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Title: China's coal conundrum: development, problems and solutions.
Creator: Seeds, Cybele Dawn, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2008-10-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165372p
Subject Headings: Environmental policy -- China, Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- China, Coal -- Environmental aspects
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Title: THE FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMATA.
Creator: SCHMELZKOPF, KAREN FRANCES., Florida Atlantic University, Lee, David R., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
Abstract/Description: Man lacks the cognitive capabilities by which to process all the complex and detailed information of the environment, yet is able to formulate a comprehensive notion of the environment. The present study hypothesized that a cognitive mechanism exists by which salient information is abstracted and stored in memory. Subjects were required to learn to discriminate among four sets of photographs of an urban street scene, taken from four different locations within an area of 150 square meters. An...
Show moreMan lacks the cognitive capabilities by which to process all the complex and detailed information of the environment, yet is able to formulate a comprehensive notion of the environment. The present study hypothesized that a cognitive mechanism exists by which salient information is abstracted and stored in memory. Subjects were required to learn to discriminate among four sets of photographs of an urban street scene, taken from four different locations within an area of 150 square meters. An identification test was administered either immediately or one week after acquisition, using photographs from the acquisition set and novel photographs taken from the same locations but at different camera orientations. The results indicated that subjects abstract a continuous schematic representation from discrete photographic samples of the total scene. These results suggest that man in a real-world situation remembers a general, schematic concept of the environment, rather than detailed, specific information.
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Date Issued: 1978
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13939
Subject Headings: Environmental psychology, Cognition
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Interactions between Microorganisms Isolated from Aquatic Environments and the Cyclodiene Organochlorine Pesticides Aldrin and Dieldrin.
Creator: Quevedo, Rafael A., Sguros, Peter L., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Decomposition of the pesticides aldrin and dieldrin by aquatic microorganisms may result in more harmful products affecting the ecosystem. Isolates from fresh, brackish, and littoral water were cultured using, variously, selective media, enriched laboratory ecosystems, and impregnated wood strips and assessed qualitatively and quantitatively for action on pesticides by thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, and 14C-labeled pesticide autoradiography. Growth was measured in terms...
Show moreDecomposition of the pesticides aldrin and dieldrin by aquatic microorganisms may result in more harmful products affecting the ecosystem. Isolates from fresh, brackish, and littoral water were cultured using, variously, selective media, enriched laboratory ecosystems, and impregnated wood strips and assessed qualitatively and quantitatively for action on pesticides by thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, and 14C-labeled pesticide autoradiography. Growth was measured in terms of dry wt and cell nitrogen. Small amounts of possible metabolites were indicated in most isolate preparations. Cellulolytic Z. xylestrix grew well in media containing 10-500 ug/ml pesticide. Growth was stimulated by small quantities of the chemical and the fungus accumulated pesticides to levels 2000 times higher than the original medium concentration. Uptake increased linearly with increasing pesticide concentration. A significant portion of the pesticides appeared to be chemically altered, but the products were not specifically identified.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000815
Subject Headings: Pesticides--Environmental aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A formative evaluation of the grassy waters preserve aquatic connections and watershed awareness (acwa) environmental education program.
Creator: Hopler, Sarah, Meltzer, Carol, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164541
Subject Headings: Environmental sciences --Study and teaching, Environmental education, Wetland conservation
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Title: Effect of external pH on cyanobacterial pigment expression.
Creator: West, Maria., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abstract/Description: Cyanobacteria are classified as alkalophiles despite their preferential uptake of the acidic form of dissolved inorganic carbon. Long term impacts of external pH on the expression of photosynthetic and structural pigments in Schizothrix calcicola were investigated as potential contributing factors to this phenomenon. More robust cell walls in S. calcicola at pH
Show moreCyanobacteria are classified as alkalophiles despite their preferential uptake of the acidic form of dissolved inorganic carbon. Long term impacts of external pH on the expression of photosynthetic and structural pigments in Schizothrix calcicola were investigated as potential contributing factors to this phenomenon. More robust cell walls in S. calcicola at pH <7 are suggested by significantly greater expression of myxoxanthophylls. Direct and indirect physiological costs of altering cell walls may contribute to S. calcicola's depressed growth at acidic pH. Comparison of chlorophylls expression suggests that alkaline rather than neutral external pH is only beneficial for S. calcicola growth in absence of nutrient limitation. While the cyanobacterial biomarker ratio of chlorophylls to echinenone was stable across the pertinent pH range of 6-8, other pigment ratios in S. calcicola were affected by pH with an approximately two week lag between the change of pH and the corresponding change of pigment expression.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2795335
Subject Headings: Environmental toxicology, Cyanobacteria, Environmental aspects, Ecosystem management, Vegetation dynamics
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Title: Interview with Dr. Leonard Berry – ca. 2002.
Creator: Berry, Leonard, Donnelly, Ginger
Date Issued: 2002-10-29
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78768
Subject Headings: Environmental sciences, Global environmental change, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
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Title: Pollution control success in the United States: A cross sectional analysis.
Creator: Carr, Jered Byron Jr., Florida Atlantic University, Manage, Neela D., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: This thesis empirically examined pollution control success in the United States during the period 1987 to 1992. The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether pollution control success can be predicted by a set of factors suggested by the economics literature as being important to effective control of pollution. Multiple regression analyses were performed on dependent variables representing air, water, and solid waste quality. It was found that although the predictors of pollution...
Show moreThis thesis empirically examined pollution control success in the United States during the period 1987 to 1992. The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether pollution control success can be predicted by a set of factors suggested by the economics literature as being important to effective control of pollution. Multiple regression analyses were performed on dependent variables representing air, water, and solid waste quality. It was found that although the predictors of pollution control success differ across the three types of pollution, variables representing pollution abatement expenditures and strength of enforcement were important throughout.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15092
Subject Headings: Pollution, Pollution, Environmental protection--Economic aspects, Environmental protection
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Persistence of fenthion in the aquatic environment.
Creator: Wang, Tsen C., Kadlac, Todd E., Lenahan, Robert A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333124
Subject Headings: Fenthion, Insecticides--Environmental aspects
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Title: Witches and daughters: emerging 'green' in the wind of mind.
Creator: Czerny, Val, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2008-10-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165223p
Subject Headings: Ecofeminism, Environmental ethics, Feminist ethics
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Title: Discovering the depths.
Creator: Boyle, Austin
Date Issued: 2005-10
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11533
Subject Headings: Environmental engineering, Oceanography--Florida
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: INITIATION AND PROPAGATION OF CORROSION IN DRY-CAST REINFORCED CONCRETE PIPES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS.
Creator: Balasubramanian, Hariharan, Presuel-Moreno, Francisco, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Abstract/Description: This research was conducted to better understand the corrosion propagation stage on dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes (DCRCPs) while exposed to high moisture conditions and chlorides. Corrosion initiation and propagation were studied in instrumented specimens obtained from segments of dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes. All specimens were subjected to accelerated chloride transport by the application of an electric field. Corrosion of the steel wire mesh initiated after a few days to a few...
Show moreThis research was conducted to better understand the corrosion propagation stage on dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes (DCRCPs) while exposed to high moisture conditions and chlorides. Corrosion initiation and propagation were studied in instrumented specimens obtained from segments of dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes. All specimens were subjected to accelerated chloride transport by the application of an electric field. Corrosion of the steel wire mesh initiated after a few days to a few months rather than several years. The specimens were then transferred to high moisture environments (immersed in water, high humidity and/or covered with wet sand) during the corrosion propagation stage. Reinforcement potentials, linear polarization resistance (LPR) and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) measurements were carried out periodically. During the propagation stage in different exposures, reinforcement eventually reached negative potentials values (< –-0.55 Vsce), which suggest mass transfer limitations. These specimens showed no visual signs of corrosion such as cracks or corrosion products except the ones exposed to high humidity and laboratory environments; where some corrosion products have reached the concrete surface. Moreover, the apparent corrosion rate values obtained suggest high corrosion rates. No crack appearance on specimens exposed to other conditions could be explained by the porosity of the specimens; the corrosion products moved into saturated pores. It is speculated that although there might be mass transfer limitations present, the current demanded by the anode is being balanced by a larger cathode area due to macrocell effects since the high moisture conditions likely reduced the concrete resistivity and increased the throwing power. The corrected polarization resistance (Rc) was calculated by subtracting the solution resistance from the apparent polarization resistance measured. The Rc values measured over time were used to obtain the calculated mass loss (using Faraday’s Law). Most specimens were forensically analyzed and the measured mass loss compared to the calculated mass loss. The forensic examination includes the measurement of the actual corroding areas. The measured corroding areas were used to obtain corrosion current density (icorr) values. A comparison was made of the calculated corrosion current densities obtained using the linear polarization resistance method (LPR) and the extrapolation method from cyclic polarization tests. It was evident that most of the specimens’ corrosion rates were significantly high. The corrosion products filled the wet-pores inside the concrete and provide an explanation for no cracks or corrosion bleed outs being visually observed on the specimens.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013182
Subject Headings: Reinforced concrete, Corrosion, Environmental effects
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Title: Environmental Regulation Stringency and Voluntary Environmental Disclosure.
Creator: Xing, Hanbing, Kohlbeck, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, School of Accounting, College of Business
Abstract/Description: I examine the relationship between environmental regulation stringency and the extent of voluntary environmental disclosures by firms. The study draws on theoretical frameworks including legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory, and information asymmetry, to explore how different mechanisms influence firm behavior in the context of environmental transparency. My empirical analysis shows a positive relationship between the stringency of environmental regulations and the level of voluntary...
Show moreI examine the relationship between environmental regulation stringency and the extent of voluntary environmental disclosures by firms. The study draws on theoretical frameworks including legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory, and information asymmetry, to explore how different mechanisms influence firm behavior in the context of environmental transparency. My empirical analysis shows a positive relationship between the stringency of environmental regulations and the level of voluntary environmental disclosures. This relationship is weakened by factors such as board independence and institutional ownership. I further confirm the positive effect of national level of environmental regulation stringency on the environmental voluntary disclosure. However, I fail to find supporting evidence on the positive moderating role of national level of environmental regulation stringency and corporate governance. In contrast, I find evidence that external institutional ownership and independent directors, who represent interests of external blockholders, have a preventive and monitoring effect on the main relationship to reduce the threat of misleading voluntary information and proprietary cost.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014457
Subject Headings: Environmental reporting, Corporate governance, Accounting
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The effect of pollution prevention in wood furniture, marina and auto repair industries.
Creator: Shalan, Samira Ghazi., Florida Atlantic University, Scarlatos, Panagiotis (Pete) D., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Abstract/Description: Since the industrial revolution, industrial operations have been accompanied with a problem: production of industrial waste, which may be toxic, ignitable, corrosive or reactive. If improperly managed this waste can pose dangerous health and environmental consequences. This study defines the meaning of pollution prevention and outlines its major categories. Three different industries: wood furniture, marina and auto repair industries where chosen to emphasize pollution prevention practices...
Show moreSince the industrial revolution, industrial operations have been accompanied with a problem: production of industrial waste, which may be toxic, ignitable, corrosive or reactive. If improperly managed this waste can pose dangerous health and environmental consequences. This study defines the meaning of pollution prevention and outlines its major categories. Three different industries: wood furniture, marina and auto repair industries where chosen to emphasize pollution prevention practices throughout their operations.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12994
Subject Headings: Pollution prevention, Furniture industry and trade--Environmental aspects, Marinas--Environmental aspects, Automobile repair shops--Environmental aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Environmental monitoring of volatile organics by purge-closed loop gas chromatograph.
Creator: Wang, Tsen C., Lenahan, Robert A., Kadlac, Todd E., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007436
Subject Headings: Volatile organic compounds, Environmental monitoring, Gas chromatography
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Biomonitors: practice and concepts.
Creator: Laughlin, R. B., Jr., Guard, H. E., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3351932
Subject Headings: Environmental monitoring, Biological monitoring, Organisms, Xenobiotics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Restoration of a critically eroded shoreline: a case study of Martin County’s Bathtub Beach, Stuart, Florida.
Creator: Ashworth, Jerilyn K., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2013-04-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361267
Subject Headings: Environmental protection, Stuart (Fla.), Restoration and conservation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The junior naturalist program.
Creator: Powell, Courtney, Meltzer, Carol, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164681
Subject Headings: Environmental education, Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Tributyltin-contemporary environmental issues.
Creator: Laughlin, R. B., Jr., Lindén, O., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333088
Subject Headings: Tributyltin, Tributyltin--Environmental aspects, Paint, Antifouling
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The response of interstitial ammonium in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) beds to environmental perturbations.
Creator: Short, F. T., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331842
Subject Headings: Eelgrass, Zostera marina, Ammonium, Nitrogen, Environmental perturbations
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: In search of environmental hotspots of antibiotic resistance.
Creator: Desir, Hedson, Esiobu, Nwadiuto
Date Issued: 2013-04-05
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361076
Subject Headings: Antibiotics resistance in microorganisms, Environmental hotspots
Format: Document (PDF)

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