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Graphic Design and Morale: Helpful Widgets and Worthwhile Distractions for the Masculine Chemo Crowd
Creators: name: Brown, Carrie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis explores the possibility that graphic design can have a positive impact on the morale of a male undergoing chemotherapy for testicular cancer. The paper explains the concept of “morale,” why it is vital for patients at a cancer infusion center, and subsequently how graphic design can boost morale. The supporting research fostered a socially-responsible design solution—a mobile application that intertwines design, health, and technology. The application is geared to the patient experience. As such, it can reduce anxiety by providing a distraction in the form of entertainment (as well as providing tools and an anonymous connection for the individual patient to a similar patient population). Furthermore, the application is also designed for research purposes by establishing a framework for collecting measurable data. In turn, this data can be used to enhance the chemotherapy experience—thus contributing to a positive impact on the morale of the cancer patient.
Dynamic Label Adversarial Training for Deep Learning Robustness Against Adversarial Attacks
Creators: name: Liu, Zhenyu
name: Duan, Haoran
name: Liang, Huizhi
name: Long, Yang
name: Snasel, Vaclav
name: Nicosia, Guiseppe
name: Ranjan, Rajiv
name: Ojha, Varun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adversarial training is one of the most effective methods for enhancing model robustness. Recent approaches incorporate adversarial distillation in adversarial training architectures. However, we notice two scenarios of defense methods that limit their performance: (1) Previous methods primarily use static ground truth for adversarial training, but this often causes robust overfitting; (2) The loss functions are either Mean Squared Error or KL-divergence leading to a sub-optimal performance on clean accuracy. To solve those problems, we propose a dynamic label adversarial training (DYNAT) algorithm that enables the target model to gradually and dynamically gain robustness from the guide model's decisions. Additionally, we found that a budgeted dimension of inner optimization for the target model may contribute to the trade-off between clean accuracy and robust accuracy. Therefore, we propose a novel inner optimization method to be incorporated into the adversarial training. This will enable the target model to adaptively search for adversarial examples based on dynamic labels from the guiding model, contributing to the robustness of the target model. Extensive experiments validate the superior performance of our approach.
Guidelines for Teaching Art to Students from Urban High-Poverty Backgrounds
Creators: name: Varghese, Sheena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This study concerns the use of character education practices in schools and how these practices can be integrated into the art education curriculum to benefit students from urban high-poverty backgrounds. I conducted a document analysis of research in character education referring to methods of integrating character education skills into classroom practice. I identified character education programs that provide instruction in the areas of the emotional resources that Payne (2013) suggests that students from high-poverty backgrounds lack. Then, I made connections between how these identified character education skills align to the studio habits of mind (Hetland, 2013) that the visual arts have been suggested to develop in students to create guidelines for art educators to implement in their classrooms.
Church of Kicks
Creators: name: Warren, Ricky
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Church of Kicks is an art installation that deals with product fetish, consumer behavior, and influential power of brands. Using the basketball sneaker consumer subculture as the main subject of focus the exhibit shows how excessive advertising and publication feeds into object idolization, which can lead to extreme, chaotic, and sometimes violent buying behavior. Given its almost identical characteristics with religion in terms of structure and the degree of influence on individuals, consumer culture is religion. By identifying the entities and methods that take part in raising hype and exploiting the extremes of a brand’s cult following, the exhibit makes an attempt to stimulate consumer self-reflection on their own product fetishes and the degree to which they are willing to go to satisfy the urge to fulfill a material obsession.
Saving Face
Creators: name: Ketner, Lane
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Saving Face is an exhibition of portrait imagery of famous or infamous figures created through drawing, painting, writing, and assemblage. It is a formal exploration of portraiture that also attempts to reconsider cultural personas by presenting them in new form. The act of creating art work through multiple approaches presents different modes of expression, potentially raising additional interpretations of the subject. Often, the public images formed of these subjects are based on singular events portrayed by the power of mass media. Saving Face is an attempt to artistically question these narrow and limited viewpoints, and raise considerations that may differ from mass perception. These alternative forms are intended to create a space for expanded perception of the subjects.
How Does a Knitted Vagina Work? The Craftivist Response to Current Political Issues through the Utilization of Historically Feminine Crafts
Creators: name: Browning, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: TThis thesis explores how historically women’s crafts such as needlework and fiber arts have informed acts of political protest with a focus on the craftivist response to contemporary women’s reproductive rights surrounding the Supreme Court Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision (2014). Individuals and organized groups, including Government Free VJJ: Project Snatchel, Knit a Brick, and Wombs on Washington responded to the attempts and legalization of restricting women’s reproductive freedom. I am interested in how contemporary craftivism utilizes the historically feminine mediums of fiber-based craft to further social awareness of political feminine issues.
title: Die regionalökonomische Bedeutung der Universitäten in Baden-Württemberg 2022
title: Studie im Auftrag der Landesrektoratekonferenz Baden-Württemberg
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Glückler, Johannes
name: Jungkunz, Klara
Publisher: name: Johannes Glückler
Year: 2024

description: Die Ausgaben der neun Landesuniversitäten, die Ausgaben der Studierenden und Beschäftigten für die Lebenshaltung, die Mehrausgaben der Absolventinnen und Absolventen infolge der akademischen Bildungsprämie sowie diejenigen der von den Universitäten stimulierten Ausgründungen erhöhen die Nachfrage nach Gütern und Dienstleistungen, die Wertschöpfung und die Zahl der Arbeitsplätze innerhalb des Bundeslandes. Sie stimulieren außerdem regionalökonomische Multiplikatoreffekte, indem die universitätsbedingten Ausgaben auch die indirekte und induzierte Nachfrage und Wertschöpfung bei vorgelagerten Produzenten und Zulieferern erhöhen. Der regionalwirtschaftliche Gesamteffekt setzt sich aus drei Bestandteilen zusammen. Den neun Universitäten des Landes Baden-Württemberg standen 2022 insgesamt 2.888 Mio. Euro an Landesmitteln zur Verfügung. Durch die Einwerbung von Drittmitteln, die Attraktion von Studierenden, die Qualifikation von Absolventinnen und Absolventen sowie die Unterstützung von Unternehmensgründungen generierten sie eine Wertschöpfungswirkung von 7.667 Mio. Euro im Bundesland. Je Euro, den die Universitäten an Landesmitteln netto verausgabten, errechnet sich eine Wertschöpfungswirkung von 4,98 Euro.
Supplementary document for Direct Detection of Virus-Like Particles Using Color Images of Plasmonic Nanostructures - 5867949.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Yi-Ru
name: Lee, Kuang
name: KUAN-MING, CHEN
name: Cheng, Lu Yun
name: Wu, Pin Chieh
name: Chen, Sy-Hann
name: Lee, Jiun-Haw
name: Wei, Pei-Kuen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Direct Detection of Virus-Like Particles Using Color Images of Plasmonic Nanostructures_SI
Portraits
Creators: name: Terpstra, Wesley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The intent of this thesis is to draw particular focus to my fascination with seemingly unimportant, mostly flat paper surfaces. In the tradition of 17th century trompe l'oeil Letter Rack paintings, I create portraits of my experiences engaging with the subject matter of flattened cardboard boxes, large folded pieces of paper, and small found paper scraps of various, and often indistinct, purposes. These paintings are executed and arranged to draw attention to the inherent abstraction and the hints of the sublime, which I perceive through a Color Field approach to viewing. By producing oil paintings and watercolors that employ methods of illusion, I seek to draw the viewer into experiencing the depiction in a more engaged manner.
on Remaining
Creators: name: Peterson, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: on Remaining demonstrates how rational systems of value disrupt pursuit of intrinsic value, and how my work may provide a different way of seeing everyday objects within these systems. The accompanying installation of discrete structures accumulated from used disposables, trash, and residuals (all of which have no discernable worth) function as components of an aesthetic system. Removing the residual object from its depreciated state as garbage into an alternative ontology generates potential value, new relationships, and purposes. In on Remaining, residuals resolve into artifacts of my intuitive processes, revealing play between my own subjectivity and the value of physical materiality obscured by consumerist signifiers.
Science/Fiction
Creators: name: Adams, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Science/Fiction lays out the philosophical and personal underpinnings of the homonymous exhibition. The works shown are driven by an engagement with source materials ranging from the film, The Trial, to the experience of complexity and exclusion as it applies to certain genres of language. I explore themes of automatic authority, familiarity/unfamiliarity, and the experience of opacity using paint, photocopier, typewriter, and other methods. Through strategies such as exhaustive repetition and the intentional obfuscation of information, images and words are stripped of their original semantic freight.
Maintaining Hierarchies: The Perpetuation of Class and Labor Divisions in Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Transfer: Maintenance of the Art Object
Creators: name: Gary, Meta
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ 1973 performance, Transfer: Maintenance of the Art Object posed a comparison between her own gendered household labor and the labor of a maintenance worker in a museum. The performance also addressed the hierarchies of maintenance work versus artistic work as well as invisible work versus public work, and is often interpreted as serving to equalize these boundaries. While hierarchies are questioned within this piece, this paper argues that the performance primarily serves to acknowledge and maintain the inevitability of these existing hierarchies within the art institution, rather than eliminate them.
Enough
Creators: name: Stevenson, Kelly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description:  ENOUGH exhibits artworks inspired by my personal longing to accept the notion that I am, through a culminated spectrum of faults and strengths, imperfectly whole. Alone, each sculpture in this exhibition can be read either literally or figuratively as a torn-out page from my life’s diary. The individual pieces collectively illustrate that there is no single page that can make up an entire life story.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans's Night Nativity: A Study in Female Spirituality Practices
Creators: name: McGee, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The Night Nativity by Geertgen tot Sint Jans depicts the birth of Christ in a manner that emphasizes the role of the Virgin as mother and Christ as the enlightener of the world. In this paper, I will argue that the Night Nativity was directed primarily toward meeting the devotional needs and interests of the nuns of the Convent of Our Lady of the Visitation near Haarlem. This convent is of particular interest because it is associated with the Windesheim Congregation of the Modern Devotion, which was a religious movement that privileged certain forms of lay spirituality. In particular, the adherents of the Modern Devotion seemed to have preferred various forms of affective devotion often associated with “women’s spirituality.” Geertgen’s image, I believe, appealed to the women in the convent because it focuses on the role of the Virgin and, in doing so, activated well-known tropes of female spirituality.
Damnatio Memoriae in Non-Royal Tombs: Case Studies in the Theban Necropolis
Creators: name: Deane, Margaret
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Ancient Egyptian belief in an afterlife influenced a wide variety of architectural and art forms. In the Eighteenth Dynasty at Thebes, non-royal officials were equipped with tombs that were decorated to aid in their everlasting sustenance and rebirth in the hereafter as well as commemorate them to living visitors. Part of this continuation of life involved the participation of the funerary cult of the deceased, as well as the prompting of visitors to speak the owner’s name and provide the required offerings—allowing (and encouraging) public access to the decorated tomb chapel. However, some visitors wished to harm the deceased’s perpetuation of life. In order to obliterate the memory of the tomb owner in the minds of the living and his existence in the afterlife, enemies carefully hacked the tomb owner’s images out of the decoration program in an act of damnatio memoriae. The owners of Theban tombs 66, 75, and 76 fell victim to this intentional destruction by contemporary hands.
Multicultural Curriculum: Models and Methods in Elementary Art Education
Creators: name: Na, Yoo Lim
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis is an analysis of existing approaches to multicultural curriculums and an original curriculum unit developed based on them. The study explores McFee and Degge’s (1977) Universal Institutions of an Evolving Culture and Related Curricular Themes in correlation with Banks’s (2009) Levels of Integration of Ethnic Content. The purpose of the study is to help educators make effective multicultural curricular choices when constructing unit lessons to give students a more comprehensive multicultural experience in art class. The goal is to understand that “culture can be a tool and a more powerful concept than language because it can be used to organize and teach more information” (Banks, p. 55).
Developing an Integrated High School Art Curriculum
Creators: name: Owen, Laura
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This study discusses the benefits of interdisciplinary instruction in high schools. Interdisciplinary instruction is mainly seen at the primary level. There is also some interdisciplinary instruction in the core subjects at the high school level, but not within the visual arts. To fill this void I developed an integrated literacy curriculum unit for the high school visual arts classroom. This curriculum will follow current Common Core standards as well as ELA and visual arts standards.
Art Capstone Project: Creating a Rite of Passage for Middle School Students
Creators: name: Montgomery, Jon-Erik
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This paper explores various art education models and frameworks as resources informing the creation of an eighth grade project-based capstone unit. I reviewed literature and developed a wish list of desirable elements for implementing a series of lessons with a culminating project based final lesson. Based on my exploration, I incorporated elements from many of the models including choice-based art education and capstone projects. After creating the Capstone Unit, I reflected upon possible implications and offer suggestions for its future implementation in other art education environments.
Visual Reconciliations of Concordia as Ancient Egypt Enters the Vatican
Creators: name: Sharpe, J.
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The papacies of Julius II and Leo X witnessed the continuing efforts of philosophers struggling toward the concept of prisca theologia, or "ancient theology,” as well as its implications for concordia, or the search for a reconciliation between non-Christian, pagan wisdom and the orthodox beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. This thesis will explore the Vatican's relationship with some ancient Egyptian and Egyptianizing artifacts and motifs acquired under Popes Julius II and Leo X and the use of these objects in terms of the conceptual formulation of the prisca theologia and concordia. Specifically, I am interested in how these popes used material culture to further understand and propagate complex theological concepts. Beyond simply acquiring such objects, their physical positioning and arrangement within specific spaces and in proximity to other objects make possible nuanced dialogs between the objects themselves, the spaces they occupy, and their intended viewership.
Art and Self Discovery The Call and Response of Making Art
Creators: name: Taylor, Cindy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This arts-based research study grows out of the examination of a lifelong practice of art making I dub Call and Response. Gaining insight through the research and exploration of doodling, automatic drawing and other surrealist techniques and ideas about perception.
I not only better understood the development of my creative processes and strengthened my artistic voice, but learned how these practices could be beneficial in teaching and learning the visual arts in the k-12 classroom.
Advancements in UWB: Paving the Way for Sovereign Data Networks in Healthcare Facilities
Creators: name: Reaz, Khan
name: Ardoin, Thibaud
name: Muth, Lea
name: Margraf, Marian
name: Wunder, Gerhard
name: Kholghi, Mahsa
name: Jansen, Kai
name: Zenger, Christian
name: Schmidt, Julian
name: Köppe, Enrico
name: Utkovski, Zoran
name: Bjelakovic, Igor
name: Schmieder, Mathis
name: Dressel, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology re-emerges as a groundbreaking ranging technology with its precise micro-location capabilities and robustness. This paper highlights the security dimensions of UWB technology, focusing in particular on the intricacies of device fingerprinting for authentication, examined through the lens of state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. Furthermore, we explore various potential enhancements to the UWB standard that could realize a sovereign UWB data network. We argue that UWB data communication holds significant potential in healthcare and ultra-secure environments, where the use of the common unlicensed 2.4~GHz band-centric wireless technology is limited or prohibited. A sovereign UWB network could serve as an alternative, providing secure localization and short-range data communication in such environments.
description: NetAISys Workshop at ACM Mobisys 2024
Supplementary document for Direct Detection of Virus-Like Particles Using Color Images of Plasmonic Nanostructures - 5867949.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Yi-Ru
name: Lee, Kuang
name: KUAN-MING, CHEN
name: Cheng, Lu Yun
name: Wu, Pin Chieh
name: Chen, Sy-Hann
name: Lee, Jiun-Haw
name: Wei, Pei-Kuen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Direct Detection of Virus-Like Particles Using Color Images of Plasmonic Nanostructures_SI
Uncovering the Past: How the Windows of the Royal Chapel at St. Germain-en-Laye Reveal the History of this Powerful Site
Creators: name: Benesh, Meghan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This essay focuses on the theological, social, and cultural contexts of the Royal Chapel at St. Germain-en-Laye.  I pay particular attention to the rose window on the west wall, which was changed over time by the multiple renovations and redecorations by French monarchs as well as the “official restoration” in the 1880's. The restoration in the nineteenth century by Eugène Millet and his successors was not a strictly historical project but reflected the 1880's perception of the thirteenth-century style of architecture and decoration.  This paper looks at both what we know now about how the Rayonnant style was originally used in the decoration of the chapel and how that compares to the perception of the Middle Ages that guided the restoration in the 1880's.  There is also a review of the public and scholarly reactions to the restoration at the time of its completion.
A tour d'horizon of de Casteljau's work
Creators: name: Müller, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65D17, 51F15, 51G05, 68U07, 11B39, 01A70, 30C20, 11R52, 35Q60, 78A05

description: Whilst Paul de Casteljau is now famous for his fundamental algorithm of curve and surface approximation, little is known about his other findings. This article offers an insight into his results in geometry, algebra and number theory.
 Related to geometry, his classical algorithm is reviewed as an index reduction of a polar form. This idea is used to show de Casteljau's algebraic way of smoothing, which long went unnoticed. We will also see an analytic polar form and its use in finding the intersection of two curves. The article summarises unpublished material on metric geometry. It includes theoretical advances, e.g., the 14-point strophoid or a way to link Apollonian circles with confocal conics, and also practical applications such as a recurrence for conjugate mirrors in geometric optics. A view on regular polygons leads to an approximation of their diagonals by golden matrices, a generalisation of the golden ratio.
 Relevant algebraic findings include matrix quaternions (and anti-quaternions) and their link with Lorentz' equations. De Casteljau generalised the Euclidean algorithm and developed an automated method for approximating the roots of a class of polynomial equations. His contributions to number theory not only include aspects on the sum of four squares as in quaternions, but also a view on a particular sum of three cubes. After a review of a complete quadrilateral in a heptagon and its angles, the paper concludes with a summary of de Casteljau's key achievements.
 The article contains a comprehensive bibliography of de Casteljau's works, including previously unpublished material.
description: 56 pages, 19 sections, 30 figures - part of a special issue on Paul de Casteljau
Locating the Individual: Theatricality, Realism, and Historical Engagement in the Photographic Work of Yinka Shonibare MBE
Creators: name: Weems, Anne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This essay is a study of Yinka Shonibare MBE, London-born and Nigerian-raised contemporary artist, and his recent photographic practice that includes three series: Fake Death Pictures, William Morris Family Album, and Medusa. Exploration of the series reveals insight into Shonibare’s unique relationship to photography, in which he employs the hyper-realism and theatricality of the medium to interact with individuals from British history and reveal contemporary social and political injustices.
Incongruent Ilk
Creators: name: Faust, Derek
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: incongruent ilk is a thesis exhibition of formally and conceptually linked situations that by their distilled nature initiate deeper contemplation of topics that are often just examined superficially. For my thesis exhibition I set out to produce curated arrangements of objects and materials because I believe something important is revealed about ourselves when we engage with common and banal objects in the material world. The exchange between the human experience and the unique nature of specific objects can connect us to each other by highlighting shared, yet subjectively interpreted experiences. The linear connections in this body of work give way to incongruent and contradictory contexts. incongruent ilk has undertones and overtones of leisure, travel, and warning that are delivered by humor, subversion, and the formal arrangements of materials. There is an intersection between objects and images that drips with subjective judgment; this subjectivity is crucial to incongruent ilk. The audience excavates the depth of potential metaphor, analogy, or concept naturally and artificially existing in the work by how deeply they are willing to consider what is presented visually.
#Community: Café Culture and the Relevance of a Traditional Third Place in the Social Media Era
Creators: name: Trugman, Catherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The third place of the corner café has historically served as a community living room, providing an essential setting for social interaction and flânerie within the built environment.  With modern technology and communication methods, however, interaction that once required physical proximity can now occur virtually.  So where does this leave the corner café in today’s society?  Have our third places moved online into fourth places such as Facebook and Twitter?  A gallery exhibition entitled #Community is discussed as a visual representation of this written thesis.  Methods and frequency of interaction – with others in the physical space as well with those not present – are discussed, providing information which may inform design and provide insight into the relevancy of the built environment in the face of evolving technology.
Double Distance
Creators: name: Tinsley, Victoria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: My thesis exhibition Double Distance is an installation of paintings and sculptures exploring my changing relationship with myself and with my mother as she succumbs to a degenerative brain disease. Through the intersection of surrogate life-size figures made from found objects alongside and within paintings of hugging bodies, the exhibition reveals the simultaneous enmeshment and separation that occurs in caring for my mother. In repeating similar figures within and outside the painted surface, the exhibition reflects on the act of caregiving and the desire to reproduce what is loved and that which has been lost. The works included in the exhibition not only serve as preemptive memorials to my mother, but they also stand as monuments to resilience. The resulting exhibition Double Distance highlights the challenges of holding on and how sculpture and painting can serve as proxies for reconnection.
Embrace The Suck
Creators: name: Nicholson, Tyler
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Embrace the Suck is an important and widely experienced military colloquialism. The phrase is based on the undeniable fact that life is about to become very difficult and the only option is to embrace all that is horrible. I reimagine childhood toys, playing at war and subvert the monumental. Common heroic exploits are restructured into moments between action, the hurry up and wait, the busy work, the catharsis through self-destruction. Based on my personal experiences in the US Army and an arsenal of information and stories from fellow soldiers, I become a native informant.
Dysfunctional
Creators: name: Thompson, Gina
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Dysfunctional examines the relationships and experiences that contribute to my art. I grew up in an unsafe environment, with dysfunctional people. This work serves as a peek inside some of those emotions and explores issues of codependence and abusive family systems that suffer but endure. There is no victim in this story only a strong survivor who wants to cultivate awareness through her work. I have revisited this subject as a way to overcome shame. By being vulnerable and sharing my experiences I am able to heal.
Complex Destruction: Near Eastern Antiquities and the ISIS Spectacle
Creators: name: Bearden, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Throughout 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) was a major news story for its destruction of Ancient Near Eastern collections and heritage sites, which created a spectacle across media. The focus of ISIS’s infamous video uploaded in February of 2015 was the colossal statue of a Lamassu, which was an ancient Assyrian guard deity. By focusing on the Lamassu, this thesis aims to address the Western concept of a “cradle of civilization” and ISIS’s motivation for destroying the sculpture. I utilize Kwame Appiah’s philosophy of cosmopolitanism in order to flesh out the language in which ISIS is communicating, namely through its destruction. What becomes apparent is a complex relationship with Near Eastern antiquities, which is best understood by analyzing the motivations of local looters. To conclude, I use ISIS’s destruction in order to offer thoughts on the concept of destruction with an aim to open dialogue regarding differing cultural value systems.
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice
Creators: name: Reese, Trevor
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The intent of this thesis is to clarify my artistic working process as well as the resulting thesis exhibition, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I will provide explanations and descriptions of my exhibition (comprising a select placement of objects) as well as offer antecedents, informants, and the evolution of my art practice as a whole during my graduate studies. Specifically the work is discussed through the lenses of situational aesthetics, conceptual relationships, and perceptual absence to argue for the complicated semantics of the viewer within an ontology of object-hood and pre-established conditions.
Residual Residence
Creators: name: Clark, Krista
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Residual Residence is an account of my process and how it is shaped and informed by the language of architecture and abstraction. It pinpoints shifts from a predominately drawing-based practice to one sensitive to the possibilities of drawing within physical space. Formal gestures of erasing, overlapping, layering and stacking are employed to play with relationships of space. For my thesis work, Residual Residence, I use the visual language of architecture and the literal physicality of building materials to create collaged drawings and site-specific installations.
How to Orient Yourself in the Wilderness
Creators: name: Deese, Jack
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: How to Orient Yourself in the Wilderness is an exhibition presented in the style of a survival guide. The “wilderness” is a metaphor for the unknown. Within this category of the unknown are numerous literal and figurative spaces. I use the guide as an attempt to pin down why I gravitate towards the camera and what it means to me as a form of communication. Simultaneously I explore what it means to be “southern” and the manner in which it is traditionally represented in images. Also included in the wilderness tag is the “art world” and the relationship of straight photography towards and with it. The exhibition is loosely attached to the survival guide premise in order to highlight the shortcoming of photography’s ability to explain.
A Comparison Of Art Education Practices In Bangladesh And In The United States
Creators: name: Nova, Nafisa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The intent of this study is to provide a comparison study of art education philosophies, methods, and practices in Bangladeshi schools to schools in the United States. This is a descriptive study with an intensive examination of curriculum materials and textbooks from the education system in Bangladesh as well as narrative based on my past experiences as a student in Bangladeshi primary schools. After translating and analyzing Bangladeshi middle school curriculum, I compared and contrasted art education philosophies, objectives and practices in Bangladesh with those in the United States.
Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement of the Masters of Fine Arts Degree of Georgia State University
Creators: name: Sharratt, Nathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement of the Masters of Fine Arts degree of Georgia State University, is a multidiscipline and multiplatform exhibition of post-institutional critique that uses my lived experience of being an academic artist pursuing a terminal art degree at a public university as its point of departure. It evaluates how societal expectations influence the formation of individual and group identity in mediated culture. Buy Nathan Sharratt challenges the hierarchy of economic and social value systems by simulating an institutional museum retrospective of super-famous and super-commoditized artist “Nathan Sharratt.” The exhibition is divided into a gallery space, a project space, a gift shop, and a virtual space. It includes art objects and performances to pose that the art experience has been compressed into a simulation, in which art serves as the trigger for social networking and virtual experiences, rather than critical assessment.
Exploring Personal Symbolism and Visual Metaphors through Artistic Inquiry
Creators: name: Katzin, Mollie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This paper focuses on the use and implications of using symbols in personal artwork and in the art classroom. Biological, psychological, and cultural reasons for making art with visual metaphor and personal symbolism are explained. The use of symbolism and visual metaphors in the artmaking process are discussed. Through the analysis of a series of paintings created using personal symbolism, the topic is further explored and researched. Implications and uses for the art classroom are also provided.
Autoethnograhic Study in the Process of Applied Design: Creating Adaptive Clothing for a Child with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Creators: name: Rutledge, Brittany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The intent of this study is to reveal essential elements learned by reflecting and analyzing the applied design process in developing a specialized garment for a child with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). I researched and determined the clothing needs of one child with SMA, designed and created a pair of adaptive pants based on the needs of the child, tested the final product through a trial wear of the adaptive pants, and I evaluated and revised the adaptive pants. Through this study I also determined ways in which my design process can inform my teaching of applied design in my elementary art classroom.
Vernacular Notions of Reverie: St. EOM’s Pasaquan as a Utopia
Creators: name: Cantrell, Victoria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: During the early twentieth century, a growing trend among Americans was to collect and display “oriental” objects from the American Southwest and Asia in museums and the domestic interior, often as an escape from American culture. Vernacular Notions of Reverie: St. EOM’s Pasaquan as Utopia explores the impact of the “Oriental Aesthetic” in American material culture on the works of St. EOM, born Eddie Owens Martin (1908-1986). EOM emulates outsider cultures at Pasaquan, his seven-acre art environment in Buena Vista, Georgia. I argue that as EOM created Pasaquan, he was also creating his own utopia in order to escape the Western environment he grew up in and rejected. Evidence for this argument includes his writings, sketches, a scrapbook, which contains numerous photographs from National Geographic Magazine, and interviews with Tom Patterson, an author who spent time with the artist in the last year of his life.
The Mug Shot, Wanted Poster, and Rogues Galleries: The Societial Impact of Criminal Photography in England, France, and the United States From 1839 to 1900
Creators: name: Long, Samantha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The mug shot, wanted poster, and rogues gallery are intertwined within the greater category of police and criminal photography. The mug shot is an informal term (taken from English slang for “face”) for a police or booking photograph, taken after a person is arrested. The purpose of which is to allow for identification by victims (if applicable) and investigators, allowing them to have a photographic record of a person. Mug shots encouraged the general public to find differences between themselves and the depicted criminal through observable physical characteristics. The gaze from the audience reinforces the voyeuristic nature from the public observing these photographs creating the concept of “othering.” The photographed criminal in the nineteenth century allowed for individuals to safely enter the world of criminality while maintaining a sense of constructed “normality” within a given society.
Warp/Weft: Agnes Martin, Textiles, and the Linear Experience
Creators: name: Yandell, Ariana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: This essay is a study of Agnes Martin (1912-2004), a Canadian-born and American-based contemporary artist, and her earlier painting practice including, but not limited, to her work Falling Blue of 1963. The exploration of this piece and others frames Martin’s early work as a process of material exploration analogous to weaving and fiber art. This framing is enhanced by the friendship and professional exchange between Martin and artist Lenore Tawney (1907-2007). The textile lens, as explored in this paper, has been undeveloped compared to other approaches to Martin’s early work and practice.
Pushing the Bounds of Typology: Jewish Carnality and the Eucharist in Jörg Ratgeb's Herrenberg Altarpiece
Creators: name: Milliken, Genevieve
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Jörg Ratgeb’s Herrenberg Altarpiece (1518-1519) depicts well-established examples of Christian iconography, but appears to reconfigure and intensify traditional subjects and subject matter through the inclusion of overt anti-Judaic references. In this paper, my focus is the strong anti-Judaic subject matter of the Herrenberg Altarpiece and the local context in which, and for which, it was created. The anti-Jewish representations are investigated by exploring Christian perceptions of biblical and contemporary Jews, identifying social tensions in Swabia that may have influenced how Jews were depicted, and recognizing the ways in which the trope of Jewish wantonness may have served a politico-religious agenda in the region. Given the Eucharistic overtones of the altarpiece, I also argue that anxieties in Christian practice concerning the presence of Christ’s true body and blood in the consecrated Eucharist could be, and often were, exacerbated by Christian perceptions of Jews and “judaizing.”
Autoethnographic Study On The Process Of Creating Studio Work Using Personal Propriospect
Creators: name: Garcia, Maria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The intent of this body of work and research is to reveal a process by which I can create work that reflects my point of view and background, or propriospect. This process of combining my Hispanic heritage and American upbringing is one I hope to model for my students in the art classroom. I created five works reflecting my personal point of view by combining techniques and styles used in my native Chile with some that I learned as I grew up in the United States. Through this study I determined a process by which my students can create work that is both personally significant and informative to the other students in the classroom.
The Feeling of Being Ok
Creators: name: Lee, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The Feeling of Being OK is an exhibition of appropriated imagery from unknown abandoned collections. Using the tension found in the enigmatic aspects of these materials, I investigate the fragility of the photograph and its capacity to fabricate memory and narrative. Designed to be a meditation on William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying, this series focuses on themes including empathy and indifference, instability of identity, and life’s inevitable fate. By incorporating found materials such as vernacular objects and text into the installation, the potential for meaning is broadened. The work is installed in constellations or vignettes, allowing for metaphorical and poetic readings of the newly recontextualized material.
Three Iterations of Place
Creators: name: Prince, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Three Iterations of Place is an exhibition of photographs along with three photographic books that function as a trilogy exploring the concept of place. In addition to the exploration of place is the recognition of the act of seeing and the ability to visually reinterpret the landscape. This thesis investigates the process, influences, and concepts that together shape the presented body of work.
Laser-induced fragmentation of coronene cations
Creators: name: Panchagnula, S.
name: Kamer, J.
name: Candian, A.
name: Hrodmarsson, H. R.
name: Linnartz, H.
name: Bouwman, J.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are an important component of the interstellar medium of galaxies and photochemistry plays a key role in the evolution of these species in space. Here, we explore the photofragmentation behaviour of the coronene cation (C24H12+) using time of flight mass spectrometry. The experiments show photodissociation fragmentation channels including the formation of bare carbon clusters (Cn+) and hydrocarbon chains (CnHx+). The mass spectrum of coronene is dominated by peaks from C11+ and C7H+. Density functional theory was used to calculate relative energies, potential dissociation pathways, and possible structures for relevant species. We identify 6-6 to 5-7 ring isomerisation as a key step in the formation of both the bare carbon clusters and the hydrocarbon chains observed in this study. We present the dissociation mechanism outlined here as a potential formation route for C60 and other astrochemically relevant species.
description: 17 pages, 12 figure. Version submitted after referee report to PCCP. Supplementary information available at https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d4/cp/d4cp01301h/d4cp01301h1.pdf
Catalyst
Creators: name: Hadden, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description:   My thesis exhibition consists of a series of mixed media paintings and sculpture derived through experimentation with materials. I have appropriated alchemical processes to describe and generate the abstract landscape. The work emphasizes process and chemical reactions and is comprised of fluid fortuitous marks, free of conscious control, that work in tandem to create deep space that invites immersion and tempts interaction. The viewer is both an integral component of the piece and a foreign sightseeing entity, removed from the known world and placed in a bizarre offshoot.
A few weeks, maybe months…
Creators: name: Mann, Tyler
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: A few weeks, maybe months… is an exhibition of photographs that contemplates the societal expectations of the gender binary in the context of travel. The work considers the intersection of manhood with my transgender identity and examines definitions of masculinity and gender. The American road trip is historically a masculine rite of passage which in my case will never fully come to pass. Discrepancies in imagery throughout the work interrupt the conventional narrative structure of the road trip. Acknowledging that the acquisition of masculinity is a futile act, the journey then becomes a complex act of reconciliation.
Who's He When He's at Home?
Creators: name: Perry, Bryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Who’s He When He’s at Home? is an attempt to explore the expressive capabilities of language and design through a consideration of philosophical and theoretical notions of home. It is an attempt to see how an experience planned and created using tools, techniques and technology of the design disciplines can allow understanding of such an abstract and personal concept.
Interpretable breast cancer classification using CNNs on mammographic images
Creators: name: Balve, Ann-Kristin
name: Hendrix, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning models have achieved promising results in breast cancer classification, yet their 'black-box' nature raises interpretability concerns. This research addresses the crucial need to gain insights into the decision-making process of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for mammogram classification, specifically focusing on the underlying reasons for the CNN's predictions of breast cancer. For CNNs trained on the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) dataset, we compared the post-hoc interpretability techniques LIME, Grad-CAM, and Kernel SHAP in terms of explanatory depth and computational efficiency. The results of this analysis indicate that Grad-CAM, in particular, provides comprehensive insights into the behavior of the CNN, revealing distinctive patterns in normal, benign, and malignant breast tissue. We discuss the implications of the current findings for the use of machine learning models and interpretation techniques in clinical practice.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures (9 in the main text, 3 in the appendix). Accepted at PMLR 2024
Reinvente: A Hybridized Home Collection
Creators: name: wocklish, valerie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The design world is constantly reinvigorated by influences from exotic lands, foreign peoples, and eras passed.  Art Deco and Moroccan design are two distinct styles that penetrate product design, architecture, and interiors. These styles, while seemingly separate, experienced a unique overlap during the French colonization of cities such as Casablanca and Marrakech.  The presence of Art Deco in a primarily Islamic and Moorish environment resulted in a unique hybridized style that has been scarcely examined in both the academic and design communities.
As designers continue to be inspired by global trends and ethnic cultures, variations and reinterpretations of significant periods continue to be reborn.  I am posing the question of what this hybrid would look like today if it was further expanded upon. REINVENTÉ is an interiors collection consisting of product designs that further explore this hybridization, and expands upon how it could be reimagined in contemporary times.