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"Number is one of man's schemes for adapting himself to his environment. Development of the concept of number in man is intricately bound up with growth in him of language. Man is a social being and almost from birth, language activity...
German-Polish relations leading up to the Czechoslovakian crisis of 1938
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In late 1938, Germany was able to impose its will on Czechoslovakia and take the Sudetenland from them. Shortly thereafter, Hitler invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia and so fell the first non-German nation to the war machine of the...
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...
Humility and social behaviors: using humility as a tool to increase prosocial behavior
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The purpose of this thesis is to determine if humility can increase prosocial behaviors. Humility may increase prosocial behaviors because it allows the individual to accurately depict an event and self-assessment rather than distort it...
Glucose and diet-induced obesity modulation of ion channel biophysics
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The voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.3 is more than a conductor of ions. This channel is found in many parts of the mouse and human body but is especially prevalent in Tlymphocytes, the hippocampus, the pyriform cortex, and the... This work was supported by NIH Grant R01-03387, FSU's Bess Ward Honors Grant, the College of Arts and Sciences, and faculty contributions.
Porphyry as neoplatonic exegete: a contextual evaluation of "On the Cave of Nymphs"
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On the Cave of the Nymphs (Antr.), which dates from the late third or early fourth century, is one of the few extant works of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry. It is essentially a literary interpretation of eleven lines from the...
The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and sleep problems
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Previous research proposed that there could be important associations between anxiety sensitivity and sleep problems. While there are few studies that examine this relationship, none of them account for the role of depression, despite...
Childhood In Poetry Supplement Volume 1 - A-GOU: a catalogue of the books of English and American poets in the Library of the Florida State University. With lists of the poems that relate to childhood and notes
Love is a battlefield: the marriages of Confederate soldiers and their wives in Florida during the Civil War
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In the nineteenth century, elite urban Americans embraced the concept of companionate marriage. This relationship was based on romantic love between a husband and wife. Prescribed gender roles also defined these Americans' daily lives....
This thesis serves as an analysis of Toru Takemitsu's "Equinox." This piece is one of a group of compositions for solo classical guitar that was written by a composer who was well established outside the world of classical guitar during...
Discovering roots running under ground: reading Emerson from a Cixousian perspective
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One might not find many comparisons between the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leader in the nineteenth century American Transcendental Movement, and the 1975 manifesto, The Laugh of the Medusa, by the French feminist, Héléne Cixous....
Levels of narcissism and self-reported expression of anger
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Much of the research on narcissism has produced mixed results, specifically regarding levels of self-esteem and biological sex in relation to expression of anger. It was expected that narcissism, self-esteem, and biological sex would...
Effects of adult treatment with nicotine and the antidepressant fluoxetine on male rats exposed to nicotine during adolescense
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Approximately three million adolescents abuse nicotine in the United States today, and the vast majority of smokers began smoking during adolescence. Preliminary findings suggest a significant depressant effect in male rats treated with...
Nickel induced rhabdomyosarcoma in cultured cardiac myocytes
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Rhabdomyosarcoma, or RMS is defined as a soft tissue lesion or tumor that allows cells to undergo myogenesis indefinitely. In order to study the components of RMS, tumors have been induced through exposure of nickel sulfide. Despite...
Davies, Fielding, and Dickens: the middle temple, literature, and the legal profession
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This thesis examines the relationship of three English authors, Sir John Davies, Henry Fielding, and Charles Dickens, and their interpretation of the law through specific literary works. Their primary connection is the Middle Temple in...
This research will determine whether the Soviet efforts to first silence, then substitute, annihilate, and finally alter the church bell succeeded in changing its importance in Russian culture and society. Through historical analysis of...
Hurricane reconnaissance has greatly helped forecasters to more accurately analyze and predict hurricanes in the Atlantic. "Vortex messages" sent by the reconnaissance flights summarize a multi-hour inspection of the hurricane's core....
Abstract: The decisions people make about the tasks they choose to partake in are very important. These decisions must have major personality components that affect them as well as the outcomes of those decisions. This project proposes...
Ever since the American criminal justice system explicitly outlawed the use of race to determine one's criminal guilt, it has been the objective of many studies to determine whether or not agents within the criminal justice system have...
Late Quaternary history of southern Cumberland Island, Georgia
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The response of coastal barrier environments to late Quaternary sea-level oscillations and environmental change has long been of interest to coastal scientists. The coast of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida provides a relatively...
Synthesis and characterization of the self-assembling Alzheimer's [beta]-amyloid protein
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The self-assembling beta-amyloid (Aβ) protein has long been linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD). It may exist in various amino acid lengths, two of which (Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42) are most commonly found in vivo. The 35th residue, methionine-35...
Disarming Athena: militarism from Homeric epics to Callimachus
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Within the Homeric epics, Iliad and Odyssey, and Callimachus' Hymn to Athena, two contradictory depictions of Athena are presented. The Homeric poet represents Athena as a warrior goddess, while Callimachus focuses on her femininity. The...
Traditional histories have credited the Beat Generation writers with helping to bring about the counterculture of the 1960s by challenging the mainstream cultural mores of the 1950s. In this oft-cited and tired interpretation, the Beats...
Childhood In Poetry Volume 4 - S-Z: a catalogue of the books of English and American poets in the Library of the Florida State University. With lists of the poems that relate to childhood and notes
General stressors and compulsive hoarding: the role of social anxiety symptoms
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Compulsive hoarding is a condition wherein individuals actively collect and are incapable of discarding seemingly useless items. Although the etiology of hoarding is unknown, research has identified potential risk factors that may make...
The literature of American author Kurt Vonnegut, from the idyllic society of 1950s post-war America in his earliest unpublished stories to his ultimate confrontation with an America run by "sickies" in 2005's A Man Without a Country, ...
Environmental injustice surrounding incinerator sites in Jacksonville FL
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This paper uses the incinerator sites in Jacksonville Florida as an example to demonstrate the prominent dilemma of environmental injustices. By utilizing a GIS based approach, I will be addressing the research question of whether the...
Finding virtue in the feminine: Plutarch's precepts for women
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Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. A.D. 46-after A.D. 120), the Greek essayist, biographer, and philosopher who provides much of our knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman world, has been an enormously influential figure over the centuries. My...
The effects of a sub-maximal warm-up on endurance performance in trained male runners during a 30-minute time trial
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A sub-maximal running warm-up has been shown to increase endurance performance; however there have been conflicting results. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a sub-maximal warm-up (SWU) on running endurance...
The number of mentally ill people in the criminal justice system has increased. Mental Health Courts are specialized courts that attempt to incorporate the needs of mentally ill defendants while maintaining justice. Mental Health Courts...
A 48.5MHz circuit has been integrated into an existing LC buncher consisting of a base frequency of 12.125MHz and the first two higher harmonics. Installing a 48.5MHz circuit allows for compatibility with hardware currently installed in...
MR analysis of structural contrast in a mouse model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a function of magnetic field
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The main focus of this analysis is to utilize Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to define parameters that optimize regional contrast of neuroanatomical structures as a function of magnetic field strength. Once these parameters are defined...
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