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Late spring or early summer brings an abrupt onset of a wet season to Peninsular Florida (PF). High daily rain rates are sustained throughout the summer until the demise of the wet season in autumn. Prediction of the Peninsular Florida...
The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the role of prayer and relationship with God for parents who experienced the death of a child. In-depth interviews were conducted with eighteen parents (N = 18) who fall under the Protestant...
Students need proficient literacy skills if they are to be successful in school and in life. Students typically master foundational literacy skills in the primary grades, and their abilities continue to develop throughout middle and high...
Black male student-athletes are not graduating near or at the same rates as their counterparts. Moreover, many are leaving college underprepared professionally and personally. These young men often dream and work toward competing...
Document includes the history of the Extra Point Club from its founding in 1979 through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Originally compiled in June 2019 for the 40th anniversary of the club and updated in 2021.
Despite music education being endorsed by researchers as an effective tool to improve the social-emotional competence of students who live in poverty, African American students, who are overrepresented among the population of students...
Genres exist to organize and homogenize musical works into definable categories. With a knowledge of genre, musicians, audiences, and general listeners develop an understanding of musical concepts based on the similarities and...
This study focuses on the American liberation experiences when encountering Nazi atrocities in occupied areas, concentration camps, and prisoner of war (POW) camps. While highlighting the plight of Jewish, political, military, and other...
Peatlands cover a small percentage of the earth surface, but the exact mechanisms of how a third of the Earths global soil carbon is sequestered is not yet resolved. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore the relationship between the...
The purpose of this study was to examine the potential of a digital awareness workshop with preservice art education participants to develop art curricula and instructional strategies designed to promote positive dispositions, digital...
The purpose of this secondary data analysis study was to investigate the possible association between the use of behavior management strategies by interventionists in kindergarten small-group interventions and the self-regulation of the...
This treatise presents a formalized, repeatable method for innovative recital preparation. The method created by the author, entitled the Aesthetic Performance Design Method (APD Method), is outlined in this document as a worksheet that...
The purpose of this study was to explore how use of a web application that makes use of Spotify APIs may be utilized by music therapists to inform clinical decisions. Spotify Charts was used to identify weekly top-streamed songs on...
Hurricanes and other major storm events are a challenge for any coastal community, both modern and past. During the past half-century hurricanes caused nearly half a trillion dollars in property damage throughout the Southeastern United...
Research has shown that abusive supervisor behavior can have psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral impacts on targeted employees, and the literature has primarily focused on the effects of abusive supervisor behavior on the target...
This exploratory, mixed-methods study aspired to learn more about teachers’ experiences, their perceptions of self-efficacy (SE), their posttraumatic growth (PTG) outcomes, and their sensemaking surrounding these interrelated factors...
Leadership definitions, educational approaches, and frameworks are often founded through a western lens that denigrates cultural values. With the growing Latin* student population on college campuses, there is a demand for filling the...
Accumulating evidence suggests that schizophrenia is a disorder of the brain’s communication, a result of functional and structural dysconnectivities. Patients with schizophrenia exhibit irregular neuronal circuit and network activity, ...
This thesis examines the faunal remains from Site 40DV7, a shell-bearing Archaic through Mississippian period site in Middle Tennessee. The goal of the investigation is to answer three research questions about human behaviors during the...
My Time Among the Cannibals is a collection of prose poems that use absurdist techniques to address themes such as community, performance, spectacle, and commerce in late capitalism. Russell Edson, considered by many to be the godfather...
In the classical literature of Statistics, a large amount of methods have been addressed for data analysis on Euclidean space. Over the past few decades, however, a growing interest has been devoted to non-Euclidean data analysis. In...
Simultaneously Teaching the Bass Tuba and Contrabass Tuba: Methods, Teaching Philosophies, and Current Trends in College and University Studios in the United States
Today, the modern tubist is required to be proficient at both the bass tuba and the contrabass tuba in academic and professional spheres. However, this was not always the case. Due to advancements in tuba manufacturing and demands on...
Shockwave boundary layer interactions (SBLI) occur on both internal and external surfaces and adversely affect both the structural and propulsive performance of high-speed flight vehicles operating in the trans/super/hypersonic flow...
Actualizations of Utopia: Ideological Space & The Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival expands upon Henri Lefebvre’s concept of social space by developing the concept of ideological space in order to examine how sound engages with...
Hail-Casting and Other "Magical" Rites from a Compendium of Nyingma Rituals Invoking Yamāntaka: A Study and Catalogue of the Moon's Mystery Handbook (Zla Gsang Beʼu Bum)
The Moon’s Mystery Handbook (Zla gsang be’u bum), known also as Yama’s Handbook, is a compilation of Nyingma (Rnying ma) rituals attributed to Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé (Gnubs chen Sangs rgyas ye shes) and Mañjuśrīmitra (Tib. ʼJam dpal...
Wilhelm Killmayer’s compositions span a wide range of instrumentations, voicings, genres, and styles. While some academic research on Killmayer’s works is available, many of his compositions have yet to be the subjects of serious...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have recently caught much attention due to their exceptional properties and their potential applications in opto-electronics. Graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and black phosphorus (b-P)...
Access to high quality curriculum through acceleration/college preparatory programs is essential to student success in their post-secondary education and opportunities. However, African-American and Hispanic minority students are...
In previous scholarly research, the relationship between family connectedness and mobile phone usage has mixed results, with some research touting phones as a relationship enhancer and other admonishing its role in the interpersonal...
The ancient historian Josephus records that Palestine witnessed a surge in Jewish sectarianism during the second and first c. BCE, resulting in the proliferation of groups associated with the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran...
Hate crime laws were highly contentious when they were first passed in the early 1980s; they remain particularly divisive in America’s current political and social context. More specifically, while a majority of Americans are supportive...
This mixed-methods outcomes study investigated the number of in-school and out-of-school suspension reports before and after the implementation of a preventative-based discipline method, classroom circles. The study was guided by five...
The purpose of this study was to investigate where pre-service and in-service music educators perceive they will learn/did learn marching, music acquisition, design, logistical, and teaching skills for marching band. This study also...
Vitrimers are a new category of polymer that incorporates an associative bond exchange molecular network rearrangement mechanism (MNR), which happens in a single step rather than in discrete dissociation and association steps. Based on a...
Saint Bernardino exerted profound influences on lay piety and both the image and trajectory of the Observant movement. While there have been numerous studies on Bernardino the preacher and the Observant movement as a whole, no study has...
Families in the rural town of Immokalee, Florida are faced with the problem of finding a high-quality place to care for their infants and toddlers while they work, due to a lack of space in child development centers that accept infants...
An Investigation into the Effect of Music/Visual Effect-Based Classification on Band Placements at North Carolina Bandmasters Association Marching Band Competitions
The purpose of this study was to measure how classifying bands by music/visual effect scores rather than band/school size affect band placements at North Carolina Bandmasters Association (NCBA) Marching Band Competitions. Specifically, ...
The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to look at the patterns and trends of student enrollment, course hour load, and academic outcomes and explore student success interactions after the environmental shock of a natural...
This treatise serves two primary goals. The first is to showcase three of Sérgio Assad’s Portraits for solo guitar, Eli’s Portrait, Sandy’s Portrait, and David’s Portrait. Each chapter on these works will provide biographical information...
This thesis examines ideas of authentic folk music in America and the role it plays in the Tallahassee folk music community. In looking at how the identification of folk music has changed throughout the history of its research and...
The purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduate band conducting students’ exposure to conductors of color and women conductors. Specifically, this study sought to answer the following questions: 1) Do undergraduate band...
This treatise will discuss the benefits of nutritional supplementation in building the muscles of the trumpet embouchure. It will include a research study encompassing a five-week supplementation regimen of beta-alanine combined with a...
In this treatise, I study four of Kenneth Frazelle’s piano works, Elixir, Appearances, Inventions to Marden and Wildflowers. In composing these works, Frazelle took inspiration from extramusical sources including Paul Cezanne’s artistic...
The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) has recently gained traction as a music-theoretic and music analyticaltool, providing a mathematically robust way of modeling various musical phenomena. I examine both local and large-scale harmonic...
Domenico Gabrielli’s Seven Ricercari not only represent the first exploration of the technical and musical possibilities of the cello but are also assets to modern cello pedagogy. This treatise examines the pedagogical value of these...
The environmental impacts of COVID-19 and the “new normal” of working from home are being explored in the scientific community. However, there is currently no published study on the COVID-19 impacts to nitrate load via septic systems....
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their...
Introduction. Overparenting is a parenting practice defined as parents being overly involved in their young adult children's lives by providing excessive assistance and exerting developmentally inappropriate control. Research conducted...
Academic advising has been a recognized field of work for well over 50 years. Yet, debates continue about its status as a profession. To date, administrator perceptions of the role (purposes, outcomes, and functions) of academic advising...
School counselors are the first personnel called on in a school to provide daily student mental health support. However, complications such as additional non-counseling duties and high student to counselor ratios exist which limit the...
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