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- We Had No Eye-dea; The Effect of EnChroma Glasses on the Experience of Art and Color Vision.
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- Seepersad, Vrishan, Earles, Julie, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This study examined how the use of EnChroma glasses affects the color perception of individuals with color blindness. Differences in color vision were measured with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test and the Ishihara test. The participants were individuals of varying ages with color blindness and individuals with normal color vision (matched by their age). I tested how the EnChroma glasses changed a colorblind individual’s viewing experience of color within images such as...
Show moreThis study examined how the use of EnChroma glasses affects the color perception of individuals with color blindness. Differences in color vision were measured with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test and the Ishihara test. The participants were individuals of varying ages with color blindness and individuals with normal color vision (matched by their age). I tested how the EnChroma glasses changed a colorblind individual’s viewing experience of color within images such as paintings and photographs. Fourteen images were selected, and for each image, the participant answered questions about the image focusing on the dynamics of color, aesthetics, and the overall engagement with the image. The EnChroma glasses improved the color discrimination in only of two out of the eight color blind participants.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00104
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- Document (PDF)
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- Wealth Determines Health: Socioeconomic Status and Life Expectancy in Washington, DC.
- Creator
- Garafola, Jessica Rose, McGovern, Warren W., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Socioeconomic status has profound impact on one’s health. A person is able to spend more on health and wellness when that person has more disposable income. Socioeconomic status therefore affects people’s biology over their lifetime, making them more or less susceptible to chronic illness. This rate of chronic illness within a population will obviously be related to the life expectancy of the community. Firstly, this thesis examines socioeconomic status in Washington, D.C., where there is...
Show moreSocioeconomic status has profound impact on one’s health. A person is able to spend more on health and wellness when that person has more disposable income. Socioeconomic status therefore affects people’s biology over their lifetime, making them more or less susceptible to chronic illness. This rate of chronic illness within a population will obviously be related to the life expectancy of the community. Firstly, this thesis examines socioeconomic status in Washington, D.C., where there is wide inequality between people living only miles away. Secondly, this thesis correlates, among the eight wards in Washington, D.C., the different aspects of socioeconomic status to life expectancy. In an interdisciplinary manner, this thesis aims to analyze the disparity in life expectancy in Washington, D.C. and the significant factor that socioeconomic status plays in one’s biological destiny.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003643
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- Document (PDF)
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- What are words worth?: Thomas Malthus and political economy in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose.
- Creator
- Kirchner, Christina R., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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The works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth are generally regarded as idealistic nature poems. However, Wordsworth was writing in a turbulent era, between the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contrary to conventional labels, Wordsworth's prose and poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries strongly critiques social and economic affairs, similar to the ways Thomas Malthus comments on the same subjects. In 1798, political and economic theorist Thomas Robert...
Show moreThe works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth are generally regarded as idealistic nature poems. However, Wordsworth was writing in a turbulent era, between the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contrary to conventional labels, Wordsworth's prose and poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries strongly critiques social and economic affairs, similar to the ways Thomas Malthus comments on the same subjects. In 1798, political and economic theorist Thomas Robert Malthus published his infamous Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he devotes considerable thought to the subjects of poverty and England's Old Poor Law system. This thesis explores the connections between Wordsworth and Malthus, establishing Wordsworth as an amateur political economic theorist, who was concerned with the contemporary treatment of poverty and the morals of the legislators of the Poor Laws. I further claim that Wordsworth was a parable-poet, who sought to provide moral guidance regarding poor relief through affective poetry.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359307
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Psychological aspects, Economics
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What is Feminist Psychology? A Community Structure of Psychology of Women Quarterly and Feminism & Psychology.
- Creator
- Baron, Sonia, Lanning, Kevin, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
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Women’s studies is an interdisciplinary field that had continued to evolve since it was introduced to academic spaces in the ‘70s. Feminist psychology unites the psychology of women and the psychological study of women’s social issues. Using community structure of the scholarship of the journals Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) and Feminism & Psychology, we examine and seek to understand the empirical structure of feminist psychology. An analysis of these two journals by decade will help...
Show moreWomen’s studies is an interdisciplinary field that had continued to evolve since it was introduced to academic spaces in the ‘70s. Feminist psychology unites the psychology of women and the psychological study of women’s social issues. Using community structure of the scholarship of the journals Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) and Feminism & Psychology, we examine and seek to understand the empirical structure of feminist psychology. An analysis of these two journals by decade will help determine whether the scholarship of feminist psychology has changed as much as women’s studies. In doing so, one can also address the question of how psychological is women’s studies (and vice versa).
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00122
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
- Creator
- Sabbagh, Jocelyn., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has...
Show moreThe academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603
- Subject Headings
- Women heads of households, Guatemalans, Family, Emigration and immigration, Social life and customs
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What was "Behind the Green Door?": reclaiming femininity and sexual pleasure within pornography.
- Creator
- Williams, Faith Abigail., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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This project focuses on, Behind the Green Door, a film that inaugurated and in many ways defined the genre of hard-core pornography. I will examine the subversive modes of sexual behavior created and promoted by society and will argue that pornographic films actively attempt to redefine socially created notions of sexual comportment. I will then examine the notion of sexual fantasy and behavior as represented in two pornographic films, The Masseuse and The Fashionistas, in relation to the...
Show moreThis project focuses on, Behind the Green Door, a film that inaugurated and in many ways defined the genre of hard-core pornography. I will examine the subversive modes of sexual behavior created and promoted by society and will argue that pornographic films actively attempt to redefine socially created notions of sexual comportment. I will then examine the notion of sexual fantasy and behavior as represented in two pornographic films, The Masseuse and The Fashionistas, in relation to the models of sexual comportment present in Behind the Green Door. Specifically, I will study the work of two female pornographic stars, Jenna Jameson and Belladonna, and discuss the manner in which their work has reclaimed the notion of femininity and the necessity for female sexual pleasure by presenting women as sexually empowered beings able controlling and creating sexual scenarios specifically designed to garner physical pleasure.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/40974
- Subject Headings
- Sex differences (Psychology), Pornography, Social aspects, Feminism, Sex role
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What’s in a name? EU foreign policy through the FYRM.
- Creator
- Henry-Pearson, Cassidy, Ely, Christopher, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The European Union (EU) is a unique political/economic body in the world that has created a more integrated union of European states. Yet the structure of the EU remains under debate, as does the existence of the EU itself. Conflict about possible member states, such as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRM) is especially contentious. By examining the FYRM‟s arduous process of gaining admission to the EU this thesis evaluates the effectiveness of the current EU foreign policy.
- Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003583
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- WHOLE BRAIN MAPPING IN MOUSE MODELS WITH SYNGAP1 RELATED DISORDERS.
- Creator
- Roberts, Dakota, Maldonado, Monica, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Syngap1 haploinsufficiency is among the most common genetically identified cause of intellectual disability along with epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder. Syngap1 regulates a critical period during development by coordinating dendrite elongation and synaptic maturation/plasticity in forebrain areas. This project aims to better understand how disruption of Syngap1 during developmental critical periods impact circuit assembly and brain function. To understand how impaired circuit assembly...
Show moreSyngap1 haploinsufficiency is among the most common genetically identified cause of intellectual disability along with epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder. Syngap1 regulates a critical period during development by coordinating dendrite elongation and synaptic maturation/plasticity in forebrain areas. This project aims to better understand how disruption of Syngap1 during developmental critical periods impact circuit assembly and brain function. To understand how impaired circuit assembly may lead to neural dysfunction, whole-brain mapping of neural activation in Syngap1 mutants was performed. This study aims to reveal how variants linked to genetically defined human brain disorders effect neural circuit structure and function at the mesoscale.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00096
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Why security is but a symptom: understanding the persistence of state failure.
- Creator
- Jones, Stephen, Jakee, Keith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Most international relations scholars focus on internal insecurity as the primary problem in a failed state. I disagree with that view, and instead I seek to show that insecurity is created by rampant rule-breaking. Specifically, I argue that what I term “alegality” is the primary institutional structure of failed states. An alegal system is one where rules are written but seldom followed. An alegal system contains a government, so it cannot be considered anarchic. Under such systems, rule...
Show moreMost international relations scholars focus on internal insecurity as the primary problem in a failed state. I disagree with that view, and instead I seek to show that insecurity is created by rampant rule-breaking. Specifically, I argue that what I term “alegality” is the primary institutional structure of failed states. An alegal system is one where rules are written but seldom followed. An alegal system contains a government, so it cannot be considered anarchic. Under such systems, rule-breaking eroded reciprocal rule-following relationships, and this erosion removes constraints on behavior present in other societies. Without these constraints, states are characterized by internal insecurity, few publiclyprovided goods, a large and inefficient bureaucracy, and an autocratic leadership. Under the assumption that leaders, bureaucrats, and individual citizens all seek to maximize self-interest, I will show that their interactions within an alegal system result cause state failure to persist indefinitely.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003520
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- Document (PDF)
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- WILD WAYS: TRAINHOPPING CULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.
- Creator
- Gilbert, Reade, Corr, Rachel, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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The practice of trainhopping has historical roots in the post-Civil War period and during the Great Depression, when large migrations of penniless individuals caught rides on freight cars to find employment or adventure. Trainhopping is still widely practiced, however modern day trainhopping culture has not received appropriate scholarly attention as a specific subculture. To understand the choices and motivations of members of this subculture, I undertook an ethnographic project wherein I...
Show moreThe practice of trainhopping has historical roots in the post-Civil War period and during the Great Depression, when large migrations of penniless individuals caught rides on freight cars to find employment or adventure. Trainhopping is still widely practiced, however modern day trainhopping culture has not received appropriate scholarly attention as a specific subculture. To understand the choices and motivations of members of this subculture, I undertook an ethnographic project wherein I interviewed trainhoppers, in addition to analyzing the historical precedent set for contemporary trainhopping practice. Through my research I analyze the drive to live within a state of liminality in relation to society, where an individual is situated between the poles of interaction with predominant society and marginal society. This research will advance our understanding of self-identification with a liminal group within the context of a contemporary subculture.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00076
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- Document (PDF)
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- William Shakespeare and Herman Melville: emotional manipulation through verbal performance.
- Creator
- Murphy, Nicole E., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This thesis considers the role of two rhetoricians, Petruchio from William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's Moby-DIck, and analyzes their use of verbal performances. BOth Petruchio and Captain Ahab use pathologically manipulative rhetoric to manipulate others emotionally. Through this manipulation, they attempt to gain control, power, and authority. While both Petrucio and Ahab appear to succeed in manipulating others, they actually fail. Petruchio...
Show moreThis thesis considers the role of two rhetoricians, Petruchio from William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's Moby-DIck, and analyzes their use of verbal performances. BOth Petruchio and Captain Ahab use pathologically manipulative rhetoric to manipulate others emotionally. Through this manipulation, they attempt to gain control, power, and authority. While both Petrucio and Ahab appear to succeed in manipulating others, they actually fail. Petruchio attempts to manipulate Katherine, but fails to attain mental submission from her, and Captain Ahab attempts to manipulate the crew to pursue hunting the whale, but as the narrative progresses, the crew becomes too disillusioned with the hunt to be persuaded by Ahab's rhetoric. In conclusion, both Petruchio and Captain Ahab are unable to sustain rhetorical control, and they both fall into demagoguery, therby suggesting that while they are alike as rhetoricians, they both fail similarly as rhetoricians.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359309
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Rhetoric, Oral communication
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Wolf perception and policy in the United States: an analysis of two red wolf reintroduction programs.
- Creator
- Rouse, Sarah., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Throughout the course of North American history, wolves have been persecuted with a vengeance. Negative wolf perceptions have in the past created and continue to create controversial policies and views towards wolves. While most of these attitudes are geared towards gray wolves, as gray wolves are the most common and prominent, unfavorable perceptions have also extended to the less well-known red wolf. This study compares two red wolf reintroduction programs, one in the Tennessee-Kentucky...
Show moreThroughout the course of North American history, wolves have been persecuted with a vengeance. Negative wolf perceptions have in the past created and continue to create controversial policies and views towards wolves. While most of these attitudes are geared towards gray wolves, as gray wolves are the most common and prominent, unfavorable perceptions have also extended to the less well-known red wolf. This study compares two red wolf reintroduction programs, one in the Tennessee-Kentucky area and the other in North Carolina, as well as the Yellowstone Gray Wolf Reintroduction program. After analyzing these three programs, it can be concluded that the perceptions towards wolves regardless of the type of wolf or location remain largely negative and that wolves continue to face persecution.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359331
- Subject Headings
- Wildlife reintroduction, Gray wolf, Reintroduction, Red wolf, Reintroduction, Wolves, Reintroduction, Social aspects, Endangered species, Wildlife management
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- Document (PDF)
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- Yes Douglas Husak, Drunk Driving is a Serious Offense.
- Creator
- Kurland, Brittany, Tunick, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Drunk driving is a serious offense, but often goes unnoticed because no harm is often caused by the person committing such a selfish act. Where there is an accident, fatal or minor, the individual is punished for driving while intoxicated. While many theorists believe that it is inappropriate to punish one who has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) over the legal limit of .08%, I propose that regardless of the individual harming or not harming another, the person who is driving while...
Show moreDrunk driving is a serious offense, but often goes unnoticed because no harm is often caused by the person committing such a selfish act. Where there is an accident, fatal or minor, the individual is punished for driving while intoxicated. While many theorists believe that it is inappropriate to punish one who has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) over the legal limit of .08%, I propose that regardless of the individual harming or not harming another, the person who is driving while intoxicated should face punishment. It should not matter if the driver did not show any signs of impairment or if they hurt anyone else while driving. Any person that goes behind the wheel impaired is at greater risk for hurting themselves or someone else at that time.
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- 2020
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003713
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- Document (PDF)
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- YOU FEEL WHAT YOU EAT: EXPLORING HOW CULTURE AND FOOD ACCESS MAY SHAPE MENTAL HEALTH VIA THE GUT MICROBIOME.
- Creator
- Burgess, Drew, Trivigno, Catherine, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
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Previous research implicates the gut-brain axis in mental health, but factors such as cultural diet and other circumstances that influence the gut-brain axis have not been extensively studied. This thesis aims to investigate cultural factors and other factors, including seasonal and economic conditions, that may influence diet and therefore, the gut microbiota, and in turn, the gut-brain axis. To explore this connection, the relationship between components of diet and changes in the gut...
Show morePrevious research implicates the gut-brain axis in mental health, but factors such as cultural diet and other circumstances that influence the gut-brain axis have not been extensively studied. This thesis aims to investigate cultural factors and other factors, including seasonal and economic conditions, that may influence diet and therefore, the gut microbiota, and in turn, the gut-brain axis. To explore this connection, the relationship between components of diet and changes in the gut microbiota composition was reviewed. To understand how those factors may interact to impact anxiety and depression via the gut-brain axis, a host of influences should be considered, including diet as one of many complexities that contribute to an individual’s mental health. This thesis proposes recommendations for mental health professionals, public health policy, and future research to effectively support the mental health of individuals with conditions, such as anxiety and depression, with the respect and mindfulness they deserve.
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- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00292
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- Document (PDF)
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- You keep me hangin' on: dynactin's p24 is essential for microtube anchoring.
- Creator
- Le, Ariel., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Dynactin is a multisubunit protein complex that functions as a processivity cofactor to cytoplasmic dynein, assisting in vesicle transport and cell division. Independent of dynein,dynactin also serves to anchor microtubules to the centrosome. The functions of the majority of dynactin's subunits have been described to a certain degree ; however, the p24 subunit remains largely uncharacterized. Among the few things that are known about p24 are that it has a predicted molecular weight of about...
Show moreDynactin is a multisubunit protein complex that functions as a processivity cofactor to cytoplasmic dynein, assisting in vesicle transport and cell division. Independent of dynein,dynactin also serves to anchor microtubules to the centrosome. The functions of the majority of dynactin's subunits have been described to a certain degree ; however, the p24 subunit remains largely uncharacterized. Among the few things that are known about p24 are that it has a predicted molecular weight of about 20,822 Da, forms an a-helix, and binds directly to the p150[Glued] subunit. In order to explore its function further, we have performed shRNA-mediated knockdown, and fluorescent microscopy. We observe that microtubule disorganization is amplified due to the loss of p24. Our findings support the model that p24 serves as reinforcement to stabilize p150[Glued] at the centrosome.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355592
- Subject Headings
- Cytoskeletal proteins, Cell organellles, Formation, Microtubules, Molecular biology
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- Document (PDF)
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- 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
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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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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00011
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- Document (PDF)
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- You should be ashamed of yourself: a study of moral development and moral emotion.
- Creator
- Bright, Justin., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Research on Kohlberg's theory of moral development has examined moral development by examining individuals' justice operations. However, how the moral emotions are related to moral development has been neglected. In a sample of mostly undergraduates (N=53), moral development (measured using an index of higher-level moral reasoning and one of reasoning consistency from the Defining Issues Test) and the moral emotions of guilt, shame, empathy, and self-esteem were measured. Shame was positively...
Show moreResearch on Kohlberg's theory of moral development has examined moral development by examining individuals' justice operations. However, how the moral emotions are related to moral development has been neglected. In a sample of mostly undergraduates (N=53), moral development (measured using an index of higher-level moral reasoning and one of reasoning consistency from the Defining Issues Test) and the moral emotions of guilt, shame, empathy, and self-esteem were measured. Shame was positively related to higher moral reasoning (r=.26, p<.10); guilt was not (r=-.02, ns). Empathy was also positively correlated with higher moral reasoning (r=.19). Moral consistency was positively related to shame (r=.31, p<.05) and guilt (r=.32, p<.05). Existential theory was used to explain the differentiation between shame and guilt in their correlations with higher moral reasoning. The correlations between moral consistency and guilt and between moral consistency and shame are discussed with respect to the inhibitive nature of shame and guilt.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77659
- Subject Headings
- Moral development, Social ethics, Emotions, Moral and ethical aspects, Emotions and cognition
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- Document (PDF)
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- You’ve got to keep ‘em separated: characterizing lagging chromosome prevention in oral cancer cells.
- Creator
- Beltran, Rosa Nathalie, Quintyne, Nicholas, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Mitosis is the separation of duplicated chromosomes into two daughter cells in order to create viable offspring. There are many checks in mitosis to ensure the inherited chromosome number is correct. Sometimes, these checkpoints are overcome and daughter cells inherit defects which can lead to cancer. One defect is the appearance of lagging chromosomes, the result of inaccurate chromosomal separation which leads to incorrect chromosome number termed aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is one of the...
Show moreMitosis is the separation of duplicated chromosomes into two daughter cells in order to create viable offspring. There are many checks in mitosis to ensure the inherited chromosome number is correct. Sometimes, these checkpoints are overcome and daughter cells inherit defects which can lead to cancer. One defect is the appearance of lagging chromosomes, the result of inaccurate chromosomal separation which leads to incorrect chromosome number termed aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is one of the defining traits of cancerous cells. The potential mechanism of lagging chromosomes in the cancerous cell line UPCI:OSCC070 is investigated in this study. siRNA-induced knockdown of KIFC1, a protein that is involved in the centrosomal clustering to prevent multipolar spindles, was used in the cells. Examining both levels of knockdown and time of exposure, we saw that the loss of KIFC1 led to a significant increase in lagging chromosomes, indicating this protein is critical to proper mitotic progression.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003505
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- Document (PDF)
