Title Thesis: EFFECTS OF MARKS ON AGGRESSION AND STRESS IN THE DOMESTIC FOWL (GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS) Rachel Lynn Dennis, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis Directed By: Associate Professor, Dr. Inmaculada Estevez, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences Animals are marked for identification in a range of experiments from behavior and wildlife management, to reproduction and pharmacological studi...

Correct use of an adrenalin auto-injector (AAI) is vital in an emergency situation where a person has gone into anaphylactic shock. Studies have shown that nearly half of untrained participants are unable to correctly use an AAI training device after instruction. Emerade is an AAI with a different design for use, with pictures providing instructions. This study aimed to assess intuitiveness and...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the accommodation response under both monoand polychromatic light while varying the amount of spherical aberration. It is thought that chromatic and spherical aberrations are directional cues for the accommodative system and could affect response time, velocity or lag. Spherical aberration is often eliminated in modern contact lenses in order to enhance ima...

A fully integrated microfluidic sorter is introduced. It is able to count, characterize and sort micrometer sized particles and cells. All functions of the device are performed by light. The objects to be sorted are counted optically, they are characterized by measuring their fluorescence. Even the sorting itself, directing the particles into different channels is performed by the pressure of l...

A light-actuated microfluidic device has been successfully fabricated to inject, move, separate, and merge liquid droplets with nano-liter volumes. Light actuation is realized by sandwiching the liquid droplets between two photosensitive surfaces whose wettability can he changed by light. By integrating a photoconductor with an electrowetting electrode, the surface tension at the liquidsolid in...

We propose a new verification method that extracts local individual writing habits from signatures. In registration process, correspondence estimation is done with the reference signatures and strong parts of individual writing habits are extracted in the plural. In verification process, a questioned signature is checked by using the local individualities that is extracted from reference signat...

OBJECTIVES The bond strength of resin cements to metal alloys depends on the type of the metal, conditioning methods and the adhesive resins used. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bond strength of resin cements to base and noble metal alloys after sand blasting or application of silano-pen. MATERIALS AND METHOD Cylinders of light cured Z 250 composite were cemented to "Degubond 4...

For Emergency Response Management (ERM) personnel the processes of reaching common ground, a common operational picture (COP), and a common understanding of an emergency situation are of key importance. We present a concept and a system, called CERMIT to support co-located and remote actors in organizational ERM training and work practice. CERMIT is based on a shared geographical representation...

This thesis presents new contributions to the area of pen-based interfaces for 3D shape modeling: (1) a simple but efficient algorithm for segmenting markings of pen input, (2) an interaction framework for pen-based applications, and (3) based on these two, a new 3D modeling environment. The segmentation of pen markings is a hidden difficulty in the development of a penbased application. It is ...