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It is clear that the genetic networks that control the shape and patterning of important phenotypic traits are much more important to trait evolution than was previously thought. This study addresses the ability of the Drosophila...
Photograph, black and white, of Faculty, Staff, and Students in the Learning Resource Center, 1990s-2000s. Two men sit at a table and one has a notebook open in front of them. They both turn to look at the camera.
This is a book review essay, using Daniel Callahan's 2009 book, Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System, as the jumping off point. Kapp takes strong issue with Callahan's proposal...
The goal of this dissertation is to present a new perspective on the economic, political, and social implications of food procurement in Early Formative Period (1600 â 900 BC) Mesoamerica. The dataset consists of archaeobotanical...
The U.S. cultural discourse in regard to race is strikingly different now, in the early years of the 21st century, than it was in the 20th century, and many organizations and institutions are seeking to change with the times and...
Covering the period from the Ancien Régime through the turmoil of the Revolution, Consulate and early Napoleonic Empire 1804-1805, this work proposes to throw new light on the character, strength and weaknesses of the French armies...
Power promotes a broad motivational orientation associated with approach and action. Power also insulates its holder from punishment and other costs of mistakes. I hypothesize that these factors encourage powerful individuals to use...
This dissertation investigates Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström's Five Pictures from the Bible, set for six-part unaccompanied chorus and baritone solo, by examining the historical antecedents of the work's creation, and analyzing...
Photograph, color, of a cubicle at the FSU Learning Resource Center interior; 1990s-2000s. The cubicle has a desk with a computer and printer on it. Filing boxes are stacked above the cubicle. A banner reads, Luis On-Line Database.
In 2005, Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, known for using video projections to animate existing public monuments and architecture in more than a dozen countries, exhibited his first large-scale indoor video projection titled "If...
My project investigates an ancient Greek myth concerning the Titan Prometheus. I have taken the play that Aeschylus wrote on behalf of Prometheus and molded it into a devised piece of theatre. My actors have improvised with relationships...
High magnetic fields are used to kill superconductivity and probe what happens to system when it cannot reach the ideal ground state, i.e. what is the normal-state ground state? Early work in High-Tc, where the application of magnetic...
Manual (draft) for Safe Zone Tallahassee, FL. Includes information about member expectations, organization mission, list of terms and definitions, suggestions for "reducing homophobia, facts about the LGBTQ community, stages of sexual...
In recent years, a considerable amount of research has been conducted to delineate the effects of attentional focus on task performance (e.g., Wulf, 2007a). From this research, external focus has been shown to be beneficial to both motor...
A decrease in dietary fat does not alter the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, or cardiovascular disease (CVD) in postmenopausal women (SOR: B, based on a single RCT), nor does it significantly alter CHD in women aged 30 to...
Photograph, black and white, of FSU Learning Resource Center interior; 1990s-2000s. Computers sit on tables in a room and shelves of books line the walls.
Ice and snow particles have a great, yet poorly understood impact on the Earth's climate system. One of the difficulties of studying snow particles is their irregular shape. While spheres and even oblate spheroids backscatter radiation...
A Preliminary Investigation into the Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Perceptions of Attention, Aesthetic Response, and Flow during Music Listening
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness induction technique on subjective reports of attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital...
One of the heritages of Romanticism is the concept of song as Lied, a song in which voice and piano have equal responsibility in conveying the deepest meaning of a poem. Brazilian classical composers have a particular attraction for this...
The purpose of this research was to contribute to an important research and practice issue, how users use evaluative metadata (i.e., end-user ratings, annotations, opinions, usage, and experts' recommendations) when searching for...
The poems in this thesis manuscript deal specifically and theoretically with the concept of finality, and echo influences as varied as Robert Haas, Harvey Shapiro, and Paul Auster. The poems investigate the many forms, structures, ...
Photograph, color, of Learning Resource Center Staff; 1990s/2000s. Two people hold a conversation while sitting on opposite sides of a desk. One woman also has paperwork in front of her.
Guilt and compulsive washing: an experimental test of interrelationships
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Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) tend to experience more guilt than those without the disorder. The present studies sought to test multiple relationships between guilt and compulsive behaviors. Study 1 examined the...
Swarm behavior indicates the direct or indirect interactions among relatively simple agents to perform a particular task that is unknown to the individual agent. The study of swarm behavior originates from the research of swarms in...
The purpose of this research was to examine the writing responses generated by students if they were provided with manipulatives which could potentially stimulate ideas for descriptive writing responses. The participants of the study...
This study examines both the personal life and professional career of James Edwin Croft, Director of Bands, Emeritus, The Florida State University. Croft established himself as a distinguished conductor and a champion of wind band music...
Recent increased popularity in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has been influenced by their ability to relieve the economic dependence on oil, meanwhile reducing the carbon footprint through the decreased level of harmful...
I examine whether Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) manage earnings per share (EPS) through share repurchases to meet or exceed EPS thresholds for bonus awards. The bonus thresholds are firm-specific, fixed reporting targets that are known...
In this study, a general framework for understanding sanctions success with an emphasis on target characteristics has been employed. The hypotheses presented in this study identify target compliance through the effect of globalization on...
Objectives: Some, but not all, studies have found prior depression to predict later cognitive decline (CD). To date, little research has investigated whether certain subtypes of depression are more disposed to CD. We identified...
This study created a model to assess the general retirement literacy and level of intention to save for retirement of recent Millennial college students about to graduate from four-year public universities in the United States. The study...
The current project sought to examine a typology for classifying substance abusers based on personality dimensions (introversion-hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity, and sensation seeking) that differentially predicts...
Documents in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, and Fogelman Library at the New School for Social Research demonstrate Henry Cowell's tireless efforts on behalf of dissonant counterpoint, a...
My dissertation broadly examines the impact of legal inequality on planned lesbian families, and particularly on co-parents. Data come from in-depth interviews with 27 women in planned lesbian families who conceived a child (themselves...
How do children's career aspirations come to reflect the social inequalities among their elders? One theorist, Linda S. Gottfredson, 1996 was interested in explaining how at-risk children come to define themselves professionally and...
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
Photograph, color, of Faculty, Staff, and Students in the Learning Resource Center, 1990s-2000s. Two people wearing white uniforms sit at computers and type on keyboards. A woman watches over the shoulders of one of the people at the...
This study offers a useful step toward conceptualizing and understanding control-motivated IPV as a device to control partners within specific motivating and facilitating contexts. The research literature suggests that desire for control...
The chief objective of this study is to establish the sources of Gyorgy Kepes's visual theory as expounded in his 1944 book Language of Vision, and examine his synthesis of these sources in a form that was so popular that his theoretic...
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