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- Title
- A. Marsden, in Brooklyn, to Dear Friend [Elizabeth Clarke].
- Creator
- A. Marsden
- Date Issued
- 1874-08-14
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3332465p
- Subject Headings
- Clarke Family, Family History, Genealogy
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- A. Morris, in Bishop Stortford, to Master Clarke, [Will, Alfred or John].
- Creator
- A. Morris
- Date Issued
- 1873-11-17
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3332119p
- Subject Headings
- Clarke Family, Family History, Genealogy
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Performance study of some distributed detection rules.
- Creator
- Aalo, Valentine A., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
- Abstract/Description
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In a distributed detection system, several geographically dispersed local sensors observe the same environment and transmit a condensed version of their observations to a fusion center. The fusion center then decides the presence or the absence of a target based on the information received from the sensors. The performances of several distributed detection rules are investigated. We study the asymptotic (as the number of sensors N $\to$ $\infty$) performance of the system when the fusion rule...
Show moreIn a distributed detection system, several geographically dispersed local sensors observe the same environment and transmit a condensed version of their observations to a fusion center. The fusion center then decides the presence or the absence of a target based on the information received from the sensors. The performances of several distributed detection rules are investigated. We study the asymptotic (as the number of sensors N $\to$ $\infty$) performance of the system when the fusion rule is a "k out of N" rule. With i.i.d. observations at the sensors and k out of N rule with fixed and finite k (or fixed and finite (N-k)) a necessary and sufficient condition, for vanishingly small probability of miss at a fixed probability of false alarm at the fusion center, is derived. The asymptotic performance of a k out of N rule is also studied for the case of correlated Gaussian observations., The effect of correlation on the performance of a distributed detection system is studied for a small number of sensors. The local sensor tests are assumed to be identical and the joint distribution of the observations at the sensors symmetric. It is shown in this case that the joint distribution of the sensor decisions, and therefore, the fusion center rule must be a symmetric function of the local decisions. A numerical performance study for the detection of a constant signal in correlated Gaussian or Laplacian noise shows that system performance deteriorates with increasing correlations. Furthermore, the OR combining rule, although relatively insensitive to changes in correlation coefficient, is inferior to the AND and MAJORITY LOGIC rules., We propose and analyze the performance of a multilevel quantization and fusion scheme that is useful in detecting unknown signals in noise. Numerical performance study shows that the scheme is robust with respect to changes in the signal levels at the sensors under the signal present hypothesis.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991, 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40716
- Subject Headings
- Engineering, General, Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment.
- Creator
- Abbott, Benjamin W., Jones, Jeremy B., Schuur, Edward A. G., Chapin III, F. Stuart, Bowden, William B., Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia, Epstein, Howard E., Flannigan, Michael D., Harms, Tamara K., Hollingsworth, Teresa N., Mack, Michelle C., McGuire, A. David, Natali, Susan M., Rocha, Adrian V., Tank, Suzanne E., Turetsky, Merritt R., Vonk, Jorien E., Wickland, Kimberly P., Aiken, George R., Alexander, Heather D., Amon, Rainer M. W., Benscoter, Brian, Bergeron, Yves, Bishop, Kevin, Blarquez, Olivier, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Breen, Amy L., Buffam, Ishi, Cai, Yihua, Carcaillet, Christopher, Carey, Sean K., Chen, Jing M., Chen, Han Y. H., Christensen, Torben R., Cooper, Lee W., Cornelissen, J. Hans C., de Groot, William J., DeLuca, Thomas H., Dorrepaal, Ellen, Fetcher, Ned, Finlay, Jacques C., Forbes, Bruce C., French, Nancy H. F., Gauthier, Sylvie, Girardin, Martin P., Goetz, Scott J., Goldammer, Johann G., Gough, Laura, Grogan, Paul, Guo, Laodong, Higuera, Philip E., Hinzman, Larry, Hu, Feng Sheng, Hugelius, Gustaf, Jafarov, Elchin E., Jandt, Randi, Johnstone, Jill F., Jan Karlsson, Kasischke, Eric S., Kattner, Gerhard, Kelly, Ryan, Keuper, Frida, Kling, George W., Kortelainen, Pirkko, Kouki, Jari, Kuhry, Peter, Laudon, Hjalmar, Laurion, Isabelle, Macdonald, Robie W., Mann, Paul J., Martikainen, Pertti J., McClelland, James W., Molau, Ulf, Oberbauer, Steven F., Olefeldt, David, Paré, David, Parisien, Marc-André, Payette, Serge, Peng, Changhui, Pokrovsky, Oleg S., Rastetter, Edward B., Raymond, Peter A., Raynolds, Martha K., Rein, Guillermo, Reynolds, James F., Robards, Martin, Rogers, Brendan M., Schädel, Christina, Schaefer, Kevin, Schmidt, Inger K., Shvidenko, Anatoly, Sky, Jasper, Spencer, Robert G. M., Starr, Gregory, Striegl, Robert G., Teisserenc, Roman, Tranvik, Lars J., Virtanen, Tarmo, Welker, Jeffrey M., Zimov, Sergei
- Date Issued
- 2016-03-07
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000121
- Format
- Citation
- Title
- The Effect of Sea Level Rise on Juncus roemerianus’s Ability To Remain An Environmental Restoration Indicator Species.
- Creator
- Abbott, Cara J., Berry, Leonard, Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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Juncus roemerianus, the black rush, has long been used in restoration projects in south Florida because of its unique ability to live in both freshwater and saltwater. In particular, it has been used as an indicator of salt-water incursion due to its differing physical forms in varying levels of salinity. When found in freshwater, it can reach heights over 2.1 meters, yet when found in hypersaline water, it becomes dwarfed and only 1 meter in height. Because of its dramatic differences in...
Show moreJuncus roemerianus, the black rush, has long been used in restoration projects in south Florida because of its unique ability to live in both freshwater and saltwater. In particular, it has been used as an indicator of salt-water incursion due to its differing physical forms in varying levels of salinity. When found in freshwater, it can reach heights over 2.1 meters, yet when found in hypersaline water, it becomes dwarfed and only 1 meter in height. Because of its dramatic differences in physical appearance due to salinity, it has provided an easy and fairly cheap method of determining an area’s localized salinity level. Most of Juncus roemerianus’s range in Florida lies around the coasts, which most models predict will experience significant changes due to sea level rise in the not so distant future. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the black rush can remain an environmental restoration indicator species in conditions influenced by sea level rise. This study will take place in the FAU Boca greenhouse and will target increased water levels and increased pH as the main conditions affected by sea level rise. If this study finds that increased water levels and pH do not significantly change the appearance of Juncus roemerianus in varying salinity, then this plant can confidently remain an indicator of salt-water incursion in the future. Conversely, if these conditions do change the appearance of Juncus roemerianus, then this plant may not remain an indicator species in South Florida in the future.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005798
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- SHOULD WE ALWAYS BE AIMING AT THE TRUTH? A LOOK INTO DEPRESSION.
- Creator
- Abellard, Bayard, Baima, Nicholas, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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In this paper we attempt to understand how being truthful can bring people to experience depression. While it might cause depression, it also can bring people closer together than when being untruthful. Through this research we discover that realism can lead to depression and in some cases not lead to depression but a sense of bliss. I also review how optimism can lead to happiness and at the same time it can lead to depression due to not being able to reach the goals set out by one’s self....
Show moreIn this paper we attempt to understand how being truthful can bring people to experience depression. While it might cause depression, it also can bring people closer together than when being untruthful. Through this research we discover that realism can lead to depression and in some cases not lead to depression but a sense of bliss. I also review how optimism can lead to happiness and at the same time it can lead to depression due to not being able to reach the goals set out by one’s self. Overall, we discover that being truthful, in many cases, is the best option but at the same time there are cases where telling the truth would be more harmful than beneficial. Taken together, I believe it is best to always take your time to try and understand the situation before making a decision about whether telling the truth is ideal or not ideal.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00065
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Temporal and spatial variation in habitat characteristics of tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) off the east coast of Florida.
- Creator
- Able, Kenneth W., Grimes, Churchill B., Jones, Robert S., Twichell, David C., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172857
- Subject Headings
- Tilefish, Marine sediments --Florida, Carbonates, Sidescan sonar, Oceanographic submersibles
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Malkes-Malkes.
- Creator
- Abramowitz, Max, Russotto, Henry A.
- Date Issued
- 1907
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/70757
- Subject Headings
- Piano, Voice
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Jews and Ukrainians in revolutionary times: Autonomy, statehood, and civil war, 1917-1920.
- Creator
- Abramson, Henry Maurice., University of Toronto (Canada)
- Abstract/Description
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With the fall of the tsarist government in the spring of 1917, Jewish and Ukrainian leaders attempted to forge a new political relationship between the traditionally hostile communities. The Jewish political parties, in particular the various socialist groups, strongly supported the Ukrainian movement as it established a Ministry of Jewish Affairs. Ukrainian currency was printed with Yiddish inscriptions, Jewish groups were well-represented in all levels of government, and state funds were...
Show moreWith the fall of the tsarist government in the spring of 1917, Jewish and Ukrainian leaders attempted to forge a new political relationship between the traditionally hostile communities. The Jewish political parties, in particular the various socialist groups, strongly supported the Ukrainian movement as it established a Ministry of Jewish Affairs. Ukrainian currency was printed with Yiddish inscriptions, Jewish groups were well-represented in all levels of government, and state funds were used to support Jewish institutions. Despite these positive developments, the government was unable to contain the anarchy that overcame Ukraine in the years that followed the collapse of the Empire. Various military groups and bands of hooligans terrorized the Jews and other minority populations, with the pogrom violence peaking in 1919. Ironically, some forty per cent of the recorded anti-Jewish pogroms were perpetrated by troops ostensibly loyal to the same Ukrainian government that supported the Ministry of Jewish Affairs. This dissertation examines the development of the Ukrainian-Jewish political experiment and the reasons for its eventual failure.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995, 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40276
- Subject Headings
- History, European, History, Modern
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Junior Voice Recital by Edgar M. Abreu (tenor) - Spring 2010.
- Creator
- Abreu, Edgar (Tenor), Lertsintupun, Sumpun (Piano), FAU Department of Music
- Date Issued
- 2010-04-23
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3165697
- Subject Headings
- Vocal music, Piano music
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Selected TLR Agonists Act in Synergy to Reprogram DC-NK Cross-talk and Generate Effector T cells in Nicotinic Environment.
- Creator
- Abu-Nuwar, Emily, Tamjidi, Saba, Nouri-Shirazi, Mahyar, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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The magnitude of immune responses to vaccination is a critical factor in determining protection from diseases. We reported that nicotine disrupts the properties of DCs that are pivotal in the initiation of immune response to vaccines. Here we investigated whether TLR agonist(s) could overcome the effects of nicotine on human DC and DC-NK cross-talk essential for effector T cell generation. nicDC, nicDC-NK, and nicDC-NK-T cultures exposed to TLR agonists were evaluated for expression of...
Show moreThe magnitude of immune responses to vaccination is a critical factor in determining protection from diseases. We reported that nicotine disrupts the properties of DCs that are pivotal in the initiation of immune response to vaccines. Here we investigated whether TLR agonist(s) could overcome the effects of nicotine on human DC and DC-NK cross-talk essential for effector T cell generation. nicDC, nicDC-NK, and nicDC-NK-T cultures exposed to TLR agonists were evaluated for expression of costimulatory molecules, cytokines, and intracellular cytokine IFN-g using ELISA and flow cytometry. Our data shows that among the TLR agonists, TLR3 and TLR8/7 synergistically optimized nicDC maturation co-cultured NK cell activation. Importantly, similar to DC-NK, nicDC-NK treated with TLR3 and TLR8/7 and co-cultured with naïve T cells promoted a comparable number of effector T cells. Our data suggest that the addition of appropriate TLR agonist(s) to vaccine formulation could potentially improve the smokers’ immune response to vaccination.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005554
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Fluctuation and correlation effects in a charged surface immersed in an asymmetric electrolyte solution.
- Creator
- Acharya, Pramod, Lau, Andy W. C., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361263
- Subject Headings
- Green's functions, Field theory (Physics), Electrostatics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La harangve d'Achior l'Ammonite svr vn advis donne a monseignevr le prince :.
- Creator
- Achior l'Ammonite
- Abstract/Description
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Prononcée apres celle d'Alexandre le Forgeron. Achior le duc de tous les fils d'ammon, dit. monseigneur s'il te plaist de m'escouter ie diray la verité en ta presence & nesortira point une fausse parolle de ma bouche. Iudith. 5. In favor of the alliance policy with Spain. Signatures: A-B⁴. Published in response to "Advis a Monseignevr le prince". Cf. Bourgeois et André, "Les Sources de l'Histoire de France", 1924.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb15f15
- Subject Headings
- Condé, Henri II de Bourbon -- prince de -- 1588-1646, France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, France -- Politics and government -- 1610-1643 -- Early works to 1800, France -- Foreign relations -- Spain -- Early works to 1800, Spain -- Foreign relations -- France -- Early works to 1800
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- The education quality system: A content validation.
- Creator
- Acker-Hocevar, Michele A., University of South Florida
- Abstract/Description
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This dissertation reports the content validation of an Education Quality System that was developed by Snyder and Acker-Hocevar in 1994. The system assists schools with the direction of change over different phases of organization development. The review of the literature indicates that the paradigm shift from the Industrial Era to the Knowledge Era has implications for different types of worker competencies required in the next century. This system offers educators a Quality framework for...
Show moreThis dissertation reports the content validation of an Education Quality System that was developed by Snyder and Acker-Hocevar in 1994. The system assists schools with the direction of change over different phases of organization development. The review of the literature indicates that the paradigm shift from the Industrial Era to the Knowledge Era has implications for different types of worker competencies required in the next century. This system offers educators a Quality framework for changing outmoded Bureaucratic practices to Quality practices that focus on new customer requirements for the 21st century., The system contained two books. Book One, the Quality Performance System Model includes the conceptual model for the system. Six performance and three Results Areas, definitions and descriptions; and, Outcomes aligned to Performance and Results Areas. Book Two, the Quality Change Process Model describes the change process over time from a Bureaucratic to a Quality System. Three phases of change illustrate the organizational evolution to a Quality System: Awareness, Transition and Transformation. Indicators exemplify and describe the organizational development process under the three phases of change, but begin with a description of current Bureaucratic practices., The Education Quality System (EQS) was submitted for critical examination to 84 experts in the field of education and Quality management. All levels of the educational system were represented: teacher, building level administrator, district supervisors, and directors, assistant superintendents, superintendents, State department, and university representatives. Additionally, there were Quality experts who had national recognition for their books written on Quality schooling. The experts validated the content of the EQS with regard to its clarity, relevance, importance, and logical progression across phases of organizational development and change. Reactions from the validation experts were evaluated in relation to quantitative criteria and qualitative comments. The quantitative analysis yielded very high support for the system. The Qualitative comments were used to make refinements to the System made in Phase Two of the validation study by a panel of five experts who participated in Phase One of the content validation. The panelists reviewed the quantitative results and used the qualitative comments to reach consensus on recommended changes to the system. The results of both Phase One and Phase Two of the content validation indicate that the EQS is complete, clear and has relevance and importance to guide the direction of organizational change for educators within a framework of Change, Systems, Quality and School Reform and Improvement.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994, 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40783
- Subject Headings
- Business Administration, Management, Education, Administration
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Inducing relaxation in the queen conch Strombus gigas (L.) for cultured pearl production.
- Creator
- Acosta-Salmón, Héctor, Davis, Megan
- Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2761975
- Subject Headings
- Queen conch, Pearls, Marine biology --Research
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Indications ofrelationships between poriferan classes using full-length 18S rRNA gene sequences.
- Creator
- Adams, Christi L., McInerney, James O., Kelly-Borges, M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007272
- Subject Headings
- Sponges, RNA, Ribosomal, 18S, Demospongiae, Phylogeny--Molecular aspects, Calcarea, Hexactinellida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effect of MDMA abuse on axonal transportation of serotonergic nervous system in the rat brain.
- Creator
- Adams, Herbert D., Ma, Zhiyuan, Tao, Rui
- Date Issued
- 2012-04-06
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3348609
- Subject Headings
- N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, Ecstasy, Receptors, Serotonin - drug effects, Serotonergic nervous system, Substance-related disorders, Methamphetamine --adverse effects, Serotonin --pharmacokinetics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Land use and the spatial distribution of perfluoroalkyl compounds as measured in the plasma of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
- Creator
- Adams, Jeffrey, Houde, Magali, Muir, Derek, Speakman, Todd, Bossart, Gregory D., Fair, Patricia A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1925504
- Subject Headings
- Bottlenose dolphin --Research --United States
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Making destiny his choice: The quest to choose necessity in James Merrill's "The Changing Light at Sandover".
- Creator
- Adams, Robert Don., Washington University in St. Louis
- Abstract/Description
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I argue that Merrill's epic trilogy depicts his private struggle with what is figured at various points as heredity, the unconscious, and necessity. I begin my introductory chapter by asserting that Merrill's epic is first and foremost a private quest--what he refers to in an early poem as the "inner adventure"--and not the prophetic and apocalyptic document that many have claimed it to be. I then briefly trace Merrill's influences in the creation of his epic., In my second chapter I contend...
Show moreI argue that Merrill's epic trilogy depicts his private struggle with what is figured at various points as heredity, the unconscious, and necessity. I begin my introductory chapter by asserting that Merrill's epic is first and foremost a private quest--what he refers to in an early poem as the "inner adventure"--and not the prophetic and apocalyptic document that many have claimed it to be. I then briefly trace Merrill's influences in the creation of his epic., In my second chapter I contend that the poet's unhappiness with the user/used relationship between art and life leads him to "project" his Oedipal struggle into the fictional form of a novel. The poet's unconsciously willed loss or abandonment of this novel proves to him that any artistic effort to choose necessity and placate heredity must take the form of the quest for the sublime (depicted in "The Book of Ephraim") in which the real and the ideal, life and art, become one., In my third chapter I argue that Mirabell's Books of Number, the trilogy's second volume, is written in reaction to the failure of the poet-quester of "The Book of Ephraim" to "break out" of or to transcend the repetitive cycle of the sublime quest. In Mirabell the ouija board spirits warn the poet-quester of the dangers of continual rebellion against the natural order; they urge him to accept the limitations of his time-bound and body-bound nature., My concluding chapter concerns itself with the third book of Merrill's epic, the supposed Paradiso of this trilogy, in which the poet-quester proceeds not to beatitude but back to life. This is the most elaborate of the three poems, but its legions of ouija board figures, startling mythical histories, and endless wordplay simply serve to emphasize how little faith the poet has invested in his own celestial system.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993, 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40742
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The representation paradox.
- Creator
- Adams, Robert T., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209983
- Subject Headings
- Politics, Practical, Representative government and representation, Political participation, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
