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An exploratory study of band musicians' eye contact and performance as influenced by loss of visual and/or aural stimuli
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of losing visual and/or aural stimuli on the ability of band members to perform a piece of music. Data were also collected on the frequency and duration of players' eye-contact with... Subjects were 120 undergraduate band members at The Florida State University. All subjects individually played their instrument while viewing a videotape of a conductor and listening via headphones to a band. During the first sixteen... The group that could both see the conductor and hear the band received the highest ratings, indicating that a combination of aural and visual stimuli facilitates the ability to play "in ensemble" rhythmically with a band. Visual-only and... Videotapes of subjects who did not lose either visual or aural input were analyzed for instances of eye-contact with the conductor. These subjects "looked up" at the conductor nearly 28 percent of the time with glances averaging just... Post Hoc analyses indicated that almost half of the subjects who lost aural stimuli got lost in the music. Yet, eye-contact patterns for these subjects were similar to those of subjects who managed to stay with the conductor. It is...
The consequence of evaluation of achievement in drafting technology
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This research was designed to ascertain the effect of student self-evaluation, teacher evaluation, and feedback, and the absence of formal evaluation of college drafting assignments upon student achievement and knowledge retention, and... The participants in the study were 39 undergraduate students enrolled in the Industrial Studies 123 Technical Drafting class in the Department of Industrial Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville during the fall semester of... A one-way analysis of covariance was utilized to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings and conditions of this study, the following conclusions were made: (1) the no-evaluation and teacher-evaluation...
Morality and legality of human behavior: A cross-cultural examination of perceptions of criminal and deviant events
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The present study focuses on the interrelationship between perceived morality and perceived legality of behavioral scenarios presented to a sample of Taiwanese college students. The study's results indicate that personal moral values...
Studies of Virginia Woolf's experimental prose tend to follow the modernist paradigms which privilege spatial form and transcendence at the expense of narrative temporality. Studies of Woolf's historical interests generally look to the... LaCapra provides a framework which illustrates Woolf's contextualizing strategies, the ways in which she weaves factual and experiential subject matter into fictional discourse. These strategies can be seen most clearly in the project... The interpretations prompted by LaCapra and Jameson question the applicability of a poetry-based aesthetics to the high modern novel as they indicate new directions for historicizing modernism and its art. Among these new directions is a...
Sartrean dialectics: The foundations for a "regressive-progressive" method of critical discourse on aesthetic experience
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Post-structuralist theories of literary criticism such as deconstruction have provided useful tools with which to analyze "texts" but have also contributed to (and are symptomatic of) the widening gap that is experienced today between... Sartre's progressive-regressive method enacts a fusion of Marxist sociology and existential psychoanalysis. Sartre employed this method as a tool for both socio-historical and psycho-biographical research. The progressive-regressive... My purpose in this dissertation is to extract and modify those aspects of Sartre's method which might be applied in critical discourse on aesthetic experience. To achieve this goal, I employ the progressive-regressive method as the... Part One of my study is devoted to theory and includes (1) a phenomenological description of the origins and purposes of Sartre's method, (2) a regressive analysis of Sartre's own development and implementation of the method as a tool...
Photograph, color, of FSU Homecoming 1992; Class of 1962. Five women stand at a set table and smile at the camera. The table decoration is in garnet and gold, and a signs says "62."
A characterization of creatine kinase-myosin coupling in intestinal epithelia
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Two isozymes of creatine kinase (CK) were partially purified from isolated intestinal epithelial cells and identified as the non-muscle cytoplasmic isoform (B-CK) and the non-muscle mitochondrial isoform (Mi-CK). In intestinal epithelia, ...
The limits of Leviathan: A theory of constrained government
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Leviathan governments have a single goal in mind: to maximize tax revenues. This dissertation looks at some of the possible constraints that Leviathan governments face in their quest for growth. In particular, we are interested in the... The standard theory of intergovernmental competition concludes that if migration costs are low, and districts are good substitutes, then competing governments (even revenue-maximizing governments) will not be able to exploit their... Federalism is a way for a single government to artificially introduce some aspects of intergovernmental competition. By decentralizing the authority to raise and spend tax revenues, the federal system creates a competitive insurance... We used three data sets: international, state and local, and state educational, to determine if centralization of government tends to increase government size as predicted by Leviathan. Our results from all three samples are mildly... In addition, we feel the results are strong enough to reject the notion that government centralization encourages cost savings that tend to reduce government size. This result, in itself, is a valuable piece of evidence against the trend...
Determinants of population knowledge and attitudes of secondary school teachers of population education in the province of Aceh, Indonesia
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The goal of this study was to assess the level of knowledge and attitudinal characteristics of secondary school teachers teaching population education; to examine the relationship between two dependent variables (population knowledge and... The sample comprised 224 teachers. The Pearson correlation analysis of data identified eight independent variables significantly related to knowledge (age, teaching experience, education, experience in teaching population education, ... For the attitude toward population education there were three significant determinants which affect attitude toward population education (education, training participation and age). Reciprocal analysis showed that there were a... The result of this study appear to throw some light on the relationship between attitude and knowledge on a subject matter. By taking a broader and more comprehensive definition of attitude than is often the case in attitude research, ...
Economic impact on the Florida economy of energy price spikes
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the short-term economic effects of oil price spikes upon Florida. A substantial disturbance in oil supplies is likely to generate a large price upsurge and a downturn in the level of economic...
Trust and shared governance of schools: A qualitative approach
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School improvement literature suggests that trust is central to the requisite organizational change from a traditional bureaucratic paradigm to an emphasis upon shared management of schools and participative leadership. This study... The selected design was a multi-site, descriptive case study utilizing qualitative methodology. Data analysis was consistent with grounded theory procedures (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Sampling included the use of a quantitative measure, ... Results indicated linkage between trust and a collaborative, collegial workplace, with consistency of values among principals and their faculties, and a variety of shared management practices. Ten themes evolved from the data: trust and... Implications for further research include replication of the study in context of the differing organizational patterns of middle and secondary schools, investigation of bargaining unit support of discretionary staffing for possible...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 24, 1992. A group of people gather in the back of a room. The side of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 24, 1992.
American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) composed six symphonic works during his distinguished career. Of these six, only three are actually titled "symphony." They are the First, Second, and Third Symphonies, completed... Beginning in 1895 the composer abandoned the abstract symphony to compose works that bear resemblance to the symphony proper in terms of form and tonal structure but that differ in that they are somewhat programmatic and not so serious... This dissertation investigates Chadwick's symphonic compositions on several levels: (1) Their historical background is considered with respect to contemporary trends in American composition. Comparisons are also made to aesthetic models...
Extension of principal component self-modeling analysis and conformational isomerism
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Fluorescence and fluorescence-excitation spectra of trans-1-(2-naphthyl)-2-phenylethene (NPE), obtained under varying conditions of excitation and emission wavelengths, respectively, and oxygen concentration in methylcyclohexane are... The first extension of PCA-SM to four component systems is presented. It is based on the assumption of minimum non-negativity of the spectral elements as given by Lawton and Sylvestre. Self-modeling curve resolution for a simulated four... Fluorescence spectra of NPE obtained at different excitation wavelengths and tri-n-butylamine (TBA) concentrations (0.00 M-0.30 M) in methylcyclohexane were resolved into fluorescence spectra of the NPE conformers and of the two NPE-TBA...
Jurors' perceptions of child victim-witnesses in a real-world sexual abuse trial setting
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Historically, legal professionals as well as laypersons have maintained generally negative expectations of children's abilities as eyewitnesses. However, little research has been conducted directly investigating jurors' perceptions of... this research on future study and general methodological issues related to this topic are also discussed.
A response surface analysis of the effects of scheduling flexibility alternatives on labor utilization in a tour environment
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This dissertation examines labor scheduling in a tour environment. The impetus for this research lies in the lack of improvement in service sector productivity compared to manufacturing productivity since 1960. A contributing factor in... This dissertation examines four scheduling flexibility factors, shift length, meal-break window, start-time interval, and tour length, which were found in previous research to have an effect on labor utilization. These factors were... The results of the analysis indicated that shift length and meal-break window are the important factors in determining labor utilization for the environment used in this dissertation. The analysis also indicated that ILP solutions to...
School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 24, 1992. A group of people pose for a picture while wearing academic robes. The side of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 24, 1992.
Thermodynamic, kinetic and structural properties of linear polyethylene crystallized from polymer-diluent mixture
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The crystallization behavior in the extremes of crystallization of pure polymer and from dilute solution have been extensively studied. However, studies over the intervening concentration range are very sparse. Therefore, studies have... By the use of Raman spectroscopy, the phase structure of the three major regions of crystalline polymer, i.e., the ordered crystalline region, the disordered liquid-like interlamellar region, and the interfacial region, has been examined...
Playing against the low genres of soap opera and pornography, this postmodern farce takes place in a generic corporate office with two tiers of characters: executive and clerical staff. The executives are generally seeking more power and... The novel is told in the third person from multiple points of view which are subverted on occasion by an obtrusive narrative perspective. World views clash in a dialogic heteroglossia as characters fight for space, voice and hegemony.... A plot that seeks to connect the diverse characters concerns Mr. D's plan to implement Interactive Distributed Processing in order to regain power and control over the clerical staff. Another plot evolves around Enormous Norma's feminist... Olga is the one character who does not participate in the company shenanigans, executive or clerical. Her values, desires and agendas do not coincide with those of the other players. At first mostly isolated, Olga gradually begins to...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 24, 1992. Four women wear academic robes and stand near a podium while lighting candles. The bottom of the frame reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 24,...
The influence of traumatic brain injury on social interaction and pragmatic communication: A case study approach
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This study explored social interaction (SI) and pragmatic communication (PC) in a group of five female student subjects, four with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and one with no injury. The prime objective was to examine ways in which... Resulting data indicated that the non-injured subject tended to score higher than the other subjects in both SI and PC performance, especially in the PC component of narrative ability. While TBI factors such as severity and location of...
The development of the French National Front: A consideration of the political and institutional facilitators from an elite perspective
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The study traces the development of the French National Front. As a new political party in an old party system, the development of the Front offers a unique opportunity to examine the currently popular theories related to the changing... By way of introduction, we give special attention to the political antecedents of the National Front. This involves a detailed discussion of the complex web of cleavage structures which formed the political and ideological cradle in... These points are addressed by employing a blend of research strategies. This multi-method approach involves a consideration of the voluminous literature, both popular and academic, which has recently appeared on the French National Front... Emphasis is placed on identifying the political and institutional factors which facilitated the development of the party at three distinct levels: (1) creation, (2) electoral success, and (3) durability. The role of the French political...
The development of adaptive symbolic problem-solving in children between the ages of two-and-a-half and three years
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The expansion of a child's problem solving repetoire to incorporate symbolic problem solving is the ultimate achievement in the development of adaptive symbolic functioning. In this cross-sectional study, problem solving ability was... Symbolic skills were assessed with a Dramatic Play Behavior Checklist, a drawing task, the Gestalt Closure subtest of the Kaufman-ABC, the Utah Test of Language Development, and two problem solving performance tasks. Spearman's Rho... Clear differences were found between children $\ge$33 months of age and those $<$33 months in that younger children relied on trial and error problem solving while older children derived symbolic solutions to the performance task... Most importantly, children who averaged 34.5 months of age were found to reliably use models as mnemonic devices to symbolically problem solve on the search/retrieval tasks. Additionally, an intriguing and persistent error pattern...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Class of 1957 reunion; 1992. Four women sit at a table, cups in front of them, and smile at the camea. A man leans against the wall behind them with a camera around his neck.
Initiation and development of creeping thermal plumes
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The study of the formation and growth of thermal plumes is motivated by the proposed existence of such plumes in the Earth's mantle. During the initial stages of plume development, a plume consists of a large buoyant ball trailing a...
Profile characteristics and musical backgrounds of community chorus participants in the southeastern United States
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Purposes were (1) to describe personal and educational characteristics of adult choral participants; (2) to determine levels of participation in various types of music education activities; (3) to describe content of general music and... A 40-item questionnaire was developed and distributed to ten community choruses selected as sample population from large and small cities in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama on the basis of population, ethnicity, manufacturing output, and... Responses revealed twice as many females as males, and minorities were very underrepresented. A majority had completed at least a Bachelors degree. Approximately one-third had been college music majors. Most common experiences before... Younger participants reported greater school music opportunities and more use of popular music in listening activities and repertoire. A capella singing was seen to decline. Music majors were more likely to have listened to classical...
Existing and preferred general education requirements in eight representative degree programs at two Florida universities: A multiple case study
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The purpose of the study was to describe the existing and preferred content and structure of the general education curriculum. The study also sought to determine if some agreement existed in the perceptions of faculty from varied... In order to provide for a representative sample of degree programs, a representative degree program from each of the eight areas identified by Biglan (physics, biology, English, psychology, mechanical engineering, nursing, accounting and... The findings of the study suggest that faculty members across the representative degree programs expressed a positive view of general education coursework. Overall, faculty members expressed dissatisfaction with student writing and...
An examination of substance use among poor, culturally diverse women in south Florida: A comparison of two multivariate approaches
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This study was designed to provide a model for the data analysis needed to plan substance abuse prevention programs on a local level targeting poor, culturally diverse, adult women. Both this portion of the population and this method of... Two multivariate data analyses, multiple regression and Automatic Interaction Detection (AID), were evaluated in terms of their utility to program planners by comparing the rank orderings of the independent variables in terms of their... The rankings of the independent variables based on explanatory ability differed significantly providing empirical confirmation that substance use among women should be considered a multidimensional phenomenon with multiple pathways to... Those factors most highly associated with substance use included having illegal activities as one's primary source of income, reproductive control, prior history of experimentation with substances, and current involvement in prostitution...
The extant sonatas of "Six Sonates pour le violon" by Joseph Boulogne "Le Chevalier" Saint-Georges: A hybrid analysis
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This dissertation is the development of a hybrid analytical procedure and its application to the three extant sonatas of Six Sonates pour le violon by Joseph Boulogne "Le Chevalier" Saint-Georges. The procedure is based on the combining... The hybrid analytical procedure proposed in this dissertation is offered as an alternative analytical perspective for classic music. Included in the work is a brief overview of the Schenkerian notion of levels, the notion of topics, and...
Photograph, color, of FSU Homecoming 1992. Two women stand together, talking. One holds a cup and the other a plate of food. A table filled with food is behind her.
The theory and practice of a reflecting team approach to family therapy: A Delphi study
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The practice of a reflecting team approach to family therapy allows therapy teams the opportunity to share their struggles and discussions directly with clients. However, due to different conceptualizations and unclear theoretical... A Delphi technique was employed in the present study to strive for consensus about the theory and practice of a reflecting team approach to family therapy. The study collected the opinions of "experts" who have published, presented, or...
CEO characteristics, strategy, and performance: An empirical study of declining organizations
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The ability to turn around from declining performance is critical for the long-term survival of an organization. The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically examine how the characteristics of the CEO impact the selection of... The findings of this dissertation indicate that CEO succession may not be required in order to turn around declining performance. If an organization decides to select a new CEO, it is more likely that the selection would come from within...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony; April 24, 1992. A woman stands behind a podium and talks into a mircophone. The bottom of the photograph reads, FSU - School of Nursing Pinning Ceremony April 24, 1992.
Le theme de l'evasion dans l'oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart et dans celle d'Albertine Sarrazin (French text, Algeria, Guadeloupe)
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Simone Schwarz-Bart (1938-) and Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967) offer an example of the cultural diversity that French Literature provides to the readers. Two of Albertine Sarrazin's novels, L'Astragale and La Cavale, were published in... As a young teenager, life in a rigid family felt too hard and too stifling for Albertine Sarrazin and she fled away at the age of fifteen. For the young girls and Ti Jean, in Schwarz-Bart's novels, life in the West Indies presented... In order to become a better person and get away from their unhappy situations, the characters had to go deep inside themselves to get to know their innerself. Through this universal process of search for happiness and a better way of...
The social process of identifying and labeling potential dropouts: An analytical description
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Although there exists a large volume of literature on dropouts from high school, most draw upon the quantitative approach to research and attempt to find those characteristics of dropouts which differentiate them from graduates. Few... This study examined and analyzed the process in a school whereby students through a joint action of teachers, school officials, parents, and students themselves are identified and labeled as potential dropouts. The information concerning... Results of this study may also shift peoples attention from deficiencies in students as the sole cause of dropping out onto realizing that dropping out is at least in part a social production or product of the interplay of current school... This study supports the notion that the dropping out process is a dynamic social process involving the student, the school and classroom social system, and the family background. An intervention strategy that focuses solely on the...
The relationship of an alcoholic family of origin to family functioning and quality of life for Adult Children of Alcoholics
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This study compared Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Non Alcoholics at two family life cycle stages; these included the Families with School Age Children Stage and the Families with Teenagers Stage. Respondents were... The sample for the Families with School Age Children Stage included 90 Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Non Alcoholics while the sample for the Families with Teenagers Stage also included 90 Adult Children of Alcoholics... The study found significant differences between Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Non Alcoholics in family of origin health/pathology and family of procreation stress, family functioning, and quality of life. The...
Photograph, color, of School of Nursing Class of 1957 reunion; 1992. Seven women sit on a couch and smile at the camera. They look through old yearbooks and photos.
Book from the exhibit Dispossessed Installations that contain installation works from the artists Steve Barry, John Fekner, Adrian Piper, Bill Viola, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles and an exert on the artist and their work.
On the generation and dispersion of Yanai waves with a spectral Chebyshev-collocation reduced-gravity ocean model
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A spectral Chebyshev-collocation method is devised for the 1-1/2 layer non-linear reduced-gravity equations. Following a general description of spectral methods with their application to meteorological and oceanographic problems the... The model is used in a study of the dynamics of Yanai (or mixed Rossby-gravity) wave packets. These are of interest because of the observations of equatorial instability waves (which have the characteristics of Yanai waves) and their...
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