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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...
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...
A significant component of forensic science is analyzing bones to assess the age at death of an individual. Forensic anthropologists often include the pubic symphysis in such studies. Subjective methods, such as the Suchey-Brooks method, ...
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free...
In Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, John Saltmarsh, Co-Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Edward...
The present study examined four kinds of vocabulary knowledge: Definitional knowledge, using vocabulary in context, relational knowledge, and morphological knowledge. A measure was developed that assessed all four kinds of vocabulary...
The tame symbol serves many purposes in mathematics, and is of particular value when we use it to evaluate curves over certain number _elds. A well-known example is that of the Hilbert symbol, which gives us insight into the existence of...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
Despite the attractive properties of advanced ceramics, they are not popular for structural applications even though they possess high strength. Their low fracture toughness and brittle fracture mode are unwelcome for high integrity...
The photophysical characteristics of 5-arylvinyl-5Oe-methyl-2, 2Oe-bipyridyls (AVMB) and their zinc complexes were investigated in order to recognize the factors that influence the emission band shift and fluorescence quantum yield change...
This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
Mobile platforms have become ubiquitous in our society; however, classical benchmarks have not kept up with their growth. When not entirely incompatible, current benchmarking techniques often provide very little useful information about...
Charter schools have now been in operation for two decades in the U.S., and for 15 years in Florida. Florida took the third place in the U.S. in the number of charter schools operated and the student enrollment in 2010. This study...
Legal mandates, educational reform, and professional policy changes, have emphasized the need to promote the integration of services for students with communication impairments within the general education curriculum. However, speech...
American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
The purpose of this study was to compare teacher beliefs about music technology, types of teacher training in music technology, music technology resource availability, and levels of teacher use of music technology based on school...
There is a vast literature concerning the political control that elected officials have over agency actors in the development of bureaucratic policymaking outputs. In the context of rulemaking, I theorize that, while political signals...
The Effect of Music Therapy Interventions to Increase the Psychosocial Well-Being of Older Adults Living in Independent and Assisted Living Communities
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group music therapy sessions on the psychosocial well-being of older adults living in assisted and independent living communities. Pre-and posttest was used in two different...
The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that while a discussion of the nature of human knowledge might be a worthy goal to pursue in public education, the science classroom is not the appropriate place for this discussion. The...
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-service music education majors regarding participation in competitive concert and marching band events. Participants (N = 168) were undergraduate pre-service music education...
A proposed alternative wireless communication technique is developed and compared to the current radio frequency command link in a Flight Termination System. The command link in a Flight Termination System requires a reliable signal in a...
Transnational terrorism (TNT) is a process that, by definition, involves both international and domestic actors. A non-trivial portion of the literature that seeks to answer the question of why TNT occurs has focused on country-level...
The objective of this dissertation is to study the queuing and point process models that try to capture as many features as possible of the high-frequency data of a limit order book. First, we use a generalized birth-death stochastic...
Juggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to...
Over the past several decades, research investigating the relationship between women's empowerment and demographic outcomes has grown. Despite the increase in empowerment research, findings on the relationship between empowerment and...
Distressed relationships may be emotionally and economically costly to the couple, their families, and the community in which they reside. Given the current political endorsements, convenience, efficiency, capacity for prevention, and...
The population of ethnically diverse older adults in the US is rapidly growing, and reports of cognitive impairments, such as those caused by Alzheimer's disease, are becoming more prevalent. This investigation explored whether art...
Materials synthesis far from thermodynamic equilibrium can yield hierarchical order that spans from molecular to macroscopic length scales. Here we study the formation of microscopic and macroscopic inorganic tubes during spatially...
One of the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias is the self-organization of electrical waves in the heart. These waves can anchor to scar tissue, collagen fibers, and coronary vessels. The anchoring generates stationary electrical signals...
Relations between stimuli (contingencies, dependencies, etc.) provide valuable information about regularities and uncertainties in the environment. Statistical and associative mechanisms thought to be responsible for learning such...
The purpose and focus of this research was on studying the hazard to Florida's coastal bridges from storm surge induced wave forces inflicted on the bridges during hurricanes. It has been observed in recent years that bridges located in...
A subpopulation of neurons in the chick cochlear nucleus, nucleus magnocellularis (NM), dies following cochlea removal. Previous studies using a "candidate molecule" approach, in which molecules known to regulate cell death in other...
Hydrodynamic instabilities are the driving force behind complex fluid processes that occur from everyday scenarios to the most extreme physical conditions of the universe. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) develops when a heavy fluid...
Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) in cables is a prevalent phenomenon affecting the structural health of bridges and their components. Past studies have shown both passive and active methods are beneficial in the reduction of vibrations, ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the rates, widths, and pitches of university double bass players' vibrato in relation to pitch height, fingers used, and tempo. Forty (N = 40) undergraduate and graduate double bass players...
In the US, 0.2% children and 0.5% adults are suffering from tree nut allergies while almond allergy ranks the third among tree nut allergies. Several allergenic proteins are identified in almond. The major protein in almond, amandin, ...
A traditionally difficult problem in the Philosophy of Religion is the one that divine omniscience, particularly divine foreknowledge, poses for free will. If God knows in advance how we will act, it looks as if we cannot act freely...
Consumer goodwill is one of the unique effects differentiating sponsorship from other marketing activities (Meenaghan, 2001a; 2001b). While other marketing communications tend to be labeled as selfish (Meenaghan, 2001a; 2001b), designed...
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