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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: 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.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00036
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Title: “THE POETIC GROUND OF PHYSIOLOGY”: AESTHETIC AND BIOLOGICAL UNITY IN BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY.
Creator: Riso, Anna, Sourgen, Gavin, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: British Romantic poets adapted the natural-philosophical idea of “organicism”, a framework that explained life as a formative, generative power that pervades all organisms and provides unity to the parts that make the whole, as a way to judge art. The uniquely Romantic idea of organicism was defined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “unity in multeity” (Theory of Life, 42), which was the aesthetic ideal many poets strove to meet. I will explore how certain works in the Romantic era exemplify...
Show moreBritish Romantic poets adapted the natural-philosophical idea of “organicism”, a framework that explained life as a formative, generative power that pervades all organisms and provides unity to the parts that make the whole, as a way to judge art. The uniquely Romantic idea of organicism was defined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “unity in multeity” (Theory of Life, 42), which was the aesthetic ideal many poets strove to meet. I will explore how certain works in the Romantic era exemplify various aspects of organic theory, specifically: The Sensitive Plant, by P. B. Shelley, describes a personified organic force; The Botanic Gardens, by Erasmus Darwin, demonstrates how natural philosophers came to view the organization of life as a network, rather than a taxonomic hierarchy; and the ode encapsulates the organic ideal of synthesis. Understanding organic theory helps us to understand the ideal that the Romantics aspired to meet.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00044
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Title: CASSIOPEA XAMACHANA PRESENCE IN JELLYFISH BAY, IN THE LOXAHATCHEE RIVER, MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES.
Creator: Bonilla, Kristene, Moore, Jon, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Increases in jellyfish blooms worldwide have been linked to synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances. Cassiopea sp. are epibenthic jellyfish found in significantly higher densities and larger in size in areas that have high human populations. This study quantified the spatial and class-size distribution of Cassiopea xamachana in the Loxahatchee River, in an area referred to as Jellyfish Bay, by analyzing bell diameters and abundance, percent of submerged aquatic...
Show moreIncreases in jellyfish blooms worldwide have been linked to synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances. Cassiopea sp. are epibenthic jellyfish found in significantly higher densities and larger in size in areas that have high human populations. This study quantified the spatial and class-size distribution of Cassiopea xamachana in the Loxahatchee River, in an area referred to as Jellyfish Bay, by analyzing bell diameters and abundance, percent of submerged aquatic vegetation, and nutrient levels to determine if anthropogenic factors play a role in their presence there. Porewater samples from the bay had higher phosphorous levels compared to the rest of the river. This was indicative of wastewater runoff and may also indicate P-limitation. Nitrate levels were slightly lower than the average values and Cassiopea spp. preferentially take up nitrogen for their symbiotic zooxanthellae, so the higher densities of Cassiopea spp. in the embayment could be soaking up that nitrogen.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00005
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Title: You R Cute: The Influence Of Societal Perception On The Search For Online Romantic Partners.
Creator: DiPiero, Samantha, Lanning, Kevin, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: While online dating is very convenient, it causes an evolutionary mismatch, our ancestors did not have websites to search for partners. However, there are some similarities that can be seen between current and ancestral times in relation to societal perception, especially in relation to parental investment theory. Using an OkCupid dataset of 2620 questions, 166 were selected in order to evaluate how much of an influence societal perception ( the influence of family and friends, substance use,...
Show moreWhile online dating is very convenient, it causes an evolutionary mismatch, our ancestors did not have websites to search for partners. However, there are some similarities that can be seen between current and ancestral times in relation to societal perception, especially in relation to parental investment theory. Using an OkCupid dataset of 2620 questions, 166 were selected in order to evaluate how much of an influence societal perception ( the influence of family and friends, substance use, education, stigma, religion, appearance, and morals) has on searching for a romantic partner. The data was evaluated in four separate stages: Initially just 100 cases were examined to reduce computational burden, then an additional 2000 were used to look at the structure of key variables. Of the remaining cases, 60% were used to develop a prediction model and 40% to test this model. It was found that women tended to be more selective on six of the seven scales that were measured, this selectiveness can be attributed to parental investment theory. significant influence in revolutionary politics through agricultural and industrial collectivization, communes, militia resistance, and participation in government. Many historians have explained anarchism through the lens of ideology, a doctrine based upon a structure of authority. This thesis, however, explains anarchist power and unity during the Spanish Civil War as a matter of identity, as a meaningful sense of self. Spanish anarchists defined themselves through the process of negation – the act of defining who you are by defining what you are not – by their opposition to authority, to religion, to feudalism, to capitalism and fascism, to communism, and to anarchism. The anarchists also affirmed who they were as individuals and as communities through three values: yearning for absolute freedom, the capacity for absolute fraternity removed from centralized authority, and absolute egalitarianism – the unreserved equality of all individuals.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00011
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Title: “COUNTDOWN”: AN INTERACTIVE FICTION.
Creator: Kammerer, Jessica, Luria, Rachel, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Today’s readers are not, in fact, readers, but rather configurative authors, accustomed in this digital age to controlling the media presented to them in such a way that their configuration is as important to the content’s overall structure and interpretation as author intent. Interactive fiction, which is any text-based media that the reader can alter through their actions (Montfort, “Twisty Little Passages”, vii), addresses this configurative authorship. “Countdown” is my own work of...
Show moreToday’s readers are not, in fact, readers, but rather configurative authors, accustomed in this digital age to controlling the media presented to them in such a way that their configuration is as important to the content’s overall structure and interpretation as author intent. Interactive fiction, which is any text-based media that the reader can alter through their actions (Montfort, “Twisty Little Passages”, vii), addresses this configurative authorship. “Countdown” is my own work of interactive fiction. It is an interpersonal drama that meditates on inevitability and the effects of our choices. It employs randomization at a high level that impacts which scenes of the story are seen and when, and this complicates the relationship between the configurative author and the creator. This approach can be applied to other projects to place the reader in productive tension with the story itself, the author, and/or the narrator.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00025
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Title: VISUALIZING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THREE FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY USING NETWORK ANALYSIS.
Creator: Neelavannan, Randhikaa, Lanning, Kevin, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this research is to create a visual representation of the relationships and interactions between the fields of personality, industrial/organizational, and human factors psychology. References were pulled from select chapters of two different handbooks, the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences and the Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology, in order to create a network structure that graphically illustrated the connections between the authors...
Show moreThe purpose of this research is to create a visual representation of the relationships and interactions between the fields of personality, industrial/organizational, and human factors psychology. References were pulled from select chapters of two different handbooks, the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences and the Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology, in order to create a network structure that graphically illustrated the connections between the authors and their specific topics. This structure was then compared to a pre-prepared network that was created by hand of the expectations for what the network should look like based solely on the chapter readings. The software programs of R and Gephi were used for the creation of these network structures. From this research, the importance of these methods, namely, the creation a detailed map of a scientific field, was deduced and expanded upon.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00033
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Title: MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS REVEALS THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR-CONTROL REGIONS IN THE MEXICAN CAVEFISH.
Creator: Whu, Daniel, Duboue, Erik, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Behaviors are complex processes that are constantly evolving. Although little is known about the genetic and neuronal mechanisms underlying the evolution of behavior, studying the brain may be useful in addressing this. The Mexican Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, is a species with populations that inhabit surface rivers as well as caves. A. mexicanus populations are excellent models for convergent and parallel evolution. Using morphometric analysis software, we investigated the differences in...
Show moreBehaviors are complex processes that are constantly evolving. Although little is known about the genetic and neuronal mechanisms underlying the evolution of behavior, studying the brain may be useful in addressing this. The Mexican Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, is a species with populations that inhabit surface rivers as well as caves. A. mexicanus populations are excellent models for convergent and parallel evolution. Using morphometric analysis software, we investigated the differences in brain morphology between the two morphs. The cave populations exhibit a smaller optic tectum volume, which is consistent with their loss of eyes, a larger hypothalamus, and an increased size of the olfactory bulb volume. Each of these regions have known roles in different behaviors, which differ between cave and surface fish. These findings provide insight into how evolution can affect behavior by changing neuroanatomical structure.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00063
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Title: IS VIDEO THE MOST EFFECTIVE MARKETING TYPE?.
Creator: Casto, David, Kennedy, Ashley, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: In this thesis, I ask the question of whether or not video is the most effective marketing type. I answer this question by evaluating companies in the business, scientific, and health arenas and discuss why and how they have used video to market themselves. Further, I also examine the ways in which technology has grown in the past few decades, and discuss the different types of learning and how video can appeal to each type. With the results of this research, I ultimately conclude that video...
Show moreIn this thesis, I ask the question of whether or not video is the most effective marketing type. I answer this question by evaluating companies in the business, scientific, and health arenas and discuss why and how they have used video to market themselves. Further, I also examine the ways in which technology has grown in the past few decades, and discuss the different types of learning and how video can appeal to each type. With the results of this research, I ultimately conclude that video is the most effective marketing type. as the actually commodity being provided. I defend this claim via the examination of examples of entrepreneurs and members of the health and science communities, and the services they provide to the public. I show that products and services must have fitting marketing strategies, because if something innovative is developed but is not marketed, it is as if the invention was constructed only in the imagination of the creator.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00009
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Title: FLUOROGENIC PROBES TO DETECT PROTEIN SULFENYLATION.
Creator: Turner, Darren C., Carroll, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have traditionally been viewed as a harmful consequence of oxygen metabolism. However, scientists have discovered that ROS may oxidize cysteine residues of proteins, yielding sulfenic acid residues. This redox-mediated post-translational modification plays a significant biological role in cellular signaling, growth, and homeostasis. These processes were difficult to monitor in the past due to the lack of methods which can efficiently detect the changing redox...
Show moreReactive oxygen species (ROS) have traditionally been viewed as a harmful consequence of oxygen metabolism. However, scientists have discovered that ROS may oxidize cysteine residues of proteins, yielding sulfenic acid residues. This redox-mediated post-translational modification plays a significant biological role in cellular signaling, growth, and homeostasis. These processes were difficult to monitor in the past due to the lack of methods which can efficiently detect the changing redox states of cysteine residues. However, even with the advent of small molecule probes which selectively bind to oxidized cysteine residues, there is still work to be done in designing a more efficient probe, particularly for the sulfenic acid oxoform. Additionally, a probe that can characteristically fluoresce upon reacting with sulfenic acids would be extremely useful in biological imaging. Herein I describe a selective, reactive, and fluorogenic probe which can be used to detect protein sulfenylation.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00057
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Title: ASSESMENT OF ZOOXANTHELLAE COMMUNITIES IN MONTASTREAEA CAVERNOSA FOLLOWING MESOPHOTIC TO SHALLOW TRANSPLANTATION.
Creator: Perez, Diana, Moore, Jon, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Mesophotic reefs support a large, biologically diverse community and are capable of providing larvae to shallow reefs. This study compared the zooxanthellae density and chlorophyll concentrations of Montastreaea cavernosa colonies in Flower Garden Banks from mesophotic, shallow, and transplant depth treatments testing their differences over bank location, treatment, and time through a transplant experiment. It also compared the percent of zooxanthellae cells remaining after a bleaching event....
Show moreMesophotic reefs support a large, biologically diverse community and are capable of providing larvae to shallow reefs. This study compared the zooxanthellae density and chlorophyll concentrations of Montastreaea cavernosa colonies in Flower Garden Banks from mesophotic, shallow, and transplant depth treatments testing their differences over bank location, treatment, and time through a transplant experiment. It also compared the percent of zooxanthellae cells remaining after a bleaching event. Time was the driving factor for the differences in the algal symbiont concentrations. Zooxanthellae and chlorophyll were reduced after the bleaching event. However, there was no significant difference between the symbiont densities and chlorophyll concentrations between the transplant and shallow samples, demonstrating that they bleached equally. The lack of difference provides evidence for the plasticity and adaptability of coral and gives hope for the future of shallow reefs since mesophotic corals may be able to adapt to the thermal stresses of shallow reefs.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00040
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Title: 2D:4D FINGER RATIO IN CROSSFIT ATHLETES.
Creator: Wang, Calren, Wetterer, James, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The second digit and fourth digit (2D:4D) finger ratio is known to be an indicator of in utero androgen influence. Here, I review current research concerning 2D:4D ratio, particularly in regards to muscle strength, muscle mass, and athletic ability. Studies on athletes have shown a significant negative correlation between the ratio and athleticism and an inconsistent correlation with muscle mass and muscle strength. I propose a research study on the relationship between the 2D:4D ratio and...
Show moreThe second digit and fourth digit (2D:4D) finger ratio is known to be an indicator of in utero androgen influence. Here, I review current research concerning 2D:4D ratio, particularly in regards to muscle strength, muscle mass, and athletic ability. Studies on athletes have shown a significant negative correlation between the ratio and athleticism and an inconsistent correlation with muscle mass and muscle strength. I propose a research study on the relationship between the 2D:4D ratio and Crossfit athletes and its relationship to muscle mass and muscle strength.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00060
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Title: A BRIEF INTERROGATION OF SCIENCE AND FAITH.
Creator: Alaimo, Bridget, Kennedy, Ashley, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: In this thesis I begin by introducing the Big Bang theory and discussing arguments for and against it. Then, I argue that the Big Bang Theory and the Biblical account of creation align in their descriptions of the origin of the universe. Thus, I ultimately argue that the Big Bang theory and the Biblical account of creation are not mutually exclusive.
Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00001
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Title: Analysis of Expression and Subcellular Localization of OGT-1 in C. elegans.
Creator: Tavora, Rubens, Grill, Brock, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: EEL-1, the HUWE1 ortholog in C. elegans, is a large E3 ubiquitin ligase that is involved in the regulation of neuronal function and development. Huwe1 has been shown to be associated with intellectual disability. Through the use of electrophysiology and cell specific rescue it has been shown that EEL-1 is involved in GABAergic synaptic transmission. The mechanism of action of EEL-1 within GABA neurons remains largely unknown. Affinity purification proteomics have identified OGT-1, an ortholog...
Show moreEEL-1, the HUWE1 ortholog in C. elegans, is a large E3 ubiquitin ligase that is involved in the regulation of neuronal function and development. Huwe1 has been shown to be associated with intellectual disability. Through the use of electrophysiology and cell specific rescue it has been shown that EEL-1 is involved in GABAergic synaptic transmission. The mechanism of action of EEL-1 within GABA neurons remains largely unknown. Affinity purification proteomics have identified OGT-1, an ortholog of mammalian O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) transferase (Ogt), as an EEL-1 binding protein. By analyzing the expression pattern of OGT-1 in transgenic animals, we show that OGT-1 is expressed both GABAergic motor neurons and cholinergic motor neurons. Analysis of the subcellular distribution within GABAergic motor neurons shows that OGT-1 is enriched in presynaptic terminals. These findings support the hypothesis that EEL-1 and OGT-1 form a complex within GABA motor neurons to regulate synaptic transmission.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00048
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Title: BIOLOGICAL BENEFIT OF THE MCAT TRANSGENE IN PROGEROID MICE.
Creator: Frydman, Sylvia, Niedernhofer, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Aging is the number one risk factor for numerous chronic diseases driving increased morbidity and healthcare costs globally. Thus, finding ways to uncouple chronical aging with risk of disease is imperative. Extensive evidence links aging with increased oxidative stress. The free radical theory of aging posits that reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase with age and cause oxidative damage to cellular components, thereby driving aging. In support of this, overexpressing the endogenous...
Show moreAging is the number one risk factor for numerous chronic diseases driving increased morbidity and healthcare costs globally. Thus, finding ways to uncouple chronical aging with risk of disease is imperative. Extensive evidence links aging with increased oxidative stress. The free radical theory of aging posits that reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase with age and cause oxidative damage to cellular components, thereby driving aging. In support of this, overexpressing the endogenous antioxidant catalase specifically in mitochondria (mCAT transgene) improves health and lifespan of mice. I hypothesized that if ROS is a root cause of aging then the mCAT transgene would slow aging in a murine model of a human progeroid syndrome (Ercc1-/Δ mice). Unfortunately, mCAT expression was not highly expressed in all tissues. Nevertheless, mCAT+/-;Ercc1-/Δ mice showed improvements in functional tests and health evaluations relative to Ercc1-/Δ mice supporting the conclusion that ROS plays an important causal role in aging. matching, pre-transplant assessments and allocation of organs. In addition, I will discuss ethical principles that can be used to aid transplant teams in the difficult task of allocating of organs. I will also evaluate alternative options to the current transplant process such as an opt-out vs. an opt-in system and controlled financial payment for organs. Finally, I will analyze current policies regarding living donors and suggest avenues for future research into alternative resources for organs.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00016
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Title: CAN BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE BE A PROGNOSTIC INDICATOR FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS NEARING DEATH?.
Creator: Pisarra, Cory, Wetterer, James, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The cardiac ventricles release brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) when the cardiomyocytes are exceptionally stressed. Past research has indicated that BNP can be a used as a prognostic indicator in heart failure patients (Doust et al., 2005). The hypothesis is that higher BNP readings will result in a shorter amount of time that the patient has to live. 210 patients with a heart condition were admitted to the Hospice of Palm Beach County and had their blood drawn to determine their BNP level;...
Show moreThe cardiac ventricles release brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) when the cardiomyocytes are exceptionally stressed. Past research has indicated that BNP can be a used as a prognostic indicator in heart failure patients (Doust et al., 2005). The hypothesis is that higher BNP readings will result in a shorter amount of time that the patient has to live. 210 patients with a heart condition were admitted to the Hospice of Palm Beach County and had their blood drawn to determine their BNP level; however, only 35 patients qualified for the final analysis. The 35 patients had BNP readings ranging from 63 pg/ml to 50000 pg/ml with the average being 6620 pg/ml, whereas the normal range is <100 pg/ml. The time between the last BNP reading and the date of death ranged from 1 day to 732 days with the average being 118 days; furthermore, the trend indicated that the higher the BNP level the shorter the patient had to live which agrees with the hypothesis.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00042
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Title: A CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
Creator: Soto, Evelyn, Corr, Rachel, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Western population control policies have targeted women’s wombs in the attempt to control and manipulate the worldwide population. In the West, men and women are compared in a hierarchical gender dualism that claims men to be the cultivators of culture while women are the uncivilized yet passive and receptive fertile beings that are linked closely with the earth. Using theories from anthropology and ecofeminism, I show that the association of women with nature and fertility has led to their...
Show moreWestern population control policies have targeted women’s wombs in the attempt to control and manipulate the worldwide population. In the West, men and women are compared in a hierarchical gender dualism that claims men to be the cultivators of culture while women are the uncivilized yet passive and receptive fertile beings that are linked closely with the earth. Using theories from anthropology and ecofeminism, I show that the association of women with nature and fertility has led to their exploitation around the globe. Furthermore, racism played a role in the type of population control used on groups of women. I trace the use of Depo-Provera, Norplant, sterilization and even birth control pills in the population control policies pushed by Western politicians. I argue that these policies can be traced back to the eugenics movement and the association of women with untamed nature in need of male civilizing.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00053
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Title: A STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL BINDING PARTNERS FOR THE NUCLEAR RECEPTORS REV-ERB α AND REV-ERB β IN THE REGULATION OF TH17 CELL DEVELOPMENT.
Creator: Pelletier, Oliver, Moore, Jon, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The nuclear receptors REV-ERBα (NR1D1) and REV-ERBβ (NR1D2) play a major role in the regulation of the circadian rhythm. They work together with the nuclear receptor RORγt in gene activation and repression at RORE sites. These sites are found in TH17 cells that are known for their production of proinflammatory cytokines causing chronic inflammation, which is a prominent feature in many autoimmune diseases. In this study, the REVERBα/REVERBβ binding complex was examined for its role in the...
Show moreThe nuclear receptors REV-ERBα (NR1D1) and REV-ERBβ (NR1D2) play a major role in the regulation of the circadian rhythm. They work together with the nuclear receptor RORγt in gene activation and repression at RORE sites. These sites are found in TH17 cells that are known for their production of proinflammatory cytokines causing chronic inflammation, which is a prominent feature in many autoimmune diseases. In this study, the REVERBα/REVERBβ binding complex was examined for its role in the expression of a known target gene, BMAL1. Furthermore, additional investigations were conducted to elucidate the roles that REVERBα and REVERBβ have in the immune system and to identify protein binding partners in the REVERB complex.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00039
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Title: ANARCHIST IDENTITY DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
Creator: Elmo, Joseph, Ely, Christopher, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), anarchist groups were able to exert a significant influence in revolutionary politics through agricultural and industrial collectivization, communes, militia resistance, and participation in government. Many historians have explained anarchism through the lens of ideology, a doctrine based upon a structure of authority. This thesis, however, explains anarchist power and unity during the Spanish Civil War as a matter of identity, as a meaningful sense...
Show moreDuring the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), anarchist groups were able to exert a significant influence in revolutionary politics through agricultural and industrial collectivization, communes, militia resistance, and participation in government. Many historians have explained anarchism through the lens of ideology, a doctrine based upon a structure of authority. This thesis, however, explains anarchist power and unity during the Spanish Civil War as a matter of identity, as a meaningful sense of self. Spanish anarchists defined themselves through the process of negation – the act of defining who you are by defining what you are not – by their opposition to authority, to religion, to feudalism, to capitalism and fascism, to communism, and to anarchism. The anarchists also affirmed who they were as individuals and as communities through three values: yearning for absolute freedom, the capacity for absolute fraternity removed from centralized authority, and absolute egalitarianism – the unreserved equality of all individuals.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00012
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Title: ESTE MUNDO Y EL OTRO: EXPLORACIONES DEL BIEN Y EL MAL EN UN TEXTO DE LOS MORISCOS.
Creator: Bankert, Calvin, Vazquez, Miguel, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: During the 16th century, Spaniards of Muslim heritage, known as Moriscos, were forced to convert to Christianity. As Spanish speakers wishing to preserve their Muslim culture, the Moriscos began to write in Spanish using Arabic script. This writing system, known as Aljamiado, manifests as a distinct new language with its own grammatical idiosyncrasies. This thesis focuses on a 16th century aljamiado manuscript – a religious text containing “teachings of much importance” – and the significance...
Show moreDuring the 16th century, Spaniards of Muslim heritage, known as Moriscos, were forced to convert to Christianity. As Spanish speakers wishing to preserve their Muslim culture, the Moriscos began to write in Spanish using Arabic script. This writing system, known as Aljamiado, manifests as a distinct new language with its own grammatical idiosyncrasies. This thesis focuses on a 16th century aljamiado manuscript – a religious text containing “teachings of much importance” – and the significance of such teachings from the Morisco perspective. The text emphasizes the rejection of transient worldly phenomena, which lead to suffering, and the importance of servitude to the divine Creator, which leads to peace. This thesis seeks to explain how this type of religious ideology might inspire harmony or adversity depending on the state of the shifting power structures that define a society. Following an analysis of the text, the author includes his edition of the manuscript.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00003
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Title: EVERYTHING THAT’S BLACK AND WHITE.
Creator: Welliever, Britton, Earles, Julie, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: While testing the effects of the Enchroma glasses on individuals with and without color blindness, a black and white image search task was given. This task was to test how quickly a participant could locate a hidden image within a black and white photo. A 30 second time limit was set for each image to test the speed of each participant, and find out whether participants with or without color blindness could find the hidden animal faster. Art surveys were also given in order to find out the...
Show moreWhile testing the effects of the Enchroma glasses on individuals with and without color blindness, a black and white image search task was given. This task was to test how quickly a participant could locate a hidden image within a black and white photo. A 30 second time limit was set for each image to test the speed of each participant, and find out whether participants with or without color blindness could find the hidden animal faster. Art surveys were also given in order to find out the changes in art perception when using the Enchroma glasses.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00061
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