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Role of dietary zinc deficiency in adult neuronal stem cell proliferation in the olfactory bulb
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We now know that there are several regions of the human brain that have stem cells with the potential to divide and differentiate into neurons throughout the lifespan. These adult stem cells are found in the subgranular zone of the...
The American geography or, a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography ; geographical definitions, discovery, and general description ... a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory south of Ohio, and Vermont ... with a view of the British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch dominions, on the continent, and in the West Indies, and of Europe, Asia, and Africa
The number of repetitions needed for intrarater reliability of speech stimuli
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The purpose of this investigation was to determine if different numbers of stimuli repetitions affect the intrarater reliability of the scale ratings of speech samples. The research question was: How many repetitions of a stimulus does...
Analysis of carbohydrates in dissolved organic matter in peat porewaters by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
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Vast amounts of carbon are stored in peatlands worldwide. As these reserves of organic matter slowly decompose, they release methane, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The effects of global warming on the rate...
Perceptual analysis of voice change associated with surface electrical stimulation in normal speakers
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Abstract: In recent years, the use of surface electrical stimulation (SES) has become more prevalent in treating patients with voice disorders. There is, however, a lack of evidence for overall improvement in voice quality after...
Dispositional meets situational: the impact of gender role violation on anti-gay aggression
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The goal of the current work was to develop an understanding of the factors that contribute to hate crimes targeted at homosexual males. Gender role violation was examined as a factor in anti-gay aggression. The influence of sexual...
The molecular evolution of parvalbumin in elasmobranchs: determining the exon-intron structure
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Parvalbumin (PV) is a small monomeric calcium binding protein that occurs across vertebrates. This protein has a long history, it was first discovered in the early 1930's and its structure determined in 1970's. Because the protein has a...
Audience costs, autocratic regimes, and militarized conflict
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Traditionally, political science literature has focused on why a democratic peace exists. That is, why are two democratic states less likely to engage in conflict with one another than two dictatorships (or a democracy and a dictatorship...
Microfinance and women's empowerment: interviews from Kosovo
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine if entrepreneurship is empowering for women of Kosovo. This study focused particularly on businesswomen in Kosovo and the ways in which they were personally affected by starting an...
The prime mover: the nature and origin of business cycles and free banking with competing money supplies
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Austrian Business Cycle Theory explains how monetary distortions mislead market participants and cause business cycles. Artificially low interest rates and new money injections qualitatively and quantitatively change aggregate demand....
Semantic fast mapping in kindergarteners after minimal exposure to written non-words
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the semantic fast-mapping abilities of kindergartners with typical language abilities. Of interest was whether phonotactic and/or orthotactic probabilities affected their ability to...
Maintenance rules in friends with benefits relationships
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Friends with benefits relationships (FWBRs) are relationships between cross-sex friends in which the friends engage in sexual activity but do not define their relationship as a committed romantic relationship (Hughes et al, 2005). The...
This study analyzed the correlation between a belief in free will, from temporary manual workers, and better workplace performance. Free will is the ability to override one's natural tendency to choose another action, and research shows...
In many respects, women in the Middle East are treated as second class citizens due to the double standards within the region. Societal expectations hold women directly responsible for actively maintaining a reputation of purity for...
Jealousy and implicit evaluations of perceived romantic rivals
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This experiment tested the hypothesis that people placed in a jealous state, particularly those who display high dispositional levels of romantic jealousy, would form implicit negative evaluations of attractive same-sex targets. A...
The practice of remittance sending: the case of Haitians in Broward and Miami-Dade counties
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This paper shall examine Haitian immigrant communities in Broward and Miami Dade counties and their contributions to family welfare and development in their country of origin through remittances of money. These communities are...
Manipulation of stimulus encoding in the study of retroactive inhibition in paired-associate learning
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Sixteen S's in each of eight experimental and two control groups participated in an experiment designed to study the relation between stimulus encoding and retroactive inhibition, in the A-B, A-C/D-C and A-B, A-Br/D-C P-A paradigms. In...
The medial preoptic area (MPOA) is a major integrative center for male rat sexual behavior. Past research has shown that activator protein (AP-1) transcription factors modulate gene expression. Two such factors are Fos and Jun, that bind...
Feasibility of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from rice fields
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Being inspired by the current research on the greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, we began to look at other greenhouse gas sources. As the result, we have begun to take a deeper look into rice paddies and coal mines. Both produce...
Talking trash: the influence of gender and social class on recycling
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Environmentalism has become an increasingly important issue to people in the U.S. Though recycling is an important means of reducing environmental degradation and is, essentially, a pro-social behavior, there is little literature on the...
Measuring fertilization success of broadcast-spawning marine intertebrates within seagrass meadows in St. Joseph Bay, Florida
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Increasing current velocity has been negatively correlated with fertilization success of marine broadcast-spawners. Seagrass has been shown to effect seawater hydrodynamics, in particular, slowing the movement of water. In this study I...
Ever since Louis Lumiére popularized the first motion pictures near the end of the 19th century, film has been synonymous with the movies. Now, a decade into the 21st century, film is being challenged by digital cinema. Especially in the...
Influence of age on lean body mass, grip strength, and sensory motor function in young and old F344 rats: a cross sectional and longitudinal approach
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Previous studies in humans indicate that cross sectional as compared to a longitudinal study design underestimates age-related declines in lean body mass and functionality. While animal models have an advantage of performing lifelong...
Reproductive compensation and its implication for mating system evolution in viola septemloba
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Mixed mating, the production of offspring by a combination of self-fertilization and outcrossing, is a phenomenon that competing theories have not been able to fully explain. Reproductive compensation (RC) is one untested mechanism that...
No resolution: tension & truth in Cherrie Moraga's "Loving in the War Years"
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This article focuses on the book "Loving in the War Years" by Cherrie Moraga, published originally by South End Press in 1983 and then again in 2007. The aim of this essay is to challenge previous critics' interpretation of the text as a...
The construction and consequences of fear for women and men
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Abstract: This study examines gender differences in fear of crime, the precautionary behaviors women and men take in response to that fear, and the consequences of taking those precautionary behaviors. The data from this study come from...
Bioinformatic and molecular selection of sorghum (S. Propinquum L.) BAC clones for use as FISH probes on chromosomes 2, 7, and 10 of maize (Zea mays L.)
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Abstract: Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop and a model system for cytogenetic research. The overall goal is to develop a cytogenetic map of the maize genome. This provides insight into the structure and evolution of an essential...
Cultivating cooperation: manipulating institutional design features to maximize regulatory efficiency
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Cooperative enforcement, a regulatory enforcement strategy, has been shown to promote efficiency and effectiveness in regulatory environments. In order to achieve a state of cooperation with regulated firms, an agency must be able to...
Four artists under Hitler: the effects of the Entartete Kunst exhibits on Emil Nolde, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Max Ernst and Jankel Adler
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In the National Socialists' attacks on modern art, many artists were called degenerate and forbidden to work. Four artists affected by the Entartete Kunst campaign were Emil Nolde, a member of the Nazi party, Max Ernst, one of the first...
Childhood In Poetry Supplement Volume 3 - QUA-INDEX: a catalogue of the books of English and American poets in the Library of the Florida State University. With lists of the poems that relate to childhood and notes
Enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp dissolved in n-methyl morpholine n-oxide and ionic liquids: a comparative study
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The first step in the conversion process of biomass to biofuels or hydrogen lies in identifying an environmentally friendly solvent, which is capable of breaking up the crystalline microstructure of cellulose. Once the cellulose is in...
A tribute to Lewis Carroll in his sesqui-centennial year: being an inventory of an exhibit in the Florida State University Library and of the Lewis-Carroll holdings in the John Mackay Shaw Poetry Collection
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