Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1981 / Includes bibliographical references. / by John Harvey Serocki. / M.S. / M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Display technologies in the current market range from the simple and cheap incandescent bulb behind a graphic overlay to the upwardly expensive flat panel high definition plasma display. To provide a foundation of understanding for Light Emitting Polymers (LEP), samples were imaged in a scanning electron microscope. This was preformed to identify a potential method for answering questions on polymer charge mobility and diffusion mechanisms, which are currently unknown. Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) displays offer a viable alternative to the active matrix style, when an application calls for information to be sent in a simple visible format. By using the flexibility of the fabrication process, LEP displays can be applied to offer a low cost, lightweight, and durable means of communicating information during shipboard damage control and firefighting. A unique screen printing method was used in collaboration with Add-Vision, to produce a prototype that was designed, fabricated and tested for use in Naval shipboard firefighting evolutions. The application of the LEP technology to shipboard damage control was motivated by the experience gained from being both the Officer in Charge of a Naval Firefighting School and from time in the Fleet as a Damage Control Officer. / Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve

The purpose of this research was to determine if presentation format, given a particular task to be performed, would affect the decision-making process of financial decision makers. The problem motivating this study is the potential for managers to make inefficient decisions when they use reports which are presented inappropriately for a given task.

Personalized advertising represents an emerging trend in online advertising. Using enhanced data collection techniques, marketers can craft seemingly made to order advertisements tailored to specific individuals. In turn, this should lead to advertisements that are more relevant for consumers and more effective for marketers. Therefore, personalized advertising has the potential to benefit both consumers and firms alike. However, consumer acceptance of the technique remains a huge hurdle, as many consumers seem uncomfortable with the practice due in part to privacy concerns over the vast amounts of data collected and analyzed when generating personalized advertisements. Therefore, it is critical to garner a better understanding of consumers’ attitudes towards personalized advertising in order to be able to use those insights to alleviate consumer privacy concerns. The purpose of this research is to work towards developing a more thorough understanding of consumers’ attitudes towards personalized advertising by exploring the antecedents and outcomes of those attitudes. In particular, we examine what factors determine whether personalized advertising is perceived favorably vs. invasively by consumers and what effects those perceptions have on consumers’ attitudes and intentions. The research lends contributions to academicians, marketing practitioners, and consumers by helping to achieve an increased understanding of personalized advertising’s impact on consumers’ perceptions. The empirical study employed in this research utilizes a conceptual framework that integrates privacy calculus theory with previous research on invasiveness, advertising acceptance, and innovation adoption. In addition, this research contributes to the marketing and information privacy literatures by making a theoretical connection between perceived invasiveness and its relationship with privacy concerns, as well as its impact on consumers’ attitudes and behavioral intentions. The results from the empirical research reveal that a number of constructs, such as perceived invasiveness, privacy concerns, perceived usefulness, and consumer innovativeness demonstrate significant relationships with consumers attitudes and behavioral intentions in the context of personalized advertising. Implications for managers, researchers, and consumers are discussed. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Kwong-ho Wu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-75). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Outline Fonts --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Advantages and Disadvantages --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Representations --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- Rasterization --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- Introduction to This Thesis --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Organization --- p.7 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Objectives --- p.7 / Chapter 2 --- Chinese Characters Fonts --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Large Character Set --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Font Styles --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Storage Problems --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- Hierarchical Structure --- p.10 / Chapter 2.5 --- High Stroke Count --- p.11 / Chapter 3 --- Rasterization --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Basic Rasterization --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Scan Conversion --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Filling Outline --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Font Rasterization --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Outline Scaling --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Hintings --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Basic Rasterization Approach for Chinese Fonts --- p.18 / Chapter 3.3 --- Hintings --- p.20 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Phase Control --- p.20 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Auto-Hints --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Storage of Hintings Information in TrueType Font and Postscript Font --- p.22 / Chapter 4 --- An Improved Chinese Font Rasterizer --- p.24 / Chapter 4.1 --- Floating Point Avoidance --- p.24 / Chapter 4.2 --- Filling --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Filling with Horizontal Scan Line --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Filling with Vertical Scan Line --- p.27 / Chapter 4.3 --- Hintings --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Assumptions --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Maintaining Regular Strokes Width --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Maintaining Regular Spacing Among Strokes --- p.34 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Hintings of Single Stroke Contour --- p.42 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Storing the Hinting Information in Font File --- p.49 / Chapter 4.4 --- A Rasterization Algorithm for Printing --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- A Simple Algorithm for Generating Smooth Characters --- p.52 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Algorithm --- p.54 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Results --- p.54 / Chapter 5 --- Experiments --- p.56 / Chapter 5.1 --- Apparatus --- p.56 / Chapter 5.2 --- Experiments for Investigating Rasterization Speed --- p.56 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Investigation into the Effects of Features of Chinese Fonts on Rasterization Time --- p.56 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Improvement of Fast Rasterizer --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Details of Experiments --- p.57 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experiments for Rasterization Speed of Font File with Hints --- p.57 / Chapter 6 --- Results and Conclusions --- p.58 / Chapter 6.1 --- Observations --- p.58 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Relationship Between Time for Rasterization and Stroke Count --- p.58 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Effects of Style --- p.61 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Investigation into the Observed Relationship --- p.62 / Chapter 6.2 --- Improvement of the Improved Rasterizer --- p.64 / Chapter 6.3 --- Gain and Cost of Inserting Hints into Font File --- p.68 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Cost --- p.68 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Gain --- p.68 / Chapter 6.4 --- Conclusions --- p.69 / Chapter 6.5 --- Future Work --- p.69 / Appendix

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING / Bibliography: leaves 52-53. / by John Cambell Gonzalez. / B.S.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1979. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Bibliography: leaf 79. / by Edwin P. Berlin, Jr. / B.S.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1979. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Samuel Marc Goldwasser. / Ph.D.