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Title: "As a Member of the Body of Christ": The Effect of the Chapel of the Resurrection on the Tallahassee Sit-Ins of March 12th, 1960.
Creator: Burns, Devin Dufey
Date Issued: 2017-04-06
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1492888659
Format: Thesis

Title: "But where is his voice?: " The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence During the Holocaust.
Creator: Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
Abstract/Description: For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His...
Show moreFor the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His Holiness. While this thesis does not deliver a verdict against Pius, it does address the important question of how the contemporary reader can understand what has been written and the evolution of the charges that have been placed against him. In this paper Rolf Hochhuth serves as the leading example for the critics and Father Robert Graham S.J. serves as his defense counterpart. Beginning with these two men and their arguments, I examine the charges and responses of both the defenders and the critics during the controversial years of the 1960s and 1990s. Through this study I have found that though the Vatican's records remain sealed limiting the pool of information for researchers, the debate has continued to thrive because of the difference in perception of the two sides. The critics place their emphasis on the moral responsibility of the pope and the defenders focus their arguments on the political responsibility and implications of the pope's actions during this uncertain time.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0346
Format: Thesis

Title: "Choosing my Religion": Performing "Spiritual but not Religious" in Contemporary America.
Creator: Burnside, Timothy
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the category and performance of the "spiritual but not religious" in contemporary America, namely the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This thesis seeks to illuminate how a specific notion of self is formed through therapeutic and popular culture, and what irreligious spirituality enables that self to do.
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461335731
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Endless Space Between": Exploring Film's Architectural Spaces, Places, Gender, and Genre.
Creator: Page, Sarah, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Architectural spaces and places within films often work to represent larger themes of the films' stories. This paper explores how films from three different genres, horror, science fiction, and romance, utilize architectural places and space on screen to represent gender. Films explored include Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Ridley Scott's Alien, and Spike Jonze's Her.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0433
Format: Thesis

Title: "I am the Truth (أنا الحق)": Finding a Critique of Sufism from Three Accounts of Al-Hallaj's Utterance.
Creator: Robinson, Brennan Jeffrey
Date Issued: 2017-04-30
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493611244
Format: Thesis

Title: "In a sleepier century": A Work for Chamber Orchestra and Dance.
Creator: Barzso, Isaac
Date Issued: 2018-11-15
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1544292189_ee27d901
Format: Thesis

Title: "It's True, It's True, It's True": Exploring the Relationship Between Memory, Cultural Violence, and Theatre.
Creator: Brownrigg, Bethany
Abstract/Description: In the fall of 2018, I was fortunate enough to witness a production of It’s True, It’s True, It’s True with my devising class during my semester abroad with the FSU Theatre Academy London. The documentary piece uses the original 400-year-old court transcripts as its primary source to depict the trial of Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi as she accuses her tutor, Agostino Tassi, of rape. Throughout the performance, I found myself consistently (and automatically) making connections...
Show moreIn the fall of 2018, I was fortunate enough to witness a production of It’s True, It’s True, It’s True with my devising class during my semester abroad with the FSU Theatre Academy London. The documentary piece uses the original 400-year-old court transcripts as its primary source to depict the trial of Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi as she accuses her tutor, Agostino Tassi, of rape. Throughout the performance, I found myself consistently (and automatically) making connections between this 1612 sexual assault case and the recognizable contemporary sexual assault cases that had been in surrounding discourse at the time, namely the hearing of supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as accused by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. The show itself reinforced these connections within the viewer by contrasting a Baroque subject matter against distinctly modern production choices. In this staging of juxtaposition, Breach Theatre’s production It’s True, It’s True It’s True uses an individual sexual assault case to create a microcosm that reflects the larger-scale treatment of women throughout history, from 17th century Italy to 21st century London. In the trial, Artemisia presents her paintings as evidence to the court; similarly, It’s True, It’s True It’s True is presented as yet another entry in the anthology of artistic evidence of chronicled violence against women. In contemporary culture, scrutiny of this systematic violence in relation to art has been embodied most notably in the form of the #MeToo movement. Victims of assault within the entertainment industry have stepped forward and shared their testimonies to varying degrees of consequence for both themselves and their perpetrators. On a personal level, my individual history as a student and artist at Florida State has been affected by sexual assault allegations and Title IX proceedings, both within the School of Theatre and on a university-wide scale. The status of artistic depictions of assault throughout history prompts the question: how much has changed for women in contemporary society? Realizing how rape culture has endured, I was challenged to add to this artistic body of evidence by directing my own staging of this show through an American collegiate female lens to address the presence of assault against women in my own university and explore the relationship between memory and cultural violence through performance.
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Date Issued: 2020-04-23
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1587758780_8aa7dadd
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Mysteries" Behind The Adapted Story.
Creator: Wallace, Alexandria, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some...
Show moreThis creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some introductory information on adaptation theory and a brief overview of some scholarly debate; followed by the four scripts and analyses for each short film. The major focus of the analyses are on the adaptation process. They will also include each interpretation's relationship to the short story, theory, and how audience and genre affect the process. Two of the four scripts (the children's narrative and music video adaptations) have been filmed and edited together as well to further understand the adaptive mode.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0198
Format: Thesis

Title: "Southern By the Grace of God": The Relationship Between Religion and the League of the South.
Creator: Treptow, Olivia Maria
Date Issued: 2019-12-05
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1575574683_7f0d1778
Format: Thesis

Title: "The Knight's Tale": A Philosophical Discourse on Chivalric Romance.
Creator: Blair, Brooke Jean
Date Issued: 2019-04-12
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1555428877_d5378f05
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Trafalgar Square Conservation Area": Deconstructing Spatial Narratives with/in a Collective Framework.
Creator: Bergholtz, Joel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In...
Show moreAbstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In deconstructing these narratives, it attempts to find implicit meaning in what is explicitly inscribed into the land, and to examine this meaning alongside the social narrative that its occupants hold. This constructed narrative is explored through three frameworks: that of the physical framework of the square, those spatially enacted frameworks leading into it, and the larger collective framework of the city to which the square contributes. It finds that the frameworks of public space generally work toward establishing and authorizing a unifying ideological connection between the present society and societies of the past. However, these narratives are dependent on individual agents participating in the space's various frameworks; the meaning of a space is obfuscated by a society's current participant's usage of the space. In addition to this obfuscation, it discovers that the past role of a space can obfuscate the present meaning and role of the space in the overall framework, and that the present meaning can in turn obfuscate how individuals relate to and interpret the past.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0294
Format: Thesis

Title: "Untamed Music": Early Jazz in Vaudeville.
Creator: Lewis, Steven, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Vaudeville, which was one of the most influential entertainment genres in America at the turn of the century, was also important to the early development of jazz. Vaudeville's role in jazz history has not often figured into discussions of early jazz because the earliest jazz historians were record collectors who relied heavily on sound recordings to establish the history of the music, leading them to marginalize the contributions of musicians or bands that did not make records. Touring...
Show moreVaudeville, which was one of the most influential entertainment genres in America at the turn of the century, was also important to the early development of jazz. Vaudeville's role in jazz history has not often figured into discussions of early jazz because the earliest jazz historians were record collectors who relied heavily on sound recordings to establish the history of the music, leading them to marginalize the contributions of musicians or bands that did not make records. Touring vaudeville, minstrel shows, and circuses played a crucial role in jazz's development and dissemination. Many of the influential jazz artists of the teens and twenties, such as Alvin "Zoo" Robertson, Wilbur Sweatman, Freddie Keppard, and Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton began their careers playing in tents and theaters around the country as vaudeville entertainers. Traveling vaudeville shows were the most significant factor in the spread of jazz before the advent of recording, and brought early jazz to appreciative audiences even before 1917, when the first jazz recordings became available. After these initial recordings, the shows carried jazz to remote areas of the country where jazz records were less likely to be available. These shows continued to be important for the careers of jazz musicians until the mid thirties, when the ascendance of film and radio led to vaudeville's terminal decline. In this paper I explore in detail the role that touring vaudeville shows played in the development and popularization of jazz in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0143
Format: Thesis

Title: "Why Should We Cultivate Our Gardens?": Th Development & Role of Leisure in Western Society.
Creator: McShane, Mikaela Woods
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores “leisure” as an important, if not vital, component in cross-cultural studies. I work through, what I perceive to be the formative time periods, the end of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century, in regards to the development of cultural specific leisure time negotiation. I have approached the idea of leisure from several different theoretical and epistemological angles, historical, literary, rhetorical and anthropological. My goal in this project...
Show moreThis thesis explores “leisure” as an important, if not vital, component in cross-cultural studies. I work through, what I perceive to be the formative time periods, the end of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century, in regards to the development of cultural specific leisure time negotiation. I have approached the idea of leisure from several different theoretical and epistemological angles, historical, literary, rhetorical and anthropological. My goal in this project was not to expose a new idea, as leisure has been studied extensively, rather my aim is to shrink the gap between studies. I have connected research across different disciplines in order to present a case for the inclusion of leisure in the academic discourse and present its relevance as a genre, rather as idea.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461351820
Format: Thesis

Title: 'OSTINATO': A Case Study of Repetitive Reactions to Medical Study.
Creator: Jarmel, Alejandro Ramon
Abstract/Description: In my work I hope to explore the repetitive nature of human history, looking at how our nature has effected our health, moral values, and societal standards through a case study of the history of anatomical studies and comparing its history with that of stem cell research.
Date Issued: 2020-04-29
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1588189804_b0523a77
Format: Thesis

Title: (How) Do You Regret Killing One to Save Five? Affective and Cognitive Regret Differ After Utilitarian and Deontological Sacrificial Dilemma Decisions.
Creator: Goldstein-Greenwood, Jacob
Abstract/Description: Sacrificial moral dilemmas, in which opting to kill one person will save multiple others, are definitionally suboptimal: Someone dies either way. Decision-makers, then, may experience regret about their decisions. Past research dissociates affective regret, negative feelings about a decision, from cognitive regret, wishful thoughts about a counterfactual decision. Classic dual-process models of moral judgment suggest that affective processing drives characteristically deontological decisions...
Show moreSacrificial moral dilemmas, in which opting to kill one person will save multiple others, are definitionally suboptimal: Someone dies either way. Decision-makers, then, may experience regret about their decisions. Past research dissociates affective regret, negative feelings about a decision, from cognitive regret, wishful thoughts about a counterfactual decision. Classic dual-process models of moral judgment suggest that affective processing drives characteristically deontological decisions to reject outcome-maximizing harm, whereas cognitive deliberation drives characteristically utilitarian decisions to endorse outcome-maximizing harm. Consistent with this model, we found that people who made or imagined making sacrificial utilitarian judgments expressed relatively more affective regret and relatively less cognitive regret than those who made or imagined making deontological dilemma judgments. In other words, people who endorsed causing harm to save lives felt more distressed about their decision but were less inclined to change it than people who rejected outcome-maximizing harm.
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Date Issued: 2019-04-10
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1555434822_f1705269
Format: Thesis

Title: 1 Out of 233 Passengers.
Creator: Ward, Imranda
Date Issued: 2019-05-01
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1556715132_53aefab3
Format: Thesis

Title: 100 Cups for a 100 Lives.
Creator: Frankenfield, Ivy E., Department of Art
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0570
Format: Thesis

Title: 100% Renewable Energy Strategy for Tallahassee, Florida.
Creator: Simm, Sarah
Abstract/Description: In 2017, the City Commission of Tallahassee voted to adopt the US Conference of Mayors proclamation to move the city’s energy to 100% Renewable Energy by 2035. In this thesis, the potential sources of renewable energy for Tallahassee are reviewed, and solar photovoltaic cells (PV) is found to be effectively the only renewable energy source. Current renewable energy sources for the transportation sector were modeled to be entirely based on switching the vehicle fleet to electric vehicles (EVs)...
Show moreIn 2017, the City Commission of Tallahassee voted to adopt the US Conference of Mayors proclamation to move the city’s energy to 100% Renewable Energy by 2035. In this thesis, the potential sources of renewable energy for Tallahassee are reviewed, and solar photovoltaic cells (PV) is found to be effectively the only renewable energy source. Current renewable energy sources for the transportation sector were modeled to be entirely based on switching the vehicle fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) which increased the electrical demand by about 30%. The infrastructure costs of solar PV are anticipated to be large, which could limit the city in attaining its renewable energy goals. The costs associated with installing utility-scale solar PV sufficient to displace the entire electrical energy demand of the city is examined. Three scenarios for the rate of PV installation were assessed: (1) a linear installation rate of 90 MW-DC/year; (2) an exponential rate of installation; (3) a constant spending rate, that all yielded sufficient energy to displace all projected natural gas electricity production. The key assumption proved to be the projection algorithm for the future costs of solar PV panels which was taken to be an exponential function with a seven-year e-folding time. Each of the scenarios yielded fiscal savings by displacing the natural gas fuel cost. Increasing the entire costs of solar PV by a factor of two still yielded a long-term savings for the city. Land costs for installing sufficient utility-scale solar PV were found to add an additional 15-25 % to the total costs. Strategies that the city could adopt to further reduce costs, like encouraging rooftop solar, solar water heating, home batteries, etc., are examined and could reduce costs by about a third. All scenarios led to a substantial integrated CO2 emissions reduction of about 50% relative to a business-as-usual scenario. Post-2035, CO2 emissions are zero. Finally, the impact of the city’s recently adopted 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 goal is assessed.
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Date Issued: 2019-04-26
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1556310842_99a4f838
Format: Thesis

Title: 3D Printed Modular Structures.
Creator: Grand, Michelle B.
Abstract/Description: The surge of single-use plastics consumption has generated vast volumes of polymer waste, threatening water supplies, marine wildlife, and quality of life in low-income communities. Mechanical recycling is suggested as the most sustainable method to reduce polymer pollution because it may extend the life cycle for these products. This study aims to use 3D printing technology as a means to process recycled High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) to produce honeycomb sandwich core panels. These...
Show moreThe surge of single-use plastics consumption has generated vast volumes of polymer waste, threatening water supplies, marine wildlife, and quality of life in low-income communities. Mechanical recycling is suggested as the most sustainable method to reduce polymer pollution because it may extend the life cycle for these products. This study aims to use 3D printing technology as a means to process recycled High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) to produce honeycomb sandwich core panels. These structures benefit from the lattice design as it can provide greater strength with a relatively low weight nature, and is commonly used in the automotive, aerospace, and the architecture industry. Honeycomb sandwich core panel’s wide range of applications may benefit from the transition from directly sourced polymers to a recycled alternative.To test the hypothesis that recycled HDPE may be used as an alternative material for the fabrication of honeycomb sandwich core panels, the material properties were analyzed through a tensile strength test, geometries were modeled, verified and optimized under Finite Element Analysis, recycled HDPE filament was obtained in the laboratory to produce panels via 3D printing.
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Date Issued: 2020-12-04
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1607117479_483e9065
Format: Thesis

Title: 50,000 Words to 500,000 Participants: National Novel Writing Month as a Growing Online Community.
Creator: McGuire, Sheridan E
Date Issued: 2020-11-30
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1606761759_f0efb385
Format: Thesis

Title: A quantitative comparison of meiofaunal distributions in an open sand area and a sea grass bed (Thalassia testudinum).
Creator: Ruddell, John Milton
Date Issued: 1976
Identifier: FSU_QL121R8
Format: Thesis

Title: A study of enzyme synthesis in vivo and in vitro.
Creator: Younathan, Ezzat Saad, Frieden, Earl, Florida State University, College of Arts & Sciences
Abstract/Description: Until recently, the major part of biochemical research has been concentrated on the degradative rather than on the synthetic reactions of living systems. This is mainly due to limitations imposed by technique. The introduction of isotopic tracers and the development of efficient fractionation techniques have made possible the investigation of the biosynthetic mechanism of many metabolites. During the last decade, due to the Coris and their coworkers, the mechanism of polysaccharide synthesis...
Show moreUntil recently, the major part of biochemical research has been concentrated on the degradative rather than on the synthetic reactions of living systems. This is mainly due to limitations imposed by technique. The introduction of isotopic tracers and the development of efficient fractionation techniques have made possible the investigation of the biosynthetic mechanism of many metabolites. During the last decade, due to the Coris and their coworkers, the mechanism of polysaccharide synthesis was largely worked out. Two years ago, Lynen and Mahler proposed independently a scheme for the biosynthesis of long-chain fatty acids. On the other hand, the problem of protein synthesis is still one of the major challenges to the biochemists. In the mechanisms just referred to for the biosynthesis of simpler metabolites, the specificity of the biochemical process is always explained by the specificity of the enzymes involved.But when the formation of a protein is considered, the problem cannot be solved by referring to the specificity of conventional protein enzymes, since the synthesis of these, in turn, has to be accounted for. Evidently, enzymes involved in protein biosynthesis must be of a different nature. Elucidation of the mechanism of protein synthesis will not only add to our knowledge about the production of cellular protein, but may also shed some light on many other important problems, e.g., heredity factors, cancer, virus growth and microbial adaptation. A prerequisite to the study of protein synthesis is to work out a simple system capable of net synthesis of a specific protein. Several approaches have been designed to demonstrate protein production in vivo and in vitro. The assets and limitations of each of these methods will be discussed in the next chapter. The approach adopted for the work reported in this dissertation is the net enzyme synthesis in vivo and in vitro. Enzymes offer a useful tool by virtue of being specific proteins which could be rapidly and accurately assayed. The larger portion of the work was carried out using the in vitro system since, in contrast with the in vivo system, it is simpler and permits better control of the experimental variables. The effect of several activators and inhibitors has been investigated with special emphasis on amino acid analogues"-- Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1955
Identifier: FSU_59119Y67S
Format: Thesis

Title: Abelian Splittings of Right-Angled Artin Groups and Subgroups.
Creator: Barquinero, Enrique Miguel
Abstract/Description: In classical mathematics, variables usually commute under multiplication. On the other hand, in this thesis we are interested in a setting in which variables do not always commute. Useful for representing this information are right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs).RAAGs are defined using graphs, i.e. sets of vertices and edges, where vertices represent variables and edges represent a commutative relationship between the connected vertices. RAAGs are often used as a tool to convert problems...
Show moreIn classical mathematics, variables usually commute under multiplication. On the other hand, in this thesis we are interested in a setting in which variables do not always commute. Useful for representing this information are right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs).RAAGs are defined using graphs, i.e. sets of vertices and edges, where vertices represent variables and edges represent a commutative relationship between the connected vertices. RAAGs are often used as a tool to convert problems involving complex geometric phenomena into relatively simple algebra, as we can derive useful information directly from the geometric structure of the underlying graph. Bestvina-Brady groups (BBs) are normal subgroups of RAAGs, originally introduced by Bestvina and Brady to create subgroups of RAAGs which have exotic finiteness properties, such as subgroups which are finitely generated but not finitely presented.This thesis is focused on the problem of understanding splittings. Specifically, how to find an explicit description for some ways of decomposing the groups in terms of the geometry of the underlying graph. In this thesis, we review the findings by Groves and Hull for RAAGs and Chang for BBs, including details and full computations. The methodology used in this thesis relies upon three main topics: group theory, graph theory, and group actions on trees. In the last topic, we use Bass-Serre theory as a bridge between the group and graph theory.
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Date Issued: 2020-12-03
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1607048917_98114303
Format: Thesis

Title: Accessing Novel Graphene Nanoribbon Architectures through Double peri-Annulations.
Creator: Skala, Morgan Elizabeth
Abstract/Description: Routes to construct graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and nanographenes (NGs) from smaller polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have long been explored. Foundational work in the Alabugin group has recently culminated in the development of a double peri-annulation protocol where aromatic core precursors containing a propargylic OMe traceless directing group (TDG) are π-extended through Sn-radical promoted cyclizations. After cyclization, two Bu3Sn chemical handles are present in the products....
Show moreRoutes to construct graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and nanographenes (NGs) from smaller polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have long been explored. Foundational work in the Alabugin group has recently culminated in the development of a double peri-annulation protocol where aromatic core precursors containing a propargylic OMe traceless directing group (TDG) are π-extended through Sn-radical promoted cyclizations. After cyclization, two Bu3Sn chemical handles are present in the products. These handles can serve for downstream PAH-extension via cross-coupling and cycloaromatization approaches. As proof-of-concept, our group has recently reported the extension of distannylpyrenes via iodination followed by double Suzuki crosscoupling with an aromatic electrophile. By mono cross-coupling of the 1,8-disubstituted-2,7 distannylpyrenes, we hypothesize that extension at one Sn at a time may be possible, allowing to further diversify the PAH library accessible for the construction of GNRs. Mono-Suzuki and Stille couplings were explored under multiple conditions with limited success due to prevalent double cross-couplings in the former and sluggish reactivity in the latter. The broad flexibility of the Bu3Sn handles allows for exploration of other approaches, for example, the borylation of the cyclized product, further cross-coupling with aryl dihalides and cycloaromatization in order to access novel GNR structures.
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Date Issued: 2020-04-14
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1587398980_0995fdc0
Format: Thesis

Title: The Accuracy of the National Hurricane Center's United States Tropical Cyclone Landfall Forecasts in the Atlantic Basin (2004–2012).
Creator: Keclik, Alexandra, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract/Description: This study examined the position, timing, and intensity of each National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Official Forecasts (OFCL) for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States from 2004 to 2012. During that time period, one hundred and fifty tropical cyclones developed in the Atlantic basin. Thirty-two of the cyclones made landfall in the United States as tropical storms or hurricanes. Accurate predictions of the location, timing, and intensity of tropical...
Show moreThis study examined the position, timing, and intensity of each National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Official Forecasts (OFCL) for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States from 2004 to 2012. During that time period, one hundred and fifty tropical cyclones developed in the Atlantic basin. Thirty-two of the cyclones made landfall in the United States as tropical storms or hurricanes. Accurate predictions of the location, timing, and intensity of tropical cyclone landfalls are important, so that people in a storm's track can prepare adequately for heavy to catastrophic wind, rain, and storm surge. The errors of each of the OFCL for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States during 2004–2012 are acquired from the Best Track data set. The ELTOPO1 landmask is used to find the forecasted landfall point using sequential locations from the OFCL offshore and onshore points of each forecast. The great circle distance between the forecasted and actual landfall constitutes the location error. The official landfall time is subtracted from the forecasted landfall time to find the timing error, and the official landfall wind speed is subtracted from the closest to onshore wind speed to find intensity error. There is a trend of decreasing error in location, timing, and intensity forecasting with decreasing lead time. An improvement in tropical cyclone landfall forecasting is found from comparing the 2004–2012 Atlantic landfall forecast errors to those in a study of 1976-2000 forecasts.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0324
Format: Thesis

Title: Acoustic and Physiologic Correlates of Singing Register Transition Among Classically Trained Female Singers: Single Note Data.
Creator: Farr, Elizabeth Ashley
Abstract/Description: Maintaining vocal stability while shifting between the vocal registers of chest and mixed voice is a challenging task for classically trained singers. Several researchers have completed studies of the register transitions by classically trained singers. The purpose of this study was to better understand the acoustic and physiologic correlates of the vocal tract and larynx activities during a register transition on a single note sung by classically trained female singers. In particular, this...
Show moreMaintaining vocal stability while shifting between the vocal registers of chest and mixed voice is a challenging task for classically trained singers. Several researchers have completed studies of the register transitions by classically trained singers. The purpose of this study was to better understand the acoustic and physiologic correlates of the vocal tract and larynx activities during a register transition on a single note sung by classically trained female singers. In particular, this study included evaluation of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from the audio signal data and the EGG cycles around a register transition during singing in the chest and mixed registers. Sixteen classically trained female singers were recorded singing an /a/ vowel on a suspended single pitch within their register transition as determined from a previous recording that included the primo passaggio. The microphone signal from the singing sample was used to find measurements of harmonic amplitude, and electroglottograph (EGG) electrodes were placed on the thyroid to measure closing quotient (CQEGG) data. The dependent variables were the CQEGG and the FFT amplitude measurements for the first five harmonics. Results indicated that the participants demonstrated significantly higher CQEGG in the chest register than mixed register and the singers reduced their harmonic amplitudes during the register transition from chest to mixed register.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461344613
Format: Thesis

Title: Acoustic Measures of Stress in Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
Creator: Berteau, Emily A., School of Communication Science and Disorders
Abstract/Description: Disordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from those with non-CAS SSDs and those with typical speech and language development. Rhythm metrics that were over 80% successful in distinguishing among speakers with dysarthria, another disorder characterized by abnormal stress, were used to measure the variability...
Show moreDisordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from those with non-CAS SSDs and those with typical speech and language development. Rhythm metrics that were over 80% successful in distinguishing among speakers with dysarthria, another disorder characterized by abnormal stress, were used to measure the variability of vocalic and consonantal intervals. These metrics were analyzed to compare children with suspected CAS, children with non-CAS SSDs, and children with typical speech and language development. Results showed that children with CAS had the least variable vocalic durations and most variable consonantal durations. The CAS group was the only group to have more variability in consonantal durations than vocalic durations, and the relative difference between vocalic and consonantal variability was greatest in the CAS group. Further research should more closely examine the comparative differences between vocalic and consonantal variability within each group of children.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0546
Format: Thesis

Title: Activity-Dependent Regulation of Calcium and Ribosomes in the Chick Cochlear Nucleus.
Creator: Call, Cody, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Cochlea removal results in the death of 20-30% of neurons in nucleus magnocellularis (NM), a cochlear nucleus of the chick auditory system involved in the precise time-coding of acoustic signals. Within 1 hr of deafferentation, intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) rises by up to 400% while the integrity of ribosomes begins to decline—two potentially cytotoxic events. Glutamatergic axons of the auditory nerve have been shown to maintain NM neuron health by activating group I and II...
Show moreCochlea removal results in the death of 20-30% of neurons in nucleus magnocellularis (NM), a cochlear nucleus of the chick auditory system involved in the precise time-coding of acoustic signals. Within 1 hr of deafferentation, intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) rises by up to 400% while the integrity of ribosomes begins to decline—two potentially cytotoxic events. Glutamatergic axons of the auditory nerve have been shown to maintain NM neuron health by activating group I and II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), maintaining normal [Ca2+]i and ribosomal integrity. This study aimed to determine how [Ca2+]i and ribosomal integrity are maintained by auditory nerve stimulation by selectively blocking group I mGluRs with AIDA and group II mGluRs with LY 341495 during unilateral auditory nerve stimulation. The abundance of Ca2+ in NM neurons was quantified using in vitro fura-2 ratiometric calcium imaging, while ribosomal integrity was assayed in a subset of the same tissue slices using Y10B immunolabeling (Y10B-ir). It was expected that AIDA and LY 341495 would increase [Ca2+]i and these increases would occur in parallel with an elimination in stimulation-induced differences in Y10B-ir between stimulated and unstimulated neurons of a slice. AIDA caused large increases in [Ca2+]i and eliminated differences in Y10B-ir between sides. Surprisingly, LY 341495 failed to cause reliable increases in [Ca2+]i compared to stimulated controls, but still eliminated differences in Y10B-ir between sides. These results suggest dissociation in how calcium and ribosomes are regulated in NM neurons.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0509
Format: Thesis

Title: The Acute Effects of Ketamine on Social Interaction after Chronic Defeat.
Creator: Torres, Pedro, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Depression is a debilitating disorder with established prevalence and detrimental impact on the economy. Ketamine is a fast acting and long lasting treatment for depression, including treatment resistant patients. The mechanism(s) behind ketamine's effects is unknown. Thus, this study assessed the effects of acute ketamine treatment on a new chronic stress paradigm using C57BL/6J and CD1 aggressor adult male mice. The C57BL/6J mice were assigned to three groups: emotional stress (ES),...
Show moreDepression is a debilitating disorder with established prevalence and detrimental impact on the economy. Ketamine is a fast acting and long lasting treatment for depression, including treatment resistant patients. The mechanism(s) behind ketamine's effects is unknown. Thus, this study assessed the effects of acute ketamine treatment on a new chronic stress paradigm using C57BL/6J and CD1 aggressor adult male mice. The C57BL/6J mice were assigned to three groups: emotional stress (ES), physical stress (PS), and control (CON) conditions. The mice in the PS condition received social defeats, while the ES mice witnessed the defeats, for 10 consecutive days, 10 minutes each day. Twenty-four hours after the last stress session, the mice were injected with either saline or ketamine (0.20 mg/kg) one hour before a social interactions test was conducted to assess whether ketamine could rescue deficits in interaction elicited by chronic stress. Mice in the PS condition showed significantly reduced interaction time when the target was present, whereas the ES-exposed mice displayed only similar trend, regardless of drug treatment. Time spent in corners varied as a function of stress exposure but not drug treatment, with the ES- and PS-exposed mice spending significantly more time in the corners when the target was present. With the exception of the ketamine-treated controls, mice receiving saline displayed reduced interaction times when compared to a group of non-injected controls regardless of stress condition. These finding suggest that ketamine was unable to alleviate the stress-induced deficits in social interaction, however, acute ketamine may be beneficial in alleviating the effects of acute stress.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0172
Format: Thesis

Title: The Acute Effects of Late Evening Whey and Casein Ingestion on Fasting Blood Glucose, Blood Lipid Profile, Resting Metabolic Rate, and Hunger in Overweight and Obese Individuals.
Creator: Blay, Charles, Nutrition, Food, & Exercise Science
Abstract/Description: Theoretically, protein ingestion before sleep should affect obesity rates and promote cardiovascular health by increasing nocturnal metabolism and decreasing morning hunger. However, there is little research linking nighttime protein ingestion and morning cardiovascular health, metabolism, and hunger.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0101
Format: Thesis

Title: Adaptation of Ultra-Precise Atomic Mass Measurement Techniques to Microwave Spectroscopy on a Single Molecular Ion by Detecting Polarizability Shifts in a Penning Trap.
Creator: Zarrella, Andrew, Physics
Abstract/Description: Using the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us...
Show moreUsing the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us to do microwave spectroscopy on single molecular ions. The main goal of this project will be to implement this new method of microwave spectroscopy, by measuring the lambda-type doubling splitting of the diatomic molecular ion, NH+, in its vibrational and rotational ground state.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0043
Format: Thesis

Title: Adhesion and performance of polymer gel electrolytes.
Creator: Lockwood, Marcus
Abstract/Description: Here at the HPMI, a novel photovoltaic device structure was created, called the wire-shaped dyesensitized solar cell (WS-DSSC). This cell has been primarily synthesized and fabricated in the laboratory environment with no control. To date, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs or DSCs) have reached an efficiency of 11.9%, which is one of the fastest inclines towards higher efficiency cells. Therefore, a repeatable manufacturing process is needed to fully transfer the incredible gains of this...
Show moreHere at the HPMI, a novel photovoltaic device structure was created, called the wire-shaped dyesensitized solar cell (WS-DSSC). This cell has been primarily synthesized and fabricated in the laboratory environment with no control. To date, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs or DSCs) have reached an efficiency of 11.9%, which is one of the fastest inclines towards higher efficiency cells. Therefore, a repeatable manufacturing process is needed to fully transfer the incredible gains of this structure. This will greatly influence the field of organic electronics, specifically organic solar cells. Due to the lack of volatile materials, the use of a solid-state electrolyte (SSE) could increase the safety of organic electronic devices. The specific scope of this research is the development of anoptimized SSE by introducing a polymer material to an aqueous electrolyte, creating a solid-state electrolyte. The printability aspect of this solid-state electrolyte is also studied to enable the use ofadditive manufacturing in the fabrication of WS-DSSCs. Upon analyzing the viscosity flow curves generated by the collected data they reveal that PVDF, specifically at the 8 wt/wt% concentration, has a much higher initial viscosity than the PEO solution of the same concentration. Leading to the conclusion that it will demonstrate a higher level of shape retention when compared to a PEO solution. Numerically, the initial viscosity of the PVDF sample was 2,780 [Pa*s] compared to just 4.82 [Pa*s] generated by the PEO sample. Conclusive data about the printing behaviors both PEO and PVDF electrolyte samples were not collected for the purposes of comparison. The use of a solid-state electrolyte in additive manufacturing techniques such as fused deposition modeling to print an SSE will greatly improve the speed at which organic electronics can be produced.
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Date Issued: 2019-04-26
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1556283168_f2180d18
Format: Thesis

Title: Advancing Diabetes Care: The Optimization of Insulin Pump Medication Delivery.
Creator: Wilcox, John Hartford
Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524862378_d562eb9f
Format: Thesis

Title: The Affect of E-books on Reading.
Creator: Lichti, Lindsay, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These...
Show moreThis thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These results were incorporated to track FSU trends compared to national averages.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0077
Format: Thesis

Title: The Afferent Circuitry of the Ventromedial Hypothalamus and Its Activation in Paternal Behavior of the Socially Monogamous Prairie Vole.
Creator: Rogers, Richard S., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abstract/Description: Paternal behavior is an interesting and important research topic due to its integral contribution to the fitness and well-being of multiple species, including humans. Although paternal behavior is well described in literature, attempts at neurobiological characterization have yielded conflicting results that fail to address brain region interconnectivity. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between afferent VMH circuitry and the onset of paternal behavior, using the prairie...
Show morePaternal behavior is an interesting and important research topic due to its integral contribution to the fitness and well-being of multiple species, including humans. Although paternal behavior is well described in literature, attempts at neurobiological characterization have yielded conflicting results that fail to address brain region interconnectivity. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between afferent VMH circuitry and the onset of paternal behavior, using the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) model. Sexually naïve male prairie voles received injections of the retrograde neurotracer Fluoro-Gold (FG), into the VMH. Two weeks later, subjects were exposed to either conspecific pups, contained within a tea-ball, or an empty tea-ball (control) for 1 hr. Immunohistochemical labeling was conducted for both FG and the neuronal activity marker Egr-1, in order to evaluate neuronal and afferent pathway activation between the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) and the amygdala (AMYG), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), lateral septum (LS) and ventral tegmental area (VTA). Similar to the pathway implicated in the onset of maternal behavior, the results of this study showed pup exposure-induced neuronal activation in the AMYG and BNST, particularly in the efferent pathways from these two brain areas to the VMH. This effect was not found in the LS and VTA projection neurons to the VMH. Together, the data suggests a brain region-specific neuronal activation by pup exposure in particular brain circuitry, implicating its possible involvement in paternal behavior.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0545
Format: Thesis

Title: Against Consequentialism: The Wrongness of Impartiality.
Creator: Jones, Nathaniel, Philosophy
Abstract/Description: The most important objective of this paper is to provide a clear and detailed overview of Consequentialism and to show one way in which it is mistaken in its moral prescriptions. While there may be many criticisms of Consequentialism, our focus here will be on the apparent problem it has when dealing with issues of Special Relationships, namely the obligations one may have to family, friends, and any promises he may have made. This criticism will simply be called the Problem of Special...
Show moreThe most important objective of this paper is to provide a clear and detailed overview of Consequentialism and to show one way in which it is mistaken in its moral prescriptions. While there may be many criticisms of Consequentialism, our focus here will be on the apparent problem it has when dealing with issues of Special Relationships, namely the obligations one may have to family, friends, and any promises he may have made. This criticism will simply be called the Problem of Special Relationships. I must first introduce Consequentialism, explain what it entails, show what the Problem of Special Relationships is, and finally go through two replies from Act-Consequentialism and one from Rule Consequentialism.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0021
Format: Thesis

Title: Age, growth, and maturity of the gafftopsail catfish, Bagre marinus, in Northwest Florida.
Creator: Miguez, Joseph Simonet
Abstract/Description: The gafftopsail catfish, Bagre marinus, is a particularly abundant species of marine, mouthbrooding catfish found throughout the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, the age, growth, and maturity of this species was determined for a population within Apalachicola Bay, a large highly productive estuary in Northwest Florida designated as a National Estuarine Research Reserve. New age, growth, and maturity data presented for B. marinus is relevant as the continued exploitation of highly sought-after...
Show moreThe gafftopsail catfish, Bagre marinus, is a particularly abundant species of marine, mouthbrooding catfish found throughout the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, the age, growth, and maturity of this species was determined for a population within Apalachicola Bay, a large highly productive estuary in Northwest Florida designated as a National Estuarine Research Reserve. New age, growth, and maturity data presented for B. marinus is relevant as the continued exploitation of highly sought-after species in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to lead to the development of a fishery targeting B. marinus similar to the marine catfish fisheries of Central and South America. A total of 235 specimens were sampled in this study between April 2018 to August 2019. Age determination through use of counting the growth bands of lapillal otoliths yielded an age range of 1 to 25 years old for females and 1 to 14 years old for males. Growth was modeled with five different length-at-age models with sexes being modeled independently. Akaike information criterion corrected for a small sample size (AICc) was used to directly compare models and determine most appropriate model for the data presented. For females in this study it was found that the two three-parameter von Bertanlanffy growth models (k = 0.171  0.015, L∞ = 515.03  7.50 mm (fork length, FL)) yielded the best fits for the length at age data of the females with strong support also for the Gompertz model (k = 0.217  0.016, L∞ = 507.84  6.37 mm (FL)). For males in this study, all models excluding the two-parameter von Bertanlanffy growth model exhibited comparable fits of the data with the logistic model yielding the best fit for males (k = 0.429  0.056, L∞ = 470.31  11.55 mm (FL)). Maturity ogives calculated within this study suggest that age-at-maturity was 3 years old for females and 2 years old for males. Age and growth results in this study differed from those estimated for other populations of B. marinus in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Date Issued: 2019-12-04
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1575488199_9b0508c4
Format: Thesis

Title: Age-Related Autonomic Regulation in Catecholaminergic Ventricular Tachycardia.
Creator: Oropallo, Zoey
Abstract/Description: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), also called exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia is a hereditary disease that can cause sudden cardiac death in human patients. Interestingly, while patients with CPVT have normal function of the heart at rest, they show life-threatening arrhythmias during physical activity or acute emotional stress. Autonomic nervous system is known to have a role in arrhythmia pathogenesis, and its response changes with aging. However, little...
Show moreCatecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), also called exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia is a hereditary disease that can cause sudden cardiac death in human patients. Interestingly, while patients with CPVT have normal function of the heart at rest, they show life-threatening arrhythmias during physical activity or acute emotional stress. Autonomic nervous system is known to have a role in arrhythmia pathogenesis, and its response changes with aging. However, little is known that how autonomic regulation with aging contributes to arrhythmia burdens in CPVT. Methods: To test our hypothesis, we examined ECG recording with a catecholaminergic challenge (isoproterenol, 3mg/kg + caffeine, 120mg/kg) in anesthetized CPVT mice at different age groups (6 weeks old, 12 weeks old, and 48 weeks old). Results: In CPVT mice, the frequency of arrhythmias were increased with aging. The resting heart rate (HR) decreased with aging, whereas the HR response after adrenergic stress was significantly increased. The average RR interval also increased in advanced age, suggesting a possibility of an increased autonomic regulation. Conclusion: We found that arrhythmia incidence worsens by lowering intrinsic HR, and possibly by a modulation of parasympathetic nerve activity in CPVT mice with advanced age.
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Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1525264709_2e0b4d7e
Format: Thesis

Title: Age-Related Differences in the Effects of Cognitive Demand on Speech Production.
Creator: Roa, Maria
Abstract/Description: The present investigation examined the effects of aging and cognitive workload on speech production using temporal and frequency measures of acoustics. The following hypotheses were made: older speakers will have longer phoneme durations than will younger speakers; older speakers will have shorter F2-transitions and smaller F2-transition frequency extents than will younger speakers; all speakers will exhibit greater proportional changes to these measures under increased cognitive workload...
Show moreThe present investigation examined the effects of aging and cognitive workload on speech production using temporal and frequency measures of acoustics. The following hypotheses were made: older speakers will have longer phoneme durations than will younger speakers; older speakers will have shorter F2-transitions and smaller F2-transition frequency extents than will younger speakers; all speakers will exhibit greater proportional changes to these measures under increased cognitive workload conditions. Eight adults, four younger and four older, equally matched for sex, participated. They completed a sentence-level Stroop task in two cognitive workload conditions: low cognitive load (congruent Stroop condition) and high cognitive load (incongruent Stroop condition). Participants produced the sentence sixteen times, eight productions for both conditions. Plosive-vowel syllables that came before the Stroop-segment, at the Stroop-segment, and after the Stroop-segment of the sentence were selected for measurement from each sentence production. All speakers exhibited longer phoneme durations before and at the Stroop-segment in comparison to afterwards. Speakers also exhibited longer and more extensive vowel transitions before and at the Stroop-segment in comparison to the post-Stroop segment. In the incongruent condition, the Stroop-segment had longer F2-transition durations. The older adults had longer F2-transitions than the younger adults. The F2-transition frequency extent was greatest at the Stroop-segment. The older adults had wider F2-transitions at the Stroop-segment that further widened during incongruent conditions. These results suggest that the effects of speaker anticipation of the cognitive task were manifested by speech adaptations that occurred as a function of the word’s position in the sentence.
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Date Issued: 2017-12-08
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512768944_cf5eca01
Format: Thesis

Title: Agency, Gender, and the Law in Slave Narratives.
Creator: Thomas, Alexandra, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes...
Show moreThis thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes the common elements discussed and represented in accounts of enslaved people and analyses the concept of a slave narrative.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0400
Format: Thesis

Title: Air-sea coupling dependency on sea surface temperature fronts as observed by research vessel data.
Creator: Stauffer, Catherine L.
Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524965224_4d96af1a
Format: Thesis

Title: All News Is Good News.
Creator: Schurer, Kelsey E., Department of English
Abstract/Description: Kelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through...
Show moreKelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through relations with family and friends, men and women. Her narratives focus on women who realize their own self-worth, or redefine self-image through the relationships they struggle in and out of, and through the people they can't seem to let go.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0426
Format: Thesis

Title: All the Way: Radical Republicanism.
Creator: Doyle, James Laman
Date Issued: 2017-12-08
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512768275_2f4553fb
Format: Thesis

Title: Altitude Sickness.
Creator: McDonald, Kendall
Abstract/Description: "Altitude Sickness" is a poetry collection of 32 poems centering on themes of discovering sexuality, struggling with faith, and coming of age. This paper summarizes the creative process and details how the project incorporated research and study of past poets and poetic traditions.
Date Issued: 2020-04-24
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1587752398_c0761510
Format: Thesis

Title: America's Favorite Nazi: How Wernher von Braun Shaped His Memory.
Creator: Hopf, Kristina Marie
Abstract/Description: Wernher von Braun was known during his life as a hero of the Space Age. However, his early work with the Nazi regime and the horrendous details surrounding his creation of the V-2 bomb should imply that he be viewed through a far more critical lens. This paper examines the ways in which Wernher von Braun played an active role in shaping his public perception, by minimizing and erasing the atrocities of his past and using his charisma to shape his goals for the future.
Date Issued: 2018-04-25
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524712342_cb9efe17
Format: Thesis

Title: Amygdala Mechanisms Involved in Chemosensory Communication.
Creator: Stroe, Ioana, Biological Science
Abstract/Description: The amygdala is an almond-shaped region of the brain present in many vertebrates such as human, hamsters and mice. The amygdala is composed of several parts, of which the following are most relevant to my research: the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the posterior medial amygdala (MeP). The BLA functions in learning and shows increased activation after the mouse has learned a behavior. The lateral paracapsular nuclei of the intercalated nucleus (ICNlpcn) project inhibitory neurons into the BLA...
Show moreThe amygdala is an almond-shaped region of the brain present in many vertebrates such as human, hamsters and mice. The amygdala is composed of several parts, of which the following are most relevant to my research: the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the posterior medial amygdala (MeP). The BLA functions in learning and shows increased activation after the mouse has learned a behavior. The lateral paracapsular nuclei of the intercalated nucleus (ICNlpcn) project inhibitory neurons into the BLA and mediate its activity. Dopamine has been shown to inhibit the lpcn group and therefore relieve inhibition of the BLA (disinhibition). Dopamine also acts directly in the BLA to increase activation. Therefore, if a mouse is conditioned to prefer a particular odor (in this case steer urine), dopamine injection will cause an increase in BLA activation after learning due to both disinhibition and direct excitatory response. The medial posterior amygdala in the mouse mostly responds to olfactory stimuli from the same species (conspecific stimuli). The MeP is also thought to be under control of another ICN group, the caudal ICN (ICNc). If the same inhibitory relationship is seen between ICNc and MeP, the dopamine injection may cause disinhibition in the MeP and therefore the conditioned steer urine stimulus may show increased activation in the MeP despite being a stimulus from another species (heterospecific stimulus). My experiment tests whether the ICNc has inhibitory control over the MeP, and whether dopamine will cause inhibition in the ICNc and therefore cause disinhibition in the MeP.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0040
Format: Thesis

Title: AN ACCOUNT OF MORAL STATUS FOR MACHINES.
Creator: Bruno-Piverger, Randy E
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with moral status and its potential application to machines. It introduces an account of moral status and defends the claim that with the correct features a machine can have moral status. The thesis also discusses some issues involved in recognizing the non-apparent features of a machine and how we might overcome them.
Date Issued: 1994-11-11
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512760047_0ae43c6c
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Beta Decay Curves and Gamma-Ray Polarization from Compton Scattering Using C++ Programming.
Creator: Holt, Hannah Louise
Abstract/Description: One issue that arises when performing experimental nuclear physics research at different laboratories is the lack of ubiquity between programs that handle the output of the data acquisition systems. This paper presents two new C++ programs that were created specific to the XIA system at LeRoy Collins Research Laboratory. A program geared for the study of γ-ray polarization was designed and tested using data from excited Neon-20 γ emissions. Using the other new program to look at β decay, the...
Show moreOne issue that arises when performing experimental nuclear physics research at different laboratories is the lack of ubiquity between programs that handle the output of the data acquisition systems. This paper presents two new C++ programs that were created specific to the XIA system at LeRoy Collins Research Laboratory. A program geared for the study of γ-ray polarization was designed and tested using data from excited Neon-20 γ emissions. Using the other new program to look at β decay, the mean lifetime of Potassium-38 β+ decay was confirmed. Having these simple, yet specific, executables will allow individuals to study these topics in a more rigorous way.
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Date Issued: 2017-04-26
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493351227
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Cellulose Hydrolysis Kinetics.
Creator: Bousalis, Deanna
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461355795
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Chromatin Structure Indicates a Role for Fluoxetine in Altering Nucleosome Distribution.
Creator: Gracia, Ely
Abstract/Description: An interesting stimulus for chromatin structural changes is the generic and popular anti-depressant drug Fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac. Generally accepted as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's), recent work has emerged suggesting that this antidepressant also functions as a Histone Deaceylase Inhibitors (HDIs). Studies have also come out indicating that Fluoxetine acts as an immunosuppressant drug. Treatment with Fluoxetine is believed to reduce the over-activation of...
Show moreAn interesting stimulus for chromatin structural changes is the generic and popular anti-depressant drug Fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac. Generally accepted as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's), recent work has emerged suggesting that this antidepressant also functions as a Histone Deaceylase Inhibitors (HDIs). Studies have also come out indicating that Fluoxetine acts as an immunosuppressant drug. Treatment with Fluoxetine is believed to reduce the over-activation of the immune system associated with depression. We have used an innovative microarray technology to measure changes in nucleosomal positioning that stem from Fluoxetine treatment. With the use of the microarray, we were able to show that Fluoxetine regulated chromatin structure, that Fluoxetine induced nucleosomal changes show time-dependent kinetics, and targeted genes responsible for the regulation of immune system processes. These results give new and important insights into non-SSRI roles of this highly prescribed class of drugs.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0087
Format: Thesis

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