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The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier...
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century American Clarinetists is designed as a resource to provide information on the lives and careers of American clarinetists and pedagogues of note, active primarily between the years 1900 and...
Emergent phenomena are one of the most profound topics in modern science, addressing the ways that collectivities and complex patterns appear due to multiplicity of components and simple interactions. Ensembles of random Hamiltonians...
Too often, the reasoning behind why individuals choose to immigrate tends to be a most important side of the story that is neglected in the midst of the political discourse over the controversies surrounding the topic of immigration, ...
Southern Alaska crustal exposures provide an excellent opportunity to study the growth of collisional continental margins through the processes of terrane accretion, magmatism, accretionary prism development, and subduction of oceanic...
Recent research on structural priming has found that cumulative priming effects established in one experimental session can persist for a week and affect a participant's subsequent linguistic productions (e.g., Kaschak, Kutta, &...
Examining the Sustainability of Research-Based Practices in Rural Elementary Schools after Program Funding Ends: A Case Study of Four First Grade Teachers
This paper describes a qualitative case study designed to investigate research-based practices as a contemporary phenomenon within the real-life context of schools. Selected first grade teacher perceptions of research based practices and...
Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses associated with high rates of suicidal behavior. One potential explanation for the increased rate of suicidality in individuals with eating disorders is the high rate of comorbidity...
This dissertation examines how patterns of regional homogeneity in material culture develop on the local level. Archaeologists have long been concerned with how large, materially homogeneous culture groups develop over large regions...
This article subjects a randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry to a methodological and statistical critique, including a re-analysis of the effect size statistics presented. The published trial tested...
The focus of this thesis is to provide a critical examination of the movement of culture jamming through a primary reading of activist group The Yes Men. The Yes Men as the primary focus, and the movement of culture jamming as the...
HEADLINES: With an Eye to the Future, Sky; Experiencing Visual Art in New, Inviting Ways; Performing Arts with a Contemporary Twist; Museum and Artist Retreat Establish Residency; Continuing the Legacy, Dream of the Ringlings; The Many...
Caffeine is the most commonly used drug in the world, often consumed in the form of coffee, sodas, teas, energy drinks, and chocolate. It is also generally regarded as very safe to consume. As one of the most thoroughly investigated...
Florida's innovative Law Enforcement Families Partnership (LEFP) was created to reduce and prevent officer-involved domestic violence in the state. Administered by the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State University and...
In this study, laboratory experiments were conducted to compare the efficiency of using O3 and O3+H2O2 as precursor to anaerobic biological treatment of the treatment of landfill leachate. Both oxidation systems were proven efficient in...
This research project seeks to evaluate the rainfall forecast accuracy of the GEFS (Global Ensemble Forecast System) following the 2010 model update, analyzing the Atlantic September 2010 Hurricane Karl as a case study. Archived...
The Great Smokey Group and the Mineral Bluff Group of the southern Appalachians Blue Ridge contain units of metaconglomerate that contain stretched quartz pebbles. Quartz pebbles have been widely used as strain markers in conglomerates....
An experiment has been built and operated to investigate the pressure difference and the temperature variation through orifice plates in He II forced flow at bath temperatures between 1.7 K and 2.1 K. The flow of He II is generated with...
In this thesis, we discuss the development of a new Boids system that simulates flocking behavior inside the Blender Game Engine and within the framework of the Real-Time Par- ticles System (RTPS) library developed by Ian Johnson. The...
Catalog from the 26th Annual Tallahassee International featuring the artists Laurie Joan Aron, Michael J. Bauman, Ashley Kathleen Bell, David S. Bogus, Jeff Briggs, James H. Calvin, Xuan Chen, Sue Danielson, Colleen C. Ellis, Patricia...
Secular gains in intelligence test scores have perplexed researchers since they were documented by Flynn (1984, 1987), but few have attempted to understand them as a cognitive phenomenon. Gains are most pronounced on seemingly "culture...
This thesis documents and analyzes events ignited by complaints to the Florida Elections Commission (FEC) against the fledgling, independent newspaper, The Wakulla Independent Reporter; its publisher, Julia Hanway; and her business, ...
Maison is a collection of poems that operates as a novel in verse. As such, the collection probes the construction of genre, the possibility of using linguistic play as a narrative tool, and the reinvention of traditional poetic forms...
The effect of alcohol on performance during single-feature and conjunctive-features visual search tasks was examined in 18 normal, young adult participants (nine women), using a counterbalanced, within-subjects design that examined...
The concurrent rising rates of two societal concerns, rising rates of obesity along with increasing reports of parental indulgence, make it imperative to look at these issues in tandem. Not only has obesity become a national epidemic, ...
This project is an examination of the War against al-Qaeda from the field of religious ethics. In response to September Eleventh, the United States has spent the last decade fighting a war against a diffuse and elusive network of...
In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work. Most scholars agree that these word portraits inspired the invention...
Maritime archaeological sites located in the inter-tidal zone are common throughout the world. Such sites are difficult to investigate yet their state of preservation often provides unique archaeological data unavailable on most...
This study explores the expression of Christian fellowship in the home. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of how Christians today express koinonia, the Greek term used in New Testament scripture to describe the church...
When considering computer processors, there is a trade-off between performance and power; improved performance does not typically come without an increase in power. Similarly, the reduction of power often times means a reduction in...
This study investigated college students' attitudes toward and intentions to use personal health portals (PHPs) for managing their personal health information using a survey method. The study also aimed to examine the roles electronic...
Neontological studies of reptilian growth are important as they provide a proxy allowing investigation of the life history of extinct relatives. As such, finding modern correlates for bone growth and histological types that can then be...
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