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Halsban, Megan. "Stereographs as Scholarly Resources in American Academic Libraries and Special Collections." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/543.
Full textCleveland, Larissa. "Collector : collection/possession/persona /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6186.
Full textSchrader, Julie Ann. "The Morgan collection of Southwest pottery website : research and photography : a project /." Click here to view virtual exhibition, 2005. http://www.holmes.anthropology.museum/southwestpottery/index.html.
Full textRosenthal, Elizabeth A. "Advances in art restoration involving computers and nanotechnology." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1044.
Full textBachelors
Arts and Humanities
History
Wang, Han-Chih. "The Profane and Profound: American Road Photography from 1930 to the Present." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/468625.
Full textPh.D.
This dissertation historicizes the enduring marriage between photography and the American road trip. In considering and proposing the road as a photographic genre with its tradition and transformation, I investigate the ways in which road photography makes artistic statements about the road as a visual form, while providing a range of commentary about American culture over time, such as frontiersmanship and wanderlust, issues and themes of the automobile, highway, and roadside culture, concepts of human intervention in the environment, and reflections of the ordinary and sublime, among others. Based on chronological order, this dissertation focuses on the photographic books or series that depict and engage the American road. The first two chapters focus on road photographs in the 1930s and 1950s, Walker Evans’s American Photographs, 1938; Dorothea Lange’s An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, 1939; and Robert Frank’s The Americans, 1958/1959. Evans dedicated himself to depicting automobile landscapes and the roadside. Lange concentrated on documenting migrants on the highway traveling westward to California. By examining Frank’s photographs and comparing them with photographs by Evans and Lange, the formal and contextual connections and differences between the photographs in these two decades, the 1930s and the 1950s, become evident. Further analysis of the many automobile and highway images from The Americans manifests Frank’s commentary on postwar America during his cross-country road trip—the drive-in theater, jukebox, highway fatality, segregation, and social inequality. Chapter 3 analyzes Ed Ruscha’s photographic series related to driving and the roadside, including Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1962 and Royal Road Test, 1967. The chapter also looks at Lee Friedlander’s photographs taken on the road into the mid-1970s. Although both were indebted to the earlier tradition of Evans and Frank, Ruscha and Friedlander took different directions, representing two sets of artistic values and photographic approaches. Ruscha manifested the Pop art and Conceptualist affinity, while Friedlander exemplified the snapshot yet sophisticated formalist style. Chapter 4 reexamines road photographs of the 1970s and 1980s with emphasis on two road trip series by Stephen Shore. The first, American Surfaces, 1972 demonstrates an affinity of Pop art and Frank’s snapshot. Shore’s Uncommon Places, 1982, regenerates the formalist and analytical view exemplified by Evans with a large 8-by-10 camera. Shore’s work not only illustrates the emergence of color photography in the art world but also reconsiders the transformation of the American landscape, particularly evidenced in the seminal exhibition titled New Topographics: A Man-Altered Landscape, 1975. I also compare Shore’s work with the ones by his contemporaries, such as Robert Adams, William Eggleston, and Joel Sternfeld, to demonstrate how their images share common ground but translate nuanced agendas respectively. By reintroducing both Evans’s and Frank’s legacies in his work, Shore more consciously engaged with this photographic road trip tradition. Chapter 5 investigates a selection of photographic series from 1990 to the present to revisit the ways in which the symbolism of the road evolves, as well as how artists represent the driving and roadscapes. These are evident in such works as Catherine Opie’s Freeway Series, 1994–1995; Andrew Bush’s Vector Portraits, 1989–1997; Martha Rosler’s The Rights of Passage, 1995; and Amy Stein’s Stranded, 2010. Furthermore, since the late 1990s, Friedlander developed a series titled America by Car, 2010, incorporating the driving vision taken from the inside seat of a car. His idiosyncratic inclusion of the side-view mirror, reflections, and self-presence is a consistent theme throughout his career, embodying a multilayered sense of time and place: the past, present, and future, as well as the inside space and outside world of a car. Works by artists listed above exemplify that road photography is a complex and ongoing interaction of observation, imagination, and intention. Photographers continue to re-enact and reformulate the photographic tradition of the American road trip.
Temple University--Theses
Stead, Sarah. "PLACE, SPACE, AND FORM CAPTURED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDITATION." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4193.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Samuel, Kegan. "Gradient based MRF learning for image restoration and segmentation." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5480.
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Doctorate
Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science
Barnett, Katie. "Fathering the future : masculine survival and paternal restoration in 1990s Hollywood." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4488/.
Full textWalton, Elizabeth. "TRUTHS, REALITIES AND THE EASILY TRANSMITTED IMAGE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3922.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Fullerton, Jeanay. "VISUAL STAMP." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4017.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Kosel, Krisann Joie. "SITE PREPARATION METHODS FOR RESTORATION OF NON-NATIVE PASTURELANDS TO NATIVE UPLAND HABITAT." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3489.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Barber, Andrea. "RESTORATION OF INTERTIDAL OYSTER REEFS AFFECTED BY INTENSE RECREATIONAL BOATING ACTIVITY IN MOSQUITO LAGOON, FLORIDA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4337.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Sciences
Biology MS
Garvis, Stephanie. "Quantifying the impacts of oyster reef restoration on oyster coverage, wave attenuation and seagrass fragment retention in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5220.
Full textM.S.
Masters
Biology
Sciences
Biology
Van, Camp April. "MEMORIES AND MILESTONES: THE BRIGHTON SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA AND THE DIGITIZATION OF CULTURE." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3415.
Full textPh.D.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Texts and Technology PhD
balas, simona. "SERIES OF DISINTEGRATED MEMORIES." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3461.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Kulbaba, Brian. "WITHOUT A CAMERA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4046.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Kozlovski, Nikolai. "TEXT-IMAGE RESTORATION AND TEXT ALIGNMENT FOR MULTI-ENGINE OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEMS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3607.
Full textM.S.E.E.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering and Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Ebner, Bonnie. "MANY TELLING MOMENTS:THE ESSENCE OF FRAGMENTED IMAGE CULTURE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3376.
Full textM.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
Weber, Kaylin Haverstock. "The studio and collection of the 'American Raphael', Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738-1820)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4307/.
Full textBartlett, Jason Todd. "The Politics of Community Development: A History of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/297453.
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This dissertation explores the nearly fifty-year history of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), the nation's first federally funded community development corporation (CDC). The BSRC's creation stemmed from the bottom-up initiatives of African American women in the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council (CBCC), a federation of more than one hundred community groups aided by city planners at Pratt Institute. Their seminal efforts at rehabilitating Bedford-Stuyvesant marked a transition in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement's confrontation of discriminatory practices, municipal neglect, and the pathologies of poverty and urban decay. These efforts attracted the attention and commitment of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits, who recruited business and philanthropic leaders to the cause and secured the initial funding to launch Restoration in December 1966. Together these partners in renewal forged a public-private partnership at a time when black and white Americans were moving farther apart. Together they articulated a new definition of community in which the combination of mutual responsibility and the strength of the American business system provided the means to turn poor neighborhoods into engines of renewal. They created an intermediary level of American governance that was more responsive to the needs of local people and placed new resources at the disposal of community leaders. The BSRC was the innovative product of a "creative federalism" that coordinated the power of the federal government, philanthropies, labor unions, universities, and the private enterprise system. This comprehensive organizational history investigates the full spectrum of the BSRC's comprehensive physical, economic, social, and cultural redevelopment agenda. Building on the concept that the 'process is the product' Restoration's successes and failures demonstrate how capacity was built in one of the nation's most challenged communities. After a decade of impressive accomplishments, Restoration was forced to retreat and reevaluate its mission as successive conservative presidential administrations withdrew the federal support that once largely sustained the corporation. The 1980s served as a crucible in which Restoration reinvented itself in order to survive. The new structure underscored the importance of communal ties, profitable sustainability, and nimble leadership that could move from "the streets to the suites." As it emerged from the challenges of the 1980s, Restoration was no longer the movement's North Star, but rather another point of light in a competitive constellation of more than 4,500 CDCs. In 2014, Restoration continues to balance the weight of its historic mission to provide comprehensive community development in a neighborhood that is undergoing rapid change. While poverty remains a fact of life for many of the area's minority residents, gentrification brings new challenges and opportunities to create a collaborative community that steps beyond the boundaries of race and class to build a better Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Temple University--Theses
Manis, Jennifer. "Assessing the Effectiveness of Living Shoreline Restoration and Quantifying Wave Attenuation in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5664.
Full textM.S.
Masters
Biology
Sciences
Biology
Wunderly, Martin A. "Defining Zostera marina (Eelgrass) Restoration Sites in Virginia's Coastal Bays with Aerial Images and Bathymetric Mapping." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1261160088.
Full textBrendecke, William Walter. "THE EFFECT OF COLLECTION AND ESTABLISHMENT SEASON, PLANTING ORIENTATION AND ATTACHED CULMS ON THE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF ARUNDINARIA GIGANTEA (WALT.) MUHL. (GIANT CANE) RHIZOME PROPAGULES." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/462.
Full textTiwari, Ekta. "ASSESSMENT OF CANINE BLADDER FUNCTION RESTORATION USING BEHAVIORAL MONITORING AND IN-VIVO ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/590674.
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Spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders can disturb the regulation of normal bladder function including continence and micturition. Developing new neuronal pathways by surgically rerouting nerves is a potential approach for restoring bladder function. Our laboratory successfully rerouted somatic nerves to the anterior vesical branch of the pelvic nerve to reinnervate the bladder muscle in canines. Electrical stimulation of these transferred nerves induced detrusor pressure and bladder emptying and we confirmed regrowth of these rerouted nerves using retrograde neurotracing methods. In these studies, reinnervation was proved at 1st and 3rd months after decentralization. We believe that our aim of developing an approach to surgically reinnervate the bladder after long-term decentralization is critical to the success of the reinnervation surgery due to the possibility that patients would delay having a surgery until they try other non-surgical approaches or therapies. We also demonstrated the reinnervation of urethral and anal sphincters by femoral to pudendal nerve transfer after sacral ventral root transection to restore continence. However, these studies did not demonstrate the reinnervation of bladder, urethra and anal sphincter, all in same animal that would be helpful to human patients with lower motor neuron lesioned bladders to restore both continence and emptying. Therefore, prior to applying these surgical procedures to human patients, further investigation is required to prove the effectiveness of nerve transfer strategies in this canine model using multiple experimental techniques. This dissertation is a part of a larger project in canines examining whether surgical rerouting of obturator to pelvic nerve and sciatic to pudendal nerve allows restoration of bladder, urethral and anal sphincter functions, including continence (storage) and emptying (voiding and defecation) functions, in lower motor neuron lesioned bladders. In this study, it was aimed to explore bladder and urethral reinnervation using behavioral observation and in-vivo electrophysiological techniques. In order to completely prove that the reinnervation surgeries are responsible for restoration of bladder and urethral functions, it was first necessary to demonstrate the absence of these functions in animals with long term decentralized bladders and to determine whether the same animals were able to recover functions after reinnervation. In specific aim 1, we addressed this goal by tracking squat-and-void behaviors at monthly intervals after decentralization and reinnervation, using home cage video recordings and evaluation of bladder sensation and emptying after bladder filling. Immediately prior to euthanasia, reinnervation was also explored by electrical stimulation of transferred nerves to evaluate motor function. Retrograde neuronal tracing was also performed to explore sensory reinnervation. Results showed evidence of functional restoration of bladder and urethral function in reinnervated animals based on behavior observation and electrical stimulation of transferred nerves. Also, regrowth of neuronal cells in the new neuronal pathways was observed that were developed by the nerve transfer surgeries. This study also aimed to establish an electroneurogram recording method (part of in-vivo electrophysiological experiments) to explore afferent (sensory) neuronal activity in transferred nerves induced by bladder filling. However, the extraction of neuronal activity from the peripheral nerves is a challenging task. Several factors including noise, interference from surrounding muscle activities and the electronic components can affect these microvolts level recordings. Choice of recording electrode in configuration with the whole recording setup also plays a significant role while performing these low amplitude signal recordings. In specific aim 2, we addressed this issue by refining electroneurogram recording techniques to obtain high strength signal during multifiber recording. We first developed custom electrodes, suitable for varying nerve diameters and available implantation sites, were tested for functionality. Then, we performed multiple testing using these electrodes with different amplifiers to calibrate noise in saline. Testing results helped to establish the recording setup suitable for in-vivo experimental environment. Later, these refined techniques were applied to record afferent (sensory) activity of sciatic nerves and afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) activity of hypogastric nerves in rats. Based on the recording results, it was aimed to employ similar techniques in order to record nerve activity in the canine model. Prior to applying these refined techniques to explore sensory reinnervation from new neuronal pathways after nerve transfer surgeries, in specific aim 3, we aimed to assess the hypogastric nerve activity in normal intact and acutely lumbosacral decentralized bladders using these refined techniques. The effects of electrical stimulation of hypogastric nerves or lumbar roots on detrusor pressure were determined, as were effects of isoflurane versus propofol anesthetics on hypogastric nerve stimulation evoked pressure. Hypogastric nerve activity was recorded using custom-made bipolar cuff electrodes during bladder filling. To confirm or refute that any increase in electroneurogram during bladder filling is due to afferent activity from the end organ, the hypogastric nerve was transected between the recording electrode and the spinal cord and the effects of bladder filling on afferent but not efferent activity were recorded. Results showed that electrical stimulation of hypogastric nerves evoked low amplitude detrusor pressures that did not differ between the two anesthetics. Upper lumbar (L2) ventral root stimulation evoked detrusor pressures were suppressed, yet not eliminated after transection of hypogastric nerves and all spinal roots below L5. Afferent and efferent hypogastric nerve activity did not change with bladder filling in neuronally intact bladders but decreased in decentralized bladders. No change in afferent activity were observed during bladder filling in normal intact and decentralized bladders. Overall findings in this research indicate that the new neuronal pathways created by nerve transfer can restore bladder sensation and emptying function in lower motor neuron-lesioned canines. A more complete decentralized bladder model needs to include transection of both the lumbosacral spinal roots innervating the bladder and the hypogastric nerves prior to performing nerve transfer surgeries. The refined electroneurogram recording methods may be suitable for evaluating the effectiveness of nerve transfer surgeries by monitoring the sensory activities of the transferred nerve.
Temple University--Theses
Alverio, Gustavo. "DISCUSSION ON EFFECTIVE RESTORATION OF ORAL SPEECH USING VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES BASED ON GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2909.
Full textM.S.E.E.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
Electrical Engineering MSEE
Long, Tonya Michele. "An assessment of sea turtle nesting behavior in relation to hurricane- and restoration-induced beach morphodynamics." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4527.
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M.S.
Masters
Department of Biology
Sciences
Suriano, April Rose. "Distinct Subpopulations in Biofilms of Streptococcus mutans and their Response to Sugar Starvation and Restoration." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/187730.
Full textPh.D.
Streptococcus mutans is a secondary colonizer of the dental plaque biofilm and is the primary causative agent of dental caries. Sugar metabolism is central to S. mutans growth and survival. S. mutans produces lactic acid as an end product of sugar metabolism, which results in dissolution of the tooth enamel, leading to dental cavities. Sucrose metabolism also results in the formation of extracellular dextrans that are a key component of the extracellular matrix that encases the bacteria in the biofilm. The availability of sugars is dependent on diet, on competition with other bacteria and on the location of the bacteria within the dental plaque. I hypothesize there are distinct subpopulations of S. mutans within biofilms that respond differently to environmental conditions. I have identified several genetic markers that are helping us identify and characterize some of these subpopulations, and how they react to starvation and to the restoration of nutrients in single species biofilms of S. mutans. Two of the loci that were identified as markers via microarray analysis are rpsT and pdh. rpsT encodes a small ribosomal protein which is strongly expressed during exponential growth, when the cells are producing high levels of ribosomes. The other marker, pdh, is a four-gene operon encoding the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex; pdh is upregulated in late stationary phase. Our laboratory has recently shown that expression of the pdh operon is important for long-term survival in stationary phase, where a subpopulation (~0.5%) is dividing, forms long chains and expresses pdh. In the current studies, rpsT and pdh promoters driving expression of gfp were used to identify the exponential phase subpopulation (rpsT) and a subpopulation capable of surviving in late stationary phase (pdh). In addition, I developed an unstable variant of GFP by fusing a proteolytic tag sequence to the C-terminus of GFP (encoded by ugfp). When the rpsT promoter was inserted upstream, uGFP was produced and subsequently degraded within about 1.5 hours of translation. This behavior allowed us to distinguish exponentially growing cells, as the signal diminishes once the cells entered stationary phase. In biofilms that had been starved for 10 days, there was no expression of PrpsTugfp. I observed that when sucrose was added to these biofilms, some bacteria within the biofilm microcolonies underwent fast exponential-like growth indicated by expression of PrpsT-ugfp. Within 24 hours of the sucrose addition, most growth had ceased and fluorescence had decreased. Using a Ppdh-gfp construct in bacteria in 10-day starved biofilms, fluorescence was observed in long chains of cells within the biofilms indicating slow growth. I hypothesized that the pdh-expressing cells were capable of responding to sucrose restoration and would be one of the principal subpopulations to do so. However, when sucrose was added, these fluorescing chains did not exhibit any growth, while other non-fluorescing bacteria within the biofilm clearly responded to the sucrose by growing. This was unexpected since inactivating the pdh operon leads to drastically reduced survival. It is concluded that pdh plays a role in long term survival, but pdhexpressers do not appear to respond to sugar restoration. This led me to hypothesize that the pdh-expressing population is interacting with other populations of cells in some capacity, enabling them to survive. To determine if this was the case, we performed a mixed culture experiment with wild-type S. mutans and the pdh null mutant. I observed that when these two strains were grown in co-culture, the pdh null mutant survived at low levels, for over 30 days, while this mutant by itself typically did not survive past ten days. This result indicates that the wild-type strain was able to interact with the mutant, leading to increased survival. In biofilms, it seems possible that the pdh-expressing cells secrete a substance or directly interact with other cells, somehow promoting their survival in the starved biofilm. The fluorescent constructs appear to mark distinct populations of cells that respond in different ways to sugar availability, suggesting that S. mutans forms a mixed population of cells able to grow in the presence of sugar or survive prolonged sugar starvation. These studies demonstrate that indeed subpopulations of cells do exist within biofilms, and their interactions may be more complex than previously thought.
Temple University--Theses
Ren, Qiangguo. "A Novel Market-based Multi-agent System for Power Balance and Restoration in Power Networks." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/506931.
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Power networks are one of the most complex systems in the field of electrical and computer engineering. In power networks, power supply-demand balancing can be achieved in a static or a dynamic model. In a static model, the power network cannot be easily adapted to intentional or unintentional network topology changes because the network design is predetermined, whereas in a dynamic model, the power network can be dynamically constructed and reconfigured at run-time, which leads to a more nimble, flexible, and stable system. In this dissertation, a novel Market-based Multi-agent System (MMS) is proposed to solve supply-demand balancing and power restoration problems in a dynamic model. The power network is modeled as a market environment consisting of Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents representing three characters: 1) consumer, 2) supplier, and 3) middleman. The BDI agents are able to negotiate power supply and demand of the power network, with consumers exploring the market and exchanging power information with neighboring middlemen and suppliers. So long as all consumers and suppliers establish supply-demand relationships represented in tree data structures, a qualified minimal access structure is found as the lower bound of the system reliability. When contingencies occur, the agents can quickly respond and restore loads guided by the relationships using minimum computational resource. Based on case studies and simulation results, the proposed approach delivers more effective performance of contingencies response and better computation time efficiency as the scale of the power network expands. The proposed MMS shows promises for solving various real-world power supply-demand and restoration problems, and serves as a solid foundation for future power networks refinement and improvement.
Temple University--Theses
Lommen, Candice M. "How does the use of digital photography affect student observation skills and data collection during outdoor field studies?" Montana State University, 2012. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/lommen/LommenC0812.pdf.
Full textSuazo, Alexis. "RESPONSES OF SMALL RODENTS TO RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES OF FLORIDA SCRUB AT CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FLORID." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4335.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Sciences
Biology
Switala-Elmhurst, Katherine. "Life Cycle Assessment of Residential Windows: Analyzing the Environmental Impact of Window Restoration versus Window Replacement." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/275743.
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New windows are rated based on their energy performance during the use phase. This rating neglects the overall environmental impact caused by raw material extraction, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal. Due to the number of residential window replacements occurring today in the United States, there is a growing need to quantify the sustainability of window preservation as an alternative to window replacement. This study assessed the environmental impact of historic wood window restoration versus window replacement for the entire "cradle to grave" life cycle of the window assembly. This study focused on a typical, mid-twentieth century housing development in the Northeast United States using four window configurations as follows: 1. Restored original wood window with a new exterior aluminum storm window; 2. PVC replacement window; 3. Aluminum-clad wood replacement window; 4. Wood replacement window. The dissertation assessed the life cycle of window configurations using GaBi Software. The life cycle inventories were analyzed using the TRACI 2.1 impact method which translated the environmental consequences of the life cycle assessment processes into quantifiable environmental impacts. The dissertation also considered window thermal performance and life cycle costs. When considering life cycle environmental impacts, thermal performance, energy savings and material costs, the results indicated that wood window restoration was the best option when compared to replacement windows considered in this study; however, the results indicated that building service life and window service life assumptions could impact results. Thermal performance testing of windows revealed that window restoration techniques undertaken in this study improved the window's overall thermal performance. The testing also indicated that the effects of air infiltration had minimal influence on the performance of the restored window assembly when compared to a high performance replacement window. The results of the energy model exhibited only a small annual energy savings between the restored window assembly and a high performance replacement window. The payback cost analysis revealed that, while there was an immediate financial benefit of window replacement with the PVC option, window replacement frequency and overall life cycle environmental impacts would favor the restored window option.
Temple University--Theses
Daniels, Aisha J. "The What If Collection." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5865.
Full textWall, Lisa Michele. "RECRUITMENT AND RESTORATION OF THE OYSTER CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA IN AREAS WITH INTENSE BOATING ACTIVITY IN MOSQUITO LAGOON, FLORIDA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4499.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Hays, Allison Whitney. "Determining the impacts of beach restoration on loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting patterns and reproductive success along Florida's Atlantic coast." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5295.
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M.S.
Masters
Biology
Sciences
Biology
Roberts, Sean Anthony. "A GENE THERAPY APPROACH TO THE INHIBITION OF HIV-1 REPLICATION BY RESTORATION OF INNATE ANTIVIRAL DEFENSE PATHWAYS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/99935.
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Since it emerged as an infectious agent in 1981, the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is continually disseminated and remain fatal to the majority of those infected. Strategies including highly active retroviral therapies (HAART) with nucleoside analogues and protease inhibitors have shown limited success in therapy due to the virus' ability to evolve rapidly at every replication cycle as a consequence of it's highly error prone reverse transcriptase, generating resistant retroviral strains and in addition to latent HIV-1 reservoirs. Thirty years of research efforts to find a cure or to generate a vaccine has been met with failure. It is, therefore, of necessity to broaden our paradigm of therapy for the treatment and eventual cure of HIV-1 infection. In this study, I look beyond the current anti-retroviral strategies and instead rely on the mammalian host immune system to inhibit HIV-1 replication through molecular genetic manipulation. Here, we approach the inhibition of HIV-1 replication by up-regulation of the innate antiviral pathway that is natural to mammalian cells. HIV-1 derived self-inactivating lentiviral (SIN) vectors were designed and constructed to deliver the antiviral payloads of two antiviral enzymes, p68 kinase (PKR) and 2'-5' oligoadenlyate synthetase (2-5OAS), to target cell, SupT1 lymphoblastoid cells and CD4+ T lymphocytes under the control of a constitutive cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter. These data here demonstrates a significant inhibition of HIV-1 replication in cells transduced with the anti HIV-1 transgenes PKR and 2-5OAS as determined by HIV-1 induced syncytia formation and HIV-1 p24 antigen capture assay. Furthermore, here demonstrated is an increase up-regulation of PKR and 2-5OAS 96 hr post cell transduction in all the clones when compared to pHIV empty vector control. These results demonstrate that the over-expression of PKR and 2-5OAS can inhibit HIV-1 replication and also confirm the involvement of PKR and 2-5OAS in the IFN-associated antiviral pathway against HIV-1 infection.
Temple University--Theses
Iepson, Sarah M. "Postmortem Relationships: Death and the Child in Antebellum American Visual Culture." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/236801.
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Since Roland Barthes published Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography in 1982, the prevailing theory about photography has revolved around its primary role as a manifestation of transience, death, and mortality. Whether one promotes the philosophy that the photographic image steals away the soul and promotes death, or that it simply captures images of those that have died or will die, the photograph has been commonly interpreted as a visual reminder of the finality of human life. At no time does such an interpretation appear to be more tangibly true than during the mid-nineteenth century when the photograph was commonly used to preserve the actual visage of death in post- mortem portraiture. Here, death is not suggested or implied, but is vividly present. However, the theoretical emphasis that Barthes placed on death has limited our understanding of such images by eliding other meanings historically associated with them. As an addendum to Barthes, I propose that post-mortem images - particularly those of children - represent a more complex relationship between life and death as it pertained to nineteenth-century American culture. Moreover, I believe that it is important to consider post-mortem photography in tandem with painted mourning portraiture, and to contemplate both within a larger visual and cultural context in order to gain a more holistic understanding of these images in antebellum America. My dissertation will re-situate post-mortem representations of children within the material and religious culture of antebellum America, amid evolving historical beliefs about the life of children, the concept of childhood, and ideas about child-rearing, not just postmodern theoretical notions of death. My particular focus on children responds to the poignancy of childhood death in antebellum America and the way in which these images particularly embody the belief in continued existence through the afterlife. By placing such images within the wider context of nineteenth-century culture, I will demonstrate that life existed in death for antebellum Americans through the physical or material presence of the photograph along with Christian spiritual associations regarding the soul and the afterlife. In other words, belief in an ongoing relationship between material and immaterial "bodies" was exteriorized in the painted or photographic representation of the physical corpse, enabling antebellum Americans to interpret the image as both the icon and physical residue of the soul. I will demonstrate that the materiality of the post- mortem image allowed antebellum Americans to preserve that sense of life within death. While the material presence of the image acted as a reflection of "being," spiritual beliefs in a heavenly afterlife permitted nineteenth-century viewers to meditate on the perpetuation, rather than the impermanence, of existence. While this complex historical dimension of post-mortem imagery - a dimension largely ignored by Barthes - provides the central focus of my dissertation, I will also analyze how these images were produced, commissioned, displayed, viewed, touched, cherished, and otherwise utilized in antebellum American culture.
Temple University--Theses
Hughes, Brian. "Characterizing the Immobile Region of the Hyporheic Zone through the use of Hydrologic and Geophysical Techniques at Crabby Creek, PA, USA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/142867.
Full textM.S.
At Crabby Creek, an urbanized watershed in northeast Chester County, Pennsylvania, an NaCl tracer test was conducted in 2010 to assess changes in hyporheic flow from a 2009 tracer test around the same stream restoration J-Hook. This project compares the 2009 and 2010 tracer test breakthrough curves and geophysical time-lapse resistivity surveys. This project also compares elevation cross sections and tile probing from 2009 and 2010, both measured upstream and downstream from the J-Hook. To confirm areas of lingering tracer seen in the time-lapse resistivity profiles, sediment cores using the freeze core method were taken to measure pore water for tracer. This project also measured diurnal temperature flux through the streambed at several locations along the sample site to model vertical water and heat flux. The breakthrough graphs constructed from the conductivity of the well water samples shows similar hyporheic flow characteristics from 2009 to 2010. The time-lapse resistivity profiles show an area of lingering tracer upstream from the J-Hook in 2010 that is similar in shape and location to an area upstream from the J-Hook in the 2009 profiles. However, an area of lingering tracer downstream from the J-Hook present in 2009 as a round feature on the profile is now a thin linear feature. The freeze cores show tracer present in the pore water after the end of the tracer injection in the stream sediment, confirming areas of lingering tracer seen in the time-lapse resistivity profiles. The grain size analysis of the freeze cores and the comparison to the 2009 cores taken at Crabby Creek show similar grain size distribution upstream from the J-Hook. Downstream from the J-Hook the grain size analysis shows a redistribution of sediment. Upstream from the J-Hook the tile probe shows both shallower and deeper bedrock, a redistribution of sediment but no net erosion. Downstream from the restoration structure, however, the tile probe data show a sediment loss of 20 cm. Elevation cross section surveys from 2009 and 2010 confirm what the tile probing found, a loss of sediment downstream but not upstream from the J-Hook. Temperature modeling of heat flux through the sediment shows that the diurnal temperature distribution can be accounted for without vertical flux. Thus, the immobile regions upstream and downstream from the J-Hook seem to be related to sediment distribution rather than hydrologic gradient differences. The significance of this study shows the need to use multiple techniques to characterize the immobile zone as a part of hyporheic flow. The immobile zone is an important area of chemical reactions in the streambed. At Crabby Creek the central J-Hook inhibits net erosion patterns upstream from the structure, allowing for the continued presence of an immobile zone. Downstream from the central J-Hook the erosion of the streambed sediment led to a decrease in size and location of the immobile zone. The disturbance of sediment around restoration structures influences the development of a healthy hyporheic flow and needs to be studied for future restoration of impaired streams and riparian corridors.
Temple University--Theses
Grablow, Katherine. "RECOVERY AND RESTORATION OF THE SEAGRASS HALODULE WRIGHTII AFTER BOAT PROPELLER SCAR DAMAGE IN A POLE-TROLL ZONE IN MOSQUITO LAG." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4294.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Sciences
Biology MS
Lyon, Casey. "DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF MANAGING FOR FLORIDA SCRUB-JAYS (APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS) ON AN ISOLATED PRESERVE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2805.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Sciences
Biology MS
Collier, Shannon. "Constructing a Memory House: Preserving the Past through Personal Relics." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/750.
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Bachelors
Arts and Sciences
Art
Balfour, Martha. "Abiotic Differences Between Green Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) Nests in Natural Beach and Engineered Dunes: Effects on Hatching Success." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2439.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Sciences
Biology MS
Michaelis, Jessica. "The Restorative Effects of Color and Environment Type on Cognitive Functioning." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5828.
Full textM.S.
Masters
Psychology
Sciences
Modeling and Simulation
Midberry, Jennifer. "Visual Frames of War Photojournalism, Empathy, Compassion, and Information Seeking." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/377417.
Full textPh.D.
Although it has long been assumed that pictures depicting the human suffering of war evoke empathy and compassion, which leads to social action, there is little empirical evidence of that claim. This study aimed to fill the gap in visual communication theory about the effects of war photojournalism on media consumers' emotional and behavioral responses. This mixed methods design included a between-subjects experimental design tested whether photos (from conflicts in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo) with a human-cost-of-war visual frame had significantly different effects on participants' levels of empathy, compassion, personal distress, other-oriented distress, and information seeking than pictures with a militarism visual frame. A second study used series of focus group discussions, to investigate how media consumers make meaning out of images of conflict. The findings expand our understanding about the way audiences react to conflict photos, and they have implications for how photo editors might present audiences with images of war that will engage audiences.
Temple University--Theses
Bellettiere, Giovanna Marie. "AMERICAN FEMINISM: THE CAMERA WORK OF ALICE AUSTEN, ALFRED STIEGLITZ, AND BERENICE ABBOTT." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/578947.
Full textM.A.
This thesis explores the work of photographers: Alice Austen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Berenice Abbott in relation to the American landscape of New York from approximately 1880 through 1940. Although the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe is not addressed specifically, her role as an artist communicating her modern self image through Stieglitz’s photography is one area of focus in the second chapter. Previous scholarship has drawn parallels between women artists and photographers solely in terms related to their gender identity. In contrast, my project identifies a common theoretical thread that links the work of these artists: namely, that photography allowed professional women of this time to react and rise above the constrictions of gender expectations, and moreover, how their own attitudes based in feminist sensibility enabled them to fashion and broadcast bold, liberated self-images. Inspired by the radical transformations of women’s social roles in the United States, each artist produced photographs that represented the evolving role of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using visual analysis and historical context associated with the “New Woman” movement, I argue that each artist discussed in this thesis not only challenges the domestic sphere conventionally assigned to women photographers, but also makes new strides by engaging in work that allows for them to autonomously travel within their own territories or new expansive locations. This thesis gives fresh insight as to how photography provided novel opportunities for elevating women’s place in society, as well as in the artistic realm. Overall, photography was an important tool for each artist as these three women act as agents of change by demonstrating a control of womanhood while the role of a female was beginning to become less constrained by the domestic and social norms of society.
Temple University--Theses
Joseph, Caberbe. "DEEP WITHIN." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2794.
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Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
O'Malley, Jennifer. "Life Support: Sustaining a Personal Aesthetic." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/785.
Full textBachelors
Arts and Sciences
Fine Art
Brock, Kelly. "EFFECTS OF A SHORE PROTECTION PROJECT ON LOGGERHEAD AND GREEN TURTLE NESTING ACTIVITY AND REPRODUCTION IN BREVARD COUNTY, FLORID." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2946.
Full textM.S.
Department of Biology
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Bowles, Laurian Rebekah. "WIDENING THE LENS: EMBODIMENTS OF GENDER, WORK AND MIGRATION WITH MARKET WOMEN IN GHANA." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/114250.
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Women have legendary roles as traders who financially dominate the sale of various market goods in West Africa. Head porters are young women from Ghana's rural northern region who work as human transporters in the various markets in urban areas throughout the country. Kayayei (female head porters) who work at these famed markets are the focus of this dissertation. The north of Ghana is the agricultural breadbasket of the country, with strong Islamic influences that thrive in dispersed, mostly rural ethnic enclaves. This contrasts sharply with the service manufacturing and trade economies that mark Christian influenced southern Ghana. As young women migrants arrive in Accra, this dissertation focuses on narratives of head porters as they confront the multi-ethnic, hierarchical social climates of the city, particularly Accra's largest shopping venue, Makola Market. This dissertation uses theories in phenomenology, informed by feminist anthropology, to consider the political economy of Ghana in order to examine how head porter's lives are grounded with the development history and the spread of capitalism in the nation-state. Throughout this dissertation, attention is given to the widespread informalization of the economy in the nation-state and the role of head porters in these processes. Using a methodology of collaborative photography with kayayei, this dissertation examines the politics of visibility and analyzes the kinds of skills these women develop in order to survive and negotiate the socio-economic hierarchies of urban space. By situating the theoretical and methodological concerns of this research within the social realities of rural-urban migrants, this dissertation explores migration as a sensibility that acts upon various social terrains at markets in Accra, Ghana.
Temple University--Theses
Comparetto, Heather. "The Bed as Object and Metaphor." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5170.
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M.F.A.
Masters
Visual Arts and Design
Arts and Humanities
Emerging Media; Studio Art and the Computer
Nienass, Sherri. "The Fabricated Shopping Experience: An Impersonal Impression on Consumerism." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5356.
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M.F.A.
Masters
Visual Arts and Design
Arts and Humanities
Emerging Media; Studio Art and the Computer