NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Alexandria Meyer, Professor Directing Thesis; Greg Hajcak, Committee Member; Andrea L. Meltzer, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Clinical psychology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Mendez_fsu_0071E_17040.pdf
TITLE: Two Essays on Labor in Corporate Finance
AUTHOR: Mendez, Brandon J.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Cheng, Yingmei
MEMBER (university representative): Semykina, Anastasia
MEMBER (committee member): Dougal, Casey
MEMBER (committee member): Autore, Donald M.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Business
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Finance
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (97 pages)
ABSTRACT: Chapter One examines the possibility of labor upgrading during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. We use granular information on the intended demand of foreign workers by publicly traded U.S. firms during 2005–2012 to examine firm-level labor decisions. The financial crisis has a negative impact on the labor demand in general, but we find that larger firms with lower leverage, higher market-to-book, and larger R&D-to-assets are more likely to upgrade their work force by requesting highly skilled foreign workers during the financial crisis. Furthermore, firms that upgrade their demand of foreign workers during the financial crisis are more productive in innovations, as proxied by more patents granted, during the post-crisis period. The evidence suggests that some firms indeed take advantage of the crisis to upgrade their labor force and such an upgrading has real economic benefits for those firms. Chapter Two examines how an exogenous shock affects analysts' forecasts. Utilizing the art market, this study leverages artist death as an exogenous setting to explore how it impacts the accuracy of analysts' pre-sale price estimates. In the year following an artist's death analysts' accuracy decreases by 14% on average. Subsample analysis indicates that the market attention and artists' reputation are the likely economic mechanisms influencing this decrease. These findings suggest that analysts perform poorly following information shocks which is pertinent for all capital market participants.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Finance in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 21, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Yingmei Cheng, Professor Directing Dissertation; Anastasia Semykina, University Representative; Casey Dougal, Committee Member; Donald M. Autore, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Finance
SUBJECT: Economics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Meng_fsu_0071E_17086.pdf
TITLE: Deep Learning-Based Prediction Frameworks for Longitudinal Data Analysis
AUTHOR: Meng, Linxi,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Niu, Xufeng, 1954-
MEMBER (university representative): Ökten, Giray
MEMBER (committee member): Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William)
MEMBER (committee member): Barbu, Adrian G., 1971-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (112 pages)
ABSTRACT: A longitudinal study is a research design that collects observations measured repeatedly from particular individuals over prolonged periods of time. Nowadays, longitudinal studies are widely used in health sciences, social science, education, economics, and marketing. However, several challenges are raised from longitudinal studies in the real world. For example, the complex data structure and variable-length sequential data invalid the conventional longitudinal models. The long-term sequential data and missing data from incomplete experiments add difficulty to the model prediction. To cope with the complex real-world data, we put the focus of this project on the exploration of innovative methods. The main goals of this study are to seek and propose new algorithms for the prediction of the longitudinal response and the cross-sectional response with the time-invariant and time-variant predictors during the specific prediction window. To achieve the main goals, we propose four prediction frameworks, including Multi-phase Deep Learning Prediction Framework (MDL-PF), Self-attention Recurrent Neural Networks Prediction Framework (SARNN-PF), Multi-phase Deep Learning Longitudinal Progression Prediction Framework (MDL-LPPF), and Global Attention Recurrent Neural Networks Longitudinal Progression Prediction Framework (GARNN-LPPF). We conduct the simulation study on the proposed models to test the model's reliability and generalization in different data settings and display the models' behaviors and performance. We focus on the medical domain and financial market in the application part. In the first empirical data analysis, we utilize the Framingham heart study (FHS) dataset. The FHS is one of the early longitudinally-followed large cohorts and can be used to study the contributors of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and predict the disease progression. We conduct two experiments: the prediction of the incident CVD event during a specific prediction window and the prognosis of the patient's functional status in Heart Failure. In the second real-world data analysis, we extend our models to Credit Card Default dataset. We also have two experiments: the prediction of credit card payment default and the prediction of the remaining amount in the current month. The proposed prediction architectures show absolute superiority and outstanding performance in the simulation study and empirical data analyses. Compared with the conventional RNN-based model, the Attention Mechanism displays the advantages of overcoming the complexity and heterogeneity of long-term longitudinal data.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Statistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Xufeng Niu, Professor Directing Dissertation; Giray Okten, University Representative; Fred Huﬀer, Committee Member; Adrian Barbu, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mersiovsky_fsu_0071N_17025.pdf
TITLE: The Impact of Increasing the Resolution of Sea Surface Temperatures on a Numerical Model at Kennedy Space Center
AUTHOR: Mersiovsky, Haiden,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Fuelberg, Henry E.
MEMBER (committee member): Chagnon, Jeffrey M.
MEMBER (committee member): Hart, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1972-
MEMBER (committee member): Wing, Allison
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (65 pages)
ABSTRACT: The impact of including Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) of differing horizontal grid spacings in simulations of river and sea breeze related weather has not been studied extensively in the Cape Canaveral area of Florida. This study assesses whether simulations using a 1 km SST product, which better captures the complexity of the region's coastal geography, improves simulations incorporating a 6 km SST product that does not define the geography of the region as well. The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) was used to simulate days with river and sea breeze development around Cape Canaveral during the warm season. Simulations utilized two-way nesting with horizontal grid spacings of 3 and 1 km. Output from the 0900 UTC run of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model was used to initialize the WRF model. SSTs of 1 or 6 km grid spacing also were used in initializing the WRF model.The impact of using the higher resolution SST dataset is presented by analyzing simulations of 2 m temperature and convective initiation, which is an important factor for operational planning at Kennedy Space Center. In addition, dynamic and kinematic properties of the thermal circulations simulated using the two SST products are presented. The analyzed characteristics include the location and timing of river and sea breeze passages, which are also important for planning operations at Kennedy Space Center. Observations of water temperatures from buoys in the Atlantic Ocean near Florida's Space Coast and water temperature sensors in the Banana and Indian Rivers were compared to those depicted in the two SST products. Somewhat surprisingly, results show that the water temperatures of the Banana and Indian Rivers, as well as the SSTs in the Atlantic Ocean, were better represented by the 6 km SST product rather than the 1 km product. Additionally, simulated 2 m temperatures were closer to observed 2 m temperatures in simulations using the lower resolution SST data. Mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the two SST products were calculated for the water temperatures of the two inland rivers and Atlantic Ocean. The same metrics were determined onshore for the simulated 2 m temperature based on the two SST runs. MAE and RMSE values for depictions of the SSTs and river temperatures were found to not improve in the 1 km SST product. For simulations of onshore 2 m temperatures, MAE and RMSE were also found to not improve when using 1 km SSTs in simulations. The differences in MAE and RMSE values between both SST runs for both the depictions of the water temperatures and simulated onshore 2 m temperatures were found to be significant at the 95% confidence interval. Improved simulation of convective initiation was found when increasing the SST resolution. The amount of improvement depended on the flow regime. The greatest improvement occurred during the onshore flow regime when using the higher resolution SSTs. Inconsistent improvements were found using 1 km SSTs when observed single cell convection develops over Merritt Island. Simulations of the dynamical and kinematic aspects of the Banana and Indian River breeze generally were improved when using the 1 km SSTs. The return flow of the three local breezes was successfully simulated and generally found to be stronger when using 1 km SSTs. Simulations using 1 km SSTs also were found to better locate the Banana and Indian River breezes. In addition, the use of both SST resolutions simulated stronger maximum ascents for all three breezes than found in previous studies, along with slightly greater simulated depths of the sea and two river breezes.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 10, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): numerical weather prediction, river breeze, sea breeze
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Henry E. Fuelberg, Professor Directing Thesis; Jeffrey Chagnon, Committee Member; Robert Hart, Committee Member; Allison Wing, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Meteorology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: MetzgerPeiskee_fsu_0071E_17114.pdf
TITLE: An Expression of Religion and Spirituality: The Piano Music of John Tavener
AUTHOR: Metzger-Peiskee, Cheryl,
MEMBER (professor directing treatise): Gainsford, Read
MEMBER (university representative): Jones, Evan Allan
MEMBER (committee member): Dumlavwalla, Diana Teresa
MEMBER (committee member): De Cock, Stijn J. W.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (66 pages)
ABSTRACT: Sir John Tavener's music brings two disparate spheres together, his music being a bridge between the earthly and the Divine. Tavener's works are written within the sphere of Classical music but incorporate many styles of sacred music, most notably Byzantine chant, but with large influences from sacred Indian chant and ragas as well. Tavener's six solo piano works are no exception to his sacred compositional style. This treatise aims to show the effect of the religious and the spiritual in Tavener's life and piano works, and how Tavener holds a distinctive place as a composer in the history of music.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Treatise submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 1, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): John Tavener, Modern Composers, Pan-religious music, piano music, Religious Music
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Read Gainsford, Professor Directing Treatise; Evan Jones, University Representative; Diana Dumlavwalla, Committee Member; Stijn De Cock, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Meyer_fsu_0071N_17042.pdf
TITLE: Sure Thing
AUTHOR: Meyer, Cole,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Stuckey-French, Elizabeth
MEMBER (committee member): Howard, Ravi
MEMBER (committee member): Horack, Skip
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of English
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (196 pages)
ABSTRACT: Sure Thing is a collection of short stories set primarily in Southeastern Wisconsin, in the fictional suburb of Forest Hills, south of Milwaukee. The stories take place between 2008 and 2018 and document the daily lives of the people of Forest Hills—failing relationships, failures to communicate, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, death—as well as the development of the city itself. Over the course of the collection, a father attempts to repair his relationship with his pregnant daughter, a son discovers the rocky foundation his parents' marriage is built on, a brother turns to pharmaceuticals to cope with his sibling's death, a friend returns home after five years of radio silence. Overconfidence is challenged. Again and again these characters interrogate a fundamental question: Are we happy here? Sure Thing follows in the footsteps of other regional writers whose work focuses on the people of the Upper Midwest, like Stuart Dybek, Emily Fridlund and Dan Chaon, among others, and showcases a variety of narrative modes.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): fiction, short stories
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor Directing Thesis; Ravi Howard, Committee Member; Skip Horack, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Michel_fsu_0071N_17023.pdf
TITLE: Killing Kings: American Responses to Regicide in the Age of the French Revolution
AUTHOR: Michel, Dean Edward,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Gray, Edward G., 1964-
MEMBER (committee member): Mooney, Katherine Carmines
MEMBER (committee member): Dodds, Benjamin
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of History
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (105 pages)
ABSTRACT: American conceptions of regicide rarely garnered scholarly attention, an issue this thesis addresses by examining the differing reactions to the Swedish regicide of 1792 and the French regicide of 1793. These years witnessed an outpouring of American emotions and opinions on regicide, as the discussion faded somewhat in later years.  Americans interested in international republican revolution closely followed the story through articles that took joy in the Swedish monarch's painful death. In contrast, Americans grieved for the 1793 regicide of Louis XVI due to his perceived status as a founding father of liberty in two nations, in addition to his connection to colonial American conceptions of mythically good kings. A few Americans challenged this paradoxical republican mourning for a hereditary authority, but their opinion formed a minority. This thesis also explores the ways Americans understood the term regicide itself. Much like their reaction to the killing of Gustav III and Louis XVI, that understanding was not constant but contextual.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 24, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): 1790s, Cosmopolitanism, Early Republic, Mourning Culture, Regicide
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Edward G. Gray, Professor Directing Thesis; Katherine C. Mooney, Committee Member; Benjamin Dodds, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: United States--History
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Min_fsu_0071E_17074.pdf
TITLE: Tensor Data Analysis in High Dimensions
AUTHOR: Min, Keqian,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Mai, Qing
MEMBER (university representative): Fahim, Arash
MEMBER (committee member): Bradley, Jonathan R.
MEMBER (committee member): Zhang, Jinfeng, (Statistics Professor)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (137 pages)
ABSTRACT: A large number of tensor datasets have been appearing in modern scientific research, attracting much attention to the analysis of such datasets. Tensor data often have high dimensionality and tensor structure that contains extra information. Handling the high dimensionality and utilizing the structural information is essential for analyzing tensor data. Feature screening is a popular method to deal with high dimensionality. In the first part of this dissertation, we study the smoothness structure of tensors and propose a general framework for tensor screening called smoothed tensor screening (STS). We establish the SURE screening property for STS under mild conditions. In the second part, we study the tensor Gaussian graphical model, which reveals the conditional independence structure within tensor data. With normally distributed $M$-way tensors, the key to high-dimensional tensor graphical models becomes the sparse estimation of the $M$ inverse covariance matrices. To overcome the high computational cost of the existing cyclic approaches, we propose a separable and parallel estimation scheme. We provide numerical studies to demonstrate its performance. In the third part, we study the optimality theory of tensor discriminant analysis (TDA) in high dimensions. We provide a systematic investigation on the theoretical properties of TDA. We obtain the minimax lower bound for both coefficient estimation and misclassification risk. We further show that one existing high-dimensional tensor discriminant analysis estimator is minimax optimal.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Statistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Qing Mai, Professor Directing Dissertation; Arash Fahim, University Representative; Jonathan Bradley, Committee Member; Jinfeng Zhang, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Moore_fsu_0071E_16956.pdf
TITLE: Making the Connection between High School Preparation and College-Level Math Outcomes
AUTHOR: Moore, Kimberly A.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Mokher, Christine G.
MEMBER (university representative): Jones, Ithel
MEMBER (committee member): Perez-Felkner, Lara
MEMBER (committee member): Cox, Bradley E.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (103 pages)
ABSTRACT: The role that high schools play in the preparation of college students has long been under debate. There are differing perspectives presented by those who make up the secondary and post-secondary systems. However, the most critical voice in this debate continues to be the voice of the student. This study will provide a comprehensive review of previous studies as well as bring forward the perspectives of current students and their lived experience with math learning and their transition from a high school setting to a seat in a college math classroom. The findings suggest that more must be done to ensure that the math learning experience is coordinated and planned by teachers, advisors and the administrators that make up high schools and colleges. The study concludes with a list of recommendations that address the shared responsibility held by secondary and post-secondary stakeholders.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): February 15, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Advising, Math Learning, Self-Efficacy, Student/Teacher Relationship
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Christine Mokher, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ithel Jones, University Representative; Lara Perez-Felkner, Committee Member; Brad Cox, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational evaluation
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Moore_fsu_0071E_17037.pdf
TITLE: The Chocolate Maestra: A Narrative Inquiry into the Lived Experiences of Black Female Band Directors
AUTHOR: Moore, Devan,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Dunnigan, Patrick, 1957-
MEMBER (university representative): Porter, Marcía
MEMBER (committee member): VanWeelden, Kimberly D.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (204 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of black women band directors at the secondary and collegiate levels. The goal was to understand their experiences that shaped them as educators and contributors to the profession. A secondary goal was to explore the personal and structural factors that served as support systems and challenges for their careers. This study looked to uncover the participants' perception of the following questions using the methodology of narrative inquiry: (1) In what ways have participants in the study experienced support and challenges in the advancement of their careers? (2) What values do participants in the study hold as an educator? (3) How has the intersectionality of being black and female informed or shaped the careers of the participants in the study? The participants were seven black females that are current or retired secondary or collegiate band directors. An analysis was done in order to find commonalities across the data. Those data consisted of interview transcripts of fourteen individual interviews from the seven participants. The study resulted in six themes being developed: (1) racial and gender discrimination, (2) representation, (3) resilience, (4) philosophy on teaching, (5) inspiration to pursue music, and (6) support.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Patrick Dunnigan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marcía Porter, University Representative; Kimberly Van Weelden, Committee Member; Patricia J. Flowers, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music--Instruction and study
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Morabito_fsu_0071N_17174.pdf
TITLE: Development and Evaluation of a Tonic Immobility Focused Psychoeducational Intervention
AUTHOR: Morabito, Danielle M.,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Schmidt, Norman B.
MEMBER (committee member): Cougle, Jesse R. (Jesse Ray), 1975-
MEMBER (committee member): Schatschneider, Christopher
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (71 pages)
ABSTRACT: Tonic Immobility (TI) is a common defensive response in situations involving extreme fear such as physical and sexual assault. Although TI is adaptive in certain circumstances, it has been shown to contribute to increases in negative emotions, particularly guilt and shame, along with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Psychoeducation regarding the nature, prevalence, and common misconceptions about TI may help prevent or address these symptoms. However, TI is not directly addressed in current evidence-based interventions for trauma survivors. Thus, the current study sought to develop and evaluate a brief TI-focused psychoeducation intervention (TIP). Fifty-four participants were recruited based on prior TI experience and elevated PTSD symptoms. During the pilot phase, 6 participants completed the TIP intervention and provided feedback to inform revisions. Pilot results demonstrated high acceptability. During the RCT phase, 48 participants were randomly assigned to the TIP or control condition (HET) with assessments at pre-intervention, post-intervention, week 1, and month 1. Hierarchical linear regressions demonstrated significantly greater reductions in post-treatment guilt, but not shame, in the TIP condition as compared to HET. No effects of treatment condition were found on week 1 or month 1 outcomes. The current study was limited by its small mixed sample of undergraduate and community participants, relatively brief follow-up, and lack of assessment regarding post-intervention skills practice. Despite its limitations, results suggest that TIP is a promising intervention that may be used to reduce negative feelings and trauma-related symptoms associated with TI. Future work is needed to establish the efficacy of the TIP intervention, particularly among vulnerable populations.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 29, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Intervention, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Tonic immobility
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Norman B. Schmidt, Professor Directing Thesis; Jesse R. Cougle, Committee Member; Chris Schatschneider, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Clinical psychology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Morton_fsu_0071N_17203.pdf
TITLE: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Sports Celebrity: An Analysis of Naomi Osaka, Social Media, and Athlete Activism
AUTHOR: Morton, Jahleel,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Newman, Joshua I., 1976-
MEMBER (committee member): Kim, Amy C. H. (Amy Chan Hyung)
MEMBER (committee member): Giardina, Michael D., 1976-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Sport Management
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (149 pages)
ABSTRACT: In this thesis, I will examine how activist athletes, particularly Naomi Osaka, construct their self-identity within social media. In Osaka's case, I will explore how Naomi Osaka's identities as black and a woman interact with her activism and politics through social media, and if Osaka's activist messaging is responded to by producers and consumers of social media. Do they respond to Osaka's activism, and what dominant structures are produced, reproduced, and perpetuated by this phenomenon? The main interpretive framework that I employ is Black Feminist theory, and specifically toward examining how black women have historically been erased in the discourse surrounding social justice issues.  In this thesis, I examine Osaka's construction of her identity and activist ideals through her Twitter posts. These posts run parallel to social justice movements (i.e., Black Lives Matter), and sport events that Osaka participates in (i.e., U.S. Open and Cincinnati Masters). To carry out this project, I use Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the social, cultural, and political implications regarding the language (and thus sentiments) of media and fans that respond to Osaka's activism vis-à-vis tweets that she produces. I explain how and where Osaka's activism (i.e., what she chooses to speak out about within the societal order) originates, if producers and consumers of social media respond to it, and what that tells us of where we are as a culture in the United States today. The results indicate that sentiments from repliers to Osaka's activism were highly contested; some repliers agreed with Osaka's expressed concern for marginalized groups, while others found it inappropriate for an athlete to speak on socio-political issues. Studying Naomi Osaka's construction of her activism and politics, moreover the responses to it, will aid in understanding how mediated identities are formed in contested ways – and whereby black women continue to find new ways towards liberation from systems that seek to erase them.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Sport Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 8, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Joshua Newman, Professor Directing Thesis; Amy Kim, Committee Member; Michael Giardina, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Sports administration
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Mosley_fsu_0071E_16987.pdf
TITLE: What's the Phubbing Problem? : Attachment, Phone Snubbing, and Couple Satisfaction
AUTHOR: Mosley, Marissa Antoinette,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Parker, Michele
MEMBER (university representative): Bunz, Ulla
MEMBER (committee member): McWey, Lenore M.
MEMBER (committee member): Kimmes, Jonathan G. (Jonathan Gene)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Health and Human Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Human Development and Family Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (104 pages)
ABSTRACT: Technology has become commonplace in day-to-day activities, permeating our interactions, relationships, and intimacy. While it allows connectedness to those that are physically far, it also consumes our attention distracting us from being present with friends, family, and loved ones. This can take place in various forms including, but not limited to, texting, social media, video games, and entertainment applications. Phubbing, or phone snubbing, is the extent to which someone uses their phone in the presence of others. Phubbing can look like partners using their phone in the middle of a conversation, ensuring access to their phone at a moment's notice, or using their phone during quality time spent together. Phone use has become expected when people are around each other; however, limited research has been done regarding the impact it has on relationship satisfaction. More specifically, phubbing as it relates to adult attachment and relationship satisfaction. This study explored how perceptions of phubbing behaviors can inform the established relationship between attachment and relationship satisfaction for the individual and the relationship. A sample of 116 couples was recruited through snowball and convenience sampling methods. Participants completed an online survey comprised of measures for demographic information, adult attachment, relationship satisfaction, and partner phubbing behaviors. The data was analyzed using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Moderation Model, or APIMoM, to identify the moderating role of phubbing on the actor and partner effects of attachment and relationship satisfaction. Perceptions of phubbing were found to moderate the relationship between an individual's anxious attachment and avoidant attachment to their partner's reports of couple satisfaction. This supports the interdependent nature of phubbing and the impact it has on the understanding of attachment and couple satisfaction. Future research should explore a larger sample over time to understand long-term impacts of this moderation.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Human Development and Family Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 7, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Michele Parker, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ulla Bunz, University Representative; Lenore McWey, Committee Member; Jonathan Kimmes, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Social psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mou_fsu_0071E_17175.pdf
TITLE: Sparse Dictionary Learning and the Compact Support Neural Network
AUTHOR: Mou, Hongyu,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Barbu, Adrian G., 1971-
MEMBER (university representative): Liu, Xiuwen, 1966-
MEMBER (committee member): She, Yiyuan
MEMBER (committee member): Wu, Chong
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (61 pages)
ABSTRACT: Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-levelunderstanding from digital images or videos. The tasks of computer vision include methods for acquiring, processing analyzing and understanding digital images. In this dissertation, we present approaches for obtaining meaningful representations in computer vision. The second chapter proposes a new method for dictionary learning that uses Feature Selection with Annealing (FSA) to control the representation sparsity directly. This method obtains a smaller reconstruction error than LARS or IRLS and the sparse representation can be used for image classification, where it obtains a smaller misclassification error than LARS and IRLS. In the third chapter, we introduce a novel neuron formulation that can be used for obtaining a tight representation near the training examples and thus preventing high confidence predictions on examples that are far away from the training data. The proposed a neuron uses ReLU as the activation function and has compact support, which means that its output is zero outside a bounded domain. We also show how to avoid difficulties in training a neural network with such neurons. Furthermore, the experimental findings on standard benchmark datasets show that the proposed approach has smaller test errors than the state-of-the-art competing methods and outperforms the competing methods in detecting out-of-distribution samples on two out of three datasets. In the fourth chapter, we prove that a neural network with such compact support neurons has the universal approximation property. This means that the network can approximate any continuous and integrable function with an arbitrary degree of accuracy. In the last chapter, we use the feature of CSNN for few shot learning by recognizing data from a new class as out-of-distribution data and it shows good performance.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Statistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 8, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Adrian Barbu, Professor Directing Dissertation; Xiuwen Liu, University Representative; Yiyuan She, Committee Member; Chong Wu, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Murdock_fsu_0071E_17148.pdf
TITLE: Raining Cats and Dogs: The Role of Communication in Animal Sheltering
AUTHOR: Murdock, Kayleigh,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Opel, Andy, 1964-
MEMBER (university representative): Neal, Michael R.
MEMBER (committee member): Nudd, Donna M.
MEMBER (committee member): Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
CORPORATE NAME: School of Communication
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (153 pages)
ABSTRACT: Animal shelters as an institution serve a fundamental role in the United States as public safety administrators and as animal welfare advocates; however, animal shelters have only rarely been researched from a communication standpoint. In this dissertation, three studies were conducted utilizing grounded theory and autoethnography to create a better understanding of communication from both shelter outsiders' and insiders' points of view. Analysis suggests that popular Eurocentric media relies on common stereotypes when depicting shelters, including portrayal of "evil" dogcatchers and grim shelters. However, the image created by shelter self-representation suggests a very different understanding of a growing and changing industry focused on the wellbeing of shelter animals but struggling to communicate these changes to the public. Ultimately, these discourses come to a head in the so-called "kill/no-kill" debate surrounding the destruction of animals in shelters, which has become one of the most contentious and prominent concerns for animal shelters today. This dissertation explores each of these issues in depth and offers suggestions for shelter communication practitioners and academics alike to better evolve our understanding of sheltering communication.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the School of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 11, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Andrew Opel, Professor Directing Dissertation; Michael Neal, University Representative; Donna Nudd, Committee Member; Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Communication
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Myers_fsu_0071N_17189.pdf
TITLE: Compos(t)e
AUTHOR: Myers, Phoebe,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Roberts, Diane, 1959-
MEMBER (committee member): Wilson, L. Lamar, 1979-
MEMBER (committee member): Howard, Ravi
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of English
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (135 pages)
ABSTRACT: In Metamorphoses, Ovid outlines the progression of human generations as being made first from clay, then blood, then stone. The humans made from clay represented a leftover unity between heaven and earth, which had only recently been separated according to the creation myth: "Maybe the earth that was freshly formed and newly divorced / from the heavenly ether retained some seeds of its kindred element." Raindrops from heaven mixed with the dirt of the earth which Prometheus could then mold into the likeness of gods. Ovid describes this time as an Earth at peace, not yet broken even into separate seasons or into individual homes, when the earth was "untouched by the hoe, unscathed by the ploughshare." I live as we all do, in a world of breakage. Between the self and others, ancestors and their lineage, the past and the present. Where do they overlap? Many myths point to the earth on which we stand as the intermediary between the underworld and ours. The soil is not a thing but a process. It is ever metabolizing, re-forming, and transforming itself. Our myths themselves function similarly: as they are told, parts of them morph and graft onto each other like a plant accruing other meanings. Composition is akin to turning over a stone to see its underbelly. There you can glimpse the breakdown of life with its peachy mush of worms, but also new creation. It is repulsive and enthralling, the slight exhilaration of decay. I write when I feel lonely, searching under stones for love. But language is only part of my search for communion. Virginia Woolf perhaps said it best in A Room of One's Own when she discussed how women must form their own syntax, their own language. Of the woman writer she wrote, "Perhaps the first thing she would find, setting pen to paper, was that there was no common sentence ready for her to use." The tools passed down for her to speak through had been created for someone else. I find other ways to communicate; through my feet on the earth I converse with ghosts and missing mothers. There is a pair of mourning doves that live in my backyard. Every day I see them bobbing across my brick patio, pecking at the ants and tiny insects between each sandy crack. My couch faces a window overlooking the patio, and I was sitting there this morning, wrapped in a blanket.  When I was a teenager we would sit there together often, on weekend mornings. We drank coffee slowly and read together, our feet touching as we each reclined against opposing arms of the couch. She read passages aloud to me, would pick up a book from the pile behind the couch at random and read me the synopsis on the back. This morning, alone on my own couch, I watched one of the mourning doves thud against the window. I had never seen either do this before and was surprised at the drama of the glass vibrating and the dove cooing loudly as it flew backwards in confusion. Luckily still alive, it careened upwards out of view, but a pile of its feathers unfurled in its absence. Little feathers, like bits of smoke, falling to the ground. Memories are just like smoke - there but not there all at once. I could call my mother whenever I liked, or even sit on that same couch on visits home, but I could never reach that feeling I had been remembering, never return to that time where I had yet to find my own place in the world. Before that lonesome journey of leaving home in order to find it. But it felt so real, and who's to say it wasn't, this trip I took in my mind? Her voice and her feet, the weight of our blanket. Writing is the thud that brings me back to the room. Its mess, its light, its smallness. But the room encompasses everything - my past, the world's past. I didn't feel so lonely anymore, watching the dove's feathers in the aftermath. Everything was there with me, greeting the rest of the day and all its sun.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Diane Roberts, Professor Directing Thesis; L. Lamar Wilson, Committee Member; Ravi Howard, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Naser_fsu_0071E_17091.pdf
TITLE: CryptMPI: A Fast Encrypted MPI Library
AUTHOR: Naser, Abu,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Wang, Zhi
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Yuan, Xin, Ph. D
MEMBER (university representative): Gallivan, Kyle A., 1958-
MEMBER (committee member): Hoang, Viet Tung
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Computer Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (92 pages)
ABSTRACT: As High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications with data security requirements are increasingly moving to execute in the public cloud, there is a demand that the cloud infrastructure for HPC should support privacy and integrity. Incorporating privacy and integrity mechanisms in the communication infrastructure of today's public cloud is challenging because recent advances in the networking infrastructure in data centers have shifted the communication bottleneck from the network links to the network endpoints and because encryption is computationally intensive. In my Ph.D. research, I consider incorporating encryption to support privacy and integrity in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library, which is widely used in HPC applications. In this dissertation, first I will present the baseline encrypted MPI library. I have used this baseline library to measure the performance overhead for both point-to-point and collective communication. Then I will discuss the optimization techniques I have used to optimize point-to-point communication for both small and large messages. After that, I will discuss the techniques used to design novel encrypted algorithms for the Scatter collective operation. I have performed evaluation on three platforms and also using Docker containers. The results show that my techniques achieve significantly higher performance than the data encryption method of the Docker swarm. The evaluation on three platforms indicates that the proposed techniques are more effective when the network speedis significantly higher than single-core encryption performance, a likely scenario in the future.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 6, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): cloud, docker, encrypted communication, HPC, MPI, Scatter collective algorithm
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Zhi Wang, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Xin Yuan, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Kyle A. Gallivan, University Representative; Viet Tung Hoang, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Computer science
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: NatarajBhargav_fsu_0071E_17027.pdf
TITLE: Experimental Characterization of Supersonic Dual Impinging Jet Flows
AUTHOR: Nataraj Bhargav, Vikas,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Kumar, Rajan, (Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Alvi, Farrukh S.
MEMBER (university representative): Tam, Christopher K. W.
MEMBER (committee member): Clark, Jonathan E.
MEMBER (committee member): Gustavsson, Jonas
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (131 pages)
ABSTRACT: The impinging jet flowfield observed during take-off and landing of a STOVL aircraft is known to be associated with several adverse effects such as strong acoustic emission, unsteady structural loads, loss of engine efficiency due to hot gas ingestion, thermal stresses on the deck surface, and loss of lift. This flowfield has been well studied from the standpoint of characterizing the induced lift forces and moments caused by fountain flows, unique to such a flowfield. However, in the scenario of two such jets operating in tandem where properties are influenced by jet-jet interaction and coupling, are relatively unknown. Also, there is a lack of understanding of the consequences of difference in the momentum-flux and temperature of the two jets on the flow and acoustic properties. Therefore, the fundamental goal of this study is to systematically assess how different parameters such as momentum-flux and temperature affect the flow and acoustic properties of supersonic dual impinging jets. Thus, the three objectives of this study are: (1) How are the characteristics of supersonic dual impinging jets different from those of a supersonic single impinging jet? (2) What is the effect of relative momentum-flux between the two jets, on the aeroacoustic characteristics of supersonic dual impinging jets? (3) What is the effect of relative temperature, on the aeroacoustic characteristics of supersonic dual impinging jets? To address the first objective, experimental investigation of the flowfield associated with two, under-expanded impinging jets operating at a Nozzle Pressure Ratio (NPR) of 2.65, discharged from identical converging nozzles with an exit diameter of 25.4 mm, is performed. Comparisons with a single impinging jet, operating at the same conditions are provided through shadowgraph flow visualizations, nearfield acoustics, and surface pressure measurements. Fountain flow produced by the interaction of wall jets, a unique feature of dual impinging jets, is found to be relatively strong at short impingement heights and contributed to additional loads on the ground surface. Overall flow unsteadiness in dual jets is less than that in a single jet at conditions involving resonance and the fountain upwash plays an important role in the process. Although the feedback mechanism that drives the resonance in both impinging jet configurations is similar and the corresponding instability mode shapes are retained, there are differences in the strengths of the instability modes between the two configurations. To address the second objective, flowfield is characterized by systematically varying the relative jet momentum-flux between the jets. A converging and converging-diverging (CD) nozzle pair, with identical throat and exit diameters, respectively, is employed during the study. The CD (right) nozzle is held at a fixed over-expanded nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) of 3, and the momentum flux of jet from converging (left) nozzle is varied by changing its expansion ratio (ER). Schlieren flow visualization and ground plane surface pressure measurements indicate that the fountain flow position and strength exhibit a strong dependence on the jet momentum flux and a weak dependence on the impingement height. Further, an increase in momentum of the left jet causes the resonance in the right jet to lose its strength and its influence on the unsteadiness of the left jet, owed to the proximity of the fountain flow to the resonating jet. The presence of fountain upwash is found to alter the symmetry of streamlines, shear layer growth characteristics, and turbulent kinetic energy of the right jet. Under certain conditions, the fountain is close enough to significantly interact with the right jet and change the characteristics of the inner shear layer. Thereby, the processes constituting the feedback mechanism are notably altered and culminates in a weaker resonance. To address the third objective, the flowfield is characterized by systematically varying the relative jet temperature between the jets by increasing the temperature of only one of the jets (right). The NPR of the two jets are held fixed at conditions same as those used for the second objective. Qualitative visualization of the flowfield suggests that the left jet and fountain regions remain nearly unaffected by the right jet temperature. However, a corresponding increase in the jet velocity occurs in the right jet. Both the fountain position and its strength are independent of relative jet temperature and a strong function of the jet momentum flux. The increase in jet temperature also results in additional noise in the nearfield and increased unsteadiness on the impingement surface, although the latter is limited to short impingement heights and the region close to the right jet. At higher temperatures, short impingement heights are found to be more susceptible to resonance, with the chief source of resonance originating in the heated jet. At a fixed impingement height, while the jet instability mode shapes are retained, the corresponding impingement tones in the heated jet experience a systematic increment in frequency with rise in temperature. A detailed study of the velocity field suggest that, for a pair of jets at a given relative jet momentum flux, their fountain upwash could contribute to increased unsteadiness in the region around the nozzle (under-surface of the aircraft) at higher jet temperatures. The present experimental study significantly enhances the understanding of the impinging jet flowfield and its associated impacts on the parent aircraft, noise field and nearby structures. From an engineering standpoint, the results from this study will help inform aerodynamicists and structural engineers about the consequences of multi-jet-impingement configurations in STOVL applications. This is done through a systematic characterization of several parameters, which would provide the design guidelines. The three key findings of this study are: (1) Dual impinging jet flow and acoustic fields are strongly influenced by the fountain flow; (2) Fountain strength and placement relative to the jets, plays an important role in influencing the ground induced adverse effects. This in turn depends on the momentum of the jets; (3) Jet temperature can also worsen these effects, although this is a weaker factor than jet momentum From a scientific stand point, the results from this study provide a high fidelity database for the validation of numerical tools on dual impinging jet configuration. Furthermore, the present study provides the baseline data to help study flow and noise control techniques for dual impinging jets.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 5, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Aeroacoustics, Dual impinging jets, Jet noise, Relative jet momentum flux, Relative jet temperature, Supersonic impinging jets
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Rajan Kumar, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Farrukh S. Alvi, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Christopher Tam, University Representative; S. Unnikrishnan, Committee Member; Jonathan Clark, Committee Member; Jonas Gustavsson, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Engineering
SUBJECT: Aerospace engineering
SUBJECT: Mechanical engineering
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Olivett_fsu_0071N_17204.pdf
TITLE: Implicit Threat Evaluations and Defensive Physiological Responses to Police
AUTHOR: Olivett, Vincenzo J.,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): March, David Scott
MEMBER (committee member): Plant, Ashby
MEMBER (committee member): Proudfit, Greg Hajcak
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (67 pages)
ABSTRACT: The role of implicit processes during police-civilian encounters is well studied from the perspective of the police. Decades of research on the "shooter bias" suggests that implicit Black-danger associations potentiate the perception of threat of Black individuals, leading to a racial bias in the decision to use lethal force. Left understudied are civilians' possible associations of police with danger and how these associations pervade behavior and explicit views of the police. The current work begins to address this gap. In two within-subjects studies, we separately assess police-threat (i.e., safety/danger) and police-valence (i.e., good/bad) associations as well as their relative influences on explicit perceptions of police. A third study examined defensive physiological outcomes of police evaluations. Study 1 revealed that implicit threat evaluations (police-danger associations) more strongly predicted negative explicit views of the police compared to implicit valence evaluations (police-negative associations). Study 2 replicated these findings and suggests that individuals evaluate the police as more dangerous vs. negative when each response is pitted against each other within single misattribution procedure trials. Study 3 revealed that threat evaluations of the police extend to defensive physiological responses. The possible implications for explicit attitudes towards police reform and behavior during police-civilian encounters are discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 1, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): David S. March, Professor Directing Thesis; E. Ashby Plant, Committee Member; Greg Hajcak, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Social psychology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Orris_fsu_0071E_17054.pdf
TITLE: The Relationship between Demographic Characteristics and Stigma Toward Utilizing Mental Health Support Services in College Student-Athletes
AUTHOR: Orris, Steven,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Klein, James D.
MEMBER (university representative): Williamson, George S.
MEMBER (committee member): Dennen, Vanessa P., 1970-
MEMBER (committee member): Becker, Martin Swanbrow
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (93 pages)
ABSTRACT: Current research has suggested that college student-athletes are at an increased risk for experiencing mental illness but utilize mental health support services at a lower rate than the general college student population. Stigma toward mental illness has been identified as a factor that can influence student-athletes' decision to utilize mental health support services. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between the demographic variables of socioeconomic status, sport played, class, race and gender and levels of stigma toward mental illness and peers that utilize mental health support services. This study also investigated college student-athletes' perceived attitudes toward the benefits and barriers to utilizing mental health support services. The participants in this study were 141 NCAA student-athletes who completed an online survey assessing stigma and attitudes toward peers that utilize mental health support services. Follow-up interviews were conducted with seven participants to gain a deeper understanding of the salient attitudes toward the benefits and barriers to utilizing mental health support services. Analyses were conducted to identify relationships between demographic variables and high stigma levels. Results indicated that there was a significant relationship between sport played, class, and gender and stigma levels within the sample. Also, qualitative analysis indicated that self-awareness was identified as a perceived benefit to utilizing mental health support services, but mental health illiteracy, fear of being labelled, and stigma were perceived barriers to utilizing mental health support services in this sample. Findings from this study have implications for how college athletic departments deliver effective mental health support programs to their student-athletes.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Mental Health, Stigma, Student-Athletes
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): James Klein, Professor Directing Dissertation; George Williamson, University Representative; Vanessa Dennen, Committee Member; Martin Swanbrow Becker, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Owen_fsu_0071E_17151.pdf
TITLE: Movement and Sound: Tracing the Intersection of Dance and Music in Piano Works by Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, and Badie Khaleghian
AUTHOR: Owen, Caroline Hill,
MEMBER (professor directing treatise): Kalhous, David, 1975-
MEMBER (university representative): Callender, Clifton
MEMBER (committee member): Dumlavwalla, Diana Teresa
MEMBER (committee member): De Cock, Stijn J. W.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (80 pages)
ABSTRACT: This document, which is divided into two main parts, explores works written for the piano that bridge the art forms of music and dance. Part I of the document focuses on two sets of twentieth-century suites written by French composers: Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Francis Poulenc's Suite francaise d'après Claude Gervaise. Part II discusses my collaboration with composer Badie Khaleghian on a new work, entitled Electric Sky Blue (2022), for piano, dance, and interactive intermedia. In Part I, my examination of Le Tombeau de Couperin and Suite française highlights the extent to which both Ravel and Poulenc retain traditional elements of past dance forms while adapting the dance suite to their own individual musical languages. By tracing the infusion of the French dance tradition into the works of Baroque and pre-Baroque composers, and subsequently, into the twentieth century, I seek to illuminate the ways in which gaining a thorough understanding of this tradition––including its history, dance forms, and aesthetics––contributes to a more informed, effective study and performance of these 20th-century suites. Further, I briefly discuss the effects that both piano works had on the twentieth-century French aesthetic and musical identity in the years surrounding World War I. Part II of the document serves as an account of the collaborative and compositional processes of producing a new multidisciplinary work, Electric Sky Blue, which incorporates both dance and piano. I also provide an analysis of the dialogue between these media along with interactive visuals and audio throughout the piece and, further, the structural and expressive significance of this dialogue. Lastly, I discuss reasons for the importance of producing multidisciplinary, intermedia works for twenty-first-century audiences.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Treatise submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): dance, Khaleghian, multidisciplinary, piano, Poulenc, Ravel
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): David Kalhous, Professor Directing Treatise; Clifton Callender, University Representative; Diana Dumlavwalla, Committee Member; Stijn De Cock, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Paquette_fsu_0071E_16990.pdf
TITLE: Initiate Change or Suffer through It: A Study of Organizational Change Management in Higher Education
AUTHOR: Paquette, Diana,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Klein, James D.
MEMBER (university representative): Adams, Jonathan L.
MEMBER (committee member): Dennen, Vanessa P., 1970-
MEMBER (committee member): Jeong, Allan C.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (82 pages)
ABSTRACT: Change is a constant in organizations, especially public institutions. Without change everything remains the same and nothing improves. Organizations that adopt the idea that change is inevitable do far better than those who deny the process (Al-Ali et al., 2017; Davis & Fifolt, 2018). Change should be done with the purpose of improvement and implemented strategically. Ascher (2013) states "organizations must develop better practices and policies aimed at generating a greater organizational continuous learning culture that embodies innovation, creativity, and proper training and its implementation" (p. 39). Gordon and Fischer (2015) also argue strategic planning is an effective tool for an organization's continuous improvement and success. The purpose of this study was to examine the change management practices implemented at a public university to address policy compliance. The research specifically focused on change management practices and the involvement of change leaders and agents within the College of Medicine (COM). Nine COM leaders were interviewed to discuss their implementation of eight change management strategies identified in change management literature. Their responses helped answer the research questions: (1) What change management strategies were implemented at COM to improve policy compliance? (1a) How were the strategies implemented by change agents? (1b) Why were the strategies implemented by change agents? (2) How did the university's monthly compliance report scores change after the implementation of change management strategies? Findings revealed the most frequently implemented change management strategies were communication, leadership, and management to improve policy compliance. Participants discussed how and why they implemented the eight change management strategies. Communication, bringing awareness, setting expectations, monitoring and providing feedback, and providing a sense of ownership and value for stakeholders were frequently implemented within the change management strategies discussed. The review of data from the university's monthly compliance report revealed the desired downward trend for each of the five metrics for the College of Medicine as a whole. Compliance report data by individual departments also showed a similar downward trend. Although the implementation of the change management strategies cannot be directly correlated to the downward trend on the monthly compliance report for COM, the report does show improvement in policy compliance during the time the change management strategies were implemented. It is recommended that when performance improvement efforts are needed within higher education, multiple change management strategies be implemented. Findings from the study support the realization that change management strategies have overlapping elements such as communication, bringing awareness, setting expectations, and providing feedback.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 9, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Designed-based research, Performance Support & Improvement, Systems Thinking, Transformational Change
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): James D. Klein, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jonathan Adams, University Representative; Vanessa Dennen, Committee Member; Allan Jeong, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational psychology
SUBJECT: Education, Higher
SUBJECT: Education, Higher--Administration
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Park_fsu_0071N_17177.pdf
TITLE: The Impact of YouTube's Thumbnail Images and View Counts on Users' Selection of Video Clip, Memory Recall, and Sharing Intentions of Thumbnail Images
AUTHOR: Park, Junho,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Clayton, Russell B.
MEMBER (committee member): Raney, Arthur A.
MEMBER (committee member): Cortese, Juliann
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
CORPORATE NAME: School of Communication
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (64 pages)
ABSTRACT: Prior to selecting a YouTube video, users encounter video previews (i.e., thumbnail images) and heuristic cues (i.e., number of views, likes, date of period), which may influence their selection of a YouTube video over other potential options. This online experiment employed a 2 (valence: positive/negative) x 2 (view count: low/high) within-subjects design to examine how both factors (i.e., valence and view count of YouTube thumbnails) individually and via their interaction, influence participants' (N = 95) selection of the YouTube video, sharing intentions, and memory recognition of Thumbnail content. The results from this study showed no significant differences in selection of videos or recognition memory of thumbnail images that vary in positive and negative valence. However, there was a significant interaction between valence and the selection of thumbnail images while controlling for participants' frequency of neck pain as a covariate. The results showed that the more frequent neck pain resulted in a greater selection of positively-valenced thumbnail images than negatively-valenced thumbnail images. Moreover, as predicted, YouTube thumbnail images with high view counts were selected more than YouTube thumbnail images with low view counts. These results support prior research on heuristic cues (i.e., view counts) while failing to support the negativity bias hypothesis. The practical implications from this study indicate that content creators should design thumbnails with positively-valenced imagery and with popularity cues, such as high view counts, if the goal is to increase video selection among YouTube users.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the School of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Bandwagon cues, Heuristic-Systematic Model, Valence of thumbnails, View counts, YouTube thumbnails
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Russell B. Clayton, Professor Directing Thesis; Arthur A. Raney, Committee Member; Juliann Cortese, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Communication
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Parker_fsu_0071E_17059.pdf
TITLE: Don't Let the Door Hit Ya: An Examination of Teacher Perceptions Beliefs, and Practices That Contribute to Students' Missed Instruction at KIPP Baltimore
AUTHOR: Parker, Valerie J.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Khurshid, Ayesha
MEMBER (university representative): McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-
MEMBER (committee member): Akiba, Motoko
MEMBER (committee member): Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (94 pages)
ABSTRACT: African American students have been historically targeted for exclusionary discipline practices and as a result have had severely impacted by the amount of missed instruction. Zero tolerance policies have curated the phenomenon known as the School to Prison Pipeline which has disproportionately criminalized student behaviors and funneled them into the juvenile justice system. KIPP Baltimore has experienced a spike in suspensions. This study examined teachers' perceptions, beliefs and practices that contribute to student's missed instruction. The primary focus of this study was to understand teachers' perception of behaviors and the discipline policy designed to address behaviors. To do this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 KIPP middle school teacher participants. Purposeful sampling was used to identify teachers who taught at KIPP for three or more years and have been in the teaching profession for five or more years. Constant comparison analysis was used to analyze teachers' responses. The findings highlighted the need to consider importance of teacher beliefs and experiences in shaping their work as educators as well as their interactions with students. The results suggest teacher inclusion in policymaking in an effort to transform culture and the need to provide in-depth, meaningful, and consistent professional development opportunities to teachers.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 30, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Ayesha Khurshid, Professor Directing Dissertation; Stephen McDowell, University Representative; Motoko Akiba, Committee Member; Jeffrey Milligan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Education and state
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Patel_fsu_0071E_17044.pdf
TITLE: The Effect of Mixed Anion Sublattice on Lithium-Ion Transport Properties
AUTHOR: Patel, Sawankumar Vasantbhai,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Hu, Yan-yan
MEMBER (university representative): Hallinan, Daniel T., Jr.
MEMBER (committee member): Shatruk, Mykhailo
MEMBER (committee member): Hanson, Kenneth G.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department Chemistry and Biochemistry
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (150 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation is focused on studying the effects of mixed-anion sublattice on Li+-ion conduction. Mixed-anion sublattice comprises multiple anion species in a structural framework which increases the degrees of freedom in tuning structural properties due to the differences in the anion radii, electronegativity, and polarizability. Thus, properties such as ionic vs. covalent bonding, local polyhedral distortions, and anion site disorder can be tuned for fast Li+-ion transport. Utilizing strategic synthesis of mixed-anion materials with compatible chemistries and advanced characterization techniques, structure-property correlations are established to understand the origin of fast Li+-ion conduction. The mixed-anion materials examined are the argyrodite Li6-xPS5-xClBrx, Li3PO4 – LiI, and 2LiX-GaF3 (where X = Cl-, Br- or I-). Solid-state synthesis accompanied by high-energy milling is utilized to synthesize these materials. X-ray and neutron diffraction are employed to study long-range structures whereas nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis are used to determine local structures. Additionally, NMR relaxometry and EIS spectroscopy are utilized to study ion dynamics and transport and correlate these properties with refined structures. In the argyrodite structural framework, mixed-site occupancy of Cl-, Br-, and S2- is shown to enhance lithium transport properties by increasing the frequency and lowering the activation energy of lithium jumps. In the Li3PO4 – LiI composite, I- anions are used to interrupt the ordered PO43- network in Li3PO4, which destabilizes Li+-PO43- interaction and liberates Li+-ions with enhanced ionic conductivity. A similar mechanism is found in the 2LiX-GaF3 (where X = Cl-, Br- or I-) by the formation of complex GaXaFb anions that weaken lithium-anion interactions, yielding high ionic conductivity. In the Li1.05Hf0.05Ta1.95PO8 – 0.15LiF, the addition of LiF is shown to stabilize the Hf-doped LiTa2PO8 and improve the grain boundary transport properties. Overall, anion diversification is shown to be effective to enhance ionic conductivity by flattening the energy landscape for ion conduction. Additionally, metastable phases are observed that exhibit enhanced performance with this strategy. The fundamental understanding of lithium-ion transport mechanism in anion engineered framework in this study provides guidelines for designing high-performance materials as solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries and can be applied to materials beyond Li+-ion conductors, such as Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, K+, and Na+-ion conductors.xx Furthermore, the mixed-anion strategy can be used to make new metastable phases that may exhibit unprecedented functionality.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department Chemistry and Biochemistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): anion disorder, ion transport pathway, solid electrolye, solid-state chemistry, solid-state NMR, structure analysis
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Yan-Yan Hu, Professor Directing Dissertation; Daniel Hallinan, University Representative; Michael Shatruk, Committee Member; Kenneth Hanson, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Chemistry
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Pelham_fsu_0071E_17005.pdf
TITLE: Faculty Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Intrusive Advising
AUTHOR: Pelham, Banyon,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Hu, Shouping
MEMBER (university representative): Jakubowski, Elizabeth M.
MEMBER (committee member): Schwartz, Robert A.
MEMBER (committee member): Guthrie, Kathy L.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (84 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of faculty members at Florida State University - Panama City and then to further explore, through interviews, why the faculty hold a positive, neutral, or negative view of intrusive advising. The goal of this project was to understand the barriers for faculty to accept and support intrusive advising as a mechanism to increase retention rates and student success, especially for vulnerable populations. The local context of this study is a branch campus of a major research one university, where the campus is transitioning from a non-traditional student campus, to one of a residential campus, newly accepting first time in college students. This study utilized mixed methods to effectively answer the three research questions posed. This study employed quantitative methods, using descriptive statistics and bi-variate correlation to analyze faculty surveys and then qualitative methods to evaluate faculty interviews to gain a deeper understanding of their perceptions and attitudes towards intrusive advising. Findings relate that communication with the faculty about student interventions and administrative directives are crucial and that faculty need information about these interventions to formulate their opinions. Implications of the faculty's attitude toward towards student retention efforts, workload, time management and professional advising as an intervention will also be discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Academic Advising, Faculty Advising, Intrusive Advising, Student Progress Reporting, Student Retention, Vulnerable Students
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Shouping Hu, Professor Directing Dissertation; Liz Jakubowski, University Representative; Robert Schwartz, Committee Member; Kathy Guthrie, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational leadership
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: PERKINS_fsu_0071N_17202.pdf
TITLE: Sears Family Portrait of the Artist
AUTHOR: Perkins, Benjamin,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Howard, Ravi
MEMBER (committee member): Roberts, Diane, 1959-
MEMBER (committee member): Stuckey-French, Elizabeth
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of English
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (288 pages)
ABSTRACT: SEARS Family Portrait of the Artist is a memoir that depicts the author's recovery from molestation that occurred approximately from his age 5 in 1987 until his age 8 in 1990 at the hands of a family friend. The author narrates from age 40 in the year 2022, though he begins the story by reflecting specifically on the year 2008 when he moved back home with his parents as an unemployed adult. The story moves back and forth in time between deep recollection of the 1980s and recent recollection of the 2000s and dramatizes episodes of traumatic flashback. The main plot thread follows his reconciliation with his family, whom he had grown resentful of. Near the end of the story, the author reveals that the molester attempted to contact him, unwelcomely, as recently as 2018. The voice, the candor, and the sensibility of the memoir was heavily influenced by contemporaneous memoirs such as Her by Christa Parravani, Poster Child by Emily Rapp Black, Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, and Heavy by Kiese Laymon.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 14, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): memoir
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Ravi Y. Howard, Professor Directing Thesis; Diane K. Roberts, Committee Member; Elizabeth C. Stuckey-French, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Pitts_fsu_0071N_17208.pdf
TITLE: Generalizing the Control Architecture of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
AUTHOR: Pitts, McKinney,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Nee, Derek Evan
MEMBER (committee member): Martin, Christopher Basil
MEMBER (committee member): Proudfit, Greg Hajcak
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (57 pages)
ABSTRACT: Cognitive control guides non-habitual, goal directed behaviors allowing us to flexibly adapt to ongoing demands. Previous work has suggested that multiple cognitive control processes exist that can be classed according to their action on present-oriented/external information versus future-oriented/internal information. These processes can be mapped onto the prefrontal cortex (PFC) such that increasingly rostral areas are involved in increasingly future-oriented/internal control processes. Whether and how such processes are organized to support goal-directed behavior remains unclear. On the one hand, the PFC may flexibly adapt which processes are most influential for cognition based upon demands. On the other hand, there may be a consistent control architecture that organizes control processes. Previous work using fMRI in humans during a comprehensive control task that engaged several control processes at once found that an area in mid-LPFC consistently exerted widespread influence throughout the PFC. These data suggested that the mid-LPFC forms an apex of a putative control hierarchy that organizes control processes. However, whether such an architecture generalizes across tasks remains to be tested. Here, we utilized a modified comprehensive control task designed to alter how control processes influence one another. Univariate fMRI activations revealed distinct control-related activations relative to past work. Despite these changes, effective connectivity modeling revealed a similar directed architecture to previous findings with the mid-LPFC exerting the most widespread influences through PFC. These results suggest that the fundamental architecture of the PFC and control processes is relatively fixed, and that different demands are accommodated through modulations of this fixed architecture.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 1, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): cognitive control, executive function, frontal lobes, hierarchical control, prefrontal cortex
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Derek Evan Nee, Professor Directing Thesis; Christopher Basil Martin, Committee Member; Greg Hajcak, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Cognitive psychology
SUBJECT: Neurosciences
SUBJECT: Neurosciences
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Prado_fsu_0071N_17205.pdf
TITLE: Chinese Soft Power in Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard and Day of the Oprichnik
AUTHOR: Prado, Simon V.,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko, 1969-
MEMBER (committee member): Grant, Jonathan A., 1963-
MEMBER (committee member): Romanchuk, Robert
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (44 pages)
ABSTRACT: Depictions of China and Chinese culture and influence are prominent in Vladimir Sorokin's fiction from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. This thesis argues that Sorokin's depictions of China are based off of actual geopolitical occurrences from that time period. More specifically, this thesis argues that Sorokin's depictions of China are representative of many of the 'soft power' strategies China has employed on the international stage since the 1990s, including the use of both cultural and economic soft power tools. This thesis examines two novels by Sorokin which have significant depictions of Chinese soft power influence: Blue Lard (1999), and Day of the Oprichnik (2006). In both novels, China has achieved great cultural and economic successes similar to those successes experienced by the real-world China since it began its 'peaceful rise' in the 1990s. China is depicted as being a dominant cultural and economic force, as Chinese language and culture are privileged by the societies in these novels. Conversely, Russia is depicted as backwards, while Russian language, literature, and culture are not afforded the same prestige as Chinese. These depictions of the futuristic relationships between China and Russia are indicative of Sorokin's awareness of China's real-world growing geopolitical soft power influence and the belief that China may indeed rise to become the dominant world power, while Russia's increased authoritarianism may lead to it occupying an inferior position on the world stage.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Professor Directing Thesis; Jonathan Grant, Committee Member; Robert Romanchuk, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Slavic literature
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Propper_fsu_0071E_17057.pdf
TITLE: Digital Approaches to Sites and Sound in Romantic Poetry
AUTHOR: Propper, Holly,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Pascoe, Judith M.
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Eckert, Lindsey J.
MEMBER (university representative): Hanley, Will, 1974-
MEMBER (committee member): Faulk, Barry J.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of English
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (152 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores how digital methods reveal ways in which soundscapes and landscapes function in William Wordsworth's complete poetical works, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Charlotte Smith's collected poetry. My agenda for this project is two-fold. My first objective is to engage in a meaningful discussion of sound and space in Romantic-era poetry. My second objective is to provide a practical model for digital methods in Romanticism. By using these digital methods, this project 1) generates several visual models, such as word clouds and maps, to explore sound and space in poetry, and 2) creates an alternative way to present literary research. These visualizations are intended to catalyze my larger discussion of sound and space in the Romantic Period and also reinforce my corollary argument that digital methodologies are necessary tools for the humanities.To explore this topic, my dissertation works with a larger corpus than traditionally expected, which allows me to garner a broader sense of sound in the field. I investigate sound's relationship to space in these poets' works and how digital methods can help reinforce, refute, or make discoveries in Romantic poetry. This process is what I term as "middle-reading," which balances close and distant reading methods for reading large literary corpora. Middle-reading unifies the objectives of close and distant reading methods to be legible to two different audiences, those who perform traditional literary scholarship and those who experiment with digital technologies and try to redefine the field. My dissertation project is part of a larger academic movement to re-imagine dissertations in the humanities. This dissertation and its corresponding website document an English Literature Ph.D. Candidate's journey carrying out the "next generation" of Ph.D. This dissertation isn't just a compilation of five chapters—it is accompanied by a blog-style website and Github repository where much of my labor and time was spent. For the sake of transparency, I made all of my digital methods, corpus materials, and resources available through blogging on my website, writing explanatory footnotes, and building an appendix that showcases my code and data. Just as my methodology of middle-reading requires the reader to re-evaluate how they read, my dissertation challenges both myself, my committee, and readers to reconsider what it means to write a humanities dissertation.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 30, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Digital Humanities, Distant Reading, Mapping, middle-reading, Romanticism, Sound Studies
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Judith Pascoe, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Lindsey Eckert, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; William Hanley, University Representative; Barry Faulk, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: British literature
SUBJECT: Irish literature
SUBJECT: English literature
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Pruitt_fsu_0071E_17107.pdf
TITLE: Promoting Conceptual Understanding of Fractions: Effects of Pedagogical Content Professional Development on Teachers' Confidence, Math Anxiety, and Student Achievement
AUTHOR: Pruitt, Elizabeth,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Akiba, Motoko
MEMBER (university representative): Ke, Fengfeng
MEMBER (committee member): Rutledge, Stacey A.
MEMBER (committee member): Park, Toby J.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (94 pages)
ABSTRACT: When designing professional development for math teachers, teacher confidence, math anxiety, and student performance are factors to consider. St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida has seen a decline in performance in fifth-grade mathematics, where students are first asked to showcase their knowledge on operations for fractions. As a curriculum department, it is essential to design future professional development to meet the needs of teachers. Professional development plays an important role in supporting teachers in providing quality instruction to students. For mathematics, professional development is often designed using three different approaches: content knowledge, pedagogical strategies, or pedagogical content knowledge. This quantitative method study sought to investigate if teachers provided pedagogical content professional development reduces teachers' math anxiety, increases their confidence in teaching fractions, and increases student achievement. The study found that teacher confidence and student achievement increased with professional development, not specific to pedagogical content knowledge. Math anxiety was decreased with professional development, not specific to pedagogical content knowledge. These findings are discussed, and recommendations for the district are offered in the final chapter.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): fractions, math anxiety, pedagogical content knowledge, professional development, student performance, teacher confidence
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Motoko Akiba, Professor Directing Dissertation; Fengfeng Ke, University Representative; Stacey Rutledge, Committee Member; Toby Park, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: School management and organization
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Qi_fsu_0071N_17181.pdf
TITLE: The "Late-Ming Beats" and the Monastic Accommodation in the Early 17th Century Hangzhou
AUTHOR: Qi, Guanxiong,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Yu, Jimmy
MEMBER (committee member): Cuevas, Bryan J., 1967-
MEMBER (committee member): Hellweg, Joseph
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Religion
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (138 pages)
ABSTRACT: This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines but also financially supportive of monastic construction projects in remote mountains as a deliberate attempt to create an ideal site for their exclusive enjoyment. I heuristically call these Confucian scholars the "Late-Ming Beats"—they were usually either politically frustrated officials or failed civil service examinees. They fantasized about living a reclusive life, retired from politics at a young age, regularly visited and patronized Buddhist monasteries, befriended the monastics, funded the constructions and renovations of the monastic buildings, and practiced meditation under their favorite Buddhist masters. One may entertain the idea that the foundation of Buddhist societies in the late Ming was an analog to the Beat Generation of the last 1950s' in the United States. Despite the different socio-historical contexts, what connects these two social phenomena are their counterreaction against repressive societal norms in which Buddhism became the alterity. The Buddhist society fellows were mostly politically frustrated scholar-officials and continuously failed civil service examinees. Many deliberately forfeited their future political careers due to factionalism and partisanship in officialdom. I use Tu Long 屠隆 (1542-1605) as an example to examine his gradual disenchantment with politics and increasing interest in religious practices. What Buddhism signified was a "spritual" escape from the profanity and meaninglessness of politics. In this study, I give historical details about the formation of lay Buddhist communities and the monastic responses to these laities' presence. I focus on three elite societies—the Society of Fragrant Adornment, the Society of Tranquility, the Society of Vegetable and Bamboo Shoot. The establishment of these societies helped the Late-Ming Beats to conceive an elitist lay Buddhist identity. They believed the literati are the most authentic Buddhists who appreciate the essence of Buddhism and combine Buddhist doctrines with Confucian teachings. I focus on their cultural and financial patronage to the monastery, the society's monthly gathering program and activities, and their literary style and achievement. Their support and furnishing of cultural artifacts in monastic institutions led to the flourishing of Buddhism in the Hanzhou region. Through their literary productions on local monasteries, their historical treatises, and their compilations of gazetteers, the literati constructed their own version of Buddhism. Then, we shift away from the literati construction of Buddhism to the monastic accommodations to their activities. I focus on the guesthouse, tearoom, ritual, and meditation rooms exclusively created for the literati's enjoyment in the monastery—in other words, the physicality of literati's "places of socio-leisure." By comparing earlier canonized monastic codes with later renditions of these codes that circulated in the early 17th century Hangzhou, I identify the emergence of several monastic "hospitality" office posts—such as special chef for the guest and the charity workers. These findings suggest an increase in interaction between the monastic and the elite laity. Catered to attracting more literati, the powerful monasteries in the mountains also expanded their institutional reach by building sub-temples (xiayuan 下院) or branch temples (ziyuan 子院) in the city. For these monasteries in remote areas, the operation of sub-temple and branches overcame their geographical disadvantages. Finally, through this microhistory of Buddhism in the Hangzhou region, I wish to complicate existing scholarship of Buddhism in the late imperial era by suggesting that the "late-Ming Buddhist revival" was a co-creation of the literati's imagination of the Buddhist monastery as an otherworldly place of leisure and the monastic institutional accommodation to their imagined space. In this sense, the flourishing of Buddhist monasticism was predicated on the fantasies of elite lay Buddhist patrons. I argue that it is essential to understand the historical development of Buddhism from both external and internal contingencies of patrons and monastic institutions.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 25, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Beat Generation, Buddhism, Buddhist history, Chinese Buddhism, Cultural History, Ming History
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jimmy Yu, Professor Directing Thesis; Bryan Cuevas, Committee Member; Joseph Hellweg, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: History
SUBJECT: Asia--Study and teaching
SUBJECT: Sociology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Rassolov_fsu_0071E_17138.pdf
TITLE: Kinetics of Shear-Banding Formation in Taylor-Couette Flow of Wormlike Micellar Solutions
AUTHOR: Rassolov, Peter,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Mohammadigoushki, Hadi
MEMBER (university representative): Shanbhag, Sachin
MEMBER (committee member): Alamo, Rufina G.
MEMBER (committee member): Ramakrishnan, Subramanian
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (200 pages)
ABSTRACT: Shear banding, or the discontinuity of shear rate in flowing materials, has been reported for a broad range of industrially important systems, including wormlike micelles, powders, foams, emulsions, and liquid crystalline polymers. Amongst these systems, wormlike micellar solutions (i.e., self-assembled aqueous surfactant structures) are easy to prepare and handle and therefore are feasible as a model fluid for studies of shear banding. Additionally, they are relatively easily understood; their linear rheology at long time scales is well described by a Maxwell element with a single relaxation time. Most practical flows of shear banding materials are strongly time-dependent during initial startup of deformation before a quasi-steady flow is developed. Therefore, it is crucial to examine the kinetics of shear banding flow formation in these systems before a steady shear-banded flow is established. Recent theoretical studies suggest that kinetics of shear banding flow formation in wormlike micelles depend strongly on fluid elasticity, initial ramp up rate of the flow, micellar viscosity ratio, entanglement density, and the curvature of the flow geometry. These theoretical predictions have remained largely unexplored experimentally. The surfactant/salt chemistry and the micellar microstructure may also affect the kinetics of flow formation. In this project, we study the effects of the fluid elasticity, the initial ramp up duration of the applied shear rate, the entanglement density, and the micellar microstructure.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Hadi Mohammadigoushki, Professor Directing Dissertation; Sachin Shanbhag, University Representative; Rufina Alamo, Committee Member; Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Chemical engineering
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Reed_fsu_0071E_17064.pdf
TITLE: Insights into Proteasome Function: Elucidating Requirements for Activation and Efficient Substrate Turnover
AUTHOR: Reed, Randi,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Tomko, Robert J., Jr.
MEMBER (university representative): Stroupe, M. Elizabeth (Margaret Elizabeth)
MEMBER (committee member): Wang, Yanchang, (Biomedical Sciences Professor)
MEMBER (committee member): Blaber, Michael
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Medicine
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Biomedical Sciences
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (155 pages)
ABSTRACT: Synthesis and degradation of proteins in a cell must be carefully balanced to ensure organismal health. The 26S proteasome is a large protein complex that carries out most regulated protein degradation in eukaryotes. The assembly, structure, and function of proteasomes is highly conserved throughout the eukaryotic kingdom, and proteasomal proteolysis regulates nearly every biological process. Since degradation is irreversible, it is critical for proteasomes to function in a tightly regulated manner. Dysfunction of the proteasome is associated with multiple human diseases, including cancers and neurodegeneration, so it is imperative we gain insight into the requirements for proteasome activation and efficient turnover. The work described in this dissertation aims to uncover the mechanistic underpinnings of the proteasomal substrate processing toward the goal of therapeutically exploiting the proteasome for clinical intervention. The proteasome comprises over 70 individual subunits that must work in concert to selectively bind, unfold, and proteolyze substrates. Communication between subunits is a complex language dependent upon substrate-binding, ATP-binding, ATP-hydrolysis, conformational shifting, and more. Recent studies have contradicted what was long thought to be what triggers the proteasome to opens its central channel for substrate entry, so closer inspection was required. The first chapter of this dissertation sought to uncover how ATP-binding induced proteasome activation and opening of the central channel through which substrates are translocated to the peptidase active sites. Intersubunit communication is further explored in the second chapter with the investigation of how the smallest and sole intrinsically disordered subunit of the proteasome, Sem1, is responsible for enhancing substrate degradation despite making up less than 0.4% of the mass of the mature proteasome. Together, this work provides new insights into the mechanism of substrate degradation and furthers our understanding of how these processes may be compromised in proteostasis-imbalanced diseases.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Biomedical Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 25, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): allosteric communication, ATPase, proteasome, protein degradation, proteostasis, Sem1
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Robert J. Tomko, Jr., Professor Directing Dissertation; M. Elizabeth Stroupe, University Representative; Yanchang Wang, Committee Member; Michael Blaber, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Biochemistry
SUBJECT: Biology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Reed_fsu_0071E_17076.pdf
TITLE: Abilities and Powers and Masks, Oh My
AUTHOR: Reed, Thomas,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Clarke, Randolph K.
MEMBER (university representative): Kavka, Martin
MEMBER (committee member): Kearns, Stephen, 1979-
MEMBER (committee member): Mele, Alfred R., 1951-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Philosophy
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (89 pages)
ABSTRACT: Talk about what people are able or unable to do is ubiquitous. Despite that fact it's unobvious just what it comes to to be able to do something. For that reason alone it would be worthwhile to explore what our abilities consist in, but another reason is the traditional philosophical question about whether we are ever able to do otherwise than we in fact do, a question that has played a large role in the debate regarding free will and moral responsibility. My goal is to explain what it is to be able to do something and to argue that we are often able to do otherwise than we do, even if determinism is true. To that end I draw on work done to understand the causal powers and dispositions of inanimate objects, like the fragility of a vase or the conductivity of a wire. Our abilities can be understood as phenomena of the same kind, differing in part that our abilities are exercised for reasons while the powers of inanimate objects are not. First, I argue that one and the same object can have opposing powers, that is powers that have compatible stimulus conditions and incompatible manifestations, so that if both stimulus conditions occur at most one of the powers will manifest. Second, I argue that if externalism about mental content is true, then many of our abilities, even to perform mental actions, are extrinsic properties.  Third, I critique existing attempts to understand our abilities along the lines of causal powers or dispositions more generally. The extant proposals all face significant shortcomings of various kinds. Finally, I propose a theory that overcomes the shortcomings of the existing theories, and that claims that we are able to do otherwise by having opposing powers of the sort discussed above, along with some other conditions.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 1, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): abilities, dispositions, free will, powers
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Randolph Clarke, Professor Directing Dissertation; Martin Kavka, University Representative; Stephen Kearns, Committee Member; Alfred Mele, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Philosophy
SUBJECT: Metaphysics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rene_fsu_0071E_17082.pdf
TITLE: Flexible Mediation Analysis for Complex Data
AUTHOR: René, Lexi,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Linero, Antonio Ricardo
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Slate, Elizabeth H.
MEMBER (university representative): Wetherby, Amy M.
MEMBER (committee member): Sinha, Debajyoti
MEMBER (committee member): Barrientos, Andrés Felipe
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (84 pages)
ABSTRACT: Mediation analysis seeks to quantify the portion of the effect of an exposure on an outcome that occurs through a postulated causal pathway. Changes in an observable mediator variable reflect activity on the pathway. To measure effects within mediation analysis, one needs estimates of both the outcome and mediator that might have occurred had a subject's exposure been different; such unobservable values are called potential outcomes. Using the assumptions of sequential ignorability and non-parametric identification, Imai et al. (2010a) proposed a flexible approach to measuring effects in mediation analysis within a frequentist framework. We address mediation analysis within complex data settings, where the complexity lies within the distribution of the data or the study design. For the scenario with complex data distribution, we develop a simple, but flexible, parametric modeling framework to accommodate the common situation where the responses are mixed continuous and binary. We apply this method to a zero-one inflated beta model for the outcome and mediator, show how to estimate both average and quantile mediation effects for boundary-censored data, and show how to conduct a meaningful sensitivity analysis. For the scenario with a complex study design, we develop a framework to estimate mediation effects for a two-stage SMART within the context of a single mediator, measured at one point in time.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Statistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 8, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Antonio Linero, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Elizabeth Slate, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Amy Wetherby, University Representative; Debajyoti Sinha, Committee Member; Andres Felipe Barrientos, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rizza_fsu_0071E_17056.pdf
TITLE: Pulling Back the Curtain and Breaking down Barriers: A Study of Race, Writing, and First-Year Composition at Two-Year Open Access Institutions
AUTHOR: Rizza, Tricia,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Lathan, Rhea Estelle, 1961-
MEMBER (university representative): Jones, Tamara Bertrand
MEMBER (committee member): Fiscus-Cannaday, Jaclyn
MEMBER (committee member): Graban, Tarez Samra
MEMBER (committee member): Yancey, Kathleen Blake, 1950-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of English
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (173 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a mixed methods study of race, language, and writing using the racial equity gaps in student success data as a starting point for the conversation that calls the fields of Rhetoric and Compositions, Literacy Studies, and Higher Education to act more intentionally towards creating equitable spaces in our writing classrooms. With a research circle drawn around the First-Year Composition (FYC) classroom level at open access institutions within the Florida College System's twenty-eight colleges, this project challenges the priorities, practices, and policies that have shaped the systems enacted in current first-year writing whose student success data demonstrates continued inequities. Situating this work at the course or individual classroom level and specifically through the voices of instructors versus the program or institutional level provides an intentionally narrow lens through which to look for ways to impact these inequities more effectively. The study has been designed to (1) identify barriers to success for students of color in First-Year Composition within two-year open access colleges, (2) identify current priorities, practices, and policies in First-Year Composition courses, (3) place the current priorities, practices, and policies in conversation with the interdisciplinary scholarly conversations, and (4) establish points of leverage or shifts needed in First-Year Composition that could establish more equitable learning experiences for students of color in the writing classroom. Results from this study conclude three main points of leverage that FYC could more intentionally enact. The first point of leverage includes enacting an increase in reflective optimism or the belief/mindset that all students can be successful in FYC courses. The second point of leverage includes enacting an increase in teacher efficacy or the instructor's confidence and belief that they have the knowledge to facilitate the practices necessary for enacting equitable learning spaces in FYC courses. The final point of leverage includes an increase understanding of the connection between race, language, and writing.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 22, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): first-year composition, language, race, writing
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Rhea Estelle Lathan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Tamara Bertrand Jones, University Representative; Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, Committee Member; Taraz Graban, Committee Member; Kathleen Blake Yancey, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Rhetoric
SUBJECT: Education, Higher
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Roache_fsu_0071E_17160.pdf
TITLE: The Academic Art Gallery Experiences of Black HBCU Students
AUTHOR: Roache, Aja,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Villeneuve, Pat, 1955-
MEMBER (university representative): Auzenne, Valliere Richard, 1952-
MEMBER (committee member): Love, Ann Rowson, 1967-
MEMBER (committee member): Broome, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lynn)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Fine Arts
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Art Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (157 pages)
ABSTRACT: Increasingly scholarship reveals art museums, their exhibitions, and collections, are instrumental in shaping visitors' larger social and cultural values (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000; Luke, 2002; Sandell, 2002) and identity (Leong, 2005; Rounds, 2006). My qualitative study aimed to understand Black students' experiences within a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) art gallery. This study serves, in part, to assist my role as a HBCU art gallery director by examining the cultural value of an art gallery through student voices. I hope this study will inform museum professionals and other institutional stakeholders by providing first-hand accounts of HBCU students. The purpose of this study is to explore the art gallery experiences of a sample of Black students attending a southeast region HBCU. The primary research question is what do the participants experience, relating to their racial and cultural identity, while engaging with art exhibitions at this HBCU art gallery? This basic qualitative study utilized multiple data collection methods, such as interviews, meaning mapping, and content analysis..
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 29, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Academic art museums, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Visitor experience
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Patricia Villeneuve, Professor Directing Dissertation; Valliere Auzenne, University Representative; Anne Rowson Love, Committee Member; Jeff Broome, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Museums
SUBJECT: Education, Higher
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Robb_fsu_0071E_17159.pdf
TITLE: Electron Transfer at Molecule-Metal Oxide Interfaces for Applications in Dye-Sensitized Devices
AUTHOR: Robb, Alex,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Hanson, Kenneth G.
MEMBER (university representative): Gao, Hanwei
MEMBER (committee member): Shatruk, Mykhailo
MEMBER (committee member): Stiegman, Albert E., 1953-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (79 pages)
ABSTRACT: Designing systems that can allow for increased control of electron transfer processes at dye-semiconductor interfaces is useful in a wide variety of applications, but specifically in the field of dye-sensitized devices such as dye-sensitized solar cells and dye-sensitized photodetectors.In trying to maximize regeneration rates and minimize recombination rates in DSSCs through metal ion coordination to the non-surface bound carboxylate groups of the dye, it was discovered that doing so can ideally slow recombination rates, however it was unclear if the additional steric effects or charge of the metal ion were the cause of this behavior. Using three differently charge mediators it was ultimately discovered that electrostatics may influence regeneration rates, but steric bulk of the components used ultimately had a greater effect on the overall device performance. With this result in hand and contemplating on the simple geometric restrictions imposed by the mesoporous nature of high surface area metal oxide substrates, we sought to determine the role porosity has on multilayer assembly loading, electrolyte diffusion, and subsequent device performance. Through modifying the porosity of the film through sintering procedure modifications and loading the film with dye molecules, it was found that porosity should be considered when designing multimolecular architectures as to have enough space to load the number of components desired and leave room for mediator diffusion. Finally, a prototype dye-sensitized photodetector was designed with efficient charge separation characteristics in the red to infrared wavelength range. This device utilized the same device structure as DSSCs and the performance metrics for the device were measured and reported for this first of its kind device. Seeking to improve the devices performance through applying an external bias, it was determined that the metal oxide had to be shifted from TiO2 to ITO and insulating layers of atomically thin metal oxides were added in order to stabilize the performance of the device under bias.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Kenneth Hanson, Professor Directing Dissertation; Hanwei Gao, University Representative; Michael Shatruk, Committee Member; Albert Stiegman, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Chemistry
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Robbins_fsu_0071E_17132.pdf
TITLE: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes about Teaching Students with Multiple Disabilities to Use Tangible Symbols
AUTHOR: Robbins, Audrey E.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Hanline, Mary Frances
MEMBER (university representative): Rehm, Marsha Lynn
MEMBER (committee member): Ivy, Sarah Elizabeth
MEMBER (committee member): Dennis, Lindsay Rae
MEMBER (committee member): Whalon, Kelly J.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: School of Teacher Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (123 pages)
ABSTRACT: A qualitative study was conducted to identify the beliefs and attitudes of preservice special education teachers regarding teaching use of tangible symbols for students with multiple disabilities. Using tangible symbols is a promising practice with an emerging evidence base that supports communication development for students with complex communication needs. Preservice special education teachers participated in individual interviews, verbally reacted to a video of a child with multiple disabilities, and completed an application exercise. Data were analyzed using the Technology, Pedagogy, Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework and constant comparison to identify preservice teachers' beliefs and attitudes about implementing communication intervention using tangible symbols for students with multiple disabilities. Participant beliefs about tangible symbols, systematic instruction, individualized instruction, characteristics of students with multiple disabilities, and communication intervention were identified. Participants expressed positive attitudes towards tangible symbols use. Suggestions for meeting future preservice education needs are discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the School of Teacher Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): communication intervention, multiple disabilities, preservice, qualitative, systematic instruction, tangible symbols
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Mary Frances Hanline, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marsha Rehm, University Representative; Sarah Ivy, Committee Member; Lindsay Dennis, Committee Member; Kelly Whalon, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Special education
SUBJECT: Early childhood education
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rocker_fsu_0071E_17105.pdf
TITLE: The Effect of Parenthood on Reentry Outcomes: A Consideration of Gender and Parent-Child Relationship Quality
AUTHOR: Rocker, Dixie L.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Stults, Brian J.
MEMBER (university representative): Taylor, Miles G., 1976-
MEMBER (committee member): Hay, Carter H.
MEMBER (committee member): Turanovic, Jillian J., 1985-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
CORPORATE NAME: College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (136 pages)