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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...
The hydraulic analogy for electrical circuits is a well-known, if limited, model for understanding potential and current. The work described in this thesis extends this analogy to chemical reactions by constructing apparatuses that model...
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...
Tropical atmospheric waves play a major role in the variability and change of weather and climate in the tropics as well as in the globe. They also interact with other tropical systems such as tropical cyclones (TCs) and El Niño-Southern...
The music of Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is currently enjoying greater worldwide popularity than ever before among musicians and audiences alike. Yet for much of his lifetime Piazzolla had to struggle for...
The majority of college students do not read assigned academic materials. This becomes a problem, as long-term mastery and performance outcomes decrease when students merely memorize the material for a test. The goal of this randomized...
This paper explores the origins of the 1:1 Principle within Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). It finds that the need for the 1:1 Principle emerged from prior work among cultural heritage professionals responsible for describing...
When Edmund Burke declared in 1790 that the French Revolution was made up of an atheistic "cabal" of philosophers, he initiated what would remain a stereotype of the revolutionaries for not only the duration of the Revolution, but for...
"A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth Century France, 1830" examines the identity and social constructs of women educated during the Napoleonic period and how their state-sponsored education...
In order to increase our understanding of the relationship between domains we must move beyond traditional phylogenetic approaches and attempt to group species and domains in new and different ways. This paper is an analysis of various...
We studied the relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in the heavy fermion CeCoIn5 using a miniature cell in a top loading dilution refrigerator with a 16 T magnet (XCF – Xtreme Conditions Fridge). The construction and...
For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings...
Abstract This study examines state agency leadership and the viability of the traditional politics-administration dichotomy in state government. Despite all the academic theorizing about how appointed public managers should be involved...
ABSTRACT Acquired hearing loss occurs when one loses their hearing postlingually. The condition is increasing as the world's population ages and is also increasing in younger adults as well. Little quantitative data is available on how...
Since the early 1980's, there have been significant institutional efforts to support student success in the first year of college, most notably in the form of the contemporary first-year seminar (Greenfield, Keup & Gardner, 2013)....
This thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, ...
This dissertation explores the role of food representation and identity in Hispanic cultural production as they participate in establishing resistant agency despite historical contexts of authoritarian oppression. Accordingly, I explore...
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Nearly nine years later, the city still fights to recover. Within this landscape, mustachioed men wearing sweat bands, red satin jackets, blue coach shorts, and gold tennis shoes have...
Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of the human genome. An understanding of the role of chromatin structure and its relationship to gene regulation is critical to developing new strategies to prevent and treat...
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important natural climate variation that affects large portions of the world. The changing magnitude and frequency of ENSO reveals that it is getting stronger as measured by the maximum...
I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research...
In this paper I set out to problematize what the distinguished evolutionary biologist, Edward O. Wilson, has presented to a popular audience as his consilience worldview. Wilson's consilience worldview is a metaphysical framework that...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is the most common type of TBI leading to other long-term neurodegenerative disorders. mTBI is known to effect a significant percentage of the men and women in athletics, military and motor vehicle...
Multivariate meta-analysis methods typically assume the dependence of effect sizes. One type of experimental-design study that generates dependent effect sizes is the multiple-endpoint study. While the generalized least squares (GLS)...
In response to changing roles of subject librarians, Florida State University Libraries identified three basic, overarching values of the subject librarian program, and flowing out from those values, five core competencies. The values...
Cement skyscrapers, the smell of automobile exhaust, turned down faces of strangers. New York City during the Great Depression was at odds with the founding fathers' vision of America as a shining City Upon a Hill. Anna Sokolow's...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the current interactions between the United States and China in the context of China's increased efforts to become the dominant figure in Asia. China continually attempts to shape the world, ...
Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better...
The historical interpretations of Claude Pepper's Senate career until now depicted a Senator who had lost touch with his constituency and the political ideas of the nation after World War II. In examining his record in the Senate and his...
Following a total laryngectomy, individuals' quality of life may be affected in a number of ways. One issue that is often overlooked is a swallowing disorder. The process of eating and drinking is an essential element in social...
Although "modernism" has been understood by many scholars worldwide first and foremost as a Euro-American, multi-faceted aesthetic movement, modanizumu ("modernism") has also been conceptualized by Japanese and Western scholars alike as...
On March 11, 2011, the Northeastern Area (Tohoku) of Japan experienced the largest earthquake and tsunami ever recorded in this area. Following the disasters, professional sports organizations conducted disaster relief efforts by hosting...
Electroless copper electrocatalyst deposited on carbon Toray paper at varying deposition times was evaluated for possible use in electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The results obtained indicate that the electrochemical...
CRISPR-cas systems have been found to confer RNA guided immunity in prokaryotes comparable to the eukaryotic RNA interference. These Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, as their name entails, are repeated sequences...
This dissertation involves the relationship between market structures and innovation, with an eye to implications for antitrust. The first chapter considers whether more competitive market structures encourage more cost-reducing, process...
The purpose of this study was to determine what vocal strategies were used by ten high school master teachers of a beginning choir or with beginning students in a multi-level choir. This study targeted current practices by outstanding...
The deep-sea, soft-bottom habitat is considered the largest ecosystem on Earth, yet little is known about the biogeography of the infauna. This dissertation examines the species' ranges of the meiofaunal taxon Harpacticoida (Crustacea:...
The purpose of this study was to: (1) investigate the perceptions and differences between the effective skills and behaviors music education professors taught in their classes, and (2) determine what effective skills and behaviors their...
This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands...
Students of Vocal Performance are commonly instructed in the rules of diction for French, German and Italian languages, making it an easy task to select songs for performance from among these nationalities. There are also many beautiful, ...
This dissertation encompasses an optical spectroscopic study of the temperature and magnetic field dependence of two magnetic materials with significant electron-electron correlation: antiferromagnetic MnTiO3 and frustrated spin-dimer...
Viral capsids must assemble into stable structures that resist dissociation in extreme environments between hosts yet they simultaneously must be unstable enough to release their genome upon infection. The conflicting functions that the...
In this study, I analyzed the Florida anti-bullying law and compared it to the adopted anti-bullying policies at the district and school levels to describe if there were significant discrepancies between the state-level anti-bullying law...
Ice clouds play an important role in earth radiation balance by reflecting solar and absorbing thermal radiation, the so-called albedo versus greenhouse eects, which cause signicant dierential atmospheric heating and cooling in...
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