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- The War on Neologisms in the Italian Language.
- Creator
- Baldocchi, Valeria, Ruthenberg, Myriam Swennen, Serra, Ilaria, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Globalization has become an agent of socioeconomic and communicative integration and today it envelops all aspects of human life. The quasi-immediate exchange of information that surpasses the now ancient barriers of time and space has triggered a sociocultural revolution with perceptible effects on the linguistic characteristics that are at the core of collective and individual identities. Among the most noticeable cultural changes are neologisms, which are often at the center of heated...
Show moreGlobalization has become an agent of socioeconomic and communicative integration and today it envelops all aspects of human life. The quasi-immediate exchange of information that surpasses the now ancient barriers of time and space has triggered a sociocultural revolution with perceptible effects on the linguistic characteristics that are at the core of collective and individual identities. Among the most noticeable cultural changes are neologisms, which are often at the center of heated linguistic debates. Some claim that the increased use of neologisms in the Italian language is a natural component of the fluctuating nature of a language and that their use enriches it. Linguistic purists take a more conservative stance and view neologisms as a linguistic enemy who blurs the distinctive differences among languages and robs them of their uniqueness. Neologisms are a mirror of contemporary Italian society and their use entails an often subconscious support of certain social currents.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005175
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Changes in Ant Species Distribution on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches in St Croix, US Virgin Islands.
- Creator
- Balkaran, Kavita, Wetterer, James K., Graduate College, Romais, Danielle K., Balkaran, Michael, Balkaran, Deavica
- Abstract/Description
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Invasive predaceous ants can cause chaos in their new habitats by competing for resources, increasing or decreasing preys or predators, and even threatening the next generation of offsprings. The red imported fire ant RIFA, Solenopsis invicta is a generalist, omnivorous exotic ant from South America. It has been causing ecological, agricultural, and economical havoc in the USA and other parts of the world. Solenopsis invicta preys on pipped eggs and hatchlings of ground nesting birds and...
Show moreInvasive predaceous ants can cause chaos in their new habitats by competing for resources, increasing or decreasing preys or predators, and even threatening the next generation of offsprings. The red imported fire ant RIFA, Solenopsis invicta is a generalist, omnivorous exotic ant from South America. It has been causing ecological, agricultural, and economical havoc in the USA and other parts of the world. Solenopsis invicta preys on pipped eggs and hatchlings of ground nesting birds and reptiles and they are also found on sea turtle nesting beaches. We hypothesized that there will be a change in the fire ant species distribution at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge SPNWR after the first follow-up survey done in 2010, and at Jack Bay after the baseline study in 2011; both nesting beaches are in St Croix, US Virgin Islands. Baited index cards with tuna were set out for approximately two hours then ants were collected in separate marked bags. They were frozen then preserved in ethanol and finally identified. Solenopsis invicta was the most common exotic species at SPNWR. It was significantly more abundant p0.02 than the other fire ant species, Solenopsis geminata which was more abundant in both the 2010 survey and the baseline survey in 2006 at SPNWR. Neither of the fire ant species was found at Jack Bay. This increase in RIFA can become a serious threat to the next generation of sea turtles if its abundance continues to increase at SPNWR.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005135
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Generational Differences in Viewpoints.
- Creator
- Barak, Andrew, McCurry, Alexis, Escaleras, Monica
- Abstract/Description
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In today’s society, different age groups seem to think and behave differently. Generational differences have influenced many controversial opinions discussed today. Not much research has been conducted on these differences, but in the studies which have been conducted, it has been concluded that there are substantial differences that exist between generations. In the limited amount of research that has been conducted, the sample was relatively small, making the survey incomprehensive. In...
Show moreIn today’s society, different age groups seem to think and behave differently. Generational differences have influenced many controversial opinions discussed today. Not much research has been conducted on these differences, but in the studies which have been conducted, it has been concluded that there are substantial differences that exist between generations. In the limited amount of research that has been conducted, the sample was relatively small, making the survey incomprehensive. In order to understand these differences and where the opinions of generations differ, we developed an online survey about people’s opinions on controversial issues debated about in modern society. We found that there are statistically significant differences between age groups and their views on social issues such as religion, sex before marriage, same sex marriage, and abortion. Our results have shown that people are beginning to move away from the more traditional values and into more liberal viewpoints.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000028
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- On the Expected Increase of Mobile Transactions Authenticated Through Biometrics.
- Creator
- Barcenas, Loren, Karabina, Koray, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Biometrics, the identification of specific individuals by unique physical characteristics ¬– like fingerprints, irises, or facial features – promises greater convenience and security than traditional methods since physical features cannot be lost or forgotten. Our study explores practical implementations of biometrics, especially its projected growth in the field of mobile transactions. Our study supports the claim that usage of biometric systems, especially in the authentication of mobile...
Show moreBiometrics, the identification of specific individuals by unique physical characteristics ¬– like fingerprints, irises, or facial features – promises greater convenience and security than traditional methods since physical features cannot be lost or forgotten. Our study explores practical implementations of biometrics, especially its projected growth in the field of mobile transactions. Our study supports the claim that usage of biometric systems, especially in the authentication of mobile transactions, will significantly increase despite security and privacy breaches. Because biometrics is a relatively new technology with little previous data, we circumvent this issue by correlating its usage to that of smart phones in order to analyze statistics to create regression analyses. According to our findings, the number of biometric users will increase from $7.72 billion in 2014 to $10.26 billion in 2019, thus it would be prudent to invest in biometrics by implementing more systems, and creating more reliable systems based on new standards.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005556
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Analysis of the gopher tortoise tick (Amblyomma tuberculatum) and its distribution at the FAU Conservation Area in southestern Florida.
- Creator
- Bari, Arafat, McGuire, Jessica L., Frazier, Evelyn
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361066
- Subject Headings
- Amblyomma, Gopher tortoise, Ticks as carriers of disease, Vector-pathogen relationships
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- An Examination of the Morphosyntactic Structure of Verb Phrases in Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
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- Barile, Paul, Hamilton, Michael
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This research is an examination of the morphological and syntactical features found within verb phrases of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Semitic language which originates from Mesopotamia. From this examination, a configurational model is proposed, which depicts the grammatical arrangement of these morphosyntactic features during verb phrase formation. Additionally, accompanying this description of the language's verb phrases, a dependency-based approach is taken for the analysis of the language's...
Show moreThis research is an examination of the morphological and syntactical features found within verb phrases of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Semitic language which originates from Mesopotamia. From this examination, a configurational model is proposed, which depicts the grammatical arrangement of these morphosyntactic features during verb phrase formation. Additionally, accompanying this description of the language's verb phrases, a dependency-based approach is taken for the analysis of the language's sentence structure. Such a method departs from traditional perspectives which posit that the concept of a sentence is the compositional result of two distinct linguistic elements: a subject and a predicate (the verb phrase). However, from the analysis of the language, an argument is presented for a reconsideration of the conceptualization of a sentence that would position the verb as the primary element, or nucleus, on which all other occurring elements are either directly or indirectly dependent.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000029
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Felix Mendelssohn's Bach revival.
- Creator
- Barna, Charlotte, Joella, Laura
- Abstract/Description
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Johann Sebastian Bach is considered to be one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. However, the modern audience might not realize that it took almost 70 years after Bach’s death for his music to emerge as a part of an important cultural heritage. Even though some of Bach’s organ pieces were continually played in smaller settings, the wider audience only became exposed to his music after the success of Felix Mendelssohn’s performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. It...
Show moreJohann Sebastian Bach is considered to be one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. However, the modern audience might not realize that it took almost 70 years after Bach’s death for his music to emerge as a part of an important cultural heritage. Even though some of Bach’s organ pieces were continually played in smaller settings, the wider audience only became exposed to his music after the success of Felix Mendelssohn’s performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. It was this concert that catapulted Bach among the ranks of the important Baroque composers such as Georg Frideric Handel or Antonio Vivaldi.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005003
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Feeding patterns effect brain development in infancy.
- Creator
- Barrera, Chloe, Jones, Nancy Aaron
- Date Issued
- 2012-04-06
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3348623
- Subject Headings
- Child development, Breast feeding, Infant nutritional physiological phenomena, Brain waves --physiology, Brain --growth & development
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- Diet and Temporal Partitioning Facilitates Coexistence Between Two Octopus Species in a Shallow Coastal Habitat.
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- Bartz, Danielle, Bennice, Chelsea, Brooks, W. Randy, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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Niche partitioning mechanisms may be used by closely related, sympatric species to reduce competition. We examine two dimensions of niche partitioning (diet and temporal) amongst the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and the Atlantic longarm octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi), which spatially overlap in a South Florida intracoastal habitat. SCUBA is used to collect octopus prey remains and gather supplemental feeding images to determine diets of each species. A 24h octopus monitoring camera...
Show moreNiche partitioning mechanisms may be used by closely related, sympatric species to reduce competition. We examine two dimensions of niche partitioning (diet and temporal) amongst the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and the Atlantic longarm octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi), which spatially overlap in a South Florida intracoastal habitat. SCUBA is used to collect octopus prey remains and gather supplemental feeding images to determine diets of each species. A 24h octopus monitoring camera records foraging activity times for each species. The common octopus consumes bivalves (49%), gastropods (32%) and crustaceans (19%), and forages at dawn, dusk, and nocturnal hours. The Atlantic longarm octopus consumes crustaceans (89%) and bivalves (11%), and forages during diurnal hours. Results suggest there is diet overlap between species and octopuses use temporal partitioning. This study provides additional findings to cephalopod niche partitioning literature, novel information on the ecology of the Atlantic longarm octopus, and conservation requirements for sand-dwelling species.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005613
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Parental Ratification: The Roles of Our State “Parents”.
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- Basilio, Giovanna, Sloas, Lincoln, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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This study examines the impact of the parties involved in dependency proceedings under the jurisdiction of South Palm Beach County’s Juvenile Court. I present data collected from observations of over thirty hours at dependency hearings and interviews of representatives for the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), Guardian ad Litem (GAL) attorneys, and the Juvenile Judge. The current study analyzes the foregoing participants and their roles within reunification, termination of...
Show moreThis study examines the impact of the parties involved in dependency proceedings under the jurisdiction of South Palm Beach County’s Juvenile Court. I present data collected from observations of over thirty hours at dependency hearings and interviews of representatives for the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), Guardian ad Litem (GAL) attorneys, and the Juvenile Judge. The current study analyzes the foregoing participants and their roles within reunification, termination of parental rights, and adoption. Additionally, criminal records, mental health status, incidents of domestic violence, and accounts of substance abuse, pertaining to the parents in Florida dependency cases, are discussed.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005614
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Defying the Feminized Scale: Women Weighing in on Eating Problems from Cyberspace.
- Creator
- Baugh, Arely B., Graduate College
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Eating problems – compulsive eating, bulimia, and anorexia – have acquired a complicated symbolic significance that threatens the efficiency of prevention and treatments for such ailments. General and professional conceptualizations of “eating disorders” presume a very narrow and homogenous group of women i.e. young, white, middle-class, and heterosexual victims of a “culture of thinness” and other psychological and psychiatric pathologies Gremillion, 2003; Magnusson & Marecek, 2012; Menassa,...
Show moreEating problems – compulsive eating, bulimia, and anorexia – have acquired a complicated symbolic significance that threatens the efficiency of prevention and treatments for such ailments. General and professional conceptualizations of “eating disorders” presume a very narrow and homogenous group of women i.e. young, white, middle-class, and heterosexual victims of a “culture of thinness” and other psychological and psychiatric pathologies Gremillion, 2003; Magnusson & Marecek, 2012; Menassa, 2004. Consequently, professional discourse, research, and treatment of “eating disorders” neglect and often dismiss the realities of Other women; i.e., minority women, women in other countries, working-class and poor women, older women, and queer women Nasser, Katzman, & Gordon, 2001; Orbach, 1998; Thompson, 1994. Using a critical feminist psychological approach, together with the stories of women “beyond the margins” of “eating disorders,” this study seeks to 1 dispel the damaging myths and stereotypes about eating problems, 2 uncover their embedded connections to systems of racist, sexist, imperialist, patriarchal, and class oppression, and 3 argue that by including all women’s experiences and their contextual interrelations through different systems of oppressions, we can accomplish a better, more complete and unbiased understanding of these ubiquitous and complex methods of coping that could guide the development of more efficient preventative and recovery treatments.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005136
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- Document (PDF)
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- Age-related differences in unconscious plagiarism.
- Creator
- Baugh, Arely B., Strasberg, Michelle, Earles, Julie
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361068
- Subject Headings
- Plagiarism, Age
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Memory for License Plates.
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- Beazley, Joanna, Earles, Julie, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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The purpose of this study is to determine which United States license plate(s) are best designed for recall. Based on what we know of human memory in terms of numbers, letters, and their combinations, this study aims to identify the “ideal” license plate for citizens to remember. This study’s results will be applicable in criminal cases, as well as in identifying vehicles involved in AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts. There are many studies that have examined eyewitness memory for crimes in...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to determine which United States license plate(s) are best designed for recall. Based on what we know of human memory in terms of numbers, letters, and their combinations, this study aims to identify the “ideal” license plate for citizens to remember. This study’s results will be applicable in criminal cases, as well as in identifying vehicles involved in AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts. There are many studies that have examined eyewitness memory for crimes in younger adults and older adults. In this study, we will examine the effects of age on memory for license plates. We want to determine which license plates are better remembered by younger and older adults. We hypothesize that the organization of letters and numbers on the license plate will have a larger effect on older adults than on younger adults because older adults need more memory support.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005615
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Adult Age Differences in Event Memory for Events.
- Creator
- Beazley, Joanna, Devlin, Patrick, Earles, Julie, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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In order to remember an event, one must remember the participants in the event, the actions that are performed, and which people performed which actions. Often people make binding errors in memory in which they remember the people and the actions, but they incorrectly remember one person as the person who performed an action that was actually performed by someone else. Half of the participants in our study saw a series of actions with each action performed by one of two actors. The other half...
Show moreIn order to remember an event, one must remember the participants in the event, the actions that are performed, and which people performed which actions. Often people make binding errors in memory in which they remember the people and the actions, but they incorrectly remember one person as the person who performed an action that was actually performed by someone else. Half of the participants in our study saw a series of actions with each action performed by one of two actors. The other half of the participants saw each action performed by a different actor. We found that older adults were more likely to make binding errors than were younger adults. Younger adults were equally likely to make binding errors in the two conditions. Older adults, however, made many fewer binding errors when they saw only two actors during encoding than when they saw many actors during encoding.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005557
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Education and Marijuana: How Does Education Affect the View of Legislating Marijuana Usage?.
- Creator
- Benjamin Henry, Garret Cox, Monica Escaleras, Eric Levy
- Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000013
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Graphic Novels: Comprehension of Text and Image.
- Creator
- Bermudez, Angel, Rodriguez, Oscar, Duenas, Ana Maria, Taylor, Amanda, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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Research suggests that, instinctively, humans follow a Z-shaped pattern when reading graphic novels. Studies have also revealed that readers organize information through Gestalt’s theory of proximity when the panel structure is altered. This paper explores the separation of text and image from the constraints of the traditional comic book format. Through the utilization of an eye-tracking system, this experiment will examine the limitations of the Gestalt theory and the effectiveness of...
Show moreResearch suggests that, instinctively, humans follow a Z-shaped pattern when reading graphic novels. Studies have also revealed that readers organize information through Gestalt’s theory of proximity when the panel structure is altered. This paper explores the separation of text and image from the constraints of the traditional comic book format. Through the utilization of an eye-tracking system, this experiment will examine the limitations of the Gestalt theory and the effectiveness of comprehension. The task of processing the plot of the novels relies heavily on the efficiency of the reader’s ability to apply context by using the accompanying imagery and text via data collected from saccadic patterns, fixations, and gaze analysis. This study coincides with the idea of universal communication by acknowledging that there are multiple ways to comprehend information, with the expectation of gaining further insight on the conscious and subconscious methods of visual processing.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005558
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The elephant in the room: why is it difficult for hospice workers to discuss death with their terminally ill patients?.
- Creator
- Beroldi, Kristi, Earles, Julie
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361070
- Subject Headings
- Hospice nurses, Terminally ill, Death, Hospice care
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Heat Transfer Characterization of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers.
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- Betancourt, Arturo, Curet, Oscar M., Graduate College
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Shell-and-tube heat exchangers (STHXs) are a popular choice in the petroleum refining industry, chemical industry, food processing industry and in power generation plants. This kind of heat exchanger is made up of an array of baffles that redirects the working fluid to increase heat transfer. The objective of this work is to understand the underlying physics of the heat transfer in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger and its interconnection to the fluid structure associated with their design....
Show moreShell-and-tube heat exchangers (STHXs) are a popular choice in the petroleum refining industry, chemical industry, food processing industry and in power generation plants. This kind of heat exchanger is made up of an array of baffles that redirects the working fluid to increase heat transfer. The objective of this work is to understand the underlying physics of the heat transfer in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger and its interconnection to the fluid structure associated with their design. This research focuses on the steady state three dimensional analysis of the time averaged turbulent flow and heat transfer characterization of the shell side of a small scale single segmented baffle heat exchanger. The study is carried out using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package ANSYS: FLUENT 15.0 on a hybrid unstructured mesh. The CFD results are then compared against experimental results. The Reynolds averaged-Navier-stokes (RANS) based turbulent model realizable is used to model the turbulence inside the heat exchanger. The results obtained from CFD and experiment from the shell side wall outlet temperature differ by 5 %. Based on the computational results it is found that the regions of highest velocity at the inlet and in the core flow lead to a higher local heat transfer enhancement. A better understanding of the complex flow and heat transfer regimes inside a shell and tube heat exchanger given by this work would aid to further the development of more cost efficient and effective heat exchanger designs.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005869
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Characterizing Immune Cells of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins.
- Creator
- Bible, Brittany, Zeng, Menghua, Graduate College, Tamjidi, Saba, Bossart, Gregory D., Nouri-Shirazi, Mahyar
- Abstract/Description
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Background: Marine mammals are ideal sentinel species for human health due to exposure to the same oceans and consumption of the same foods. There have been many studies which demonstrate that wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins are exposed to high levels of contaminants which lead to a suppressed immune system and are therefore more susceptible to opportunistic infections, many of which are zoonotic diseases. However, nearly no research has been done on determining defects in the immune cell...
Show moreBackground: Marine mammals are ideal sentinel species for human health due to exposure to the same oceans and consumption of the same foods. There have been many studies which demonstrate that wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins are exposed to high levels of contaminants which lead to a suppressed immune system and are therefore more susceptible to opportunistic infections, many of which are zoonotic diseases. However, nearly no research has been done on determining defects in the immune cell population of dolphins, especially Dendritic Cells DCs that are essential for initiating an immune response. Hypothesis: We hypothesize phenotypic and functional differences in the Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells PBMC, including DC precursors, of wild dolphins as compared to managed dolphins. Methods: Specifically in this study, we have used terrestrial-specific antibodies and growth factors to characterize immune cells in PBMC and to generate monocyte-derived DCs. Results: We have identified cross-reactive terrestrial antibodies that could detect immune cell subsets within PBMC, including B cells, T cells, NK cells, monocytes and APCs. Interestingly, using these antibodies we found significant changes in immune cell subsets within PBMC of wild and managed dolphins. Finally among the terrestrial DC growth factors tested we found rat GM-CSF and IL-4 generated DCs expressing higher levels of CD11c, CD14, CD40, CD80, CD86, MHC I and MHC II. Conclusion: Our findings allow us to further study defects in the immune cells, especially DCs, in response to environmental contaminants.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005137
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- Document (PDF)
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- KIF9 knockdown in mammalian cells leads to multiple mitotic defects.
- Creator
- Billow, Alexa M., Alsina, Laura, Quintyne, Nicholas
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FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.
- Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005428
- Format
- Document (PDF)