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Graziano, Audra M. "Off-line A project report". Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527706.
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This group of paintings was informed by an investigation of the complex linear matrix of wires within telecommunications networks and data centers. As most of these processes are automated, I took interest in how they continue operating without our knowledge or attention, much like the functions of our own human bodies. I began to regard this wiring as the nervous system of our technologically driven modes of communication. With this as a metaphor, I began to question how the greater system of daily operations played into contemporary life, both physically and psychologically.
Often, it is not until we encounter a glitch or malfunction in these processes, that we even become aware of the system that generated them. I decided to take these faults in the wiring as visual metaphors and departure points to begin the intuitive process of painting. While my work has been instigated by a metaphorical investigation into technology, its core reflects the handmade; intuitive, and off-line. These paintings have evolved from an abstract relationship with technological transmission to an embodied metaphor for technology within human experience.
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Petzwinkler, Thomas. "Behind the Fire Line". VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/121.
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BEHIND THE FIRE LINEA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2004. Major Director: Jim Long, Department Chair. Behind the Line of Fire is a documentary of the professional lives of a group of firefighters. Inspired by the events of September 11th, it has been an ongoing journey for me as I continue to interact with an photograph these individuals doing the job that they live for. My goal for this project has been to work within the guidelines of a documentary, a genre that has a rich, diverse, and defined history. I did not want to show scenes in which firefighters were depicted in typically iconographic scenarios. I have not made any images to date representing exploding structures with firefighters risking life and limb fighting the fire, nor have I shown the firefighters performing heroic acts such as rescuing a child or an animal. I believe the imagery I have created presents firefighters in a different light. These are men and women working. There are no hidden meanings or agendas involved. The photos are to be taken at face value as images of people whose lives revolve around what they do.
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Scheuer, Benedict Leo. "A Spiritual Ecology of the Line". The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587552184531075.
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Bartle, Richard. "When openness closes : the line between play and design". Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2453/.
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One of the informal properties often used to describe a new virtual world is its degree of openness. Yet what is an “open” virtual world? Does the phrase mean generally the same thing to different people? What distinguishes an open world from a less open world? Why does openness matter anyway? The answers to these questions cast light on an important, but shadowy, and uneasy, topic for virtual worlds: the relationship between those who construct the virtual, and those who use these constructions.
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Howell, Amy Beth. "Line, Space and Plane". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259177315.
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Avery, Nathanael Michael. "Glass Weaving: An Intersection of Line, Light, and Color". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574682496044956.
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Wavering, Kelly Rose. "Learning limitations of the on-line composition process". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/655.
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Silva, Edilson Ferreira da. "Meios e modos da composição on-line = um processo poético da busca". [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284957.
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Orientador: Ernesto Giovanni BoccaraDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe a reflexão dos meios e modos de composição utilizando a rede e a manipulação de imagens on-line, em um conjunto de procedimentos de captura por meio digital e aplicações decorrentes de uma pesquisa na busca de uma produção plástica contemporânea. Para esta proposta realizo um recorte na minha produção artística, observo uma série de trabalhos que movem inquietações conceituais e estão direcionadas para a projeção de imagens das diversas faces. Objetivando representar as diferentes humanidades que integram a paisagem urbana. Esta observação dos lugares apresenta o cruzamento de histórias e emoções e a discussão do significado da vigilância na produção artística que interage com as tecnologias. Questões que estão articuladas com o meu percurso.
Abstract: This paper proposes a reflection of the ways and means of using the network composition and manipulation of images on-line in a set of procedures through digital capture and applications resulting from a search in the search for a contemporary artistic production. To realize this proposal a cut in my artistic production, watch a series of works that move and conceptual concerns are directed towards the projection of images of different faces. Aiming to represent the different humanities that make up the urban landscape. This observation shows the places of intersection of stories and emotions and discussion of the significance of monitoring the production of art that interacts with the technologies. Issues that are linked with my route.
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Daly, Shannon Valentine. "The Effects of Visual Arts on Expressive Language in Participants with Dementia". Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6215.
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Visual aids such as memory books have been shown to help increase recall of information and facilitate improved communication in people with dementia (Bourgeois, 2014). Because of the effectiveness of visual aids for people with dementia, this study aimed to determine if the type of visual stimulus would produce differences in the quality of language expressed. It was hypothesized that a more realistic picture in full color would elicit more descriptive language than a black and white line drawing. Verbal descriptions of Norman Rockwell’s realistic painting, Coming and Going and descriptions of a black and white line drawing of the same painting were collected in a counterbalanced manner from seven participants with dementia. Transcripts were coded for expressive language variables (e.g, descriptive content, nouns, verbs, etc.). Results revealed that the descriptions of the black and white line drawing contained more irrelevant utterances including significantly more unrelated utterances (p=0.04) and significantly more self-corrected utterances (p=0.02) than the realistic picture. No statistically significant differences were found for any other variables. This suggests that while both pictures elicited descriptive language, the descriptions of the black and white line drawing contained more unrelated and self-corrected information than descriptions of the realistic painting. More research needs to be conducted using a greater number of participants to further explore the effects of different visual stimuli on expressive language of persons with dementia.
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Hershey, Gregory C. "Over the Line: John Edward Lawler and FBI". VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/807.
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The FBI is the most recognized law enforcement entity in the world. During its nearly 100-year history, the Bureau has been involved in many controversies, most as a result of straying from its stated mission to investigate violations of federal law. This survey is based on personal papers of the former head of the Richmond Bureau, John Edward Lawler. Fortunately for historians, these files, many of which exist nowhere else in the agency's archives, open a window into the operational methods and investigative techniques of FBI agents. An examination of John Lawler's career provides insight into the conduct of field agents and Agents in Charge of field bureaus during the 1940s.
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Roy, Angela. "Richmond River Center: Condensing a Line to a Point, Connecting a Narrative to a Moment". VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2412.
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This thesis explores the integration of the built environment into an existing extrinsic experience. It considers how a place can become incorporated into a series of experiences in nature, while still maintaining it’s integrity as a singular space. It questions how the lines between nature and interior can be blurred, and how responses to essential existing conditions can provide a coalesced experience.
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Chow, Brian 1978. "The design of a molecular assembly line based on biological molecules". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61137.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-83).
A general scheme towards a "molecular assembly line" based on biological molecules is proposed, as well as its potential uses as a universal polymer scaffold in programmed assembly and molecular electronics. It is based on the principles of the biological molecules polyketide synthase and kinesin, and in some embodiments, may employ biomolecules like DNA as components of the system. The scheme entails the construction of a polymeric chain that moves a shuttle along the chain by controlling the interactions between the shuttle and individual monomer units using external inputs. The experimental work here particularly focuses on the design and synthesis of the monomer units and shuttles, as well as the mechanisms of control over the monomer/shuttle interactions that are required to construct the proposed polymer systems. Two approaches are explored, the first of which utilizes radio-frequency magnetic fields to selectively dehybridize DNA by coupling RF to covalently attached nanoparticle antennae. The second approach utilizes wavelength selective photocleavage of carbonyl bonds to control the equilibrium of a Michael reaction, and will demonstrate how one can construct a purely synthetic analogue of a polyketide synthase.
by Brian Chow.
S.M.
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Pedneault-Deslauriers, Julie. "Music on the fault line: Gender, sexuality, and the Second Viennese School, 1899-1925". Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86679.
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The destabilization and reformation of traditional conceptions of sexuality and gender represented a crucial aspect of Viennese modernity and was hotly debated on a variety of fronts. This dissertation investigates the radical paradigm shift in musical language that took place in Vienna at the turn of the century in light of evolving conceptions of gender and sexuality, exploring how late tonal and atonal works from the composers of the Second Viennese School responded to and participated in contemporary cultural discourses on this subject. I contend that the circumstances in turn-of-the-century Vienna compelled modernist stylistic innovation and that considerations of gender and sexuality offer a hermeneutic window for the music that opens onto fresh critical vistas. Throughout this study, I conduct close musical analyses of selected works by Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg, shedding light on a variety of progressive harmonic and formal processes. Each chapter brings together aspects of musical structure and particular issues in the turn-of-the-century crisis of gender: the stylistic deformations of modernist waltzes as metaphors for the alienated male subject; programmatic and formal aspects of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 in relation to contemporary critiques of the institution of marriage; the development of an increasingly dissonant idiom in three Schoenberg lieder (Op. 3, No. 3; Op. 6, No. 7; and Op. 15, No. 13) that broach the themes of sexual alienation and violence; Webern's attempt to create an atonal musical language that moved beyond gender binaries in his Rilke lieder, Op. 8; and the ambiguous gender of the character of Pierrot given voice by Schoenberg's famous Sprechstimme.La remise en question et la réforme des notions traditionnelles de sexualité et de genre ont constitué un aspect essentiel de la modernité viennoise et furent chaudement débattues sur plusieurs fronts. La présente thèse examine les transformations radicales du langage musical qui eurent lieu à Vienne au tournant du siècle à la lumière de concepts changeants en matière de sexualité et de genre, en explorant comment différentes oeuvres tonales tardives et atonales des compositeurs de la seconde école viennoise répondirent et participèrent aux débats contemporains sur ce sujet. Je suggère que les circonstances sociosexuelles caractérisant la Vienne du tournant du siècle suscitèrent nombre d'innovations stylistiques modernistes et que des considérations liées au genre et à la sexualité permettent d'ouvrir une fenêtre herméneutique sur de nouvelles perspectives critiques pour la musique. Tout au long de cette thèse, j'effectue des analyses détaillées d'oeuvres choisies de Berg, Webern et Schoenberg, mettant à jour une variété de procédés harmoniques et formels progressifs. Chaque chapitre fait le rapprochement entre différents aspects de la structure musicale et des enjeux particuliers à la crise des genres du tournant du siècle : les déformations stylistiques de trois valses modernistes en tant que représentation métaphorique du sujet masculin aliéné; différents aspects programmatiques et formels du Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 de Schoenberg en relation avec la critique contemporaine de l'institution du mariage; l'élaboration d'un langage de plus en plus dissonant au sein de trois lieder de Schoenberg (Op. 3, no 3, Op. 6, no 7 et Op. 15, no 13) qui traitent d'aliénation et de violence sexuelles; la tentative de Webern dans ses lieder Op. 8 de créer un langage atonal qui transcende un système binaire de genres; le genre ambigu du personnage de Pierrot auquel Schoenberg donna voix grâce à sa Sprechstimme.
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Holmes, Thomas Alan, e Roxanne Harde. "Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/073916967X.
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Contents: Introduction: "Walking the line" : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists / Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde -- "Nobody Knows but Me" : Jimmie Rodgers and the body politic / Taylor Hagood -- Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West / Thomas Alan Holmes -- "Help your brother along the road" : Hank Williams and the humane tradition / Steve Goodson -- JC : Johnny Cash and faith / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Religious doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s country music concept albums of Willie Nelson / Blase S. Scarnati -- Grace to catch a falling soul : country, gospel, and evangelical populism in the music of Dottie Rambo / Douglas Harrison -- Loretta Lynn, Appalachian storyteller and autobiographer / Laura Grace Pattillo -- "Branded" man : Merle Haggard's romance of the outlier / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Townes Van Zandt : " Now here's what this story's told" / Pete Falconer and James Zborowski -- Wildness, eschatology, and enclosure in the songs of Townes Van Zandt / Michael B. MacDonald -- "Where it counts I'm real" : the complexities of Dolly Parton's feminist voice / Samantha Christensen -- "Sin City" : Gram Parsons and the "Christ-haunted South" / Clay Motley -- Weeping willows and long black veils : the country roots of Roseanne Cash, from Scotland to Tennessee / June Skinner Sawyers -- "They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway" : Steve Earle's American boys / Roxanne Harde.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1048/thumbnail.jpg
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James, David Arthur. "From colour to candlelight : a study of light, line and colour, with particular reference to Newton, Goethe, Turner and Ruskin". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244748.
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Çelebi, Hasan Basri. "Noise and Multipath Characteristics of Power Line Communication Channels". Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1594.
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With the recent developments in technology, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming more widespread and one of the basic building blocks of every humans life. The increasing demand in broadband communication calls for new technologies. Power line communication (PLC) is one of the potential candidates for next generation ICTs. Although communication through power lines has been investigated for a long time, PLC systems were never taken into account seriously because of its harsh communication medium. However, with the development of more robust data transmission schemes, communication over the power lines is becoming a strong alternative technology because of the existence of the infrastructure and the ubiquity of the network.
In order to establish reliable communication systems operating on power line networks (PLNs), characteristics of power line channels have to be investigated very carefully. Unpredictable characteristics of PLNs seriously affect the performance of communication systems. Similar to the other communication channels, PLC environment is affected by noise, attenuation, and multipath type of channel distortions. The level of noise in PLNs is much higher than any other type of communication networks. Furthermore, the frequency dependent attenuation characteristics of power lines and multipath stemming from impedance mismatches are the other distortion factors which have to be investigated in order to establish a reliable PLC system.
In this thesis, we focus on modeling of noise, frequency dependent attenuation, and multipath characteristics of power line channels within the frequency range between 30kHz and 30MHz.
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Dugal, Simrat L. "The Gold Line: Exploring the Resurgence of Public Rail Transport in Los Angeles". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/16.
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Mass transit in the form of light rail is, in many ways, a new and revolutionary idea for the Greater Los Angeles Area. Although mass light rail transit did exist in Los Angeles in the form of the Pacific Electric Railways red car system, an extensive network of metro rail lines has never existed in Los Angeles County since Pacific Electric was dismantled and shut down in 1950. Because of this, the popular mode of transport in LA County has traditionally been cars, and public transport has consisted mostly of bus routes. This has all changed in the last few decades. Since the 1980s, LA County has conducted several studies and, as a result of those studies, has proposed to build an extensive network of light rail lines to connect the county. In more recent years, many of these project plans have been approved, and the MTA has overseen the construction and functioning of new railway lines that are connecting far-flung regions of LA County with Union Station in downtown LA. Currently, the MTA operates 5 light rail lines within LA county-the Blue Line, the Red Line, the Purple Line, the Green Line and the Gold Line-that extend north, south and east of downtown LA. Each of these lines has been functional for a varying amount of time, but current weekday ridership on this system of lines has crossed the 280,000 mark as off September 2009.
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Bouchard, Sara. "Singing the Landscape: A Meditation on Song, Sound and Community at the Fall Line of the James River". VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5916.
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I work in the medium of song. A multidisciplinary artist and composer, I make work that is immersive, time-based and often participatory. I interact with landscape and the complexities of American history, bringing into focus local ecologies through the lens of song.
This document accompanies my thesis performance The Sound of a Stone, an immersive exploration of song, language, ecology and locational listening performed in a 4-channel surround format. In the semi-improvised composition, I sample live vocals, mandolin and found natural objects in a combination of roots music traditions and experimental techniques. Utilizing the software Ableton Live to process and layer the samples in real time, I build a series of "songscapes" which connect to a specific site: the fall line of the James River. The Sound of a Stone premiered April 8, 2019 at Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall, W. E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
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Arenstein, Lisa R. "Lines in Space". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366460039.
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Pandharkar, Rohit (Rohit Prakash). "Hidden object doppler : estimating motion, size and material properties of moving non-line-of-sight objects in cluttered environments". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67783.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-117).
The thesis presents a framework for Non-Line-of-Sight Computer Vision techniques using wave fronts. Using short-pulse illumination and a high speed time-of-flight camera, we propose algorithms that use multi path light transport analysis to explore the environments beyond line of sight. What is moving around the corner interests everyone including a driver taking a turn, a surgeon performing laparoscopy and a soldier entering enemy base. State of the art techniques that do range imaging are limited by (i) inability to handle multiple diffused bounces [LIDAR] (ii) Wavelength dependent resolution limits [RADAR] and (iii) inability to map real life objects [Diffused Optical Tomography]. This work presents a framework for (a) Imaging the changing Space-time-impulse-responses of moving objects to pulsed illumination (b) Tracking motion along with absolute positions of these hidden objects and (c) recognizing their default properties like material and size and reflectance. We capture gated space-time impulse responses of the scene and their time differentials allow us to gauge absolute positions of moving objects with knowledge of only relative times of arrival (as absolute times are hard to synchronize at femto second intervals). Since we record responses at very short time intervals we collect multiple readings from different points of illumination and thus capturing multi-perspective responses allowing us to estimate reflectance properties. Using this, we categorize and give parametric models of the materials around corner. We hope this work inspires further exploration of NLOS computer vision techniques.
by Rohit Pandharkar.
S.M.
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Thomas, Danielle K. "Collaborative Drawing Projects". The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276792482.
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Natarajan, Saravana Prakash. "Micro coaxial transmission lines for integrated microwave circuits". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002265.
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Zevenbergen, Jill. "Like Alike". VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1803.
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Like Alike explores notions of pleasure and beauty through an examination of mundane activity. Pleasure is simple, uncomplicated niceness. Pleasure is forgettable and related to the norm. Beauty is complicated and hardly predicted. Finding beauty in the banal provides an escape from mundane life. The banal, then becomes unforgettable. The nondescript, everyday experience becomes important and gains meaning. Like Alike's electronic format is adapted from the original format of an artist book.
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Hershberger, John. "Exchanges for Complex Commodities: Toward a General-Purpose System for On-Line Trading". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000127.
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Alegria, Sharla N. "Queer identity? Discussing identity and appearance in an on-line "Genderqueer" community". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001939.
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Montes, Martin Alejandro. "Monte carlo simulations as a tool to optimize target detection by AUV/ROV laser line scanners". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001295.
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Isaksson, Anne. "An Approach To Control Visual Intensity Through Digital Compositing : A way to manipulate visual intensity with compositing by altering space, line, shape, tone, color, movement and rhythm". Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för konst, kommunikation och lärande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64886.
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Michna, Catherine C. "Hearing the Hurricane Coming: Storytelling, Second-Line Knowledges, and the Struggle for Democracy in New Orleans". Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2753.
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Thesis advisor: Carlo RotellaThesis advisor: Cynthia A. Young
From the BLKARTSOUTH literary collective in the 1970s, to public-storytelling-based education and performance forms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and fiction and nonfiction collections in the years since the storm, this study traces how New Orleans authors, playwrights, educators, and digital media makers concerned with social justice have mirrored the aesthetics and epistemologies of the collaborative African diasporic expressive traditions that began in the antebellum space of Congo Square and continue in the traditions of second-line parading and Mardi Gras Indian performances today. Combining literary analysis, democratic and performance theory, and critical geography with interviews and participant observation, I show how New Orleans authors, theatre makers, and teachers have drawn on "second-line" knowledges and geographies to encourage urban residents to recognize each other as "divided subjects" whose very divisions are the key to keeping our social and political systems from stabilizing and fixing borders and ethics in a way that shuts down possibilities for dissent, flux, and movement. Building on diverse scholarly arguments that make a case both for New Orleans's exceptionalism and its position, especially in recent years, as a model for neoliberal urban reform, this study also shows how the call and response aesthetics of community-based artists in New Orleans have influenced and benefited from the rise of global democratic performance and media forms. This dual focus on local cultures of resistance and New Orleans's role in the production of national and transnational social justice movements enables me to evaluate New Orleans's enduring central role in the production of U.S. and transnational constructs of African diasporic identity and radical democratic politics and aesthetics. Chapter One, "Second Line Knowledges and the Re-Spatialization of Resistance in New Orleans," synthesizes academic and grassroots analyses and descriptions of second lines, Mardi Gras Indian performances, and related practices in New Orleans through the lenses of critical geography and democratic theory to analyze the democratic dreams and blues approaches to history and geography that have been expressed in dynamic ways in the public spaces of New Orleans since the era of Congo Square. My second chapter, "'We Are Black Mind Jockeys': Tom Dent, The Free Southern Theater, and the Search for a Second Line Literary Aesthetic," explores the unique encounter in New Orleans between the city's working-class African American cultural traditions and the national Black Arts movement. I argue that poet and activist Tom Dent's interest in black working-class cultural traditions in New Orleans allowed him to use his three-year directorship of the Free Southern Theater to produce new and lasting interconnections between African American street performances and African American theatre and literature in the city. Chapter Three, "Story Circles, Educational Resistance, and the Students at the Center Program Before and After Hurricane Katrina," outlines how Students at the Center (SAC), a writing and digital media program in the New Orleans public schools, worked in the years just before Hurricane Katrina to re-make public schools as places that facilitated the collaborative sounding and expression of second-line knowledges and geographies and engaged youth and families in dis-privileged local neighborhoods in generating new democratic visions for the city. This chapter contrasts SAC's pre-Katrina work with their post-Katrina struggles to reformulate their philosophies in the face of the privatization of New Orleans's public schools in order to highlight the role that educational organizing in New Orleans has played in rising conversations throughout the US about the impact of neo-liberal school reform on urban social formations, public memory, and possibilities for organized resistance. Chapter Four, "'Running and Jumping to Join the Parade': Race and Gender in Post-Katrina Second Line Literature" shows how authors during the post-Katrina crisis era sought to manipulate mass market publication methods in order to critically reflect on, advocate for, and spread second-line knowledges. My analysis of the fiction of Tom Piazza and Mike Molina, the non-fiction work of Dan Baum, and the grassroots publications of the Neighborhood Story Project asks how these authors' divergent interrogations of the novel and non-fiction book forms with the form of the second line parade enable them to question, with varying degrees of success, the role of white patriarchy on shaping prevailing media and literary forms for imagining and narrating the city. Finally, Chapter Five, "Cross-Racial Storytelling and Second-Line Theatre Making After the Deluge," analyzes how New Orleans's community-based theatre makers have drawn on second-line knowledges and geographies to build a theatre-based racial healing movement in the post-Katrina city. Because they were unable and unwilling, after the Flood, to continue to "do" theatre in privatized sites removed from the lives and daily spatial practices of local residents, the network of theater companies and community centers whose work I describe (such as John O'Neal's Junebug Productions, Mondo Bizarro Productions, ArtSpot Productions, and the Ashé Cultural Arts Center) have made New Orleans's theatrical landscape into a central site for trans-national scholarly and practitioner dialogues about the relationship of community-engaged theatre making to the construction of just and sustainable urban democracies
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Hägglund, Rachael. "Blood River". VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5419.
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Blood Riveris an exploration of lineage and blood connection as families are made and remade over generations. The poems rise from the physical body, from birth, and again from death. The lyric is used as a mode of investigation as she writes to discover what it means to become a mother, what it means to be a daughter and wife, and finally what it means to remake the self in order to embody all that we are. The poems are born from the heart and explore the connections between us all.
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Collins, Dustin L. "Crossin' Somebody's Line: Gay Black Men in HBO Serial Dramas". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1314810185.
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Orner, Kevin. "Effectiveness of In-Line Chlorination of Gravity Flow Water Supply in Two Rural Communities in Panama". Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3271.
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It is well established that water quality is directly linked to health. In-line chlorination is one technology that can be used in the developing world to potentially inactivate pathogens and improve water quality. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Panamanian Ministry of Health's in-line PVC chlorinator under three different operating conditions in a rural water supply system. Free and total chlorine were measured entering the storage tank, leaving the storage tank, and at three households along the transmission line of the water system in the two rural indigenous communities of Calabazal and Quebrada Mina in western Panama during April-August 2011. The Ct method for disinfection was used to compare the measured free chlorine concentration to the concentration required to inactivate common pathogens found in gravity flow water systems in Panama, such as E. coli, Salmonella typhi, Hepatitis A, Giardia lamblia, and E. histolytica, as well as other pathogens of interest to the global health community, such as Vibrio cholerae and Rotavirus. When the chlorine tablet was sealed in a plastic wrapper prior to use to prevent contact with humid surroundings, the chlorine was able to dissolve in seven days instead of three hours into the transmission line. The use of one tablet, sealed in a plastic wrapper before use, was able to obtain the required free chlorine concentration estimated to disinfect E. coli, Vibrio cholerae, Rotavirus, Salmonella typhi, and Hepatitis A. However, it did not achieve a free chlorine concentration above 0.27 mg/L needed to inactivate Giardia lamblia nor above 0.35 mg/L needed to inactivate E. histolytica. The use of three properly stored tablets in the chlorinator was able to provide a free chlorine concentration above 0.35 mg/L for only one day, reaching 0.37 mg/L, before falling below 0.35 mg/L to a level of 0.26 mg/L the next day. The study suggests that with three tablets the in-line PVC chlorinator can be an effective technology if slightly more free chlorine concentration can enter the system. The cost of this technology could be allocated to every owner with a house connection in the communities of Calabazal and Quebrada Mina by increasing their monthly tariff by $1 each month.
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Lee, Michael P. "THE EFFECTS OF ALTERNATE-LINE SHADING ON VISUAL SEARCH IN GRID-BASED GRAPHIC DESIGNS". UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/51.
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Objective: The goal of this research was to determine whether alternate-line shading (zebra-striping) of grid-based displays affects the strategy (i.e., “visual flow”) and efficiency of serial search. Background: Grids, matrices, and tables are commonly used to organize information. A number of design techniques and psychological principles are relevant to how viewers’ eyes can be guided through such visual works. One common technique for grids, “zebra-striping,” is intended to guide eyes through the design, or “create visual flow” by alternating shaded and unshaded rows or columns. Method: 13 participants completed a visual serial search task. The target was embedded in a grid that had 1) no shading, 2) shading of alternating rows, or 3) shading of alternating columns. Response times and error rates were analyzed to determine search strategy and efficiency. Results: Our analysis found evidence supporting a weak effect of shading on search strategy. The direction of shading had an impact on which parts of the grid were responded to most rapidly. However, a left-to-right reading bias and middle-to-outside edge effect were also found. Overall performance was reliably better when the grid had no shading. Exploratory analyses suggest individual differences may be a factor. Conclusion: Shading seems to create visual flow that is relatively weak compared to search strategies related to the edge effect or left-to-right reading biases. In general, however, the presence of any type of shading reduced search performance. Application: Designers creating a grid-based display should not automatically assume that shading will change viewers search strategies. Furthermore, although strategic shading may be useful for tasks other than that studied here, our current data indicate that shading can actually be detrimental to visual search for complex (i.e., conjunctive) targets.
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Segro, Scott S. "Surface-Bonded Sol-Gel Sorbents for On-Line Hyphenation of Capillary Microextraction with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography". Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1762.
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High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is the most widely used analysis technique. However, its sensitivity is limited. Sample preconcentration methods, such as fiber-based solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and in-tube SPME (capillary microextraction) offer improved detection limits. It is, however, difficult to couple fiber SPME on-line with HPLC due to the need for complicated desorption devices. Such coupling is further complicated due to the limited solvent stability of the extracting phase both in the fiber and in-tube formats of SPME. In this research, surface-bonded sol-gel sorbents were developed to provide the solvent stability required for effective on-line hyphenation of capillary microextraction (CME) with HPLC. These sol-gel sorbents were prepared using (1) silica-based, (2) titania-based, and (3) germania-based sol-gel precursors. Sol-gel reactions were performed within fused silica capillaries to create a number of organic-inorganic hybrid sorbents in the form of surface-bonded coatings: (1) alkyl (methyl, octyl, octadecyl), (2) polydimethyldiphenylsiloxane, (3) titania poly(tetrahydrofuran), and (4) germania tri-block polymer. The sol-gel coated microextraction capillaries were capable of efficiently extracting a wide variety of analytes, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, ketones, aldehydes, aromatic compounds, amines, alcohols, and phenols with ng/L to pg/L detection limits. The sol-gel methyl coating demonstrated a counterintuitive ability to extract polar analytes. Sol-gel polydimethyldiphenylsiloxane coatings were found to be resistant to high temperature solvent exposure (150°C and 200°C), making them suitable for use in high-temperature liquid phase separations. To better understand how extraction takes place, effects of alkyl chain length and sol-gel precursor concentration were evaluated in the study on sol-gel alkyl coatings. The sol-gel titania poly(tetrahydrofuran) coating was also capable of extracting underivatized aromatic acids and polypeptides at pHs near their respective isolectric points. The sol-gel titania poly(tetrahydrofuran) coatings and the sol-gel germania tri-block polymer coatings demonstrated impressive resistance to extreme pH conditions, surviving prolonged exposure to 1.0 M HCl (pH approx. 0.0) and 1.0 M NaOH (pH approx. 14.0) with virtually no change in extraction behavior. Sol-gel germania tri-block polymer coatings were also stable under high temperature solvent conditions (200°C). In addition, for the first time, the analyte distribution constants between a sol-gel germania coating and the aqueous samples (Kcs) were determined.
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Melais, Sergio E. "Design and optimization of broadband planar baluns and dipole antennas". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001097.
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Eley, Dikeita N. "Color (Sub)Conscious: African American Women, Authors, and the Color Line in Their Literature". VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1486.
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Color (sub)Conscious explores the African American female's experience with colorism. Divided into three distinct sections. The first section is a literary analysis of such works as Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker's "If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?" an essay from her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. The second section is a research project based on data gathered from 12 African American females willing to share their own experiences and insights on colorism. The final section is a creative non-fiction piece of the author's own personal pain growing up and living with the lasting effects of colorism.
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Li, Wen. "Electrically charged sol-gel coatings for on-line preconcentration and analysis of zwitterionic biomolecules by capillary electrophoresis". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001422.
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La, Marca Anna. "Crossing Lines : A study about lines and their translations". Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7860.
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Lines are everywhere and as humans we produce lines all the time. In this project I used the line as a method, a metaphor, and a material to explore what are the elements that influence and condition the way we move and behave around different spaces. Lines can be read as many things and for this project I choose to work with lines that could be understood as boundaries and limits. How do we deal with lines in our everyday life? How do lines and bodies influence each other? How is the space choreographed and experienced according to the boundaries that exist in it? However not all boundaries are made of matter. In fact, some of them are invisible and manifest as prohibitions, regulations, prejudice, or just cultural norms. These limits can also be understood as non-matter lines that have an impact on one's experiences. Through several explorations, the project proposes an installation that seeks to embody the spatial boundaries that cannot always be seen. Using light and sound as catalyzers for these experiences, the installation is a reflection on what happens when we meet those invisible lines, how they have the power to change our usual path and to make us move differently around a space.
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Ribeiro, Ana Luisa Carmona 1984. "Exposições de Lina Bo Bardi". [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279760.
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Orientador: Silvana Barbosa RubinoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Nascida em Roma e graduada arquiteta na Itália, Lina Bo Bardi transferiu-se para o Brasil em 1946. Desde a chegada ao país e marcadamente após a inauguração do Museu de Arte Assis Chateaubriand, em São Paulo, Lina Bo Bardi desenvolveu projetos expográficos em fluxo quase constante, incluindo mostras no MASP, no Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAMB), em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Popular do Unhão (MAP), também na capital baiana, e posteriormente atuando como diretora de programação no Serviço Social do Comércio (SESC), no bairro paulistano da Pompéia. Apoiando-se na pesquisa realizada sobre a documentação o do acervo pessoal e profissional da arquiteta que perpassa o período de 1947 a 1985, assim como na análise de plantas expográficas, material impresso, clipping jornalísstico e fotografias referentes as exposicições organizadas por Lina, esta dissertação investiga deslocamentos e desenvolvimentos no discurso expográfico de Bo Bardi sempre perpassado pelas seguintes temáticas recorrentes: a relação entre arte popular, design e arte erudita; o papel pedagógico das instituições museais; e a influência das inovações expográficas italianas e a busca por uma linguagem expográfica auto?ctone, vinculada a um projeto de desenvolvimento nacional
Abstract: Born in Rome, Lina Bo Bardi began her career as an architect in Italy before the break of World War II, immigrating to Brazil in 1946, where she lived until her death in 1992. Among a multidisciplinary array of works in the fields of design and architecture, Bo Bardi also organized and designed several exhibitions in the Museu de Arte de Sa?o Paulo (MASP), the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAMB) and the Museu de Arte Popular do Unha?o (MAP), both in Salvador, and in SESC Fa?brica da Pompe?ia, in Sa?o Paulo. Relying on drafts, sketches, and correspondence from Bo Bardi¿s personal and professional archives, mostly unpublished, and also on exhibition plans, printed matter, news clipping and photographs from the architects exhibitions, our investigation focuses on Bo Bardi¿s expographic activity, its attained discourse and its developments between the late 1940s and mid 1980s. During this period she dwell with some recurring debates: the relationship between folk art, design and Art; the pedagogical role of the museum institutions; the influence of Italian expographic design from the 1940s and 50s in her brazillian work; and the quest for an indigenous language for her exhibition designs, which she also envisioned as a tool for the economical, social and cultural development of Brazil
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Politica, Memoria e Cidade
Mestra em História
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Braun, Justin Farris. "Yes Please". The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250710567.
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Andersson, Jesper O. T. "SET/SÄTT". Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-520.
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A complementary text to the masters project SET/SÄTT that includes an exhibition and an image-based essay in the format of a bound artist book. The physical essay is made up of several risograph printed pages depicting images of the components that that compose SET/SÄTT. The pages are bound together so that it folds out in the fashion of a map or a gift card. Although, the book folds out into a myriad of interconnecting folds that takes some time and careful planning to expose. Every edition of the physical essay is unique.SET/SÄTT is a “plastic” sculpture, malleable and subject to its surroundings. It consists of a collection of components with the same prerequisites, but whose combination is continually restructured in relation to its environment. Materially the work consists of wooden sticks with accompanying joints that lock into each other using tension in the fiber. My method is inspired by practices such as shipbuilding, woodworking, video game design, concretism and nomadic esthetics with the ambition to create a tool. An instrument that allows the user to quickly and with ease draw up lines within a space, like a three dimensional form of sketching. During the master exhibition, a series of sculptures were constructed, reconstructed and deconstructed in between open hours.
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Yarkan, Serhan. "Environment, channel, and interference awareness for next generation wireless networks". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003269.
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Scully, Regina S. "Landscape to Mindscape". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2109.
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In each of my paintings I try to create an individual micro-universe made up of elements that resonate between the familiar and the unknown. I carve up space and hybridize disparate elements, in an effort to excavate objects and spaces from our collective unconscious. By employing different perspectives, I try to encourage an experiential view of the landscape, like the one that exists for the viewer in the physical world, where sightlines are constantly shifting. These landscapes become a rhythmic labyrinth to enter and travel through, wherein the viewer experiences his or her own personal associations.
In this thesis, I will explore the painted landscape in Western and Eastern traditions and discuss different types of landscapes as they relate to my paintings and my personal commentary on the landscape. I will also examine my painting process and my personal approach to fundamental elements including perspective, line, and color.
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Gorenc, Zoran Annmarie. "CALLing all learners : an explanatory integrative research study of EFL learner-learner corrective feedback patterns within on-line synchronous environments". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001772.
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Kim, Tae-Young. "Novel sol-gel titania-based hybrid organic-inorganic coatings for on-line capillary microextraction coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001833.
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Nassar, Ibrahim Turki. "Small Antennas Design for 2.4 GHz Applications". Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3619.
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In many wireless devices, antennas occupy the majority of the overall size. As compact device sizes become a greater focus in industry, the demand for small antennas escalates. In this thesis, detailed investigations on the design of a planar meandered line antenna with truncated ground plane and 3D dipole antenna at 2.4 GHz (ISM band) are presented. The primary goal of this research is to develop small, low coast, and low profile antennas for wireless sensor applications. The planar meandered line antenna was designed based on a study of different miniaturization techniques and a study of the ground plane effect. The study of the ground plane effect proved that it has a pivotal role on balancing the antenna current. The study of the miniaturization process proved that it affects directly the gain, bandwidth, and efficiency. The antenna efficiency and gain were improved using the truncated ground plane. This antenna has a measured gain of -0.86 dBi and measured efficiency of 49.7%, making it one of the efficient and high gain small antennas. The 3D dipole antenna was designed using a novel method for efficiently exploiting the available volume. This method consists of fabricating the dipole on a cube configuration with opening up the internal volume for other uses. This antenna was tested, and it was found that this antenna has good radiation characteristics according to its occupied volume. Ka of this antenna is 0.55, its measured gain is 1.69 dBi with 64.2% measured efficiency. Therefore, this design is very promising in low-power sensing
applications. A Wheeler Cap was designed for measuring the efficiency and the 3-antenna method was used for measuring the designed antennas gain.
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Gardiner, Jayne M. "Multisensory Integration in Shark Feeding Behavior". Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4046.
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Multimodal sensory input directs simple and complex behaviors in animals. Most research to date has been limited to studies of individual senses rather than multiple senses working together, leading to important advances in our comprehension of the sensory systems in isolation, but not their complementary and alternative roles in difficult behavioral tasks, such as feeding. In the marine environment, a prey item might emit an odor, create a hydrodynamic disturbance, such as from gill movements or swimming, be visible to the predator, produce a sound, and/or produce a weak electrical field. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate the integration of olfaction, mechanoreception by the lateral line system, vision, and electroreception in a marine animal. Sharks were chosen as a model organism in which to investigate multisensory integration because of their sensitivity and acuity, the presence of the same suite of sensory modalities in all species, the availability of experimental animals from different species, habitats and ecologies, and the rich literature on sharks' prey capture behavior. Two approaches were used: controlled artificial stimuli, delivered to the animals, were used to determine the spatial and concentration characteristics of odor encounters that guide the initial orientation to an odor plume in the far field in a model elasmobranch, the smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis; and sensory deprivation was used to restrict the availability of natural cues emanating from live prey items in order to elucidate the complementary and alternating roles of the senses in detecting, tracking, orienting to, striking at, and ultimately capturing prey. In the latter experiments, three species of sharks from different ecological niches were investigated: benthic, suction-feeding nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) that hunt nocturnally for fish; ram-biting bonnetheads (Sphyrna tiburo) that scoop crustaceans off the bottom of seagrass beds; and ram-feeding blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) that rapidly chase down midwater teleost prey. In orienting to odor patches, bilateral time differences between the nares are more important than concentration differences, such that animals turn toward the side stimulated first, even with delayed pulses of higher concentration. This response would steer the shark into each oncoming odor patch, helping the animal maintain contact with an odor plume. Sensory deprivation experiments revealed similarities and differences among species in terms of which senses they choose to focus on for particular behaviors, likely as a result of differences in the environments that they hunt in, type of prey consumed, and foraging strategies used, as well as anatomical differences in the central nervous system and the sensory organs. In most cases, multiple senses can be used for the same behavioral task. Thus, sharks are capable of successfully capturing prey, even when the optimal sensory cues are unavailable, by switching to alternative sensory modalities, which indicates that feeding behavior is plastic. Nurse sharks rely primarily on olfaction for detection. Olfaction in combination with vision, the lateral line, or touch is required for tracking. Nurse sharks orient to prey using the lateral line, vision, or electroreception, but will not ingest food if olfaction is blocked. Capture is mediated by the electrosensory system or tactile cues. Bonnetheads normally detect prey using olfaction, rely on olfactory-based tracking until they are close to the prey, then vision to line up a strike, and finally electroreception to time the jaw movements for capture. They can detect, orient, and strike visually in the absence of olfactory cues. Blacktip sharks also detect prey using olfaction or vision. Olfaction is used in combination with vision or the lateral line system for tracking. Long-distance orientation and striking is visually mediated, but strike precision relies on lateral line cues and an increase in misses occurs when this system is blocked. In the absence of vision, short-range orientation and striking can occur using lateral line cues. Capture is mediated by electroreception or tactile cues. Collectively, these results were used to develop species-specific sensory hierarchies for shark feeding behavior in a captive environment, the first such hierarchies to cover a complete behavioral sequence in a vertebrate.
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Summerlin, Lane W. "The History and Development of the Front Ensemble in Drum Corps International". The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461167753.
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Kennedy, Euan S. "Managerialism as a professionalising catalyst for the front-line practitioner community of New Zealand's Department of Conservation". Lincoln University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1031.
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Since 1984, public service occupations in New Zealand have been subordinated to the over-determined bureaucratic structures of contemporary managerialism. The reactions of front-line public servants to New Management’s unfamiliar ‘market-place’ imperatives and the concomitant loss of occupational autonomy have received very little rigorous qualitative analysis. This study addresses that shortfall, taking as its cue a key question in the sociology of ‘profession’—what arouses or subdues the inclination of bureaucratised occupations to professionalise as a means of reclaiming autonomy? It explains the nature and meaning of strategies adopted by front-line practitioners in New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) to defend their marginalised work conventions and collegial culture. Symbolic interactionist analysis shows that profoundly personal values and beliefs connect vocationally motivated practitioners with their ‘mission’ (to conserve natural and cultural heritage). These powerful intuitive connections play a crucial role in subduing interest in resistance and organised strategic action, principally by converting conservation labour into the pursuit of personal fulfilment. Practitioners respond to managerial intrusions on their core work (the source of their fulfilment) by defending these personal connections rather than group interests. As a result of this introversion, perceptions of ‘community’ and occupational identity are disorganised and become a further reason for inaction. Practitioners resolve the conflict between self-interested pursuit of fulfilment and the altruistic goals of conservation by negotiating an unspoken bargain with DOC’s authority structures. The ‘pay-offs’ for deferral to managerial authority win the space to pursue fulfilment through immersion and conspicuous achievement in work, obviating the need for more concerted defensive action. Accordingly, managerialism has not acted as a professionalising catalyst for this group. NB: The abstract has been revised by the author in the electronic version of this thesis, since the print edition was published.
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Bouchy, Karine. "Du tracé manuel à la ligne en mouvement : mutations esthétiques et sémiotiques dans la calligraphie latine contemporaine". Thèse, Paris 7, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11161.
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Thèse en cotutelle Université de Montréal et Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7La discipline que l’on nomme calligraphie latine contemporaine, qui existe sous cette forme depuis à peine plus d’un siècle, apparaît comme un déplacement radical à la fois par rapport à ce que l’Occident a connu en termes d’histoire des formes alphabétiques manuscrites et par rapport aux usages et aux fonctions que cette discipline elle-même a commencé par occuper à la fin du xixe siècle, au moment de son apparition. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de comprendre ce qui rend possibles de tels changements, c’est-à-dire ce qui conditionne la série de mutations traversées par la calligraphie latine contemporaine, qui s’affirme aujourd’hui comme une nouvelle proposition parmi les réinventions du visible de l’alphabet latin. En travaillant toujours à partir des œuvres, plus précisément des symptômes singuliers qui s’en dégagent, cette étude archéologique déplace l’analyse de la calligraphie latine vers un double plan sémiotique et esthétique.
Contemporary Latin calligraphy, a discipline that has existed in its current form for little more than a century, differs enormously from previous forms of Western handwriting. Since it first appeared at the end of the 19th century, its purpose and application have also changed significantly. Our goal is to understand how these changes have come about. What factors have influenced the series of mutations that contemporary Latin calligraphy – this newly reinvented form of visual expression of the Latin alphabet – has undergone? Through the analysis of specific contemporary works and of some singular traits within these works, this archaeological study will subject Latin calligraphy to analysis from both a semiotic and an esthetic point of view.
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Misiuta, Iwona E. "Characterization of the Dopaminergic Potential of the Human NTera2/D1 (NT2) Cell Line In Vitro". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001184.
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