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Title: Zeta regularized products and modular constants.
Creator: Heydari, Shahryar., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to, first outline a theory of Zeta regularized products which will work for sequences of complex numbers, and second to use this theory to compute Zeta regularized products and modular constants for sequences which are integer combinations of a fixed set of complex numbers., The gamma function $\Gamma(z)$ is represented as the ratio of two Zeta regularized products. This relation is then extended to define multiple gamma functions as the ratio of two...
Show moreThe purpose of this dissertation is to, first outline a theory of Zeta regularized products which will work for sequences of complex numbers, and second to use this theory to compute Zeta regularized products and modular constants for sequences which are integer combinations of a fixed set of complex numbers., The gamma function $\Gamma(z)$ is represented as the ratio of two Zeta regularized products. This relation is then extended to define multiple gamma functions as the ratio of two corresponding Zeta regularized products. A full account of the functional equations associated with multiple gamma functions is also given. The double gamma function is investigated in detail., Some other special functions are also discussed. Namely Jacobi's theta function $\theta\sb1$, the Weierstrass sigma function $\sigma(z),$ and $P(z\vert\tau)$ defined by, The determinant of the Laplacian on an n-dimensional flat Torus is computed for $n \geq$ 2, by computing
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9234228, 3087894, FSDT3087894, fsu:76704
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Title: The yrast rotational bands of selenium-74 and krypton-77.
Creator: Gross, Carl J., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: New states in the positive parity yrast bands of $\sp{74}$Se and $\sp{77}$Kr have been observed with the reactions $\sp{52}$Cr($\sp{28}$Si,$\alpha$2p)$\sp{74}$Se and $\sp{52}$Cr($\sp{28}$Si,2pn)$\sp{77}$Kr at 98 MeV. The target consisted of approximately 1 mg/cm$\sp2$ natural chromium (84% $\sp{52}$Cr abundance) evaporated on a thick lead backing., The new states extend the known level scheme of $\sp{74}$Se up to I$\sp{\pi}$ = (22$\sp+$) and most of the transitions in the other previously...
Show moreNew states in the positive parity yrast bands of $\sp{74}$Se and $\sp{77}$Kr have been observed with the reactions $\sp{52}$Cr($\sp{28}$Si,$\alpha$2p)$\sp{74}$Se and $\sp{52}$Cr($\sp{28}$Si,2pn)$\sp{77}$Kr at 98 MeV. The target consisted of approximately 1 mg/cm$\sp2$ natural chromium (84% $\sp{52}$Cr abundance) evaporated on a thick lead backing., The new states extend the known level scheme of $\sp{74}$Se up to I$\sp{\pi}$ = (22$\sp+$) and most of the transitions in the other previously reported bands have been seen. For the states I$\sp{\pi}$ $\geq$ 6$\sp+$ the spectrum shows a relatively constant moment of inertia parameter $(\hbar\sp2$/2$\Theta)$ = 27.8 $\pm$ 0.5 keV., Excited positive parity states up to spin (41/2) have been observed in $\sp{77}$Kr. $\Delta$I = 1 transitions have been identified throughout the positive parity band. The energies, mixing ratios and B(M1) transition rates for these transitions alternate in size as the spin increases. A cranked shell model analysis was performed along with Strutinsky-Bogolyubov cranking calculations. The observed decrease in the signature splitting of the $\nu$g$\sb{9/2}$ band has been attributed to a band crossing due to an aligning pair of g$\sb{9/2}$ protons. Prolate quadrupole deformations of $\beta\sb2$ = 0.34 for the ground band and $\beta\sb2$ = 0.26 for the first excited band are predicted. This band crossing is associated with a shape change caused by the polarization effect of aligned quasiparticles.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8805664, 3086780, FSDT3086780, fsu:76255
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Title: THE YOUNG VICS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POPULAR THEATRICAL TRADITION.
Creator: ROMAGNOLI, RICHARD V., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This document studies and chronicles a tradition of popular theatre which began with Jacques Copeau at the Vieux Columbier, and was continued by his nephew Michel St. Denis at the London Theatre Studio and Old Vic Theatre Centre (comprising the Old Vic School, the Young Vic company and the proposed experimental New Vic). This tradition has its clearest modern evocation in Frank Dunlop's Young Vic, opened in 1970., The first part of the dissertation is a study of Copeau's tradition and...
Show moreThis document studies and chronicles a tradition of popular theatre which began with Jacques Copeau at the Vieux Columbier, and was continued by his nephew Michel St. Denis at the London Theatre Studio and Old Vic Theatre Centre (comprising the Old Vic School, the Young Vic company and the proposed experimental New Vic). This tradition has its clearest modern evocation in Frank Dunlop's Young Vic, opened in 1970., The first part of the dissertation is a study of Copeau's tradition and aesthetics. The history and evolution of Copeau's work is detailed. The document then picks up the work of St. Denis, who had worked with his uncle in France, as he relocates in England and founds first the London Theatre Studio and (with George Devine and Glen Byam Shaw) the Old Vic Theatre Centre. The history of the Centre is elucidated and its teaching and production methodologies explored. Finally, the collapse of the Centre and resignation of the directors in the early 1950's is chronicled. Throughout, the document stresses the importance and effect of the techniques and outlook espoused by St. Denis. This section was researched with the assistance of much uncatalogued material from the Old Vic archives., The second half of the document is a history and examination of the Young Vic Theatre under Frank Dunlop. Areas explored include Dunlop's professional background and early affiliation as a student with St. Denis, his preferred production style, the intent and certain alterations of intent of the Young Vic company and the company's success in reaching both their designated young and disaffected audience and a much broader public. Much material in this section is derived from in-person interviews with administrators, directors and performers. The conclusion compares the two entities, their effect and the possible future of the tradition. The importance of St. Denis' school as a mechanism for dissemination is reemphasized, and the history of this approach is once again outlined.
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Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI8100649, 3084711, FSDT3084711, fsu:74212
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Title: YOUNG CHILDREN'S ACQUISITION OF SELECTED ART CONCEPTS USING THE MEDIUM OF BLOCKS WITH TEACHER GUIDANCE.
Creator: GELFER, JEFFREY IAN., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the significance of using blocks as an art medium to teach young children, 3 and 4 years of age, selected art concepts through regularly scheduled treatments. It also examined the effect of learning these concepts had on the structures the children built., The sample consisted of 40 children, ages 42-54 months, who were randomly selected from four pre-schools in Tallahassee, Florida. Two schools, one designated as the experimental with 10 children...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the significance of using blocks as an art medium to teach young children, 3 and 4 years of age, selected art concepts through regularly scheduled treatments. It also examined the effect of learning these concepts had on the structures the children built., The sample consisted of 40 children, ages 42-54 months, who were randomly selected from four pre-schools in Tallahassee, Florida. Two schools, one designated as the experimental with 10 children and one as the control with 10 children, were on the east side of the city. Two schools with the same distribution were on the west side., The 20 experimental subjects were divided into four groups of five and each group received one identical treatment per week for six weeks. They were introduced to and encouraged to talk about art attributes while observing structures, interacting with the experimentor and manipulating and building with blocks. The controls received no treatment but were free to construct with blocks., Relevant art attributes for the medium of blocks were selected from CEMREL. With the help of a professor of art education, 42 were chosen and organized into seven simple conceptual statements. These were grouped into six treatments. To test the concepts two instruments were designed, tested for reliability and administered by the investigator for pre- and posttesting. He scored the concept identification test and three raters who were trained by him scored the implementation. The Fisher t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Chi-square test of independence were used to analyze the data for the three hypotheses., Hypothesis 1 examined the effect the treatment had on children's acquisition of art concepts compared to those who did not have the treatment. The results yielded significance at the .001 level in favor of the treatment. Talking about and using art concepts significantly increased the art concept scores., Hypothesis 2 examined the effects the treatment had on children's block structures compared to those who did not have the treatment. The results yielded significance at the .001 level in favor of the experimental group. Those children identifying art concepts changed their block structures reflecting their use., Hypothesis 3 examined the relationship between the children's ability to identify concepts and implement these in their block structure. The results yielded a moderately high association, .67, between the children's concepts on both tests and a significant association at the .05 level between the subject's ability to identify concepts and to implement them in a block building structure.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8125823, 3085006, FSDT3085006, fsu:74504
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Title: WRITING SKILLS IN THE NIGERIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM.
Creator: ABODERIN, ADEWUYI OYEYEMI., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The study reviewed the importance of English language in Nigeria. As the country's official language, the language of formal education, of politics, of commerce, and of inter-ethnic and international communication, English has become a language required for full participation in Nigerian affairs. This is the reason for the investigator's concern about students' poor performance in English every year on the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE)., Several possible causes were...
Show moreThe study reviewed the importance of English language in Nigeria. As the country's official language, the language of formal education, of politics, of commerce, and of inter-ethnic and international communication, English has become a language required for full participation in Nigerian affairs. This is the reason for the investigator's concern about students' poor performance in English every year on the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE)., Several possible causes were examined, but the paucity of qualified teachers of English and absence of good English language textbooks were considered to be the most threatening. Since teacher training normally requires a long time to accomplish, it was resolved that textbooks should provide the immediate remedy by presenting instructional materials in such quantity and of such quality as will ensure students' general competence in English language and success in the WASCE., Consequently, there were two parts to the study. The first part examined the types and amount of composition tasks set in each of the three coursebooks which subdivide into fifteen textbooks. The composition tasks in the fifteen textbooks and WASCE English composition papers from 1969-1979 were compiled by the investigator and handed out to a panel of three independent raters. The raters categorized each composition task according to the working definitions provided by the investigator. Frequency counts were later computed and expressed as percentages for the purpose of comparison., It was found that students were more frequently expected to write in the transactional-report category than in any of the six other categories used in the study. The textbooks' failure to include a fair proportion of composition tasks for each category was regarded as a fault since composition tasks were set in all the categories in the WASCE at one time or another., The second part of the study assessed the quality of instruction in each coursebook and the accompanying Teachers' Notes. Two of the three coursebooks were found to be average while the third was rated inferior. It was concluded that a coursebook would be satisfactory in the Nigerian situation examined in the study only if it provided superior quality instruction.
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Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI8104855, 3084765, FSDT3084765, fsu:74266
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Title: The World Bank orientation in institution building: The case of Jordan.
Creator: Khudair, Ahmad Mustafa., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examined the World Bank's approach to institution building and its efforts to enhance the institutionalization of government organizations responsible for implementing 28 Bank-assisted projects in four development sectors in Jordan: Energy, Water and Sewerage, Education and Manpower Development, and Urban and Regional Development. Field data were obtained from project-related documents in Jordan's file at the World Bank and interviews with Bank staff., Data on each sector were...
Show moreThis study examined the World Bank's approach to institution building and its efforts to enhance the institutionalization of government organizations responsible for implementing 28 Bank-assisted projects in four development sectors in Jordan: Energy, Water and Sewerage, Education and Manpower Development, and Urban and Regional Development. Field data were obtained from project-related documents in Jordan's file at the World Bank and interviews with Bank staff., Data on each sector were first presented in terms of three types of descriptive formats: institutional setting, institution-building components, and technical assistance. The purpose was to focus on the salient features and contexts of Bank efforts. Findings were then reformulated using a model developed by the Inter-University Research Program in Institution Building (I-URPIB). The two approaches were compared., The findings indicate that World Bank efforts in institution building typically encompass two interrelated and complementary features. One emphasizes improved managerial practices and the other the optimal allocation of resources., This study found incompatibility between the Bank's and the I-URPIB's conceptions of institution building. While the World Bank postulates it as a means to "efficient performance," the other perspective suggests "institutionality" as an end in itself. The study concludes that the "nature of the donor" is an important intervening variable in institutionalization efforts. It is likely to influence the process and thereby shape the content and nature of institution building in a particular setting.
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Date Issued: 1988, 1988
Identifier: AAI8814418, 3086828, FSDT3086828, fsu:76303
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Title: THE WORKS OF HANOCH LEVIN, 1969-1976.
Creator: WEITZ, SHOSHANA., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This research presents an analysis of major dramatic works by the contemporary Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin. Between 1969 and 1976 Levin wrote ten full-length plays and directed five of them. Throughout this period of dramatic work Levin developed a unique dramatic style. This study follows Levin's progressive development in themes and structure during this period, through 1976 when the research on the dissertation began. Although he worked in a parallel manner with musical and non-musical...
Show moreThis research presents an analysis of major dramatic works by the contemporary Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin. Between 1969 and 1976 Levin wrote ten full-length plays and directed five of them. Throughout this period of dramatic work Levin developed a unique dramatic style. This study follows Levin's progressive development in themes and structure during this period, through 1976 when the research on the dissertation began. Although he worked in a parallel manner with musical and non-musical plays, his works developed differently in each of these forms. His development in each form is described and analyzed in this study., Since there are similarities between Levin's works and those of the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Bertolt Brecht, these similarities are explored, as are the specific ways in which Levin has mixed Epic motifs with motifs of the Theatre of the Absurd., Levin's work is universal in nature. Nevertheless, he is rooted in Israeli culture and society and has succeeded in fusing the national with universal in his plays. This study attempts to demonstrate Levin's contributions to both Israeli drama and western theatre.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8125862, 3085037, FSDT3085037, fsu:74535
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Title: THE WORKING DYNAMICS OF THE RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY: AN ANALYSIS OF CHARLES LUDLAM'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS ENSEMBLE FROM 1967 THROUGH 1981 (NEW YORK).
Creator: WHARTON, ROBERT THOMAS, III., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In the late 1960s in New York, many actors became disillusioned with the commercial theatre practice of "jobbing in," i.e., of hiring performers for only one production. A number of these actors began experimenting with different types of performing groups or ensembles. These ensembles often reflected the culture of that period--disillusionment with mainstream middle-class values, involvement with drugs, opposition to the Viet Nam war. They attracted experimenters in professional theatre and...
Show moreIn the late 1960s in New York, many actors became disillusioned with the commercial theatre practice of "jobbing in," i.e., of hiring performers for only one production. A number of these actors began experimenting with different types of performing groups or ensembles. These ensembles often reflected the culture of that period--disillusionment with mainstream middle-class values, involvement with drugs, opposition to the Viet Nam war. They attracted experimenters in professional theatre and a mixed group of performers with a wide spectrum of theatre training and experience. Some performers had none at all, and some a great deal. People from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and different races were drawn together, working for a single social, artistic purpose. Because the group members represented such a variety of performing types, the ensemble leader often became the main teacher. The group frequently met other needs, as a family would, by providing for its members a social, political, emotional, and spiritual structure., One such ensemble was The Ridiculous Theatrical Company (TRTC), whose leader was Charles Ludlam. This ensemble was unique among the companies of that period in that it maintained a continuing group of the same five actors over a thirteen-year span. This study was an examination of the dynamics of that ensemble and the interrelations of the five long-term members under Ludlam's leadership during the period from 1967 to 1981., Data for this study were drawn from articles written about the Company, extensive interviews conducted between 1979 and 1982 with the five long-term members, and participant observation by the researcher. The study is presented largely in the members' own words, allowing the story to speak for itself. It traces the Company's existence--philosophically, chronologically, and topically--from its inception to the final disillusionment and departure of two of the original members in 1980.
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Date Issued: 1985, 1985
Identifier: AAI8605798, 3086265, FSDT3086265, fsu:75748
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Title: WORK-RELATED STRESS OF STATE CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT JUDGES.
Creator: MEMORY, JOHN MADISON., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This is an exploratory survey study of the determination of work-related stress of state criminal trial court judges. A multi-disciplinary review of research and theory concerning work-related stress, especially for professionals, and concerning the trial judicial role was the basis for the statement of hypotheses concerning forty-six variables predicted to operate as stressor, stress moderator, or determinant of vulnerability to being stressed., A questionnaire, utilizing generally one-item...
Show moreThis is an exploratory survey study of the determination of work-related stress of state criminal trial court judges. A multi-disciplinary review of research and theory concerning work-related stress, especially for professionals, and concerning the trial judicial role was the basis for the statement of hypotheses concerning forty-six variables predicted to operate as stressor, stress moderator, or determinant of vulnerability to being stressed., A questionnaire, utilizing generally one-item measurement of variables, was developed through a four-stage draft-pretest process. Two single-item subjective ratings of work-related stress and a modified fourteen-item scale indicating physiological symptoms of stress were the dependent variable measures., Questionnaires, with letters of endorsement by the major United States judge-training institution and a senior trial judge, were mailed to a random sample of 500 state criminal trial court judges above the traffic court level. An adjusted response rate of 40% was achieved., After tests using oneway analysis of variance and stepwise multiple regression for hypothesized nonlinearity of relationship, hierarchical-entry, theory-determined group stepwise multiple regression was conducted with the three different measures of stress as dependent variables. The same procedure was conducted using a combination of all usable sample responses and 96 usable responses by students attending courses at the National Judicial College., Conclusions regarding outcome of hypothesis tests were based primarily on semi-partial correlation coefficients obtained from the hierarchical entry multiple regression and secondarily on zero-order correlations, oneway analysis of variance results, and listings by respondents of stressful factors concerning the role and function relating to criminal cases and reasons for preferring other work., Conclusions are stated concerning the apparent extent to which state criminal trial court judges experience work-related stress and concerning the relative importance of specific variables and types of variables. Possible implications of findings for judges' health, court organization, judicial decisionmaking, and future research are discussed. The broad, exploratory design and resulting limitations regarding generalization is emphasized.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8205732, 3085156, FSDT3085156, fsu:74651
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Title: Work-family role strain in Korean-American dual-earner families: A theoretical model.
Creator: Kim, Yeong-Hee., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the clustering effect of work and family role stressors and strain, mediated by family resource and coping strategy, on quality of life using the Double ABCX model. On the basis of previous literature and stress theory, the theoretical model was specified, estimated, and evaluated for adequacy of statistical fit for samples of Korean-American dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California. Separate estimates for 153 wives and 117 husbands were...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine the clustering effect of work and family role stressors and strain, mediated by family resource and coping strategy, on quality of life using the Double ABCX model. On the basis of previous literature and stress theory, the theoretical model was specified, estimated, and evaluated for adequacy of statistical fit for samples of Korean-American dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California. Separate estimates for 153 wives and 117 husbands were obtained using LISREL analysis., Although the initial model was not supported by the data, the revised model fitted the data adequately for wives and husbands, respectively. In the revised model, there was reciprocal effect of family system resource and coping strategy for wives. For husbands, there was the direct effect of family role stressor on family system resource., The theoretical model for wives also represented a generalization of family stress theory while the model for husbands did not. That is, wives' work-family role strain was intensified by the amount of work and family role stressors. Also, family system resource was an important mediating factor in decreasing work-family role strain and in increasing quality or life for the wives of Korean-American dual-earner families. For the husbands, however, neither work-family role strain or family system resource acted as a mediating factor. This study contributed to the literature in work-family role strain and family stress theory, and should be of interest to researchers and family life educators.
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Date Issued: 1991, 1991
Identifier: AAI9209124, 3087832, FSDT3087832, fsu:76642
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Title: WORK GROUP COHESION AND JOB STRESS AMONG POLICE OFFICERS (FLORIDA).
Creator: DAVIS, GOLIATH JOHN, III., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Utilizing the field theory/group dynamics approach from social psychology, a cross-sectional correlational analysis of the relationship between police perceptions of the cohesiveness of their work groups and indices of stress frequency and intensity was conducted with a sample of 289 police officers from the St. Petersburg, Florida Police Department. Respondents ranged in age from 19 to 54 years with a mean age of 32.75 years. The mean educational level was 13.6 years and the mean length of...
Show moreUtilizing the field theory/group dynamics approach from social psychology, a cross-sectional correlational analysis of the relationship between police perceptions of the cohesiveness of their work groups and indices of stress frequency and intensity was conducted with a sample of 289 police officers from the St. Petersburg, Florida Police Department. Respondents ranged in age from 19 to 54 years with a mean age of 32.75 years. The mean educational level was 13.6 years and the mean length of service was 8.76 years. Approximately eighty-five percent (84.8%) of the respondents were white and the remaining 15.2% were black, hispanic, or oriental. Two hundred sixty-five (91.7%) of the officers were male and 24 (8.3%) were female., Five substantive hypotheses were tested to assess the impact of job specialization, shift assignment, length of service, and area worked on group cohesion; and whether or not cohesive group membership intensified or reduced the strain effects of job stress., The Likert scaling technique was utilized to construct indices of cohesiveness and stress (frequency and intensity). The data was analyzed at the five percent significance level utilizing Pearson's product moment correlational technique., The study failed to support the proposition that cohesion among St. Petersburg Police Officers varies with job specialization; however, cohesion was observed to vary with shift assignment, area worked, and length of service when the combined effects of age and specialization, age and area worked, and age and race were controlled. Limited support was also found for the proposition that both the intensity and the frequency of job stress decrease as the cohesiveness of work groups increase., The significance of the study lies in its practical and research implications. On a practical level, the study alerts police administrators to the potential benefit of reduced stress and anxiety resulting from cohesive group behavior among police officers. From a research perspective, the study provides an opportunity for retrospective evaluation of the utility and effectiveness of the field theory/group dynamics approach to the study of police behavior; and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Likert scaling technique for operationalizing and measuring police stress and cohesion.
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Date Issued: 1984, 1984
Identifier: AAI8416698, 3085840, FSDT3085840, fsu:75327
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Title: Work alienation and training: A study of Florida correctional officers and correctional officer sergeants.
Creator: Mahmud, Zahratul Kamar., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examined the relationship between training and work alienation among correctional officers and sergeants serving in all male maximum and close security prisons in Florida. The research investigated the effects of training, individual characteristics, and institution on correctional officers' work alienation. Work alienation was measured along five subscales of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, instrumental work orientation (self-estrangement), and isolation from...
Show moreThis study examined the relationship between training and work alienation among correctional officers and sergeants serving in all male maximum and close security prisons in Florida. The research investigated the effects of training, individual characteristics, and institution on correctional officers' work alienation. Work alienation was measured along five subscales of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, instrumental work orientation (self-estrangement), and isolation from organizational goals., Three correctional institutions were randomly selected from the highest risk prisons in the state, ranked by the Florida Department of Corrections as Category 7. All correctional officers and sergeants from these institutions totalling 901 were surveyed by mail. Of the 901 surveyed, 380 (42.1%) were usable for the study., The survey elicited information on training attended by officers, their background, and level of alienation. Open-ended questions were also included., Results of multiple regression analysis revealed that training has significant impact on lowering work-alienation. However, that impact was limited to specialized and career advancement training. Formal education had a positive effect on level of alienation. More alienated officers were likely to be married, non-whites, with no children, aged 40 years and less, working for 15 years or less, assigned to night shifts, and related to family members employed in correctional work. One particular institution had higher levels of alienation among its officers than the other two surveyed., To alleviate work-alienation, recommendations were made for specific policy changes focussing mainly on strengthening current training standards. They relate to (1) research, development, and evaluation of training, (2) curriculum and instructional development, (3) training of trainers, (4) support services for training, and (5) strategy for staff development.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
Identifier: AAI9334260, 3088146, FSDT3088146, fsu:76953
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Title: WOMEN'S INCOME GENERATION AND INFORMAL LEARNING IN LESOTHO: A POLICY-RELATED ETHNOGRAPHY.
Creator: COBBE, LOUISE BARRETT., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study presents a policy-related ethnography of women's income generation in Lesotho. The study begins with the proposition that current Women in Development (WID) policy has been shaped, at the international and local level, by over-generalized and, therefore, decontextualized concepts derived from recent WID literature. While a number of these WID concepts, i.e. women's "marginalization," may be generally valid, they tend to narrow our understanding and predefine our interpretation of...
Show moreThis study presents a policy-related ethnography of women's income generation in Lesotho. The study begins with the proposition that current Women in Development (WID) policy has been shaped, at the international and local level, by over-generalized and, therefore, decontextualized concepts derived from recent WID literature. While a number of these WID concepts, i.e. women's "marginalization," may be generally valid, they tend to narrow our understanding and predefine our interpretation of women's development needs in specific situations. As a result, a "standardized" approach to WID programming has emerged. The study addresses the need to "break-away" from the standardized concepts underlying conventional WID policy in order to learn about how the proposed beneficiaries of WID policy, the women themselves, interpret and respond to the needs and conditions to their particular environment., Ethnographic principles and procedures are employed to discover and develop indigenously derived analytical constructs. These constructs are applied to the study's depiction and analysis of the income generation enterprises of Basotho women in a number of villages in the Maseru District of Lesotho. A case study of the development of the enterprises of the study's key informant is presented., The Domestic Developmental Cycle is presented as a culturally-grounded context for understanding women's income generation as a strategic response to immediate and long-term needs and wants. An ethnographic analysis of these needs and wants is provided. A grounded typology of work is developed and applied in this analysis. The study also identifies and describes the People of Business Network, an informal learning and resource system which supports the learning and development of women involved in business in a number of ways., The implications of these findings for non-formal education programming in Lesotho are discussed. The study also examines the potential of this ethnographic approach to policy research as a planning and needs assessment strategy to inform educational policy in other settings.
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Date Issued: 1985, 1985
Identifier: AAI8513364, 3086049, FSDT3086049, fsu:75535
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Title: WOMEN'S CAREER ASPIRATIONS: A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN.
Creator: SULLIVAN, JOAN MARGARET., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this research was to investigate college women's career aspirations and to determine if there are differences between women who aspire to non-traditional and traditional careers. Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism provided the theoretical framework for this analysis., The subjects were a national probability sample of 3,879 female college freshmen who responded to a 1978 survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The respondents were asked to select...
Show moreThe purpose of this research was to investigate college women's career aspirations and to determine if there are differences between women who aspire to non-traditional and traditional careers. Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism provided the theoretical framework for this analysis., The subjects were a national probability sample of 3,879 female college freshmen who responded to a 1978 survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The respondents were asked to select their probable careers from a list of 42 occupations. The career aspirations of the women were ranked into ten categories of traditionality; these rankings were based on the distribution of the women's career choices compared to the choices of 4,010 male college freshmen who responded to the survey., Eleven hypotheses were tested; all were supported. The data indicated that the more non-traditional a woman's career aspirations: (1) the younger her age, (2) the more educated her mother, (3) the more educated her father, (4) the greater her parents' income, (5) the more non-traditional her mother's occupation, (6) the more liberal her social attitudes, (7) the less frequent her church attendance, (8) the less importance she attaches to raising a family, (9) the less immediate her plans for marriage, (10) the higher her high school grades, and (11) the higher her academic degree intentions. The eleven variables also significantly discriminated the third of the women with the most non-traditional career aspirations from the third of the sample with the most traditional aspirations. The results indicated that variables related to the women's achievement were better predictors of career aspirations than family background variables., Path analysis using four of the eleven independent variables revealed minimal indirect effects; it also demonstrated that traditionality of mother's occupation could be removed from the model without any appreciable loss in predictive power., The findings indicated that women are aspiring to more non-traditional careers; however, there is still considerable sex-typing in career aspirations. It was concluded that structural changes in society need to be made in order to enhance opportunities for women.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8208750, 3085199, FSDT3085199, fsu:74694
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Title: WOMEN IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: AN ANALYTICAL SYNTHESIS AND SUMMING UP OF WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW.
Creator: MOTAREF, SARA., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, only 34% of the nation's administrators are women. The reasons for this underrepresentation, particularly in educational administration, is unknown. The main purpose of this study was to identify the factors that had been researched from the Civil Rights movement (1955) to the present (1985) concerning women in educational administration in kindergarten through twelfth grade settings. A sample of 171 research studies (published and unpublished) was...
Show moreAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor, only 34% of the nation's administrators are women. The reasons for this underrepresentation, particularly in educational administration, is unknown. The main purpose of this study was to identify the factors that had been researched from the Civil Rights movement (1955) to the present (1985) concerning women in educational administration in kindergarten through twelfth grade settings. A sample of 171 research studies (published and unpublished) was used for content analysis., The methodology used to integrate the body of the literature was the meta-analytic approach introduced by Glass and updated by Hedges and Olkin (1985), listing factors, and averaging statistics. To categorize the studies, six categories introduced by Shakeshaft (1979) were adopted: behavior, structural determinants of organization, attitudes, barriers, profile, and status., Overall, the majority of the studies were conducted in the eastern part of the United States; most of the researchers were female. Most studies used a survey design, questionnaires, and univariate statistics. The quality of the resarch was mediocre; the only variables to have consistent relationships with the quality of research were type of research and sex of the researcher., The findings of the study are inconclusive; the question of why women are underrepresented in educational administration remains unanswered. Although this body of literature about women in educational administration introduced much information that was not known before, there are many aspects of the research that need improvement. More appropriate theoretical frameworks should be used, such as symbolic interaction, Marxism, ethno-Marxism, and radical humanism. The methodology of research should include more observational techniques to obtain first-hand information (ethnography).
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8721852, 3086645, FSDT3086645, fsu:76120
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Women and alcoholism: The impact of family of origin issues during recovery and relapse.
Creator: Hall, Patti K., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This exploratory study examined the impact of family history on the recovery of alcoholic women, investigating differences between those who had been sober for at least two years and those who had at least one relapse and less than a year of abstinence. The impact of personal characteristics of the women, social support, and therapy for abuse upon recovery were also examined., The study used a convenience sample of 157 subjects, with voluntary and anonymous participation, drawn from women...
Show moreThis exploratory study examined the impact of family history on the recovery of alcoholic women, investigating differences between those who had been sober for at least two years and those who had at least one relapse and less than a year of abstinence. The impact of personal characteristics of the women, social support, and therapy for abuse upon recovery were also examined., The study used a convenience sample of 157 subjects, with voluntary and anonymous participation, drawn from women alcoholics in the southeastern United States. The women completed a questionnaire using retrospective analysis and self-report data., Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to examine the impact of individual, family, and socioeconomic factors upon recovery. Race, traumatic reactions, social support, and therapy for abuse were significant factors in differences between sober and relapsing women. Age, education, past physical abuse, and participation in Twelve Step groups, as covariates, did not significantly contribute to an understanding of the differences between the groups., Sober and relapsing women were similar on measures of severity of addiction to alcohol, family of origin ritual, and parental chemical dependency. Although women in both groups reported a high incidence of family violence, relapsing women reported more traumatic reactions, operationalized as negative affect/cognitive schemata about self and the world; intrusiveness of thoughts, dreams, or feelings about traumatic events; and avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event., A combination of variables was found to accurately predict group membership, providing a means of identifying alcoholic women who are most vulnerable to relapse. Direct discriminant function analysis determined that the variables identified in the study accurately predict recovery, correctly classifying 94% of the cases. Differences between the groups on the tested variables accounted for 67% of the variance. Avoidance of stimuli associated with traumatic events, education, age, negative affect/cognitive schemata about self and the world, and counseling for abuse issues, in that order, made the greatest contributions to the analysis.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9510126, 3088481, FSDT3088481, fsu:77286
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A woman's place is on patrol: Female representation in municipal police departments.
Creator: Poulos, Tamara Meredith., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Until recently, female police officers held very traditional stereotypical positions within law enforcement. Despite equal employment opportunity laws, affirmative action policies, and the influx into patrol assignments, women still represent only 9% of sworn police officers in the United States. The underrepresentation of minorities in policing is not a new phenomenon to social scientists. However, this study represents the first attempt to determine whether the gender composition of local...
Show moreUntil recently, female police officers held very traditional stereotypical positions within law enforcement. Despite equal employment opportunity laws, affirmative action policies, and the influx into patrol assignments, women still represent only 9% of sworn police officers in the United States. The underrepresentation of minorities in policing is not a new phenomenon to social scientists. However, this study represents the first attempt to determine whether the gender composition of local law enforcement agencies reflects local labor force characteristics., The present study examines the variation in female representation among sworn full-time personnel in municipal police departments serving populations of 2,500 or more in the State of Florida. A tobit censored normal regression analysis is utilized to test the hypothesis that women are denied access to patrol positions. The results support the hypothesis. Despite their adequate representation in the local labor force and the available applicant pool, females are excluded from this traditionally male domain. The relative size of the police department and the geographical region of the state are the best predictors of female representation. The implications of this finding for the future of women in policing is discussed.
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9234245, 3087871, FSDT3087871, fsu:76681
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Title: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART'S "GRAND MASS IN C MINOR K. 427/417A": A HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF PERFORMANCE EDITIONS.
Creator: CRABB, RICHARD PAUL., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor K. 427/417a and to compare performance editions of this work., The first chapter outlines the procedure and reason for the study. Unavailability of the manuscript for study between World War II and the late 1970s contributed to limited recent research of the Mass, K. 427. Since the "finding" of the manuscript it has been housed in East Berlin's Deutsche Staatsbibliothek. However,...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor K. 427/417a and to compare performance editions of this work., The first chapter outlines the procedure and reason for the study. Unavailability of the manuscript for study between World War II and the late 1970s contributed to limited recent research of the Mass, K. 427. Since the "finding" of the manuscript it has been housed in East Berlin's Deutsche Staatsbibliothek. However, expense of travel to East Berlin has prohibited further research by some scholars. A facsimile of the autograph was made available to the public in 1982., Historical background and circumstances surrounding the Grand Mass in C Minor compromise the content of the second chapter. Topics for discussion include Mozart's reasons for writing the Mass, stylistic influences, and conjectures about the work's incompletion. In addition, the relation of the Mass and Davidde penitente is explained., In the third chapter H. C. Robbins Landon's edition of the Mass--the most recent performance edition-- is analyzed. The first part of the chapter includes descriptions of formal structures. The second part of the chapter analyzes the Mass using the method of analysis developed by Julius Herford., Landon's edition of the Mass is compared with the edition by Alois Schmitt in the fourth chapter. Differences and similarities between the two editions are identified. Further, both of these editions are compared with primary resources--a facsimile of the manuscript, reproductions of original sketches and fragments, and a handwritten copy of the organ and trombone parts of the Mass (which include corrections in Mozart's hand). Through comparisions it was determined that Landon's edition is in closer agreement with Mozart's manuscript than is Schmitt's edition., The author of the present study hopes the data compiled will promote a scholarly approach to future performances of Grand Mass in C Minor K. 427/417a. Although Landon's edition (1956) of the Mass is an improvement over Schmitt's edition (1901), the former editor did not have the manuscript available for study. Recent research and publication of the facsimile indicate a need for a new performance edition.
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Date Issued: 1984, 1984
Identifier: AAI8419211, 3085848, FSDT3085848, fsu:75335
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Wittgenstein and education: Teaching the infinite sign.
Creator: McCarty, Luise Prior., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The dissertation begins with an examination of four interpretations of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's so-called later writings; each of these interpretations is commonly thought to have significant bearing upon the philosophy of education. The interpretations in question are Brose's developmental theory of learning, Macmillan's normative model of rational teaching, Bloor's social theory of knowledge and Winch's putative science of rule following. I show how each of the four faces...
Show moreThe dissertation begins with an examination of four interpretations of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's so-called later writings; each of these interpretations is commonly thought to have significant bearing upon the philosophy of education. The interpretations in question are Brose's developmental theory of learning, Macmillan's normative model of rational teaching, Bloor's social theory of knowledge and Winch's putative science of rule following. I show how each of the four faces textual and philosophical difficulties and that all of these difficulties flow from a single hermeneutic source, the fallacy of descriptivism, the presupposition that statements of meaning are made true by an extralinguistic but linguistically-structured reality., The descriptivists, those scholars who commit the fallacy of descriptivism, tend to see Wittgenstein as having stepped out of metaphysics and into a successor discipline which is an armchair version of a natural or social science. According to the four interpreters, Wittgenstein was seeking after a species of truth about language which would ultimately constitute a field of knowledge and which can be discovered through scientific processes of investigation such as observation and data collection. A large part of the goal of such processes will be to describe language correctly and sincerely., What emerges from the critique of descriptivism is a new interpretation of Wittgenstein which does not suffer from the descriptivist fallacy. The new perspective holds a number of ideas in store for philosophy of education, among them the concepts of the human symbol, of elucidation as a means of explanation, of structural knowledge as more fundamental than propositional knowledge and of the coercion of language. Lastly, my perspective contains the outline of a solution to the paradox of rule following which has consequences for critical thinking and of the standing conception of rationality and belief., One of the goals of the new interpretation is to take inspiration not so much from differences between Wittgenstein's early and later work but from their many points of similarity. From this point of view, themes appear which run throughout Wittgenstein's writings--from Tractatus through On Certainty--foremost of which is the emphasis upon elucidation.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9100062, 3162076, FSDT3162076, fsu:78274
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: With an Open Heart: Folia De Reis, a Brazilian Spiritual Journey Through Song.
Creator: Tremura, Welson Alves, Olsen, Dale A., Oliver-Smith, Anthony, Bakan, Michael B., Crook, Larry, College of Music, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The folia de reis is a popular Brazilian tradition of folk Catholicism that involves a group of participants who, between Christmas and Epiphany, go on a journey asking for alms for social-religious purposes. The tradition refers to musical ensembles comprising predominantly low-income rural workers from various regions of Brazil. Instrumentalists, singers, and other participants travel from house to house and farm to farm, singing and praising the birth of Christ. The folia de reis...
Show moreThe folia de reis is a popular Brazilian tradition of folk Catholicism that involves a group of participants who, between Christmas and Epiphany, go on a journey asking for alms for social-religious purposes. The tradition refers to musical ensembles comprising predominantly low-income rural workers from various regions of Brazil. Instrumentalists, singers, and other participants travel from house to house and farm to farm, singing and praising the birth of Christ. The folia de reis celebrates and reenacts the Biblical journey of the Three Kings to Bethlehem and back to their homeland guided by the Star of Bethlehem. The folia de reis tradition under investigation in this research is a tradition that traces its origins back to colonial Brazil and to the Iberian Peninsula. As they travel from Christmas Eve through Epiphany (January 6), their singing journey blesses the families, which they visit in exchange for food or money. The folia de reis tradition is classified as "popular Catholicism" (Catholic ritual practice external to the interests of the Catholic Church) and it is quite widely diffused in the southern, central, and northern regions of Brazil, primarily in the rural communities. From the early Portuguese sources through the manifestations in twenty-first century, one theme is common to folia de reis: the Three Kings are important personages among the rural populations of Brazil. The primary focus of this dissertation is the relationship between music and religion as expressed in folia de reis songs and its participants' personal faith. My analysis of the relationship between song and faith is partially based on how folia de reis group members strengthen their spiritual world by praying and singing their songs along the journey to express devotion and fulfill their obligations to the Three Kings. It also relies on comparison with other studies by Alceu Maynard Araújo (1949), Zaíde Maciel de Castro and Aracy do Prado Couto (1961), Guilherme Porto (1982), and Suzel Reily (1996). Through the study and understanding of music and song texts, including musical instruments and other aspects of folia de reis material culture, I argue that the folia de reis tradition, empowered by all its characteristics (music, text, costumes, etc.) has the power to strengthen faith and forge community bonds in both its traditional religious context and its newer staged context of the Olímpia Folklore Festival.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1515
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Wise women wear black hats: A life history exploration of professional identity formation in two African American women adult educators.
Creator: Closson, Rosemary Brown., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examines the lives of Black "professional" adult educators (both have PhD.s) as they reflect on their respective 20 years of work experience. The primary question to be answered is: How have these women shaped their own professional identity in adult education and to what extent has that process been affected by race and/or gender? A subsidiary and closely linked question is: What lessons are learned by shifting the methodological lens to contemplate the lives of two nondominant...
Show moreThis study examines the lives of Black "professional" adult educators (both have PhD.s) as they reflect on their respective 20 years of work experience. The primary question to be answered is: How have these women shaped their own professional identity in adult education and to what extent has that process been affected by race and/or gender? A subsidiary and closely linked question is: What lessons are learned by shifting the methodological lens to contemplate the lives of two nondominant people in adult education? Four theoretical constructs bear directly on how the research problem was framed and how the "data" were perceived. Those constructs were: the concept of hegemony, the perspective of African American feminist theory, the perspective of a theory of women's history, and theories of professionalization., A life history methodology, with a feminist influence, was used in this qualitative study; the data were analyzed using a grounded theory analysis. Two African American adult educators collaboratively engaged with the researcher in open-ended interviews and analysis of emerging concepts during 1992-93. Analysis revealed strategies used by the "co-historians" to overcome gender and racial barriers within their institutions and in the larger society. Findings indicate professional identity for these adult educators was not one of "conversion" to an externally defined symbolic model of an adult educator (no such model exists), rather it was an identity "melded" with personal beliefs and values colored by racial and gendered experiences. Another significant finding is the extent to which the lack of definition and professionalization of the field of adult education seems to affect the necessity for its members to create not only a professional identity but also the necessity to design opportunities for the application of their skills--this is referred to as "intrapreneuring." Life history, in this study, appears to be an important addition to adult education historiography because it accentuates the relationship of the degree of professionalization of the field to the individual practitioner's identity formation.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9434103, 3088396, FSDT3088396, fsu:77201
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WIND-DRIVEN VARIABILITY OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS.
Creator: BUSALACCHI, ANTONIO JAMES, JR., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Models incorporating a single baroclinic mode and realistic coastline geometry are used to analyze the linear, dynamic response to estimates of the interannual wind field over the tropical Pacific and the seasonally varying winds of the tropical Atlantic. The interannual variability of the tropical Pacific is studied for the period January, 1961 to December, 1978. Model pycnocline variations at several locations are similar to the observed sea level fluctuations. El Nino events are depicted...
Show moreModels incorporating a single baroclinic mode and realistic coastline geometry are used to analyze the linear, dynamic response to estimates of the interannual wind field over the tropical Pacific and the seasonally varying winds of the tropical Atlantic. The interannual variability of the tropical Pacific is studied for the period January, 1961 to December, 1978. Model pycnocline variations at several locations are similar to the observed sea level fluctuations. El Nino events are depicted as periods when the pycnocline is persistently deep along the eastern boundary. Remotely forced equatorial Kelvin waves are responsible for this response. The character of each simulated El Nisno is strongly dependent on the relation between zonal wind stress changes in the western an central equatorial Pacific. A rapid shoaling of the pycnocline in the western tropical Pacific during each El Nino is caused by westward-propagating Rossby waves. Interannual pycnocline displacements in the central equatorial Pacific are determined by the superposition of Kelvin waves excited to the west and first-mode Rossby waves generated to the east., The forced periodic response to the seasonal wind field of the tropical Atlantic is a spatially dependent combination of a locally forced response, Kelvin waves, Rossby waves, and multiple wave reflections. The seasonal displacements of the model pycnocline are compared with observed dynamic height. Annual and semiannual fluctuations dominate the seasonal signal throughout the basin. In general, the distribution of amplitude and phase are similar for annual changes in dynamic height and pycnocline depth. Major features of the seasonal response are reproduced, e.g. an east-west tilting of the equatorial pycnocline about a pivot point, the seasonal pycnocline movement along the northern and southern coast of the Guinea Gulf, and a significant change of phase in the ocean variability north and south of the ITCZ. The relative importance between local and remote forcing is determined for several parts of the basin. The wind-driven annual signal in the Gulf of Guinea is due to zonal wind stress fluctuations west of the gulf. The seasonal response in the western equatorial and northernmost parts of the basin are primarily local.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
Identifier: AAI8306155, 3085467, FSDT3085467, fsu:74959
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WIND INSTRUMENTALISTS' INTONATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED MUSICAL INTERVALS.
Creator: DUKE, ROBERT ALAN., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of performed ascending versus descending direction on the intonation of melodic and harmonic musical intervals, compared to equal temperament, in relationship to total intonation deviation and with regard to sharpness versus flatness. Additional aspects of the study investigated the differences among experience levels of subjects, the effects of performing while listening through headphones, and the effects of an a priori verbal inducement...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine the effect of performed ascending versus descending direction on the intonation of melodic and harmonic musical intervals, compared to equal temperament, in relationship to total intonation deviation and with regard to sharpness versus flatness. Additional aspects of the study investigated the differences among experience levels of subjects, the effects of performing while listening through headphones, and the effects of an a priori verbal inducement concerning intonation., Forty-eight musicians enrolled in programs associated with The Florida State University were randomly selected as subjects. Sixteen subjects from each of three groups (junior high school, senior high school, and college undergraduate) were assigned to one of four experimental conditions in a split-plot design. Subjects performed four diatonic intervals (major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, and major sixth) both melodically and harmonically. Melodic intervals were performed in both ascending and descending directions. Harmonic intervals were created by subjects performing along with a recording of their previous performance of the same interval but in contrary motion. Subjects received differential verbal inducement following initial performances, after which the initial intervals were repeated. During the second set of trials, half of the subjects performed while listening through headphones., Results indicated that there were no significant differences in overall intonation accuracy in relationship to performed ascending and descending directions. Also, there were no significant differences among intervals with regard to overall deviation. In relationship to sharpness versus flatness, there were significant, if musically inconsequential, differences: when subjects descended, intervals were performed slightly sharper; when subjects ascended, intervals were played slightly flatter; also, junior high school subjects performed slightly sharper, compared to college subjects. Neither the a priori verbal inducement nor the headphone feedback condition produced significant differences.
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Date Issued: 1983, 1983
Identifier: AAI8325673, 3085647, FSDT3085647, fsu:75139
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The wind band music of Hindemith, Krenek, Pepping, Toch and others from the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival: An analysis of historical and artisticsignificance (Germany, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Pepping, Ernst Toch, Austria).
Creator: Carmichael, John Charles., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Recently, much interest has been focused on the development of band repertoire. An important event in the development of that repertoire, but one that has been largely overlooked, was the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival. During that festival, a concert was scheduled which featured original music for military band. The initial call for original band compositions was not productive, which led to the commissioning of specific composers for the project. The commissions produced four works that...
Show moreRecently, much interest has been focused on the development of band repertoire. An important event in the development of that repertoire, but one that has been largely overlooked, was the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival. During that festival, a concert was scheduled which featured original music for military band. The initial call for original band compositions was not productive, which led to the commissioning of specific composers for the project. The commissions produced four works that were performed on the July 24, 1926 concert: Konzertmusik fur Blasorchester, op. 41 by Paul Hindemith, Drei Marsche fur Militarorchester, op. 44, by Ernst Krenek; Kleine Serenade fur Militarorchester, by Ernst Pepping; and Spiel fur Militarorchester, op. 39, by Ernst Toch. The distinguished conductor Hermann Scherchen led the premieres of three of the four compositions., Although reviews were mixed, three of the works, compositions by Krenek, Toch, and Hindemith, are currently regarded as important works for wind band. The composition by Pepping has only recently been rediscovered, edited, and published., This study explores the historical background of the Donaueschingen Festival, the composers, the circumstances around the event, and the impact it had on the development of the wind band repertoire. Other areas examined include Gebrauchsmusik and the relationship of band music to the art music world., Conclusions indicate that the event helped to produce some important wind music, and provided a model for the production of art music for band. The social and political climate in Germany during that time tended to suppress both music produced by Jews and music considered to be culturally unacceptable. Several of the composers involved were either Jewish or had connections with Jews. Further, the music was quite different from the usual fare expected for military bands.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9514709, 3088523, FSDT3088523, fsu:77325
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: William Valentine Knott: A plain, old-fashioned democrat.
Creator: Waddell, Cynthia Roberson., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examines the public and private careers of a dedicated public servant, William Valentine Knott. From the Progressive Era through the New Deal, Knott served Florida as Auditor, Comptroller, State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, and Director of the State Mental Hospital in Chattahoochee. As a Cabinet officer, he was on the major boards of Florida's government. Of special interest are his contributions to the Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the Internal...
Show moreThis study examines the public and private careers of a dedicated public servant, William Valentine Knott. From the Progressive Era through the New Deal, Knott served Florida as Auditor, Comptroller, State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, and Director of the State Mental Hospital in Chattahoochee. As a Cabinet officer, he was on the major boards of Florida's government. Of special interest are his contributions to the Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund. He lost one of Florida's most controversial gubernatorial elections, in 1916., In addition to a career in politics, Knott developed a private career which mirrored the economic development of the state for a seventy year period. He grew citrus in the 1880s, managed phosphate mines in the 1890s, and speculated in south Florida land from the 1920s through the 1950s, while investing in lumber, "truck farming," an ice factory, cemeteries, and numerous other ventures. Many details of his personal finances have been destroyed, but some notable connections between his public and private lives are apparent., Knott's family life embodies as much history as his professional life. His wife, Luella Pugh, was highly visible as a community reformer at a time when most Southern women shunned public roles. She bridged the gap between the ornamental Victorian woman and the Progressive Era activist. Her published and unpublished writings describe Southern society during the first half of the twentieth century, and the ambivalence of women as they created public lives for themselves. One of their sons occupied a nearly unique position in Tallahassee society through his close relationship with the northerners who transformed area plantations from "cotton to quail" following the Civil War. As a family of some wealth, they employed servants and tenant farmers. A description of race and class relations is included., The emphasis is on the forty years Knott served in state government, between 1897 and 1941. A chronological approach is employed, using traditional methodologies. Primary sources include fifty cubic feet of family papers, governors' papers, legislative reports, newspapers, and other government documents.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9510130, 3088484, FSDT3088484, fsu:77289
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WILLIAM STYRON'S "SOPHIE'S CHOICE": A STUDY.
Creator: CHINN, NANCY LOUISE., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: William Styron's most recent novel, Sophie's Choice published in 1979, provides a unique addition to the literature of the Holocaust. The story of Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic who spent twenty months at Auschwitz, is the novel's core. Just as important, however, is the story of Stingo, the young Southern writer who is working on his first novel during the time that Sophie gradually reveals her story to him. Stingo's encounter with the historical tragedy of the twentieth century is...
Show moreWilliam Styron's most recent novel, Sophie's Choice published in 1979, provides a unique addition to the literature of the Holocaust. The story of Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic who spent twenty months at Auschwitz, is the novel's core. Just as important, however, is the story of Stingo, the young Southern writer who is working on his first novel during the time that Sophie gradually reveals her story to him. Stingo's encounter with the historical tragedy of the twentieth century is crucial to his coming of age., As Stingo moves from innocence to experience in the New York of 1947, he evaluates the art of the novel, describes the writing process, and surrounds Sophie's story with the names of more than 150 authors and titles as well as numerous literary allusions. Most of the authors are only named, but among the few who receive more attention are the three Southerners: Faulkner, Wolfe, and Warren. It is important that Stingo is a Southerner influenced not only by his Southern literary heritage but also by the South's historical tragedy, slavery., Sophie's Choice contains twelve passages quoted from literature. In addition to the Psalms of David, John's Revelation, and the French writers Malraux and Rainer Maria Rilke, the authors quoted include the Americans Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, and Thomas Wolfe as well as the Britains Sir Thomas Browne, Matthew Arnold, and William Butler Yeats. Throughout the narrative, Styron has carefully chosen words of other writers to intertwine Stingo's movement from innocence to experience with Sophie's headlong journey toward death., The use of music in Sophie's Choice also underscores the fusion of the two stories. More than four hundred allusions to music occur in the novel. While music is used most often to develop the character of Sophie, Stingo also reveals more about himself through his response to music. Through music Stingo expresses the range and depth of emotions he experiences as he writes his first novel and confronts the evil of Auschwitz., Four appendices contain all literary allusions; references to Faulkner, Wolfe, and Warren; references to Stingo's development as a writer; and all musical allusions.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
Identifier: AAI8218633, 3085286, FSDT3085286, fsu:74781
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: William Morris's "embodiment of dreams".
Creator: Lawson, Robert Bland., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study is a reappraisal of the dream as it appears in Morris's writing throughout his career. The dream is considered as a function of Morris's temperament as well as an expression of his changing attitude toward his own work. The first chapter examines the formation of Morris's intellectual character, concentrating on the influence of the thought of Carlyle and Ruskin, and the initial direction the literary dream took him in. The second chapter treats the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine...
Show moreThis study is a reappraisal of the dream as it appears in Morris's writing throughout his career. The dream is considered as a function of Morris's temperament as well as an expression of his changing attitude toward his own work. The first chapter examines the formation of Morris's intellectual character, concentrating on the influence of the thought of Carlyle and Ruskin, and the initial direction the literary dream took him in. The second chapter treats the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine stories and the poems from The Defence of Guenevere, exploring and building upon the traditional reading of the dream in these works as an expression of the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. Chapter Three examines the poetry of Morris's "middle period," Jason and The Earthly Paradise, tracing the pressures in his life that now softened and subdued the dream, and accounting for the shifts in the critical fortunes of these poems. The fourth chapter explores Morris's political lectures, paying close attention to the dream as rhetorical figure. The final chapter is a close study of A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere as "political romances" in which the dream frame allowed Morris to exploit the features of dreaming in order to strengthen the indictment of the present by the historical past and imagined future.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9118492, 3162220, FSDT3162220, fsu:78418
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WILLIAM LEVI DAWSON: AMERICAN MUSIC EDUCATOR.
Creator: MALONE, MARK HUGH., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate the contributions made by William Levi Dawson to music education in America and to American music through the preservation of Negro folk songs., William Dawson's life and work exemplify a thirst for knowledge, a desire for professional competence in numerous areas, an ability to organize and capably administer a school of music at the college level, a willingness to mold young minds in educational endeavors, as well as the symbolic preservation of...
Show moreThe purpose of the study was to investigate the contributions made by William Levi Dawson to music education in America and to American music through the preservation of Negro folk songs., William Dawson's life and work exemplify a thirst for knowledge, a desire for professional competence in numerous areas, an ability to organize and capably administer a school of music at the college level, a willingness to mold young minds in educational endeavors, as well as the symbolic preservation of Afro-American music through composition and arrangement., At age thirteen, he ran away from home to attend Tuskegee Institute. After graduation from Tuskegee he organized the first band at Kansas Vocational College in Topeka, then served as music director at Lincoln High in Kansas City. While in Kansas City he studied at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts and was graduated with a Bachelor's degree in composition. Following this accomplishment, he studied with composer Adolph Weidig at the American Conservatory in Chicago. He received a Master's degree in composition from the institute in 1927. In the Fall of 1930, he accepted the task of organizing the School of Music at Tuskegee Institute., Beginning his work in 1931, Dawson structured that school's first baccalaureate degree programs in music. He taught composition, conducting, and directed the Tuskegee Institute Choir. Under his brilliant and inspiring direction, the Tuskegee Choir rose to national fame., William Dawson's compositional skills enabled him to write a symphony based on themes found in Black music. This major symphonic work and his many arrangements of Negro folk songs made his an important name in Afro-American music., Since his resignation from Tuskegee in 1955, William Dawson has accepted numerous guest conducting invitations, lecture engagements, and workshop leadership assignments. Through these appearances he teaches and influences a wide audience of music educators., Retirement has not slowed Dawson's pace. He continues to compose at his home in Tuskegee, Alabama. This sensitive man is an outstanding scholar, a skilled pedagogue, an able administrator, a talented conductor, a gifted composer, and an exceptional lecturer. William Dawson is an outstanding American music educator.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8209928, 3085204, FSDT3085204, fsu:74699
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Title: WILLIAM H. ENGLISH AND THE POLITICS OF SELF-DECEPTION, 1845-1861. (VOLUMES I AND II) (INDIANA).
Creator: SCHIMMEL, ELLIOTT LAWRENCE., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: William H. English was a prominent Democratic politician who represented eight southern Indiana counties in the United States Congress from 1853 to 1861. Raised in a strong Jacksonian environment, Mr. English early exhibited a marked attachment both to the Democratic party and to the glory of the Union. First politically employed at fifteen years old, he held an array of important official positions on both the state and federal level until his election to Congress at the age of twenty-nine....
Show moreWilliam H. English was a prominent Democratic politician who represented eight southern Indiana counties in the United States Congress from 1853 to 1861. Raised in a strong Jacksonian environment, Mr. English early exhibited a marked attachment both to the Democratic party and to the glory of the Union. First politically employed at fifteen years old, he held an array of important official positions on both the state and federal level until his election to Congress at the age of twenty-nine. As a congressman, he took part every step of the way in the great debate on the issue of slavery in the territories. Throughout that debate he gamely tried to hold together the party of his patrimony, believing always that this would ensure the prosperous progress of the republic. His most famous moment came during the Lecompton controversy. It was then that he reputedly authored the bill bearing his name, winning him so much notoriety that his image appeared on the cover of Harper's Weekly. An early and strong supporter of Stephen Douglas's conception of popular sovereignty, Mr. English nevertheless eventually realized that the southern Democrats would never consent to its majoritarian core. Consequently, by 1860 he was reduced to trying to unite the party around its pronounced racism. But even that proved unsuccessful., This work is not only concerned with the slavery issue. Also discussed in detail are Mr. English's four campaigns for the House of Representatives, his tenure as chairman of the House's Post Office Committee, and his position within the Indiana Democratic party. Moreover, the socio-economic background of Mr. English's district is analyzed, as is also his repeated attempts to enhance his constituents' economic prospects. These topics are based principally on primary sources--including Mr. English's private correspondence, his public pronouncements, debates in the Congressional Globe, and various newspaper accounts. The whole picture is of a congressman desperately seeking to solve the slavery question so that the country could return to its destined pursuit of material exploitation.
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Date Issued: 1986, 1986
Identifier: AAI8708216, 3086524, FSDT3086524, fsu:76000
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Title: WIFE ABUSE: FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF BATTERED WOMEN.
Creator: JOHNSON, IDA MAE., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: During the past ten years, the literature in the area of wife abuse has proliferated. However, a substantial portion of the current marital violence literature is either popular of theoretical in nature. As such, the existing literature on wife abuse fails to reflect the empirical data needed to support theoretical explanations of the phenomenon. This study attempts to partially fill this gap by providing empirical data on the victim's decision-making process., The current state of the...
Show moreDuring the past ten years, the literature in the area of wife abuse has proliferated. However, a substantial portion of the current marital violence literature is either popular of theoretical in nature. As such, the existing literature on wife abuse fails to reflect the empirical data needed to support theoretical explanations of the phenomenon. This study attempts to partially fill this gap by providing empirical data on the victim's decision-making process., The current state of the marital violence literature reveals that many battered women remain in or return to their abusive partners in spite of the frequency and severity of the abuse. The immediate question is why do battered women remain in or return to the abusive relationship. This study attempts to answer this question by an analysis of economic and psychological factors. The study addresses the research question of what specific factors are predictive of the immediate decision-making process of battered women within a shelter., Exchange theory and learned helplessness theory were the guiding theoretical frameworks for the empirical factors of economic dependence and psychological dependence respectively. The empirical analysis bearing on these research questions is based on secondary data collected from the Religious Community Services Spouse Abuse Shelter of Clearwater, Florida. The study group consisted of 426 battered women who were processed through the shelter from January, 1983 to March, 1986., Using stepwise multiple regression, the findings indicate that the decision of battered women to return to their abusive partners is influenced by both economic and psychological factors. The implications of the major empirical results for exchange theory, learned helplessness theory, and the development of research and practical strategies designed to reduce both the difficulties confronted by researchers conducting studies in this area and by battered women who attempt to extricate themselves from abusive partners are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8803369, 3086721, FSDT3086721, fsu:76196
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Title: THE WIDOW/BUREAUCRATIC LINKAGE DURING THE TRANSITION TO WIDOWHOOD: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY.
Creator: FARRA, ROBERT ROSS., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate widow satisfaction/dissatisfaction with key organizational linkages following the death of a spouse, to identify problems widows encounter in dealing with organizations, and to identify those persons to whom widows turn when they experience unsatisfactory organizational linkages., The sample consisted of seventy women, widowed between twelve and twenty-four months. Subjects were selected randomly from obituary notices and were first contacted by...
Show moreThe purpose of the study was to investigate widow satisfaction/dissatisfaction with key organizational linkages following the death of a spouse, to identify problems widows encounter in dealing with organizations, and to identify those persons to whom widows turn when they experience unsatisfactory organizational linkages., The sample consisted of seventy women, widowed between twelve and twenty-four months. Subjects were selected randomly from obituary notices and were first contacted by letter and then by telephone. Information was collected during telephone interviews using the Information Inventory and Linkage Satisfaction Schedule, two instruments designed by the investigator., Widows indicated greatest satisfaction in their dealings with banks and mortuaries. Widows experienced greatest dissatisfaction in their dealings with physicians and hospital personnel. Widows often complained about the cost of services. However, the majority paid their bills in full without stating their dissatisfactions with the cost of services., Three hypotheses, related to variables which may have accounted for differential ratings of satisfaction, were tested. Significantly higher global linkage satisfaction scores were observed among widows who jointly managed household finances during their marriages, widows who worked in occupations outside of the home, and widows who had relatives living in close proximity to their residences. A tendency among all widows to provide high global ratings was observed. This was consistent even in those cases in which widows expressed specific dissatisfactions and problems with service-providers., Widows experienced the greatest number of problems in their dealings with hospitals and insurance companies. It was speculated that the larger bureaucracies may have overwhelmed the widow, thus impeding the problem-solving process., Though widows experienced a large number of problems with service-providers, in over half of the cases, they did not discuss linkage problems with anyone.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
Identifier: AAI8214924, 3085240, FSDT3085240, fsu:74735
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Title: Where meanings are: Reading student writing and initiating teacher reflection.
Creator: Crossley, Gay Lynn., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: As teachers of writing, we inherit terms, all of which have complicated and ongoing histories. The field of rhetoric and composition has an impressive collection from which to choose: "dialogism," "writing as a way of thinking," "critical thinking," and "writing to learn," to name a few. These terms creep into our vocabulary. We take them into the classroom., We form and reform our theories of writing as we internalize and make sense of the language we inherit. The challenge is, then, to...
Show moreAs teachers of writing, we inherit terms, all of which have complicated and ongoing histories. The field of rhetoric and composition has an impressive collection from which to choose: "dialogism," "writing as a way of thinking," "critical thinking," and "writing to learn," to name a few. These terms creep into our vocabulary. We take them into the classroom., We form and reform our theories of writing as we internalize and make sense of the language we inherit. The challenge is, then, to constantly consider whether our practice reflects our emerging theories and whether our theories are in sync with our practices. Our theoretical understandings most visibly surface when we explain what we value in student writing--the nexus of theory and practice., In the dissertation, I examine the ways in which our evaluation of student writing can reveal the gaps between our theory and our practices. From these gaps, my own self-examination reveals our stories as teachers, writers, and readers emerge.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
Identifier: AAI9334242, 3088135, FSDT3088135, fsu:76942
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Title: WEST EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION ON SECURITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.
Creator: BROWN, ROBERT M., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: What core sources shape West European public opinion on security? The answer to this question is particularly salient both because European security preferences appear to be in flux, and because public preferences for security arrangements substantially influence the future of the Atlantic alliance. This dissertation empirically explored the security opinion formation process within the British, French and West German populations., Basic theory assumed two sources of security opinion. First,...
Show moreWhat core sources shape West European public opinion on security? The answer to this question is particularly salient both because European security preferences appear to be in flux, and because public preferences for security arrangements substantially influence the future of the Atlantic alliance. This dissertation empirically explored the security opinion formation process within the British, French and West German populations., Basic theory assumed two sources of security opinion. First, the actions and official statements of political elites furnish strong but transient influence in forming public attitudes, which, in turn, are a basis for opinions. Second, attributes predispose individuals to adopt attitudes, and thus opinions. The influence of attributes is less forceful than are elite cues, but attributes give some stability to opinion--attributes being immutable or slow to change., The analysis of the influence of attributes and attitudes on opinion was based on results of 1976-1982 public opinion surveys. The dissertation tested the relationships between seven attributes--age cohort, education, cognitive mobilization, partisanship, ideology, values and class--with four attitudes--transnational regional trust, trust in the superpowers, threat perception and preference for the current Atlantic alliance, an independent European force or independent national security forces was tested. The findings of bivariate and multivariate analysis were related to elite cues and to scholarly theory addressing public formation of opinion on foreign policy., The findings both supported the assumptions on the opinion forming roles of attributes and elite cues and addressed related issues of current interest. The probable security predisposition of the contemporary West European "successor generation," an altered role for Europeans holding post-material values, and the functional--as opposed to geographic--nature of the supranationalist attitude were among major topics addressed. The dissertation ended with a prediction on mid-term stability and change in the role and functioning of the Atlantic alliance.
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Date Issued: 1985, 1985
Identifier: AAI8528697, 3086184, FSDT3086184, fsu:75667
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Title: West European foreign policy in the Arabian Gulf, 1970-1987: An interdependence view.
Creator: Johar, Hasan Abdullah., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study compares the utility of three approaches to international relations (i.e., realism, dependencia, and interdependence) in explaining contemporary interstate trade in arms. It delineates the West European-Arabian Gulf arms trade connection from 1970 to 1987. It considers the theoretical framework of interdependence as an appropriate application for explaining this relationship., Two research methods are applied to investigate Europe's arms sales policy to the Gulf from an...
Show moreThis study compares the utility of three approaches to international relations (i.e., realism, dependencia, and interdependence) in explaining contemporary interstate trade in arms. It delineates the West European-Arabian Gulf arms trade connection from 1970 to 1987. It considers the theoretical framework of interdependence as an appropriate application for explaining this relationship., Two research methods are applied to investigate Europe's arms sales policy to the Gulf from an interdependence perspective. First, a theoretical approach is used to explore the overall mutual relations between the two blocs based on the main premises of interdependence. It is argued that this theory yields more positive results than realism and dependencia when applied to the reciprocal relationship between Europe and the Gulf states., Second, four hypotheses were operationalized to investigate the Euro-Gulf arms trade as a manifestation of an interdependent relationship between the two sides. The analysis of data concerning European arms flow to the Gulf region during the last two decades yielded results in favor of the features of interdependence between the two parties., The findings of this study suggest that European arms sales to the Gulf region can be explained based on the developments in the oil market associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict during the 1970s. The study also indicates a noteworthy rapprochement between Western Europe and the Arab Gulf countries in the military sector during the present decade. This suggests a favorable European response to the creation of the GCC and its new defense strategy., The general conclusion is that Western Europe's foreign policy in the Arabian Gulf, as measured through its arms sales behavior, likely reflects the continent's attitudes toward certain developments within and outside that region in the last two decades.
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Date Issued: 1989, 1989
Identifier: AAI9002927, 3161848, FSDT3161848, fsu:78047
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Title: WELFARE AND CHANGE: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Creator: DINITTO, DIANA MARIA., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study examines change in welfare using time series analysis in five major United States public assistance programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Supplemental Security Income, State General Assistance, Medicaid and Food Stamps. Two types of change-producting interventions are considered. One type of intervention is a major legislative event in the history of the program. The other type of intervention is the "welfare rights movement" of the 1960s. The analysis identifies...
Show moreThis study examines change in welfare using time series analysis in five major United States public assistance programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Supplemental Security Income, State General Assistance, Medicaid and Food Stamps. Two types of change-producting interventions are considered. One type of intervention is a major legislative event in the history of the program. The other type of intervention is the "welfare rights movement" of the 1960s. The analysis identifies points of major change in total constant dollar payments, average constant dollar payments per recipient, and numbers of recipients. Findings are analyzed for each program and compared across programs. Cross-program comparisons take into account differences in intervention effects based on program age, clientele, administrative structure, and type of transfer (cash or inkind)., Findings suggest that in only limited cases have legislative changes in public assistance programs produced intended results. Legislation aimed at increasing welfare spending and number of recipients has been much more successful in accomplishing its goals than legislation aimed at curbing spending and recipient growth. For example legislation federalizing the adult public assistance programs in 1973 in order to raise payment levels and include new recipients was generally effective. However, legislative amendments to the Social Security Act in 1962 and 1967 intended to reduce the number of welfare families with dependent children were unsuccessful in limiting growth. Encouraging welfare growth through legislative change is far more effective than limiting growth., The welfare rights movement was not a consistent predictor of dramatic increases in welfare spending and recipient levels. In the cash assistance programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and General Assistance, continual, steady increases in total constant dollar payments and numbers of recipients occurred, not explosive growth. Average constant dollar payments did not increase in either program. In the Supplemental Security Income program there was growth in the portion of the program for the disabled but not for the elderly or blind. Of all the welfare programs, most growth occurred in the inkind programs, Medicaid and Food Stamps. These inkind programs were the real welfare-expanding programs of 1960s. These findings suggest that the major effect of the welfare rights movement was not to increase cash benefit programs, but to stimulate new services for the poor. While the movement was unsuccessful in boosting cash benefits for recipients, legislators were spurred to do something about welfare, even if this meant reintroducing the more paternalistic inkind welfare programs of the early- and middle-twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI8101961, 3084721, FSDT3084721, fsu:74222
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Title: Wee folk, good folk: Subversive children's literature and British social reform, 1700-1900.
Creator: Sigler, Carolyn., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study argues that early writings for children reflect by their very nature a radical social redirection, since the valuation of children and the state of childhood was the result of cultural upheavals in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which led to the development of a powerful, literate and progressive working class: industrialization, educational reform, Puritanism, evangelicalism, a growing feminist movement and the socioeconomic struggle against poverty and repression....
Show moreThis study argues that early writings for children reflect by their very nature a radical social redirection, since the valuation of children and the state of childhood was the result of cultural upheavals in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which led to the development of a powerful, literate and progressive working class: industrialization, educational reform, Puritanism, evangelicalism, a growing feminist movement and the socioeconomic struggle against poverty and repression. Children's literature was a means for ambitious and reform-minded outsiders--those excluded by class, economics, gender, and religious, political or sexual preferences--to communicate both subversive and optimistic values to succeeding generations who embody society's hopes for the future., Chapter One reviews social background leading to the formal development of a body of reformative literature written expressly for children in the late eighteenth century, focusing in particular on the influence of subversive Puritan writings, such as those by Nathaniel Crouch and John Bunyan, and the political and economic empowerment of the working classes. Chapter Two examines the subversive nature of early imaginative writing for children, including works by John Newbery and Samuel Johnson's "The Fountains." Chapter Three discusses early writings for children by professional women writers. Works by Anna Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft and Sarah Trimmer are discussed as early examples of a radical reassessment of the significance of three groups of "little people": children, women and the working poor. Chapter Four examines the subversive effects of nineteenth-century works of fairy tale and fantasy such as Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House and John Ruskin's "The King of the Golden River." Chapter Five addresses the usurpation of children's literature as political and social satire by writers like Christina Rossetti and Oscar Wilde, concluding that cultural pessimism and skepticism led to a reactionary conservatism in children's literature at the end of the nineteenth century. Works such as J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy address a static and nostalgic childhood of adult memory rather than the dynamic spiritual and intellectual growth of real childhood.
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9222420, 3087800, FSDT3087800, fsu:76610
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Title: Wearing the Blues. (Original writing).
Creator: MacEnulty, Patricia B., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This novel is about the incarceration of four women in a Florida prison: Frankie Whittaker, the drug-addicted daughter of a rich developer in South Florida who has already lost one daughter to violence; Violet Temple, who had been abused by her husband for years before she finally murdered him; Leigh McCall, a former prostitute, who risks her freedom to help an old woman receiving questionable medical treatment; and Jewel, an ertswhile associate of of Frankie, who falls in love with a woman...
Show moreThis novel is about the incarceration of four women in a Florida prison: Frankie Whittaker, the drug-addicted daughter of a rich developer in South Florida who has already lost one daughter to violence; Violet Temple, who had been abused by her husband for years before she finally murdered him; Leigh McCall, a former prostitute, who risks her freedom to help an old woman receiving questionable medical treatment; and Jewel, an ertswhile associate of of Frankie, who falls in love with a woman named Lucky., The four women interact with each other and with the other inmates and in so doing, learn about themselves and find ways to create a community. For some this community will not suffice, but for others it is a form of redemption. Violet and Frankie join the choir, and by the end of the novel, they have formed an alliance to put out a prison newspaper. When prison officials forbid them from creating the newspaper, they violate the orders and do it anyway, willing to suffer the consequences for what they believe is right.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9540058, 3088690, FSDT3088690, fsu:77492
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Title: A WAVEFORM ANALYSIS OF BASSOON REED PROFILES.
Creator: CARLAND, JUNE ADELIA., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Many aspects of reed making have been studied, but the results in some cases have been only subjectively stated and not derived using modern scientific procedures; this applies particularly to the profiles of bassoon reeds. This treatise analyzed quantitatively the effect of three different bassoon reed profiles on the pitch of selected notes, using statistical methods., Twelve reeds (four of each profile type were sufficient for statistical purposes) were made as identically as possible, the...
Show moreMany aspects of reed making have been studied, but the results in some cases have been only subjectively stated and not derived using modern scientific procedures; this applies particularly to the profiles of bassoon reeds. This treatise analyzed quantitatively the effect of three different bassoon reed profiles on the pitch of selected notes, using statistical methods., Twelve reeds (four of each profile type were sufficient for statistical purposes) were made as identically as possible, the only variations being those among the three profiles. The sounds of the reeds on the selected notes were recorded and then harmonically analyzed using a DATA 6000 Waveform Analyzer. The resulting graphs of the reeds' overtone series were printed and the frequencies of the notes recorded. Comparisons of mean pitch, based on different reed profiles, were made using two-sample t-tests at a 90% confidence level., In addition, 90% confidence intervals of the true mean frequency for each profile type, on the notes tested, were calculated, and generalizations about the harmonic spectra made., The fundamental assumption was that if reeds are made similarly, with only one characteristic varied, any resulting pitch differences would then be attributable to that characteristic. However, the profiles tested were themselves very similar, and their respective pitch differences minimal. In fact, no significant differences in pitch could be proven, although one type appeared more stable with regard to pitch, and another had fewer partials present in certain notes. Although other, more subjective, differences did exist, such as in tone quality and dynamic control, these factors were not analyzed., It was evident that similarly made reeds perform similarly with regard to pitch. With further study of reed making, it may be possible to determine sets of measurements that yield predictable characteristics in reeds, to the end that the uncertainty inherent in reed making may be greatly reduced.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8723131, 3086654, FSDT3086654, fsu:76129
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Title: Watery Eden: A history of Wakulla Springs.
Creator: Revels, Tracy Jean., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Located approximately fourteen miles south of Tallahassee, in Wakulla County, Wakulla Springs is a 2,860 acre preserve with a long history as a resort. The centerpiece of the park is the Wakulla Spring, a first magnitude spring which produces 183 million gallons of water a day and creates the Wakulla River., Wakulla Springs has known visitors for centuries. Indians camped at the site from the Paleoindian period (15,000-8,000 B.C.) through the Spanish conquest (AD. 1539). During Florida's...
Show moreLocated approximately fourteen miles south of Tallahassee, in Wakulla County, Wakulla Springs is a 2,860 acre preserve with a long history as a resort. The centerpiece of the park is the Wakulla Spring, a first magnitude spring which produces 183 million gallons of water a day and creates the Wakulla River., Wakulla Springs has known visitors for centuries. Indians camped at the site from the Paleoindian period (15,000-8,000 B.C.) through the Spanish conquest (AD. 1539). During Florida's territorial era, the spring became a popular spot for picnics and parties. Though several schemes for development were proposed, the lack of capital and Wakulla's isolation prevented successful commercialization of the site until it was purchased by Florida business tycoon Edward Ball in the 1930s. Ball turned Wakulla Springs into a tourist attraction, complete with a hotel, glassbottom boats, and a swimming beach. While Ball also emphasized the preservation of wildlife, his efforts met with opposition from local environmentalists, who engaged him in a lengthy court battle over his fence on the Wakulla River. Following Ball's death, the resort was purchased by the state of Florida, and is now officially titled the Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park., This dissertation explores the history of Wakulla Springs from the Pleistocene era to the state's purchase of the park in 1986. It also examines the scientific expeditions to Wakulla Springs, Wakulla's role in literature, and the resort's development as a tourist attraction.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9110456, 3162131, FSDT3162131, fsu:78329
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Title: Water relations and photosynthesis of desert microorganisms and lichens.
Creator: Palmer, Robert Jerry, Jr., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: I have designed an improved method of matric water potential regulation in which relative humidity is controlled by the temperature difference between a saturated atmosphere and a connected experimental chamber. Versatility, ease of operation, and lack of interference with the gaseous composition of the experimental atmosphere are the major advantages of this system over other methods such as salt solutions., The water potential control system was used to investigate the role of thallus...
Show moreI have designed an improved method of matric water potential regulation in which relative humidity is controlled by the temperature difference between a saturated atmosphere and a connected experimental chamber. Versatility, ease of operation, and lack of interference with the gaseous composition of the experimental atmosphere are the major advantages of this system over other methods such as salt solutions., The water potential control system was used to investigate the role of thallus structure in CO$\sb2$ uptake of two hot desert lichen species under water stress. Photosynthesis of isolated lichen phycobiont cells at low water potentials was also examined. Within the lichen thallus, matric water potentials higher than ambient appear to result from physical properties of the fungal matrix. Increased water availability supports photosynthesis by the enclosed phycobiont at low ambient phycobiont (Trebouxia sp.) photosynthesize well under water stress. The combination of increased internal water availability and desiccation-tolerant phycobiont cells results in the survival of these lichens in an extremely arid climate. The two species occupy different microhabitats as a consequence of differences in CO$\sb2$ uptake under saturating conditions and hydrophobicity., The role of the endolithic habitat (enclosure) in the water economy of the cryptoendolithic microbial communities from the Ross Desert (Antarctica) and the Negev Desert (Israel) was examined. Colonized sandstone rocks adsorb or condense water vapor in pore spaces. This water supports photosynthesis by the Ross Desert cryptoendolithic lichen community but does not create conditions suitable for photosynthesis of Negev Desert cryptoendolithic cyanobacteria. The difference between the two communities is that cyanobacteria are similar to other prokaryotes: water potentials approaching that of liquid water are necessary for bacterial metabolism whereas eukaryotes typically function under water stress.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8805685, 3086786, FSDT3086786, fsu:76261
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Title: Walnut (Juglans regia L.) characterization: Protein composition, lipid and tannin content, and sensory quality.
Creator: Sze-Tao, Kar Wai Clara., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Walnuts contained about 16.66% protein and 66.90% lipids. Linoleic (61.21%) and linolenic (13.81%) acids accounted for up to 75% of the total fatty acids in walnut lipids. The majority of walnut proteins were soluble in 0.1 M NaOH with a minimum solubility at pH 4. Albumins, globulins, prolamins, and glutelins respectively accounted for 6.81, 17.57, 5.33, and 70.11% of the total protein. Both protein solubility and electrophoretic analyses revealed glutelins to be the major walnut proteins....
Show moreWalnuts contained about 16.66% protein and 66.90% lipids. Linoleic (61.21%) and linolenic (13.81%) acids accounted for up to 75% of the total fatty acids in walnut lipids. The majority of walnut proteins were soluble in 0.1 M NaOH with a minimum solubility at pH 4. Albumins, globulins, prolamins, and glutelins respectively accounted for 6.81, 17.57, 5.33, and 70.11% of the total protein. Both protein solubility and electrophoretic analyses revealed glutelins to be the major walnut proteins. The total protein contained at least seven major polypeptides with estimated molecular weight range 19,590-21,830 and 33,340-37,150. Lysine was the first limiting essential amino acid in total proteins, globulins, and glutelins. Leucine and methionine plus cysteine were the limiting amino acids, respectively, for prolamins and albumins. Hydrophobic and acidic amino acids dominated the amino acid composition in all protein fractions. Minimum extractability of nitrogen at 0.5-1 M TCA represented the nonprotein nitrogen compounds in defatted walnuts. The nonprotein nitrogen values in walnuts ranged from 6.24 to 6.50% of the total nitrogen. Native or heat denatured walnut glutelins were easily hydrolyzed in vitro by the common digestive proteases. The tannin content of inshell and shelled walnuts was in the range of 889-1095 and 574.4-667.2 mg catechin equiv./100 g walnut, respectively. After three weeks of storage, walnut assayable tannins were reduced by about 20%. Blanched walnuts (BW) retained about 2% of assayable tannins, had a buttery-sweet taste, and rated less astringent then unblanched walnuts (UW). The astringency scores and tannin content of BW were correlated (r = 0.9249).
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9622870, 3088887, FSDT3088887, fsu:77686
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Title: Walking On the Belly of My Shadow. (Original writing).
Creator: O'Brien, Laurie., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This collection includes poems which are often about how people perceive the world around them. Subject matter of the fifty poems varies from the natural world of whales, geese, and turtles to the relationships that exist between the growing up and the growing older, the living and the dead. Music is an important linking theme throughout these poems, and the language of music is employed to suggest further ranges of meaning. Poems look at present and past, the real and the more or less real,...
Show moreThis collection includes poems which are often about how people perceive the world around them. Subject matter of the fifty poems varies from the natural world of whales, geese, and turtles to the relationships that exist between the growing up and the growing older, the living and the dead. Music is an important linking theme throughout these poems, and the language of music is employed to suggest further ranges of meaning. Poems look at present and past, the real and the more or less real, and the boundaries that exist and may be crossed in many of these cases., Walking On the Belly of My Shadow is written in free verse, is primarily lyric in style, but contains a narrative voice which is often telling a specific story or bit of history. In some cases forms are employed in a variant mode, such as the near-sonnet, or in stanzas of tercets, quatrains, or cinquains.
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Date Issued: 1991, 1991
Identifier: AAI9209126, 3087726, FSDT3087726, fsu:76536
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Title: THE WALDORF SCHOOLS: AN EXPLORATION OF AN ENDURING ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL MOVEMENT.
Creator: FOSTER, SARAH WHITMER., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study provides an orientation to Waldorf education and to the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the movement. Waldorf education is described analyzed and some of the key educational ideas (Steiner's) behind it are compared with those of A.S. Neill and Maria Montessori, founders of two widely known alternative school movements., The Waldorf School movement began in Germany in 1919 and has grown, spreading to other countries. Though international and found throughout the...
Show moreThis study provides an orientation to Waldorf education and to the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the movement. Waldorf education is described analyzed and some of the key educational ideas (Steiner's) behind it are compared with those of A.S. Neill and Maria Montessori, founders of two widely known alternative school movements., The Waldorf School movement began in Germany in 1919 and has grown, spreading to other countries. Though international and found throughout the world, the Schools are virtually unknown to American educators and the general public., The study includes: a brief biographical sketch of Rudolf Steiner's life, Steiner's basic philosophical ideas including his interpretation of human growth and development, Steiner's suggestions for educational practice and use in Waldorf Schools, characteristics of a contemporary (1970s) German Waldorf School, and a comparison of key statements made about education by Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner and A. S. Neill., As a school movement which has existed since 1919, the Waldorf Schools deserve the attention of those who seek ways to improve educational approaches and the development of the total human being.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI8125855, 3085031, FSDT3085031, fsu:74529
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Title: Waking Life. (Original poetry).
Creator: Hoffman, Deborah E., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of my dissertation is discovery. Its premise is that one can write his way to consciousness of self as well as other. The beginning poems deal with the neurotic components of the writer's childhood, the middle section discloses a rebellion and stagnation and the last section attempts to shift the focus from self to other. Many of the poems employ dialogue and make use of characters who often reappear in subsequent poems which tends to give the collection a "storylike" quality and...
Show moreThe purpose of my dissertation is discovery. Its premise is that one can write his way to consciousness of self as well as other. The beginning poems deal with the neurotic components of the writer's childhood, the middle section discloses a rebellion and stagnation and the last section attempts to shift the focus from self to other. Many of the poems employ dialogue and make use of characters who often reappear in subsequent poems which tends to give the collection a "storylike" quality and adds to its unity. Whereas the opening section gathers an emotional intensity, the final poems often show a finer understanding and compassion. In a psychological sense, the narrator progresses from the Oedipal conflict to marriage, from chaos to integration.
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Date Issued: 1988, 1988
Identifier: AAI8825741, 3161656, FSDT3161656, fsu:77856
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Title: Wainwright Shipyard: The impact of a World War II war industry on Panama City, Florida.
Creator: Pelt, Peggy Dorton., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Wainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida, studied a small town's conversion to an industrial center to meet the war emergency. The U.S. Maritime Commission selected Panama City as the location for a shipyard to build cargo vessels called Liberty Ships. The Liberty Ship's simple design made it possible to build with unskilled labor. Liberty shipyards used such mass production techniques as prefabrication, pre-assembly, and welding. J. A. Jones...
Show moreWainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida, studied a small town's conversion to an industrial center to meet the war emergency. The U.S. Maritime Commission selected Panama City as the location for a shipyard to build cargo vessels called Liberty Ships. The Liberty Ship's simple design made it possible to build with unskilled labor. Liberty shipyards used such mass production techniques as prefabrication, pre-assembly, and welding. J. A. Jones Construction Company, Incorporated, operators of the shipyard, had to recruit and train labor for industrial work. The manpower shortage necessitated the use of non-traditional workers, i.e., women and African-Americans., Panama City experienced a tripling of its population within a year. This population required housing and the infrastructure to support it--utilities, water and sewage, and transportation facilities. The families who located here required additional child care and educational facilities and medical services. The population strained such local government facilities as police and fire protection and the tax collection agencies. The increased population severely strained the communities' shopping and entertainment facilities. These problems required action by the local community leaders and appropriate governmental agencies such as the U.S. Maritime Commission, War Production Board, Office of Community War services, Federal Public Housing Authority, Federal Housing Administration, and the National Housing Agency to meet the community's war population needs., The presence of Wainwright Shipyard left a lasting legacy in the community in the form of the infrastructure built to accommodate the residents that remained when the shipyard closed.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9424775, 3088337, FSDT3088337, fsu:77142
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Title: Wages, employment, and import competition in the textile and apparel industries.
Creator: Shippen, Benjamin Sumner, Jr., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation is an examination of trade effects on workers in textiles and apparels using aggregate, cross-sectional micro, and longitudinal data. In Chapter 2, the effects of import competition (measured as an index of import price) on employment and wages are measured using OLS and two stage least squares with aggregate industry level data. Results suggest that while import competition has had a negative effect on hours worked and employment in the apparel industry, the increase in...
Show moreThis dissertation is an examination of trade effects on workers in textiles and apparels using aggregate, cross-sectional micro, and longitudinal data. In Chapter 2, the effects of import competition (measured as an index of import price) on employment and wages are measured using OLS and two stage least squares with aggregate industry level data. Results suggest that while import competition has had a negative effect on hours worked and employment in the apparel industry, the increase in import competition over the 1977-91 period has not been a primary cause of this decline., Adjusted wage and relative earnings indices across industries and occupations are used to analyze wage changes in Chapter 3. Also included in the analysis of Chapter 3 are wage equation models that match aggregate import data by industry to the CPS data to determine the effect of increased import share on the wages of union and nonunion workers. Production workers in the textile and apparel industries currently earn approximately 22 percent and 8 percent less, respectively, than similarly skilled workers in other manufacturing industries. Relative earnings indices indicate that in the apparel industry this negative differential has grown. Textile wages, on the other hand, have started to close the wage gap with other manufacturing wages over the same period., Longitudinal data, matched cohorts from the CPS outgoing rotational groups (ORG) and retrospective data from the Displaced Worker Surveys, are used in Chapter 4 to analyze workers entering and exiting the textile and apparel industries. Results from both the CPS ORG and the DWS suggest that most of the wage differential in textiles and apparel come from ability differences not captured in the standard levels regression., The results in this dissertation provides evidence that workers in the textile and apparel industries are hired from a highly competitive labor market. While other factors have caused greater injury to workers, increased import competition has the expected results of decreasing employment, while having little effect on wages. Workers in the textile and apparel industries appear to earn competitive wages compared to workers elsewhere in manufacturing, when all available controls are included in the analysis.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9544329, 3088739, FSDT3088739, fsu:77541
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Title: Wage revisions and persistent firm performance: An empirical investigation of the managerial labor market.
Creator: Best, Roger Julian., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates two issues. The first issue concerns the relation between executive effort, as measured by changes in a firm's market value of equity, and future wage revisions when the executive moves to a new firm of employment. If, as Fama (1980) contends, participants in the managerial labor market formulate compensation on the basis of prior performance, there is little need to design compensation contracts that are sensitive to firm performance. The second issue involves...
Show moreThis thesis investigates two issues. The first issue concerns the relation between executive effort, as measured by changes in a firm's market value of equity, and future wage revisions when the executive moves to a new firm of employment. If, as Fama (1980) contends, participants in the managerial labor market formulate compensation on the basis of prior performance, there is little need to design compensation contracts that are sensitive to firm performance. The second issue involves performance persistence in the management of real assets. Prior studies provide weak evidence that performance is persistent in the management of financial assets. Similar evidence is not available for the management of real assets., The analyses provide two distinct conclusions. First, compensation revisions across firms bear a positive and significant relation to prior changes in shareholder wealth. The magnitude of this relation, however, does not preclude the continued existence of agency problems. Second, executives appear unable to repeat superior performance across firms. Surprisingly, there is evidence of declining performance at executives' second firm of employment. This result is robust to different performance relatives and time horizons., Thus, the evidence presented suggests that prior performance is not the decisive determinant of the wage revision received by an executive. This seems warranted given that prior performance appears to offer no predictive power for future performance.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
Identifier: AAI9620873, 3088855, FSDT3088855, fsu:77654
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Title: Wade Inn. (Original writing).
Creator: Granger, James A., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Set on the imaginary West Indian island of Molyneux in the 1960s, Wade Inn is a short novel about Ian, Annie, and their mother Miriam Hopwood, who, after nine months of waiting for Freddy Hopwood, father and husband, to return from a day sailing trip, attempt to resolve in their own minds and among themselves Freddy's disappearance. The novel takes place on the day and night of June 13th, the official celebration of the Queen of England's Birthday., Since the time of Freddy's disappearance,...
Show moreSet on the imaginary West Indian island of Molyneux in the 1960s, Wade Inn is a short novel about Ian, Annie, and their mother Miriam Hopwood, who, after nine months of waiting for Freddy Hopwood, father and husband, to return from a day sailing trip, attempt to resolve in their own minds and among themselves Freddy's disappearance. The novel takes place on the day and night of June 13th, the official celebration of the Queen of England's Birthday., Since the time of Freddy's disappearance, Miriam has moved her family into the Wade Inn, a small hotel located in the capital city of Bayard. But on this day, Miriam decides she will move her family to her boyfriend, Neville Trant's house. Annie plots her escape from the island with a sailor/adventurer, while Ian is seduced by the American Peace Corps volunteer who tutors him in Spanish. The novel focuses on the three characters' attempts to escape what they perceive to be their own reality, only to discover that reality is what they make of it.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
Identifier: AAI9321882, 3088073, FSDT3088073, fsu:76880
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Title: W. B. YEATS'S "SLEEP AND DREAM NOTEBOOKS" (IRELAND).
Creator: MARTINICH, ROBERT ANTHONY., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Though scholars have long known of Yeats's Notebooks of automatic writing, sleeps, and dreams, which he and his wife, George, kept, the contents have not been available in a form accessible to the general public. This dissertation presents a text of the papers known as the Sleep and Dream Notebooks written between March 1920 and July 1923. These four Notebooks and the related miscellaneous pages inserted into them by Yeats or his wife, follow chronologically the Notebooks which record the...
Show moreThough scholars have long known of Yeats's Notebooks of automatic writing, sleeps, and dreams, which he and his wife, George, kept, the contents have not been available in a form accessible to the general public. This dissertation presents a text of the papers known as the Sleep and Dream Notebooks written between March 1920 and July 1923. These four Notebooks and the related miscellaneous pages inserted into them by Yeats or his wife, follow chronologically the Notebooks which record the couple's experiments with automatic writing. The Sleep and Dream Notebooks record Yeats's personal involvement with various psychic methods which he felt would help in the writing of A Vision. These Notebooks attest to the degree to which a knowledge of Yeats's psychic studies are integral to an understanding of his later work., The original Notebooks are in the hands of both Yeats and his wife, and are legible only with lengthy study. The dissertation presents the texts of the Notebooks with minimal editorial intrusion, maintaining irregularities of grammar and syntax, peculiarities of style. Included in the text are the numerous line drawings made by both of the Yeatses to record and explain the philosophy of his System. A preface describes the original condition of the material and the specific ways it is treated to arrive at the text. An introduction explains the relationship of the Notebooks to Yeats, his other psychic materials, and the writing of A Vision. Textual and explanatory notes of allusions and difficult material follow the texts of the Notebooks., The Sleep and Dream Notebooks characterize 1920-1923 as a period during which Yeats lived his philosophy, recounting such an integral association of the spiritual with the corporeal that the reader is convinced of Yeats's desire to see as functional the drama about which, it is now apparent, he structured his later life.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
Identifier: AAI8416718, 3085814, FSDT3085814, fsu:75301
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Title: Voting behavior of representatives in the European Parliament.
Creator: Bourdouvalis, Christos., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The present study examines the voting behavior of the first-directly elected European Parliament. The main question of the research is how did the Members or the European Parliament vote during the first term of the Parliament. Did they follow their nation's or their political group's guidelines? The first directly elected Parliament included 434 deputies from ten members of the European Community. These members belonged to seven different political groups. The roll-call votes of the first...
Show moreThe present study examines the voting behavior of the first-directly elected European Parliament. The main question of the research is how did the Members or the European Parliament vote during the first term of the Parliament. Did they follow their nation's or their political group's guidelines? The first directly elected Parliament included 434 deputies from ten members of the European Community. These members belonged to seven different political groups. The roll-call votes of the first term (1979-1984) provides the basis for this study. The analysis is done by using two methodological techniques: factor analysis and Multiple Classification Analysis., The research has revealed that this multi-ethnic and relatively new institution has taken seriously its role. Despite the bad press coverage that has received, the European Parliament has demonstrated that is a parliament in the making. Its members voted most of the time as a political group and not as national group. These findings suggest that if the European Parliament is delegated additional powers will become a legitimate and a more responsible institution. In addition the study implies that if the EP becomes more powerful there is going to be a further integration of the European Community. The Parliament provides the basis for legitimacy of the EC because it is the only of the four institutions that is democratically elected by the European citizens.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9113917, 3162167, FSDT3162167, fsu:78365
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