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Title: La harangve d'Achior l'Ammonite svr vn advis donne a monseignevr le prince :.
Creator: Achior l'Ammonite
Abstract/Description: 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: Becoming Fools Crow.
Creator: Acker, Stacy A. B., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: James Welch's historical novel Fools Crow brings readers to the eve of the destruction of Plains Indians' culture. Through Fools Crow, a member of the Pikuni band in the Blackfeet tribe, readers witness the rites of passage of a young man evolving into a respected member of Blackfeet society. The story culminates with the Marias Massacre of 1870 in which the U.S. Cavalry knowingly slaughtered innocent Blackfeet. While many find this book tragic with depressing implications, Welch's...
Show moreJames Welch's historical novel Fools Crow brings readers to the eve of the destruction of Plains Indians' culture. Through Fools Crow, a member of the Pikuni band in the Blackfeet tribe, readers witness the rites of passage of a young man evolving into a respected member of Blackfeet society. The story culminates with the Marias Massacre of 1870 in which the U.S. Cavalry knowingly slaughtered innocent Blackfeet. While many find this book tragic with depressing implications, Welch's development of the hero offers contemporary readers a sense of hope. Welch offers a new hero, one who brings new knowledge to the people, in the character Fools Crow. While most American Indian culture heroes are mythic, Welch offers a man who learns to live with mortal limitations and weaknesses. Because of who he becomes while remaining a man, not a myth, Fools Crow stands as a symbol of hope, not loss, for today.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15352
Subject Headings: Folklore, Literature, American
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The education quality system: A content validation.
Creator: Acker-Hocevar, Michele A., University of South Florida
Abstract/Description: 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.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40783
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Management, Education, Administration
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The call of public service: motivation and professional commitment in education.
Creator: Ackerina, Jacqueline., College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if individuals who are professionally committed to careers in public education possess public service motivation. The participants in this study were a sample of convenience selected through their enrollment in graduate education programs within three East Coast universities. The sample was stratified into three groups based on their education roles as teachers, aspiring leaders, and school district administrators. Based on the 258 education sector...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine if individuals who are professionally committed to careers in public education possess public service motivation. The participants in this study were a sample of convenience selected through their enrollment in graduate education programs within three East Coast universities. The sample was stratified into three groups based on their education roles as teachers, aspiring leaders, and school district administrators. Based on the 258 education sector participants, the majority were Caucasian, female, and under the age of 30. All respondents held at least a bachelor's degree and the majority held up to ten years tenure in education. Utilizing an abridged version of Perry's (1996) multi-dimensional scale that was modified for the education sector, the public service motivation (PSM) construct was measured using an Internet survey approach. Three of the public service motivation dimensions and two commitment items were used to operationalize the PSM and professional commitment of education professionals within their current roles. Correlation, regression, ANOVA, and t-test analyses were conducted to examine the data collected. Study findings concluded that education professionals possess public service motivation and are professionally committed to their careers. In addition, results indicated that school district administrators possessed higher levels of public service motivation than teachers. Furthermore, demographic characteristics indicated that educators who are older, more experienced, and highly educated possess higher levels of PSM. Perhaps the most critical discovery was that when comparing education professionals to their public administration counterparts, educators possessed higher levels of public service motivation. These findings have several important implications for education institutions, academic scholars, human resource managers, and leadership preparation programs that would all benefit from all
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342031
Subject Headings: Motivation (Psychology), Educational leadership, Public administration, Education, Aims and objectives, Education, Social aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The perpetual motion machine.
Creator: Ackerman, Brittany, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Perpetual Motion Machine is a collection of creative nonfiction essays about the author and her brother as they have experienced growing up both together and then apart throughout the years of their lives. The essays deal with the pair’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood as well as the issues of depression, anxiety and drug addiction. Some pieces are flash-style and others are longer works of lyric essay or general narrative. The pieces can both stand alone and work to create a larger,...
Show moreThe Perpetual Motion Machine is a collection of creative nonfiction essays about the author and her brother as they have experienced growing up both together and then apart throughout the years of their lives. The essays deal with the pair’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood as well as the issues of depression, anxiety and drug addiction. Some pieces are flash-style and others are longer works of lyric essay or general narrative. The pieces can both stand alone and work to create a larger, substantial narrative on how drug addiction affects an entire family, one’s whole world, thus telling a story about how the author must find herself through investigating her brother’s trials and tribulations with addiction.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004340
Subject Headings: Addicts--Family relationships, Brothers and sisters--Family relationships, Brothers and sisters--Psychological aspects., Dysfunctional families--Psychological aspects, Substance abuse--Psychological aspects, Compulsive behavior--Social aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Thrust Response of a Vectored-Thruster Unmanned Underwater Vehicle.
Creator: Ackermann, Lloyd E. J., von Ellenrieder, Karl, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Towing tank/water flume experiments are conducted to characterize the dynamics of a Remotely-Piloted Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (RPUUV) propelled by a vectored-thruster system. Force and torque measurements are used to determine the coefficients of drag, lift, yaw-moment and thrust of the vehicle as a function of the vehicle yaw angle and the vectored-thruster rudder angle. Simultaneously, particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements of the propeller inlet flow are also performed to examine...
Show moreTowing tank/water flume experiments are conducted to characterize the dynamics of a Remotely-Piloted Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (RPUUV) propelled by a vectored-thruster system. Force and torque measurements are used to determine the coefficients of drag, lift, yaw-moment and thrust of the vehicle as a function of the vehicle yaw angle and the vectored-thruster rudder angle. Simultaneously, particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements of the propeller inlet flow are also performed to examine the variation of flow conditions at the propeller inlet with rudder angle. The tests are conducted at 0.150 rnls, 0.300 rnls, 0.515 rnls and 0.773 rnls. While the measured drag coefficient is slightly higher than predicted by theory at low Reynolds number (1.44 x10^5 and 2.88 x10^5), the hydrodynamic coefficients data are expected to be useful in predicting the response of vehicles in the field. Additionally, the magnitude of the thrust vector varies nonlinearly with rudder angle and for nonzero rudder angles the thrust vector does not point in the same direction as the thruster axis.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012500
Subject Headings: Naval architecture, Oceanographic submersibles--Hydrodynamics, Vibration (Marine engineering)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Performance Analysis of Spectrum Sensing Schemes Based on Fractional Lower Order Moments for Cognitive Radios in Alpha- Stable Noise Environments.
Creator: Ackie, A-Bon Elfick, Aalo, Valentine A., Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Natural and manmade noise signals tend to exhibit impulsive behaviors. Therefore modeling those signals as α-stable processes is better suited towards the development of a practical spectrum sensing scheme. However, the performances of detectors operating in an α-stable noise environment are difficult to evaluate. This is because an α-stable random variable can usually only be modeled by the characteristic function since closed-form expressions are usually not available except for the special...
Show moreNatural and manmade noise signals tend to exhibit impulsive behaviors. Therefore modeling those signals as α-stable processes is better suited towards the development of a practical spectrum sensing scheme. However, the performances of detectors operating in an α-stable noise environment are difficult to evaluate. This is because an α-stable random variable can usually only be modeled by the characteristic function since closed-form expressions are usually not available except for the special values of the characteristic exponent that correspond to the Cauchy and Gaussian noise distributions. In this thesis, we derive a general closed-form expression for the probability density function (PDF) of symmetric alpha stable processes having rational characteristic exponent (0<α≤2). Consequently, we obtain analytical expressions for the PDF and corresponding complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of the proposed fractional lower order moment (FLOM) detector. Utilizing false alarm and detection probabilities, the performance analysis of the proposed spectrum sensing scheme is conducted with the assumption that the cognitive radio (CR) users are operating in non-fading channels. We validate the analytical results with Monte Carlo simulations. The effect of the distribution parameters on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves is verified.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004561, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004561
Subject Headings: Cognitive radio networks., Radio frequency allocation., Radio resource management (Wireless communications), Wireless communication systems.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CHOOSING ANALOGOUS SOLUTIONS.
Creator: ACKINCLOSE, CAROLYN C., Florida Atlantic University, Reed, Stephen K.
Abstract/Description: The present study investigated how students in a college algebra class select potentially useful solutions for solving algebra word problems. Several variables, including similarity, complexity, and inclusiveness were assessed to determine how they influence subjects' selections. Results indicated that neither complexity nor inclusiveness had a significant impact on students' selections and that students select solutions primarily on the basis of similarity. Students' inability to select...
Show moreThe present study investigated how students in a college algebra class select potentially useful solutions for solving algebra word problems. Several variables, including similarity, complexity, and inclusiveness were assessed to determine how they influence subjects' selections. Results indicated that neither complexity nor inclusiveness had a significant impact on students' selections and that students select solutions primarily on the basis of similarity. Students' inability to select potentially useful solutions was revealed by their failure to select the more inclusive solution, even though their performance greatly improved through the use of these solutions. The influence of similarity on the selection of solutions and inclusiveness on the effective use of solutions occurred when the effective solutions had the same story context (Experiment 1) and when the effective solutions had a different story context (Experiment 2).
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14313
Subject Headings: Problem solving, Thought and thinking
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: Combining examples and procedures.
Creator: Actor, Cheryl A., Florida Atlantic University, Reed, Stephen K.
Abstract/Description: The present study evaluated three instructional methods for solving algebra word problems. The instructions consisted of either an example, a set of procedures, or both the example and procedures. The procedures were rules designed to aid in solving word problems. The example was a worked-out solution to a word problem that was representative of the test problems. The subject's task was to study the instructional material and then generate the equations needed to solve the subsequent test...
Show moreThe present study evaluated three instructional methods for solving algebra word problems. The instructions consisted of either an example, a set of procedures, or both the example and procedures. The procedures were rules designed to aid in solving word problems. The example was a worked-out solution to a word problem that was representative of the test problems. The subject's task was to study the instructional material and then generate the equations needed to solve the subsequent test problems. The test problems differed from the example by either 0, 1, 2, or 3 transformations. The results showed that subjects in the example and example-plus-procedure groups performed the best but the difference between these two groups was not significant. The procedures alone were relatively ineffective. A mathematical model is proposed to explain how the performance was influenced by the three types of instructional material and four levels of transformation.
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Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14437
Subject Headings: Problem solving, Educational psychology
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Feasting with Banquo: The ghost stories of Fritz Leiber.
Creator: Adair, Gerald M., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: In "Smoke Ghost" (1941), Fritz Leiber created the contemporary paradigm for the "urban horror story" that has been so successfully exploited by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell and many others. At the heart of Leiber's ghost stories, however, rest a firm "tradition" of supernatural fiction, stemming from primitive religion, on the one hand, and literary example on the other. While his urban settings (Chicago, San Francisco) may be seen as contemporary...
Show moreIn "Smoke Ghost" (1941), Fritz Leiber created the contemporary paradigm for the "urban horror story" that has been so successfully exploited by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell and many others. At the heart of Leiber's ghost stories, however, rest a firm "tradition" of supernatural fiction, stemming from primitive religion, on the one hand, and literary example on the other. While his urban settings (Chicago, San Francisco) may be seen as contemporary reinterpretations of Horace Walpole's Gothic castle, his specters are the lineal descendants of Shakespeare's, LeFanu's, and Henry James's. Leiber's later use of Jungian archetypes (Shadow and Anima) is superimposed on the traditional ghostly archetype. An analysis of his novel-length ghost story, Our Lady of Darkness , reveals the lurking malevolence of a LeFanu specter, while the ghosts of Shakespeare hover in the wings of stories in which he explores themes of sex, guilt, and death. In each of Leiber's ghost stories, the elements of the tradition combine with "haunts" from the author's personal psychic history to produce a powerful fantasy experience that persists despite threats to the genre by "science, common sense, and psychiatry."
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12666
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, Literature, American
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program on pregnancy outcomes for an adolescent population: A comparative study.
Creator: Adam, Barbara J., Florida Atlantic University, Hektor, Lynne M.
Abstract/Description: The high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida....
Show moreThe high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida. Project Teen is a multidisciplinary program offering a continuum of support services to pregnant adolescents and newly parenting adolescents and their infants until the infants are 2 years old. Through frequent contacts, home visitation, resource referral, counseling, and education the health care professionals collaborate with the clients to facilitate clients' choices which will maximize families' health potential. Home visitation by care coordinators and senior community health nurses was positively related to pregnancy, family health, and family socioeconomic outcomes.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15248
Subject Headings: Teenage pregnancy, Maternal health services, Teenage mothers--Family relationships, Nursing models
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Nest caging as a sea turtle management strategy: Do the benefits outweigh the costs on urban beaches?.
Creator: Adamany, Stephanie Lynne., Florida Atlantic University, Salmon, Michael
Abstract/Description: Caging of sea turtle nests has used by City of Boca Raton's sea turtle conservation program to deter terrestrial predators and reduce human disturbance. The juxtaposition of nest cages and artificial lighting may pose serious threats to hatchlings. I addressed possible negative effects of cages on sea turtle hatchlings' seafinding abilities and potential "cage-trapping" under natural and artificially illuminated conditions. Cages did not effect hatchling orientation on artificially...
Show moreCaging of sea turtle nests has used by City of Boca Raton's sea turtle conservation program to deter terrestrial predators and reduce human disturbance. The juxtaposition of nest cages and artificial lighting may pose serious threats to hatchlings. I addressed possible negative effects of cages on sea turtle hatchlings' seafinding abilities and potential "cage-trapping" under natural and artificially illuminated conditions. Cages did not effect hatchling orientation on artificially illuminated or dark beaches. Hatchlings did not experience any delay in cage escape on dark beaches, but a significant number were trapped inside the cages on artificially illuminated beaches. The highest incidence of trapping occurred on nights surrounding a new moon. Disoriented hatchlings exited cages either after city lighting was reduced (past midnight) or as natural levels of illumination increased shortly before sunrise. When cages were darkened all turtles escaped but many still exhibited signs of disorientation.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15312
Subject Headings: Sea turtles--Florida, Sea turtles--Nests
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The influence of university student leader’s cognitive and behavioral agility on organizational member commitment.
Creator: Adamo, Lauren, Pisapia, John, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description: The focus of this study was to determine if university student leaders’ cognitive and behavioral agility is related to organizational member commitment and if this relationship is moderated by alterable and non-alterable variables. The empirical results from this study are based on the responses of 37 student leaders who occupy leadership positions in organizations and clubs in their respective university. Cognitive agility was measured by the student leader’s use of systems thinking,...
Show moreThe focus of this study was to determine if university student leaders’ cognitive and behavioral agility is related to organizational member commitment and if this relationship is moderated by alterable and non-alterable variables. The empirical results from this study are based on the responses of 37 student leaders who occupy leadership positions in organizations and clubs in their respective university. Cognitive agility was measured by the student leader’s use of systems thinking, reframing, and reflection. Student leader behavioral agility was assessed by a minimum of three organizational members rating the student leader’s use of leader influence actions (transforming, managing, bonding, bridging, and bartering) in carrying out their functions. Organizational member commitment was measured by organization member’s level of commitment with the goals and values of the organization using the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ).
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004341, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004341
Subject Headings: Interorganizational relations, Interpersonal communication, Leadership -- Psychological aspects, Management -- Psychological aspects, Organizational behavior, School management and organization
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The clause of congruency: A possible worlds reading of three novels of Ray Bradbury.
Creator: Adamo, Nicole Maria, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Using Marie-Laure Ryan's definition of the law of minimal departure, I propose an important addendum, the clause of congruency. It is necessary to delve deeper into the connection a reader makes with a textual possible world and its relation to the actual world. The textual world, with all its various rules and mores, becomes just as accessible to the reader as the world he currently resides in, so long as it flows along in a logical manner. It is only when something appears that is...
Show moreUsing Marie-Laure Ryan's definition of the law of minimal departure, I propose an important addendum, the clause of congruency. It is necessary to delve deeper into the connection a reader makes with a textual possible world and its relation to the actual world. The textual world, with all its various rules and mores, becomes just as accessible to the reader as the world he currently resides in, so long as it flows along in a logical manner. It is only when something appears that is incongruent with the reader's understanding of the textual world, the reader is forced to dissemble his current textual world and build a new one. Ray Bradbury utilizes the clause of congruence to reveal meaning in three of his novels.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12964
Subject Headings: Literature, Comparative, Literature, American
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: NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN MAIZE PREPARATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY.
Creator: ADAMS, JEANNE MARION., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The literature on North American Indian maize preparation has been in need of organization and interpretation. Because of this, those archaeologists involved in research on prehistoric use of maize have lacked the information that they should have. By means of library research supplemented with my own experience in maize preparation, I was able to both organize and interpret the material, primarily in the interest of archaeological research.
Date Issued: 1972
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13529
Subject Headings: Indians of North America--Agriculture, Indians of North America--Food, Corn
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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: THE EFFECT OF THE SATISFACTION OF LEARNING STYLE PREFERENCE ON ACHIEVEMENT, ATTRITION, AND ATTITUDE OF PALM BEACH JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS (FLORIDA).
Creator: ADAMS, JOHN FRANKLIN., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In recent years, most literature has contrasted self-directed and conventional methods of learning. Although some research has indicated parity between the two groups in achievement, other results have shown self-directed learners have scored better and had less attrition than conventional learners. Several researchers support the viewpoint that matching academic self-concept with learning styles is related to achievement. This study determined the effects of matching learning styles of...
Show moreIn recent years, most literature has contrasted self-directed and conventional methods of learning. Although some research has indicated parity between the two groups in achievement, other results have shown self-directed learners have scored better and had less attrition than conventional learners. Several researchers support the viewpoint that matching academic self-concept with learning styles is related to achievement. This study determined the effects of matching learning styles of community college students with their instructors' teaching styles. At Palm Beach Junior College (fall, 1980), 604 students in three general curriculum areas were administered the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory. Their instructors were given the Instructional Styles Inventory. Results of the inventories' administration were used to divide the students/teachers into four groups: independent self-paced, independent teacher-paced, lecture, and lecture-laboratory. Match or mismatch of students' LSI profiles with their instructors' ISI profiles indicated whether learning approach was satisfied or not. Educational and statistical comparisons were made between the satisfied and the non-satisfied learners to determine differences in achievement and attrition among these subgroups. Students' expectations of achievement were correlated with their college grade point averages. Within academic areas correlational differences were significant only for two satisfied groups: independent teacher-paced science learners and lecture-laboratory English-reading learners. For all disciplines combined results favored the non-satisfied subgroups in independent teacher-paced and lecture, one exception favoring the satisfied lecture-laboratory learners. Satisfaction of learning experience had a more favorable educational rather than statistical effect: better grade percentages for satisfied students than those for non-satisfied students--two to one, fewer low grades and much less attrition. Results support the worth of using the LSI to match students with teachers for greater effectiveness.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11826
Subject Headings: College students--Attitudes
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