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Principle of Uncertainty (open access)

Principle of Uncertainty

I wanted to see if I could affect the "unknown" by attempting to steer the subconscious. I kept a journal of events going on in my life, dreams, therapy sessions, or ideas for songs or short stories. In my studio, I kept a running list of ideas for titles of songs, stories, or paintings. In addition to this, I recorded narrative or metaphoric ideas that the paintings presented on the search for the final painting.
Date: May 1996
Creator: Walker, Marty
System: The UNT Digital Library
Installation: Sculpture and Painting as a Hybrid Within Virtual Reality (open access)

Installation: Sculpture and Painting as a Hybrid Within Virtual Reality

My work has developed to the point where it exists within the grey area between painting and sculpture. These hybrid works necessitate the transition from creating objects to that work singularly to installations of various works that operate as a whole. The purpose of this study is to identify successful methods of making this transition through the use of the computer. The computer should provide new strategies to integrate sculpture and painting into a hybrid form.
Date: May 1996
Creator: Ashton, Leo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconciliation (open access)

Reconciliation

The content of my work focused on examining the relationship between certain elements of nature and of human beings and was also based on the question of what true life is. The woodcut process - combined with the other printing techniques such as intaglio, collagraph, and monotype - was adopted as a potentially successful medium for conveying the content of the work. Overlay printing techniques and repeated textures were utilized as well.
Date: March 1996
Creator: Chung, Miok
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geometric Imagery (open access)

Geometric Imagery

It was those problems and possibilities I wished to explore in my problem in lieu of thesis. While the simple, geometric images were very satisfying to that part of myself that craves order and rationality, it was all too easy to make work that was dull and uninteresting. I wanted to find a way to produce rich, sensuous, engaging work using only simple geometric forms.
Date: May 1996
Creator: Dodd, Guthrie McRae
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manipulations in Utilitarian Ceramics (open access)

Manipulations in Utilitarian Ceramics

The objective of this study was to obtain an aesthetically pleasing surface, by altering the surface to enhance a particular form. I incorporated plant and landscape imagery from my past experiences.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Ochs, Raymond Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concepts on Attraction and Repulsion for a Greater Visual and Psychological Dynamic (open access)

Concepts on Attraction and Repulsion for a Greater Visual and Psychological Dynamic

The duality of repulsion and attraction is present in all aspects of life, neither existing exclusive of the other. This awareness has manifested itself in the need for creating work addressing the complexity of this duality and finding a balance that relates to human experience. The purpose of his problem in lieu of thesis was to combine my concept of the attractive, present in my early graduate work, with explorations on the concept of repulsion, to heighten the visual and psychological dynamic of the whole.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Rentzel, Craig A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fusion of Predominantly Linear Marks and Solidly Rendered Forms as an Expressive Agent in Painting (open access)

The Fusion of Predominantly Linear Marks and Solidly Rendered Forms as an Expressive Agent in Painting

I plan to investigate the fusion of predominantly linear marks with solidly rendered forms to create a sense of space, depth, and texture within a series of paintings. The investigation will seek to answer a four part problem related to the creation of a series of paintings. The four part problem will explore whether or not the combined use of line, textural surface information, and buried images will have the potential to operate as an expressive agent in painting. This investigation will also address the series as a whole by evaluating the evolutionary process which may occur when color and solidly rendered forms are re-introduced to the canvas and combined with the primarily linear marks.
Date: December 1996
Creator: La Rosa, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metamorphosis of Forms (open access)

Metamorphosis of Forms

The esthetic issue of the metamorphosis of forms is the basis for my work. In parallel configurations natural form, abstract form, and the extrasensory world of light energy forms move together to form a field of force. The unfolding of the destiny of forms against such an energy field makes a resolution of forms bounded by rhythm and organic shape. The energy field that is the product of forms captures the relationship among natural form, abstract form and light forms of the spirit. The radiation of meaning is the focus of the combination of these forms in a field of force. The problem becomes then the definition of meaning in the multiple declaration of three forms of representation with the treatment of the extrasensory world of light energy as the articulation of an element of perception.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Marcus, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Personal Style (open access)

Development of a Personal Style

With this project I explored pottery forms of Bernard Leach and his apprentices. By exploring this work, it was my intention to expand my forms and address the following questions: 1. What Leach pottery forms were most compatible with my work methods and decoration? 2. What significant changes could I make to these Leach forms to adapt them to my own style of working character? 3. Would producing these adapted forms in two different clay bodies and using different methods to reflect landscape imagery lead to a style that I could call my own?
Date: December 1996
Creator: McKee, Joe Frank S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do the Hemispheres Learn at Different Rates: Further Examination of Hemispheric Differences Using a Random Polygon Task (open access)

Do the Hemispheres Learn at Different Rates: Further Examination of Hemispheric Differences Using a Random Polygon Task

This paper examines the learning rate of the two different hemispheres of the brain and compares them through a study. Lance Hoffmeyer explains the findings derived from a test conducted through having subjects complete a random polygon task.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Hoffmeyer, Lance
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychological and Social Functioning Differences among Homeless Mothers (open access)

Psychological and Social Functioning Differences among Homeless Mothers

Existing studies of people who are homeless provide descriptive information about the heterogeneity of the population. Families who are homeless are the fastest growing subset of this population. This study examined the variability in psychological and social functioning among homeless mothers and attempted to identify risk factors that predict level of adult functioning. Data was collected from 76 homeless mothers with minor aged children receiving services at area shelters. The sample was divided between highly structured and unstructured shelter environments. Each participant completed an extensive interview which included measures of personal and family history, risk factors and current psychological and social functioning. Social functioning was able to be predicted by a number of these risk factors.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Green, Patricia Pater
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recurrent Traumatic Stress Responses in HIV+ Women (open access)

Recurrent Traumatic Stress Responses in HIV+ Women

This paper discusses the results of a study to examine how "crisis points" throughout the progression of HIV in HIV+ women contributes to stress responses of avoidant behavior, hyperarousal, and intrusive thoughts. Deborah Jones explains how stress levels were determined and stressors were analyzed throughout the course of the study.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Jones, Deborah
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Learning in Visual Field Asymmetries (open access)

The Role of Learning in Visual Field Asymmetries

This paper examines visual field asymmetries and their relationship with learning through a study of three groups of 309 people. Richard Herrington discusses the results of subjects performing two visual half-field advantage reaction time tasks, a bar graph task and a word task, as well as both tasks, with extended practice.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Herrington, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Anxiety Symptoms in First-Time and Multiple Incarcerates (open access)

Differences in Anxiety Symptoms in First-Time and Multiple Incarcerates

This paper presents a study of the anxiety symptoms of first-time and multiple time incarcerates and the differences in number of symptoms. Vianey Reinhardt discusses the findings of the study conduced with 129 male offenders who were assessed through a series of tests.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Reinhardt, Vianey R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
One by One (open access)

One by One

This paper describes the depiction of Colorado animals and their environments through earthenware. Laura Newby describes the process and inspirations behind the pieces and describes each one in turn.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Newby, Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library