PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (206 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines how Black women cope with the negative psychological impacts of racism and discrimination in their everyday lives. Black women experience specific forms of stress due to their identities as both racial and gender minorities. Experiencing discrimination leads to feelings of hopelessness, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. These negative emotions are difficult to manage, especially given the stigma related to mental health treatment among Black women, a lack of culturally competent mental healthcare, and the high costs of therapy. Scholars have discussed a variety of coping strategies, such as spirituality, relying on social support, and adopting individual personality traits to alleviate negative stressors from racism and discrimination. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a better understanding of how Black women define and engage in self-care to mitigate negative psychological outcomes from racism and discrimination. I utilize relational cultural theory as my primary framework to demonstrate Black women receive an increased desire for connection, resources, and knowledge, as well as experience psychological growth through relational resilience. I contribute to scholarship focused on how Black women manage social inequality by investigating how Black women construct counternarratives against controlling images by discussing how they care for themselves online. I conducted 25 in-depth interviews with Black women between the ages of 18 and 35 to examine how they engage in self-care in their daily lives, as well as their digital habits. I also performed a content analysis of a total of 415 blog entries and 3,300 tweets from two platforms, Black Girl in Om and Women’s Health, to analyze differences in self-care advice based on race and type of platform. Interviews demonstrate that, although Black women participants gain access to resources and community on social media, the overall toxicity of the internet hinders Black women from taking full advantage of the benefits digital platforms have to offer. Harassment, ridicule, and disrespect unrelated to self-care on social media prompted Black women in the study to take a break from these platforms. Through the content analysis, I find Black women share resources and personal experiences about how discrimination negatively impacts their mental health through blog posts and user comments. Through primary themes of self-affirmations, introspection, and sisterhood, I find self-care on digital platforms catered to Black women emphasizes group-based coping. In contrast, on Women’s Health self-care content is rooted in individualism and capitalism. Mainstream conceptualizations of self-care on Women’s Health do not promote relational bonds and mutual empowerment in similar ways because the social context of negative psychological outcomes are not explicitly outlined in the advice offered. As a result, users on the Women’s Health platform receive messages that emphasize autonomy, self-discipline, and internal control, which does little to promote connection in order to heal. Overall, Black women engage in relational resilience, online and offline, to take care of themselves and cope with racism and discrimination.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 25, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Katrinell Davis, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ashby Plant, University Representative; Deana Rohlinger, Committee Member; Shantel Buggs, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Sociology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Javarone_fsu_0071E_16662.pdf
TITLE: A Survey of Hungarian and Style Hongrois Music for Violin
AUTHOR: Javarone, Emily,
MEMBER (professor directing treatise): Sung, Benjamin
MEMBER (university representative): Jones, Evan Allan
MEMBER (committee member): Jiménez, Alexander, 1963-
MEMBER (committee member): Sauer, Greg
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (91 pages)
ABSTRACT: This treatise will explore the history of Hungarian culture, composers, violinists, and music written for violin in the Hungarian and style hongrois style. This treatise will also discuss the nineteenth-century musical style, style hongrois, and explore whether an understanding of Hungarian music can inform practice performance for compositions in the style hongrois. The purpose of this document is to provide the reader a brief history of Hungarian culture, music, and influences that have led to several great works for violin and piano that have become standard in today’s repertoire. This treatise will also discuss several great Hungarian and Romanian violinists to trace how Hungarian violin playing has evolved and been passed down through the years. Recordings of these specific violinists will be discussed to add to the understanding of the playing style and technique. Several pieces for solo violin and violin and piano will be discussed in this treatise. These works are the most well-known violin works in the Hungarian style and range from authentic interpretations of Hungarian music to overly romanticized interpretations of what Hungarian music is. Both need to be discussed and researched to understand this genre of music, and although some can be considered more “authentic” than others, a composer’s interpretation of a culture and its music can be informational and still adds to this wonderful body of repertoire for the violin. This study can be used to educate and facilitate proper performance practice of Hungarian violin music by exposing readers and performers to six major violin works in the style, as well as nine other works that contain Hungarian elements that involve violin. As a result, this research will contribute to the research of Hungarian violin music through history and analysis, and lead to more informed performance practice and knowledge of the subject.
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): July 10, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Hungarian, Style Hongrois, Violin
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Benjamin Sung, Professor Directing Treatise; Evan Jones, University Representative; Alexander Jimenez, Committee Member; Greg Sauer, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Jiang_fsu_0071E_16606.pdf
TITLE: Envelope Methods for Missing Responses in Multivariate Linear Models
AUTHOR: Jiang, Ding,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William)
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Linero, Antonio Ricardo
MEMBER (university representative): Ökten, Giray
MEMBER (committee member): Zhang, Xin
MEMBER (committee member): Sinha, Debajyoti
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (63 pages)
ABSTRACT: Multivariate linear models are commonly used for modeling the relationships between multiple responses and covariates. With OLS estimators, one can interpret the results in the analysis. However, the coefficient OLS estimates sometimes suffer from large variability making it difficult to find statistical significance. By imposing the envelope structure in the response envelope model introduced by Cook et al. (2010), one can improve estimation efficiency by reducing substantial estimation variation of coefficient estimates. Although many scholars have developed envelope methods in recent years, an extension of envelope methods to allow for missing data is rarely explored in the literature. In this dissertation, we propose several approaches, the plug-in method (PI), the EM algorithm (EM), the Bayesian approach via data augmentation algorithm (DA), and the multiple imputation method (MI) for fitting envelope model to missing responses based on multivariate regression settings. In addition to the illustration of these approaches, we evaluate the performance among the approaches via a simulation study and conclude that the Bayesian data augmentation algorithm achieves the best performance across a variety of different Frequentist methods.
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): June 22, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Fred Huﬀer, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Antonio Linero, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Giray Okten, University Representative; Xin Zhang, Committee Member; Debajyoti Sinha, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: JohnsonII_fsu_0071E_16671.pdf
TITLE: Boy Man: Multiple Literacies and Navigating Black Southern Boyhood in the Works of Kiese Laymon
AUTHOR: Johnson, Kenneth L., II
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Gaines, Alisha
MEMBER (university representative): Cuyler, Antonio C. (Antonio Christopher), 1978-
MEMBER (committee member): Lathan, Rhea Estelle, 1961-
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (152 pages)
ABSTRACT: Boy Man: Multiple Literacies and Narrating Black Southern Boyhood in the Works of Kiese Laymon focuses on Mississippi-born author Kiese Laymon’s three published manuscripts: Long Division, a novel; How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, a collection of letters and personal essays; and Heavy: An American Memoir. Through these three works, Laymon tells his and his characters’ stories, employing multiple literacies to allow himself and his characters navigate the minefield of the United States South, adolescence, and transgenerational trauma on the journey toward growth and healing. These literacies align with the New Literacy Studies movement, a concept of literacy embracing one's culture and the expression thereof beyond historical conceptions of literacy as the ability to read and write. This project focuses on Laymon’s use of these literacies – cultural, cipher, and language literacy – as Laymon’s way of critiquing systemic, monolithic views about Black boys and reimagining new pathways of education, maturation, and cultural expression. This project argues two things: first, Laymon’s writing champions the importance of multiple literacies beyond reading and writing to introduce and demystify societal misinformation about the abilities of Black boys to be rational, intelligent, and emotional human beings; second, Laymon’s work inserts necessary conversations about 21st century Black southern boyhood, advocating for a more careful and nuanced discussion of the experiences, voices, and realities of Black boys in the South. Ultimately, I argue for Laymon’s work to be recognized as canonical for his ability to write across and transform multiple fields of study, inclusive of (but not limited to) southern studies, Black masculinity studies, literacy studies, hip-hop studies, education, and race. Chapter One analyzes Laymon’s lone novel, Long Division, and interprets his use of character doubles as a reimagination of Atlanta rap supergroup OutKast. Specifically, Laymon’s fictive “Can You Use That Word in a Sentence” is a reimagination of OutKast’s win and disruption at the 1995 Source Awards. Through the implementation of cultural literacies, Laymon’s narrator Citoyen “City” Coldson and antagonist LaVander Peeler, and OutKast rhetorically disrupt hegemonic structures to reject stigmas of Black boy illiteracy and Black southernness as inherently inferior. Chapter Two interrogates the necessary curation of Black boy spaces within education settings. Focusing on Laymon’s essay “Hip-Hop Stole My Southern Black Boy” from How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and lunchtime sentence battles between City and LaVander in Long Division, I argue that Laymon uses what I call “cipher literacies” as means for himself and his characters to engage in vocal expressions of literacy, rejecting historicized performances of literacy in education, and critique institutional assumptions of Black boys’ illiteracy in education. Through these in-school ciphers, Black boys carve out exclusive space to find their voices, reinscribe and reinforce identity, express their mastery of multiple languages, and subvert their assumed illiteracy. Chapter Three addresses the critical lack of conversations centered on Black men’s bodies. In analyzing Heavy, I argue Laymon’s memoir is necessary for conversations around Black men’s body dysmorphia and disordered eating, the desirability of fat Black men, and the need for Black men’s body literacy. Chapter Four examines Laymon’s use of letter writing in How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America as a source of reconciliation and therapy for himself and other Black men. Laymon’s insertion of letters at the beginning and in the middle of a book of essays creates a chamber of epistolary warnings and echoes: In writing to his deceased Uncle Jimmy, he reconciles with missed opportunities to show love to his “warning” against making poor choices; in “The Echo,” Laymon creates space for he and other Black men to practice the love and support they desperately need.
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): July 1, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): African American Literature, Black Boyhood, Black Literacy, Black Masculinity, Kiese Laymon, Southern Studies
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Alisha M. Gaines, Professor Directing Dissertation; Antonio C. Cuyler, University Representative; Rhea Estelle Lathan, Committee Member; Ravi Howard, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Literature
SUBJECT: African Americans--Study and teaching
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: JOO_fsu_0071N_16732.pdf
TITLE: Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity, Depression, and Anxiety among Graduate Students in the United States
AUTHOR: Joo, Young Jin,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Kim, Amy C. H. (Amy Chan Hyung)
MEMBER (committee member): Du, James
MEMBER (committee member): James, Jeffrey D. (Jeffrey Dalton)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Sport Management
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (141 pages)
ABSTRACT: Billions of people have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since we initially became aware of its existence in December 2019. Studies have been done since the emergence of the COVID-19 virus to assess its effect on people (e.g., Duan & Zhu, 2020; Rubin & Wesseley, 2020). Specifically, several health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), have reported their concerns about the effects on an individual’s mental health (WHO, 2020) as well as one’s physical health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021).While a variety of studies have focused more on undergraduate students (e.g., Bertrand et al., 2021; Gallo, T. F. Gallo, Young, Moritz, & Akison, 2020; Meyer et al., 2020), this study is an investigation of graduate students in the United States. There has been a significant lack of research regarding graduate students (Keating, Jianmin, Pinero, & Bridges, 2005), and more importantly, a lack of research regarding COVID-19’s impact on graduate student’s mental health in potential relation to physical activity levels. According to previous studies, graduate students are already predisposed for having a high risk of developing mental health issues due to the nature of their educational careers (Evans, Bira, Gastelum, Weiss, & Vanderford, 2018; Fogg, 2009; Hyun, Quinn, Madon, & Lustig, 2006). Master’s and doctoral students are reportedly more likely to experience higher levels of depression, anxiety, financial stress, career uncertainty, and higher workloads (Eisenberg, Gollust, Golberstein, & Hefner, 2007; Gewin, 2012; L. Wang, 2015), while also having lower levels of physical activity and exercise participation, which has now become exacerbated by many governments’ stringent COVID-19 reduction measures (Barkley et al., 2020; Srivastav, Sharma, & Samual, 2021). Physical activity has been shown for decades to help reduce mental health issues and increase mental well-being (Abu-Omar, Rütten, & Lehtinen, 2004; Camacho, Roberts, Lazarus, Kaplan, & Cohen, 1991; Goodwin, 2003). In this study, the association between physical activity and mental health of graduate students was examined during the pandemic. Information regarding pre-COVID-19 and current COVID-19 levels was attained for comparison. I examined the differences in the levels of physical activity, depression, and anxiety among graduate students in the United States before (February 2020) and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2021). A second purpose of this study was to examine whether differences in physical activity levels before and during COVID-19 are associated with differences in the levels of depression and anxiety among graduate students in the U.S., after controlling several variables, specifically financial stress, alcohol use, sleep quality, and sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and education status). The following analyses were conducted in the current study: (1) paired sample t-test analysis to examine changes in levels of physical activity, depression, and anxiety before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 among graduate students in the U.S.; and (2) multiple linear regression analysis to examine whether changes in physical activity levels influenced changes in level of depression and anxiety. The participants’ level of physical activity significantly decreased, and the level of depression and anxiety significantly increased in May 2021 when compared to February 2020. In addition, the mean change in moderate metabolic equivalent of task (MET) was significantly and negatively associated with the mean change in depression, after controlling for variables including financial stress, alcohol consumption, sleep quality, and sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and education status). However, no relationship was observed between the mean change in physical activity and the mean changes in depression and anxiety, except for the negative relationship between the mean change in moderate MET and the mean change in depression. Given that mental health problems can persist for several years if not treated well (Zivin et al., 2009), and that low rates of university students receive treatment after being diagnosed with mental disorders (Eisenberg, Hunt, Speer, & Zivin, 2011), it is crucial for universities to not only provide adequate treatment but also pave the way for improving environments in which students feel comfortable when seeking help. Universities should take steps to develop programs and activities which are geared towards graduate student participation and promote more moderate physical activities.
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): July 6, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): anxiety, COVID-19, depression, graduate students, physical activity
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Amy Chan Hyung Kim, Professor Directing Thesis; James Wenjie Du, Committee Member; Jeffrey D. James, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Sports administration
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Jurgens_fsu_0071E_16623.pdf
TITLE: Beyond Good and Evil: Rethinking the Dynamics of Early Jewish Demonic Discourse
AUTHOR: Jurgens, Blake A.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Goff, Matthew J.
MEMBER (university representative): Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
MEMBER (committee member): Levenson, David B.
MEMBER (committee member): Kelley, Nicole, 1975-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Religion
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (339 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the different ways in which early Jews understood demonic entities in their ancient and antique historical contexts. Unlike traditional scholarly studies which have often approached the topic primarily from the grand theological narratives of monotheism and the problem of evil, this dissertation strives to rethink the appropriateness of these analytical paradigms and evaluate demonic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and rabbinic literature with a more acute attendance to the social, cultural, political, material, and intellectual dynamics that played a role in shaping how early Jews experienced and interacted with these nonhuman entities. Following an introduction to the study and its particular use of key terminology, the first chapter critically addresses the influential scholarly outlooks on the subject that have continued to dominate the academic discourse as well as charts out in broad strokes a more nuanced and multidimentional approach that takes into account how the eclectic and divergent ways in which the biblical writers, Second Temple scribes, and rabbinic sages engaged demonic discourse was determined not merely by their theological ideals, but also by shifting social structures, crosscultural exposure, and the changing political dynamics of the ancient and late antique Near East. This first chapter sets the methodological foundation adopted in the proceeding three chapters of the dissertation, each of which represents a focused case study upon one particular variety of early Jewish demonic entity (i.e., the šedîm; the lîlît, and the angels of destruction) that demonstrates how this multidimensional approach allows for a more subtle and multifaceted reading of the development of early Jewish demonic discourse. Through these individual case studies, this dissertation argues that it is only when we fully address the situatedness of the enchanted landscape of early Jewish demonic discourse beyond its theological moorings that we can authentically begin to understand the interrelationship between the Hebrew Bible, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Babylonian Talmud and the environments behind their imaginative engagements with fallen angels, inimical spirits, and a diverse assortment of demonic beings.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 4, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Demonology, Demons, Early Judaism, Evil Spirits, Exorcism
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Matthew Goff, Professor Directing Dissertation; Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, University Representative; David Levenson, Committee Member; E. Nicole Kelley, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Religion
SUBJECT: History, Ancient
SUBJECT: Judaism--Study and teaching
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Karabedian_fsu_0071N_16761.pdf
TITLE: Violence and Destruction of the Russian Civil War: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and the White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
AUTHOR: Karabedian, Nicholas,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Efimov, Nina A.
MEMBER (committee member): Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko, 1969-
MEMBER (committee member): Beazer, Quintin H.
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (55 pages)
ABSTRACT: This thesis analyzes the violence and destruction of the Russian Civil War through the novels The White Guard by Mikhial Bulgakov and Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Comparing The White Guard and Doctor Zhivago to each other, while using non-fictional sources to supplement the chaos and terror in the Russian Civil War. Starting with a description of the two authors, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov, discussing their backgrounds, theology, personal beliefs and their other literary works that may have played a role in the development of their novels on the Civil War. The next chapter is focused on the theme of impending death in the Russian Civil War, analyzes Bulgakov’s and Pasternak’s use of religious motifs, apocalyptic imagery and fear that is brewing in the characters. The chaos is amplified with the arrival of barbaric groups, new ideologies and the news of death looming on the horizon. Chapter three discusses the barbarity of the Russian Civil War through the depiction of violence towards civilians, focusing on state sponsored atrocities against innocents, the killing of ethnic minorities, the prevalence of anti-Semitism in this conflict and the barbarity of war. Combining these horrors with non-fictional works to have statistics on crimes and investigate the use of militaries against civilians in historical texts for a better understanding of the barbarity of the Civil War. Chapter four of this thesis covers the battle of the ideologies. This being the coverage and analysis of both The White Guard and Doctor Zhivago to display the violence and the rhetoric used by both sides to justify violence or to recreate society. The early 20th century of Russia was filled with a multitude of socialist ideologies that sought to uproot the yolk of Russian conservatism, the Romanov dynasty. Analyzing the violence and the destructive nature of the Bolsheviks and monarchists, piecing together what Bulgakov and Pasternak thought of both the Russian intelligentsia and the exploited Russian poor to have an understanding of why people fought for certain ideologies. The comparison of both fiction and non-fiction is necessary in understanding the extent of the barbarity in the Russian Civil War. This comparison will give an understanding of what went on in the different theatres of war during this conflict, from the Ural-Siberian theatre to Moscow and the perspective of Kiev, this conflict that was spread out over five thousand miles and I will compare The White Guard and Doctor Zhivago to investigate the struggles characters experienced and the chaos that ensued. The findings of this thesis will help illustrate The White Guard and Doctor Zhivago’s themes of destructive ideologies, chaos of the Russian Civil War and the suffering of this period in history.  The White Guard and Doctor Zhiavgo are all encompassing novels revealing the immensity of this conflict that I dissect and analyze similarities in suffering, chaos and ideological struggles throughout these works.
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): July 15, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Nina Efimov, Professor Directing Thesis; Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Committee Member; Quintin Beazer, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Slavic literature
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Karl_fsu_0071N_16748.pdf
TITLE: Assessing Water Column and Sedimentary Redox Conditions in the Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the Munson Sandhills
AUTHOR: Karl, Adam,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Owens, Jeremy D.
MEMBER (committee member): Young, Seth A.
MEMBER (committee member): Ye, Ming
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (99 pages)
ABSTRACT: Wetlands are important geographic features that are essential for biodiversity and water quality. Climate change and anthropogenic forces are affecting GIWs and are drastically changing the natural processes within them. Geographically isolated wetlands, or GIWs, are wetlands with limited surficial connections to other sources of water. Geographically isolated wetlands are considered “isolated” as implied by their name, but previous research shows that these wetlands are in communication through the water table through comprehensive modeling. However, there is a lack of observational evidence regarding how these wetlands transmit groundwater. The connectivity between GIWs, their organic carbon storage capacity, and their transmission potential for contaminants, such as trace metals, are poorly understood. This study quantified the connectivity of these wetlands through pore fluid, groundwater, and sediment analysis.Trace metals are incorporated into the crystal lattice of iron and manganese (Fe/Mn) oxides when Fe/Mn oxides form in the water column and in sediments. This remobilization allows trace metals to move out of the sediments where they are available for uptake by plants and animals and allows for binding to highly mobile colloidal organic matter. In contrast, long periods of high standing water levels in GIWs could facilitate sequestering of trace elements into organic matter through reduction in the presence of anoxic or sulfidic sediments after the depletion of oxygen. The term sulfidic refers to a water column that is absent of free molecular oxygen with H2S present in the sediments or in the water column. The data created in this study supports the presence of mild anoxia within the sediments of the GIWs. This anoxia allows for molybdenum to become concentrated within the submerged wetland soil. The sediments however were not sulfidic, as reducible sulfate was limited and could not produce hydrogen sulfide in significant enough quantities. The presence of anoxia is very important for carbon reduction and sequestration. Depending on sulfate input into the GIWs, the potential for mitigation of methane production through providing an alternate electron donator is possible. While small, GIWs are prolific across the United States. The potential for methane mitigation to the atmosphere makes GIWs important for controlling greenhouse emissions. Maintaining the health of these ecosystems is important because when wetlands are damaged their mitigation potential is also damaged. The data in this study will serve as a valuable baseline for GIW health in the future as anthropogenic influences on them continue to grow.
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): July 12, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Carbon, Geochemistry, Isotopes, Oxidation, Reduction, Wetlands
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jeremy D. Owens, Professor Directing Thesis; Seth A. Young, Committee Member; Ming Ye, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Geology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Kim_fsu_0071E_16478.pdf
TITLE: Arts Administration in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era: Using Technology in the Arts Administration Field
AUTHOR: Kim, Boyie,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Cuyler, Antonio C. (Antonio Christopher), 1978-
MEMBER (university representative): Brower, Ralph S.
MEMBER (committee member): Villeneuve, Pat, 1955-
MEMBER (committee member): Munnelly, Karen
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Fine Arts
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Art Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (275 pages)
ABSTRACT: The current era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is characterized by advanced smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and big data—all of which profoundly affect individuals and industries. Many arts administrators grapple with questions about if and how to integrate such newer technologies in their work, but little research has addressed such concerns. In this study I explore the lived experiences of nine arts administrators—six who used or and three who did not use 4IR technologies—in their work to connect audiences with the arts. Using a phenomenological approach, I conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews and document analysis to gain a holistic understanding of perceptions and experiences related to 4IR technology use. Qualitative data analysis revealed key factors influencing the decisions of arts administrators, such as perceived advantages and disadvantages and requirements for implementation. The results provide knowledge that may help arts administrators who wish to apply 4IR technologies to engage the public, and, in addition, open the door to further research on the use of 4IR technologies in the arts administration field.
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): May 11, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Arts Administration, Arts and Technology, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Phenomenology
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Antonio C. Cuyler, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ralph Brower, University Representative; Pat Villeneuve, Committee Member; Karen Munnelly, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Arts--Management
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Kim_fsu_0071E_16639.pdf
TITLE: Dissociation and Transport of Lithium Ions in Polymer Electrolytes
AUTHOR: Kim, Kyoungmin,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Hallinan, Daniel T., Jr.
MEMBER (university representative): Shanbhag, Sachin
MEMBER (committee member): Ramakrishnan, Subramanian
MEMBER (committee member): Chung, Hoyong
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (103 pages)
ABSTRACT: All-solid-state batteries are promising energy storage systems that improve safety by replacing the flammable and hazardous liquid electrolytes with chemically and structurally stable solid electrolytes. Polymer electrolytes are important materials in the manufacture of all-solid-state batteries due to their ionic conductivity, achieved by doping the polymer with salt. Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) is a potential candidate solid electrolyte due to its stable chemical structure and compatibility with lithium metal, which can replace the graphite anode and supply much higher specific capacity. However, lower ionic conductivity of PEO compared to liquid electrolytes and the possibility of dendrite growth from lithium metal have prevented the use of PEO electrolytes for commercial applications. Covalently bonding polystyrene (PS) to the PEO chains increases the storage modulus of the polymer electrolyte and suppresses dendrite growth but lowers the mobility of the PEO block and results in decreased ionic conductivity. To improve the performance of polymer electrolytes, understanding the ion transport properties of polymer electrolytes is required. High salt concentration is advantageous to achieve high ionic conductivity, but it makes estimation of battery performance difficult due to the breakdown of dilute-solution theory, which assumes complete ion dissociation. Therefore, practical battery design would benefit from an empirical understanding of the relationship between ion dissociation and salt concentration in block copolymer electrolyte. In this study, the transport properties of lithium bis-trifluoromethylsulfonimide (LiTFSI) in PS-PEO block copolymer (SEO) with varioius salt concentrations were investigated using electrochemical and spectroscopoic measurements. Ionic conductivity, transference number, and diffusion coefficient were measured using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), the Bruce-Vincent method, and time-resolved Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) with attenuated total reflectance (ATR), respectively. Salt dissociation and ionic interaction was studied using FTIR and Raman spectroscopy. Quantitative analysis was performed to reveal the appearance of ion pairs and interactions between the salt and the ethylene oxide moieties with increasing salt concentration. FTIR peaks associated with polymer functional groups were found to be more useful than those of the TFSI anion for understanding the chemical state of the block copolymer electrolyte. In particular, PS peaks were used to quantify polymer dilution upon salt addition and verify that the Beer-Lambert law was valid at all concentrations investigated. PEO peaks revealed conformational changes of the polymer upon coordination with lithium ions. A previously unidentified FTIR peak was discovered that relates to polymer-salt interaction. It was used to determine the extent of salt dissociation, which compares well with a Raman study of a homopolymer electrolyte. This work definitively shows that LiTFSI dissolves into the PEO phase of the block copolymer, essentially unaffected by PS presence. It also establishes FTIR as a useful technique for quantifying dissociation state of concentrated polymer and composite electrolytes for lithium batteries. In place of salt, single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes are of interest for use with advanced battery electrodes such as lithium metal, but achieving sufficiently high conductivity has been challenging. In this work, a model system containing charged sites that are precisely spaced along the polymer backbone is explored. Precision sulfonated poly(4-phenylcyclopentene) lithium salt (p5PhS-Li) with a high degree of sulfonation (> 90%) was synthesized and blended with PEO to investigate the thermodynamic and transport properties. Melting point depression was measured via differential scanning calorimetry, ionic conductivity was determined using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and the fraction of current carried by Li+ was estimated based on steady-state current measurements. A wide range of p5PhS-Li/PEO blend compositions and temperatures were studied. In conjunction with a density measurement, melting point depression was used to find an effective Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, χ_eff= -0.21, indicating miscibility of the blend. The ionic conductivity, κ, spanned a large range from 2 × 10-11 to 2 × 10-7 S/cm over the composition and temperature range investigated. The fraction of charge carried by lithium ions also spanned a significant range from 0.12 in majority PEO blend to 0.98 in majority p5PhS-Li blend. This study addresses several limitations of sulfonated polystyrene and opens up the possibility of precisely controlling the spacing of other anion types.
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): July 01, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Daniel T. Hallinan, Jr., Professor Directing Dissertation; Sachin Shanbhag, University Representative; Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Committee Member; Hoyong Chung, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Chemical engineering
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Kimrey_fsu_0071E_16708.pdf
TITLE: Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of Early Afterdepolarizations in Cardiac Myocytes: Canard Analysis of Cardiac Action Potential Models
AUTHOR: Kimrey, Joshua,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Bertram, R. (Richard)
MEMBER (university representative): Chase, P. Bryant
MEMBER (committee member): Magnan, Jeronimo Francisco, 1953-
MEMBER (committee member): Musslimani, Ziad H.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Mathematics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (189 pages)
ABSTRACT: Early afterdepolarizations (EADs) are pathological voltage fluctuations that can occur during an action potential in cardiac cells and are a potent source of potentially fatal arrhythmia. As such, there are long-running experimental and computational efforts to characterize the biophysical conditions which promote the occurrence of EADs. Some of these efforts aim to uncover and analyze the common mechanisms underlying the occurrence of EADs across biophysical conditions. Only recently have dynamical systems techniques been used to advance such efforts. Geometric singular perturbation (fast-slow) analysis has proven to be a powerful tool in this vein. The classic fast-slow approach, which treats the dynamical variable with slowest evolution rate as a parameter, posits that EAD initiation and termination are due to dynamic bifurcations of the remaining (fast) subsystem. Yet, a more recent fast-slow approach, which frames EADs as canard-induced mixed-mode oscillations, provides sharper explanatory and predictive insights. Both approaches provide mechanistic explanations for EAD behavior beyond what can be obtained through experiments and numerical simulation alone. However, we show that the canard-based approach, with its growing suite of associated computational tools, is capable of extending these sharp explanatory and predictive insights beyond the domain of idealized minimal models and into the domain of complex biophysical models which contain a richer set of interacting components as well as of disparate timescales. Over the course of three projects, we show that canards persist in biophysical models as the most informative EAD generating mechanism, that the canards we uncover provide remarkable power in explaining long-standing experimental observations and in making falsifiable experimentally testable predictions, and that canards provide an alternative framing of a major debate about the dominant source of EADs in cardiac cells.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 8, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): canard, early afterdepolarization, excitable, perturbation, singular, slow manifold
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Richard Bertram, Professor Directing Dissertation; P. Bryant Chase, University Representative; Jerry F. Magnan, Committee Member; Ziad Musslimani, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Applied mathematics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: lashley_fsu_0071E_16651.pdf
TITLE: Identifying Promising Early Literacy Practices in Classrooms with Predominately Low Socio-Economic Characteristics
AUTHOR: Lashley, Thomas,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Park, Toby J.
MEMBER (university representative): Mooney, Katherine Carmines
MEMBER (committee member): Herrington, Carolyn D.
MEMBER (committee member): Rutledge, Stacey A.
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (93 pages)
ABSTRACT:
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): June 28, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Literacy, low socio-economic, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Phonological Awareness, reading practices
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Toby Park-Gaghan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Katherine Mooney, University Representative; Carolyn Herrington, Committee Member; Stacey Rutledge, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational leadership
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Lee_fsu_0071N_16746.pdf
TITLE: The Propaganda Model in South Korean Broadcasts: Political Economic and Critical Discourse Analysis of News about North Korean Nuclear Tests
AUTHOR: Lee, Sunah,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Proffitt, Jennifer M.
MEMBER (committee member): McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-
MEMBER (committee member): Ferchaud, Arienne
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (192 pages)
ABSTRACT: This study used critical political economy of communication methods to examine North Korean nuclear test coverage aired on South Korean broadcasters’ prime-time news shows in South Korea. One week’s news reports aired from the day of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test in 2016 and the sixth in 2017. Drawing on political economic framework, this study exposed how the three filters of the Propaganda Model, ownership structure, sourcing, and anti-communism, shape the news discourses regarding the North Korean issue. A South Korean public broadcaster KBS and a South Korean privately-owned broadcaster SBS were compared. First, the review of the history of KBS and SBS revealed political economic contexts in which the two broadcasters’ ownership structures have been shaped. The review particularly focused on critical political junctures in South Korean history and the broadcasters’ structural changes those historical events entailed. Then, the comparison between KBS’s and SBS’s number of news stories during each one-week window presented the subtle but notable differences between the two broadcasters of different ownership structures. Then the news transcripts were analyzed to find sourcing patterns in covering North Korean nuclear tests. Lastly, a critical discourse analysis—Discourse Historical Approach was adopted to examine anti-communism perpetuated in the portrayals of North Korea and nuclear tests. The study first found that both KBS and SBS devoted a large portion of news stories to highlight North Korea’s threat and the military responses of surrounding countries. SBS produced fewer news stories than KBS, which is interpreted as the result of seeking sensationalism. Sourcing analysis revealed the heavy reliance on elite institutional sources of both broadcasters. KBS and SBS differed from each other in the political orientations of the experts interviewed in the reports. KBS consistently presented conservative experts’ interviews over the two periods, while SBS interviewed more liberal pundits than conservatives in the reports. The broadcasters differed in the degree of anti-communist discourses. KBS displayed negative discourses regarding the North Korean regime and nuclear tests to a greater extent than SBS. The study concludes that the two major South Korean broadcasters overall exhibited conformity to the dominant elite group’s ideology by producing news content filtered by sourcing and anti-communism.
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): July 6, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): journalism, media industry, North Korean nuclear tests, political economy of communication, Propaganda Model, South Korean broadcaster
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jennifer Proffitt, Professor Directing Thesis; Stephen McDowell, Committee Member; Arienne Ferchaud, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Communication
SUBJECT: Journalism
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Li_fsu_0071E_16595.pdf
TITLE: Assessing Differential Bundle Functioning Using Meta-Analysis
AUTHOR: Li, Lanrong,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Becker, Betsy Jane, 1956-
MEMBER (university representative): Slate, Elizabeth H.
MEMBER (committee member): Almond, Russell G.
MEMBER (committee member): Paek, Insu, (Professor of measurement and statistics)
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (186 pages)
ABSTRACT: When developing a test, it is essential to ensure that the test is free of items with differential item functioning (DIF). DIF occurs when examinees of equal ability, but from different examinee subgroups, have different chances of getting the item correct. According to the multidimensional perspective, DIF occurs because the test measures more than one dimension, and examinees from different groups have unequal distributions on the secondary dimension(s) conditional on the primary dimension measured by the test. Often, more than one item is measured by the secondary dimension. The DIF of individual items may be hard to detect statistically but can accumulate to an unacceptable degree at the item cluster/bundle level. Differential bundle functioning (or DBF) occurs when examinees from different groups have unequal expected scores on an item bundle. Research on DBF has the potential to reveal the mechanisms underlying DIF and DBF. The simultaneous item bias test (SIBTEST, Shealy & Stout, 1993) has been developed to assess DIF and DBF. However, an unresolved issue is the lack of effect size for DBF, making it difficult to assess the amount of DBF within and between tests. Additionally, few procedures can be used to assess both DIF and DBF, which may be one of the reasons why DBF is less frequently examined than DIF among practitioners. In this study, I propose using meta-analysis techniques to synthesize differential item functioning (DIF) effect sizes and to assess differential bundle functioning (DBF). The test of nonzero average DIF can be used to test for the existence of DBF. Also, the weighted average DIF can be used as an average-based effect size, and the standard deviation of DIF in an item bundle can be used as a variance-based DBF effect size. A Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted to assess the performance of the proposed effect size for DBF and to compare the test of nonzero average DIF in an item bundle with that of a DBF test using SIBTEST. I used three DIF procedures (i.e., the Mantel-Haenszel procedure, the logistic-regression procedure, and the SIBTEST procedure) to obtain DIF estimates and then applied the random-effects model to the DIF estimates. Seven factors, including sample size, between-group difference in the primary dimension, between-group difference in the secondary dimension, the correlation between the two dimensions, sample-size ratio between the focal and the reference groups, item-bundle length, and the presence of guessing in the item response, were manipulated in the simulation. When the two dimensions were moderately correlated or when there was no impact, the proposed DBF effect size based on the SIBTEST DIF procedure was essentially unbiased, and the proposed DBF tests based on the three DIF procedures had Type-I error and power rates comparable to those of the SIBTEST DBF test. When there was an impact and the two dimensions were not correlated or weakly correlated, the DBF effect sizes from the meta-analysis of DIF indices from the three procedures had upward biases, and the meta-analysis-based DBF tests tended to have inflated Type-I error. The variance-based DBF effect size for the whole test changed with the weighted average-based DBF effect size in the item bundle. The rejection rates of the DBF test, the weighted average-based DBF effect size, and the variance-based DBF effect size were largely determined by the potential for DIF. I discuss the findings and the implications for applied research and point out directions for future research.
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 Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 6, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): differential bundle functioning, differential item functioning, effect size, meta-analysis, simulation
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Betsy J. Becker, Professor Directing Dissertation; Elizabeth Slate, University Representative; Russell Almond, Committee Member; Insu Paek, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational tests and measurements
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Lloyd_fsu_0071E_16615.pdf
TITLE: Changing with the Times? : A Generational Comparison of the Effects Parental Social Ties on Crime and Drug Use during Emerging Adulthood
AUTHOR: Lloyd, Kristin,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Turanovic, Jillian J., 1985-
MEMBER (university representative): McWey, Lenore M.
MEMBER (committee member): Hay, Carter H.
MEMBER (committee member): Siennick, Sonja E.
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (164 pages)
ABSTRACT: Emerging adulthood is a phase of the life-course unique to the 21st century that was brought about by rapid social, cultural, and demographic changes to society (Arnett, 2000a, 2000b, 2004, 2007, 2015). These changes include delays in traditional markers of adulthood, such as marriage and employment, and prolonged time spent in higher education between the ages of 18-29. As a result, recent generations of young adults may no longer develop traditional social ties (marriage, employment) thought to be protective against crime and deviance until later on in life (e.g., in their thirties). This may result in other sources of influence, such as social ties to parents, being more important protective factors against crime and deviance in emerging adulthood today than in prior generations. Accordingly, drawing from key perspectives in life-course criminology and cohorts of Baby Boomers and Millennials, the goal of this dissertation is to examine generational differences in the influence of parental social ties throughout emerging adulthood. Further, this dissertation seeks to understand whether transitions into marriage, employment, and college in emerging adulthood affect the influence of parental social ties, and if these patterns vary across generations. To this end, this dissertation answers three primary research questions. The first research question is, “are there generational differences in the influence of parental social ties on within-person changes in crime and drug use during emerging adulthood?” The second question is, “are the effects of parental social ties on crime and drug use in emerging adulthood conditioned by marriage and employment for Baby Boomers and Millennials?” And finally, the third question is, “are the effects of parental social ties on crime and drug use moderated by enrollment in higher education for Baby Boomers and Millennials?” These questions are answered using data from the National Youth Survey (NYS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. The NYS represents Baby Boomers who were born between 1959 and 1965 (N=1,036; N*T=6,741 person-waves). The NLSY97 represents the earliest Millennials, born between 1980 and 1984 (N=7,178; N*T=43,068 person-waves). Each data source follows respondents from adolescence through early emerging adulthood (up to age 24). Analyses reveal two key findings with respect to the research questions investigated in this dissertation. Regarding the first research question, which seeks to understand the effects of social ties to parents on within-person changes in crime and drug use across generations, findings indicate that social ties to parents have a protective effect against crime in emerging adulthood for Millennials, but not for Baby Boomers. Further, predicted probabilities show that there is a generational difference in this relationship over time, as the probability of offending among those with weak ties to parents in the Millennial cohort increases over time compared to those with strong ties to parents. Among Baby Boomers, however, there is no real difference in offending over time between those with strong ties and weak ties to parents. The second and third research questions center on the moderating effects of key adult transition events (i.e., marriage, employment, and college enrollment) on the influence of social ties to parents on emerging adults’ crime and drug use. Results show that marriage and college enrollment are not significant moderators for Baby Boomers or Millennials with respect to crime or drug use. Employment is not a significant moderator with respect to crime for Baby Boomers or Millennials either, but it is a statistically significant moderator of drug use among Millennials only. However, predicted probabilities estimated for each of these models indicate that the effects are marginal. Thus, it can be concluded that marriage, employment, and college enrollment have no substantively meaningful conditioning effects of crime or drug use among Baby Boomers or Millennials. More broadly, these findings highlight the need for additional inquiry into the salience of social ties to parents during emerging adulthood and have implications for both theory and policy. Theoretical implications include expanding studies of parental attachment and support to incorporate measures of the quality of adult child-parent relationships, the continuation of the learning process between parents and their adult children, and the need to expand longitudinal research to accommodate multiple generations for theoretical testing. Findings also reveal the need to tailor policies to emerging adults in contemporary society, such as implementing programming that encourages prosocial parent-child relationships beyond adolescence.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 8, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Baby Boomers, crime, drug use, emerging adulthood, life-course criminology, Millennials
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jillian J. Turanovic, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lenore McWey, University Representative; Carter Hay, Committee Member; Sonja E. Siennick, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Criminology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Lowery_fsu_0071E_16682.pdf
TITLE: Natural Imagery in the Art Songs of Mary Carr Moore
AUTHOR: Lowery, Collin,
MEMBER (professor directing treatise): Trujillo, Valerie
MEMBER (university representative): Eyerly, Sarah
MEMBER (committee member): Hoekman, Timothy
MEMBER (committee member): Springer, Jeffrey
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (112 pages)
ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTThe first and most general aim of this treatise is to introduce readers to the art songs of Mary Carr Moore (1873-1957), an American composer who lived and worked on the West Coast.  The songs chosen for this study represent a small portion of Moore’s output of vocal music with poetry on natural themes. I have long been fascinated by the myriad ways artists experience the natural world and filter it through their works, and this project has been an attempt to explore just one composer’s relationship with nature. While the complicated task of defining nature, if it is possible to do so satisfactorily, is beyond the scope of this treatise, it is my hope that the following broad descriptions of natural imagery will suffice for the reader: imagery of land, including flora and fauna; imagery of water, such as lagoons or the ocean; and imagery of air, including the sky, wind, or clouds. To consider each song in historical context, discussions of relevant biographical points concerning the composer and poets precede each musical analysis. Historical details pertaining to the selected works are highlighted. Each chapter contains song analyses including discussions of prosody and salient musical features. In addition to exploring the ways Moore musicalized natural imagery in her art songs, the reader will gain a deeper understanding of her musical language. Furthermore, because Moore composed the presented songs over three decades, the reader will obtain a sense of how her compositional style developed throughout her career. Finally, this treatise will apply three criteria concerning the ways women artists from the Victorian era commonly expressed nature in their works. These include nature as an extension of the domestic sphere, nature as possessing intrinsic value (not as a commodity), and nature as a spiritual experience. While aspects of these criteria may apply to any or all the songs in this study, these three considerations will be specifically reserved for the songs whose texts are by women authors.
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): July 9, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): American songs, art songs, Mary Carr Moore, nature poetry, text painting, women composers
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Valerie Trujillo, Professor Directing Treatise; Sarah Eyerly, University Representative; Timothy Hoekman, Committee Member; Jeffrey Springer, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Lupo_fsu_0071E_16621.pdf
TITLE: Geology of the Epperson Synclinorium, Georgia and Tennessee, Correlating Middle Paleozoic Successor Basin Sequences and Implications for the Depositional and Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Southern Appalachian Western Blue Ridge
AUTHOR: Lupo, Mary Elizabeth,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Tull, James F.
MEMBER (university representative): Tawfiq, Kamal Sulaiman
MEMBER (committee member): Young, Seth A.
MEMBER (committee member): Salters, Vincent J. M.
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (385 pages)
ABSTRACT: The Epperson synclinorium contains a key sequence of middle Paleozoic stratigraphy nested within the main mass of the western Blue Ridge-Talladega belt allochthon. For many decades, previous interpretations have assigned these rocks to the Neoproterozoic Wilhite Formation of the Ocoee Supergroup. Fossils from the newly defined Jacks River Formation (formerly Wilhite Formation) provide a revised Silurian—Devonian age assignment to this sequence. The Epperson synclinorium is characterized as a tight to isoclinal, doubly-plunging northwest-overturned, first-order, first-generation fold. It is regionally extensive, spanning >80 kilometers along strike and >11 kilometers across strike, and is considered the westernmost complimentary structure to the Copperhill anticlinorium and Murphy synclinorium (west to east respectively). Its western upright limb is mostly structurally removed, as is most of its southern nose, by both the Great Smoky and Alaculsy Valley-Sylco Creek-Miller Cove thrust faults. Within the synclinorium, a regional low-angle unconformity separates Neoproterozoic—Lower Cambrian rift-drift sediments from the nested middle Paleozoic successor basin sequence (Jacks River Formation). The relationship between the S1 surfaces and F1 folds, their axial planar orientations and pervasiveness suggest that regional metamorphism occurred concurrently with this first-generation fold event. This allochthon also contains two other successor basin sequences 1) the Lay Dam Formation (Talladega Group, western Blue Ridge-Talladega belt extension) and 2) the Mineral Bluff Group (Murphy synclinorium). Both of these sequences exhibit similar stratigraphic and structural relationships with the respective underlying Lower Cambrian—Lower Ordovician and/or Neoproterozoic units, and are bounded below by low-angle unconformities. A fourth structurally isolated and stratigraphically unconstrained middle Paleozoic successor basin sequence known as the Maggies Mill Formation is recognized in the neighboring Maggies Mill and Citico thrust sheets. Regional correlations are made possible through a variety of key lithologic indicators and paleontologic recoveries, including: A) distinct lithofacies, including carbonate olistoliths, carbonate breccias containing granite clasts, and both rhythmite and calcareous metaturbidite facies, B) three of these sequences occur within the main mass of western Blue Ridge-Talladega belt stratigraphy and therefore a continuity of both the pre-successor basin and successor basin stratigraphy can be traced across the Copperhill anticlinorium and Cartersville transverse zone, and C) Silurian—Devonian conodont elements and molds recovered from three of the four sequences and a post-Cambrian pelmatozoan echinoderm column in the fourth. Regionally, a single set of Barrovian metamorphic isograds are mapped continuously across the western Blue Ridge-Talladega belt. These isograds are prograde from the lower greenschist rocks in the Epperson synclinorium to upper amphibolite facies rocks flanking the Murphy synclinorium and are believed to represent a single metamorphic event. The same biotite and garnet isograds mapped along the eastern overturned limb of the Epperson synclinorium and western overturned limb of the Copperhill anticlinorium are present in the Talladega belt. A structural synthesis of the region including finite strain studies cited from previous workers, F1/S1 observations reported here and again by others cited in the text, coupled with regional stratigraphic correlations of stratigraphy both above and below a regionally extensive (?) low-angle unconformity and their middle Paleozoic assignments, demonstrate that the metamorphism recorded in these rocks must post date Ordovician Taconic-age metamorphism and instead likely record an Alleghanian metamorphic event.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 23, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): conodonts, Jacks River Formation, middle Paleozoic, Ocoee Supergroup, Successor Basin, western Blue Ridge
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): James F. Tull, Professor Directing Dissertation; Kamal Tawfiq, University Representative; Seth A. Young, Committee Member; Vincent J. M. Salters, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Geology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Magee_fsu_0071E_16687.pdf
TITLE: Essays in the Economics of Mental Health
AUTHOR: Magee, Ellis,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Cooper, David J.
MEMBER (university representative): Weissert, William G.
MEMBER (committee member): Hamman, John R.
MEMBER (committee member): Semykina, Anastasia
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Economics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (134 pages)
ABSTRACT: One in five adults in the United States experiences mental illness in a typical year. Less than half get treatment. The novel coronavirus pandemic has increased mental health pressures above that baseline. This dissertation addresses the intersection between mental health and economic issues building upon two important findings: (1) the economic finding of a bidirectional causal relationship between mental health and economic outcomes and (2) the psychiatric finding that mental-wellness-focused smartphone applications (apps) are effective. Mental wellness apps are low-cost, scalable, and pandemic-appropriate, but current use is limited. Given the relationship between mental health and economic outcomes and the efficacy of mental wellness apps, can we leverage mental wellness apps to improve economic outcomes? The first two chapters of this dissertation report on my randomized controlled trials testing strategies to expand usage of mental wellness apps. First, I find providing mental-wellness-app privacy ratings increases selection of privacy-preferred apps by six percentage points among likely app users, a significant shift that could drive competitive pressures toward improved privacy protections. Likely app users care about this issue and are willing to pay one third of the average monthly app price to access the ratings, suggesting $80 million in social welfare gains from implementing privacy ratings nationally. Second, among individuals willing to download apps, I find offering $3 for downloading, installing, and using a mental wellness app for two weeks does not have significant mental wellbeing or work productivity impacts on my sample as a whole. Instead, high-productivity individuals see productivity increases of 0.127 standard deviations, worth $20 per high-productivity participant over the measured second week of treatment. However, low-productivity participants experience no change or negative changes in productivity as a result of the intervention. Taken together, these findings suggest further research is necessary to clarify the conditions under which workplace use of mental wellness apps is beneficial before broadly implementing similar incentive schemes. Third, I investigate the presence and impacts of gender-identity-related social stigma on health and work outcomes using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I find transgender status is associated with poorer mental and physical health and controlling for mental and physical health status and demographic characteristics, transgender Americans experience poorer work outcomes than similarly situated cisgender (that is, not transgender) Americans, by about $10,000 per year. This outcome is not the result of using stigmatized health behaviors, as after controlling for adverse childhood experiences, transgender people use no more stigmatized health behaviors than their cisgender peers. Mental wellbeing is a key component of individual and social welfare and human capital. This dissertation investigates the intersection between mental health and economics, a promising and important area for economic research.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Economics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 6, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): apps, behavioral economics, covid-19, experimental economics, mental health, transgender
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): David Cooper, Professor Directing Dissertation; William Weissert, University Representative; John Hamman, Committee Member; Anastasia Semykina, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Public health
SUBJECT: Mental health
SUBJECT: Information technology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Maldonado_fsu_0071E_16442.pdf
TITLE: Fisher Forecasts for the Simons Observatory and Desi and an Implementation of the Polarized Two-Messenger-Fields Method
AUTHOR: Maldonado Mandujano, Felipe,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Huffenberger, Kevin M., 1977-
MEMBER (university representative): Srivastava, Anuj, 1968-
MEMBER (committee member): Murphy, Jeremiah Wayne
MEMBER (committee member): Hsiao, Eric Y.
MEMBER (committee member): Piekarewicz, Jorge
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Physics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (161 pages)
ABSTRACT: We performed forecasts of the uncertainty with which future surveys will measure the cosmological parameters of the non-flat $\Lambda$CDM model, extended to include the sum of neutrino masses $\Sigma_{\nu}$, and the effective number of relativistic species $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$, with the Fisher matrix formalism. The surveys we studied are Planck, DESI, and the Simons Observatory (SO). We considered several different scenarios and datasets, such as two different sensitivity levels for SO, including and excluding galaxy-weak lensing cross-correlations, three different multipole cut-offs for galaxy and weak lensing data, and the impact of the widely used Limber approximation. For our nominal case, we find $\sigma N_{\mathrm{eff}} = 0.0836$, twice as good as the tightest constraints today. We also find $\sigma \Sigma_{\nu} = 43.4$ meV, a much better constraint than today, but still not enough to determine the neutrino hierarchy with better than ${\sim}0.9\sigma$ confidence.\\ \newline We implemented the Two-Messenger-Fields method (2MF), a novel technique for filtering CMB data in cases of complicated noise properties. The implementation can handle polarized data in two commonly used pixellizations, healpix and enmap. We applied the method to filter data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 4 Season 15. The method successfully recovers a signal reconstruction in situations of low signal-to-noise ratio and correlated stripy noise. We will apply the method on the rest of the ACT data, and we will make the implementation publicly available.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Physics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 25, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Cosmic Background Radiation, Cosmological Parameters, Cosmology, Fisher's Information, Galaxy Clustering, Weak Gravitational Lensing
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Kevin Huﬀenberger, Professor Directing Dissertation; Anuj Srivastava, University Representative; Jeremiah Murphy, Committee Member; Yi Chi Eric Hsiao, Committee Member; Jorge Piekarewicz, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Physics
SUBJECT: Astronomy
SUBJECT: Astrophysics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mallinas_fsu_0071E_16625.pdf
TITLE: Ideological Differences in Responses to Errors in Determining Guilt
AUTHOR: Mallinas, Stephanie,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Plant, Ashby
MEMBER (university representative): Westlund, Andrea C. (Andrea Carol)
MEMBER (committee member): Maner, Jon K.
MEMBER (committee member): McNulty, James
MEMBER (committee member): Ganley, Colleen M.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (95 pages)
ABSTRACT: In many domains of social life, people risk wrongly accusing an innocent person (i.e., false alarm error) or failing to catch a guilty person (i.e., miss error). Do liberals and conservatives differ in their concern about these types of errors? Across three preliminary studies, we found that conservatives were more bothered by miss errors than liberals, whereas liberals were more bothered by false alarm errors than conservatives. These associations were driven by social as opposed to economic ideology (Preliminary Studies 1b and 2). Further, conservatives were more bothered by ambiguously threatening miss errors than liberals, but liberals and conservatives were equally bothered by clearly threatening miss errors (Preliminary Study 2), suggesting that threat is a mechanism for the association between conservatism and miss concern. We extended the preliminary work in two studies. In Study 3, we found that social conservatism related to increased concern about miss errors when they occurred in authoritative contexts, but not when they occurred in authority-void contexts. In contrast, social liberalism related to increased concern about false alarm errors regardless of authoritative context. Study 3 also demonstrated that belief in retributive justice statistically mediated the association between conservatism and miss sensitivity, whereas moralization of fairness and egalitarian concerns mediated the association between liberalism and false alarm sensitivity. In Study 4, we examined beliefs about a target’s guilt or innocence and found that, on a continuous scale assessing beliefs of innocence to guilt, conservatives were more likely to believe a target was guilty, whereas liberals were more likely to believe a target was innocent. Together these studies provide a nuanced examination of the role of political ideology in responses to determinations of guilt.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 14, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): E. Ashby Plant, Professor Directing Dissertation; Andrea C. Westlund, University Representative; Jon K. Maner, Committee Member; James K. McNulty, Committee Member; Colleen M. Ganley, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Social psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mann_fsu_0071E_16616.pdf
TITLE: Layered-Structure Intermetallics as Magnetocaloric Materials and Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
AUTHOR: Mann, Dallas,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Shatruk, Mykhailo
MEMBER (university representative): Siegrist, Theo
MEMBER (committee member): Strouse, Geoffrey F.
MEMBER (committee member): Latturner, Susan
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (115 pages)
ABSTRACT: This PhD thesis is a comprehensive investigation of selected 1:2:2 inorganic layered intermetallics as potentially useful magnetic and catalytic materials, to help develop green energy alternatives to the current devices and technologies that rely on fossil fuels. Understanding electronic and crystal structures of these materials and their relationship to magnetic and catalytic properties at the fundamental level can provide a useful basis to produce, respectively, effective magnets for magnetic refrigeration devices and alternative electrocatalysts to replace known expensive state-of-the-art catalysts used for water splitting electrolysis. This work has focused on investigating the potential of selected layer intermetallic borides and phosphides for these important clean-energy applications. Chapter 1 of this thesis is a brief introduction to the basics of magnetism, water splitting electrolysis, and ternary layered intermetallics of the 1:2:2 stoichiometry. Chapter 2 covers different synthetic methods and characterization techniques utilized in the development of 1:2:2 materials. In Chapter 3, we describe the study of magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of AlFe2B2, a material that consists of light earth-abundant elements and shows it’s a remarkable magnetocaloric effect (MCE) near room temperature. This material was synthesized using a new technique, microwave melting, which, in turn, lead to the discovery of a new optimal Al:Fe:B stoichiometric ratio of 3:2.6:2 to minimize the formation of the Al13Fe4 byproduct that can be removed by acid treatment. Considering the syntheses of AlFe2B2 by arc-, induction-, and microwave-melting techniques, we compare the effect of each method on the resulting magnetic properties of the material. Although the differences among the samples obtained by different methodologies are relatively small, the arc-melted sample demonstrated the highest total MCE. Furthermore, in collaboration with the Siegrist group at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), we used a custom diffraction setup integrated with the Florida Split Coil Magnet to investigate the structural changes occurring to AlFe2B2 as a function of temperature and magnetic field. With a Curie temperature of 280 K, the magnetostriction was measured at 250, 290, and 300 K under a varying applied field up to 25 T. The crystal lattice of AlFe2B2 exhibited anisotropic changes along different crystallographic directions, with a and b axes decreasing and c axis increasing with field. The volume magnetostriction showed anomalous changes near the ferromagnetic ordering temperature. These results were supported by density functional theory calculations performed on non-polarized and spin-polarized models of the AlFe2B2 structure. Investigating other properties of AlFe2B2, we have discovered the effectiveness of this 1:2:2 material as a water splitting electrocatalyst, as detailed in Chapter 4. The layered ternary boride shows excellent performance in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), providing a remarkably low overpotential of 240 mV at a current density of 10 mA/cm2 in an alkaline electrolyte (pH = 14). Given the inferior performance of the binary counterpart, FeB, we have attributed the remarkable electrocatalytic properties of AlFe2B2 to the extra conductivity provided by the Al layer in its layered structure. A comparison is drawn between state-of-the-art OER electrocatalysts and AlFe2B2 through the Chapter. Upon post-catalysis characterization, we see AlFe2B2 undergo structural reconstruction with Fe3O4 nanoparticles forming an outer shell around the AlFe2B2 particles. Thus, AlFe2B2 serves as both a pre-catalyst and support to provide the long-term stability and efficient electrocatalytic performance for water oxidation. Chapter 5 extends the studies of OER electrocatalysis to the rare-earth intermetallic phosphide, LaCo2P2. This material exhibits a ThCr2Si2-type structure that contains [Co2P2] layers alternating with La layers. The OER electrocatalytic properties were tested and confirmed under alkaline conditions (pH = 14). The material demonstrated an overpotential of 420 mV at the current density of 10 mA/cm2. Under acidic conditions (pH = 0), the material was shown to rapidly decompose to LaPO4. To understand the fundamentals of the reaction, the LaCo2P2 particles were analyzed before and after electrochemical testing by powder X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. Finally, similarly to AlFe2B2 discussed in Chapter 4, an in-depth investigation of the particle surface will be discussed and analyzed due to the formation of an oxide layer forming on the surface, which in turn may affect the overall catalytic process and particle structure.
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): June 30, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Catalysis, Magnetism
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Michael Shatruk, Professor Directing Dissertation; Theo Siegrist, University Representative; Geoffrey Strouse, Committee Member; Susan Latturner, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Chemistry
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mathes_fsu_0071E_16571.pdf
TITLE: The Development and Evaluation of an Online Intervention for Hostility among Individuals at Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder
AUTHOR: Mathes, Brittany M.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Schmidt, Norman B.
MEMBER (university representative): Winegardner, Mark, 1961-
MEMBER (committee member): Cougle, Jesse R. (Jesse Ray), 1975-
MEMBER (committee member): Joiner, Thomas, Jr.
MEMBER (committee member): Plant, Ashby
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (64 pages)
ABSTRACT: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychiatric condition that results in considerable functional impairment. One risk and maintaining factor of AUD is hostility, which is characterized by a generally suspicious and cynical view of other people that results in a tendency to interpret ambiguous social situations in hostile or threatening ways. Notably, current cognitive behavioral treatments for hostility and AUD are limited in efficacy and have high dropout rates, indicating a need for a novel approach. The current study will therefore develop an online intervention targeting hostility, and test its effects on hostility and AUD symptoms as compared to a control intervention. It was hypothesized that individuals who receive the hostility intervention would report significantly greater reductions in hostility and AUD symptoms than would individuals in the control condition. Further, it was hypothesized there would be an indirect effect of treatment condition on AUD symptoms via changes in hostility. The current study consisted of two stages: pilot testing and a randomized controlled trial. In stage one, 10 undergraduate students were recruited from the research subject pool to complete the hostility intervention, as well as measures of treatment acceptability and satisfaction. In stage two, undergraduates (N = 101) who reported elevated hostility and AUD symptoms were recruited from the research participant pool. Participants were randomized to complete either the hostility intervention or a control condition targeting physical health habits. Participants completed measures assessing hostility at pre- and post-intervention, as well as one week and one month after treatment. Participants also completed measures assessing alcohol use, alcohol-related consequences, and motives for drinking at pre-treatment and both follow-up time points.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 28, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Norman B. Schmidt, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mark Winegardner, University Representative; Jesse R. Cougle, Committee Member; Thomas E. Joiner, Committee Member; Ashby Plant, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Clinical psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Matson_fsu_0071E_16573.pdf
TITLE: Reviving the Bones of the Prophets: Re-Evaluating the Status of the Hebrew Bible Collection of Smaller Prophetic Writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Late Second Temple Period
AUTHOR: Matson, Joshua Mark,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Goff, Matthew J.
MEMBER (university representative): Luke, Trevor S.
MEMBER (committee member): Levenson, David B.
MEMBER (committee member): Kelley, Nicole, 1975-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Religion
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (467 pages)
ABSTRACT: Recent scholarship on the Hebrew Bible’s collection of shorter prophetic writings (often referred to as the “Minor Prophets,” “The Twelve,” or “The Book of the Twelve”) presents conclusions that rely heavily on the redaction of the Masoretic text and is quick to point to three primary ancient sources as evidence that these writings reached final formation of a single, homogeneous “Book of the Twelve” prior to the beginning of the second century BCE: 1) antique sources that purportedly record lists of authoritative texts in ancient Judaism, 2) manuscript evidence found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and 3) quotations and allusions to the shorter prophetic writings in literature of the late Second Temple period.. These primary sources are: 1) Jewish Writings from the late Second Temple period (namely Sirach 49:10, Josephus’ Contra Apionem 37–42, and 4 Ezra 14:44–48), as well as Rabbinic (Baba Bathra 14b) and early Christian literature produced after-the Second Temple period that appear to describe a “canon” of the Hebrew Bible; 2) Fragmentary manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls that preserve various books from the shorter prophetic writings; and 3) Quotations and allusions to the shorter prophetic writings in late Second Temple Jewish literature. However, when these sources undergo a rigorous study, it is evident that the current scholarly consensus is steeped in anachronistic categories that privilege interpretations of the material that limit presume the ancient organization of the shorter prophetic writings of the Hebrew Bible adhered to a form that is nearly analogous to the Masoretic tradition. As will be shown, such conclusions would have been foreign to Jewish communities in the late Second Temple period and do not adequately reflect the pluriform state of these prophetic texts prior to 100 CE. This study aims to re-evaluate the status of the Hebrew Bible shorter prophetic writings in the late Second Temple period (250 BCE – 100 CE) by examining the primary source materials in their historical, linguistic, and cultural context. Viewing these sources in their antique ancient setting shows that this prophetic literature was not viewed exclusively as a single fixed collection in the late Second Temple period analogous to the Masoretic text, but instead circulated in disparate collections, ranging from a single prophetic book to multiple books in varying arrangements, that differed based on the preferences of the community preserving the texts. This study also provides an example of how to apply these conclusions to reconstructing fragmentary manuscripts of the shorter prophetic writings. Coupling the conclusions of this study with pioneering methods to digitally reconstruct 4Q77, the material evidence suggests that this manuscript, like others from the Dead Sea Scrolls, provides inconclusive evidence that all twelve of the shorter prophetic books appeared predictably on scrolls in antiquity. Instead the material and literary evidence suggests that there were disparate collections of the shorter prophetic writings circulating during the late Second Temple period, a conclusion that is supported by later evidence in Jewish and Christian writings of the early centuries CE. This study will show that while the texts of the shorter prophetic writings were viewed as authoritative by most Jewish communities at this time, each book remained influx and lacked a concrete identity in relation to one another. Taken together, this study concludes that while Jewish communities appear to have viewed the shorter prophetic writings of the Hebrew Bible as among the authoritative prophetic literature of ancient Judaism, their organization was still fluid in structure and arrangement well into the second century CE.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 29, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Book of the Twelve, Dead Sea Scrolls, Minor Prophets, Second Temple Period, The Twelve Prophets
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Matthew J. Goff, Professor Directing Dissertation; Trevor Stacy Luke, University Representative; David B. Levenson, Committee Member; Elecia N. Kelley, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Religion
SUBJECT: History
SUBJECT: Bible--Study and teaching
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Maurice_fsu_0071E_16663.pdf
TITLE: Outcomes from Teaching African American Students through a "How to Study" Workshop in an Introductory University Mathematics Course
AUTHOR: Maurice, Erdell,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Jakubowski, Elizabeth M.
MEMBER (university representative): Iatarola, Patrice
MEMBER (committee member): Larson, Christine (Christine J.)
MEMBER (committee member): Clark, Kathleen (Kathleen M.)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: School of Teacher Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (171 pages)
ABSTRACT: African Americans have suffered many negative consequences as a result of racism. African Americans are currently underperforming their White counterparts in the field of Mathematics. Several examples have indicated that the appropriate use of resources can significantly affect this gap in performance. The concepts of deep study and spaced retrieval practice have been shown in several situations to have positive effects on student’s academic outcomes. This study educated African Americans students on these two concepts. The study found that students had little knowledge of spaced retrieval practice and approaches to study. There are many obstacles to students using these methods, like the timing of due dates of assignments. Participants made rational decisions on when and how to use the deep and surface approach to study. The study suggests that institutions should assess the knowledge of spaced retrieval practice and approach to study of incoming students and address any deficiencies. There is more to learn about the study process. This paper presents a five stage study process.
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): July 15, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): African American, Deep Study, How to Study, Spaced Retention, Spaced Retrieval Practice
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Elizabeth Jakubowski, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patrice Iatarola, University Representative; Christine Andrews-Larson, Committee Member; Kathleen M. Clark, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Mathematics--Study and teaching
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: McClellan_fsu_0071E_16612.pdf
TITLE: The Impact of Study Abroad Participation on Graduation Rates in College
AUTHOR: McClellan, Irina,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Park, Toby J.
MEMBER (university representative): Jakubowski, Elizabeth M.
MEMBER (committee member): Iatarola, Patrice
MEMBER (committee member): Schwartz, Robert A.
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (131 pages)
ABSTRACT: College dropout crisis has become one the major problems in U.S. Higher Education. Over the past decade, universities nation-wide have been trying to better understand the specific factors that influence undergraduate degree completion and have initiated multiple educational practices to increase the quality and quantity of students they graduate. In 2008, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) defined ten “high-impact practices” (HIPs) as particularly effective at cultivating student learning and preparing them for future careers (Kuh, 2008). Study Abroad has been identified as one of the High Impact Practices. The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between participation in Study Abroad as a High Impact Practice and student success at Belle State University, a medium-sized comprehensive university located in rural part of the Southeast region of the United States. More specifically, the study explored the relationship between study abroad participation, degree-completion, and time-to-degree and whether this relationship differed by the college of academic major and the types of study abroad programs. Results indicated that study abroad participation does not undermine educational outcomes, it does not undermine final semester GPA, and it does not delay graduation. Moreover, results indicated that study abroad participation at BSU contributed to degree completion for all groups of students regardless of their majors, that study abroad participants graduated at higher rates and had higher graduation GPA than non-participants. In addition, the study revealed that the stronger the institutional commitment to education abroad is, the higher the student participation in the high impact practice is, which in turn has been shown to lead to improved retention and graduation for all students.
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): June 29, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): education abroad, graduation rates, high impact practice, international education, persistence, study abroad
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Toby J. Park-Gaghan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Elizabeth Jakubowski, University Representative; Patrice Iatarola, Committee Member; Robert Schwartz, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Education and state
SUBJECT: Multicultural education
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: McNeal_fsu_0071E_16069.pdf
TITLE: Relations between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Well-Being: The Influence of Age at Maltreatment Onset
AUTHOR: McNeal, Tara A.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Jenkins, Lyndsay Nicole
MEMBER (university representative): Dennis, Lindsay Rae
MEMBER (committee member): Ebener, Deborah J.
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, 2020
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (160 pages)
ABSTRACT: Findings from childhood abuse and maltreatment research have revealed that trauma exposure puts children at a greater risk for an array of negative health consequences. Specifically, a history of childhood maltreatment is associated with physical conditions in adulthood such as diabetes (Monnat & Chandler, 2015), heart attacks (Monnat & Chandler, 2015), and poor pregnancy outcomes (Smith, Gotman, & Yonkers, 2016). It has also been linked to mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety (Choi et al., 2017), as well as a higher number of suicide attempts (Dube et al., 2001). Less is known about the long-term repercussions of maltreatment on psychological well-being in adulthood (Greenfield & Marks, 2010; Herrenkohl et al., 2012; Kong, 2018). Further, there are inconsistent findings regarding the role a victim’s age at first exposure to maltreatment plays in the manifestation of psychological outcomes. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to explore the relations between childhood maltreatment, age at maltreatment onset, and psychological well-being in adulthood while controlling for socioeconomic status and perceived social support. A sample of 209 adult participants (ages 21 and older) were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). A correlational cross-sectional design was employed to investigate the following research questions: (1) Does childhood maltreatment predict psychological well-being in adulthood?, (2) Does age at maltreatment onset moderate the potential predicting relation between childhood maltreatment and psychological well-being in adulthood? and (3) Do the associations among childhood maltreatment, age at maltreatment onset, and psychological well-being in adulthood remain when controlling for socioeconomic status and perceived social support? Measures included the Comprehensive Childhood Maltreatment Scale (CCMS; Higgins & McCabe, 2001), Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Well-being (RPWB; Ryff & Keyes, 1995), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS; Zimet et al., 1988), and a series of maltreatment timing questions and demographic items developed for this study. Data were analyzed using hierarchical linear regression. Results from Analyses revealed that childhood maltreatment was a significant predictor of psychological well-being in adulthood (Research Question 1) but that age at maltreatment onset did not significantly moderate this relation (Research Question 2). Younger age at maltreatment onset was predictive of less psychological well-being when controlling for SES and social support, but remained a nonsignificant moderator of the relation between overall maltreatment and psychological well-being (Research Question 3). Exploratory analyses suggest that the role of age at maltreatment onset may differ dependent upon type of maltreatment experience, such that that a younger age at initial exposure to psychological abuse and neglect predicted less psychological well-being in adulthood. Implications for theory, clinical practice, and future research are discussed.
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 Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 14, 2020.
NOTE (Keywords): age at maltreatment onset, childhood trauma, maltreatment, maltreatment timing, psychological well-being
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lyndsay Jenkins, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lindsay Dennis, University Representative; Deborah Ebener, Committee Member; Martin Swanbrow Becker, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: MejiaMercado_fsu_0071E_16778.pdf
TITLE: Spatial Patterns of Distribution of Deep-Sea Fish Assemblages Inhabiting Seamounts in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
AUTHOR: Mejia Mercado, Beatriz,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Baco-Taylor, Amy R. (Amy Rose)
MEMBER (university representative): Inouye, Brian D.
MEMBER (committee member): Grubbs, R. Dean
MEMBER (committee member): Kranz, Sven Alexander
MEMBER (committee member): Huettel, Markus
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (206 pages)
ABSTRACT: Seamounts are considered biodiversity hotspots with a range of physical, chemical, and geological parameters that enrich their habitat heterogeneity compared to the surrounding environment. Evidence for the spatial variation of fauna within a given seamount and between seamounts is increasing around the world, but there are still gaps in certain areas and for some taxonomic groups. Deep-sea fish assemblages and their variability on seamounts, for example, are poorly understood. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) is a seamount chain that includes seamounts protected from fishing activities as part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. These seamounts had not been studied below 200 m depth but are of interest as their relatively unimpacted deep-sea ecosystems as well as because of their great variability in physiographic and oceanographic characteristics. To generate valuable information on the deep-sea fish communities inhabiting seamounts in the NWHI, and their spatial variability within a given seamount and between seamounts, Necker Island, Pioneer Bank, and French Frigate Shoals (FFS) were studied. The fish fauna and their habitat on all seamounts were characterized using AUV photographs and environmental parameters measured with a CTD, extracted from databases, and described from photos. Necker Island was studied from replicate transects at depths of 200 to 700 m, while Pioneer Bank and FFS were studied at 300, 450, and 600 m depths. Significant variability in the abundance, diversity, and assemblage structure of deep-sea fishes was observed on Necker Island across narrow depth ranges (50 m) and between sides at a given depth. Similarly, spatial variability was observed at Pioneer Bank both with depth and over short horizontal distances (31 km) within a given depth zone. Finally, the study of fish assemblages on the three seamounts at three different depths showed significant horizontal variability on larger scales. These studies demonstrate the vertical and horizontal variability of fish assemblages within a single seamount and the horizontal variability between three seamounts in a marine protected area. These results constitute an ecological baseline to increase our understanding of the fish fauna that inhabit seamounts in the NWHI. Evidence of spatial variability of deep-sea fish assemblages on seamounts that are protected from fisheries should be considered for the management and conservation of the Monument and other areas.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): June 29, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Fish community structure, Horizontal distribution, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Seamounts, Vertical distribution
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Amy Baco-Taylor, Professor Directing Dissertation; Brian Inouye, University Representative; Dean Grubbs, Committee Member; Sven Kranz, Committee Member; Markus Huettel, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Marine biology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mendez_fsu_0071E_16620.pdf
TITLE: Tá Feo Pa La Foto: Racialized Identities in Contemporary Dominican Texts
AUTHOR: Mendez, Jhoanna,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Poey, Delia
MEMBER (university representative): Herrera, Robinson A., 1966-
MEMBER (committee member): Gomariz, José
MEMBER (committee member): Murray-Román, Jeannine, 1977-
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, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (156 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation emerges from an ongoing reflection on the nuance of the Caribbean as an analogy that sheds light on Dominican identity. Thus, it interrogates and interweaves a multitude of themes such as the transnational definition and demarcations of the Caribbean, identity formation, performance, racism, queerness, (gender) violence, etc. It is in dialogue with anthropological, sociological, historical, literary, cultural, and performative works. Thus, the interdisciplinary methodology utilized reflects the intersectional nature of the texts studied. That said, the themes and, consequently, the chapters are not discretely distinct but interrelated, hence, the persistent overlap, an act of bleeding and blurring, of concepts and theories. This project, titled “‘Tá feo pa’ la foto: Racialized Identities in Contemporary Dominican Texts” considers literary and cultural representations that (re)formulate Black and Afro-descendant Dominican subjectivity and agency in opposition to the hegemonic ideology—read Anti-Black—ingrained in Dominican culture and society. It examines two novels Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario and Papi by Rita Indiana Hernández and one performance piece Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by Josefina Báez to unpack the characters’ relationship—read contestation and participation—to the hegemonic discourse that relegates them to the periphery. This work endeavors to expand upon the ongoing conversation around Dominican subjectivity. Moreover, this dissertation seeks to contest established discourses that uphold virulently racist ideologies and carve alternative prospects and space within the canon and archive for marginalized embodied experiences and narratives.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 6, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Dominican and Diaspora Studies, Josefina Báez, Nelly Rosario, Performance Studies, Race Relations, Rita Indiana Hernández
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Delia Poey, Professor Directing Dissertation; Robinson Herrera, University Representative; José Gomariz, Committee Member; Jeannine Murray-Román, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Caribbean Area
SUBJECT: Latin America
SUBJECT: Gender expression
SUBJECT: Gender identity
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Meuser_fsu_0071N_16574.pdf
TITLE: The Effect of a Training Module on Voice Quality Features on the Accuracy of Student Perception of Those Features and on Student Self-Efficacy for Clinically Working with People Who Have Voice Disorders
AUTHOR: Meuser, Mallory,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Morris, Richard Jack, 1950-
MEMBER (committee member): Kim, Yunjung
MEMBER (committee member): Lansford, Katlin L.
MEMBER (committee member): Fenton, Kevin
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
CORPORATE NAME: School of Communication Science and Disorders
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (52 pages)
ABSTRACT: Speech-language pathology (SLP) students and clinicians have reported low self-efficacy, or confidence, in their ability to make auditory ratings of voice quality features. A training program for rating voice quality features may provide SLP students and clinicians the opportunity to practice making ratings on voice quality features. This practice should result in SLP increased self-efficacy for this task. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between students’ confidence in their ratings and the reliability of their ratings of vocal roughness and breathiness. In this experimental, two group pre- and post-test study, 60 first-year graduate students completed two pre- and post-tests: one of their ability to rate the voice quality features of breathiness and roughness and the other of their self-efficacy for completing 14 clinical tasks with voice clients. A group of 26 of them also completed a voice quality feature training module. For the voice quality rating pre-test, post-test and training module, data were collected on the accuracy of the participants’ voice quality feature ratings in comparison to expert opinion for breathiness and roughness and the time participants spent making their voice quality ratings. Self-efficacy percentages for working with voice clients were collected from the pre- and post-test on the 14 clinical tasks. All of the participants’ self-efficacy ratings increased for all of the 14 clinical tasks after one semester of graduate school. However, the participants’ accuracy in voice quality features did not improve after completing the training module. Since there were no differences between the two groups, the training module did not affect the participants’ self-efficacy for working with voice clients or their skill at rating voice quality features. In the future, the goal of the training program needs to be more rigorous. Completion of the training module should require improved performance on rating voice quality features of the voice samples.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the School of Communication Science and Disorders in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 19, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Voice
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Richard Morris, Professor Directing Thesis; Yunjung Kim, Committee Member; Kaitlin Lansford, Committee Member; Kevin Fenton, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Speech therapy
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Miller_fsu_0071N_16742.pdf
TITLE: Effect of Organic Iron on Growth, Motility, and Virulence of Salmonella Typhimurium
AUTHOR: Miller, Katelyn,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Hennigar, Stephen R.
MEMBER (committee member): Singh, Prashant
MEMBER (committee member): Ali, Jamel
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Health and Human Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (59 pages)
ABSTRACT: Background: Iron-containing micronutrient powders may increase the risk and severity of enteric infections. Unabsorbed iron in the lower intestine may increase severity of infection by promoting the growth of gram-negative enteric pathogens. These findings indicate a need for alternative iron sources to correct or prevent iron deficiency without increasing the risk or severity of infection. Aspergillus oryzae (Ao) is a filamentous fungus that has the ability to accumulate large amounts of iron and store it in vacuoles. Thus, iron-enriched Ao may not be available to enteric pathogens.Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of concentration and source of iron (FeSO4 and FeSO4-enriched Ao) on the growth and virulence of the gram-negative enteric pathogen, Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium. Method: Salmonella was grown in media containing varying concentrations of iron as FeSO4 (iron) or FeSO4-enriched Ao (Ao iron) or media without iron (n=5/treatment). Growth curves were generated by measuring OD600 every 15 minutes for 12 hours. Slides were prepared at 6.5 hr into incubation and videos were taken of sections of each slide (n=7 slides/treatment x 5 videos/slide). Bacterial tracking and analyses were performed using NIS-Element Analysis AR software. Slides were prepared using RYU Flagella Stain. Random sections of each slide (n=5/treatment) were photographed and analyzed using Fiji ImageJ software to measure flagella present. Data are presented as means SD. Results: Greater Salmonella growth was observed in bacteria grown in media containing iron compared to both no iron (P<0.0001) and Ao iron (P<0.0001). Area under the curve analysis demonstrated 44% and 37% greater growth in Salmonella grown in iron compared to no iron(P<0.0001) and Ao iron (P<0.0001) respectively. Salmonella grown in Ao iron showed 5% greater growth than Salmonella grown in no iron (P<0.0001). Salmonella grown in iron were 98% faster than those grown in no iron (P<0.0001) and 65% faster than those grown in Ao iron (P<0.0001). The velocity of Salmonella grown in Ao did not differ from those grown in no iron (P=0.08). Salmonella grown with iron showed 84% and 46% greater acceleration than those grown in no iron or Ao iron respectively. Salmonella traveled 65% further when grown in iron compared to no iron (P=0.03) and Ao iron (P<0.04). Flagella length did not differ between groups. Conclusions: Iron-enriched Ao attenuated the growth and motility of Salmonella compared to iron alone. These findings provide evidence that iron-enriched Ao may be a suitable alternative to correct iron deficiency or iron deficiency anemia without increase in risk of severity of infection.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 7, 2021.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Stephen Hennigar, Professor Directing Thesis; Prashant Singh, Committee Member; Jamel Ali, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Nutrition
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Mills_fsu_0071E_16424.pdf
TITLE: How to Lose a Vast Military Industrial Complex: Bergkristall, the US Third Army, and the Invasion of Austria
AUTHOR: Mills, Jan-Ruth,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Grant, Jonathan A., 1963-
MEMBER (university representative): Souva, Mark A.
MEMBER (committee member): Hanley, Will, 1974-
MEMBER (committee member): Harper, Kristine
MEMBER (committee member): Weinberg, Gerhard L
MEMBER (committee member): Williamson, George S.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of History
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (275 pages)
ABSTRACT: The lack of information in the historiography of the Holocaust about KZ Gusen I, II and III, and the Messerschmitt 262 final fuselage assembly plant in the Bergkristall tunnel system has been blamed on secrecy caused by a Cold War struggle for Upper Austria, by the failure of the Allies to prepare for the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, and by General George S. Patton’s preference to seize Prague and fight the Soviets over caring for displaced persons. This dissertation examines these myths in light of diplomatic and military documents and then revises the narrative of the liberation of the camps in Austria by placing survivor and liberator testimony in the context of military documents.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 16, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Gusen, Holocaust, Mauthausen, Messerschmitt, Slave labor, World War II
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jonathan Grant, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mark Souva, University Representative; Will Hanley, Committee Member; Kristine Harper, Committee Member; Gerhard Weinberg, Committee Member; George Williamson, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: History
SUBJECT: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Mistich_fsu_0071E_16649.pdf
TITLE: Legal and Illegal Bribery: When Does It Matter?
AUTHOR: Mistich, Jeffery Raymond,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Ehrlich, Sean D.
MEMBER (university representative): Grant, Jonathan A., 1963-
MEMBER (committee member): Barrilleaux, Charles
MEMBER (committee member): Souva, Mark A.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Political Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (112 pages)
ABSTRACT: This is a 3 paper dissertation dealing with money in politics. Chapter 1 uses a unique dataset of Congressional committee activity to test Procedural Cartel Theory. It finds that though campaign contributions have little effect on roll-call voting, they do have a significant affect on legislator activity in the committee process. Chapter 2 uses survival modeling to determine the rate at which other states will adopt international legislation. It finds that the United States was able to pressure other states into joining an international anti-Bribery Regime within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and that the states that were the most economically and politically interdependent with the United States ratified the treaty faster than those states that were less economically and politically interdependent with the United States. Chapter 3 utilizes an unsupervised learning technique called K-Proto analysis to determine the sectoral composition of campaign contributions from Fortune 500 executives and board members by party. It finds that there are strong partisan biases in different sectors of the economy. Additionally, it shows that within each sector there is significant variation in partisanship by the amount of the contribution being made.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Political Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): July 5, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Campaign Finance, International Relations, Political Economy, Political Science, Procedural Cartel Theory, Research Methods
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Sean Ehrlich, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jonathan Grant, University Representative; Charles Barrilleaux, Committee Member; Mark Souva, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: International relations
SUBJECT: Political science
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: MolinaSieiro_fsu_0071E_16588.pdf
TITLE: The Influence of TMT Cultural Distance in the Completion of Cross-Border Acquisitions
AUTHOR: Molina Sieiro, Gonzalo,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Holmes, R. Michael (Robert Michael), Jr.
MEMBER (university representative): Autore, Donald M.
MEMBER (committee member): Lamont, Bruce T.
MEMBER (committee member): King, David R.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Business
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Management
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (129 pages)
ABSTRACT: Research on cultural distance normally assumes corporate homogeneity within a country, which makes the untenable assumption that all firms within the country are culturally homogeneous. In addition, research on cultural distance has only found small or conflicting effects on several outcomes including acquisition performance. I contend that one reason for this is that corporate homogeneity has been left unaddressed. Research commentaries have consistently called into question the validity of such assumption; emphasizing the inappropriateness of the corporate homogeneity assumption or calling for a more microfoundational approach to cultural distance research.This study examines the influence of TMT cultural distance on the acquisition completion process. I argue that top management teams that are culturally closer to the target country are better able to alleviate information asymmetries; which in turn allows them to close acquisitions faster and with more certainty. I argue that being culturally close to the target country is a sign of knowledge about the target country which will help the TMT alleviate information asymmetries. In addition, I argue that this effect is weaker when the board is culturally close to the target country and when advisor country contemporaneous capital is high. In addition, I argue that the longer it takes to complete an acquisition, the worse the returns at completion are due to strained relationships from cultural distance. In this regard, I argue and find that TMT cultural distance has a negative indirect effect on returns at completion. I use a sample of 548 cross-border acquisitions by serial European acquirers. The sample contains information from 10,483 individual top management team or board members from 220 companies from 16 countries doing acquisitions in 41 target countries. I find support for the hypotheses relating to returns at completion; and some support for the main hypothesis on the relationship between TMT cultural distance and time to completion. Two things are of note relating the moderating hypotheses. First, the board of directors seems to have the opposite effect to expectations where a board of directors that is culturally close strengthens the relationship between TMT cultural distance. Second, advisors with country contemporaneous capital seem to help TMT’s close a deal, but do not speed up completion. Altogether, this study suggests that researchers need to pay closer attention to the acquisition closing process and to the cultural composition of its leadership team.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): May 11, 2021.
NOTE (Keywords): Completion, Cultural Distance, International Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): R. Michael Holmes, Jr., Professor Directing Dissertation; Don M. Autore, University Representative; Bruce T. Lamont, Committee Member; David R. King, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Management
SUBJECT: Business
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Moon_fsu_0071E_16628.pdf
TITLE: Examining the Effects of Adaptive Prompts in Virtual Reality-Based Social Skills Training for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
AUTHOR: Moon, Jewoong,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Ke, Fengfeng
MEMBER (university representative): Yuan, Xin, Ph. D
MEMBER (committee member): Klein, James D.
MEMBER (committee member): Zhang, Qian
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (91 pages)