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Title: Utopias Imagined and Real: The Communities of George Rapp and Robert Owen in Relation to the Utopias Conceived by Plato and Sir Thomas More.
Creator: Zimmer, Rosina P., Keaton, Kenneth, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3172443
Subject Headings: Plato, More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535, Utopias
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An algorithm for the integrated scheduling problem of a container handling system within a container terminal.
Creator: Zhao, Yueqiong, Kaisar, Evangelos I., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164731
Subject Headings: Algorithms, Cargo handling, Container terminals
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Emotional Response during Human-Virtual Partner Interaction.
Creator: Zhang, Mengsen, Dumas, Guillaume, Kelso, J. A. Scott, Graduate College, Tognoli, Emmanuelle
Abstract/Description: Emotion and coordinated movement complimentarily depicts our social experiences. How is motion colored? This study investigates variations in emotional responses during social coordination. Subjects were instructed to coordinate their finger movement with a Virtual Partner (VP), whose homologous movement was displayed as a video on the computer screen. The partner was driven by the Haken-Kelso-Bunz equations, an empirically validated model that captures behavioral and social coordination. It...
Show moreEmotion and coordinated movement complimentarily depicts our social experiences. How is motion colored? This study investigates variations in emotional responses during social coordination. Subjects were instructed to coordinate their finger movement with a Virtual Partner (VP), whose homologous movement was displayed as a video on the computer screen. The partner was driven by the Haken-Kelso-Bunz equations, an empirically validated model that captures behavioral and social coordination. It has been shown that people perceive VP as an intentional human agent. In each of 80 trials, subjects coordinated for 8 sec inphase or antiphase with VP, and then rated the partner’s intention (cooperation -VP intend same coordination pattern as human-, or competition) and subjective response to a Turing test of partners’ humanness. VP cooperated for half of the time, and could change its intention in the middle of a trial. Skin potential response (SPR) quantified the intensity of emotional responses. After validating the SPR measurements, we compared emotional responses by coordination pattern, cooperative~competitiveness, and humanness attribution. Subjects experienced higher emotional responses when they believed that their partner was human. This was observed both during coordination (ANOVA, p=0.020), and during rating (p=0.012). Furthermore during the rating period, higher emotional responses were found for cooperative behavior (p=0.012), modulated by VP’s change of intention and coordination pattern. This study suggests that emotional responses are strongly influenced by features of the partner’s behavior associated with humanness, cooperation and change of intention. Implications for mental health (e.g. autism) and design of socially cooperative machines will be discussed.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005866
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Title: Isolation and Relative Configuration Determination of Two Pairs of Bioactive diastereomers from Cacospongia cf. linteiformis.
Creator: Zhang, Long, West, Lyndon, Graduate College
Abstract/Description: Cacospongia cf. linteiformis is a marine sponge collected from Bahamas possessing various bioactive compounds. Two pairs of diastereomers spongianolides E&F were isolated for the first time through function group modification acetylation, and their relative configurations were determined based on Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy NOESY. The mixture of isomers of spongianolides E&F are exhibiting inhibition against Schnurri-3. Bioassays will be repeated to unveil the assignment of the...
Show moreCacospongia cf. linteiformis is a marine sponge collected from Bahamas possessing various bioactive compounds. Two pairs of diastereomers spongianolides E&F were isolated for the first time through function group modification acetylation, and their relative configurations were determined based on Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy NOESY. The mixture of isomers of spongianolides E&F are exhibiting inhibition against Schnurri-3. Bioassays will be repeated to unveil the assignment of the bioactivities for the four isomers.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005865
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Title: Visual wavelength discrimination by the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta.
Creator: Young, Morgan, Salmon, Michael, Forward, Richard B., Jr., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164729
Subject Headings: Loggerhead turtle, Spectral sensitivity, Phototaxis
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Title: Experimental Hydrodynamic Performance Assessment Of the SNMREC’s 20 kW Ocean Current Turbine.
Creator: Young, Matthew T., VanZwieten, James H., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3172440
Subject Headings: Water-power --Technological innovations --United States, Fluid dynamics, Ocean currents
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Title: Power based wide collision attacks on AES.
Creator: Ye, Xin, Eisenbarth, Thomas, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164806
Subject Headings: Computer networks, Data encryption (Computer science), Computer security
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Title: Sequence stratigraphy of the arcadia formation in southeastern Florida: an integrated stratigraphic approach.
Creator: Wright, Caroline Marie, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2013-04-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361375
Subject Headings: Lithofacies, Stratigraphic correlation
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Title: Synaptic Architecture of Cortical Columns.
Creator: Wilson, Daniel E., Fitzpatrick, David, Graduate College
Abstract/Description: The visual cortex of higher mammals, including humans, is arranged as to achieve a continuously varying map of features such as the orientation of contours in the environment. Previous studies used intrinsic signal and two-photon imaging to examine the functional composition of these cortical maps, but lacked the functional resolution to resolve the underlying synaptic architecture. Here, we exploited recent advances in genetically encoded calcium indicators to perform in vivo two photon...
Show moreThe visual cortex of higher mammals, including humans, is arranged as to achieve a continuously varying map of features such as the orientation of contours in the environment. Previous studies used intrinsic signal and two-photon imaging to examine the functional composition of these cortical maps, but lacked the functional resolution to resolve the underlying synaptic architecture. Here, we exploited recent advances in genetically encoded calcium indicators to perform in vivo two photon imaging of dendrites and dendritic spines in an animal with a mapped visual cortex. We found sharp orientation and direction tuning when we presented drifting gratings and imaged synaptic calcium transients from large numbers of dendritic spines in single neurons, obtaining synaptic maps of orientation preference. In addition, we implemented a newly developed two-photon microscope that uses acousto-optical deflectors to rapidly steer a pulsed laser in three dimensions. This technology allowed us to image 320 single cells in an 800x800x200 micron three-dimensional volume, which yielded a three-dimensional orientation map with single-cell resolution. In the future, we will perform fast, three-dimensional imaging of a single cell and its entire dendritic tree to monitor functional properties of a cell’s inputs and its somatic spiking output. These experiments will yield important insight into synaptic integration and sensory processing in cortical maps and how such organizing principles might be disrupted in disease states.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005864
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Title: Exploring the stability of an eigenvalue problem approximation technique used to define the angular momentum of almost spherical black holes.
Creator: Wilder, Shawn M., Beetle, Christopher, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164804
Subject Headings: Eigenvalues, Black holes (Astronomy), Deformations (Mechanics)
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Title: Exploring a generalization of a definition for angular momentum on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds.
Creator: Wilder, Shawn M., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2012-03-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3342458
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Title: Approximate Isometries as an Eigenvalue Problem and Angular Momentum.
Creator: Wilder, Shawn M., Beetle, Christopher, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2013-04-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361373
Subject Headings: Black holes (Astronomy), Eigenvalues
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The downside of self-esteem stability: does stability impede flexibility?.
Creator: Wiese, Susan L., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2010-04-09
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176914
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Basic knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease in rural populations.
Creator: Wiese, Lisa Kirk, Williams, Christine L., Tappen, Ruth M., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2013-04-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361371
Subject Headings: Alzheimer's disease, Rural population
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Title: The role of chemical and visual cues in habitat location and selection by the Sargassum crab Portunus sayi.
Creator: West, Lorin E., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2012-03-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3342457
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Three suites: a celebration of klezmer.
Creator: Weiner, Alison, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2010-04-09
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176903
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Corrosion Propagation in Dry-Cast Reinforced Concrete Pipes.
Creator: Weber, Brian W., Presuel-Moreno, Francisco, Graduate College
Abstract/Description: Dry-cast reinforced concrete pipes (D-C-RCP) have been used as drainage pipes by the Florida Department of Transportation and other DOTs in the United States. Corrosion of the steel reinforcement embedded in concrete is a major economic burden for bridges and other structures subjected to de-icing salts, or harsh marine environments. This study investigates the corrosion propagation of instrumented specimens obtained from segments of two types of D-CRCPs (Types F and C). The objectives of...
Show moreDry-cast reinforced concrete pipes (D-C-RCP) have been used as drainage pipes by the Florida Department of Transportation and other DOTs in the United States. Corrosion of the steel reinforcement embedded in concrete is a major economic burden for bridges and other structures subjected to de-icing salts, or harsh marine environments. This study investigates the corrosion propagation of instrumented specimens obtained from segments of two types of D-CRCPs (Types F and C). The objectives of this study are to better understand the mechanism of corrosion propagation in D-C-RCPs and to identify the factors that affect the corrosion propagation. Potential, depolarization, linear polarization resistance (LPR) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements were carried out to monitor the corrosion condition and the mechanistic properties of the reinforcement. A galvanostatic approach was used to accelerate the chloride transport to the steel surface until corrosion initiated. Once the specimen was declared active, the electric field was suspended. For ~250 days, the corrosion was monitored in the laboratory environment. The specimens were then transferred to a high humidity chamber and anodically polarized with a galvanostat to accelerate the corrosion propagation. The specimens were disconnected every two weeks to perform depolarization, LPR and EIS measurements. In the high humidity environment, type F specimens are exhibiting a higher corrosion rate most likely due to the smaller concrete cover allowing the chlorides to reach the steel rebar surface quicker and reach a higher chloride concentration. Results will be compared with conventional gravimetric weight loss measurements.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005863
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Title: Florida's definition and subsequent calculations of a public high school graduate: a critical race theory analysis.
Creator: Watson, Terri N., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2010-04-09
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176902
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Craft: A study of craft breweries in South Florida.
Creator: Watson, April A., Broemel, Erin T., Fadiman, Maria, Graduate College
Abstract/Description: Microbreweries are one of the fastest growing industries within the United States. According to Brewer’s Association, the number of craft brewers increased from 8 in 1980 to over 1500 in 2012. Prior to the 1970’s, light lagers were the only type of beer available in the United States. Homebrewing began as a way to explore different beer styles that national brand brewers had previously ignored. As the popularity of these homebrews began to grow, the number of microbreweries greatly increased...
Show moreMicrobreweries are one of the fastest growing industries within the United States. According to Brewer’s Association, the number of craft brewers increased from 8 in 1980 to over 1500 in 2012. Prior to the 1970’s, light lagers were the only type of beer available in the United States. Homebrewing began as a way to explore different beer styles that national brand brewers had previously ignored. As the popularity of these homebrews began to grow, the number of microbreweries greatly increased throughout the United States. South Florida in particular has witnessed a substantial expansion in the microbrewery industry. This study explored four craft brewers in Palm Beach and Broward County, Florida. Why does this two county area need more than one brewery? During the course of the research, four themes emerged: a sense of identity, a sense of place, a sense of community, and the power of transformation. Microbreweries appear to be a part of a growing trend towards “neolocalism,” or the conscious and active ways people reject a homogenized culture. Studies of microbreweries add to our understanding of the ways South Florida embraces the unique and authentic. Since each brewery is unique, that experience of the “neolocal” can only be had at each individual microbrewery. Further work is necessary to determine if the sense of place and sense of community is apparent at microbreweries throughout the state, or the “neolocal” is a regional phenomenon confined to South Florida
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005862
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Title: Getting hooked: a study to better understand sea turtle longline by catch.
Creator: Warraich, Natasha, Wyneken, Jeanette, Graduate College
Abstract/Description: Loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are often caught as longline bycatch in fisheries worldwide. These species of sea turtle differ greatly in life history, morphology, and the ways they are hooked. Leatherbacks tend to be “foul hooked,” externally in the shoulder or flippers, while loggerheads tend to be hooked in the mouth or they swallow the bait so that hooking is internal esophagus or stomach. The numbers of loggerheads and leatherbacks caught decreased after changes in gear, bait and...
Show moreLoggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are often caught as longline bycatch in fisheries worldwide. These species of sea turtle differ greatly in life history, morphology, and the ways they are hooked. Leatherbacks tend to be “foul hooked,” externally in the shoulder or flippers, while loggerheads tend to be hooked in the mouth or they swallow the bait so that hooking is internal esophagus or stomach. The numbers of loggerheads and leatherbacks caught decreased after changes in gear, bait and time of sets. However the proportion of leatherback mouth hookings increased while foul hooking decreased. We described and compared prey approach and attack behavior of both species in the presence and absence of visual targets. Waterborne squid and jellyfish odors were used to elicit feeding behavior in the two species. Visual targets were necessary to elicit biting. Loggerheads approach their prey with the mouth wide open, have exceptionally good aim and usually bite their intended target. This accuracy is consistent with the mouth and internal hooking. Leatherbacks frequently overshoot, miss their intended target then have to re-approach the target multiple times before making contact. Leatherback feeding behavior is disrupted easily if the body or flippers are touched during prey approach. This reapproach behavior may make leatherbacks more prone snagging on lines rigged with J-hooks. The shift by some fisheries to circle hooks, which are less prone to snagging, by give the leatherbacks multiple chances to attack the bait and ingest it without getting hooked externally.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005861
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