Circular air-coupled ultrasonic testing (ACUT) setup for the inspection of commercial carbon-carbon composite aircraft brake disks was developed in Intelligent Measurement and Evaluation Laboratory (IMEL) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). The developed test setu…
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The Orient in Proust's Recherche appears as a pervasive and dynamic network of images and references. It operates not so much as the static topos, the figure demonstrated by Said to predominate in the Orientalism of nineteenth-century European literature, but as the more dynamic…
This study focuses on the images of women in Arab music videos. The music video has been chosen because it is a new phenomenon in Arab culture, particularly in Arab Gulf countries. This study examined the representation of women in Arab music videos, a practice which started in …
This study proposes a method to utilize remotely sensed pre- and post-disaster imagery data in order to detect the change specifically associated with structural and major regional damage caused by natural disasters such as a strong earthquake. The input is a pair of coregistere…
The early-modern period witnessed the slow demise of the old medieval order dominated by the dual authority of emperor and pope. The Age of the Crusades was also past. Princes like François I began to engage in economic and military alliances with the traditional enemy, the Musl…
Background: Cigarette smoking is a leading preventable factor associated with complications in pregnancy including preterm birth and low birthweight. Past interventions have raised cessation rates by approximately 6% overall (Lumley et al. 2009). Methods: A three-part literature…
Concentrating on six plays in the 1610s, this thesis explores the ways theatrical visual effects described as “strange” channel the period’s moral anxieties about rhetoric, technology, and scepticism. It contributes to debates in repertory studies, textual and material culture, …
In this dissertation I examine the ways in which people living in Dakar, Senegal use, display, collect and encounter photographs and media derived images in the course of their daily activities. In particular, I suggest how this expressive behavior reflects and responds to both …
This dissertation proposes techniques to triage document images based on the mode or type of each mark in the image so that specialized downstream processes can be selected based on the type of content in each image. The following contributions are presented: (1) A new robust re…
This thesis looks at the trajectory of Arabs' portrayal in Hollywood films. It seeks to examine the historical, political as well as the cultural parameters that triggered Hollywood's interest in Arabs representation and the role these parameters played in drawing the limits of …
This study presents a qualitative, interpretive analysis of audiotaped conversations (both one-to-one and focus-group settings) involving six middle-class European-American evangelical Christians' reactions to four contemporary American films (Michael Tolkin's The Rapture 1991; …
This research analyzes media coverage of the Iraq War from the perspective of the invading forces, the United States and the United Kingdom. The New York Times and The Guardian were chosen to represent news from their respective countries because of their high circulation rates …
DESCRIPTION: The research is divided into five chapters (plus an introduction and a conclusion) as follows: INTRODUCTION, in which the work is introduced, the problem is identified, and the need for the research. is presented. CHAPTER ONE: The image of the Arab in the West (from…
Beginning with the theory of image governance, or the idea that images govern our interaction with reality, this study posits that witness operates as a governing image with unique governing characteristics. To understand these unique characteristics, contributions from nine dis…
Although the significance of animal sacrifice in ancient Greek religion has long been recognized, the significance of images of the gods, both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic, has been often overlooked, and certainly undertheorized. Focusing on images of the gods in anci…
The following research is a case study of the creation, structure and maintenance of dominant and subordinate identities in Ethiopian imperial and post-imperial society. The study identifies: (1) how dominant and subordinate identities occur, (2) their impact upon sustainable go…
The story of Abraham, as understood by Christians and Muslims, has always had a formative influence on the central theological dicta of Christianity and Islam. In theologies that perceive class struggle and oppression of the poor as issues distinctly within the purview of religi…
Over the last century, the United States has engaged itself in numerous conflicts--some of which have been large-scale world wars; others have been smaller in scope. But, this trend of U.S. involvement in other country's issues isn't a trend that will seem to subside. As Lippman…