Adam J. Hoffman: A Longitudinal Examination of Race Centrality in African American Youth and Parents (Under the direction of Beth Kurtz-Costes) For most African Americans, racial identity is an important aspect of their individual identity. Racial centrality, a dimension of racial identity, is protective of psychosocial well-being among African Americans. The current study explored the stabilit...

Medical image data has traditionally been analyzed using visual displays and statistical analysis methods. Visual representations are limited due to the nature of the display and the number of dimensions that can be represented visually. This paper describes the use of sonification to represent medical image data of brain scans of patients with AlzheimerÕs dementia. The use of sonification is d...

Many studies find that gender-based inequalities in education reduce economic growth, because such inequalities decrease the overall human capital available within the country. Notwithstanding the methodological limitations alluded to earlier, Morrison, Raju, and Sinha (2007) report striking findings from work undertaken by Klasen (2002). Klasen estimates the effect of the gender gap in years o...

Electromagnetic eavesdropping of computer displays – first demonstrated to the general public by van Eck in 1985 – is not restricted to cathode-ray tubes. Modern flat-panel displays can be at least as vulnerable. They are equally driven by repetitive video signals in frequency ranges where even shielded cables leak detectable radio waves into the environment. Nearby eavesdroppers can pick up su...

Experiments have been performed to study the active reduction of sound transmission through single and double gypsum board constructions. The active control scheme was based on the feedforward and feedback control strategies. The ElectroMechanical Film flat panel actuators were tested. These actuators attached to the radiating surface of the lightweight partition can significantly reduce the so...

The scope of the project was to assess the value of using high-resolution, very large displays in a hospital setting. We applied a scenario informed prototyping method and user-involvement in order to do this. Initial results suggest that the technology could prove very useful in clinical conferencing settings like the communicating process between the radiology department and the other hospita...

Ab&act The structural performance of medium density fiberboard (MDF) is attributable to three primary variables which are: physical and mechanical properties of individual wood fibers; fiber-to-fiber stress transfer; and fiber orientation. These origins of fiber properties and stress transfer can be traced to the fiber generation method wherein fiber orientation is associated with mat formation...

“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...

Article history: Received 2 February 2009 Received in revised form 1 November 2009 Accepted 13 December 2009 Available online 22 December 2009 We investigate the relationship between interest group activity and investment by analyzing an unbalanced panel of observations on 126 countries over three time periods. We find that the number of interest groups in a nation is negatively related to inve...