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Caves were central elements of the ancient Mesoamerican cultural landscape, and many people continue to worship at caves even today. This research assesses of the role of west Mexican caves in Formative period religion and politics. The...
The purpose of this guide is to provide up to date, relevant information about safety and security at the FSU London Campus. This guide is updated annually and is produced in accordance with the Federal Jeanne Clery Act of 1990.
The purpose of this guide is to provide the reader with updated and relevant information about safety and security at the Florida State University-Republic of Panama Campus. This guide is updated annually and is produced in accordance...
This is a useful guide for students abroad to provide relevant information about safety and security protocols while studying in FSU Valencia Campus. The safely of the students and faculty is the first concern of the FSU Valencia staff....
Summer 2022 magazine from the FSU International Programs in Florence, Italy with articles on food, culture and events in Florence during this semester.
Florida State University is highly esteemed in Italy and has developed a respectful and collaborative relationship with Florence and Florentines. The program has been officially recognized by Italian governmental agencies, charities, ...
Spring 2022 magazine from the FSU International Programs in Florence, Italy with articles on food, culture and events in Florence during this semester.
Fall 2022 magazine from the FSU International Programs in Florence, Italy with articles on events, arts and culture in Florence, profiles, and creative writing during this semester.
Thanks to the advancement of data-collecting technology in brain imaging, genomics, financial econometrics, and machine learning, scientific data tend to grow in both size and structural complexity, which are not amenable to traditional...
Prior to selecting a YouTube video, users encounter video previews (i.e., thumbnail images) and heuristic cues (i.e., number of views, likes, date of period), which may influence their selection of a YouTube video over other potential...
A Group of Individuals or a Singular Team?: Examining the Moderation Effect of Team Type on the Relationships between Previous Season Success, Team Tenure and Group Size and Cohesion over Time
A multitude of research has already been conducted on the concept of cohesion in sport with the majority of research looking at the relationship between cohesion and performance. It has been found that the correlation between cohesion...
Cognitive control guides non-habitual, goal directed behaviors allowing us to flexibly adapt to ongoing demands. Previous work has suggested that multiple cognitive control processes exist that can be classed according to their action on...
This dissertation examines José Campeche (1751-1809), a prolific artist of African descent who was born and lived his entire life in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Campeche created hundreds of works over the course of his career, as he...
Many institutions have turned to individualized holistic review to make admissions decisions, which is meant to take a comprehensive view of the quantitative and qualitative elements that comprise a single application. Prior research...
Designing systems that can allow for increased control of electron transfer processes at dye-semiconductor interfaces is useful in a wide variety of applications, but specifically in the field of dye-sensitized devices such as dye...
At the end of 2016, approximately 1.5 million people were incarcerated in state and federal prisons (Carson, 2021), and more than half of these prisoners are parents of at least one minor child (Maruschak et al., 2021). Upon their...
The purpose of this review was to examine and integrate the current available information on Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) and gait performance of individuals with neurological disorders, to support music therapists' clinical...
The purposes of this exploratory survey research are: (1) to examine the degree to which best practices on language acquisition instructional strategies and resources are used across the ten schools in Monroe County School District (MCSD...
Research about how gender affects speech has until recently strictly involved cisgender men and cisgender women (Kiesling, 2019; Newman et al., 2008; Rosanti & Jaelani, 2015). Because of this, the speech of transgender men and women has...
The purpose of this study is to examine how name, image, and likeness (NIL) representations of female college athletes in social media endorsements may impact users' attitudes and behavioral intentions with regard to female athlete's...
There is an issue occurring in public schools that is not often addressed and that is the Black-White disparity in exclusionary discipline. The conversation often centers around the "achievement gap" or more recently the "opportunity gap...
This thesis investigates the surface pressure distribution on a 15-story mid-rise building model. The experiment was performed on a building with/without balconies; the data on the building without balconies being the reference pressure...
Cri de coeur is French for "cry from the heart, and indeed this work has an expressive intensity previously unseen (so far as I can tell) in my oeuvre. It would be cheap for me to say that this work, composed in the autumn of 2021, is a...
Depictions of China and Chinese culture and influence are prominent in Vladimir Sorokin's fiction from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. This thesis argues that Sorokin's depictions of China are based off of actual geopolitical...
For colleges and universities, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) presents a significant set of challenges in pursuit of campus safety. The namesake of this law followed the...
Advancements in digital audio recording technology have allowed many people to engage in music creation for personal recreation. A longstanding trend in music production has been to incorporate audio effects into the creation process....
An important objective in radiofrequency (RF) coil design for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is improving sensitivity. The low RF losses of thin-film high temperature superconducting (HTS) coils make them well suited to...
This document, which is divided into two main parts, explores works written for the piano that bridge the art forms of music and dance. Part I of the document focuses on two sets of twentieth-century suites written by French composers:...
Fluid dynamic characterization of shock impingement on a flat surface has been studied extensively, whereas the material behavior induced by the shock has largely been ignored. The focus of this study is mainly on the material and...
There has been recent discussion of a puzzle posed by emotions that are backward looking. Though our emotions commonly diminish over time, how can they diminish fittingly if they are an accurate appraisal of an event that is situated in...
A new methodology has been introduced to detect flash droughts. This method is based off a new variable created called the drought index. This index is calculated using the cumulative daily anomalies of soil moisture, precipitation, and...
Mediation analysis seeks to quantify the portion of the effect of an exposure on an outcome that occurs through a postulated causal pathway. Changes in an observable mediator variable reflect activity on the pathway. To measure effects...
The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of faculty members at Florida State University - Panama City and then to further explore, through interviews, why the faculty hold a positive, ...
Traditionally, if two files are considered identical, they are understood to be byte-by-byte equivalent. However, many files are semantically identical without being byte-to-byte identical. We assert that by using a contextual or...
One important area in materials science and engineering is the relationship between spatial and temporal scales and its influence on constitutive properties. Fractal functions can be useful in studying materials where self-similarity...
Change is a constant in organizations, especially public institutions. Without change everything remains the same and nothing improves. Organizations that adopt the idea that change is inevitable do far better than those who deny the...
Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences...
Synthesis and degradation of proteins in a cell must be carefully balanced to ensure organismal health. The 26S proteasome is a large protein complex that carries out most regulated protein degradation in eukaryotes. The assembly, ...
The role of implicit processes during police-civilian encounters is well studied from the perspective of the police. Decades of research on the "shooter bias" suggests that implicit Black-danger associations potentiate the perception of...
This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines...
Aaron Copland's music is commonly identified with experiences and values associated with the United States. This link between the American nation and Copland's music is a component of an enduring legacy that the composer began to...
Talk about what people are able or unable to do is ubiquitous. Despite that fact it's unobvious just what it comes to to be able to do something. For that reason alone it would be worthwhile to explore what our abilities consist in, but...
Increasingly scholarship reveals art museums, their exhibitions, and collections, are instrumental in shaping visitors' larger social and cultural values (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000; Luke, 2002; Sandell, 2002) and identity (Leong, 2005;...
This dissertation investigates the complexities of improvisatory practices in Balinese kendang (drumming), focusing on solo and paired drumming styles found within the gong kebyar ensemble. Improvisation studies scholar Paul Berliner...
A Black Curriculum for a Black School: A Case-Study Exploring Black Students' Attitudes Towards Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Its Impact on Black Student Engagement
Predominantly Black schools may struggle with ways to keep their students engaged. When Black students are not engaged in class, it could lead to low academic performance, which may reflect the lack of culturally relevant content in the...
Only 11% of students who are Pell-eligible and the first in their family to attend college graduate with a bachelor's degree. Upward Bound is a federal-funded project that seeks to 1) improve the motivation and skills of disadvantaged...
In this thesis we develop a few algorithms that are useful for factoring linear recurrence operators. We approach the factorization problem from three directions. First, considering reduction modulo a prime leads to the study of...
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of nine research articles related to the needs of African American parents/caregivers of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The primary topics explored...
In modern statistics, many data sets are of complex structure, including but not limited to high dimensionality, higher-order, and heterogeneity. Recently, there has been growing interest in developing valid and efficient statistical...
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