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Title: Autocorrect Awareness: Categorizing Autocorrect Changes and Measuring Authorial Perceptions.
Creator: Wood, Nicola, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three writing tasks, and 2. a post-writing survey given to the authors. For the first task, each subject completed three predetermined writing prompts: an email message, a text message, and a Facebook status—each with a specific intended audience—on their iPhones....
Show moreThis thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three writing tasks, and 2. a post-writing survey given to the authors. For the first task, each subject completed three predetermined writing prompts: an email message, a text message, and a Facebook status—each with a specific intended audience—on their iPhones. Subjects then completed the survey to self-report their level of awareness of AutoCorrect's changes. Correction data was coded and categorized into one of four types of changes. The change type was determined by analyzing video recordings of each prompt. Type B changes—made when the subject accidentally hit the wrong key—proved to be the most common, followed by Type A changes (made when the subject seemed unable to spell the word), Type C changes (made as a result of incorrect capitalization or punctuation), and Type D changes (changes that did not fit into another category). Four out of five subjects self-reported that AutoCorrect changed their writing over 10 times. The fifth participant reported that AutoCorrect made 6-10 changes, though the program had actually altered his work 18 times. His response suggests that AutoCorrect may be becoming invisible to some users. The observations in this thesis are not generalizable; instead, they serve to provide a starting point for further exploration into authorial awareness in digital writing contexts.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0351
Format: Thesis

Title: Exploitation of Labor in College Football: A Comparison of Arguments.
Creator: O'Dea, Heather, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis uses parallels in the theories of amateurism in college athletics and paternalism in slavery to better understand college football as a system of exploitation of labor. To provide the reader with a background of these theories, it begins with in-depth explanations of their developments and various components. This study focuses on the similarities in arguments made by proponents of both theories, and pays particular attention to the idea that these systems of exploitation...
Show moreThis thesis uses parallels in the theories of amateurism in college athletics and paternalism in slavery to better understand college football as a system of exploitation of labor. To provide the reader with a background of these theories, it begins with in-depth explanations of their developments and various components. This study focuses on the similarities in arguments made by proponents of both theories, and pays particular attention to the idea that these systems of exploitation supposedly benefit those exploited. It compares the argument that college athletics creates for athletes the opportunity to receive a "free education" with the notion of slavery "saving" Africans by introducing them to Christianity. Through analysis of these arguments and the findings of multiple studies that examine the experiences of those exploited, this thesis reveals the inherent logical fallacies of these theories and the impact they have on those that operate under these exploitative systems.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0372
Format: Thesis

Title: Determining cis-acting elements necessary for regulation of replication timing.
Creator: Davis, Caroline, Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: Many diseases such as DiGeorge syndrome, leukemia and likely all cancers display abnormal replication timing, the temporal order in which segments of chromosomes are replicated. However, the elements that regulate normal replication timing are poorly understood. DNA replicates during S phase of the cell cycle and does so in a spatio-temporal pattern. DNA replicating early in S phase localizes within the nuclear interior and is highly correlated with transcriptionally active euchromatin. On...
Show moreMany diseases such as DiGeorge syndrome, leukemia and likely all cancers display abnormal replication timing, the temporal order in which segments of chromosomes are replicated. However, the elements that regulate normal replication timing are poorly understood. DNA replicates during S phase of the cell cycle and does so in a spatio-temporal pattern. DNA replicating early in S phase localizes within the nuclear interior and is highly correlated with transcriptionally active euchromatin. On the other hand, DNA replicating late in S phase localizes at the nuclear and nucleolar periphery and is highly correlated with transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin. Taken together, this pattern of replication shows that DNA replication is likely involved in higher chromosome structure and function. To continue progressing within the field, replication timing regulatory elements must be identified. Uncovering these elements will allow a greater understanding of higher chromosome structure and function organization as well as elucidating the relationship between abnormal replication timing and disease. In order to show necessity of suspected candidate regulatory elements, each must be removed and a dramatic effect on replication timing must be observed. This thesis focuses on two means of showing element necessity: the development of a targeting vector to generate small deletions of DNA that harbor suspected regulatory elements and the confirmation that puromycin reconstitution to generate and identify large deletions is feasible.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0303
Format: Thesis

Title: Mate Value as a Predictor of Relationship-Specific Attachment.
Creator: Newberg, Amy, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Attachment style refers to the manner in which people form close social relationships with others. In addition to one's global attachment style, people also possess relationship-specific attachment styles. However, the factors within a relationship that can shape relationship-specific attachment have been relatively unexplored. The current work seeks to examine one such factor—mate value—that is, a person's overall level of desirability as a romantic partner. Whereas people who have a low...
Show moreAttachment style refers to the manner in which people form close social relationships with others. In addition to one's global attachment style, people also possess relationship-specific attachment styles. However, the factors within a relationship that can shape relationship-specific attachment have been relatively unexplored. The current work seeks to examine one such factor—mate value—that is, a person's overall level of desirability as a romantic partner. Whereas people who have a low mate value may be particularly anxious in their relationships because they are aware that their partner may have more desirable alternatives, people with high mate value may be particularly avoidant in their relationships because they may have access to many relationship alternatives of their own. In the current work, romantically involved participants received false feedback about their mate value (high mate value, low mate value, or no feedback) and then completed a measure of relationship-specific attachment. I hypothesized that a high mate value would lead to relatively more relationship-specific avoidance and low mate value would lead to relatively more relationship-specific anxiety. I also examined the subsidiary hypothesis that effects of mate value would be moderated by trait-level attachment, such that one's general tendency to be avoidant or anxious would be exacerbated by high or low mate value feedback, respectively. Results did not support my hypotheses. I found no main effect of condition or interaction with trait-level anxiety on relationship-specific anxiety. I also found no main effects of condition on relationship-specific avoidance. However, results revealed that among individuals high in trait avoidance, high mate value feedback (compared to controls) led to less relationship-specific avoidance. Potential interpretations of my results are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0273
Format: Thesis

Title: Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Prevent Nucleosome Redistribution at Transcription Start Sites.
Creator: Pickeral, Crystal, Biological Science
Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0034
Format: Thesis

Title: Local Diets, Global Foods: The Dietary Habits of Ivorian Immigrants in the United States.
Creator: Rojas, Alfredo, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral...
Show moreFood production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral relationships persist abroad. My fieldwork among West African immigrants in Atlanta, GA reveals that immigrants use mass-produced African foods to sustain their diets and moral relationships in order to avoid foods produced in the United States. In the United States, immigrant women usually cook for themselves, their husbands, and friends. Men with no strong moral ties to an African woman may have to resort to fast food unless they can cook. My research attempts to explain these relationships.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0333
Format: Thesis

Title: The Accuracy of the National Hurricane Center's United States Tropical Cyclone Landfall Forecasts in the Atlantic Basin (2004–2012).
Creator: Keclik, Alexandra, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract/Description: This study examined the position, timing, and intensity of each National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Official Forecasts (OFCL) for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States from 2004 to 2012. During that time period, one hundred and fifty tropical cyclones developed in the Atlantic basin. Thirty-two of the cyclones made landfall in the United States as tropical storms or hurricanes. Accurate predictions of the location, timing, and intensity of tropical...
Show moreThis study examined the position, timing, and intensity of each National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Official Forecasts (OFCL) for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States from 2004 to 2012. During that time period, one hundred and fifty tropical cyclones developed in the Atlantic basin. Thirty-two of the cyclones made landfall in the United States as tropical storms or hurricanes. Accurate predictions of the location, timing, and intensity of tropical cyclone landfalls are important, so that people in a storm's track can prepare adequately for heavy to catastrophic wind, rain, and storm surge. The errors of each of the OFCL for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes that made landfall in the United States during 2004–2012 are acquired from the Best Track data set. The ELTOPO1 landmask is used to find the forecasted landfall point using sequential locations from the OFCL offshore and onshore points of each forecast. The great circle distance between the forecasted and actual landfall constitutes the location error. The official landfall time is subtracted from the forecasted landfall time to find the timing error, and the official landfall wind speed is subtracted from the closest to onshore wind speed to find intensity error. There is a trend of decreasing error in location, timing, and intensity forecasting with decreasing lead time. An improvement in tropical cyclone landfall forecasting is found from comparing the 2004–2012 Atlantic landfall forecast errors to those in a study of 1976-2000 forecasts.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0324
Format: Thesis

Title: Effects of Disgust on Relational Memory.
Creator: Arch, Natalie, Psychology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of the current study was to determine whether memory for associations between parts of an event that is negative depends on which negative emotion it is, particularly disgust. Participants were instructed that they would see pictures of locations, revealed one by one. Participants were told that they would be presented with one of three scenarios in each of the locations. There were three conditions (disgust, reward and neutral) and after viewing location pictures, participants...
Show moreThe purpose of the current study was to determine whether memory for associations between parts of an event that is negative depends on which negative emotion it is, particularly disgust. Participants were instructed that they would see pictures of locations, revealed one by one. Participants were told that they would be presented with one of three scenarios in each of the locations. There were three conditions (disgust, reward and neutral) and after viewing location pictures, participants were handed a clear plastic bag with a piece of candy in it. In the neutral condition the was candy alone, in the reward condition the candy was with a ten dollar bill and in the disgust condition the candy was with a feminine pantyliner stained with fake blood from a costume store. Memory for location picture/candy combination was assessed with an associative recognition test. Participants had to indicate whether the pairs seen were intact or rearranged. Recall was also assessed; participants were asked to indicate what treatment went with each candy. Brief questionnaires (DPSS-R and VOCI) were used to assess disgust sensitivity. Disgust did not prove to increase participant associative recognition of location picture/candy pairs. Those higher in disgust were less likely to recall pairs in the disgust treatment. Effect of emotion on recall for what appeared in the bag with the candy was not significant overall. The current study illustrates that personality factors and individual differences are important factors when analyzing effects of disgust on memory. How sensitive someone is to disgust may impact memory.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0001
Format: Thesis

Title: Effect of Conductivity Solution Salt Type on the Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide in a Low Power Gas-Liquid Plasma.
Creator: Seshie, Delanyo, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Abstract/Description: In this study, several of the conditions that affect the formation of hydrogen peroxide in a tubular plasma reactor were analyzed. Specifically, the initial conductivities of the inlet deionized water and the type of salt solutions introduced into the tubular plasma reactor were studied. In analysis of each of these variables, the production rate and concentration of hydrogen peroxide, the power, current and voltage waveforms, energy yield for the process, and final outlet solution...
Show moreIn this study, several of the conditions that affect the formation of hydrogen peroxide in a tubular plasma reactor were analyzed. Specifically, the initial conductivities of the inlet deionized water and the type of salt solutions introduced into the tubular plasma reactor were studied. In analysis of each of these variables, the production rate and concentration of hydrogen peroxide, the power, current and voltage waveforms, energy yield for the process, and final outlet solution conductivity were measured and analyzed. The initial study involved altering the initial solution conductivity using salts of sodium chloride (NaCl), potassium chloride (KCl), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), and calcium chloride (CaCl2). Preliminary studies were also conducted on the effects of the temperature of the deionized water delivered into the reactor. With respect to analysis of conductivities, the results obtained show that the production rate of hydrogen peroxide and energy yield decreased with an increase in conductivity for all salts. For deionized water with an initial conductivity of 1.98μS/cm, better results were obtained in comparison to salt solutions. The production rate and concentration of H2O2 were approximately 0.12 μmol/s and 9.4 mM, respectively. The power and energy yield under the same conditions were 0.70 W and 20 g kW-1·h-1, respectively. In contrast, the best result obtained for conductive solutions was with NaCl solution at 84 μS/cm. The production rate and energy yield were 0.050 μmol/s and 6.8 g kW-1·h-1, respectively. Moreover, the study involved analyzing the effects of salts in the same period but different groups, i.e. K+ and Ca2+, as well as Na+ and Mg2+. It was found that although the solutions with monovalent cations had lower production rates of H2O2, the energy yield for these solutions were higher than the corresponding solutions with divalent cations. The plausible explanation for this result was the ionic mobilities of the cations.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0350
Format: Thesis

Title: Juvenile Sex Offender Subgroups: Differences in Personality and Sexual Recidivism.
Creator: Heighes, Caitlin, Department of Psychology
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0420
Format: Thesis

Title: Voter-Party Linkage Strategies and Democratic Survival.
Creator: Dugan, Amanda, Political Science
Abstract/Description: Economic development is widely known to stabilize democratic regimes. Models of distributional conflict have revealed that with increased average income, the ability of political parties to agree on redistribution rates grows. A key assumption of such models is that parties are programmatic and will enact their mandates once elected. Yet, political parties vary in their dedication to programmatic platforms. Some parties are quite programmatic, only enacting policies that voters endorse, while...
Show moreEconomic development is widely known to stabilize democratic regimes. Models of distributional conflict have revealed that with increased average income, the ability of political parties to agree on redistribution rates grows. A key assumption of such models is that parties are programmatic and will enact their mandates once elected. Yet, political parties vary in their dedication to programmatic platforms. Some parties are quite programmatic, only enacting policies that voters endorse, while others are less programmatic, preferring to attract voters using clientelism. This suggests the possibility that countries with mostly clientelistic parties could experience less conflict over redistribution rates because there would be an absence of parties compelled to represent the poor once in office. In this paper, I relax the assumption in this model that parties always follow their mandates once in office, and I test the hypothesis that countries with clientelistic parties experience increased regime stability.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0108
Format: Thesis

Title: An Overview of Homotopy Type Theory and the Univalent Foundations of Mathematics.
Creator: Dunn, Lawrence, Department of Mathematics
Abstract/Description: Homotopy type theory, the basis of ''univalent foundations'' of mathematics, is a formal system with intrinsic connections to computer science, homotopy theory, and higher category theory. Rooted in type theory, the theoretical basis of most modern proof assistants, the system admits an interpretation as a logical calculus for homotopy theory and suggests a foundational system for which abstract ''spaces'' -- not unstructured sets --- are the most primitive objects. This perspective offers...
Show moreHomotopy type theory, the basis of ''univalent foundations'' of mathematics, is a formal system with intrinsic connections to computer science, homotopy theory, and higher category theory. Rooted in type theory, the theoretical basis of most modern proof assistants, the system admits an interpretation as a logical calculus for homotopy theory and suggests a foundational system for which abstract ''spaces'' -- not unstructured sets --- are the most primitive objects. This perspective offers both a computational foundational for mathematics and a direct method for reasoning about homotopy theory. We present here a broad contextual overview of homotopy type theory, including a sufficiently thorough examination of the classical foundations which it replaces as to make clear the extent of its innovation. We will explain that homotopy type theory is, loosely speaking and among other things, a programming language for mathematics, especially one with native support for homotopy theory.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0304
Format: Thesis

Title: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Risk for Suicidality: A Test of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide.
Creator: Shelton, Tawny, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as the infliction of bodily harm in the absence of lethal intent and includes behaviors such has cutting, hitting, or scratching oneself (Nock, 2010). NSSI is prevalent among college populations, with one study reporting that 17% of students have engaged in self-injurious behavior at least once in their lifetime (Whitlock, Eckenrode, & Silverman, 2006). Importantly, research suggests that individuals who engage in NSSI are at an increased risk for...
Show moreNon-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as the infliction of bodily harm in the absence of lethal intent and includes behaviors such has cutting, hitting, or scratching oneself (Nock, 2010). NSSI is prevalent among college populations, with one study reporting that 17% of students have engaged in self-injurious behavior at least once in their lifetime (Whitlock, Eckenrode, & Silverman, 2006). Importantly, research suggests that individuals who engage in NSSI are at an increased risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (i.e., suicidality; Van Orden, Witte, Cukrowicz, Braithwaite, Selby, & Joiner, 2010), but further research is required to understand why individuals who self-injure are at an increased risk for suicide. The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between self-injury and suicidality through the lens of the interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005). Patients from a community mental health clinic completing a variety of self-report questionnaires assessing history of self-injury, depression, suicidality, and constructs related to the interpersonal theory (i.e., perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and acquired capability for suicide). Results indicate that among individuals with a history of self-injurious behaviors, perceived burdensomeness, but not thwarted belongingness was associated with higher levels of suicidality above and beyond the acquired capability for suicide. Overall, results provide some insight into why some (but not all) individuals with NSSI are at risk for suicide.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0330
Format: Thesis

Title: Correlation of Performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Generative Semantic Subtests of the EFA-4 (Examining for Aphasia-4) in Persons with Memory and/or Communication Difficulty.
Creator: Prause, Emily, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Abstract/Description: Purpose: To examine the relationship between scores on the Generative Semantic Naming Subtests of the EFA-4 and the MoCA in persons with memory and/or communication difficulty. Methods: Six adults with varying diagnoses of memory and/or communication difficulty were included. The entire Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the four Generative Semantic Naming Subtests of the EFA-4 (Examining for Aphasia- 4) were administered. Scores were correlated using Pearson r Correlational Analyses....
Show morePurpose: To examine the relationship between scores on the Generative Semantic Naming Subtests of the EFA-4 and the MoCA in persons with memory and/or communication difficulty. Methods: Six adults with varying diagnoses of memory and/or communication difficulty were included. The entire Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the four Generative Semantic Naming Subtests of the EFA-4 (Examining for Aphasia- 4) were administered. Scores were correlated using Pearson r Correlational Analyses. Results: We found strong, positive correlations between the MoCA and overall EFA-4 raw scores and also between the MoCA and each individual subtest. These correlations confirm that there is a predictable relationship in performance on these two tests. Conclusions: Strong, positive correlations in performance indicates a predictable relationship in performance on the MoCA and EFA-4. The correlations also demonstrate a relationship between lexical-semantic processing and cognitive decline. The degree or severity of dementia, as measured by MoCA scores, affects word retrieval and naming in a predictable manner.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0065
Format: Thesis

Title: Sovereignty, Religion, and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs ) in Sudan, with a focus on the Nuba Mountains.
Creator: Marks, Madison, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis addresses the causes and consequences of displacement in Sudan. By focusing on the themes of sovereignty and religion throughout Sudanese history, the complex challenges of the long-standing Sudanese conflict become apparent. This is clear through a focus on the Nuba Mountains. Colonial rule had a direct impact in shaping contrasting visions for the future of a sovereign Sudanese state. After Sudan's independence in 1956, the question over the fusion or separation of religion and...
Show moreThis thesis addresses the causes and consequences of displacement in Sudan. By focusing on the themes of sovereignty and religion throughout Sudanese history, the complex challenges of the long-standing Sudanese conflict become apparent. This is clear through a focus on the Nuba Mountains. Colonial rule had a direct impact in shaping contrasting visions for the future of a sovereign Sudanese state. After Sudan's independence in 1956, the question over the fusion or separation of religion and state contributed to two devastating civil wars, resulting in the death of two million and displacement of four million. According to the concept of Sovereignty as Responsibility, a state's sovereignty depends upon its protection for the rights and wellbeing of its people. The Sudanese government has engaged in direct assaults against its own people, and has prevented humanitarian assessment missions and relief personnel from responding to affected populations. This model of regime-induced displacement has posed many questions regarding the best methods for protection of IDPs when their rights are being violated or threatened by their sovereign. This thesis also provides an analysis of the hopeful prospects for future protection of IDPs in Africa through increased regional accountability and placing the rights of the individual over the state. This thesis provides a framework for future conversations among international stakeholders, humanitarian aid organizations, civil society groups, academics, media personnel, and Sudanese to discuss the impacts of sovereignty and religion on displacement in Sudan. Moreover, this thesis seeks to fill a gap in research on the Nuba Mountains.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0151
Format: Thesis

Title: Driving Donating Behavior: Using Visual Salience to Increase Attention to Donation Related Information on the Web.
Creator: Roque, Nelson, Psychology
Abstract/Description: Each year in the United States hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charitable causes by individuals, thus it is important to understand factors that contribute to donating behavior to maximize public good. This study examined how attention might be captured by donation-relevant information on the web. The basic attention literature suggests that information presented in a unique color should capture attention reliably, even when this information is completely irrelevant to the task...
Show moreEach year in the United States hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charitable causes by individuals, thus it is important to understand factors that contribute to donating behavior to maximize public good. This study examined how attention might be captured by donation-relevant information on the web. The basic attention literature suggests that information presented in a unique color should capture attention reliably, even when this information is completely irrelevant to the task at hand. However, other research suggests that observers have a large degree of top-down control over their attention (knowledge and intention primarily drive attention). We contrasted these two views in a simulated web-surfing task in which participants searched for specific information. Donation-relevant information was presented either in the website's default text color or in a unique color. Contrary to predictions, uniquely colored links did not capture attention as measured by eye movements. Furthermore, when participants did fixate this information, they moved their eyes away from it quicker when it was presented in a unique color. Strong top-down control of attention was observed since participants almost never fixated donation information when they knew the information they were looking for would be presented elsewhere. Findings support models of attention that propose that top-down knowledge primarily determines where attention goes and how long attention stays at a location. These findings have important implications for donation campaigns, online advertising, and the theories of attention capture.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0057
Format: Thesis

Title: Effects of Human Type P Insulin Mediator on Protein Expression in Developing Mouse Cerebral Cortex Cells.
Creator: Kruszka, Gillian, Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: Type 2 diabetes, the more prevalent form of diabetes mellitus, is caused by insulin resistance in peripheral tissues due to a post-receptor defect in the insulin-signaling pathway. Binding of insulin to its receptor in the cell membrane generates second messengers or mediators. These insulin mediators are inositol phosphoglycan in structure. The type P insulin mediator is defective in type 2 diabetics and likely plays a crucial role in insulin resistance. Previous work in this lab has shown...
Show moreType 2 diabetes, the more prevalent form of diabetes mellitus, is caused by insulin resistance in peripheral tissues due to a post-receptor defect in the insulin-signaling pathway. Binding of insulin to its receptor in the cell membrane generates second messengers or mediators. These insulin mediators are inositol phosphoglycan in structure. The type P insulin mediator is defective in type 2 diabetics and likely plays a crucial role in insulin resistance. Previous work in this lab has shown that human type P insulin mediator (hPIM) increases cell proliferation and differentiation and inhibits apoptosis in chicken fibroblasts and rat hippocampal cells. This study looked at specific protein expression changes induced by hPIM in embryonic mouse cerebral cortex cells. Sephadex size exclusion chromatography columns were used to isolate hPIM from human plasma. Cortices were dissected from E15 mouse embryos. After 4 days of growth, cortical cells were treated with hPIM for 24 hours. Protein was extracted from cells using FASP method, and proteomic analysis was performed using LC-MS/MS. The MS data showed up regulation of many proteins that promote mitogenesis, cell differentiation, protein expression, and overall cell health. Less than 10 proteins were down regulated by hPIM. Down regulation of these proteins also promotes cell proliferation and protein expression. The results from this study support previous findings that hPIM promotes cell viability, proliferation, and differentiation and provide further insight into hPIM's direct action in the cell. Optimizing protein extraction and LC-MS/MS results from cell culture is also discussed.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0401
Format: Thesis

Title: Anyone Can Protest, Only We Can Save Souls: Authority and Dissent in a Brazilian Christian Church.
Creator: Porter, Jacqueline N., Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: More and more, religion scholars question the usefulness of the category of "religion." Many reject presumptions that what "religion" signifies is unique, universal, inherently meaningful, and, perhaps more importantly, self-evidently "religious." Scholars have therefore reconceived "religion" as a modern technology fabricated as a private domain intended to contain political dissent. Such arguments, however, depend on a distinction between the religious and the political rather particular to...
Show moreMore and more, religion scholars question the usefulness of the category of "religion." Many reject presumptions that what "religion" signifies is unique, universal, inherently meaningful, and, perhaps more importantly, self-evidently "religious." Scholars have therefore reconceived "religion" as a modern technology fabricated as a private domain intended to contain political dissent. Such arguments, however, depend on a distinction between the religious and the political rather particular to North America. My project, in contrast, aims to explore these categories through a history and ethnography of the lives of contemporary Brazilian evangelical Christians belonging to the International Church of Christ (ICOC). I take issue specifically with the narrowness by which recent arguments have defined "politics," arguing for a more nuanced understanding of what the political is in relation to local forms of religious organization in the Brazilian ICOC.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0444
Format: Thesis

Title: Neighbor Effects of Erigeron speciosus and Erigeron elatior on their Insect Pollinators and Herbivores.
Creator: Pamidi, Prathyusha, Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: Studying the relationships between plants and insects is important in natural and agricultural communities. It has been shown that plant community composition has an effect on insect pollinators and herbivores. However, these relationships have only been researched independently and no study has comprehensively investigated the net effects of neighbors on pollinators and herbivores in the same system. In my study, I aimed to understand whether neighbor effects on pollinators differed from...
Show moreStudying the relationships between plants and insects is important in natural and agricultural communities. It has been shown that plant community composition has an effect on insect pollinators and herbivores. However, these relationships have only been researched independently and no study has comprehensively investigated the net effects of neighbors on pollinators and herbivores in the same system. In my study, I aimed to understand whether neighbor effects on pollinators differed from neighbor effects on herbivores. I worked with two species, Erigeron speciosus and Erigeron elatior, and arranged plots with varying relative abundances of the two plants. Data recorded included the number of damaged and undamaged flowers of both species, number of pollinator visits over ten minutes, and type of other composite plant neighbors within a one meter radius of the plot. At the end of the flowering period, a sample of flower heads from each plot was collected and the number of flies reared from each species within each plot was recorded. With an increasing number of the focal plant stems, the percent of those flowers damaged decreased. Additionally, with an increasing proportion of the plant neighbor in a plot, damage to the focal plant decreased. Finally, conclusions were not able to be drawn on the effects of neighbors on pollinators in this system due to limited visitation data, but it was found that pollinators did have a clear preference for undamaged flowers over damaged flowers, suggesting that behavior of the herbivore affects the behavior of the pollinator.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0424
Format: Thesis

Title: Biophysical Characterization of a ssDNA Virus.
Creator: Morrison, Anneliese J., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abstract/Description: Viral capsids must assemble into stable structures that resist dissociation in extreme environments between hosts yet they simultaneously must be unstable enough to release their genome upon infection. The conflicting functions that the viral capsid must fulfill suggests that they exhibit an evolutionarily fine-tuned structure/function relationship that is not apparent in many other systems. Biophysical characterization of viral assembly and disassembly processes can aid in developing an...
Show moreViral capsids must assemble into stable structures that resist dissociation in extreme environments between hosts yet they simultaneously must be unstable enough to release their genome upon infection. The conflicting functions that the viral capsid must fulfill suggests that they exhibit an evolutionarily fine-tuned structure/function relationship that is not apparent in many other systems. Biophysical characterization of viral assembly and disassembly processes can aid in developing an understanding of the physical mechanisms that underlie the relationship between tightly linked phenotypes in complex protein systems. In this honor's thesis project, the dissociation process was biophysically characterized in an ssDNA bacteriophage. After the development of a PEG precipitation based purification method, intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy, static light scattering, and plaque assays were used to develop a two-step model that describes the molecular events that occur during Microvirid bacteriophage capsid dissociation. At 57˚C using a scan rate of 1˚C/min, loss of 99% of viral activity is observed corresponding to loss of the major spike protein. At 69˚C transitions are seen in fluorescence and light scattering spectra that indicate a structural change is occurring. Plaque assays confirm that immediately after the structural transition occurs all viral activity is lost, indicating that this second step represents global capsid dissociation.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0428
Format: Thesis

Title: Oxford Romance: Male Homosexuality in Modernist Literature.
Creator: Carper, Kelsey, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Gregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality,...
Show moreGregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality, in particular, is greatly overlooked or outright denied by scholars when discussing modernist novels. Woods' assertion is a response to early scholarship that has notably ignored and rejected the existence of romantic relationships between male characters that clearly shared intimate bonds. Unfortunately, there has continued to be a large gap of scholarship to really refute these statements of denial. In dismissing these relationships, critics ignore an important aspect of modernism. By including homoerotic relations in their novels, modernist writers presented a forum for their society to explore relations that would have been considered taboo or even punishable, which can be observed in the 1928 trial against Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, or the Labouchere Amendment that prosecuted homosexual men in Britain from 1885 until 1967.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0425
Format: Thesis

Title: Magnetocaloric Effect in CeCoIn5 Utilizing a Miniature Cell for High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures.
Creator: Bernheisel, Ashley, Department of Physics
Abstract/Description: We studied the relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in the heavy fermion CeCoIn5 using a miniature cell in a top loading dilution refrigerator with a 16 T magnet (XCF – Xtreme Conditions Fridge). The construction and measurement techniques for a miniature cell are discussed. We were able to observe a first order superconducting phase transition with an upper critical field Hc2 at roughly 0.2 K. It changed position and shape with angle and magnetic field sweep rate because of...
Show moreWe studied the relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in the heavy fermion CeCoIn5 using a miniature cell in a top loading dilution refrigerator with a 16 T magnet (XCF – Xtreme Conditions Fridge). The construction and measurement techniques for a miniature cell are discussed. We were able to observe a first order superconducting phase transition with an upper critical field Hc2 at roughly 0.2 K. It changed position and shape with angle and magnetic field sweep rate because of CeCoIn5's anisotropic crystal structure and small heat exchanges through the wires used in the calorimeter.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0293
Format: Thesis

Title: Stress: Perceptions, Exposures, Resources, Responses and Coping A Comparison of Soldiers and Civilians.
Creator: Guy, Ashley, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description: My primary research aims to examine whether there are differences between soldiers in the United States Army and the civilian population (non-military) in how they define and cope with stress. In particular, my first research question is: Are there differences between members of the military and civilians in how they perceive stress? I will explore differences in their perceptions of stress in general and how they view stress in their own lives. Second, are there differences between the...
Show moreMy primary research aims to examine whether there are differences between soldiers in the United States Army and the civilian population (non-military) in how they define and cope with stress. In particular, my first research question is: Are there differences between members of the military and civilians in how they perceive stress? I will explore differences in their perceptions of stress in general and how they view stress in their own lives. Second, are there differences between the populations in the factors that they think cause stress? Third, are there differences in how civilians and military personnel respond to stress? Specifically, I am interested in identifying whether there are differences in the types and numbers of coping functions used by each population when they experience or perceive stress. Fourth, since coping strategies are partly determined by the availability of coping resources, I am interested in finding out whether there are differences in the availability of structural coping resources between the two populations. Fifth, I am examining if there appears to be a difference in stress exposures between the two populations.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0160
Format: Thesis

Title: Florida High-Speed Rail: An Economic Policy Analysis.
Creator: Garrett, Sierra, Economics
Abstract/Description: High-speed rail technology has existed for decades, and with aid from the federal government, public ownership of the right-of-way, and preliminary research and planning, Florida may be the first state to construct a true high-speed line. High-speed rail has implications for sustainability as well as growth, though the determining factor for feasibility is ridership. Finance and management/operation plans are also important to consider as these factors determine whether or not the project...
Show moreHigh-speed rail technology has existed for decades, and with aid from the federal government, public ownership of the right-of-way, and preliminary research and planning, Florida may be the first state to construct a true high-speed line. High-speed rail has implications for sustainability as well as growth, though the determining factor for feasibility is ridership. Finance and management/operation plans are also important to consider as these factors determine whether or not the project will be implemented and if it will require subsidy in order to operate. This paper will examine current financing and ridership forecasting methods and results for high-speed rail in Florida. Successful international high-speed rail projects will be examined, as well as the federal government's role in implementing transportation projects. Details of the Florida proposal will be examined for their economic influence, including job creation, environmental impact, and economic growth. Governor Rick Scott's decision to return federal funds for high-speed rail will be examined, and an analysis of the high-speed rail debate will be conducted. This paper should give an overall sense of viability for the current proposal for Florida High-Speed Rail under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, while identifying possible policy modifications and areas for further research.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0013
Format: Thesis

Title: Can't Choose Your Family, and other stories.
Creator: Avagliano, Kathryn, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This work is a collection of short stories entitled Can't Choose Your Family. The collections consists of six stories produced during writing workshops at Florida State University. Humans have a great instinct for family, yet it's the people we live with day after day that can be the greatest mysteries. I was raised in a large family—mother and father, two sisters, one brother, a revolving door of dogs underfoot. My best friends are my siblings, and the greatest people I know are my parents,...
Show moreThis work is a collection of short stories entitled Can't Choose Your Family. The collections consists of six stories produced during writing workshops at Florida State University. Humans have a great instinct for family, yet it's the people we live with day after day that can be the greatest mysteries. I was raised in a large family—mother and father, two sisters, one brother, a revolving door of dogs underfoot. My best friends are my siblings, and the greatest people I know are my parents, and yet, even though stories are told every night at long dinners there were some mysteries that were never solved. My father was expelled from high school. My mother quit veterinary school to become a doctor. I see other taboo subjects in the families of my friends. A seemingly safe subject is mentioned and someone will laugh too fast and say, "Oh, we never talk about that." These unspeakable stories are the most interesting ones, and I was not surprised when my writing started to explore the nature of secrets within a family. The stories I have chosen to revise and include in Can't Choose Your Family all revolve around the various alliances and secrets that spring up within a family group, both blood relations and close family-like friends. The title piece takes place in a small town and tells the story of a teenage boy whose father is accused of touching another boy on his wrestling squad. In the story, I concentrated on the many things that remain unsaid between fathers and sons. Real Money explores a love triangle as a trio of friends run diamonds into New York City. In 21st Century Witchcraft, a newly engaged young woman is reminded of a life she's been successfully avoided when her nephew commits suicide. Growing Pains takes place in 1944 and revolves around a young boy who is left with his grandfather to coalesce after a long illness and spends the time wishing he was in the war. It is important for writers to "write what you know," which I believe I've done in writing about strong family bonds. Yet it is equally important to write about what we don't know, to probe the situations too tragic or strange to arise in our own lives, to explore different perspectives and situations and come out on the other side.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0439
Format: Thesis

Title: All News Is Good News.
Creator: Schurer, Kelsey E., Department of English
Abstract/Description: Kelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through...
Show moreKelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through relations with family and friends, men and women. Her narratives focus on women who realize their own self-worth, or redefine self-image through the relationships they struggle in and out of, and through the people they can't seem to let go.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0426
Format: Thesis

Title: The Influence of Personality on Individuals' Ratings of Psychopathy.
Creator: Klimley, Kristin, Carbonell, Joyce L.
Abstract/Description: This study examined the impact of personality characteristics of individual raters on the scoring of the PCL-R to determine if individuals who endorsed psychopathic personality characteristics would be more adept at detecting psychopathy in other individuals. It was hypothesized that individuals who scored higher on the TriPM and displayed personality characteristics resembling psychopathy would be more accurate at detecting psychopathy in other individuals and thus would rate a sample case...
Show moreThis study examined the impact of personality characteristics of individual raters on the scoring of the PCL-R to determine if individuals who endorsed psychopathic personality characteristics would be more adept at detecting psychopathy in other individuals. It was hypothesized that individuals who scored higher on the TriPM and displayed personality characteristics resembling psychopathy would be more accurate at detecting psychopathy in other individuals and thus would rate a sample case as higher in psychopathy. Although there were no significant correlations between PCL-R Factors and TriPM Dimensions, we found two negative correlations approaching significance: PCL-R Total Score and TriPM Meanness Score (p=0.085), and PCL-R Factor 2 Score and TriPM Meanness Score (p=0.064). This could indicate that individuals who endorse psychopathic personality characteristics, particularly Meanness, could interpret psychopathic behavior as normative and would not be able to detect psychopathy in a sample case file.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0435
Format: Thesis

Title: Sponge Regeneration and Food Abundance.
Creator: Vasbinder, Kelly, Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: Sponges are an integral part of marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs, because they perform many functions necessary to keeping the ecosystems healthy. The most important of these functions is the filtration of the water around them. Sponges feed by filtering bacteria and other small plankton from the surrounding water, which keeps the water clean for the rest of the organisms that live on the reef. When a sponge is wounded, it has a decreased filtering ability and can also lose its...
Show moreSponges are an integral part of marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs, because they perform many functions necessary to keeping the ecosystems healthy. The most important of these functions is the filtration of the water around them. Sponges feed by filtering bacteria and other small plankton from the surrounding water, which keeps the water clean for the rest of the organisms that live on the reef. When a sponge is wounded, it has a decreased filtering ability and can also lose its ability to perform other important functions such as participating in mutualisms, gluing corals to the reef frame, and stabilizing broken coral. Sponges are able to regenerate after wounding, and this study compares the regeneration and growth rates of sponges in two different habitats. This is relevant because different habitats have different concentrations of bacteria, and sponge food abundance in a single habitat can change based on many different factors, including factors that influenced by humans, such as nutrient concentrations. Mangrove habitats have a higher concentration of sponge food in the water than reef sites, making it possible to compare growth and regeneration of sponges with different food concentrations available in the field. Individual reef sponges from the species Ircinia felix, Verongula rigida, Callyspongia vaginalis, and Niphates digitalis were placed on mangrove and reef sites. Genotype and initial size was controlled in the experiments by cutting two nearly identical pieces from the same sponge and attaching them to stable substrata until the cut edges healed, so each piece of an individual was identical genetically and had a similar size and shape. Each sponge was wounded using a stainless steel razor blade to mimic bites of spongivorous fishes such as angelfishes and trunkfishes. Sponges of the same species were wounded in the same way. The sponges were then allowed to regenerate these wounds, and the regeneration and growth rates of each individual were calculated and compared. V. rigida, and C. vaginalis both regenerated faster in the mangrove habitat than on the reef. I. felix, and V. rigida grew faster in the mangroves than they did on the reef. In the mangroves, N. digitalis was able to reorganize itself to begin re-growing its vase shape faster when there was more food available in the water. The tissue at the wounding sites in N. digitalis and V. rigida reorganized and regenerated differently in the two different habitats. Sponges of three Caribbean and three Florida Keys species were weighed, dried, and ashed to determine the amount of each sponge that is water, tissue, and inorganic matter, and to give a better understanding of how the amount of each material corresponds to a sponge volume or a regenerated volume. Two tough Caribbean sponges, V. rigida and I. felix showed a significant difference in the dry weight and ash weight to volume ratios when compared to C. vaginalis, but not when compared with each other. Three species from the Florida Keys, H. implexiformis, T. ignis, and Ircinia spp showed a significant difference in wet and dry weight to volume ratios between one another but no difference in ash weight to volume ratios. In addition to field wounding experiments, a pilot study on tank wounding experiments were performed to assess regeneration with different concentrations of sponge food. These experiments were designed to determine whether or not sponge regeneration experiments could be performed in tanks. Some of the sponges showed regeneration after a period of twenty days, indicating that tank experiments mimicking the field experiments on regeneration are possible. This set of experiments also allowed the public to learn about sponges.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0429
Format: Thesis

Title: North Korea: Changing Political Culture in the 21st Century.
Creator: Leoni, Marcus, Program in International Affairs
Abstract/Description: North Korea has, in recent years, become the focus of the international community for a multitude of reasons. Their bizarre behaviors, general disregard for international law, and the stunning lack of information that common citizens worldwide have on the country have cast them into the spotlight of curious onlookers worldwide. As one discovers more about the country, the question inevitably is raised: How has it existed for so long and what can be done to reform the isolated nation? In this...
Show moreNorth Korea has, in recent years, become the focus of the international community for a multitude of reasons. Their bizarre behaviors, general disregard for international law, and the stunning lack of information that common citizens worldwide have on the country have cast them into the spotlight of curious onlookers worldwide. As one discovers more about the country, the question inevitably is raised: How has it existed for so long and what can be done to reform the isolated nation? In this paper, North Korea: Changing Political Culture in the 21st Century, the "North Korea Question" is explored in depth, charting the country to its origins and developing a narrative to understand who they have survived — against all odds — for so long. Using historical analysis coupled with insightful economic data, the North Korea question is tackled with specific regard to applying the successful Chinese Great Leap Forward economic models to the North Korean economy. Such reforms have been touted by academics as a cure all for the nation that could reform the entire regime. However, I develop the argument that this style of reform is not possibility as long as the Kim regime is in power. In order to maintain their iron grip on power, complete socioeconomic reliance traces its way back to the State, and ultimately the cult of personality surrounding the Kims.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0434
Format: Thesis

Title: Female Empowerment and Environmental Protection: A Nepal Case Study.
Creator: Payne, Sophia
Abstract/Description: The ecological degradation of Nepal is a serious issue that has has invited much international attention, particularly development-based organizations that work to achieve positive environmental objectives. A number of these organizations' programs have been based on homogenous assumptions that claim that females will be able to save the environment because of either conceptions based on gender essentialism or gender constructivism. Still, there is research lacking on how Nepali females...
Show moreThe ecological degradation of Nepal is a serious issue that has has invited much international attention, particularly development-based organizations that work to achieve positive environmental objectives. A number of these organizations' programs have been based on homogenous assumptions that claim that females will be able to save the environment because of either conceptions based on gender essentialism or gender constructivism. Still, there is research lacking on how Nepali females relate to the environment. In the many approaches attempted in order to successfully address the environmental crisis, one theory remains largely untested: ecofeminism. The ecofeminist theory is used as a guideline to determine whether females of the Chitwan region are likely to participate in environmental protection efforts in the wake of increased empowerment compared with their earlier generational counterparts. The results were such that females exhibited no intrinsic inclination to environmental protection, but did express an interest in broader community-center activities and groups, especially those which affected their family.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0441
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Endless Space Between": Exploring Film's Architectural Spaces, Places, Gender, and Genre.
Creator: Page, Sarah, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Architectural spaces and places within films often work to represent larger themes of the films' stories. This paper explores how films from three different genres, horror, science fiction, and romance, utilize architectural places and space on screen to represent gender. Films explored include Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Ridley Scott's Alien, and Spike Jonze's Her.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0433
Format: Thesis

Title: Assessing Barriers To Healthcare.
Creator: Gaillard, Garrett L., Pappas, Cara, College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: The continuity of care (COC) in the United States is vast and complex in nature. While COC has well-established positive correlations with lower hospitalization rates and better outcomes of care, chronic disease individuals still suffer from barriers that prevent access to care in the United States. Chronic conditions as well as socio-demographic factors play a major role in health disparities across the country, with decreases in primary care appointments and increases in emergency...
Show moreThe continuity of care (COC) in the United States is vast and complex in nature. While COC has well-established positive correlations with lower hospitalization rates and better outcomes of care, chronic disease individuals still suffer from barriers that prevent access to care in the United States. Chronic conditions as well as socio-demographic factors play a major role in health disparities across the country, with decreases in primary care appointments and increases in emergency department visitation. This has become a pervasive problem for healthcare in the United States. The selected studies in this review of the literature look at the outcomes and effects before and after the Affordable Care Act. Additionally the health disparity population was assessed in regards to missed appointments and as to what their barrier to care was at that time for the specific appointment. Demographics and variables that were included were diagnoses, age, gender, marital status, race and ethnicity. Continuing statistical analysis is being performed via a multivariate logistical regression to identify predictors and commonalities of those who are most likely to miss their scheduled healthcare appointment. Data collection is still on going and inconclusive at this time.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0432
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effects of Multiple Drivers of Global Change on Caterpillar Abundances.
Creator: Griffith, Kaitlin, Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: Anticipating the effects of anthropogenic global change on organisms is a major challenge for ecologists today. While there have been many studies on the independent effects of global change factors, few studies have considered the potential interactive effects. Additionally, studies to date have focused on how global change factors influence plants; effects on higher trophic levels remain poorly understood and are often ignored, even though they can feedback to influence plants. We asked...
Show moreAnticipating the effects of anthropogenic global change on organisms is a major challenge for ecologists today. While there have been many studies on the independent effects of global change factors, few studies have considered the potential interactive effects. Additionally, studies to date have focused on how global change factors influence plants; effects on higher trophic levels remain poorly understood and are often ignored, even though they can feedback to influence plants. We asked whether nitrogen (N) deposition, precipitation, and predators had interactive effects on herbivorous caterpillars in a field experiment with two species of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, low nicotine defense-level; Nicotiana rustica, high nicotine defense-level). Our research questions were: (1) do higher N and higher precipitation alter herbivore abundances either independently or synergistically, (2) do higher N and precipitation affect spider suppression of herbivores, and (3) will global change drivers have greater effects on herbivores living on plants with low levels of anti-herbivore defenses as opposed to high defense levels? On N. tabacum, N enrichment significantly decreased caterpillar abundances under high precipitation, but had no significant effect on caterpillars when precipitation was low. We also found that spiders significantly suppressed caterpillar abundances on N. tabacum across all resource levels. For N. rustica, we found that spiders significantly suppressed caterpillars under low precipitation, but spiders had no significant effect on caterpillars under high precipitation. Our results indicate that global change drivers have interactive effects on herbivores, and can alter predator-prey interactions, and that these effects will depend on plant resistance to herbivores. Understanding ecological responses to global change may require consideration of multiple global change factors and multiple trophic levels.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0430
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effect of Physical and Emotional Stress on Nicotine Consumption in Male Mice.
Creator: Sattler, Carley, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This experiment was designed to examine the impact of chronic stress exposure on nicotine consumption. Adolescent (postnatal days, PD 38-75) male mice underwent 10 days of social defeat, were treated with one month (long-term) of forced nicotine consumption (160 mg/l), and their reactivity to various behavioral paradigms (social interaction test (SIT), elevated plus maze (EPM), and forced swim test (FST)) was assessed. Findings indicate that chronic nicotine exposure following social defeat...
Show moreThis experiment was designed to examine the impact of chronic stress exposure on nicotine consumption. Adolescent (postnatal days, PD 38-75) male mice underwent 10 days of social defeat, were treated with one month (long-term) of forced nicotine consumption (160 mg/l), and their reactivity to various behavioral paradigms (social interaction test (SIT), elevated plus maze (EPM), and forced swim test (FST)) was assessed. Findings indicate that chronic nicotine exposure following social defeat may effectively buffer against some anxiety- and depression-like symptoms later in life.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0345
Format: Thesis

Title: Identifying the Effects of Personality Type on Stress.
Creator: Carroll, Brooke, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: In this study, the influence of personality traits and stress was examined. Fifty-six undergraduate students at the Florida State University Panama City campus participated. In the beginning of the experiment, participants were required to complete the Big Five Personality Test and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Following this, participants were randomly assigned one of two conditions (low stress, high stress). In the low stress condition, participants completed simple subtraction...
Show moreIn this study, the influence of personality traits and stress was examined. Fifty-six undergraduate students at the Florida State University Panama City campus participated. In the beginning of the experiment, participants were required to complete the Big Five Personality Test and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Following this, participants were randomly assigned one of two conditions (low stress, high stress). In the low stress condition, participants completed simple subtraction problems, whereas in the high stress condition participants completed complex long-division problems. Calculators and electronic calculating devices were not permitted. After participants completed the math problems they filled out an alternative version of the STAI. It was hypothesized that individuals who scored high on the trait, neuroticism, would produce higher scores of anxiety on the STAI following the experimental manipulation than would participants who scored low or not at all on the trait. It was found that participants high in neuroticism, produced greater trait anxiety scores, regardless of the experimental manipulation, suggesting that even minor stressful events initiate anxiety in individuals high on this trait.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0327
Format: Thesis

Title: Making Development Discourse Work in Latin American Indigenous Communities.
Creator: Meyer, Dominique, Program in International Affairs
Abstract/Description: This paper examines the discourse of development from the perspective of indigenous communities, and discusses the challenges related to achieving development goals within indigenous communities. This paper provides a critique and background on development discourse, an analysis on the indigenous experience, and discusses ways to implement alternative development strategies in indigenous communities.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0074
Format: Thesis

Title: Photomechanical Responses in Polymerized Azobenzene and Application to Heliostats.
Creator: Roberts, Dennice, Department of Physics
Abstract/Description: The search for viable forms of alternative energy has been a topic of recent research, and harvesting of solar energy has already been realized in various forms. Certain compounds have been shown to have visible physical responses when hit with light, transforming optical energy into motion. This project aims to better characterize properties of azobenzene, one such polymeric photomechanical actuator by considering it under various conditions of incident LED light. While much previous...
Show moreThe search for viable forms of alternative energy has been a topic of recent research, and harvesting of solar energy has already been realized in various forms. Certain compounds have been shown to have visible physical responses when hit with light, transforming optical energy into motion. This project aims to better characterize properties of azobenzene, one such polymeric photomechanical actuator by considering it under various conditions of incident LED light. While much previous research has been done on azobenzene polymerized in a polyacrylate, this project holds its focus on an azobenzene-doped polyimide compound. It also attempts to understand the role this smart material may play in solar heliostats. The movement of these apparati is usually controlled by electromagnetic motors, but could instead be moved using azobenzene as a photon-powered motor that does work on the polymer network.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0367
Format: Thesis

Title: Weaving, Writing, and Women: A Case Study of Etruscan Sigla on Loom Weights.
Creator: Phelps, Cassidy, Classics - Archaeology
Abstract/Description: No thorough, systematic study of Etruscan sigla, non-verbal marks of communication incised, painted or imprinted on artifacts throughout the Mediterranean, has been conducted to date. This thesis examines sigla found on a particular artifact, loom weights, from four sites in Etruria in an effort to interpret these marks. After establishing the cultural, social, and economic importance of weaving to the women responsible for it, as well as the economy as a whole, it is suggested that the women...
Show moreNo thorough, systematic study of Etruscan sigla, non-verbal marks of communication incised, painted or imprinted on artifacts throughout the Mediterranean, has been conducted to date. This thesis examines sigla found on a particular artifact, loom weights, from four sites in Etruria in an effort to interpret these marks. After establishing the cultural, social, and economic importance of weaving to the women responsible for it, as well as the economy as a whole, it is suggested that the women themselves were responsible for making the loom weights and then marking them with sigla as symbols of ownership. While the sigla themselves have a variety of meanings and likely have multiple functions, they appear to share this usage in the context of textile tools.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0066
Format: Thesis

Title: Catholic Social Justice in Depression Era America: A comparative Study of the Jesuit Labor Schools and the Catholic Worker.
Creator: Daniel, John, Religion
Abstract/Description: During the Depression Era in America there were many Catholic social action movements that helped to address the problems of poverty and homelessness; two of them were the Catholic Worker and the Jesuit Labor Schools in New York. Both the Catholic Worker and the Jesuit Labor Schools sought to alleviate these problems and managed to help their communities in different ways according to how they believed they could best serve the problems of the time. This thesis is a comparative study of the...
Show moreDuring the Depression Era in America there were many Catholic social action movements that helped to address the problems of poverty and homelessness; two of them were the Catholic Worker and the Jesuit Labor Schools in New York. Both the Catholic Worker and the Jesuit Labor Schools sought to alleviate these problems and managed to help their communities in different ways according to how they believed they could best serve the problems of the time. This thesis is a comparative study of the two groups that considers how each used the same Catholic tradition and documents in different ways. By using secondary sources, the thesis analyzes each group's influences, goals, activities, problems, and relations to Church hierarchy. Exploring the details of these criteria, the differences between these two groups in both motivation and style of work is made clear. The thesis concludes with a comparison of each group's success; it shows how and why the Jesuit Labor Schools had more short term success while the Catholic Worker managed to have long term success.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0093
Format: Thesis

Title: The Role of Correspondence Bias in the Side-Effect Effect.
Creator: Howey, Craig, Psychology
Abstract/Description: The side-effect effect refers to the asymmetric responses that are observed when participants are asked about the intentionality of an outcome seemingly dependent upon the participants' assessment of the moral status of the outcome. Research on correspondence bias suggests that participants may be making internal, dispositional judgments about the agent based on information provided in the vignette and that these judgments might influence their judgments of intentionality. Study 1 showed that...
Show moreThe side-effect effect refers to the asymmetric responses that are observed when participants are asked about the intentionality of an outcome seemingly dependent upon the participants' assessment of the moral status of the outcome. Research on correspondence bias suggests that participants may be making internal, dispositional judgments about the agent based on information provided in the vignette and that these judgments might influence their judgments of intentionality. Study 1 showed that participants were making dispositional attributions for the CEO in the original side-effect effect experiment and that these attributions were at least partially influencing judgments of intentionality. In Study 2, we tested the predictions of the Deep Self Model by altering the vignettes used in the original side-effect effect experiment to include descriptions of the agent as being either pro-environment or anti-environment. Results from this study establish the potential role of correspondence bias in the side-effect effect and indicated that, in some instances, the moral status of an agent influences participants' judgments of intentionality.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0081
Format: Thesis

Title: Relationships, Gender, and Suicide Risk.
Creator: Gobble, Teresa, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This research aimed to examine how gender conformity to feminine norms, particularly relationship maintenance behaviors, can affect feelings of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, two proximal factors for suicide in the framework of the interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005; Van Orden et al., 2010). This study aimed to examine intimate and non-intimate relationships, relationship quality and closeness, and secure social attachment styles and how they relate to gender...
Show moreThis research aimed to examine how gender conformity to feminine norms, particularly relationship maintenance behaviors, can affect feelings of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, two proximal factors for suicide in the framework of the interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005; Van Orden et al., 2010). This study aimed to examine intimate and non-intimate relationships, relationship quality and closeness, and secure social attachment styles and how they relate to gender conformity to feminine norms as well as thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness. Results from this study showed a significant relationship between conformity to feminine norms and reduced levels of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness, with relationship maintenance behaviors and quality being negatively related as well. This may inform research on the gender paradox when examining the lower incidence of lethal suicidal behavior in women relative to men, despite women attempting suicide more frequently than men. Our findings also raise questions about the higher rates of attempted suicide by women, who appear to have lower overall rates of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness resulting from the processes examined in this study. Thus, findings from this study can help inform further etiological investigations into the paradox.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0265
Format: Thesis

Title: The Art of Adaptation through the Analysis of Stanley Kubrick Films.
Creator: Sonenreich, Brooke, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and associating film theory of five Kubrick adaptations (Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut). Since this is a creative project, it is split up into an explanative research preface and a full length, adapted screenplay. The...
Show moreThis thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and associating film theory of five Kubrick adaptations (Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut). Since this is a creative project, it is split up into an explanative research preface and a full length, adapted screenplay. The screenplay is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story "The Split Second." The preface component provides details on what Kubrick strategies were and were not used during the adapting process.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0278
Format: Thesis

Title: Minority Adolescent Perceptions of Perceived Risk of Hearing Loss and Hearing Conservation Measures.
Creator: Mazzola, Heather, School of Communication Science and Disorders
Abstract/Description: Historically, hearing loss was a condition that only affected the elderly. Due to increasing technological advances, Noise Induced Hearing Loss is on the rise for all populations. Hearing conservation programs aim to educate the public about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and how to prevent it. Most of the current research on hearing conservation programs has concentrated on majority groups. Additional research was warranted to examine how minority groups perceive noise and respond to hearing...
Show moreHistorically, hearing loss was a condition that only affected the elderly. Due to increasing technological advances, Noise Induced Hearing Loss is on the rise for all populations. Hearing conservation programs aim to educate the public about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and how to prevent it. Most of the current research on hearing conservation programs has concentrated on majority groups. Additional research was warranted to examine how minority groups perceive noise and respond to hearing conservation programs. A survey was used at assess adolescents hearing conservation behaviors pre and post delivery of a hearing conservation education. 48 sixth, seventh and eighth graders participated in the study. First, the survey examined the student's knowledge of the anatomy and functions of the ear. Second, the survey used hypothetical vignettes to examine the student's behaviors in noise. This study found that knowledge of the hearing mechanism, hearing loss and conservation improved. This study also found that the majority of participants were not more likely after the hearing conservation education to change their behavior. More research needs to be facilitated on the effectiveness of hearing conservation education programs for this specific population.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0209
Format: Thesis

Title: Resilency among Third Graders and their Classmates and Associations with Reading Skill Gains.
Creator: Morris, Falyn, Psychology
Abstract/Description: This study examined if indicators of resilience were associated with students' reading skill gains and whether the resilience of classmates was associated with students' literacy learning overall. Third grade students (n=478) from a large, diverse school district were given a battery of assessments. The indicators of resilience measured were the Social Skills and Problem Behaviors scores on the Social Skills Rating System, the Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents (RSCA), the picture...
Show moreThis study examined if indicators of resilience were associated with students' reading skill gains and whether the resilience of classmates was associated with students' literacy learning overall. Third grade students (n=478) from a large, diverse school district were given a battery of assessments. The indicators of resilience measured were the Social Skills and Problem Behaviors scores on the Social Skills Rating System, the Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents (RSCA), the picture vocabulary subtest of the Woodcock- Johnson Tests of Achievement III, and the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension test. To categorize the poverty level of the schools, the percentage of students qualifying for the federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program (FARL) was used. Stronger skills on one indicator were correlated with strong skills on other indicators. Resilience indicators were higher at schools where fewer students qualified for FARL, except on the Emotion Scale Standard Score. A factor analysis of the entire sample revealed two variables. There was a Teacher and Student Perception of resilience, and these were used in remaining analyses. In schools with a FARL of greater than 50%, students who displayed higher scores on the Teacher Perception indicators of resilience also demonstrated greater gains in reading skills compared to students with lower scores for resilience. When looking at the impact of classmates' resilience, the relationship between the spring Passage Comprehension scores and the class factor of resilience was not significant.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0030
Format: Thesis

Title: Validating Monte-Carlo Distributions in the Search for the Higgs Boson.
Creator: Ackert, Andrew, Physics
Abstract/Description: The goal of this research was to develop a method of validating multi-parameter Monte- Carlo (MC) simulations. These simulations mimic the proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are being used to search for the Higgs boson. The basic idea is to construct partitions, count the number of data points that lie within each partition, and apply the partition and counting procedures to both collision data from the LHC and data created via Monte-Carlo simulations. In...
Show moreThe goal of this research was to develop a method of validating multi-parameter Monte- Carlo (MC) simulations. These simulations mimic the proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are being used to search for the Higgs boson. The basic idea is to construct partitions, count the number of data points that lie within each partition, and apply the partition and counting procedures to both collision data from the LHC and data created via Monte-Carlo simulations. In principle, the method developed can be used with any measure of dissimilarity between distributions with any number of parameters. In this study, we used Fisher's test (F-test) applied to 2 parameters of the data (btag and di-muon mass). Through the F-test it was concluded that, at least in these 2 parameters, the LHC data and the MC data were in agreement.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0104
Format: Thesis

Title: How the Culture of Eastern Europe Affected the Rise and Development of communism.
Creator: Hazzard, Karissa, History
Abstract/Description: As a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the...
Show moreAs a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the communist takeover: Bulgaria, with its historic ties to Russia, Poland, with Russia as its traditional adversary, and Yugoslavia, which developed communism completely independent of Russia and did not bend to Moscow's rule. While communism too different paths to get established, each nation felt a desire for change and a feeling of despair and failure with Western political ideology. These sentiments were evident in the different sectors of the culture during the development, establishment, and domination of the communist party. The elements most important for communist rule are the tensions between the majority ethnicity and the multiplicity of ethnic minorities, the focus of individuality versus communalism and the economic status of the country at the end of WWII versus the initial performance of the communist governments. Other factors include the development, actions, and platform of the communist party, the relationship of the communist party with the Soviet Union, and the use of the military in the communist takeover. although these differed in each country, the outcome was the same by 1948: communist rule.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0015
Format: Thesis

Title: The Self-Dual Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Properties and Dynamics.
Creator: Pawlak, Kelly, Department of Physics
Abstract/Description: We introduce a new nonlinear equation, the Self-Dual Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (SDNLS) which resembles the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation [6] [4]. Unique to the SDNLS is its invariance under the Fourier transform — a form of duality which is reflected in systems such as the quantum harmonic oscillator. In this paper we explore various properties of the equation, starting with two proposed derivations based on known physics. We have managed to find a set of analytic time-independent solutions...
Show moreWe introduce a new nonlinear equation, the Self-Dual Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (SDNLS) which resembles the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation [6] [4]. Unique to the SDNLS is its invariance under the Fourier transform — a form of duality which is reflected in systems such as the quantum harmonic oscillator. In this paper we explore various properties of the equation, starting with two proposed derivations based on known physics. We have managed to find a set of analytic time-independent solutions as well as a set of dynamical ones, which are presented in the paper. In addition to these we explore numerical solutions and comment on the qualitative behavior of these solutions in different parameter regimes. Finally, we make remarks regarding the future study of this equation. This thesis reflects a portion of a manuscript soon to be submitted to Physical Review A, entitled "Self-Dual Nonlocal Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation" in the upcoming months.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0335
Format: Thesis

Title: Beverage Consumption in Children with Diabetes Mellitus: Weekend Versus Weekday Intake.
Creator: Purcell, Sarah, Nutrition, Food, & Exercise Science
Abstract/Description: Although high sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) intake in children is strongly correlated to adverse health consequences, the relationship between weekend and weekday beverage consumption lacks sufficient research. Specifically, SSB intake patterns in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) have not been thoroughly explored. Thus, the goal of this research was to examine the type and frequency of SSBs consumed by children on weekdays versus the weekends. Data were gathered from Dr. Suzanne...
Show moreAlthough high sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) intake in children is strongly correlated to adverse health consequences, the relationship between weekend and weekday beverage consumption lacks sufficient research. Specifically, SSB intake patterns in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) have not been thoroughly explored. Thus, the goal of this research was to examine the type and frequency of SSBs consumed by children on weekdays versus the weekends. Data were gathered from Dr. Suzanne Bennett-Johnson's Diabetes Adherence grant using children that were undergoing treatment at a diabetes clinic either in Gainesville or Tallahassee, Florida. After voiding certain entries, the final study population consisted of 67 children with Type 1 DM age 6-13 (8.7 ± 1.9); of those, 22 participants consumed beverages and their intake was examined. Diet records were output from Nutrition Data Systems for Research (NDSR) and input into Microsoft Excel where two-sample T-tests were utilized. Our results showed that when fruit beverages and regular sodas were combined into one category, children drank more on the weekday than on the weekend (P=0.021). Upon isolation, fruit drinks were overwhelmingly consumed more often (P=0.028) on the weekdays than on the weekends, while soda consumption variances were insignificant (P=0.445). Age or sex did not have a significant impact on servings of beverages, although there were correlations between race and intake. Though dietary intake is influenced by many factors, our findings suggest that attention needs to be placed on educating children, especially those with Type 1 DM, and their families about beverage choice.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0105
Format: Thesis

Title: Use of Gender Assignment in School-Age Spanish-English Bilingual Children from Miami.
Creator: Vamos, Jennifer, School of Communication Science and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This study explored the potential language loss or maintenance of Spanish gender assignment for school-age bilingual students in a Miami school. Higher accuracy in the use of gender assignment markers was found in fifth graders than younger students. Findings supported the idea of language maintenance in a supportive environment.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0238
Format: Thesis

Title: The Role of Alpha-7 Nicotine Acetylcholine Receptors in Angiogenesis After In Vivo Nicotine Administration.
Creator: Rodriguez, Monica, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Abstract/Description: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is one of the deadliest heart diseases in the United States. CHD is described as the narrowing of capillaries. Risk factors that contribute to this disease are smoking and stress. In the Cappendijk Lab, the effects of nicotine are studied in zebra finches, an established model to study cognitive processes. Nicotine acts on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) to induce effects. Of interest are alpha-7 nAChRs, which are involved in cognitive processes and...
Show moreCoronary Heart Disease (CHD) is one of the deadliest heart diseases in the United States. CHD is described as the narrowing of capillaries. Risk factors that contribute to this disease are smoking and stress. In the Cappendijk Lab, the effects of nicotine are studied in zebra finches, an established model to study cognitive processes. Nicotine acts on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) to induce effects. Of interest are alpha-7 nAChRs, which are involved in cognitive processes and found on endothelial heart cells (ECs). The number of ECs is positively linked with the process of angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is a physiological process for cell survival and development. There are indications that alpha-7 nAChRs on ECs are a target for revascularization in therapeutic angiogenesis of heart disease. During angiogenesis an increased expression of heat shock protein (HSP) 70, is observed. The aim of the project was to identify the role of alpha-7 nAChRs and HSP70 in angiogenesis in the adult male zebra finch heart following single and repetitive administrations of nicotine. We found that alpha-7 nAChR expression and wall thickness increased in nicotine-exposed animals immediately after nicotine (single and repetitive) treatment. Wall thickness increased only in mid-sized vessels 3 months (long-term) following the cessation of nicotine, but not after 24hr withdrawal from nicotine. The expression of HSP70 was dependent on vessel size (diameter) and decreased after repetitive exposures to nicotine. These results suggest that nicotine could induce a long-term effect on heart tissue and the process of angiogenesis in the adult male zebra finch.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0059
Format: Thesis

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