Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"wizard"”.
-
Francis Stewart Hepburn: The Wizard Earl
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317616.pdf: 15416513 bytes, checksum: b42b45e352c001b150164c1242b43bb8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
-
Friendly Wizard : a tool kit for building sensor-based systems
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2003.
-
John Dimond - the wizard of Marblehead a miniature opera in five vignettes
… The Opera presented herein, John Dimond - The Wizard of Marblehead, is set in a Massachusetts shipping village during the period of unrest which led up to the American Revolution, the 1760s. John Dimond was a Seer whose home and property were adjacent to the town cemetery. Legend has it that …
-
Wise the Wizard: A Feature Documentary about the Late Harry Wise of Sanford, Florida
<p>Wise the Wizard is a feature-length documentary by Daisy Sara Blakelock, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on the late Harry Wise, a magician from Sanford, Florida, as …
-
Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"
… easy task. Protagonists Dorothy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Yuri of Doctor Zhivago are alike in their search for home. They journey through the texts learning what home means to them, which leads to their own discoveries of home. Through these discoveries, they also learn about finding place …
-
Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"
… easy task. Protagonists Dorothy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Yuri of Doctor Zhivago are alike in their search for home. They journey through the texts learning what home means to them, which leads to their own discoveries of home. Through these discoveries, they also learn about finding place …
-
Development of the second-generation IMTS (Intelligent Monitoring and Trending System) and WOT (Wizard of Tech) expert system for rotating machinery
IMTS and WOT form a PC-based hardware and software system designed to continuously monitor large numbers of rotating machinery, evaluate each machine's condition through a series of user-definable standards, and alert operators to potential problems. This system requires a rack of data acquisition …
-
Influence of Column-Base Fixity On Lateral Drift of Gable Frames
… by developing a computer program or "wizard" to calculate the initial rotational stiffness of any column base connection. To observe the actual behavior of a column base connection under different load cases, a number of finite element models were created in SAP2000. Each finite …
-
America's Lollipop Licking Tease: The Eroticization of the Female Child in 1930s Film
… do other others (such as Stella Dallas and The Wizard of Oz).
-
Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft
… lens to analyze three key fantasy sites: The Wizard of Oz film and stage adaptations (especially the Broadway musical Wicked), The Chronicles of Narnia film and theatrical adaptations, and the Harry Potter films and paratheatrical adaptations. These three fantasy stories have significant …
-
Examination of Interactions Among Eighth-Grade Language Arts Students During Literature Circles
… each week. The role assignments included word wizard, passage picker, connector, summarizer, and question asker. As the students participated in literature circles, the teacher/researcher tape recorded their conversations and took observational field notes. Analysis of the data four weeks later …
-
The Effects of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, and Desire for Control on Performance and Discourse Organization in an Adaptive Task
… task performance with an adaptive interface. A Wizard-of-Oz simulation (Gould, Conti, & Hovanyecz, 1983) was used to create the impression of a talking and listening computer that acted as a teammate to help participants interact with a computer application.</p> <p>Four levels of communication …
-
Gingainstancing: uma ferramenta para geração de produtos derivados do middleware do sistema brasileiro de televisão digital.
… The interface proposed to the software was a wizard built in three cohesive stages, So that these stages work in distinct processes of the application engineering.
-
American Anti-Welfare Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Bucktown
… neighborhood which sent David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989. Interviews explain support and opposition to current Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo's policy suggestion to "end generational welfare" by offering citizens …
-
The power of belief: Innocents and innocence in children's fantasy fiction
… and L. Frank Baum’s <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.</em> Each of the novels that I explore features child characters whose belief in an imagined reality produces a profound effect on the world around her or him.</p>
-
Spontaneous speech recognition using HMMs
… Spontaneous speech was collected using a "Wizard of Oz" simulation of a simple spatial manipulation game. Naive subjects were instructed to manipulate blocks on a computer screen in order to solve a series of geometric puzzles using only spoken commands. A hidden human operator performed …
-
Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz film. These iconic figures reflect respectively: a fundamentalist and nostalgic desire for the past; libidinal authoritarianism; commodification of religion; and the triumph of grift and hucksterism. Together, these figures constellate …
-
Design and simulation of a PCI Express Gen 3.0 communication channel
… tools such as HSPICE, Ansoft HFSS, Ansoft Via Wizard 3.0 and MATLAB were utilized. A simulation model of the system functioning under PCIe Gen 3.0 specifications was successfully developed by using CTLE equalization technique.
-
The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… who has allegedly been kidnapped by an evil wizard. Throughout the story, Tirsan struggles with the social and moral norms which have been instilled in him. Tirsan’s journey is a series of challenges to his preconceptions of what the world is like outside of the limited sphere in which he was …
Page 1 of 3