The intent of this study was to determine if leadership competency levels of the students enrolled in a graduate level leadership course were different when taught in Web-based versus traditional classroom settings. Specifically studied were leadership competency scores based on self-perceived leadership skills, leadership expertise, and Web-based and traditional classroom style. The population for this study consisted of students enrolled in a graduate level leadership course in the Spring semester of 2003. The participants completed a questionnaire to ascertain how much they remembered and used the competencies taught in the leadership course. They also responded to how their leadership perceptions and practices changed after completing the course. In addition, the participants completed a section that assessed their self-perceptions of leadership skills. This study found that the instructional format of a graduate level leadership course did not affect how much the students remembered or used the competencies presented. However, it was discovered that women in the Web-based section had a stronger perception of themselves than women enrolled in the traditional section. Furthermore, Web-based instruction combined with high perceptions of leadership expertise had a positive affect on the Decision Making Scale score.

Euclidean Distance transformation is a fundamental technique for the application fields of image understanding and computer vision. Some important characteristics in image analysis such as shape factor, skeleton and medial axis are based upon the distance transformation computation. The lookup table algorithm is based upon the recursive computation structure of the 4N method. Therefore, this algorithm is very fast and is close to the 4N method, which performs as the fastest one among all the comparing algorithms in our experiments. The success of the lookup table algorithm is based upon a checking strategy by error geometry. The error candidates are arranged in order according to their distances to the reference point. In addition, a Local_Array is used to store the y coordinates of the closest foreground pixels above the processing line. Therefore we can find the correct feature point by checking the ordered candidates with the information provided from the Local_Array instead of comparisons among the candidates. In contrast, all the comparing eror-free Euclidean algorithms select their feature points from candidates by time consuming distance comparison.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-123).

Thesis (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Theses (Faculty of Education) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, Spring 2009. / Major professor: Karen Guilfoyle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-144). Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, April 2009. / Major professor: Russell Joki. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-149). Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (MTech (Radiography))--Peninsula Technikon, 2003. / Word processed copy. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-141). Also available online.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Original electronic document formatted into pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-106) and abstract.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisors: John M. Slatin and Margaret A. Syverson. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.