This project explores how science fiction can be used to examine social justice issues in our contemporary world. I will explore two case studies from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series through a framework of race, empire, and orientalism. Walidah Imarisha’s notion of “visionary fiction” is utilized as...
According to the United Nations, Iran has one of the highest percentages of drug addicts in the world, with anywhere between three and four million addicts addicted to heroin or crystal meth in a population of 80 million. At least 700,000 of these addicts are women, whom make up ten...
For mid-rise and high rise buildings, slender reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are commonly used as the main structural elements to resist lateral applied loads in high seismically areas around the globe. These RC structural walls can provide substantial deformation capacity, stiffness, and lateral strength through the contribution of their...
Wireless High Definition Video Transmission (WHDVT) over 802.11-based networks enjoys widespread deployment among today's multimedia solutions. Examples include Intel® Wireless Display and Apple Airplay®, to name a few. In these systems, peer-to-peer networks are established over which H.264-encoded video is transported wirelessly to be decoded and played back at the...
Natural freshwater availability is decreasing as the global population increases. Advances in desalination technologies aim to produce fresh water in an economical way. More sustainable energy sources are desired for these desalination plants to limit the carbon footprint of water production since global carbon dioxide production is exacerbating freshwater scarcity....
Networks of on-line modules for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications have been designed and analyzed in many papers. Various arguments have been made for on-line arithmetic over other bit-serial and parallel approaches. However, the majority, if not all of the on-line network implementations presented throughout the literature do not take...
This report is an exposition of an eleven week training
internship in the Port of Portland (POP). My interest in serving
an internship at POP came as a result of a field trip in the
spring of 1980 during which I was fascinated by the ports operations
and diversity. During...
TASKMASTER is an experimental microcontroller node of a real-time control
oriented network which was proposed by James H. Herzog and Tinggui Zhang to
demonstrate the feasibility of a task oriented control structure in performing distributed
control actions. This study is a continuation of research involving the TASKMASTER
network.
A high...
Comparative ecological studies of Sialis californica Banks and
Sialis rotunda Banks were made in Western Oregon from 1966 to 1968.
Field collections for S. rotunda were made in fish holding pond at the
Oak Creek laboratories, 5 miles west of Corvallis, Benton County,
and for S. californica in enriched sections...