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Crossing Literate Worlds Exploring How Students With Rich Identities As Writers Negotiate Multiple Writing Contexts, Autumn Phelps Shrum Jan 2011

Crossing Literate Worlds Exploring How Students With Rich Identities As Writers Negotiate Multiple Writing Contexts, Autumn Phelps Shrum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the literate identities of college students who engage in various school and non-school writing practices simultaneously. In case studies of three student writers, the researcher seeks to explore how the discourse community roles, selfperceptions, negotiation of multiple writing processes and development of authority impacted the students’ identities as writers. Triangulated research methods included weekly interviews with the student participants, observation of the students in their writing classrooms and analysis of the students’ school and non-school texts over one semester. Students experienced several conflicts and synergies between contexts. Main findings indicated that writing across many academic and extra-academic …

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Correlation Among Different Variables And Life Expectancy, June Liu Jan 2011

Correlation Among Different Variables And Life Expectancy, June Liu

Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two

The purpose of this project is to show how heart rate, blood pressure, and weight of different species correlate with their life expectancy. We perform graphical analysis and compute Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient to show that the heart rate has the highest degree of correlation with life expectancy.

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Sizing Of An Ammonia Discharge Tank, Tuliagenda Beckfords Jan 2011

Sizing Of An Ammonia Discharge Tank, Tuliagenda Beckfords

Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two

Phosphate companies use well-stirred tanks to regulate the concentration of ammonia they discharge via their wastewater, preventing ammonia spikes from exceeding the cap set by the Environmental Protection Agency. This report discusses the methods used to determine the minimum possible volume of the tank required to regulate wastewater discharge. With this information, it was determined that the use of a stirring tank is an efficient and cost effective way to regulate ammonia discharge. Based on these results many other companies may use this method to decrease the negative effects of ammonia on the environment.

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Enhancing The Connectivity Of High Speed Rail In The Orlando-Tampa Corridor With Local Public Transportation Systems: Issues And Opportunities, Cutr Jan 2011

Enhancing The Connectivity Of High Speed Rail In The Orlando-Tampa Corridor With Local Public Transportation Systems: Issues And Opportunities, Cutr

Research Reports

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Property Rights On The New Frontier: Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, And Renewable Energy, Alexandra B. Klass Jan 2011

Property Rights On The New Frontier: Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, And Renewable Energy, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

This Article explores the history of natural resources law and pollution control law to provide insights into current efforts by states to create wind easements, solar easements, and other property rights in the use of or access to renewable resources. Development of these resources is critical to current efforts to address climate change, which has a foot in both natural resources law and pollution control law. This creates challenges for developing theoretical and policy frameworks in this area, particularly surrounding the role of property rights. Property rights have played an important role in both natural resources law and pollution control …

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Reality Skewed: Newspaper Codification Of Stay-At-Home Mothers And Working Moms, Janet K. Keeler Jan 2011

Reality Skewed: Newspaper Codification Of Stay-At-Home Mothers And Working Moms, Janet K. Keeler

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Newspaper portrayals of stay-at-home mothers and working moms often limit and distort the motherhood experience and don’t reflect scientific and academic research. They perpetuate stereotypes and fuel “Mommy Wars,” which pit women against women on the issue of raising children. Through a content analysis of seven American newspapers from Jan. 1 to July 31, 2010, my research reveals pervasive, although probably unconscious, framing and labeling by the media – especially Southern and Midwestern journalists –about stay-at-home mothers and working mothers. The sample reviewed shows that stories that label a source as a working mom are mostly about guilt, challenges and …

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Understanding Environmental Deficit Phenomenon: Influences Affecting Children's Connectedness To Nature, Lauren Bates Jan 2011

Understanding Environmental Deficit Phenomenon: Influences Affecting Children's Connectedness To Nature, Lauren Bates

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The contemporary generation of young people experiences a childhood unlike any other previous generation. Federal funding for high achievement on standardized tests in the areas of reading and math have resulted in a narrowed school curricula focusing predominantly on these two subjects, and leaving little instructional time and resources for hands-on learning and unstructured time outdoors. Furthermore, children report spending less time outdoors and note that their parents are too busy to take them out to play. These circumstances at school and at home may indicate a decreasing value for nature experiences held by the adults who supervise children, which …

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The Ethics Of Shaping Perceptions Of Reality: What Journalists Can Learn From Cartographers And Shamans, Christopher J. Dorsey Jan 2011

The Ethics Of Shaping Perceptions Of Reality: What Journalists Can Learn From Cartographers And Shamans, Christopher J. Dorsey

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Journalism has the unique ability to shape the public’s perception of reality. Because humans are limited in experience and knowledge, an understanding of the world is shaped by what information is available to each individual. As a major societal institution, journalism has a public forum with which to release relevant, timely and useful information that can influence these perceptions. When it comes to building perceptions of reality, there are potential harms that can arise such as enhancing fear, confusion, stress, and building a worldview that can lead to uninformed or destructive decisions. Essentially, a journalist has as much ability to …

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Lessons From Teaching Undergraduate Finance Online., Martina K. Schmidt Jan 2011

Lessons From Teaching Undergraduate Finance Online., Martina K. Schmidt

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

With the continuing growth of student enrollment in online courses, teaching classes in an online format is becoming part of life for many educators. Teaching courses online is a challenging task and educators can benefit from the experiences of other educators when preparing for this challenge. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it lists some important observations that can help an educator create effective online courses. Second, it describes some insights from teaching online finance courses, specifically. As most academic leaders feel that student learning in online classes is inferior to face-to-face classes, the author also investigates the …

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From Statehood To Citrus Citification, 1845-1904, James Anthony Schnur, Carol Cortright Jan 2011

From Statehood To Citrus Citification, 1845-1904, James Anthony Schnur, Carol Cortright

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Rough draft of a chapter submitted by Cortright and Schnur. Much of this material later became Chapter 2 in "From Pines and Palmettos : A Portrait of Largo, Florida."

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Palm Harbor By The Decades : The Early Years, James Anthony Schnur Jan 2011

Palm Harbor By The Decades : The Early Years, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Transcript of remarks by Schnur delivered during the annual membership meeting of the Palm Harbor Historical Society on 28 February 2013. The lecture covers events from the mid-1800s through 1950.

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Heritage Villagers: A Social History Of The Pinellas Peninsula As Revealed Through The Structures At Heritage Village, James Anthony Schnur Jan 2011

Heritage Villagers: A Social History Of The Pinellas Peninsula As Revealed Through The Structures At Heritage Village, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Staff at Heritage Village submitted a grant to the Florida Humanities Council in 2002. At the time, Heritage Village hoped to develop an interpretive plan for the structures on site and realized that the archival materials related to historical structures and features had many gaps. James A. Schnur served as a humanities scholar tasked with reviewing archival holdings, compiling accurate information about the owners/occupants of the structures on site, and creating instructional documents that would guide the interpretive plan. This booklet, subdivided by chapters for each notable structure, includes a summary of important information and a detailed narrative. The research …

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Salvaging The Real Florida: Lost And Found In The State Of Dreams By Bill Belleville, Jack E. Davis Jan 2011

Salvaging The Real Florida: Lost And Found In The State Of Dreams By Bill Belleville, Jack E. Davis

Tampa Bay History

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Full Issue, Tampa Bay History Jan 2011

Full Issue, Tampa Bay History

Tampa Bay History

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Speech Restrictions That Don't Much Affect The Autonomy Of Speakers, Eugene Volokh Jan 2011

Speech Restrictions That Don't Much Affect The Autonomy Of Speakers, Eugene Volokh

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

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Four Constitutional Limits That The Minimum Coverage Provision Respects, Neil S. Siegel Jan 2011

Four Constitutional Limits That The Minimum Coverage Provision Respects, Neil S. Siegel

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

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Verbal Behavior Of Mice And Men: Preference For Multiple Schedules Of Reinforcement As An Indicator Of The Evolution Of Verbal Behavior, Adrianne Eileen Lewis Jan 2011

Verbal Behavior Of Mice And Men: Preference For Multiple Schedules Of Reinforcement As An Indicator Of The Evolution Of Verbal Behavior, Adrianne Eileen Lewis

Psychology Theses - Archive

The evolution of verbal behavior in humans is believed to have appeared in the form of a complex operant behavior. According to behaviorists, the development verbal behavior which is exclusive to Homo sapiens could have been the result of an increased sensitivity to environmental stimuli in the form of another person. Previous animal research by Roark and Kopp (2008) found that sensitivity to environmental stimuli (as indicated by a preference to respond to a multiple schedule of reinforcement) and a preference to respond to additional cues could be a precursor to the evolution of verbal behavior in Sprague Dawley rats. …

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An Animal Model Of Conditioned Placebo Analgesia, Christopher T. Mcnabb Jan 2011

An Animal Model Of Conditioned Placebo Analgesia, Christopher T. Mcnabb

Psychology Theses - Archive

Research on placebo analgesia (PA) has called for the further elucidation of underlying neural mechanisms. Animal models allow for experimental manipulations that are not possible or feasible in human research such as brain lesions. Therefore, an animal model would be ideally suited to expand upon human PA literature; however, there is currently no animal model of PA. This study used a classical conditioning paradigm in an effort to induce an analgesic response to placebo treatment in rats. Thirty eight female Sprague-Dawley rats underwent an L5 spinal nerve ligation (L5 SNL) to induce a chronic neuropathic pain condition. Animals were conditioned …

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Miniature Wireless Gastrostimulator, Sanchali Deb Jan 2011

Miniature Wireless Gastrostimulator, Sanchali Deb

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Gastroparesis is a common disorder caused to patients suffering from diabetes, cancer and Parkinson's disease. Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) has attracted significant attention in the treatment for Gastroparesis. GES inflicts electrical pulses to the stomach tissues to help regain normal motility and hence reduces Gastroparesis symptoms like vomiting, nausea, abdominal bloating etc. Conventional gastric stimulator needs a long surgery to be implanted and it is a big pacemaker like device that runs by a non-rechargeable battery. It has to be replaced once the battery gets exhausted. Hence another round of surgery is done when these devices are needed to be …

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Intra-Specific Variation Across A Small Temperature Difference In The Spider Rabidosa Rabida (Araneae: Lycosidae) From The Mountains In Arkansas, Ryan Joseph Stork Jan 2011

Intra-Specific Variation Across A Small Temperature Difference In The Spider Rabidosa Rabida (Araneae: Lycosidae) From The Mountains In Arkansas, Ryan Joseph Stork

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Temperature affects all levels of biological organization and ultimately affects multiple aspects of ecological performance and fitness. Generalist arthropod predators are ectothermic and are strongly affected by temperature in ways that are not fully understood. Descriptions of thermal ecology of important generalist arthropod predators are, therefore, essential pieces of information for studying ecology in changing thermal environments. Rabidosa rabida is a wolf spider that inhabits much of the eastern United States and plays an important role as a generalist predator of large herbivorous arthropods. This study makes the first description of the thermal ecology of R. rabida. A description of …

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Broad Surveys Of Dna Viral Diversity Obtained Through Viral Metagenomics Of Mosquitoes, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Dana Willner, Yan Wei Lim, Robert Schmieder, Betty Chau, Christina Nilsson, Simon Anthony, Yijun Ruan, Forest Rohwer, Mya Breitbart Jan 2011

Broad Surveys Of Dna Viral Diversity Obtained Through Viral Metagenomics Of Mosquitoes, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Dana Willner, Yan Wei Lim, Robert Schmieder, Betty Chau, Christina Nilsson, Simon Anthony, Yijun Ruan, Forest Rohwer, Mya Breitbart

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Viruses are the most abundant and diverse genetic entities on Earth; however, broad surveys of viral diversity are hindered by the lack of a universal assay for viruses and the inability to sample a sufficient number of individual hosts. This study utilized vector-enabled metagenomics (VEM) to provide a snapshot of the diversity of DNA viruses present in three mosquito samples from San Diego, California. The majority of the sequences were novel, suggesting that the viral community in mosquitoes, as well as the animal and plant hosts they feed on, is highly diverse and largely uncharacterized. Each mosquito sample contained a …

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Mechanism Of Resistance To Dietary Cholesterol, Lindsey R. Boone, Patricia A. Brooks, Melissa I. Niesen, Gene C. Ness Jan 2011

Mechanism Of Resistance To Dietary Cholesterol, Lindsey R. Boone, Patricia A. Brooks, Melissa I. Niesen, Gene C. Ness

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Background. Alterations in expression of hepatic genes that could contribute to resistance to dietary cholesterol were investigated in Sprague-Dawley rats, which are known to be resistant to the serum cholesterol raising action of dietary cholesterol. Methods. Microarray analysis was used to provide a comprehensive analysis of changes in hepatic gene expression in rats in response to dietary cholesterol. Changes were confirmed by RT-PCR analysis. Western blotting was employed to measure changes in hepatic cholesterol 7α hydroxylase protein. Results. Of the 28,000 genes examined using the Affymetrix rat microarray, relatively few were significantly altered. As expected, decreases …

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Analyzing And Mapping Sweat Metabolomics By High-Resolution Nmr Spectroscopy, Viktor P. Kutyshenko, Maxim Molchanov, Peter Beskaravayny, Vladimir N. Uversky, Maria A. Timchenko Jan 2011

Analyzing And Mapping Sweat Metabolomics By High-Resolution Nmr Spectroscopy, Viktor P. Kutyshenko, Maxim Molchanov, Peter Beskaravayny, Vladimir N. Uversky, Maria A. Timchenko

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

The content of human sweat is studied by high-resolution NMR, and the majority of organic components most often found in sweat of conditionally healthy people are identified. Original and simple tools are designed for sweat sampling from different areas of human body. The minimal surface area needed for sampling is in the range of 50–100 cm2. On all the surface parts of the human body examined in this work, the main constituents forming a sweat metabolic profile are lactate, glycerol, pyruvate, and serine. The only exception is the sole of the foot (planta pedis), where trace amounts of …

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Predictive Power Estimation Algorithm (Ppea) - A New Algorithm To Reduce Overfitting For Genomic Biomarker Discovery, Jiangang Liu, Robert A. Jolly, Aaron T. Smith, George H. Searfoss, Keith M. Goldstein, Vladimir N. Uversky, Keith Dunker, Shuyu Li, Craig E. Thomas, Tao Wei Jan 2011

Predictive Power Estimation Algorithm (Ppea) - A New Algorithm To Reduce Overfitting For Genomic Biomarker Discovery, Jiangang Liu, Robert A. Jolly, Aaron T. Smith, George H. Searfoss, Keith M. Goldstein, Vladimir N. Uversky, Keith Dunker, Shuyu Li, Craig E. Thomas, Tao Wei

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Toxicogenomics promises to aid in predicting adverse effects, understanding the mechanisms of drug action or toxicity, and uncovering unexpected or secondary pharmacology. However, modeling adverse effects using high dimensional and high noise genomic data is prone to over-fitting. Models constructed from such data sets often consist of a large number of genes with no obvious functional relevance to the biological effect the model intends to predict that can make it challenging to interpret the modeling results. To address these issues, we developed a novel algorithm, Predictive Power Estimation Algorithm (PPEA), which estimates the predictive power of each individual transcript through …

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Index, Colorado General Assembly Jan 2011

Index, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

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Evolutionary Variation Of Papillomavirus E2 Protein And E2 Binding Sites, Adam Rogers, Mackenzie Waltke, Peter C. Angeletti Jan 2011

Evolutionary Variation Of Papillomavirus E2 Protein And E2 Binding Sites, Adam Rogers, Mackenzie Waltke, Peter C. Angeletti

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Background: In an effort to identify the evolutionary changes relevant to E2 function, within and between papillomavirus genera, we evaluated the E2 binding sites (E2BS)s inside the long-control-region (LCR), and throughout the genomes. We identified E2BSs in the six largest genera of papillomaviruses: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Lambda, and Xi-papillomaviruses (128 genomes), by comparing the sequences with a model consensus we created from known functional E2BSs (HPV16, HPV18, BPV1). We analyzed the sequence conservation and nucleotide content of the 4-nucleotide spacer within E2BSs. We determined that there is a statistically significant difference in GC content of the four-nucleotide E2BS …

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Characterization Of Species C Human Adenovirus Serotype 6 (Ad6), Eric A. Weaver, Reeti Khare, Mathew L. Hillestad, Donna Palmer, Philip Ng, Michael A. Barry Jan 2011

Characterization Of Species C Human Adenovirus Serotype 6 (Ad6), Eric A. Weaver, Reeti Khare, Mathew L. Hillestad, Donna Palmer, Philip Ng, Michael A. Barry

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Adenovirus serotype (Ad5) is the most studied Ad. Ad1, 2, and 6 are also members of species C Ad and are presumed to have biologies similar to Ad5. In this work, we have compared the ability of Ad1, 2, 5, and 6 to infect liver and muscle after intravenous and intramuscular injection. We found that Ad6 was surprisingly the most potent at liver gene delivery and that Ad1 and Ad2 were markedly weaker than Ad5 and 6. To understand these differences, we sequenced the Ad6 genome. This revealed that the Ad6 fiber protein is surprisingly three shaft repeats shorter than …

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Generation Of A Kupffer Cell-Evading Adenovirus For Systemic And Liver-Directed Gene Transfer, Reeti Khare, Shannon M. May, Francesco Vetrini, Eric A. Weaver, Donna Palmer, Amanda Rosewell, Nathan Grove, Philip Ng, Michael A. Barry Jan 2011

Generation Of A Kupffer Cell-Evading Adenovirus For Systemic And Liver-Directed Gene Transfer, Reeti Khare, Shannon M. May, Francesco Vetrini, Eric A. Weaver, Donna Palmer, Amanda Rosewell, Nathan Grove, Philip Ng, Michael A. Barry

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

As much as 90% of an intravenously (i.v.) injected dose of adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) is absorbed and destroyed by liver Kupffer cells. Viruses that escape these cells can then transduce hepatocytes after binding factor X (FX). Given that interactions with FX and Kupffer cells are thought to occur on the Ad5 hexon protein, we replaced its exposed hypervariable regions (HVR) with those from Ad6. When tested in vivo in BALB/c mice and in hamsters, the Ad5/6 chimera mediated >10 times higher transduction in the liver. This effect was not due to changes in FX binding. Rather, Ad5/6 appeared to …

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Great Lakes, Great Potential: Examining The Regulatory Framework For Wind Farms In The Great Lakes, Katherine Saks Jan 2011

Great Lakes, Great Potential: Examining The Regulatory Framework For Wind Farms In The Great Lakes, Katherine Saks

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Oromo In Exile: Creating Knowledge And Promoting Social Justice, Asafa Jalata Jan 2011

The Oromo In Exile: Creating Knowledge And Promoting Social Justice, Asafa Jalata

Societies Without Borders

This paper explains how some Oromos who were forced to leave their country, Oromia, by successive colonial Ethiopian governments and live in exile have been organized in foreign lands to liberate their people and country by supporting the Oromo national movement. By demonstrating how global and regional forces have collaborated in the colonization, continued subjugation and dehumanization of the Oromo people, the paper illustrates how the Oromo people have lost their cultural, political, and social rights that are enshrined in the UN Universal Declaration of human rights and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and how they are still facing state …

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