Dissertations / Theses: 'Colour library of science'

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Pedron, Ilario. "Digital image processing for cancer cell finding using color images." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61720.

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Boggs, Bruce D., Mary M. Stephens, and Rick L. Wallace. "How Does Colonoscopy Compare with Fecal Occult Blood Testing as a Screening Tool for Colon Cancer?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8685.

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A Cochrane review conducted a meta-analysis looking only at FOBT for colorectal cancer screening. This review, based on published and unpublished data from 5 controlled trials, demonstrated that 3-card home FOBT conferred a reduction in colorectal cancer mortality of 16% (relative risk [RR]=0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-0.92) and a number needed to screen of 1173 (95% CI, 741-2807) to prevent 1 death from colon cancer over a 10-year period. If adjusted for adherence to screening, the reduction in mortality increased to 23% (RR=0.77; 95% CI, 0.57-0.89). In addition, long-term follow up of one of the RCTs in the review showed a continued reduction in colorectal cancer mortality of 34% (RR=0.66; 95% CI, 0.54-0.81) in subjects adhering to the FOBT screening protocol over a 13-year interval. Overall mortality did not differ between the screened and unscreened groups. A systematic review performed for the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) incorporated more recent data on colorectal cancer screening including colonoscopy. This review reached similar conclusions as above. This review also looked at office FOBT performed after digital rectal exam. It is important to note that a single office FOBT has a lower sensitivity than 3-card home FOBT and its effectiveness for reducing colorectal cancer mortality was unknown at the time of the systematic review. A subsequent 2005 Veterans Affairs prospective cohort study found that the sensitivity for detecting advanced neoplasia was only 4.9% for digital FOBT, and negative results did not decrease the likelihood of advanced neoplasia. The USPSTF review did not find any screening trials of colonoscopy but analyzed data from the National Polyp Study and a case-control study to draw its conclusions. The review reported an odds ratio for colorectal cancer mortality for patients who had colonoscopy to be 0.43 (95% CI, 0.30-63). The USPSTF review also looked at the sensitivity and adverse effects of FOBT compared to colonoscopy. One-time 3-card home FOBT had a sensitivity of 30% to 40% for detecting cancer. The sensitivity of one-time colonoscopy was difficult to determine since it was the criterion standard examination, but it was estimated to be greater than 90%, with a risk of perforation of 1/2000. The USPSTF review found both screening strategies cost-effective (<$30,000 per additional life-year gained) compared to no screening. FOBT had a cost per life-year saved of $5691 to $17,805 compared with $9038 to $22,012 for colonoscopy performed every 10 years.

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Liu, Bo-zhi. "Understanding colour image : colour constancy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50155/.

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Human visual system has a mechanism which ensures that the perceived colour of an object remains almost constant under varying illumination conditions, and this mechanism is called colour constancy. Electronic imaging systems such as digital cameras do not naturally have this ability. The color appearance of images of an object under different lighting conditions changes with the colour of the light sources and this can cause problems in many computer vision applications such as object recognition. To deal with this problem, many algorithms have been developed to estimate the input image’s illuminant, and then recover the intrinsic colour of the scene correctly. In this thesis, we focus on this topic, try to produce new colour constancy algorithms in both images and videos, to improve the performance of the state of the art. This thesis makes four technical contributions. First, we have developed a new image representation scheme suitable for developing learning based colour constancy algorithms; second, we introduce a new method that formulates the colour constancy problem as one that infers the illuminant class of the input image; third, we introduce a novel clustering classification colour constancy framework (the 4C method); and finally, we extend our method from still image into video processing, create a new framework to deal with the colour constancy problem in videos. As in many computer vision problems, one of the crucial issues is how to effectively represent the input events. Colour constancy is no exception and we need to first represent the input image. As we are only interested in the colours of the image, colour histogram is a natural choice. However, traditional colour histogram is content dependent. As our task is estimating the colours of the illuminant rather than the colours of the image, we need a representation that is relatively independent of the image content. Based on this reasoning, we introduce the novel concept of a binary colour histogram where it records if a colour has appeared in the image or not and disregards the frequency of the colours appear in the image. We will present experimental results to demonstrate that our new binary histogram representation is particularly suitable for learning based colour constancy and that it provides better performances than other traditional representation schemes. The colour of a digital image is directly affected by the colour of the illuminant. We reason if we can recognize or classify the illuminant source of the image, we can then correct the colour of the image. Based on this rationale, we formulate the colour constancy problem as an illuminant classification problem. We assume that each image has an associated class of illuminant and the task of colour constancy is that of recognizing the illuminant class of the image. To accomplish this, we make use of our newly introduced binary colour histogram representation scheme and employ a powerful machine learning method called the Random Forest to construct the illuminant recognition system. We will present experimental results to show the effectiveness of our new method. Encouraged by the success of our illuminant recognition framework, we have developed a novel clustering classification colour constancy (the 4C) framework. We reason that similar illuminants will result in similar white point colours in an image. Based on this assumption, we first use a clustering algorithm to group similar white point colours of the training samples into the same cluster. We then treat the images in the same cluster as belonging to the same illumination source and each cluster as one class of illuminants. The colour constancy problem, i.e., that of estimating the unknown illuminant of an image, becomes that of identifying which illuminant class (cluster) the image’s illuminant falling into. We again make use of our novel binary colour histogram representation and our random forest based illuminant classification methods to implement our new 4C colour constancy framework. We present experimental results on publicly available testing datasets and show that our new method is competitive to state of the art. As a practical application, we have successfully extended our novel colour constancy methods from still image into video processing. The video tonal stabilization problem is still an unsolved problem, and current algorithms are only focusing on keeping the tonal stable during video playing, not really trying to recover the incorrect illuminant. We tackle these two problems together by keeping the tonal stable and recovering the frame colour to a canonical illuminant. Our approach first divides video frames into shots containing similar illuminant characteristics. We then correct the frames in the same scene by using the Random Forest illuminant estimation framework. A smooth function is applied to prevent flick and flash from occurring at the boundary of the neighboring scenes. Experimental results show that our new methods can improve video quality effectively.

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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Library Voodoo or Library Science?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8757.

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Eves, Bob. "The colour concept generator : a computer tool to propose colour concepts for products." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 1997. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/333/.

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This thesis documents research undertaken into the design and evaluation of a computer tool (Colour Concept Generator) to produce colour schemes for products from verbal descriptors depicting a required aesthetic image or style. The system was designed to translate between descriptive words and colour combinations and aims to provide a form of ideas stimulus for a product designer at the initial stages of the design process. The computer system uses elements of artificial intelligence (AI) to `learn' colour and descriptor semiotic relations from a product designer based upon a proposed objective criteria or to reflect a designers personal style. Colour concepts for products can then be generated from descriptors based upon these semiotic relations. The philosophy of the research is based upon the idea of computing colour aesthetics at the front end of the design process and the design of an Al software mechanism to facilitate this. The problem was analysed with respect to the available literature on colour and a set of detail requirements for the system were presented. The system was then designed and code based upon the requirements and evaluated in terms of the overall philosophy, system methodology and application of computer media. The research is a contribution to the field of computer aided design regarding colour aesthetics and demonstrates the possibility of using an artificial intelligent machine to inspire and stimulate creative human thought. The Al software mechanism of the Colour Concept Generator is presented as an application of Al to aesthetic design. 11

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Yeh, Chun-Wei. "Colour morphology and its approaches." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5430/.

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Mathematical morphology was first applied to binary images and readily extended to grey-level images. In extending mathematical morphology to colour it is difficult to define a suitable unambiguous ordering. We present two complete ordering schemes based on colour difference and similarity ordering for colour morphology. A novel colour difference formula is first introduced. This colour difference formula is based on colour extrema derived from a simple physical model of image formation and avoids the more arbitrary mathematical and perceptual definitions previously reported. Moreover, we define similarity criteria as the basis for mathematical morphology that can be used with flat and non-flat structuring elements. The proposed orderings meet the properties of mathematical morphology, and provide a harmonised approach for binary, grey-level and colour morphology. A comparison of ordering schemes for dilation, erosion, opening, closing and filtering operator shows the colour difference-based ordering presented here to be at least as good as other ordering schemes and better than some of the well principled, previously reported methods in not generating artefacts and reducing image noise. Additionally, the development of a similarity-based ordering to perform morphological gradient and Hit-or-Miss transforms for colour images is presented.

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Neumann, Eva-Marie. "Architecture, science and colour in Britain 1945-1976." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1382237/.

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The development of a scientific theory of colour and of standardized colour ranges by a small group of modernist architects is a fascinating but Little-known episode of post-war British architectural history. In many articles, official publications, and conferences, and from within key organizations of the building industry, these architects promoted a theory of colour selection and application based on seemingly 'functional' and 'rational' criteria such as the 'aesthetic of the structure', the character of the building and its occupants, and the improvement of lighting and vision. Architects were also concerned with the standardization of colour, leading, from 1955 until the late 1970s, to farchitectural' ranges responding to 'functional' needs being published as official British Standards. Cotour in modern architecture has only recently become the subject of critical historical studies. Its belated reassessment by historians is, in part-, related to modernism's own rejection of cotour, which was seen to belong to the transient and decadent phenomena of decoration and fashion. Yet, many modernist architects persisted in thinking about and applying colour in their buildings. This thesis explores some of the different and complex meanings of colour as well as the ambivalent role of science in post-war British architecture. It shows that the scientization and standardization of colour after the war was in part an attempt by architects to maintain and make I acceptable a new decorative theory and practice of colour in face of the dominant ideology of science promoted by the Welfare State, and of the modernist hostility to decoration. It shows that colour was then such an attractive subject for architects because it allowed them to appear as scientific experts but at the same time, retain control over architectural practice by asserting the primacy of their mysterious aesthetic abilities.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Education Resource Guide: Tanya Lee Stone – In Search of Wonder: Common Core and More." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2396.

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This education resource guide supplements the presentation made by Tanya Lee Stone at In Search of Wonder: Common Core and More, a professional development day presented by The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance, in conjunction with the Perry Ohio School District. Included on these pages are engaging activities and discussion questions based on Common Core English Language Standards for two of Stone’s books: Courage Has No Color and Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?

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Kasai, Yumiko. "School library challenge in Japan - LIPER-SL: Library and information professions and education renewal, School Library Research Group report." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105794.

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Japanese school libraries have had issues and conflicts over their specialists for over 50 years. LIPER-SL sets a new hypothetical model of "The Information Specialist for School". A series of research examined the possibilities of this new professional and identified the gap between the ideal and reality. The present situation was analyzed through a national questionnaire followed by a focus group interview. The missions and functions of "The Information Specialist for School" were defined at the end of this research.

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Quagliaroli, Sara Elizabeth. "Library Leadership Engagement for Transformative Academic Library Spaces." Thesis, Johnson & Wales University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276529.

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The environment in which higher education institutions are situated has been impacted by a number of disruptive forces since the early 1990s, including acceleration in the capability of information technology (Beagle, 2006; Bennett, 2003; Foster, 2014), changing attitudes about learning pedagogy (Barr & Tagg, 1995), and calls for accountability from government and the public (Appleton, Stevenson, & Boden, 2011; Forrest & Bostick, 2013). Innovative leaders in academic librarianship have been empowered by their institutions to lead efforts to create transformative library learning spaces that can effectively leverage the opportunities presented through these disruptions to aid the institution in meeting its goals, now and in the future.

The theoretical framework for this study was grounded in planned (Lewin, 1951) and emergent change (Bess & Dee, 2012; Burnes, 2004, Leslie, 1996) theories, which are both needed to foster sustainable and transformative outcomes (Mossop, 2013). The following research question guided this study:

How do organizational leaders experience engagement with stakeholders during the creation of library learning spaces, from visioning through planning, implementation and evaluation?

This basic, interpretive, qualitative study employed individual, semi-structured interviews with (N=11) library leaders who possessed primary responsibility for leading others to facilitate creation of library learning spaces at their institution. Projects serving as subjects for the study were completed between 2011 and 2016. Leader subjects were identified through intentional and emergent sampling. Themes were inductively identified through open and axial coding methods (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Artifacts related to the library space projects were analyzed to corroborate findings. Elite interviews with (N2) professionals from varied backgrounds who have expert knowledge on library learning space design were implemented to integrate additional perspectives into findings.

Five principal findings were identified that framed the process of leadership engagement through a library space project: 1) Input: Leadership Characteristics & Project Ignition; 2) Project Drivers: Institutional Authority, Mission, & Needs; 3) Building on Relational Capital; 4) Persistence through Planned Change; and 5) Maintaining Sustainable Spaces. This study may contribute a greater understanding of leadership requirements for library space design projects, as well as identify activities associated with project success.

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Taylor, Richard Ian. "Colour object recognition using shape-based aspects." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361149/.

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Hediyeh, Zahabi. "Colour changing electro active polymer systems." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/24856.

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Dielectric elastomers are electroactive polymers, which change size and shape in response to an electrical field. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are highly promising new technologies in optical applications such as tuneable optical lenses, diffraction gratings and active camouflage. This thesis aims to develop a new approach to create a strain actuated compliant colour changing device that is controlled using DEAs as they offer stretchability, low weight, high efficiency, low cost and the possibility for miniaturisation. Conventional DEAs use transparent elastomeric materials with no significant colour change with strain. Conversely, liquid crystal materials are known to display dynamic colour changing behaviour, thereby making them good candidate materials. The thesis examines both the potential for colour changing soft actuators and the upcoming challenges in this field as well as the key concepts around liquid crystals that exhibit colour change. An initial approach was aimed at creating colour changes using dielectric elastomer actuators that drove a masked positioner. This method showed colour change since the mask changes the colour visualisation. The second approach used polymer dispersed liquid crystals, such as a nematic liquid crystal within a reactive silicone resin. The immiscibility of these compounds resulted in a dispersion of the liquid crystal droplets in the silicone matrix. However, the optical properties could not be controlled through mechanical deformation alone and the alignment of resulting LC droplets in the PDLC films was sensitive to the substrate used to perform the actuation. The next approach used reactive cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC) instead. A thin film coating process was preferred to carefully control the film's thickness by stretching. In free standing films a planar cholesteric alignment was obtained with mesogens aligned parallel to the substrate and colour was achieved based on the selective reflection of light. A transfer print technique was introduced to combine CLC coatings with elastomeric substrates that can be stretched. However, no colour change was achieved in response to mechanical deformation primarily due to the modulus and strength mismatch between the thin film and the elastomeric susbstrate material. Finally, lightly crosslinked liquid crystal elastomers using a combination of reactive and non-reactive liquid crystals were produced that were compatible with elastomer substrate materials. In free standing films planar cholesteric alignment was obtained with mesogens aligned parallel to the substrate. Successfully a reversible colour change based on selective reflection of light was achieved in response to a mechanical deformation.

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Cielniak, Grzegorz. "People Tracking by Mobile Robots using Thermal and Colour Vision." Doctoral thesis, Örebro : Örebro universitetsbibliotek, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1111.

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Buttlar, Lois, and Mont Rosemary Du. "Library and Information Science Competencies Revisited." Association of Library and Information Science Education, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105083.

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This study ascertains the attitudes of library school alumni regarding the value of including various competencies in an M.L.S. program in order to facilitate curriculum planning. A total of 736 alumni rated a list of fifty-five competencies. Twenty-five percent of alumni had been out of library school less than three years; 60 percent had been out less than ten years. The largest category of respondents is represented by public librarians (39 percent), followed by academic librarians (20 percent), school librarians (19 percent), special librarians (10 percent), and those in nonlibrary settings (12 percent). There was a significant relationship between the type of library course taken during library school and the type of library in which the respondent found employment. Childrenâ s and young adult literature was the most poplar â type of literatureâ course taken. The five competencies ranked most frequently as essential include: knowledge of sources, collection management skills, conducting a reference interview, communicating effectively in writing, and the ability to apply critical thinking skills to library problems. Rating of competencies was also analyzed by beginning librarians. Competencies valued also differed as a function of setting. Findings were compared to those of an earlier study conducted by the authors in 1987.

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Nsingwane, Greatness Thulisile. "Career preferences of library science students." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1311.

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Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Library and Information Science Honours at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1991.
The underlying problem in this study is to look into the career preferences of library science students as related to university and public libraries. Career preferences will be judged by various factors which include the students' needs, professional education and social background. Prospective librarians, of course, have career preferences but should be reminded of the profound transformation of the public library in South Africa due to political and social-economic factors.

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Cebrian, Michael Christopher. "Angular Component Library Comparison." Thesis, Villanova University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281632.

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The purpose of this study is to aide web developers in choosing which component library to integrate with their web based Angular project. Angular is a new platform and many of the existing component libraries are still under active development, or were only recently released, making it difficult for developers to know which component library would be the best fit for their project. This study reviews many factors which would influence a developer’s decision on which library to use including: the size of the community, number of components available, quality of documentation, payload size increase, and load time performance. This study proves that the most popular projects aren’t the most performant and are lacking key features, while some much less popular libraries are performing better and have a better set of components. Developers looking for the best combination of performance and features should consider ngx-bootstrap or Angular Material Design Lite.

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Amanatidis, Dimitrios E. "Motion estimation and segmentation of colour image sequences." Thesis, Kingston University, 2008. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20300/.

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The principal objective of this thesis is to develop improved motion estimation and segmentation techniques that meet the image-processing requirements of the post¬production industry. Starting with a rigorous taxonomy of existing image segmentation techniques, we proceed by focusing on motion estimation by means of optical flow calculation. A parametric motion model based method to estimate optical flow fields on three consecutive frames is developed and tested on a number of colour real sequences. Initial estimates are robustly refined in an iterative scheme and are enhanced by colour probability distribution information to enable foreground/background segmentation in a maximum a posteriori pixel classification scheme. Experiments, . show the significant contribution of the colour part towards a well-segmented image.Additionally, a very accurate variational optical flow computation method based on brightness constancy, gradient constancy and spatiotemporal smoothness constraints is modified and implemented so that it can robustly estimate global motion over three consecutive frames. Motion is enhanced by colour evidence in a similar manner and the method adopts the same probabilistic labelling procedure. After a comparison of the two methods on the same colour sequences, a third neural network based method is implemented, which initially estimates motion by employing two twin-layer optical flow calculating Gellular Neural Networks and proceeds in a similar manner, (incorporating colour information and probabilistic ally classifying pixels), leading to similar or improved quality results with the added advantage of significantly accelerated performance. Moreover, another CNN is employed with the task of offering spatial and temporal pixel compatibility constraint support, further improving the quality of the segmented images. Weights are used to control the respective contributing terms enabling optimization of the segmentation results for each sequence individually. Finally, as a case study of CNN implementation in hardware (FPGA), the use of Handel-G, a C-like, high-level, parallel, hardware description language, is exploited to allow for rapid translation of our algorithms to efficient hardware.

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McEwen, Gordon John. "Colour image processing for textile fibre matching in forensic science." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336101.

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Lister, Thomas. "Simulating the colour of port wine stain skin." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/352088/.

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Currently, laser treatments for Port Wine Stain (PWS) lesions are considered the choice therapy, but response is poor or treatments are ineffective for around half of patients. It is proposed in this thesis that improvements to the effectiveness of laser treatment can be achieved through the acquisition of estimated PWS vessel number density, depths and diameters for each individual lesion. Information regarding PWS vessel architecture is found to be contained within the colour of the lesion. Presented in this thesis is a method of extracting this information through colour measurements and the inverse application of a skin model. Colour measurements are performed on 14 participants using a Konica-Minolta CM2600d spectrophotometer employing a xenon flashlamp illumination source and an integrating sphere. Light transport is simulated through an 8 layer mathematical skin model inclusive of horizontal, pseudo-cylindrical PWS blood vessels using a new Monte Carlo programme. Within the programme, model parameters were adjusted in an iterative process and skin colour was reproduced with a mean discrepancy of 1.9% reflection for clinically normal skin (24 datasets) and 2.4% for PWS skin (25 datasets). The programme estimated anatomical properties of the measured regions of skin, yielding epidermal melanin volume fractions from 0.4% to 3.3% and mean melanosome diameters from 41 nm to 384 nm across the participant group. The response to laser treatment was assessed for 10 participants through colour measurements taken immediately before and at least 6 weeks after treatment and through expert analysis of photographs for 9 participants taken at these times. Treatment response was not found to correlate directly with the pre-treatment melanin parameters estimated by the programme. Mean depths, diameters and number densities of PWS vessels were also estimated by the programme before and after treatment. These parameters were compared to data obtained from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images for 5 participants. Number densities and diameters predicted by the simulation varied by no more than 10% from the values determined by OCT for 4 and 5 out of 7 regions respectively. Mean depths predicted by the simulation did not correspond with those determined by OCT however. This may be a result of the limited contribution of deeper vessels to the colour of PWS skin. Predicted PWS parameters were compared to treatment response assessed by colour measurement for 10 participants and by photographic analysis for 9 of these. Predicted vessel number densities were not found to correspond with treatment response. Vessel diameters predicted by the simulation correlated with treatment response when compared with the pulse lengths selected for treatment. Optical coefficients derived from the skin model were used to estimate appropriate laser treatment radiant exposures at the predicted mean vessel depths and these radiant exposures corresponded strongly with the treatment response. Suggestions for improvements in the predictions of melanosome diameters through changes in the adjacent skin minimisation procedure within the programme are discussed. The apparent underestimation of PWS blood vessel number densities and mean depths (compared to biopsy studies) may be a result of the reduced influence of deeper PWS vessels upon skin colour. Further investigation, including modifications to the PWS vessel minimisation procedure within the programme, would be necessary to determine whether improvements in these predictions may be achievable. The results of the study show that the new Monte Carlo programme is capable of extracting, from measurements of skin colour, realistic estimates of PWS skin characteristics which can be used to predict treatment response and therefore inform treatment parameters on an individual PWS.

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Ghuloum, Abdulaziz. "Implicit phasing for library dependencies." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344623.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Computer Science, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 8, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: B, page: 1120. Adviser: R. Kent Dybvig.

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McColl, Roderick William. "Colour image quantisation and coding for optimal perception." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73515/.

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Once a digital image is processed in some way and the reconstruction is compared to the original, the final arbiter of reconstruction quality is the human to whom the images are presented. The research presented here is concerned with the development of schemes for the quantisation of colour images and for the encoding of colour images for transmission, with the goal of minimising the perceived image distortion rather than minimising a traditional error signal statistic. In order to quantise colour images with minimum perceived distortion, a colour space is sought in which Euclidean distances correspond linearly to perceived colour difference. The response of the visual system to colour and colour difference is investigated. A new quantisation scheme is developed and implemented to achieve a colour image compression ratio of approximately 6: 1. Three variations on the basic quantiser algorithm are considered and results of applying each variation to three test images are presented. Two-component encoding of colour images for low bit-rate transmission is investigated. A new method of encoding the contents of the image regions following contour extraction is developed. Rather than using parametric surface descriptions, a quad-tree is constructed and a simple measure of perceived image contrast threshold is used to determine the transmitted data. Arithmetic entropy coding is used to discard statistical redundancy in the signal . A colour wash process recreates the colour in each region. Implementation details are presented and several examples are given to illustrate differing contrast thresholds with compression rates of up to 50: 1. An analysis of the textures in certain regions of the test images leads to the development of an algorithm to synthesise the appearance of the textures following extraction of a small block which may be repeated across the region, leading to dramatic compression rates in · some instances.

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Gstalder, Steven Herbert. "Understanding Library Space Planning." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10289537.

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The role of the academic library has shifted from developing book collections to serving the information and technology needs of students and faculty. The needs of library users change more quickly and unpredictably than the needs of books, and library directors have pushed beyond the traditional incremental approach to library development to respond to changing needs. As many universities struggle to balance budgets, library directors must demonstrate the value and demand for library spaces and services to justify investments in construction and renovation projects. This study investigates the reasons that the new library space projects were undertaken and the forces driving decisions about investments in the library facilities. The cases in this dissertation present studies of three private, non-profit liberal arts institutions in the Eastern United States that have recently invested in major renovation or construction projects for new library spaces. At each site, interviews and focus group sessions were conducted with librarians, students, faculty, and library administrators. Archival material was researched to supplement the data collected from the subjects of the interviews. A multi-lens framework of strategic change is used to examine the forces and factors that influenced the decisions to pursue new library spaces in each case study. The institutions in the study successfully developed new learning commons and library spaces through renovation or construction projects. Each of the libraries in the study faced similar factors leading to a new space, including overcrowding, interest from students in collaborative learning, increased demand for access to technology, and the decline in the use of the printed book. The strong leadership of the library director, with support from the institution’s president, contributed to the success of each project in the study. The importance of this study derives from its examination of the changing factors and forces that drive the uses of new library spaces, highlighting the need to build flexibility into new construction projects.

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Nicklas, Charlotte. "Splendid hues : colour, dyes, everyday science and women's fashion, 1840-1875." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2009. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/101ff2e9-82bb-40f2-b205-d656f58d8de4.

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Great changes characterized the mid- to late nineteenth century in the field of dye chemistry, including many innovations in the production of colours across the spectrum, especially the development of synthetic dyes from coal-tar aniline. From 1840 to 1875, textile manufacturers offered a wide variety of colourful dress textiles to female fashion consumers in both Great Britain and the United States. Middle-class women were urged to educate themselves about dyeing, science, and colour, while cultivating appropriate, moderate attention to fashion in dress. This thesis examines the mid-nineteenth century relationship of fashion, dye chemistry, and everyday science, exploring consumers’ responses to these phenomena of modernity. Paying special attention to the appreciation of chemistry and colour theory during the period, this project considers how the development of new dyes affected middle-class uses and discussions of colours in women’s dress.

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Pancholy, Rajiv. "A multiprocessor interface for a colour graphics animation system /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60110.

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This thesis describes the design and hardware implementation of a high speed multi-processor interface used in a colour graphics animation system. The design involves the use of Direct Memory Access to move data between the memories of the various CPUs constituting the Grads system. The system accommodates the various bus protocols, word sizes, and interrupt schemes of the different processors. An evaluation of the completed system is presented.

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Chen, Minzhen. "Meiguo tu shu guan xue hui yu Yingguo tu shu guan xue hui dui tu shu guan shi ye fa zhan zhi bi jiao yan jiu." Taibei Shi ; Niuyue : Han mei tu shu you xian gong si, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=6LTSAAAAMAAJ.

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de, Freitas Sara Isabella. "Towards the global library : a cultural history of the British Library, 1972-2000." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341065.

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In 1972, the passing of the British Library Act formally brought to an end an institutional relationship between the British Museum and the British Museum Library, which had lasted for over two hundred years. Since its creation in 1753, the Library had, in its capacity as the national deposit, developed a range of services and an infrastructure, which centred on the acquisition, storage and preservation of material for the national collection. However, in addition to meeting its legislative responsibilities, the Library had, from the very beginning, made itself increasingly responsible for the organisation and provision of the national collection for a growing academic usership. This desire, to fulfill both the function of a secure repository and of an educational resource, had throughout its history, provided the Library with the majority of the practical challenges that it faced in its day-to-day operations. However, between 1972-2000, the internal policy documents of the national library, now renamed the British Library, indicate a period of significant change, in which this study asserts a radical reorganisation of the Library's services and infrastructure was taking place. This thesis sets out by asking what evidence there is to support the assertion of a radical reorganisation of the national library during this period. The reformation of the national library as an autonomous institution in 1972, and the lead up to its subsequent relocation in 1997, naturally enough serve as starting points for this enquiry, which goes on to examine the discursive practices and theoretical issues that accompanied the formation of the new British Library. The changes noted in this study therefore, chart not only the transition from analogue to digital library services, but also the increasing relevance of the central discourses of librarianship - the provision, storage and classification of information - to information science as a whole.

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Ranganathan, S. R. "Philosophy of Library Classification." Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (Bangalore, India), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105278.

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This is a preliminary scan of S.R. Ranganathan's Philosophy of Library Classification (1989 Indian reprint edition). Contents include: Conspectus, 8 chapters, and Index: 1. Evolution of classification. 2. Library classification: an artificial language. 3. Library Classification and social forces. 4. Library classification as a transformation and its limitations. 5. Library classification and its symbiosis with library catalogue. 6. Capacity of library classification. 7. Increasing of dimensions and optional facets. 8. Organisation for research in library classification. Â© Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS). This is a title in the dLIST Classics project; permission for non-profit use granted by SRELS. To purchase print reprints of this work, please visit Ess Ess Publications at http://www.essessreference.com/.

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Pharo, Gavin. "Assessment of 13 Forensic Molecular Markers for skin colour in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29463.

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Molecular phenotyping is the use of informative genetic variation to estimate appearance. This concept can be applied in a forensic context to predict the appearance of suspects or decayed deceased individuals, which would otherwise remain unidentifiable. This concept has importance in a local context, as approximately 300 individuals remain unidentified, after conventional identification techniques, at Salt River Mortuary, every year. Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) are genetic variants with DNA which have been commonly associated with pigmentation phenotypes, and thus has value in predicting skin tone, hair colour and eye colour. This research study aimed to design and optimise an assay to genotype 13 AIMs associated with pigmentation, and then demonstrate the value of this assay by applying it to a case example and qualitatively predicting appearance. Primers were designed and PCR assays optimised to amplify each region, followed by Sanger sequencing on a case example. The case was that of an abandoned neonate, with unknown sex and ancestry. A comparison of the obtained genotypes to previous literature was performed to qualitatively estimate the skin tone, eye colour and hair colour of the decedent, which was not only in agreement with the forensic pathologist’s interpretation of sex and ethnicity, but provided richer detail with regards to ancestry, skin tone, eye colour and hair colour. The PCR assays were then further optimised into four multiplex assays with the intention of genotyping these AIMs by two SNaPshot® PCR assays (Applied Biosystems) in a larger control cohort to model the relationship between these AIMs and melanin index more objectively. Unfortunately, the scope of this research project did not allow for the completion of this additional aspect. Overall, these results indicate that these 13 AIMs have potential to predict pigmentation phenotypes of South African individuals. However, genotyping and modelling of the effects of these AIMs should be performed on a large cohort to further strengthen this conclusion.

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Phillips, Amy. "Framing the Public Library| The Public Perception of the Public Library in the Media." Dominican University, 2013.

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Koremura, Yuka O'Connor Brian C. "Toward an ideal library a synthesis of Wilson's library and information policy and Gilbert's performance matrix /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9070.

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Doherr, Detlev. "The Humboldt digital library : exploring innovative structures." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3521/.

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Alexander von Humboldt’s maps, graphs and illustrations contain a great deal of detail, but in the available rare editions they are hardly visible to the naked eye. In many editions they have been reduced. In a digital library, they will become accessible in their entirety, and Internet technology will reproduce them in a form that overcomes the limitations of the original printing. The user will be able to enlarge the images and see details that might have been overlooked in the past. The Humboldt’s digital library will adhere to the standards for digital libraries established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the tools EPRINTS and DSPACE to provide the Web services and determine the most effective way to establish dynamic linking and knowledge based searching of information within the archive.
Alexander von Humboldts Karten, Bilder und Illustrationen enthalten eine Vielzahl von Details, die in den verfügbaren Ausgaben seiner Werke mit bloßem Auge kaum oder wegen Reduzierung der Auflösungen gar nicht sichtbar sind. In einer digitalen Bibliothek sind diese Informationen komplett zugänglich, ja die Internettechnologie läßt es zu, diese in einer Form zu reproduzieren, die die Grenzen des herkömmlichen Ausdruckens sprengen. Der Nutzer ist in der Lage, die Bilder zu vergrößern und Details zu erkennen, die möglicherweise sonst übersehen werden könnten. Die digitale Bibliothek über Humboldt entspricht den Standards, die die Open Archives Initiative (OAI) definiert hat. Als Plattform werden serverseitig die Programme EPRINTS und DSPACE eingesetzt, um einen geeigneten Internet-Dienst anzubieten und effektive Möglichkeiten zur dynamischen Verbindung von Informationen und wissensbasierter Informationsrecherche im gesamten Archiv zu entwickeln.

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Hickey, Peter J. "A microcomputer network for computer science education." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5023.

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Alshaheen, Reham Isa. "User Experience and Information Architecture of National Library Websites." Thesis, Simmons College, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13425662.

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With the advancement of information technology, national library websites have become an essential vehicle for their users to access official information and library resources. They serve the general public from different countries, age groups, ethnicities, and educational levels. The purpose of this dissertation research is to examine the usability, user experience (UX), and information architecture (IA) of national library websites in different countries. Focal areas of investigation include: (1) the primary content elements on national library websites' homepages, (2) the extent to which various quantitative measures of heuristic evaluation and IA assessment overlap with those measures from task-based usability testing, (3) the extent of the impact of cultural and national origins on participants’ assessment of usability of national libraries’ websites. The research design of this dissertation study features (1) a content inventory of 28 national library websites, (2) a web IA assessment and a usability evaluation of five national library websites, and (3) usability tests for three national library websites involving 30 participants. The key findings of this dissertation research help to establish a list of common content elements on the homepages of national library websites worldwide and provide a concrete, practical, and feasible procedure to evaluate such websites. The results show statistically significant differences in task performance with the use of national library websites between different groups of users, such as those from different genders and educational backgrounds. Significant correlations were found between the overall participant satisfaction of a national library website and multiple variables such as the content, visual design, and information architecture, as well as between heuristic evaluation scores and participants’ ratings of some aspects of the websites.

Based on the specific results from various phases of the research, this dissertation presented detailed recommendations that could help to make national library websites more usable for all its users, including the first-time users across different genders, age groups, and educational backgrounds. Furthermore, in order to achieve a high level of satisfaction, it is recommended that national libraries focus on six factors affecting participants’ satisfaction: the quality of information, the trustworthiness of the content, the credibility of the content producers/providers, the website’s overall structure, the design, and the aesthetics of the website.

Another significant contribution of this dissertation research is its use of various methods used to evaluate national library websites and its integration of the results of the different methods to obtain a broader and more comprehensive understanding of these findings. Future UX research on national library websites could expand the research by incorporating the methodology used in this research, testing a greater number of national library websites around the world, and involving users from all walks of life.

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Wong, Chi-Kin. "Reusable template library for parallel patterns." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000618.

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Starrett, Malin John. "Checking the facts in science : the experience of experimenting." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365940.

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Chang, Durk Hyun. "Knowledge, culture, and identity : American influence on the development of library and information science in South Korea since 1945 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Wiles, Alison. "Library usability in higher education : how user experience can form library policy." Thesis, University of West London, 2015. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473/.

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The university library has been called “the heart of a university”, but in the past has been described as being “virtually unusable”. This exploratory study is an investigation into user experience and usability in university libraries in the UK, and aims to examine the difference between users’ experience and their expectations of using their university library. It will also investigate university library policies to determine how a user experience policy can help to improve users’ experience. A user survey was carried out at three UK university libraries, using a questionnaire which asks participants to give their current opinions on their experience of 12 usability properties, and then to rate their expectations of each of the 12 properties. This means that it is then possible to calculate the gap between how the users rate the usability of the library, and how usable it should be. Additionally, a website survey of 121 UK universities was undertaken to see which types of policies UK university libraries have in place, whether a policy for user experience factors exists at these institutions, and if so what the policy covers. The findings show the areas where the largest gaps between expectations and experience occur. One of the largest gaps at the three institutions concerns the adequacy of the information that users are able to retrieve, and this can be addressed by either improving the library’s performance in this area, or by managing the expectations of library users. The website survey of library policies shows that while there is a core of seven types of library policy, user experience policies are unusual. Library user experience and usability is undoubtedly a field growing in importance in the eyes of librarians and researchers. By taking the “lived experiences” of users into account, and doing this in conjunction with a user experience policy, the university library can become a place of continuous improvement.

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Morgan, Richard. "Component library retrieval using property models." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6095/.

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The re-use of products such as code, specifications, design decisions and documentation has been proposed as a method for increasing software productivity and reliability. A major problem that has still to be adequately solved is the storage and retrieval of re-usable 'components'. Current methods, such as keyword retrieval and catalogues, rely on the use of names to describe components or categories. This is inadequate for all but a few well established components and categories; in the majority of cases names do not convey sufficient information on which to base a decision to retrieve. One approach to this problem is to describe components using a formal specification. However this is impractical for two reasons; firstly, the limitations of theorem proving would severely restrict the complexity of components that could be retrieved and secondly the retrieval mechanism would need to have a method of retrieving components with 'similar' specifications. This thesis proposes the use of formal 'property' models to represent the key functionality of components. Retrieval of components can then take place on the basis of a property model produced by the library's users. These models only describe the key properties of a component, thereby making the task of comparing properties feasible. Views are introduced as a method of relating similar, non identical property models, and the use of these views facilitates the re-use of components with similar properties. The language Miramod has been developed for the purpose of describing components, and a Miramod compiler and property prover which allow Miramod models to be compared for similarity, have been designed and implemented. These tools have indicated that model based component library retrieval is feasible at relatively low levels of the programming process, and future work is suggested to extend the method to encompass earlier stages in the development of large systems.

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Stribling, Jeremy. "OverCite : a cooperative digital research library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34352.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
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CiteSeer is a well-known online resource for the computer science research community, allowing users to search and browse a large archive of research papers. Unfortunately, its current centralized incarnation is costly to run. Although members of the community would presumably be willing to donate hardware and bandwidth at their own sites to assist CiteSeer, the current architecture does not facilitate such distribution of resources. OverCite is a design for a new architecture for a distributed and cooperative research library based on a distributed hash table (DHT). The new architecture harnesses donated resources at many sites to provide document search and retrieval service to researchers worldwide. A preliminary evaluation of an initial OverCite prototype shows that it can service more queries per second than a centralized system, and that it increases total storage capacity by a factor of n/4 in a system of n nodes. OverCite can exploit these additional resources by supporting new features such as document alerts, and by scaling to larger data sets.
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Siegal, David R. "Smart-MLlib: A High-Performance Machine-Learning Library." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460587487.

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Majumder, Apurba Jyoti. "Role of Consortia on Library and Information Science Education." Allied Publisher, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105227.

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The way and pace at which information is generated, organized and used is witnessed rapid strides in recent times. Hence, the discipline of LIS meant to manage and provide information service may not be taught effectively and practiced perfectly through a framed curriculum in the formal education steam alone. Driven by the market demands and user needs, the discipline is embracing other disciplines like computers, communication technology, cognition research etc. to continuously monitor and augment their skills to arrive at â pinpointed information from the delugeâ . Manual means of tackling information will not help the user/professional to solve emerging problems in the actual research setup and also the present day researchers expect a faster response to their information needs. Information management and servicing in a highly matured and skill intensive activity and it requires people with different educational backgrounds. Electronic access is increasingly providing a large proportion of current information instead of print and allowing access through a variety of platforms on a twenty-four hour basis. As the traditional custodians of information, librarians need to be aware of the implications of these changes and develop technological and managerial skills that will enable them to make effective use of information to meet their organization and changing needs. However, many librarians lack confidence to learn and master the skills required in adopting the increasingly sophisticated technology. It is vital that they must be kept in touch with modern developments and maintains a proactive approach to work in an ever-changing information world. Professional profiles are changing so rapidly and very radically these days impacting the librarianâ s portfolio, since libraries are becoming knowledge management organizations with librarians as their active agents. Perhaps the most important development of libraries during the current decade has been the move from organizational self-sufficiency to a collaborative survival mode as personified by the growth of library consortia. Information technology is now a level of cooperation that is much broader and deeper than ever before

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Sarrafzadeh, Maryam, Afsaneh Hazeri, and Bill Martin. "Educating future knowledge-literate library and information science professionals." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105898.

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This paper reports the core findings of an international study that examined the perceptions of LIS community towards knowledge management inclusion in the LIS education. Taking the perspectives of members of international LIS communities, we try to identify the rationale for a paradigm shift in library education towards knowledge management. We also explore the perceptions of LIS community towards the nature and content of knowledge management program in the LIS education which best meets the challenges of the knowledge management work environment.

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Badawi, Waleed Kamal Mohammed. "Investigation of colour constancy using blind signal separation and physics-based image modelling." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2011. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/1878/.

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Colour is an important property in image and video processing; it is used for the segmentation, classification, and recognition of objects. The observed colour of a surface, as captured by an imaging sensor, can be affected by factors such as specular reflection, illumination variation and shadows which can lead to erroneous colour identification. This creates a need for techniques that are able to extract an illumination invariant descriptor of the surface reflectance of an object, such techniques would enable the development of image and video processing systems which are able to identify the actual colour of an object, independent of illumination variations. Thus achieving what is referred to as colour constancy. This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of applying blind signal separation integrated with a physical model of image formation into a framework for achieving colour constancy. The particular model considered in this study is the dichromatic reflection model. This model has been used in approaches to colour constancy developed by other researchers. However, most of these approaches use mixed image components (i.e. composed of specular and diffuse components) in order to estimate illumination and consequently achieve colour constancy. In addition, most of these approaches require the segmentation of the image into regions which correspond to different colours on the multi-coloured surfaces, in high specular reflection (highlight) areas of the image. Correct segmentation of multi-coloured surfaces is difficult to achieve. This thesis proposes an alternative approach embodied in a framework which integrates blind signal separation and dichromatic model of image formation. Unlike the conventional approaches, by using blind signal separation, the illumination can be estimated more accurately using the explicitly separated specular image component and colour constancy is achieved by utilising the explicitly separated diffuse image component only. In addition, by using the blind signal separation the multi-coloured surfaces segmentation problem can be avoided. The research questions addressed by this research are “how should blind signal separation be integrated with the dichromatic model?” and “how does the proposed framework perform in the context of achieving colour constancy?” A novel colour constancy framework is developed in this thesis, and experimental findings about the performance of the framework are reported. Unlike the existing work, the proposed framework includes a new method to estimate the illumination spectral power distribution (ISPD) by using an explicitly extracted specular component of images. Furthermore, the proposed framework includes a new method for estimating the surface spectral reflectance using an explicitly extracted diffuse component, instead of mixed image components which are used by other researchers. The framework consists of three stages which are: the separation of image components, the ISPD estimation and the estimation of surface spectral reflectance. The methodology exploited to evaluate the performance of the framework involves the development of algorithms, their implementation in software, and their assessment using well-designed experiments anchored on quantitative performance measurement methods. The goodness-of-fit coefficient (GFC) is used to evaluate the performance of the framework, by measuring the degree of similarity between the estimated spectral distribution and a known reference. Values of GFC range between 0 and 1; a higher value representing a higher degree of similarity. Using an image data set generated by the author, compared to the manufacturer’s specifications, the estimated ISPD has an average GFC value equal to 0.9830 and 0.9215 for two light sources with colour temperature of 5500 K and 2900 K, respectively. The average GFC of the estimated ISPD improves significantly by 2.9% when the explicit specular image component is used instead of mixed image components. Furthermore, using Foster et al’s image data set (a set of hyperspectral images of natural scenes which was collected by Foster, Nascimento, and Amano), the ISPD is estimated using the mixed image components for other light sources with different colour temperatures. The results show that the estimated ISPD has an average value of the GFC equal to 0.9986 compared to the measured illumination. Using the data set collected by the author of this thesis, the surface spectral reflectance is estimated at individual pixels of an object illuminated by two alternative light sources with colour temperatures of 5500 K and 2900 K. A comparative assessment shows that the spectral reflectance, estimated for each given surface, has almost the same spectral signature for the two light sources. The comparison between the surface spectral reflectance estimates corresponding to the two light sources gives an average GFC value which ranges from 0.9611 to 0.9887, depending on the type of the blind separation technique that is used (i.e. the spatially constrained FastICA technique and the technique developed by Umeyama and Godin). Given that the surface spectral reflectance is the output of the last stage of the framework, which depends on the output of the previous two stages, therefore the GFC measured for surface spectral reflectance reflects the performance of the whole framework. The high GFC values mean that the estimates of surface reflectance under the two light sources are very similar, despite the differences between the two illuminants. This similarity implies that the extracted surface reflectance is significantly independent of illumination characteristics, hence showing that the proposed framework achieved a significant degree of colour constancy. Moreover, the observed results show a statistically significant improvement in the accuracy of the estimated surface spectral reflectance by 2.6% in terms of average GFC value when the explicitly extracted diffuse image component is used instead of the mixed image components. Compared to the surface spectral reflectance measurements included in Foster et al’s image data set, the surface spectral reflectance estimated using the mixed image components has an average GFC value equal to 0.9608.

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Richardson, David G. Krandick Werner J. "Efficient programming techniques for the SACLIB computer algebra library /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3057.

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Kroe, Elaine, and S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics U. "Data File, Public Use: Public Libraries Survey: Fiscal Year 2001 (Revised)." U. S. Department of Education, NCES 2003â 398, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105908.

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The Public Libraries Survey is conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics through the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data. The data are collected by a network of state data coordinators appointed by the chief officers of state library agencies in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas. Data are collected on population of legal service area, service outlets, public service hours, library materials, total circulation, circulation of children's materials, reference transactions, library visits, children's program attendance, electronic services and information, staff, operating income, operating expenditures, capital outlay, and more.

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Richter, Caroline Julia. "The Prentis Family and their Library." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625287.

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Lange, Alissa A., and Q. Tian. "Effects of a Math and Science Library-Based Bilingual Program on Preschoolers, Their Families, and the Library." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4684.

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Winstein, Keith J. "Engineering a campus-wide accessible music library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33382.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
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The Library Access to Music Project has created a new kind of music library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The library is always open and available in dormitory rooms and classrooms, because it transmits music on demand over the Institute's cable television system. By using the analog cable television system, LAMP differs from existing commercial offerings in that essentially any musical recording may be added to the collection - not just recordings where "digital rights" have been obtained. Additionally, LAMP is orders of magnitude less expensive than existing commercial offerings, and it is compatible with a much wider range of receiving apparatuses. With these advantages come unfortunate limitations that spring from LAMP's technical architecture and posture under copyright law. Nonetheless, LAMP has been a moderate success since its opening in October 2004, playing an average of 580 songs per day.
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Cherpak, Igor F. (Igor Fedor) 1970. "Optimizing the UPC communication run-time library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86297.

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Zhou, Mengyao. "SIP : a smart digital image processing library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35049.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
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The Smart Image Processing (SIP) library was developed to provide automated real-time digital image processing functions on camera phones with integer microprocessors. Many of the functions are not available on commercial camera phones and some are not found even in desktop image processing software. Five patents are pending for key functions in this library. These functions create realistic water reflections in varying weather conditions, perform localized magnification and pinching, transform photographs to perspective view, provide fast, high-quality spin radial blur, and provide a fast integer implementation for arbitrary rotation. Details on all pending patents are given in five chapters of this thesis. Other operations performed by the library include adding fog and shadow, creating a neon image, and creating a translucent comer fold. All library functions have been successfully implemented on an integer microprocessor for real-time performance in an existing camera phone system. The library also provides solutions to a number of long-standing problems in image processing, including direct application of transforms in subsampled YCbCr and YCrCb images.
by Mengyao Zhou.
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