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Enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp dissolved in n-methyl morpholine n-oxide and ionic liquids: a comparative study
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The first step in the conversion process of biomass to biofuels or hydrogen lies in identifying an environmentally friendly solvent, which is capable of breaking up the crystalline microstructure of cellulose. Once the cellulose is in...
Measuring fertilization success of broadcast-spawning marine intertebrates within seagrass meadows in St. Joseph Bay, Florida
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Increasing current velocity has been negatively correlated with fertilization success of marine broadcast-spawners. Seagrass has been shown to effect seawater hydrodynamics, in particular, slowing the movement of water. In this study I...
Encoding beauty: ovulating women encode the attractiveness of male and female social targets
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Ovulation (the period of peak female fertility) profoundly influences women's mating-related psychology and behavior. Recent studies suggest that, during the period surrounding ovulation, women prioritize physical attractiveness when...
Manipulation of stimulus encoding in the study of retroactive inhibition in paired-associate learning
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Sixteen S's in each of eight experimental and two control groups participated in an experiment designed to study the relation between stimulus encoding and retroactive inhibition, in the A-B, A-C/D-C and A-B, A-Br/D-C P-A paradigms. In...
In many respects, women in the Middle East are treated as second class citizens due to the double standards within the region. Societal expectations hold women directly responsible for actively maintaining a reputation of purity for...
The medial preoptic area (MPOA) is a major integrative center for male rat sexual behavior. Past research has shown that activator protein (AP-1) transcription factors modulate gene expression. Two such factors are Fos and Jun, that bind...
Talking trash: the influence of gender and social class on recycling
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Environmentalism has become an increasingly important issue to people in the U.S. Though recycling is an important means of reducing environmental degradation and is, essentially, a pro-social behavior, there is little literature on the...
Jealousy and implicit evaluations of perceived romantic rivals
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This experiment tested the hypothesis that people placed in a jealous state, particularly those who display high dispositional levels of romantic jealousy, would form implicit negative evaluations of attractive same-sex targets. A...
Glucose and diet-induced obesity modulation of ion channel biophysics
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The voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.3 is more than a conductor of ions. This channel is found in many parts of the mouse and human body but is especially prevalent in Tlymphocytes, the hippocampus, the pyriform cortex, and the... This work was supported by NIH Grant R01-03387, FSU's Bess Ward Honors Grant, the College of Arts and Sciences, and faculty contributions.
Porphyry as neoplatonic exegete: a contextual evaluation of "On the Cave of Nymphs"
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On the Cave of the Nymphs (Antr.), which dates from the late third or early fourth century, is one of the few extant works of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry. It is essentially a literary interpretation of eleven lines from the...
The molecular evolution of parvalbumin in elasmobranchs: determining the exon-intron structure
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Parvalbumin (PV) is a small monomeric calcium binding protein that occurs across vertebrates. This protein has a long history, it was first discovered in the early 1930's and its structure determined in 1970's. Because the protein has a...
Audience costs, autocratic regimes, and militarized conflict
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Traditionally, political science literature has focused on why a democratic peace exists. That is, why are two democratic states less likely to engage in conflict with one another than two dictatorships (or a democracy and a dictatorship...
General stressors and compulsive hoarding: the role of social anxiety symptoms
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Compulsive hoarding is a condition wherein individuals actively collect and are incapable of discarding seemingly useless items. Although the etiology of hoarding is unknown, research has identified potential risk factors that may make...
MR analysis of structural contrast in a mouse model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a function of magnetic field
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The main focus of this analysis is to utilize Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to define parameters that optimize regional contrast of neuroanatomical structures as a function of magnetic field strength. Once these parameters are defined...
A 48.5MHz circuit has been integrated into an existing LC buncher consisting of a base frequency of 12.125MHz and the first two higher harmonics. Installing a 48.5MHz circuit allows for compatibility with hardware currently installed in...
The number of mentally ill people in the criminal justice system has increased. Mental Health Courts are specialized courts that attempt to incorporate the needs of mentally ill defendants while maintaining justice. Mental Health Courts...
Maintenance rules in friends with benefits relationships
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Friends with benefits relationships (FWBRs) are relationships between cross-sex friends in which the friends engage in sexual activity but do not define their relationship as a committed romantic relationship (Hughes et al, 2005). The...
Finding virtue in the feminine: Plutarch's precepts for women
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Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. A.D. 46-after A.D. 120), the Greek essayist, biographer, and philosopher who provides much of our knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman world, has been an enormously influential figure over the centuries. My...
Semantic fast mapping in kindergarteners after minimal exposure to written non-words
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the semantic fast-mapping abilities of kindergartners with typical language abilities. Of interest was whether phonotactic and/or orthotactic probabilities affected their ability to...
The literature of American author Kurt Vonnegut, from the idyllic society of 1950s post-war America in his earliest unpublished stories to his ultimate confrontation with an America run by "sickies" in 2005's A Man Without a Country, ...
Role of dietary zinc deficiency in adult neuronal stem cell proliferation in the olfactory bulb
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We now know that there are several regions of the human brain that have stem cells with the potential to divide and differentiate into neurons throughout the lifespan. These adult stem cells are found in the subgranular zone of the...
Ever since Louis Lumiére popularized the first motion pictures near the end of the 19th century, film has been synonymous with the movies. Now, a decade into the 21st century, film is being challenged by digital cinema. Especially in the...
Four artists under Hitler: the effects of the Entartete Kunst exhibits on Emil Nolde, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Max Ernst and Jankel Adler
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In the National Socialists' attacks on modern art, many artists were called degenerate and forbidden to work. Four artists affected by the Entartete Kunst campaign were Emil Nolde, a member of the Nazi party, Max Ernst, one of the first...
Reproductive compensation and its implication for mating system evolution in viola septemloba
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Mixed mating, the production of offspring by a combination of self-fertilization and outcrossing, is a phenomenon that competing theories have not been able to fully explain. Reproductive compensation (RC) is one untested mechanism that...
Cultivating cooperation: manipulating institutional design features to maximize regulatory efficiency
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Cooperative enforcement, a regulatory enforcement strategy, has been shown to promote efficiency and effectiveness in regulatory environments. In order to achieve a state of cooperation with regulated firms, an agency must be able to...
Bioinformatic and molecular selection of sorghum (S. Propinquum L.) BAC clones for use as FISH probes on chromosomes 2, 7, and 10 of maize (Zea mays L.)
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Abstract: Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop and a model system for cytogenetic research. The overall goal is to develop a cytogenetic map of the maize genome. This provides insight into the structure and evolution of an essential...
Predicting the initiation of cloud-to-ground lightning
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Thunderstorm echo top height and echo volume are tested for their ability to predict warm season cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning initiation in rural, urban, and marine areas across the southeast United States. Results show that the echo...
Nucleon pairing approximations in the nuclear shell model
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Abstract: Despite the relatively simple fundamental laws of nature, the diversity and complexity of our world is astonishing. The many-body problem is at the center of transition from simple microscopic components to macroscopic...
Solution conformational entropy of aldohexose sugars
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Abstract: Aldohexose sugars differ by the conformation at three of their hydroxyl group bonds. The conformations of these bonds determine the flexibility and therefore the entropy of these molecules in solution. Size-exclusion...
This thesis will survey the human rights abuses committed during the Pinochet regime (1973-1989), subsequent legal proceedings of Pinochet in the Chilean courts, and the reconciliation and accountability proceedings that occurred in post...
Spatial variatio: a functional and quantitative analysis of rooms in Pompeian baths
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The Roman bath is a unique building type that can easily be identified by its rooms, which have a number of defining characteristics. Each room was designed to serve a specific function: caldaria provided heat, frigidaria provided cold, ...
The role of aggression and sensation seeking in the acquired capability for suicide
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The purpose of this study is to examine the association between sensation seeking, aggression, the interaction of these two variables, and the acquired capability to enact lethal self-harm. More specifically, this study intends to...
Doing the math: a K-20 examination of the minority pipeline in math intensive fields
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It is a well known fact that there is an achievement gap in the K-12 educational system between students of different races and ethnicities. Also known is the substantial disparity among these groups in math intensive college programs:...
Malaria: an investigation into the view of disease in the classical world
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This thesis examines the history of malaria and its effects, diagnosis, and treatment, particularly in regions of the Mediterranean and the Near East, focusing on the Classical period. It discovers the earliest mention of malaria in the...
Structured art activities to support communication for children with autism spectrum disorder
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This study investigated the use of structured art activities using preferred sensory materials and visual supports to increase communication and decrease challenging behaviors at a three week summer camp. Three boys participated in a...
Kenetics of the phase and chemical changes of cellulose in NMMO/H20 solutions
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Cellulosic biomass is an appealing alternative energy source due to its abundance in nature and the various available feed sources it can be obtained from. Efficient utilization of this feed source would lessen dependence on foreign fuel...
Willingness to participate in job-related training as one approaches retirement
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Abstract: Workers are increasingly becoming older and due to economic and societal conditions retirement is being discouraged (Ford & Orel, 2005). These individuals will continue to work for their employer and to be viable they may be...
Analyzing the symbolism of Judy Chicago and Simone de Beauvoir: the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of motherhood
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Judy Chicago, a visual artist, and Simone de Beauvoir, an existentialist, present differing, yet still complementary evaluations of the contemporary situation of the western mother. Chicago, with her art series The Birth Project, focuses...
Mapping Place is a multi-media journal examining issues at the overlap of placemaking, experimental geography, social history, and documentary practice. Through a varied set of themed lenses, the journal seeks to investigate, chronicle, ...
Negotiated rates and price discrimination in the American healthcare system
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The American health care system is the most expensive in the world yet despite this it is ranked thirty-seventh in the world according to the World Health Organization. Millions of Americans are uninsured, placing an economic and...
In a perfect world, every student would learn exactly the same way and the teacher wouldn't have to change his or her teaching method. However, each student in a classroom learns differently depending on his or her temperament. The...
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