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This project analyzes how elite actors influence democracy in contexts of high levels of public anxiety. Drawing from work on Affective Intelligence in Political Psychology, the project provides a theoretical explanation for the varying...
Cellulose is one of the most abundant materials on the planet, and as a result the use of this material would prove very efficient and practical in myriad applications. One of the forms of cellulose, cellulose triacetate, can be...
This study is the first to ask 1)To what extent is SES associated with WM, inhibition, processing speed, IQ, and achievement in children with ADHD?and 2) Which of these cognitive and environmental factors best predict academic attainment...
Some of the Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Colombia with the highest crime rates seem to not prioritize this issue in newspapers. However, people still seem to have growing anxiety about their physical insecurity in their...
Photographer David Douglas Duncan captured several images of the Middle East and South Asia throughout the 1940s and 1950s. His photographs were published in several photo essays in Life magazine. This study will focus on a portion of...
Communist North Korea is secretive, oppressive, and manipulative. North Korean media is strictly controlled by the government, and is therefore heavily biased. This study focuses on how North Korean media portrays the totalitarian...
The study focuses on the race issues and increased police militarization in Ferguson, Missouri related to the recent murder of Michael Brown. This particular part of the study focuses on the popular trend of the hashtag If They Gunned Me...
While evidence from mouse models strongly suggests that prenatal nicotine exposure supports a hyperactive-inattentive phenotype following direct exposure in utero via maternal circulation (Zhu et al 2014), there is little evidence that...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
Slovenia and the Province of Ljubljana were occupied by Fascist Italy during World War II. Through extensive literature reviews, the project identifies a specific report" Report of the High Commissioner for the Province of Ljubljana"...
Ferroelectrics have many applications in modern technology, including, but not limited to, use in RAM (Random Access Memory) and in data storage. Molecule-based ferroelectrics are especially appealing, given their synthetic tenability, ...
While increasingly utilized, particularly by women, two-year colleges are rarely considered in studies of participation gaps in undergraduate STEM degrees. This manuscript uses Beginning Postsecondary Students: 2004/09 panel data and a...
Social contagion concerns are people's elevated apprehensions that having interactions with a stigmatized outgroup like lesbians and gay men, will result in being misclassified as a member of this outgroup. This concern typically results...
Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) is a novel rapid prototyping process that involves alternating between material deposition and removal. This allows for the fabrication of the complexities that are an integral part of biomimetic...
For people all over the planet, sea level rise is accelerating and is impacting Floridians directly. Due to the accelerated melting of ice as well as the warming of the ocean, sea level is estimated to rise to significantly damaging...
Breast cancer survivors (BCS) encounter side effects from cancer treatments that reduce muscular strength. Studies show resistance training (RT) in BCS can improve strength. One concern with RT in BCS is increasing lymphedema, which is...
The aims of this study were as follows: o Aim 1: To evaluate the effect of a 5-week probiotic treatment on gastrointestinal symptoms and breath hydrogen exhalation followed by 5 weeks of the same probiotic blend in combination with a...
American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian Angelina Jolie wrote a piece for the New York Times titled "My Medical Choice" to raise breast cancer awareness and share her story about her decision to undergo a double mastectomy. Various...
A Systematic Examination of Music Listening Programming on Engagement/Behavior, Mood, and Cognition of Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Related Dementia (ADRD)
Dementia is a general term that is used to describe significant decline in mental ability strong enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia impacts a person's level of independence and overall quality of life. Alzheimer's is a type of...
The accuracy of Wikipedia is often debated, due to the fact that anyone is allowed to edit the website's articles. The purpose of this project is to analyze how various events from the Second World War, specifically those events related...
The Eto Perro Dugout Canoe project is an experimental archaeology project conducted by Florida State University students Haley Messer and Krissy Hogeweg. The canoe was constructed using three manufacture methods: historic style tools...
Working towards a larger-scale research venture regarding the Russian composer Alexsandr Skryabin, this project has focused on the creation and reception of theosophically influenced music and art in France. Theosophy, which directly...
There are many regulations for how a prison should work as a system according to the state, but the ones who actually have the most control over how the prison is run are the employees and officials who work in and manage the facility....
What are the causes and consequences of internal displacement during civil conflicts? This project makes two general claims: First, internal displacement is often the intentional byproduct of territorial consolidation during civil wars....
Under the mentorship of Prof. Shonda Stevens, we are researching and studying the American Expatriate Literary Tradition; creating analytical lists of displaced and expatriated American novelists, artists, and poets, and the works they...
For my research assistantship, I digitized drawings of ancient Greek pottery sketches that were made during earlier archaeological excursions. In addition, I have also learned a lot about ancient Greek pottery in general and the...
Primary productivity, or the rate at which energy is converted to organic substances, can be determined by analyzing trends in chlorophyll-a in an ocean region over time. Chlorophyll-a is a chemical produced by photosynthetic organisms...
Despite his Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls rank among the top one-hundred challenged and banned American classics. Hemingway has experienced perhaps the...
Under the supervision of the Department of Art's Professor Lilian Garcia-Roig, I learned many aspects that go into a successful painting studio. One of the most important factors of a painting studio is the end target, or where you will...
The primary aim of this project is to develop a language and literacy intervention program for Spanish-speaking ELLs (English Language Learners). The project is being conducted in schools in Gadsden County where it is reported that 48%...
Researchers are increasingly finding connections with oral language and children's growth in literacy. Some have questioned if teachers oral language have a big impact on the reading skills of children. To analyze this, video footage has...
The Cat Project was launched by Owen Mundy in July 2014. The project served to bring awareness of computer and internet privacy by displaying the location of one million cats on a global map using geotags and metadata. The website...
This project aims at identifying the impact documentary films have in instigating public activism. GASLAND focuses on the damage that fracking causes on the American public as well as the environment. Racing Extinction is primarily...
The role of a university goes beyond providing an education for its students; it is also responsible for supporting and promoting the careers of its students, faculty and alumni. However, educating a population about art in their...
This study will analyze the question, Does a relationship exist between parent-reported attributes and leadership, creativity, and motivation among students as reported by their teachers? Adjective checklists allow parents to choose...
In 1964, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a major member of the Civil Rights Movement, employed Freedom Summer. Freedom Summer was dedicated to registering black citizens to vote in the deep South, in Mississippi....
In today's technologically driven society, an increasing amount of everyday literature is presented in electronic formats. People at all levels of socioeconomic status are reading more from phones, tablets, and computer screens on a...
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