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No full textNick_Schietromo___NEiA_Student__Untitled_9_February_18__2014_at_0121PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
The Very Spiritual Ascension of Miss Marie P. Morris
No full textRebecca_Borland__UMBC__Student__The_Very_Spiritual_Ascension_of_Miss_Marie_P._Morris_February_21__2014_at_0429PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
Baltimore Blue Light Special Broadway Recreational Pier now defunct
No full textJohn_Deamond__Montgomery_College__Instructional_Lab_Coordinator__Baltimore_Blue_Light_Special_Broadway_Recreational_Pier__now_defunct__February_22__2014_at_0723PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
Untitled [Dancers in ballroom with lines connecting them]
No full textJosie_Ingate_February_26__2014_at_0248PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
Theodore; From the series Mischief Mayhem in the Hughes Company Archive
No full textLeigh_Kane___Kutztown_PA__Theodore__from_the_series__Mischief___Mayhem_in_the_Hughes_Company_Archive__March_07__2014_at_0312PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
Parkway Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland, Grand Opening
No full textMai_Huong__Vu__Huynh-Teage__UMBC__Visual_Art-Graphic_Design_Student___Parkway_Theatre_Baltimore__Maryland___Grand_Opening_February_19__2014_at_0707PMThese images were created as part of the Hughes Remix project, a collaborative endeavor developed by UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections and the Department of Visual Art to foster creative engagement with archival holdings in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. UMBC's Special Collections offered a selection of images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives (http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughes) collection for SPE members and conference attendees to remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine the images in this collection of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. Images that were created were displayed during the conference as well as on a Tumblr site and are now archived in the Special Collections. Full details of the project can be found at: http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com/overview.The original Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection can be found at: http://contentdm.ad.umbc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hughe
Information gathered by retrospective, self-report, emotional frequency items in children
No full textRetrospective emotional frequency appraisals are often used in clinical assessment measures, but their suitability for use with children has not been well studied. The aims of this project were to (a) examine whether items that use retrospective frequency structures gather more or less information than items that do not use such structures and (b) examine whether the information gathered by such items differs across children's ages. Method. Data were gathered from 9- to 12-year-old girls who participated in a larger study of a depression treatment protocol. Two sets of five pairs of items were sampled from two children's depression measures. The item pairs contained one item from each measure. One set of item pairs was matched for content and the use of retrospective frequency structures. The other set was matched for content only. Results. For the first research question, information curves for the two item sets were generated using Samejima's (1969) Graded Response Model (GRM). Visual analyses of the information curves provided inconclusive results as to whether the presence of retrospective frequency structures is associated with differences in item information levels. The second research question was conducted in two parts. For both, only data from the 9- and 12-year-old participants were analyzed. In the first part, confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze measurement invariance across the two groups' responses. Theses analyses showed signs of measurement non-invariance in both item sets. The second part of the analyses was conducted by generating separate GRM information curves for the two age groups and conducting visual analyses of the information curves. These analyses showed that the model which had been used throughout the remainder of the study did not fit the 9-year-old group well. They also showed that the 12-year-old group's information curves varied more in height across measures and item sets than did the 9-year-old group's curves. Discussion. Although the findings failed to shed light on the effects of retrospective frequency structures on children's responding, they highlighted potential differences between the 9- and 12-year-old groups' factor structures and indicated that the 9-year-olds displayed decreased sensitivity to differences in item structure
THE HIGH-ORDER QUANTUM COHERENCE OF THERMAL LIGHT
No full textThermal light, such as sunlight, is usually considered classical light. In a macroscopic picture, classical theory successfully explained the first-order coherence phenomena of thermal light. The macroscopic theory, based on the statistical behavior of light intensity fluctuations, however, can only phenomenologically explain the second- or higher-order coherence phenomena of thermal light. This thesis introduces a microscopic quantum picture, based on the interferences of a large number of randomly distributed and randomly radiated subfields, wavepackets or photons, to the study of high-order coherence of thermal light. This thesis concludes that the second-order intensity fluctuation correlation is caused by nonlocal interference: a pair of wavepackets, which are randomly paired together, interferes with the pair itself at two distant space-time coordinates. This study has the following practical motivations: (1) to simulate N-qbits. Practical quantum computing requires quantum bits(qubits) of N-digit to represent all possible integers from 0 to 2N-1 simultaneously. A large number of independent particles can be prepared to represent a large set of N orthogonal |0> and |1> bits. In fact, based on our recent experiments of simulating the high-order correlation of entangled photons, thermal radiation is suggested as a promising source for quantum information processing. (2) to achieve sunlight ghost imaging. Ghost imaging has three attractive non-classical features: (a) the ghost camera can see targets that can never be seen by a classic camera; (2) it is turbulence-free; and (3) its spatial resolution is mainly determined by the angular diameter of the light source. For example, a sunlight ghost image of an object on earth may achieve a spatial resolution of 200 micrometer because the angular diameter of sun is 0.53 degree with respect to Earth. Although ghost imaging has been experimental demonstrated by using entangled photon pairs and pseudo-thermal light, we still have difficulties to make sunlight ghost image. From the picture of macroscopic local statistics of intensity fluctuations, we may never find the problem that causes sunlight ghost imaging so difficult comparing with that of pseudo-thermal light. To achieve the goals in both fundamental understanding of physics and practical engineering applications, this thesis aims at studying the high-order quantum coherence of thermal light. The first successful attempt of this study is to invent a novel measurement scheme — Positive-Negative Intensity Fluctation Correlation(PNFC) protocol, to measure the intensity fluctuation correlation(or photon number fluctuation correlation) of thermal light. This new photodetection measurement protocol distinguishes positive and negative intensity fluctuations(or photon number fluctuations) of two or more photodetectors within a sequence of short time windows, and then calculates the statistical correlation between these individual fluctuations. With the help of this invention, an anti-correlation of thermal light in a typical Hanbury Brown and Twiss(HBT) interferometry was discovered, which cannot be understood from the view point of traditional macroscopic classical theory. In the microscopic quantum coherence picture, the observation is successfully explained as a nonlocal two-photon interference phenomenon. We also successfully simulated the behavior of Bell-state with thermal light. By manipulating polarization, a thermal Bell-like state was built from two incoherent and orthogonally polarized thermal radiations. With intensity fluctuation correlation measurement, a sinusoidal function with 100% visibility, which suggests thermal light as a feasible source for preparing qubits. Besides the fundamental significance, PNFC protocol also brings incredibly high contrast for quantum imaging, such as 100% visibility for ghost imaging. Above all, we invented a 100% Intensity Fluctuation Correlation of Chaotic-thermal Light and Turbulence-free Imaging System, which provides high contrast as well as high resolution. Based on the experiments of the simulations of quantum interference in thermal light and the dramatically improvement of the contrast in quantum imaging, this study of the high-order coherence of thermal light has a great significance both for fundamental physics and applications
Social Benefits and Costs of the National Flood Insurance Program
No full textThis analysis retrospectively examines the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) using benefit-cost analysis (BCA). Congress created the NFIP in 1968 to provide flood insurance in part due to the absence of a private market for flood insurance. Since 1994, the NFIP has included a Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) program to provide local communities with support for flood mitigation. Together, the NFIP and NFIP programs provide the national flood protection and response strategy. This analysis estimates net social benefit of the NFIP for the years 1996 through 2010. An important element is the estimated consumer surplus for flood insurance using historical financial and survey data available from the NFIP. Using this estimate and other components of net social benefits, this analysis derives a sufficient statistic for the insurance component of the NFIP and is joined with other estimates of the benefits of the FMA to estimate the net social benefits of the combined program. A supplemental analysis is done using different income weighting scenarios in a distributionally weighted BCA. Finally, this study includes an analysis of the change in government revenue attributable to the NFIP and FMA programs. Sensitivity analysis is conducted on all results. This study concludes by finding that the NFIP and FMA programs provided a net benefit to society the years 1996 through 2010. Additionally, the NFIP and FMA are regressive. Finally, this study finds that government revenue experiences a net increase due to the NFIP program
The Interactive Relations of Hypertension and Head Injury to Neuropsychological Functioning
No full textHypertension and traumatic brain injuries have both been shown to have significant impacts on cognition and both have proposed mechanisms related to cerebral perfusion and asymptomatic brain pathology, but no research has linked hypertension and traumatic brain injury on neuropsychological functioning. I hypothesized that hypertension status and mild traumatic brain injury history would interact to predict worse cognitive functioning than hypertension or mild traumatic brain injury history alone. A sample of 156 participants was used from a parent study looking at cardiovascular disease and the brain. Multiple regression analyses were implemented to investigate whether the interaction of hypertension status and mild traumatic brain injury history significantly predicted neuropsychological test results controlling for age, sex, race, education, hypertensive medication use, smoking status, alcohol use per week, and depressive symptomatology. Results showed that no significant interactions existed between hypertension and mild traumatic brain injury, but simple effects of hypertension status predicted Trail Making Test B time and Grooved Pegboard Dominant Hand time. It is possible that mild traumatic brain injury status does not interact with hypertension status, or that methodological issues with the study interfered with significant relations. Future studies should investigate if more severe head injuries or if the full range of blood pressure impacts cognitive functioning