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Rhamnolipid As An Effective Srb Biocide – Determining A Solution To Replicate Anticipated Conditions, Elizabeth Zimmerer

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project aimed to develop a laboratory-scale solution that replicates produced water conditions (CO₂ + brine) found in crude pipelines, with the added requirement of promoting the growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). A previously successful study was used as a reference, which employed a hybrid salt solution containing essential nutrients and environmental factors. The proposed solution included 10 g sodium chloride, 1 g sodium pyruvate, 0.2 g ammonium chloride, and 0.8 g sodium sulfate per liter of deionized water. Electrochemical testing (Linear Polarization Resistance and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) was performed on solutions with and without rhamnolipid. Results from the …

Understanding Tap As A Narrative Form, Jylian R. Haynes

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

I will be researching tap dancing as narrative form. As a tap teacher and member of the dance community, I feel pulled to learn about tap as a narrative form to educated myself and my students, and to inspire my choreography. I will support my research on tap as a narrative form by looking at tap history, technique, and pull from personal experience. As well as writing a research paper, I will create a piece of choreography to showcase my research. The paper and choreographed piece will work adjacently to emphasize the things I learn about tap as …

The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal Volume 5, Issue 1 Full Issue, Michele Phillips, Linda Doornbos, Tina Frazier, Lisa K. Pennington, Mary E. Tackett, Jennifer K. Hinkle, Frans H. Doppen, Jennifer M. Quick, Karen Widger Caldwell, Laura H. Darolia, Daniela K. Digiacomo, Carly Muetterties, Dean P. Vesperman, Mary Wright, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Anna M. Yonas

The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal

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From The Editors, Michele Phillips, Linda Doornbos

The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal

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A Fire Remains (2025), Zoe Spyridonos

Florida Middle and High School Holocaust Reflection Contest

No abstract provided.

Zwillenge (2025), Nicolas Rossi-Montero

Florida Middle and High School Holocaust Reflection Contest

No abstract provided.

Echoes Of Hanna (2025), Sarah Aguilera

Florida Middle and High School Holocaust Reflection Contest

No abstract provided.

Misery (2025), Bralia Smith

Florida Middle and High School Holocaust Reflection Contest

No abstract provided.

Masters - Summer 2025 (202550) May 5, 2025 - August 10, 2025

H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship Academic Calendar Archives

No abstract provided.

2025 Shepard Broad College Of Law Admissions Viewbook, Nova Southeastern University

Shepard Broad College of Law Viewbook

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Winter 2025 Academic Calender, Registrar Office

Academic Calendars of the NSU Registrar

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2025 F1rst Look, Nova Southeastern University

First Look

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2025 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

In 2025, NSU was recognized by the Carnegie Classification system as one of only 21 universities nationwide to hold all three of the following designations: Very High Research Activity (R1), Community Engaged Institution, and Opportunity College & University (OCU). Its R1 classification places NSU among the top tier of U.S. research universities, a milestone that reflects our continued growth and commitment to research that leads to real-world impact.. As an R1 institution, NSU is shining a new light on scientific discovery, medical breakthroughs, and technologies that advance quality of life: from pioneering treatments in neuro-immunology and cancer, to safeguarding coral …

Jmorph Summary Data Cownose And Eagle Ray, Frank E. Fish

Biology Data Repository

The data are for the examination of hydrodynamic lift of the cephalic lobes of the cownose ray and spotted eagle ray. Data are from flow tank test of model heads of the two species.

Sea Turtle Turning, Frank E. Fish

Biology Data Repository

Data are for the analysis of the kinematics of turning by juvenile sea turtles.

Proactive Distributed Emergency Response With Heterogeneous Tasks Allocation, Justice Darko, Hyoshin Park

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Traditionally, traffic incident management (TIM) programs coordinate the deployment of emergency resources to immediate incident requests without accommodating the interdependencies on incident evolutions in the environment. However, ignoring these inherent interdependencies while making current deployment decisions is shortsighted, and the resulting naive deployment strategy can significantly worsen the overall incident delay impact on the network. The interdependencies on incident evolution in the environment, including those between incident occurrences and those between resource availability in near-future requests and the anticipated duration of the immediate incident request, should be considered through a look-ahead model when making current-stage deployment decisions. This study develops …

Integrating Data Management Plans Into The Unified Architecture Framework Standards Views, Cansu Yalim, Holly A. H. Handley

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

System Architecting translates an operational concept into a model of the system to be realized. There is a need for a Data Management Plan (DMP) to be included in the overall system engineering process with the advent of Digital Engineering. Data longevity, accessibility, and integrity can all be improved throughout the system's lifecycle by a well-defined DMP. System engineers use an architecture framework to arrange the system data into several sets of viewpoints. Incorporating a DMP at this point specifies the procedures for gathering, storing, retrieving, and maintaining data to ensure that all interested parties have access to current, correct …

Occupational Therapy's Role In Supporting Sustainable Trauma-Informed Wellness Practices In A Surfing Program For Women, Margaret J. O'Hara

Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate - Doctoral Capstone Symposium

Individuals living with trauma-related mental health conditions are often less participatory in meaningful occupations. Additionally, women are two to three times as likely as men to experience a trauma-related mental health condition or event (Olff, 2017). A local surf therapy organization was founded to provide local women who have experienced trauma an empowering community and meaningful activity to heal. The purpose of this quality improvement capstone experience was to enhance the sustainability of the skills taught within clinics through the creation and dissemination of a user-friendly resource platform. The skills specifically addressed are 1) Mindfulness, 2) Growth Mindset, 3) Comfort …

Developing Staff Training Modules To Enhance Neurodiversity-Affirming Care In An Inpatient Psychiatric Setting, Haley Morris

Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate - Doctoral Capstone Symposium

Introduction: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are admitted to psychiatric hospitals at higher rates and for longer durations compared to neurotypical individuals (Kuriakose et al., 2018). Externalizing behaviors, such as aggression and self-injury, significantly increase hospitalization risk, yet standard psychiatric interventions (e.g., traditional process groups) are often ineffective for this population. A key barrier is the lack of ASD-specific training among hospital staff (Siegel & Gabriels, 2012). This capstone project aimed to address this gap by developing and implementing an educational training program to improve patient-centered, neurodiversity-affirming care across all inpatient psychiatric units. The primary aims were to: …

Empowering Families In A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Grace A. Avin

Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate - Doctoral Capstone Symposium

In the U.S., it is estimated that at least 239,000 children were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) in the year 2019 (Killeen et al., 2023). Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) describes the adverse impacts that patients suffer from after the ICU, and children are especially vulnerable in the critical period of growing and developing (Smith & Rahman, 2023). The Sleep, Play, Heal (SPH) program is a pediatric ICU liberation movement at a local children’s hospital aimed to decrease PICS and improve outcomes for children and families. Through team interviews, the need for educational resources to maintain a continuum …

"Discovering The Mysterious Ocean: A New Approach To Igniting Children’S Interest In Marine Sciences", Laura Goretti

Theses & ETDs

This thesis presents the development of a series of interactive musical books designed to ignite children's interest in marine sciences. The project addresses the lack of ocean literacy and school curricula in children’s books by integrating ocean principles and the New College of Florida Marine Biology curriculum with art and hands-on activities. The books target kindergarten and early elementary-aged children as the importance of early exposure to scientific concepts and children's innate scientific inquiry are discussed. Current challenges in science education are examined, highlighting the possible tools that should be utilized to enhance students’ engagement, interest, and excitement towards marine …

I’M All The Fishes In The Sea: Creating An Animal Care Ethic From Spinoza’S Ethics, Denicia Finney

Theses & ETDs

Although Spinoza encourages us to understand Nature, and our place as parts in it, he felt inclined to say that the lower animals have nothing in common with our nature, and so ‘we have every right against them that they have against us’. Is he ultimately justified in making this claim? I believe that Spinoza's ethic, and the end that ensues from it would actually warrant fair consideration of the lower animals. I demonstrate this through the separation of the eternal essence and the particular essence which each individual is composed of. Insofar as humankind acts according to the universal …

Analyzing The Evolution Of Major League Baseball Hitting Strategies (1950–2010): A Machine Learning And Interactive Dashboard Approach, John Mcintosh

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the evolution of Major League Baseball (MLB) hitting strategies from 1950 to 2010 using statistical analysis and machine learning techniques. The study investigates changes in player performance metrics to determine how hitting styles have evolved, specifically focusing on distinguishing "power hitters" from "contact hitters." Principal Component Analysis “(PCA)”, t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, and clustering methods, such as K Means Clustering, were applied to historical MLB data from Baseball Reference to reveal underlying trends and shifts in player roles over time. An interactive dashboard was developed utilizing Streamlit to visualize these trends dynamically. This was done by incorporating …

Who We Don’T See: Paternal Kinship In Adoption, Nikhita Razdan

Theses & ETDs

The topic of this research is discovering what defines the connection between adopted people and their biological fathers due to the lack of research regarding that perspective. The research was conducted through repeated in-depth interviews online and in person. The subjects that are addressed here involve the intersection between adoptees' gender and adoptive identity, biases held within the adoptive household, and negative biases towards their countries of origin. These topics assist in understanding the kinship found, or not found, between the participants and their biological fathers. Two frameworks are also presented here, deemed the Adoptive Environment Bias and the Motherland …

Evaluating The Effects Of Coastal Development On Sea Turtle Nesting Success Rates In Southwest Florida, Lydia Ubry

Theses & ETDs

The barrier islands of Sarasota County are one of the highest-density nesting areas for Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) and Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle) in Florida and the greater Gulf of Mexico region. Additionally, these islands (Lido Key, Siesta Key, Casey Key, and Manasota Key) are all highly developed with varying types of dominant structures on each key. This study aims to examine the different types of development on these islands over time (1974-2023) in conjunction with marine turtle nesting success rates. Findings include a higher number of nesting turtles overall, despite a great increase in development since the …

Educational Resources For Social-Emotional Regulation In Children, Gabrielle A. Walker

Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate - Doctoral Capstone Symposium

Emotional dysregulation is defined as patterns of emotional experience or expression that interfere with goal-directed activity (Thompson 2019). Emotional development is built on the relationships created between a child and primary caregivers including parents, extended family, and/or teachers (Stern, 2010). This project supports the development of educational resources to implement social-emotional regulation tools with children. There were some resources at the site that already existed. These were updated and revamped, along with new resources created to address social-emotional dysregulation in children.

Two passionate pediatric occupational therapists based in the Charleston area created a self-regulation education program that is implemented by …

1-Extra 3-Component Edge Connectivity Of Modified Bubble-Sort Networks, Guozhen Zhang, Zhimin Yue, Dajin Wang

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The classic edge connectivity of a network G is the minimum number of edges whose removal disconnects G into multiple components. It can be used as a measure of the reliability of the network. The extra edge connectivity (resp. the component edge connectivity) imposes conditions on the size (resp. the number) of components, and both are the generalizations of the classic edge connectivity. The extra component edge connectivity combines both conditional edge connectivities to measure the network’s reliability in a more particular and targeted manner. The modified bubble-sort graph MBn is a topological model proposed for the interconnection network of …

Opinion Mining On Offshore Wind Energy For Environmental Engineering, Isabele Bittencourt, Aparna S. Varde, Pankaj Lal

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Renewable energy sources are vital to help mitigate the effects of climate change, and reducing the carbon dioxide emissions of fossil fuels, e.g. the state of New Jersey has a goal of producing 100% clean energy by 2050. However, the plans for offshore wind energy by the shore of the state still brings much controversy between residents due to the wind farms’ impact on wildlife, coastline, and the people’s view from the beaches. In this context, we perform sentiment analysis on social media data to investigate people’s opinions and concerns regarding offshore wind energy. We adapt 3 machine learning models, …

Automated Regulatory Classification Of Mobile Medical Apps, Ernest C. Chianumba, Franklyn Kogolo, Raina Samuel

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Mobile medical applications provide a variety of functionalities for users, from managing critical personal data to providing basic medical information. However, due to the variety of functionalities and lack of consistent and concrete regulatory oversight across app marketplaces, medical apps potentially pose a threat to users who are generally unaware of app capabilities. Therefore, in order to help legal experts quickly identify which regulatory body applies to medical apps used by consumers, we present a method to convert and plot the prose of both app descriptions and regulatory legalese into a vector space to facilitate rapid cosine similarity scoring. Our …

Rpl Attack Detection In Iot Environments: An Ensemble Approach, Ashley Etheridge, Vaibhav Anu

School of Computing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Internet of Things’ rapid growth has given rise to significant security challenges. This paper addresses security concerns in IoT within Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) that utilize the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). We propose a novel ensemble classifier, DT- NB-ANN-SGD, to detect various RPL attacks. Our experimentation compares this ensemble approach with individual classifiers (DT, NB, ANN, SGD) using the ROUT-4-2023 dataset. Results indicate promising accuracy (86.21%) but highlight the need for further improvement in recall and F1 scores. This study contributes insights for enhancing RPL attack detection in IoT environments.