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Abstract Moments of Art Found in the Ordinary (open access)

Abstract Moments of Art Found in the Ordinary

This paper is an experiment using digital video to locate and identify the abstract in everyday life and nature. The abstract moment occurs when the image that is captured by video loses its connection with the original context, allowing the images to be viewed in an entirely new way. The abstract moment is initiated by a transformative instant, that instant in which perception is altered and the viewer sees the intended content of composition of light and sound. The project contains four digital videos that record the artist's progress and interests.
Date: December 2002
Creator: Kraft, Stuart
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adapting Reproduction Knowledge and Photomechanical Techniques to Serigraphy for Non-Commercial Purposes (open access)

Adapting Reproduction Knowledge and Photomechanical Techniques to Serigraphy for Non-Commercial Purposes

This problem is involved with attempting to answer two basic questions: (a) Can I, a commercial artist, expand and develop as an artist through screen printing and make valid aesthetic statements unrelated to client and/or product? and (b) Can knowledge of reproduction methods and photo-mechanical techniques be successfully utilized in screen printing for non-commercial purposes? Extensive notes in the form of a journal were maintained as work on the project progressed. These notes, combined with the completed prints, were the sources of data for this paper.
Date: December 1976
Creator: Adkins, Margie J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advance Directives in Texas: Advance Directives Act of 1999 (open access)

Advance Directives in Texas: Advance Directives Act of 1999

Growth in the number of people living to very old age and progress in health care technology are creating important new challenges for our society. Among them is modern medicine's ability to extend some people's lives beyond the point where they are capable of making decisions or expressing their needs and desires, resulting in the very complex problem of knowing when to allow a person to die. In part, advance directives were created to solve this problem. Texas has been busy developing changes to existing state laws in an effort to create more "user-friendly" directives. This paper explores the history of advance directives, and discusses the details and nuances of the Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999.
Date: December 2000
Creator: Watson, Robert J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Age Differences in Time Estimation and Their Relationship to Prospective Memory (open access)

Age Differences in Time Estimation and Their Relationship to Prospective Memory

This paper discusses a study conducted with 34 elderly volunteers and 34 young subjects to determine the differences in time estimation by age and their reflection in prospective memory. Kirk Rowe explains the reproduction, production, and numerical estimation tasks carried out, the scores of the subjects, and the findings of the study.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Rowe, Kirk
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altering the Muzak Situation (open access)

Altering the Muzak Situation

The project involved producing a group (16) of audio-visual installations that successfully displayed and exposed various Muzak situations. The following questions, relating to individual pieces, were of concern: 1. What is the basic intent of each installation or piece? 2. Does the piece communicate the intent of the artist? 3. Which installations or pieces will adapt to any space? 4. What visual documentation is necessary to preserve the idea?
Date: December 1979
Creator: Finch, Carl Wayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Darius Milhaud's La Creation Du Monde (open access)

Analysis of Darius Milhaud's La Creation Du Monde

Darius Milhaud was born on September 4, 1892, to a Jewish family in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. This study provide analysis of Darius Milhaud's work, entitled La Creation Du Monde.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Salord, Yves C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Jaques Ibert’s Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments (open access)

An Analysis of Jaques Ibert’s Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments

This paper provides historical background for the creation of Jacques Ibert's Concertino da camera for alto saxophone and eleven instruments and analyzes its three movements. As one of the first works written for the saxophone, James Garland Riggs explains the importance of the piece.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Riggs, James Garland
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Method Books for the Bass Trombone (open access)

An Analysis of Method Books for the Bass Trombone

This paper provides a survey and analysis of eight method books for the bass trombone. Robert G. Hurst describes each of these titles with detail and explores the methods discussed in the texts, as well as the history and construction of the bass trombone.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Hurst, Robert G.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Retained Two Dimensional Elements in a Three Dimensional Sculptural Format (open access)

An Analysis of Retained Two Dimensional Elements in a Three Dimensional Sculptural Format

The object of this problem in lieu of thesis has been the exploration and identification of the retained two dimensional design idiom in the sculptural format of my work. (By this, I am referring to the lateral, planar quality which often continues as part of my designs.)
Date: December 1991
Creator: Trimble, H. Carl III
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Selected Trombone Methods Developed at the Paris Conservatory of Music (open access)

Analysis of Selected Trombone Methods Developed at the Paris Conservatory of Music

This study described various Trombone methods and specifically analysed the eight methods developed at the Paris Conservatory of Music, which considered to be an outstanding methods for most of the good trombone literature of today.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Jackson, Robert Milton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Soprano Arias in the Oratorios of Joseph Haydn (open access)

Analysis of the Soprano Arias in the Oratorios of Joseph Haydn

This paper analyzes the soprano arias in three of Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorios, which are Il Ritorno di Tobia, Die Schöpfung, and Die Jahrezeiten. Deborah Thomas analyzes Haydn's oratorio style and attests that development is reflected in the soprano arias.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Thomas, Deborah
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The aquatic insect communities of Holbrook Creek and Cochetopa Creek in Colorado. (open access)

The aquatic insect communities of Holbrook Creek and Cochetopa Creek in Colorado.

The first objective for this problem in lieu of thesis project was to gather, identify to the lowest practical taxonomic level and organize all available aquatic insects collected from high altitude Colorado aquatic systems during the summers of 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2002 for the University of North Texas Environmental Science Field Course (BIOL 5650). The curated collection will be housed in the Elm Fork Natural History Museum, located at the University of North Texas. The second objective was to provide a summary and discussion of the occurrence and distribution of the aquatic insects collected from Mt. Blanca in 1994, 1996, and 1998 and to create a taxa list of aquatic insects collected from Cochetopa Creek during the summer of 2002.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Wallace, Mark Allen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Assessment of the Role of James ”Jimmy” Blanton in the Development of Jazz Bass (open access)

An Assessment of the Role of James ”Jimmy” Blanton in the Development of Jazz Bass

This paper evaluates the musical contributions of Jimmy Blanton to the history of jazz bass playing. Rex O. Bozarth investigates the development of the jazz bass throughout the twentieth century, the influences that impacted Blanton's style, and the musical innovations the performer introduced.
Date: December 1981
Creator: Bozarth, Rex O.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automatic Software Test Data Generation

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In software testing, it is often desirable to find test inputs that exercise specific program features. Finding these inputs manually, is extremely time consuming, especially, when the software being tested is complex. Therefore, there have been numerous attempts automate this process. Random test data generation consists of generating test inputs at random, in the hope that they will exercise the desired software features. Often the desired inputs must satisfy complex constraints, and this makes a random approach seem unlikely to succeed. In contrast, combinatorial optimization techniques, such as those using genetic algorithms, are meant to solve difficult problems involving simultaneous satisfaction of many constraints.
Date: December 2002
Creator: Munugala, Ajay Kumar
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ballistic Deposition: Global Scaling and Local Time Series. (open access)

Ballistic Deposition: Global Scaling and Local Time Series.

Complexity can emerge from extremely simple rules. A paradigmatic example of this is the model of ballistic deposition (BD), a simple model of sedimentary rock growth. In two separate Problem-in-Lieu-of Thesis studies, BD was investigated numerically in (1+1)-D on a lattice. Both studies are combined in this document. For problem I, the global interface roughening (IR) process was studied in terms of effective scaling exponents for a generalized BD model. The model used incorporates a tunable parameter B to change the cooperation between aggregating particles. Scaling was found to depart increasingly from the predictions of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang theory both with decreasing system sizes and with increasing cooperation. For problem II, the local single column evolution during BD rock growth was studied via statistical analysis of time series. Connections were found between single column time series properties and the global IR process.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Schwettmann, Arne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baritone Title Roles in the Operas of Verdi (open access)

The Baritone Title Roles in the Operas of Verdi

This paper discusses the nature and significance of the baritone title roles in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. These operas include Nabucco, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, and Falstaff. Jewel William Hobbins explore the evolution of vocal roles and asserts that Verdi highly prized dramatic skill in his performers.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Hobbins, Jewel William
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beads on a String: Extended Portraits (open access)

Beads on a String: Extended Portraits

When I was first introduced to photography, I was mainly drawn to landscape imagery. I enjoyed being a solitary spectator. Over time, inclusions of figurative elements became more and more apparent in my work. I purposefully began to incorporate a figure into my landscapes, ascribing to it a certain nostalgia and a sense of isolation I was experiencing on many levels at that time. Before long, I felt disconnected from these images because of their ambiguity and generalization. I found myself craving more content and personal commitment in my photography. At the end 2003, I started experimenting with a 4" x 5" format camera, which forced me, to some extent, to change my way of photographing and seeing. That is how the beginning of this new body of work was born. I was accustomed to shooting with a 35 mm camera, which allowed me to be spontaneous, quick and immediate. I permanently switched to a large format. I could see myself benefiting from this change. I lost some of the spontaneity that a 35 mm format offers but I gained the beauty of working with larger negatives and the endless possibilities of view camera movements. Thanks to this technical transformation, …
Date: December 2004
Creator: Kolčavová, Gabriela
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beethoven: The "Eroica" Variations, Opus 35 (open access)

Beethoven: The "Eroica" Variations, Opus 35

This paper discusses and analyzes Ludwig van Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, Opus 35. Cynthia Hukill explores the significance of the "Eroica" as a ground-breaking expansion of the variation form.
Date: December 1974
Creator: Hukill, Cynthia
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Between Seeing and Knowing (open access)

Between Seeing and Knowing

I intended to create a body of work using a variety of media and a combination of imagery that is both subjective and objective in regards to representation. I incorporated into the work, words and phrases which are not related to the imagery. This has allowed the work to be variously interpreted. I wanted certain elements of the work to appear simultaneously very old and very new.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Middleton, Michael D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brownian Movement and Quantum Computers

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This problem in lieu of thesis is a discussion of two topics: Brownian movement and quantum computers. Brownian movement is a physical phenomenon in which the particle velocity is constantly undergoing random fluctuations. Chapters 2, 3 and 4, describe Brownian motion from three different perspectives. The next four chapters are devoted to the subject of quantum computers, which are the signal of a new era of technology and science combined together. In the first chapter I present to a reader the two topics of my problem in lieu of thesis. In the second chapter I explain the idea of Brownian motion, its interpretation as a stochastic process and I find its distribution function. The next chapter illustrates the probabilistic picture of Brownian motion, where the statistical averages over trajectories are related to the probability distribution function. Chapter 4 shows how to derive the Langevin equation, introduced in chapter 1, using a Hamiltonian picture of a bath with infinite number of harmonic oscillators. The chapter 5 explains how the idea of quantum computers was developed and how step-by-step all the puzzles for the field of quantum computers were created. The next chapter, chapter 6, discus the basic quantum unit of information …
Date: December 2004
Creator: Habel, Agnieszka
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Case-Based Reasoning for Children Story Selection in ASP.NET (open access)

Case-Based Reasoning for Children Story Selection in ASP.NET

This paper describes the general architecture and function of a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system implemented with ASP.NET and C#. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and XML Web Services provide a flexible, standards-based model that allows clients to access data. Web Form Pages offer a powerful programming model for Web-enabled user interface. The system provides a variety of mechanisms and services related to story retrieval and adaptation. Users may browse and search a library of text stories. More advanced CBR capabilities were also implemented, including a multi-factor distance-calculation for matching user interests with stories in the library, recommendations on optimizing search, and adaptation of stories to match user interests.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Hu, Demin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changing Format: The Comparison of Portrait to Narratives (open access)

Changing Format: The Comparison of Portrait to Narratives

The project involved the investigation of the effects on my painting when switching from single, large-scale portraits to a narrative format involving two or more figures.
Date: December 1989
Creator: Smith, Robert Dolan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Childhood Cancer: Maternal Stress and Coping (open access)

Childhood Cancer: Maternal Stress and Coping

Sixty-two mothers of childhood cancer patients completed questionnaires on family demographics, parental stress, sense of parenting competence, self esteem, health locus of control, attitudes toward cancer, life events, social support, and psychological symptomatology. Correlation and regression procedures were used. Time since diagnosis and the severity rate of a child's illness did not predict the mother's sense of parenting competence, but a negative correlation at the $p<.01$ level between mothers' report of self esteem and their distress was revealed. Social support was negatively correlated at the $p<.01$ level with psychological distress, but life events were positively correlated at the $p<.01$ level. Internal locus of control was positively correlated with psychological distress, but attitudes toward cancer did not correlate with psychological distress.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Buenrostro, Martha
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chorale Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit and its Use in Bach's Clavierubung, Part III (open access)

The Chorale Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit and its Use in Bach's Clavierubung, Part III

This study closely explores the Chorale Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit and its Use in Bach's Clavierubung. The effect is one of gentilness and intimacy that conceal a wealth of inner emotion.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Mc Murray, Harry
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library