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After decades of research biogeochemists have identified several intervals of variable marine oxygenation throughout Earth's history. These fluctuations in oxygenation have been proposed to directly correlate to changes in ancient...
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) consistently have deficits in performing adaptive behaviors (Kenworthy et al., 2010; Perry et al., 2009; Pugliese et al., 2017), which are skills needed to care for oneself, have social...
The central focus of this thesis is a study of materials with competing magnetic interactions and understanding how these interactions affect the overall magnetic behavior of solids. Understanding the fundamental factors that can be used...
This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines...
A search is presented for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson using full Run 2 data (2016-2018) collected by the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137.60...
The main goal of this dissertation is to examine the prosodic differences between English and Spanish that lead to different interpretations of ambiguous relative clauses. Prosody, or the rhythm, stress, and intonation of a spoken...
Nonmonosex individuals often face higher odds of exposure to trauma and negative outcomes related to medical, mental health and social disparity. Despite growing numbers, research into exposures and risk/resilience and their impact on...
Marine aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species in ocean environments, has substantial potential to contribute to the global supply of seafood. However, despite the global growth of marine aquaculture (mariculture) in recent years, ...
At the end of World War I, why did Germany's surface ship sailors embrace and spread the cause of moderate revolution, rather than embrace either a radical, Bolshevik style of revolution or fight the revolution altogether? War weariness, ...
This dissertation explores the campus climate of a Historically Black University in the Southeastern United Sates by providing an overview of the campus' sexual assault policy and Black women students' and administrators' perceptions of...
There have been recent pushes for more active learning in mathematics classrooms, especially at the undergraduate level. To incorporate more active learning, there is a need for tasks that explicitly support this type of instruction, ...
This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and...
Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences...
The continual study of shock wave boundary layer interactions (SBLIs) is driven by their presence on the internal and external surfaces of transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight vehicles. SBLIs manifest in a myriad of practical...
Fourier transforms form an integral part of most signal processing applications and are therefore a crucial enabler of modern technology. Thus, fast and efficient algorithms to compute the Fourier transform is an area of active research....
One of the biggest roadblocks currently in the way of large scale quantum computation is the limited relaxation times of the current state of the art quantum computers. This limitation is due to the use of superconducting qubits, which...
Thanks to the advancement of data-collecting technology in brain imaging, genomics, financial econometrics, and machine learning, scientific data tend to grow in both size and structural complexity, which are not amenable to traditional...
Purpose: There is a rich history of research investigating victimization and juvenile offending. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile reoffending in a sample of...
In this thesis project, I explore the rhetorical consequences of mixed race Black people's racialization in Pre-Reconstruction nineteenth century. Toward this end, I ask: How did the language surrounding mixed race Black people's...
As a low-impact activity that can cover longer distances than walking, cycling is not only good for older adult's health, but can also be a viable low-cost mode of transportation. Cycling can allow older adults to maintain mobility, ...
Polyethylenes with functional groups placed at precise locations along the backbone serve as model systems for studying the effect of co-units on crystallization behavior of polymers. Good thermal stability and high crystallinity...
Prior research has noted the unique interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and antisocial factors associated with psychopathic personality traits (Hare, 1990; Cooke & Michie, 2001; Hare, 2003; Hare, 2010; Skeem & Cooke, 2010). In line with...
In real-world mission planning, the environment can be quite complex, and a path planner has thepotential to enable an agent to fulfill its goals in spite of unanticipated events and unexpected situations. A sound path planner defines a...
Cells sense the mechanical properties of their environment through physical engagement and spreading, with high stiffness driving nuclear translocation of the mechanosensitive transcription factor YAP. Restriction of cell spread area or...
Excavations from 17th and 18th-Century Houses: A Study of Artifacts of Personal Adornment and Dress from Spanish Colonial Mission San Luis De Talimali and St. Augustine Households
An analysis of jewelry and other artifacts of personal adornment from the reconstructed house at the frontier mission San Luis (8LE4) in Tallahassee, FL and the Avero house (8SA7-5) in the capital of the La Florida colony, St. Augustine, ...
The 26S proteasome is the largest and most complicated chambered protease known. It is responsible for regulated degradation of proteins within all eukaryotic cells, and is essential for maintaining protein homeostasis. Disruptions to...
Paul Hindemith wrote his three organ sonatas during the period in organbuilding known as the Organ Reform Movement, which idealized Baroque organs and sought to create new instruments which reflected these Baroque ideals. In the USA in...
I examine whether the FASB's revenue recognition guidance (codified as ASC Topic 606) increases revenue comparability across firms and industries, and whether revenue comparability provides decision useful information to analysts. I...
While most saxophonists are aware that the vocal tract is involved in playing the saxophone, the pedagogy surrounding the topic of the vocal tract is inconsistent; different lineages of pedagogy address it to varying degrees. Most...
Cigarette smoke is a known exacerbator of age-related pathologies such as cardiovascular (CV) disease, atherosclerosis, and cellular aging (senescence). However, the role of nicotine and its primary metabolite cotinine in these processes...
The poems in the dissertation 81st Division explore British colonialism and its legacy in Nigeria. The dissertation adopts various European poetic styles as a way of acknowledging European influences in Nigeria while breaking the rules...
Adolescence is a period of increased risk-taking behaviors including the initiation of alcohol use, which appears mechanistically related to the brain's reward system. Available evidence provides support for both hyposensitivity and...
Due to the large variance in the stochastic nature of evolution and DNA, it can be difficult to be sure that inferences that use genetical data are perfectly correct. However, as we incorporate more data into our analysis then the...
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of nine research articles related to the needs of African American parents/caregivers of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The primary topics explored...
In order to survive the perpetual abuse and subjugation of a White supremacist patriarchy, Black women have historical operated within the ideological framework of Black Feminist Thought. The onset of colonial expansion, along with the...
The purpose of this treatise is to examine the phenomenon of embodied experience in selected solo piano works of five Black composers of the United States and United Kingdom: Shawn Okpebholo, Hannah Kendall, Brian Raphael Nabors, James...
This study examined the factors contributing to the underrepresentation of women studying undergraduate Computer Science (CS) at Florida Research University (FRU), a preeminent public university. Even as the growing popularity of...
Purpose. This study focused on factors that contributed to writing quality in adults who were pursuing a General Educational Development (GED) diploma through an adult basic education program and university students who were pursuing a...
The number of children living in poverty in the United States rose 14.4% from 2019 to 2020 (U.S. Census Bureau). In Florida, nearly one out of every four children live at or below the poverty threshold Koball and Jaing (2018). The...
Concepts like cultural relativism, tradition, and authenticity warrants a more critical examination in an age where much of the world's population has adopted a digital lifestyle that is always online. As a cultural artifact, the...
The air intake captures the freestream airflow and delivers it to the engine of the parent vehicle for thrust production. The shockwave boundary layer interactions (SBLI) in the intake duct play an important role in defining the flow...
This dissertation brings together two independent studies that examine marginalized groups of entrepreneurs being affected by different types of external shocks. In this work, I define as marginalized groups individuals that are socially...
Deficits in general cognitive functions, measured via reductions in the P300 ERP component, are commonly observed in adults suffering from depression compared to controls. Despite this extensive literature in adult samples, the...
Beginning in the 1970s, an ideological, political, and legal shift toward more punitive policies to address crime occurred. The punitive turn can also be seen inside of prisons, and one example is the expanded use of extended restrictive...
At the end of 2016, approximately 1.5 million people were incarcerated in state and federal prisons (Carson, 2021), and more than half of these prisoners are parents of at least one minor child (Maruschak et al., 2021). Upon their...
Difficulties with anger and aggression have been linked to serious youth outcomes with long-term effects including psychopathology and incarceration. In the United States, although the cost to incarcerate a youth varies by state, the...
The Southern Ocean (SO) is one of the most productive oceanic regions in the world. Despite a high abundance of macronutrients such as nitrate and phosphorus, some areas have a surprisingly low amount of phytoplankton biomass. These...
Facial expression recognition (FER) is a promising but challenging area of computer vision (CV).Many researchers have devoted significant resources to exploring FER in recent years, but an impediment remains: classifiers perform well on...
Spring 2022 magazine from the FSU International Programs in Florence, Italy with articles on food, culture and events in Florence during this semester.
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