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Crystal Queer: Fracturing The Binaries Of Matter, Creation, And Landscape, Sarah Knight May 2020

Crystal Queer: Fracturing The Binaries Of Matter, Creation, And Landscape, Sarah Knight

Graduate School of Art Theses

In this thesis, I compile a series of fragments consisting an analysis of my artwork in the gendered contexts of landscape, self-identity, mythology, and philosophy. I develop my concept of a “queer mark” in my art that serves as a form of queering, a disruption of visual and conceptual cohesion. I form a picture of how our contemporary selves are influenced by our gendered understanding of the landscape through the analysis of philosophical, artistic, and mythological concepts of creation. I see my sculptures as an atlas to an alternative means of understanding identity, a queering of these historical and exclusionary …

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Usage And Effects Of Video Games In Education, Kevin Sagara May 2020

Usage And Effects Of Video Games In Education, Kevin Sagara

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

In modern society, the act of playing games entices certain prejudices towards those who decide to participate in such activities. Those prejudices normally revolve around negative stereotypes where games are meant for non-social adults and are seen as something akin to addiction if gone too far. But how much gaming is needed to be considered as an addiction and what actual effects does it have on mental growth, social capabilities and academics? As a community revolving around technology as much as we are, understanding how video games play a role in our social space is an important aspect to growth. …

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How Do Video Games Affect The Brain?, Kenneth Lee May 2020

How Do Video Games Affect The Brain?, Kenneth Lee

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

Video games are a wildly popular past time in not only America, but other countries as well. Its popularity has done nothing but increase in an exponential fashion, engulfing more and more members of society in its reach; however, its gaining traction in combination with behavioral observations and frequent violent events compelled many to question its effects on those who play them. Some attribute tragedies like recent school shootings to the vast array of First Person Shooter(FPS) games, blaming it for engraining in adolescents’ and adults’ brains a sense of increased aggression and violence. Others praise educational games for stimulating …

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Volume 6 Full Text, Bjur Staff May 2020

Volume 6 Full Text, Bjur Staff

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Women’S Empowerment Or Exploitation Of Women? Examining The Implications Of Economic Empowerment Programming, Billie White May 2020

Women’S Empowerment Or Exploitation Of Women? Examining The Implications Of Economic Empowerment Programming, Billie White

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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The Butler-Tarkington Community Member Views On The Perceived Gentrification, Julio C. Trujillo, Jr., Ethan Daniels May 2020

The Butler-Tarkington Community Member Views On The Perceived Gentrification, Julio C. Trujillo, Jr., Ethan Daniels

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Cyber Jihadism: An Analysis On How The Cyber Sphere Has Altered Islamic Terrorism, Simon Spangenberg May 2020

Cyber Jihadism: An Analysis On How The Cyber Sphere Has Altered Islamic Terrorism, Simon Spangenberg

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Parent Interaction Between An Infant With A Cochlear Implant And Additional Disabilities, Lillian J. Southern May 2020

Parent Interaction Between An Infant With A Cochlear Implant And Additional Disabilities, Lillian J. Southern

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Drowning In Depression: A Reading Of William Cowper’S “The Castaway”, Katrina B. Skalko May 2020

Drowning In Depression: A Reading Of William Cowper’S “The Castaway”, Katrina B. Skalko

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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A Matter Of Perspective: Reportage Style In District 9 (2009), M. Mert Örsler May 2020

A Matter Of Perspective: Reportage Style In District 9 (2009), M. Mert Örsler

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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The Motivations And Perceived Benefits Of Student Participation In Dance Marathon, Emily J. Nettesheim May 2020

The Motivations And Perceived Benefits Of Student Participation In Dance Marathon, Emily J. Nettesheim

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Border Security And Immigration Policy: The Fight Against Terrorism, Caroline Klenck May 2020

Border Security And Immigration Policy: The Fight Against Terrorism, Caroline Klenck

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Comparison Of Patient Outcomes In A Pharmacist-Led Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program, Zachary W. Howe, Lindsay Saum, Jennifer Mccann May 2020

Comparison Of Patient Outcomes In A Pharmacist-Led Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program, Zachary W. Howe, Lindsay Saum, Jennifer Mccann

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Cognitive Flexibility Influences Career Decision Making And Related Anxiety, Emily M. Flandermeyer, Keegan G. Sawin May 2020

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Cognitive Flexibility Influences Career Decision Making And Related Anxiety, Emily M. Flandermeyer, Keegan G. Sawin

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Table Of Contents And Front Matter, Bjur Staff May 2020

Table Of Contents And Front Matter, Bjur Staff

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Recreating The Virtual Bullets That Pierces Through The Soul Of Gaming: Video Games And Its Cultural Perception On America’S Violent Homefrontier, Brandon Palomino May 2020

Recreating The Virtual Bullets That Pierces Through The Soul Of Gaming: Video Games And Its Cultural Perception On America’S Violent Homefrontier, Brandon Palomino

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

For the past fifty years, video games have been around as a form of entertainment we consume on a daily basis. Unlike the books and movies seen in pop culture today, video games take us on virtual journeys where people participate in unique gameplay objectives based on player involvement. Because the idea of player engagement was rare at the time, it was inevitable that video games would revolutionize the way we view entertainment onwards. With video games becoming increasingly popular throughout the years, the debate of whether they are truly violent in nature has rubbed many people like myself the …

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Chemistry In Art: The Science Of Dye, Madeleine Gray Burland May 2020

Chemistry In Art: The Science Of Dye, Madeleine Gray Burland

Honors Projects

Fabric arts, and the practice of dyeing fabric using various resist techniques, is a tradition that goes back centuries, and is unique among art mediums in its relation to science, as the innovations in dye production have directly affected the art form. The development of synthetic dyes in the 1800’s greatly affected the way fabric is dyed, and subsequently the way clothes were made and consumed. As opposed to dyes made of natural materials, synthetic dyes cam in more colors, were brighter, easier to make in large quantities, and lasted longer since they didn’t fade with repeated washings. The practice …

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User Experience As A Rhetorical Medium: User At The Intersection Of Audience, Reader And Actor, Áine Doyle May 2020

User Experience As A Rhetorical Medium: User At The Intersection Of Audience, Reader And Actor, Áine Doyle

English Honors Theses

The goal of this project is to demonstrate how digital interfaces are bodies of visual language that can be “close-read” and interpreted critically, just like any other traditional text; digital user interfaces, like poetry and novels, have form and content that complement and shape the meaning and interpretation of the other. It is meant to encourage academic discussions about digital interfaces to go beyond whether social media is “good” or “bad” to how digital interfaces are structured, why they are structured the way they are, and what effects these structures have on the way they communicate information and content to …

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Automating 35mm Photographic Film Digitization: X-Y Table Capture System Design And Assessment, Michael J. Bennett May 2020

Automating 35mm Photographic Film Digitization: X-Y Table Capture System Design And Assessment, Michael J. Bennett

Published Works

35mm still image formats are some of the most abundant photographic film types in cultural heritage collections. However, their special handling needs coupled with high resolution digital capture requirements have traditionally posed logistical constraints with regard to the formats’ digitization at scale. Through the use of a programmable X-Y table camera capture system, both slide and strip 35mm photographic film can be digitized in an automated fashion following Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines (FADGI).

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Generating Acoustic Projections Using 3d Models, Jake A. Brazelton May 2020

Generating Acoustic Projections Using 3d Models, Jake A. Brazelton

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

Raytracing is used in commercial graphics engines most commonly for lighting effects, but it also has many uses when it comes to acoustic simulation. Adopted directly from these computer graphics programs, the formulas presented herein enable the visualization of acoustic intensity levels throughout a 3D space using Python 3 and the OpenGL library. In addition to visualization, they also provide the ability to calculate the reverberation time and critical distance of an enclosed space in relation to its size and material makeup. The described application bundles all of these components together in a Qt5 application that allows users to view …

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Visualization Of Musical Instruments Through Midi Interface, John Jaminet May 2020

Visualization Of Musical Instruments Through Midi Interface, John Jaminet

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

We have created a Music Visualization system that controls an LED strip by parsing MIDI signals that are sent by a musical instrument. This is achieved through a program that parses the MIDI note signals into three-byte RGB signals which are then transferred over WIFI to four Arduino boards that control the LEDs. The system provides a musician the ability to add a dynamic light display that responds to the music in real-time. The system utilizes Windows Presentation Foundation because of its event handling and GUI capabilities. The board we are using is the Arduino MKR 1010 WIFI board as …

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Utilization Of Recycled Filament For 3d Printing For Consumer Goods, Alexa Peterson May 2020

Utilization Of Recycled Filament For 3d Printing For Consumer Goods, Alexa Peterson

Apparel Merchandising and Product Development Undergraduate Honors Theses

The 3D printing market has been used in a wide variety of manufacturing industries including textile and apparel. Many consumers can now own a personal 3D printer at home for recreational printing. There are even websites dedicated to 3D printing patterns made by consumers. However, the materials used in the 3D printing process pose a problem for the environment due to their plastic-based nature. 3D printing is a layered process with each layer being printed depending on the layer below it for strength and stability. During the 3D printing process, great amounts of waste are produced as a result of …

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How Do We Deal With Cheaters?, Colin Kyle May 2020

How Do We Deal With Cheaters?, Colin Kyle

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

Ever since computer games have existed, the people who have played them have found ways to modify the game in order to change the way it plays or break the rules in the hopes of appearing to be better at the game. The concept of changing took on a whole new idea when online multiplayer games were created, now people not only cheated to beat the game, they also were able to cheat in order to compete better against other real people. Cheating in multiplayer online games has become very commonplace and most competitive games now have some sort of …

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Educational Games: A Basic Understanding And Effective Uses, Kaitlin Kirkman May 2020

Educational Games: A Basic Understanding And Effective Uses, Kaitlin Kirkman

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

Since the invention of video games, many people would perceive these digital games as just entertainment. Increasingly there has been a shift into taking video games and turning them into educational programs to help people learn. In this paper, I discuss the different forms of educational games which are serious games, it’s subcategory serious educational games, and educational simulations. I compare and contrast the differences as well as provide examples. I also discuss effective ways to use educational games so that they can be more understood as an effective method for teaching. The concepts I discuss about effective educational games …

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Gray Codes In Music Theory, Isaac L. Vaccaro May 2020

Gray Codes In Music Theory, Isaac L. Vaccaro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the branch of Western music theory called serialism, it is desirable to construct chord progressions that use each chord in a chosen set exactly once. We view this problem through the scope of the mathematical theory of Gray codes, the notion of ordering a finite set X so that adjacent elements are related by an element of some specified set R of involutions in the permutation group of X. Using some basic results from the theory of permutation groups we translate the problem of finding Gray codes into the problem of finding Hamiltonian paths and cycles in a Schreier …

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An Evolutionary Approach To Crowdsourcing Mathematics Education, Spencer Ward May 2020

An Evolutionary Approach To Crowdsourcing Mathematics Education, Spencer Ward

Honors College

By combining ideas from evolutionary biology, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, this thesis attempts to derive a new kind of crowdsourcing that could better leverage people’s collective creativity. Following a theory of knowledge presented by David Deutsch, it is argued that knowledge develops through evolutionary competition that organically emerges from a creative dialogue of trial and error. It is also argued that this model of knowledge satisfies the properties of Douglas Hofstadter’s strange loops, implying that self-reflection is a core feature of knowledge evolution. This mix of theories then is used to analyze several existing strategies of crowdsourcing and knowledge …

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Advances In Artificial Intelligence, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter Apr 2020

Advances In Artificial Intelligence, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative (UMaine AI) is a unique Maine-based venture that brings together university, industry, government, and community collaborators from Maine and beyond to advance the field of artificial intelligence, and through development of innovative technologies and applications find transformative solutions to enhance human life and societal well-being in Maine and beyond.

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Social, Ethical, Policy, And Legal Considerations, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter Apr 2020

Social, Ethical, Policy, And Legal Considerations, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative (UMaine AI) is a unique Maine-based venture that brings together university, industry, government, and community collaborators from Maine and beyond to advance the field of artificial intelligence, and through development of innovative technologies and applications find transformative solutions to enhance human life and societal well-being in Maine and beyond.

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Applications Of Ai In Business, Industry, Government, Healthcare And Environment, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter Apr 2020

Applications Of Ai In Business, Industry, Government, Healthcare And Environment, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative (UMaine AI) is a unique Maine-based venture that brings together university, industry, government, and community collaborators from Maine and beyond to advance the field of artificial intelligence, and through development of innovative technologies and applications find transformative solutions to enhance human life and societal well-being in Maine and beyond.

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Education And Workforce Development, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter Apr 2020

Education And Workforce Development, University Of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers Maine Com/Cs Chapter

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Artificial Intelligence Initiative (UMaine AI) is a unique Maine-based venture that brings together university, industry, government, and community collaborators from Maine and beyond to advance the field of artificial intelligence, and through development of innovative technologies and applications find transformative solutions to enhance human life and societal well-being in Maine and beyond.

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