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- Shaping the Leaders of Tomorrow: An Assessment of Intergenerational Perceptions of Leadership Traits.
- Creator
- Hidrowoh, Jacob R., Shockley, Robert, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
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In the last few decades, the world has witnessed an unparalleled increase in human longevity, accompanied by more years of employment and declining birth rates. These unusual events have dramatically raised the portion of older employees who are still active in the global labor force. Scholars have recognized that, along with the overall aging of the workforce, older individuals will increasingly occupy leadership positions. Since the current knowledge economy promotes a globalized,...
Show moreIn the last few decades, the world has witnessed an unparalleled increase in human longevity, accompanied by more years of employment and declining birth rates. These unusual events have dramatically raised the portion of older employees who are still active in the global labor force. Scholars have recognized that, along with the overall aging of the workforce, older individuals will increasingly occupy leadership positions. Since the current knowledge economy promotes a globalized, competitive, and rapidly evolving educational and business environment, organizational leaders are increasingly facing challenges to keep their leadership knowledge base current. Organizational leaders must attract and retain the best human capital, competent individuals who can act strategically to move their organizations forward. Consequently, it is prudent to believe that, in order to face the new challenges of an aging work force, organizations will require exceptional leaders to maintain a cohesive organizational system in which diverse generational cohorts may interact and work together efficiently and effectively. Using leadership identity theory, dynamic capabilities, and the leadership trait approach as the conceptual framework, this study assessed intergenerational perceptions of the importance of seven leadership traits: intelligence, decisiveness, compassion, innovation, organization, ambition, and honesty using a national sample of almost two thousand adults in the United States representing four generational cohorts: Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent generation. This quasi-experimental quantitative study sought to identify the differences in perception of the importance of leadership traits that each of these generational cohorts may have and the interaction that gender and educational level may have on generational cohort perceptions of the importance of leadership traits. Descriptive statistical analysis and comparative analyses including one-way and two-way ANOVA were conducted to determine any statistically significant differences in means among the differences in means of the perception of the importance of leadership traits among generational cohorts moderated by gender and educational level. Statistically significant findings for some, but not all, of the seven leadership traits included in this study were found by generational cohort and these differences were moderated by gender and educational level. Implications and recommendations for policy, practice, and future research are offered.
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013143
- Subject Headings
- Leadership--Research, Generations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Forest wetland response to nutrient enrichment on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation.
- Creator
- Jacobs, Alyssa B., Florida Atlantic University, Volin, John C., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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The Big Cypress Swamp and the Everglades of South Florida are inherently oligotrophic ecosystems that in recent decades have been subjected to increasing agricultural nutrient inputs. While extensive research regarding deleterious effects of nutrient impacts has been conducted in the phosphorus-deficient Everglades, there is a lack of research in Big Cypress Swamp. This 12-month field study assessed the responsiveness of Taxodium distichum, Fraxinus caroliniana, and herbaceous vegetation to...
Show moreThe Big Cypress Swamp and the Everglades of South Florida are inherently oligotrophic ecosystems that in recent decades have been subjected to increasing agricultural nutrient inputs. While extensive research regarding deleterious effects of nutrient impacts has been conducted in the phosphorus-deficient Everglades, there is a lack of research in Big Cypress Swamp. This 12-month field study assessed the responsiveness of Taxodium distichum, Fraxinus caroliniana, and herbaceous vegetation to increased nutrient levels in Big Cypress Swamp. Six nutrient treatments (Control, N, P, K, 2K, and PxK) were applied to the soil surrounding these trees. F. caroliniana had higher photosynthetic rates with 2K treatments and higher growth rates with PxK treatments. T. distichum had higher Leaf Area Index in the P and PxK treatment but did not exhibit other responses to treatment. Herbaceous vegetation showed little response to treatments. This study concluded that potassium may be co-limiting in this ecosystem.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13129
- Subject Headings
- Wetland ecology--Florida, Restoration ecology--Florida, Everglades (Fla ), Big Cypress Swamp (Fla ), Seminole Tribe of Florida, Discrimination learning
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- THE ROLE OF ASSOCIATIVITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION IN CHILDREN'S MEMORY.
- Creator
- JACOBS, JOHN WILLIAM, Florida Atlantic University, Bjorklund, David F., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Cognitive theorists hypothesize two types of cognitive processes (e.g., automatic and effortful) which may influence human information processing. This thesis investigates age differences in when children use intralist associative relationships (thought to be automatic in nature) to identify other (categorical) relations. Use of conceptual/ categorical relations to organize recall is thought to be effortful in nature. Sixty children each from grades 3, 5, 7, and 9 were presented orally with...
Show moreCognitive theorists hypothesize two types of cognitive processes (e.g., automatic and effortful) which may influence human information processing. This thesis investigates age differences in when children use intralist associative relationships (thought to be automatic in nature) to identify other (categorical) relations. Use of conceptual/ categorical relations to organize recall is thought to be effortful in nature. Sixty children each from grades 3, 5, 7, and 9 were presented orally with lists of 20 words under free-recall instructions. Results provide support for the position that recall memory of young children is mediated primarily by associative rather than conceptual relationships. Also, partial support was obtained for the three stage model of the development of organization proposed by Bjorklund and Zeman (1982). However, the model's prediction of when children will optimally use associative relationships to identify categorized relations was inaccurate. These results indicate that older childrens' recall can be facilitated by automatic cognitive processes resulting in higher levels of clustering (organization) and recall.
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- 1984
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14187
- Subject Headings
- Memory in children, Association of ideas, Cognition in children
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- Document (PDF)
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- A method for the optimization of product development resource allocation.
- Creator
- Worp, Nicholas Jacob., Florida Atlantic University, Han, Chingping (Jim), College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis presents a model designed to optimize the allocation of corporate resources required for the success of a product in the marketplace. The product development resources used in the model are: market research, applied research, product design, cost reduction and advertising. The key goals of this thesis are to provide industry with a usable tool: (1) Implement strategic plans through effective budgeting; (2) Optimize both short and long term profits; (3) Evaluate the impact of...
Show moreThis thesis presents a model designed to optimize the allocation of corporate resources required for the success of a product in the marketplace. The product development resources used in the model are: market research, applied research, product design, cost reduction and advertising. The key goals of this thesis are to provide industry with a usable tool: (1) Implement strategic plans through effective budgeting; (2) Optimize both short and long term profits; (3) Evaluate the impact of resource inter-dependencies; (4) Enable accountability that leads to goal achievement and checks unnecessary growth; (5) Remove much of the negative political and emotional variability; (6) Easily adapt to internal and external changes; (7) Output a specific allocation for each resource as a percentage of sales; (8) Output an estimate of future profitability. Genetic Algorithms are particularly well suited for this application because an exact optima is not required and the search space can be extremely large, complex, and non-linear.
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- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15519
- Subject Headings
- Genetic algorithms, Resource allocation, Strategic planning, Business planning
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- CHANGES IN INTRASET RIR ACCURACY DURING SIX WEEKS OF BENCH PRESS TRAINING IN TRAINED MEN.
- Creator
- Remmert, Jacob F., Zourdos, Michael C., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion, College of Education
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This study examined whether accuracy of intraset RIR predictions changes over time. Nine resistance trained men completed three bench press training sessions per week for six weeks, with the last set of each session performed until muscular failure. During the set to failure, subjects verbally indicated when they perceived 4 repetitions in reserve (RIR) and 1 RIR during the set. For each RIR prediction, the difference between perceived RIR and actual RIR was calculated as RIRDIFF. We analyzed...
Show moreThis study examined whether accuracy of intraset RIR predictions changes over time. Nine resistance trained men completed three bench press training sessions per week for six weeks, with the last set of each session performed until muscular failure. During the set to failure, subjects verbally indicated when they perceived 4 repetitions in reserve (RIR) and 1 RIR during the set. For each RIR prediction, the difference between perceived RIR and actual RIR was calculated as RIRDIFF. We analyzed differences in RIRDIFF using both the raw RIRDIFF (including positive and negative values) and the absolute values of all RIRDIFF using a factorial MANOVA. Covariates included proximity to failure of the RIR prediction, total repetitions performed per set, percentage of one-repetition maximum lifted, the week of training, and the session (1, 2, or 3 within each seek). For the raw RIRDIFF all covariates, except for percentage of 1RM (p > 0.05) were significantly related to the outcome measure at both the predicted 4 and 1 RIR (p < 0.001 to p = 0.04). Specifically, RIRDIFF was significantly higher in weeks 1-4 versus weeks 5-6 (p < 0.001 to p = 0.005). However, the only covariate which significantly impacted the absolute value RIRDIFF at both the predicted 4 (p = 0.033) and 1 RIR (p = 0.022) was total repetitions per set. These results indicate that trained men tend to shift from overpredicting to underpredicting RIR over time and that more repetitions in a set is related to more inaccurate RIR predictions. However, the actual accuracy (i.e., absolute value RIRDIFF) did not significantly change over six weeks of training.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014007
- Subject Headings
- Resistance Training, Resistance Training--methods, Weight training
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Hoops and Other Essays.
- Creator
- Hibbard, Jacob, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Hoops and Other Essays is a collection driven by form and lyricism threading themes of grief, fatherhood, joy and anxiety. I place myself within an American landscape spanning South Florida, Northern Alaska, and Montgomery County, Maryland. Anchored by non-linear structures, an exploration of trauma, and a delight for language, these essays depict the coming of age of a thirty-year-old man who seems to be still coming of age. Poop is a theme; Nature is a theme. Speaking aloud to no one is a...
Show moreHoops and Other Essays is a collection driven by form and lyricism threading themes of grief, fatherhood, joy and anxiety. I place myself within an American landscape spanning South Florida, Northern Alaska, and Montgomery County, Maryland. Anchored by non-linear structures, an exploration of trauma, and a delight for language, these essays depict the coming of age of a thirty-year-old man who seems to be still coming of age. Poop is a theme; Nature is a theme. Speaking aloud to no one is a character trait, and iguanas are a motif. Hoops and Other Essays pulls free the particulars of the universal struggle of trying to be okay when things hardly ever seem okay. The collection comments on the inevitably of dying shared among the living and the pleasure and pain that emerges from loving what has to end. The essays were written over the course of two years after the sudden loss of my brother which was quickly followed by the birth of my son. In the end, Hoops and Other Essays tries to unravel how one fits between the polar opposites of human existence, with the hope to uncover more likeness than difference in the way we enter and the way we leave it.
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- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014366
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Essays
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- Document (PDF)
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- The Reintegration of Women and Class Conflict into Epic/Grimdark Fantasy.
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- Domosh, Jacob, Miller, Timothy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon (1999) is a well-received novel grounded in the Secondary World traditions of both epic and grimdark fantasy, that may – upon a first read – appear like any other fantasy novel set in its own world – featuring humans and nonhuman characters, giants and dragons, swords and sorcery, floating castles and continent-spanning empires. The use of these fantasy elements creates a wonderfully immersive first novel for the wonderfully evocative Malazan Book of the...
Show moreSteven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon (1999) is a well-received novel grounded in the Secondary World traditions of both epic and grimdark fantasy, that may – upon a first read – appear like any other fantasy novel set in its own world – featuring humans and nonhuman characters, giants and dragons, swords and sorcery, floating castles and continent-spanning empires. The use of these fantasy elements creates a wonderfully immersive first novel for the wonderfully evocative Malazan Book of the Fallen series, but the series accomplishes more than that; Erikson’s novel is set in a Secondary World that is distinct from the other grimdark and epic fantasy settings that came before it in that the Malazan world is a setting in which patriarchal norms and misogyny have never existed. Furthermore, Erikson’s text, as both epic fantasy and participating in grimdark fantasy tropes, acts to distance these subgenres from the critiques sometimes leveled at earlier such works. Where pre-Erikson (and still some post-Erikson) epic fantasy has been critiqued as misogynistic and entrenched in notions of patriarchal hierarchies – and pre-Erikson (and still much post-Erikson) grimdark fantasy has been critiqued for subjecting the female characters therein to excessive violence, often sexual in nature, and wallowing in graphic depictions of said violence -- Erikson reverses course and reintroduces women into epic fantasy as human beings rather than objects of male domination. This reintroduction allows for notions of class conflict to permeate the text.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013901
- Subject Headings
- Erikson, Steven. Malazan book of the fallen, Fantasy
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- Document (PDF)
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- Inhalation toxicity of Brevetoxin 3 in rats exposed for 5 days.
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- Benson, Janet M., Hahn, Fletcher F., March, Thomas H., McDonald, Jacob D., Sopori, Mohan L., Seagrave, JeanClare, Gomez, Andrea P., Bourdelais, Andrea J., Naar, Jerome, Zaias, Julia, Bossart, Gregory D., Baden, Daniel G., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2796034
- Subject Headings
- Dinoflagellates --Cytology, Macrophages, Red tide, Neurotoxic agents --Analysis, Neurotoxic agents --Physiological effect
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- Document (PDF)
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- Caffeine enhances upper body strength in resistance-trained women.
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- Goldstein, Erica R., Jacobs, Patrick L., Whitehurst, Michael, Penhollow, Tina, Antonio, Jose
- Date Issued
- 2010-05-14
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3327162
- Subject Headings
- Caffeine, Physical Endurance, Caffeine --administration & dosage, Athletic Performance, Muscle Strength, Resistence Training, Physical Performance
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- Document (PDF)
