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Photograph, color, of Stephen Sekac and Princess Facen at Homecoming 1996. A man and a woman, both wearing military uniforms, stand together and smile at the camera. The man holds a garnet plaque.
Photograph, color, of Award and Reception for Lucille Alexander, late 1990s. Two women and a man stand in front of a brick wall and smile at the camera.
Multischema: Dynamic view management for object database systems
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This dissertation reports on the investigation of the dynamic views for object database systems in support of multiple applications. It develops object views as a way to support multiple (possibly conflicting) applications on shared data... In this dissertation, we present a comprehensive model of object views for object database systems. This model is compatible with ODMG-93 standard. In this model, object views are characterized by view object types and view relationship... An object view management system and some tools are also presented in this dissertation. The management system serves as a kernel of the view system based on the object view model, and provides an application programming interface. The... The investigation is carried out in two aspects: The intension of object views and the extension of object views. The intension aspect is concerned with view types, view characteristics and view relationship types. The extension aspect...
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Walnut (Juglans regia L.) characterization: Protein composition, lipid and tannin content, and sensory quality
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Walnuts contained about 16.66% protein and 66.90% lipids. Linoleic (61.21%) and linolenic (13.81%) acids accounted for up to 75% of the total fatty acids in walnut lipids. The majority of walnut proteins were soluble in 0.1 M NaOH with a...
Identical bands in tantalum-177 and high spin states of ytterbium-170 and ytterbium-171
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High spin states of an odd-proton, an odd-neutron, and an even-even rare-earth nucleus have been investigated using the FN Tandem-Superconducting Linear Accelerator facility at Florida State University. Each $\gamma$-$\gamma$ coincidence...
The hermeneutics of birdsong: A stolen poetics of intertextuality
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The Hermeneutics of Birdsong is an examination of the tensions, boundaries, and interplay between creative and critical writing. Composed principally of free-verse lyric poems grouped by theme into four chapters, the collection also... The primary and parallel texts function simultaneously as a collage or ideogram, in which the individual poems and critical commentaries coalesce to create a unified, though seemingly fragmented, whole. In keeping with this blending of... Indeed, by forcing the reader to experience criticism as poetry, or poetry as criticism, the primary and parallel texts seek to demonstrate the arbitrary generic distinctions often used to label or judge writing, and thus offer the...
The history of K-12 economic education in Florida, 1974-1994
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In 1949 a national organization formally recognized as the Joint Council on Economic Education, comprised of economists, educators, and persons in business and industry, began promoting economic literacy in pre-collegiate schools. A... The purpose of this study was to critically examine and analyze the various forces and processes associated with the economic education movement in Florida. The population for the study were persons identified as having past or current... The findings confirmed that the K-12 economic education curriculum in Florida was shaped by many conditions and circumstances. Legislative action has been most prominent and has influenced the development and expansion of economics... It was determined that economic education has sustained itself in Florida because of support from many sources including business and industry, higher education, and teachers and administrators in school districts across Florida. The... The writer identifies several educational implications as well as numerous recommendations for future research on this subject.
An analysis of "A pesar de todo...Dios sigue siendo amor", "Dialogo desde una cruz", "Itineriario de la pasion" and "Tentacion y mision" by Dr. Cecilio Arrastia
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Cecilio Arrastia is an author who has written many contemporary Christian works in Spanish. This investigation will explain the themes, analogies, and historical and contemporary references that the author mentions from the Bible and... Chapter 1 will examine the book A pesar de todo ... Dios sigue siendo amor. This chapter will look at the theme of depression and despair. The second book that will be studied and Chapter 2 is Dialogo desde una cruz. This book...
"This study examines atmospheric boundary layer over and around the Gulf of Mexico during return flow events. The locations investigated are on both the Texas coast and the Florida coast. Moreover, several inland stations such as Jackson...
Photograph, color, of Award and Reception for Lucille Alexander, late 1990s. Five women stand in a group in front of a wall that includes the Florida State University Mission Statement on it.
Jurisdictional claims of marital and familial expertise in the system of mental health professions: The historical development of marriage and family therapy
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This study examines the processes associated with the institutionalization of marital and familial expertise in professional groups. Taxonomic, monopoly and systemic models of professionalization are delineated and applied to the... Building upon, yet critically extending, Andrew Abbott's systemic approach, the dissertation concludes that studies of professionalization should be reformulated in four ways: (1) the unit of analysis should shift from the internal... Evidence of claims of marital and familial expertise made by marriage counselors, family therapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, counseling psychologists, social workers, pastoral counselors, lawyers, and physicians were...
Wage revisions and persistent firm performance: An empirical investigation of the managerial labor market
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This thesis investigates two issues. The first issue concerns the relation between executive effort, as measured by changes in a firm's market value of equity, and future wage revisions when the executive moves to a new firm of... The analyses provide two distinct conclusions. First, compensation revisions across firms bear a positive and significant relation to prior changes in shareholder wealth. The magnitude of this relation, however, does not preclude the... Thus, the evidence presented suggests that prior performance is not the decisive determinant of the wage revision received by an executive. This seems warranted given that prior performance appears to offer no predictive power for future...
"This study, conducted in nine languages, sought to examine the library use and reading habits of eminent individuals. All living Nobel Laureates were identified and asked to provide information about their childhood interests and habits...
The determinants of domestic arms production in Third World countries
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The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of... This dissertation empirically tests previous explanations why Third World countries produce arms. Previous research on the determinants of arms production is classified into four categories: internal political, internal economic, ... The results from both cross-sectional and time-series analyses are remarkably consistent. Economic factors find more support than political-security factors when explaining both whether Third World countries will produce arms as well as...
The effect of social facilitation upon conflict in computer-mediated groups
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Studies in the area of social facilitation have attempted to explain the changes in an individual's behavior in an isolated setting compared to when the individual is being observed. This study incorporates social facilitation as a basis...
Atmospheric nitrate deposition: A large nutrient source in north Florida watersheds
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Dry deposition of nitrate, estimated from a box model based on NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions and rain chemistry monitoring data over the contiguous 48 states, accounts for about half of the total US NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions, a deposition flux... temporarily recycled in the watersheds but not retained, so that it could eventually flow to the coastal zone where N may be a limiting nutrient for marine plants. Hydrologic conditions, which exhibit variations on seasonal and longer...
Tracing groundwater flow into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using a naturally occurring radon-222
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Submarine groundwater discharge and recirculated seawater may provide important chemical constituents to the ocean, but the dispersed nature of this process makes locating and quantifying its input difficult. Two approaches were taken to... The response of seepage meters to water motion effects was evaluated in the nearshore study area through time-series experiments using empty and 1000-mL prefilled collection bags. It was confirmed that prefilling the plastic bags... Concentrations of $\sp{222}$Rn in groundwater are 3 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than seawater. Integrated concentrations in the nearshore waters overlying a seepage meter transect showed a significant positive relationship to direct... Factors influencing the concentration of radon in the inner continental shelf waters (i.e., production-decay, horizontal transport, and benthic advection and diffusion) were evaluated using a linked benthic exchange-horizontal transport...
Sentinel of social control: An intellectual biography of Edward Alsworth Ross
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Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) was a prolific modern intellectual who sought to understand and reform society. Midwestern in his origins and attitudes, Ross taught at several universities but in 1906 he settled at the University of... Ross's personal standards of objectivity crossed over from advocacy to dissent in 1901, when he was fired from Stanford, and in two 1910 incidents at Wisconsin. Both incidents forced him into a more accommodating mode, first with the... Selected by a relief organization in 1917 to observe Russia, Ross returned highly critical of socialism. The Progressive critic of big business now praised 1920s American economic efficiency, particularly the industrial and social ... Ross's theory of social control continues to augment sociological literature as a set of common values which determine socialization, while historians also have utilized social control as a paradigm of the Progressive Era and the recent...
A comparison of simultaneous versus sequential use of interactive video instruction and cooperative learning: Effects on achievement, amount of invested mental effort, and attitudes
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The purpose of this study was to compare two instructional strategies using cooperative learning and interactive video instruction, and to measure the effect of these strategies on achievement, amount of invested mental effort, and... Eighty-nine college freshman and sophomores were randomly assigned to the treatment groups. Achievement was measured by performance on three written dialogues constructed by cooperative groups during three of the 10 sessions, and by a... Wilcoxon rank sum tests on the types and tokens in the dialogues, and t-tests on the posttest scores, revealed no significant differences between the treatments on achievement. T-tests found no differences between the treatments on the... The results suggest that conducting interactive video instruction and cooperative learning in sequence, versus conducting this method and medium simultaneously, does not influence achievement in foreign language acquisition. The findings...
A comparative study of post-revolutionary Cuban musical culture and behavior in Havana and Miami: Transculturation, acculturation, and identity in mono- and bi-musical contexts
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The transculturative and acculturative influences on bi-musicality were examined in post-revolutionary Cuban popular musical culture and behavior. A comparative approach was applied to the ethnomusicological investigation, focusing on... A survey was conducted to assess cross-cultural and intergenerational differences in musical preference, music listening and music making frequencies, dance activity, and participation in musical culture. Attitudes concerning... Statistical analyses of the data have revealed significant intergroup differences in listening preferences, and musical production, participation and education. The results ascertained the formative impact that the contrasting politico... The data have provided indexes of balanced versus dominant bi-musicality, reflecting the degree of musical acculturation inherent in the successive generational subgroups. Strong acculturative effects were also observed in item...
Preprogramming and on-line modulation of motor commands during single-joint movements
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The purpose of this study was to elucidate the control process for single-joint movements by examining behaviors of preprogrammed and on-line modulated muscle activation patterns that emerged in different task situations. Twelve subjects... For each response, EMG activities of the triceps brachii and biceps brachii were acquired and digitized. The digitized EMG activities were used to calculate multiple EMG variables. Significant multivariate ANOVAs on overall dependent... However, analyses on other EMG variables, including the first 50 ms of antagonist activity, agonist and antagonist areas after the first 50 ms of movement, their peak amplitudes, and times to reach the peak amplitudes, suggested that... Observed patterns of EMG variables suggest that the movement control process involves both preprogramming and on-line modulation of motor commands. Although the control system must preprogram some of the controlling factors before it can...
Photograph of people gathered in a room at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Industry Day.
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Photograph of people gathered in a room at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Industry Day. Two people in the main focus of the photograph are looking at a television. A Sign that reads "FAMU/FSU College of Engineering" is visible along...
Photograph, color, of Award and Reception for Lucille Alexander, late 1990s. A man and a woman pose together and smile at the camera. The woman sits on a bench and the man stands next to her. A second woman sits on the bench as well, ...
Family stress and adjustment experienced by Chinese and Korean graduate students and their spouses in an American university
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The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among demands perceived by international graduate students and their spouses, their perception of capabilities to meet the demands, and their adjustment. The variables used in this... Multivariate regression analysis showed that there are significant effects of perceived demands on perceived capabilities, perceived demands on adjustment, and perceived capabilities on adjustment. Analysis of relationships among... Reliability and validity analyses on the HC scales were conducted. The HC scale is a 20-item scale intended to be culturally sensitive to Asian population when measuring emotional and psychological adjustment. The HC scale showed...
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