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Ftir Diffuse Reflectance Quantitative Analysis Of Nitric Acid Oxidation Of Paraffin Oil Supported On A Polytetrafluoroethylene (Ptfe) Substrate, Larry Smith Jan 2007

Ftir Diffuse Reflectance Quantitative Analysis Of Nitric Acid Oxidation Of Paraffin Oil Supported On A Polytetrafluoroethylene (Ptfe) Substrate, Larry Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Nitric acid can drive oxidation reactions of paraffins producing nitroparaffins and other oxidation products. Presented here is a study on the aqueous liquid phase nitric acid oxidation of paraffin oil supported on PTFE particles. The goals ofthis study are: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of nitric acid in removing paraffin oil from PTFE particle surfaces. 2. To evaluate the effects of nitric acid driven reactions with paraffin oils under varying reaction conditions. 3. To evaluate FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, DRIFT, as a tool to accomplish the quantitative analysis of this process. These goals have been achieved employing analysis by FTIR …

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Gender Stereotypes And Gender Identity As Interacting Influences On Children's Self-Concepts: A Self-Socialization Model Of Gender Development, Desiree Denise Tobin Jan 2007

Gender Stereotypes And Gender Identity As Interacting Influences On Children's Self-Concepts: A Self-Socialization Model Of Gender Development, Desiree Denise Tobin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The goal of this study was to test the gender self-socialization model (GSSM). This model suggests that gender identity motivates children to strive for cognitive consistency between their gender stereotypes and their self-efficacy for those stereotypes. This study presents a novel approach to stereotype assessment by focusing on children's idiosyncratic stereotypes (as opposed to number of commonly shared stereotypes, which do not provide detailed information about the types of stereotypes individual children hold). Participants were 305 children in grades three through eight (Mage = 10.8 years). Independent variables included children's stereotypes of 62 contextually tagged behaviors and gender identity (comprising …

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From Subaltern To President: Evo Morales, New Social Movements, And Regional Autonomies In Bolivia, Gabriela Ovando Barrero Jan 2007

From Subaltern To President: Evo Morales, New Social Movements, And Regional Autonomies In Bolivia, Gabriela Ovando Barrero

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation examines the processes of social, cultural, and political change that have taken place in Bolivia since the decade of the 1970s and how they have paved the way for the rise to power of indigenous people and the election of Evo Morales to the Presidency. It also addresses a growing trend toward more radical reforms to State structures after Morales' inauguration, which has created serious institutional chaos and a polarization of civil society. The reforms proposed by the Morales administration and its political party (Movimiento al Socialismo) include a new constitution which aims to re-found Bolivia favoring its …

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Head Lines Of The Extra Ordinary: Collisions And Miracles, Kathrine Leone Wright Jan 2007

Head Lines Of The Extra Ordinary: Collisions And Miracles, Kathrine Leone Wright

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

"Head Lines of the Extra Ordinary: Collisions and Miracles" is a language-driven 15-story fiction collection that experiments with intertwining the traditions of oral and written storytelling. Within these stories, ordinary people step up to the extraordinary because of an unusual occurrence that requires a moment of change. Several of the stories within the collection take their premise from actual news headlines. To lend cohesion to the collection, multiple stories contain one or more reappearing characters.

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Heeding The Antiheroine's Call: The Rise Of The Antiheroine In Literature And Popular Culture, Cynthia C. Lyles-Scott Jan 2007

Heeding The Antiheroine's Call: The Rise Of The Antiheroine In Literature And Popular Culture, Cynthia C. Lyles-Scott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In my thesis, I argue three assertions: 1) that the 21 st Century antiheroine who has figured so prominently in literature and film is an evolution of the heroine archetype that combines both the action-oriented traditional male hero archetype and the tragically flawed, antagonistic anti-heroine archetype, 2) that the foundation for this newly modified pop culture antiheroine can be traced back to Margaret Mitchell's iconic character, Scarlett O'Hara, and finally 3) that this new modem heroine archetype, the antiheroine, has become an integral part of popular culture, both in literature and film as well as other popular media. As my …

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How Community College Nursing Faculty View Service Learning Integration, Shelby D. Norris Jan 2007

How Community College Nursing Faculty View Service Learning Integration, Shelby D. Norris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes and experiences of community college nursing faculty related to the integration of service learning. An exploratory case study was conducted at three Florida community college nursing programs. The data were collected primarily through structured interviews with 14 community college nursing professors, three nursing administrators, and one service learning coordinator along with document analysis and site observation. The researcher posed six research questions related to service learning integration. These six questions addressed: (a) the differentiation of service programs at the three sites, (b) the meaning of service learning, (c) faculty motivation …

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La Fornarina, Rosely Tavares Brosz Jan 2007

La Fornarina, Rosely Tavares Brosz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Margherita Luti, the daughter of a hard-working but nai've baker, Francesco Luti, discovers her potential in La Panetteria da Francesco as she hones her craft of breadmaking, while also adding cakes and other dolces to her repertoire. Her simple life takes great turns as Margherita learns about new passions of hers: dolce, art, and love. After colliding with Raphael Sanzio, one of Rome's most prominent painters, she disguises herself as one of the elite and begins to live a life unknown and drastically contrary to the lifestyle she had always had. Set in the backdrop of Renaissance Italy, Rita soon …

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A Comparative Analysis Of Science-Technology-Society Standards In Elementary, Middle, And High School Science Curriculum Frameworks, Karen Marie Tobias Jan 2007

A Comparative Analysis Of Science-Technology-Society Standards In Elementary, Middle, And High School Science Curriculum Frameworks, Karen Marie Tobias

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

An analysis of curriculum frameworks from the fifty states to ascertain the compliance with the National Science Education Standards for integrating ScienceTechnology- Society (STS) themes is reported within this dissertation. Science standards for all fifty states were analyzed to determine if the STS criteria were integrated at the elementary, middle, and high school levels of education. The analysis determined the compliance level for each state, then compared each educational level to see if the compliance was similar across the levels. Compliance is important because research s)lows that using STS themes in the science classroom increases the student's understanding of the …

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A Study Of School Improvement Plans, School Decisionmaking And Advocacy, And Their Correlation To Student Academic Achievement, Maribel Marcos Curry Jan 2007

A Study Of School Improvement Plans, School Decisionmaking And Advocacy, And Their Correlation To Student Academic Achievement, Maribel Marcos Curry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Parent involvement literature reveals that parents play an important role in student academic achievement. The School Advisory Councils are the major outlet for parents to engage in decision-making and advocacy skills in Broward County. The School Improvement Plans are the major output of the School Advisory Councils and this document contains many strategies that schools should follow in order to increase achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if School Improvement Plans and school decision-making and advocacy had any correlation to academic achievement. The researcher investigated this utilizing two research methods: a survey to investigate if school decision-making …

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Approach, A Voidance, And The Mouse Paradigm: An Examination Of Wording And Relationships With Other Hedonic Constructs, Elizabeth Anne Saigal Jan 2007

Approach, A Voidance, And The Mouse Paradigm: An Examination Of Wording And Relationships With Other Hedonic Constructs, Elizabeth Anne Saigal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The two principal areas of research addressed by this study were: a) further validation of Nowak and Vallacher's mouse paradigm, and b) comparison of literatures all theoretically derived from principles of hedonics. Validation of the mouse paradigm included examination of the instructional set and detection of individual differences in various hedonically derived measures of personality. The mouse instructions were framed in terms of approach ('less good ' versus ' more good') or in terms of avoidance (' more bad' versus ' less bad ' ). Inclusion of inventories based on the principles of approach and avoidance allowed for examination of …

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acculturation And Fifth Grade Hispanic Student Reading Achievement, Diane S. Pressman Jan 2007

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acculturation And Fifth Grade Hispanic Student Reading Achievement, Diane S. Pressman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In the United States there is an increasing population ofHispanic people. With this increase comes an increase of Hispanic students in the schools. In 2004, 39.8% of all dropouts in the United States were Hispanic students. Increasing population and a high dropout rate could be problematic for Hispanic people, American schools, and ultimately society. The first part of the research examined relationships between acculturation and Hispanic student reading achievement. A Spearman's Rho correlation was performed using the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanic Youth scores and Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test reading scores. In the second part, the research used a multiple …

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Articulation, Narrative, Integrity, And The Practice Of Self-Formation In The Work Of Charles Taylor, Alasdair Macintyre, And David L. Norton, David Glen Miller Jan 2007

Articulation, Narrative, Integrity, And The Practice Of Self-Formation In The Work Of Charles Taylor, Alasdair Macintyre, And David L. Norton, David Glen Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation addresses the following questions and concerns related to the formation of the moral self: (1) The relationship between certain moral choices and a person's sense of personal or moral identity: specifically, how is it that certain choices, actions, character traits, or goods come to be interpreted as either constituting, or as being inseparable from, one's conscience, one's moral identity, or one's moral self? (2) The relationship between the conception of the good with which one identifies and the conception of the good of one's community of origin: how does one develop a conception of the good, how does …

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Arabic Dialectology And The Influence Of Coptic On Egyptian Arabic, Mary Soliman Jan 2007

Arabic Dialectology And The Influence Of Coptic On Egyptian Arabic, Mary Soliman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Arabic language includes many dialects that differ considerably from one another. In fact, they differ in almost every linguistic category : syntax, morphology, phonology, style and the lexicon. Written and spoken varieties also differ greatly , which is why Arabic is a prime example of diglossia within a single language. The dialects of Arabic were influenced by languages spoken previously in those regions. In addition, written Arabic has remained syntactically, morphologically and phonologically essentially unchanged for over a millennium. The spoken varieties, however, have evolved freely. This thesis will describe some of the differences that exist between these dialects …

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Belongingness And Integrative Motivation In Second Language Acquisition, Robb. Kvasnak Jan 2007

Belongingness And Integrative Motivation In Second Language Acquisition, Robb. Kvasnak

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study investigates the perceptions that second language students have of those who speak the language that these students are trying to acquire and examines how these perceptions relate to students' progress in acquiring the target language. The study is based on the psychological theory of the need to belong, i.e. belongingness as well as on the concept of integrative motivation. This study is a qualitative investigation that uses the Repertory Grid Technique and Personal Construct Theory in order to elicit subject perceptions and their constructs. Membership checking was carried out with nine of the originally interviewed 22 subjects in …

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Toward A Sui Generis View Of Black Rights In Canada? Overcoming The Difference-Denial Model Of Countering Anti-Black Racism, Lolita Buckner Inniss Jan 2007

Toward A Sui Generis View Of Black Rights In Canada? Overcoming The Difference-Denial Model Of Countering Anti-Black Racism, Lolita Buckner Inniss

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The Textual Condition Of Hemingway's African Book, Joseph Arnold Holt Jan 2007

The Textual Condition Of Hemingway's African Book, Joseph Arnold Holt

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (Fcat) And The Predictive Utility Of The Psat For Fcat Preparedness, Bernadine E Dorantes Beard Jan 2007

The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (Fcat) And The Predictive Utility Of The Psat For Fcat Preparedness, Bernadine E Dorantes Beard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In the years since the establishment of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment test (FCAT) in 1998, the Florida public school districts have had little standardized, diagnostic data to assist in preparation for the FCA T. The FCAT serves as a high-stakes assessment for students as a graduation requirement, and it serves as a high-stakes assessment for school and district accountability for the Florida A++ Plan, and for national accountability within No Child Left Behind Act, 2001. A quantitative study was conducted to determine if the College Board's Preliminary Scholastic Achievement Test, PSAT/NMSQT®, could be used to predict scores on the FCAT. …

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Believers In Dixie: A Cultural Geography Of The Kentucky Shakers, Marc A. Rhorer Jan 2007

Believers In Dixie: A Cultural Geography Of The Kentucky Shakers, Marc A. Rhorer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Kentucky Shakers were distinct from those of Ohio and the Northeastern United States because they were products of the cultural environment of the Upper South. The variation originated in the country's settlement and migration patterns. People with similar cultural backgrounds tended to concentrate and migrate together. As the western frontier expanded, settlers with more socio-cultural commonalities tended to migrate in similar patterns and maintain a sense of cultural cohesion in the newly opened westward frontier. We can observe the similarities between the Kentucky Shakers of the Pleasant Hill and South Union villages and their Southern neighbors by analyzing cultural …

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Religion And Group Rights: Are Churches (Just) Like The Boy Scouts?, Richard W. Garnett Jan 2007

Religion And Group Rights: Are Churches (Just) Like The Boy Scouts?, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

What role do religious communities, groups, and associations play - and, what role should they play - in our thinking and conversations about religious freedom and church-state relations? These and related questions - that is, questions about the rights and responsibilities of religious institutions - are timely, difficult, and important. And yet, they are often neglected.

It is not new to observe that American judicial decisions and public conversations about religious freedom tend to focus on matters of individuals' rights, beliefs, consciences, and practices. The special place, role, and freedoms of groups, associations, and institutions are often overlooked. However, if …

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The Bar Examination, Tony W. Torain, Jo Anne Simon, Melinda Saran, Barbara Hergenroeder Jan 2007

The Bar Examination, Tony W. Torain, Jo Anne Simon, Melinda Saran, Barbara Hergenroeder

Journal Articles

Transcript of Panel 3: The Bar Examination, from Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century: Brass Tacks, Washington, DC, March 28, 2007.

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Normative Gaps In The Criminal Law: A Reasons Theory Of Wrongdoing, Luis E. Chiesa Jan 2007

Normative Gaps In The Criminal Law: A Reasons Theory Of Wrongdoing, Luis E. Chiesa

Journal Articles

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Saving Disney: Activating Publics Through The Internet, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Rebecca J. Meisenbach Jan 2007

Saving Disney: Activating Publics Through The Internet, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Rebecca J. Meisenbach

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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Optimal Neuro-Fuzzy External Controller For A Statcom In The 12-Bus Benchmark Power System, Salman Mohagheghi, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley Jan 2007

Optimal Neuro-Fuzzy External Controller For A Statcom In The 12-Bus Benchmark Power System, Salman Mohagheghi, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An optimal neuro-fuzzy external controller is designed in this paper for a static compensator (STATCOM) in the 12-bus benchmark power system. The controller provides an auxiliary reference signal for the STATCOM in such a way that it improves the damping of the rotor speed deviations of its neighboring generators. A Mamdani fuzzy rule base constitutes the core of the controller. A heuristic dynamic programming-based approach is used to further train the controller and enable it to provide nonlinear optimal control at different operating conditions of the power system. Simulation results are provided that indicate the proposed neuro-fuzzy external controller is …

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Multiclass Cancer Classification Using Semisupervised Ellipsoid Artmap And Particle Swarm Optimization With Gene Expression Data, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Donald C. Wunsch, Rui Xu Jan 2007

Multiclass Cancer Classification Using Semisupervised Ellipsoid Artmap And Particle Swarm Optimization With Gene Expression Data, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Donald C. Wunsch, Rui Xu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

It is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment to accurately identify the site of origin of a tumor. with the emergence and rapid advancement of DNA microarray technologies, constructing gene expression profiles for different cancer types has already become a promising means for cancer classification. In addition to research on binary classification such as normal versus tumor samples, which attracts numerous efforts from a variety of disciplines, the discrimination of multiple tumor types is also important. Meanwhile, the selection of genes which are relevant to a certain cancer type not only improves the performance of the classifiers, but also provides …

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The U.N. Disability Convention: Historic Process, Strong Prospects And Why The U.S. Should Ratify, Tara J. Melish Jan 2007

The U.N. Disability Convention: Historic Process, Strong Prospects And Why The U.S. Should Ratify, Tara J. Melish

Journal Articles

On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention is historic and path-breaking on several levels, both in protection terms for the world's 650 million persons with disabilities who may now draw upon its provisions in defense of their internationally-protected rights, and in relation to the unprecedented level of civil society input and engagement in the negotiation process. This sustained and constructive engagement has given rise to a dynamic process of dialogue, cooperation, and mutual trust that will fuel monitoring and implementation work, at national and international …

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Non-Pecuniary Interests And The Injudicious Limits Of Appellate Standing In Bankruptcy, S. Todd Brown Jan 2007

Non-Pecuniary Interests And The Injudicious Limits Of Appellate Standing In Bankruptcy, S. Todd Brown

Journal Articles

Standing to appeal bankruptcy court orders today is limited to those with a pecuniary interest. This prudential limitation is based on the person aggrieved requirement of Section 39(c) of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 - a requirement that was not included in the Bankruptcy Code. This article examines the extensive differences between the Act and the Code, the potential justifications for extending the pecuniary interest test in spite of the omission of the person aggrieved requirement, and the potential ramifications for parties and the integrity of the bankruptcy process. This analysis suggests that standing to appeal bankruptcy orders should be …

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The Origins Of Article Iii "Arising Under" Jurisdiction, Anthony J. Bellia Jr. Jan 2007

The Origins Of Article Iii "Arising Under" Jurisdiction, Anthony J. Bellia Jr.

Journal Articles

Article III of the Constitution provides that the judicial Power of the United States extends to all cases arising under the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States. What the phrase arising under imports in Article III has long confounded courts and scholars. This Article examines the historical origins of Article III arising under jurisdiction. First, it describes English legal principles that governed the jurisdiction of courts of general and limited jurisdiction--principles that animated early American jurisprudence regarding the scope of arising under jurisdiction. Second, it explains how participants in the framing and ratification of the Constitution understood arising …

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Rapid Field Immunoassay For Detecting Antibody To Sin Nombre Virus In Deer Mice, Tony Schountz, Charles H. Calisher, Tiffany R. Richens, Audrey A. Rich, Jeffrey B. Doty, Mark T. Hughes, Barry J. Beaty Jan 2007

Rapid Field Immunoassay For Detecting Antibody To Sin Nombre Virus In Deer Mice, Tony Schountz, Charles H. Calisher, Tiffany R. Richens, Audrey A. Rich, Jeffrey B. Doty, Mark T. Hughes, Barry J. Beaty

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

We developed a 1-hour field enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for detecting antibody to Sin Nombre virus in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). The assay specificity and sensitivity were comparable to those of a standard EIA. This test will permit identification of rodents with antibody to this and perhaps other hantaviruses.

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The Art Of The Letter, Rothanak Chhoun Jan 2007

The Art Of The Letter, Rothanak Chhoun

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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The Relationship Of Image And Form In Poetry, Jeremy T. Bold Jan 2007

The Relationship Of Image And Form In Poetry, Jeremy T. Bold

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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