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Title: Who Am I?: My Reactions to This Bridge Called My Back.
Creator: Angus, Jeanelle
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000729
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Municipal solid waste (landfills).
Creator: Arcaya, Victor, Popova, Daniela
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350936
Subject Headings: Refuse and refuse disposal, Compost plants, Sanitary landfills, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Source reduction (Waste management), Waste minimization, Municipal solid waste, Landfill
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Employing cultural landscapes in community preservation: the case of Druid Hills, Atlanta.
Creator: Blythe, Rachel, O’Brien, William
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350930
Subject Headings: Landscape assessment, Historic preservation, Landscape protection, Cultural landscapes, Community development, Urban--Government policy, City planning
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Tea masters as master builders: the predecessors of the architectural profession in Japan.
Creator: Brodeur, Angelica, Kulic, Vladimir
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350932
Subject Headings: Japanese tea masters, Architecture --Japan, Tearooms --Japan, Sen no Rikyu
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Mario Vargas Llosa and The Feast of the Goat: Heteroglossic Trauma.
Creator: Carreño Cabrejos, Pablo Francisco José
Abstract/Description: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian who has written about Latin American dictators, creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of...
Show moreRafael Leónidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian who has written about Latin American dictators, creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of the four conspirators waiting to ambush the presidential bullet-proof car on that fateful night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures (Bakhtin’s heteroglossia) of the novel as masterful “rupturing” techniques. Through these, the reader pieces together the broken body politic of a traumatized nation as Urania reconstructs in painful detail how the impotent dictator digitally rapes her to ensure her body bears the mark of his brutal anger and frustration.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005005
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: New and Low-Cost Ways to Execute Biomedical Signal Processing.
Creator: Carvalho, Felipe, Shankar, Ravi
Abstract/Description: The human body is constantly sending, processing, and receiving information about its health. This internal communication process is often times achieved through tiny electrical signals, called Biomedical Signals (Biosignals). In this project, we investigate new ways to process Biosignals using embedded systems and computer simulations. We work with Texas Instruments’ OMAP L-138 Digital Signal Processor and Code Composer Studio IDE to process and analyze the electrical behavior of the human...
Show moreThe human body is constantly sending, processing, and receiving information about its health. This internal communication process is often times achieved through tiny electrical signals, called Biomedical Signals (Biosignals). In this project, we investigate new ways to process Biosignals using embedded systems and computer simulations. We work with Texas Instruments’ OMAP L-138 Digital Signal Processor and Code Composer Studio IDE to process and analyze the electrical behavior of the human heart (ECG Biosignals). In addition to creating computer codes to process such signals, one expected outcome of this research project is a series of tutorials exploring Biomedical concepts and digital signal processing algorithms. Our goal is to make Biomedical Signal Processing widely accessible, hence our decision to design around low-cost hardware and software, and to make all documentation available online at http://smartsystems.eng.fau.edu/biomedical-signal-processing/.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005006
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The development of parvalbumin-positive neurons in ferret visual cortex.
Creator: Casciato, Dominick Joseph
Abstract/Description: Experience plays a critical role in maturation of cortical circuits. In visual cortex, experience-dependent development has been linked to the maturation of inhibitory interneurons. Parvalbumin-containing (PV+) interneurons, a subtype of GABAergic interneurons, play an important role in cortical circuit function; however, it remains unknown how visual experience shapes their organization. We used immunohistochemistry to observe the organization of PV+ expression in visual cortex through...
Show moreExperience plays a critical role in maturation of cortical circuits. In visual cortex, experience-dependent development has been linked to the maturation of inhibitory interneurons. Parvalbumin-containing (PV+) interneurons, a subtype of GABAergic interneurons, play an important role in cortical circuit function; however, it remains unknown how visual experience shapes their organization. We used immunohistochemistry to observe the organization of PV+ expression in visual cortex through visual maturity. Before visual experience, PV+ cell bodies and processes are most pronounced in layer 5, less in layer 2/3, and generally lacking in layer 4. Within 3 days of the onset of visual experience, PV+ organization undergoes a major shift, with PV+ expression found throughout layers 2-6. We performed dark rearing which determined these morphological changes are due to visual experience. This rapid change in parvalbumin organization may play a role in functional changes associated with the onset of visual experience.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005007
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Peer Led Team Learning into Organic Chemistry.
Creator: Deacon, Lisa, Rezler, Evonne, Haky, Jerome E., Sempertegui Plaza, Tito S.
Abstract/Description: A web-based learning system for Organic Chemistry is being integrated into a Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) environment to restructure the existing Organic Chemistry I discussion (OrgoBOND) sections to enhance student learning, improve overall grades, and lower the Organic Chemistry I DFW rates. Students taking Organic Chemistry I are required to participate in a section of OrgoBOND utilizing the web-based learning system in a smaller classroom than in previous discussion sessions. Student...
Show moreA web-based learning system for Organic Chemistry is being integrated into a Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) environment to restructure the existing Organic Chemistry I discussion (OrgoBOND) sections to enhance student learning, improve overall grades, and lower the Organic Chemistry I DFW rates. Students taking Organic Chemistry I are required to participate in a section of OrgoBOND utilizing the web-based learning system in a smaller classroom than in previous discussion sessions. Student performance will be compared to that of students in future semesters participating in the same small PLTL setting, but with traditional recitation format. The advantages of introducing a web-based learning system into PLTL discussion sessions are (1) providing “hints,” (2) offering multiple attempts per question, and (3) instant grading and feedback. The computer assignments are unique to each student and reflect the topic recently reviewed in lecture. We will report on the preliminary results from data being collected on student performance, satisfaction levels, and retention rate changes.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005010
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: GT Supercar Mechanical Research.
Creator: Francis, Liam
Abstract/Description: At FAU High School students are designing, fabricating, testing, and analyzing an GT-EV Electric Supercar alongside FAU’s undergraduates. In the field of engineering, it is paramount that undergraduates know more than just theory; students are being pressed more and more to have experience in fabrication and design application in the real world. Teaching our future leaders skills applicable to the real world and how to apply these skills in the workplace is an equally important objective of...
Show moreAt FAU High School students are designing, fabricating, testing, and analyzing an GT-EV Electric Supercar alongside FAU’s undergraduates. In the field of engineering, it is paramount that undergraduates know more than just theory; students are being pressed more and more to have experience in fabrication and design application in the real world. Teaching our future leaders skills applicable to the real world and how to apply these skills in the workplace is an equally important objective of this project. We wish to answer the question of whether or not electric cars are a viable means of transportation from various perspectives such as the consumer, environmental, and business standpoints by analyzing the characteristics of electric cars and their future capabilities. Students will not only participate in research conducted by undergraduate participating students, but also conduct their own research, fabricate their own theories, and benefit the future of STEM.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005015
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Punished for another person’s crime: “the felon murder rule”.
Creator: Gomez, Lauren Theresa, Tunick, Mark
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350934
Subject Headings: Criminal law, Criminal liability, Felonies, Felony murder rule, Murder, Violent crime
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Social networks and personality in a Liberal Arts College.
Creator: Gopaldas, Amrita, Lanning, Kevin
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350905
Subject Headings: Online social networks, Identity (psychology), Social perception, Self-perception, Interpersonal communication, Psychological aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Exploring cation-π interactions in a sophomore Organic Chemistry Laboratory experiment.
Creator: Horowitz, Andrew, Rucco, Dominic, St. Germain, Elijah, Lepore, Salvatore D., Rezler, Evonne
Abstract/Description: An Organic Chemistry Lab experiment is being developed and adapted from work recently published by Maity and Lepore [1] investigating the cyclization of substituted β-alkynyl hydrazines to yield azaproline derivatives. The mechanism of this reaction is putatively driven by cation-π interaction of alkynyl hydrazine with a tetrabutylammonium ion. This experiment will present students with a cutting-edge research concept to explore the role of tetrabutylammonium in the cyclization of substituted...
Show moreAn Organic Chemistry Lab experiment is being developed and adapted from work recently published by Maity and Lepore [1] investigating the cyclization of substituted β-alkynyl hydrazines to yield azaproline derivatives. The mechanism of this reaction is putatively driven by cation-π interaction of alkynyl hydrazine with a tetrabutylammonium ion. This experiment will present students with a cutting-edge research concept to explore the role of tetrabutylammonium in the cyclization of substituted β-alkynyl hydrazines. Reaction kinetics will be probed by thin-layer chromatography and azaproline derivative product(s) will be characterized by IR spectroscopy. Ultimately, our goal is to implement a modern research-based, cost-effective, and safe bioorganic experiment into Florida Atlantic University’s undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory curriculum.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005024
Subject Headings: College students --Research --United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dual enrollment: the way forward.
Creator: Khazem, Jad, Holman, Mirya R.
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350908
Subject Headings: Dual enrollment, College credits, High school students, Educational acceleration, College admissions, Enrollments, Education --secondary
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: “Carole Lombard as silent spectacle”.
Creator: Kiriakou, Olympia, Sim, Gerald
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350909
Subject Headings: Silent films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Film criticism, Epic films --History and criticism, Motion pictures --United States --Plots, themes, etc., Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942, Silent films --History and criticism, Comedy films --History and criticism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Chlorosulfite as a Leaving Group in Organic Synthesis.
Creator: Kissner, William, Dragojlovic, Veljko
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005473
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The effect of mutated aconitase on yeast longevity.
Creator: Kwan, Melissa “CJ”, Kirchman, Paul
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350911
Subject Headings: Mitochondrial Proteins, Citric Acid Cycle, Aconitate Hydratase, ACO2 protein, human, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Oxidative Stress, Yeast Longevity
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A CALL TO ACTION: REMOVING THE STIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Creator: Lake, Kendyl
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000451
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: SHOULD THE DEATH PENALTY BE PUT TO DEATH?.
Creator: Lake, Kendyl
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000450
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Finding the rainbow connection: from toleration to human dignity and acceptance in American life and law.
Creator: Lange, Alex C., Tunick, Mark
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350914
Subject Headings: Toleration, Civil rights, Gay rights, Freedom of religion
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The effect of medical labels on perceptions of illnesses and sufferers.
Creator: Lasaga, Jessica, Lanning, Kevin
Date Issued: 2012-04-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3350916
Subject Headings: Medical labels, Concept formation, Attitude to health, Patients --psychology
Format: Document (PDF)

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