, a multi-layer model is built up, in which each layer corresponds to one segment cluster. Subsequently, a Markov random .eld (MRF) derived from this model is obtained such that the segmentation problem is formulated as a labeling optimization problem under the maximum a posteriori-Markov random .eld (MAP-MRF) framework. Suppose the pre-assigned number of segments may over-estimate the ground truth, whereby leading to the over-segmentation. An iterative algorithm capable of performing segment clusters and over-segmentation elimination simultaneously is presented. Based upon this algorithm, a lip segmentation scheme is proposed, featuring the robust performance to the estimate of the number of segment clusters. In the second method, a fuzzy clustering objective function which is a variant of the partition entropy (PE) and implemented using Havrda-Charvat’s structural a-entropy is presented. This objective function features that the coincident cluster centroids in pattern space can be equivalently substituted by one centroid with the function value unchanged. The minimum of the proposed objective function can be reached provided that: (1) the number of positions occupied by cluster centroids in pattern space is equal to the truth cluster number, and (2) these positions are coincident with the optimal cluster centroids obtained under PE criterion. In the implementation, the clusters provided that the number of clusters is greater than or equal to the ground truth are randomly initialized. Then, an iterative algorithm is utilized to minimize the proposed objective function. The initial over-partition will be gradually faded out with the redundant centroids superposed over the convergence of the algorithm. For the second issue, an MRF based method with taking local scale variation into account to deal with the lip segmentation problem is proposed. Supposing each pixel of the target image has an optimal local scale from the segmentation viewpoint, the lip segmentation problem can be treated as a combination of observation scale selection and observed data classi.cation. Accordingly, a multi-scale MRF model is proposed to represent the membership map of each input pixel to a speci.c segment and local-scale map simultaneously. The optimal scale map and the corresponding segmentation result are obtained by minimizing the objective function via an iterative algorithm. Finally, based upon the three proposed methods, some lip segmentation experiments are conducted, respectively. The results show the e.cacy of the proposed methods in comparison with the existing counterparts.
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Schultz, Ruth. "Being of shape : being--The ground through which all things are /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11082.
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Cao, Yu. "Effects of Field Dependent-Independent Cognitive Styles and Cueing Strategies on Students' Recall and Comprehension." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29017.
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether cueing strategies embedded in computer delivered text messages affected the recall and comprehension of students who differed in their field dependent-independent cognitive style orientations. Two hundred thirty-eight undergraduate students of Virginia Tech participated the study, and 219 sets of valid data were used for the statistical analyses. All participants were given the Group Embedded Figures Test to determine their level of field dependence-independence. They were then randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups that varied in their use of cueing strategy. The first treatment group featured computer delivered text messages with color-highlighted-keywords, the second group featured the same textual content with color-highlighted-key-phrases, and the third group was a control group that featured the same content and employed no cueing strategy. Participants were administered two tests following the treatments, one that assessed knowledge of terminology and another that assessed comprehension.
A 3 x 3 Analysis of Variance was conducted to explore the main effects for field dependency and cueing strategy and any interaction effect between the two factors. The results showed that field independents outperformed field dependents in all tests. There were no significant differences for the three treatments; the cueing strategies employed in this study had no effect on participants' learning. A significant interaction was seen between field dependency and cueing strategy. However, the results of a one-way ANOVA are unexpected: the cueing strategies employed did not improve field dependents' performance on the assessments and actually hindered the performance of field independents.Ph. D.
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Gomes, Carolina Feistauer. "Aplicação da tecnologia de aquecimento ôhmico em diferentes etapas do processamento da abóbora híbrida tetsukabuto." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/171397.
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A abóbora se destaca como uma hortaliça de grande potencial nutritivo e tecnológico. Para que se possa aumentar a variabilidade dos produtos de origem vegetal disponíveis no mercado, a abóbora deve ser submetida a processos térmicos que visam prolongar a sua vida de prateleira, além de realizar as modificações necessárias para a sua comercialização. Neste contexto, o objetivo principal da presente pesquisa foi avaliar a aplicação da tecnologia de aquecimento ôhmico em diferentes etapas a serem realizadas durante o processamento da abóbora híbrida Tetsukabuto. Na primeira etapa do trabalho, objetivou-se investigar os efeitos do branqueamento convencional e ôhmico (realizados a 80 ºC durante 4 minutos e 163 V no aquecimento ôhmico) sobre a inativação da enzima peroxidase e sobre a cor das abóboras. Para o ajuste dos dados relativos à inativação enzimática, diferentes modelos cinéticos foram avaliados, sendo o modelo de distribuição de Weibull o escolhido para descrever a cinética de inativação da peroxidase. Com este estudo, foi possível observar que o branqueamento com campo elétrico afetou significativamente os parâmetros cinéticos de inativação enzimática, tornando esse processo mais rápido. A aplicação de ambas as tecnologias não causou modificações significativas dos parâmetros de cor da abóbora. Na segunda etapa do trabalho, creme de abóbora foi pasteurizado via tratamento térmico convencional e ôhmico realizados a 90 ºC por 2 horas e 47 V no aquecimento ôhmico. O objetivo dessa etapa foi avaliar os efeitos de ambas as tecnologias sobre a variação de cor, degradação de carotenoides totais e mudanças nos parâmetros reológicos do creme. Foi possível observar que a cor do creme foi levemente afetada durante a aplicação dos processos, tornando-se ligeiramente mais escura e perdendo o tom amarelado. Além disso, foi verificada perda no teor de carotenoides totais presentes no creme. Ainda, não foi observado um efeito não-térmico adicional do campo elétrico sobre a cor e os carotenoides presentes no produto. O creme de abóbora apresentou comportamento pseudoplástico e que se ajustou satisfatoriamente ao Modelo da Lei da Potência. Com a aplicação dos tratamentos, foi observado um aumento significativo no índice de consistência do creme, sendo que ambas as tecnologias não apresentaram diferenças representativas entre si. O conjunto de resultados obtidos pelo presente trabalho sugere que o aquecimento ôhmico é uma tecnologia promissora a ser aplicada em diferentes operações envolvidas durante o processamento de alimentos.Pumpkins stand out as vegetable of great nutritional and technological potential. In order to increase the variability of vegetal products available on the market, pumpkins must be subjected to thermal process which can prolong its shelf life, and imposing also the necessary modifications for its commercialization. In this context, the main objective of the present research was to evaluate the application of ohmic heating technology in different stages carried out during the processing of the hybrid pumpkin Tetsukabuto. In the first part of the work, the objective was to investigate the effects of conventional and ohmic blanching (performed at 80 ºC during 4 minutes and 163 V in the ohmic heating) on the inactivation of peroxidase enzyme and on the color of the pumpkins. In order to adjust the data related to enzyme inactivation, different kinetic models were evaluated, being the Weibull distribution model chosen to describe the inactivation kinetics of peroxidase. With this study, it was possible to observe that the electric field blanching significantly affected the kinetic parameters of enzymatic inactivation, turning this process faster. The application of both technologies did not cause significant modifications of pumpkins color parameters. In the second part of the work, pumpkin cream was pasteurized via conventional and ohmic thermal treatment carried out at 90 ºC for 2 hours and 47 V in the ohmic heating. The objective of this stage was to evaluate the effects of both technologies on the color variation, the degradation of total carotenoids and the changes in rheological parameters of the cream. It was possible to observe that the color of the cream was slightly affected during the application of the processes, becoming slightly darker and losing its yellowish tone. In addition, it was verified loss of total carotenoid content in the cream. Furthermore, no additional non-thermal effect of the electric field on the color and on carotenoids present in the product was observed. The pumpkin cream presented a shear thinning behavior and was satisfactorily adjusted to the Power Law Model. It was observed a significant increase in the consistency index of the cream after the application of both treatments, and both technologies did not present significative differences between them. The overall results obtained in the present work suggests that ohmic heating is a promising technology to be applied in different operations involved during food processing.
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Block, Katherine M. "Veils: Truth in Translation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2540.
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This supporting document for the thesis exhibition entitled “Veils: Truth in Translation” will discuss Block’s exploration of painting during her time at East Tennessee State University. The supporting document also provides the historical background and influences which have contributed to Block's overall process and techniques. These influences include the Abstract Expressionists, Carl Jung, Ferdinand de Saussure, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. In the supporting document Block probes the idea that non-objective painting is more than a language confined by linguistic elements of sign, signifier, and signified, but is a process of thinking, which is communicated on a higher level of perception than verbal speech or visual symbolism. Block will discuss how she translates experiences from the metaphysical realm of feeling and thought to the physical reality of paint and surface which communicates the experience to the viewer.
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Mi, Yonghao [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Pfeifer. "Strong-field ionization of atoms and molecules with two-color laser pulses / Yonghao Mi ; Betreuer: Thomas Pfeifer." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1180986636/34.
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Gingborn, Nicklas, and Hanna Wåhlén. "Investigating sustainable mitigation alternatives for groundwater in Matlab Upazila, Bangladesh. : A Minor Field Study." Thesis, KTH, Miljögeokemi och ekoteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-99340.
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Since the late 20th century most people in rural Bangladesh use hand pumped tube wells to extract groundwater as their primary source of water. In 1993 it was officially recognized that many of the Holocene groundwater aquifers contain elevated levels of arsenic (As) and that millions of people in Bangladesh are exposed and at risk for mass poisoning. The need to focus efforts to areas with scarce supply of safe drinking water has raised the need to quickly locate and identify these areas. Mitigation options evaluated in this study focus on 1) how to target As safe aquifers and 2) how to identify As safe tube wells An attempt to target As safe shallow aquifers based on sediment color was evaluated. The majority of 30 new tube wells screened in off-white sand sediments have As safe water with respect to both the WHO and the national guideline, but including the failed attempts to target off-white sediments at shallow depths, the success rate of the method was considered to be too low. This study also attempt to validate platform color as a rapid low-cost screening tool for As by relating platform color to water chemistry in 103 tube wells. Different classification methods were tested to develop recommendations for the future use of this method. The results showed that a simplified color classification was better than a detailed classification at predicting water chemistry of iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and As. Recently, Mn has also emerged as a possible widespread problem in the Bengal Basin. Although not thoroughly investigated, present evidence indicates that a high concentration of Mn in drinking water affects the intellectual function in children. The occurrence of both low As and low Mn concentrations in shallow aquifers was found to be very unlikely since only one out of 133 tested wells had this water chemistry composition. Instead it was showed that the highest Mn concentrations occur in As-safe aquifers. Therefore WHO should consider reintroducing their previous health based guideline value for Mn to highlight the potential risk of excessive exposure, since more people risk being exposed to Mn when As-safe shallow aquifers are targeted.
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Kleeman, R. (Richard). "Generalized quantization and colour algebras / by R. Kleeman." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20597.
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Bibliography: leaves 143-146vii, 147 leaves ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Mathematical Physics, 1986
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Buchriegler, Josef. "Full-field PIXE imaging using a Colour X-ray Camera: Advantages and drawbacks in elemental mapping of large areas with a poly-capillary optics." 2020. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A75000.
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A novel combination of a full-field X-ray detector and particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) as an established analytical method has been assembled and examined at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). The so-called Colour X-ray Camera (CXC) based on a pn-junction charge-coupled device (pnCCD) is interconnected with a poly-capillary optics (PCO) for the purpose of X-ray imaging. This first combination of PIXE as a lowbackground excitation method and the approach of full-field imaging is likely to close the gap between fast and sensitive investigations of large sample surfaces. The assembly called full-field PIXE (FF-PIXE) is intended for laterally resolved and quantifiable surveys of large geological samples with respect to their trace elemental composition. The PCO comprising hundred thousands of capillaries with inner diameters of about 20 µm is employed in order to map the specimen’s characteristic X-ray response induced by 3 MeV protons provided by a 6 MV tandem-accelerator. The subsequent pnCCD-chip comprising 264×264 pixels is capable of individually detecting X-ray photons in the energy range from 1 to 20 keV on a 12×12 mm² large field of view. The camera’s native lateral resolution could be determined to be 76 µm in the medium energy range, which is basically restricted by the pixel dimensions (48×48 µm²).
Extensive experimental tests investigating the concept of sample 'illumination', X-ray transmission through the PCO, and imaging properties of the CXC, yielded substantial insights allowing to judge the new concept of X-ray imaging. While the variability of excitation intensity was proven to be better than 10% and the homogeneous response of the detector was verified, energy-dependent imaging impairments arose from the PCO. In comparative measurements at imaging systems using photons and electrons for excitation, both the full field approach and PIXE as the method of choice could be confirmed to be capable of meeting the initial objectives. In addition, enhancement techniques have been successfully tested to overcome downsides arising from the PCO’s transmission characteristics. Apart from suppressing the hexagonal pattern and a radial unevenness caused by the PCO, the system’s lateral resolving power could be improved towards 63 µm when using the 1:1 optics.
The investigations have revealed that, at present, the complex transmission nature of the PCO is a main obstacle in obtaining quantitative results. A number of parameters (e.g. frame readout speed) and dependencies (e.g. lateral resolution vs. elemental sensitivity) have nevertheless been identified and explored the understanding of which will help to move forward 'on the road to metrology'.Die neuartige Kombination eines Vollfeld-Röntgendetektors und partikelinduzierter Röntgenemission (PIXE: 'Proton-Induced X-ray Emission') als etablierte Analysemethode wurde am Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) aufgebaut und erforscht. Die sogenannte Röntgenfarbkamera (CXC: 'Colour X-ray Camera') basiert auf Ladungskopplung mit p-n-Übergängen (pnCCD: 'pn-junction Charge-Coupled Device') und ist zwecks Abbildung mit einer Polykapillaroptik (PCO: 'Poly-Capillary Optics') gekoppelt. Dieser erstmalige gemeinsame Einsatz von PIXE, als Analysemethode mit niedrigem Untergrund, und dem Ansatz der Vollfeldabbildung eignet sich, um die Lücke zwischen schneller und empfindlicher Analyse großer Probenoberflächen zu schließen. Die als full-field PIXE (FF-PIXE) bezeichnete Anlage ist für ortsaufgelöste und quantifizierbare Untersuchungen großer geologischer Proben konzipiert und soll insbesondere deren Spurenelementverteilung analysieren. Die charakteristische Röntgenstrahlung wird mit 3 MeV-Protonen, die von einem 6 MV-Tandembeschleuniger bereit gestellt werden, induziert. Die ortsaufgelöste Abbildung dieser induzierten Strahlung wird mittels hunderttausender Kapillaren (je ca. 20 µm Innendurchmesser) realisiert. Der nachgelagerte aus 264×264 Pixeln bestehende pnCCD-Chip ist in der Lage, Röntgenphotonen im Energiebereich von 1 bis 20 keV aus einem 12×12 mm² großen Sichtfeld einzeln zu erfassen. Im mittleren Energiebereich wurde für die Kamera eine native Ortsauflösung von 76 µm ermittelt, die im Wesentlichen durch die Pixeldimensionen (48×48 µm²) bestimmt ist. Umfangreiche experimentelle Tests, die das Konzept der Probenausleuchtung, der Röntgenübertragung durch die PCO und die Abbildungseigenschaften der CXC untersuchten, führten zu wesentlichen Erkenntnissen, die die Beurteilung des neuen Abbildungskonzepts für Röntgenfluoreszenz ermöglichen. Während die Variabilität der Anregungsintensität nachweislich besser als 10% ist und die homogene Empfindlichkeit des Detektors verifiziert wurde, ergaben sich energieabhängige Beeinträchtigungen der Bildübertragung durch die PCO. Vergleichsmessungen mit bildgebenden Systemen, die Photonen und Elektronen zur Anregung verwenden, konnten bestätigen, dass sowohl der Vollfeldansatz, als auch PIXE als Methode der Wahl zur Erreichung der ursprünglichen Ziele geeignet sind. Darüber hinaus wurden verschiedene Techniken zur Bildverbesserung erfolgreich getestet, die durch die PCO verursachte Abbildungsfehler korrigieren. Abgesehen von der Unterdrückung hexagonaler Muster und der Korrektur radialer Ungleichmäßigkeiten konnte das laterale Auflösungsvermögen des Systems bei Verwendung der 1:1-Optik auf 63 µm verbessert werden. Die Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass die komplexen Übertragungseigenschaften der PCO derzeit eine der größten Hürden sind, um quantitative Ergebnisse zu erzielen. Dennoch wurde eine Reihe von Parametern (z.B.Auslesegeschwindigkeit) und Abhängigkeiten (z.B. Ortsauflösung vs. Elementempfindlichkeit) identifiziert und untersucht, deren Verständis dazu beitragen wird, auf dem Weg zu quantitativen Ergebnissen, voran zu kommen.
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Ribeiro, Ana Francisca Cerdeira Rodrigues 1981. "Venho das estrelas : o impresentificável no azul." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31991.
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The theoretical-practical dissertation was developed with the main aspiration to
establish links of connection between the blue, the invisible and the sublime. The inherent
challenged of approaching intangible concepts was conquered by leading the study through
concrete paths, that eventually ended up in a sustainable materialization of the invisible in
the blue. In an initial phase, there was a deepening in the act of seeing, for the comprehension of the visual perception intrinsic processes and the understanding of the colour theory. In a following moment, the presence and significance of the blue were investigated in time and the mystical root of the ultramarine blue was researched. The invisible forces that inhabit blue are felt in their absente presence and it is the impossibility of their apprehension, what makes the blue colour object of the sublime. This philosophical concept was developed, as the singularities that evoke it and after, refined in the work of artists of the sublime. In the practice were explored the symbolic potential of shades of blue, close to the Yves Klein’s blue and the expression of the colour profoundness, immateriality and sublime feeling, in the “unpresentable” described by Lyotard. Venho das Estrelas offers an experience of colour perception, with a growing intensification of its effect that ends with the immersion of the viewer in the colour, inviting to go beyond it and to enter an invisible universe, the extrasensory and in a movement towards the infinite, of a primordial blue
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Cheng, Yi-Ru, and 鄭宜如. "Two-Color-Field Sequential Method for Color Filterless LCDs." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29402290848727478033.
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A field sequential color liquid crystal display (FSC LCD) might become a next-generation display because of enhanced energy efficiency and respond to demand for Green techniques. The conventional FSC LCD flashes red, green and blue field images at 180 Hz field rate to generate a full color image so the color sequence must be achieved by using fast LC modes, such as the optically compensated bend (OCB) mode. However, the OCB mode have not commercialized for TV application yet. In the thesis, a novel color-filter free displaying method, two-color-field sequential method, was proposed for color filterless LCDs. The least field number alleviated the demand for fast-response LC modes for sequential-type LCDs, and produced full color images with acceptable color reproduction accuracy, average ΔE00ave<3. Furthermore, less chrominance difference between the two fields was beneficial in suppressing color break-up.
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Chang, Ping Ya, and 張炳堯. "Classifing Color Images with Markov Random Field." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44309652666022688382.
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"Two-flavor Color Superconductivity in Magnetic Field." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14593.
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abstract: Quark matter at sufficiently high density and low temperature is expected to be a color superconductor, and may exist in the interior of neutron stars. The properties of two simplest possible color-superconducting phases, i.e., the color-flavor-locked (CFL) and two-flavor superconducting (2SC) phases, are reviewed. The effect of a magnetic field on the pairing dynamics in two-flavor color-superconducting dense quark matter is investigated. A universal form of the gap equation for an arbitrary magnetic field is derived in the weakly coupled regime of QCD at asymptotically high density, using the framework of Schwinger-Dyson equation in the improved rainbow approximation. The results for the gap in two limiting cases, weak and strong magnetic fields, are obtained and discussed. It is shown that the superconducting gap function in the weak magnetic field limit develops a directional dependence in momentum space. This property of the gap parameter is argued to be a consequence of a long-range interaction in QCD.Dissertation/Thesis
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Yan, Shu-Ping, and 閻淑萍. "A visual model of color break-up for design field-sequential color displays." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15497284570025312974.
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Field-sequential color (FSC) formation mechanism, which displays multi-primary color fields in temporal sequence to form a full-color frame, is an effective way to generate full color images. Color break-up (CBU), however, has appeared intrinsically in FSC-type displays to degrade visual quality, and thus been investigated in the past decades. In this study, we first purposed “Color Break-Up Angle (CBUA)” to model the effect of entire image with CBU. Then, a psychophysical experiment was performed by using a convenient apparatus to derive the indistinguishable CBUA. Finally, the CBU suppression can be designed and verified for various sizes of FSC displays to improve image quality.
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Chen, Li-Ying, and 陳俐穎. "Color Image Segmentation Based on Markov Random Field." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87059377777327216908.
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統計學系碩博士班
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Image Segmentation is an important field in computer vision and image processing. The target of image segmentation is to define regions that represent the interesting objects or meaningful parts of objects. Color image can be regarded as the three-dimensional data. Clustering analysis is commonly used for analyzing multivariate data and is adapted to color image as a region-based segmentation method. It divides the set of processed patterns into clusters based on the similarity of subset pixels. Each cluster contains patterns representing objects that are similar in the selected descriptions or criteria. There are two key terms to be defined before clustering: the number of clusters and the cluster centroids. Since we don’t have any prior knowledge of the image, we propose two rules to compute the two terms automatically. After the clustering analysis, some noise or edges may present in locations where there is no boundary, and no edge presents where a real boundary exists. Markov Random Fields (MRF) image model is adopted in processing the degraded image and correct the results from clustering analysis. In MRF, we do not use the intensity value of each color channel directly. Instead, we incorporate the value of revised Sobel operation and the variance within each color space into the energy computation. Therefore the higher value represents high probability to be defined as an edge pixel. The experimental results are compared under different color space. We defined a criterion called the “consistent detection rate” to evaluate the segmentation results. Four color spaces, RGB, YIQ, CIELUV, and OHTA, are adopted in this study. From the experiments, we conclude that the RGB color space performs well in most of the tested images. CIELUV space is good for the images having significant changes in color or with many objects. It is not recommended to use it in regular images. The proposed method can achieve appropriate segmentation in RGB color space in about six to ten minutes for medium size color images.
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Chang, Chi-Wen, and 張綺文. "Stencil-LPD Method for High Quality Color Filter-Less 120Hz Field-Sequential-Color Displays." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21233589817381520625.
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碩士國立交通大學
照明與能源光電研究所
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Since a field-sequential-color LCD (FSC-LCD) does not require color filters, it has potential to be the next-generation eco-display. The conventional FSC-LCD sequentially flashes red, green, and blue field images at 180Hz field rate to form a full color image by the integration on the retina. Considering the currently used LC modes, a two-field method driving at a field rate of 120Hz has been the mainstream to develop. However, only two fields to display full color images formed by the three primaries, it is lack of a degree of freedom resulting image distortion. Thus, in the previous solutions, a specific color filter was applied, known as the 2F2CF method proposed by Phillips. By doing so, it can reproduce exactly the same image with the original one but still needs color filters. The other method, two-color-field proposed by NCTU, is to divide the blue information, which is the least sensitive color to human eyes, into two parts and to combine them with red and green information individually. This method does not require color filters but cause color distortion. In this thesis, a novel two-field display method, Stencil-LPD, was proposed without color filters. The Stencil-LPD method can provide proper backlight colors according to the image content that can decrease the color difference caused by the lack of degree of freedom. Compared to the two-color-field method, the proposed method reduced the color distortion by 53%. Besides, Stencil-LPD method provided less but sufficient saturation colors as backlight signals, the chrominance difference was lowered that diminishes the relative CBU value to 64% while it is 89% in the two-color-field method.
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Wu, Chien-Liang, and 吳建良. "Demonstration of a Mobile-Sized Field Sequential Color LCD for Color Break-up Suppression." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28122048380214850544.
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碩士國立交通大學
光電工程系所
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The Field Sequential Color (FSC) LCD displays red, green and blue fields sequentially to mix a full color image by temporal color mixing method. It has some advantages, such as high transmittance, high resolution, high color saturation and low power consumption. However, color break-up (CBU) is a serious issue to reduce image quality. We proposed two methods for reducing CBU phenomenon. First one is RGBWmin, which can reduce static CBU by reducing the intensities of R, G, and B fields. The other one is Five Color Field Arrangement with Wmin (5-CFA with Wmin), which combines RGBWmin and color field arrangement to suppress dynamic and static CBU simultaneously. These two methods were successfully implemented in a 5.6-inch Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) mode FSC-LCD. Finally, we used the 5.6-inch FSC-LCD and a high speed camera to experiment for static and dynamic CBU. The experimental results reveal that static CBU were reduced by inserting a Wmin field. Furthermore, dynamic CBU were eliminated by using 5-CFA with Wmin method.