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This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
Mobile platforms have become ubiquitous in our society; however, classical benchmarks have not kept up with their growth. When not entirely incompatible, current benchmarking techniques often provide very little useful information about...
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-service music education majors regarding participation in competitive concert and marching band events. Participants (N = 168) were undergraduate pre-service music education...
The photophysical characteristics of 5-arylvinyl-5Oe-methyl-2, 2Oe-bipyridyls (AVMB) and their zinc complexes were investigated in order to recognize the factors that influence the emission band shift and fluorescence quantum yield change...
The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that while a discussion of the nature of human knowledge might be a worthy goal to pursue in public education, the science classroom is not the appropriate place for this discussion. The...
The Effect of Music Therapy Interventions to Increase the Psychosocial Well-Being of Older Adults Living in Independent and Assisted Living Communities
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group music therapy sessions on the psychosocial well-being of older adults living in assisted and independent living communities. Pre-and posttest was used in two different...
A proposed alternative wireless communication technique is developed and compared to the current radio frequency command link in a Flight Termination System. The command link in a Flight Termination System requires a reliable signal in a...
Debate over the ethics of belief has centered around two famous essays: W. K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief, and William James' The Will to Believe." The former argues that it is never morally right to believe or accept a...
Satellite data is compared to objectively analyzed wind data from the Hurricane Research Division's H*Wind software to attempt to quantify the value that satellite data could bring to the objective analysis. Previous research (DiNapoli...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of choral singing on the blood pressure and oxygen saturation of individuals with Parkinson's disease. The study followed a pre-post test ABA1B reversal design across 4 days, in which...
Over the past several decades, research investigating the relationship between women's empowerment and demographic outcomes has grown. Despite the increase in empowerment research, findings on the relationship between empowerment and...
This study examines legal protection of the right to personal integrity, which is the most frequent object of inquiry in the social science literature that examines cross-national patterns of human rights abuse. Previous research...
Examination of the structure of autism symptoms is critical to understanding of the phenotype and is particularly timely given changes proposed for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5; http://www.dsm5.org)....
This longitudinal study includes 397 parents from the National Survey of Families and Households and examines whether the effects of corporal punishment on future disobedience, when controlling for previous disobedience, differ depending...
Distressed relationships may be emotionally and economically costly to the couple, their families, and the community in which they reside. Given the current political endorsements, convenience, efficiency, capacity for prevention, and...
Despite the attractive properties of advanced ceramics, they are not popular for structural applications even though they possess high strength. Their low fracture toughness and brittle fracture mode are unwelcome for high integrity...
This piece is composed for the Florida State University Electric Chamber Orchestra (EChO). Being an entirely electronic ensemble, it is an area very few composers are accustomed to. EChO is comprised of entirely electric instruments with...
This dissertation has focused on studying the electron spin dynamics in the quantum and classical limit and, most importantly, at the quantum-classical boundary. We have successfully used high frequency electron paramagnetic resonance ...
The ontology approach has been accepted as a very promising approach to semantic integration today. However, because of the diversity of focuses and its various connections to other research domains, the core concepts, theoretical and...
With the aim of improving information retrieval system design, this study explored the effect of cognitive load on the propensity to reformulate queries during information seeking on the Web, specifically the effect of manipulating three...
My thesis is a profile of the Tibetan Buddhist protector deity Rāhula (Tib: Khyab 'jug chen po), particularly the ritual/magic and mythic complex that surrounds the cult of this deity. However, I will be using Rāhula as a case study to...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) refers to a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in the domains of communication, social interaction, and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviors (American...
There is a vast literature concerning the political control that elected officials have over agency actors in the development of bureaucratic policymaking outputs. In the context of rulemaking, I theorize that, while political signals...
American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
The purpose of this study was to compare the percentage of male and female band directors with the percentage of male and female adjudicators being hired for Music Performance Assessments (MPA) in the state of Florida across a ten-year...
The primacy goal of this thesis was to develop a better understanding of the phenomenon of the human flesh search engine in China. The purpose of the study was to identify and analyze the characteristics of the human flesh search engine...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free...
The tame symbol serves many purposes in mathematics, and is of particular value when we use it to evaluate curves over certain number _elds. A well-known example is that of the Hilbert symbol, which gives us insight into the existence of...
The present study examined four kinds of vocabulary knowledge: Definitional knowledge, using vocabulary in context, relational knowledge, and morphological knowledge. A measure was developed that assessed all four kinds of vocabulary...
Juggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to...
The purpose of this study was to compare teacher beliefs about music technology, types of teacher training in music technology, music technology resource availability, and levels of teacher use of music technology based on school...
Consumer goodwill is one of the unique effects differentiating sponsorship from other marketing activities (Meenaghan, 2001a; 2001b). While other marketing communications tend to be labeled as selfish (Meenaghan, 2001a; 2001b), designed...
As energy resources are needed in abundance to sustain the ever evolving global economy, the world's energy dependency for good reason, is beginning to shift. Various studies have shown that although fossil fuels are still the primary...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the rates, widths, and pitches of university double bass players' vibrato in relation to pitch height, fingers used, and tempo. Forty (N = 40) undergraduate and graduate double bass players...
Legal mandates, educational reform, and professional policy changes, have emphasized the need to promote the integration of services for students with communication impairments within the general education curriculum. However, speech...
Damage continues to plague the structural integrity of polymer composites. Continued stress leads to cracking and weakening of a composite system. Engineering polymer composites with carbon nanotube reinforcements and self-healing...
The objective of this dissertation is to study the queuing and point process models that try to capture as many features as possible of the high-frequency data of a limit order book. First, we use a generalized birth-death stochastic...
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