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Effects of Consuming Cottage Cheese or Casein Protein Beverage Before Sleep on Morning Appetite and Resting Energy Expenditure in Active, Collegiate-Aged Women
BACKGROUND: There is a window of opportunity for the overnight period where pre-sleep protein intake yields favorable benefits. Previous studies report that dietary protein consumption prior to sleep is fully digested and absorbed by the...
The poems in The Lubbock I Carry primarily operate according to traditional free-verse poetic convention, working to render, as a means of both illumination and interrogation, the emotional and physical landscapes of the past, how they...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend the research surrounding the impact of leaders' political skill on the valuable outcomes experienced by their followers at work through the high-quality relationships developed between...
Pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) are an essential tool in many areas, including simulation studies of stochastic processes, modeling, randomized algorithms, and games. The performance of any PRNGs depends on the quality of the...
Individuals employed in first responder professions are at risk for the development of psychiatric symptoms. Two of these professions, firefighting and military service, demonstrate a strong overlap of employees. Prior research has...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the use of art as a pedagogical tool with pre-service art teachers in a graduate-level art education class. A curriculum was developed focusing on educational social justice...
This dissertation examines several key aspects regarding health insurance policies in the United States. The development of the United States health insurance market began in the 1920s with life insurance companies selling traditional...
This study provides an analysis of the Tenth Piano Sonata, Op. 67 (1955) of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) through an analysis of thematic development, motivic development, melody, and harmony. The evolution of...
Self-regulation involves individuals altering their behavior in order to achieve desired goals, act in accordance with certain ideals or beliefs, and generally to follow the rules governing appropriate behavior in society (Bauer &...
Clonality is the general term that encompasses all manner of pinching, splitting, budding, and fragmenting behaviors by which organisms divide their somatic body tissues into more or less independent units. It can be as straight forward...
The study of expertise and superior performance can be more imperative when performance is assessed in real-life conditions and professions. The present study’s aim was to capture the performance of expert marksmanship through the...
The presence of misbranding and undeclared allergenic residues was the number one cause of food recalls in the United States, between 2012 to 2016. In this study, parvalbumin was used as a model to study the matrix effect on...
Hadronic form factors for semileptonic decay of the Λ[subscript c] are calculated in a nonrelativistic quark model. The full quark model wave functions are employed to numerically calculate the form factors to all orders in (1/m...
Ben Van Dijk is an active performer in The Netherlands in several professional ensembles, and is also on faculty at the Amsterdam Conservatory as one of seven classical trombone professors. The list of works composed for Ben has grown to...
Microwave chemistry has long been a subject of interest in both the organic and inorganic synthesis communities. Microwave heating has the potential to become a powerful force for green synthesis in industry as it uses much less power to...
Research on attentive publics has worked towards identifying who is considered attentive, how the attentive public is different from the general public, and how policy makers should take their views into consideration (Devine, 1970;...
This dissertation examines the roles of religious sincerity and “sincerely held religious belief” in the U.S. state’s regulation of “religion” and interactions with believers. My central concern is how contested conceptualizations of...
The aging population is expected to increase substantially in the future. The fatal crash rates (per mile traveled) involving older drivers (65+) are considerably higher than those of younger drivers. This research involved conducting...
Nationalism, Modernization and the "Woman Question" in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic from the Perspective of the "Ideal/New Turkish Women"
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex and multidimensional relationship of women to the idea of nations and nationalism. In particular, it seeks answers to the following questions: What did nationalism mean to women?...
Summer 2017 magazine from the FSU International Programs in Valencia, Spain with articles about faculty and staff involved with the program, student experiences while studying in Valencia and alumni profiles.
With rapid advances in data acquisition and storage techniques, modern scientific investigations in epidemiology, genomics, imaging and networks are increasingly producing challenging data structures in the form of high-dimensional...
Nowadays the medium-voltage dc system (MVDC) has been proposed in the renewable energy collector fields, long distance power transmission, small-scale industrial networks and all-electric shipboards due to its relatively higher...
This dissertation is a theoretical and computational examination of structural, electronic and magnetic properties of complex transition metal oxide structures. Our work is motivated by experimental observations that transition metal...
Grid codes impose immunity requirements to the generation systems that are connected to the transmission lines. Immunity refers to the generator’s capability to overcome grid abnormal conditions. One of the requirements is to remain...
Engagement among adolescents is a crucial factor for identity formation and positive youth development (Barker, 2015; Kegan, 1994). To help address disengagement, socially engaged art education (SEAE) practices have emerged, combining...
Colloidal suspensions transform between fluid and disordered solid states when parameters such as the colloid volume fraction and the strength and nature of the colloidal interactions are varied. Seemingly subtle changes in the...
Because Hialeah follows the life of Franca, a teenage Cuban-American girl growing up in Miami's Cuban exile community of Hialeah, Florida. Figuratively, Hialeah floats in the ocean, somewhere between the Caribbean its inhabitants came...
A large body of research has identified the importance of the family environment for influencing child development. Nonetheless, variation in the exposure to environmental risk factors is typically characterized as a random phenomenon, ...
Although a large body of research demonstrates a positive relationship between a focal firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and its performance, some research suggests otherwise. This dissertation attempts to extend...
The vocal jazz ensemble singing movement that began at Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham, Oregon) in 1967 reached the public schools of the Boise Valley, in Southwestern Idaho sometime in the early 1970’s. The first generation of vocal...
We review the Sorvali dilatation of isomorphisms of covering groups of Riemann surfaces and extend the definition to groups containing glide-reflections. Then we give a bound for the distance between two surfaces, one of them resulting...
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