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Title: The plague of bureaucrats: a study of institutions.
Creator: O'Neill, William F.
Date Issued: 1951
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/351017
Subject Headings: Political science., Bureaucracy.
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Title: Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: The entrepreneurial department.
Creator: Furht, Borko
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/332873
Subject Headings: Computer science--Research.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AIDS as a call for nurse caring: A phenomenological perspective.
Creator: Madayag, Tomas Mina Jr., Florida Atlantic University, Schoenhofer, Savina, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: The question that laid the basis for this study is: What is the meaning of nurse caring for patients with AIDS? This experience was unearthed through the phenomenological approaches of Van Manen and Munhall. The existential lived worlds provided the guide in amplifying the situatedness of participants. Through hermeneutical analysis, these themes emerged: being-with for another, knowing as a source of understanding and compassion, AIDS as stigma, AIDS as a call for nurse caring, connecting...
Show moreThe question that laid the basis for this study is: What is the meaning of nurse caring for patients with AIDS? This experience was unearthed through the phenomenological approaches of Van Manen and Munhall. The existential lived worlds provided the guide in amplifying the situatedness of participants. Through hermeneutical analysis, these themes emerged: being-with for another, knowing as a source of understanding and compassion, AIDS as stigma, AIDS as a call for nurse caring, connecting-severing, fear as a cause of dissonance, attachment by proxy, the experience of feeling for, corporeal vulnerability, the nurse as spiritless body, death as solace, and living time as hope. These findings were integrated with Roach's theory of nursing as the deliberate affirmation of caring as the human mode of being.
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Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14955
Subject Headings: Health Sciences, Nursing
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Title: AGENDA-SETTING: THE POLITICS AND POLICIES OF GROWTH CONTROL IN BOCA RATON, FLORIDA.
Creator: COOK, PATRICIA LYNN., Florida Atlantic University, Thomas, Robert D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: The case of Boca Raton, Florida, illustrates many of the key legal, environmental and intergovernmental issues emerging in the growth management policies of other communities. In a 1972 amendment to the city charter, the voters of Boca Raton placed an absolute limit on population and housing by a 40,000 -unit "cap" on development. The Growth Cap illustrates the expansion of an issue which began with a small group of concerned citizens who wanted to preserve the city's "low-density" character....
Show moreThe case of Boca Raton, Florida, illustrates many of the key legal, environmental and intergovernmental issues emerging in the growth management policies of other communities. In a 1972 amendment to the city charter, the voters of Boca Raton placed an absolute limit on population and housing by a 40,000 -unit "cap" on development. The Growth Cap illustrates the expansion of an issue which began with a small group of concerned citizens who wanted to preserve the city's "low-density" character. The controversy opened up multi-agendas which developed in stages. Multiple access points were available to the proponents (environmentalists and home owners) and opponents (developers and real estate interests) of the Cap. Due to both the pluralistic nature of the political system and the nature of the Growth Cap, the issue was expanded beyond the city policy agenda and came to the county and the courts.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13867
Subject Headings: Political Science, General
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Title: Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, its generalization and nilpotent groups.
Creator: Mahalanobis, Ayan, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Abstract/Description: This dissertation has two chapters. In the first chapter we talk about the discrete logarithm problem, more specifically we concentrate on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. We survey the current state of security for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. We also motivate the reader to think about the Diffie-Hellman key exchange in terms of group automorphisms. In the second chapter we study two key exchange protocols similar to the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol using an...
Show moreThis dissertation has two chapters. In the first chapter we talk about the discrete logarithm problem, more specifically we concentrate on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. We survey the current state of security for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. We also motivate the reader to think about the Diffie-Hellman key exchange in terms of group automorphisms. In the second chapter we study two key exchange protocols similar to the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol using an abelian subgroup of the automorphism group of a non-abelian group. We also generalize group no. 92 of the Hall-Senior table, for arbitrary prime p and study the automorphism group of these generalized group. We show that for those groups, the group of central automorphisms is an abelian group. We use these central automorphisms for the key exchange we are studying. We also develop a signature scheme.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12154
Subject Headings: Mathematics, Computer Science
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Title: Evolution of numeric constants in Genetic Programming.
Creator: Fernandez, Thomas, Florida Atlantic University, Evett, Matthew P.
Abstract/Description: Genetic Programming is an evolutionary technique for searching through the space of S-expressions for programs that represent optimal or acceptable solutions to a given problem. Genetic Programming often has difficulty in finding the appropriate numeric constants to use in leaf nodes of the S-expressions. This thesis describes the use of local search algorithms to search for numeric constants that will improve the S-expressions found by Genetic Programming. Three methods, Multi-Dimensional...
Show moreGenetic Programming is an evolutionary technique for searching through the space of S-expressions for programs that represent optimal or acceptable solutions to a given problem. Genetic Programming often has difficulty in finding the appropriate numeric constants to use in leaf nodes of the S-expressions. This thesis describes the use of local search algorithms to search for numeric constants that will improve the S-expressions found by Genetic Programming. Three methods, Multi-Dimensional Hill Climbing, Vector Hill Climbing, and Numeric Mutation are combined with Genetic Programming to create hybrid systems. The performance of these hybrid systems is analyzed and future directions for improving Genetic Programming with the use of hybrid systems are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15493
Subject Headings: Genetic programming (Computer science)
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Title: RACIAL AND ETHNIC SCHOOL SEGREGATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.
Creator: MATTHES, HORST-DIETER., Florida Atlantic University, Giles, Michael W., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: This study has confined itself to examining two specific questions: (1) Are other minorities educationally isolated to the same extent as Negroes? and (2) Does the level of concentration of other minorities in the school population influence their segregation as has been the case for Negroes? Results of the present study show Negroes to fare significantly less favorably in the area of educational segregation than the other minorities under study. Furthermore, whereas the percent Negro showed...
Show moreThis study has confined itself to examining two specific questions: (1) Are other minorities educationally isolated to the same extent as Negroes? and (2) Does the level of concentration of other minorities in the school population influence their segregation as has been the case for Negroes? Results of the present study show Negroes to fare significantly less favorably in the area of educational segregation than the other minorities under study. Furthermore, whereas the percent Negro showed a significant relationship with the level of Negro school segregation, no such relationship was found for the other minorities in this study. Controlling for regional and ethnic variations did not significantly alter these findings.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13614
Subject Headings: Political Science, General
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Title: An artificial neural network architecture for interpolation, function approximation, time series modeling and control applications.
Creator: Luebbers, Paul Glenn., Florida Atlantic University, Pandya, Abhijit S., Sudhakar, Raghavan, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: A new artificial neural network architecture called Power Net (PWRNET) and Orthogonal Power Net (OPWRNET) has been developed. Based on the Taylor series expansion of the hyperbolic tangent function, this novel architecture can approximate multi-input multi-layer artificial networks, while requiring only a single layer of hidden nodes. This allows a compact network representation with only one layer of hidden layer weights. The resulting trained network can be expressed as a polynomial...
Show moreA new artificial neural network architecture called Power Net (PWRNET) and Orthogonal Power Net (OPWRNET) has been developed. Based on the Taylor series expansion of the hyperbolic tangent function, this novel architecture can approximate multi-input multi-layer artificial networks, while requiring only a single layer of hidden nodes. This allows a compact network representation with only one layer of hidden layer weights. The resulting trained network can be expressed as a polynomial function of the input nodes. Applications which cannot be implemented with conventional artificial neural networks, due to their intractable nature, can be developed with these network architectures. The degree of nonlinearity of the network can be directly controlled by adjusting the number of hidden layer nodes, thus avoiding problems of over-fitting which restrict generalization. The learning algorithm used for adapting the network is the familiar error back propagation training algorithm. Other learning algorithms may be applied and since only one hidden layer is to be trained, the training performance of the network is expected to be comparable to or better than conventional multi-layer feed forward networks. The new architecture is explored by applying OPWRNET to classification, function approximation and interpolation problems. These applications show that the OPWRNET has comparable performance to multi-layer perceptrons. The OPWRNET was also applied to the prediction of noisy time series and the identification of nonlinear systems. The resulting trained networks, for system identification tasks, can be expressed directly as discrete nonlinear recursive polynomials. This characteristic was exploited in the development of two new neural network based nonlinear control algorithms, the Linearized Self-Tuning Controller (LSTC) and a variation of a Neural Adaptive Controller (NAC). These control algorithms are compared to a linear self-tuning controller and an artificial neural network based Inverse Model Controller. The advantages of these new controllers are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12357
Subject Headings: Neural networks (Computer science)
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Title: The impact of art integration as an intervention to assist learners' visual perception and concept understanding in elementary science.
Creator: Smilan, Cathy A., Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
Abstract/Description: Art integration as educational reform has been the focus of recent debate. The suggestion has been made that the arts can provide unique learning opportunities in other content areas. To provide empirical evidence for this added value of the arts in learning, this study investigated the efficacy of teaching science concepts in and through the visual arts by implementing an art integrated lesson. The study investigated the impact of an art integration to assist elementary level learners'...
Show moreArt integration as educational reform has been the focus of recent debate. The suggestion has been made that the arts can provide unique learning opportunities in other content areas. To provide empirical evidence for this added value of the arts in learning, this study investigated the efficacy of teaching science concepts in and through the visual arts by implementing an art integrated lesson. The study investigated the impact of an art integration to assist elementary level learners' visual perception so they could more accurately form mental models of the science ideas. The hypothesis suggests that participants in the art intervention who construct a three-dimensional representation of abstract science concepts will gain an increased understanding of those concepts. Specifically, students who work with parallel concepts in art and science to make and manipulate three-dimensional, kinetic models of the sun, earth, and moon will be able to more accurately visualize the relationships between these heavenly bodies. Fifth grade students participated in the study which was integrated into the regular curriculum. Seventy-six randomly selected students comprised the experimental group and participated in the art project. After the completion of traditional textbook and lecture presentation by the classroom teachers, a researcher developed Science Concept Test was administered to all fifth grade students. Statistically significant results indicated that the differences between the groups on the science concept test were due to the integration of the art intervention. These empirical data show significant differences between the group receiving the art intervention and the group receiving traditional classroom instruction, supporting the efficacy of the art integration model. In conclusion, the study supports the literature that suggests the efficacy of art integration partnerships as alternative avenues for presenting and representing knowledge. The study additionally supports the literature establishing the need for concrete modeling of science concepts at the elementary level. Furthermore, the study indicates the need for further investigation into attitudes toward art integration partnerships, the role of the arts in the culture of education, and the viability of instruments to assess conceptual understanding in the visual arts and in science.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12092
Subject Headings: Education, Art, Education, Sciences
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Title: The magnetic appeal of nurse informaticians: Caring attractor for emergence.
Creator: Swinderman, Todd D., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the meaning of transition from the art of handwritten nursing documentation to electronic documentation from the lived experiences of nurse informaticians. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences and Ray's Bureaucratic Caring Theory informed the study. The Swinderman Research Model was created to visualize the tension between order and chaos in nursing practice. Twelve nurse informaticians were interviewed about their experiences in...
Show moreThe purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the meaning of transition from the art of handwritten nursing documentation to electronic documentation from the lived experiences of nurse informaticians. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences and Ray's Bureaucratic Caring Theory informed the study. The Swinderman Research Model was created to visualize the tension between order and chaos in nursing practice. Twelve nurse informaticians were interviewed about their experiences in designing, building, implementing and supporting electronic nursing documentation systems using van Marten's human science phenomenological method. Descriptive themes where illuminated and metathemes were interpreted from the research data. The universal whole of nursing informatics was expressed as self-in-relation through the metaphor of magnetic appeal linking the metathemes of inspired leadership and education, caring relationships, complexity, and technology. The metaphor of magnetic appeal illuminates the nurse informatician as the embodiment of caring with gifts as educator, negotiator, translator, and liaison. The Swinderman Research Model was enhanced using the research to create further the Swinderman Conceptual Model for Nursing Informatics. Chaos Theory within Complexity Sciences facilitated the understanding of the subtle dynamic patterns of flux and flow and choice-making in nursing. The Swinderman Conceptual Model for Nursing Informatics emerged as the future of Nursing Informatics in the transformation from handwritten to electronic nursing documentation in complex healthcare organizations.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12130
Subject Headings: Health Sciences, Nursing
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Title: Knowing the patient: A process of recognition.
Creator: Osso, Maria Brusco., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to explore how professional nurses recognize patterns of patient interaction with the environment. It is postulated that through pattern recognition professional nurses can help interventions toward patient's well-being and health promotion. A qualitative research design employing the method of grounded theory analysis was utilized. The pattern of patient interactions with the environment was Knowing the Patient, a process of recognition that includes Initiating...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to explore how professional nurses recognize patterns of patient interaction with the environment. It is postulated that through pattern recognition professional nurses can help interventions toward patient's well-being and health promotion. A qualitative research design employing the method of grounded theory analysis was utilized. The pattern of patient interactions with the environment was Knowing the Patient, a process of recognition that includes Initiating Contact, Gathering Information, Working with the Information, Acting on the Information, and Pattern Recognition. Two psychosocial conditions that appear to influence this process are time with the patient, and nurse's sense of obligation. The results of the study suggest that recognition of patients' patterns facilitate the planning and implementations of nursing actions which effectively promote patient well-being, and health.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15142
Subject Headings: Health Sciences, Nursing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE MANAGERIAL GRID ON ORGANIZATION CHANGE.
Creator: HART, HOWARD ARTHUR., Florida Atlantic University, Clare, Donald A.
Abstract/Description: The Managerial Grid is examined as an organization development approach for a large manufacturing corporation. Using the case study method, the results of a seven year history of Grid activities are measured in terms of performance, culture, and several other categories. Conclusions are reached that Phase 2 of the Grid has a statistically significant impact on the organization when measured against Phase ø (no Grid activity) and the results of Phase 1 (the Grid Seminar). The paper also...
Show moreThe Managerial Grid is examined as an organization development approach for a large manufacturing corporation. Using the case study method, the results of a seven year history of Grid activities are measured in terms of performance, culture, and several other categories. Conclusions are reached that Phase 2 of the Grid has a statistically significant impact on the organization when measured against Phase ø (no Grid activity) and the results of Phase 1 (the Grid Seminar). The paper also discusses the significance of change and five other approaches to behavioral science-based organization development.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13538
Subject Headings: Management science, Industrial organization
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Title: A theory of political analysis utilizing power-based matrices.
Creator: Batey, John R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: The existing literature regarding political power, hegemony, and mass-elite relationships could benefit from the utilization of a common theoretical framework. Such an approach calls for the synthesis of extant theories of political power into a theoretical structure that is easily translatable across various systemic contexts. Most political structures are to an extent power-based and hierarchical. The analysis of these power-laden structures is an important component of both political...
Show moreThe existing literature regarding political power, hegemony, and mass-elite relationships could benefit from the utilization of a common theoretical framework. Such an approach calls for the synthesis of extant theories of political power into a theoretical structure that is easily translatable across various systemic contexts. Most political structures are to an extent power-based and hierarchical. The analysis of these power-laden structures is an important component of both political theory and political action. This thesis uses three cases studies to illustrate that these structures are commonplace and to explain certain aspects of their creation and destruction. The chief goal is to critically analyze whether these power-laden structures are compatible with democracy, defined as government according to rule by the people.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12670
Subject Headings: Political Science, General
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Title: SECOND GENERATION CARRYOVER OF THE LATIN POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CUBAN ADOLESCENTS IN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Creator: FLYNN, GEORGE A., Florida Atlantic University, Wright, Gerald C. Jr., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: The historic instability of pre-Castro politics in Cuba is developed into three hypotheses dealing with a national personality dominated by old order values which tend to be anti-democratic, group-divisive, symbolic as opposed to realistic, and dominated largely by the allure of personalismo, a hypothesized Latin political phenomenon in which personalities obscure the issues. The hypotheses were tested in the analysis of a survey of samples of Cuban- and native-born high school students in...
Show moreThe historic instability of pre-Castro politics in Cuba is developed into three hypotheses dealing with a national personality dominated by old order values which tend to be anti-democratic, group-divisive, symbolic as opposed to realistic, and dominated largely by the allure of personalismo, a hypothesized Latin political phenomenon in which personalities obscure the issues. The hypotheses were tested in the analysis of a survey of samples of Cuban- and native-born high school students in Dade County, Florida.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13707
Subject Headings: Political Science, General
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Title: Novel Techniques in Genetic Programming.
Creator: Fernandez, Thomas, Furht, Borko, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Three major problems make Genetic Programming unfeasible or impractical for real world problems. The first is the excessive time complexity.In nature the evolutionary process can take millions of years, a time frame that is clearly not acceptable for the solution of problems on a computer. In order to apply Genetic Programming to real world problems, it is essential that its efficiency be improved. The second is called overfitting (where results are inaccurate outside the training data). In a...
Show moreThree major problems make Genetic Programming unfeasible or impractical for real world problems. The first is the excessive time complexity.In nature the evolutionary process can take millions of years, a time frame that is clearly not acceptable for the solution of problems on a computer. In order to apply Genetic Programming to real world problems, it is essential that its efficiency be improved. The second is called overfitting (where results are inaccurate outside the training data). In a paper[36] for the Federal Reserve Bank, authors Neely and Weller state “a perennial problem with using flexible, powerful search procedures like Genetic Programming is overfitting, the finding of spurious patterns in the data. Given the well-documented tendency for the genetic program to overfit the data it is necessary to design procedures to mitigate this.” The third is the difficulty of determining optimal control parameters for the Genetic Programming process. Control parameters control the evolutionary process. They include settings such as, the size of the population and the number of generations to be run. In his book[45], Banzhaf describes this problem, “The bad news is that Genetic Programming is a young field and the effect of using various combinations of parameters is just beginning to be explored.” We address these problems by implementing and testing a number of novel techniques and improvements to the Genetic Programming process. We conduct experiments using data sets of various degrees of difficulty to demonstrate success with a high degree of statistical confidence.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012570
Subject Headings: Evolutionary programming (Computer science), Genetic algorithms, Genetic programming (Computer science)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The lived experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery.
Creator: McCaffrey, Ruth G., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: This study provides a phenomenological analysis of living the experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery. The qualitative method used was that of Van Manen, as adapted by Munhall and outlined by Madayag. Specifically, this study describes three themes that emerged from transcribed interviews from eight participants who listened to music during recovery: (1) "comfort" from a discomforting condition which reveals the existential lived world of temporality; (2) "familiarity"...
Show moreThis study provides a phenomenological analysis of living the experience of listening to music while recovering from surgery. The qualitative method used was that of Van Manen, as adapted by Munhall and outlined by Madayag. Specifically, this study describes three themes that emerged from transcribed interviews from eight participants who listened to music during recovery: (1) "comfort" from a discomforting condition which reveals the existential lived world of temporality; (2) "familiarity" in a strange environment, revealing the lived world of spaciality, and (3) "distraction" from fear, pain and anxiety, as the lived world of corporeality. In addition, implications for nursing research, practice, and education are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15324
Subject Headings: Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy, Music, Health Sciences, Nursing
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Title: The effect of compression of performance in a demand paging operating system.
Creator: Wynn, Allen Chester., Florida Atlantic University, Wu, Jie, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: In this thesis, we measure and analyze the effects of compression in a demand paging operating system. We first explore existing compression algorithms and page replacement policies currently in use. Then we examine the OS/2 operating system which is modified to include page-based compression. Software trace hooks are inserted into the operating system to determine the amount of time required to process a page fault for each type of page, e.g. non-compressed, compressed, zero-filled, and the...
Show moreIn this thesis, we measure and analyze the effects of compression in a demand paging operating system. We first explore existing compression algorithms and page replacement policies currently in use. Then we examine the OS/2 operating system which is modified to include page-based compression. Software trace hooks are inserted into the operating system to determine the amount of time required to process a page fault for each type of page, e.g. non-compressed, compressed, zero-filled, and the number of page faults for each type of page. Software trace measurements as well as physical timings are taken on a system without compressed pages and the same system with compressed pages. We find the system with compressed pages shows a slight increase in paging activity for memory constrained systems, but performance (time) is improved in both memory constrained and unconstrained systems.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15421
Subject Headings: Paging (Computer science), Data compression (Computer science), Operating systems (Computers)
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Title: Generating formal models from UML class diagrams.
Creator: Shroff, Malcolm Keki., Florida Atlantic University, France, Robert B., Larrondo-Petrie, Maria M., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: The rich structuring mechanisms, and abstract modeling constructs available in most graphical object-oriented modeling methods (OOMs) facilitate the creation of abstract, visually-appealing, highly-structured graphical models. On the other hand, lack of formal semantics for the modeling notation can severely limit the utility of OOMs. Formal specification techniques (FSTs) support the creation of precise and analyzable specifications, but they can be tedious to create and difficult to read,...
Show moreThe rich structuring mechanisms, and abstract modeling constructs available in most graphical object-oriented modeling methods (OOMs) facilitate the creation of abstract, visually-appealing, highly-structured graphical models. On the other hand, lack of formal semantics for the modeling notation can severely limit the utility of OOMs. Formal specification techniques (FSTs) support the creation of precise and analyzable specifications, but they can be tedious to create and difficult to read, especially by system developers not trained in formal methods. The complementary strengths of OOMs and FSTs suggest that their integration can result in techniques that can be used to create precise and analyzable models. This thesis describes a technique for integrating analysis level UML (Unified Modeling Language) Class Diagrams with the formal notation Object-Z.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15514
Subject Headings: UML (Computer science), Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Lifetime exercise mode and the propensity of falling in older adults.
Creator: von Ammon, Victoria Anne, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to measure a person's propensity for falling in old age based on their lifetime mode of exercise. One hundred independently living older adults were separated into three groups, (1) lifetime start and stop exercisers, SAS, (i.e., basketball, racquet sport players), N = 27; (2) lifetime dynamic exercisers, DYN, (i.e., walkers, runners), N = 48; and (3) a control, C, (inactive), N = 25. Two trials of a timed "Up and Go" test (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991) were...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to measure a person's propensity for falling in old age based on their lifetime mode of exercise. One hundred independently living older adults were separated into three groups, (1) lifetime start and stop exercisers, SAS, (i.e., basketball, racquet sport players), N = 27; (2) lifetime dynamic exercisers, DYN, (i.e., walkers, runners), N = 48; and (3) a control, C, (inactive), N = 25. Two trials of a timed "Up and Go" test (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991) were performed with results ranging from SAS, 5.01 sec +/- 1.16 sec; DYN, 7.04 sec +/- 1.92 sec; and C, 9.95 sec +/- 4.68 sec, mean +/- SD, indicating that lifetime start and stop activities significantly lowers a person's propensity for falling more than dynamic exercise or inactivity.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12863
Subject Headings: Gerontology, Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Sciences, Recreation
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Title: Abortion policy in the fifty states: A comparative analysis.
Creator: Parsons, Sharon Kay, Florida Atlantic University, Pritchard, Anita
Abstract/Description: This study investigates the influence of state characteristics, socioeconomic, cultural and political, on the variation of abortion legislation and accessibility in the American states. State discretion in abortion issues, historically and including the present time, has resulted in a lack of uniformity of regulations in the 50 states and a wide variance of accessibility to abortion services across the nation. Although abortion is considered one of the most divisive and controversial policy...
Show moreThis study investigates the influence of state characteristics, socioeconomic, cultural and political, on the variation of abortion legislation and accessibility in the American states. State discretion in abortion issues, historically and including the present time, has resulted in a lack of uniformity of regulations in the 50 states and a wide variance of accessibility to abortion services across the nation. Although abortion is considered one of the most divisive and controversial policy issues, it has largely been neglected in the literature as a public policy study at the state level. Therefore, a systematic and empirical basis for explaining the variance in abortion laws and accessibility is also lacking in the research. This study attempts to fill in that gap and the results of the analysis of the data reveals several important findings. First, there is little indication that accessibility is related to state legislation on abortion. Second, the measures for current legislation are not highly correlated. Each policy appears to be a separate issue for state legislators. Third, socioeconomic characteristics, as expected, are important to the pre-Roe measures of legislation and abortion rates. These characteristics are also important to recent abortion rates, Medicaid funding for abortions, and service provision. However, certain political variables, in particular public opinion/ideology, are also important to the variance of current measures. Fourth, traditional state characteristics do not explain the variance in two of the legislative variables included in the study--the number of post-Roe restrictions passed and parental notification/consent requirements. And last, religion, as measured by denominations or religious groups with an anti-abortion platform, does not play an important role in explaining variation in abortion laws or accessibility, contrary to the predictions. A larger percentage of Catholics is associated with increased service provision and less restrictive Medicaid funding for abortions. Fundamentalists are not important to the variation of either legislation or accessibility. This finding, in particular, is in contrast to not only the predictions of this study but also to the popular beliefs and assertions on the subject.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12285
Subject Headings: Women's Studies, Political Science, General, Political Science, Public Administration
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