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Title: Stamp Act = Debates sobre acto ... da America.
Abstract/Description: Manuscript in an unidentified hand, undated, concerning the Parliamentary debates on the repeal of the Stamp Act of Great Britain. Parallel text in English and Spanish on opposite pages. Caption title of English text may be cutoff due to trimming. Fourth word of caption title of Spanish text mostly lost due to trimming. First and last pages blank. Bears watermark of a Fleur-de-lis and the letters "BDXXG" within. Has catchwords, side notes, tie-holes.
Date Issued: 1765 - 1766
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f10
Format: E-book

Title: Effects of parents’ educational level, school type and gender on the development of attention and memory.
Creator: Esmeralda Matute Villaseñor, Araceli Sanz Martín, Emilio Gumá Díaz, Mónica Rosselli, Alfredo Ardila
Abstract/Description: Information about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the...
Show moreInformation about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil-ENI (Matute, Rosselli, Ardila and Ostrosky, 2007) were analyzed. There was a significant effect of age on all sub-tests scores where older children obtained higher scores. Also, there was a significant effect of sex and type of school in some tasks, where girls had higher performance than boys and, the students of PrS scored higher than students of PuS. An interaction between type of school and sex was also evident: PrS girls showed higher performance than other groups in some tasks of attention and memory, especially those that imply verbal information processing. There was a significant correlation between the parents’educational level and the performance in G2. Sons of parents with high educational level show better performance than sons of parents with low educational level. The results are discussed in terms of the environmental variables effect on the development of attention and memory.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000487
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: RE-IMAGINANDO UTOPÍAS: LA DESILUSIÓN PORTEÑA DE BORGES.
Creator: Baccinelli, Mitchel, Poulson, Nancy Kason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Borges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges...
Show moreBorges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges begins with a utopic view of Buenos Aires that becomes dystopic before it is abandoned in order to imagine a new utopia.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013749
Subject Headings: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL TRAUMA PERMANENTE EN COLOMBIA SECUNDARIO AL CONFLICTO ARMADO EN LOS EJÉRCITOS DE EVELIO ROSERO.
Creator: Morrison, Claudia, Poulson, Nancy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis...
Show moreThe Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis of the impact of trauma on the collective and the minorities follows. For theoretical and historical references, this thesis draws concepts mostly from psychoanalysis, Irene Visser’s modified Grid Theory of social thought, and official Colombian documents. The thesis examines how the structure of Los ejércitos and some of its characters provide the representation of trauma in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia and the internal displacement that ensued.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013597
Subject Headings: Rosero Diago, Evelio, 1958-, Comparative literature, Latin American studies
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Manifesto de los motivos en qü se ha fundado la conducta del Rey Christianismo respecto a la Inglaterra, con la exposicion de lost qü han guiado al rey neustro Senor para su modo de proceder con la misma potencia.
Creator: Spain Sovereign (1759-1788 : Charles III)
Abstract/Description: Explains the reasons that led Spain to support the independence of the United States, and to declare war on Britain in 1779, especially, the account of the Spanish monarch's attempt to mediate between Britain and France. At the same time as the Spanish King issued this manifesto, the King of France put forth his "Exposé des motifs de la conduite du roi, relativement à l'Angleterre". In the volume of the Annual register for 1779, p. 367-412, are translations of both the Spanish and French...
Show moreExplains the reasons that led Spain to support the independence of the United States, and to declare war on Britain in 1779, especially, the account of the Spanish monarch's attempt to mediate between Britain and France. At the same time as the Spanish King issued this manifesto, the King of France put forth his "Exposé des motifs de la conduite du roi, relativement à l'Angleterre". In the volume of the Annual register for 1779, p. 367-412, are translations of both the Spanish and French documents with the justifying Memorial issued by Great Britain in reply to the English translation published under title: An exposition of the motives of the conduct of the king of France towards England : with the justifying memorial in answer to the exposition, &c. of the court of France (London, 1780).
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb3f28
Subject Headings: Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Spain -- Early works to 1800, Spain -- Foreign relations -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1760-1789 -- Early works to 1800, United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, American Revolution (1775-1783)
Format: E-book

Title: Miradas transatlanticas del rebelde: Una reinterpretacion de Lope de Aguirre a traves de las cronicas y de Ia novela del exilio de Ramon J. Sender.
Creator: Tellez Espiga, Enrique, Horswell, Michael J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century,...
Show moreThe chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century, Spanish writer Ramon J. Sender's novel, La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), reverses the historical discourse in order to use Aguirre's attack on the "Lettered City," to criticize the intellectuals who supported Franco's regime in Spain, as well as the Catholic Church. This thesis's critical reading of the source chronicles on which Sender based his novel leads to a more profound understanding of both the early modem imperial and the modem fascist violence unleashed, not only by supposed "tyrants-scapegoats" the likes of Aguirre, but by power itself: that of monarchies and dictators.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000969
Subject Headings: Aguirre, Lope de,--d 1651--History and criticism, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Criticism and interpretation, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre--Criticism and interpretation, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939, Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity
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Title: Estudio Semantico de los Neologismos Introducidos en la Lengua Castellana por el Rey Alfonso X en la Cuarta y Quinta Partida de su Libro Las Siete Partidas.
Creator: Revilla, Maria G., Arango, D., Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000955
Subject Headings: Alfonso--X,--King of Castile and Leon,--1221-1284, Siete partidas (Spanish law code), Spanish language--To 1500, Spanish language--Semantics, Historical
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Title: Tejidos arquitectonicos: exploraciones de la dimimica entre el individuo y la ciudad en "Walking Around" de Pablo Neruda y Aura de Carlos Fuentes.
Creator: Palacio Paret, Alfredo, Erro-Peralta, Nora, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Silas Weir Mitchell in 1872 defined as "phantom limb" the sensation and feelings of anxiety, confusion and even pain the amputee receives from an absent body part. By extending this concept and applying it to the architectural imagery within literature, it is possible to observe the dynamics between the characters and their structural environment. This thesis explores the relation between spatial structure and identity in two Latin American works: "Walking Around" (1933) by Pablo Neruda and...
Show moreSilas Weir Mitchell in 1872 defined as "phantom limb" the sensation and feelings of anxiety, confusion and even pain the amputee receives from an absent body part. By extending this concept and applying it to the architectural imagery within literature, it is possible to observe the dynamics between the characters and their structural environment. This thesis explores the relation between spatial structure and identity in two Latin American works: "Walking Around" (1933) by Pablo Neruda and Aura (1962) by Carlos Fuentes. Both authors introduce architecture as an intrinsic element in the construction of their narrative; Neruda's poetic voice wanders around a seemingly living city, while Fuentes's characters abandon the city to become part of a house. The architectural imagery of both texts leads the reader to explore the construction of its literary subjects and to see the physical space as their "phantom limbs." This reading will elucidate the importance of architecture within Latin American literature as well as reveal the maneuvering of the structural representations in the construction of the Latin America identity.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000946
Subject Headings: Fuentes, Carlos--Aura--Criticism and interpretation, Neruda, Pablo,--1904-1973--Walking around--Criticism and interpretation, Architecture--Human factors, Symbolism in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Imagery (Psychology) in literature
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Title: La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas.
Creator: Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six...
Show moreIn my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six of the short stories in her two novels to show how the author alters the role of the witch associated with the devil, transforming her to a saint associated with "lo magico de los cielos, " assigning the diabolical role to the man.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000948
Subject Headings: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (LIterature), Witches--Fiction
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Title: El discurso andino en Los rios profundos.
Creator: Mantilla, Mario I., Horswell, Michael J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the arduous and controversial attempt of literary critics to classify appropriately the novel Los rfos profundos (Deep Rivers) by the Peruvian novelist and ethnographer, Jose Marfa Arguedas and reviews the main theories that were applied to decipher its meaning. But more than a task of classifying, the thesis itself is a work of interpretation, which required broadening the research boundaries previously employed. Confronting the dominance of Western discourse that has...
Show moreThis thesis examines the arduous and controversial attempt of literary critics to classify appropriately the novel Los rfos profundos (Deep Rivers) by the Peruvian novelist and ethnographer, Jose Marfa Arguedas and reviews the main theories that were applied to decipher its meaning. But more than a task of classifying, the thesis itself is a work of interpretation, which required broadening the research boundaries previously employed. Confronting the dominance of Western discourse that has shaped how we understand Andean literature, I identify the elements of indigenous Andean discourse that are deeply embedded in the novel. This perspective may decisively influence the way we read Latin American Literature and hopes to more rigorously draw attention to the presence of ancestral indigenous civilization in the cultural identity of Latin America.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000937
Subject Headings: Arguedas, José María--Ríos profundos, Latin American literature--Peru--20th century, Arguedas, José María--Political and social views, Acculturation in literature
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Title: Mesianismo lmperialista en el Siglo de Oro: experiencia imperialista y espiritualidad mesianica en el caso de Cristobal Colon.
Creator: Hawkins, Jason Wesley, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Religious ideology played a powerful role in the shaping of the Spanish Empire as seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters, as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in...
Show moreReligious ideology played a powerful role in the shaping of the Spanish Empire as seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters, as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in tum, mimicked the messianic and imperialist rhetoric of the Catholic Church. This zeal was not particular to Columbus' personality but rather it reflects the common beliefs of his times. The cosmology of Columbus was a composite ofvarious Medieval and early Renaissance philosophers whose erroneous conceptions of geography and apocalyptic visions of the future were based on astrological patterns and various prophecies in the Bible rather than empirical facts.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000926
Subject Headings: Columbus, Christopher--Religion, America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Los pueblos, vibrantes y triunfantes en un hombre": Cultos a la personalidad y aislamiento en Corea del Norte y Cuba.
Creator: Trifoi, Bianca, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed...
Show moreThis paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed isolationism in combination with xenophobia was continued in Kim's self-reliance ideology and allowed for a fanatical personality cult to develop. Cuba's only experience with isolation was that imposed by the United States through its embargoes, and the resulting hostility between Cuba and the United States actually helped legitimize Castro's regime and personality cult.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003659
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Title: Discurso femenino de resistencia en la narrativa cubana antiesclavista: el personaje Teresa en Sab (1841) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
Creator: Uribe, Alejandra, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s...
Show moreThis research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s fiancé. This study pays particular attention to Teresa’s resistance to the patriarchal values in a colonial society ruled by Spain. I consider this character crucial to understand the antislavery discourse that Avellaneda incorporates in her novel to destabilize a hierarchical and prejudiced society. Furthermore, I will illustrate the major role of Teresa in the novel, whose presence has been shaded by the central female character, Carlota, and frequently underestimated by the critics.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003661
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sexualidad, política y una narrativa queer de la Revolución cubana: El caso de Antes que anochezca (1992) de Reinaldo Arenas.
Creator: Varela, Fernando, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Following the end of Fulgencio Batista’s regime and with the triumph of the Revolution in January 1959, the new government joined efforts to give voice to previously marginalized members of society. Examples of such marginalized groups included peasants, afro-Cubans, and other low-class citizens. But homosexuals did not fall under this social reform and were initially stigmatized with a conservative discourse. Reinaldo Arenas explores this issue in his autobiography Before Night Falls (1992)....
Show moreFollowing the end of Fulgencio Batista’s regime and with the triumph of the Revolution in January 1959, the new government joined efforts to give voice to previously marginalized members of society. Examples of such marginalized groups included peasants, afro-Cubans, and other low-class citizens. But homosexuals did not fall under this social reform and were initially stigmatized with a conservative discourse. Reinaldo Arenas explores this issue in his autobiography Before Night Falls (1992). The text tells his story as a young man that was initially enthusiastic about the Cuban Revolution, but who later grew resentful towards an oppressive political system that led to his persecution, his incarceration, and finally in 1980 his exile. This research study explores Arenas’ queer approach for an alternative interpretation of Cuban society that challenges the Revolution’s homophobic political discourse during its first couple of decades.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003662
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: La comida como crítica social en la picaresca española [= Food as a Social Critique in the Spanish Picaresque Tradition].
Creator: Hood, Caitlyn, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis...
Show moreThis thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis to reveal that food, especially the lack thereof, is used satirically in picaresque novels to draw attention to the starvation and suffering of Spanish commoners.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003644
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: L1CAM: a potential role in Alzheimer pathology.
Creator: Qureshi, Aater, Godenschwege, Tanja A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: L1-type cell adhesion molecule (L1-CAM) is a synaptic membrane protein that is associated with L1 syndrome, which exhibits spasticity, intellectual disability and hydrocephalus Neuroglian (Nrg) is the invertebrate homologue of L1-CAM in Drosophila melanogaster. In vitro studies have shown L1-CAM is proteolytically cleaved and the intracellular domain (ICD) translocates to the nucleus. There it is involved in the upregulation of genes that are involved in DNA damage response, cell cycle...
Show moreL1-type cell adhesion molecule (L1-CAM) is a synaptic membrane protein that is associated with L1 syndrome, which exhibits spasticity, intellectual disability and hydrocephalus Neuroglian (Nrg) is the invertebrate homologue of L1-CAM in Drosophila melanogaster. In vitro studies have shown L1-CAM is proteolytically cleaved and the intracellular domain (ICD) translocates to the nucleus. There it is involved in the upregulation of genes that are involved in DNA damage response, cell cycle progression, apoptosis and cellular differentiation. In some forms of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) proteolytic cleavage of L1-CAM are enhanced. We studied the effects of expression of NrgICD in vivo. Our results indicate that ubiquitous expression of NrgICD like its vertebrate homologue resulted in upregulation of NBS1 and c-myc in Drosophila. We found that the ubiquitous expression of NrgICD resulted in reduced viability in various models of oxidative stress. This suggests that enhanced proteolytic cleavage of Nrg/L1-CAM contributes to the pathology of AD. Our results may provide new insights into the cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003688
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Title: Concentracion deiones requirida para el cultivo de Litopenaeus vannamei en agua dulce.
Creator: Laramore, Susan E., Scarpa, John, McGraw, W. M.
Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007359
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Title: VERDAD Y FICCIÓN EN EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS (1994) DE JULIA ÁLVAREZ Y VIVAS EN SU JARDÍN (2009) DE DEDÉ MIRABAL.
Creator: Coletti, Erin Melissa, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to survive. Mirabal implements an important biographical component in her testimony while Álvarez utilizes the genre of historical fiction to describe the events leading to the sisters’ assassination in 1960. This thesis explores the concepts of “truth” and “fiction” in Mirabal’s memoir and Álvarez’s historical novel, arguing that the range of objectivity and subjectivity in these two genres are interchangeable in the representation of this tragic episode in the history of the Dominican Republic.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003612
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: El domínico-japonés: expresiones culturales de la identidad japonesa en la república dominicana desde mediados de los años 50.
Creator: Lopez, Stephanie, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: As a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the...
Show moreAs a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the Dominican Republic. As a result, Trujillo accomplished repopulating the Dominican-Haitian border with people of non-African descent and growing the agriculture sector with the perseverance of the Japanese immigrants. In my research, I explore the process of assimilation and hybridization of this important community that counts for approximately 550 Dominican-Japanese.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003524
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Title: Sismología en La Fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa: Heteroglosia en la Narración del Trauma.
Creator: Carreño Cabrejos, Pablo Francisco José, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Rafael Leonidas 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, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa 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 him the night...
Show moreRafael Leonidas 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, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa 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 him the night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures 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/FA00003903
Subject Headings: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936---Criticism and interpretation., Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936---Political and social views.
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