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Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 11, February 18, 2010 Feb 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 11, February 18, 2010

Central Florida Future

UCF details conservation plan; Uncover Thursdays; Last call; 2010 Orlando's Finest: Vote for Orlando's best food & entertainment; Faculty given options for Haiti relief; Painted brad uplift cancer awareness; Student fighting deadly disease; Adolescent idiopathic condylar resorption.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 9, February 11, 2010 Feb 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 9, February 11, 2010

Central Florida Future

Bill could force repayment; Proposed changes; Meet the candidates; Seeff and Wolkenfeld will ask for input and fight fee increases; Kilbride and Lochrane promise integrity, stewardship of funds; Safe ride program sitting in neutral; Deadline extended for scholarships from SGA.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 8, February 4, 2010 Feb 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 8, February 4, 2010

Central Florida Future

New housing still in limbo; Uncover Thursdays; Taking Flight; Plus: Bridges, Tatum show a realist side; Column: "The elderly are my inspiration"; SGA, Magic team up for free game; Civic week encourages service; Students study a hands-on speech.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 7, February 1, 2010 Feb 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 7, February 1, 2010

Central Florida Future

Search begins for new provost; The committee; Stepping it up; Print lab garners positive feedback; Few students, no professor can cause class cancellations.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 5, January 25, 2010 Jan 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 5, January 25, 2010

Central Florida Future

Putting on their walking shoes; Dream act of 2009; Green thumb; Three courses, all local; I.D.E.A.S. getting national attention; Myriad programs help students stay enrolled; GameStop might fill spot.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 4, January 21, 2010 Jan 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 4, January 21, 2010

Central Florida Future

Union may be more accessible; Student fees; Of sports and money; Fees in Florida; Peterson campaign promises revisited; Crime declines during vacation; Group helped Haiti pre-quake.


Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 3, January 14, 2010 Jan 2010

Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 3, January 14, 2010

Central Florida Future

Suicide threat shuts down Alafaya; Uncover Thursdays; More then music; Plus: Vortex: Bad grammar, great illusion; Italian-American groups request a Shore leave; Green building gets LEED gold status; The Dream's Alive; Dental Center wide open for students, faculty.


Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 2, January 11, 2010 Jan 2010

Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 2, January 11, 2010

Central Florida Future

Report suggests mandatory insurance; Decade of UCF; 10 years of the Future; Fuel and cost key in fleet selection; LEAD Scholar chosen to be Olympic torchbearer.


Innervation, Distribution And Morphology Of Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide And Substancep Immunoreactive Axons In The Whole-Mount Atria Of Fvb Mice, Liang Li Jan 2010

Innervation, Distribution And Morphology Of Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide And Substancep Immunoreactive Axons In The Whole-Mount Atria Of Fvb Mice, Liang Li

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Degeneration of nociceptive afferent axons and terminals in the heart is associated with painless sudden cardiac death. However, innervation, distribution and morphological structures of sympathetic cardiac nociceptive afferent axons and terminals have not yet been fully characterized. The aim of the present study is to characterize the density, arrangement, and structural features of differentiated sympathetic afferent axons and terminals in whole-mount FVB mouse atria. FVB mice (3-6 months old) were perfused and the tissues were fixed. The right and left atria were processed with immunohistochemistry. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and substance P (SP) are two neuropeptides which have been widely …


The Contextual Impact Of Income Inequality On Social Capital And Adverse Social Outcomes, Jeannie Schiff Jan 2010

The Contextual Impact Of Income Inequality On Social Capital And Adverse Social Outcomes, Jeannie Schiff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An interdisciplinary approach to policy and governance recognizes that many social welfare problems are interrelated, and policy-makers have long recognized a need to address the root causes of these problems. There is much evidence that income inequality is one of these root causes but research suggesting the effect of income inequality is mediated by social capital has complicated the relationship, as have theories of causality that take different approaches. This study takes an ecological approach to these issues to test the relationship between income inequality, social capital and selected adverse outcomes proposed by the relative income hypothesis. The relative income …


A Floating World: Stories, Karen Best Jan 2010

A Floating World: Stories, Karen Best

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Floating World is a collection of short stories inspired by fairy tales. Often set in worlds where the mundane and the fantastic come together, these stories explore moments of strangeness that slip beyond the bounds of realist fiction. Fantastical events intrude into mundane reality as characters attempt to reconcile the known with the unknowable.


We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan Jan 2010

We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left …


(Un)Natural Bodies, Endangered Species, And Embodied Others In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake, Marcy Galbreath Jan 2010

(Un)Natural Bodies, Endangered Species, And Embodied Others In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake, Marcy Galbreath

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The developing knowledge of life sciences is at the crux of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake as she examines human promise gone awry in a near-future dystopia. This thesis examines aspects of posthumanism, ecocriticism, and feminism in the novel's scientific, cultural, and environmental projections. Through the trope of extinction, Atwood's text foregrounds the effects of human exceptionalism and instrumentalism in relation to the natural world, and engenders an analysis of human identity through its biological and cultural aspects. Extinction thus serves as a metaphor for both human development and human excesses, redefining the idea of human within the context of …


Expression And Characterization Of Antimicrobial Peptides Retrocyclin-101 And Protegrin-1 In Chloroplasts To Control Viral And Bacterial Infections, Baichuan Li Jan 2010

Expression And Characterization Of Antimicrobial Peptides Retrocyclin-101 And Protegrin-1 In Chloroplasts To Control Viral And Bacterial Infections, Baichuan Li

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Retrocyclin-101 (RC101) and Protegrin-1 (PG1) are two important antimicrobial peptides that can be used as therapeutic agents against bacterial and/or viral infections, especially those caused by the HIV-1 or sexually-transmitted bacteria. Because of their antimicrobial activity and complex secondary structures, they have not yet been produced in microbial systems and their chemical synthesis is prohibitively expensive. Therefore, we created chloroplast transformation vectors with the RC101 or PG1 coding sequence, fused with GFP to confer stability, furin or Factor Xa cleavage site to liberate the mature peptide from their fusion proteins and a His-tag to aid in their purification. Stable integration …


Potential Energy, Edward Bull Jan 2010

Potential Energy, Edward Bull

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost while others learn to embrace life on its own terms'to accept 'without hope or expectation.' More often, they are not lost or enlightened, …


The Unique And Enduring Friendship Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings And Marcia Davenport, Karen De Vos Jan 2010

The Unique And Enduring Friendship Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings And Marcia Davenport, Karen De Vos

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Reclaiming The Seminoles In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mae Claxton Jan 2010

Reclaiming The Seminoles In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mae Claxton

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Snakes Alive, Mary W. Bridgman Jan 2010

Snakes Alive, Mary W. Bridgman

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Sexual Selection On Behavioral And Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Reproductive Success In Male Cape Ground Squirrels (Xerus Inauris), Mary Beth Manjerovic Jan 2010

The Influence Of Sexual Selection On Behavioral And Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Reproductive Success In Male Cape Ground Squirrels (Xerus Inauris), Mary Beth Manjerovic

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sexual selection is considered a powerful evolutionary force responsible for the enormous diversity found in reproductive morphology, physiology, and behavior. I addressed questions related to selection in the Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris), a species characterized as highly social and promiscuous. These attributes often are responsible for variance in male reproductive success and as such, sexual selection theory predicts increased opportunity for sexual selection. I confirm that the predominant mechanism underlying genital evolution and competition for paternity in X. inauris is sperm competition. I find evidence that investment in sperm competition is costly and may reflect immunocompetence. I quantify reproductive …


Live Video Database Management Systems, Rui Peng Jan 2010

Live Video Database Management Systems, Rui Peng

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, networks of distributed cameras are becoming an enabling technology for a broad range of interdisciplinary applications in domains such as public safety and security, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. Today’s live video processing systems on networks of distributed cameras, however, are designed for specific classes of applications. To provide a generic query processing platform for applications of distributed camera networks, we designed and implemented a new class of general purpose database management systems, the live video database management system (LVDBMS). We view networked video cameras as …


Statistical Analysis Of Visible Absorption Spectra And Mass Spectra Obtained From Dyed Textile Fibers, Katie Margaret White Jan 2010

Statistical Analysis Of Visible Absorption Spectra And Mass Spectra Obtained From Dyed Textile Fibers, Katie Margaret White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The National Academy of Sciences recently published a report which calls for improvements to the field of forensic science. Their report criticized many forensic disciplines for failure to establish rigorously-tested methods of comparison, and encouraged more research in these areas to establish limitations and assess error rates. This study applies chemometric and statistical methods to current and developing analytical techniques in fiber analysis. In addition to analysis of commercially available dyed textile fibers, two pairs of dyes are selected based for custom fabric dyeing on the similarities of their absorbance spectra and dye molecular structures. Visible absorption spectra for all …


"The Fire-Spitting Ogre" Ernest Hemingway And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Anna Lillios Jan 2010

"The Fire-Spitting Ogre" Ernest Hemingway And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Anna Lillios

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Vol Xviii (2010) Jan 2010

Vol Xviii (2010)

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Writing "Invisible Florida": Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, And The Literary Culture Of The 1930s, Kyoko Shoji Hearn Jan 2010

Writing "Invisible Florida": Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, And The Literary Culture Of The 1930s, Kyoko Shoji Hearn

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.


Divining The Divine: Pop Mythology And Its Worth, James Hall Jan 2010

Divining The Divine: Pop Mythology And Its Worth, James Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My thesis compares classic mythology of cultures like ancient Greece to the mythology that has risen from the popular culture of contemporary western civilizations like America. While there are some differences, the two use the same archetypes that humanity has used for generations. In my work I use sculpture and photography to show their similarities and differences in form and story.


Treefrog (Hyla Squirella) Responses To Rangeland And Management In Semi-Tropical Florida, Usa, Kathryn Windes Jan 2010

Treefrog (Hyla Squirella) Responses To Rangeland And Management In Semi-Tropical Florida, Usa, Kathryn Windes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As urban areas expand, agricultural lands become increasingly important habitat for many species. Compared to some types of agricultural land-use, ranchlands provide vast expanses of minimally modified habitat that support many threatened and endangered species. Conservation biologists can promote ecologically sound management approaches by quantifying the effects of agricultural practices on resident species. I examined the effects of pasture management, cattle grazing, and landscape characteristics on both adult and larval treefrogs in a ranchland in south-central Florida. I experimentally determined optimal deployment of artificial treefrog shelters constructed of polyvinylchloride (PVC) pipe to efficiently sample adult treefrogs (Chapter 1). Seventy-two shelters …


Study Of The Egfr, Src And Stat3 Pathway In Pancreatic Cancer, Soumya Jaganathan Jan 2010

Study Of The Egfr, Src And Stat3 Pathway In Pancreatic Cancer, Soumya Jaganathan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cancer is associated with many molecular aberrations that support the malignant phenotype. In that regard, aberrant activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Src, and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) occur concurrently in pancreatic cancer and are implicated in the disease phenotype. Notwithstanding, increasing evidence indicates that therapies that target only EGFR or Src are rather ineffective in modulating the cancer phenotype. The poor therapeutic outcome of the monotherapies targeting EGFR or Src may in part be due to the increased incidence of signaling cross-talks among aberrant signaling pathways in cancer. Molecular details of the signaling integration …


Describing The Phenomena Of Principals' Experiences With Implementation Of Response To Intervention, Lorrie Belk Butler Jan 2010

Describing The Phenomena Of Principals' Experiences With Implementation Of Response To Intervention, Lorrie Belk Butler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The traditional method of identifying students with disabilities has led to a new innovation being implemented at the school level. Response to Intervention (RTI) is an alternative approach that received federal approval with the passage of Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEIA) 2004. On July 1, 2010, RTI became the required process for determining identification of students with learning disabilities for all schools in the state of Florida. Implementation of this approach requires significant changes in how schools operate. Using a phenomenological study design, the purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the experiences of elementary …


Identification Of Novel Antimalarials From Marine Natural Products For Lead Discovery, Stephenie M. Alvarado Jan 2010

Identification Of Novel Antimalarials From Marine Natural Products For Lead Discovery, Stephenie M. Alvarado

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An estimated 500 million cases of malaria occur each year. The increasing prevalence of drug resistant strains of Plasmodium in most malaria endemic areas has significantly reduced the efficacy of current antimalarial drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of this disease. Therefore, discovery of new, inexpensive, and effective drugs are urgently needed to combat this disease. Marine biodiversity is an enormous source of novel chemical entities and has been barely investigated for antimalarial drug discovery. In an effort to discover novel therapeutics for malaria, we studied the antimalarial activities of a unique marine-derived peak fraction library provided by Harbor Branch Oceanographic …


Concentric Layout, A New Scientific Data Layout For Matrix Data Set In Hadoop File System, Lu Cheng Jan 2010

Concentric Layout, A New Scientific Data Layout For Matrix Data Set In Hadoop File System, Lu Cheng

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The data generated by scientific simulation, sensor, monitor or optical telescope has increased with dramatic speed. In order to analyze the raw data speed and space efficiently, data preprocess operation is needed to achieve better performance in data analysis phase. Current research shows an increasing tread of adopting MapReduce framework for large scale data processing. However, the data access patterns which generally applied to scientific data set are not supported by current MapReduce framework directly. The gap between the requirement from analytics application and the property of MapReduce framework motivates us to provide support for these data access patterns in …