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- Scholar's name
- Meredith Ellis
- Department
- Department of Anthropology
- Status
- Current
- ellism@fau.edu
- Format
- Institutional Scholar
- Scholar's name
- Meredith Mountford
- Department
- Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
- Status
- Current
- mmountfo@fau.edu
- Format
- Institutional Scholar
- Scholar's name
- Tricia Meredith
- Department
- Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
- Status
- Current
- tmeredi1@fau.edu
- Format
- Institutional Scholar
- Scholar's name
- Meredith Blue
- Department
- Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Status
- Current
- mblue1@fau.edu
- Format
- Institutional Scholar
- Title
- O. Meredith Wilson - A. J. Brumbaugh Correspondence.
- Date Issued
- 1960
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/371225
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University-- History, Florida Atlantic University-- Planning, Florida Atlantic University-- Records and correspondence
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- O. Meredith Wilson - A. J. Brumbaugh Correspondence.
- Date Issued
- 1960-1961
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/371227
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University-- History, Florida Atlantic University-- Planning, Florida Atlantic University-- Records and correspondence
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- O. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Minnesota, 1960-1961.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000166.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University History, Florida Atlantic University Archives
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Olfactory thresholds of elasmobranchs.
- Creator
- Meredith, Tricia L., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2010-04-09
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176837
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Modeling embryonic tubulogenesis with polarized particles.
- Creator
- Ortiz, Lucas, Blue, Meredith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Epithelial morphogenesis is driven by the formation, growth, and bending of thin sheets of cells with distinct interior (apical) and exterior (basal) sides. In this study we attempted to improve on past particle-based cell models to form a model of morphogenesis based on a two-particle polarized cell structure. We began by modeling a stable cyst-like structure. We then tested and calibrated the viscoelastic properties of our model by compressing the cell structure between two plates, which is...
Show moreEpithelial morphogenesis is driven by the formation, growth, and bending of thin sheets of cells with distinct interior (apical) and exterior (basal) sides. In this study we attempted to improve on past particle-based cell models to form a model of morphogenesis based on a two-particle polarized cell structure. We began by modeling a stable cyst-like structure. We then tested and calibrated the viscoelastic properties of our model by compressing the cell structure between two plates, which is comparable to real world data collected by Forgacs et al. (1998). We also simulated the growth of a hollow sphere into a tube-like structure using directed cell growth and a theoretical version of a basal lamina. With minimal refinement, this model should generalize to 3D.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003528
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Enter the Matrix: Transforming Knitting Patterns Using Matrices.
- Creator
- Stein, Amy, Blue, Meredith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this thesis is to take a knitting pattern and to flip or rotate it, creating a new pattern. In order to accomplish this, knitting patterns are converted into matrices and then matrix properties, such as the matrix transpose and matrix multiplication, are used to transform the pattern. This project finds a particular order of matrix properties that can be applied to create rotations and flips of the original pattern. The transformed matrix can then be converted back into a...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to take a knitting pattern and to flip or rotate it, creating a new pattern. In order to accomplish this, knitting patterns are converted into matrices and then matrix properties, such as the matrix transpose and matrix multiplication, are used to transform the pattern. This project finds a particular order of matrix properties that can be applied to create rotations and flips of the original pattern. The transformed matrix can then be converted back into a knitting pattern. A program in JAVA that allows a user to input a knitting pattern and produce a rotated or flipped pattern is created using these matrix properties.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003656
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Opinion of Hon. John M. Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania : in favor of the constitutionality of the act of Congress of March 3, 1863, "for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes.
- Creator
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Read, John M. (John Meredith) 1797-1874
- Abstract/Description
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Opinion of Honorable John M. Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Notes: "Delivered at Pittsburg, on Monday, November 9, 1863." "Three bills in equity were filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District by three individuals against the officers of the Enrolling Board of the Third Congressional District, praying for injunctions to restrain the defendants from further proceeding with or under such enrolment, requisition, and draft, under the Act of 3d March, 1863, and particularly...
Show moreOpinion of Honorable John M. Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Notes: "Delivered at Pittsburg, on Monday, November 9, 1863." "Three bills in equity were filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District by three individuals against the officers of the Enrolling Board of the Third Congressional District, praying for injunctions to restrain the defendants from further proceeding with or under such enrolment, requisition, and draft, under the Act of 3d March, 1863, and particularly from all proceedings against the said plaintiffs. The ground alleged for these applications was the unconstitutionality of this act of Congress."--Page [2]. Printed marginalia. A longer version (31 pages), with additional opinion, also issued in 1863: "Opinions of Hon. John M. Read." FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f24
- Subject Headings
- American Civil War (1861-1865), Draft -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Recruiting and enlistment, United States -- Army, United States -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Manpower, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITOR SIMULATION AND TRANSVERSE OSCILLATION OF VERTICAL DUSTY PLASMA CHAINS IN A GLASS BOX.
- Creator
- Fowler, Raymond, Hoim, Terje, Johnson, Andrew, Blue, Meredith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Dust particles in plasma can arrange themselves into a vertical con guration when placed inside a glass box. What really occurs in the glass box is still unknown and is di cult to nd out by direct methods of measurement. In this thesis, the dust chains are investigated through probe oscillations and a Matlab simulation that uses a parallel plate capacitor to model an electric eld. Parameters of the plasma and dispersion relations for the transverse oscillation are extracted from the chain's...
Show moreDust particles in plasma can arrange themselves into a vertical con guration when placed inside a glass box. What really occurs in the glass box is still unknown and is di cult to nd out by direct methods of measurement. In this thesis, the dust chains are investigated through probe oscillations and a Matlab simulation that uses a parallel plate capacitor to model an electric eld. Parameters of the plasma and dispersion relations for the transverse oscillation are extracted from the chain's motion. For both longitudinal and transverse oscillatory motion, the simulation is used to nd the charge on all the dust in the chains and to simulate the chain's motion. The plasma parameter values are expected within experimental error. The dispersion relations show that more than one wave motion propagates through the chain. The charge found is much higher than expected, and so the simulated motion may not be very accurate.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003615
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Anatomy and physiology of the elasmobranch olfactory system.
- Creator
- Meredith, Tricia L., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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The olfactory system is the most highly developed system for molecular sensing in vertebrates. Despite their reputation for being particularly olfactory driven, little is known about how this sense functions in elasmobranch fishes. The goal of this dissertation was to examine the morphology and physiology of elasmobranchs to compare their olfactory system with teleost fishes and more derived vertebrates. To test the hypotheses that elasmobranchs possess greater olfactory sensitivities than...
Show moreThe olfactory system is the most highly developed system for molecular sensing in vertebrates. Despite their reputation for being particularly olfactory driven, little is known about how this sense functions in elasmobranch fishes. The goal of this dissertation was to examine the morphology and physiology of elasmobranchs to compare their olfactory system with teleost fishes and more derived vertebrates. To test the hypotheses that elasmobranchs possess greater olfactory sensitivities than teleosts and that lamellar surface area is correlated to sensitivity, I compared the surface area of the olfactory lamellae and the olfactory sensitivities of five phylogenetically diverse elasmobranch species. The olfactory thresholds reported here (10-9 to 10-6 M) were comparable to those previously reported for teleosts and did not correlate with lamellar surface area. Since aquatic species are subject to similar environmental amino acid levels, they appear to have converged upon similar amino acid sensitivities. To test the hypothesis that elasmobranchs are able to detect bile salt odorants despite lacking ciliated olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), the type of ORN that mediates bile salt detection in the teleosts, I quantified the olfactory specificity and sensitivity of two elasmobranch species to four, teleost-produced C24 bile salts. Both species responded to all four bile salts, but demonstrated smaller relative responses and less sensitivity compared to teleosts and agnathans. This may indicate that elasmobranchs don't rely on bile salts to detect teleost prey. Also, the olfactory system of elasmobranchs contains molecular olfactory receptors for bile salts independent of those that detect amino acids, similar to teleosts., In some elasmobranch species, each olfactory bulb (OB) is physically partitioned into two hemi-bulbs; however, the functional significance of this morphology is not fully understood. The organization of the OBs in three species with varying OB morphologies was examined to test the hypothesis that the elasmobranch OB is somatotopically arranged. Glomeruli in the OB received projections from ORNs in 3-4 olfactory lamellae situated immediately anterior. These results indicate a somatotopic arrangement of the elasmobranch OB, which may be unique among vertebrate olfactory systems and potentially led to the hemi-OB morphology.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3333058
- Subject Headings
- Condrichthyes, Sense organs, Condrichthyes, Physiology, Sharks, Physiology, Adaptation (Biology), Aquatic animals, Physiology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Categorical congruence facilitates multisensory associative learning.
- Creator
- Barenholtz, Elan, Lewkowicz, David J., Davidson, Meredith, Mavica, Lauren
- Date Issued
- 2014-10-27
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.3758_s13423-014-0612-7_1631806039
- Format
- Citation
- Title
- Learning to match faces and voices.
- Creator
- Davidson, Meredith., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines whether forming a single identity is crucial to learning to bind faces and voices, or if people are equally able to do so without tying this information to an identity. To test this, individuals learned paired faces and voices that were in one of three different conditions: True voice, Gender Matched, or Gender Mismatched conditions. Performance was measured in a training phase as well as a test phase, and results show that participants were able to learn more quickly and...
Show moreThis study examines whether forming a single identity is crucial to learning to bind faces and voices, or if people are equally able to do so without tying this information to an identity. To test this, individuals learned paired faces and voices that were in one of three different conditions: True voice, Gender Matched, or Gender Mismatched conditions. Performance was measured in a training phase as well as a test phase, and results show that participants were able to learn more quickly and have higher overall performance for learning in the True Voice and Gender Matched conditions. During the test phase, performance was almost at chance in the Gender Mismatched condition which may mean that learning in the training phase was simply memorization of the pairings for this condition. Results support the hypothesis that learning to bind faces and voices is a process that involves forming a supramodal identity from multisensory learning.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683140
- Subject Headings
- Sensorimotor integration, Senses and sensation, Intersensory effects, Perceptual learning, Pattern recognition systems
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “OUT OF FIXED PROPORTION, BEAUTY RISES”: A REVIEW OF MATHEMATICS IN FORMAL POETIC CONSTRAINT.
- Creator
- Nielander. Tiffany, Blue, Meredith, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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As Bertrand Russel once said, “The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry” (Russel 60). Poetry and mathematics are recognizably linked through aesthetics and counting at the most fundamental level, but these basic connections can be further extended to formal constraints in poetry. The link between mathematics and poetry, as well as formal poetic constraint...
Show moreAs Bertrand Russel once said, “The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry” (Russel 60). Poetry and mathematics are recognizably linked through aesthetics and counting at the most fundamental level, but these basic connections can be further extended to formal constraints in poetry. The link between mathematics and poetry, as well as formal poetic constraint based on mathematical structures and principles is inherently organic. The sestina and the sonnet are traditional poetic forms that contain intrinsic mathematical structures. The Fib, the S+7 algorithm, and computer-generated poetry are modern forms which have been explicitly based on mathematical structures.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00036
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Optimization of Piezoelectric Transducers using SDOE.
- Creator
- DeLong, Devin, Blue, Meredith, McGovern, Warren, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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A common problem surrounding piezoelectric transducers is matching the highimpedance active piezoelectric element with a low-impedance load, typically water or skin. This is a common problem with medical devices [Ali00]. Matching layers are added in an attempt to gradually decrease the impedance of the active piezoelectric element down to the impedance of water. If the impedance is not gradually decreased, acoustic waves are reflected at the boundaries that are proportional to the impedance...
Show moreA common problem surrounding piezoelectric transducers is matching the highimpedance active piezoelectric element with a low-impedance load, typically water or skin. This is a common problem with medical devices [Ali00]. Matching layers are added in an attempt to gradually decrease the impedance of the active piezoelectric element down to the impedance of water. If the impedance is not gradually decreased, acoustic waves are reflected at the boundaries that are proportional to the impedance mismatch of the two materials. A dual-matching layer transducer is analyzed, and we attempt to optimize the impedances and thicknesses of the two matching layers using statistical design of experiments.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003575
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A mathematical model of the Austrian political business cycle.
- Creator
- Bensoussan, Ilan, Jakee, Keith, Blue, Meredith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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We construct a formal model that reconciles non-formal risk-based Austrian business cycle theory with models of political business cycles. In our model, the incumbent political party induces the central bank to enact an expansionary monetary policy. This policy lowers the real interest rate, which leads to an increase in investments. As more individuals invest, assets inflate, leading to a boom-bust cycle; voter utility increases because asset values are higher. An increase in voter utility...
Show moreWe construct a formal model that reconciles non-formal risk-based Austrian business cycle theory with models of political business cycles. In our model, the incumbent political party induces the central bank to enact an expansionary monetary policy. This policy lowers the real interest rate, which leads to an increase in investments. As more individuals invest, assets inflate, leading to a boom-bust cycle; voter utility increases because asset values are higher. An increase in voter utility leads to an increased likelihood that the incumbent political party will be reelected. In an attempt to avoid a violent bust in assets, the central bank may implement a contractionary monetary policy to raise the real interest rate in increments. If the financial system becomes illiquid before the policy is implemented, then a speculative bubble burst occurs. The cycle regenerates a year before the next election when an accommodative monetary policy is implemented once again.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003558
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dental Analysis of Prehistoric Populations in Coastal Ecuador.
- Creator
- Boyer, Cassandra Anne Kwy-San, Ellis, Meredith B., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis compares the human dentition of three coastal populations in Salango, Ecuador, dating to Late Guangala (Site 141C: 100 B.C. – A.D. 800), Early Manteño (Site 35: A.D. 645 +/- 45 and A.D. 430), and Late Manteño (Site 140: A.D. 1300 – 1600). The human remains in Sites 141C and 140 have not been previously analyzed and provide new information about coastal Ecuador in the form of statistical analysis and osteobiographies. Dental pathologies such as caries, abscesses, calculus,...
Show moreThis thesis compares the human dentition of three coastal populations in Salango, Ecuador, dating to Late Guangala (Site 141C: 100 B.C. – A.D. 800), Early Manteño (Site 35: A.D. 645 +/- 45 and A.D. 430), and Late Manteño (Site 140: A.D. 1300 – 1600). The human remains in Sites 141C and 140 have not been previously analyzed and provide new information about coastal Ecuador in the form of statistical analysis and osteobiographies. Dental pathologies such as caries, abscesses, calculus, hypoplasia, as well as dental wear patterns indicate subsistence, or diet, behavioral and cultural practices, and early childhood development. The data suggests that agriculture became more intensively practiced during Site 35’s occupation, whereas Site 141C preferred fishing, and Site 140 used both methods in a simultaneous manner where neither dominated. Further, the disruption in childhood development is statistically significant during Site 140’s occupation, suggesting these individuals were heavily affected by climate, Spanish colonization and subsequent disease, social struggles, and/or dietary deficiency.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013358
- Subject Headings
- Dental anthropology, Salango (Ecuador), Prehistoric peoples
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Evaluating Entheseal Changes from a Commingled and Fragmentary Population: Republic Groves.
- Creator
- Dewey, Jennifer K., Ellis, Meredith, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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The most direct way available to modern day researchers to reconstruct individual and population level behavior is to analyze markers of activity from skeletal remains (Ruff et al., 2004). An analysis of the population at the Republic Groves site (8HR4) was conducted, using the entheseal change score system, the Coimbra method, developed by Henderson et al. (2015). This study examined the implication of analyzing a commingled and fragmentary population with this methodology. Reconstructing...
Show moreThe most direct way available to modern day researchers to reconstruct individual and population level behavior is to analyze markers of activity from skeletal remains (Ruff et al., 2004). An analysis of the population at the Republic Groves site (8HR4) was conducted, using the entheseal change score system, the Coimbra method, developed by Henderson et al. (2015). This study examined the implication of analyzing a commingled and fragmentary population with this methodology. Reconstructing specific behavior cannot be done with this type of approach; however, entheseal changes can be compared to specific patterns of behavior for consistency. An atlatl was found with the human remains and thus provided a suggestion of behavior for comparison. Entheses were chosen in line with a throwing motion of the atlatl and focused exclusively on the humerus, radius, and ulna. The application of the Coimbra methodology to the Republic Groves population was successful, at least in part. Overall, there was low variability of results, mostly 0, some 1, and with very few high 2 scores. The entheseal changes from Republic Groves were consistent with the throwing of an atlatl; however, this does not mean that this is the only behavior that could have generated that kind of change.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005974
- Subject Headings
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past, Enthesis, Archaeology--Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
