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AbstractAfter developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014, different colleges adopted the policy with various resources, perspectives, and reactions. This study seeks to...
This manuscript of poems is a wandering through the last ten years of my life, but stretches back into childhood as well. It wanders, because I have wandered, but as I did, it wanders with purpose. The poems roam from work to travel, ...
Spin crossover (SCO) is a physical phenomenon where certain transition metal ions exhibit a change in their electronic configuration and magnetic state under the influence of external stimuli such as temperature, pressure, or light. SCO...
The North American gray treefrog complex (Hyla versicolor sensu lato), defined here as encompassing the diploid species Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla avivoca, and the tetraploid Hyla versicolor, has long been used as a model system in a...
Codeswitching is commonly practiced by Spanish heritage bilinguals in the United States (Fairchild & Van Hell, 2017). Further, intrasentential codeswitching is the use of more than one language within a clause, as shown in (1) (Sankoff &...
Using a flow visualization technique in combination with rheology, we have studied five problemsthat pertain to particle motion in polymeric fluids: Effects of micellar relaxation spectrum and gradients in micellar extensions on flow...
Cashews are the number one produced tree nut worldwide and the U.S. is the top importer. Despite their popularity and economic importance, cashews are frequently implicated in IgE-mediated food allergy. Food allergy is an increasingly...
The pressure behavior of the actinides, like the rest of the chemistry of the actinides, is not well studied or understood. Chapter 1 gives a brief description of the prior work that has gone into studying the pressure behavior of the...
This dissertation examines the historical and cultural context of lynching and lynching trends in scholarship and places Claude Neal's lynching within that context. The dissertation provides a detailed account of the Neal lynching by...
The metabolic state of an organism and their sense of olfaction are closely interrelated. There is significant evidence that olfactory signals can modulate multiple metabolic parameters and, in turn, that metabolically relevant signals...
The African immigrant population in the U.S. has roughly doubled every year since 1970 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). The increase in African immigrant families in the U.S. coincides with a rise of African immigrant families interacting...
Since natural resource issues, such as the changes in species habitat due to drought or sea level rise, are occurring at larger scales, it is challenging for a single entity to govern them independently. As a result, large scale...
Naiad Press, the largest lesbian publishing company at its peak in the late 20th century, was located within the Tallahassee region. Focusing on their first breakthrough book, Sheila Ortiz Taylor's Faultline represents both the white...
American civic society is comprised of many social groups with internal identities and interests. Throughout American history, marginalized identities have been systemically disadvantaged through social institutions such as education, ...
The use of nicotine containing products among pregnant women continues to be a major public health concern despite the well-known harmful effects of nicotine on the developing fetus. Among the nicotine containing products, electronic...
The endo-exonuclease micrococcal nuclease (MNase, E.C. 3.1.31.1) is widely used as a small diffusible protein probe to characterize chromatin structure and gene regulation in eukaryotic cells. MNase has been described as a relatively non...
Different treatments among individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been shown to relieve various symptoms that accompany it. Despite high rates of treatment seeking within this population, there is still a portion of...
Wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle as a carbon sink, particularly due to Sphagnum moss’s ability to create acidic conditions that preserve peat. However, experimental wetlands designed to simulate a future with higher...
Magnetic two-dimensional (2D) materials, proposed to exhibit non-trivial electronic topology, have been discovered recently. In particular, a potential for devices based on van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnetic heterostructures was...
Newark Pastoral is a collection of fictional short stories that center on the African-American inner-city experience. This collection encompasses a number of themes and subjects including identity, religion, community, sex trafficking, ...
While the electrochemical energy storage systems are paving their ways to solve the existing theoretical energy and power challenges, alternative cell chemistries are highly desirable. Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LIC) and Hybrid Lithium-Ion...
In my honors research project, I explored an ecological interaction between plants and fungi which may prevent damage to the plant caused by herbivory or disease. Certain fungal associations with plants have been observed to influence...
Within the western sphere, reception and adaptation studies have long centered around the work of only the most privileged members of society—typically, white men who identify (in twenty-first century terms) as both cisgender and...
Current research proposes that the "open border” policies in Southeast Asia should exclude asylum seekers from certain ethnic or religious communities. These policies are based on previous economic and cultural collapses of countries...
A software-based platform brings app developers and customers together. It creates new opportunities for app developers to compete in a dynamically changing marketplace. To survive in intra-platform competition, app developers have to...
Studies of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) have shown evidence that this brain structure is associated with anxiety and stress responses in social situations. The posterior region of this structure has been found to be...
The Association between Trait Reactance, Freedom-Threat, State Psychological Reactance, and Behavioral Intentions Among a Sample of Adult, E-Cigarette Users’ Self- Report Responses to Anti-Vaping PSAs
Using existing, un-analyzed data collected from a larger experimental study (Clayton, 2022), this honor thesis analyzes trait reactance among a sample of adult, daily e-cigarette users influence their self-report responses including...
In this study, we evaluate the relationship between the streamflow of several watersheds in Central Florida and five environmental variables that were reforecasted for Florida by dynamically downscaling seasonal forecasts from a global...
The city of Tallahassee, Florida, is home to vibrant and diverse music communities. From old time and blues to country, rock, folk, and classical music, musicians and music organizations from across Tallahassee engage thousands of...
One problem with existing face obfuscation programs and techniques is that obfuscated faces are able to be detected as perturbed by supervised learning models trained on labeled non-obfuscated and obfuscated faces. A second problem is...
Using the Lifespan Biopsychosocial Model of Cumulative Vulnerability and Minority Health, the present study proposed two models to test the relationships among racial discrimination, cognitive-emotional factors, and risky sexual...
This paper describes two case studies and follow-up, taking place over a three-year period, with an adolescent male diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). At the time of the first case study the 13-year-old subject was...
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic to our society may be unprecedented. While an effective cure or vaccine is under development, maintaining social distance is an essential step in defending personal as well as public health. This study...
Social media users have the freedom to propagate information, but this freedom has come with a price as social media has also become a channel to disseminate false information. It is thus vitally important to detect fake news in social...
CV19 SelfDefense is an mHealth approach to providing mobile phone users with situational awareness during the coronavirus pandemic, with the goal of protecting and defending personal health. Several individual risk reduction measures...
Women are missing in many modern film posters. Design trends show that advertisers targetting predominantly male audiences exclude strong female leads from poster design because they do not fit within traditional standards of emphasized...
On February 22, 1943, a group of university students in Munich, Germany was executed by the Nazi regime by means of the guillotine. These students were known as the “White Rose, ” an anonymous, non-violent resistance group that spread...
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