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Alone in the merciful dark: all of my friends' hair
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"All of My Friends' Hair" is a research project and art installation investigating the development of social identity through physical characteristics such as hair. Over the course of the past year I collected samples of hair from...
The biological meaning of notch and beta-actin interaction
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The Notch signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved and multi-functional pathway. It has been reported to regulate cell fates, cell proliferation and cell death in multiple biological processes. Actin is also an evolutionarily...
The controversy over Pope Pius XII: The Deputy and its continuing aftermath
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The Shoah, beyond the horror of millions of people dying for their race or religion, presented a moral dilemma about those who did or did not help the victims. For ordinary citizens, not being involved seemed the safest way, but what...
Psychopathic personality traits and semantic processing of emotional Stroop stimuli
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Blunted reactions to distressing and fearful stimuli have long been implicated in the development of psychopathic personality traits. The emotional Stroop task is one of the hallmark measures of assessing attentional bias for emotional...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major health concern for men and women today. Most attention of the potentially devastating effects of this virus has been directed towards women, due to the strong link between HPV and cervical cancer. A...
Relationship between functional performance and bone mineral density of various skeletal sites in overweight postmenopausal women
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Functionality is a measurement of the ability of an individual to perform simulated daily tasks providing insight into the physical fitness of older adults. The overall purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between body...
Sedimentologic history of the lower St. Johns River estuary, northeast Florida
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The goal of this study was to determine the sediment history of the Cedar and Ortega River estuaries, part of the lower St. Johns River (LSJR) in northeastern Florida. Sedimentation rate data based on 210Pb and 137Cs analyses, combined... Forty-seven cores collected from the Cedar and Ortega Rivers were analyzed for percent water, percent organics, percent fines, bulk density, color, and sedimentary structure by x-radiography. A subset was analyzed for historic...
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling in the brain-ventral tegmental area and its regulation of mood in rat
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BACKGROUND: Emotions are not only accompanied by changes in our physiology but by changes in brain protein expression as well. Changes in expression and activity of several signaling proteins have been documented in response to chronic...
Relationship between serum and synovial fluid concentration of estradiol, leptin and the degree of osteoarthritis
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Currently 21 million Americans are affected by osteoarthritis (OA) and to date, neither its etiology is well understood nor are effective therapies to prevent or halt OA available. Aside from inflammation, current evidence suggests that...
Precipitating causes of the 1997 Asian financial crisis: South Korea
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After the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, many researches and studies found internal and external impacts and came to a general agreement that investors' panic behavior made South Korea to be a part of the crisis. There are general ideas...
Identification of sites of ethanol-derived protein adducts involved in liver damage
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The goal of this research project was to quantify and identify sites of modification by malondialdehyde (MDA) and acetaldehyde (AA) on model proteins. This work will further clarify the biochemical role of ethanol-derived protein adducts...
In God or science we trust: understanding belief in medical miracles
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Even with the recent expansion in academic literature on the relationship between religion and health, little work has been done to understand people's belief in medical miracles. This study serves as exploratory research to learn what...
After over millennia of ideological dominance throughout much of the world, theism found itself set against a new philosophical system known as humanism which valued the proliferation and evolution of humanity apart from theism's Divine...
Presently, robotic fish are being used to demonstrate the functional range of various types of actuators. Since buckypaper composite actuators (BCAs) are lightweight, easy to manufacture and require low voltage and power to drive, they...
Game theoretic analysis of persister dynamics in biofilm
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Abstract: Biofilm has been determined to play a significant role in approximately 80% of all infectious diseases (NIH, NHLBI). They are most well known for their keen ability to resist antibiotic treatment (Costerton, et al.) by way of...
Perception of acoustically similar vowels from English and Hebrew
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The most widely accepted theory on vowel perception, the formant theory, suggests that vowel are differentiated perceptually based on the presence of concentrated bands of harmonic energy in the vowel's acoustical signal. Vowels from...
Nanoparticles of silica are used in a number of products such as toothpastes, hair gels, and even as drug delivery vehicles. In all of these applications, the particles are suspended in a liquid and then the resulting suspension is...
Does trehalose-6-phosphate synthase play a role in guard cell biology of arabidopsis thaliana?
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Sugar metabolism is important in plants because it regulates gene expression and plant development. A particular sugar, trehalose, is found in a variety of plants. Recent studies have found that trehalose metabolites may be signaling...
Why has Latin America been shifting politically to the left?
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The purpose of the research is to look at why countries in Central and South America have been turning away from free market polices and shifting to more centralized forms of government that draw from Marxist ideologies. This research...
The social implications of specific language impairment in school age children
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Numerous studies have been conducted involving preschoolers with specific language impairment (SLI), suggesting a potential relationship between their communicative abilities and social acceptance. Because social status is highly valued...
Abraham Lincoln: suspension of habeas corpus and supreme court cases Ex Parte Merryman and Ex Parte Milligan
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This thesis paper focuses on the time period, during the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and the subsequent legal problems this suspension caused. In particular my research...
Vowel formant transitions in children and adults who stutter
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The purpose of this study was to compare the vowel formant transitions during the fluent utterances of those who stutter and those who do not. Two children (age 10 female, age 8 male) and two adults (age 18 female, age 21 male) who...
David Hume, the philosopher who famously asserts that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, argues in the Enquiry into the Principles of Morality that it is emotion, and not reason, through which moral...
Relationship between rhythmic perception and rhythmic performance
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This study examines the relationship between rhythmic perception and rhythmic performance. Many pedagogical theories link these abilities, leading the researcher to hypothesize that they are related: an individual's capacity to perform...
This bibliography contains citations from publications or papers presented at professional meetings concerning CIP theory, research, and practice based on work completed at Florida State University and other organizations in various...
A comparative analysis of sociocultural and aesthetic characteristics in the John and Mary Carter Collection of pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles at the Florida State University
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: examining Edna Pontellier in Catholic Creole society
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Originally titled A Solitary Soul, Kate Chopin's The Awakening offers a glimpse into turn of the 19th century New Orleans, Louisiana. The text is unlike other literature in the same time period because Edna defies society's standards in...
Vowel formant transitions in fluent speech of adults and children who do and do not stutter
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This study was performed to compare vowel formant transitions during fluent utterances of stutterers and nonstutterers. Eight adult and eight child stutterers and a similar group of nonstutterers served as participants. The subjects read...
Walking through snow: an exploration of the aesthetic experience of snow through code driven artwork
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The individual experience of snow in North American culture is often stereotyped as beautiful, serene, and peaceful. How are these stereotypes interpreted by North American residents who have very little interaction with snow? One who...
Analysis of DNA gyrase A and gyrase B mutations possibly associated with resistance to ciprofloxacin in deep subsurface bacteria
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Several strains of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin were isolated from deep terrestrial subsurface sediments at the U. S. Department of Energy Hanford Site (HS) in Washington State. These bacteria were of...
Evaluation of the ovariectomized hamster as a model for postmenopausal osteoporosis
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Estrogen deficiency in women is caused most commonly by either the natural onset of menopause or by ovariectomy (Ovx), and is strongly associated with bone loss. Our unpublished data supports that hamsters do not appear to experience...
The status of Turkey in the European community is contentious, and its recent efforts to join the European Union have raised questions about the nature of European identity. Economic, social, ideological, and religious differences stand...
Theoretical models continue to be developed to gain a better understanding of the inner workings and interactions involved in the operation of fuel cell stacks. Very little, however, has been done to investigate how to maintain a fuel...
The sonic fetish: a study of the Marxist approach to popular music
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Two problems arose during the twentieth century that posed major problems for Marxism: the introduction of the mechanical reproduction of art and the rise of apathy amongst the proletariat. The twentieth century saw the beginning of the...
We are all familiar with the archetype of the psychopath: Individuals portrayed on screen through characters like Hannibal Lecter. These individuals are portrayed as extremely intelligent and calculating, but lacking emotion and sympathy...
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