REALITY & EFFECT: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF VISUAL EFFECTS by (2009)
Jae Hyung Ryu, Under Direction, Ted Friedman
The purpose of this dissertation is to chart how the development of visual effects has changed popular cinema’s vision of the real, producing the powerful reality effect. My investigation of the...
GLUCOSE MODULATION OF THE SEPTO-HIPPOCAMPAL SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEMORY by (2008)
Under Direction, Marise B. Parent
Extensive evidence suggests that glucose has both positive and negative effects on memory and these effects likely involve an influence on the brain. For instance, direct infusions of glucose into...
Xiujuan Chen, Under Direction, Robert Harrison, Yan-qing Zhang
The generalization abilities of machine learning algorithms often depend on the algorithms ’ initialization, parameter settings, training sets, or feature selections. For instance, SVM classifier...
A FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC TERRAIN WITH APPLICATION IN OFF-ROAD GROUND VEHICLE SIMULATIONS by (2008)
Anthony S. Aquilio, Under Direction, Ying Zhu, G. Scott Owen
The dissertation develops a framework for the visualization of dynamic terrains for use in interactive real-time 3D systems. Terrain visualization techniques may be classified as either static or...
PREDICTION OF OXIDATION STATES OF CYSTEINES AND DISULFIDE BRIDGES IN PROTEINS by (2008)
Aiguo Du, Under Direction, Yi Pan
Knowledge on cysteine oxidation state and disulfide bond connectivity is of great importance to protein chemistry and 3-D structures. This research is aimed at finding the most relevant features in...
FROM THE NICHD STUDY OF EARLY CHILD CARE by (2008)
Kostas Andrea Fanti, Under Direction, Christopher C. Henrich
According to previous research, internalizing and externalizing problems tend to be comorbid or co-occur at different ages in development (Angold, Costello, & Erkanli, 1999). The question that...
Hui Liu, Under Direction, Yi Pan
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without the support of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. There are...
ON INTER-REFERENTIAL AWARENESS IN COLLABORATIVE AUGMENTED REALITY by (2008)
Jeffrey W Chastine, Under Direction, Ying Zhu
For successful collaboration to occur, a workspace must support inter-referential awareness – or the ability for one participant to refer to a set of artifacts in the environment, and for that...
Nisar Hundewale, Under Direction, Professor Alexander Zelikovsky, Nisar Hundewale
Motivation: As the human genome project progresses and some microbial and eukaryotic genomes are recognized, numerous biotechnological processes have attracted increasing number of biologists,...
OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE (2008)
Jason Andrew Pamplin, Under Direction, Ying Zhu, Jason Andrew Pamplin
As software systems become larger and more complex, developers require the ability to model abstract concepts while ensuring consistency across the entire project. The internet has changed the nature...
Wei Zhong, Under Direction, Yi Pan
Protein tertiary structure plays a very important role in determining its possible functional sites and chemical interactions with other related proteins. Experimental methods to determine protein...
RETHINKING CONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT IN REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE EDITING SYSTEMS by (2008)
Jon A Preston, Under Direction, Sushil K Prasad
Networked computer systems offer much to support collaborative editing of shared documents among users. Increasing concurrent access to shared documents by allowing multiple users to contribute to...
SVM-BASED NEGATIVE DATA MINING TO BINARY CLASSIFICATION by (2008)
Fuhua Jiang, Under Direction, A. P. Preethy
The properties of training data set such as size, distribution and number of attributes significantly contribute to the generalization error of a learning machine. A not-well-distributed data set is...
Jiali Ye, Under Direction, Jaye Atkinson
Computer-mediated communication (CMC), such as electronic mail and newsgroups, is quickly becoming a pervasive interpersonal communication means. The general research purpose of the present study is...
Amanda Moll, Under Direction, Dr. Carrie Manning, Amanda Moll, Amanda Lane Moll, Amanda Moll
A number of international humanitarian organizations focus on human development and aim to improve the situation of children. In many developing countries, states have not been able to fulfill the...
Marc Pietrzykowski, Under Direction, Dr. George Pullman, Marc Pietrzykowski, Marc Pietrzykowski
This dissertation attempts to trace the shifting relationship between the fields of Rhetoric and Poetry in Western culture by focusing on poetry contests and competitions during several different...
The Exorcist......................... (2007)
Mitchell L Leopard, Under Direction, Timothy Renick, Mitchell L Leopard, Mitchell Lee Leopard, Mitchell L Leopard
Throughout much of Christian history, the church had predominant control over religious ritual and belief. As early as the 1st Century, institutions representing “orthodoxy ” were banning,...
RETHINKING CONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT IN REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE EDITING SYSTEMS (2007)
Jon A Preston, Jon A Preston, Under Direction, Sushil K Prasad, Jon A Preston, Jon A Preston
In this dissertation work, we investigated how real-time collaborative editing systems may be improved by utilizing dynamic, hierarchical locking algorithms. Such algorithms reduce the communication...
Under Direction, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Lovekeshkumar Desai
A large amount of on-line information resides on the invisible web – web pages generated dynamically from databases and other data sources hidden from current crawlers which retrieve content only...
DISCRETE ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF GENOTYPE DATA (2007)
Under Direction, Alexander Zelikovsky, Dumitru Brinza
Accessibility of high-throughput genotyping technology makes possible genome-wide association studies for common complex diseases. When dealing with common diseases, it is necessary to search and...
A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC CONCEPTUAL QUERY SYSTEM (2007)
Xiuyun Shen, Under Direction, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Xiuyun Shen, Xiuyun Shen, Xiuyun Shen, ...
This thesis presents the architecture and implementation of a query system resulted from a domain-specific conceptual data modeling and querying methodology. The query system is built for a high...
ANALYZING THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE PROMOTION OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION (2007)
Sherry Lynn Gould, Under Direction, Charles Hankla, Sherry Lynn Gould, Sherry Lynn Gould, Sherry Lynn Gould, ...
This paper analyzes the relationship between effective state intervention and Information Communications Technology (ICT) dissemination. I theorize that investment in ICT leads to benefits for all...
Hai Deng, Under Direction, Guantao Chen
Most questions in proteomics require complex answers. Yet graph theory, supervised learning, and statistical model have decomposed complex questions into simple questions with simple answers. The...
AMMP-EXTN: A USER PRIVACY AND COLLABORATION CONTROL FRAMEWORK (2007)
Wenjun Ma, Under Direction, Ying Zhu, Wenjun Ma, Wenjun Ma
In this thesis, we propose a new design of privacy and session control for improving a collaborative molecular modeling CVR system AMMP-VIS [1]. The design mainly addresses the issue of competing...
A PHYSICAL ESTIMATION BASED CONTINUOUS MONITORING SCHEME FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (2007)
Wiwek P. Deshmukh, Under Direction, Yingshu Li, Wiwek P. Deshmukh, Wiwek P. Deshmukh
Data estimation is emerging as a powerful strategy for energy conservation in sensor networks. In this thesis is reported a technique, called Data Estimation using Physical Method (DEPM), that...
PROBLEM IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (2007)
Under Direction, Yingshu Li, Chinh Trung Vu
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently achieved a great deal of attention due to its numerous attractive applications in many different fields. Sensors and WSNs possesses a number of special...
“PRO-ANA ” WEB-LOG USES AND GRATIFICATIONS: TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE PRO-ANOREXIA PARADOX (2007)
Dana G. Mantella, Under Direction, Cynthia Hoffner, Dana G. Mantella, Dana Gabrielle Mantella, Dana G. Mantella
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. Currently, web-logs are hosts to thousands of pro-ana (short for pro-anorexia) blogring participants, joining together with a...
PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTED SYD DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION IN A PROXIMITY-BASED ENVIRONMENT (2007)
Sunetri Priyanka Dasari, Under Direction, K. Prasad, Sunetri Priyanka Dasari, Sunetri Priyanka Dasari
Distributed directory services are an evolving paradigm in the distributed computing arena. They are a shift from the centralized directory that causes delay and does not scale well to widespread...
Xuezheng Fu, Under Direction, Robert W. Harrison, Xuezheng Fu, Xuezheng Fu, Xuezheng Fu, ...
Biological data is accumulated at a fast pace. However, raw data are generally difficult to understand and not useful unless we unlock the information hidden in the data. Knowledge/information can be...
Feng Tan, Under Direction, Anu G. Bourgeois, Feng Tan
As a commonly used technique in data preprocessing for machine learning, feature selection identifies important features and removes irrelevant, redundant or noise features to reduce the...
Under Direction, Frank Whittington, Guangya Liu
Using findings from a statewide study of satisfaction and retention of 294 direct-care staff in 39 assisted-living facilities (ALFs) in Georgia, this study examines the effect of sociodemographic,...
Yu Qiu, Under Direction, Yanqing Zhang, Yu Qiu, Yu Qiu, Yu Qiu, ...
In recent years, the type-2 fuzzy sets theory has been used to model and minimize the effects of uncertainties in rule-base fuzzy logic system. In order to make the type-2 fuzzy logic system...
Terri L. Suraco, Under Direction, Melody Milbrandt, Terri L. Suraco, Terri Lynn Suraco, Art Education Curriculum, ...
This study investigates how interdisciplinary lessons are taught in an art education classroom. The teaching strategies used are: Integrated models, the use of "Big Ideas" (Jacobs,...
AND NEIGHBORHOOD INEQUITY (2006)
Melissa M. Hayes, Under Direction, Robert Adelman, Melissa M. Hayes, Melissa Mae Hayes, Melissa M. Hayes, ...
I conduct a case study of Atlanta's metropolitan core in order to provide a rich, detailed analysis of urban neighborhoods, and to document the persistence of racial inequalities. Using Census...
IEEE802.11 WLAN AND CDMA CELLULAR NETWORK (2006)
Mary Narisetti, Under Direction, Yi Pan, Mary Narisetti, Mary Narisetti, Mary Narisetti
Today’s wireless users expect great things from tomorrow’s wireless networks. These expectations have been fueled by hype about what the next generations of wireless networks will offer. The...
Megan Turley Hodgkiss, Under Direction, Michael L. Bruner, Megan Turley Hodgkiss, Megan Turley Hodgkiss, Megan Turley Hodgkiss, ...
Jon Stewart, the anchor and purveyor of “fake news, ” has catapulted television's The Daily Show into prominence. The show functions as both a source of political humor and a vehicle for...
A Design and Analysis of Graphical Password (2006)
Xiaoyuan Suo, Under Direction, Ying Zhu, Xiaoyuan Suo, Xiaoyuan Suo
The most common computer authentication method is to use alphanumerical usernames and passwords. This method has been shown to have significant drawbacks. For example, users tend to pick passwords...
Harnish A Botadra, Under Direction, Sushil Prasad, Harnish A Botadra, Harnish A Botadra, Harnish A Botadra
Parallelization of sequential programs is often daunting because of the substantial development cost involved. Various solutions have been proposed to address this concern, including directive-based...
Sangeetha Madangopal, Under Direction, Saeid Belkasim, Robert Harrison, Sangeetha Madangopal, Sangeetha Madangopal
Comparing protein sequences is an essential procedure that has many applications in the field of bioinformatics. The recent advances in computational capabilities and algorithm design, simplified the...
Naresh Nanuvala, Under Direction, Yi Pan, Naresh Nanuvala, Naresh Nanuvala, Naresh Nanuvala
A wireless ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. A connection is...
CONTEXT DEPENDENT ADAPTABILITY (2006)
Ou Li, Under Direction, Xiaolin Hu, Ou Li, Ou Li, Ou Li, ...
One mechanism for an intelligent agent to adapt to substantial environmental changes is to change its decision making structure. Pervious work in this area has developed a context-dependent behavior...
CHARACTERIZATIONS IN DOMINATION THEORY (2006)
Andrew Robert Plummer, Under Direction, Johannes H. Hattingh, Andrew Robert Plummer, Andrew Robert Plummer, Andrew Robert Plummer, ...
Let G = (V, E) be a graph. A set R ⊆ V is a restrained dominating set (total re-strained dominating set, resp.) if every vertex in V − R (V) is adjacent to a vertex in R and (every vertex in V...
FUZZY-GRANULAR BASED DATA MINING FOR EFFECTIVE DECISION (2006)
Yuanchen He, Under Direction, Raj Sunderraman, Yan-qing Zhang, Yuanchen He, Yuanchen He, ...
Due to complexity of biomedical problems, adaptive and intelligent knowledge discovery and data mining systems are highly needed to help humans to understand the inherent mechanism of diseases. For...
DIGITAL COMPRESSION ON GPU (2006)
Serpil Tokdemir, Under Direction, Saeid Belkasim, Serpil Tokdemir, Ying Zhu
There has been a great progress in the field of graphics processors. Since, there is no rise in the speed of the normal CPU processors; Designers are coming up with multi-core, parallel processors....
Under Direction, A. P. Preethy, Shibi P. Thankachan, Saeid Belkasim
Due to the rapid progress in the field of VLSI, improvements in speed, power and area are quite evident. Research and development in this field are motivated by growing markets of portable mobile...
Hsiu-chung Wang, Under Direction, Ying Zhu, Hsiu-chung Wang, Hsiu-chung Wang, Major Professor, ...
Computer security visualization has gained much attention in the research community in the past few years. However, the advancement in security visualization research has been hampered by the lack of...
A COMPONENT BASED PRIMAL DUAL APPROACH (2006)
Faheem A Hussain, Under Direction, Professor Alexander Zelikovsky, Faheem A Hussain, Faheem A Hussain, Committee Anu Bourgeois, ...
The QoS Steiner Tree Problem asks for the most cost efficient way to multicast multimedia to a heterogeneous collection of users with different data consumption rates. We assume that the cost of...
ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY by (2006)
Jingwu He, Under Direction, Alex Zelikovsky, Jingwu He, Jingwu He, Jingwu He
The most intriguing problems in genetics epidemiology are to predict genetic disease susceptibility and to associate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with diseases. In such these studies, it is...
Dedicated to my parents, (2006)
Liyang Yu, Under Direction, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Liyang Yu, Liyang Yu, Yingshu Li, ...
Recently much research effort has been devoted to the discovery of relevant Web services. It is widely recognized that adding semantics to service description is the solution to this challenge. Web...
Under Direction, Sushil K. Prasad, Janaka Balasooriya, Balasooriya Mudiyanselage, Janaka Lalith Balasooriya
In this dissertation work, we have investigated the main research thrust of decentralized coordination of workflows over web services. To address distributed workflow coordination, first we have...
Kelly Westbrooks, Under Direction, Alexander Zelikovsky, Kelly Westbrooks, Kelly Anthony Westbrooks, Kelly Westbrooks, ...
Many problems in bioinformatics are inference problems, that is, the problem objective is to infer something based upon a limited amount of information. In this work we explore two different...
Vicki J. Mccoy, Under Direction, James F. Darsey, Vicki J. Mccoy, Vicki J. Mccoy, Vicki J. Mccoy, ...
Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), the leading American figure in industrial medicine during the early to mid-1900s, left behind a body of rhetoric that is important in the history of American feminist...
Shannon Warren Wisdom, Under Direction, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Shannon Warren Wisdom, Shannon Warren Wisdom, Shannon Warren Wisdom, ...
My dissertation explores the history, pedagogy, and practice of peer review in academia and in the workplace, so that I could suggest strategies for improving peer review in the contemporary...
Cindy Sheffield Michaels, Under Direction, Elizabeth Sanders Lopez, Cindy Sheffield Michaels, Cindy Sheffield Michaels, Cindy Sheffield Michaels
While numerous studies on academic writers composing for non-academic audiences exist, few if any studies address academic writers composing biographies for children. This self-reflective case study...
THE CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE REVISITED (2005)
Lorie Bonham, Under Direction, David Cheshier, Lorie Bonham, Lorie Neisel Bonham, Lorie Bonham, ...
This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976. The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516...
AUTOMATIZED NAMING AND READING ABILITY (2005)
Rebecca E. Doyle, Under Direction, Robin D. Morris, Ph. D, Rebecca E. Doyle, Rebecca Eisenberg Doyle, ...
The Rapid Automatized Naming test (RAN) has been shown to be a strong predictor of reading ability (Bowers and Wolf, 1993), however, the nature of this relationship remains unclear. The purpose of...
Steve Wilson, Under Direction, David Cheshier, Steve Wilson, Stephen Michael Wilson, James Darsey
The intention of this project is to provide broad based and practical advice for American community newspapers. Print editions of papers have experienced stagnation and decline over the past several...
Jaimini Joshi, Under Direction, Sushil K. Prasad, Jaimini L. Joshi, Raj Sunderraman
Web services technology has lately stirred tremendous interest in industry as well as the academia. Web services are self-contained, platform independent functionality which is available over the...
Haibin Wang, Under Direction, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Haibin Wang, Haibin Wang, Lifeng Ding
A neutrosophic set is a part of neutrosophy that studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. The neutrosophic set is a...
UPPER BOUND ANALYSIS AND ROUTING IN OPTICAL BENES NETWORKS (2005)
Jiling Zhong, Under Direction, Yi Pan, Jiling Zhong, Jiling Zhong, Anu Bourgeois, ...
Multistage Interconnection Networks (MIN) are popular in switching and communication applications. It has been used in telecommunication and parallel computing systems for many years. The new...
Ling Gu, Under Direction, Yanqing Zhang, Ling Gu, Ling Gu, Ling Gu, ...
Finding a product with high quality and reasonable price online is a difficult task due to the fuzzy nature of data and queries. In order to handle the fuzzy problem, a new type-2 fuzzy reasoning...
Selcuk Koyuncu, Under Direction, Frank J. Hall, Zhongshan Li, Selcuk Koyuncu, Selcuk Koyuncu, ...
A sign pattern matrix is a matrix whose entries are from the set {+, −, 0}. The minimum rank of a sign pattern matrix A is the minimum of the rank of the real matrices whose entries have signs...
A survey, taxonomy, and analysis of network security visualization techniques (2005)
Rawiroj Robert Kasemsri, Under Direction, Ying Zhu
Network security visualization is a relatively new field and is quickly gaining momentum. Network security visualization allows the display and projection of the network or system data, in hope to...
Safdar Ali, Syed Abedi, Under Direction, Saeid Belkasim, Safdar Ali, Syed Abedi
Multi-resolution analysis has been a very popular technique in the recent years. Wavelets have been used extensively to perform multi resolution image expansion and analysis. DCT, however, has been...
APPLICATIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS VISUALIZATION (2005)
Feng Liu, Under Direction, Scott Owen, Feng Liu
Since the introduction of programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and procedural shaders, hardware vendors have each developed their own individual real-time shading language standard. None of...
Ajay Tripathi, Under Direction, Hassan A. Babaie, Sweet Ontologies, Ajay Tripathi, Ajay Tripathi, ...
Application of ontologies in the environmental science will allow experts in this field to model their domain knowledge for more efficient exchange and reuse. This thesis presents a modular approach...
ALGEBRAIC METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING ONE-WAY (2003)
Under Direction, Joachim Rosenthal, Trapdoor Functions
In this dissertation, we consider an extension of the discrete logarithm problem to the case of a semigroup acting on a finite set: the Semigroup Action Problem (SAP). New protocols and one-way...
THE CRISIS OF IMAGINATION (1971)
Under Direction, Jared Poley, Abel J. Herzberg, Éva Heyman, Hannah Senesh, Dawid Sierakowiak, ...
This thesis examines the way genocide leaves marks in the writings of targeted people. It posits not only that these marks exist, but also that they indicate a type of psychological resistance. By...