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Sequence without Uniformity (open access)

Sequence without Uniformity

The inspiration for my undergraduate body of work is derived from my fascination with Henri Matisse, Jacob Lawrence, and the Impressionists. I suddenly became captivated with the Impressionist movement and the independence of abstraction. I set into motion a series of paintings and drawings featuring random African-Americans and African society representatives in vibrant color and abstracting forms, and was specifically concerned with altering the form outside of the realistic area. While in graduate school, I began to think about how the transformation from realism to abstraction combined with the conception of mortal to the immortal. I worked through ideas to see exactly where these views began, and where they would take me as an artist. Almost immediately I experimented with random figures found specifically in the N'debele culture in South Africa. In addition, I incorporated abstraction and expressive marks within the figure and slowly introduced cut paper, flat imagery and abstraction with the realistic figure. This became very challenging but I was determined to unite these ideas successfully. More recently, my work has concentrated on the essential elements that have influenced my work as an artist, which recedes to childhood. The main elements most prevalent within the work is rhythm …
Date: August 2002
Creator: Woodford, Nicole Yvonne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of rising energy prices on the poor over time in the United States. (open access)

The impact of rising energy prices on the poor over time in the United States.

Policy makers and households are concerned about the impact of rising energy prices on low-income households. In a trend starting in the 1970s, low-income households are spending an increasingly disproportionate share of their income on home energy. The burden on a household imposed by energy prices can be analyzed through four factors: energy price, energy consumption, income level, and level of assistance provided to help with the costs of energy. The combination of these factors indicates that the energy burden is continuing to be disproportionately large for the nation's poor. Therefore, policy makers make further efforts to alleviate this burden by modifying energy pricing regulation.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Long, Pei-Ling Amy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control Mechanisms and Recovery Techniques for Real-Time Data Transmission Over the Internet. (open access)

Control Mechanisms and Recovery Techniques for Real-Time Data Transmission Over the Internet.

Streaming multimedia content with UDP has become popular over distributed systems such as an Internet. This may encounter many losses due to dropped packets or late arrivals at destination since UDP can only provide best effort delivery. Even UDP doesn't have any self-recovery mechanism from congestion collapse or bursty loss to inform sender of the data to adjust future transmission rate of data like in TCP. So there is a need to incorporate various control schemes like forward error control, interleaving, and congestion control and error concealment into real-time transmission to prevent from effect of losses. Loss can be repaired by retransmission if roundtrip delay is allowed, otherwise error concealment techniques will be used based on the type and amount of loss. This paper implements the interleaving technique with packet spacing of varying interleaver block size for protecting real-time data from loss and its effect during transformation across the Internet. The packets are interleaved and maintain some time gap between two consecutive packets before being transmitted into the Internet. Thus loss of packets can be reduced from congestion and preventing loss of consecutive packets of information when a burst of several packets are lost. Several experiments have been conducted with …
Date: August 2002
Creator: Battula, Venkata Krishna Rao
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Narrative Issues (open access)

Narrative Issues

This thesis covers a series of etchings created between 1998 and 2000 in completion of the requirements for graduation. The paper covers the origins and implications of the symbology within the artwork as well as the natural settings displayed. It also speaks of the mythos of art and symbols, as well as my strategy in Art making.
Date: August 2000
Creator: O'Hara, Richard
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photoelectric Emission Measurements for CVD Grown Polycrystalline Diamond Films (open access)

Photoelectric Emission Measurements for CVD Grown Polycrystalline Diamond Films

We examined CVD grown polycrystalline diamond films having different methane concentrations to detect defects and study the possible correlation between the methane concentration used during the growth process and the defect density. SEM and Raman results show that the amorphous and sp2 carbon content of the films increases with methane concentration. Furthermore, photoelectric emission from diamond is confirmed to be a two-photon process, hence the electrons are emitted from normally unoccupied states. We found that the photoelectric yield, for our samples, decreases with the increase in methane concentration. This trend can be accounted for in two different ways: either the types of defects observed in this experiment decrease in density as the methane concentration increases; or, the defect density stays the same or increases, but the increase in methane concentration leads to an increase in the electron affinity, which reduces the overall photoelectric yield.
Date: August 1999
Creator: Hassan, Tarek
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Economic Impact of Texas Motor Speedway: A Simulation (open access)

Regional Economic Impact of Texas Motor Speedway: A Simulation

This study proposes a method for measuring the regional economic impact of a relatively new sport: stock car racing. Although research on the economic impact of most major league sports is abundant, little has been written on stock car racing. The purpose of this paper is to estimate, through a simulation, the regional economic impact of Texas Motor Speedway. The study finds that the Texas Motor Speedway boosted economic activity by $87,179,367 in 1998 from racetrack operations, and supported 5,300 jobs paying $22,293,135 in earnings. In addition, expenditures by speedway visitor from outside the region are estimated at $22,985,200, further increasing the total local economic activity by $49 million.
Date: August 2000
Creator: Rattner, Laura E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ballpark in Arlington: An Economic Impact Study (open access)

The Ballpark in Arlington: An Economic Impact Study

This study examines the fiscal impact the Ballpark in Arlington has on the City of Arlington. Many individuals argue that the new Ballpark in Arlington would create numerous new jobs and bring added economic development to the city, thus increasing tax revenues. An interrupted time-series approach was used to determine whether or not the new ballpark has a measurable impact on retail sales tax receipts in the City of Arlington. Based on sales tax rebate data obtains from the Texas Comptroller's Office, the study found no significant increase in sales tax receipts for Arlington during the baseball season. However, this is not to say that the Ballpark in Arlington has no impact on total local economic activity. These findings do call into question, as other studies have, the relative fiscal value of publicly-sponsored professional sports venues.
Date: August 2000
Creator: Smith, Joel
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Telecommunications Network Configuration Optimization Problem (open access)

The Telecommunications Network Configuration Optimization Problem

The purpose of telecommunication network configuration optimization is to find the best homing relationship between tandems and switches so as to minimize interswitch traffic, or equivalently to maximize intraswitch traffic. Note that, since minimal interswitch traffic implies minimal IMT utilization, communication costs will also be minimal.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Azizoglu, Mustafa C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Principles of Relational Databases (open access)

The Principles of Relational Databases

Every business has to keep records. Sometimes these records have to be presented in a standardized form, or more often they can be arranged in any way that suits the user. Business records are of little use unless they can be referred to quickly, to provide information when it is required. In computer systems it is essential to be able to recognize any particular record in a data file which is a collection of similar records kept on secondary computer storage devices.
Date: August 1986
Creator: Hsu, Chaur-Chun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Implementation of a PDP-8 Computer Assembler Executing on the IBM 360/50 Computer (open access)

Design and Implementation of a PDP-8 Computer Assembler Executing on the IBM 360/50 Computer

This problem is intended to be an introduction to the design of a software system which translates PDP-8 assembly language source into it's machine-readable object code. This assembler runs on the IBM 360/50. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic PDP-8 assembly language. For the description and use of this assembler the reader is referred to the PAL-III SYMBOLIC ASSEMBLER PROGRAMMING MANUAL from DEC (order number DIGITAL 8-3-5, Digital Equipment Corporation: Maynard, Massachusetts, 1965.). The Second problem of the study concerns the design of a simulator for the PDP-8 computer.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Madani, Ali
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Text Processing for Thai Characters (open access)

Text Processing for Thai Characters

The purpose of this project is 1) to create a Thai character set for text processing, 2) to write a text processing program for the character set, and 3) to allow users to create and save the text.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Tarapoom, Nirut
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Graphical Simulation of Sorting Methods (open access)

Graphical Simulation of Sorting Methods

In this paper, five different sorting methods will be discussed. Each method will be analyzed and discussed in detail pointing out its efficiency, weaknesses, powerfullness, and the appropriate type of applications. The different methods are represented graphically using Turbo Pascal where one pass is performed in each method at a time. The methods discussed in this project are, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort, Shell Sort, and Double Selection Sort. The latter is a new method that I modified from the Selection Sort. Finally, comparisons between the sorting methods mentioned above will be discussed.
Date: August 1986
Creator: Saed, Mazen A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The NTSU School of Music Practice Room Scheduling System (open access)

The NTSU School of Music Practice Room Scheduling System

This is a report concerning the project I completed for my 590 (special problem) credit. The subject of this project was a system for interactive practice room scheduling by music students at NTSU. This system was created in the fall semester of 1982 as a class project for software Development (CSCI 553) with Dr. Irby. The system was not completely finished, and I received permission from Dr. Irby to finish it and help implement its use at the Music department. I was able to observe three usages of the system: Spring, Summer I, and Summer II semesters of 1983. This report details the problems encountered during each of these usages, and changes made to the system due to them. Results of a first-use survey, under documentation, and complete final code listings were also included.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Reed, Susan C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
FORTRAN Graphics Library (open access)

FORTRAN Graphics Library

The objective of this work is to help the faculty, staffs and students of NTSU to use the CalComp plotting facility very easily. Therefore, this work is written in such a step by step and self-explanatory way to help the reader to understand and grasp the essential technique of the computer plotting. Each subroutine illustrated in this work has been run and checked by our NTSU computer-CalComp plotting facility; the results of sample programs and illustrated graphs are believed to be very useful to understand each individual subroutine. Basically, software packages are stored in the magnetic disk of the IBM 360 computer as the standard graphic subroutines. These subroutines were written in FORTRAN IV. The user can write the driving program to call these subroutines and also inputs the desire data to the computer for computation. The results of computation will be outputed and stored in the magnetic tape.
Date: August 1979
Creator: Ling-Yann, Huang
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
PILOT for the Apple II Microcomputer (open access)

PILOT for the Apple II Microcomputer

PILOT (Programmed Inquiry, Learning or Teaching) is a simple, conversational language developed in 1969 by John A. Starkweather at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. Originally designed for computer assisted instructional needs, PILOT also has been effectively used as an introductory computer language. The PILOT system developed for the Apple II microcomputer consists of two programs, PILOT EDITOR and PILOT DRIVER, which are written in Applesoft and which use the Apple II disk operating system. The PILOT system was designed to facilitate easy authoring and execution of programs written in an extended version of the PILOT language. Due to the memory requirements of the programs and the Apple II disk operating system, the PILOT system described here should be executed on a machine with at least 32k bytes of random access memory.
Date: August 1979
Creator: Ellis, Richard George
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Triangle: A Teaching Program of High School Geometry (open access)

Triangle: A Teaching Program of High School Geometry

Among the early applications of computers, one can find frequent mention of intelligent instructional systems. Such intelligent instructional systems represent a new generation of learner-based computer aided instruction, preceded in time by the original frame-based systems and an intervening generation of expert-based CAI. The history of CAI is characterized by three generations: Frame-based CAI, Expert-based CAI and Learner-based CAI.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Chen, Yei-Huang
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metamorphosis and Transformations with Modular Forms (open access)

Metamorphosis and Transformations with Modular Forms

The metamorphosis and transformation of forms as metaphors continued to be the focus of my work. The use of modular forms with lightweight materials increased mass and volume in my work. The reconstructing and reassembling of sculptures formed with modules was an excellent vehicle for the content of metamorphosis and transformation. The focus of this problem was to create a series of multi-media art pieces that were each composed of a number of modules.
Date: August 1999
Creator: Yu, Hui-Ling
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
I Quit Believing (open access)

I Quit Believing

I has been almost four years since this change of perception from "belief" to "disbelief." Looking back I can say this shift can be characterized as "belief" standing for an idea of art which requires it to represent a singular closed reading, while "disbelief" stands for a realization of an art which corresponds more with the complexities of social interaction and produces work with an array of possible readings. Or more simply stated, "belief" requires the desire to destabilize meaning. Or even more simply stated, "belief" equals "truth," while "disbelief" equals the absence of "truth."
Date: August 1994
Creator: Young, Kevin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diverse Works (open access)

Diverse Works

The goal of the work was to infect traditional ideas of beauty and authority with late Twentieth-Century culture and to thereby create an artifact that would reflect the multiplicity of our culture. My work, to date, has dealt with single works of a consistent media combining two and three-dimensional elements. I proposed to add to the complexity of my stated goal through a more varied use of medium; audio, photography, lighting, paint on canvas, reprocessed found objects as well as materials with which I presently work. Some of the work would extend off the wall or ceiling or floor into what might be called the "viewer's space." The end result would be a group of works which created a narrative and would culminate into a single work to be installed in a space as yet undetermined. Site possibilities I considered were my studio, the university gallery, and the critique room in Oak Street Hall.
Date: August 1994
Creator: Allen, Joseph Hugh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers and Connections, A Dichotomy (open access)

Barriers and Connections, A Dichotomy

I planned to explore the concept of the dichotomy of barriers and connections further. The works I planned to produce would incorporate a variety of printing techniques, drawing, and conceptual development. Each technique and method allowed for my perception to speak in a slightly different voice. The use of these multiple techniques would allow me to explore fully the complexity of barriers and connections in a manner more comprehensive than the one technique alone.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Wilson, Nichelle L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representing the Observable Textural Patterns of Moving Water in Stone (open access)

Representing the Observable Textural Patterns of Moving Water in Stone

I plan to create a representation of the textures of four distinct states of moving water in three stone sculptures. These structured textural elements are intended to provide compelling visual stimuli that will enhance the viewers' understanding of the sculptures. The dynamic quality of rhythm inherent in the four observable patterns will be conceptually and physically captured on a stone surface.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Joplin, Jason
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Protrapment (open access)

Protrapment

It was my intention to create pieces that seem to be both entrapping and protective at the same time. I hope that, as the viewer attempts to interpret each piece, there will be a shift back and forth from one to the other until both sides are accepted and a balance is found.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Herring, Mancel K.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bomaki/Arashi Shibori as a Pleated Texture in Silk Used in a Garment (open access)

Bomaki/Arashi Shibori as a Pleated Texture in Silk Used in a Garment

The purpose of this study was to use the bomaki/arashi shibori process to create three-dimensional fabric forms which could be incorporated by the design of a garment.
Date: August 1993
Creator: Heartsill, Jean Louise
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translation of Personal Perceptions into Physical Space and Abstract Form (open access)

Translation of Personal Perceptions into Physical Space and Abstract Form

In this investigation I use the term perception as Arthur Comb and Donald Snygg do when they state that perception is any differentiation the individual is capable of making in his personal field. Perception has to do with the organization one gives to his world. Behavior and learning are products of perceiving. Immanuel Kant said: "We see things not as they are but as we are." During this effort to organize my world I realized that I was concerned with myself as an experiencing individual. I felt that one is built out of his experiences and that the best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual himself. I was taking a somewhat phenomenological approach to my problem.
Date: August 1980
Creator: Bagley, Frances Stevens
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library