Browsing Rice Graduate Student Collection by Issue Date
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jsut that way
(2012-09-26)Andy Coolquitt makes objects and environments that exist in symbiosis with human relationships. During the 1990s, his life and work revolved around an expansive studio/artist commune/performance space/living sculpture/party ... -
Conflict of Employee–Employer Interest: Introducing an Optimal Work Happiness Framework
(2012)This qualitative study seeks to explore the pursuit and achievement of work happiness for employees. Conflicting interests between organizations (i.e., employers) and employees provide insights into the difficulties ... -
Josephine Meckseper Interviewed by Rachel Hooper
(2011-03-16)Interview with Josephine Meckseper included in the catalogue for Sharjah Biennial 10 "Plot for a Biennial" -
A Framework for Testing Concurrent Programs
(2011)This study proposes a new framework that can effectively apply unit testing to concurrent programs, which are difficult to develop and debug. Test-driven development, a practice enabling developers to detect bugs early by ... -
The Effects of Land Use and Human Activities on Carbon Cycling in Texas Rivers
(2011)I investigated how land use and human activities affect the sources and cycling of carbon (C) in subtropical rivers. Annually rivers receive a large amount of terrestrial C, process a portion of this C and return it to the ... -
Plato, Souls, and Motions
(2011)Plato’s late works contain an unexpectedly consistent treatment of the physics and metaphysics of souls. In the course of showing this, I argue that: (1) the middle period dialogues Phaedo and Republic assume, but do not ... -
Parallel VLSI Architectures for Multi-Gbps MIMO Communication Systems
(2011)In wireless communications, the use of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver is a key technology to enable high data rate transmission without additional bandwidth or transmit power. Multiple-input ... -
Cooperative Partial Detection for MIMO Relay Networks
(2011)Cooperative communication has recently re-emerged as a possible paradigm shift to realize the promises of the ever increasing wireless communication market; how- ever, there have been few, if any, studies to translate ... -
Learning the Structure of High-Dimensional Manifolds with Self-Organizing Maps for Accurate Information Extraction
(2011)This work aims to improve the capability of accurate information extraction from high-dimensional data, with a specific neural learning paradigm, the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). The SOM is an unsupervised learning algorithm ... -
Amplified Encounters at High Speed
(2011)This thesis expands upon the dialogue between speed and architecture, investigating how architecture reinterprets the linear city, originally defined by the continuous fabric of the freeway and more recently reconfigured ... -
Stories Told in the Shape of a Sphere
(2010-08-28)Amy Patton's latest film Oil slips between a theater production of Upton Sinclair's novel of the same name and the making of the film itself. Bitter, Black Thoughts is the first book on Patton's films and features her notes ... -
Carbon Nanotubes Filled Polymer Composites: A Comprehensive Study on Improving Dispersion, Network Formation and Electrical Conductivity
(2010)In this dissertation, we determine how the dispersion, network formation and alignment of carbon nanotubes in polymer nanocomposites affect the electrical properties of two different polymer composite systems: high temperature ... -
Now Let the Storm Break Loose
(2009-10-31)In her photography, videos and installations, Josephine Meckseper (born 1964) sets images of political activism-photographs of demonstrations, newspaper cuttings-against twinkling consumer goods and advertising motifs. ... -
Induction and Intuition, on the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Metholology
(2009-01-01)Since 1994, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)--a research organization based in Culver City, California--has studied the U.S. landscape, using multidisciplinary research, information processing and interpretive ... -
A Computational Model of Routine Procedural Memory
(2009)Cooper and Shallice (2000) implemented a computational version of the Norman and Shallice’s (1986) Contention Scheduling Model (CSM). The CSM is a hierarchically organized network of action schemas and goals. Botvinick and ... -
Making Waste Public
(2009)This thesis questions the boundaries that define waste as a public or private dilemma, investigating these boundaries as productive sites for the imagination of social life. Learning from methods of processing, conveyance ... -
Visual Displays: Developing a Computational Model Explaining the Global Effect
(2009)This work aims to integrate Byrne’s theory of visual salience computation (2006) with Salvucci’s model of eye movements (2001) by testing participants on a visual search task similar to Findlay (1997). By manipulating the ... -
A Lexicon of Suburban Neologisms
(2008-02-16)The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with ... -
Respect and Pride Restored: Zwelethu Mthethwa
(2007-10-04)Artist entry on Zwelethu Mthetwa in "Brave New Worlds" catalogue
