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Title: Making Symbolic Meaning Through the Engagement of Intercultural Exchanges: The Relationship Between Intercultural Communication and Global Competnecy on a U.S. University Campus.
Creator: Evenson, Melissa L., Luschei, Thomas, Rutledge, Stacey, Schrader, Linda, Iatarola, Patrice, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study reveals how participants in cross-cultural programs engage in intercultural communication with one another and reflect on global competency. Researchers agree that many U.S. students graduating from universities today are not receiving the necessary tools to successfully work abroad. This study has two major research objectives: to examine the engagement of intercultural communication between two people from different cultures and their reflections on global competency. Data were...
Show moreThis study reveals how participants in cross-cultural programs engage in intercultural communication with one another and reflect on global competency. Researchers agree that many U.S. students graduating from universities today are not receiving the necessary tools to successfully work abroad. This study has two major research objectives: to examine the engagement of intercultural communication between two people from different cultures and their reflections on global competency. Data were collected from 10 participants who were paired up with a person(s) of a different culture in conversation partner programs. Semi-structured interviews, qualitative analysis, and software were other methods used. I use the symbolic interaction approach to examine the engagement of intercultural communication and how that relates to the global competency of students and community members participating in cross-cultural programs on a U.S. university campus. The symbolic interaction approach examines the symbols and meanings people have for things. Findings show that participants--U.S. and international students, scholars, and community members--engage in intercultural communication by two key methods: the initial cultural philosophy and the stating of cultural differences. Findings from the second research question, examining how global competency relates to intercultural communication, indicates that according to participants, self-awareness and cultural awareness are readily apparent.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0434
Format: Thesis

Title: The Representation of Association Semantics with Annotations in a Biodiversity Informatics System.
Creator: Gaitros, Daivd A., Riccardi, Greg, Ronquist, Fredrik, Engelen, Robert van, Srinivasan, Ashok, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: A specialized variation of associations for biodiversity data is defined and developed that makes the capture and discovery of information about biological images easier and more efficient. Biodiversity is the study of the diversity of plants and animals within a given region. Storing, understanding, and retrieving biodiversity data is a complex problem. Biodiversity experts disagree on the structure and the basic ontologies. Much of the knowledge on this subject is contained in private...
Show moreA specialized variation of associations for biodiversity data is defined and developed that makes the capture and discovery of information about biological images easier and more efficient. Biodiversity is the study of the diversity of plants and animals within a given region. Storing, understanding, and retrieving biodiversity data is a complex problem. Biodiversity experts disagree on the structure and the basic ontologies. Much of the knowledge on this subject is contained in private collections, paper notebooks, and the minds biologists. Collaboration among scientists is still problematic because of the logistics involved in sharing collections. This research adds value to image repositories by collecting and publishing semantically rich user specified associations among images and other objects. Current database and annotation techniques rely on structured data sets and ontologies to make storing, associating, and retrieving data efficient and reliable. A problem with biodiversity data is that the information is usually stored as ad-hoc text associated with non-standardized schemas and ontologies. This research developed a method that allows the storage of ad-hoc semantic associations through a complex relationship of working sets, phylogenetic character states, and image annotations. MorphBank is a collaborative research project supported by an NSF BDI grant (0446224 - $2,249,530.00) titled "Web Image Database Technology for Comparative Morphology and Biodiversity Research". MorphBank is an on-line museum-quality collection of biological images that facilitates the collaboration of biologists from around the world. This research proves the viability of using association semantics through annotations of biodiversity informatics for storing and discovery of new information.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0437
Format: Thesis

Title: Dynamics of the Wind Field Expansion Associated with Extratropically Transitioning Tropical Cyclones.
Creator: Evans, Allen Clark, Hart, Robert, Cunningham, Philip, Krishnamurti, T. N., Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Extratropical transition, or ET, can be characterized by the transformation of an initially symmetric, warm-core tropical cyclone into an initially cold-core, asymmetric extratropical cyclone. As a consequence of undergoing transition, changes in the synoptic and dynamic characteristics of the cyclone are realized. Of particular note is the wind field evolution, one of the aspects of ET that has seen little research into its causes. Previous informal theories toward understanding the wind...
Show moreExtratropical transition, or ET, can be characterized by the transformation of an initially symmetric, warm-core tropical cyclone into an initially cold-core, asymmetric extratropical cyclone. As a consequence of undergoing transition, changes in the synoptic and dynamic characteristics of the cyclone are realized. Of particular note is the wind field evolution, one of the aspects of ET that has seen little research into its causes. Previous informal theories toward understanding the wind field evolution based upon key meteorological conservation principles do not accurately account for its observed evolution, while formal studies into other aspects of the ET process (e.g. Ritchie et al. 2001, Jones et al. 2003) have only mentioned its existence or its resultant impacts. This study attempts to bridge this gap by analyzing the physical and dynamical mechanisms involved with both the expansion of the wind field and outward movement of the radial wind maximum during the transition process. One ET case, North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Bonnie (1998), is modeled using the Pennsylvania State University/NCAR Mesoscale Model version 5 (MM5; Dudhia 1993) at 12km horizontal resolution. The evolution of the cyclone within the model output is found to be an accurate measure of reality when compared to the observed track and dynamical evolution of the cyclone. Analysis of the model output shows that the expansion of the wind field is brought about by the net import of absolute angular momentum from a midlatitude trough of low pressure along descending isentropic trajectories in the western semicircle of the cyclone. Export of absolute angular momentum in the outward branch of the secondary circulation in the eastern semicircle of the cyclone partially negates but does not balance the import to the west; thus a net import of momentum into the cyclone is seen. Redistribution of momentum within the cyclone is accomplished through vertical pressure torques. The overall evolution is found to be consistent with that for a developing extratropical cyclone as shown by Johnson and Downey (1976). Net cooling (warming) inside (outside) of the radial wind maximum is shown to lead to the outward movement of this feature via a hydrostatic response in the radial height gradient, a response opposite to that seen with eyewall contraction (Shapiro and Willoughby 1982) yet consistent with the transition into a cold-core vortex. The observed results are used to formulate a conceptual model for the evolution of the wind field during ET. Implications toward the wind field evolution with other post-ET structural evolutions, such as warm seclusion cyclones and those that remain cold core yet strengthen (e.g. Hart et al. 2006), are drawn in conjunction with the observed results. Related concepts of vertical wind shear and cyclone size are discussed as natural outgrowths of the wind field expansion process.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0439
Format: Thesis

Title: The Thermodynamic Evolution of Recurving Tropical Cyclone Bonnie (1998).
Creator: Evans, Allen Clark, Hart, Robert E., Elsner, James B., Krishnamurti, T. N., Reasor, Paul, Ruscher, Paul, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State...
Show moreEvans, Allen Clark, Hart, Robert E., Elsner, James B., Krishnamurti, T. N., Reasor, Paul, Ruscher, Paul, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University
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Abstract/Description: One of the defining characteristics of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones is the transition of the warm core thermal structure associated with the tropical cyclone into an initially cold core thermal structure associated with the extratropical cyclone. Despite this being a defining characteristic of the extratropical transition process, the literature expresses no consensus agreement upon or a quantification and physical description of the factors that explicitly cause this...
Show moreOne of the defining characteristics of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones is the transition of the warm core thermal structure associated with the tropical cyclone into an initially cold core thermal structure associated with the extratropical cyclone. Despite this being a defining characteristic of the extratropical transition process, the literature expresses no consensus agreement upon or a quantification and physical description of the factors that explicitly cause this transition to occur. Understanding this evolution is important in order to better forecast and describe the evolution of physical features within the cyclone such as its four-dimensional wind field structure and to begin to quantify the contributors to the poleward transport of heat energy associated with the transitioning cyclone and its impacts upon hemisphere weather patterns and model predictability. This work employs a suite of high resolution numerical simulations in order to quantify and physically describe the evolution of the thermodynamic structure associated with a typical extratropical transition case, North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Bonnie of 1998. Thermodynamic budgets native to the numerical model's primitive equation set and physical parameterizations are computed during the transition phase of the cyclone within a four-dimensional analysis framework. The observed warm-to-cold thermal profile evolution is found to arise out of an imbalance between dynamical cooling and parameterized warming contributions. This dynamical cooling, as influenced by horizontal advection, vertical advection and adiabatic cooling, and total divergence, is of greater magnitude than warming associated with latent heat release due to condensation and deposition processes within the transitioning cyclone's delta rain region. While the net thermodynamic evolution is found to be relatively resolution-insensitive, specific details of the thermodynamic balance are found to vary depending upon the horizontal resolution of the given numerical simulation. The thermodynamic evolution is ultimately shown to be a natural outgrowth of the factors that influence extratropical transition as a whole and is found to closely resemble the mature and occluding stages of purely cold-core extratropical cyclone development.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0440
Format: Thesis

Title: Ayn Rand's Heroes: Between and Beyond Good and Evil.
Creator: Powell, Robert L., Fowler, Douglas, Cloonan, William, Picart, Caroline “Kay", Fenstermaker, John, Department of English, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examines Ayn Rand's fiction in relation to twentieth century literature and culture. Despite its linguistic potential, "The Fountainhead" is not good art and does not represent romantic fiction as Rand claims. It is truly her own reactionary prose which rebels against literary movements she hated such as naturalism. Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is really a right-wing form of Existentialism and Marxism. Ayn Rand and George Orwell both endured shocking life experiences which...
Show moreThis study examines Ayn Rand's fiction in relation to twentieth century literature and culture. Despite its linguistic potential, "The Fountainhead" is not good art and does not represent romantic fiction as Rand claims. It is truly her own reactionary prose which rebels against literary movements she hated such as naturalism. Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is really a right-wing form of Existentialism and Marxism. Ayn Rand and George Orwell both endured shocking life experiences which shaped their ideas and fiction. Rand learned extreme capitalism while Orwell learned skepticism. Rand's skeptical heroes are the most interesting of her canon. Rand's "The Fountainhead" is a blend of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of the Superman and the typical American capitalist hero. Gail Wynand, Rand's most Nietzschean character, is her true hero and Dominique is her true villain. Rand's fiction doesn't fit easily into any specific literary genres. Therefore, popular writers, such as Mickey Spillane and Edna Ferber may have been influenced by Rand. Furthermore, similar tendencies of her work can also be seen in choice literature novels of Simone deBeauvoir, Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. As a capitalist novel, "The Fountainhead" sits among an unappreciated group of works by the literary establishment which should be understood-- if not embraced. The 1943 work portrays capitalist heroes without their loveable 'common man' aspect. Rand's capitalists are rebels with the American idea, that, in pursuit of their excessive selfish desires-- the sky's the limit. Randian heroes—anti-heroes of productive work, have continually re-emerged in American popular culture. Rand's fiction is popular because it's entertaining trash that Americans love. Loveable common man tycoons such as Bill Gates and the late Sam Walton have turned into the anti-heroic Don King and the late Ken Lay. Anti-heroic icons such as Gordon Gekko of the film "Wall Street", in the Randian tradition, show us the ugly but true side of American capitalist culture that is important for us to expose, admit and examine.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0452
Format: Thesis

Title: Conflict, Cooperation, and the World's Legal Systems.
Creator: Powell, Emilia Justyna, Smith, Dale L., Stoltzfus, Nathan, Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, Hensel, Paul R., Staton, Jeffrey K., Department of Political Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between legal systems, the rule of law, and states' cooperative and conflictual behavior. I analyze how domestic legal systems (common, civil, Islamic, etc.) influence a state's foreign policy behavior towards other states and international regimes. I also consider the extent to which the legitimacy of a domestic legal system modifies the relationship between legal systems and foreign policy behavior. In particular, I address the following...
Show moreIn this dissertation, I explore the relationship between legal systems, the rule of law, and states' cooperative and conflictual behavior. I analyze how domestic legal systems (common, civil, Islamic, etc.) influence a state's foreign policy behavior towards other states and international regimes. I also consider the extent to which the legitimacy of a domestic legal system modifies the relationship between legal systems and foreign policy behavior. In particular, I address the following questions: 1) How does the similarity of domestic legal system influence a state's foreign policy behavior towards other states and international institutions?, and 2) How does the legitimacy of a domestic legal system shape states' behavior towards other states and international institutions. I put forth a legal normative argument, which traces the reasons standing behind states' actions to their internal legal structure. I argue that states with similar and highly legitimate legal systems are more likely to cooperate with one another than states representing divergent and weakly legitimate legal traditions. In the same way, a nation is more likely to be supportive of an international institution if its legal rules and procedures resemble the nation's domestic legal order. My argument can be summarized as follows: International cooperation, both formal and informal, can be understood as contractual relationships. Domestic legal systems have an important effect on the way that states bargain over international contracts, because they affect the costs, benefits, and uncertainties of interstate cooperation. In particular, domestic legal system types and legitimacy influence contractual relations as far as the probability of signing interstate contracts, design of contracts, and their enforcement. I test my argument empirically in three different areas: states' propensity to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice; alliances; and the link existing between states' legal tradition and their conflictual interstate behavior. I find that both of the characteristics of the internal legal structure, legal system type and legitimacy, have a substantial impact on the way that states behave on the international arena.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0453
Format: Thesis

Title: Enhancing Basic Concepts in Preschool Children Through Interactive Storybook Reading.
Creator: Prichard, Cassandra D., Woods, Juliann, Jackson, Carla Wood, Horton-Ikard, Ramonda, Department of Accounting, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine whether dialogic reading, an evidence based intervention involving interactive storybook reading, improved the basic concept knowledge of preschool children using flap books or storyline books. A multiple baseline design was used with four children to teach eight basic concepts. Concepts were identified for each child from the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (Boehm, 2001) and embedded within the two different types of books, flap and storyline books, to...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine whether dialogic reading, an evidence based intervention involving interactive storybook reading, improved the basic concept knowledge of preschool children using flap books or storyline books. A multiple baseline design was used with four children to teach eight basic concepts. Concepts were identified for each child from the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (Boehm, 2001) and embedded within the two different types of books, flap and storyline books, to determine if the type of book would have an intervention effect on vocabulary learning. A positive change in basic concept comprehension was demonstrated on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (Boehm, 2001) following implementation of dialogic reading strategies using flap books and basic storyline books indicating that overall the intervention was effective. However, the implications of the results regarding the type of storybook most appropriate for the intervention are not clear. Further research is warranted on the use of flap books and dialogic reading.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0454
Format: Thesis

Title: Evidence-Based Research for the Geriatric Population.
Creator: Thomason, Danae Katherine, Standley, Jayne M., Darrow, Alice-Anne, Gregory, Sarah, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the existing quantitative experimental research evaluating the effect of music on symptoms of the geriatric population. A review of literature was conducted on 47 studies found in twelve refereed journals evaluating. Common objectives, assessments, and procedures were identified and clinical guidelines for evidence-based procedures were developed. Results and further quantitative research are suggested and discussed.
Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0377
Format: Thesis

Title: One Plus One Equals Three.
Creator: Steinmetz, Kristi Marie, Ortiz-Taylor, Sheila, McRorie, Sally, Fenstermaker, John, Moore, Dennis, Department of English, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation is a creative non-fiction manuscript following in the combined literary traditions of the American Captivity Narrative (e.g., Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), Hélène Cixous's écriture feminine, and Gloria Anzaldúa's "autobiographical consciousness" (Irene Lara "Daughter of Coatlicue" 54). The project speaks to and for the common yet controversial reality in our society of the choices – for both natural mother and natural father – surrounding pregnancy...
Show moreThis dissertation is a creative non-fiction manuscript following in the combined literary traditions of the American Captivity Narrative (e.g., Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), Hélène Cixous's écriture feminine, and Gloria Anzaldúa's "autobiographical consciousness" (Irene Lara "Daughter of Coatlicue" 54). The project speaks to and for the common yet controversial reality in our society of the choices – for both natural mother and natural father – surrounding pregnancy. The project also provides an account of contemporary America's response to single-parenting between the years 2002 and 2006. Although the memoir is a personal investigation of pregnancy, abandonment-grief, birth, and mothering, this work is an act of transformation and healing that extends outward into the culture in that it is a textual moment of learning and knowing. The memoir is a process of interaction Anzaldúa would refer to as conocimiento: of writing self beyond self (Lara 44-45).
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0376
Format: Thesis

Title: Exploration of Monostrand Use in Segmental Box Girder Bridges.
Creator: Spear, Herbert Houston, Rambo-Roddenberry, Michelle, Spainhour, Lisa, Tawfiq, Kamal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: For the past several decades the segmental box girder bridge has proven itself to be one of the more efficient bridge types. Using reusable form work, segments are match-cast, ensuring a more perfect connection during the construction phase. These benefits in conjunction with the fact that the costs of startup and form work are absorbed into the total cost of each segment mean that the longer the final bridge is, the less the cost is per segment, making the segmental box girder bridge one of...
Show moreFor the past several decades the segmental box girder bridge has proven itself to be one of the more efficient bridge types. Using reusable form work, segments are match-cast, ensuring a more perfect connection during the construction phase. These benefits in conjunction with the fact that the costs of startup and form work are absorbed into the total cost of each segment mean that the longer the final bridge is, the less the cost is per segment, making the segmental box girder bridge one of the most popular long bridge types constructed in the U.S. To minimize cost, it is important to design each segment for efficiency in terms of quantity of longitudinal and transverse post-tensioning and reinforcing steel. The inclusion of post-tensioning technology results in an overall compressive state in the longitudinal and transverse directions of the segments, improving structure strength and service life. However, despite the benefits inherent in using post-tensioning technology, the webs still contain standard deformed reinforcement. The goal of this research is to fit a greased and sheathed monostrand within a segment in a way that both webs and bottom flange would be placed in a state of compression, thereby reducing the demand for standard web reinforcement and, hopefully, segment cost. The research objectives include analyzing principal stresses in the webs of the segment, modifying the segment so as to restrain the monostrand within the webs, designing any additional reinforcement that may be necessary, and finally comparing the estimated construction cost of the new design with that of a pre-existing structure. The results from this research have shown that it is indeed possible to place a greased and sheathed monostrand within the webs of a segment with beneficial results and that the demand for standard deformed reinforcement will thus be reduced.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0375
Format: Thesis

Title: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Sullivan Dwight, and the Development of Musical Culture in the United States, 1853-1865.
Creator: Pruett, Laura Moore, Glahn, Denise Von, Shaftel, Matthew, Seaton, Douglass, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation investigates the relationships between the lives and works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) and John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93). It demonstrates that the points of intersection were influenced not only by musical concerns – composition, performance, and criticism – but also by larger social and cultural issues that shaped mid-nineteenth-century America, including race, religion, politics, and philosophy. A broader goal of this project is to gain a fuller understanding of...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the relationships between the lives and works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) and John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93). It demonstrates that the points of intersection were influenced not only by musical concerns – composition, performance, and criticism – but also by larger social and cultural issues that shaped mid-nineteenth-century America, including race, religion, politics, and philosophy. A broader goal of this project is to gain a fuller understanding of the culture of America at mid-century and most specifically of its musical life. This was a crucial time for the formation of the musical styles and tastes that prepared the way for the current conditions of American musical culture. The final purpose of this dissertation is to reveal the far-reaching influence of the connections explored here. Through the combination of social and cultural research, style analysis, and reception history, I demonstrate that the music composed and performed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the critical writings of John Sullivan Dwight were shaped by a variety of social forces, including the cult of virtuosity, blackface minstrelsy, exoticism, nationalism, sentimentalism, and New England Transcendentalism. The effects of the careers of Dwight and Gottschalk can still be felt in the ways music is seen, heard, and performed in America. The two men were connected within a web of cultural intersections that thrives in the diversity of American music today.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0466
Format: Thesis

Title: An Analysis of Gender, Authority and Educational Background of Voice Teachers in Undergraduate Degree-Granting Institutions.
Creator: Puller, Shawn I., Weelden, Kim Van, Morris, Richard, Madsen, Clifford, Geringer, John, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Music education is a predominantly female occupation; however while women dominate the ranks of elementary and choral education they lose representation as grade level increases. In addition sex-role segregation within the field is also evidenced by the domination of males in the areas of instrumental and jazz music education. As with other areas of post-secondary education, females have made gains and now occupy 43% of music faculty positions, however it may be that the males and females...
Show moreMusic education is a predominantly female occupation; however while women dominate the ranks of elementary and choral education they lose representation as grade level increases. In addition sex-role segregation within the field is also evidenced by the domination of males in the areas of instrumental and jazz music education. As with other areas of post-secondary education, females have made gains and now occupy 43% of music faculty positions, however it may be that the males and females have gender specific sex-roles. Due to the specific, gendered nature of voice parts, it may be that applied voice teacher training programs would have an equal distribution of females (sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, contraltos) and males (counter-tenors, tenors, baritone, basses). The distribution of the sexes within the career field may affect hiring practices, promotions, and access to administrative positions thereby mitigating sex inequalities and sex-role biases which exist in other areas of post-secondary education. This study was an initial step investigating biological sex and authority as they relate to applied voice teachers in four-year institutions in the United States. Voice-teaching was found to be a predominantly female occupation with men and women holding a near equal number of full-time professor status positions. Upon closer examination, sex-role stratification within the field may be evidenced. For example, the proportion of males increased as faculty rank increased while the proportion of females decreased as faculty rank increased. There also seemed to be sex-role stratification with regard to specific teaching responsibilities held by males and females. The reasons for these differences are explored.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0468
Format: Thesis

Title: It Strategy and Web-Based Transaction Technology in Small Organizations.
Creator: Posey, Risette, Berry, Frances Stokes, Barrilleaux, Charles, Brower, Ralph, Klay, William Earle, School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study was undertaken to examine the extent to which web-based transaction technology has diffused in small North Florida nonprofit organizations and to study what, if any, relationship exists between the adoption of web-based transaction technology and the adoption of other technologies in these organizations. The study also examined the nature and frequency of strategic technology planning in these organizations, and their relationship to the adoption of web-based transaction technology...
Show moreThis study was undertaken to examine the extent to which web-based transaction technology has diffused in small North Florida nonprofit organizations and to study what, if any, relationship exists between the adoption of web-based transaction technology and the adoption of other technologies in these organizations. The study also examined the nature and frequency of strategic technology planning in these organizations, and their relationship to the adoption of web-based transaction technology. This work is important and necessary as a means of understanding how popular, useful, and potentially powerful technologies are introduced and used in small organizations, to understand what, if any, technological complexities may be associated with the adoption of this potentially powerful technology. We also seek to understand the different formal and informal means by which these nonprofit organizations consider, then move to introduce and set permanently into organizational habit patterns, new technologies.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0467
Format: Thesis

Title: Multiband Models for Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.
Creator: Popescu, Florentin, Bonesteel, Professor N., Dalal, Professor N., Xiong, Professor P., Piekarewicz, Professor J., Chiorescu, Professor I., Department of Physics, Florida State...
Show morePopescu, Florentin, Bonesteel, Professor N., Dalal, Professor N., Xiong, Professor P., Piekarewicz, Professor J., Chiorescu, Professor I., Department of Physics, Florida State University
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Abstract/Description: Several multiband models for Colossal Manetoresistance Materials and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors are investigated within Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. The theoretical analysis of such models uses extensively the parametrization method for the bare Green's function to study the critical transition temperatures in a wide range of model's parameters; hoping amplitudes, couplings, and carrier concentrations. For both classes of materials, it is found within a two-band model that the transition...
Show moreSeveral multiband models for Colossal Manetoresistance Materials and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors are investigated within Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. The theoretical analysis of such models uses extensively the parametrization method for the bare Green's function to study the critical transition temperatures in a wide range of model's parameters; hoping amplitudes, couplings, and carrier concentrations. For both classes of materials, it is found within a two-band model that the transition temperature can be twice larger than the one predicted by the one band models and that its maximum is reached at a twice larger carrier concentration. It is also revealed that the off-diagonal hoppings, when considered, lead to a substantial boost of the ferromagnetic transition temperature. By accounting for the attractive Coulomb potential by acceptors in diluted magnetic semiconductors, the impurity to valence band crossover is studied as a function of doping and the critical values of doping, at which the crossover occurs, are estimated for various diluted magnetic semiconductors.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0478
Format: Thesis

Title: Petroleum Analysis by Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry.
Creator: Purcell, Jeremiah Michael, Marshall, Alan, Salters, Vincent, Cooper, William, Logan, Timothy, Rodgers, Ryan, Hendrickson, Christopher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,...
Show morePurcell, Jeremiah Michael, Marshall, Alan, Salters, Vincent, Cooper, William, Logan, Timothy, Rodgers, Ryan, Hendrickson, Christopher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University
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Abstract/Description: Petroleum and petroleum products are an integral part of today's society. Although petroleum is projected to be the dominant energy source for the next fifty years, the depletion of light sweet crude oil reserves has led to the refinement of heavier feedstocks. Heavier petroleum feedstocks contain higher weight percent sulfur-, nitrogen- and oxygen-containing species. Not only is the combustion of these species harmful to the environment, they can also poison catalytic and hydrotreatment...
Show morePetroleum and petroleum products are an integral part of today's society. Although petroleum is projected to be the dominant energy source for the next fifty years, the depletion of light sweet crude oil reserves has led to the refinement of heavier feedstocks. Heavier petroleum feedstocks contain higher weight percent sulfur-, nitrogen- and oxygen-containing species. Not only is the combustion of these species harmful to the environment, they can also poison catalytic and hydrotreatment refining equipment. The United States Environmental Protection agency has limited allowable heteroatom weight percents in petroleum products. Moreover, sulfur is the third most abundant element in petroleum and has been regulated to parts-per-million levels and further reduction slated for the year 2010. To meet the more stringent environmental regulations, refineries are facing major challenges. Mass spectrometry has proven to be a valuable tool for the molecular speciation of petroleum. Notably, electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry has proven invaluable for the speciation of the polar compounds in crude oil. This analysis has added to the understanding of specific refinery problems, e.g., solid deposition and flocculation. However, hydrocarbons and non-polar sulfur species are not accessible by ESI mass spectrometry. Atmospheric Pressure PhotoIonization (APPI) can produce ions from non-polar (and polar) species. Chapter 1 is a brief discussion of basic ICR principles, APPI pathways, instrumentation and data analysis. In Chapter 2, I describe an APPI source coupled to the in house built 9.4 Tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) in Tallahassee, Florida. This chapter highlights the complexity of crude oil analysis with an APPI source. The possibility of forming two ion types (protonated compounds and radical molecular ions) from one compound complicates an already complex spectrum. Model compound spectra demonstrate the necessity of ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry to resolve common mass doublets (3.4 mDa, the mass difference between C3 vs. SH4; 4.5 mDa, the mass difference between 12CH and 13C) found in petroleum spectra. Also, this report establishes the highest number of resolved (and assigned elemental formulas) spectral peaks (>12,000 peaks in a single mass spectrum and up to 63 peaks of the same nominal mass) in one mass spectrum.12,000 peaks in a single mass spectrum and up to 63 peaks of the same nominal mass) in one mass spectrum. Although APPI is considered to be a soft ionization technique, the analyte is nebulized and heated before ion formation. On the other hand, ESI is a well established soft ionization process. Therefore, in Chapter 3, I compare ESI and APPI data from the same crude oil and also pyridinic and pyrrolic nitrogen model compounds. The chapter defines instrument parameters which can cause fragmentation (loss of H2) and parameters which do not. ESI and APPI crude oil spectra yield the same elemental species, providing evidence that APPI can produce an ion population without fragmentation. A dopant (proton donor) is advantageous for APPI mass spectrometry because proton transfer reactions are enhanced. For simple mixture analysis, the proton donor is predominantly the dopant. However, for complex mixture analysis (crude oil), the solution matrix can contain species which could also participate in proton transfer reactions. In Chapter 4, I investigate the proton transfer reaction for a Canadian bitumen petroleum in deuterated toluene (C7D8). Nitrogen class compounds are also analyzed in deuterated toluene. The dopant percent contribution to the even-electron ions (protonated and deuterated compounds) of the petroleum is ~5 %. The nitrogen model compounds exhibited a similar trend. Petrochemical analysis commonly employs the saturates-aromatic-resins-asphaltenes (SARA) separation method. In Chapter 5, the sulfur containing compounds of a Middle East crude oil are speciated. The crude oil is additionally fractionated by the SARA method and its fractions are analyzed by APPI FT-ICR mass spectrometry. Molecular species from the whole crude oil and its fractions are compared to ascertain differences and similarities between sulfur species in the fractions. Non-polar sulfur species are not efficiently ionized by ESI. However, derivatization chemistry can methylate polycyclic aromatic sulfur species and form cations in solution with subsequent analysis by ESI mass spectrometry. In Chapter 6, the derivatized and non-derivatized samples of a petroleum vacuum bottom residue (the highest boiling point fraction of petroleum and hence, the most complex heteroatom content) are analyzed by ESI and APPI. Significant differences in the double bond equivalent values (DBE, value equal to the number of rings plus double bonds in the molecular structure calculated from the elemental formula) between the ESI and APPI analyzed sulfur species are identified. Furthermore, this report provides data that probes APPI ionization efficiency. Chapter 7 is a synopsis of the APPI technology applied to petroleum analysis. The chapter also includes a real world application of APPI FT-ICR mass spectrometry. The Institute of Petroleum at France (IFP) is interested in the development of new hydroconversion processes to upgrade vacuum bottom residue to more useful petroleum products. A substantial fraction of vacuum bottom residue is the asphaltenes; the most heteroatom rich fraction in petroleum. The chapter presents molecular speciation from intermediate stages of a hydroconversion process; a first step in hydroconversion catalytic technology improvement. A Ph.D. thesis may also include research outside the scope of the primary dissertation research to achieve a broader understanding of the sciences. Appendix A describes the ongoing construction and adaptation of an ion cluster source to an existing FT-ICR mass spectrometer. The primary investigator is Professor Harry Kroto, Nobel prize laureate for the discovery of fullerenes. Fullerenes are closed cage molecules consisting of 12 pentagonal and several hexagonal rings. Fullerenes with 60 carbon atoms or larger follow the isolated pentagon rule (IPR). Smaller fullerenes ( In appendix B, the reaction products of C60 and hydrogen at high temperature and pressure are resolved and identified. The product species formed at elevated temperature and hydrogen pressure are characterized by APPI FT-ICR mass spectrometry. Only the APPI analysis (and Field Desorption, FD) were accomplished at Florida State University and the first report (of three published reports) is presented.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0477
Format: Thesis

Title: Microwave Radiative Transfer Modeling of Ice in the Atmosphere: A Critical Examination of Cloud Ice Utilizing Remote Sensing.
Creator: Zuiderweg, Adriaan T., Liu, Guosheng, Ruscher, Paul, Kim, KwangYul, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Tropospheric cloud ice has a significant impact on the earth's radiative balance and climate, and to help improve the ability to forecast short-term through climatological-scale weather, the importance of quantification of these ice particles is not to be underestimated. To that end, the study presented here describes an attempt to accomplish large spatial-scale integrated ice water quantity (known as ice water path) retrieval via remote sensing in the microwave band (80-300GHz), where...
Show moreTropospheric cloud ice has a significant impact on the earth's radiative balance and climate, and to help improve the ability to forecast short-term through climatological-scale weather, the importance of quantification of these ice particles is not to be underestimated. To that end, the study presented here describes an attempt to accomplish large spatial-scale integrated ice water quantity (known as ice water path) retrieval via remote sensing in the microwave band (80-300GHz), where effects from ice crystals become detectable via scattering of terrestrial radiation. At the heart of this study is the use of a radiative transfer model in conjunction with data from surface-based instrumentation to simulate atmospheric brightness temperatures at microwave frequencies, and to compare the simulated results to observational data from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit - B instrument on the NOAA-15 polar orbiting platform. However, this cannot be done without first discussing the nature of ice crystals in the atmosphere and the scattering modes that result from their interaction with energy, and the implementation of approximations thereof for model usage. Case studies are performed using the model to establish the sensitivity and behavior of the model under differing conditions, and these are compared to real-world data. Subsequently ice water path retrieval from satellite data utilizing Bayesian theory is attempted, with somewhat limited success, and the results hereof are discussed. Finally, known error sources are examined with possibilities for improvement, and ideas for future work in the field presented.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0476
Format: Thesis

Title: Metabolic and Behavioral Effects of Zinc Deficiency in Rats.
Creator: Evans, Stephanie Anne, Levenson, Cathy W., Overton, J. Michael, Ouimet, Charles, Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Disruptions in the regulation of food intake and metabolism can result in obesity or anorexia. It is clear that zinc deficiency results in anorexia and previous research suggests the existence of alterations in energy efficiency and metabolism. Zinc deficiency results in changes in neuropeptides that regulate energy intake and expenditure. Numerous diagnostic conditions also result in anorexia and wasting, similar to that of zinc deficiency. However, the mechanism underlying these...
Show moreDisruptions in the regulation of food intake and metabolism can result in obesity or anorexia. It is clear that zinc deficiency results in anorexia and previous research suggests the existence of alterations in energy efficiency and metabolism. Zinc deficiency results in changes in neuropeptides that regulate energy intake and expenditure. Numerous diagnostic conditions also result in anorexia and wasting, similar to that of zinc deficiency. However, the mechanism underlying these abnormalities remains unknown, and the behavioral and metabolic effects of zinc deficiency have not been fully established. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to fully characterize the behavioral and metabolic consequences of zinc deficiency and its association with anxiety, and to suggest mechanisms underlying the anorexia associated with zinc deficiency and other clinical conditions. Despite differences in locomotor activity between zinc deficient(ZD, zinc, ad lib) and pair-fed (PF, 28 ppm zinc, amount consumed by ZD), there were no differences in MR, RQ or BMR. This suggests a greater metabolic cost of activity may exist in ZD. Contrary to previous studies, this work shows a decrease in consummatory food intake with zinc deficiency without evidence of alterations in appetitive motivational behaviors. This suggests that zinc deficiency alters the hedonic impact of food reward, but not the motivation to seek food. The data presented here also suggests an anxiogenic effect associated with zinc deficiency, which may be involved in the hedonic changes in food intake. Furthermore, this work suggests that alterations of the opioid reward system may be involved in the anorexia and anxiety-like behaviors produced by zinc deficiency.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0436
Format: Thesis

Title: Assessing the Impact of Website Domain on End-User Evaluations of Web Page Aesthetics Using an Immediate Aesthetic Perception Technique.
Creator: Doddington, Forrest Alan, Adams, Jonathan, Cortese, Juliann, Heald, Gary, School of Communication, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the 'immediate aesthetic impression' method of quantifying the perception of attractiveness of several website designs. This study replicates and expands an existing line of research that investigates a method of measuring end-user's "first impression" evaluations of web page attractiveness. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the potential influence of website domain on end-user perception of website visual aesthetics. A snowball technique was used to contact and enroll...
Show moreThis study investigated the 'immediate aesthetic impression' method of quantifying the perception of attractiveness of several website designs. This study replicates and expands an existing line of research that investigates a method of measuring end-user's "first impression" evaluations of web page attractiveness. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the potential influence of website domain on end-user perception of website visual aesthetics. A snowball technique was used to contact and enroll 184 participants. The participants were asked to evaluate 24 website screen images that represented four website domain categories (commerce, entertainment, government, and religious/non-profit). The results suggest that web domain can be, but is not always, a factor in the perception of website aesthetics. Comparing the average attractiveness rating between an experimental and a control group, websites in the Government domain showed a higher average attractiveness rating from the participants who were aware of the web domain they were viewing. The results also confirm prior findings and show that aesthetic perceptions are formed very quickly and held largely consistent upon repeated exposure to the same website screen image. Response latency continues to show promise as an inherent, objective confirmatory variable, with some limitations on proper experimental design when gathering latency data. This study provides further evidence supporting the repeatability and generalizability of the 'immediate aesthetic perception' measurement method and new findings about the relationship between web domain and perceived website aesthetics.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0435
Format: Thesis

Title: Effects of Spatial Visualization and Achievement on Students' Use of Multiple Representations.
Creator: Erbilgin, Evrim, Fernandez, Maria L., Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Aspinwall, Leslie N., Department of Middle and Secondary Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Recently, there has been a growing interest in research on students' use of multiple representations in mathematics education. This study focused on how and achievement affect students' use of multiple representations. The methodology used was case studies. The researcher conducted 16 interviews with four 8th grade students from the same regular mathematics class: one high achieving-high spatial ability, one high achieving-low spatial ability, one low achieving-high spatial ability, and one...
Show moreRecently, there has been a growing interest in research on students' use of multiple representations in mathematics education. This study focused on how and achievement affect students' use of multiple representations. The methodology used was case studies. The researcher conducted 16 interviews with four 8th grade students from the same regular mathematics class: one high achieving-high spatial ability, one high achieving-low spatial ability, one low achieving-high spatial ability, and one low achieving-low spatial ability. The students were asked linear equation and function problems requiring the use of different representations. Additionally, the mathematics class was observed for 7 hours. The Wheatley Spatial Ability test was applied to the class of 8th graders to determine the spatial ability levels of the students. The students' achievement levels were determined from students' Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores, linear equation class exam scores, and consultation with the teacher. The findings suggest that both achievement and spatial visualization has effects on students' use of multiple representations.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0431
Format: Thesis

Title: Confessional Poetry and Blog Culture in the Age of Autobiography.
Creator: Price, Deidre Dowling, Epstein, Andrew, Kalbian, Aline, Yancey, Kathleen Blake, Outka, Paul, Edwards, Leigh, Department of English, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: M. L. Rosenthal's 1959 labeling of Robert Lowell's Life Studies as "Confessional," initiated a debate about the literary value of autobiographical writing. At the center of this controversy was the taboo subject matter explored by the confessional poets: madness, sexuality, alcoholism, depression, and suicide. Another form of autobiographical writing which similarly polarizes audience despite being born in 1999 is the blog. In this study, I explore various shared traits between confessional...
Show moreM. L. Rosenthal's 1959 labeling of Robert Lowell's Life Studies as "Confessional," initiated a debate about the literary value of autobiographical writing. At the center of this controversy was the taboo subject matter explored by the confessional poets: madness, sexuality, alcoholism, depression, and suicide. Another form of autobiographical writing which similarly polarizes audience despite being born in 1999 is the blog. In this study, I explore various shared traits between confessional poems of the 1960s and modern-day personal blogs and aim to demonstrate how we might read them both as part of the larger conversation about the culture of confession and the age of autobiography. This dissertation looks closely at works by three confessional poets, all of whose writing have recently experienced resurgence in popular culture—John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton—and draws a parallel between characteristic traits in their works and contemporary blogging practices. I borrow Berryman's "Henry" from Dream Songs to illuminate the similarities between a poetic persona and an online avatar and argue that Berryman's broken syntax foreshadows the fragmentation of language at work in modern-day blogs. I regard Plath's contemporary cult following as an indicator of her acute audience awareness and explore how various Plath poems function as highly performative works of art intended to elicit a desired effect from readers. I compare Sexton's writing about taboo marital and maternal subjects to the recent phenomenon of mommyblogging and explain how Sexton's subversive poems paved the way for later women to engage in open, unapologetic life writing in blog communities. Ultimately, I argue for the reading of personal blogs as cultural artifacts and for the consideration of confessional blogs as a remediated American literary genre.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0450
Format: Thesis

Title: Blogging and Identity: An Examination of an Elementary Preservice Art Education Curriculum.
Creator: Price, Audra, Anderson, Tom, Wood, Susan, Villeneuve, Pat, Orr, Penny, Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study focused on the need for an increased understanding of the experiences of preservice elementary educators and their respective abilities to define culture, identity, and the politics of representation in a technologically centered world by responding to culturally challenging and politically laden images and media. The experience under study focused on pre-service elementary educators enrolled in an arts methods class and understanding their abilities to perceive, process, and...
Show moreThis study focused on the need for an increased understanding of the experiences of preservice elementary educators and their respective abilities to define culture, identity, and the politics of representation in a technologically centered world by responding to culturally challenging and politically laden images and media. The experience under study focused on pre-service elementary educators enrolled in an arts methods class and understanding their abilities to perceive, process, and respond to visual media on a blog. Throughout this process, I assessed the individual's understanding of multicultural concerns as it related to the Internet, museum, and online discussions, with implications for teaching and learning in art and museum education. I utilized Anderson and Milbrandt's (2005) analytic critical model with Banks' (1991) value-inquiry model in order to assess students' abilities to critically analyze challenging material while investigating blogging and asynchronous methods of communication as a strategy for addressing these issues. In this study, I reveal how students negotiated, shared, and constructed multiple aspects of their identities in order to understand their roles in addressing diversity in their future classrooms. Students completed a curriculum designed to help them describe, analyze, interpret, and judge material that highlights aspects of their classmates' cultural identities. Students first created a personal blog that revealed their cultural identity, posted and responded to a classroom communal blog that reflected material that challenged an aspect of their cultural identity, and then responded to online surveys that revealed various aspects of their cultural identity while reflecting on the meanings they generated throughout this study. What I found was that students developed a greater awareness of their personal value systems as a student, friend, and/or family member. They focused on the beliefs they thought they needed in order to address culturally challenging material in their future classrooms. This study also helped students understand the process of transformation: where they came from, where they are presently, and how they see their beliefs impacting the type of learning environment they will create for their students in the future.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0449
Format: Thesis

Title: Two Essays on the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift Anomaly: Information Content and Uncertainty.
Creator: Price, Steven Mckay, Peterson, David R., Sirmans, Clemon F., Doran, James S., Department of Finance, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the post-earnings-announcement drift in two essays. In the first essay, computer aided content analysis is used to examine the incremental informativeness of quarterly earnings conference calls for earnings announcement window abnormal returns as well as the post-earnings-announcement drift. We find that conference call linguistic tone is a significant predictor of cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) in both the initial reaction and drift windows. Furthermore,...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the post-earnings-announcement drift in two essays. In the first essay, computer aided content analysis is used to examine the incremental informativeness of quarterly earnings conference calls for earnings announcement window abnormal returns as well as the post-earnings-announcement drift. We find that conference call linguistic tone is a significant predictor of cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) in both the initial reaction and drift windows. Furthermore, conference call tone dominates earnings surprises over the longer period. Holding unexpected earnings constant, portfolios formed based on differences in call tone have CARs that are significantly different from one another. Returns for calls with a highly positive tone and a poor earnings surprise are essentially unaffected by the negative numerical signal, suggesting that new information is coming to light in the conference call discussion. Call tone matters more for dividend paying firms, illustrating differences in investor behavior based on the level of cash flow uncertainty. Additionally, we find that a context specific linguistic dictionary is more powerful than a more widely used general dictionary (Harvard IV-4 Psychosocial). The second essay is the first study to examine the post-earnings-announcement drift anomaly in a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) context. The efficient markets hypothesis suggests that unexpected earnings should be fully incorporated into asset prices soon after being publicly announced. We hypothesize that publicly announced earnings signals may be more certain for REITs due to the presence of a parallel (private) asset market, suggesting less drift for REIT stocks. However, we find a large REIT drift component that is both statistically and economically significant. Furthermore, while the initial earnings surprise response is more muted for REITs, we find that the magnitude of the drift is significantly larger for REITs than for ordinary common stocks (NonREITs). Thus, information does not appear to move between the private and public asset markets in such a way as to render REIT earnings signals more certain than NonREIT earnings signals.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0451
Format: Thesis

Title: Comparing Generic and Passage-Specific Assessments of Vocabulary and Fluency as Predictors of Reading Comprehension in Narrative and Expository Passages.
Creator: Priya, Kanu, Wagner, Richard K., Kelly, Colleen, Sunderman, Gretchen, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Previous research has investigated vocabulary and fluency as predictors of reading comprehension, most of it concentrating on younger school-age readers. The present study compared both passage-specific and generic assessments of vocabulary and fluency as predictors of reading comprehension in college-age readers. The comparison was done for both standardized tasks and experimental tasks and for expository and narrative text types. The study also investigated the effect of text type and...
Show morePrevious research has investigated vocabulary and fluency as predictors of reading comprehension, most of it concentrating on younger school-age readers. The present study compared both passage-specific and generic assessments of vocabulary and fluency as predictors of reading comprehension in college-age readers. The comparison was done for both standardized tasks and experimental tasks and for expository and narrative text types. The study also investigated the effect of text type and question type (inferential and non-inferential) on reading comprehension. Seventy eight college-age readers completed a battery of reading comprehension, vocabulary and fluency tests. The results of the study reveal an interaction between passage type and question type on comprehension performance with students performing better on inferential questions for narrative texts, and on non-inferential questions for expository texts. Furthermore, vocabulary was found to be a better predictor of reading comprehension than fluency for both standardized and experimental tasks.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0462
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effects of Music Therapy and Relaxation Prior to Breastfeeding on the Anxiety of New Mothers and the Behavior State of Their Infants during Feeding.
Creator: Procelli, Danielle Elizabeth, Standley, Jayne M., Madsen, Clifford, Gregory, Dianne, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examined the effects of music therapy and relaxation techniques with first time mothers who were breastfeeding. Dependent variables were behavior state of the mother during breastfeeding, behavior state of the infant during breastfeeding, the mother's self-reported perception of anxiety and relaxation during breastfeeding, and the mother's perception of breastfeeding and her use of music one week post discharge. Subjects were sixty (N=60) women who had chosen breastfeeding as their...
Show moreThis study examined the effects of music therapy and relaxation techniques with first time mothers who were breastfeeding. Dependent variables were behavior state of the mother during breastfeeding, behavior state of the infant during breastfeeding, the mother's self-reported perception of anxiety and relaxation during breastfeeding, and the mother's perception of breastfeeding and her use of music one week post discharge. Subjects were sixty (N=60) women who had chosen breastfeeding as their preferred feeding method for their infant. Between 24-48 hours after giving birth to their infant, subjects were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (N=30) who received music therapy prior to breastfeeding or a no music control group (N=30). Results showed a statistically significant difference between the behavior-state of the mothers during their breastfeeding attempt. The experimental group displayed significantly less anxiety-related behaviors and more behaviors associated with relaxation and comfort. There was no significant difference between the behavior-state of the infants during breastfeeding. Data from self-report surveys revealed that mothers in the experimental music group reported feeling significantly more relaxed and less anxious after breastfeeding in the hospital then did the control group. No significant difference was found between groups based on mothers' perceptions of breastfeeding one week post hospital discharge. Additional data were collected for further analysis and implications are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0463
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effect of Game Day Promotions on Consumer Behavior in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL).
Creator: Pruegger, Brian Edmund, Pitts, Brenda, Kamata, Akihito, Clement, Annie., Kent, Aubrey, Department of Sport Management, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Factors associated with attendance at sporting events has been well documented in recent literature. Numerous studies have been conducted in college and professional sports, yet little work to date has examined factors associated with attendance in the minor leagues. Very few studies have specifically investigated special game day promotions at the minor league level. Based on the absence of some of the potential drawing factors associated with college and professional sports, these...
Show moreFactors associated with attendance at sporting events has been well documented in recent literature. Numerous studies have been conducted in college and professional sports, yet little work to date has examined factors associated with attendance in the minor leagues. Very few studies have specifically investigated special game day promotions at the minor league level. Based on the absence of some of the potential drawing factors associated with college and professional sports, these promotional activities at the minor league level become of greater interest. Specifically, game day promotions utilized in minor league hockey were of interest in the current study. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with attendance in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) in the 2001-2002 season and specifically the game day promotions and their affect on attendance. Data was collected using the feedback from a survey of fourteen marketing personnel of ECHL franchises during the summer of 2002. The survey was adapted from a previous questionnaire (Branvold & Bowers, 1992) utilized to assess factors related to attendance. Other questions were added to the Branvold and Bowers tool in order to address other factors of interest. Results indicated that several factors including promotions were correlated with attendance. Those factors contributed more than 45% of the variance in predicting attendance. Specific promotions such as "Puck Night", "Scouts Night" and "Fan Appreciation Night" were identified as the most successful in increasing attendance. Weekend promotions were more related to an increase in attendance than weekday promotions and children were the most popular target group. Attendance based on promotional games versus non-promotional games varied greatly among the fourteen teams of interest. The findings are similar to previous research on promotions and attendance. Promotions have been associated with a discernible increase in attendance for most markets.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0464
Format: Thesis

Title: Evaluating Urban Deployment Scenarios for Vehicular Wireless Networks.
Creator: Potnis, Niranjan, Gopalan, Kartik, Wang, An-I Andy, Duan, Zhenhai, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Vehicular wireless networks are gaining commercial interest. Mobile connectivity, road safety, and traffic congestion management are some applications that have arisen with this networking paradigm. Existing research primarily focuses on developing mobility models and evaluating routing protocols in ideal open-field environments. It provides limited information of whether vehicular networks can be deployed in an urban setting. This thesis evaluates the practicality of deployment scenarios for...
Show moreVehicular wireless networks are gaining commercial interest. Mobile connectivity, road safety, and traffic congestion management are some applications that have arisen with this networking paradigm. Existing research primarily focuses on developing mobility models and evaluating routing protocols in ideal open-field environments. It provides limited information of whether vehicular networks can be deployed in an urban setting. This thesis evaluates the practicality of deployment scenarios for a vehicular ad hoc network with a wireless mesh infrastructure support. The deployment scenarios include: (1) a mesh-enhanced peer-to-peer ad hoc routing deployment model where both the mobile nodes and static wireless infrastructure nodes participate in routing, (2) a mesh-enhanced infrastructural routing deployment model where only the static wireless infrastructure nodes participate in routing and (3) a scenario where static wireless infrastructure nodes in deployments (1) and (2) have the ability to communicate over multiple wireless channels. These deployment scenarios are evaluated with a mobility model that restricts the movement of vehicles to street boundaries based on real world maps and imposes simple traffic rules. This study also proposes a method of capturing the effect of obstacles on wireless communication based on empirical experiments in urban environments. The results indicate that (1) the mesh-enhanced infrastructural routing deployment yields significantly better performance compared to mesh enhanced peer-to-peer ad hoc routing deployment; (2) in the mesh-enhanced infrastructural routing deployment scenario increasing the density of infrastructure nodes is beneficial while increasing the density of mobile nodes has no significant effect; (3) in the mesh-enhanced peer-to-peer ad hoc routing deployment scenario, higher density of infrastructure nodes as well as mobile nodes can lead to decreased performance; (4) using multiple channels of communication on infrastructure nodes yields highly increased performance; and (5) the effect of obstacles could be represented in simulations through parameters, which could be set based on empirical experiments.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0465
Format: Thesis

Title: The Microbiology and Pathology of Shell Disease in the Florida Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Argus with a Comparison to Shell Disease in the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus.
Creator: Porter, Lauren, Reeves, Robert H., Kostka, Joel, Herrnkind, William, Keller, Laura, Quadagno, David, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Shell disease is a common affliction in marine crustaceans. It manifests as necrotic lesions on the exoskeleton that are caused by bacteria producing extracellular enzymes capable of degrading crustacean cuticle. Prior to 1998, shell disease was not reported in the Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. Since that time it has been seen in P. argus in the Florida Keys. In 1999, an outbreak of severe shell disease occurred in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Shell disease has been...
Show moreShell disease is a common affliction in marine crustaceans. It manifests as necrotic lesions on the exoskeleton that are caused by bacteria producing extracellular enzymes capable of degrading crustacean cuticle. Prior to 1998, shell disease was not reported in the Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. Since that time it has been seen in P. argus in the Florida Keys. In 1999, an outbreak of severe shell disease occurred in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Shell disease has been reported in this species for almost a century. To determine if shell disease etiology is the same between the species, a comparative study was undertaken. Healthy and shell-diseased cuticle was sampled in P. argus and H. americanus to determine if a consistent culturable bacterial flora exists on the exoskeleton, and if it the same flora found in lesions. Bacteria were identified by 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. At least 600 bases of the ribosomal RNA gene were aligned with sequences of identified marine bacteria and phylogenetic relationships were determined. Seven groups of bacteria, six of which are in the gamma proteobacteria, emerged consistently on healthy and diseased cuticle. No primary pathogen was isolated from either species. Six of the groups were isolated from both lobster species and one group was isolated only from P. argus. The association of the bacterial groups with both healthy and shell-diseased cuticle suggests that the normal bacterial flora is in part responsible for shell disease lesions. For each lobster species, histological, scanning electron microscope, and transmission electron microscope observations were made of lesions. In both species, Gram-negative rods were the predominant bacterial morphology present, but cocci and pleomorphic bacteria were also seen. The pathology of the disease appeared to be very different between the lobster species. In P. argus, lesions appear to spread laterally via formation of an extracellular matrix that encapsulates the bacteria. The bacteria seem to secrete degradative enzymes into the matrix, which breaks down surrounding cuticle. Many lesions appeared to be initiated by trauma in P. argus. In H. americanus, the lesions appear to spread by direct bacterial contact with and degradation of the cuticle.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0475
Format: Thesis

Title: Application of Workforce 2000/2020 Analysis to a Southern Rural Community.
Creator: Zuokemefa, Pade, Easton, Peter, Jones, Maxine, Herrington, Carolyn, Biance, Michael, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Since publication of the Hudson Institute report on Workforce 2000: Work and Workers in the 21st Century in 1987 and the appearance of its sequel, Workforce 2020, a decade later, a popular form of analysis of economic trends and adult education needs has emerged and its conclusions have been widely cited. The approach has, however, been developed and almost entirely applied at the "macro" level of regions, States and the country as a whole. This dissertation assesses the applicability and...
Show moreSince publication of the Hudson Institute report on Workforce 2000: Work and Workers in the 21st Century in 1987 and the appearance of its sequel, Workforce 2020, a decade later, a popular form of analysis of economic trends and adult education needs has emerged and its conclusions have been widely cited. The approach has, however, been developed and almost entirely applied at the "macro" level of regions, States and the country as a whole. This dissertation assesses the applicability and utility of a Workforce 2000/2020 type of analysis for a rural Southern minority community by performing a "double diagnosis" that involves 1) using the Workforce 2000/2020 framework to examine the learning challenges, needs and opportunities facing a small Southern rural community (Gretna, Florida) as it enters the 21st century; and 2) at the same time assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Workforce 2000/2020 as an approach to these issues in local rural and minority communities by observing and analyzing the results of this "experiment" with local stakeholders. The methodology used for this study was a "mixed method" procedure that combined an "embedded" case study framework with action research. Sampling was done at the community level (City of Gretna), and within-case (or local sampling scheme). Within-case or local sampling used elite, snowball and key informants strategies to identify stakeholder groups and choose participants within each group. The study was performed in three sequential phases. In the first phase, a Workforce 2000/2020 study was conducted of demographic and economic trends in the city of Gretna and their impact on labor supply and demand using both qualitative and quantitative data. In the second phase, these substantive results were analyzed with local stakeholder representatives and the patterns compared to those characteristics of "macro" Workforce 2000/2020 studies. Finally, the experience of the Gretna analysis itself was assessed and compared to the methodology of macro Workforce 2000/2020-type studies to examine the applicability of this approach to a rural minority community and the modifications required. The macro Workforce 2000/2020 analysis suggests that, nationwide, the skill level of our workforce is insufficient to meet the competitive challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. In short, there is a growing mismatch (or at least a growing risk of one) between a high level of demand for skilled labor and an inadequate supply of existing workers or new job entrants having those qualifications. Analysis of the situation in Gretna, however, suggests something rather different. There appears to be much less mismatch. The demand for skilled labor is very low and the supply of human resources is almost equally low. In fact, the picture for Gretna is more one of a region mired in low-level equilibrium of supply and demand than one of a disequilibrium created by unmet opportunity. The Workforce 2000/2020 approach offers several strengths and weaknesses. As a principal strength, the effort to line the supply of human resources against the demand for it provides some unique insight into the situation of the community and serves to assemble types of data and groups of actors, like educators and business people that are not often or as systematically brought into dialogue. On the other hand, however, the approach pays little attention to historical and social context, does not prescribe participatory measures designed to include the voices of those concerned, and puts preponderant emphasis on supply-side factors to the detriment of a critical understanding of the roots of demand. An attempt was made to remedy these principal shortcomings in the approach used for this study.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0473
Format: Thesis

Title: A Novel In-Situ Method for Inhibiting Surface Roughening during the Thermal Oxide Desorption Etching of Silicon and Gallium Arsenide.
Creator: Pun, Arthur Fong-Yuen, Zheng, Jim. P., Gielisse, Peter J., Perry, Reginald J., Foo, Simon Y., Xin, Yan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: A method inhibiting surface roughening of silicon and gallium arsenide wafers during the thermal desorption of their native oxide layers is proposed and tested experimentally, with silicon results indicating a 75% reduction in surface roughness from an averaged value of 2.20 nm to 0.56 nm, and gallium arsenide results indicating a 76% reduction from an averaged surface roughness of 1.6 nm to 0.4 nm. This method does not significantly alter the semiconductor crystalline surface, thus retaining...
Show moreA method inhibiting surface roughening of silicon and gallium arsenide wafers during the thermal desorption of their native oxide layers is proposed and tested experimentally, with silicon results indicating a 75% reduction in surface roughness from an averaged value of 2.20 nm to 0.56 nm, and gallium arsenide results indicating a 76% reduction from an averaged surface roughness of 1.6 nm to 0.4 nm. This method does not significantly alter the semiconductor crystalline surface, thus retaining suitability for subsequent epitaxial growth, as demonstrated experimentally. The method is readily implementable in currently utilized deposition systems, subject to the requirements of material growth, substrate heating, and producing a non-oxidizing environment, either inert atmosphere or reduced pressures. The technique involves depositing a thin sacrificial film directly onto the native oxide surface at lower temperatures, of which the thickness is dependent on both the native oxide thickness and the oxide stochiometry initially present within the oxide layer, but has been found experimentally to be on the order of 0.5 nm – 4 nm for a 2 nm to 4 nm air-formed native oxide layer. Upon heating this structure to high temperatures, the native oxide preferentially reacts with the sacrificial deposited film instead of the bulk wafer, resulting in the chemical reduction to volatile components, which are evaporated at these temperatures. This method is developed for silicon and gallium arsenide and examined experimentally utilizing atomic force microscopy and reflection high-energy electron diffraction. Different native oxide preparation techniques are theorized to yield varying chemical stochiometries, with experimental results elucidating information regarding these differences. Further, a modified tri-layer implementation, in which the deposited film is re-oxidized, is tested for applicability as a novel wafer pacification technique.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0474
Format: Thesis

Title: Alternative Education and Juvenile Delinquency.
Creator: Prior, Nicole M., Blomberg, Thomas G., Rutledge, Stacey, Bales, William, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this mixed methods longitudinal study was to explore the connection between the quality of alternative education and juvenile delinquency. The study examined two alternative education disciplinary schools in the state of Florida over six academic years. The study's goals were twofold. The first goal was to determine the impact of the implementation of quality assurance (QA) in alternative education disciplinary schools. Specifically, the study focused on determining if the QA...
Show moreThe purpose of this mixed methods longitudinal study was to explore the connection between the quality of alternative education and juvenile delinquency. The study examined two alternative education disciplinary schools in the state of Florida over six academic years. The study's goals were twofold. The first goal was to determine the impact of the implementation of quality assurance (QA) in alternative education disciplinary schools. Specifically, the study focused on determining if the QA program increased the schools' use of best practices and, as a result, positively affected the likelihood that exiting students would return to mainstream public education after exiting an alternative education school. Study findings suggest that full implementation of the QA program increased students' likelihood of returning to their home schools after being released from the alternative education disciplinary school. Furthermore, the quantitative results indicate that the implementation of QA at an alternative education school does not increase students' attendance in their home schools after their return. The second goal of this study was to determine if a high quality alternative education school would improve students' positive school experiences, thus increasing their social capital and resulting in a reduction of crime as measured by a decrease in the possibility that a student would be arrested within 12 months after being released from the alternative education school. The quantitative results indicate that partial QA implementation decreased the likelihood that students would be arrested within twelve months after exiting an alternative education disciplinary school, but full and post QA implementation did not. Overall, the findings suggest that QA does not significantly impact the likelihood of an arrest within twelve months after a student exits from an alternative education school. The study concludes with discussion of the problem of youth returning to but not remaining in their regular school because of poor regular school experiences versus positive alternative education school experiences. The policy recommendations based on the results of this study are that students at alternative education schools be allowed to remain in these schools until their graduation from high school.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0461
Format: Thesis

Title: Prelude to Disaster: Defending Confederate New Orleans.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew, Jones, Jim, Grant, Jonathan, Hadden, Sally, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the defense of Confederate New Orleans during American Civil War, specifically during the year 1861 and the first four months of 1862. The importance of New Orleans to the South is first analyzed in order to give context for its defense. Then both the Confederate military perspective and the city's perspective are taken into account, resulting in the conclusion that the defense can be seen as an inevitable microcosm of the problems that generally plagued the Confederacy....
Show moreThis thesis examines the defense of Confederate New Orleans during American Civil War, specifically during the year 1861 and the first four months of 1862. The importance of New Orleans to the South is first analyzed in order to give context for its defense. Then both the Confederate military perspective and the city's perspective are taken into account, resulting in the conclusion that the defense can be seen as an inevitable microcosm of the problems that generally plagued the Confederacy. Lack of material resources and manpower, confusion and division between the local population and Confederate authority, disorganized and compartmentalized leadership and overwhelming Federal industrial advantage are all issues that can be seen both in the defense of New Orleans and the Confederacy as a whole.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0471
Format: Thesis

Title: Study Abroad: Educational and Employment Outcomes of Participants versus Non Participants.
Creator: Posey, James T., Beckham, Joseph C., Easton, Peter B., Dalton, Jon C., Schwartz, Robert A., Gaston, Joy, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State...
Show morePosey, James T., Beckham, Joseph C., Easton, Peter B., Dalton, Jon C., Schwartz, Robert A., Gaston, Joy, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University
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Abstract/Description: Many educators and business people are awakening to the growing need to better equip students with an international perspective and understanding. One common method to promote these goals is accomplished via a variety of study abroad programs offered through colleges and universities. The most often cited gains or benefits related to study abroad participation are in the areas of maturity, language proficiency, increased knowledge of a specific culture, and global-mindedness. Existing...
Show moreMany educators and business people are awakening to the growing need to better equip students with an international perspective and understanding. One common method to promote these goals is accomplished via a variety of study abroad programs offered through colleges and universities. The most often cited gains or benefits related to study abroad participation are in the areas of maturity, language proficiency, increased knowledge of a specific culture, and global-mindedness. Existing theories of learning, student development, and human capital suggest that participation in study abroad could theoretically lead to increased psychological and skill growth, thereby leading to positive educational and employment outcomes. Using archival Florida state system databases, this study investigated educational and employment outcome differences between study abroad participants and non participants. The study found common characteristics among gender, race, and high school academic achievement for study abroad participants. Although claims of causality cannot be made between study abroad and various outcomes, several significant associations were found particularly for educational outcomes. For example, 93.2% of study abroad participants received some type of degree compared to only 64% of the non study abroad group. The study abroad group also had a higher mean college GPA of 3.19 compared to the 2.74 for the non study abroad group. The non study abroad group was found employed in Florida at higher rates; however, the data was limited to those found employed only within Florida and did not account for those who might have found employment in other locations. The non study abroad group also had a higher mean wage than the study abroad group. However, when controlled by degree program and study abroad location, this wage difference dissipated suggesting degree program is the stronger indicator of wage outcomes. Implications for policy development and future study include more detailed examination of the study abroad experience as a recruitment tool, as well as a retention/graduation best practice. Institutions should also examine methods to increase minority participation in study abroad.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0469
Format: Thesis

Title: Characterization of Microfluidic Channels for Biodiagnostics.
Creator: Zwolinski, Andrew Michael, Haik, Yousef, Chen, Ching-Jen, Shih, Chiang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Characterization of fluid with suspended nanoparticles in microchannels has been studied as a part of a microfluidic based acute myocardial infarction (AMI) detection device. The AMI detection process uses heat stabilized human serum albumin (HSA) magnetic microspheres and specific antibodies to create a magnetic immunoassay used in the detection of AMI. Microanalysis systems have several advantages over conventional analysis systems due to their sensitivity, reliability and the amount of...
Show moreCharacterization of fluid with suspended nanoparticles in microchannels has been studied as a part of a microfluidic based acute myocardial infarction (AMI) detection device. The AMI detection process uses heat stabilized human serum albumin (HSA) magnetic microspheres and specific antibodies to create a magnetic immunoassay used in the detection of AMI. Microanalysis systems have several advantages over conventional analysis systems due to their sensitivity, reliability and the amount of anlaytes needed for the test. The microchannels used in this work were fabricated at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) using a SwIFTâ¢ microfabrication surface micromaching process. Micro channels made of Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-glass (PDMS-glass) designed and fabricated at the Department of Chemistry at the Florida State University were also used in this work. The SwIFTâ¢ microchannels had dimensions of 6µm in height, 20µm in width and 200µm in length where as the PDMS-glass microchannels had dimensions of 40µm in height, 200µm wide and 13mm in length. Characterization of the microchannels was accomplished using a variety of techniques. The first method used to characterize the microchannels was to used a head pressure-flow set up to determine the pressure and flow characteristics of the SwIFTâ¢ microchannels with the different fluids that the biodiagnostic process calls for, with average mass flow rate being 1.9x10-2 µg/s and Reynolds number of 1.45 at a pressure of 23kPa for a typical channel, these values approach the upper limit of the work accomplished. Since the HSA microspheres, 1µm in diameter and less, play a critical role in the detection protocol their compatibility to the SwIFTâ¢ microchannels was investigated. Results showed the HSA microspheres agglomerated and adsorbed to the walls of the channels. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) was attempted on the SwIFTâ¢ microchannels with 200nm and 40nm beads and the same conclusion of agglomeration and adsorption was reached which made these channels not suitable for adaptation in the microanaylsis system considered for AMI detection. PDMS-glass microchannels head pressure-flow rates were also investigated showing an average mass flow rate of 1.76x10-1µg/s and a Reynolds number of 1.03 at a pressure of 4.5kPa. FCS was preformed on these channels successfully without any signs of agglomeration, though some adsorption of the beads to the walls of the channel was evident. FCS measured max velocity was equal to approximately 6.6 cm/s. Thus it is concluded that microchannels of similar sizes of the PDMS-glass will be needed in the microanalysis system that is being developed to detect for AMI markers.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0470
Format: Thesis

Title: Transborder State Reterritorialization in Eastern Europe: The Lower Danube Euroregion.
Creator: Popescu, Gabriel, Leib, Jonathan, Smith, Dale, Warf, Barney, O'Sullivan, Patrick, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the relationships between the state and reterritorialization of social life by examining the role transborder regions, commonly known as Euroregions, play in the reterritorialization of the international state system. Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented process of state reterritorialization in the context of European Union integration. In the territorial state system that has characterized Europe for the past four centuries, borders have been the...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the relationships between the state and reterritorialization of social life by examining the role transborder regions, commonly known as Euroregions, play in the reterritorialization of the international state system. Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented process of state reterritorialization in the context of European Union integration. In the territorial state system that has characterized Europe for the past four centuries, borders have been the central locus of state territoriality. Euroregions, created across state borders, are crucial to the European reterritorialization process aimed to redefine centralized state territoriality that has proven inadequate in a world of flows. This research investigates the ways in which traditional state territoriality is changing in Eastern Europe by the establishment of Euroregions. In the context of the European Union's enlargement it is as yet less evident how the State-Euroregions-European Union nexus will play out in Eastern Europe where EU membership has not yet been achieved by all states. I examine this process through an intensive case study of the Lower Danube Euroregion, created between Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Findings drawn from the experience of the Lower Danube Euroregion show that the capacity of Euroregions to reterritorialize social life in East European borderlands unfolds through a series of dimensions including institutional, political-territorial, legal, and cultural. However, state transborder reterritorialization in Euroregions is a highly contingent process that is imbued with power relations structured around supranational, national, and subnational scales. Transborder reterritorialization takes place at the juncture of these scales which generates a multiscalar geopolitics of Euroregions where Euroregions are used as tools in international politics to advance the interests of states, the European Union, and subnational actors. Under these circumstances, transborder reterritorialization in Eastern Europe remains a top-down enterprise that does not penetrate deep enough into the civil society to allow the emergence of sustainable transborder spaces of living. So far, the significance of Euroregions resides more in their territorial potential rather than in their achievements.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0479
Format: Thesis

Title: Effects of an Emergent Literacy Intervention for Children with Language Impairments from Low Income Environments.
Creator: Ziolkowski, Robyn Alane, Goldstein, Howard, Al Otaiba, Stephanie Dent, Torgesen, Joseph, Scott-Trautman, Lisa, School of Communication, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: National Research Council statistics indicate that 40% to 75% of preschoolers with early language impairment develop later reading difficulties (RD). Children exhibiting decreased language abilities need ample opportunities to acquire the early foundations of literacy before entrance into formal education. This study explored the feasibility and effectiveness of an explicit phonological and print awareness intervention embedded within repeated (i.e., three times per week) shared book reading...
Show moreNational Research Council statistics indicate that 40% to 75% of preschoolers with early language impairment develop later reading difficulties (RD). Children exhibiting decreased language abilities need ample opportunities to acquire the early foundations of literacy before entrance into formal education. This study explored the feasibility and effectiveness of an explicit phonological and print awareness intervention embedded within repeated (i.e., three times per week) shared book reading with preschool children from low income backgrounds with and without language impairments. A multiple baseline design across behaviors demonstrate that embedded phonological awareness practice was related to changes in emergent literacy skills in preschool children at risk for RD. Specifically, rhyme intervention resulted in improvements in weekly rhyme production and rhyme identification tasks. Initial sound intervention resulted in improvements in alliteration and initial sound fluency tasks. Replications were demonstrated within and across all 23 participants (10 considered at risk and 13 considered high risk). Additionally, this study examined novel word-learning abilities in the same cohort of preschool children at risk for RD. Children with and without language impairments demonstrated the ability to learn novel words after incidental exposure. Words exposure was carefully controlled to contrast one vs four exposures during repeated shared book reading without adult highlighting or discussion. An alternating treatments design indicated there were no differences in the amount of words learned when exposed one-time vs. four-times per reading. In addition, an examination of the levels and degrees of word learning based on book-specific receptive, expressive, and decontextualized vocabulary assessments revealed significant pre-post differences in word learning on all measures. Children with language impairments demonstrated the ability to learn novel words incidentally after three repeated shared book readings, but children with higher language abilities learned more words. Gains on standardized measures of receptive and expressive vocabulary were also demonstrated. Findings confirm that embedding an explicit phonological and print awareness intervention into the context of repeated storybook reading results in gains in emergent literacy skills for children at risk for RD. Further, children with and without language impairments can increase their level of vocabulary knowledge by simply listening to stories containing novel words even with relatively few exposures.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0482
Format: Thesis

Title: Modal Concepts in the Biological Sciences.
Creator: Zinser, Jason, Ruse, Michael, Travis, Joseph, Rawling, Piers, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "Modality" refers to the concepts (and surrounding controversies) of "possibility" and "necessity." Recently, a great deal of attention paid to these concepts in metaphysics. Not surprisingly, this literature has not been adopted in the field of philosophy of biology. In this work, I ague that there is a need to understand how modal concepts function in biology. Biologists already employ modal concepts in a variety of contexts. However, they do not explain how these concepts function or ought...
Show more"Modality" refers to the concepts (and surrounding controversies) of "possibility" and "necessity." Recently, a great deal of attention paid to these concepts in metaphysics. Not surprisingly, this literature has not been adopted in the field of philosophy of biology. In this work, I ague that there is a need to understand how modal concepts function in biology. Biologists already employ modal concepts in a variety of contexts. However, they do not explain how these concepts function or ought to function within the biological domain. From a philosophical perspective, there is a framework for how modal concepts operate in physics. But this framework cannot be adopted by the biological sciences. Since work on modality is relatively new to philosophy of biology, I spend the first three chapters justifying, defining, and restricting the project of creating a modal framework in biology. In the penultimate chapter, I present and criticize the single account of "biological possibility" found in the literature, which is offered by Daniel Dennett. Finally, I provide a positive account of how we should apply modal concepts in the biological sciences.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0484
Format: Thesis

Title: Graphic Resonance Through Time: Patterns in Representation and Their Relevance to Contemporary Design Communication.
Creator: Zorn, Sarah Kathryn, Koenig, Peter, Pable, Jill, Myers, Karen, Department of Interior Design, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this research is to explore the relevance of a base of knowledge in the history of architectural drawing in aiding creative design decisions today. A select study of the history of interior design reveals that design drawing conventions changed just as frequently as period styles themselves. Abundant studies on the architecture of the past have always considered the question of style, yet they seldom looked into the question of changes in drawing conventions (Gebhard & Nevins,...
Show moreThe purpose of this research is to explore the relevance of a base of knowledge in the history of architectural drawing in aiding creative design decisions today. A select study of the history of interior design reveals that design drawing conventions changed just as frequently as period styles themselves. Abundant studies on the architecture of the past have always considered the question of style, yet they seldom looked into the question of changes in drawing conventions (Gebhard & Nevins, 1977). Additionally, this study seeks to identify the relationship between chosen drawing style and communication—that is, how have designers throughout time resolved elusive concepts harmoniously, and how have their choices of convention aided them? To further understand this relationship, a closer look into the overall history surrounding development of design drawing is imperative. Once an understanding of the history of architectural drawing and its connection to these forces have been established, this study will then make the case for its relevance in interior design today. The advantages and disadvantages of certain drawing conventions, as revealed in this research, can then be used in assisting today's designer in deciphering which technique can most appropriately convey his/her creative vision.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0480
Format: Thesis

Title: Excited States and Electrical Properties of Fe (III) and V (IV) Clusters.
Creator: Zipse, David, Dalal, Naresh, Molnár, Stephan von, Goldsby, Kenneth, Steinbock, Oliver, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation describes the characterization of the magnetic and electrical properties of a unique class of transition metal complexes known as single-molecule magnets (SMMs). The experimental work of this dissertation is focused on the SMMs [(C6H15N3)6Fe8O2(OH)12]Br7(H2O)Br •8H2O (Fe8Br8), K6[V15As6O42(H2O)] • 8H2O (V15), as well as the analogous cluster compounds [NH(C2H5)3]4[V84.5+V44+As8O40(H2O)]•H2O (V12) and [(C6H15N3)4Fe4O(OH)5]I7 • 2.5 H2O (Fe4). SMMs are transition metal cluster...
Show moreThis dissertation describes the characterization of the magnetic and electrical properties of a unique class of transition metal complexes known as single-molecule magnets (SMMs). The experimental work of this dissertation is focused on the SMMs [(C6H15N3)6Fe8O2(OH)12]Br7(H2O)Br •8H2O (Fe8Br8), K6[V15As6O42(H2O)] • 8H2O (V15), as well as the analogous cluster compounds [NH(C2H5)3]4[V84.5+V44+As8O40(H2O)]•H2O (V12) and [(C6H15N3)4Fe4O(OH)5]I7 • 2.5 H2O (Fe4). SMMs are transition metal cluster complexes that exhibit single-molecule hysteresis and quantum tunneling of the magnetization (QTM). Fe8Br8 is one of the best characterized SMMs with its ground state spin S = 10, while V15 exhibits SMM behavior with a spin of S = ½. The foci of our investigations were the single-spin model in Fe8Br8, the basic electrical properties of V15 and V12, and the synthesis and characterization of the analogous cluster compound Fe4. Chapter 2 describes the characterization (magnetic parameters and energetic location) of the S = 9 excited state in Fe8Br8 by high field electron paramagnetic resonance, while Chapter 3 focuses on the measurement of the unpaired electron density distribution in Fe8Br8 as determined by 81Br solid state NMR. Both of these chapters bring into question the validity of the currently accepted single-spin model for Fe8Br8. Chapter 4 details the dielectric relaxation properties of V15 as determined by an ac impedance method. The semiconductive behavior of both V15 and V12 is described in Chapter 5, along with its comparison to optical absorption measurements, while the synthesis and magnetic characterization of the new cluster compound Fe4 is described in Chapter 6. The summary and main conclusions are presented in Chapter 7. The results presented herein should make a significant contribution to the fundamental understanding of the mechanism of quantum tunneling in Fe8Br8 and the basic electrical properties of SMMs for their potential use in future applications.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0481
Format: Thesis

Title: Antecedents and Consequences of Personal Reputation in Organizations.
Creator: Zinko, Robert, Ferris, Gerald R., Brady, Michael K., Perrewé, Pamela L., Humphrey, Stephen E., Hall, Angela T., Department of Management, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, expertise, and time as antecedents of personal reputation, and analyzed power, autonomy, and career advancement as consequences. A structural equation model was used to analyze the data in order to further our understanding of personal reputation in organizations. A...
Show moreThis dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, expertise, and time as antecedents of personal reputation, and analyzed power, autonomy, and career advancement as consequences. A structural equation model was used to analyze the data in order to further our understanding of personal reputation in organizations. A revised model, driven by theory and improved fit, supported the proposed antecedents and consequences, with personal reputation partially or fully mediating the two groups (i.e., antecedents and consequences). Furthermore, additional analysis furthered our understanding of the reputation construct as it related to self and other reports. Strengths and limitations of this dissertation, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0485
Format: Thesis

Title: Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Cavity Flows and Their Control.
Creator: Zhuang, Ning, Alvi, Farrukh S., Shih, Chiang, Tam, Christopher, Annaswamy, Anuradha, Collins, Emmanuel G., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The study of supersonic cavity flows is of interest both from fundamental fluid dynamics and practical perspectives. The complex nature of this flowfield, consisting of compressible shear layers, compression/expansion waves, and fluid-acoustic interactions, makes it a rich problem to study. A detailed experimental study of supersonic flow (M=1.5 to 2) over a range of three-dimensional rectangular cavities (L/D=1 to 5.2) was conducted. The measurements included unsteady surface pressure...
Show moreThe study of supersonic cavity flows is of interest both from fundamental fluid dynamics and practical perspectives. The complex nature of this flowfield, consisting of compressible shear layers, compression/expansion waves, and fluid-acoustic interactions, makes it a rich problem to study. A detailed experimental study of supersonic flow (M=1.5 to 2) over a range of three-dimensional rectangular cavities (L/D=1 to 5.2) was conducted. The measurements included unsteady surface pressure measurements, particle image velocimetry, and flow visualization using shadowgraph and schlieren. Large-scale structures in the shear layer and a large recirculation zone in the cavity was observed. Spatial and temporal mode switching was also observed, the nature being different for short and long cavities. The shear layer characteristics of the two cavities are very different in term of curvature and growth. Supersonic microjets were used at the leading edge of the cavities to suppress the resonance in the flow. With a minimal mass flux (0.15%), the activation of microjets led to a large reduction in cavity tones (20 dB) and overall sound pressure levels (9dB). In addition, the microjet injection enhanced the shear layer mixing and reduced the velocity fluctuation in the cavities. The significant reductions together with the low mass flux requirements make this a potentially viable technique for full-scale, practical applications.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0508
Format: Thesis

Title: Health Communication Campaigns: Targeting Adolescents with Clusters of Health-Compromising Behaviors.
Creator: Esquibel, Monica Adriann, Heald, Gary R., McDowell, Stephen D., Mayo, John K., School of Communication, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Historically the preventable risks affecting morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults have largely been thought of as independent behaviors. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that many of these adolescent risk behaviors are often interrelated. Traditionally public health communication campaigns and audience segmentation strategies have been designed to address "individual" unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors among youth in the United States. In recent years,...
Show moreHistorically the preventable risks affecting morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults have largely been thought of as independent behaviors. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that many of these adolescent risk behaviors are often interrelated. Traditionally public health communication campaigns and audience segmentation strategies have been designed to address "individual" unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors among youth in the United States. In recent years, public health researchers have recommended that campaigns should be identifying clusters of behaviors for intervention. This shift requires health campaign professionals to alter communication audience segmentation strategies in order to identify the characteristics of individuals who exhibit combinations of unhealthy lifestyle and risky behaviors. This study is a secondary analysis examining the co-occurrence of health risk behaviors among adolescents with the objective of developing profiles that can be used in segmentation strategies to help target youth audiences in communication campaigns. Building on previous research, this study focused on seven adolescent health-compromising behaviors simultaneously. This study identified four meaningful clusters of risky behaviors and health- compromising lifestyles. Three of these clusters contain adolescents reporting above average co-occurring risks. Furthermore, this study used demographic, BMI scores, self-perceptions, and leisure activity measures to profile and predict membership in the four cluster groups. The results of this study identified a few common re-occurring patterns. Similar to previous research, the findings show that the majority of adolescents in grades 9-12 have low-risk profiles while the highest risk group had the lowest number of adolescents. Gender was found to be an inconsistent measure of membership in the risk profiles. Age predicted group membership in one of the clusters. Race/ethnicity variously predicted membership in the three risk profiles. Number of days missed due to perceived threats predicted membership in two profiles. Health perception predicted membership in all three profiles. The results of this study support the stance that prevention/intervention efforts can justifiably and meaningfully focus on multiple risk behaviors simultaneously. Differences among the risk profiles are important to note and should be highlighted in prevention/intervention efforts.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0509
Format: Thesis

Title: Spatiotemporal Variability and Prediction of Rainfall over the Eastern Caribbean.
Creator: Pologne, Lawrence, Cai, Ming, Krishnamurti, T. N., Hart, Robert, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Recent, recurrent, and extreme weather events have been a cause for concern over the Eastern Caribbean (EC). Given the dependence on rainfall of agriculture, the main stay of the fragile economies throughout the region, accurate and timely forecasts of seasonal rainfall need to be issued to facilitate decision making in Water Resource Management. Understanding the causes of climate variability can lead to the development of more robust models for climate prediction. So as a diagnostic...
Show moreRecent, recurrent, and extreme weather events have been a cause for concern over the Eastern Caribbean (EC). Given the dependence on rainfall of agriculture, the main stay of the fragile economies throughout the region, accurate and timely forecasts of seasonal rainfall need to be issued to facilitate decision making in Water Resource Management. Understanding the causes of climate variability can lead to the development of more robust models for climate prediction. So as a diagnostic approach, different techniques are employed. Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis is performed in order to isolate the different modes of rainfall variability as well as investigating their amplitudinal modulations. The evolution of external forcing mechanisms that impact on precipitation extremes is also investigated with the use of composites. Based on the strength of the relationship between Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTA) and EC rainfall, a statistical model is subsequently developed using multivariate Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to predict rainfall over the region on seasonal time scales. The CCA model demonstrated useful skill in predicting seasonal rainfall over the EC up to six months lead. The highest average predictive skill is realized for the June-July-August (JJA) season at one-month lead, while the lowest average skill is realized for the March-April-May (MAM) season at five months lead. The December-January-February (DJF) season maintained steady skill throughout six months lead. Below normal conditions are forecasted by the CCA model for the 2004/2005 dry season (DJF/2004-05, MAM/2005). This outlook is in part, verified from seasonal rainfall totals at two stations within the EC. The outlook for the coming rainy season is for above normal conditions.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0510
Format: Thesis

Title: Institutionalized Piracy and the Development of the Jamaica Sloop, 1630-1743.
Creator: Evans, Amanda Michelle, Ward, Cheryl A., Leshikar-Denton, Margaret, Parkinson, William, Herrera, Robinson, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: English colonists on the island of Jamaica in the seventeenth century struggled with adversity while attempting to establish a permanent settlement. At the time, England lacked the infrastructure necessary to support a prolonged military presence in the Caribbean and English colonists were left to defend themselves amidst hostile neighboring islands. Privateers and pirates operating from Tortuga were lured to Port Royal, Jamaica, and their presence provided a source of security to the colony....
Show moreEnglish colonists on the island of Jamaica in the seventeenth century struggled with adversity while attempting to establish a permanent settlement. At the time, England lacked the infrastructure necessary to support a prolonged military presence in the Caribbean and English colonists were left to defend themselves amidst hostile neighboring islands. Privateers and pirates operating from Tortuga were lured to Port Royal, Jamaica, and their presence provided a source of security to the colony. Money spent by the privateers also supported the local economy. As the economy of Jamaica stabilized, pirates who once protected the island began preying upon Jamaican shipping. Colonists, influenced by the geophysical environment, economics and politics, were stimulated by piracy to improve upon inadequate ship designs and create an adapted design to mitigate their vulnerability to piratical attack at sea. The resulting ships, known as Jamaica sloops, became renowned for speed and maneuverability.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0488
Format: Thesis

Title: Intentional Binding of Negative Items in Memory.
Creator: Zimmerman, Carissa A., Kelley, Colleen, Eklund, Robert, Charness, Neil, Kaschak, Michael, Plant, Ashby, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Memory for individual negative items, such as words and pictures, is consistently superior to memory for individual neutral items; however, recent research has found that relational memory for pairs of negative items is not enhanced relative to their neutral counterparts. The current experiments investigated the boundary conditions for this lack of negative associative memory enhancement and repeatedly found that memory for negative word pairs was not better than memory for neutral word pairs...
Show moreMemory for individual negative items, such as words and pictures, is consistently superior to memory for individual neutral items; however, recent research has found that relational memory for pairs of negative items is not enhanced relative to their neutral counterparts. The current experiments investigated the boundary conditions for this lack of negative associative memory enhancement and repeatedly found that memory for negative word pairs was not better than memory for neutral word pairs. In fact, cued recall of negative stimuli exceeded that of neutral stimuli only when word pairs were encoded holistically, as in the case of adjective-noun pairs. Findings are discussed in terms of the important dissociation between item and associative memory, and the implications of this distinction for theories of emotional memory in general. Finally, a discrete-emotion approach to emotional memory is introduced as one fruitful avenue for exploration.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0487
Format: Thesis

Title: Bcq a Bin-Based Core Stateless Packet Scheduler for Scalable and Flexible Support of Guaranteed Services.
Creator: Purnachandra, Karthik P., Duan, Zhenhai, Yuan, Xin, Gopalan, Kartik, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: IP Networks have become an integral part of our daily lives. As we become more dependent on this technology, we realize the importance and use of networks that can be configured to cater to various classes of services and users. Given the potential scalability in providing Quality of Services (QoS), core-stateless packet scheduling algorithms have attracted lot of attention in recent years. Unlike traditional stateful packet schedulers that require routers to maintain per-flow state and...
Show moreIP Networks have become an integral part of our daily lives. As we become more dependent on this technology, we realize the importance and use of networks that can be configured to cater to various classes of services and users. Given the potential scalability in providing Quality of Services (QoS), core-stateless packet scheduling algorithms have attracted lot of attention in recent years. Unlike traditional stateful packet schedulers that require routers to maintain per-flow state and perform per-flow operations, core-stateless packet schedulers service packets based on some state carried in packet headers (such as reservation rate of a flow), and as a consequence, no per-flow state needs to be maintained at core routers, and no per-flow operations performed, which significantly reduce the complexity and improve the scalability of the packet scheduling algorithms. On the other hand, although core-stateless packet schedulers remove the requirement of per-flow state and operations, they aim to emulate the scheduling operations of the corresponding stateful packet schedulers. An important implication of this emulation is that they need to sort packets according to the control state carried in the packet headers and service packets in that order. This sorting operation can be quite expensive when the packet queue is long, which may not be acceptable in high-speed backbone networks. In this thesis, we present a bin-based core-stateless packet scheduling algorithm, BCQ, to overcome this problem. Like other core-stateless packet scheduling algorithms, BCQ does not require core routers to maintain per-flow state and perform per-flow operations. It schedules packets based on the notion of virtual time stamps. Virtual time stamps are computed using only some control state that can be carried in packet headers (and a few constant parameters of the scheduler). However, unlike current core-state packet scheduling algorithm, a BCQ scheduler maintain a number of packet bins, each representing a range of virtual times. Arriving packets at a BCQ scheduler are classified into the packet bins maintained by the BCQ, based on the virtual time stamps of the packets. Bins are serviced according to the range of virtual times they represent, packets in bins with earlier virtual times are serviced first. Packets within each bin are serviced in FIFO order. We formally present the BCQ scheduler in this thesis and conduct simulations to study its performance. Our simulation results show that BCQ is a scalable and flexible packet scheduling algorithm. By controlling the size of bins (therefore the cost of BCQ), BCQ can achieve different desirable performances. For example, when the bin size is sufficient large, all arriving packets will be falling in one bin, and no packet sorting is conducted (BCQ becomes a FIFO scheduler). On the other hand, as we gradually decrease the bin size, BCQ can provide different QoS performance (at greater cost). When the bin size is sufficient small, BCQ can provide the same end-to-end delay performance as other core-stateless schedulers.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0486
Format: Thesis

Title: A Chemical study of tropospheric aerosol components at Hawaii.
Creator: Darzi, Michael
Abstract/Description: Elemental composition and time series analysis of concentrations of aerosols collected on Hawaii above and below the inversion layer in spring and summer 1979 have provided insight into the sources, transport processes, and chemistry of different aerosol components present in this marine atmosphere. Aerosols were sampled by 3.7-hour time resolution streakers (Nuclepore filter strip and sliding suction orifice) and analyzed by particle-induced X ray emission (PIXE) for elements heavier than Mg...
Show moreElemental composition and time series analysis of concentrations of aerosols collected on Hawaii above and below the inversion layer in spring and summer 1979 have provided insight into the sources, transport processes, and chemistry of different aerosol components present in this marine atmosphere. Aerosols were sampled by 3.7-hour time resolution streakers (Nuclepore filter strip and sliding suction orifice) and analyzed by particle-induced X ray emission (PIXE) for elements heavier than Mg. At Mauna Loa Observatory (3.4 km altitude) April 23 to May 6, 1979, during a haze period caused by east Asian desert dust storms, a continental dust component of up to 20 (mu)g m('-3) or more and an aerosol sulfate component, sometimes in excess of 8 (mu)g m('-3), were measured. High coherency at long periodicities between the two components suggests pollution from China and Japan as the sulfur source. Since a 21-hour, not 24-hour, variation was prominent, an initially diurnal periodicity in upward transport foreshortened during transport across the Pacific, e.g. by wind speed convergence, is suggested. Continental dust was also found to be abundant, at 1-2 (mu)g m('-3) median concentration, in spring 1979 at 1.2 km (Hawaiian Volcano Observatory), but was essentially absent in the summer. Over both seasons, the local basaltic aerosol biweekly medians varied 100-fold, 0.2-18 (mu)g m('-3), a variation associated with rainfall. Compositional differences between the continental dust at HVO and MLO may indicate the presence of two distinct desert dust plumes over Hawaii. An additional component of volcanic emissions from Kilauea, containing aerosol P, Cl, and S, was also observed at HVO. The presence of all three elements was sporadic, especially for P, and all were found with concentrations of up to 1 (mu)g m('-3). However, P and Cl were almost never detected simultaneously, suggesting a volatility release of HCl from aerosol particles by reaction with strong acid associated with P. If such strong acid is due to H(,2)SO(,4), it is not well predicted by S, which may include other sulfates or sulfur.
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Date Issued: 1982
Identifier: AAI8218635, 3085306, FSDT3085306, fsu:74801
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Teaching in the Eyes of Beholders": Preservice Teachers' Reasons for Teaching and Their Beliefs About Teaching.
Creator: Pop, Margareta Maria, Turner, Jeannine E., Rutledge, Stacey, Roehrig, Alysia, Keller, John, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of the present study was to investigate Preservice Teachers' (PT) reasons for teaching and their beliefs about teaching. Specific reasons of PTs for entering the teaching career, and typologies (clusters) of PTs based on their reasons for teaching were investigated. Further, across the clusters of PTs, their beliefs about teaching were examined, in the context of PTs' understanding of their goals to become teachers. Mixed methods were used for data collection: survey and...
Show moreThe purpose of the present study was to investigate Preservice Teachers' (PT) reasons for teaching and their beliefs about teaching. Specific reasons of PTs for entering the teaching career, and typologies (clusters) of PTs based on their reasons for teaching were investigated. Further, across the clusters of PTs, their beliefs about teaching were examined, in the context of PTs' understanding of their goals to become teachers. Mixed methods were used for data collection: survey and interviews. Participants were undergraduate students enrolled in the EDF 4210 Educational Psychology and EDF 4430 Classroom Assessment courses for the Spring semester 2007. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, 215 participants completed a survey about PTs' demographic data, PTs' reasons for teaching and their beliefs about teaching. An initial quantitative analysis of participants' responses for the Reasons for Teaching Questionnaire (RTQ) was made using factor analysis and cluster analysis to establish groups/clusters of individuals displaying similar patterns regarding their reasons for teaching. For the second phase of the study, a selected number of participants (n=25) from the three clusters were recruited for an in-depth interview. The purpose of the interviews was to explore more deeply PTs' understanding of their goal to become a teacher, as well as similarities and differences across the clusters. Overall, the study results indicated a variety of reasons for teaching and beliefs about teaching expressed by PTs in their survey and interview responses. Survey results indicated six main categories of reasons (i.e., factors) as influential to PTs' career choices. These were reasons related to PTs' identity issues, reasons related to PTs' subject matter, reasons related to PTs' meaningful relationships, reasons related to the teaching job benefits, reasons related to PTs' holistic views of profession and reasons related to job opportunities through teaching. Three different clusters of PTs were obtained by conducting a cluster analysis, and specific reasons were found to be relevant for each cluster as related to their teaching career choices. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc tests, conducted to further explore the differences across clusters of PTs regarding their beliefs about schooling and beliefs about the teaching career, showed significant differences across the three clusters of PTs. The interview results provided more support to understanding the interplay among PTs' motivation and beliefs about teaching in the context of their understanding of the teaching goal development. A grounded theory model was developed to represent PTs' understanding of their teaching goal development as related to four major categories: Motivators, Beliefs, Context, and Strategies. Results from this study showed that PTs' understanding of their goal development was related to different types (or combination) of motivators for teaching, specific beliefs about the teaching career, all these applied to a specific context (i.e., past school experiences, emotions etc). How PTs perceived themselves as teachers, and how they perceived teaching represented a major influence in their career choices. Research from this area can bring a significant contribution to understanding PTs' beliefs in connection with their reasons for teaching as related to their attitudes toward teaching and their future professional practices. From this perspective, the issue of teacher education quality programs can be addressed, and stress the importance of studying PTs' views of teaching as related to their future instructional practices. Findings from such research may also bring a contribution to understanding motivational aspects for continuing teaching and job satisfaction, and indirectly may provide support to understanding various teacher attrition issues.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0498
Format: Thesis

Title: Classical Saxophone Transcriptions: Role and Reception.
Creator: Etheridge, Kathryn Diane, Seaton, Douglass, Glahn, Denise Von, Meighan, Patrick, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Transcriptions occupy a fundamental place in Western musical development, having been created used since the Middle Ages Composers, performers, and arrangers are still constantly adapting music in order to learn various musical styles and to bring variety to their programs. Besides the advantages to composers, musicians, and students of music, transcriptions allow audiences to hear repertoire that would be unavailable to them in its original format. Transcriptions may also permit listeners to...
Show moreTranscriptions occupy a fundamental place in Western musical development, having been created used since the Middle Ages Composers, performers, and arrangers are still constantly adapting music in order to learn various musical styles and to bring variety to their programs. Besides the advantages to composers, musicians, and students of music, transcriptions allow audiences to hear repertoire that would be unavailable to them in its original format. Transcriptions may also permit listeners to hear familiar works through fresh interpretations that can illuminate aspects of the music not heard in the original instrumentation. Classical saxophonists, in particular, use transcriptions for various purposes, including those previously mentioned. This study of saxophone transcriptions raises three overarching points: • Transcriptions have been and remain an important component of classical saxophone performance and recording. • Recorded saxophone transcriptions range from high art to popular music, their material borrowed from the last nine centuries or more of Western music history—and these works are reviewed differently in different journals. • The key to a successful programming of transcriptions lies in historical and performance practice research, and in awareness of one's audience. A study of transcriptions within the context of the saxophone's history, how these pieces are interpreted by the performers and organized on recordings next to—or instead of—original works for the saxophone, and reviews of these recordings were all employed in the present study in order to determine how transcriptions represent the instrument. Analysis of saxophone recordings and reviews, including four case studies that take a closer look at individual saxophone CDs, demonstrates how saxophone transcriptions portray the classical saxophone to various audiences. The study of this repertoire, and of saxophonists performing it, must go hand in hand with a study of the saxophonists themselves and the ways in which they view these works. Most saxophonists are arrangers; many of the pieces they perform and record were created by them, as well. The choice to perform these transcriptions should prompt more decision-making on the part of the saxophonist than does that of completely original works, especially if the performer is also the arranger. This study shows that, whether practiced by a saxophonist or any other performing musician, creation and performance of transcriptions are multi-faceted activities. Transcriptions remain an important and valuable component of the recorded saxophone repertoire. They offer to audiences the opportunity to hear a stylistically appropriate rendition of music that adds variety and broader appeal to the mostly twentieth-century classical saxophone repertoire, thus opening the way for more listeners to discover and enjoy this sound resource.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0499
Format: Thesis

Title: Investigating the Alternating Periods Monopoly.
Creator: Zillante, Arthur L., Isaac, R. Mark (Robert Mark), Cronin, Joe, Zuehlke, Tom, Salmon, Tim, Department of Economics, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: An oft-neglected pattern of behavior in the industrial organization literature occurs when firms time the release of their products so that they are not released on the same date. Because of the potentially collusive nature of this practice, there may be legitimate antitrust concerns. This paper presents a model of this behavior which will be called the alternating periods monopoly (APM). Industry characteristics that increase the likelihood of the APM are developed and conditions are derived...
Show moreAn oft-neglected pattern of behavior in the industrial organization literature occurs when firms time the release of their products so that they are not released on the same date. Because of the potentially collusive nature of this practice, there may be legitimate antitrust concerns. This paper presents a model of this behavior which will be called the alternating periods monopoly (APM). Industry characteristics that increase the likelihood of the APM are developed and conditions are derived in a stochastic demand environment to show when firms would prefer to use the APM to other sustainable methods of collusion. A detailed description of the post World War II baseball card industry is presented using the standard industrial organization structure-conduct-performance paradigm as a guide. The characteristics of the baseball card industry closely parallel those characteristics discussed in the theoretical model. This parallel between the theory and the industry suggests that data from the baseball card industry may be used to determine if the manufacturers are using an APM. Current methods of detecting potentially collusive behavior are discussed in the fourth chapter. The data from the baseball card industry do not meet the assumptions needed to effectively use the current methods, rendering them useless in this particular industry. I propose a new empirical test based on duration analysis to determine if firms are using the APM. Using the time between product release data from the baseball card industry, I estimate hazard rates that show positive duration dependence. I also estimate hazard rates for data sets constructed using the same parameters (number of releases and number of days over which those releases occur) as the baseball card industry, but forcing the firms to release in ways that would not be considered to match the APM. The hazard rates for the constructed data show negative duration dependence, which provides evidence that the data from the baseball card industry is consistent with an APM hypothesis. The fifth chapter of the dissertation uses an economic experiment to determine if the APM can arise without free-form communication between subjects. The existence of practices that facilitate collusion has generated a large discussion in the antitrust arena. This experiment allows subjects to communicate their future intentions of entering a market in a particular time period by means of a binary signal, where 1 signals enter and 0 signals exit. The overwhelming evidence provided by the experiment is that subjects cannot use the binary signals to coordinate on an APM, even though it is clear that some subjects are both signaling a willingness to participate in an APM and making entry decisions consistent with an APM. These experiments show that the practice of sending non-binding communication is not enough to foster collusion among all subjects, although the treatments with fewer subjects and higher costs show some evidence that an APM may arise under these conditions.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0500
Format: Thesis

Title: Evaluating the Effect of a Nutrition Intervention on Fruit and Vegetable Choices by Students in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools, Through the Use of Daily Production Records.
Creator: Medina-Zimmerman, Jennifer Belen, Cook, Laura R., Abood, Doris, Zahn, Doug, Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The rising prevalence of obesity in the United States is a serious health concern. The increased prevalence of obesity in children has motivated researchers and health professionals to work in the community to educate and implement interventions to improve the dietary habits of American children. Schools provide an excellent setting for nutrition interventions aimed at children. Increasing fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among children is an effective way to promote and teach healthy...
Show moreThe rising prevalence of obesity in the United States is a serious health concern. The increased prevalence of obesity in children has motivated researchers and health professionals to work in the community to educate and implement interventions to improve the dietary habits of American children. Schools provide an excellent setting for nutrition interventions aimed at children. Increasing fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among children is an effective way to promote and teach healthy food habits and to reduce obesity by substituting FV for foods high in fat, cholesterol, sodium, and sugar. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a nutrition intervention on FV choices by students using daily production records. Daily production records (DPR) were evaluated from three Florida districts during two consecutive school years. There were nine schools in the three districts who implemented interventions. Intervention activities included addition of salad bars, promotion of FV, sampling of FV, increasing variety and quantity of FV available, and improved merchandising of FV. Data measured were FV servings chosen by students since consumption could not be determined without additional observations or plate waste data. The total number of FV servings chosen per student per lunch period per school was determined by subtracting the number of leftover FV servings from the number of FV servings prepared. Numbers of servings of different types of FV were added together for each day. FV servings were divided by the total number of students who participated in the National School Lunch Program for each lunch period at each school. FV servings were compared pre- and post-intervention to evaluate any changes. Results showed an increase from 1.44 to 1.65 servings per student. Data were also analyzed by district and school type. Two of the three school districts showed significant increases in FV servings chosen per student. Elementary and Middle schools also showed significant increases in FV choices. It can be concluded from these results that the use of DPR is a useful method for measuring FV servings to assess interventions in a school setting when the aim of the intervention is focused on promotion of FV and increasing FV choices and consumption.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0492
Format: Thesis

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