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Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; December 13, 1991. A woman stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone. The podium has the FSU seal on it. The bottom of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning...
Compile time processing of Ada task constructs for real-time programming
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Compile-time preprocessing can be used to schedule systems of periodic tasks written in an Ada subset. Applied to a task system, this can both test feasibility and simplify runtime scheduling. This can be viewed as both a program... Two models of Ada tasking are considered. Both consist of periodic Ada tasks with relative deadlines. The first model assumes that all rendezvous are determined at compile time (deterministic rendezvous) and allows arbitrary task start... The results of experimental studies of the preprocessing of Ada programs conforming to the nondeterministic rendezvous model are presented. The first study uses a simulation program which processes a skeletal Ada task system and prints...
Previous research on Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) has focused on his role as an apologist of the Old South. Dabney, professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, was certainly an unreconstructed...
Transferability of the Quality Improvement Process in education: A case study of the "Quality Improvement Plan" at Lively Area Vocational Technical Center
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The purpose of this study is to determine the transferability of the Quality Improvement Process Model implemented at Lively Area Vocational-Technical Center, in which a survey instrument was developed to assess employees' perception of... A second instrument, developed to assess employee perception of the Quality Improvement Process currently being implemented at the school, was a questionnaire administered, one-on-one, to approximately 44 percent of the non-surveyed... This case study has determined that each school must adopt and implement nine basic tenets in the educational setting to successfully implement a Total Quality Education (TQE) improvement process. These nine tenets are: establish a clear...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 26, 1991. A woman stands at a podium and flowers are in front of it. The bottom of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 26, 1991.
The effects of caffeine on exercise-induced changes during high-intensity, intermittent exercise
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The widespread popularity of both sports and caffeine, the caffeine ban in Olympic activities, the lack of understanding of the physiological and psychological effects of caffeine on high-intensity, intermittent exercise, all indicate... Eight, trained, male volunteers--ages 21 to 33 yrs.--served as subjects for this study. The exercise level for the high-intensity interval protocol was set at 85 to 90 percent of the maximal aerobic capacity determined by performance on... A double blind counterbalanced design was used. All metabolic and respiratory data were calculated using the Apple IIe Computer (REP-200B Data Acquisition System, Vacumetrics, Inc.). A two-factor Analysis of Variance with repeated... Caffeine significantly increased time to exhaustion, serum free fatty acids, post-exercise oxygen cost levels and lower post exercise glucose levels. These findings suggest that the caffeine-induced glycogen sparing appears to enhance...
The effects of electronic data interchange on corporate organizations
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Applications of computer and telecommunications technology have been increasingly being employed within organizations to perform an expanding variety of business functions. Yet, while this information technology has been shown to affect... Using Social Interactionist Theory as theoretical foundation, the following relationships were indicated by the findings. Generally, the organizational environment (strategy, culture, management intention, and stakeholder aims), ...
The teaching of culture in foreign language education: A Chinese perspective
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The present study was an investigation to examine the current situation in the field of teaching foreign cultures in China's language education. The study concentrated on answering the question of whether there were any differences... The data collected from the performance of 171 subjects on the culture quiz and from their responses to the survey revealed that some significant differences existed between the two groups of subjects. The first group of subjects (those... The study also showed that the first group of subjects were less satisfied with the instruction of culture in their schools and were less content with their mastery of knowledge and information of foreign cultures, than the second group... No evidence was found to establish a significant difference between the two groups of subjects with respect to their ways of obtaining sociocultural knowledge. Media, other than classroom instruction, was their main source of acquiring... The study also reported the subjects' expectations of improvement in the teaching of culture; most of them cared more about importation of video and audio materials though only a small number of them expected much change in classroom...
A study of achievement, retention, and transfer resulting from teaching absolute value by two definitional approaches
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The concept of absolute value is central to several important mathematical topics. Among these are distance, limits, continuity, metric spaces and the square root function. Some studies reveal that students perform surprisingly poorly on... Several authors of articles in professional journals have identified a variety of errors, difficulties, and misconceptions arising from attempts to solve sentences involving absolute value. This study compared the results of two groups of college algebra students studying the solution of absolute value sentences. One group was instructed using the Distance approach, and the other group used the Enhanced Traditional approach... Four different junior colleges were involved in this study. Two classes of college algebra students at two different junior colleges were assigned to the Distance approach. Two classes from two other junior colleges were assigned to the... Analysis of covariance was used to test whether there were any significant differences between the two groups on the three tests with the pretest as the covariate. Three null hypotheses of no differences between means scores were... We found from interviews that most teachers view absolute value as an important part of mathematics. Those contacted supported this view with reference to specific areas of mathematics that draws upon absolute value. The interviews were... Students interviewed from the distance group demonstrated greater competency in solving problems involving absolute value. Not only did they get more correct answers but did so in less time. Several students from the Traditional group...
Rebel storehouse: Florida in the Confederate economy
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Was Florida a true member of the Old South and its rebel offspring or just a peripheral entity? This study looks at this seemingly simple question to probe the economic ties between Florida and her sister states of the lower South from... Florida, the third state to secede, played a significant role in the short economic life of the Confederacy. The war years are considered at length and are the main focus of the dissertation. The conflict made state bays and inlets safe...
The effects of types of feedback on learning, retention, feedback study time, feedback efficiency, and response confidence in the domain of concept learning
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The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of types of computer-delivered feedback on (1) knowledge acquisition and retention, (2) feedback study time, (3) feedback efficiency, and (4) learner response confidence in the domain... One hundred sixty college students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at the Florida State University participated in the study. Students were randomly assigned to one of the four treatment groups to take a CAI lesson teaching... T-tests were used to analyze the general effect of feedback on student response confidence. Separate ANOVAs were performed to analyze the treatment effects of various types of feedback on student performance, feedback study time, ... Results from the statistical analyses on the student performance upon immediate and delayed posttests revealed a significant difference between KR and the other three feedback groups; however, no difference was indicated among KC, CE, ... For a replication of the study, it is suggested to increase the amount of instruction and practice examples for the difficult concepts; or, to reduce the learning tasks involved in the lesson. Other recommendations for future feedback...
Solid films of C60 and C70 fullerenes are evaluated in propylene carbonate/lithium perchlorate, an electrolyte commonly used in lithium batteries. Cyclic voltammetry, chronopotentiometry, and an effusion test, show that reduced C60 and...
The cinematic adaptation of West African Francophone literature offers an impetus to focus on African culture. This study begins with an overview of the development of West African Francophone literature followed by a discussion of... The study is divided into five parts. The Introduction is followed by three chapters. Each chapter presents the filmmaker's work(s) along with its literary source. Chapter One analyzes three films by Ousmane Sembene: La Noire de ..., Le... Each film and its literary source are analyzed according to its point of view, themes and tone taking into account various cinematographic techniques used by the filmmaker who translates the literary text to the screen. Thus, we will...
Market forces and regulation in the timing or new hospital innovations: A hazard model analysis of Florida
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This dissertation investigates the effects of market forces and government regulation on the innovation decision of firms. Using Florida data on the adoption of high technology equipment in hospitals I analyzed the effects of market... In addition, the effects of regulatory changes such as Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Certificate of Need (CON) deregulation were investigated using dynamic Weibull regression model. The Model shows the impact of explanatory... The result of estimation shows that leading firms in more competitive markets adopt earlier than others. Teaching status of a hospital, which offers technological advantage, encourages it to innovate earlier than others. The behavioral...
Announcement day effects and the role of strategic transactions: An empirical investigation
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The evidence of a negative price response generally associated with the initial announcement of seasoned common stock offerings demands a more explicit rationale for why management would undertake an action that serves to lower current... The results show that the market does use information relating to capital structure apart from the issue-investment decision in determining the motive for the offering. However, the results are contrary to that implied by pecking-order.... The evidence also shows that insiders most familiar with the operations of the firm are abnormally high sellers over the second and third months prior to the initial announcement. Further, this selling activity is directly related to the...
At-risk early adolescent females: An ethnography of their school experiences
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The schooling experiences of early adolescent at-risk females attending a rural middle school were explored in this ethnographic study which integrates race, class, and gender. The research questions were: (1) How do at-risk early... One aspect of these young girls' schooling experiences surfaced as worthy of deeper examination. From the first interview, it became apparent that the sexual lives of these young girls influence not only how they experience schooling, ... Throughout the analysis in this study, the voices of these early adolescent at-risk females are presented. Their voices tell of the poverty conditions in which they live, the failure they have experienced, and the oppression and... The girls' oppressive status due to their race, and gender are evident in this examination of their schooling and sexual experiences. The girls are not passive participants in school or in life. They are taking action through...
In this dissertation several two dimensional statistical systems exhibiting discrete Z(n) symmetries are studied. For this purpose a newly developed algorithm to compute the partition function of these models exactly is utilized. The... In Feynman's path integral formalism the partition function of a statistical system can be related to the vacuum expectation value of the time ordered product of the observable quantities of the corresponding field theoretic model. Hence...
Meal composition, snacking patterns and their effects upon mood
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Female college freshmen were designated as either Carbohydrate Cravers or Mixed Snackers according to their responses to a survey of snacking patterns. In a between-groups design, their moods and their ratings of the desirability of... On the post-meal measures, Carbohydrate Cravers did not differ significantly from Mixed Snackers on the mood measures nor on the food desirability ratings. Meal composition had no effect upon mood, but it did affect food ratings, albeit... Results of this study are discussed in terms of their implications for two opposing theories of "Carbohydrate Craving".
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; December 13, 1991. Four women wear academic robes and caps. They each stand in front of a chair, and a piano is near them. The side of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing...
The development of a conceptual framework of art for mentally retarded adults who are multiply handicapped and are living in restricted facilities
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The need for mentally retarded adults to achieve their maximum abilities is increasingly being recognized by educators and therapists. The literature, although limited, suggests that a comprehensive art program, both educational and... Mentally retarded adults who are multiply handicapped and exhibit a low self-esteem, poor communication skills, learning difficulties, and/or behavioral problems need additional opportunities for self-expression, and the building of... The conceptual framework for use in the development of art programs for mentally retarded adults who are multiply handicapped and are living in a restricted environment includes: (a) approaches to art therapy, (b) assessment procedures, ...
Sensation seeking tendencies, self-efficacy, and gender: Implications for strategy choice and performance success in a simulated sport task
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This study examines the relationship between sensation seeking tendencies and strategy choice in a simulated sport task. The investigation focuses on the difference in effectiveness of self-chosen versus required-choice strategy options... Previous research and issues relevant to the relationship between sensation seeking tendencies and strategy choice within the context of sport behavior are reviewed. The sensation seeking construct is fully explored and defined.... The study utilized a repeated measures, counterbalanced design with a volunteer group of male and female Florida State University track and field athletes representing a variety of competitive events. Form V of the Sensation Seeking... Results did not support previous findings as the data analysis revealed no significant correlation between sensation seeking tendencies and level of risk in a strategy choice. Differences in performance, as well as in self-efficacy, ...
A three layer, wind driven, general circulation model involving both subtropical and subpolar gyres has been developed to study intergyre exchange. Following Schopp and Arhan (1986), the present work allows flow to cross the intergyre... A class of thermocline structures at the zero Ekman pumping line has been constructed which permit intergyre exchange, or communication. These so-called 'windows', which are where the communication occurs at the intergyre boundary, have... In addition to the model results, observed tracer distributions have been reexamined within the context of this model. Possible explanations for the potential vorticity contours in the North Atlantic Ocean, which connect the northern and...
An empirical perspective on subtypes in schizophrenia: A cluster-analytic approach to classification
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Schizophrenia is a label used diagnostically to classify a very heterogeneous population of mental patients. For years, attempts have been made to reduce this heterogeneity, defining more homogeneous subtypes based upon symptomatology or... Subjects were 531 patients from hospitals and residential settings with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia from a previous multi-institutional study (Paul, 1987, 1988). Variables included measures of both overt behavior in a time...
A fault-tolerant computing system for digital signal processing
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Major advancements have been made in the areas of fault-tolerant computing, parallel and distributed computing, and digital signal processing (DSP) microprocessors. While each discipline continues to grow and develop, little has been... This dissertation addresses two such important problems. The first is the need for DSP systems with higher levels of both performance and fault tolerance. The second is the need for methods to design and develop new multiprocessor and... In addressing these two problems, three objectives are identified. The first is the creation of a new system for DSP which provides higher levels of performance and fault tolerance over traditional single-processor or non-redundant DSP... The second objective is the implementation of a new system prototype without the prohibitive costs normally associated with such designs. This objective is achieved by employing state-of-the-art simulation techniques to build a system... Finally, the third objective is to evaluate this new system with respect to both performance and fault tolerance. This final objective is achieved by using the system prototype, along with DSP applications such as digital filtering and...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; December 13, 1991. A man plays a piano. The side of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony December 13, 1991.
Open slit spectroscopy for quantitative analysis and UV-resonance Raman
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In emission spectral measurement with a dispersive spectrometer, if the entrance slit is widely opened, more light from a relatively large sample area can be collected, thus both energy throughput and spatial averaging advantages can be... The problem for opening the entrance slit is the decrease of spectral resolution. This project aimed to overcome this problem so that all the advantages associated with opening entrance slit are retained without loss of spectral...
Parity versus preponderance: An analysis of the escalation of minor-minor power crises, 1946-1985
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The main objective of this study was to test two competing propositions on the relationship between the distribution of power and international stability: parity model (a relatively equal distribution of power leads to stability) versus... The framework of analysis was conceptualized based on the following three theoretical backgrounds: (1) the locus of minor-minor dyads within the hierarchical structure of international relations; (2) the differentiation of three... The results supported the preponderance hypothesis. The higher the threshold was, the more statistically significant and stronger the support for the preponderance hypothesis was. The preponderance hypothesis was more likely to be...
The relationship of "use of self" skills to predicting therapeutic effectiveness
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This study provided a synthesis of the theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundations for the "use of self" in marriage and family therapy. Consideration is given to the therapist's family of origin, psychotherapy for psychotherapists, ... The purpose of this study was to investigate the "use of self" skills delineated in the Person-in-Practice Model developed by Aponte and Winter (1987a) with the goal of understanding the person and systems the therapist brings to... The population studied consisted of 11 doctoral students in the Interdivisional Program in Marriage and Family at The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. The 11 therapists provided 25 videotaped therapy sessions to be rated.... The statistical analysis was conducted using a canonical correlation to determine the multivariate effect. Stepwise regression was used to determine the significance of predictor variables, with family cohesion entered initially. The results indicated no significant relationships between the rater's perception of the use of structuring, relationship, historical, structural/process, or experiential skills by the therapist and the client's perception of therapeutic... Although the hypotheses tested did not prove to be statistically significant, the study has implications for further research. This study is an initial step toward advancing family therapy to an arena where the therapist is considered an...
The use of a cappella singing in colleges and universities of the United States
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of a cappella choral singing in colleges and universities of the United States. A survey was mailed to 180 college and university choral conductors who were listed in The College Music... Results of this study indicate over 50% of the surveyed colleges and universities perform a cappella choral literature. In addition, unaccompanied singing is predominate in rehearsals and in tour repertoire. A chi-square analysis... Choral conductors appear to be using a cappella singing as a rehearsal technique to achieve choral training objectives and attempt to select representative a cappella literature from all periods of music.
Substrate utilization during treadmill running in prepubertal girls and female adults
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To determine if there are differences in substrate utilization of prepubertal girls and female adults during treadmill running, ten girls (mean age 9.1 $\pm$.6 years) and ten women (mean age 24.4 $\pm$ 5.2) underwent a 30 minute run at... During exercise at the same RI, RER was significantly lower in the girls as compared to the women. In addition RER significantly decreased in the girls by the 20th and 25th minute of exercise at the same RI and AI respectively, while the... These results suggest that prepubertal girls rely more on fat utilization and less on carbohydrate metabolism than adults during treadmill running at the same relative intensity. In addition a significant shift in the relative...
Police cadet attitudes toward police corruption in Thailand
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This dissertation is an exploration into the attitudes of National Thai police cadets toward police corruption in Thailand. The dependent variable of the study is the cadets' stated willingness to engage in police corruption. The main... Hypotheses based on four different perspectives on police corruption:--the police subculture perspective, the police cynicism perspective, the deterrence perspective, and the normative perspective were proposed to explain police... According to the results of a multiple regression analysis, two perspectives, the police cynicism perspective and the normative perspective, provided significant explanatory variables predicting willingness to engage in police corruption...
A longitudinal study of phonological and orthographic knowledge and processing abilities: Their causal roles in reading acquisition
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This study was conducted to investigate the causal relationships among phonological and orthographic knowledge and processing abilities and word reading ability. One hundred first grade children participated in the study from Time 1 ...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 26, 1991. A woman stands in a room and holds a microphone. People in academic robes sit in the background. The bottom of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning...
Object-oriented requirements analysis and design of intelligent computer-integrated manufacturing systems
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This dissertation addresses the problem of developing intelligent computer integrated manufacturing (ICIM) systems. The research objectives are to provide an object-oriented development methodology for ICIM systems supported with tools... Research contributions include composition of an object-oriented detailed methodology with phases and phase dependencies for requirements analysis and design of ICIM systems and the development of a model, ROADMAP, used for knowledge...
Exploiting parallel processing in large scientific applications
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This dissertation presents programming strategies and tools for exploiting parallel processing of large scientific applications in distributed memory computers. The tools form a parallel software library called Salam, which is useful for... As with all modern scientific applications, scientists need machine independent and efficient parallel software to achieve high performance for large applications. Salam is designed to support the development of such programs. It is an... One achievement of this dissertation is a parallel implementation of the Lanczos algorithm on distributed memory computers which has the advantage of reducing the execution time of the algorithm and increasing the size of the problem...
The driving machine: Automobility and American literature
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In Mythologies Roland Barthes contends that automobiles have been "consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriated them as a purely magical object." The Driving Machine explores how this magical object has been... The automobile unites the American fundamentals of individualism and movement--auto-mobility--and the study first examines the literary groundwork for automobility prior to the invention of the car. Next, Lewis's works prove particularly... By the thirties, the car had become essential to most Americans, such as Steinbeck's Joads, and had transfigured the rural landscape, as evidenced in Caldwell and Faulkner. During this period the car attained increasingly complex... At the close of the century, Americans view the car with ambiguity and complexity, contemplating the difficult choice of reconciliation or life without vehicles. Literary responses to automobility have never been so multifarious. Works...
The status of speech education in Southern Baptist higher education for prospective Southern Baptist ministers
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This dissertation identifies communication competencies needed by Southern Baptist clergy. These competencies are compared with the status of speech education in Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries. This dissertation utilized a... Three hundred and thirty ministers responded, constituting a return rate of over forty-two percent of the surveys mailed. Forty-six responses were received from Southern Baptist institutions representing a return rate of over eighty... A majority of ministers considered all fifty-three skills at least "Necessary." Ministers ranked listening skills as the most important area, followed by human relations skills. The least important area was speaking skills. However, ...
The effects of self-regulatory skills and type of instructional control on learning from computer-based instruction
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the level of self-regulatory skills and the type of instructional control in a computer-based instruction. Subjects participating were 77 sixth-grade students. Their self... The results showed that the learner control group was more affected by the level of students' self-regulatory skills than the program control group. When high self-regulatory students were presented with embedded questions during...
A study of differences in employment, salary and enrollment in post-secondary education associated with completion of the General Educational Development (GED) exam
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The General Educational Development (GED) exam provides a "second chance" for people who, for various reasons, did not complete a secondary school program. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in salary, employment... Four null hypotheses were formulated to answer the research questions. A survey questionnaire was developed to gather data related to answering the hypotheses. Subjects included 1988-90 GED graduates in New York State. Multiple... Analysis of the data found that there was no significant difference in employment or salary over time following acquisition of the General Educational Development (GED) exam. However, there was a significant difference in post-secondary...
Allocation of law enforcement resources, spillovers, and the illicit drug market
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This study is an attempt to determine the impact of the "War on Drugs" in the State of Florida. The focus is on the possibility of a relationship between the increased police emphasis on the illicit drug market and the incidence of... The data set used in the empirical model consists of observations for each of the municipal police and sheriff departments in the State of Florida from 1984 to 1987. The data set is somewhat unique in that it is confined to a state where... The empirical analysis suggests: Police appear to be able to deter property crime at the margin; relative differences in police efforts (across jurisdictions) against both property crime and drug crime result in the geographic spillover...
A laboratory study in the use of computer conferencing by established small decision-making groups working through a problem-solving task
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This research investigates the choice of intra-group communication medium by established decision-making groups. Other studies which have investigated this topic have used ad hoc groups as subjects. Because most decision-making groups in... In this study, established group norms are addressed, and a measuring instrument is created based on the work of M. A. Lieberman. Multiple pretest and post-test instruments for the investigation of group dynamics are developed and...
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