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- Title
- “A box of wires” a grounded theory approach to synthpop.
- Creator
- Suarez, Michael S., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361361
- Subject Headings
- Synthpop (Music), Musical analysis
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “Americans all!” re-imaging ethnicity in America, 1939-1945.
- Creator
- May, Jacqueline S., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2010-04-09
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176831
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve” Green consciousness in the Hunger Games trilogy.
- Creator
- Jenkins, Sarah Tucker, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361313
- Subject Headings
- Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games, Ecofeminism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
- Creator
- Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
- Subject Headings
- Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “Satan in high heels”: representation of the feminine in the American popular songbook and its impact on performance, interpretation, and audience reception.
- Creator
- Bridwell-Briner, Kathryn E., Walters, Tim, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361912
- Subject Headings
- Feminism and music, Jazz vocals, Femininity in music, Jazz vocals, Cabaret
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 2016 FAU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Heat Winners.
- Creator
- Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and...
Show moreThe 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and 2010 the 3MT® competition was promoted to other Australian and New Zealand universities and enthusiasm for the concept grew. Since 2011, the popularity of the competition has increased and 3MT® competitions are now held in over 170 universities across more than 18 countries worldwide.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005374
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
- Format
- Video file
- Title
- 2017 FAU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition.
- Creator
- Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and...
Show moreThe 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and 2010 the 3MT® competition was promoted to other Australian and New Zealand universities and enthusiasm for the concept grew. Since 2011, the popularity of the competition has increased and 3MT® competitions are now held in over 170 universities across more than 18 countries worldwide.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005375
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
- Format
- Video file
- Title
- 3MT® 2016 Championship Program.
- Creator
- Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and...
Show moreThe 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and 2010 the 3MT® competition was promoted to other Australian and New Zealand universities and enthusiasm for the concept grew. Since 2011, the popularity of the competition has increased and 3MT® competitions are now held in over 170 universities across more than 18 countries worldwide.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005423
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 3MT® 2017 Championship Program.
- Creator
- Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and...
Show moreThe 3MT® competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The first 3MT® competition was held at the University of Queensland in 2008 with 160 students competing. In 2009 and 2010 the 3MT® competition was promoted to other Australian and New Zealand universities and enthusiasm for the concept grew. Since 2011, the popularity of the competition has increased and 3MT® competitions are now held in over 170 universities across more than 18 countries worldwide.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005424
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A biologically inspired myelinated neuron axon model using a system identification approach.
- Creator
- Morales, George J., Zhuang, Hanqi, Pavlovic, Mirjana, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164633
- Subject Headings
- Axons, Nodes of Ranvier, Models, Neurological
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Bird’s Eye View: Assessing Sea Turtle Presence in Florida’s Gulf Stream and Coastal Waters.
- Creator
- Bovery, Caitlin M., Wyneken, Jeanette, Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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Assessing the presence or absence of marine turtles in an open system poses both observational and analytical challenges due to the migratory nature of marine turtles and their use of large current systems. Concentrations can shift as turtles shift between oceanic and neritic stages and migrate between breeding and foraging grounds. We conducted standard aerial surveys monthly from 2011-2012 to capture seasonal snapshots of sea turtle presence. Each survey covered the area from a northern...
Show moreAssessing the presence or absence of marine turtles in an open system poses both observational and analytical challenges due to the migratory nature of marine turtles and their use of large current systems. Concentrations can shift as turtles shift between oceanic and neritic stages and migrate between breeding and foraging grounds. We conducted standard aerial surveys monthly from 2011-2012 to capture seasonal snapshots of sea turtle presence. Each survey covered the area from a northern boundary near West Palm Beach, Florida 26°43′N to a southern boundary near Miami, Florida 25°40′N, USA with transects up to 20-50 km offshore. 218 turtles were observed during the course of this study 2011: n 79; 2012: n 139. We summarize our sightings by season: Winter December-February, Spring March-May, Summer June-August, and Fall September-November to examine trends in presence of sea turtles. A variety of sizes were observed throughout the year, indicating the presence of several life stages of marine turtles in Florida’s waters during all four seasons. While it is understood that marine turtles use the waters off the eastern coast of Florida, here we document the magnitude of the shift in turtle presence each season throughout two years and where the turtles occur most frequently. Our assessment of marine turtles in the waters off of southeast Florida provide valuable metrics describing the in-water biology of these turtles and for the first time, provide a quantitative assessment of annual and inter-annual fluctuations in presence in the major current and along our coast.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005804
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A bistable counterchange detector for the perception of third-order motion.
- Creator
- Norman, Joseph W., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2012-03-30
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3342461
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Age-dependent Neurodegeneration.
- Creator
- Jia, Kailiang, Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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The probability of humans developing neurodegenerative diseases increases as one ages. So the purpose of this study is to use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic model for determining if they develop age-dependent neuronal changes.
- Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005151
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A camera trap study of the cryptic, terrestrial guenon Cercopithecus lomamiensis in central Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Creator
- McPhee, Steven G., Ayali, Pablo, Graduate College, Hart, John A., Detwiler, Kate M.
- Abstract/Description
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From October-December 2013, we conducted a camera trap study of the newly discovered primate species lesula, Cercopithecus lomamiensis, in the Lomami River Basin, DR Congo. The primary aim of the study was to examine how lesula fares in the presence of uncontrolled bushmeat hunting. We placed 41 camera traps inside a 4-km2 grid located in the Yawende community conservation area outside the proposed Lomami National Park LNP. We compared an analysis of 72 lesula events over 842 camera trap days...
Show moreFrom October-December 2013, we conducted a camera trap study of the newly discovered primate species lesula, Cercopithecus lomamiensis, in the Lomami River Basin, DR Congo. The primary aim of the study was to examine how lesula fares in the presence of uncontrolled bushmeat hunting. We placed 41 camera traps inside a 4-km2 grid located in the Yawende community conservation area outside the proposed Lomami National Park LNP. We compared an analysis of 72 lesula events over 842 camera trap days from the heavily hunted Yawende site to a pilot camera trap study 38 lesula events over 462 camera trap days at the Losekola study site within the LNP. Our data show an unexpected result: capture probability of lesula 0.08 is the same at both the hunted and non-hunted sites. This is in contrast to the sharp decline in capture probability of all other medium to large terrestrial mammals at the Yawende site. These findings suggest lesula’s cryptic behavior is an important adaptation buffering the species from the impact of hunting. However, hunting pressure on lesula may increase in the near future as hunters adjust effort in response to the decline of less cryptic prey species. Our study also expands knowledge on lesula’s diet, group composition, minimum group size, phenotypic traits, and home range. These findings represent the first new data on lesula since its discovery.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005157
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A characterization of the Lap Aquarius Phantom of external lap laser alignment and MR Geometric distortion verification for the use of SRS patient simulation.
- Creator
- Vergara, Daniel, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2012-03-30
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3342454, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3342454
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A comparative analysis of environmental history programs.
- Creator
- Feinberg, Lindsay, Brewer, Ernest, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164527
- Subject Headings
- Human ecology --History, Environmental education, Palm Beach County (Fla.) --History, Local
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Comparative Stable Isotope Analysis of Two Archaeological Sites in Broward County.
- Creator
- Thomas, Alexandra N., Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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Understanding people through the foods eaten has proven a formidable method to uncover subsistence patterns and infer lifestyle of the earliest inhabitants of an area. With previously examined paleodiet from East Okeechobee Area, Tatham Mound, and Fort Center, particular areas of Florida’s prehistory have begun to resurrect thorough the eye of the scientist. When we understand the foods consumed, we also corroborate that with the environment where the individual resided. Reconstructing foods...
Show moreUnderstanding people through the foods eaten has proven a formidable method to uncover subsistence patterns and infer lifestyle of the earliest inhabitants of an area. With previously examined paleodiet from East Okeechobee Area, Tatham Mound, and Fort Center, particular areas of Florida’s prehistory have begun to resurrect thorough the eye of the scientist. When we understand the foods consumed, we also corroborate that with the environment where the individual resided. Reconstructing foods eaten not only helps researchers understand the ecology of the habitat, but also the social structure of the group the person belonged to. The conglomeration of these factors enables investigators to understand the people, culture, and environment of a region when photographs and written records are unavailable and unaccountable. Using the stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, a molecular analysis of the collagen and apatite of bones and tooth enamel signifies the quantities and qualities of proteins and carbohydrates eaten by an individual. This method will be utilized and highlighted in the paleodietary analysis of two sites from the inland zone of southeastern Florida. Two South Florida archaeological sites were discovered housing human remains in the early 1970s. Markham Park and Lauderhill Mound are the two sites used for this analysis. Because of the pottery sherds associated in chronological stratigraphic layers, the date range for each site has been shown to differ by about 500 years. This is significant to assess if the diet compares or contrasts throughout the different time periods.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005916
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A computational approach analyzing global dynamics.
- Creator
- Kasti, Dinesh, Van der Vorst, R.C.A.M., Kalies, William D., Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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We describe the lattice structure of attractors in a dynamical system and the lifting of sublattices of attractors, which are computationally less accessible, to lattices of forward invariant sets and attracting neighborhoods, which are computationally accessible. We also show how the use of these algebraic structures of lattices to help us to capture the information about underlying dynamical system in a more elegant way and with lesser computational cost. For example, they can be used to...
Show moreWe describe the lattice structure of attractors in a dynamical system and the lifting of sublattices of attractors, which are computationally less accessible, to lattices of forward invariant sets and attracting neighborhoods, which are computationally accessible. We also show how the use of these algebraic structures of lattices to help us to capture the information about underlying dynamical system in a more elegant way and with lesser computational cost. For example, they can be used to develop a much efficient algorithm to compute a global lyapunov function that describes the overall gradient dynamics.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005888
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Computational Study on different penalty approaches for constrained optimization in radiation therapy treatment planning with a simulated annealing algorithm.
- Creator
- Mohammadi Khoroushadi, Mohammad Sadegh, Shang, Charles, Ouhib, Zoubir, Graduate College, Leventouri, Theodora, Kalantzis, Georgios
- Abstract/Description
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Simulated Annealing algorithm is utilized for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy IMRT optimization. The goal in IMRT is to give the prescribed radiation dose to the tumor while minimizing the dose given to normal organs.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005891
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A conserved cysteine framework of toxins from Viola tricolor and Conus brunneus characterized in the Drosophila melanogaster Giant Fiber System.
- Creator
- Hoggard, Mickelene F., Mari, Frank, Graduate College
- Abstract/Description
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Conotoxins are disulfide rich peptides present in the venom of cone snails, a genus of marine mollusks that prey upon fish, worms, and other mollusks. Conotoxins are promising drugs leads with great prospects in the treatment of diseases and disorders such as chronic pain, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Similar compounds can be found in plants; for example, cyclotides, which are cyclic peptides isolated from the Violaceae violet, Rubiaceae coffee, and...
Show moreConotoxins are disulfide rich peptides present in the venom of cone snails, a genus of marine mollusks that prey upon fish, worms, and other mollusks. Conotoxins are promising drugs leads with great prospects in the treatment of diseases and disorders such as chronic pain, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Similar compounds can be found in plants; for example, cyclotides, which are cyclic peptides isolated from the Violaceae violet, Rubiaceae coffee, and Cucurbitaceae cucurbit families and they have a wide range of biological activities, such as anti-HIV, uterotonic, and antimicrobial. Cyclotides have a cyclic cysteine knot motif characterized by a cyclic backbone and six conserved cysteine residues that form the three disulfide bridges of the “knot”. This motif provides cyclotides with superior stability against thermal, chemical, and enzymatic degradation; marking them as potential frameworks for peptide drug delivery. Cysteine framework IX conotoxins C-C-C-CXC-C, isolated from the venom of Conus brunneus, contain the same cysteine framework, homologous sequences, and similar 3D structures to cyclotides. Presented are details on the isolation of these conotoxins and cyclotides, from Viola tricolor, and the characterization of their activity in the Drosophila melanogaster Giant Fiber System GFS, which contains GAP, acetylcholine, and glutamate synapses.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005149
- Format
- Document (PDF)