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The Marked
Get PDFThis paper will detail the making of The Marked, exploring from concept to completion, with special focus on creating a dystopian, science fiction, film with an element of fantasy. I will begin by examining my inspirations. Next, I will explore preproduction, examining screenwriting, casting, location scouting, production, and preparation. Part three will look at production, focusing on directing, production design, cinematography, and on-set operations. Part four will examine post production, including, editing, color correction, sound design, and music. Each element of production will be evaluated to determine if they helped successfully create a believable, dystopian, fantasy story for the viewer. I will also be examining whether the themes I originally sought to explore come across in the film
An Experimental and Numerical Study of High Temperature Gaseous Flow through an Open Cell Silicon Carbide Foam Heater
Get PDFDistributary Channel Networks as Moving Boundaries: Causes and Morphodynamic Effects
Get PDFWe propose an exploratory model to describe the morphodynamics of distributary channel network growth on river deltas. The interface between deep channels and the shallow, unchannelized delta front deposits is modeled as a moving boundary. Steady flow over the unchannelized delta front is friction dominated and modeled by Laplace\u27s equation. Shear stress along the network boundary produces nonlinear erosion rates at the interface, causing the boundary to move and network elements (channels and branches) to form. The model was run for boundary conditions resembling the Wax Lake Delta in coastal Louisiana, 20 parameterizations of sediment transport, and 3 parameterizations of discharge. In each case, the model produced a complex channel network with channel number, width, bifurcation angle, and channel shape depending on the sediment transport formula. For reasonable sediment transport parameters and gradually increasing water discharge, the model produced network characteristics and progradation rates similar to the Wax Lake Delta. This suggests that the model contains the processes responsible for network growth, despite its abstract formulation
Amending the Record: Proofreading American Naval War Diaries Written in the Pontus, 1921-1922
Get PDFHerman L. Midlo: Social Ally in Louisiana Religious Civil Rights
Get PDFThe study of social allies in the field of American Civil Rights and Liberties History is largely an underappreciated aspect of this historical era. This work argues that social allies and their stories are worthwhile histories that are beneficial to the study of American Civil Rights and Liberties using Louisiana lawyer Herman Lazard Midlo as a case study. Midlo worked as a Louisiana lawyer from the 1930s to 1960s and fought tirelessly for the religious liberties of the Jehovah’s Witness community in the state. His story shows how beneficial and consequential the actions of social allies have had and can have on the protection and expansion of civil rights and religious liberties
High Macroinvertebrate Diversity at Different Scales in Deep Sea and Shallow Water Environments
No full textA lack of clarity of where seafloor diversity is highest, as well as environmental factors shaping these patterns continues. A general, but rarely tested, hypothesis purports that the deep sea harbors high levels of biodiversity, exceeding coastal and shelf regions and rivaling coral reefs and tropical rainforests. However, consistent methodology and quantitative comparisons between benthic diversity in the deep sea and nearshore waters are lacking. Using the study by Sanders (1968) as a model, this study samples enthic invertebrate fauna in Terrebonne Bay, a coastal estuary of South Louisiana, and compares levels of biodiversity in this shallow, and more productive water to that in the deep-sea Gulf of Mexico. The same sampling methodology and measurements were deployed between the deep and shallow water sites to maintain consistency. Alpha diversity in Terrebonne Bay is found to be higher than the deep sea, but when the comparison is scaled up to the site and regional scales, the beta and gamma diversity prove to be higher in the deep. This finding therefore supports the hypothesis of high deep-sea diversity
Granddad Otis
No full textFor the past few years, I have been experimenting with different styles, mediums, and techniques to expand upon how I approach painting. So far my style has not been consistent, but I am more content with every painting I do after the last. My main focus has been large abstract portraits done by pallet knife, after being inspired by Joshua Miels. For my last semester of my senior year, I did a pallet knife portrait of great grandfather, Granddad Otis, as an independent study in art. Besides the background of the piece, which is tinted gesso, I smeared on heavy body acrylics with a pallet knife to create his face shape and depth. It was also an experiment with colors as I originally wanted the painting to be blue and grey, but the more I painted, the more tealy and burgundy appeared, which soon became my favorite color pallet. My favorite thing I noticed is that as I painted, the more I realized how the serious expression in the portrait was nowhere near as serious as it seemed. I’ve never met my Granddad Otis, but from spending a few weeks recreating his persona, I was able to see all of his smile lines like the wrinkles around his eyes and mouth
Optimization Techniques for Image Processing
Get PDFThis research thesis starts off with a basic introduction to optimization and image processing. Because there are several different tools to apply optimization in image processing applications, we started researching one category of mathematical optimization techniques, namely Convex Optimization. This thesis provides a basic background consisting of mathematical concepts, as well as some challenges of employing Convex Optimization in solving problems. One major issue is to be able to identify the convexity of the problem in a potential application (Boyd). After spending a couple of months researching and learning Convex Optimization, my advisor and I decided to go on a different route. We decided to use Heuristic Optimization techniques instead, and in particular, Genetic Algorithms (GA). We also conjectured that the application of GA in image processing for the purpose of object matching could potentially yield good results. As a first step, we used MATLAB as the programming language, and we wrote the GA code from scratch. Next, we applied the GA algorithm in object matching. More specifically, we constructed specific images to demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm in identifying objects of interest. The results presented in this thesis indicate that the technique is capable of identifying objects under noise conditions
Directional Comparison Bus Protection Using Superimposed Partial Operating Current Characteristics
Get PDFVarious directional comparison bus protection methods including widely used superimposed directional element method need to have both voltages and currents from all feeders connected to the zone of protection to find the direction of current for detecting a bus fault or a line fault. The purpose of the thesis is to present a new technique for directional comparison bus protection to discriminate a bus fault from line fault and normal condition. The new technique, which is implementing superimposed directional element method to modify partial operating current characteristics (POC) method to superimposed POC (SPOC) method, does not use voltages from feeders, hence capacitor voltage transformers (CVTs) are no longer needed in the zone of protection. The proposed technique was implemented in 4-bus and IEEE 14-bus test system and was tested using different fault cases including CT saturation and high impedance fault. The proposed technique, SPOC method was compared with POC method with both methods implemented in same test systems and tested with same fault cases. The results show that the proposed technique is successful to detect bus faults with high accuracy and high speed