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Scholars have studied issues of public relations evaluation and encroachment separately, yet none have previously examined perceptions about evaluation and encroachment together in applied settings. This study features responses obtained...
High Temperature superconductors (HTS) are the only way to achieve elds with superconducting magnets higher than the 25 T of Low Temperature Superconductors (LTS). No-Insulation (NI) REBCO magnets using REBa2Cu3Ox as the superconductor...
The 14-3-3 family of proteins is implicated in the regulation of a broad range of key neuronal processes. Previous human and animal studies have provided evidence for an association between 14-3-3 proteins and schizophrenia. Here, I...
Aspects of global change - specifically, elevated soil nitrogen deposition and warming - are resulting in significant changes in native plant communities. These effects can be direct through changes in productivity, or indirect through...
Unemployment and the incarceration of pretrial defendants
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The Rusche and Kirchheimer thesis, which argues that labor market marginality engenders larger confinement populations, has amassed substantial empirical support in recent years. However, there still remains the question whether these... The results of the time series analysis reveal no statistically discernible relationship between the unemployment rate and the pretrial misdemeanor incarceration rate. The incarceration rate for pretrial felony offenders also varies...
In recent years, NASA has become interested in densified fuels such as solid hydrogen. A change from liquid to solid-state fuel storage would result in an approximately 15% smaller onboard fuel tank, and thus a lower gross vehicle lift...
Clustering is an essential data mining tool that aims to discover inherent cluster structure in data. As such, the study of clusterability, which evaluates whether data possesses such structure, is an integral part of cluster analysis....
Over the past 40 years radiative transfer models have consistently under-predicted the amount of solar absorption by clouds. Estimates of the size of this discrepancy at the beginning of its discovery were ~10 W/m^2, but in 1995 jumped...
Public entrepreneurship in Florida local government administration
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The problem. Public entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as the means to manage governmental organizations, even through, the approach has not been fully investigated and researched. The term entrepreneurship is often overused and... Research methods and strategies. Rather than concentrate on an ideal definition, the identification of traits, or a single influential person, this dissertation explores public entrepreneurship as an evolutionary process that follows... Findings and conclusions. Each case provides a profile of the entrepreneurial process in local government and exposes variations in the decision-making processes by which entrepreneurial activities are formed and operationalized. Public...
The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
This piece is composed for the Florida State University Electric Chamber Orchestra (EChO). Being an entirely electronic ensemble, it is an area very few composers are accustomed to. EChO is comprised of entirely electric instruments with...
THE IDENTIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF CRITICAL INCIDENTS IN CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AND THE SOLUTIONS REPORTED BY FIRST-YEAR VOCATIONAL TEACHERS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA
Evolutionary theory is considered by many to be an important cornerstone to the entire discipline to biology. Despite its recognized importance by biologists, public understanding of evolution is considered to be woefully lacking. There...
This thesis presents a new architecture for improving the interactivity and responsiveness of massively multiplayer on-line games. In order to aide in the quick delivery of game updates generated by a game client, this thesis presents a...
JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ AND NATIONAL MASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN PUERTO RICO
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Since the 1930s, the problem of national identity has become one of the most crucial issues in the Puerto Rican political and cultural arena. Politicians like Pedro Albizu Campos, Luis Munoz Mar(')in, and Luis A. Ferre, and writers like... This dissertation tries to show how Jose Luis Gonzalez has attempted to achieve his primary aim of helping develop and enrich a national mass consciousness in Puerto Rico. It also describes the evolution of his humanist views. Gonzalez's...
In 1998, a group of radical media makers and social justice activists opened the Independent Media Center in an abandoned storefront in downtown Seattle to provide street level news coverage of a large-scale mobilization protest against...
The official nosology of psychiatric disorders (DSM-5) includes a primarily dimensional operationalization of personality pathology, the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), in its latest edition. The present study...
Electric power lines are subject to disturbances such as severe weather conditions, contact with animals, falling trees, human accidents, equipment malfunction, etc. These catastrophic events can trigger an electrical fault, which...
One of the heritages of Romanticism is the concept of song as Lied, a song in which voice and piano have equal responsibility in conveying the deepest meaning of a poem. Brazilian classical composers have a particular attraction for this...
Health condition monitoring and failure detection play a crucial role in estimating the performance of solar panels such as degradation trend over time and occurrence of failures. Monitoring and detecting significant degradation can help...
The purpose of this study was to investigate high school music teachers' perceived influence of student enrollment in accelerated learning programs on student enrollment, participation, and attitude in band and choir. Participants (N =...
Marginal labor and county-level punishment patterns in Florida during the 1980s
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This study looked at the impact of marginal and surplus labor on criminal punishment. The primary objectives of this study were: (1) to provide a more comprehensive assessment of the relationship between surplus labor and criminal... The findings indicate that unemployment does predict prison and probation admissions. No support for the trade-off thesis was found. The most significant predictor of punishment rates was the percent of young, black males in the...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of music therapy on parents' and pediatric patients' perception of the nurse. Both patient (N=40) and parent (N=40) groups were given a post-test after music therapy intervention to...
For years, clinicians have struggled to increase diagnostic agreement for mental illnesses. However, there are a number of factors that may contribute to inconsistency in diagnosis. The three studies described here were designed to...
My thesis project, titled Crumbling Masculinities: Adaptations, Filtration, and the Crisis of Masculinity, addresses the construction of masculinity through what I label "filtration." By building on the work of gender scholars like...
The purpose of this study was to explore and better capture the concept of choking under pressure by operationally redefining it. Choking was examined using a Bayesian approach to internal psychological crisis and the evaluation of the...
Ocean transport of heat is a substantial component of the climate system but its characteristics and dynamic causes are still somewhat unknown. Prior research has shown that global observations from the ocean and atmosphere indicate that...
Leucine Metabolite, Beta-Hydroxy Beta-Methylbutyrate (HMB) as an Intervention to Maintain Lean Body Mass and Performance during Sustained Military Operations
Soldiers in combat conduct sustained operations (SUSOPS) characterized by prolonged physical activity coupled with inadequate recovery and nutrition. This high operational tempo creates a catabolic condition in soldiers causing...
Cognitive control (‘executive’) processes have been implicated in a broad range of psychological problems including anxiety and externalizing conditions. However, limited research has examined the effects of external stressors (i.e., ...
The current fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) differentiates individuals with conduct disorder according to the presence vs. absence of “limited...
PERCEPTIONS HELD BY FLORIDA SUPERINTENDENTS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, AND PRESIDENTS OF THEIR FUNCTIONS, QUALIFICATIONS, AND PROBLEMS RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE
The purpose of this study is to test a perfect prognosis scheme used to develop lightning guidance for the warm season (May-September) for three regions of the country (Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Oregon). This guidance product is...
Factors influencing student attrition in public community colleges
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As the United States moves from an industrial society to an informational society, the need for the skills and knowledge generally obtained from institutions of higher education is expanding. The graduation rate of an institution is... Community colleges serve a unique function in the Unites States' system of higher education. While providing a second chance for many individuals who otherwise would not be able to continue their education, this specific clientele tends... The statistical techniques used were logistic regression and Classification and Regression Trees (CART). The dependent variables were structured in two different ways. The first was based upon the length of follow-up and whether the... The most important status variable was employment. Working full-time negated the advantages of working at all. Students working full-time were between two and three times more likely to drop out than students not working full-time. The most important continuous variable was GPA. The standardized odds ratios for the dichotomous outcomes indicated the chances of remaining enrolled increased by a factor of 1.30 to 1.40 per standard deviation increase.
Mesons composed of heavy quark-antiquark pairs, known as quarkonia, provide the only direct probe of the screening length in the deconfined state of quarks and gluons, known as the quark gluon plasma (QGP), which is believed to be...
Research on adolescent substance abuse treatment effectiveness has grown in quantity, as evidenced by several review articles (Deas & Thomas, 2001; Muck, Zempolich, Titus, Fishman, Godley, & Schwebel, 2001; Williams & Chang, 2000). The...
Lateral distribution of detrital clay minerals in Lower Cretaceous sediment, western North Atlantic and its continental margin
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Fine grained sediment from Lower Cretaceous turbidites (DSDP Site 603) and their correlative deltaic deposits (Baltimore Canyon Trough) were compared mineralogically and texturally. The shelf sediment is coarser grained than deep sea... In deep-sea turbidites, smectite dominates the $<$0.5 micrometer fraction and illite is most abundant in coarser clay fractions. Smectite level is highest in clay-rich sand beds and in clay rip-up clasts, indicating it has been reworked... Previous studies of the clay mineral composition of Lower Cretaceous western North Atlantic sediment hypothesized extensive vertisols along the eastern North American margin to account for high smectite levels, but the results of this... Possible sources for pelagic smectite include Early Cretaceous volcanic ash derived from the New England-Quebec volcanic event, from andesitic volcanism in Mexico, and possibly more extensive exposure of syn-rift diabase and associated...
The origins of thermonuclear supernovae remain poorly understood--a troubling fact, given their importance in astrophysics and cosmology. A leading theory posits that these events arise from the merger of white dwarfs in a close binary...
SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF SOME MOLECULAR PROBLEMS. PART I: NORMAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR ELUCIDATING MOLECULAR STRUCTURE - IRON PENTACARBONYL. PART II: A STUDY OF NON-BONDING TO PI-ANTIBONDING ELECTRON TRANSITIONS--ALKYL NITRITES AND ROTATORY DISPERSION
The whole problem of the democratization of students is one requiring the participation of all students continuously in a living environment which begins with the simple experiences of the kindergarten and progresses more and more...
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