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- Territory size of the Florida Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) at Savannas Preserve State Park.
- Creator
- Smith, Theresa E., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The Florida Scrub-jay is the only bird endemic to the state of Florida, and is entirely restricted to pyrogenic xeric oak scrublands. The species is listed as Threatened, and all populations throughout the state are in decline. The major causes of decline are habitat modification due to development and fire suppression. Preservation and proper fire management is crucial for the continued survival of the species. The territories of three families of Florida Scrub-jays at Savannas Preserve...
Show moreThe Florida Scrub-jay is the only bird endemic to the state of Florida, and is entirely restricted to pyrogenic xeric oak scrublands. The species is listed as Threatened, and all populations throughout the state are in decline. The major causes of decline are habitat modification due to development and fire suppression. Preservation and proper fire management is crucial for the continued survival of the species. The territories of three families of Florida Scrub-jays at Savannas Preserve State Park were delineated, and the area calculated using 100% MVCP analysis and compared to work previously published by Cowan (2005). The results of this study show that Savannas Preserve State Park oak scrub habitat is deteriorating, but that aggressive fire management can restore the scrub to optimal Florida Scrub-jay habitat.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11599
- Subject Headings
- Savannas Preserve State Park (Fla.), Florida Scrub-jay, Distribution, Bird populations, Wildlife conservation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A test of factors affecting the foraging success of scarlet ibis.
- Creator
- Stanek, Rebecca A., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Wading bird foraging success is influenced by many different factors. From January to March 2008, I conducted a small-scale experiment with three captive Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) at the Palm Beach Zoo, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Prey density and the presence of conspecifics were manipulated to test for a response by ibis in terms of prey capture rate. Mixed model analysis, when one prey type was available, showed that capture rate increased significantly with prey density and...
Show moreWading bird foraging success is influenced by many different factors. From January to March 2008, I conducted a small-scale experiment with three captive Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) at the Palm Beach Zoo, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Prey density and the presence of conspecifics were manipulated to test for a response by ibis in terms of prey capture rate. Mixed model analysis, when one prey type was available, showed that capture rate increased significantly with prey density and decreased with the presence of conspecifics. When two prey types were available, prey density and the presence of conspecifics had no effect on the capture rates of either prey type. Selectivity analysis revealed that ibis always selected for crayfish in mixed treatments. I hypothesize that the number of prey types available in a treatment played an important role in determining how fish density and the presence of conspecifics affected ibis foraging success.
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- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/215288
- Subject Headings
- Scarlet ibis, Food, Birds, Ecology, Birds, Behavior, Wildlife management, Predation (Biology)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Atlantic sun.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University
- Date Issued
- 1966, 1989, Vol. 1, no. 1, 69, no. 8, 1966-05-12, 1989-06-28
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/vola
- Subject Headings
- College student newspapers and periodicals, College students, Students, Florida Atlantic University, Universities and colleges
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- Serial
- Title
- The Independent Atlantic sun.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University
- Date Issued
- c1989-c1991, 1989, 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/volc
- Subject Headings
- Students, Universities and colleges, College students, College student newspapers and periodicals
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- Serial
- Title
- Undergraduate Law Journal Strategic Analysis & Alignment Plan.
- Creator
- Lopez Pelaez, Kevin
- Abstract/Description
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The Undergraduate Law Journal of Florida Atlantic University (“ULJ” and/or “Journal”) was founded in 2011 within the College of Business. Through years of persistent expansion, the Journal now serves as a hallmark platform, university-wide, for undergraduate students interested in legal academia. Starting in 2014, the Journal specifically targeted and fostered its identity as an academic journal and subsequently became an Open Access Journal through the Digital Library at Florida Atlantic...
Show moreThe Undergraduate Law Journal of Florida Atlantic University (“ULJ” and/or “Journal”) was founded in 2011 within the College of Business. Through years of persistent expansion, the Journal now serves as a hallmark platform, university-wide, for undergraduate students interested in legal academia. Starting in 2014, the Journal specifically targeted and fostered its identity as an academic journal and subsequently became an Open Access Journal through the Digital Library at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). In the same year, the Journal became an academic resource available through FAU Digital Library and the FAU Research Repository.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000389
- Subject Headings
- Law journals, Undergraduates
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Unvanquished: economic enterprise and tribal adaptation among the Seminoles in the twentieth century.
- Creator
- Nolen, Amanda., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Throughout the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has experienced unprecedented changes to their culture, independence, and economic position. They began the century as subsistence based people with few rights to the land, and they ended the century with substantial political power and economically prosperous enterprises while maintaining their tribal status and identity as Seminoles. In the twentieth century, the Seminoles confirmed their historical role from the nineteenth...
Show moreThroughout the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has experienced unprecedented changes to their culture, independence, and economic position. They began the century as subsistence based people with few rights to the land, and they ended the century with substantial political power and economically prosperous enterprises while maintaining their tribal status and identity as Seminoles. In the twentieth century, the Seminoles confirmed their historical role from the nineteenth century as having never been defeated, but rather than achieving this image through war acts, as they did in the nineteenth century, they created a new role as being culturally and economically indomitable. This aspect of Seminole history has been largely ignored in the narrative of Florida's history.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335461
- Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians, Economic conditions, Seminole Indians, Government relations, Tribal government, Indians of North America, Civil rights
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The vestiges of Brown: an analysis of the placements of African American principals in Florida public schools (2010-2011).
- Creator
- Nesmith, Leo, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the relationship between a school's percentage of African American students enrolled and the placement of an African American principal for all of Florida's K-12 traditional public schools during the academic year 2010-2011. This study also sought to determine if this relationship was moderated by each school's level, size, letter grade, socioeconomic status (FRL), gender of principal, as well as gender and race of the presiding district...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine and describe the relationship between a school's percentage of African American students enrolled and the placement of an African American principal for all of Florida's K-12 traditional public schools during the academic year 2010-2011. This study also sought to determine if this relationship was moderated by each school's level, size, letter grade, socioeconomic status (FRL), gender of principal, as well as gender and race of the presiding district superintendent. Lastly, the relationship between each moderator variable and the placement of African American principals was examined. The ultimate objective was to determine if limited opportunities still widely exist in the placement of African American principals throughout Florida. ... From a legal perspective, although Brown and its progeny of civil rights laws valiantly set out to eliminate race and racism from schools and in the workplace, the findings revealed that race continues to be a factor in determining inequity in principal placements.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362578
- Subject Headings
- Racism in education, Discrimination in education, Law and legislation, African American educators, Faculty integration, Education, Urban, Political aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Vetting sources in social media environments: strategies emplyed by journalists of The Palm Beach Post.
- Creator
- Brown, Michelle D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
- Abstract/Description
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This qualitative research study explores the relationship between reducing uncertainty and assigning source credibility in the context of social media sites (SMS) and examines the effect of uncertainty reduction within the social media environment on the development of relationships between journalists and their sources. For this study, interviews were conducted with professional journalists to determine whether uncertainty was reduced and credibility was established with sources via SMS (i.e...
Show moreThis qualitative research study explores the relationship between reducing uncertainty and assigning source credibility in the context of social media sites (SMS) and examines the effect of uncertainty reduction within the social media environment on the development of relationships between journalists and their sources. For this study, interviews were conducted with professional journalists to determine whether uncertainty was reduced and credibility was established with sources via SMS (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) and what theoretical strategies journalists used to reduce their uncertainty. The study also aims to determine if correlations exist between a reporter's age, beat, and/or personal adoption of SMS and the reporter's usage of SMS for source development. The interviews were conducted with 15 journalists of The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida), using a standardized interview protocol. Subjects were asked to voluntarily participate in a face-to-face interview with the researcher. Reporters were selected based upon their gender and cultural ethnicity, which was representative of the newsroom demographics of The Palm Beach Post at that time. This research aims to contribute to the uncertainty reduction theory in the realm of computer-mediated communications, specifically with regard to the use of SMS in forming and maintaining journalist-source relationships.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360765
- Subject Headings
- Digital media, Social aspects, Mass media, Technological innovations, Newspaper publishing, Social aspects, American newspapers, Objectivity, Journalistic ethics, Journalism, Moral and ethical aspects, Newspapers, Sections, columns, etc, Sources
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- We are Limestone Creek: an oral history of Limestone Creek community Jupiter, Florida.
- Creator
- Stout, Sara M., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Limestone Creek is an unincorporated community existing within the planning and zoning boundary lines of Jupiter, Florida. Contrasting the economically flush and rapidly developing surrounding municipality of Jupiter, Limestone Creek is a predominantly African American community with an apparent economic gap that leaves the community untouched by development. This thesis project attempts to capture the voices of Limestone Creek and Jupiter residents pertaining to their accounts with an...
Show moreLimestone Creek is an unincorporated community existing within the planning and zoning boundary lines of Jupiter, Florida. Contrasting the economically flush and rapidly developing surrounding municipality of Jupiter, Limestone Creek is a predominantly African American community with an apparent economic gap that leaves the community untouched by development. This thesis project attempts to capture the voices of Limestone Creek and Jupiter residents pertaining to their accounts with an unincorporated area surrounded by a much wealthier municipality. Interviews were conducted with the residents of the community, Palm Beach County and the Town of Jupiter residents and officials, in an effort to explore the existence of an isolated African American community. The research resulted in varied responses to the idea of incorporation because of lack of funds. Conclusions to this research reveal that, to the members of the community, while race underlies all discussions of incorporation the more immediate issue is about securing basic services and infrastructure.
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- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3325089
- Subject Headings
- Municipal government, Suburban African Americans, Social conditions, Social aspects, Political aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
- Creator
- Sabbagh, Jocelyn., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has...
Show moreThe academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603
- Subject Headings
- Women heads of households, Guatemalans, Family, Emigration and immigration, Social life and customs
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Wonderful Florida.
- Abstract/Description
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The land of sunshine and flowers, luscious fruits, tropic splendors and a climate exquisitely delightful, the winters are generously warm. Florida may also be called the State of Lakes, having within its borders 30,000 lakes, the largest of which is Lake Okeechobee, 40 miles long and 25 miles wide, in the Everglades, which alone cover an area of 5,000 square miles. Blue skies are reflected in the beauty of farflung ocean and bay, through the witchery of cool moonlit nights, when the tropical...
Show moreThe land of sunshine and flowers, luscious fruits, tropic splendors and a climate exquisitely delightful, the winters are generously warm. Florida may also be called the State of Lakes, having within its borders 30,000 lakes, the largest of which is Lake Okeechobee, 40 miles long and 25 miles wide, in the Everglades, which alone cover an area of 5,000 square miles. Blue skies are reflected in the beauty of farflung ocean and bay, through the witchery of cool moonlit nights, when the tropical breeze whispers in the palm fronds.
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- 1930
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000563
- Subject Headings
- Climate, Fauna, Fauna, Beachfront: Seaside and Coastal Destinations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- " You're too late!": prenatal health seeking behaviors of Guatemalan Mayan women in Palm Beach County.
- Creator
- Supanich, Colleen., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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In this thesis I explore the circumstances in which pregnant Guatemalan Mayan women in South Florida communities found themselves. A local non-profit organization, the Guatemalan Maya Center (GMC), offered assistance to pregnant Mayan women to secure biomedical prenatal care, yet many continued to underutilize these services. The decision to utilize this form of care largely depended on whether a woman received care from a traditional midwife in the community. Women receiving care from a...
Show moreIn this thesis I explore the circumstances in which pregnant Guatemalan Mayan women in South Florida communities found themselves. A local non-profit organization, the Guatemalan Maya Center (GMC), offered assistance to pregnant Mayan women to secure biomedical prenatal care, yet many continued to underutilize these services. The decision to utilize this form of care largely depended on whether a woman received care from a traditional midwife in the community. Women receiving care from a midwife generally did not seek biomedical care until late in their pregnancies. Women unable to locate a midwife often incorporated biomedical care once they suspected pregnancy. Due to the difficulties accessing the GMC's services prior to enrollment many of these women did not obtain "timely" care. A better understanding of the ways in which Guatemalan Mayan women incorporated biomedical prenatal care into their lives is the first step towards increasing their participation in these services.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192990
- Subject Headings
- Maya women, Medical care, Prenatal care, Maternal health services, Midwifery, Social aspects, Migrant agricultural laborers, Medical care
- Format
- Document (PDF)
