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Title: "As a Member of the Body of Christ": The Effect of the Chapel of the Resurrection on the Tallahassee Sit-Ins of March 12th, 1960.
Creator: Burns, Devin Dufey
Date Issued: 2017-04-06
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1492888659
Format: Thesis

Title: "But where is his voice?: " The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence During the Holocaust.
Creator: Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
Abstract/Description: For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His...
Show moreFor the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His Holiness. While this thesis does not deliver a verdict against Pius, it does address the important question of how the contemporary reader can understand what has been written and the evolution of the charges that have been placed against him. In this paper Rolf Hochhuth serves as the leading example for the critics and Father Robert Graham S.J. serves as his defense counterpart. Beginning with these two men and their arguments, I examine the charges and responses of both the defenders and the critics during the controversial years of the 1960s and 1990s. Through this study I have found that though the Vatican's records remain sealed limiting the pool of information for researchers, the debate has continued to thrive because of the difference in perception of the two sides. The critics place their emphasis on the moral responsibility of the pope and the defenders focus their arguments on the political responsibility and implications of the pope's actions during this uncertain time.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0346
Format: Thesis

Title: "Choosing my Religion": Performing "Spiritual but not Religious" in Contemporary America.
Creator: Burnside, Timothy
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the category and performance of the "spiritual but not religious" in contemporary America, namely the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This thesis seeks to illuminate how a specific notion of self is formed through therapeutic and popular culture, and what irreligious spirituality enables that self to do.
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461335731
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: "Gimme Shelter"™: The Hidden Causes and Consequences of Internal Displacement.
Creator: Kelley, Kaitlyn N., Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: What are the causes and consequences of internal displacement during civil conflicts? This project makes two general claims: First, internal displacement is often the intentional byproduct of territorial consolidation during civil wars. Second, internal displacement can create an unfortunate and heretofore undiscovered feedback loop: wide-scale displacement leads to increases in civil war duration as well as intensity, which thereby leads to increased displacement. This project examines these...
Show moreWhat are the causes and consequences of internal displacement during civil conflicts? This project makes two general claims: First, internal displacement is often the intentional byproduct of territorial consolidation during civil wars. Second, internal displacement can create an unfortunate and heretofore undiscovered feedback loop: wide-scale displacement leads to increases in civil war duration as well as intensity, which thereby leads to increased displacement. This project examines these claims through the use of unique micro-level data on the Colombian Civil War as well as cross-national investigations of internal displacement and civil war duration.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0012
Format: Citation

Title: "His-Panic": Latin-American Poetry in Translation.
Creator: Ruiz, Daniel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Though I learned it first, I no longer speak Spanish fluently. Wishing to reconnect myself to my language and my culture—my own interests also piqued by the romantic sound of the language and the sheer brilliance and precision of the Spanish-language poets I had read—I returned to the language through poetry translation in an attempt to morph what had become unfamiliar (Spanish) into the language with which I have become most familiar (English). The purpose of this presentation is to give...
Show moreThough I learned it first, I no longer speak Spanish fluently. Wishing to reconnect myself to my language and my culture—my own interests also piqued by the romantic sound of the language and the sheer brilliance and precision of the Spanish-language poets I had read—I returned to the language through poetry translation in an attempt to morph what had become unfamiliar (Spanish) into the language with which I have become most familiar (English). The purpose of this presentation is to give insight into processes—of writing, rewriting, translating poems from Spanish to English, and learning to confront and accept the unfamiliar. Over the summer, I traveled to Uruguay and Argentina, where I was forced to speak Spanish only, where even my limited Puerto Rican Spanish was foreign to the European-influenced Spanish of South America. Living in Tallahassee before and after my trip, I worked to improve my Spanish and focused my reading on poets from Latin-American countries and on the notable essays and books on translation that are considered paramount in the field. My period of focus is the twentieth century, and while English-language poets were writing about "The Everyday", their Latin-American counterparts, while still, as Emerson says, embracing "the common," often focused on the big issues of Life, Death, Time, and especially Love. My goal is this: I wish to relay the experience of working in two languages instead of one, and to show how the discourse between languages altered my writing and the way I think about language.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradresearch-0004
Format: Citation

Title: "I am the Truth (أنا الحق)": Finding a Critique of Sufism from Three Accounts of Al-Hallaj's Utterance.
Creator: Robinson, Brennan Jeffrey
Date Issued: 2017-04-30
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493611244
Format: Thesis

Title: "In a sleepier century": A Work for Chamber Orchestra and Dance.
Creator: Barzso, Isaac
Date Issued: 2018-11-15
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1544292189_ee27d901
Format: Thesis

Title: "It's Not Gay if They Don't Touch": Challenging Heteronormative Empire and Countering the 'Closeting of History' Through Art.
Creator: Steel, Isabella, Department of Art
Abstract/Description: My project revolves around the "closeting of history", which is the phenomenon in which evidence that suggests gay or bisexual behavior is omitted from the narratives of important historical figures, thus allowing them to be imagined as heterosexual by future generations (and depriving young people of gay and bisexual icons). I wanted to create artwork that counters this phenomenon, by placing historical figures and popular characters in situations that complicate their sexuality, removing...
Show moreMy project revolves around the "closeting of history", which is the phenomenon in which evidence that suggests gay or bisexual behavior is omitted from the narratives of important historical figures, thus allowing them to be imagined as heterosexual by future generations (and depriving young people of gay and bisexual icons). I wanted to create artwork that counters this phenomenon, by placing historical figures and popular characters in situations that complicate their sexuality, removing them from the heterosexual narrative that they have been confined to. I first began to explore this concept with a series of drawings of several American presidents as drag queens, complete with drag names, such as Abraham "Babe" Lincoln. I want these and other art pieces of mine to challenge the idea of "normativity" as applied to sexuality by re-appropriating iconic figures such as presidents, who have been symbols of heterosexual masculinity and success, as tools for showing sexuality as a performance—something that is fluid rather than compartmentalized. I want key works to simultaneously tackle the discomfort associated with excessive femininity, particularly when that femininity is applied to powerful individuals, and to negate the idea of the effeminate as weak. My artwork consists primarily of colorful and playful drawings and paintings, inspired by the camp aesthetic and sense of humor. At the end of the day, I just want to confront people with fun images of gay male sexuality, so that they might question what it is about it that makes them uncomfortable, and whether their discomfort is truly warranted.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradresearch-0003
Format: Citation

Title: The "Mysteries" Behind The Adapted Story.
Creator: Wallace, Alexandria, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some...
Show moreThis creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some introductory information on adaptation theory and a brief overview of some scholarly debate; followed by the four scripts and analyses for each short film. The major focus of the analyses are on the adaptation process. They will also include each interpretation's relationship to the short story, theory, and how audience and genre affect the process. Two of the four scripts (the children's narrative and music video adaptations) have been filmed and edited together as well to further understand the adaptive mode.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0198
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Trafalgar Square Conservation Area": Deconstructing Spatial Narratives with/in a Collective Framework.
Creator: Bergholtz, Joel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In...
Show moreAbstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In deconstructing these narratives, it attempts to find implicit meaning in what is explicitly inscribed into the land, and to examine this meaning alongside the social narrative that its occupants hold. This constructed narrative is explored through three frameworks: that of the physical framework of the square, those spatially enacted frameworks leading into it, and the larger collective framework of the city to which the square contributes. It finds that the frameworks of public space generally work toward establishing and authorizing a unifying ideological connection between the present society and societies of the past. However, these narratives are dependent on individual agents participating in the space's various frameworks; the meaning of a space is obfuscated by a society's current participant's usage of the space. In addition to this obfuscation, it discovers that the past role of a space can obfuscate the present meaning and role of the space in the overall framework, and that the present meaning can in turn obfuscate how individuals relate to and interpret the past.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0294
Format: Thesis

Title: "Untamed Music": Early Jazz in Vaudeville.
Creator: Lewis, Steven, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Vaudeville, which was one of the most influential entertainment genres in America at the turn of the century, was also important to the early development of jazz. Vaudeville's role in jazz history has not often figured into discussions of early jazz because the earliest jazz historians were record collectors who relied heavily on sound recordings to establish the history of the music, leading them to marginalize the contributions of musicians or bands that did not make records. Touring...
Show moreVaudeville, which was one of the most influential entertainment genres in America at the turn of the century, was also important to the early development of jazz. Vaudeville's role in jazz history has not often figured into discussions of early jazz because the earliest jazz historians were record collectors who relied heavily on sound recordings to establish the history of the music, leading them to marginalize the contributions of musicians or bands that did not make records. Touring vaudeville, minstrel shows, and circuses played a crucial role in jazz's development and dissemination. Many of the influential jazz artists of the teens and twenties, such as Alvin "Zoo" Robertson, Wilbur Sweatman, Freddie Keppard, and Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton began their careers playing in tents and theaters around the country as vaudeville entertainers. Traveling vaudeville shows were the most significant factor in the spread of jazz before the advent of recording, and brought early jazz to appreciative audiences even before 1917, when the first jazz recordings became available. After these initial recordings, the shows carried jazz to remote areas of the country where jazz records were less likely to be available. These shows continued to be important for the careers of jazz musicians until the mid thirties, when the ascendance of film and radio led to vaudeville's terminal decline. In this paper I explore in detail the role that touring vaudeville shows played in the development and popularization of jazz in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0143
Format: Thesis

Title: "Why Should We Cultivate Our Gardens?": Th Development & Role of Leisure in Western Society.
Creator: McShane, Mikaela Woods
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores “leisure” as an important, if not vital, component in cross-cultural studies. I work through, what I perceive to be the formative time periods, the end of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century, in regards to the development of cultural specific leisure time negotiation. I have approached the idea of leisure from several different theoretical and epistemological angles, historical, literary, rhetorical and anthropological. My goal in this project...
Show moreThis thesis explores “leisure” as an important, if not vital, component in cross-cultural studies. I work through, what I perceive to be the formative time periods, the end of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century, in regards to the development of cultural specific leisure time negotiation. I have approached the idea of leisure from several different theoretical and epistemological angles, historical, literary, rhetorical and anthropological. My goal in this project was not to expose a new idea, as leisure has been studied extensively, rather my aim is to shrink the gap between studies. I have connected research across different disciplines in order to present a case for the inclusion of leisure in the academic discourse and present its relevance as a genre, rather as idea.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461351820
Format: Thesis

Title: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown: Social Media Activism in Ferguson, Missouri.
Creator: Entralgo-Fernandez, Rebekah, Jones, Emilie, Carney, Sean
Abstract/Description: The study focuses on the race issues and increased police militarization in Ferguson, Missouri related to the recent murder of Michael Brown. This particular part of the study focuses on the popular trend of the hashtag If They Gunned Me Down. Young activists on Twitter post pictures of themselves, both positive and negative, to highlight the media's opinion of people of color in the news. The tag is meant to show the obvious bias in media portrayal of black victims of police violence through...
Show moreThe study focuses on the race issues and increased police militarization in Ferguson, Missouri related to the recent murder of Michael Brown. This particular part of the study focuses on the popular trend of the hashtag If They Gunned Me Down. Young activists on Twitter post pictures of themselves, both positive and negative, to highlight the media's opinion of people of color in the news. The tag is meant to show the obvious bias in media portrayal of black victims of police violence through personal images. During the study we studied these images and then complied a sample of 20 images per category (categories being aspects of their personality being highlighted). The tweets show two pictures per post, one negative and one positive, which we group together to find the most common traits presented. From these qualities we are hoping to gain an idea of the way the black community views the medias opinion of their worth. In addition to this information we are also qualitatively coding tweets related to race, black culture and marketing to find celebrities involvement and influence in the issue of police brutality of the black community.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0036
Format: Citation

Title: 100 Cups for a 100 Lives.
Creator: Frankenfield, Ivy E., Department of Art
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0570
Format: Thesis

Title: 19th Century Prisons in Practice.
Creator: Hertzler, Audrey, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Abstract/Description: There are many regulations for how a prison should work as a system according to the state, but the ones who actually have the most control over how the prison is run are the employees and officials who work in and manage the facility. These people have a stronger effect on how punishment is actually meted out. This project offers a longitudinal case study of Eastern State Penitentiary from 1829 to 1875. Through records kept by the prison administrators we can observe the decisions they made...
Show moreThere are many regulations for how a prison should work as a system according to the state, but the ones who actually have the most control over how the prison is run are the employees and officials who work in and manage the facility. These people have a stronger effect on how punishment is actually meted out. This project offers a longitudinal case study of Eastern State Penitentiary from 1829 to 1875. Through records kept by the prison administrators we can observe the decisions they made behind the scenes on a day-to-day basis and compare punishment in practice to the expectations of state regulations. We demonstrate that administrators and employees at Eastern State were willing to veer from the regulations and make their own decisions to benefit the public view of the prison. Specifically, the administrators' were guided by the need to protect the reputation of the prison, to make the prison appear to function well. Administrators sought to counter criticism over the prison's unique "separate system" of punishment in which prisoners were held in solitary confinement, a practice that attracted great criticism at the time. Our study demonstrates that many of the administrators' decisions were intended to maintain a positive image of Eastern State and to prevent criticism.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0018
Format: Citation

Title: Acclimation of Red Tide Dinoflagellate Karenia Brevis to Higher Temperatures Results in Abnormal Morphology and Changes in Growth Rates.
Creator: Owen, Daniel P., Department of Biological Science
Abstract/Description: This paper addresses the effects of increased temperature on the Red Tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis. A clonal strain of Karenia brevis was acclimated to the currently estimated increase in Gulf temperatures over a period of time long enough to ensure proper acclimation of the experimental cultures. A long acclimation time was used to avoid temperature shock conditions for the culture and to more closely mimic natural temperature increases, such as those seen during seasonal transitions....
Show moreThis paper addresses the effects of increased temperature on the Red Tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis. A clonal strain of Karenia brevis was acclimated to the currently estimated increase in Gulf temperatures over a period of time long enough to ensure proper acclimation of the experimental cultures. A long acclimation time was used to avoid temperature shock conditions for the culture and to more closely mimic natural temperature increases, such as those seen during seasonal transitions. Over the course of the experiment, K. brevis cultures were acclimated from 25° C to 31° C. An abnormal, rounded, cell morphology was produced in K. brevis cultures acclimated to 28° C and persisted in cultures acclimated through 28° C to 31° C. As well, specific growth rates of cultures growing at 25° C and acclimated to 30° C differed depending on whether the average growth rates were derived from culture cell density or RFU measurements. K. brevis cultures grown in GP/2 media had significantly higher average growth rates based on RFU measurements than cultures growing in L1-Si media. Cultures growing at 25° C and 30° C did not have significantly different chlorophyll a content per cell. In conjunction with the rounded cell morphology, the reported higher maximum temperature range, and future physiological observations, the result of this experiment aim to help researchers understand what may be happening to populations of K. brevis throughout seasonal temperature variations.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0515
Format: Set of related objects

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: Acoustic and Physiologic Correlates of Singing Register Transition Among Classically Trained Female Singers: Single Note Data.
Creator: Farr, Elizabeth Ashley
Abstract/Description: Maintaining vocal stability while shifting between the vocal registers of chest and mixed voice is a challenging task for classically trained singers. Several researchers have completed studies of the register transitions by classically trained singers. The purpose of this study was to better understand the acoustic and physiologic correlates of the vocal tract and larynx activities during a register transition on a single note sung by classically trained female singers. In particular, this...
Show moreMaintaining vocal stability while shifting between the vocal registers of chest and mixed voice is a challenging task for classically trained singers. Several researchers have completed studies of the register transitions by classically trained singers. The purpose of this study was to better understand the acoustic and physiologic correlates of the vocal tract and larynx activities during a register transition on a single note sung by classically trained female singers. In particular, this study included evaluation of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from the audio signal data and the EGG cycles around a register transition during singing in the chest and mixed registers. Sixteen classically trained female singers were recorded singing an /a/ vowel on a suspended single pitch within their register transition as determined from a previous recording that included the primo passaggio. The microphone signal from the singing sample was used to find measurements of harmonic amplitude, and electroglottograph (EGG) electrodes were placed on the thyroid to measure closing quotient (CQEGG) data. The dependent variables were the CQEGG and the FFT amplitude measurements for the first five harmonics. Results indicated that the participants demonstrated significantly higher CQEGG in the chest register than mixed register and the singers reduced their harmonic amplitudes during the register transition from chest to mixed register.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461344613
Format: Thesis

Title: Acoustic Measures of Stress in Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
Creator: Berteau, Emily A., School of Communication Science and Disorders
Abstract/Description: Disordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from those with non-CAS SSDs and those with typical speech and language development. Rhythm metrics that were over 80% successful in distinguishing among speakers with dysarthria, another disorder characterized by abnormal stress, were used to measure the variability...
Show moreDisordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from those with non-CAS SSDs and those with typical speech and language development. Rhythm metrics that were over 80% successful in distinguishing among speakers with dysarthria, another disorder characterized by abnormal stress, were used to measure the variability of vocalic and consonantal intervals. These metrics were analyzed to compare children with suspected CAS, children with non-CAS SSDs, and children with typical speech and language development. Results showed that children with CAS had the least variable vocalic durations and most variable consonantal durations. The CAS group was the only group to have more variability in consonantal durations than vocalic durations, and the relative difference between vocalic and consonantal variability was greatest in the CAS group. Further research should more closely examine the comparative differences between vocalic and consonantal variability within each group of children.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0546
Format: Thesis

Title: Activity-Dependent Regulation of Calcium and Ribosomes in the Chick Cochlear Nucleus.
Creator: Call, Cody, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Cochlea removal results in the death of 20-30% of neurons in nucleus magnocellularis (NM), a cochlear nucleus of the chick auditory system involved in the precise time-coding of acoustic signals. Within 1 hr of deafferentation, intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) rises by up to 400% while the integrity of ribosomes begins to decline—two potentially cytotoxic events. Glutamatergic axons of the auditory nerve have been shown to maintain NM neuron health by activating group I and II...
Show moreCochlea removal results in the death of 20-30% of neurons in nucleus magnocellularis (NM), a cochlear nucleus of the chick auditory system involved in the precise time-coding of acoustic signals. Within 1 hr of deafferentation, intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) rises by up to 400% while the integrity of ribosomes begins to decline—two potentially cytotoxic events. Glutamatergic axons of the auditory nerve have been shown to maintain NM neuron health by activating group I and II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), maintaining normal [Ca2+]i and ribosomal integrity. This study aimed to determine how [Ca2+]i and ribosomal integrity are maintained by auditory nerve stimulation by selectively blocking group I mGluRs with AIDA and group II mGluRs with LY 341495 during unilateral auditory nerve stimulation. The abundance of Ca2+ in NM neurons was quantified using in vitro fura-2 ratiometric calcium imaging, while ribosomal integrity was assayed in a subset of the same tissue slices using Y10B immunolabeling (Y10B-ir). It was expected that AIDA and LY 341495 would increase [Ca2+]i and these increases would occur in parallel with an elimination in stimulation-induced differences in Y10B-ir between stimulated and unstimulated neurons of a slice. AIDA caused large increases in [Ca2+]i and eliminated differences in Y10B-ir between sides. Surprisingly, LY 341495 failed to cause reliable increases in [Ca2+]i compared to stimulated controls, but still eliminated differences in Y10B-ir between sides. These results suggest dissociation in how calcium and ribosomes are regulated in NM neurons.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0509
Format: Thesis

Title: The Acute Effects of Ketamine on Social Interaction after Chronic Defeat.
Creator: Torres, Pedro, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Depression is a debilitating disorder with established prevalence and detrimental impact on the economy. Ketamine is a fast acting and long lasting treatment for depression, including treatment resistant patients. The mechanism(s) behind ketamine's effects is unknown. Thus, this study assessed the effects of acute ketamine treatment on a new chronic stress paradigm using C57BL/6J and CD1 aggressor adult male mice. The C57BL/6J mice were assigned to three groups: emotional stress (ES),...
Show moreDepression is a debilitating disorder with established prevalence and detrimental impact on the economy. Ketamine is a fast acting and long lasting treatment for depression, including treatment resistant patients. The mechanism(s) behind ketamine's effects is unknown. Thus, this study assessed the effects of acute ketamine treatment on a new chronic stress paradigm using C57BL/6J and CD1 aggressor adult male mice. The C57BL/6J mice were assigned to three groups: emotional stress (ES), physical stress (PS), and control (CON) conditions. The mice in the PS condition received social defeats, while the ES mice witnessed the defeats, for 10 consecutive days, 10 minutes each day. Twenty-four hours after the last stress session, the mice were injected with either saline or ketamine (0.20 mg/kg) one hour before a social interactions test was conducted to assess whether ketamine could rescue deficits in interaction elicited by chronic stress. Mice in the PS condition showed significantly reduced interaction time when the target was present, whereas the ES-exposed mice displayed only similar trend, regardless of drug treatment. Time spent in corners varied as a function of stress exposure but not drug treatment, with the ES- and PS-exposed mice spending significantly more time in the corners when the target was present. With the exception of the ketamine-treated controls, mice receiving saline displayed reduced interaction times when compared to a group of non-injected controls regardless of stress condition. These finding suggest that ketamine was unable to alleviate the stress-induced deficits in social interaction, however, acute ketamine may be beneficial in alleviating the effects of acute stress.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0172
Format: Thesis

Title: The Acute Effects of Late Evening Whey and Casein Ingestion on Fasting Blood Glucose, Blood Lipid Profile, Resting Metabolic Rate, and Hunger in Overweight and Obese Individuals.
Creator: Blay, Charles, Nutrition, Food, & Exercise Science
Abstract/Description: Theoretically, protein ingestion before sleep should affect obesity rates and promote cardiovascular health by increasing nocturnal metabolism and decreasing morning hunger. However, there is little research linking nighttime protein ingestion and morning cardiovascular health, metabolism, and hunger.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0101
Format: Thesis

Title: Acute Stress and Self-Control: The Effect of Threat and Challenge Appraisals of Acute Stress on Subsequent Acts of Self-Regulation.
Creator: Ramsay, Brandon, Department of Psychology
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradresearch-0027
Format: Citation

Title: Adaptation of Ultra-Precise Atomic Mass Measurement Techniques to Microwave Spectroscopy on a Single Molecular Ion by Detecting Polarizability Shifts in a Penning Trap.
Creator: Zarrella, Andrew, Physics
Abstract/Description: Using the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us...
Show moreUsing the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us to do microwave spectroscopy on single molecular ions. The main goal of this project will be to implement this new method of microwave spectroscopy, by measuring the lambda-type doubling splitting of the diatomic molecular ion, NH+, in its vibrational and rotational ground state.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0043
Format: Thesis

Title: Advancing Diabetes Care: The Optimization of Insulin Pump Medication Delivery.
Creator: Wilcox, John Hartford
Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524862378_d562eb9f
Format: Thesis

Title: The Affect of E-books on Reading.
Creator: Lichti, Lindsay, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These...
Show moreThis thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These results were incorporated to track FSU trends compared to national averages.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0077
Format: Thesis

Title: The Afferent Circuitry of the Ventromedial Hypothalamus and Its Activation in Paternal Behavior of the Socially Monogamous Prairie Vole.
Creator: Rogers, Richard S., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abstract/Description: Paternal behavior is an interesting and important research topic due to its integral contribution to the fitness and well-being of multiple species, including humans. Although paternal behavior is well described in literature, attempts at neurobiological characterization have yielded conflicting results that fail to address brain region interconnectivity. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between afferent VMH circuitry and the onset of paternal behavior, using the prairie...
Show morePaternal behavior is an interesting and important research topic due to its integral contribution to the fitness and well-being of multiple species, including humans. Although paternal behavior is well described in literature, attempts at neurobiological characterization have yielded conflicting results that fail to address brain region interconnectivity. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between afferent VMH circuitry and the onset of paternal behavior, using the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) model. Sexually naïve male prairie voles received injections of the retrograde neurotracer Fluoro-Gold (FG), into the VMH. Two weeks later, subjects were exposed to either conspecific pups, contained within a tea-ball, or an empty tea-ball (control) for 1 hr. Immunohistochemical labeling was conducted for both FG and the neuronal activity marker Egr-1, in order to evaluate neuronal and afferent pathway activation between the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) and the amygdala (AMYG), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), lateral septum (LS) and ventral tegmental area (VTA). Similar to the pathway implicated in the onset of maternal behavior, the results of this study showed pup exposure-induced neuronal activation in the AMYG and BNST, particularly in the efferent pathways from these two brain areas to the VMH. This effect was not found in the LS and VTA projection neurons to the VMH. Together, the data suggests a brain region-specific neuronal activation by pup exposure in particular brain circuitry, implicating its possible involvement in paternal behavior.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0545
Format: Thesis

Title: Against Consequentialism: The Wrongness of Impartiality.
Creator: Jones, Nathaniel, Philosophy
Abstract/Description: The most important objective of this paper is to provide a clear and detailed overview of Consequentialism and to show one way in which it is mistaken in its moral prescriptions. While there may be many criticisms of Consequentialism, our focus here will be on the apparent problem it has when dealing with issues of Special Relationships, namely the obligations one may have to family, friends, and any promises he may have made. This criticism will simply be called the Problem of Special...
Show moreThe most important objective of this paper is to provide a clear and detailed overview of Consequentialism and to show one way in which it is mistaken in its moral prescriptions. While there may be many criticisms of Consequentialism, our focus here will be on the apparent problem it has when dealing with issues of Special Relationships, namely the obligations one may have to family, friends, and any promises he may have made. This criticism will simply be called the Problem of Special Relationships. I must first introduce Consequentialism, explain what it entails, show what the Problem of Special Relationships is, and finally go through two replies from Act-Consequentialism and one from Rule Consequentialism.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0021
Format: Thesis

Title: Age-Related Autonomic Regulation in Catecholaminergic Ventricular Tachycardia.
Creator: Oropallo, Zoey
Abstract/Description: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), also called exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia is a hereditary disease that can cause sudden cardiac death in human patients. Interestingly, while patients with CPVT have normal function of the heart at rest, they show life-threatening arrhythmias during physical activity or acute emotional stress. Autonomic nervous system is known to have a role in arrhythmia pathogenesis, and its response changes with aging. However, little...
Show moreCatecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), also called exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia is a hereditary disease that can cause sudden cardiac death in human patients. Interestingly, while patients with CPVT have normal function of the heart at rest, they show life-threatening arrhythmias during physical activity or acute emotional stress. Autonomic nervous system is known to have a role in arrhythmia pathogenesis, and its response changes with aging. However, little is known that how autonomic regulation with aging contributes to arrhythmia burdens in CPVT. Methods: To test our hypothesis, we examined ECG recording with a catecholaminergic challenge (isoproterenol, 3mg/kg + caffeine, 120mg/kg) in anesthetized CPVT mice at different age groups (6 weeks old, 12 weeks old, and 48 weeks old). Results: In CPVT mice, the frequency of arrhythmias were increased with aging. The resting heart rate (HR) decreased with aging, whereas the HR response after adrenergic stress was significantly increased. The average RR interval also increased in advanced age, suggesting a possibility of an increased autonomic regulation. Conclusion: We found that arrhythmia incidence worsens by lowering intrinsic HR, and possibly by a modulation of parasympathetic nerve activity in CPVT mice with advanced age.
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Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1525264709_2e0b4d7e
Format: Thesis

Title: Age-Related Differences in the Effects of Cognitive Demand on Speech Production.
Creator: Roa, Maria
Abstract/Description: The present investigation examined the effects of aging and cognitive workload on speech production using temporal and frequency measures of acoustics. The following hypotheses were made: older speakers will have longer phoneme durations than will younger speakers; older speakers will have shorter F2-transitions and smaller F2-transition frequency extents than will younger speakers; all speakers will exhibit greater proportional changes to these measures under increased cognitive workload...
Show moreThe present investigation examined the effects of aging and cognitive workload on speech production using temporal and frequency measures of acoustics. The following hypotheses were made: older speakers will have longer phoneme durations than will younger speakers; older speakers will have shorter F2-transitions and smaller F2-transition frequency extents than will younger speakers; all speakers will exhibit greater proportional changes to these measures under increased cognitive workload conditions. Eight adults, four younger and four older, equally matched for sex, participated. They completed a sentence-level Stroop task in two cognitive workload conditions: low cognitive load (congruent Stroop condition) and high cognitive load (incongruent Stroop condition). Participants produced the sentence sixteen times, eight productions for both conditions. Plosive-vowel syllables that came before the Stroop-segment, at the Stroop-segment, and after the Stroop-segment of the sentence were selected for measurement from each sentence production. All speakers exhibited longer phoneme durations before and at the Stroop-segment in comparison to afterwards. Speakers also exhibited longer and more extensive vowel transitions before and at the Stroop-segment in comparison to the post-Stroop segment. In the incongruent condition, the Stroop-segment had longer F2-transition durations. The older adults had longer F2-transitions than the younger adults. The F2-transition frequency extent was greatest at the Stroop-segment. The older adults had wider F2-transitions at the Stroop-segment that further widened during incongruent conditions. These results suggest that the effects of speaker anticipation of the cognitive task were manifested by speech adaptations that occurred as a function of the word’s position in the sentence.
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Date Issued: 2017-12-08
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512768944_cf5eca01
Format: Thesis

Title: Agency, Gender, and the Law in Slave Narratives.
Creator: Thomas, Alexandra, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes...
Show moreThis thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes the common elements discussed and represented in accounts of enslaved people and analyses the concept of a slave narrative.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0400
Format: Thesis

Title: Air-sea coupling dependency on sea surface temperature fronts as observed by research vessel data.
Creator: Stauffer, Catherine L.
Date Issued: 2018-04-27
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524965224_4d96af1a
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: All the Way: Radical Republicanism.
Creator: Doyle, James Laman
Date Issued: 2017-12-08
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512768275_2f4553fb
Format: Thesis

Title: America's Favorite Nazi: How Wernher von Braun Shaped His Memory.
Creator: Hopf, Kristina Marie
Abstract/Description: Wernher von Braun was known during his life as a hero of the Space Age. However, his early work with the Nazi regime and the horrendous details surrounding his creation of the V-2 bomb should imply that he be viewed through a far more critical lens. This paper examines the ways in which Wernher von Braun played an active role in shaping his public perception, by minimizing and erasing the atrocities of his past and using his charisma to shape his goals for the future.
Date Issued: 2018-04-25
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1524712342_cb9efe17
Format: Thesis

Title: The American Expatriate Literary Tradition.
Creator: Britton, McKenna L., Karnes, Jaime, Miller, Lane Elizabeth
Abstract/Description: Under the mentorship of Prof. Shonda Stevens, we are researching and studying the American Expatriate Literary Tradition; creating analytical lists of displaced and expatriated American novelists, artists, and poets, and the works they have accomplished and published. Major names recognizable by the general public are Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the "Lost Generation", but our goal is to widen the public's view of American expatriate culture, as well as to...
Show moreUnder the mentorship of Prof. Shonda Stevens, we are researching and studying the American Expatriate Literary Tradition; creating analytical lists of displaced and expatriated American novelists, artists, and poets, and the works they have accomplished and published. Major names recognizable by the general public are Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the "Lost Generation", but our goal is to widen the public's view of American expatriate culture, as well as to encompass many more authors and artists who have also done incredible work, utilizing the information we find during our research. Our final goal is a university-level textbook, which will outline the American Expatriate Literary tradition, offering a definition as well as a list of authors and their literary works and travels. The text will discuss various American expatriate authors and poets, the works they have written, and what their works have said about American culture and tradition. We are currently in stage-three of our research; we are beginning to delve deeper into the literary tradition, writing up personal definitions of the movement and conducting research on specific authors and time periods. Each of us has been assigned specific authors and time periods, and we are currently gathering information on these authors—the works they have written, what they have written about, where they were stationed while writing, and other appropriate information.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0034
Format: Citation

Title: Amygdala Mechanisms Involved in Chemosensory Communication.
Creator: Stroe, Ioana, Biological Science
Abstract/Description: The amygdala is an almond-shaped region of the brain present in many vertebrates such as human, hamsters and mice. The amygdala is composed of several parts, of which the following are most relevant to my research: the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the posterior medial amygdala (MeP). The BLA functions in learning and shows increased activation after the mouse has learned a behavior. The lateral paracapsular nuclei of the intercalated nucleus (ICNlpcn) project inhibitory neurons into the BLA...
Show moreThe amygdala is an almond-shaped region of the brain present in many vertebrates such as human, hamsters and mice. The amygdala is composed of several parts, of which the following are most relevant to my research: the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the posterior medial amygdala (MeP). The BLA functions in learning and shows increased activation after the mouse has learned a behavior. The lateral paracapsular nuclei of the intercalated nucleus (ICNlpcn) project inhibitory neurons into the BLA and mediate its activity. Dopamine has been shown to inhibit the lpcn group and therefore relieve inhibition of the BLA (disinhibition). Dopamine also acts directly in the BLA to increase activation. Therefore, if a mouse is conditioned to prefer a particular odor (in this case steer urine), dopamine injection will cause an increase in BLA activation after learning due to both disinhibition and direct excitatory response. The medial posterior amygdala in the mouse mostly responds to olfactory stimuli from the same species (conspecific stimuli). The MeP is also thought to be under control of another ICN group, the caudal ICN (ICNc). If the same inhibitory relationship is seen between ICNc and MeP, the dopamine injection may cause disinhibition in the MeP and therefore the conditioned steer urine stimulus may show increased activation in the MeP despite being a stimulus from another species (heterospecific stimulus). My experiment tests whether the ICNc has inhibitory control over the MeP, and whether dopamine will cause inhibition in the ICNc and therefore cause disinhibition in the MeP.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0040
Format: Thesis

Title: AN ACCOUNT OF MORAL STATUS FOR MACHINES.
Creator: Bruno-Piverger, Randy E
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with moral status and its potential application to machines. It introduces an account of moral status and defends the claim that with the correct features a machine can have moral status. The thesis also discusses some issues involved in recognizing the non-apparent features of a machine and how we might overcome them.
Date Issued: 1994-11-11
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512760047_0ae43c6c
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Beta Decay Curves and Gamma-Ray Polarization from Compton Scattering Using C++ Programming.
Creator: Holt, Hannah Louise
Abstract/Description: One issue that arises when performing experimental nuclear physics research at different laboratories is the lack of ubiquity between programs that handle the output of the data acquisition systems. This paper presents two new C++ programs that were created specific to the XIA system at LeRoy Collins Research Laboratory. A program geared for the study of γ-ray polarization was designed and tested using data from excited Neon-20 γ emissions. Using the other new program to look at β decay, the...
Show moreOne issue that arises when performing experimental nuclear physics research at different laboratories is the lack of ubiquity between programs that handle the output of the data acquisition systems. This paper presents two new C++ programs that were created specific to the XIA system at LeRoy Collins Research Laboratory. A program geared for the study of γ-ray polarization was designed and tested using data from excited Neon-20 γ emissions. Using the other new program to look at β decay, the mean lifetime of Potassium-38 β+ decay was confirmed. Having these simple, yet specific, executables will allow individuals to study these topics in a more rigorous way.
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Date Issued: 2017-04-26
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493351227
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Cellulose Hydrolysis Kinetics.
Creator: Bousalis, Deanna
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461355795
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Chromatin Structure Indicates a Role for Fluoxetine in Altering Nucleosome Distribution.
Creator: Gracia, Ely
Abstract/Description: An interesting stimulus for chromatin structural changes is the generic and popular anti-depressant drug Fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac. Generally accepted as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's), recent work has emerged suggesting that this antidepressant also functions as a Histone Deaceylase Inhibitors (HDIs). Studies have also come out indicating that Fluoxetine acts as an immunosuppressant drug. Treatment with Fluoxetine is believed to reduce the over-activation of...
Show moreAn interesting stimulus for chromatin structural changes is the generic and popular anti-depressant drug Fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac. Generally accepted as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's), recent work has emerged suggesting that this antidepressant also functions as a Histone Deaceylase Inhibitors (HDIs). Studies have also come out indicating that Fluoxetine acts as an immunosuppressant drug. Treatment with Fluoxetine is believed to reduce the over-activation of the immune system associated with depression. We have used an innovative microarray technology to measure changes in nucleosomal positioning that stem from Fluoxetine treatment. With the use of the microarray, we were able to show that Fluoxetine regulated chromatin structure, that Fluoxetine induced nucleosomal changes show time-dependent kinetics, and targeted genes responsible for the regulation of immune system processes. These results give new and important insights into non-SSRI roles of this highly prescribed class of drugs.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0087
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Convective Transport of Biomass Burning Emissions in Southeast Asia.
Creator: Ahern, Kyle, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract/Description: Biomass burning and anthropogenic emissions affect the composition of the atmosphere, thereby impacting global climate and health. Deep convective processes can loft emissions from the boundary layer into the upper troposphere or lower stratosphere (UTLS). Strong upper-level winds can potentially transport the emissions over long distances. This study focused on the deep convective transport of biomass burning emissions near the Strait of Malacca during summer. The Weather Research and...
Show moreBiomass burning and anthropogenic emissions affect the composition of the atmosphere, thereby impacting global climate and health. Deep convective processes can loft emissions from the boundary layer into the upper troposphere or lower stratosphere (UTLS). Strong upper-level winds can potentially transport the emissions over long distances. This study focused on the deep convective transport of biomass burning emissions near the Strait of Malacca during summer. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT_4) models were used to investigate deep convection and the transport of emissions from fires in the region. Fire data from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors onboard the Aqua and Terra satellites provided locations of fire emissions. These fire datasets were obtained from the University of Maryland's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS). To investigate the deep convective processes thoroughly, this study used high resolution modeling (4 km grid spacing) to resolve the convection explicitly. Explicit resolution allows the thunderstorms to be simulated more realistically than would parameterization, thus making it ideal for this research. Results showed that deep convection occurring in the Strait of Malacca is driven primarily by diurnal heating patterns and the region's topography. Convection in the region is frequent and scattered, but follows a cyclic diurnal pattern: convection over land during daytime and over the Strait during nighttime. When emissions from fires encounter areas of deep convection, they are quickly lofted to the UTLS where winds then transport them elsewhere.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0216
Format: Thesis

Title: An Analysis of Cultural Materials from Mission San Lorenzo de Ivitachuco (8JE100).
Creator: Messer, Haley Sara
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461344555
Format: Thesis

Title: An Analysis of Cultural Materials from the Borrow Pit site (8LE170) Leon County, Florida.
Creator: Kang, Jirye
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461352005
Format: Thesis

Title: An Analysis of Divine Command Metaethics.
Creator: Herbst, Zachary P., Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description: Divine command metaethics comes in various forms. In this paper I examine three previously proposed relationships between morality and divine commands - Analysis, Causation, and Reduction - and determine that the Reduction view is most likely because it provides the best account of divine authority. I also seek to defend the view as a whole against some of the perennial objections against it, namely the arbitrariness objection, by arguing that God necessarily desires the well being of his...
Show moreDivine command metaethics comes in various forms. In this paper I examine three previously proposed relationships between morality and divine commands - Analysis, Causation, and Reduction - and determine that the Reduction view is most likely because it provides the best account of divine authority. I also seek to defend the view as a whole against some of the perennial objections against it, namely the arbitrariness objection, by arguing that God necessarily desires the well being of his creation.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0583
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of GFDL Intensity Forecasting Performance for Gulf/Caribbean Major Hurricanes from 1998-2008.
Creator: Hazelton, Andrew, Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Abstract/Description: While both computer model and official track forecasts of Atlantic Basin hurricanes have improved significantly over the past several decades, forecasts of intensity continue to prove difficult. Even specialized hurricane models struggle with predicting intensity. This study analyzes the intensity errors of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Hurricane Model for 19 major hurricanes over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea from 1998 to 2008. Using the measure of skill relative to...
Show moreWhile both computer model and official track forecasts of Atlantic Basin hurricanes have improved significantly over the past several decades, forecasts of intensity continue to prove difficult. Even specialized hurricane models struggle with predicting intensity. This study analyzes the intensity errors of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Hurricane Model for 19 major hurricanes over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea from 1998 to 2008. Using the measure of skill relative to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecast (SHIFOR), the GFDL forecasts generally improved throughout most of the 11-year period, although there were some exceptions to this increase in skill. Comparing the GFDL to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS), it is found that the GFDL was slightly outperformed by SHIPS on most of the forecast categories and times. It seems that there is a correlation between higher intensity storms and higher errors (R = 0.53), and there is also a clear relationship between large negative errors and rapid intensification (R = 0.62). This relationship is explored for some of the ―higher-error‖ cases by comparing the GFDL forecast intensity progression with the actual intensity change. Hurricanes Dean (2007) and Felix (2007) are also analyzed in more detail, since both of these storms were exceptions to the general trend in increased skill from 2000-2008. It is hoped that this and further analysis will illuminate reasons for the model's difficulty with the intensity forecasts, and provide a basis for improving model forecasts and official forecasts of tropical cyclone intensity.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0014
Format: Thesis

Title: Analysis of Group Session Processes in a Faith-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for African-American Caregivers.
Creator: Mendoza, Jackelynn
Abstract/Description: Most adults with dementia (80%) are cared for in the home by family members referred to as caregivers. The proportion of primary family caregivers is highest in minority communities, especially African Americans. The demands of caring for a family member with dementia are typically high and have been found to lead to depression and health-related problems (e.g., new hypertension). Although several studies have shown cognitive-behavioral intervention leads to reduction of emotional distress in...
Show moreMost adults with dementia (80%) are cared for in the home by family members referred to as caregivers. The proportion of primary family caregivers is highest in minority communities, especially African Americans. The demands of caring for a family member with dementia are typically high and have been found to lead to depression and health-related problems (e.g., new hypertension). Although several studies have shown cognitive-behavioral intervention leads to reduction of emotional distress in dementia caregivers, results are inconsistent in the treatment of depressive symptoms in the African-American dementia caregiver population. Lack of cultural sensitivity and same culture providers potentially may account for diminished efficacy of cognitive-behavioral intervention in this minority group. In the present study, participants were interviewed to provide feedback on their in-session experiences of the ACTS 2 program. A qualitative analysis of caregivers’ responses were conducted to assess the group session processes. The responses were used to assess: (a) caregivers’ appraisals of the quality of interactions among their peers; (b) caregivers’ appraisals of the consequences of group skills training; and (c) caregivers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of facilitators during ACTS 2 group based sessions. Caregivers’ appraisals of these group process domains suggested the tailoring of group processes led to positive perceptions of sensitivity to cultural and spiritual values, created a sense of unity among participants and provided useful caregiving skills. Negative appraisals were case specific and were not reflective of the findings of the group as a whole. Future direction for research on group process with depressed African-American dementia caregivers are addressed.
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Date Issued: 2017-12-08
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1512762874_f38db499
Format: Thesis

Title: ANALYSIS OF HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF AN ARGON-WATER PLASMA REACTOR SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE.
Creator: Makled, Basiel
Date Issued: 2016-04-22
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1461260723
Format: Thesis

Title: An Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Motion.
Creator: Laurencin, Chelsey Nakita
Abstract/Description: Tropical cyclones (TCs) have been widely researched in attempt to improve their predictability and the general atmospheric influence on their intensity and motion. This study analyzes North Atlantic TC translation in terms of the phase and strength of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP). The composite steering flow is also examined to consider its effect on TC geographic location and seasonality for these anomalous variations. The data is from the National...
Show moreTropical cyclones (TCs) have been widely researched in attempt to improve their predictability and the general atmospheric influence on their intensity and motion. This study analyzes North Atlantic TC translation in terms of the phase and strength of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Atlantic Warm Pool (AWP). The composite steering flow is also examined to consider its effect on TC geographic location and seasonality for these anomalous variations. The data is from the National Hurricane Center’s Hurricane Database (HURDAT) and uses 27 years of 6-hourly TC fixes from 1988 to 2014. It is found that the highest frequency of TCs occur in the speed range of 10 – 20 mi/hr for both phases of the ENSO and AWP. The fastest moving (> 55 mi/hr) TCs occur during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season (September and October) and at latitudes between 35°N and 55°N. With regard to ENSO, cold relative to warm years showed an increase in TC frequency over all ranges of translation speed, with the largest difference for TCs traveling 10 – 20 mi/hr. The large relative to small phase of the AWP likewise showed an overall increase in TC frequency for all speed ranges, though the fractional difference between AWP phases was close in magnitude for the four most frequent speed ranges. This suggests that the AWP has a stronger influence on Atlantic TC translation than ENSO over a larger range of speeds.
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Date Issued: 2017-04-25
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493168400
Format: Thesis

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