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by Kong Yu-ling. / Bibliography: leaves 61 / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

Kwong Lap-ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-[104]). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction to Image Communication --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Existing Approach improving Image Communication --- p.8 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Data Compression --- p.8 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Progressive Image Transmission --- p.10 / Chapter 2 --- Review of Progressive Image Transmission Methods --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Pyramidal Image Coding --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Expansive Image Pyramid --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Non-Expansive Image Pyramid --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Pros and Cons of Pyramidal Data Structure --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- Hierarchical Data Structure with Bit Plane Transmission --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Bitwise Condensed Quadtree method (BCQ)[6] --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Progressive Transmission of Full-Search VQ[7] --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Pros and Cons of Hierarchical Data Structure with Bit Plane Transmission --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- Embedded Transform Coding --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- SPIHT method [16] --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Embedded DCT Method [13] --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Pros and Cons of Embedded Transform Coding --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- Summary --- p.32 / Chapter 3 --- Progressive Refinement of Colormapped Image --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- Colormapped Image --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Pros and Cons of the Usage of Colormapped Image --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2 --- Progressive Refinement in both Spatial and Contrast Resolutions --- p.38 / Chapter 4 --- The Design of Progressive Refinement of Colormapped Image --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Scalar Quantization in the YCrCb color space --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- The Color Space for Color Quantization --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Color Quantization --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- The Order of Quantization --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Pixel Mapping --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2 --- Reordering Pixels --- p.58 / Chapter 4.3 --- Transmission Sequence --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4 --- Changing the progression rate of the spatial and the contrast resolution --- p.62 / Chapter 4.5 --- Data Transmission --- p.69 / Chapter 4.6 --- Displaying the image --- p.70 / Chapter 5 --- Results Analysis & Performance Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1 --- Traffic overhead --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Experiment --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Comparison with other Methods --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Image quality variation --- p.93 / Chapter 6 --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.97 / Chapter 6.1 --- Discussion --- p.97 / Chapter 6.2 --- Conclusion --- p.99 / Bibliography --- p.101

Thesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaf 31. / M.S.

Bibliography: leaves 173-176.

Although several studies have examined the benefits of sport participation for women, few have centered on women of color in particular. Furthermore, the association between how athletic involvement affects one?s likelihood of victimization has yet to be fully explained. Using data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this research employs structural equation modeling techniques to explore the relationship among adolescent females' racial diversity, differential participation in an active sport, and levels of self-esteem to determine how these variables affect victimization patterns in adulthood. Results indicate that female athletic participation has a highly statistically significant positive impact on self-esteem; however, athletic participation and self-esteem levels in adolescent females are not significantly related to their victimization by intimate partners in young adulthood. These results suggest that concentration on victims' characteristics is not necessarily beneficial in order to develop a better understanding of violence; where perhaps instead, research should more closely examine the attributes of perpetrators and societal institutions when exploring how and why violence occurs and who is affected by it.

Increased US export of cotton and global competition necessitates that plant breeders continue to improve fiber properties of upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum (L.). Cotton cultivars having whiter fibers and more mature fibers are desirable due to decreased processing costs. TAM B182-33 ELS (Extra Long Staple) germplasm line of upland cotton, and Tamcot CAMD-E, a short staple obsolete cultivar were crossed with 36 cultivars representing unique germplasm pools from China (12 cultivars), west and central Africa (7 cultivars), south Africa (10 cultivars), and the United States (7 cultivars) that represent distinct germplasm pools. Parents and F1s were grown in College Station, TX, in a Line x Tester design during the summers of 2010 and 2011. Seedcotton was harvested by hand (to avoid the presence of thrash particles in the lint that could bias the color measurements), deburred and allowed to dry in limited light. Cotton samples were ginned on a laboratory saw gin, separated into 2.00 gram subsamples, and color measurements were taken using a Konica-Minolta CR-310 reflectance colorimeter. Absolute color measurements were obtained in two color systems (tristimulus XYZ and CIE L*a*b*). At the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute (FBRI) in Lubbock, TX, 50.0 mg samples of the 38 parents and F1s were used to determine maturity ratio (MR), ribbon width (RbWth) and micronaire (Mic) on a Cottonscope. The fibers were cut into 2.0 mm snippets and immersed in an aqueous solution containing a surfactant and NaCl. Approximately, 20,000 snippets per entry were analyzed for MR, RbWth and Mic in the Cottonscope using polarized light. General and specific combining abilities for all the variables were calculated from the data collected. Despite the evident genetic variation from this study for the degree of fiber whiteness, the difficulties in the phenotypic screening of this trait and its importance relative to other fiber traits are problematic. At this time, it is not advisable to begin a cotton breeding program based upon degree of fiber whiteness. Genetic variation also existed for MR, RbWth and Mic among the distinct germplasm pools utilized in this study, but it is not advisable to begin a breeding program based on RbWth or Mic. However, a cotton breeding program to improve MR would be feasible, especially with fast and repeatable measurements from the Cottonscope.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-95).

Previous behavioral and neuroimaging findings (Drivonikou, et al., 2007; Gilbert, et al., 2006; Tan, et al., 2008; Siok, et al., 2009) indicate that reaction times to targets in visual search are faster in the right than the left visual field when the target and distractor colors straddle a category boundary. This phenomenon is known as the lateralized categorical color perception, which supports the weaker form of Whorf’s hypothesis that linguistic information shapes color perception. Yet, these studies did not demonstrate a definite cause and effect relation between language and perception. The observed lateralized category effect of color perception may either rely on the individual’s innate color categories or his linguistic experience. In the present study, we used an intensive training method to study categorical perception (CP) of color. We aimed to show a definite causal relation between language and perception. In Experiment 1, 37 native Mandarin speakers were tested with a color discrimination task. We taught 20 participants four new linguistic items for the four stimulus colors which were initially from the same lexical category (two blues and two greens) whilst other participants did not learn any new color names. Performances between the two groups were compared before and after training. Experiment 2 was based on Zhou et al.’s (2010) behavioral study, in which we used the same training procedure and measured and contrasted 19 participants’ brain structure before and after training. In experiment 1, participants exhibited lateralized Whorf effect when performing the visual search task at the pre-training phase. After training, the experimental group successfully acquired the new color names, reflected by overall shorter reaction time and higher task accuracy, while the control group did not show significant difference in the performance across two phases. The improved performance of experimental group implicated that the newly learned categories altered participants’ color perception pattern. However, we failed to show lateralized Whorf effect at the post-training phase due to several experimental flaws. In Experiment 2, gray matter density is found to increase in color region of the left visual cortex after a short-term training (less than two hours). The data provided strong structural evidence for newly-learned categorical color perception and also suggested structural plasticity of the human brain. The results from this study indicate that language experience shapes perception, both functionally and structurally, after a period of learning that is much shorter than previously established (Draganski, 2004; Carreiras, et al., 2009; Trachtenberg, 2002). / published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy