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- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009238
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009236
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009250
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009239
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009249
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009243
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009240
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving Practice.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009242
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
- Title
- Diving.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University Athletics
- Abstract/Description
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FAU Swimming
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00009129
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History, Florida Atlantic University -- Students, College sports --United States --History
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- Image (JPEG2000)
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- Divine opposition: Malory's polarization of female power in Arthurian legend.
- Creator
- Kelly, Amy S., Florida Atlantic University, Murtaugh, Daniel M.
- Abstract/Description
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Morgan le Fay and the Lady of the Lake are the two most critical representatives of supernatural female power in Arthurian legend. Yet despite their common origins from a single figure in Celtic myth, these women were split into two distinct characters as the legend was progressively revised. Malory finalizes this split by forcing Morgan and Nymue into direct opposition. The events and characteristics that he did not include from his French sources combined with the actions and descriptions...
Show moreMorgan le Fay and the Lady of the Lake are the two most critical representatives of supernatural female power in Arthurian legend. Yet despite their common origins from a single figure in Celtic myth, these women were split into two distinct characters as the legend was progressively revised. Malory finalizes this split by forcing Morgan and Nymue into direct opposition. The events and characteristics that he did not include from his French sources combined with the actions and descriptions that he invented for the two sorceresses reveal his vision of these women and his intolerance for their contradictory nature. Malory's attitude toward supernatural female power, perhaps the reigning attitude of his time, could only reconcile accommodate this magic if it occurred in a dichotomy: such power must either be good or evil. The archetypes constructed in Malory's Morgan le Fay and his Lady of the Lake persist in popular culture even today.
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- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12702
- Subject Headings
- Malory, Thomas,--Sir,--15th cent--Characters--Women, Women in literature, Arthurian romances--History and criticism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Divine judgments upon tyrants: and compassion to the oppressed. : a sermon, preached at Lexington, April 20th, 1778. In commemoration of the murderous war and rapine, inhumanly perpetrated, by two brigades of British troops, in that town and neighbourhood, on the nineteenth of April, 1775.
- Creator
- Cushing, Jacob 1730-1809
- Abstract/Description
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By Jacob Cushing, A.M. Pastor of the church in Waltham. ; [Five lines from Isaiah].
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb6f9
- Subject Headings
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 -- Anniversaries, etc -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Bible -- Deuteronomy XXXII, 43 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Anniversary sermons -- 18th century, Massachusetts -- Lexington, Lexington, Battle of (Massachusetts : 1775)
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- E-book
- Title
- Divine alchemy in Paradise Lost.
- Creator
- Rutherford, Andrea J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines the themes of alchemy and transformation in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century thought. Beginning with an overvieiw of the historical roots of alchemy, this study analyzes the ancient, underlying philosophical concepts that marital union produces the birth of the soul and that destruction is necessary for this birth. Alchemical references identified in Paradise Lost include animal lore and direct alchemical images, which demonstrate Milton's knowledge of alchemy and his...
Show moreThis study examines the themes of alchemy and transformation in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century thought. Beginning with an overvieiw of the historical roots of alchemy, this study analyzes the ancient, underlying philosophical concepts that marital union produces the birth of the soul and that destruction is necessary for this birth. Alchemical references identified in Paradise Lost include animal lore and direct alchemical images, which demonstrate Milton's knowledge of alchemy and his deliberate use of the alchemical metaphor. These themes support the proposal that Milton, a Christian humanist, uses alchemy as a metaphor described in this study as "divine alchemy," which begins with his belief that Christians, inheriting original sin, must submit themselves to a transformative process similar to transmutation to restore right reason and, ultimately, achieve salvation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358963
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Influence, Knowledge, Science, Symbolism in literature, Science in literature, Literature and science, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The dividend reinvestment plan puzzle: Theoretical and empirical evidence.
- Creator
- Lyroudi, Katerina., Florida Atlantic University, McDaniel, William R.
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines the significance and implications of Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs) for the sponsoring company and for the shareholders' wealth from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. It develops a DRP theory, as an extension of dividend and capital structure theories. Furthermore, the study tests empirically several hypotheses related to the market reaction at the announcement of a DRP adoption, to the market reaction at the announcement of a DRP discontinuance and to the...
Show moreThis study examines the significance and implications of Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs) for the sponsoring company and for the shareholders' wealth from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. It develops a DRP theory, as an extension of dividend and capital structure theories. Furthermore, the study tests empirically several hypotheses related to the market reaction at the announcement of a DRP adoption, to the market reaction at the announcement of a DRP discontinuance and to the performance of the company sponsoring a DRP. The results indicated that the market reaction to the announcement of a DRP establishment is favorable on days 1 and 2, significant only for the latter. In the long-run, DRPs create value for the sponsoring firm and its shareholders (as measured by Tobin's Q). The announcement of a DRP termination is followed by a negative market reaction, consistent with the thesis of this study. Finally, several factors such as the DRP type (Type I and Type II plans), the industry of the sponsoring company (utilities and non-utilities), tax legislation, the discount feature and the dividend payout ratio are examined in relation to the market reaction at the announcement of a DRP adoption. The Type II DRPs create more favorable reaction to Type I plans at the announcement of their introduction. There are significant differences between the market reaction at the DRP introduction of utilities and non-utilities. The tax legislation affects corporate dividend policy and DRPs. Finally, the discount feature is not regarded favorably by investors as it was hypothesized, which explains its elimination from many DRPs in the recent years.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12328
- Subject Headings
- Dividend reinvestment, Corporations--Finance, Investments, Portfolio management
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence: An Interpretive Analysis for Cultural Competence of Federal Departments’ Strategic Plans.
- Creator
- Sweeting, Karen D., Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The history of the United States is rooted in differences and actions that has culminated in the current reality of culturally incompetent behaviors with a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion prevailing in organizations and society. Through a cultural competence conceptual framework, this research highlighted an action-oriented approach for organizations seeking to engage in efforts to support and integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. To conduct this research, I developed a...
Show moreThe history of the United States is rooted in differences and actions that has culminated in the current reality of culturally incompetent behaviors with a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion prevailing in organizations and society. Through a cultural competence conceptual framework, this research highlighted an action-oriented approach for organizations seeking to engage in efforts to support and integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. To conduct this research, I developed a cultural competence conceptual framework with eight types of initiatives derived from the scholarly literature on diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competence. The types of initiatives point to organizational efforts to engage in developmental and action-oriented strategies that: facilitate leadership engagement, sensitivity, and responsiveness to diversity, equity, and inclusion; specify strategic and operational goals; incorporate cultural awareness and sensitivity in policies, practices, programs, and procedures; integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into human resource management to build a diverse and representative workforce; cultivate a supportive, inclusive, and equitable organizational culture/climate; reinforce and sustain a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; employ sensitive and inclusive communications; and implement targeted training and professional development on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The cultural competence framework presented ways for organizations to actively engage in setting action-oriented goals targeting ingrained, systemic, and institutionalized disparities.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013600
- Subject Headings
- Cultural competence, Equity, Diversity in the workplace
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity techniques in direct sequence code division multiple access communication systems.
- Creator
- Ugweje, Okechukwu Clark., Florida Atlantic University, Aalo, Valentine A., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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This dissertation investigates the performance of different space diversity combining techniques for the wireless mobile communication systems employing Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA). It covers two research topics, all falling under the umbrella of diversity combining techniques. The first part deals with diversity reception of wideband DS-CDMA signals in which the diversity branches experience some correlation. This analysis is performed without the usual assumption...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the performance of different space diversity combining techniques for the wireless mobile communication systems employing Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA). It covers two research topics, all falling under the umbrella of diversity combining techniques. The first part deals with diversity reception of wideband DS-CDMA signals in which the diversity branches experience some correlation. This analysis is performed without the usual assumption that diversity branches are independent and hence uncorrelated. In this case, the analysis is limited to the conventional diversity techniques such as maximal ratio combining, equal gain combining and selection diversity. In particular, the effect of correlation on system performance using two correlation profiles namely, the constant and the exponential correlation profiles is explored. In the constant correlation, the correlation between adjacent antenna are equal regardless of the separation between them, while in exponential correlation, it is assumed that the level of correlation between adjacent antennas decreases as their separation increases. The second topic deals with the development of new combining techniques. Two new techniques--the Generalized Selection Diversity Combining (GSDC) and the Maximal Ratio-Selection Diversity Combining (MR-SDC)--are introduced and analyzed in this dissertation. Analytical models which can be used to evaluate the performance of these new techniques are indicated. Results show that GSDC perform significantly better than the conventional selection diversity when two or more larger signals are selected. The MR-SDC technique accounts for the possibility of using a large array of antennas and for occasions when the receiving antennas may not be collocated. Also, it is shown that for the large array of antennas, better performance is achieved when the MR-SDC is employed with the maximum number of subgroups. The figures of merit used in this dissertation are the average Bit Error Rate (BER) and the probability of outage for a given threshold probability of error. Exact and approximate expressions are derived for the average bit error probability as well as for the outage probability while accounting for the effect of multipath fading, multiple access interference and background noise.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12524
- Subject Headings
- Code division multiple access, Wireless communication systems
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity performance of DS-CDMA systems in multipath fading channels.
- Creator
- Efthymoglou, George P., Florida Atlantic University, Helmken, Henry, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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In this dissertation, new semi-analytical expressions for the diversity bit error rate performance of asynchronous direct sequence-code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems in multipath fading channels are derived. Also, the PN acquisition time of a DS system with offset frequency periods greater than the code period in a AWGN channel is measured via laboratory experiments. In Part I we consider DS-CDMA systems operating in a cellular environment with multipath reception. Multipath...
Show moreIn this dissertation, new semi-analytical expressions for the diversity bit error rate performance of asynchronous direct sequence-code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems in multipath fading channels are derived. Also, the PN acquisition time of a DS system with offset frequency periods greater than the code period in a AWGN channel is measured via laboratory experiments. In Part I we consider DS-CDMA systems operating in a cellular environment with multipath reception. Multipath propagation is exploited through the use of RAKE receivers. Coherent, differentially coherent and noncoherent binary demodulation schemes are considered. The multiple access interference is modeled as AWGN, conditioned on the fading statistics of the received signal. The mobile radio channel introduces selective fading, and is modeled as a tapped delay line. The amplitude of each resolvable path is statistically described by the Nakagami distribution, which is a general solution to the random vector problem that causes rapid fading. However, we assume independent but nonidentical fading along the RAKE branches. Therefore our analysis supports unequal mean powers and different amount of fading in the multipath components combined by the receiver. Also, the results can be easily extended to account for diversity from multiple antennas or coding in the generalized Nakagami multipath fading environment. In Part II we consider a land mobile satellite channel. First, a laboratory experiment is setup to evaluate the PN acquisition performance of a digital IF receiver in a AWGN channel with large Doppler offset. The digital conversion receiver uses the inherent aliasing property of sampling to realize the baseband conversion using a single analog-to-digital converter. Thereafter, digital signal processing on the I and Q samples enable for design trade-offs in the acquisition of the PN code with Doppler periods greater than the code period. Two code phase selection criterions, namely the maximum criterion and the threshold crossing criterion, are investigated and their acquisition time is measured for different frequency offsets and input IF signal to noise ratios. We also derive semi-analytical expressions for the BER performance of coherent and differentially coherent systems operating in a mobile satellite channel. In this case the channel is modeled as a multipath nonselective channel, but diversity gain can still be obtained through path diversity. This is the scenario when a signal is transmitted to all satellites in view and the received replicas are independently demodulated and combined at the receiver. Our analysis extends previous results to the case of unequal mean powers and Rice factors in the combined signals; a valid assumption if we consider that the satellites are in view at different elevation angles. Furthermore, the effect of imperfect power control in such mobile satellite DS-CDMA systems is also considered.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12516
- Subject Headings
- Mobile communication systems, Wireless communication systems, Radio wave propagation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity of the Bacterial Communities Associated with the Azooxanthellate Deep Water Octocorals Leptogorgia minimata, Iciligorgia schrammi, and Swiftia exertia, Marine Biotechnology.
- Creator
- Brück, Thomas B., Brück, Wolfram M., Santiago-Vázquez, Lory Z., McCarthy, Peter J., Kerr, Russell G.
- Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2796098
- Subject Headings
- Octocorallia, Microbial ecology, Microorganisms --United States --Identification, Marine microbiology, Pompano Beach (Fla.)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity and selection in the major histocompatibility complex: DQA and immune function in IRL and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
- Creator
- Ferrer, Tatiana., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) encodes proteins critical to the vertebrate immune response; therefore MHC diversity is an indicator of population health. I have (1) Isolated exon 2 of the class II gene DQA in Tursiops truncatus in the North Indian River Lagoon (IRL) (n=17), South IRL (n=29) and adjacent Atlantic waters (n=20), (2) assessed genetic variability between groups, (3) developed a method to genotype individuals, (4) typed 11 unique alleles in 66 individuals, (5) detected...
Show moreThe Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) encodes proteins critical to the vertebrate immune response; therefore MHC diversity is an indicator of population health. I have (1) Isolated exon 2 of the class II gene DQA in Tursiops truncatus in the North Indian River Lagoon (IRL) (n=17), South IRL (n=29) and adjacent Atlantic waters (n=20), (2) assessed genetic variability between groups, (3) developed a method to genotype individuals, (4) typed 11 unique alleles in 66 individuals, (5) detected geographic patterns of diversity between estuarine and coastal individuals (FST=0.1255, p<0.05), (6) found evidence of positive selection centered in the binding pockets P1, P6 and P9 of the peptide binding region (w=2.08), (7) found that patterns of polymorphism did not closely match patterns of diversity in neutral markers, (8) performed a pilot study with Orcinus orca. The initial findings highlight the need for further comparative work and suggest that silent mutations are not neutral.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362335
- Subject Headings
- Major histocompatibility complex, Immunogenetics, Molecular genetics, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, Dolphins, Geographical distribution, Population genetics, Social behavior in animals
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity and bioactivity of marine sponges of the Caribbean: the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Creator
- Pomponi, Shirley A., Reed, John K., Wright, Amy E., McCarthy, Peter J.
- Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3351966
- Subject Headings
- Sponges--Turks and Caicos Islands, Bioactive compounds, Marine natural products, Sponges, Demospongiae
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Diversity and bathymetric distribution of lithistid sponges in the tropical western Atlantic region.
- Creator
- Pomponi, Shirley A., Kelly-Borges, M., Reed, John K., Wright, Amy E.
- Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3321239
- Subject Headings
- Sponges, Demospongiae, Porifera
- Format
- Document (PDF)