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Title: Crafting social identity in the middle formative period: A study of prestige artifacts from San Andres, La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico.
Creator: Perrett, Allison S., Pohl, Mary, Marrinan, Rochelle A., Parkinson, William A., Uzendoski, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show morePerrett, Allison S., Pohl, Mary, Marrinan, Rochelle A., Parkinson, William A., Uzendoski, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
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Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the social significance of prestige artifacts from the site of San Andrés, which was part of the Barí riverine network that supported La Venta, a paramount Middle Formative Gulf Coast center located in present-day Tabasco, Mexico. In Formative period Mesoamerica, high-status goods were significant components of cultural practice and a source of social, political, and ideological power. Centralized control over systems of elite good acquisition, production, distribution,...
Show moreThis thesis explores the social significance of prestige artifacts from the site of San Andrés, which was part of the Barí riverine network that supported La Venta, a paramount Middle Formative Gulf Coast center located in present-day Tabasco, Mexico. In Formative period Mesoamerica, high-status goods were significant components of cultural practice and a source of social, political, and ideological power. Centralized control over systems of elite good acquisition, production, distribution, and consumption provided the means to structure relationships, compete for prestige, and define ideological conceptions of social order. This study investigates the role of these socially significant items in the context of subsidiary community and within the framework of a primary-secondary site relationship.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_HN120Z9S652003
Format: Thesis

Title: Why they don't practice what we teach: teachers' perceptions of culture and context in adult basic education.
Creator: Burgess, Kimberly R.
Abstract/Description: Study done on 15 teachers in 2 counties in North Florida--P. xvi.
Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: 53275594, FSU_LC5252B872003
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Irmgard Keun's magnifying glass: Deconstructing the Nazi discourse.
Creator: Bonfante-Bossak, Ana Luisa, Maier-Katkin, Birgit, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "In Nach Mitternacht, the author Irmgard Keun unveils a society that is a counter-image to that portrayed by the National Socialist regime. By giving the reader an amplified yet sharp picture of life in the Third Reich, Keun not only exposes the Regime's repression mechanisms, but she also raises the question of individual responsibility among the petit-bourgeoisie, discussing very early-on the issue of co-participation. Keun's critical engagement does not fall short of aesthetical quality. A...
Show more"In Nach Mitternacht, the author Irmgard Keun unveils a society that is a counter-image to that portrayed by the National Socialist regime. By giving the reader an amplified yet sharp picture of life in the Third Reich, Keun not only exposes the Regime's repression mechanisms, but she also raises the question of individual responsibility among the petit-bourgeoisie, discussing very early-on the issue of co-participation. Keun's critical engagement does not fall short of aesthetical quality. A seemingly naive narrator deconstructs Nazi discourse through various literary devices which break the one-to-one system of signification typical of totalitarian discourses. Keun succeeds in deconstructing the Nazi regime by focusing on specific parts of society, zooming in on different situations and on the lives of different people, offering the reader a dissected picture of life in the Third Reich. Hence, Keun delivers a critical and complex political analysis of the early years of the Third Reich"--Abstract.
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Date Issued: 2002
Identifier: FSU_Bonfante-Bossak_Ana_Luisa
Format: Thesis

Title: Late Quaternary history of southern Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Creator: Robertson, Joseph Drew., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: 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 undeveloped setting in which to examine barrier response to long-term changes in sea level, salinity, and water temperature. Four sites along the southern tip of Cumberland Island, Georgia, a coastal barrier with a complex history, were selected for core...
Show moreThe 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 undeveloped setting in which to examine barrier response to long-term changes in sea level, salinity, and water temperature. Four sites along the southern tip of Cumberland Island, Georgia, a coastal barrier with a complex history, were selected for core sampling and analysis. In this barrier setting, the results provide some insight as to how the coastal environments of southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida have responded to late Quaternary oscillations in sea level, salinity, climate, and water temperature. The results may aid in predicting the response of such barrier environments to future changes in sea level and climatic conditions.
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Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: 574323882, 1191554, FSDT1191554, fsu:14648
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sedimentologic history of the lower St. Johns River estuary, northeast Florida.
Creator: O'Sullivan, Michael O., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The goal of this study was to determine the sediment history of the Cedar and Ortega River estuaries, part of the lower St. Johns River (LSJR) in northeastern Florida. Sedimentation rate data based on 210Pb and 137Cs analyses, combined with the profiles of bulk sediment properties, reveal how natural and anthropogenic factors have altered the quantity and character of sediments in this urbanized estuary. This investigation also provides a chronology for future contaminant studies. Knowledge...
Show moreThe goal of this study was to determine the sediment history of the Cedar and Ortega River estuaries, part of the lower St. Johns River (LSJR) in northeastern Florida. Sedimentation rate data based on 210Pb and 137Cs analyses, combined with the profiles of bulk sediment properties, reveal how natural and anthropogenic factors have altered the quantity and character of sediments in this urbanized estuary. This investigation also provides a chronology for future contaminant studies. Knowledge of the timing of contaminant input to the sediments is useful in controlling the future introduction of contaminants. An additional goal of this study was to test the applicability of two sedimentation models, the Constant Initial Concentration (CIC) and the Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) models, to estuarine sedimentation., Forty-seven cores collected from the Cedar and Ortega Rivers were analyzed for percent water, percent organics, percent fines, bulk density, color, and sedimentary structure by x-radiography. A subset was analyzed for historic sedimentation rate using 210Pb analysis, and a smaller subset of cores was analyzed for short-term (~50 years) sedimentation rate using 137Cs. These measurements provide a record of historic changes in the geological and land-use conditions of the estuary. Additionally, several sets of bridge borings were examined to investigate longer-term trends in sedimentation in the estuary, and to establish the history of sedimentation during late Quaternary time. The large set of dated cores analyzed in this study provide a unique insight into the sedimentation history of a large estuary. In addition to being significant in its own right, this history provides a chronology for contaminant studies. Continuing studies of organic and trace metal pollutants--performed in the Cedar and Ortega Rivers on these and other cores--will employ the results of this investigation to determine the history of contamination in the lower St. Johns River.
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Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: 567773903, 1191552, FSDT1191552, fsu:14646
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Using history in the teaching of mathematics.
Creator: Awosanya, Ayokunle, Jakubowski, Elizabeth, Wills, Herbert, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The results reported here are the product of the research titled: Using history in the teaching of mathematics. The subjects are students in two classes of algebra II course at Florida State University High School-- 36 students-- makes and females whose ages are mostly 18 and a few 17 and 16 years old. Algebra II is a course that is usually taken by high school seniors in 12th grade and a few 11th or 10th grade students which explains why the ages of the students are mostly 18 and a few 17...
Show moreThe results reported here are the product of the research titled: Using history in the teaching of mathematics. The subjects are students in two classes of algebra II course at Florida State University High School-- 36 students-- makes and females whose ages are mostly 18 and a few 17 and 16 years old. Algebra II is a course that is usually taken by high school seniors in 12th grade and a few 11th or 10th grade students which explains why the ages of the students are mostly 18 and a few 17 and 16 years old. In this investigation, both quantitative study and qualitative study were employed. The quantitative study was the main study-- a teaching experiment using quasi-experimental methodology that involves two groups-- group 1 and group 2. Group 1 is the control group, where various algebraic/mathematical concepts, or topics were taught or explained to students with the necessary formulas. Group 2 was the experimental group in which the accounts of the historical origin of algebraic/mathematical concepts and the mathematicians (Lewis Carroll, Archimedes, Pythagoras, and Sophie Germain) who brought forward or created the concepts were used to augment pedagogical lessons and exercises used for this study as the main feature of pedagogy. The qualitative study augmented the main quantitative study; it was a follow-up interview for students to probe further an in-depth rationale for the research theme, using history in the teaching of mathematics. The statistical analysis results indicated that there is a significant difference in the mean of score for the control group students and the mean of scores of the experimental group is greater than the mean on scores of student's performance in the control group; and the interview questions responses indeed corroborate the fact that the use of history in teaching mathematics does improve learning and understanding of algebraic/mathematical concepts.
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Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: FSU_historic_akx6428
Format: Thesis

Title: World music curricula in Florida general music classrooms: identifying methods and materials for implementation.
Creator: Jackson, James Reginald
Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: 49378578, FSU_ML3798J332001
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Pictorial examination of Nicander of Colophon's Greek 10th C AD codex 247 as it was understood within its ancient context.
Creator: Kent-Toussaint, Cynthia Yvonne
Identifier: 46863191, FSU_RM666H33K462001
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sixth grade students' perceptions of science and scientists following a field-based science investigation.
Creator: Kielborn, Terrie L.
Identifier: 48001930, FSU_Q197K542001
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Kircher and Musica pathetica: A translation from Musurgia universalis.
Creator: Tammearu, Peeter, Mathes, James, Spencer, Peter, Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett), Florida State University, School of Music
Abstract/Description: The concept of Musica Pathetica figures significantly in the encyclopedic Musurgia universalis published in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). Kircher, a German Jesuit who spent much of his life in Rome, was a polymathic scholar, following in the tradition of Mersenne, and attempted to form a systematic rationalization of the relationship between the Baroque doctrine of the affections and practical musical composition. Beginning from traditional concepts of numerical proportions and the...
Show moreThe concept of Musica Pathetica figures significantly in the encyclopedic Musurgia universalis published in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). Kircher, a German Jesuit who spent much of his life in Rome, was a polymathic scholar, following in the tradition of Mersenne, and attempted to form a systematic rationalization of the relationship between the Baroque doctrine of the affections and practical musical composition. Beginning from traditional concepts of numerical proportions and the human temperaments and humors, his exposition of the subject puts a particular emphasis on modal theory and the musical literature of the early seventeenth century. A translation is provided for the Latin text of Book VII (Part Three, Chapters One to Five), along with a transcription of the musical examples.
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Date Issued: 2000
Identifier: FSU_ML4993T362000
Format: Thesis

Title: The forgotten radicals: the New Left in the deep South, Florida State University, 1960 to 1972.
Creator: Parr, Stephen Eugene
Date Issued: 2000
Identifier: 45178415, FSU_ARCHLB3610P37
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Late Quaternary history of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico coast, northwest Florida.
Creator: Chen, Zi-Qiang., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The late Quaternary history of the inner continental margin and estuaries of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is recorded in its near-surface geology and geochemistry. Portions of the record are found in a diversity of locations: in the now-buried paleokarst features of the continental shelf; in the chronology of development of the paleofluvial system beneath the present-day inner shelf; in the geochemical history of the sediments of one of the region's largest estuaries, the Ocklockonee River...
Show moreThe late Quaternary history of the inner continental margin and estuaries of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is recorded in its near-surface geology and geochemistry. Portions of the record are found in a diversity of locations: in the now-buried paleokarst features of the continental shelf; in the chronology of development of the paleofluvial system beneath the present-day inner shelf; in the geochemical history of the sediments of one of the region's largest estuaries, the Ocklockonee River estuary; and in the relict geomorphological features and pollen chronology from the Ochlockonee watershed. The late Quaternary is a time unique in Earth's history, characterized by major fluctuations in climate and sea level, and the rise of Homo Sapiens. The climatic, hydrologic and geomorphologic changes that have taken place during the Quaternary -- especially since the beginning of the last deglaciation approximately 20,000 years ago -- have significantly altered the North American landscape. This is especially true in the southeastern United States where intensive sea-level change has brought drastic change to the coastal zone., This study attempts to address some of the major issues in our understanding of late Quaternary climate and the surficial geologic processes that are influenced by climate change. Based on several lines of research, four discrete but related chapters herein address problems related to the Quaternary geology of the study area, the coast and inner margin of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
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Date Issued: 1999
Identifier: 560452167, 1191555, FSDT1191555, fsu:69074
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A comparative analysis of sociocultural and aesthetic characteristics in the John and Mary Carter Collection of pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles at the Florida State University.
Creator: Christiansen, Deborah L
Identifier: 43312081, FSU_F22301T3C471999
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The relationships among perfectionism, dysfunctional career thoughts, and career indecision.
Creator: Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P., Oosterhof, Albert, Peterson, Gary W., Reardon, Robert C., Florida State University, College of Education, Human Services and Studies Department
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how two variables, perfectionism and dysfunctional career thinking, impact career indecision. The aim of this study was to confirm and expand recent findings that suggest a relationship between these three factors. Given the potential contribution of perfectionism and dysfunctional career thinking to career indecision, the following research question was posed: 1) What is the relationship among perfectionism, dysfunctional career thoughts and career...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine how two variables, perfectionism and dysfunctional career thinking, impact career indecision. The aim of this study was to confirm and expand recent findings that suggest a relationship between these three factors. Given the potential contribution of perfectionism and dysfunctional career thinking to career indecision, the following research question was posed: 1) What is the relationship among perfectionism, dysfunctional career thoughts and career indecision? One hundred and twenty-three undergraduate students at Appalachian State University volunteered to participate in this study. Students completed the following inventories: a demographic questionnaire which includes the Occupational Alternatives Question (Zener and Scbuelle, 1976; modified by Slaney, 1980), the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; Sampson. Jr., et al., 1996a), the Career Decision Scale (Osipow, et al., 1987), the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS; Frost, et al., 1990a) and the State-Trait Inventory-Form Y (Spielberger, 1977), which was used to control for anxiety. Multiple regression analyses revealed that dysfunctional career thoughts accounted for a large percent of the variance (53%), while perfectionism did not. Significant correlations were found between dysfunctional career thoughts and perfectionism total scales and subscales. Of particular interest were the positive, statistically significant relationships between the Doubt About Actions and Parental Criticism scales of the FMPS and the Commitment Anxiety and External Conflict scales of the CTI, respectively. In addition, trait anxiety did not appear to be as strongly related to perfectionism, dysfunctional career thoughts, or career indecision as previous literature had indicated. Limitations, implications for counseling and recommendations for future research were discussed. It was concluded that dysfunctional career thoughts contribute to career indecision. In addition, the relationships evidenced between subscales of the CTI and FMPS warrant additional research. Perfectionism, as measured by the FMPS, does not appear to be a statistically significant contributor to career indecision. These results suggest that additional research needs to address interventions for identifying, challenging and altering dysfunctional career thoughts, as well as further research on how perfectionism, career indecision and dysfunctional career thoughts are related, perhaps with the use of other multidimensional measures of perfectionism and career indecision.
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Date Issued: 1998-12-01
Identifier: 1998_Fall_Osborn_fsu_9911447
Format: Thesis

Title: Factors influencing prospective female volleyball student-athletes' selection of an NCAA Division I university: Toward a more informed recruitment process.
Creator: Reynaud, Cecile, Rider, Robert A., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of this study was to identify factors that most influence prospective female volleyball student-athletes' selection of an NCAA Division I university. This research was an applied, cross-sectional study using a multi-method approach of collecting data using surveys and telephone interviews. The sample in this study was approximately 500 Division I female collegiate volleyball players from sixty-four universities"--Abstract.
Date Issued: 1998
Identifier: FSU_B_Cecile_Reynuad
Format: Thesis

Title: Bellwether Parish: a history of Trinity Episcopal Church, 1835-1915.
Creator: Willis, Lee
Date Issued: 1998
Identifier: FS00000101_00001, 2819518, fsu:89442
Format: E-book

Title: Historia de las biografias de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Creator: Sliwa, Krzysztof
Date Issued: [1997]
Identifier: 38108454, FSU_ARCH_PQ6337S551997
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Boundary layer structure over and around the Gulf of Mexico.
Creator: Kara, A. Birol, Ruscher, Paul H., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "This study examines atmospheric boundary layer over and around the Gulf of Mexico during return flow events. The locations investigated are on both the Texas coast and the Florida coast. Moreover, several inland stations such as Jackson (JAN), Mississippi and Shelby Co Airport (BMX), Alabama are added to the analyses to make some comparisons. In addition to examining the boundary layer structure of these coastal and inland stations, an attempt is made to investigate thermadynamic structure...
Show more"This study examines atmospheric boundary layer over and around the Gulf of Mexico during return flow events. The locations investigated are on both the Texas coast and the Florida coast. Moreover, several inland stations such as Jackson (JAN), Mississippi and Shelby Co Airport (BMX), Alabama are added to the analyses to make some comparisons. In addition to examining the boundary layer structure of these coastal and inland stations, an attempt is made to investigate thermadynamic structure on the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico in terms of both synoptic analysis and model applications. Return flow events of the Gulf of Mexico are mainly examined by using a three dimensional Air Mass Transformation (AMT) model and a one-dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) model. The models are intende for short-range weather forecasts of the temperature profiles in the lower atmosphere and the structure of the boundary layer"--Abstract.
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Date Issued: 1996
Identifier: FSU_ajv6873
Format: Thesis

Title: Wage revisions and persistent firm performance: An empirical investigation of the managerial labor market.
Creator: Best, Roger Julian., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates two issues. The first issue concerns the relation between executive effort, as measured by changes in a firm's market value of equity, and future wage revisions when the executive moves to a new firm of employment. If, as Fama (1980) contends, participants in the managerial labor market formulate compensation on the basis of prior performance, there is little need to design compensation contracts that are sensitive to firm performance. The second issue involves...
Show moreThis thesis investigates two issues. The first issue concerns the relation between executive effort, as measured by changes in a firm's market value of equity, and future wage revisions when the executive moves to a new firm of employment. If, as Fama (1980) contends, participants in the managerial labor market formulate compensation on the basis of prior performance, there is little need to design compensation contracts that are sensitive to firm performance. The second issue involves performance persistence in the management of real assets. Prior studies provide weak evidence that performance is persistent in the management of financial assets. Similar evidence is not available for the management of real assets., The analyses provide two distinct conclusions. First, compensation revisions across firms bear a positive and significant relation to prior changes in shareholder wealth. The magnitude of this relation, however, does not preclude the continued existence of agency problems. Second, executives appear unable to repeat superior performance across firms. Surprisingly, there is evidence of declining performance at executives' second firm of employment. This result is robust to different performance relatives and time horizons., Thus, the evidence presented suggests that prior performance is not the decisive determinant of the wage revision received by an executive. This seems warranted given that prior performance appears to offer no predictive power for future performance.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9620873, 3088855, FSDT3088855, fsu:77654
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Challenge preference in young children: Relationship to other motivational variables and maternal behaviors.
Creator: Castro, Rafael., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The present investigation is divided into two main studies. The purpose of the first study was to assess individual differences in children's challenge preference using Dweck's categorization procedure, to assess the short-term stability of this classification process, and to examine its relationship to demographic and other motivational variables of interest. The purpose of the second study was to explore the relationship of challenge preference classification to maternal behaviors....
Show moreThe present investigation is divided into two main studies. The purpose of the first study was to assess individual differences in children's challenge preference using Dweck's categorization procedure, to assess the short-term stability of this classification process, and to examine its relationship to demographic and other motivational variables of interest. The purpose of the second study was to explore the relationship of challenge preference classification to maternal behaviors. Participants in the first study included 236 four to six year old children attending private day-care centers and public kindergarten in the Tallahassee area. A subsample of 72 children was selected for the second study. The children attempted challenging tasks individually and while interacting with their mothers. The presence of helplessness in younger children was confirmed along with a cognitive and affective profile similar to that shown by older children. A significant relationship between initial skill and challenge preference was also revealed. The short term stability of challenge preference was found to be low although it improved when a composite measure that included a behavioral choice and the reasoning behind that decision was used. Girls exhibited profiles more consistent with predictions, showing significant relations between their challenge preference status and two other motivational indexes. Finally, maternal requests for their child to persist at a challenging task differed by group, with those from the CS group encouraging their children not to give up significantly more often than CA mothers.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627195, 3088913, FSDT3088913, fsu:77712
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Indirect effects among species in a northern Gulf of Mexico seagrass community.
Creator: Kuhlmann, Mark Louis., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Indirect effects occur when the interaction between two species is influenced by a third species. Recent empirical and theoretical evidence suggests that indirect effects have important influences on population regulation and community structure. Most studies of indirect effects have examined chains or networks of predation or competition. Indirect effects can also involve other types of interactions, yet their role in structuring communities is rarely considered. One such interaction,...
Show moreIndirect effects occur when the interaction between two species is influenced by a third species. Recent empirical and theoretical evidence suggests that indirect effects have important influences on population regulation and community structure. Most studies of indirect effects have examined chains or networks of predation or competition. Indirect effects can also involve other types of interactions, yet their role in structuring communities is rarely considered. One such interaction, biological habitat modification, is ubiquitous in marine habitats, especially through the alteration of sediments or the creation of hard substrates. In soft-bottom habitats, the shells of dead molluscs are important for shelter or attachment of many organisms, and mollusc predators should have strong indirect effects on the community by regulating the availability of these substrates. Because shells are produced by living organisms, their abundance and quality will also be influenced by the dynamics of the mollusc population and by processes that destroy or alter the shells., I examined the indirect effects of the horse conch (Pleuroploca gigantea), a predatory gastropod, on a suite of fish and invertebrates that use bivalve shells (the pen shell Atrina rigida) as shelters and/or nest sites in St. Joseph Bay, Florida. Exclusion experiments indicated that horse conchs are a major source of Atrina mortality. Experimental additions of new shelters caused an increase in abundance and reproductive activity in three species of fish (two blennies and a clingfish). Increased rates of shell availability caused an increase in reproductive output for both individuals and the local population of Chasmodes saburrae, the Florida blenny, probably because new shells provide a greater surface area for eggs compared to older shells. I used a simulation model, based on measurements of natural variation in Atrina population and shell resource dynamics, to compare the relative effects of horse conch predation and other factors on Chasmodes. Although pen shell density had the strongest effect, horse conch abundance also strongly influenced blenny reproduction. Thus, both the field experiments and the model predict that, by regulating the availability of new shells, the horse conch has a positive indirect effect on reproduction in Chasmodes.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627203, 3088918, FSDT3088918, fsu:77717
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Multi-nuclear NMR studies of buffering, ion exchange, and non-ionic mechanisms of intracellular pH regulation.
Creator: Kinsey, Stephen Todd., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study utilized nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to examine two aspects of intracellular pH (pH$\rm\sb{i}$) regulation in muscle tissue of marine invertebrates: (1) the adaptive relevance to anoxia tolerance of species-specific differences in buffering capacity and the ion exchange processes associated with pH$\rm\sb{i}$ regulation, and (2) the potential role of organic acid exchange in pH$\rm\sb{i}$ regulation. Cardiac muscle from closely related species of intertidal whelks which...
Show moreThis study utilized nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to examine two aspects of intracellular pH (pH$\rm\sb{i}$) regulation in muscle tissue of marine invertebrates: (1) the adaptive relevance to anoxia tolerance of species-specific differences in buffering capacity and the ion exchange processes associated with pH$\rm\sb{i}$ regulation, and (2) the potential role of organic acid exchange in pH$\rm\sb{i}$ regulation. Cardiac muscle from closely related species of intertidal whelks which experience different degrees of air exposure was compared. The most anoxia-tolerant species had the highest buffering capacity ($\beta\rm\sb{int}$) and ion exchange rates (dH$\sp+$/dt), whereas only small differences were observed among the other comparison species. These results suggest some adaptive value for having increased capacity for regulation of pH$\rm\sb{i}$. The second portion of this study examined transport of lactate across the plasma membrane of muscle cells of the lobster, Panulirus argus, and assessed the effect of this process on pH$\rm\sb{i}$. In this species, no specific monocarboxylate transporter was found and the principal means of lactate transport is via passive diffusion. These and other results suggest that lactate transport is not an important mechanism for pH$\rm\sb{i}$ regulation in this species, at least over short time periods.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627202, 3088917, FSDT3088917, fsu:77716
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Atmospheric nitrate deposition: A large nutrient source in north Florida watersheds.
Creator: Fu, Jimeng., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Dry deposition of nitrate, estimated from a box model based on NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions and rain chemistry monitoring data over the contiguous 48 states, accounts for about half of the total US NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions, a deposition flux twice that of measured wet deposition. Thus, total atmospheric nitrate deposition is roughly three times wet only deposition. Ten subregions of wet only nitrate depositions were delineated by EOF analysis from the entire U.S.A., in which each has a narrow range...
Show moreDry deposition of nitrate, estimated from a box model based on NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions and rain chemistry monitoring data over the contiguous 48 states, accounts for about half of the total US NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions, a deposition flux twice that of measured wet deposition. Thus, total atmospheric nitrate deposition is roughly three times wet only deposition. Ten subregions of wet only nitrate depositions were delineated by EOF analysis from the entire U.S.A., in which each has a narrow range of annual deposition flux and exhibits unique seasonal variation. The study was based on statistical analysis of chemical concentrations measured for more than 10 years in weekly rainfall samples of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, NADP, and more than 20 years of river water samples of the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS. NO$\rm\sb{x}$ emissions appear to regulate the annual average total deposition fluxes while in the subregions rainfall characterizes the seasonal and shorter term variations in wet only depositions. Atmospheric wet and dry deposition ("acid rain") appears to be the principal source of nitrogen in twelve northern Florida watersheds that range from Pensacola to Gainesville (Escambia to Alachua Counties). River fluxes of total dissolved nitrogen average close to the atmospheric deposition fluxes of nitrate and ammonium ions. Factor analysis was applied to the data sets to resolve principal components: (1) in atmospheric data, that distinguish air pollution nitrate and sulfate from sea salt sodium and chloride, and (2) in surface water data, that distinguish ground water calcium, magnesium, and silica from meteoric water nitrate and sulfate. River concentration ratios N/P in the watersheds are high, averaging twice the Redfield mole ratio N/P = 16 for aquatic plant nutrients. The results indicate that excess dissolved nitrogen could be, temporarily recycled in the watersheds but not retained, so that it could eventually flow to the coastal zone where N may be a limiting nutrient for marine plants. Hydrologic conditions, which exhibit variations on seasonal and longer time scales, play an important role in the transport of nutrients and other species in the rivers.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627197, 3088914, FSDT3088914, fsu:77713
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Multischema: Dynamic view management for object database systems.
Creator: Huang, Weiqi., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation reports on the investigation of the dynamic views for object database systems in support of multiple applications. It develops object views as a way to support multiple (possibly conflicting) applications on shared data, and demonstrates that dynamic views can improve the data abstractions for specific applications, enhance the security of object database systems, and provide a way to adapt views dynamically., In this dissertation, we present a comprehensive model of object...
Show moreThis dissertation reports on the investigation of the dynamic views for object database systems in support of multiple applications. It develops object views as a way to support multiple (possibly conflicting) applications on shared data, and demonstrates that dynamic views can improve the data abstractions for specific applications, enhance the security of object database systems, and provide a way to adapt views dynamically., In this dissertation, we present a comprehensive model of object views for object database systems. This model is compatible with ODMG-93 standard. In this model, object views are characterized by view object types and view relationship types within view schemas. Object views can be derived in many different ways from the descriptions of object databases., An object view management system and some tools are also presented in this dissertation. The management system serves as a kernel of the view system based on the object view model, and provides an application programming interface. The tools built on top of the kernel include and object view definition language and an object view manipulation language., The investigation is carried out in two aspects: The intension of object views and the extension of object views. The intension aspect is concerned with view types, view characteristics and view relationship types. The extension aspect is concerned with view objects and their common operations.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627200, 3088916, FSDT3088916, fsu:77715
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Surface science studies of self-assembled monolayers.
Creator: Hernandez, Juan Jose., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This work represents an investigation of the structure and dynamics of a new self-assembled system arising from the interaction of alkyl halides on alkali halides surfaces. Monolayer films were prepared in solution and their thickness verified by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Furthermore, the molecules were found to have the halogen atom close to the substrate while the rest of the chain extends away from it. However, the main thrust of this study was the deposition in vacuum of...
Show moreThis work represents an investigation of the structure and dynamics of a new self-assembled system arising from the interaction of alkyl halides on alkali halides surfaces. Monolayer films were prepared in solution and their thickness verified by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Furthermore, the molecules were found to have the halogen atom close to the substrate while the rest of the chain extends away from it. However, the main thrust of this study was the deposition in vacuum of bromohexane monolayer films on KBr (001) and their investigation using Helium Atom Scattering. Long range order of the films is temperature dependent: They exhibit an order-disorder phase transition around 166 K and they reorder into (2 X 1) and (1 X 2) domains prior to desorption at 180 K. Results of the bromohexane film surface multiphonon dynamics are also reported here.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627199, 3088915, FSDT3088915, fsu:77714
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Title: Identical bands in tantalum-177 and high spin states of ytterbium-170 and ytterbium-171.
Creator: Archer, Daniel Edward., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: High spin states of an odd-proton, an odd-neutron, and an even-even rare-earth nucleus have been investigated using the FN Tandem-Superconducting Linear Accelerator facility at Florida State University. Each $\gamma$-$\gamma$ coincidence experiment was performed using all or part of the Pitt-FSU $\gamma$ array consisting of up to 10 escape suppressed high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors. The nucleus $\sp{177}$Ta was produced with the reaction $\sp{170}$Er($\sp{11}$B,4n) at 55 and 60 MeV....
Show moreHigh spin states of an odd-proton, an odd-neutron, and an even-even rare-earth nucleus have been investigated using the FN Tandem-Superconducting Linear Accelerator facility at Florida State University. Each $\gamma$-$\gamma$ coincidence experiment was performed using all or part of the Pitt-FSU $\gamma$ array consisting of up to 10 escape suppressed high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors. The nucleus $\sp{177}$Ta was produced with the reaction $\sp{170}$Er($\sp{11}$B,4n) at 55 and 60 MeV. From this experiment, 88 new $\gamma$-rays have been assigned to this nucleus. Investigation of normal deformed identical bands and the $h\sb{9/2}$ bandcrossing anomaly were performed. The nucleus $\sp{175}$Ta was produced using the reaction $\sp{170}$Er($\sp{11}$B,6n) at 80 MeV in a further investigation of the $h\sb{9/2}$ anomaly. High spin states of $\sp{170}$Yb and $\sp{171}$Yb were produced using the reaction $\sp{170}$Er($\alpha,xn$) at 40 MeV and 35 MeV, respectively. These experiments resulted in 67 new $\gamma$-rays being assigned to the even-even nucleus, and 110 new $\gamma$-rays being assigned to the odd-A nucleus. Angular correlations have been measured in the determination of level spins. Configuration assignments are made for the rotational structures in terms of single particle Nilsson states, and a detailed Cranked Shell Model (CSM) analysis has been performed in each case. In addition, Projected Shell Model (PSM) calculations are presented and compared with the experimental data. Transition strength ratios have been measured and compared with theory.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627194, 3088912, FSDT3088912, fsu:77711
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Title: Musical change from within: A case study of "cuarteto" music from Cordoba, Argentina.
Creator: Florine, Jane Lynn., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation, the role of the individual in the decision-making processes that have led to musical evolution in cuarteto, a type of working-class popular dance music from Cordoba, Argentina, is examined through a case study of the group of Carlos Jimenez, the most famous cuarteto singer. The study involves an in-depth examination of Jimenez's band, employing individual biographies and stories to analyze the change process undergone in the group from 1994 to 1995, when it temporarily...
Show moreIn this dissertation, the role of the individual in the decision-making processes that have led to musical evolution in cuarteto, a type of working-class popular dance music from Cordoba, Argentina, is examined through a case study of the group of Carlos Jimenez, the most famous cuarteto singer. The study involves an in-depth examination of Jimenez's band, employing individual biographies and stories to analyze the change process undergone in the group from 1994 to 1995, when it temporarily switched to an Afro-Caribbean-influenced musical style and then suddenly returned to a traditional cuarteto style of performance. Historical, stylistic, and ethnographic information about cuarteto music and a description of the processes of musical decision-making of six cuarteto bands (the Jimenez group is one of the six bands analyzed) are provided prior to the case study. The dissertation findings show how power relationships, access to decision-making, personal knowledge, and the use of musical notation can influence individual musical contributions that affect stylistic evolution in cuarteto music. Conclusions are also drawn regarding musical change that is stimulated from within a culture (innovation)., The dissertation is divided into two parts. Part I is devoted to issues regarding the research context: an explanation of the research question, theoretical background methodology, a literature review, the history and stylistic evolution of cuarteto music (with emphasis placed upon the music of Jimenez and how it fits in with umbrella styles of cuarteto music), ethnographic information regarding the cuarteto scene, and a description of what happens at a typical dance. Part II is specifically devoted to the research problem and to the interview data gathered by comparatively studying the role of the individual in the musical decision-making processes (those involved in the selection of repertoire, composition, making of arrangements, rehearsals, performance, and recordings) of the six bands involved. The case study of the Jimenez band is presented in the last chapter, and suggestions for further research are provided in a short Epilogue.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627196, 3088899, FSDT3088899, fsu:77698
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Title: Dry Fire. (Original writing).
Creator: Lewis, Catherine A., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Dry Fire is a novel set in the southern United States in the late twentieth century. The novel chronicles the lives of several characters who enter the police academy at the same time, following them through a grueling training stage until each officer reaches solo status. The stress and danger involved in police situations is omnipresent., Narrator and main character, Abigail Fitzpatrick, enters the police academy in her early thirties after having spent eight years as a paramedic. Issues of...
Show moreDry Fire is a novel set in the southern United States in the late twentieth century. The novel chronicles the lives of several characters who enter the police academy at the same time, following them through a grueling training stage until each officer reaches solo status. The stress and danger involved in police situations is omnipresent., Narrator and main character, Abigail Fitzpatrick, enters the police academy in her early thirties after having spent eight years as a paramedic. Issues of gender, privacy, and harassment plague Fitzpatrick throughout the novel as she attempts to integrate a traditionally fraternal order. Fitzpatrick's friendship with less competent and morally shaky Officer Sonny Morelli tests the limits of loyalty and professional integrity. The cost is steep for Fitzpatrick who must learn to balance these two values. In addition, Fitzpatrick is attempting to come to terms with a recent break-up. Her female lover, a police investigator, has moved out in the hope of obtaining a promotion to sergeant. Structurally, the novel is divided into four major sections. The first five chapters deal with training, where the action is forced by an outside agency--the academy. Tension and momentum build in chapters six through ten which deal with a concentrated fourteen-week training period on the streets. The circle of action and interaction expands to include Fitzpatrick's relationship with her trainers, with other officers, and with the public at large. Chapters eleven through fifteen pick up two years later. By now the characters have been firmly established and tension is further developed through personal interactions as friendship and ethics collide. In the final four chapters, the novel comes full circle when Fitzpatrick, now a seasoned officer, becomes a trainer of rookies. The struggles of other characters intensify, intersecting violently with Fitzpatrick's life, altering her perceptions and shaping who she becomes.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627205, 3088903, FSDT3088903, fsu:77702
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Title: Social class, popularity, and acceptability in Victorian literature: William Makepeace Thackeray and the Silver-Fork and Newgate novels.
Creator: Gye, Joengmeen., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The novels of high life called "Silver-Fork" and those about criminals known as "Newgate" novels dominated fiction in early Victorian Britain. Their enormous popularity eventually incited heated debate regarding authorial responsibility and the tolerable and the admissible in literature. Charles Dickens and, even more broadly, William Makepeace Thackeray, authors of the first rank in the nineteenth-century literary canon, participated in these debates along with novelists writing in these...
Show moreThe novels of high life called "Silver-Fork" and those about criminals known as "Newgate" novels dominated fiction in early Victorian Britain. Their enormous popularity eventually incited heated debate regarding authorial responsibility and the tolerable and the admissible in literature. Charles Dickens and, even more broadly, William Makepeace Thackeray, authors of the first rank in the nineteenth-century literary canon, participated in these debates along with novelists writing in these subgenres but little read today like William Harrison Ainsworth, Catherine Frances Gore, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton., This study argues that to understand the sociohistorical significance of the rise and fall of the Silver-Fork and the Newgate phenomena in popular culture during the 1820s and 1830s, one must attend to the increasing consolidation of middle class ethics in these years. The decline of the Silver-Fork and Newgate novels was mainly the consequence of widespread middle-class hostility toward this popular literature of high life and crime that failed to embody and confirm middle-class moral perspective., It was Thackeray who, reflecting the growing intolerance of the Victorian middle class for both Silver-Fork and Newgate novels, attempted to correct the false, even hazardous, view of reality implied in these two popular forms. A major argument in this study is that, through his efforts to disrupt the Silver-Fork and Newgate manner in Victorian fiction, Thackeray contributed much in establishing, solidifying, and perpetuating middle-class ideology in Victorian literature., Adopting a social and historical approach, this study describes the effects of early Victorian middle-class ideology on literary taste through an analysis of the overt struggle between Silver-Fork and Newgate novelists, and Thackeray. By doing so, it aims to open a new perspective on such issues in Victorian literature as social class, popularity, and acceptability.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627198, 3088900, FSDT3088900, fsu:77699
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Title: The impact of a charismatic leader's group charge on perceptions of workgroup processes and performance.
Creator: Rothschild, Philip Clayton., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Previous research on charismatic leadership has demonstrated that leaders exhibiting charismatic behaviors can have a significant impact on followers' attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This study attempted to extend charismatic leadership theory by investigating the relationship between charismatic leadership and group level concerns such as perceptions of group drive, group cohesiveness, and group performance within interacting workgroups., In a laboratory setting with manipulated...
Show morePrevious research on charismatic leadership has demonstrated that leaders exhibiting charismatic behaviors can have a significant impact on followers' attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This study attempted to extend charismatic leadership theory by investigating the relationship between charismatic leadership and group level concerns such as perceptions of group drive, group cohesiveness, and group performance within interacting workgroups., In a laboratory setting with manipulated independent variables, a total of 199 college students were randomized into approximately 34 six member groups to complete a simulated group decision making task. Each of the 34 workgroups were "charge" with completing a group decision making task by an organizational leader portraying either charismatic behaviors or noncharismatic behaviors. The role of the organizational leader was portrayed by two male actors trained to deliver a group charge in both a charismatic and noncharismatic manner., Results indicated that subjects exposed to a charismatically communicated group charge did not report significantly higher levels of group drive, group cohesiveness, or group performance than those subjects exposed to a noncharismatically communicated group charge. Contrary to what was expected, noncharismatically charged subjects reported significantly higher levels of cohesiveness and performed better as a workgroup than those subjects exposed to a charismatically communicated charge. Exploratory analysis also reveals that while charismatically charged subjects did not report significantly greater levels of group drive, cohesiveness, or perform better, they did report significantly more positive attitudes and perceptions toward the leader. This suggests that while charismatic leaders may have individual level effects as predicted by charismatic leadership theory, the strength of that effect may not be strong enough to overcome the interaction patterns and norms that develop within interacting workgroups. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9625664, 3088896, FSDT3088896, fsu:77695
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Title: The development of a framework for critiquing video art in an educational context.
Creator: Lee, Chungpin Apins., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Video art is a more recent development and use of video technology. This much less commonly known aspect of video making focuses on art rather than entertainment. Video artists are interested not only in the formal visual aspects of the medium, but also in those other intrinsic qualities of the medium. The particular language of video art can be understood, however, only when the proper education is gained by the viewer. That is, a method of critically viewing video art is needed in order to...
Show moreVideo art is a more recent development and use of video technology. This much less commonly known aspect of video making focuses on art rather than entertainment. Video artists are interested not only in the formal visual aspects of the medium, but also in those other intrinsic qualities of the medium. The particular language of video art can be understood, however, only when the proper education is gained by the viewer. That is, a method of critically viewing video art is needed in order to help students understand this new art form and be able to derive meaning from video art works. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to develop a framework for critiquing video art in an educational contest. The basic structure of the framework developed is based both on Lippitt's (1973) framework for the development of a model and Van Gigch's (1991) model building concepts. In this study, the framework is composed of five major constituents which are: supports and policies of the government, collaborative relationships, art criticism, educational methods of art criticism, and instructional framework. They are structured as a framework for pedagogically developing secondary school students' critical skills, which are required for critiquing video art. In addition, this instructional framework can be used as reference by regular classroom teachers, arts specialist teachers, or school administrators.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627204, 3088902, FSDT3088902, fsu:77701
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Title: The history of K-12 economic education in Florida, 1974-1994.
Creator: Jennings, Cheryl Denise Godbolt., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In 1949 a national organization formally recognized as the Joint Council on Economic Education, comprised of economists, educators, and persons in business and industry, began promoting economic literacy in pre-collegiate schools. A quarter century later, the Florida Legislature officially mandated the teaching of free enterprise and consumer education in grades K-12., The purpose of this study was to critically examine and analyze the various forces and processes associated with the economic...
Show moreIn 1949 a national organization formally recognized as the Joint Council on Economic Education, comprised of economists, educators, and persons in business and industry, began promoting economic literacy in pre-collegiate schools. A quarter century later, the Florida Legislature officially mandated the teaching of free enterprise and consumer education in grades K-12., The purpose of this study was to critically examine and analyze the various forces and processes associated with the economic education movement in Florida. The population for the study were persons identified as having past or current connections with the 1974 law and to those who influenced subsequent K-12 economic education curriculum policy decisions., The findings confirmed that the K-12 economic education curriculum in Florida was shaped by many conditions and circumstances. Legislative action has been most prominent and has influenced the development and expansion of economics within disciplines and across grade levels., It was determined that economic education has sustained itself in Florida because of support from many sources including business and industry, higher education, and teachers and administrators in school districts across Florida. The study revealed, however, that despite two decades of continuous programming delivered to teachers and students, formal assessment of student knowledge has been limited., The writer identifies several educational implications as well as numerous recommendations for future research on this subject.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627201, 3088901, FSDT3088901, fsu:77700
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Title: Of Canyons and Inlets: Three poems of Gerrit Lansing. (Original composition).
Creator: Thompson, Timothy Dean., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The dissertation is a musical composition scored for tenor and and ten instruments in a double quintet setting. The first quintet consists of flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, violin and percussion. The second quintet includes horn, violin, violoncello, bass and piano., The composition is a setting of three poems selected from Gerrit Lansing's collection The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1977). The movements of the composition are titled...
Show moreThe dissertation is a musical composition scored for tenor and and ten instruments in a double quintet setting. The first quintet consists of flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, violin and percussion. The second quintet includes horn, violin, violoncello, bass and piano., The composition is a setting of three poems selected from Gerrit Lansing's collection The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1977). The movements of the composition are titled with the titles of the poems: "Enthymeme," "For An Unlikely Love," and "An Inlet Of Reality, Or Soul.", The total performance time is approximately fifteen minutes.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9625666, 3088898, FSDT3088898, fsu:77697
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Title: Family stress and adjustment experienced by Chinese and Korean graduate students and their spouses in an American university.
Creator: Shin, Heajong., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among demands perceived by international graduate students and their spouses, their perception of capabilities to meet the demands, and their adjustment. The variables used in this study were operationalized concepts of the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) Model. Each variable has more than one indicator (i.e., demands were represented by three indicators of stress, life strains, and college strains; capabilities were...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine relationships among demands perceived by international graduate students and their spouses, their perception of capabilities to meet the demands, and their adjustment. The variables used in this study were operationalized concepts of the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR) Model. Each variable has more than one indicator (i.e., demands were represented by three indicators of stress, life strains, and college strains; capabilities were measured through two indicators of resources and coping behaviors; and adjustment was represented by two indicators of social functioning and emotional and psychological adjustment). In addition, reliability and validity of a newly developed the Homesickness and Contentment (HC) scale were examined., Multivariate regression analysis showed that there are significant effects of perceived demands on perceived capabilities, perceived demands on adjustment, and perceived capabilities on adjustment. Analysis of relationships among different indicators of variables were also reported., Reliability and validity analyses on the HC scales were conducted. The HC scale is a 20-item scale intended to be culturally sensitive to Asian population when measuring emotional and psychological adjustment. The HC scale showed excellent subscale reliability and high global reliability. The scale also showed high factorial construct validity.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9625665, 3088897, FSDT3088897, fsu:77696
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Title: A study of small scale helicity and alpha effect in the Earth's core.
Creator: Shimizu, Hisayoshi., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: It is plausible that the hydromagnetic flow in the Earth's core which sustains the geomagnetic field is driven by small-scale buoyant blobs, with the buoyancy being of either compositional or thermal origin. The possibility and importance of the $\alpha$-effect, a mean-field induction effect by small-scale flow and field, by blob convection in the Earth's core are studied assuming that the flows driven by blobs do not interact with each other., In a rotating hydromagnetic system such as the...
Show moreIt is plausible that the hydromagnetic flow in the Earth's core which sustains the geomagnetic field is driven by small-scale buoyant blobs, with the buoyancy being of either compositional or thermal origin. The possibility and importance of the $\alpha$-effect, a mean-field induction effect by small-scale flow and field, by blob convection in the Earth's core are studied assuming that the flows driven by blobs do not interact with each other., In a rotating hydromagnetic system such as the Earth's core, various types of flows are possible due to the effects of Coriolis, Lorentz and viscous forces. With a balance between Coriolis and Lorentz forces and with Coriolis dominant, the wake is a foreshortened Taylor column. With same force balance but with Lorentz dominant, the wake is elongated in the direction of the ambient magnetic field. It is believed that one or both of the wakes having a Lorentz-Coriolis force balance are relevant for the Earth's core., To dominant order in the magnetic Reynolds number (assumed small), the integral of helicity and electromotive force over all space, produced by any buoyancy field which decays to zero at infinity, is zero. Analyses of distribution of leading order helicity and electromotive force are carried out in detail for a spherically symmetric blob. The electromotive force integrated over the plane perpendicular to the rotation direction is found to be parallel to the ambient magnetic field, as modeled by the $\alpha$-effect. If there are enough blobs (of order $10\sp7$), this electromotive force contributes significantly to the geodynamo., The constraint of symmetry must be broken to have non-zero net helicity. Four symmetry breakers are considered: non-linear effect, the effect of rigid non-conducting boundary, the effect of large-scale geostrophic flow, and the effect of non-uniform ambient magnetic field. Order of magnitude of helicities are estimated and found to be either zero or very small. Some other effect is necessary to get significant non-zero helicity.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9634930, 3088926, FSDT3088926, fsu:77725
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Title: The determinants of domestic arms production in Third World countries.
Creator: Padgett, Mark Lee., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international diffusion of military power by increasing both the absolute number of weapons produced, and the number of available suppliers., This dissertation empirically tests previous explanations why Third World...
Show moreThe production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international diffusion of military power by increasing both the absolute number of weapons produced, and the number of available suppliers., This dissertation empirically tests previous explanations why Third World countries produce arms. Previous research on the determinants of arms production is classified into four categories: internal political, internal economic, external political and external economic explanations. Each category is associated with competing theories of the state and economy. Cross-sectional and times-series research designs are specified to test nine hypotheses drawn from the previous research. The cross-sectional analyses produce a snapshot of the Third World, which is used to select three Third World arms producers for the times-series analysis., The results from both cross-sectional and time-series analyses are remarkably consistent. Economic factors find more support than political-security factors when explaining both whether Third World countries will produce arms as well as the level of sophistication and volume at which they will produce arms. Indicators of a country's level of development and market size are consistently statistically significant and in the predicted direction. The effect of political-security variables such as embargoes, international threats and regime type find sporadic support in my analyses. In conclusion, Third World countries produce arms when they have the economic capacity and technological ability to do so.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622864, 3088878, FSDT3088878, fsu:77677
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Title: Formative evaluation of teaching performance: Development and assessment of student feedback instrumentation and procedures.
Creator: Mertler, Craig Alan., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Formative evaluation procedures and instrumentation, devised to give secondary school students the opportunity to provide feedback to their teachers concerning their classroom teaching behaviors, were designed and assessed during this study. The sample consisted of 14 volunteer teachers, from five high schools in north Florida, who taught in a variety of content areas. Approximately 600 students provided ratings and comments as feedback to their teachers during Fall, 1995., Specifically, the...
Show moreFormative evaluation procedures and instrumentation, devised to give secondary school students the opportunity to provide feedback to their teachers concerning their classroom teaching behaviors, were designed and assessed during this study. The sample consisted of 14 volunteer teachers, from five high schools in north Florida, who taught in a variety of content areas. Approximately 600 students provided ratings and comments as feedback to their teachers during Fall, 1995., Specifically, the perceptions held by teachers regarding (1) the utility of this process of receiving student feedback and (2) the use of an instrument designed especially for this purpose were examined. In addition, several characteristics of the Student Evaluation of Teachers and Teaching Techniques (SE3T) instrument were studied, including its reliability and construct validity. An alternative classification scheme for the items was also developed., Teachers believed the overall process of collecting feedback from their students to be quite useful. Most importantly, the process allowed teachers to gain insight into their teaching behaviors and practices for the ultimate purpose of improving their instruction. The information leading to this insight is important in that it came not from an administrator, as is typically done in teacher evaluation, but from a previously unsolicited source. Teachers believed that open and honest student responses were a direct result of specific steps in the process taken to guarantee the anonymity of the students., The SE3T rating form was comprised of 35 scaled and two open-ended items. Examination of the results revealed that the students were capable of providing consistent ratings of their teachers' performance. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the rating form lacked validity when compared to the literature-based theoretical model utilized in this study. However, alternative suggestions for determining construct validity are provided and further investigation is recommended., Implications of this study for administrators, teachers, and students are discussed. Recommendations for further research include the continued use and assessment of the SE3T rating form, and methods of efficiently assisting teachers in improving instruction in order to capitalize on student feedback.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622860, 3088875, FSDT3088875, fsu:77674
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Title: A systems analysis of the commercialization of information technologies by IT producing industries.
Creator: Pardue, John Harold., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This research reports the results of a systems analysis study in which a system dynamics simulation model of the commercialization of information technology by information technology producing industries was developed. This study focused on the system structures that give rise to complex dynamics involved with an industry's firms (a) recognizing the value of technical changes in information technology, (b) assimilating those changes, and (c) rapidly exploiting their potential to commercial...
Show moreThis research reports the results of a systems analysis study in which a system dynamics simulation model of the commercialization of information technology by information technology producing industries was developed. This study focused on the system structures that give rise to complex dynamics involved with an industry's firms (a) recognizing the value of technical changes in information technology, (b) assimilating those changes, and (c) rapidly exploiting their potential to commercial ends. The system dynamics model was developed in two phases. In the first phase, a conceptual model was derived from an extensive review of the referent literatures. This review provided the theoretical bases for the system dynamics model. The second phase involved translating the conceptual model into a quantitative or parametric model. The quantitative model was parameterized and validated through an extensive case study analysis of the Micro-Winchester disk drive industry. The purpose of the model is to provide a platform or policy analysis tool for formulating and implementing national level institutional interventions designed to enhance the IT commercialization process. The validation process and a sample policy experimentation using the simulation model is presented.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622865, 3088879, FSDT3088879, fsu:77678
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Title: Conservation and compulsory unitization in oil field development: Theory and evidence.
Creator: May, David Lynn., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Conservation of petroleum reserves in the United States, from a production point of view, becomes problematic even in the case of well-defined surface property rights. The migratory nature of those resources and the common law rule of capture have combined to create a classic example of the problem of the common pool. In the race to reduce their underlying hydrocarbon reserves to possession, holders of sub-surface mineral rights (which evolve from initial surface ownership) have been seen to...
Show moreConservation of petroleum reserves in the United States, from a production point of view, becomes problematic even in the case of well-defined surface property rights. The migratory nature of those resources and the common law rule of capture have combined to create a classic example of the problem of the common pool. In the race to reduce their underlying hydrocarbon reserves to possession, holders of sub-surface mineral rights (which evolve from initial surface ownership) have been seen to exemplify the common pool situation; excessive spending to capture the resource and premature depletion of the resource base. Some economic theory and early empirical evidence indicate that the potential losses from overcapitalization toward drilling and premature reservoir depletion can be large in terms of both physical and economic waste in oil field development., Given the premise that early fieldwide consolidation of a particular reservoir is the optimal solution to conserve the nonrenewable hydrocarbon natural resource, this paper identifies and quantifies the relationship between two separate methods to accomplish this objective--compulsory and voluntary unitization. By comparing the production and drilling activities of a state with a long history of successful and early governmentally sanctioned unitization (Louisiana) to a state with no such statutory requirement (Texas), we are able to discern differences in potential welfare loss between the two regimes. After controlling for geology, price, cost and other state-specific factors, we find that, over the period examined and contrary to the naive economic view that does not allow for private bargaining, more wells are drilled in Louisiana than in Texas and the difference between production rates of the two states is not statistically significant.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622859, 3088874, FSDT3088874, fsu:77673
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Title: The quest for human welfare: Welfare enhancement in Indonesia.
Creator: Ling, Jeffrey Elton., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Since the time of Aristotle, scholars of politics have contemplated the betterment of the welfare of human kind. Building on the traditional and often conflicting views of human welfare attainment, this dissertation seeks to expand understanding of how the human condition is determined and might be improved. Specifically, it examines how overlapping political, economic, social, and international factors affect the economic status of the population, the success of state policies, and society...
Show moreSince the time of Aristotle, scholars of politics have contemplated the betterment of the welfare of human kind. Building on the traditional and often conflicting views of human welfare attainment, this dissertation seeks to expand understanding of how the human condition is determined and might be improved. Specifically, it examines how overlapping political, economic, social, and international factors affect the economic status of the population, the success of state policies, and society-based groups that attempt to alter the relative position of one or more groups., In order to test the theoretical model, a pooled, cross-sectional time series design is utilized. Seven equations are generated to account for welfare, growth, the level of development, state penetration, state extraction, state economic policy, and inequality. Two Stage Least Squares(2SLS) serves as the method of analysis for the nonrecursive, simultaneous equation model., The 27 provinces of Indonesia from 1975 to 1990 serve as the cases for examination. The high growth rate due to the oil boom, the rigor of state adjustment programs, and the regional inequalities serve as important circumstances to test the model. Moreover, the diversity of Indonesia permits the inclusion of variety of differing regions into the analysis, while remaining within the context of a single country., Theoretically, the model attempts to produce a synthesis of the more diverse opinions from the welfare literature. Empirically, the analysis finds that some of the major assumptions of the basic needs school are supported, specifically those pertaining to the negative effect of growth on welfare and the positive effect of welfare on growth. The positive relationship between inequality and welfare highlights the inequalitarian effect attempts at welfare enhancement in developing countries. Furthermore, the high degree of variation in welfare over time within the provinces dispels some of the additive assumptions related to welfare attainment.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622858, 3088873, FSDT3088873, fsu:77672
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Title: The impact of school quality on parent involvement.
Creator: Rohani, Faranak., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study explored the relationship between school quality and the degree of parent involvement. The measures of school quality consisted of 21 variables representing four categories--student achievement, learning environment, student characteristics, and school input. The measures of parent involvement consisted of five parent involvement categories--in-home parent-child interactions, parent-teacher interactions and communications, parent-school interactions and communications, and parent...
Show moreThis study explored the relationship between school quality and the degree of parent involvement. The measures of school quality consisted of 21 variables representing four categories--student achievement, learning environment, student characteristics, and school input. The measures of parent involvement consisted of five parent involvement categories--in-home parent-child interactions, parent-teacher interactions and communications, parent-school interactions and communications, and parent participation in school., Data consisted of parent involvement data gathered through surveys of teachers and parents of children involved in a longitudinal study, school quality data, and focus group data., Due to the exploratory nature of the study, the data was analyzed using canonical correlations analysis and multiple regression analysis. Eight school quality variables were selected (based on factor analysis) to represent the four categories--percentage of students above the median national percentile for reading scores on achievement tests, percentage of students who were expelled from the school, percentage of students who received out-of-school suspensions, percentage of students on free/reduced lunch status, percentage of teachers with 4-9 years of experience, percentage of teachers with 0-3 years of experience, expenditure per student, and percentage of teachers with advanced degrees., Results indicated that school-level reading achievement scores, school-level poverty, school-level discipline problems (out-of-school suspensions), and teacher experience were related to the parents' ratings of parent involvement. These relationships were positive for school-level reading and school-level poverty and negative for school-level discipline problems and teacher experience., Significant positive relationship between school-level reading achievement scores and teachers' ratings of parent involvement was also identified. In addition, teachers' education levels (advanced degrees) and school-level discipline problems (out-of-school suspensions) were positively associated with the teachers' ratings of parent involvement., This study implies causal relationships among parent involvement and school-level reading achievement, school-level poverty, and school-level discipline problems (out-of-school suspensions), and expulsions. A direct positive relationship between the teachers' specific parent involvement training and parent involvement is also suggested.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622868, 3088880, FSDT3088880, fsu:77679
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Title: A scientific basis for forensic science.
Creator: Nute, H. Dale., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Forensic science supports the legal profession by scientifically ascertaining facts for use in resolving disputes. The principles of forensic science are the principles of science as constrained by the law. This dissertation addresses the problem that there is no clear statement of science or the scientific method upon which to base, or to assess, the examinations of forensic science., The law imposes three requirements on its deliberations and thus on forensic science: evidential proof is...
Show moreForensic science supports the legal profession by scientifically ascertaining facts for use in resolving disputes. The principles of forensic science are the principles of science as constrained by the law. This dissertation addresses the problem that there is no clear statement of science or the scientific method upon which to base, or to assess, the examinations of forensic science., The law imposes three requirements on its deliberations and thus on forensic science: evidential proof is necessary in legal decisions, such proof must be compatible with the nature of legal decisions and that proof must meet the requirement of evidentiary reliability. Developing proof is an iterative process of constructing, testing and evaluating a theory relating to the issues in dispute. This cyclic process operates at three levels: the case theory, a hypothesis to test the theory and testing procedures to assess whether the hypothesis is false., The process of proof forms the structure of the scientific method. The distinctive essence of the scientific method is the criteria used to assess its credibility. These criteria include: objectivity, testability and reproducibility. Using the scientific method, forensic scientists conduct two types of examination--classification and individuation--for the purposes of identifying objects and explaining events. In order to draw a conclusion of value to the court, forensic science must have a valid theory, appropriate to the situation, and evidential facts, relevant to the case. This can be summarized in a six-part syllogism:(UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION FOLLOWS), The criteria of forensic science are examination specific. Schooled in the concept of proof and the philosophy of science, and equipped with a set of guidelines elucidating the scientific principles relating to forensic science, a judge can rule on the admissibility of a scientific examination and a forensic scientist can assess the reliability of his examination. This dissertation provides such a set of guidelines.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622863, 3088877, FSDT3088877, fsu:77676
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Title: The effect of social facilitation upon conflict in computer-mediated groups.
Creator: Morris-Murphy, Lannes L., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Studies in the area of social facilitation have attempted to explain the changes in an individual's behavior in an isolated setting compared to when the individual is being observed. This study incorporates social facilitation as a basis for explaining differences in conflict for isolated and colocated groups. Although colocated groups experienced higher levels of objective conflict, isolated groups perceived higher levels of conflict. Gender and group process also had a significant effect...
Show moreStudies in the area of social facilitation have attempted to explain the changes in an individual's behavior in an isolated setting compared to when the individual is being observed. This study incorporates social facilitation as a basis for explaining differences in conflict for isolated and colocated groups. Although colocated groups experienced higher levels of objective conflict, isolated groups perceived higher levels of conflict. Gender and group process also had a significant effect upon objective conflict. Groups resolving conflict through open discussion achieved higher levels of post-meeting consensus.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622862, 3088876, FSDT3088876, fsu:77675
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Title: The pious woman in three works of nineteenth century Spain: "La Comemdadora," "Juanita la Large", "Marta y Maria" (Jose Antonio Alarcon, Juan Valera, Armando Palacio Valdes).
Creator: Crider, Eneida Pugh., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The political and religious situation in Spain in the nineteenth century created economic, social, and cultural upheavals. The tumult of the time was reflected in the literature of Jose Antonio Alarcon, Juan Valera, and Armando Palacio Valdes. They projected their negative views of the time onto religious beatas, or pious women, whose dark side reflected numerous ills of Spanish society. As portrayed by the authors, the lives of the beatas reflected a lack of proper love and affection, abuse...
Show moreThe political and religious situation in Spain in the nineteenth century created economic, social, and cultural upheavals. The tumult of the time was reflected in the literature of Jose Antonio Alarcon, Juan Valera, and Armando Palacio Valdes. They projected their negative views of the time onto religious beatas, or pious women, whose dark side reflected numerous ills of Spanish society. As portrayed by the authors, the lives of the beatas reflected a lack of proper love and affection, abuse by the aristocracy and privileged class, and political and religious fanaticism and bigotry. In Alarcon's work "La Comendadora" (1865) Isabel is an unloved and frustrated beata whose life has been ruined by fanatical and intolerant practices of the clergy and aristocracy. She dies a bitter woman who has never known love. Ines de Roldan in Juanita la Larsa (1896) serves Juan Valera's purpose to explore the political and hypocritical character of a beata whose aristocratic prejudices and power are reflected and maintained by the clergy. Ines' hypocrisy is reflected through her misunderstanding of theology and an abuse of wealth and social position to manipulate people. In Marta y Maria (1883) Palacio Valdes attacks the Church's creation and maintenance of habits which do not teach Christian love and are detrimental to some followers. Through the young girl Maria Elorza he specifically attacks false mysticism that is practiced without spiritual guidance. Maria's obsession with mysticism causes family estrangement, frustration in love, and political fanaticism. Her entrance into the convent symbolizes her final act of alienation. Thus, she represents a perverted beata whose life is ruined and nullified by intemperate and unrestrained religious practices., All three writers reflect an anticlerical bias in creating the three women who display evident signs of religious fanaticism.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9634929, 3088925, FSDT3088925, fsu:77724
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Title: Interfacial barriers to electrical transport in magnetite / nickel oxide modulated structures.
Creator: Smathers, Jay Brady., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4$ (magnetite) is a ferromagnetic semiconductor while NiO is an antiferromagnetic insulator with a room temperature resistivity at least six orders of magnitude greater than that of Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4.$ Modulated structure films, with equal Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4$ and NiO layer thicknesses, were grown using plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy to a total film thickness of 3446A, and with modulation wavelengths $\Lambda$ (bilayer thicknesses) ranging from 16A to 1763A. Post growth $\theta$...
Show moreFe$\sb3$O$\sb4$ (magnetite) is a ferromagnetic semiconductor while NiO is an antiferromagnetic insulator with a room temperature resistivity at least six orders of magnitude greater than that of Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4.$ Modulated structure films, with equal Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4$ and NiO layer thicknesses, were grown using plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy to a total film thickness of 3446A, and with modulation wavelengths $\Lambda$ (bilayer thicknesses) ranging from 16A to 1763A. Post growth $\theta$-2$\theta$ x-ray data contain well defined low angle peaks which confirm that the targeted layer thicknesses were accurately achieved. Resistivity has been measured perpendicular to the plane of the film, as a function of modulation wavelength and temperature. A dependence of the resistivity on $\Lambda$ is observed in two sample sets in which the resistivity rapidly increases many orders of magnitude as the modulation wavelength decreases from the bulk $\Lambda\rightarrow\infty$ limit in the vicinity of 600A. This length scale dependent resistivity enhancement of the Fe$\sb3$O$\sb4$/NiO modulated structures cannot be explained by the standard model of interfacial resistance. A qualitative argument is presented for a metal-insulator-metal interfacial charge transfer model which contains both the resistivity enhancement and the observed length scale dependence.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627216, 3088923, FSDT3088923, fsu:77722
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Title: Stereochemistry of the Michael addition of enolates to alpha,beta-unsaturated esters and thioesters. Stereochemistry of the Michael addition of ester enolates to 3-alkoxy-2-bromoacrylates.
Creator: Ren, Chien-Tai., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Part one describes a systematic study of the Michael addition of enolates to $\alpha,\beta$-unsaturated esters and thioesters. Numerous examples of high stereoselectivity have been discovered, and the factors that influence the stereoselection were examined. The use of the potassium enolate in the sequential Michael addition has been explored. Two consecutive Michael additions can be achieved with excellent diastereoselectivity. These results are consistent with a chelated transition state....
Show morePart one describes a systematic study of the Michael addition of enolates to $\alpha,\beta$-unsaturated esters and thioesters. Numerous examples of high stereoselectivity have been discovered, and the factors that influence the stereoselection were examined. The use of the potassium enolate in the sequential Michael addition has been explored. Two consecutive Michael additions can be achieved with excellent diastereoselectivity. These results are consistent with a chelated transition state. Furthermore, asymmetric Michael additions of thioamide and ester enolates to chiral crotonates have been undertaken. Optically pure diastereomers were isolated by fractional recrystallization and the configuration of the Michael adducts were solved by single crystal X-ray crystallography and chemical correlations., Part two describes a systematic study of the stereochemistry of the Michael addition of ester enolates to 3-alkoxy-2-bromoacrylates. The effects of the ether and ester alkyl substituents in the Michael acceptor and donor on the stereochemical outcome were investigated. These results are consistent with a chelated transition state. Asymmetric Michael additions utilizing chiral propionate ester enolates and methyl 2-bromo-3-methoxyacrylate have been carried out. A number of high asymmetric inductions were observed, and the factors controlling the facial selectivity were discussed. Optically pure Michael adducts were isolated and provided precursors for synthetic studies leading to Lonomycin A.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627210, 3088920, FSDT3088920, fsu:77719
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Title: Magnetization switching in single-domain ferromagnets: Statistical-mechanical analysis and simulations of a kinetic Ising Model in two dimensions.
Creator: Richards, Howard Lamar., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: With the increasing demand for high storage density, magnetic recording media will soon have as their basic components single-domain ferromagnetic grains. Recently experimentalists working with powerful new microscopic techniques have discovered that the process of magnetization reversal in these grains is much more complicated than had been previously realized. In this dissertation we investigate the applicability of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model on a square lattice as a model for...
Show moreWith the increasing demand for high storage density, magnetic recording media will soon have as their basic components single-domain ferromagnetic grains. Recently experimentalists working with powerful new microscopic techniques have discovered that the process of magnetization reversal in these grains is much more complicated than had been previously realized. In this dissertation we investigate the applicability of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model on a square lattice as a model for the switching dynamics. The process of metastable decay is studied by two means: Monte Carlo simulations and analytical arguments based on droplet theory. The simulations are shown to be consistent with the analytical arguments and qualitatively similar to the experimental measurements of single-domain ferromagnets., For a periodic Ising system with an initial magnetization $m\sb0$ = +1 in a negative magnetic field, the field $H\sb{\rm sw}$ which causes the magnetization to decay to zero in a specified length of time is found as a function of the system size L. The probability that the magnetization remains greater than zero is also found as a function of time for fixed applied field and as a function of applied field for fixed decay time., The magnetostatic dipole-dipole interaction in real magnetic materials is modeled to lowest order by adding to the Ising Hamiltonian a term proportional to the square of the magnetization. The analytical predictions show excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations with no fitted parameters that depend on the $m\sp2$ term., Finally, $H\sb{\rm sw}$ is found from Monte Carlo simulations of octagonal systems with a variety of boundary conditions. The results are explained in terms of the scaling form of the free-energy barrier which must be overcome for the metastable state to decay, and they demonstrate the importance that surface effects such as adsorption and reconstruction might have on magnetization switching.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627211, 3088921, FSDT3088921, fsu:77720
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Title: Tracing groundwater flow into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using a naturally occurring radon-222.
Creator: Young, Jaye Ellen., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Submarine groundwater discharge and recirculated seawater may provide important chemical constituents to the ocean, but the dispersed nature of this process makes locating and quantifying its input difficult. Two approaches were taken to evaluate subsurface fluid discharge into an area of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: (1) direct measurements of seepage; and (2) use of naturally-occurring $\sp{222}$Rn as a tracer of this flow., The response of seepage meters to water motion effects was...
Show moreSubmarine groundwater discharge and recirculated seawater may provide important chemical constituents to the ocean, but the dispersed nature of this process makes locating and quantifying its input difficult. Two approaches were taken to evaluate subsurface fluid discharge into an area of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: (1) direct measurements of seepage; and (2) use of naturally-occurring $\sp{222}$Rn as a tracer of this flow., The response of seepage meters to water motion effects was evaluated in the nearshore study area through time-series experiments using empty and 1000-mL prefilled collection bags. It was confirmed that prefilling the plastic bags effectively alleviated an anomalous, short-term influx. Control experiments demonstrated that water motion did not cause artifacts in seepage measurements. Temporal and spatial variations in seepage fluxes were found along an 7-km stretch of coastline in this study area. Tidal cycle influences on seepage rates were negligible, but long-term temporal variations in seepage proved substantial., Concentrations of $\sp{222}$Rn in groundwater are 3 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than seawater. Integrated concentrations in the nearshore waters overlying a seepage meter transect showed a significant positive relationship to direct seepage measurements. These waters receive only a small contribution of $\sp{222}$Rn by diffusion based on flux measurements. Radon inventories in these shallow waters are consistent with the input of radon-bearing groundwaters and suggest that $\sp{222}$Rn is an excellent tracer of this process., Factors influencing the concentration of radon in the inner continental shelf waters (i.e., production-decay, horizontal transport, and benthic advection and diffusion) were evaluated using a linked benthic exchange-horizontal transport model. Simulations of $\sp{222}$Rn activities in a water mass moving across the seafloor demonstrate that inventories are relatively insensitive to horizontal flow, at least when a strong pycnocline is present and net current velocities are slow. The regional subsurface fluid flow into the 620-km$\sp2$ study area is estimated to be 180 to 710 $\rm m\sp3\cdot sec\sp{-1}$, equivalent to at least 50 first magnitude springs.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627219, 3088924, FSDT3088924, fsu:77723
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Title: Examining the predictive relationship between self-concept of ability and depressive symptomatology.
Creator: Nunez, Catherine Elaine., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The present study examined the interrelationships among self-concept, self-esteem and depressive symptomatology employing a three-year longitudinal design. 200 children selected from two separate elementary schools were administered the Self-Perception Profile for Children and the Children's Depression Inventory while attending the third, fourth or fifth grades during the first phase of data collection. The same children were again administered the two measures during the sixth, seventh or...
Show moreThe present study examined the interrelationships among self-concept, self-esteem and depressive symptomatology employing a three-year longitudinal design. 200 children selected from two separate elementary schools were administered the Self-Perception Profile for Children and the Children's Depression Inventory while attending the third, fourth or fifth grades during the first phase of data collection. The same children were again administered the two measures during the sixth, seventh or eighth grades, respectively. Factor analyses were conducted separately for gender at each point in time to examine the interrelationship of questionnaire items. MANOVA's were conducted to assess mean changes over time. Finally, regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive relationship between self-concept and depressive symptomatology. Similar factor structures for gender and time resulted. Ratings of behavior self-concept and academic self-concept decreased over time. When gender differences occurred, they were in the expected direction. Elementary school athletic self-concept significantly predicted depressive symptomatology during middle school, although the relationship was stronger for the males than females. For females, previous depressive symptomatology was the best predictor of later depressive symptoms. Limitations and implications of the study are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627208, 3088919, FSDT3088919, fsu:77718
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Title: Boundaries of groups.
Creator: Ruane, Kim E., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In recent years, the theory of infinite groups has been revolutionized by the introduction of geometric methods. In his foundational paper, "Hyperbolic Groups", Gromov outlines a geometric group theory which provides tools for studying a wide class of groups meant to generalize the classical groups coming from Riemannian geometry. In this setting, the metric geometry of the space is used to study the algebraic properties of the group. One aspect of the metric geometry is the behavior of...
Show moreIn recent years, the theory of infinite groups has been revolutionized by the introduction of geometric methods. In his foundational paper, "Hyperbolic Groups", Gromov outlines a geometric group theory which provides tools for studying a wide class of groups meant to generalize the classical groups coming from Riemannian geometry. In this setting, the metric geometry of the space is used to study the algebraic properties of the group. One aspect of the metric geometry is the behavior of geodesic rays in the space. A technique used for studying this behavior is to compactify the space by adding the endpoints of geodesic rays--i.e. the boundary of the space., Several new theorems in group theory were proven only after the introduction of these geometric methods--for instance, the Scott conjecture--and many known theorems can be given new, elegant geometric proofs. With the success of this approach, Gromov wrote a second paper which gives certain minimum requirements for a theory including certain non-positively curved groups., The first task is to define a notion of non-positive curvature that will generalize the classical Riemannian notion. One proposed notion goes back to the work of Alexandroff and Topogonov wherein they compare the triangles in a given geometry to the triangles in Euclidean geometry and ask that those in the former be as least as thin as those in the latter. Then a class of non-positively curved groups can be defined as those that act geometrically on one of these non-positively curved spaces., My research has focused on studying the boundary of the non-positively curved spaces which admit geometric actions by a group. The overriding question is a question in Gromov's second paper: If a group acts geometrically on two such spaces, then do they have homeomorphic boundaries?
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9627212, 3088922, FSDT3088922, fsu:77721
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